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The game designers did a truly fantasic job with botw. Think how much time is invested in creating game assets these days and often the designs merely replicate

The game designers did a truly fantasic job with botw. Think how much time is invested in creating game assets these days and often the designs merely replicate cliches which have been seen a million times. Doing some reseach and drawing inspiration from ancient cultures adds a whole new dimension to the game.

dn0 2y ago
A great design job indeed. Both, BOTW and TOTK have a beautiful environment. I really wish Nintendo would create a mod without monsters, perhaps something focused more on nature, places and artifacts. My kids love to explore Hyrule but are afraid of monsters and fights :)
- prmoustache 2y ago
  I only just recently been into BOTW (well technically last christmas but only played a few days in january) and went back to it last month. You can totally play and explore for a long time while avoiding most fights. Just keep some wood and silex to sleep during the night and avoid the random bats and skeleton creatures.
  - dn0 2y ago
    Sure, or you can stay in villages (that's what my kids do) or in other "safe zones" (marked in unofficial maps). Still, I think it would be nice to have some kind of a peaceful mod.
    - vundercind 2y ago
      I had similar feelings about Far Cry 5. My son would have loved exploring, driving, flying, fishing, spotting wildlife… but at his age the violence made it useless. A mode that removed all the guns and bad guys would have been awesome.
      - bgirard 2y ago
        I used to play a modded copy of GTA 5 with my son that removed all the violence and you would teleport into cars instead of stealing them. My son would have me ride the street car with him, drive in the sewers, drive to the farm and look for tractors. It's a really great city simulator with mods.
    - Rendello 2y ago
      It's Zelda tradition :) I used to love "Zelda" when I was a kid, and I would always run around the sunny home island in Wind Waker on the Gamecube. When I went to play "Zelda" at my cousin's house, it was Majora's Mask on the N64, and I remember it scaring the absolute shit out of me!
  - marknutter 2y ago
    Wear Majora's Mask and most monsters will just ignore you.
floundy 2y ago
The art style in Zelda Switch games is certainly interesting but the game world is mostly just empty space dotted with the same couple dozen assets that have been reskinned and recycled. The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every title the company creates is frustrating, and there's a lot of toxic positivity that drowns out true criticisms. The Zelda Switch titles are nowhere close to 10/10 games.
- skhr0680 2y ago
  Do you dislike sandbox games in general? BOTW’s map felt really designed to have unique, memorable areas and playtested to be “fair” to me, especially the noob area. > The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every title the company creates is frustrating, and there's a lot of toxic positivity that drowns out true criticisms. The Zelda Switch titles are nowhere close to 10/10 games. BOTW is in my top 5 sandbox adventures for sure. TOTK had some good mechanics, but I think reusing the map was a mistake.
- majormajor 2y ago
  What's the "true criticism"? You've made a couple posts on this page about it that seem to just be "it's overrated" and "they re-use some assets a lot" and "other open-world games exist." Neither of those are particularly compelling. Did they invent the game style? No. But this is the closest anyone's came to perfecting it. Exploration is encouraged and facilitated, without overloading you with "here are fifty map points of interest all at once." There are harder/deadlier enemies and areas, but you can usually get out easily enough and won't get stuck if you wander there before you're leveled up enough. The mechanics and responsiveness of interaction are super crisp. The inventory is quite well balanced and pretty thorough and allows a good number of different play styles (TOTK especially, obviously).
  - floundy 2y ago
    Not really interested in getting into a Reddit-style back and forth about a game I played and didn't finish like 6 years ago.

dn0 2y ago

A great design job indeed. Both, BOTW and TOTK have a beautiful environment. I really wish Nintendo would create a mod without monsters, perhaps something focused more on nature, places and artifacts. My kids love to explore Hyrule but are afraid of monsters and fights :)

prmoustache 2y ago
I only just recently been into BOTW (well technically last christmas but only played a few days in january) and went back to it last month. You can totally play and explore for a long time while avoiding most fights. Just keep some wood and silex to sleep during the night and avoid the random bats and skeleton creatures.
- dn0 2y ago
  Sure, or you can stay in villages (that's what my kids do) or in other "safe zones" (marked in unofficial maps). Still, I think it would be nice to have some kind of a peaceful mod.
  - vundercind 2y ago
    I had similar feelings about Far Cry 5. My son would have loved exploring, driving, flying, fishing, spotting wildlife… but at his age the violence made it useless. A mode that removed all the guns and bad guys would have been awesome.
    - bgirard 2y ago
      I used to play a modded copy of GTA 5 with my son that removed all the violence and you would teleport into cars instead of stealing them. My son would have me ride the street car with him, drive in the sewers, drive to the farm and look for tractors. It's a really great city simulator with mods.
  - Rendello 2y ago
    It's Zelda tradition :) I used to love "Zelda" when I was a kid, and I would always run around the sunny home island in Wind Waker on the Gamecube. When I went to play "Zelda" at my cousin's house, it was Majora's Mask on the N64, and I remember it scaring the absolute shit out of me!
- marknutter 2y ago
  Wear Majora's Mask and most monsters will just ignore you.

floundy 2y ago

The art style in Zelda Switch games is certainly interesting but the game world is mostly just empty space dotted with the same couple dozen assets that have been reskinned and recycled. The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every title the company creates is frustrating, and there's a lot of toxic positivity that drowns out true criticisms. The Zelda Switch titles are nowhere close to 10/10 games.

skhr0680 2y ago
Do you dislike sandbox games in general? BOTW’s map felt really designed to have unique, memorable areas and playtested to be “fair” to me, especially the noob area. > The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every title the company creates is frustrating, and there's a lot of toxic positivity that drowns out true criticisms. The Zelda Switch titles are nowhere close to 10/10 games. BOTW is in my top 5 sandbox adventures for sure. TOTK had some good mechanics, but I think reusing the map was a mistake.
majormajor 2y ago
What's the "true criticism"? You've made a couple posts on this page about it that seem to just be "it's overrated" and "they re-use some assets a lot" and "other open-world games exist." Neither of those are particularly compelling. Did they invent the game style? No. But this is the closest anyone's came to perfecting it. Exploration is encouraged and facilitated, without overloading you with "here are fifty map points of interest all at once." There are harder/deadlier enemies and areas, but you can usually get out easily enough and won't get stuck if you wander there before you're leveled up enough. The mechanics and responsiveness of interaction are super crisp. The inventory is quite well balanced and pretty thorough and allows a good number of different play styles (TOTK especially, obviously).
- floundy 2y ago
  Not really interested in getting into a Reddit-style back and forth about a game I played and didn't finish like 6 years ago.