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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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[–] Rob 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely loved BotW and I think I still do. Played through it again before the release of TotK and did all of the shrines. The gameplay loop can get a bit repetitive, but I absolutely loved exploring the world.

Strangely, the world in TotK feels smaller to me. Maybe I was more easily impressed in 2017, but Hyrule felt huge back then. Due to how much easier you can traverse the world in TotK, it feels a bit less grand. It’s also so jam packed that to me it feels less like a real world and more like a game.

That being said: TotK has a lot of fun stuff that I would probably miss in BotW. The gameplay js much more diverse and I’d probably get annoyed at how much effort it’d take to go somewhere. I think that if you played them for the first time in reverse order, you would absolutely think TotK is the better game.

[–] ilovecheese 3 points 1 year ago

100%'d BotW just before TotK too!

That huge open world feeling the first time was amazing, but after 1300 hours on BotW it doesn't last, so the changes in TotK brought it back some what, but it wll take something special to get that BotW feeling again!

Looking forward to it again already. I expect even better replayability from TotK.