Jailer of Hope
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I liked Spirit Tracks more than Wind Waker, weirdly enough.
Edge #304 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild special
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Jonneh3003
Banned
I didn't like it more than Wind Waker but I thought it improved upon pretty much all of Phantom Hourglass's faults.
ronaldthump
Member
heheh. #opinions
I loved WW. such a beautiful game. I feel like it is the last good 3D LOZ.
The secondary reward for a shrine is to find hidden chests with good armor/weapons and stuff like that. The primary reward for a shrine is not about story progression, but about character progression (
the orb reward can be exchanged for an extra heart or extra stamina
Since this is an open-world game where things can be done in pretty much any order, I guess it would be likely that the existing dungeons in BotW doesn't connect too much to the main story?
Weird how you edited out one of the 9s.
geordiemp
Member
It just shows opinions - I rate games by the challenging minute to minute combat, and in that list
Half-Life 2
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Bayonetta
The Last of Us
Bayonetta 2
Bloodborne
have decent combat, the rest meh. Of the reviews Horizon and NioH I would play, BOTW combat looks bad and none of the others look worthy.
Crazyorloco
Member
We're in for a treat. 6 more days.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
considering the trailer implications, i'm pretty sure you need to go through something to 'unlock' the dungeon, with different characters you interact with. the dungeons probably aren't locked out by an item anymore but the progression is still the same. not talking about dungeon content though, but pre-dungeon content. the world around you will probably change after you beat the dungeon too.
Japan is back
You're contradicting yourself. Experience is subjectivity.
d00d3n
Member
The underlined is such a ridiculous choice for a 10/10. If you want to push for user generated content, fine, but Little Big Planet? It could make sense to argue for Minecraft, or maybe Rust, but only in hindsight when we can see how those communities grew and truly were elevated because of user generated content. The game they played back in the day and scored was a mediocre platform game with some promise of user generated content to come in the future. The promise didn't pan out, so the choice seems ridiculous now, and Edge are left with an embarrassing choice for their famously selective 10/10 club.
flintstryker
Banned
I've always maintained ww is the weakest 3d Zelda despite being great
I'm still confused at how LBP got such amazing scores back in the day, especially since it had better sequels that never reached the same acclaim.
Acheteedo
Member
Japan is back
Hmm, interesting point, I wonder if you're right about that, maybe it's taken until now for Japan to fight back from being left behind by Western Developers. RE7 on PSVR made me realise that Japan can still be the ones to move the industry forward.
you're insane, Spirit Tracks nearly put me in a coma, the entire train mechanic was tedium redefined.
BassForever
Member
That level creator is worthy of a 10/10 even if the physics for actually platforming is a 4/10.
Little Big Planet 2 is my favorite game of all time, but I still understand why it wouldn't get the same acclaim as the first one. While it did some amazing things it was not as revolutionary as the first one. It mainly built on top of what was already in the first one and did lose some of the charm of the first.
You're going to have a tough time though if your goal is to disregard every site that gives BOTW a 10/10. Good luck.
...on the Switch. I hope so... I really hope so.Japan is back
DriftingSpirit
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Guys and gals, we're alive during these times. We're alive!
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Deleted member 125677
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Ok, so here's the thing.
a) this thread is not about the Egde Skyward Sword review.
b) the """argument""" that X website/magazine once gave this other game a good score so we should not pay attention to their review this time, is insanely stupid. Not all similar scored reviews are equal, and there is a good chance they were performed by completely different reviewers.
Don't remember the same uproar when EDGE gave early, exclusive 10s to The Last of Us and Bloodborne.
Anyway, I know everyone is focused on the console exclusive games because NeoGAF, but Dandy Dungeon is fucking awesome and totally deserving of an EDGE 9 and your attention. Quirky, brilliant little line puzzle RPG from the director of Little King's Story. The best iOS game since Device 6... which came out in 2013... which says a lot about the state of the App Store...
Anyway, I know everyone is focused on the console exclusive games because NeoGAF, but Dandy Dungeon is fucking awesome and totally deserving of an EDGE 9 and your attention. Quirky, brilliant little line puzzle RPG from the director of Little King's Story. The best iOS game since Device 6... which came out in 2013... which says a lot about the state of the App Store...
Kingpin Rogers
Member
Probably already been mentioned but which other Zelda games have been given a 10 from Edge? I'm assuming Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess.
A few other previewrs specifically mentioned Horizon when writing about Zelda. They said things like Horizon is a good game but Zelda makes Horizon feel amateur and another previewer said he had to review a great game (likely Horizon) but all he wanted to do was go back to Hyrule.
So Zelda getting a 10 has nothing to do with it being on Switch
A quick summary of pre-launch BoTW on GAF.
- There are no towns!
There are towns
- There are no NPCs!
There are NPCs
- There are no dungeons!
There are dungeons
- There are no themed dungeons!
We'll see
Quite a ride. Only one more week to go.
The (mostly) seamless integration of online UGC elements really hadn't been done before on consoles, and the idea that gamers had access to the same tools that the developers did, which allowed for them to be used in ways no one expected with how creative the community got with all the various non-gaming applications that they were able to get away with, was something that was genuinely mind-blowing for its time. It's one of those concepts that sounds so great on paper that you could almost forgive it for having cumbersome controls for making said UGC and the core gameplay mechanics being among the worst to ever grace a platformer.
Almost.
Cuningas de Häme
Member
It is easy to judge review from the past... Those games were up in the top in their day.
Games from today most likely picked something from them and are better because of that.
Is "hindsight" the right term? Cant you see how ridiculous you are?
Games from today most likely picked something from them and are better because of that.
Is "hindsight" the right term? Cant you see how ridiculous you are?
"I am not trolling" :///
Astral Dog
Member
Im sure if we dig deep enough all publications will have a few questionable games with 10s
10 from EDGE is solid
10 from EDGE is solid
I am much more interested in the Fujibayashi interview, since he is the director of Breath of the Wild, than the review. We hardly receive interviews with him since the focus (from what I have observed in Nintendo's Western PR strategy for Zelda) is with Aonuma, who is the producer.
Two Sony exclusives from GAF darlings Naughty Dog and From Software. Funny that.
THIS. I haven't played a mobile game so much in years. I was actually surprised there wasn't a big thread about it on here (at least I couldn't find one?) It doesn't really force you into micro transactions either which is nice.
Holy Order Sol
Member
mmmm oh my god
Skyward Sword is one of the best Zelda games since Ocarina. It may have a lengthy tutorial, an annoying hint giving ferry replacement and lack of variety (3 regions only with no real overworld) but it has more of the special Zelda magic than Wind Waker or TP. And the controls are absolutely perfect, even if they loose sync once in a while which can be easily fixed with a single button press.
Boy Wander
Member
Good God the conclusion of EDGEs review:
" The result, for all the longevity of its series and the familiarity of the open world genre, is a game that evokes feelings we haven't felt for 20 years. Not since Ocarina of Time have we set foot in a world that feels so mind-bogglingly vast and unerringly magical, that proves so relentlessly intriguing. Plenty of games promise to let us go anywhere and do anything. Few, if any, ever deliver so irresistibly. 19 years on Ocarina is still held up as the high water mark of gamings best loved and greatest series. Now it may have to settle for second place".
" The result, for all the longevity of its series and the familiarity of the open world genre, is a game that evokes feelings we haven't felt for 20 years. Not since Ocarina of Time have we set foot in a world that feels so mind-bogglingly vast and unerringly magical, that proves so relentlessly intriguing. Plenty of games promise to let us go anywhere and do anything. Few, if any, ever deliver so irresistibly. 19 years on Ocarina is still held up as the high water mark of gamings best loved and greatest series. Now it may have to settle for second place".
That sure is a quote. My hopes are a bit more grounded than that. Just an interesting open world game not filled with bugs or pointless side stuff.
god DAMN
Dark Cloud
Member
Jesus...this is like the highest praise of any game ever and it's from Edge.
I'm pretty sure the game's world has quite a number of bugs. You might need to cut the grass to actually find them, though.