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Change YoY: -2 My Rating: 9.1 / 10
For many the de facto best game of all time, Breath of the Wild was in many ways something of a revelation upon release back in 2017. Very few games before or since have created such an impeccable feeling of freedom and sense of discovery than this game did, and it did so by essentially returning to the series' roots, albeit with modern design sensibilities and decades of accumulated knowledge sanding off the rough edges to make the experience truly unforgettable. Not perfect, but fantastic nonetheless.
Whether it's the inspired gameplay design, wonderful setting and world, the sheer volume of things to do and secrets to find, or as I mentioned before, the freedom the player is afforded to decide how to play the game, Breath of the Wild is simply a wonderful experience. Of course, no game is perfect as mentioned. The stamina meter is far too small early on, making some of the early hours of the game unnecessarily annoying at times, the weapon durability system is still a misfire as far as I'm concerned, achieving only me trying to avoid combat whenever I could, the music is largely quite forgettable, though admittedly the ambient style fits the game wonderfully, it just doesn't make for very engaging listening otherwise, a handful of exceptions notwithstanding, and Link himself remains a dull blank slate of a character with nary a distinguishing personality trait to be found, but each of those issues and the few others the game has are ultimately minor problems in the face of everything the game does magnificently.
