| mZuzek said: I'm sorry but saying Breath of the Wild is empty is an automatic invalidation of opinion. You can say whatever you want about what you don't like, but saying the world is "filled with nothing" is factually wrong. I understand it if you think always finding the same rewards (Koroks and Shrines) for exploration is boring. Personally, I don't mind, because if you compare that to other Zeldas, it's pretty much always been like that - but you just can't say it's empty. If anything, Breath of the Wild brings about a stronger sense of exploring the unknown than any previous 3D Zelda, and it's not even comparable at that. Where in previous games you would rarely see something fascinating in the distance, and if you did, chances were you couldn't get there until you knew all about it, Breath of the Wild is filled with mysterious and intriguing things everywhere (star fragments, dragons, Satori Mountain, etc.), and it always allows you to go there and actually see what it's all about. In fact, even the main story-based areas are much more noticeable this time, with places like Death Mountain or Hyrule Castle for example being a constant presence in the landscape which always has you interested to explore - in previous games, you wouldn't even be aware of these places unless you were nearby, so you just didn't care. |
@ bold: Yes, but the overworld was also way smaller, so it didn't feel like a chore to search for that stuff. BotW has content but what's there just doesn't do it for me, there's just too much repetition.
The only time exploration ever felt rewarding to me was at the beginning when I had to activate the towers to reveal the map. After that it just became a "Seen it before" or "Oh, that's a Korok". No matter what you do, there's only 2 rewards that you'll ever get, so why bother? If you find exploring fun you're obviously not going to mind it, but I do. My favorite gaming genre is 3D platformers so I much prefer tighter, content-packed worlds than huge ones where the content is spread apart with a lot of walking in between. The game is great, but it just isn't for me and I admit that. I just wish Nintendo could have both styles of Zelda coexist, rather than replace what I liked with something I don't. Zelda is my favorite franchise, so it really hurts to not be able to enjoy it as much as used to anymore.
