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- +Hello again, been a while hasn't it? +You know, existing can sometimes be just enough. +During the summer, I started a playthrough of the new Zelda game and it leaves me with opinions. +I thought I would write about it to explain my opinions on the game and fully understand what I even think. +So let's get into it, shall we?
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++Me and other Zelda games +
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+When I was a kid, I was introduced to Zelda by my uncles, playing Wind Waker, Link's awakening and later Twilight Princess. +It got me hooked on the games, the exploring was a great and going through dungeons. +I would go on to play most of the main line Zeldas and they offer different experiences but all offered something that I enjoyed. +The scope of Ocarina of time, the creepy nature of Majora's Mask, the plot of Skyward sword, it was all so much fun.
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++Then Breath of the Wild came out +
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+I experienced it later than most people, other than the one time I got to try to speedrun it at a friends house. +The scale of it, and the fact that it had so many points of interest available to one just walking through the world. +I enjoyed it a lot.
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++The tools available +
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+There were complaints about the weapons breaking but I felt, with the addition of the bombs and other tools, was a puzzle to solve. +You could always traverse the world without using one of the powers. +Sure, they could make it easier, as seen in speedrunning with bomb jumps or stasis hits. +When approached with a mountain range one could climb it, sometimes with more difficulty than others. +Take the waterfalls of the Zora domain, +one could use the ice blocks on the side of the waterfalls to climb, +but you could also use the Zora armour or take a different route by climbing.
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++The dungeons and repetition +
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+The dungeons in the game were hype approaching them. +They were big, causing issues for the inhabitants of the world. +But when actually doing the dungeon, it was a an exploration to get to some switches to then defeat an unrelated boss that felt that it didn't have a build up. +It felt like a let down. +When actually facing Ganon though, it did hold up since they had set him up with a castle to either sneak or battle your way through.
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++The story and it's presentation +
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+The base contents of the story in BotW is well presented and you immediately understand what happens. +Zelda, Link and the other heroes were overpowered, so Link was sent to regenerate while Zelda held up the fortress. +You wake up in a different world, where it seems that Ganon more or less has won, and you have to return to save Hyrule. +But to get more information, you have to find points that you can see in pictures. +These pictures have the issue of being in specific locations that are easy to miss for an adventurer.
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++Here comes Tears of the Kingdom +
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+So I got to borrow my friends old switch to play Tears of the Kingdom. +I bought the game myself, and a new pro controller to get to play it. +I started it and had mixed feelings quickly. +Hearing Fi from the sword did have me in tears when it broke though.
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+What made feel bad was how things, like the powers were introduced and how some of them seemed necessary for progressing on the platform. +Coming from Breath of the Wild, this felt very strange. +You had to build boats with a ultrahand, +that when using pro controls (as I did since I dislike the clutter that it shows on the screen), +doesn't tell you how to deconstruct things if you mess up. +Ascend is built in the same way, +but instead of you constructing the solution (which there might be different ways, but all include ultrahand), +the world is designed to use ascend.
++The teleport system also affects how you traverse the world, since the world is almost 2/3 times the size. +There are specific points of interest that allow you to travel from the overworld to the sky or the underdark, +which means that you have to be able to get to them in an easier way. +The teleport makes this so much easier. +But this makes the simple walking around and finding something interesting feel like a waste.
++Fuse, fuse, fuse. +This ability makes me dislike the combat so much. +Instead of finding interesting weapons out in the world, +you have to fight enemies to then convert your weapons into something new. +You can't ensure that the weapons will work as it was intended, +since you will want to deal the most damage. +Then a sword can become more like an axe due to the nail you fused. +And the normal weapons, +that are simple to understand, +are almost unusable due to breakage being ramped up. +I ended up just using the bow, +since that will work as one would expect no matter what, +and adding bombs to specific arrows rather than gathering bomb arrows is a change that I approve of.
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++The dungeons +
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+The dungeons have a similar problem with the switches. +You arrive at a dungeon, and need to hit a button that depends on a switch of some form. +But the boss is actually setup. +It is them that is shown to affect the areas. +Queen Gibdo is making the storm, Colgera is making the snow storm, and Mucktorok is slinging out the sludge (I have yet to get to death mountain). +So the reward does feel related to what you are working for when helping these areas out.
++I am doing TotK a bit of a disservice here though, with how the switches are made. +They are more interesting, +since they aren't all based on moving an area with the use of the map, +but they are in large part the same concept.
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+In TotK, the story starts in a much clearer way, and introduces this old civilization. +Zelda has been transported through time. +It feels way more in depth compared to BotW. +It does however conflict a bit with other games in my mind, +in particular with Skyward Sword, +but that is something that doesn't really matter when it comes Zelda. +The way to get more information is by talking to the different factions, and finding the tears. +The tears are the same idea of the pictures from BotW, +but implemented way better, +since you can see theme way easier. +The issue that was raised to me by a friend, +was that the world doesn't react to you gaining more information about what has happened if you don't do it in the correct order. +If you finish the tears before dungeons, +it gets a bit messed up. +Also, if you decide to go to another region than Rito in the beginning, you won't get the foundations of the tears explained either. +So TotK fails a bit in their ability to explain the story due to them not wanting to limit how you navigate the world.
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+I think that some of the ideas that Tears of the Kingdom introduces creates an interesting game, +but it bases a lot of what was created in Breath of the Wild and suffers therefore. +A game that either focuses a lot on the story or the exploration is what I think I want from a game. +And I am not saying you can't have both, but it will need to make sure that either aspect doesn't infringe on the other.
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