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Depending on who you ask, this game was either overrated or underrated, either an improvement to Breath of the Wild in every way or a travesty that kept all the bad things about Breath of the Wild like the combat and the terrible stats system, and maintained very little of the good (the exploration and environmental storytelling.) Honestly I think it's somewhere in the middle. I enjoyed some of the new mechanics, hated others (Fuse doesn't "fix" durability, it mostly just gives weapons about the same durability they had in BotW, but Ultrahand is just Magnesis but better,) enjoyed seeing how the world map had changed but longed for more "new" content (since the new areas that did exist were very samey, copy-paste type stuff with not a lot going on), and as for storytelling, well, the plot itself is better, but the way it's told is worse, so make of that what you will. This is going to be the future of 3D Zelda for years to come, whether you like it or not, since Nintendo spent so much money on the engine after all. Might as well learn to enjoy it.

Reviewed on Dec 31, 2023


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