well. time to write this

i got this as a birthday gift 4 years ago… i got the game because i heard you could ride a horse in it (i like horses)

yeah it ended up being so much more then that

the music style here is really my style. i adore the somber, gentle atmosphere. the world feels so peaceful despite the ongoing threat, it truly feels like the world is telling you; ‘Take your time.’

like the shrine music. when i hear it, i feel like i’m being invited to sit & enjoy this puzzle, no hurrying involved. the deep melancholic main theme, the rich & flaming intensity of dark beast ganon’s theme, i think if you cannot tell i really do like the music here. i think about it in my daily life a lot, like if its hot outside my brain thinks gerudo village theme, or if i’m just walking its that relaxing theme that plays in the fields. Rito village is my favourite song in this game btw, may or may not have listened to it for 10hrs in a row once ahah

i love the visuals here. they are colourful & beautiful, & i love all the character designs. there is such a distinct beauty to everything. me liking this & hollow knight so much is making me realise how much i dig a somber, post-tragedy story lmao

i especially like… Rito village nooowaaaaay you guessed it! its like my main hub for anything & everything i do. can you guess what my favourite zelda species in BOTW is, its really hard to guess i know

the horses were fun! i was disappointed a how often i had to depart from them, but then i got lost in the beautiful world & didn’t care anymore lmao

the story, contrary to what everyone says? i liked it! i didn’t mind all the memories, to me it was a realistic way to tell the story of a man remembering things after extreme amnesia. the point of the game is the full nature of the world, & this way of storytelling lends itself to that nicely. i value story a lot, & to me it felt well-conveyed.

i’m from the UK so the british voice acting was top class help (it was cute ok i will excuse it) but now i live knowing that link is probably british i’m not sure what to do with that information

this game is hyped a lot by all its fans, & maybe that might annoy some folks. i think the love it gets is earned in full. this game had a huge influence on the whole industry, & while we may all want the constant open world releases to slow down a bit, this game did propel genshin into existence which i must thank it for (or diss it for; my finances are in DANGER)

my favourite part of the game was the feeling, don’t know how to describe it. the feeling of playing it. exploring this world felt so… right. it felt right to me.

even in the age where we have TOTK, please play BOTW, the vibes are completely different between the games in my opinion. i will be brute & say i prefer BOTW’s much more. also i love kass :)

combat is nice aside from weapons always breaking, its pretty straightforward & there is some skill progression. you’ll know your good when you can kill lynels naked, that’s probably the hardest thing you can do in the game

also as much as the koroks are memed on, i collected them all. after the 100th it felt less like a chore & more like a therapeutic journey through this peaceful world once more.

btw i love revali & kass

obviously do recommend, main shortcomings are the following;

- framedrops in areas like the korok forest
- for some the story is told too unconventionally, or just not told at all to some
- weapons break too often
- rain climbing
- final boss is too much of a pushover. its a visual spectacle more than anything else

5/5