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Do You Still Love BotW? (self.zelda)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ilovecheese to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people seem to feel that TotK is so much better than BotW, in so many ways, that playing BotW any more would feel almost pointless.

While I can understand that, TotK is truly amazing in almost every way, I find myself missing BotW.

I miss that desolate feeling, the Guardian induced anxiety, and the difficulty of a lot of BotW that I feel is missing from TotK.

BotW and TotK are the 2 sides of a single coin, neither complete without the other.

I'm already looking forward to another playthrough of both games! (only 68% so far on TotK still!)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honnestly I just bought myself a Switch and I'm just amazed by BotW and am really enjoying it however I do feel like some of the story telling aspect is lacking & I was told that TotK does not disappoint in that department and now I am also even more looking forward to TotK, urgh I love The Legend of Zelda sooo muuuch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Have fun I put 400-500 hours in botw over all my playthroughs and I will playthrough again next year once I finish totk... word of advice, imho it's best to just play botw nice and slow I rushed my first playthrough and it wasn't until my second that I discovered sooo much cool stuff I'd missed out on by not exploring that next hill top or seeing what was around that corner...

[–] ilovecheese 3 points 1 year ago

I can understand your point about the story telling aspect, but for me it's almost the opposite.

While the story aspect n TotK is far richer and deeper the trade off is it makes it slightly more directional in nature than BotW. The feeling of just being left to it with no more than a subtle hint of where to go and what the objective was or if there even was one, is what really made BotW stand out above everything else.

Not that TotK is linear in any way, but the guiding hand is felt a little more :)

This is really splitting hairs though, lol, both games are by far the best games I've played!

I'm certain you'll love TotK if you like BotW!