Mine works fine.

This is the best answer!

My parents met in high school and, 39 years later, are still just as happy together in their marriage.

How so? I mean, the Switch’s unique feature is literally ‘you’re playing the same thing, seamlessly, at home and on the go’ - which by default means every game utilizes that feature.

I think it’s because before, trying to shoehorn console experiences on a portable that didn’t even have the means to accurately mimic them (like having only one analog on PSP and still putting FPS games on it), made it very apparent that you should build a game around the platform you’re on, not shoehorn a completely…

if you got this, I’d trade you my boring standard ones for the Labo Joy-Con.

I’m on the other end of that - since BotW doesn’t reward exploration with specific things, I get the feeling that ‘I discovered this’ - not that it was the cheese at the end of a series of corridors to move through.

“Players will optimize the ‘fun’ out of a game”

That’s a good point!

I’d ask you to see the response I put to Muscle Marth on this.

I didn’t mean to demean that aspect one bit. If you get meaning out of a game, good for you!

Then we’re just really different folks. I LOVE just the act of exploring in BotW.

Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask (the only 3 games that really stood out to me) and having options as to how I want to tackle the dungeons and quests.

I wish I could give you 100 stars for putting Wind Waker next to BotW. Before it came out, WW was my go-to for ‘the most like NES Zelda modern-Zelda’ around.

Ugh! The stupid narrative that the only true Zelda was the NES game and that the series “got it wrong” for 30 years needs to GTFO!

the amount of flexibility gets so undersold, though. True, a few areas need a specific item to get there, but there’s a lot of openness - ESPECIALLY for a NES game in the 80s. Not to mention you’re just dropped into the overworld and it’s up to you to piece together what ‘order’ there is to anything.

The moment you mentioned mid-air cornering I thought ‘so it’s Lucio: The Game?’

Also: my BotW experience felt organic, start to end. By the time I had found the Master Sword, I was one heart shy of getting it, and the shrines I needed to get that heart were right there. I didn’t know I was building up Link’s health before that for any other reason that to build his health. Which is kinda what was…

trust your players

I know I’m not playing a game again when I ask myself, what is the point? Do I really care? It seems pointless.