Jamie
Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out...
I am a well known WW fanboy on this forum and for me, my 2nd place Zelda has not really come close. I know I have a signature that orders them arbitrarily but 2-17 can really be switched around for me. But I don't feel this way anymore. Perhaps it's hype, but for me BotW is the best Zelda and I'm not even sure it's even close.
Just to start, I have put enough man hours into this game to easily have completed any Zelda game and even 100% completion in some of them. I have not even gotten half of the towers, I haven't unlocked half my ****ing map yet let alone explored it all. I've done about 30 shrines and found like 9 korok seeds and done only half the dungeons and I'm 40 ****ing hours in. Even if Wind Waker was a more enjoyable 40 hours (debatable), I find it hard to imagine that a say, 98/100 for 40 hours could be seen as a better experience than a 95/100 for 100+ hours. The most amazing thing is these shrines don't feel extraneous or anything, they are just as fun as any other dungeon. If we say by the end of the game I have 85 hours completed with 60 shrines and all of the main stuff done, there are still another ****ing 60 shrines for me to do. Searching for and completing shrines would take quite a while, I'd reckon I could put in another 40 hours in easily.
Even if it took 10m a shrine (unlikely given I'd have to search for them and some are difficult) that's 10 hours extra! There is maybe 10 hours of dungeon play in a traditional Zelda game if you play slowly. You'd have to complete every shrine in average less than 5 minutes if we include the 4 dungeons as well. Which is low balling it, and if we want to talk about speeding through dungeons, I can plow through dragon roost cavern in 20m.
By the time I've put this game down, I will have spent more time more walking around the map not even doing the main quest or a shrine or dungeon, than I spent completing the entirety of wind waker, which I did in 2 days my first time through.
The AI, while still simple, is by far the best in Zelda, there are countless weapons, materials, armour and more. Oh and over 70 side quests, of which I've done like 10.
At this point I can't imagine going back and playing TWW and feeling anything but underwhelmed. My favourite game ever is now underwhelming.
I can understand why you may disagree, I have issues with the plot and weapon durability and lots of other small problems, but this game has exceeded every single expectation I had. Absolutely amazing.
What is your opinion? How do you evaluate BotW so far? Where does it rank for you on your all time Zeldas and all time games?
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Just to start, I have put enough man hours into this game to easily have completed any Zelda game and even 100% completion in some of them. I have not even gotten half of the towers, I haven't unlocked half my ****ing map yet let alone explored it all. I've done about 30 shrines and found like 9 korok seeds and done only half the dungeons and I'm 40 ****ing hours in. Even if Wind Waker was a more enjoyable 40 hours (debatable), I find it hard to imagine that a say, 98/100 for 40 hours could be seen as a better experience than a 95/100 for 100+ hours. The most amazing thing is these shrines don't feel extraneous or anything, they are just as fun as any other dungeon. If we say by the end of the game I have 85 hours completed with 60 shrines and all of the main stuff done, there are still another ****ing 60 shrines for me to do. Searching for and completing shrines would take quite a while, I'd reckon I could put in another 40 hours in easily.
Even if it took 10m a shrine (unlikely given I'd have to search for them and some are difficult) that's 10 hours extra! There is maybe 10 hours of dungeon play in a traditional Zelda game if you play slowly. You'd have to complete every shrine in average less than 5 minutes if we include the 4 dungeons as well. Which is low balling it, and if we want to talk about speeding through dungeons, I can plow through dragon roost cavern in 20m.
By the time I've put this game down, I will have spent more time more walking around the map not even doing the main quest or a shrine or dungeon, than I spent completing the entirety of wind waker, which I did in 2 days my first time through.
The AI, while still simple, is by far the best in Zelda, there are countless weapons, materials, armour and more. Oh and over 70 side quests, of which I've done like 10.
At this point I can't imagine going back and playing TWW and feeling anything but underwhelmed. My favourite game ever is now underwhelming.
I can understand why you may disagree, I have issues with the plot and weapon durability and lots of other small problems, but this game has exceeded every single expectation I had. Absolutely amazing.
What is your opinion? How do you evaluate BotW so far? Where does it rank for you on your all time Zeldas and all time games?
Like/comment/subscribe