They're great. They do the usual previews-reviews-discussions but they are best known for their massive trailer analysis. But yeah, they are big Nintendo fans so sometimes you have to take them with a grain of salt (thouth they do seem pretty objective usually). Check them out on Youtube.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Preview Thread
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They're great. They do the usual previews-reviews-discussions but they are best known for their massive trailer analysis. But yeah, they are big Nintendo fans so sometimes you have to take them with a grain of salt (thouth they do seem pretty objective usually). Check them out on Youtube.
What? Discovering the first temple after 25 hours?! How is that a positive thing?!
I took it as positive due to the fact that it took that long, and yet they're still gushing about the game, which presumably means that the world is just that fun and interesting to explore and get lost in. They did not mind at all being sidetracked. Plus as we all know by now, everyone has their own routes they can take when playing this game, so if someone is overly focused on getting to the dungeons, I highly doubt it would take that long.
The chu chu died to protect the savior. RIP.
Their awesome. Put out just enough really good content to make the copious amounts of gratuitous filler content worthwhile.
i'm sure the game will be fun and innovative. but boy are the visuals ropey. if there is a ton of grass being drawn in it looks serviceable. but the footage i've seen out towards the "grass" topped cliff edges looks so bad. flat textures, flat lighting, low poly. i would have expected some more consistency from nintendo, at least on the switch version where i'd assume it has more power to play with.
But they mention this:
Everyones' experience will be different. Some will want to push forward to advance the game/story and some will want to spend time exploring the world and discovering everything it has to offer. I'm sure you can get to the first dungeon in a much lesser time than 25 hours if you choose to do so.
Tajaz2426
Psychology PhD from Wikipedia University
Your absoulutely corect, it seems as there is now a standard that has to be met and if it isn't, a game gets smoke checked for it. I don't even really play games for the gameplay, I am a very big book reader and video games give me a chance to play books that come to life. I love storylines and digging into lore, it is one of my favorite aspects of video games.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Just to clarify, they specifically said you can beeline straight to the castle, so I don't see why you couldn't make a beeline to a duengon if wanted.
They also said that they have the impression that everything is open to player and anything is possible to accomplish from the get go. Now whatever you are trying to accomplish might be hard as hell, but you do have that choice.
I've said it before, but damn, if I don't come out loving Zelda's take on open world games, then I probably will never truly "love" the genre.
Nintendo sorcery
AcademicSaucer
Member
"You know Link, we really are the Princess Mononoke"
robertsan21
Member
this game man, this game!!!!
any one talking about the difference between the Wii U version and Switch yet?
any one talking about the difference between the Wii U version and Switch yet?
Nintendo putting some Animal crossing interaction, god damn, I'm never going to be able to leave a village am I ? XD
Holy Order Sol
Member
muy sauvage
Well the AC composer is working on the game so it makes sense!
You are saying they look the same?
Zelda looks like a girl in this screenshot
The Legend of Dragoon? 🤔
Neoleo2143
Member
Sounds like you should devoure/like zelda then. It seems to evolve around exploration of the world, finding out stuff about the worlds lore and solve puzzles with survival thrown into the mix all of that with, that's how I feel, ghibli movie kind of graphics.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
What? Discovering the first temple after 25 hours?! How is that a positive thing?! I'm playing Twilight Princess right now and that is almost the play time I have right now and I'm at 3/4 of the game!
I've got time for that, I want the game to take at least 80 hours to complete. Ideally over 120.
Is there anything like having your own housing or whatnot? Can you make a space your own?
Omnistalgic
Member
Ok can I get some previews from people that aren't long time Nintendo fans? Some of these previews are just kinda over the top that I just can't take seriously at times.
No game is perfect, and I would just like a more well rounded preview versus the hype that another great Zelda game is finally here.
No game is perfect, and I would just like a more well rounded preview versus the hype that another great Zelda game is finally here.
This.
Aaronrules380
Member
Plenty of these people have been harsh to other Nintendo games, and even other Zelda games.
You can go there earlier. It's open world.
VistraNorrez
Member
I love Skyward Sword, currently replaying it on Hero Mode, and to me BoTW looks like the logical evolution of that game. Weapon durability and upgrades, stamina, areas packed with action leading to dungeons, Link have a greater set of actions. One preview mentions physics of shooting arrows, well that was in Skyward Sword too.
It seems like the major evolutions are a fully connected world, rather than sectioned off, and non-linearity. And I think the fully connected world is something Nintendo has wanted to do for a while but we're limited to by hardware.
So it seems to me Skyward Sword, love it or hate it, was an important stepping stone to get to BotW.
It seems like the major evolutions are a fully connected world, rather than sectioned off, and non-linearity. And I think the fully connected world is something Nintendo has wanted to do for a while but we're limited to by hardware.
So it seems to me Skyward Sword, love it or hate it, was an important stepping stone to get to BotW.
Ok I didn't know that. Still, I don't want to play this game with a guide-book in one hand but discover it myself. Hope it's somehow obvious what to do if you don't want to 'discover' the whole world.
robertsan21
Member
There are plenty of previews from sites that don't have a heavy Nintendo leaning. Hell, Gamespot the infamous "8.8" site is absolutely adoring it.
zelda is and always has been a girl?
TalentAlwaysWins
Banned
Combat being boring is what I was hoping they would fix about the franchise. I never played don't starve so I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
The problem with this is so far EVERY outlet even ones that are typically heavily critical of Nintendo like Polygon and CNET have been glowing. There's even a few that have outright said they have tried very had to find fault with the game and can only come up with minor issues.
Yeah like I said earlier, some of the hyperbole is off the charts in some of these previews. I get people are hyped but man I'd love some more level headed impressions.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I mean, just look at the OP. Lots of sources there.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Here are a list of previews that aren't incredibly positive on Breath of the Wild:
Probably, yes. You are right.
What I've found here is that the games pushes you A LOT to experiment.
The idea for me is that we will continue seeing different gifs/videos/images of the game showing us new/different ways of doing something we already did in another way, but also many (maybe little) things we dind't know were in the game at all.
Please note that the only open worlds I really liked were the 2 Xenoblade games so far, but this one seems richer in terms of interactions. Way reacher. Way way way way way richer.
Despite being as big as those (more or less), and equally satisfying visually
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
They open with saying that you need to go into this game with spoiling as little as possible and not using a guide. So most of their conversation is generalized but spoilers can vary depending on what you have seen so far.
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they're in the OP
TalentAlwaysWins
Banned
Yeah I'm looking for them. GamerRevolution seems to be the closest we can get
You should probably check the OP for that.
Or you assume all those previews are from "long time Nintendo fans"?
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
"Dis game iz wack, N64 graphix on crack"
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FlashbladeGAF
Member
Yeah, me too.
I need to go back into my media blackout, but I can't escape all this Switch news.
blue_phazon
Member
Here's a thought: maybe the worst part is that it's almost too good 🐋