Game no: 284
Genre: Adventure
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Hours played: 75+ hours
What is it about?
Nintendo has rework the Legend of Zelda formula where you are free to do anything in the game until the final boss battle.
What did I do?
This game is amazing. The things I did from start till the final confrontation with Ganon are
- Visited 96 out of 120 Shrines
- Climb all of the towers to uncover the full map
- Hunt a lot of animals
- Gather a lot of herbs and fruits
- Cut trees
- Make a campfire
- Swim and Fish
- Cooked a lot of food
- Find a lot of arrows bows and swords
- Do a lot of side quest
- Find the master sword and master shield
- Defeated all the Devine Beast
- Snowboarding
- Parasailing
- Fought a couple of easy bosses (cyclops with one eye)
- Found 40 out of 900!!! korok seeds (or I should say poop)
- Rode a horse, bear and deer
- Fought a lot of enemies
- Got snow, rubber, lava, heat, ninja, climbing and original blue clothes
- Got full stamina
- Climb every mountain
What did I didn't do?
(These are things I didn't do that I found from watch youtube)
- Fought a Lynel and some stone bosses
- Capture and tame a horse from the stables (I walked most of the way)
- Found all clothing
- Vistied 24 more shrines (most of these are shrines are quests)
- Bought a house
- Farm rupees
- Found a warp medallion
- Explore Hyrule Castle
- Find legendary ingredients
- Get full hearts
What I liked?
- The game doesn't have a set of rules to follow. You can go anywhere you can see in the map. Which is awesome. Discovering new areas with different objectives is really fun
- Climbing anywhere (as long you have enough stamina) is fun. It never gets old and it does require you to plan you climb, especially if you fall down a gorge and you have to climb up
- The story is nice, I can see what motivated link to go and beat ganon.
- Some shrines are cleverly design. Even fighting in the shrines are fun
- Paragliding is fun and shooting an arrow in slow is awesome
- The sheikah slate provides a certain strategy in handling the land. Unlimited bombs are awesome
- Fast travel is great but walking any seeing the sights is better
- Each of the clothing response differently for the environment
What I dislike?
- The weather elements. Rain makes it harder to climb. Thunder just make you into a target due to the metal you are holding
- Some weapons are useless against bosses. The bosses are downright hard
- The blood moon that respawn enemies. Which I didn't like since sometimes I just want to explore the world
- The fact that there are not waypoints proves very difficult in navigating Hyrule.
- Collecting 10 fire lizards (that was a chore)
- Fighting the Guardians is damn difficult
- Dying a lot (but you get to start it again right away
Overall: This game can be finished in 1 hour or 100 hours. No matter what, you will have a great time doing it. Nintendo managed to make a Zelda game that anybody can pick up and play (This is my second Zelda that I've actually won). I felt that I already experience what the game is offering to me and I don't need to 100% it (unlike Mario Odyssey). I probably won't revisit Hyrule again anytime soon. Probably in a couple of years and I also am not keen to buy the DLC is anyway
Status: Finish the game with
- 21 hearts (out of 27)
- Full 3 circle of stamina
- Conquer the 4 Divine Beasts
- Finish the main quest
- 100 Normal Arrows, 80+ Fire, Shock, Bomb, Ice and 10 Guardians Arrows
Fun Factor: Spectacular. If you have a Switch this is a must play game. Take your time, enjoy the view
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