Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings
meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I always felt like Breath of the Wild was Lord of the rings animated by studio Ghibli the videogame.
I beat breath of the wild solely because I was holding out hope that it somehow got good at some point.
The dungeons and boss fights were enjoyable. But there were only 4 of those and the rest of the game was sorely underwhelming.
Tears of the kingdom is the first Zelda game I didn’t care to finish in 30 years. I’ve even beat Zelda 2.
I only played it for maybe 4 hours. Does it have an epic story? I don’t recall one.
Give me a reason to get a Switch 2 and replay it!
The reason for me to play Breath of the Wild was my nostalgia for Ocarina of Time. It’s just impossible to explain to people what wondrous fantasy it was when it came out in the 90’s. An open-world game, 3D, on console, with a joystick, with glorious music? I know you zoomers can read and understand those words, but you genuinely can’t understand the feeling.
The world didn’t have the internet, or games, really. TV had like a few channels. You wouldn’t be able to ever choose what you wanted to watch unless you had a video, and those weren’t too plentiful. If you ever liked a TV-show, then the timeslot of that TV-show made you go watch it at a certain time, or at the least go through telling your mom how to program the VCR for it and hope it gets recorded. Games were mostly just 2D.
And then you load into OOT menu on N64 a year later, and start the story with the FPV camera flying around. It was amazing.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I feel like BotW has some fundamental design problems with lots of repetitive content, an unsatisfying weapon-breaking system, and of course it lacks dungeons. The dialogue has a lot of words but very little to say. Don’t get me wrong, the open world is breathtaking, but a lot was sacrificed on that altar.