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Huff n puff 20 posted...

BotW is a radical and Black Sheep in the Zelda series. (Fucking Zelda 2 Adventure of Link is less radical)

Is it bad? Fuck no.

Unless you don't like open worlds and wanted something more akin to the older, more linear Zeldas, which is completely fair. It drops all pretext of being a Zelda in terms of gameplay once you leave the plateau, and is its own thing. Calling it "Legend of Dark Souls: Breath of Skyrim" isn't... Inaccurate. If you were looking for the Zelda experience of delving into dungeons, collecting special items, killing bosses for MacGuffins, you won't find it in BotW. In that, MM (another Zelda with 4 areas) is better, hands down.

Bashing Skyrim for Morrowind is laughable though, unless you really really cared about spell crafting.

People do it all the time. Talking about how Morrowind's world was much richer and you had more freedom and so-forth.

As for BotW I will agree that it's pretty different; but every Zelda game's been different. OoT had time-travel (and was the first 3D one). MM had the day thing. WW had the ship and open world (as well). TP had wolf stuff. SS had motion controls. I don't see how you can say BotW isn't 'a true Zelda game' because it is open world (What? Did you never play the original or something?) and it's dungeons are... short... but then claim those titles are despite their own quirks.

Not saying you are. Just that people who gripe about these things and call it bad or a black sheep or what-not might be a wee-bit hypocritical.
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