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I know I'm in the minority, but did anyone not like the most recent 2 Zelda games? (self.zelda)

submitted 1 year ago by GreenCrush to c/[email protected]

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I'm not going to deny that they are good games, they definitely are. However, there are some design choices made with BOTW and TOTK that really make me separate them from the rest of the series.

The item degradation, the voice acting, the open worldness, all these things aren't what I want from a Zelda, and because of that, I doubt I'll ever replay those games again. Again, not bad games at all, and if anyone said they were their favorite games, I'd totally understand that.

But does anyone else wish that we would get a more traditional Zelda game again?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

My favourite zelda was the one on the Snes, then wind waker. And I love botw. Played it day 1 for hundreds of hours on a wiiu, then transferred my save to pc for 4k60 goodness. Loved it. Not enough to get all koroks, but enough to get like two thirds of them. But I was in love with the environment. And those cool as hell dragons. And the atmospheric sound and music. And the little bite size shrines. And the chasing star fragments and pointless armour upgrading.

But for reasons I cannot explain, I bounced off totk in about an hour and have no desire to return. Opening with the shitty story didn't help. Following up with a crafting system didn't help me much either. The environment feeling like part of the same map too, did not help. But none of that feels like a proper reason 🤷‍♂️

[–] GreenCrush 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wasn't yet alive when SNES Zelda was new, so I didn't grow up with, but I would still consider it a "traditional Zelda" just like I consider ocarina and majora, and wind waker, twilight, to be "traditional".

Change can be good, but to me, the changes in the new Zelda games are huge and divisive. Sometimes it seems like it took pages from other companies open world games, and lost some of the magic it had.

Or maybe I'm just getting old and bitter lol.

[–] akhenaten0 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn’t yet alive when SNES Zelda was new

And

Or maybe I’m just getting old and bitter lol

That’s an interesting combination there. Time for me to turn into dust and mold 👴🏻💀👻

But seriously, this shows that what anything is, definitively, changes over time. Nostalgia not only cling to the past, not only cling to a singularly myopic version of the past, but actually clings to a version of the past that never truly existed.

[–] GreenCrush 1 points 1 year ago

Ha fair point.

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