| think-man said: I've had it on my switch for some time, but still haven't even given it a try yet. I can already tell I'll probably be disappointed, since it's been so hyped up my expectations are really high. Same thing happened with OoT, was incredibly hyped, then I played it and didn't enjoy it at all. |
Ocarina of Time was phenomenal for its time, but admittedly it does not hold up well today now that we can recognize all of its flaws due to their repetition through future Zelda games: my biggest pet peeve with it are the number of "needle in a haystack" puzzles where you're let loose into a gigantic dungeon and there's a key or switch in one of the 12-40 rooms that you have to find, and often it's well hidden, so you might pass it and not realize it for hours later. The reason the Forest Temple is so well regarded is that it's WAY shorter than the other dungeons; which gets me to my next pet peeve, the pacing.
Luckily, the pacing in Breath of the Wild feels more like Link to the Past than Ocarina of Time; like the dungeons in LTTP the BotW Shrines take about 8-30 minutes, instead of the several hours some of the dungeons in 3D Zeldas take. On top of that, Breath of the Wild is open world, stuff is optional; it is not a requirement to finish the game: you can do everything, you certainly don't have to. There is only a very short critical path in Breath of the Wild, it's more like a "Do X amount of stuff in this world in order to become powerful enough to finish the end" rather than "Do A, B, C, D, E, F... ...Mm, Mn, Mo, Mp, and in roughly that order in order to finish." As well, the openness of Breath of the Wild allows for a ton of emergent gameplay that previous Zelda games didn't have. You're going to have different experiences from most people playing this game and a lot of it has to do with what road you decide to go down once leaving the plateau.
But rather than me trying to tell you that it's good, why not just pick it up and play for yourself, make your own decision. Basically, I could tell you about my experience with the game, but (especially with this one) yours is going to be different.
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