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mZuzek said:

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Mario Odyssey is definitely a more polished game than BOTW.

The reason BOTW wins for me though is that it's the first game in years where I feel like it's opening up new possibilities for gaming as a medium. It's what I dreamed games in the 2010s would be like when I was a kid; that you could interact with almost everything and that from this freedom endless opportunities for emergent gameplay would arise.

Odyssey is an absolutely brilliant game; it takes a proven formula, puts a clever spin on it, and refines it all to a celestial sheen. But the way BOTW weaves a multitude of interlocking elements into an organic and cohesive is for me the greater achievement.

BotW for sure is a greater achievement, but that doesn't make it necessarily a better game. It's like Ocarina of Time all over again - reinvetion, innovation, all that stuff, but given time it wasn't as amazing as it looked from initial impact. Personally, there's just some key things I really, really dislike about BotW, whereas I don't think I can find anything I dislike in Odyssey. Regardless, I guess I've always been one for more linear games than nonlinear, so this probably makes sense, as much as I don't want it to.

Fair enough, it is after all a matter of personal preference.

For me, a game that fires my imagination and expands the horizons of the medium will nearly always beat out a game that executes an already proven formula really well.