The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (May 12, 2023)
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Aight now this is impressive.
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Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
It’s still a 10/10 game but there are some highly disappointing aspects about it in retrospect. For me..
- They gassed the sky islands, they made it seem like it would be the main focus of the game and after you leave the tutorial area (which is dope as fukk) and land in hyrule you’re pretty much back to playing BoTW with ultra hand. The sky island stuff outside of the main dungeon is kind of barebones and ubisoft-ish. Filled with a lotof the same stuff and not even a lot of it
- The depths were boring once you kind of figured out what it really was. It’s just an inverted map you’re lighting up with like 3 enemy types. Theres not much to do or see down there
- They pretty much completely ignore the events Of BOTW, no guardians and no Sheika tech anywhere. Its jarring
- The story was good but not how its told where every dungeon it feels like a retread on what you were just told because of how they let you do it in any order you want
MischievousMonkey
Gor bu dëgër
MischievousMonkey
Gor bu dëgër
Every 3D Zelda game had that happen since Majora's Mask; a more or less vocal minority that is displeased with a game that is otherwise praised to the skies.
Which is whatever in and of itself, even though some of the complaints are always a little bit silly.
I saw earlier today somebody say Nintendo cooks for too long and take TotK as an example by saying it didn't fix BotW's flaws. Thinking BotW has flaws and disliking the direction they took for TotK is perfectly fine, but that has nothing to do with the time it took for Nintendo to make the new game. They knew pretty early that they wanted to expand on BotW's core gameplay in a specific way and took the time necessary to deliver a polished result. The game coming out earlier would have not resulted in TotK fixing whatever flaws people think BotW had. We would just have a poorer, buggier Tears of the Kingdom earlier, which would have made nobody happier.
I 100% agree that the decision to completely ignore the plot of the last game was jarring. I imagine Nintendo’s intent was to make it approachable for people who did not play the first game.. but the right way to do that is to have a great recap available to the beginning of the game. You don’t silently erase half of the full story from history, or relegate it to some optional text boxes in Hateno Village.
I very much enjoyed the Sky Island and Depths, I think if you go back and play you remember that there were a lot of mechanics that gave them a little bit of freshness. At the end of the day, the innovations came from the new powers.
I have not ever liked a Zelda game but been thinking bout copping this 
Did not get into BOTW either but I might give this a shot. Do I have to beat BOTW first to understand this one? Not really feeling dropping $50-60 on a 7 year old game I didn’t even fuuck with when I played it back then
Did not get into BOTW either but I might give this a shot. Do I have to beat BOTW first to understand this one? Not really feeling dropping $50-60 on a 7 year old game I didn’t even fuuck with when I played it back then
I've just recently played BOTW and know the story of TOTK, you don't really need to know anything about the first game. They pretty much act as if the first game barely happened.I have not ever liked a Zelda game but been thinking bout copping this
Did not get into BOTW either but I might give this a shot. Do I have to beat BOTW first to understand this one? Not really feeling dropping $50-60 on a 7 year old game I didn’t even fuuck with when I played it back then
Started playing this at work on my new Switch Lite. This game's still crack. On the same save. So much stuff to do in this game still. STILL finding random ass sidequests.
The Wolf Among You
Superstar
It’s the Zelda cycle. The internet’s perception of Skyward Sword before and after the release of Breath of the Wild is night and day.
Just wait until the next game releases, they’ll switch up again.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
Drink wolf cola
I’ve been playing Zelda games since 1993, so I’m very familiar with the formula at this point. Am I the only one who finds the last two games to be so large that it hurts the game? Too much empty space and so little structure that it’s almost overwhelming trying to find what to do next along with the lack of tools and dungeons? It feels like the game does very little to explain what you can do to solve any given puzzle.
Yes it's a common argument that some people in the fan base have against the games. Personally, I preferred BotW and I'll say TotK is great, but I would've preferred if the development team didn't do something like the depths and instead focus more on filling out the content in Hyrule.. same with the sky islands. I would've preferred like another 3 main dungeons found in Hyrule, instead
