The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has always been a staple of my video game "currently playing" list, and for a while I though it would be trapped there forever. I purchased this game in early 2018 about a year after the switch first released, and I've had an on/off relationship with it for the past five years. In the time span that I've owned it, it has seen many of my favorite games come and go... so I'm very glad to have finally beaten it.

Sufficed to say, it lives up to 5+ years of nonstop positivity. I completed the game with all 120 shrines, about 80% of the Hyrule Compendium filled up, and 150 hours of total gameplay. The majority of it was fun, but the world can feel a bit empty at times. Combat was flexible, collecting items was enjoyable, and bosses were fairly challenging.

I don't have any strong negative feelings towards this game. The story was middling/average, but it didn't really matter in the long run. Real freedom in a Zelda game made the experience top-notch, but the Ancient Sheikah environments could get tiring after a while.

Breath of the Wild is not my favorite Zelda game, as I have a much stronger liking towards the classic Zelda formula. However, I appreciate how it reinvented the Zelda series and gave players hundreds of hours of content, and will look back on my experience fondly. 4.5/5. Excellent.