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compguy42 t1_je2k4fr wrote

Reply to comment by PapaProto in Don’t want to be negative but does this look stale and dated to others? Dare I say, kinda boring? by MartymicFly

As someone who was of age to play LoZ from the original release to now, this is DEFINITELY my LoZ and I'm thrilled with the direction. BotW reminded me so much of the original and what it felt like to play it back then, before the series got bogged down by formula.

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PapaProto t1_je2l2xs wrote

I just love the core formula.

Change some things yeah, like new forms as Wolf Link, mechanics & traversal Sailing, or Minish sizing up/down, Merging into walls etc as much as you like but whatever LoZ you played - they had the same core formula and charm.

BotW, fun in its own right, didn’t have what makes LoZ a LoZ - to Me.

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compguy42 t1_je2tvop wrote

I totally get that, and that's valid. I think maybe a better way to say what I feel is that after OOT, the 3D Zeldas slowly started to lose me because I could never shake the feeling that I was playing "OOT But X" (sailing, wolf, etc). BotW was the first 3D Zelda to make me feel like I felt playing the 2D Zeldas again.

That's not to say I thought the 3D Zeldas were bad games. Not at all. But after a certain point, I didn't feel the connection to the franchise I once had, until BotW pulled me back in.

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PapaProto t1_je3zlpe wrote

There it is. You’ve actually summed it up well - “OoT but X” is, in essence, what I want.

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