Recent content by Bluebird

Um, how are they not dungeons? They're still self-contained locations where you fight enemies, solve puzzles and occasionally face bosses. Are Zelda II's dungeons also not dungeons, as they did away with the puzzles? That's arguable. Until ALBW came out, I hadn't been able to truly enjoy a...

They didn't remove the dungeons, they just converted them to better fit BotW's mold. Divine beasts, shrines and Hyrule Castle may be different from previous dungeons, and you may not like them (which is fine), but they're still dungeons by definition.

On the dungeons vs shrines subject. I'm honestly cool with getting a bunch of mini-dungeons (shrines) over a few overlong dungeons. In fact, I'd dare say I prefer it like that. After trodding through TP's exhaustive, needlessly long dungeons, I've been wishing Zelda switched to having shorter...

That's pretty dumb. I've seen plenty of games that looked awesome in videos, but played like ass. I've even watched videos that made Sonic '06 look good for pity's sake. A video doesn't necessarily tell you how well it controls, or how polished it is, for instance.

Honestly? I've always found the humor in Zelda unfunny and juvenile, especially when it comes from cartoony over the top characters like Linebeck or Kohga. It's even worse when the humor ruins potentially interesting characters, like Zant or the Yiga. I hope BotW2 tones down the humor, or gets...

Was a fast swimmer in my teens (once won a swimming competition) and used to do dives and such. I rarely ever swim these days, though. When I jumped into a pool a few years back, it took me a while to remember how to do it properly, lol.

Honest question, why would you want to control Link with the d-pad? Diagonal movement is a pain in the ass with the Joycon and the Pro Controller's D-pads.

Traditional dungeons. They were all right up to TWW, but after that, they got too long and tedious. By TP and SS, it felt like the games were entirely centered around dungeons, with everything else being an afterthought. Even worse was how SS removed the overworld and turned the outdoor areas...

Then people would have complained even more about BotW's world being empty. All right, then I'll answer the thread title's question. No, I don't personally feel BotW overdid anything.

If they had done that, maxing out your inventory would have been harder, as you would have to collect every single seed. Putting twice as many as necessary allows for a margin of error -- you can miss half of them and still max out. I don't think I should have to explain why looking for 20...

I don't get where the complaints about the Korok Seeds come from. If they had put less seeds, finding them would have been harder and more time consuming, given the massive world. It would have been like searching for a needle in a haystack, even if expanding the equipment inventory took less...

No they weren't. The overworlds in LoZ and ALttP were open and could be freely explored for the most part. They didn't impose tedious tasks like "search for a bunch of scrotum-shaped creatures in a maze-like forest" on you before letting you advance. In ALttP, as soon as I beat the starting...

No, I don't really want to go back to linear, overlong dungeons. I would be okay with the next game having the same kind of dungeons as BotW. During the Wii/DS era, the dungeons basically took over, to the detriment of everything else. SS basically removed the overworld and made the outside...

Says you.

Have one friend who has heard about the series. He always refers to Link as "Zelda" when we play Smash.