Wasn't my favorite because I don't love turn-based but honestly just happy the retread Zelda didn't win. I'm a huge Zelda fan but TOTK was wayyyy too similar to BOTW
Giving this game an 8 because of a thin story is a farce. Read gamespots reviews of Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring, etc, and they all talk about how sparse FromSoftware's storytelling is but they act like that is a plus. A different company nails the formula and they say vague storytelling is keeping it from anything higher than an 8? Could you be more biased towards a developer?
@hsox05: guess you can’t edit. Didn’t finish my sentence there. Meant to say look at their history and out of 24 perfect games im pretty sure 21 of them are since 2007/08, despite reviewing since the mid 90s. It’s not that games have gotten better, it’s that things like original resident evil 4, Metroid prime, etc got scores like 9.8
@treechopper88: well I mean their point system did change, in 2007 or 08. They used to use decimals, hence 10 being so rare. And before then, 10 *did* mean “perfect”. Look at the history of perfect games, they still try to maintain a certain higher standard but it objectively, unfortunately, doesn’t mean what it used to.
@LoveBird-: it doesn’t improve over BOTW though. It just reskins it and changes some power ups. Some for the good some for the bad. So far I liked BOTW WAY better
@bu1ld0g: No, I’ve done about 6 shrines and 2 or 3 towers now on ground level. It’s still too early to give it a full score, but this is a massively disappointing game to me. Way too much recycled from BOTW, and overall I don’t like the things that did change. Incredible simplistic plot for a sequel (oh here’s a baddy that is gonna just zap your powers back to exactly where you started last time). With this long of a wait for the game, it should have come out for a new system. I pretty much guarantee you Nintendo will come out with a new system in a year, and have this with proper graphics and frame rate at another $70. Playing a game like this where the main function you use from your arm drops frame rate to 15 FPS is ridiculous. The entire plot of the tutorial island is the same as the plot of the tutorial island in BOTW. the towers are the same function but less fun to figure out how to climb. The Sheikah state was renamed but it’s the same thing. They took away the stasis and bombs I assume because of speed runners. But those were the best things to use against enemies in BOTW, so this just feels like a *down*graded version so far. Until I get to dungeons I can’t give it a totally fair score. But yeah. I played more last night and if anything my personal score went down
After about 4 hours, my opinion so far is this is a reskinned BOTW DLC way behind in times compared to what other systems are offering. I adore the Zelda series and BOTW is one of my favorite games, but I’m regretting buying TOTK. I’m not ready to give up on it yet, but from what I’ve played so far I’d score it about a 4/10
@kaki: Im genuinely not sure which is which in your comment here. Capcom and Nintendo mainstream are both considered AAA, and people still talk about the best zelda games and the original resident evil 4 which came out almost 20 years ago
@off3nc3: I played it on gamepass, all the way to completion. Buggy and stupid AI, dumb things like not being able to jump over a 6 inch fire ditch and you can’t use the rock to extinguish it, you have to use a pot. Look away to the right for one second and look back and you get infinite arrows because they respawn when the camera turns… lazy lazy programming. The story was Great. The gameplay was mediocre at BEST
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