Crossed the 140 shrine mark as I'm nearing the end I'm collecting my thoughts on this game
- TOTK relies far less on parry than BOTW did. Sometimes I even forget I have that move.
- While Link has an entirely new set of abilities 95% of the enemies are still limited to what they could do in BOTW. In fact they removed the biggest threat in the overworld, the Guardians. It feels more like raiding bandit camps than having enemies appear naturally in the world like in BOTW or Elden Ring
- The Yiga vehicle fights are nearly a 1:1 copy from Nuts & Bolts gameplay but you can easily cheese these with a bow and arrow, in fact most of the enemies in the game can be defeated quite easily with strong bows
- While I really enjoy the caves, wells and underground prisons and ruins, breaking big rock formations is sort of meh, the fact that nearly all rock formations drop swords with stones to make hammers sort of shows that they didn't really know how to properly balance this with weapons breaking
- Unlike BOTW the game seems to have multiple progression blocks for certain quest and event triggers, I could clearly sense that at some point I was too early in Kakariko and Hyrule Castle, something that was impossible in BOTW.
- There are far less obtuse shrine quests than in BOTW and the shrine quests are better. Even Shrines that have yet to appear are marked with Crystals, they don't just raise from the ground of out of nowhere
- The mech you get near the end of the story is by then no longer as helpful or impressive as it would've been halfway through
- The Depths sort of being the resource rich environment to collect better weapons doesn't really work because your weapons break quite easily so instead of gaining items you usually lose more than you find.
- Overall this is the case with most late game finds, for example another Link outfit Amiibo cap at level 1 is useless by the time you're able to collect it. You also can't level dark gear(?) which also makes it useless outside of the Gloom resistance or Sneak buffs.
- TOTK relies far less on parry than BOTW did. Sometimes I even forget I have that move.
- While Link has an entirely new set of abilities 95% of the enemies are still limited to what they could do in BOTW. In fact they removed the biggest threat in the overworld, the Guardians. It feels more like raiding bandit camps than having enemies appear naturally in the world like in BOTW or Elden Ring
- The Yiga vehicle fights are nearly a 1:1 copy from Nuts & Bolts gameplay but you can easily cheese these with a bow and arrow, in fact most of the enemies in the game can be defeated quite easily with strong bows
- While I really enjoy the caves, wells and underground prisons and ruins, breaking big rock formations is sort of meh, the fact that nearly all rock formations drop swords with stones to make hammers sort of shows that they didn't really know how to properly balance this with weapons breaking
- Unlike BOTW the game seems to have multiple progression blocks for certain quest and event triggers, I could clearly sense that at some point I was too early in Kakariko and Hyrule Castle, something that was impossible in BOTW.
- There are far less obtuse shrine quests than in BOTW and the shrine quests are better. Even Shrines that have yet to appear are marked with Crystals, they don't just raise from the ground of out of nowhere
- The mech you get near the end of the story is by then no longer as helpful or impressive as it would've been halfway through
- The Depths sort of being the resource rich environment to collect better weapons doesn't really work because your weapons break quite easily so instead of gaining items you usually lose more than you find.
- Overall this is the case with most late game finds, for example another Link outfit Amiibo cap at level 1 is useless by the time you're able to collect it. You also can't level dark gear(?) which also makes it useless outside of the Gloom resistance or Sneak buffs.
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