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[NullForceOmega]

I have a confession to make, I haven't played a Zelda title since Link to the Past.  I have owned a Wii U for around two years now, I bought it for Xenoblade Chronicles X ( I WILL buy Monolith's games, Xenogears embedded something in my soul and now I can't escape it), and for my birthday I got the original Xenoblade Chronicles on Nintendo's e-shop.  Then my father sent us some cash for Christmas and our birthdays (my wife and I are eight days apart.)

Having seen the discussion about the game here, and watching/reading several reviews of it I went ahead and violated my self-imposed rule of 'No 3d Zelda ever'.

I haven't played anything else for two weeks.  I might need a rescue team.  Send more spirit orbs quick.

[Ozyton]

Why the "no 3d zeldas ever" rule? Play games because they're good, not because they're 2d or 3d.

[Nighthawk]

I haven't played anything else for two weeks.  I might need a rescue team.  Send more spirit orbs quick.

May the Goddess smile upon you.

[Egan_BW]

And this is why you should not self impose silly arbitrary rules on yourself like that.

[NullForceOmega]

Why the "no 3d zeldas ever" rule? Play games because they're good, not because they're 2d or 3d.

That is entirely subjective, to me the 3d Zeldas were absolutely terrible, and yes I did try several of them (OoT, Windwaker, MM), but I never purchased them because their basic gameplay felt very unpleasant for me.

It wasn't an arbitrary rule, it was based on experience.

That said, while Nintendo hasn't redeemed themselves in my eyes, I'm giving them a big thumbs up for this one, BotW is one of the best games I have ever played, hands-down

[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: Open this if you want the entire final boss and ending spoiled for you (click to show/hide)

I have to say, when I finally faced Calamity Ganon, I... was a little disappointed. The music and atmospherics were amazing of course (although the former seemed more triumphant than fucking creepy due to the nature of the fight, like Jesus that thing is horrifying) but the actual fight itself... felt kind of repetitive? Which isn't a problem by itself by any means because this is Zelda we're talking about... unless you aren't as good at dodging this specific enemy as you are others. Because then it boils down to chop / horizontal slice, maybe one of the spider arms attacks, he crawls on the wall and alternates Guardian shot / Windblight barrage / Waterblight spear, repeat and then you can flurry. And he's invincible (even to ancient arrows) unless you're Flurrying.

I'm not going to lie and say Beast Ganon doesn't look fucking amazing. Because he does. But that fight was even less super amazing than I hoped... I mean, he just stands there and occasionally pukes lasers. Not exactly a mind-blowing fight.

The ending was, again, disappointing compared to my expectations, but by no means bad. I felt it rather poignant and fitting instead of really emotional and drawn out. To be honest, the game is still amazing and great to me, I just wish I could say I loved all of it instead of all of it minus the final boss...

And don't even get me started on how I'm probably never going to touch it again now that I've beaten it. I do that all the damn time and it's depressing.

[wierd]

One of the DLCs promised for end of year is "New original story", so that might be resolved by christmas.

[Greiger]

Bay12 has trained me badly.  I see a spoiler tag and I must click on it.  Fortunately I read the spoiler tag's writing first before I got into the actual text.

Bay12 probably needs something other than spoiler tags for actual spoilers at this point and call spoiler tags [condensed] or something like that.

[Ozyton]

Or people should label their spoiler tags, like he did.
(I haven't looked inside it myself, still haven't beaten the game)

[Greiger]

Oh yea, noone did anything wrong, it's just  me being overly clicky of spoiler tags.

[ThtblovesDF]

Maybe if the forum allowed spoiler in spoiler...

Otherwise just make it white on white?

[Frumple]

Transparent is a thing, and a thing that doesn't require the vileness that is not!darkling.

[pikachu17]

Is there a reason Zelda is still alive 100 years later, other than really, really, really good anti-aging cream?

Now that I think of it, could Zelda's being a goddess avatar mean she doesn't die of old age?

[Egan_BW]

That would imply that she gets murdered rather a lot off-camera.

[pikachu17]

Have you seen how they are all monster-magnets? Without anyone(link, Etc. not castle guards.) to protect them, it's a wonder they can stay alive long enough for a link to save them.
Not by the way, does BotW link have a fan nickname? If he doesn't have one, may I suggest Beach? That way, if in a fanfiction he is rude. someone can say "What a Beach". And Beach would fit the wilderness theme.