The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I feel like what sets this game apart from most (and what sets most Nintendo games apart usually) is that it doesn't take itself to seriously. Instead of just being a game you play, it's a game you can play WITH. Just learning about how things interact by itself is fun as hell. Not to mention the villages, characters, and world, are charming as hell. It's a world you'd kind of want to live in, even with Calamity on the rise. The game isn't mindless, though, and if you aren't careful you can easily be taken out by monsters, the climate, misjudging your stamina, wearing metal during a lightning storm, or one of your experiments with the physics just going wrong.

It's not a perfect game (mainly due to the frame rate drops imo). It has a few issues. But the things it does well vastly outnumber the things it doesn't. There are surprises around every turn. And if you go on top of a mountain only to find nothing there, chances are you can look out into any direction and you'll find something interesting just a glide away.

Also this game does cooking better than any other game IMO.

I honestly don't know if they'll ever top it. It's like Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2. Everything after it was good, but Mario Galaxy was next level. I also expect that the Xenoblade guys are taking notes.

Sithro said:

Also this game does cooking better than any other game IMO.

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Gotta disagree here. The stupid requirement of only cooking one thing at a time, and not being able to replicate a dish from a recipe menu or something are blatant missteps. Making you watch skip a stupid little cutscene for every single dish is also annoying.

Utnayan said:

Only thing I have been really annoyed with so far is the weather effect of Rain. For instance, carrying a blue flame to a furnace miles away and then it rains and welp, may as well just sit here and wait for it to stop. (Unless there is a way to do this I am missing) And also having to wait to climb things when it rains as I always slide down, but maybe there is armor that helps with that I haven't seen.

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Light each of the torches on the way to the lab. Don't try to carry it all in one go.

Lenas said:

Gotta disagree here. The stupid requirement of only cooking one thing at a time, and not being able to replicate a dish from a recipe menu or something are blatant missteps. Making you watch skip a stupid little cutscene for every single dish is also annoying.

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For sure. I hardly do any cooking just for those reasons beyond throwing one hearty xxxxx in a pot at a time until I'm out.

I'm sure there's some good things you can make with good effects, but the game isn't hard enough to really need it so I don't bother

Lenas said:

Light each of the torches on the way to the lab. Don't try to carry it all in one go.

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When it rains you still have to wait for it to stop raining to continue.

Utnayan said:

Only thing I have been really annoyed with so far is the weather effect of Rain. For instance, carrying a blue flame to a furnace miles away and then it rains and welp, may as well just sit here and wait for it to stop. (Unless there is a way to do this I am missing) And also having to wait to climb things when it rains as I always slide down, but maybe there is armor that helps with that I haven't seen.

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Only thing you can do is find an existing fire or find some shelter to create your own and use it to wait.

Soygen said:

Is there any bonus to lighting all the lamps with the blue flame? I thought there would be some reward, but I think I lit all of them and nothing.

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I tried this, too. Not sure if I just missed a random one or if nothing happens.

Lenas said:

Gotta disagree here. The stupid requirement of only cooking one thing at a time, and not being able to replicate a dish from a recipe menu or something are blatant missteps. Making you watch skip a stupid little cutscene for every single dish is also annoying.

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Agreed. I am always groaning when I know I'm going to have to spend 10 minutes gathering mats out of my backpack to throw into a pot and repeat it over and over. It is so horribly tedious.

Lenas said:

Light each of the torches on the way to the lab. Don't try to carry it all in one go.

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I almost did this just to see if it unlocked a korok or shrine or something

Darn rain.... now if only a griffin would come busting through the roof of a shop while I'm selling I'd be right at home.

Well that doesn't seem worth it

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Soygen said:

Is there any bonus to lighting all the lamps with the blue flame? I thought there would be some reward, but I think I lit all of them and nothing.

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I ran around lighting every torch for every path in the first place I needed to do this. Unless I missed one, which I don't think I did, I don't think there is.

Though, there is the lady (without a quest !) that said that she used to like to look at all the lit torches before. I thought maybe she would be happy and give me something, but she didn't.

Finally did first water dungeon yesterday and have my first full set of armor. Upgraded them to level 2, but don't see any bonus from doing it. Guess that set doesn't give any? Or do I need 3x stars, thought the fairies said that 2 was enough.

Jim Sterling is literally a cuck (he ranted about it in a video because he was being trolled about it). I'll give the review a chance later but it's likely clickbait.

He's a fat cuck dressed like a nazi with nazi flag and outfit, podium filled with children's toys. Attention whore or what?

I do think the review score may be exaggerated because finally a games company isn't making their franchise worse anymore (like Final Fantasy) or handholding you (like Skyward Sword), so it's a pleasant shock. There are small flaws people have discussed. That's an 8 at worst.

By the way this isn't nessesarily set 10,000 years after Twilight Princess. A link/zelda 10,000 years previous buried the shrine/beast failsafes for future use, doesn't mean previous games couldn't have happened with them buried.

I'm getting that this Zelda is a science nerd and they are becoming self aware that they are being reincarnated, so she researched and found the 10,000 year old tech.

Previous games have cyclops guardians, some dungeons in those games could be based around shrines. It can fit.