260 hours, two months of near-daily play, and last night I finally decided it was time to go destroy Ganondorf.
God, what a game. I don't know that anything will ever match up to the nonstop awe of playing BOTW for the first time, but this didn't need to be that because it was something else entirely. Hyrule feels so much more alive and full and engaging here. My first BOTW playthrough was 175 hours, and it ended because I felt done: I'd completed everything I wanted to complete and had been farming ingredients for armor upgrades I didn't need just to give myself a reason to stay in Hyrule a little longer. 260 hours into TOTK, and it's only this week that I had the thought "hmm, I'll probably hit that same point in the next 100 hours or so."
I'm shifting out of daily play at this point - it's time to come up for air. But there's still so much I haven't done, still so much that I want to do, and 175+ map markers I dropped saying "what's over there? I'll have to come back to it" that I need to check out. I don't know if I'll ever get to them all, but even if I don't I'm glad there's still so much waiting for me.
God, what a game. I don't know that anything will ever match up to the nonstop awe of playing BOTW for the first time, but this didn't need to be that because it was something else entirely. Hyrule feels so much more alive and full and engaging here. My first BOTW playthrough was 175 hours, and it ended because I felt done: I'd completed everything I wanted to complete and had been farming ingredients for armor upgrades I didn't need just to give myself a reason to stay in Hyrule a little longer. 260 hours into TOTK, and it's only this week that I had the thought "hmm, I'll probably hit that same point in the next 100 hours or so."
I'm shifting out of daily play at this point - it's time to come up for air. But there's still so much I haven't done, still so much that I want to do, and 175+ map markers I dropped saying "what's over there? I'll have to come back to it" that I need to check out. I don't know if I'll ever get to them all, but even if I don't I'm glad there's still so much waiting for me.