Try letting go
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Guys and girls ! I quit video games like 25 years ago (I started with an Atari 2600) and now you really make me want to buy a Switch and return to Hyrule. My last trip there was with Majoraās Mask.
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its hilarious watching my girl play. sheās having so much fun just making stuffā¦she really hasnāt started on the game part of the game yet 
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Ummmm actually, that was Termina 
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Yeahā¦. You better just do itā¦. 
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My daughter is mostly about taming all kinds of horses. She also finds out glitches to lead her horse into deep water and stuff. 
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Very mild spoiler ā I found it neat that the horse I registered in my previous BotW savestate was still registered now in TotK 
Really like it so far! Hopefully the difficulty of the monsters doesnāt diminish so wuickly after a few hours of gameplay like it does in BotW
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Man my kid keeps hogging the Switch, and i cant get any serious length of time in. . For those who have said that they didnt really like BOTW, for me it didnāt initially click, and the controls and design choices were a little bothersome. However at about 3-4 hours something clicked and I vividly remember saying a loud to myself, while alone, this is one of the greatest games Iāve ever played. Iāve only done that for 3 games. BotW, Elden Ring, and Red Dead Redemption 2 (although all GTAs and RD1 I totally felt the same way and those also rank high in all time list). So I hope those who didnāt get pulled into BotW, will experience that same āclickā. Maybe it just takes a little longer for some.
Come to think of it I also had that reaction to Metal Gear, Golden Eye, and the first Zelda on N64.
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Much like a good novel
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Itās great to hear all of you who have kids share their experiences with the game. It makes me really happy that this extremely complex game seems to connect with children as well. Leave it to Nintendo to make a giant open world game that kids can enjoy as well on their own terms. The building elements sure helped a lot with that, smart move Iād say.
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Hahaha ! It was so long time ago 
So I guess it was Ocarina of Time (my favorite) !
Thanks for the reminder 
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Ocarina of Time was SO amazing! I remember playing that as a kid, getting to the Temple of Time after the three stones, thinking i was going into the end game only to find out the game was just getting started.
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It was pure genius indeed !
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That was amazing, and you just reminded me all about that! Plus, getting the horse was one of the coolest moments in my life up to that point. Well that and seeing that the grenades in Golden Eye left smoke behind. I insta bought an N64 after playing it at Toys R US for 3 minutes. The car would have to wait!
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If it worked this way, youād have to have a way to deselect it the you werenāt doing multiple actions.
Went to
location
Kakariko
tonight, so good.
The rose coloured goggles still havenāt worn off. I seriously love smashing rocks in this one - feels like Iām back to the old link to the past days.
Itās one thing theyāve really nailed here: secrets - itās what Zelda is all about. In BOTW almost every curiosity was met with one thing - a Korok. Now theyāre just one thing in a mix of so much else.
I canāt believe every turn you make thereās something else begging for your attention. That Zelda team must have really worked their asses off. Itās mind bending how big and stuffed full this thing is. And sometimes I look at the map and Iāve gone nowhere, but because youāre playing in multiple dimensions it takes longer to cover.
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It really is. I started going northwest to do a quest. I spent three hours getting to my destination because I keep getting sidetracked by cool things. I must say that Iām not finding as many Koroks as I expected - I must be really bad at finding them compared to BotW.
Came in without crazy expectations - absolutely blown away. It surpasses BotW in many different areas several times over. I would say I run through games pretty quickly as a completionist; the world here is massive. Havenāt started the main story yet and I am on day 4 of nothing but exploration. Have about 50 hours in so far I think.
I think this game is equal parts more difficult and more rewarding for people who know how to do something really well. Biggest thought of mind I have while playing, is that compared to BotW, where there were lots of moments where I said to myself āItās over? I wanted more of thisā this gives that āmoreā and delivers so far ahead.
Also in the context of Zelda as a series, I think this matures the formula like no other. Itās funny, because when I was playing BotW I thought itās going to be hard to go back to traditional Zelda, now it would be hard to go back to BotW. I donāt know how they do it but kudos to the developers for continuously raising the bar. So unbelievably fresh.
TotK feels to me like a Zelda remix. Feels like Master Quest to vanilla Ocarina of Time also in many ways.
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Personally speaking, the exploration is in a grey area to me.
Yeah, the constant getting distracted by things to explore is a fun moment.
On the other hand, there are countless moments where youāre juggling the stamina bar wandering around large empty spaces- those moments feel boring and tedious. ESPECIALLY the frigid tundras(i REALLY hate that score- the scenery and the music feels lifeless and monotonous. I absolutely hate that area 
)
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again, the world feels a smidgen too big. If it could have been reduced 10-15%, personally speaking, I think that would balance the necessary wandering and adventurous exploration.
I donāt like the area itself, but I absolutely love the music.
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