june
ive finally reached totk burnout after 200 hours even thinking about the game makes me feel sick
june
in like two months im gonna be crawling back to get every korok seed
june
ok i lied im gonna think about it for a little bit longer to write out my opinion... if anyone cares... u probably dont... never mind.. just forget it...
june
ok heres my review it will probably have spoilers: i like the game a lot and it is probably the best game i have ever played. the first 40-50 hours were an unlimited dopamine engine. even after that the game still has new content and surprises well beyond the scope of botw
june
HOWEVER... it being built on botws foundation ensured i never felt quite as amazed or enamored as i did with botw. i felt like a lot of the cool new stuff was just fixing issues i had with the previous game. so instead of going oh wow!!! i went oh finally!!!
june
never thought i would say i wish i never played botw but this game makes it true
june
the game also suffers from the copy and pasting of botw although to a lesser degree. the first cave i found i was like WOAH but by the thirtieth i was like aw fuck another moss filled horriblin nest to trudge through
june
and i have to say the depths were great for a while. probably one of my favorite new parts of totk. i loved loved the atmosphere and how scary it was and how alien it seemed. the mirroring of the overworld was genius. and the first time i went down there and thought i was in like a big-ish standard cave and then the lightroot lit up and i realised the scale
june
was like no way
june
but of course its ruined by the freakin hoverbike. i know i can just not use it but the temptation alone muddled the experience
june
the sky islands were fun in their own right but disappointing once u realize they are just like 10 island designs copy and pasted a million times
june
definitely needed way more variety in the sky. the great sky island was some crazy false advertising lol. and the lack of new minibosses made me kind of sad. gleeoks are great but like... past that all u have is the botw minibosses and gloom hands. and battle taluses have the same strategy as normal taluses once u snipe the three easy enemies
june
and the stupid sages like fuck off i want my champion powers back. and why couldnt the sages themselves travel with u instead of making lame excuses and sitting in their dumbass village doing nothing. i dont WANT ghost sidon i want my bff
june
also not enough new outfits sorry not sorry. the new designs are cool but there are like 5 of them and three of those are the same design in different colors
june
ANYWAY HERES WHAT I LIKED
june
fuse is perfect. pinnacle of game design. it fixes every issue i had with botws weapon system and encouraged me to actually use strong weapons and fight strong enemies. its also just really creative and fun to make use of. great stuff
june
actually ill just say all the abilities are perfect
june
ultrahand is great for obvious reasons. ascend is way less restrictive than i first thought and i always felt like a genius when i ascended into a locked room or something silly like that. and recall is just stasis perfected (although i wish u could recall enemies)
june
the dungeons were soooo much better than the divine beasts. obviously they arent on the level of traditional dungeons but i kind of like them better??? i only wish they were longer and put a few more restrictions on the player via layout
june
dunegon bosses were cool too but way too easy lol. finding them in the depths was a welcome surprise
june
the changes to the world were great. if u HAD to set the sequel in botws world this is about the best anyone could have done it. goron city especially is one of my favorite upgrades it is sooo silly and fun now
june
and the side quests are so involved and actually affect/change the lives of the characters i am still impressed even 200 hours in
june
even the new korok puzzles were pretty good lol
june
back to the bad. the story was bad guys. like really not good. better than botw maybe but only by a slim margin
june
the one memory of zelda dragoning herself was good and thats abt it lol. and ganondorfs fight. but beyond that theres nothing of note
june
they are so skimpy on the lore
june
and the fucking retcons??? i didnt mind at first because i thought they would get explained but nope
june
links house is zeldas house now. too bad. nobody u love from the first game recognizes u. too bad. no explanation of where the sheikah tech went. too bad
june
everything u did in botw actually didnt happen 
but its ok if u dont think about it
but its ok if u dont think about it
june
hestu not recognizing me after i collected all 900 of his friends and he gave me his golden shit is a crime
june
i think the most insane thing i noticed immediately on my first playthrough was the shrine of resurrection being fucking gone. like an enpty cave How bro. how did the yiga manage to strip 10,000 year old technology from the damn walls and leave zero trace
tortchip!!!!!!!
ily juje
june
onthecomputer: i actually had the opposite opinion at first LOL i was tired of the sheikah and so relieved to see something new but i totally see what u mean. overall i like them about the same although i think the sheikah tech was more creative design-wise
june
but dont tell me the green spirals dont rule
june
me too i was hoping for a darker tone but it really wasnt there. the spooky music was SO intriguing but to find out that its like. the simplest time travel plot of all time and some goatbros paying respects was so disappointing
june
time travel is just inherently more interesting to me and always has been but i totally agree. and its especially lame that zelda has literally done a MORE INTERESTJNG time travel plot in skyward sword. its not only lame but reusing content and making it lamer
tortchip!!!!!!!
GOATBROS PAYING RESPECTS
june
in the games defense it does the one thing i always love to see in time travel plots which is recontextualizing something u can see from the very beginning. zelda being the light dragon and flyin around from the start was super cool. now if the light dragon had appeared in botw it would have been next level but i understand they didnt have the foresight....
sokky
I was gonna say you have 48 posts worth of totk review but I realized you talked to people and was going to be thoroughly impressed
june
sokky
: i could easily make 48 posts of totk review. maybe even 49
sokky
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PseudoFossil
juje video essay time