While Dark Souls earns the title of "Most culturally influential game of the 2010s", Breath of the Wild sits as a close contender. In a decade full of love letters to the past it is hard to argue this game didn't have the best handwritting, flavory language and captivating verses. Re-inventing itself almost as if the past 20 years of innovation in the series had never happened but it having happened all the same. Grand in ways we always wanted, small in ways we never knew we needed.
If there is one thing this game fails at is in it's own initial visions. A game developed for a fantastically innovative console that had to scale itself down on its later half not by creative inspiration but by the changing tides and demands of its industry. How good could Breath of the Wild have been if it's innitial Wii U version utilized the tablet in ways the developers obviously intended originally? Probably a bit better. The final result either way is undoubtably amazing but so ready to be given another, less intruded on try.
If there is one thing this game fails at is in it's own initial visions. A game developed for a fantastically innovative console that had to scale itself down on its later half not by creative inspiration but by the changing tides and demands of its industry. How good could Breath of the Wild have been if it's innitial Wii U version utilized the tablet in ways the developers obviously intended originally? Probably a bit better. The final result either way is undoubtably amazing but so ready to be given another, less intruded on try.