Positives:
- Besides the short tutal, the game is open-ended for players to explore
- The game rewards you for experimenting with the game's physics
- Challenging difficulty that pushes the players to get better at the game
- Cook food and potions that will help to aid your adventure (Stamina, Health, and boosts)
- Collect weapons and tools that can be used for combat and puzzle solving
- Different clothing to benefit Link for certain situations of cold, heat, and more
- Thanks to the latest patches, the game constantly runs at 60FPS on the Nintendo Switch
- Beautiful scenery, encoring exploration of this current Hyrule
- Best nerdy rendition of Zelda within the game
- Capture and Breed horses that you catch in the wild
- The game design is much more organic than liner past Zelda games
Negative
- While there are a few exceptions, most of the side characters are bland, boring, and meh.
- There's only four major dungeons and the bosses feel like cancerous cut-and-paste slates
- "The blood moon rises again!" is the current "What a horrible night to have a curse"
- The game is a completionist Trap, as Side-Quest feel entirely pointless
- Stealth is painfully pointless in most situations as most enemies spot link almost automatically
- Nature can still cause some slowdowns because overgrowth
- Cut-and-paste enemies with small dumb moments
- Most fights within the wild will be mostly avoided because of weapon degradation
- Would have benefited from close quarter combat balanced by stamina usage
- Weapon Degradation can vary to the players involved
- While some deaths are silly at most, can be annoying at the worst of times
- Odd difficulty slopes which the game could get too easy later on
- Putting things blunk, the Korc seeds are literal pieces of SHIT.
Grade: B-
I really wanted to give it an A, but how it's more built from the ideas of the portable side and, as stated, it's the current Ocarina of Time. While it did set up the current gameplay of modern Zelda, it will date itself very quickly as other games will out-perform it and it doesn't help that sandbox games are over-saturated in today's gam, especially by the end of the year, War of Maldor is looming overhead. However, this means if the next Zelda game that comes out is similar to Majora's Mask, a personal favorite of mine, then those with The Nintendo Switch has something to wait for. While there is DLC coming for the game, most of the cosmetics are just not worth it.
Until then...
