I’m just not ready to jump out and glibly proclaim that’s true yet.

So far it looks to me like this game isn’t out of early development or even design cycles, so imo it’s not really possible to formulate a real opinion on what they are or aren’t building.

I knew this thing smelled like crypto bullshit.

Whelp, I made it.  I’m officially too old to understand what the fuck is going on any more.  

Right?  I’ve witnessed my share of bad software demos over the years, but never “fire two directors and give the project to a different studio” bad.  

This is a bad take, particularly from someone who writes about video games for a living.

Would a lot of players enjoy an open-world Metroid game? Absolutely. Should Metroid be open-world instead of metroidvania? Absolutely not.

They may not be the things you cared about in Zelda, but they were still core parts of previous Zeldas that players enjoyed.

Look again, or go check their KS page  

Why do people still think they’re due a refund on Kickstarter?

Yeah, but there’s a difference between a company losing your money making a good-faith effort to build a product, and someone taking your money and running to the casino.  

I never suggested that every Zelda game has every Zelda element. Each one uses the pieces that support its core themes and gameplay.  There’s more than enough “Zelda” in BotW to make it unmistakably a Zelda game.

It sold well because it’s Final Fantasy, same reason Rise of Skywalker sold movie tickets. Like that franchise, it’s been coasting on its brand name for a while. The critical response was mixed, and I recall the fan response being pretty tepid at best.

Hard disagree.  BotW is a perfect example of my point.  It’s all the recognizable piece of a Zelda game recontextualized by an open-world format.  And clearly that worked for most people. 

I’m not sure I’d call giving the people who treated me like shit the exact thing they wanted a “mic drop” moment.  

I hope one day Zuck achieves his dream of creating a Tron-like fully immersive digital world of he can escape into.

I don’t know. The Legend of Zelda hasn’t had much trouble reinventing itself while maintaining the themes, character archetypes, and gameplay elements that tie all the entries together.

Well, my living room is in that universe, wherever it is.  

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