pitzy272 said:
Okay, UPDATE: Started playing last night, just intending on playing for a couple hours, and I ended up playing until 3:30am. I’d say I’m pretty hooked.
I’ve started to adapt more to the control scheme. I did change my jump button to B, which helped. That was the only option for control scheme change I saw.
I got to 8 Spirit Orbs and took myself from 3 to 5 heart containers. Man, this made a big difference in lessening my annoyance. Less deaths, less of the constant pausing/eating, and less meal creation. The first upgrade I had done was for stamina, and I feel now that that was a mistake.
I also started to get more higher level weapons and shields more consistently, and this has helped improve my enjoyment as well. The weapons seem to be breaking less frequently, and that has been a very welcome occurrence, as I’m not crazy about the weapon/shield breaking mechanic.
The main thing I did last night was travel up the mountain to reach the Zora and face the Divine Beast. I ended after I defeated Vah Ruta (water elephant) and the water Gannon creature inside it.
I think I’m beginning to understand at least one significant part of the massive allure of this franchise; the world and lore-building is impressive, and at times, magical. The design of the Zora homeland was creative and beautiful and had that magical feel.
Oh, and there was some voice acting! I had accepted that every scene was just going to involve me reading all dialogue ha, so that was welcome. Some of the negatives I mentioned in my OP do remain negatives in my mind, including the amount of dialogue reading, but the positives are now far outweighing the negatives.
Honestly, I got barely any sleep last night, but the main thing I’m thinking about today is playing this game again. Wish all my patients would cancel in the afternoon so I could go home and play. Maybe I’ll tell my lady not to come over tonight :)
Thanks to everyone for the insight and tips! I appreciate the time everyone took. I’ll try to keep updating as I go along.
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Just a heads up many of what you mention here is actually new and exclusive to BOTW in the series lol prior games were great but were effectively dungeon crawlers great games but dungeon crawlers non the less. You may find it hard to player other Zelda games after BOTW as the only game with any vague similarities is the original.
On the game itself it can be one that can take some getting into for it to click as you've found it happen for yourself, I feel for you to get even more out of BOTW you should look up some tricks the game has to give you an idea of just what you can do with the game's freedom one good player to look up is Peco (will link his channel below). Play around with any tricks you see or experiment to see what suits how you want to play personally.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHRLXRO262KdNSW_GcJVog
