I've heard a lot recently that BotW is "greater than the sum of it's parts". But what does that even mean in this case? I ask because I recently played it again and was a bit surprised how lacking it is now looking back on it in ways some of the other 3D entries aren't:Poor BossesPoor DungeonsPoor SidequestLow enemy variety Poor ending Those "parts" are all fairly lacking, so if all it's parts are lacking how can it be "great"? I'm genuinely not trying to shit post here and maybe I'm fucking retarded but it seems "greater than sum of parts" is a way to almost handwave with how lacking much of the individual parts of a game or piece of media is?
>>737020081They mean "Totk is clearly better, has better parts, but I played Botw first and it blew my mind, and a perfect sequel can't abridge my nostalgia"
>poor sidequest, endingI didn't think so.
>>737020713It does seem interesting that at least most people comparing BotW talk about how the game made them feel, yet rarely mention all of the games faults like enemy variety and dungeon quality. Did most people only play BotW only once?
>>737020081If botw had anime gacha hotties like Genshin I'd play it more often.
Totk is the bes game ever made in history, botw was a stepping stone.
>>737021943I played BotW twice, which is 1 more time than Minish Cap, ALBW, Majora's Mask, Windwaker, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Because BotW actually gives me a reason to replay.
>>737020081For a lot of people it's the exploration being solid, the physics allowing for fun interactions, the puzzles being loose in their expectations to solve them, and it being different to what Zelda typically is after they've been degrading since either WW, TP, or SS, depends who you ask. The freedom is what people enjoy.People in general are ignoring that>The dungeons are just glorified shrines.>There's tons of enemy recolors so there's not that much enemy variety.>There's so many Koroks (Which have a reason but if you're a 100%er it's cancer).>Weapon durability does feel like garbage and turns your Master Sword into a glorified axe and pickaxe over anything else while making you hoard the better stuff.>Horses are completely pointless due to how much you climb and the Master Cycle has to be one of the worst upgrades in the game.>The physics system becomes unusable for combat once enemies become blue onward to the point that flinging a black enemy off the top of the Gerudo Canyon does only like 40% of their health making Magnesis 100% useless, explosives do almost no damage, and using trees or rocks to damage enemies does chip damage most of the time.>They got rid of area gating and sub items so it never feels like you're actively progressing that much which was also a problem ALBW had.>They got rid of Pieces of Heart and bottles in exchange for a glorified currency you can trade in for health or stamina which makes it less fun to explore the world as almost no one gives you unique rewards now, they're all sequestered to shrines.t. 100%ed it three times. The first ten or so hours had me questioning if it was even a Zelda game and when I encountered my first Zora I was completely taken out of the game because they don't look like they fit the world at all. Gorons too. It's fun for what it is but I am sick of its design influencing Nintendo as a whole and is now continuing to affect Zelda as a brand as shown in EoW.
>>737020081That phrase has got me thinkingWhat is a game that is less than the sum of its parts?
>>737020081I would say that, aside from Wii sports and maybe Skyrim, it’s got the most mainstream appeal of any game ever made. Tons of casuals loved just climbing a mountain and exploring aimlessly. The mechanics are deep enough to reward mastery too. There’s something for everyone in there.I enjoyed my one playthrough and every time I’ve attempted a second run I got bored quickly. I think I’m just getting to the point where I’m sick of Zelda completely
>>737020713Breath of the Wild was well put together. It was a coherent delicious dinner. The ingredients that made it were different from previous Zelda's, but you could still taste a bit of the original Zelda in it. Tears of the Kingdom is Breath of the Wild's DLC table scraps slopped together on a flimsy plot plate to justify all of it. >inb4 food analogy
>year after TotK came outIt makes BotW look like a tech demo and makes it obsolete!!! All this bloat is good MORE CONTENT!!>Now>Muh BotW intentional emptiness and cohesive whole even though it's very lacking in many areas!Which is it then ffs?
>>737020081BOTW became the best selling game in the series because it came both at a time when people were really burned out of how formulaic 3D Zelda had become, there weren't any real games to play and it came out with the switch. It is a good game, but it has glaring issues and it's not a very good Zelda.
I'm convinced BotW is the biggest successful psyop ever pulled to get us to accept trash tier games. Literal Ubisoft garbage.
>>737020713>>737021943... are you idiots seriously bootlicking TotK?That game is the Zelda equivalent of Banjo Nuts and Bolts.>worse movement>building contraptions takes upwards of 5+ minutes every time due to shitty physics>fixes none of botw's problems>companions are janky>horses are totally useless due to building mechanics>the mech companion you get is primarily used in combat but does no damage>horrible story that doesnt work well with botw>repeating cutscenes>even worse shrines>even worse abilities>totally meaningless and unengaging sidequests>zero post game content (huge fuck up since it was the thing a lot of players didnt like about botw)I mean seriously I cant believe its even a debate that totk was a total let down. All the things above are commonly mentioned as problems with the game yet totally overlooked by fanboys.If you genuinely like TOTK you enjoy baby games.>extra: horrible performance dipping sub 15fps on console or even in an emulator with good specs
>>737020081>>737020713 This pretty much. Same thing that happened with Skyrim. So many games since borrowed from it and improved it that now it seems lackluster in hindsight, but since there was nothing quite like it when it came out, people looked past the flaws and remember it being groundbreaking even though the experience has been mostly diluted by now
Its mid compared to OOT and MM
>>737023038Different people.
>>737023223I think TotK having a much better main quest-line has to count for something. Genuine question anon, do you not think TotK should get credit for having far better dungeon lead ups, better bosses and a far better ending?
>>737023373I cant remember one boss or dungeon from totk and I played it last year.I can remeber every boss and dungeon from botw and I last played that 7 years ago.
ToTK is the most "here nigga damn" game I've ever played. Most criticism were addressed in the most half assed way possible, and lost the effect BOTW had in the process.
>>737020081I got like 30 hours out of it before I never bothered to turn it on again. It's easy to forget mechanics that hamper the exploration and fun like: how much grinding for shit get frogs to upgrade your climbing hat, oh it's raining I can't look at that thing I wanted to, I can't carry this new equipment because I need more koroks and I don't know where the guy is now. I see that some people played like shit tons of hours and I just sort of get bored of it. TotK was fun when I pirated it two weeks before it was out, but after other people could enjoy it but it was the same thing played like 12 hours and never turned it back on.I'm sure if I was unemployed and or had a job with a regular sleep schedule I wouldn't mind putting an hour into it a day or something.
>>737022780which is?
>>737023446Anon, I played through BotW recently and literally beat Windblight Ganon in 2 minutes. >Start fight>Run up with Master Sword and take half his health>phase 2 immediately starts>Shoot bombs arrows at him once and he falls over >Run up with Master Sword and kill him Rinse and repeat for every Blight boss. How can you actually remember those and don't remember something like Queen Gibdo who is more engaging than every boss in BotW? You can prefer one game over the other but I truly have no clue why BotWfags just handwave how awful the bosses were in their game.
the first time you encounter a lynel is pretty epic, you climb over a hill, the music changes, you see this beast circle his "ground". it seems so organic, and it's a real boss fight. you probably have less than ten hearts and wooden weapons at that point after a while you scan the areas from the sky and spot the lynel's weapons from far away, you decided whether to kill it or not, it's not even a challenge, it's whether it has the good weapons on it or not. i'm not saying the "level up" system is good or bad i'm just breaking it down. regular zelda was just fine, BOTW/TOTK is cool too, but it becomes a bit redundant. overcoming your first "boss" is cool but then you have to fight the same boss over and over to the point where if he's not the right color you just pass on it
>>737022853That would be modern Assassin's Creed for me. In paper it should be amazing: a giant, detailed, historical rendition of a map filled with dozens if not hundred of locations, plenty of sidequests, character building and customization, 100+ hour playtime, great graphics, reincorporating a modern day storyline, sailing, hunting, gear upgrading, etc. And yet the games feel, pardon the buzzword, soulless. Nothing feels connected, the map doesn't feel like it's designed for freerunning, combat is entirely dependent on gear, the sidequests are poorly animated and written, the story is barely an excuse to make you go into an area and start clearing outposts. They tried to make Witcher 3 but without any of the charm.
>>737023038It seems that contrarians realized they can't touch TotK directly, so they decided to laud BOTW as a way to shield their inane criticism.
>>737023697I'd say TotK has better bosses, but falls flat on its face in every single other aspect when compared to BotW.There's no way a few bosses can make TotK a better game.
>>737024064Eh. BotW is a fine game. But there are several things TotK does better.BotW:+Better "Story"+Better UI (more smooth gameplay)+Better puzzles+Novelty-Dungeon Lead Ups, Dungeon aesthetics (Main Quest)-Bosses-Music-Sidequest-Variety (Enemies, no caves, etc)-FinaleTotK:+Bosses+Combat (actual reasons to fight things for mats to make Scythes and shit)+Variety (Enemies, caves, etc)+Dungeon Lead Ups and Aesthetics (main quest)+Music+Sidequest+Finale-UI (very clunky UI)-Puzzles-Story-Novelty
>>737023373>far better endingAdvanced trolling. Not even going to spoiler this because its obvious you know anyway but:>Zelda is told she will never be able to revert to human>plot armor undoes this for some reason in the ending so the hero can live happily ever after with herThis isnt better.The "lead up" to it was horrible too. It was obvious past the intro that Zelda was the dragon. I only had my suspicions confirmed a couple hours in by the damn findable cutscenes which suck.Let me complain a little bit more since I'm recalling a bit more now:>shitty forced tutorial that is 1 hour long>The underworld is empty and dark, feels shit to explore>The overworld is the exact same as before with crappy redesigns to incorporate sky segments>the sky layer is totally empty. Less terrain than most reasonable people would expect>no sky layer area feels unique>underworld layer boss and temple sucks literally just a rockem sockem robot match baby mode difficulty>sky has no unique bosses except those awful dragon arenas and sheika robots that are repeatable for some reason>stupid gerudo desert has even less flavor>the villages havent changed since botw>recipes havent changed>weapons didnt change>weapons still break in 20 seconds of useBOTW wasnt perfect but TOTK is totally tone deaf and downgraded.>Downgraded from mediocre kekyes, seriously and that says alot.
>>737022853FFXVI
>>737023605He just reeeaaaally likes hitting bokoblins with a sword in the smoggiest environments known to man.
>>737024180Sure when you throw out a very tiny list like that TotK might look like the better game. You should try expanding the scope of what you look at.Dungeon Lead Ups and Dungeon Aesthetics should be in different lines, don't know why you grouped those together, though I'd mostly agree TotK did those better (not the water temple).Also why'd you give sidequest to TotK?
>>737024241Lead ups to the dungeons you dingus. Unless you really think shooting targets with Teba is better than ascending the storm cloud with Tulin. And yes the ending boss was better. Ganondorf > Demon King > Demon Dragon > Diving to Zelda is far better than Calamity Ganon (which is just copy pasted Blights) > Dark Beast Ganon. As for your other complaints I enjoyed messing around in many of those areas. Doing the underground prison in the Gerudo Desert for example was a great way to mix things up. Sorry you had such a miserable time with the game better luck next time.>>737025070I think Totk had better overall sidequest quality than in BotW, the latter of which had a lot of empty "collect 10 things for me" rewards. Both weren't great here however.
>>737023223>That game is the Zelda equivalent of Banjo Nuts and Bolts.and?
>>737023697>How can you actually remember those and don't remember something like Queen GibdoBecause he's full of shit, do you need to even ask
>>737023030In this case it's clear that the table scraps when tossed together into a dish resulted in a superior meal. The coherent and delicious dinner had nothing on the sheer variety and volume of these miscellaneous tossing of food. The only issue Totk has with people is they find the "texture" disagreeable with their weak stomach. They prefer the previous dish which was a singular aspect.
>>737024064Totk has better puzzles, better music, better enemy variety, better story, better itemization, but sure you played Botw first and it was fresh, cool story dude, it happens once, and it is never fresh again.
Basically a bunch of tendies just coping with the fact that not everyone wants some sandbox game where the majority of your time is spent collecting worthless crap and cooking food.
>>737025070How much bigger does the list need to be, literally everything in Totk is better, you want it bullet point by bullet point or something.
what causes this mental illness?
>>737022853Ironically the game that BOTW raped to death, Horizon Zero Dawn is possibly the best example of something being less than the sum of its parts
Slop of the Goyim
>>737020081You just had to be there. Day 0 of BotW (Wii U version leak). No internet, no guides, no retarded youtubers, no retarded brazillian schizos on /v/. Just you, a couple of hours, and the game. While I was disapointed in the game in the end, my first playthrough didn't feel that way. Exploring the unknown in an open world is one of the most exciting video game experiences. I think that's why TotK didn't have the same impact. You knew what to expect based on experiences off BotW alone.
>>737026570I don't know if I'd say better puzzles. BotW puzzles are better mostly due to the fact you can't break them (entirely). However many shrines are still pretty forgettable. It just has fewer than TotK. The story works better in BotW memory wise. Outside of that I agree with your points.
>>737027090Can't agree. I bought it on Wii U within the first week because everyone would not stop talking about it being a breath of fresh air and that was my only knowledge about the game. Was completely guideless until the end when I wanted to clear the 900 Koroks and I thought it was beyond overhyped, it didn't feel like a Zelda game a majority of the time, and while it was fun I really did not want Zelda games to become like this which sadly they have because Aonuma is sniffing his own farts.
Totk and botw are only Zelda in name and appearance, and play more like post-origins asscreed than actual Zelda games.Elden Ring is also not Dark Souls. Fuck open-world.
>>737027238>tripfag >is retarded a tale as old as time
>>737027495>Elden Ring is also not Dark Souls.Uh yeah, anyone literate can tell you that
>>737020081It means every part of it is terrible but they'll call it perfect anyway.
>>737026519>>737026424>>737026451>>737025716BOTW is shit but TOTK is shit from the gutter.All this shit about TOTK being better is just cope to deflect from how low the standards of gaming have gotten.They encompass everything wrong with modern game design and the only redeeming factor of BOTW is that it came out at a time where open worlds werent an industry crutch yet.Instead of being an actual good game, they just run on vibes, "vibe gameplay" if you will.>>737026701I know, right? Imagine making 386 threads about the same topic years after relevance hoping to play devils advocate for the mainstream opinions nobody actually shares.Couldnt be any normal non tranny non obsessed aryan individual I'll tell you that much.
>>737020713TotK adding more stuff just runs into all the limitations that BotW managed to avoid, like the terrible UI.>>737022853Any open world game that insists on filling the open world with copypasted filler objectives, rather than being content to let the open world stand as a means of decompressing otherwise dense content like a boss-rush (SotC) or 5 dungeons/questlines (BotW).>>737023128People weren't burned out on how formulaic 3D Zelda was, they were burned out on the fact that the Zelda team had been in decline for over a decade after Majora's Mask, finally culminating in SS, which couldn't provide a compelling and coherent gameplay structure or even follow basic principles of how to design a game.BotW is ultimately not that different from SS and repeats many of its core ideas, the team just has some more experience, they were given a higher budget and they likely roped in some more experienced people to help finish it in time for the Switch launch.
>>737027129>The story works better in BotW memory wise.They actually complement one another memory wise. Botw is Link's, and Totk is Zelda's
>>737027495They play more like Zelda than Ootsnoys realize.
>>737029729>BOTW is that it came out at a time where open worlds werent an industry crutch yet.are you sure about that......are you sure about that
BotW wasn't spectacular, but it was a damn good blueprint for what could have been a solid follow-up. TotK failed to do so.
>>737030441>People weren't burned out on how formulaic 3D Zelda wasRevisionism at its finest. You fags cannot comprehend Botw and Totk being well received because you aren't living in reality.
>>737023223This, the building mechanic was a total turn-off. That and the massive, bland-looking underground. I like BOTW because I can play at my own pace, I don't like TOTK because it's constantly interrupting me with menus and linear story sections I want to skip
>>737031063The menus add SOVL. You just wouldn't get it since you're a snoy, Eric
>unsubtle caco thread
>>737031109>2026>still thinks posting a webm of being too stupid to press sort and then scrolling OFF of the item and going through the entire inventory proves anything except his own retardation
>>737031174>Erm actually this UI isn't dogshit, you just need an extremely high IQ to understand it
>>737031109Wtf does liking BOTW over another have to do with Sony, kek
>>737031063Building was a natural evolution of block puzzles.
>>737031237>botwsnoy
>>737020081We get it autismo, you've a one-track mindset
>>737031252Dammit I GUESS, but fuck do I have to play a whole game of block puzzles just to do basic Zelda shit? If I wanted block puzzles I'd go pkay a sokoban game
>>737020081>I've heard a lot recently that BotW is "greater than the sum of it's parts"i haven't heard thatif you've heard that, a lot, then shouldn't you ask the people saying itrest of post discarded
>>737031237Sony cultist has spent a decade seething that BOTW is a successful and loved game its gotten so bad that all he can do now is falseflag while also giving himself away by spamming the same cope images and webms hes spammed hundreds of times
>>737031275What does this mean ;-; I thought "snoy" was used to refer to Sony fans the same way "tendie" refers to Nintendo fans
>>737031020He's completely right. It's more that the games were getting more and more linear, more and more handholdy, and more and more reliant on sub items that didn't do anything but solve very specific puzzles and nothing else with each release ever since around Wind Waker due to their insistence on backseating the player and not allowing the games to play more like OoT, LA, or ALttP. SS was the straw that broke the camel's back, but ST and PH didn't help, and neither did ALBW. The entire reason why ALBW exists and why it allows you to go anywhere whenever is because they were figuring out how to work with non-linearity and addressing criticisms they had for years at that point that came to a head with SS.The complaint was never about being item gated or the formula getting old, it was always how they spent years poorly structuring the games and babying the fanbase. You even have people bitching about the BotW formula enough that Aounuma had to address it to say they're not going back because he thinks it's outdated so that should show you it's not people disliking the formula, they just dislike Aonuma dropping the ball.
>>737031357>It's just falseflaggers bro, none of us totkftrannies are actually that mentally ill
>>737031020People can claim that they were burned out on the formula, but that doesn't mean that they were any good at diagnosing what they actually didn't like.>>737031174A 1-dimensional inventory of vendor trash will never be good.
>>737031357Oh weird. I saw the "Eric/you lost" spam-chain but I never thought I'd be at the receiving end of one of those posts, kek. Hell I like BOTW but I guess I should've clarified that I'm not creaming my jeans over it. It was fun, I played it, I moved on. TOTK was not for me but I can see why people enjoy it. I like video games
>>737031417>too retarded to press sort not the game's fault
>>737031425Saying you like BOTW is one of the biggest trigger phrases for multiple sony cultists
>>737031558Wtf, what if I like games from multiple consoles, does that make me a double agent or something? If I say I like FFVII AND OOT what, will the universe implode? It's like the pancakefag image all over again
>>737031754FF7 is on PC and switch so yes, saying you like FF7 will set off the sony fanboys
>>737031825Okay better example, Astro Bot and DK Bananza, if I say I like both of those games and had fun, what happens?
People say the old formula was stale but I'm already burnt out on the BotW formula and it's only been 3 games.
>>737020081Will Eric ever stop bitching about an already successful and beloved game? Just spamming this won't take away the millions of dollars it made, or the millions of fans it has or the glowing reviews it got, just move on, or don't, your coping and seething is still fun to mock.
>>737032058Who is Eric? Give some of us newfags some context, please. Let's hear your side of the story /v/ro
>>737032152There's no context that anon is just a mentally ill schizo and can't handle people criticizing nu-Nintendo. He's been spamming Zelda threads for almost a decade. I don't know how he survives frankly, he clearly doesn't have a job. Probably gibs.
>>737021943There's been tons of complaints about those two specific problems in every discussion sphere since day one. But everything else about the game is good.Not sure where you're getting your information from.
>>737032237I ask the same question about the schizos on every other board...
>>737032152a mindbroken sony fanboy who has been spamming for well over a decade, the success of the switch destroyed what little of his mind was left
>>737032586Okay but you thought >>737031063 was Eric earlier, how do you know who's Eric and who's just some guy
>>737032586>sony fanboyproofs?
>>737031361It's the caco.He's severely mentally stunted so he just parrots insults used against him and sony. People shit on Sony and playstation shills by calling them snoys, so ever since he's been trying to call everything else [ ]SnoyCapcom called the PS5 a barrier for game sales, so he's been spamming Barrier over and over
>>737032687That's the caco falseflagging. He's been posting that same webm a thousand times before. But you already knew that, caco
>>737032687Respondeo, ergo est Ericus
>>737020081There should be a shorter version of BOTW where its only the playthrough of him crossdressing into Gerudo cuz the rest of the game and its sequel are worthless. Fuck you link with your blue sword, you don't scare me.
>>737033558>>737033568What have you been playing lately?
>loved BOTW>hated TOTKWhat did I mean by this?
I played botw for about a hundred hours but I dropped totk after exploring the underground for a bitdropping down into the depths without knowing anything about it was kino though
>>737033674Been playing the caco rape n gape simulator. It's great
It means that the average modern tendie is a low test faggot who makes up shit just to avoid saying he soifaced over poorly designed Ubislop just because it had a Nintendo label on it.>>737033693>>737033710Means severe mental retardation because both are the same game. Tiktok just has more empty space and different shitty gimmicks. Imagine making such a garbage lego vehicle system long after the lego vehicle genre did all it could and feel into being niche. Only at Nintendo.
>>737033674Probably some gacha, this guy is some third worlder who doesn't even own a switch
>>737033834can someone translate this mindbroken gobbledygook to english please?
>>737033905>I got raped n gaped beyond salvation so I'm just gonna go all out sperg modeYou know it's the macaco because he's the only one that keeps calling totk "tiktok"
>didn't care for BOTW>think TOTK is the best game ever madeWhat did I mean by this?
>>737033905>>737034031Discord link, sisters?
>>737033854This level of projecting isn't healthy caco, you retarded aids ridden favela monkey
>>737034064See>>737034083
>>737033854>loves Nintendo>doesn't own Nintendo productvs.>says (you) hate Nintendo>except (you) own a Nintendo console and play it??? make it make sense
>>737034121Haha bardzo śmieszne brudasie. Nie zesraj sie bo mamusia będzie musiała znowu wylizać ci dupe i zmienić pampersa.
>>737034036You're a faggot that doesn't play video games and makes threads about not liking video games.
>>737034393Sit down PollackAnd don't worry, if I need someone to eat my ass, I'll call your slag of a mother
>>737031417I didn't like getting three macguffins, in two halves of the game, a shoe horned transformation gimmick, and puzzles and exploration being locked behind an item obtained in an isolated box in the ground.
>>737031403It's more than being linear, it's a stale formula and it deserves to never ever happen again.
>>737034962Maybe don't play TotK then.
>>737020081I don't know, but I would personally highlight other elements first beyond what you listed, namely>Shitty Combat>Shitty Enemy A.I.>Shitty Open World>Shitty Premise>Shitty CharactersHell, and it's not like BotW is totally unique either in these regards. After 2010, The Legend of Zelda pretty much became irrelevant in the Medieval-Fantasy Action-Adventure niche. [OTHER GAMES] started doing individual elements better, and then it became a question of what do you really want? A half-dozen mechanics/concepts done shoddily with shallow, albeit recognizable imagery slapped on top of it? or a half-dozen games that do 2-3 mechanics/concepts really fuckin' well, with all the potential in the world to surprise you with new visuals and thematic concepts?The Legend of Zelda has, for close to thirty years now, been neutered by its own reputation.Nintendo is just the Disney of vidya at this point.
>>737035197*Oot, MM, WW, TP, and SS
A DECADE later and /v/ is still seething like fuck, as if Nintendo's peerless masterpiece only released last week.
>>737034186>Hasn't posted proofs of owning a shitch or shitch poo
>>737036396No no I was agreeing with you, I own a few Nintendo consoles but the other guy doesn't
>>737020081The problem is, you are judging it by the metrics of the older, linear Zelda games, not as its own thing.The main appeal of BotW is its truly open-ended open world, filled with interactive, dynamic systems that affect everything. After decades of "story-driven" Ubishit, that implies there to be a vast world, but roadblocks you all the time until required plot / level requirements are met (all while SPOILING all the discovery with a map marker circus), BotW's unpatronizing freedom was a literal breath of fresh air.The driving force in the game is your own desire for exploration, experimentation and discovery. There is practically as many ways to play BotW as there are people on this planet, which also makes it so much fun for me to watch other people play the game. It's just wild how many things I took for granted other people seem to miss, but also vise-versa; I still keep learning new stuff from time to time!Naturally, if you're a "checkmark player" that beelines from an "objective" to another, or an action-fag who just wants a pointy stick with biggest numbers, you won't even discover any of these elements, and likely won't even appreciate them.Even if we humor the notion of temples and such, the Shrines do serve that purpose quite well, being small intermissions with practical rewards. Also, the Ancient Beat dungeons are honestly pretty well done, even if a bit samey in design, and the Hyrule Castle is a damn great final dungeon you curiously can explore at your own pace and way, at any time.The enemy variety aspect is a bit mixed bag. Besides the Bokoblins and Lizalfos + their bigger variants + undead variants, many people don't seem to count any of the hostile wild animals into this list. Sure, there would be a number of classic Zelda foes that would fit the world so well, as seen in TOK as well, but overall the game makes do what it offers quite well, especially since survival in the world is a challenge on itself.
>>737039126...Since the post already reached the symbol limit, I'm just gonna add that the audio-visual design of BotW also deserves a recognition.Especially the sound world, easily the most underrated aspect of ANY game ever made, is absolutely stellar. Every minute special effect, to the gentle soundtrack that escalates during major moments is just masterclass of composing and mixing, and the layers of dynamic effects both incorporate is still outstanding.In terms of scale, scope and interactivity, it's honestly damn impressive that Nintendo got this running so well on the WiiU. Or rather... it's embarrassing that other devs don't seem to be able to match up while developing shit for 1000x stronger hardware this day and age. Some of the physics and interaction were previously only seen in games like CRYSIS, 2007!
>>737039126why is it so foggy, ruins the feel
>>737039605Because of temperature drop creates mists, and Hyrule Castle is also a neighbor to the Death Mountain, an active volcano.The game also uses exaggerated atmospheric perspective, the natural effect that desaturates distant objects.
>>737039126Good post. Wasted on this shit hole.Anyone who hates BotW or TotK is a low IQ retard. There's no exception. It's hilarious how they still can't cope 10 years later.
