This review contains spoilers
the final fight with ganondorf goes so fucking hard. when the healthbar just keeps going,,, holy fucking shit. such a great subversion of the boss healthbar growing trope. glad i finally got around to finishing this after finding all of the shrines and getting burnt out playing so much so fast when it came out.
this is so much better than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), and i loved botw. i don't think i'll ever be able to play botw again after playing this. open world games are rarely my forte, but there's simply so much to do in this one. i am so glad that i went into this blind (outside of the reveal trailer). there were so many precious moments that completely recontextualized the game: discovering the depths for the first time, learning how ultrahand works, realizing the temples are slightly more traditional, finding spirit temple before the main quest told me to, finding autobuild, figuring out how to get into korok forest, the list just goes on and on forever. peak gaming right here. such a conduit for creativity and the most fun exploration i've ever done in a videogame. making planes and crazy little floating platforms with cannons and cars adorned with autoaiming turrets and everything is just so goddamn euphoric.
the story in this one is a neat hook. like "where's zelda?" idk dude you tell me. the problem is that because the game is so open, it's just like haha i figured out where zelda is pretty quickly and every character is like man (evil) zelda's all over the place and its just kinda annoying. "secret stones" too. i think i still like this story better than breath of the wild, though.
the music in this one is really fucking good. breath of the wild's is too, for that matter. just because the music takes a more backseat position a lot of the time does not mean it is unsuccessful. there's so many melodies across zelda and it uses a lot of them fantastically (lookin at you, colgera).
open world zelda is good. i love traditional 3D zelda too, but open world zelda is good. i don't want another one right after this, but fuck, even if there is one, i'm obviously still gonna play it. if there's eventually master mode for this, i'm 100% going to come back and do like a "no fast travel" run fully exploring the world using all the different mechanisms available.
zelda's haircut is adorable and i want it now.
this is so much better than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), and i loved botw. i don't think i'll ever be able to play botw again after playing this. open world games are rarely my forte, but there's simply so much to do in this one. i am so glad that i went into this blind (outside of the reveal trailer). there were so many precious moments that completely recontextualized the game: discovering the depths for the first time, learning how ultrahand works, realizing the temples are slightly more traditional, finding spirit temple before the main quest told me to, finding autobuild, figuring out how to get into korok forest, the list just goes on and on forever. peak gaming right here. such a conduit for creativity and the most fun exploration i've ever done in a videogame. making planes and crazy little floating platforms with cannons and cars adorned with autoaiming turrets and everything is just so goddamn euphoric.
the story in this one is a neat hook. like "where's zelda?" idk dude you tell me. the problem is that because the game is so open, it's just like haha i figured out where zelda is pretty quickly and every character is like man (evil) zelda's all over the place and its just kinda annoying. "secret stones" too. i think i still like this story better than breath of the wild, though.
the music in this one is really fucking good. breath of the wild's is too, for that matter. just because the music takes a more backseat position a lot of the time does not mean it is unsuccessful. there's so many melodies across zelda and it uses a lot of them fantastically (lookin at you, colgera).
open world zelda is good. i love traditional 3D zelda too, but open world zelda is good. i don't want another one right after this, but fuck, even if there is one, i'm obviously still gonna play it. if there's eventually master mode for this, i'm 100% going to come back and do like a "no fast travel" run fully exploring the world using all the different mechanisms available.
zelda's haircut is adorable and i want it now.