I’ve sat here for a while and I still don’t really know how to note down my thoughts on this game but I’ll give it a try. It took me a very long time to complete but wasn’t very engaging at all. The jump to 3D was not kind to Falcom, with the characters faces looking pretty poor and the models as a whole looking quite janky. Environments are okay, about what you could expect when you realise this is a PSVita game. Visuals are one thing, but the gameplay and story are huge drawbacks compared to the constant 9/10 - 10/10’s that Trails pumped out every release prior to Cold Steel

This game is just too easy, you get given so much bullshit and the changes made to the orbment system made this game so easy to break, and while it wouldn’t mind if the game was fun, or this happened near the late game, it happens fairly early on once you can unlock most of your slots, and leaves the game to become a slog.

I wish I knew how many hours I wasted spamming the A button in battles, because that’s what the game became in pretty much every fight that wasn’t a boss battle. Past entries had challenge in most dungeons, and while did get easier near the end outside of boss fights, weren’t at the level of tedium this game presented.

While the last few hours were okay in comparison to the rest of the game, the constant exposition and plot twists were a bit annoying. Too much of this game feels like filler and then they put everything important at the end.

The game as a whole just feels mediocre.

Only good parts of the game were the final boss fight, which is completely different to the rest of the series so far, and the music is still as good as ever, though not as memorable.

Oh and Crow 👍🏼

≈200 days from the sequel I find myself often replaying botw. The game is so massive that "100%ing" it once is an experience itself, but every playthrough after can feel like a different game and the following experiences are unique. For most games I replay it needs to have some form of challenge to reach near the enjoyment botw recreates each playthrough. As a singular experience I do think Majora's Mask is the better game, however everytime replaying botw that has faded, making this the better game for me and I expect the sequel to take this game's place as #1.