Master Trials are fun, and some of the DLC items and costumes are quite nice. The trials are a cool challenge and require you to think, although maybe a little long with no saves (the final set of trials took an hour for me).
Master Mode is not good though. The regenerating enemies are cool in theory but don’t work when you have easily breakable items, because it becomes worth it to just skip fighting all together. Master Mode with the Master Trials is a near impossible feat that requires intense planning to even bother trying.
Master Mode is not good though. The regenerating enemies are cool in theory but don’t work when you have easily breakable items, because it becomes worth it to just skip fighting all together. Master Mode with the Master Trials is a near impossible feat that requires intense planning to even bother trying.
Pretty uninspired all things considered. Does every game with combat need a floor-by-floor combat test? It was cool how it made you appreciate cooking more and using Lizalfos and Wizzrobe's elemental weaknesses, but it's either too easy or really frustrating when your 28-heart-having Link gets one-shot by a right Moblin clubbing. Also, the Master Sword doesn't actually get any sort of visual upgrade, just a stronger glow! They missed a perfect opportunity to give it a nod to Wind Waker's Master Sword quest and they blew it
A rare review of an expansion pack instead of a whole game, I'm doing this one separately purely because it sucks so much ass compared to the rest of Breath of the Wild.
After dying again to a garbage red Bokoblin that for some reason is still able to take 6 hearts from me in one unlucky strike, I cannot believe that past me spent at least 10 bucks on the privilege of unlocking this absolute shite. Without the guerrilla fighting gimmicks that the game normally recommends you rely on, the actual face-to-face combat is one of the most annoying aspects of the game as a whole, and that's basically what this entire expansion is.
It sucks that we have reverted from the amazing sword-moves of Twilight Princess to this. This is by far the worst Cave of Ordeals in any Zelda game. Do better, Nintendo.
And don't even get me fucking started on making some enemies Master Mode only, so that you can never get their photographs or 100% the regular mode. Combine both 'new features', and over 90% of this expansion is obnoxious.
After dying again to a garbage red Bokoblin that for some reason is still able to take 6 hearts from me in one unlucky strike, I cannot believe that past me spent at least 10 bucks on the privilege of unlocking this absolute shite. Without the guerrilla fighting gimmicks that the game normally recommends you rely on, the actual face-to-face combat is one of the most annoying aspects of the game as a whole, and that's basically what this entire expansion is.
It sucks that we have reverted from the amazing sword-moves of Twilight Princess to this. This is by far the worst Cave of Ordeals in any Zelda game. Do better, Nintendo.
And don't even get me fucking started on making some enemies Master Mode only, so that you can never get their photographs or 100% the regular mode. Combine both 'new features', and over 90% of this expansion is obnoxious.