Post by Ray on Mar 5, 2017 14:57:03 GMT
So it begins! So far i'm really loving it. This will be spoiler free so don't worry! I've only just left the great plateau and I can already tell you they've got the pacing and presentation completely correct. I love Final Fantasy XV but one of the gripes I had which alot of people had which happens in open world games was the pacing of the story, the first 7 chapters were open world with very little story and then the last 7 were sped up. Most of that game you wanted more story, as for legend of zelda they've got the open world pacing of the story correct. I've never been left wanting more of either as just when you start to crave story, you find a town, village or random npc and then when you're ready you can go off on your own.
The game looks AMAZING. For a 900p resolution game, you hardly notice the difference in it not being 1080p, the art style is great (kind of like a hybrid between wind waker and twilight princess). They've put loads of little details like fog/mist, link shivering when he's cold and the amount of grass rendered on screen is impressive. I'm impressed at how powerful the console is for being so small. Considering it can run a slightly scaled down version of the HD remastered skyrim (not the original hd ps3 version), it goes to show the console is in between ps3 & ps4 in terms of specs and it's TINY!
The gameplay in loz is great, the button mapping and controls are really useful and well thought out. You can easily change your weapons on the fly and check the map easily, set markers and guides. The interface is very simple and clean (which seems to be a theme for the switch). This actually makes it seem more futuristic in a way as it's just exactly what it needs to have. The fighting is harder than most games and it's very easy to die in this game. Even if you're swimming you have to watch yoru stamina which is quite addictive. The climbing mechanism is great because nintendo made every surface scaleable and not just certain ledges so when you see a wall you actually think "are there ledges half way I can regain my strength to to climb?" instead of, where's the key features that I can grip onto.
In all I think this game is a big step forward. I've never had this kind of excitement and exploration lately (besides FFXV) just to run in any direction and see what you find. Each zelda game is great in it's own way, even though they've deviated from the series, I still will enjoy the old zelda games. It does free new and fresh, and i'm glad they have!
