The fucking Master Sword STILL breaks?????
Anyway, it is genuinely shocking how this took all the gripes I had about Breath of the Wild and mostly fixed or tweaked them all.
The story is genuinely great this time, I was hanging on every one of those flashbacks wondering "where is this all gonna go???"
The building mechanic. Holy shit. I can't believe how good this is. A whole week of game time was just creating wacky inventions, made a working motorcycle out of a post, made a big walking dog creature out of a bunch of tires glued to each other for legs and logs for the body, which actually broke loose and ran wild smashing into enemies before finally falling over dead (I luckily caught a clip of this). The scope of what you can do is insane.
There are still a fuckload of shrines that all look pretty similar, but the building system gives most shrines 1-3 more solutions than you had in BoTW, so they get boring less frequently. So many times I realized what the shrine wanted me to do, and went, "Nope!" And just built a really long bridge out of junk and blocks and said "Fuck your puzzle." And it never stops making you feel like a genius lmao. Even when you stumble upon a solution accidentally, you think, "Ah yes of course I meant to do it that way."
There was a shrine where you needed to whack a ball into a target by putting these picks in the ground and making a bat thing to hit a ball, and I just stuck the pick on the ball, stuck the pick+ball into the target, wiggled it around a bit and the game said "YOU HAVE SOLVED THE PUZZLE, GOOD JOB." The difficulty of the game is only limited by the scope of your imagination, and that feels so fucking good.
But when you get bored of shrines there is still stuff to do, the story like I said is actually interesting the main dungeons and bosses are actually better this time. There are fun and creative side quests now, the world and towns feel more lived in and dense, and exploring the depths gives big rewards like classic costumes and currency for bigger battery space for your toys.
This is Breath of the Wild fully realized. I never understood how people could spend 7000 plus hours still in BoTW, to me the well had been tapped dry a long time ago. But this game is gonna stick with me forever.
Anyway, it is genuinely shocking how this took all the gripes I had about Breath of the Wild and mostly fixed or tweaked them all.
The story is genuinely great this time, I was hanging on every one of those flashbacks wondering "where is this all gonna go???"
The building mechanic. Holy shit. I can't believe how good this is. A whole week of game time was just creating wacky inventions, made a working motorcycle out of a post, made a big walking dog creature out of a bunch of tires glued to each other for legs and logs for the body, which actually broke loose and ran wild smashing into enemies before finally falling over dead (I luckily caught a clip of this). The scope of what you can do is insane.
There are still a fuckload of shrines that all look pretty similar, but the building system gives most shrines 1-3 more solutions than you had in BoTW, so they get boring less frequently. So many times I realized what the shrine wanted me to do, and went, "Nope!" And just built a really long bridge out of junk and blocks and said "Fuck your puzzle." And it never stops making you feel like a genius lmao. Even when you stumble upon a solution accidentally, you think, "Ah yes of course I meant to do it that way."
There was a shrine where you needed to whack a ball into a target by putting these picks in the ground and making a bat thing to hit a ball, and I just stuck the pick on the ball, stuck the pick+ball into the target, wiggled it around a bit and the game said "YOU HAVE SOLVED THE PUZZLE, GOOD JOB." The difficulty of the game is only limited by the scope of your imagination, and that feels so fucking good.
But when you get bored of shrines there is still stuff to do, the story like I said is actually interesting the main dungeons and bosses are actually better this time. There are fun and creative side quests now, the world and towns feel more lived in and dense, and exploring the depths gives big rewards like classic costumes and currency for bigger battery space for your toys.
This is Breath of the Wild fully realized. I never understood how people could spend 7000 plus hours still in BoTW, to me the well had been tapped dry a long time ago. But this game is gonna stick with me forever.