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. |
Yeah, there's always problem of freshness when it comes to "XYZ Game" Part 2 (which TotK basically is) - for example, to this day I find Fallout 1 to be my favorite one, though I both find and rank Fallout 2 as fairly better game, in large part because Fallout 1 was completely fresh experience for me at the time.
TotK has some of the things I like in Zelda games (like caves and Underworld) which BotW was missing, so that's immediate plus for me (even though I find much to be desired in implementation of both) and probably what tips the scale easily in favor of TotK for me - I still find everything that annoyed me about BotW to annoy me in TotK as well (some things even more), but, at least so far, I'm having a bit more enjoyable experience.
