Not even a next gen upgrade could save it

What's actually so bad about this?
I did play the first one and the only thing I really disliked was how you had to go searching for the dungeons and they'd each be like a 5 minute max 'puzzle' most of which were basically 'just use something to make a ledge or blow something up' there were very little puzzles that were different from one another, I found

Is TotK the same slop?

>>713863885 (OP)
>sold 22M
>couldn't be saved

They don't call it slop of the goyim for nothing

>>713864015
Same shit but with item fusing and gmod physics

>>713863885 (OP)
>>713864015
>Lack of traditional dungeons
>Weak story pacing and minimal narrative engagement
>Breakable weapons
>Sparse enemy variety
>Copy-pasted shrines with uninspired design
>Empty overworld despite massive size
>Exploration rarely yields meaningful rewards
>No real character or combat progression
>Underwhelming, forgettable boss fights
>Clunky UI and frustrating inventory system

>>713863885 (OP)
Genshin mogs this shit

>>713863885 (OP)
This game is proof that sales mean jackshit if the game sucks ass. It's almost like people want to play fun games instead of a gmod clone. Why they didn't just make a botw 2 is beyond me

>>713863885 (OP)
Doom mogs this shit

>>713863885 (OP)
Its been years. You need to let it go. Its a good game. You lost. And yes, I have been enjoying my new save file on switch 2

>>713863885 (OP)
World of Warcraft mogs this shit.

>>713864015
too bloated and with unnecessary additions/changes like decayed weapons, or fuse mechanic, koroks now have to be transported everywhere
should have been a dlc that kept things the same and had the new story take place entirely in depths and sky islands while keeping the progress from botw (armor upgrades, inventory upgrades, etc)
also, less depths, more sky islands

>>713864015
I think people are more pissed off about missed opportunity than whether the game's fun or not (because fundamentally it is because it's just BotW 1.5 and BotW was fun). They upped busywork tenfold, reusing BotW map only to then allow you to skip most of it with gliding from a kilometer up in the sky ruins the design, the sky is a nothingburger, the depths are a nothingburger, the dungeons are actually just divine beasts redux and of course the story fucking sucks. It's an ungraceful sequel that is way too content with rethreading old ground but with a new tool that arguably makes things worse, not better. In a perfect world they'd have built the whole game world around what you can do with the builder but they just kinda didn't. Despite having taken six years it feels rushed if not outright outsourced.

>>713869023
In a perfect world, they would've saved the construction gimmick for the cartoony DK game about environmental destruction and digging underground.

>>713863885 (OP)
Baldur's Gate 3 mogs this shit

>>713869102
monkey no build
monkey smash

They don't call it slop of the goyim for nothing

>>713863885 (OP)
Instead of doing what every other direct Zelda has done, it decided to just be a glorified expansion pack in the same world and most of the same characters as its direct prequel. Which is extra insulting when no new games were released between BotW and TotK, and when they decided to ask for extra money despite mass asset rehashing.

>outsource story writing for some fucking reason
>fumble the Zonai
>everyone in the new story is a literal who
>expecting us to care about these literal whos in a whole new Musou game

Nintendo is so fucking retarded man

>>713869949
Not to mention that the royal family is descended from jackal humanoids. I know Zelda has always had weird furry shit but that just made me kind of uncomfortable.

>>713870057
you will fuck the goats

>>713863885 (OP)
Palworld mogs this shit

>>713863885 (OP)
This is so much better than BotW, tickled my autism. This and Majora's Mask are the best Zeldas.

>>713866135
cars? CARS? CAAAAAAAAAAARS

>>713870324
The only people who like tears of the kingdom are boring autists with no life

>>713870324
>my favorite games are silent hill, resident evil, and oh yeah also that tiger demo for the xbox kinect

>>713870324
My autismo made me get filtered by the fact the map was fundementally empty and devoid of shit unless you got luck and stumbled upon it in BotW so I skipped this

>>713866135
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3ipxi3dHU

>>713869949
Oh god, I just realized: they're also gonna expect us to also care about the "first hero" Zonai guy in HW3. The Zonai instantly became massive fucking Mary Sues the moment they became relevant.

>doing Colgera on NS2
>framerate fucking chugs
lol how did that shit even work on the old switch

Today I will remind OP

>>713872418
>it's a masterpiece because... IT JUST IS OKAY

This 10/10 went to an 11/10 on Switch 2.

>>713863885 (OP)
Genshin mogs this shit

>>713872438
>TotK is bad.... because it just is ok??!

Sorry but all the evidence points to contrary. And now the Deluxe Definitive editions of these masterpieces are exclusive to Switch 2.

Fucking GOOSEBUMPS

https://youtu.be/DZb4wMnUyKM?si=p4Gjb90qmRS5l3mg

>>713872530
But there's no shrine
on the shrine island
it's no masterpiece

>>713872530
>empty open world
>pointless optional crafting mechanic that makes the game more tedious if used
>called Zelda despite missing the core mechanic of Zelda games: gaining new items and abilities over time I open up more of the world
>copy pasted world from a previous game
>retarded story that shits all over existing lore
Yeah that's some good evidence there

They don't call it goyim of the goyim for nothing

>>713873610
>empty open world

I just gave up reading your drivel right there. lmao Holy fuck

>>713873862
Yeah that one point alone is enough to prove you wrong, I admit

>>713873610
>called Zelda despite missing the core mechanic of Zelda games: gaining new items and abilities over time I open up more of the world
I see this point levied against Breath of the Wild too and I think it's fucking stupid.
You are gaining new items and abilities over time that open up more of the world, in form of better equipment, fusable items, better food, more zonaite and zonaite parts and so on which allows you to get to your goals faster and more efficiently. It's just not a straightforward get a hookshot in a dungeon use the hookshot in that dungeon. That's not one of the game's problems at all

>>713873928
>comparing +X defense armor and consumables to getting a hookshot
lol
>more zonaite and parts
Yay, more pointless shit for the annoying tedious crafting mechanic. Hooray

>>713873928
Better equipment and fusable items is just better numbers on things you could already do.
Same with food.
Zonaite lets you make more complex stuff, but nothing is gated behind a super-complex contraption, so it also doesn't really progress anything like Zelda ought to.

>>713874131
I don't think the progression you're describing actually exists in Zelda games.
Getting a full set of anti-frost armor or building your first airbike changes how you interact with the game. That's progression. Most shit that isn't bombs or hookshot in other games are glorified keys for narrow, specific situations. That's just basic bitch metroidvania shit and there's a reason Nintendo felt like they had to move over it.

>>713874531
>I don't think the progression you're describing actually exists in Zelda games.
Going from not having your projectile launching item to having your projectile launching item (slingshot/bow) happens in every fucking game. It's used as more than just a "switch flipper". Your bullshit about "changing how you interact with the game" is just a fancy way to say you don't like it when there IS a switch for your new item to flip, because that means if you'd found that switch before you found the item the game would've told you no, and the game telling you no is a bad thing.

>>713873925
>empty open world

LMFAOO

>>713874713
Absolute fucking drivel.

Like BotW, TotK simply allows players to overcome adversity or problem solve using their own wits and resources. Which is far more rewarding than previous Zelda games where items would literally serve as a key to a lock.

>>713863885 (OP)
There's no saving the Zelda franchise after this flop

>>713875410
These two things can both be true at the same time. TotK definitely has a lot of "content" but it's mostly low effort, rehashed, sparse bullshit like the shrine crystals or having to farm an immense amount of charge or armor upgrades or fucking escort quests but the way it's strewn about is a lot less graceful than with BotW and certain areas of TotK do actually feel totally empty for that reason

>>713875831
Fuck off retard even if you ignore everything in the game and only did the main quest, that's still a 60 hour adventure of the best mainline quests ever seen in a Zelda game, all occurring organically in the best open world ever coded.

>>713863885 (OP)
There's no saving my ass after this flop

>Have to scroll through 500 items to get to the thing you want
>Game has hundreds of items with no way to sort them apparently
>No hotkey system

I remember watching some dude play it and he literally just scrolled for a solid 30-45 seconds to get to an item he wanted to use in battle. That was a massive turn off for me right there.

>>713863885 (OP)
But the rerelease got a better score than the original, just slightly above E33

>>713863885 (OP)
man, eric won huh?...

>>713872530
The most mind-blowing thing about Totk is showing the industry that consumers got way too much money to waste without a care about quality

>>713876227
>he literally just scrolled for a solid 30-45 seconds to get to an item he wanted to use in battle.

Using an interface to directly inform and influence the gameplay is the literal definition of what a video game is.

TotK filters many low IQ retards very easily and being too stupid to press "Y" to simply sort your items is a dead giveaway.

>we now have people possibly unironically defending the endless ribbon bar slop

Anti-eric lost and got raped btw

>>713876328
TotK.plays like a game from the future. And Nintendo coded it on a fucking toaster. Imagine what they'll do on Switch 2. Mayne one day the rest of the industry will catch up.

Eric still winning by doing nothing. He could take all expenses paid vacation to Hawaii for a year and that one guy would still accuse every modern Zelda disliker of being him

>>713876434
>having a ribbon without any other way to sort it or make it easier for the player to navigate to find their desired item is a feature and not a fuck up from the ui team.
Kek

>>713876456
>Imagine what they'll do on Switch 2.
Tears of the Mario Kart
Luigi's Mansion of the Kingdom
Splatoon: In the Depths
The Wild Crossing

eric sama.... i fucking KNEEL

Is that one track from all those trailers with the saxophone in it part of the OST? If it is what's it called?

i really enjoyed playing it at 60fps with a more visually pleasing main character in ryujinx
good game from a bad company

>>713876554
18 days

Another perfect example of Nintendo using processing power to create new gameplay ideas rather than photoreaslistic CoD doggos.

>>713876618
Ewwww...