Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came to Nintendo Switch and was an instant success. So much a success it became that they are making a sequel to the game, coming out in the next year. This features another story to the Legend of Zelda series and it brings a massive open world to the player and the ability to see a lot of places and find shrines and korok seeds to upgrade the key protagonist, Link, throughout the game. So what does Breath of the Wild do well? What isn't done well (yes there is this too)? All of that and more below.
Positives:
1. Open World- This involves massive amounts of exploration and a terrific ability to find a lot of things that happen over the course of this game. The player will enjoy the open world map as a great exploration opportunity and the ability to see a new side of Zelda that players may not have done prior in a 3-D setting. This really plays to the strength of the Switch and its capability as well to provide for this much of an open world setting.
2. Music/Graphics- Yes this is simple, both the music and the graphics are fantastic and they will always be that way for Zelda. There isn't much to it other than the ability to be great always.
3. Ability to Train Horses- This was honestly cool and a bit more in-depth than I thought it would be but it takes some time to make your horse totally love you but once it does it is awesome how much they will fight for you as well. It's a good thing to do and speed up part of your exploration if you wanted to do so. Plus you can name them some good names if you'd like.
4. The ability to work for Prizes- You have to work for prizes here. You don't just go to a place and get a thing. You have to typically work for big items here. A lot of the shrines you have to face guardians or have to do some tasks in order to get Spirit Orbs or some great weapons/armor. It's actually good to be rewarded for hard work in a game in my thoughts.
5. Fairies- I like how you also have to work for this. I also like that they give you upgrades like they have in past games as well. It's a time honored tradition of this but one that I can absolutely enjoy overall.
6. Meeting Other Main Characters- This is more likely for the Hyrule Warriors spinoff but it is nice to see some characters of that in this game and they may be in other games as well. Overall it was nice to see these characters in my playthrough (as I haven't played any Zelda games from Majora's Mask up to BOTW) and be able to see how these characters would fight in other games.
7. Hetsu- That big dude is just absolutely hilarious and his maracas are absolutely amazing to deal with all the time when getting an expansion to your armor/bow/sword pack. He is definitely a plus and I appreciate it a ton.
Negatives:
1. Too Big Feeling- I feel 120 Shrines and 900 Korok Seeds is just far too big for this game. It feels like 100 percenting this game would take forever with these sorts of things going on and it almost just feels like they made a big game for the sake of making a big game here. Sometimes you can do without that and this would be a good example that you can take out some stuff (In this case, 30 shrines and at least half the Korok Seeds) and you would have this game be fine.
2. Too Easy Bosses- To be honest the only tough test is Thunderblight Ganon because the rest are honestly super easy and they don't require a ton of effort. That includes the final two bosses of this game. It just felt like beating these while worthwhile in some aspect just felt too easy overall.
3. Combat- I don't mind that items break, I just felt the combat was a bit weird overall. Yes it is based on timing with the guardians in terms of parrying which I don't mind, but it's a bit mystifying the timing of just regular enemies attacks that are normal and their sensing from quite a distance so that was something confusing to deal with.
Overall Rating:
Overall, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a terrific game that can overcome its flaws in a lot of ways. The strategy in this game can be immense but it is more noted for regular fights rather than bosses or those guardians. The main and final bosses are honestly way too easy but the guardians make up for it. Yes the combat is a bit wonky but you can overcome that and be fine. It's not a perfect game like Link's Awakening was for Game Boy and it's remaster or A Link to the Past was for SNES. Breath of the Wild however is still an excellent game and I would give it a solid 9 out of 10.
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