That’s before the pandemic, before I worked a terrible food service job, and right when I graduated from college, which feels to me like a lifetime ago. It feels like God of War came out forever ago, despite the fact that it was only released in 2018. From a wider perspective it was a return to form for series that had been declining for years. From the point of view of Skyward Sword, BotW is the anti-Zelda. The game rewards and encourages pushing into unfamiliar territory and trying new things (which is why weapons break, btw). BotW is Nintendo letting us challenge areas and enemies for which we're not yet prepared (you can try to face Ganon almost immediately!), and letting us bypass roadblocks even when we don't have - or don't want to use - the proper "key" for its locks. It seemed that this was all Nintendo knew how to do now.īreath of the Wild is Game of the Generation not just because it upset the tea tables of a franchise it also I believe represented a watershed moment for Nintendo as a whole. It was a Zelda game so drained of adventure that even its overworld had become more of a prison yard, fenced on every side. In it he identified the long trend of Nintendo reducing what was once a series for grand, mysterious adventures to something that barely rose above a color-by-number:Īfter finishing Skyward Sword, I believed it would be the last Zelda game I ever played. Is it a great Zelda game? I can't honestly say it is.īack in 2012, following the release of Skyward Sword, Tevis Thompson wrote an essay: Saving Zelda. It had diversity, which I feel like BotW lacks. I missed how different regions in past Zelda games had different themes, atmosphere, enemies, and dungeons. This one had 4, they're all short, samey and the bosses were disappointing.
Even back with the NES Zelda, which is what Breath of the Wild is trying to harken back to, going back to it's roots, that game still had 8 dungeons. Dungeons have been the bread and butter of Zelda since the beginning. Weapon durability was annoying, the dungeons and bosses were samey and uninspired, lack of enemy variety, and repetitive shrines.
But one of the greatest of all time? That's a stretch in my eyes. It's definitely a great game, I wouldn't dream of saying otherwise. I really don't understand why Breath of the Wild is lauded as one of the greatest games of all time if you go by it's reception and MC score.
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