The interview that came out when it was new just clicked for me. They compared it heavily with the original Legend of Zelda on the NES. I didn't get it at the time, but you just made me think. It's the same elevator pitch (Link goes on adventure, solves puzzles, fights Gannon, yadda yadda), but for modern hardware, and absolutely nothing else. They just set out to make the best game they could with that premise, and ignored almost all the conventions that have popped up since.
It’s pretty clear that it took a lot of inspiration from the Assassins Creed games. If BoTW was released under any other publisher, it would be seen as a derivative release.
Well, yeah. Towers to climb to expand the view of the map, hundreds of collectibles with relatively little reward, primarily fetch quest side missions with very little to compel the player in terms of story or character in said side missions. It’s a good game, but it is hardly a reinvention of the genre like many have claimed.
And that's why BOTW hits home for a lot of people. You can tell it's inspiration is not from other games.
The interview that came out when it was new just clicked for me. They compared it heavily with the original Legend of Zelda on the NES. I didn't get it at the time, but you just made me think. It's the same elevator pitch (Link goes on adventure, solves puzzles, fights Gannon, yadda yadda), but for modern hardware, and absolutely nothing else. They just set out to make the best game they could with that premise, and ignored almost all the conventions that have popped up since.
It’s pretty clear that it took a lot of inspiration from the Assassins Creed games. If BoTW was released under any other publisher, it would be seen as a derivative release.
Well, yeah. Towers to climb to expand the view of the map, hundreds of collectibles with relatively little reward, primarily fetch quest side missions with very little to compel the player in terms of story or character in said side missions. It’s a good game, but it is hardly a reinvention of the genre like many have claimed.