I loved the rain in Breath of the Wild precisely because it was so uncaring. It might even have been my favourite mechanic. So many games are just cookie cutter power fantasies, and here is a game that went out of its way to add a mechanic you can’t interact with or solve and instead just have to accept. It also added…

“And when you finally see something out of the ordinary, like a red A5, and you walk up to it, all excited that you’ve finally laid eyes on a sporty European car in Europe, you reach the trunk lid and discover that it’s an A5 0.7TDI, and it borrows a powerplant from Volkswagen’s diesel ceiling fan division.”