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Many in the U.S. have come to distrust critics as much as news media, experts, and government.

@Crono1973 Yes the first game had dungeons—and it’s precisely my point that despite different mechanics and structure, the three games I named were, for me at least, similarly evocative. Despite their many excellences, LttP and Oot were not (again for me at least) evocative in that way. I assumed this feeling had been a product of my young age, but BotW and SotC proved me wrong.

The games that have given me an experience closest to that of the original LoZ have been BotW and Shadow of the Colossus.

A friend asked for my opinion of SS:

There’s a section in the late game of Skyward Sword wherein you must feed an enormous vat of pumpkin soup to a flying whale, and immediately after are tasked with tracking down the “tadtones” which are tadpole-shaped incarnations of musical notes.

If I had answered 4 years ago: Legend of Zelda; Turtles in Time; Chrono Trigger; SF III: 3rd Strike; Persona 3

Breath of the Wild however, captivated me in a way that no game had done in something like a decade, so it might very well displace one of these.

And now I have that old Catherine Wheel song in my head: “Indigo is blue-ooooooo”

Bravo! Loved the quandary re veganism when plants have faces.

2 of the developers on this one have a weekly podcast. Anyone else a Dev Game Club listener?

Pleased to see a positive review—have been waiting for this for years.

Wish the new TMNT were in this style. Could have looked like the cartoon.

@karatekid1612 Weren’t we just fantasizing about this?

@BlueWeaselBreath Agreed. This selective pixel-smoothing always looks awful to me. I’ll stick with my PS1 disc.

@Mii_duck That game looked super blurry on my HD television when I replayed it 3 years. I imagine I see some improvement. I was watching it think “oh, there’s that mechanical pirate thing—I HATED that thing.”

@karatekid1612 I have fantasized about the SoR IV guys doing remakes of both TMNT arcade games.

Great news. I was afraid this fever dream of a game would not make it to Switch.

Grinding is one way to re-balance a game. Unlike difficulty sliders, it makes players think they’ve earned it. Grinding out levels with a beer or two is a great way to relax before bed.