heyyy its breath of the wild!! its the best game ever or something!! but not really, like it's pretty good but definitely has a lot of problems. its my second time completing the game and i've put it in a good 210 hours or some shit and im like... done with it now lol
so first of all how is it as an open world game? for one, hyrule is massive! and that is great, it feels honestly inconceivable to walk from the west to the east but you definitely could. i love how huge it is, and when you realise how far away stuff is it truly wild. the world has a lot of things in it that constantly rewards you, be it monster camps, shrines, towns, etc etc, its good! but herein lies one of the problems. once you happen upon a korok or a shrine a lot of the time it just feels like a chore. i came upon so many korok spots and just thought "I cant be bothered" because the reward just didnt feel worth it. thats true with a lot of the things in this game i feel, you see an enemy camp and think "what am i gonna get? a knight's claymore? not worth it" and just not worth going in! this would happen LESS if your weapons didnt break, but because they do you have to weigh the pros and cons of doing stuff. if you already have decent weapons youre attached to then why would you risk/damage them for something worse? its just not worth it
combat is mostly good! it's quite simple, and especially so when there isnt much normal monster variety either. (bokoblins are the best, then moblins, and lizalfos DEAD last) combat feels really good when fighting bosses and mini-bosses because they're intense. fighting lynels and guardians is particularly fun because of the big open arenas and how much room you have around them. otherwise combat is a LITTLE bland? it gets the job done and isnt bad but it definitely makes me want for a little more! maybe i should play dark souls!
as a last aside, the voice acting in this game genuinely sucks! zelda's fake british accent is not good, and all the old characters being voiced by VAs who are clearly young people and they do a really bad job! i sometimes think its quite shitty to dunk on VAs like that but in terms of the art of this game i do think it affects it. this game came out during the 2016-2017 VA strikes so potentially the VAs here are also scabs. hard to say!
so first of all how is it as an open world game? for one, hyrule is massive! and that is great, it feels honestly inconceivable to walk from the west to the east but you definitely could. i love how huge it is, and when you realise how far away stuff is it truly wild. the world has a lot of things in it that constantly rewards you, be it monster camps, shrines, towns, etc etc, its good! but herein lies one of the problems. once you happen upon a korok or a shrine a lot of the time it just feels like a chore. i came upon so many korok spots and just thought "I cant be bothered" because the reward just didnt feel worth it. thats true with a lot of the things in this game i feel, you see an enemy camp and think "what am i gonna get? a knight's claymore? not worth it" and just not worth going in! this would happen LESS if your weapons didnt break, but because they do you have to weigh the pros and cons of doing stuff. if you already have decent weapons youre attached to then why would you risk/damage them for something worse? its just not worth it
combat is mostly good! it's quite simple, and especially so when there isnt much normal monster variety either. (bokoblins are the best, then moblins, and lizalfos DEAD last) combat feels really good when fighting bosses and mini-bosses because they're intense. fighting lynels and guardians is particularly fun because of the big open arenas and how much room you have around them. otherwise combat is a LITTLE bland? it gets the job done and isnt bad but it definitely makes me want for a little more! maybe i should play dark souls!
as a last aside, the voice acting in this game genuinely sucks! zelda's fake british accent is not good, and all the old characters being voiced by VAs who are clearly young people and they do a really bad job! i sometimes think its quite shitty to dunk on VAs like that but in terms of the art of this game i do think it affects it. this game came out during the 2016-2017 VA strikes so potentially the VAs here are also scabs. hard to say!
Martint
2 years ago