Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

After finding all Great Fairies, I really think that Link should join the #MeToo campaign. Seriously, I am not so sure how to assess these sequences. It is not so funny as it should be. However, I got my upgrade for my armour. Was it worth that price?

@Snaplocket xD

I'm going to do a Master Mode run in Japanese soon. Plan to complete all shrines, side quests, and DLC content. I'll probably only collect korok seeds until I open all of my inventory slots, though. I'm pretty sure that "reward" you get for collecting all of them is Nintendo's way of telling completionists to chill the heck out, and I couldn't agree more.

@Ralizah Please forgive us for wanting to play as much of the game as possible.^^
We dont mean to destroy your game and its not our fault you have not enough endurance to play a game. Its the developers responsibilty to put meaningful content for everybody in the game not ours. Besides collecting them isnt so bad like how people on this forum make it out to be. You basically do what you do in the game. Traversing the world and exploring. Its funny people have not enough fun with this xD
Seems like nintendo is trolling the non completionists. At least we can force the troll to dance with the help of poo^^

@Jhena Why do you think Nintendo is trolling non-completionists?

I don't understand how people could want to collect all the Korok seeds for any reward, let alone a piece of poop. I just don't see how that could possibly be fun. To each his own, I guess, but man. I started getting bored of collecting them after I got like 60, let alone 900.

@Ralizah I see what you're saying, after all everything it showed was in the game. But it still focused quite a bit on story, it was disappointing for me at least to see there wasn't much to the story and weren't too many cutscenes in the actual game. But I still enjoyed it which what matters.

@Hallonblad Fair enough, I see where you're coming from.

@KirbyTheVampire @Jhena @Ralizah @gcunit @Snaplocket Honestly, I think that's the most common reason why people say they don't like BotW. I found the people who dislike the game often are the ones who play it to 100% by collecting every Korok Seed, doing every side quest, and completing every shrine. They often complain that the game is repetitive, but what game isn't if you play it to 100%.

Honestly, I think the secret to enjoying the game is to play as much content as you want at whatever pace you prefer, and accept that you probably won't reach 100%. Like I completed around 90 shrines, found about 60 Korok seeds or so, and did about 50 side quests. I also found all the memories and beat Ganon to get the true ending. At this point, I decided not to play anymore because I didn't feel like it. I played 120 hours, and I accepted that I probably wouldn't complete it all. As a result, I enjoued those 120 hours.

@Ralizah Because many say they wouldnt go for 900 seeds or even half of it. Some stop after 100. To me its like saying they dont think this game is worth playing. Or like another poster said: If i kept playing it wouldnt be fun anymore ( xD). So i think your antipathie towards completionists is funny because we actually play the game and enjoy it enough to play it to the fullest.

@KirbyTheVampire I never got bored, but then, I never set out with the intention of hunting them down, either. I collected... a few hundred, I think? I just paid attention to my surroundings and was usually pleasantly surprised when I managed to discover one.

But yeah, hunting down 900 of these wouldn't be fun for me.

@Ralizah I didn't purposely hunt them down either, but I stopped finding it interesting pretty quickly. At first I would be like "Oh, cool, a Korok seed!", but then when I reached 60-ish like I said, my reaction was more like "Oh. Korok Seed. Meh. Might as well grab it"

@Jhena But did you really enjoy it? You just said BotW was your least favorite Zelda, and thought it was overrated.

You shouldn't play every game to the fullest, or else every game won't be fun and will feel like a job. Play each game as long as you find it fun, and then move on. You shouldn't fully play a game, when you're not enjoying it from the 50% on, just because you want to finish it and see 100%. Cause at that point it feels like a job, and real life already has enough jobs you don't need to add one more lol.

If you enjoy finding the 900 seeds, that's fine. But after 200 you feel they're repetitive, don't do them. Just because you don't collect all 900 doesnt mean you don't enjoy the game, as there is a lot of other content (like shrines).

Think of it this way: the length of BotW is customizable. For players who just wanna play the main story, it's about 30 hours or so. For players who wanna beat the game and explore most of the locations and complete as many shrines, side quests, and seeds as they like, it's about 100-150 hours (like me, who's at 120). And then if you want to do every shrine, seed, quest it'd be 350 to 500 hours. Each group is playing the game but is doing so based on their preference, which I think is clever game design.

I didn't collect 900 Korok Seeds for a reward, I did it because I wanted to solve every puzzle in the game and see every location in the game.
The game is amazing, and so it was fun.

For every boring pick-up-a-rock-Korok there was another Korok that needed some time to find or some puzzle to solve. I realised they're not slapped over the world randomly, they are carefully placed for the most part.

Sure, finding them all is one of the very last things left to do in the game after completing everything else 100%. But I'm glad the game offered a lengthy "extra campaign" with the 900 Korok seeds for players who wanted to get more exploration, puzzle and adventure out of the game.

@SKTTR That seems like a healthy approach. I can appreciate that. What I don't get is these people who hunt all of them down, seem to consider doing so to be a pain, and then complain when the reward isn't good enough to justify the amount of time they spent tracking them down.

I know I won't enjoy tracking down 900 korok seeds, which is why I won't be doing it. When the activity gets to the point where it seems purposeless to me, then it's only a waste of my time if I continue to engage in it.

I consider them to be fully little tools to reward exploration, and they're perfect in that regard. Like a small pat on the back for going a certain place and doing a certain thing that also has an in-game benefit.

@shadow-wolf I dont have a problem if people dont want to play the whole game and theres the difference: Ralizah told competionists in a passive aggressive way to chill out as if we cared how he plays his or her game. As if we were responsible nintendo put 900 seeds inside the game.

And are you seriously asking me wether i enjoyed the game?^^ Its awesome people not even having played the whole game asking me if i really enjoeyd the game xD I think i mentioned it enough that i enjoyed this game. Is this game so bad you cant believe me?^^ I played it for 335 hours. But just because i can play something for long it doesnt mean the game has an important spot inside of my heart. I have fun playing the game but the soul of the game feels lacking compared to older entries.
Compared to a game like witcher 3 or skyrim or fallout 4 it just doesnt feel deep. Zelda is like a very sweet icecream sprinkled with some of zeldas salty tears. And the others feel like a complete and nutritious meal. I like sweets but i get hungry again pretty fast when i eat sweets.

I wouldn't compare an action-adventure like Zelda to an RPG.
If Skyrim was an action-adventure it would fit for comparison, but it's not.
Skyrim has much more in common with Xenoblade X.

Anyway, both Zelda:BotW and Skyrim have major strengths and minor weaknesses for the genre they're in and both try to achieve something completely different. You find stuff in BotW you wish was in Skyrim, and you find stuff in Skyrim you wish was in BotW. How nice that we can now have both games on one system and enjoy both for what they are, without endless senseless debate.

@SKTTR Funny wanst the big talk that zelda now went full open world?^^
Besides i can compare a game to another game in terms of what it means to me. So its not an rpg means i never can truly love it? RPGs are superiour you mean to say?

Yeah, it's the big talk, the big comparison between two games of different genres that makes no sense to me. It's not my thing to get into an apple&pear comparison.

I think too many people hear "open world" and think it's an RPG. The fans comparing it to Skyrim and Witcher aren't helping. The "Open world" should be more compared to (poor comparison) Assassin's Creed, or GTA....both of which are really 20-40 hour games for the main campaign and primary side quests (at best), not really a 300+ hour game like Skyrim. BotW's playthrough time really falls right down the middle. Fitting for a survival-action game that's neither RPG nor cinematic drama.

@NEStalgia Not such a poor comparison, I'd say. I was playing Assassin's Creed 2 recently and I realised the aspect of it I was loving the most was the free-running and climbing, and I found myself feeling BotW might have taken a pretty large slice of inspiration from AC.

To be honest, I think the only reason they added so many Koroks is because they wanted everyone to find a few hundred by playing naturally.

I don't think they actually expected that many people would actually want to find them all. But it's nice that they at least added one little bit of acknowledgment in the form of Hetsu's gift.