| haxxiy said: Personally, I also think TOTK is objectively a better game than BOTW... but in the same sense that Doom Eternal and Ragnarök were better than Doom and GOW. If their predecessors didn't exist, they'd be widely celebrated as some if not the best games of all time. Since they do, some things are less impressive than they should have been, and the points where developers are trying to do the same thing but better become a bit jarring. (I think this works for Pokémon, or at least worked for a long time, because of the nature of the plot, but not here). Subjectively I still prefer BOTW, though. Running back to it just to check my arrow count a few days back (hah) made me miss the relative unclutteredness and remember the novelty of it all back in the day. It's in my personal top 3 open-world games alongside ER and RDR2. |
I'm still early into the game and open to falling in love with it more, but so far at least I very much think this too. It's definitely "better" than BotW, but in such an iterative way that it just doesn't give me that magic feeling BotW did. It feels bigger, bolder, even more full of wacky creative ideas, it feels overwhelming. BotW felt just right.
