A new Zelda! This game is so long. Too long, I was really getting sick of it by the end. But it's partly on me for doing too much side content, I really did not have to do every single shrine. In fact, I feel like this one and Breath of the Wild before it are much much stronger games if you don't do every shrine, don't explore every nook and cranny. This game is a huge improvement over breath of the wild in a lot of ways, the dungeons are tons better, there are so many more traversal capabilities open to you, there is more variety in general, the main powers you get are more interesting. The main thing it doesn't have over BotW is novelty. For me, the first 20 hours or so of BotW was a remarkable experience, but by the end I was so familiar with the game and it felt really stale. This game gives tons of new stuff so it's exciting to play it, but it can't completely revive the novelty when so much of the world and the format is recycled from BotW, and I had played that game to death. And much like BotW, it feels stale by the end, if you want to do everything there's too much repetition, I never want to carry a crystal to a shrine again. The ending of this game though, pretty cool stuff. Much cooler than BotW. Some of it is corny, but Gannondorf is real cool.

Anyway, sorry but I still miss the old Zelda.

Reviewed on Nov 18, 2023


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