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Re: Talking Point: Is Zelda An RPG, Or Not?

Boxmonkey

@sanderev no character growth? The whole game revolves around gaining new weapons, increasing health, acquiring new armour sets that all have different perks. In oot you literally grow into an adult

Re: Talking Point: Is Zelda An RPG, Or Not?

Boxmonkey

Gaining jars, weapons and and abilities like swimming in deeper waters and using gloves to pick up heavy items are all indications that Zelda is an RPG. Just because you don’t put skill points into a certain ability doesn’t take away from the RPG elements in Zelda games.

On a side note, because of the way botw was built with go anywhere anytime mechanics I’d suggest that it was less of an RPG that any of the other traditional 3D games.