Took me a while to collect my thoughts on this one.
First off, it’s fantastic and probably the best game this year, even if not my favourite.
But why isn’t it my favourite? Why don’t I consider this among my favourite games of all time like Breath of the Wild?
Every step I took across Hyrule just reaffirmed to me what I knew in 2017, that BOTW was so far ahead of the game when it released that it still holds up today in an iterative form. Every system improved, expanse widened and depths plunged can’t shake the feeling that the revolution in open-world design BOTW represented was so monumental that that feeling can’t be recaptured again.
First off, it’s fantastic and probably the best game this year, even if not my favourite.
But why isn’t it my favourite? Why don’t I consider this among my favourite games of all time like Breath of the Wild?
Every step I took across Hyrule just reaffirmed to me what I knew in 2017, that BOTW was so far ahead of the game when it released that it still holds up today in an iterative form. Every system improved, expanse widened and depths plunged can’t shake the feeling that the revolution in open-world design BOTW represented was so monumental that that feeling can’t be recaptured again.