I haven't played this for such a long time now that i think i will just have to give it a rating now and come back to it in like 2 years or something. Sorry.
This isn't actually a 2½ game!! It's technically a good & enjoyable & beautiful game. But for me it was pretty disappointing, which is why it gets a lower score. The starting area didn't vibe with me! It took forever to get the paraglider so i could explore properly! The sky islands were such a small part of the game! The main map was just botw's map with some differences! Building vehicles and devices didn't interest me! The story didn't really grab me either. I hate being one of those "lol totk is just botw dlc" people, but...... i mean........
All I'm saying is that the other direct Sequels i like in the series (Majora's Mask, A Link Between Worlds) had such huge differences from their predecessors that they really felt like new experiences. What I would have liked for totk would be like, either to move the main gameplay to a whole new area (the sky would be my first choice, but another region of the world would be cool as well) or, if they wanted to keep the same main map, put it in a whole other time period with new characters (like albw!), so you don't have to be constrained by "botw's landscape looked like this, so we can't change it TOO much". In my opinion (and yes this is subjective of course!), totk is just too much like botw for me to be able to enjoy it on its own merits. And what i liked in botw was the freedom and excitement in exploring this completely new, giant map, and the minimal story worked great for that.
Maybe it's no coincidence that what i liked most in totk was exploring the completely new wells (my beloved wells) and running around ignoring the story & being a nature photographer (which also has its limits with how little photos you can hold. Throw me a bone here nintendo)
I really wanted to love totk! I felt like i was living in some sort of bizarro dimension when comparing my feelings to everyone and everything who claimed that this was the best game ever created. And I'm sure that's true for those people! But for me it was just a bit disappointing.
Now that I've written out my ambivalent feelings on totk, watch me replay this in 2 years and giving it five stars for some reason i do not yet know of
This isn't actually a 2½ game!! It's technically a good & enjoyable & beautiful game. But for me it was pretty disappointing, which is why it gets a lower score. The starting area didn't vibe with me! It took forever to get the paraglider so i could explore properly! The sky islands were such a small part of the game! The main map was just botw's map with some differences! Building vehicles and devices didn't interest me! The story didn't really grab me either. I hate being one of those "lol totk is just botw dlc" people, but...... i mean........
All I'm saying is that the other direct Sequels i like in the series (Majora's Mask, A Link Between Worlds) had such huge differences from their predecessors that they really felt like new experiences. What I would have liked for totk would be like, either to move the main gameplay to a whole new area (the sky would be my first choice, but another region of the world would be cool as well) or, if they wanted to keep the same main map, put it in a whole other time period with new characters (like albw!), so you don't have to be constrained by "botw's landscape looked like this, so we can't change it TOO much". In my opinion (and yes this is subjective of course!), totk is just too much like botw for me to be able to enjoy it on its own merits. And what i liked in botw was the freedom and excitement in exploring this completely new, giant map, and the minimal story worked great for that.
Maybe it's no coincidence that what i liked most in totk was exploring the completely new wells (my beloved wells) and running around ignoring the story & being a nature photographer (which also has its limits with how little photos you can hold. Throw me a bone here nintendo)
I really wanted to love totk! I felt like i was living in some sort of bizarro dimension when comparing my feelings to everyone and everything who claimed that this was the best game ever created. And I'm sure that's true for those people! But for me it was just a bit disappointing.
Now that I've written out my ambivalent feelings on totk, watch me replay this in 2 years and giving it five stars for some reason i do not yet know of