Playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is mostly a sedentary experience, as with most video games on the Nintendo Switch, but one brilliant modder has made Breath of the Wild into a workout game.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
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The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has again commented on the possibility of revisiting the style of past entries in the series – but there are no plans as of now. Speaking with RTL Nieuws, Aonuma said that games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were possible because of what came before them.
Which is very sad. I still wish we could get a zelda like twilight princess, the dark tone and theme in the traditional style. But times have changed and the masses prefer open world sandbox. Smh. Perhaps we can get a proper hd remake of ocarina of time some day.
If they can bounce between 2D and 3D Mario games, they can bounce between classic and modern Zelda games too. I thought this was a given when the Switch combined a handheld with a primary console.
Then this is where I part ways. I won't disagree with anyone who says that the old formula was getting stale. And I do think BoTW in a few ways was a step in the right direction, but there's way too much good that was left with the old formula in the transition.
Well that sucks. I still love the classic formula WAY more than the Hyrule Engineering Simulator
Seems like an interesting idea in theory, but not particularly great in execution. It effectively turns this into a worse version of those short-lived gaming exercise gimmicks from a few years back, where you would have to peddle an exercise bike or the screen would shut off.
I would actually prefer that to this execution, as many things (like aiming) seem unwieldy & awkward. So while it makes you exercise, those finicky controls also happen to make the gameplay worse. Seems like you'd need at least gameplay parity to make the exercise experience worth it. Perhaps it could get there with a bit more polish, since it certainly seems like there are a few things that could be ironed out by improving some of the programming.
Again, always interesting to see someone take something & make it do what it wasn't intended to do, but I think this shows why Nintendo opted not to push a BotW Ring Fit update lol.