John2290 said:
Stop using the "it's on another console" argument, it's petty and the same could be used to you. Perhaps your 235 hours is only because it's on Nintendo. Fact is, His critiques are valid, compare those aspects to many other games this gen and BoTW falls well short. At best that game is a 9, an 8 if it's lucky because the flaws are around every turn and the fun never eclipses them quiet enough to full hide them like the no mans sky weapon degradation just without the annoying voice. The yellow scores on MC were a bit to harsh on it but almost every other score was waaaay to liberal with its praise almost as if they played the game through the honeymoon period and then reviewed. |
I personally think BOTW is one of the few games that really deserve its praise. I played in early 2017 when it came out and then I replayed it form start almost a year later and liked it even more.
The thing is it wrong to assume that a great game is a game without flaws, and I say it for at least two reasons. One is that, if you look at it very closely, you can find flaws in every game, perfection is not a real thing is something to aim for. Secondly you can find games that are very well polished all around and don't have any apparent flaws on surface but at the same time don't offer anything that is really captivating.
To make a comparison (and I take games form the same company not to make any misunderstandings) Mario Odyssey is a near-perfect game, well polished in every presentation aspect, good level design, good soundtrack, new mechanics introduced in every level. But at the same time it hasn't thilled me. Probably after having played Galaxy and 3D World it felt a bit samey.
What keeps me hooked in BOTW is the free world exploration, it's soo good and rewarding that some flaw doesn't tone down the experience a bit for me. I can understand that if you expected a game like OoT you could have been disapponted, because BOTW is just somethign different (just like I remember Resident Evil 4 at the time alienated some of the older RE fans).
Another good example is Dark Souls, a game that doesn't shine in the technical department, difficulty isn't always balanced (even if fans use the git-gud argument), some portions of the game (one in particular) are admittedly unrefined. Yet the combat system, the game progression and exploration are soo good I can say without a sweat it's my favourite game of last generation.
Last edited by freebs2 - on 25 April 2018
