It's hard for game journalist to come out and appear to be unique and different to attract a read these days, I'm actually not too surprised.

Huh, thats how I feel sometimes with IGN reviews.I absolotely love their written reviews.Always well written, and they approach all the essential parts.But when it comes to scores, its always a hit and miss.Sometimes it lines up with what they have written, other times its either lower or higher than it seems.

Well, I wanted it to stay at 98 so badly, but I think I will have to contempt myself with a 97.

Are you Norwegian?

Completely different from what a Zelda is, maybe, but hundreds of other open world games exist too, BOTW didn't invent the genre. So "doesn't do anything new" is said compaired to other open world games.

TBH, you technically have 8 save files, and not everybody can handle doing all the side quests, a lot of people played Skyrim for 500 hours, and most don't make it past 40, but the New Game + confuses me, that's something JRPGs do when they have a low amount of content or gets patched in later, I almost never see WRPGs with it to start with. I'm not sure the reviewer is playing the same game as us lol.

Well Zelda isnt a WRPG though. He probably compared it to games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne.

And that is the dumbest most pointless complaint for any game.

The same could be said for practically 99.9999999% of all games released every year. What does any new FPS game do that a million others don't? What does any new RPG do that a million others haven't done? What does sports game do that a million others don't....

It's a meaningless statement that should never hold water in a review, unless you are also docking every game also however many points that critique docked this one.

But how about this for open world. How many open world games within the first 30 minutes let you fight the final boss and beat the game? Every open world game I've ever played still has it's linear story that takes a good 10+ hours of following a set path of storylines in order that you can not skip before you can fight the final boss.

Maybe, but reading others reviewers on this matter, as I havent played the game myself yet, they all praise how the world is alive and that there is always something to discover by yourself and not just a marker on the map for you to follow, one thing that no game nowadays does.Or at least few does.And thats not to mention how the world feels alive with the different mechanics on it(the winds and fire mechanics for example).I dont know, he is entitled to his opinion of course, but I think he forced a bit too much in this "there is nothing new compared to other open world games" affirmation.

Haha :P

I'd hope not, the person would be really bad at reviewing games if that's the case lol. The new Zelda is built like a WRPG IMO, just like the new Xeno series.