Another day, another accusation of review bombing
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I've read a lot of criticisms on discord that it doesn't feel like a classic Zelda game, it's boring, and it takes the worst aspects of BotW and expands on them, like weapon degradation (weapons break in 20 hits or less) and added a ton of unnecessary crafting. One guy said "There's so much padding now. You can't just find a raft to cross the river - you have to find every component and build the raft first. It's BOTW but with x10 the grind." He also complained about Zelda's voice actor.
Just hearsay though, I haven't played it myself.
Have played.
Doesn't feel like a classic Zelda game. Neither did BotW.
The "crafting" thing is basically two components: one, you can combine anything you find with your equipment to imbue different effects. It's kind of tedious but you can mostly ignore it.
Then there's the construction bit where you can stick a bunch of stuff together to make contraptions like wagons and rafts and hot air balloons. It's mostly ignore-able as well, except in shrines where it's directly related to solving puzzles.
Zelda's voice actress still sucks. And why the fuck do they have her out investigating unknown phenomena? She's a goddamn princess!
Otherwise, if you liked BotW, this feels like more of the same but with islands in the sky and extra puzzles to solve and extra padding. (Made the trek to an observation tower but didn't bring the gear to solve the puzzle to let you in to the tower? Fuck you, have fun making the trek again!)
Also, almost no music. Again.
I'm no weeb, I don't speak Japanese, and I haven't watched anime in years, but I found Zelda's voice actress in BotW so annoying I flipped the game to Japanese voice. Much easier on the ears.
Will they let you do English subs with Jap voices? That'd be ideal.