It made weapons meaningless to me, just fight with whatever the last enemy dropped, replace it with what the next enemy drops. I would have loved to keep more varied weapons on me, different ice, fire, magic weapons etc, to experiment. But limited inventory and stuff breaking all the time made it pointless to hang on to stuff to use at other parts of the map.

Anyway it didn't hinder me much. I played BotW for 170 hours, explored every last bit of the map, no fast travel. No memorable weapons or shields, literally can't remember any of the weapons, just the master sword. Great game, but the weapon system was not part of the greatness.

Immortals is a good game but it's not even in the same league as BOTW.

The former succeeds as a light-hearted and well made open world adventure but lacks anything to make it truly great, the way that, say, BOTW's interwoven physics and chemistry system did for it.

I would say BotW is on a completely different level. It's way better. But Fenyx rising is fun, has a better weapons system and the dialogue between Zeus and Prometheus is the heart of the game. Even though it's cheesy, I do love it.

If you want a somewhat alternate perspective, I really love this youtuber, I think that he does a good job of articulating his points and perspective (even if obviously not everyone will agree): 

I don't like the game at all and genuinely think it's massively overrated.

I'm also fully aware this is a minority opinion, at least on forums.

Thanks. That video is matching pretty well with my own opinions about Fenyx. I was very much enjoying the cheesy dialogue from Zeus and Prometheus, especially if it referenced the more spicy versions of greek mythology without spellign it out.

The problem is (imo), lots of people are accustomed to play a game just for extrinsic rewards...and that's because most AAA titles have accustomed them play that way. ie. I complete the task -> reward -> I get to see the next piece of narrative; I finish the side mission -> I get a new rare item; I beat 500 enemies -> I get a trophy to display online...etc.

BOTW is a game designed to be played for intrinsic rewards -> the act of playing itself is the reward...in the specific case of BOTW in my experience, the act of discovery was the main reward for playing the game.

BOTW is the only game I can remember that I played more than 10 hours in a row. It's an outstanding game with excellent gameplay. Only the four beasts felt a bit underwhelming.

When Ubisoft starts to copy a game then you know it has a successful formula.

Yet as I said earlier, the fragile weapons undermine the act of discovery. Experimenting with weapons on different enemies quickly breaks that weapon.

However as a silver lining, it did encourage experimenting with environmental kills, using the environment to the best advantage and the magic tools. Yet keeping a weapon that gives of light or warmth for exploration meant giving up space for those paper weapons needed to survive while exploring. Maybe some like that kind of trade off, to me it just slows the game down.

Anyway BotW is very much a reward based game, it's all about more hearts, more grip, more inventory slots, more recipes, better gear, more enchantments, while weapons were the odd one out.

Since I made this post I've begun a playthrough of the Wii U version. Its actually enjoyable to replay when you have a much better understanding of what you should do. It generally runs fine, but when you step into a village or a stable it must be killing the CPU because that's worst performance I've seen thus far (20 fps, maybe lower).

Having a Switch Lite has made me realize the Wii U tablet screen is fucking awful. Its blurry and the colors are muted. It actually becomes difficult to distinguish tiny objects like on a map because its so blurry. In comparison, the Switch Lite screen is very sharp, bright and the color is vivid.