Twilight Princess is the best Zelda and Breath Of The Wild is the worst – Reader’s Feature

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A reader explains his love for Zelda: Twilight Princess and why he’s not looking forward to the sequel to Breath Of The Wild.

If every video game franchise in the world disappeared tomorrow, except for The Legend Of Zelda, I would be perfectly satisfied. That’s not an indication of my apathy for other games but my love for Nintendo’s classic action adventure. Ever since playing A Link To The Past on my SNES, back in Christmas 1993, I’ve been entranced by the series’ elegant simplicity and deceptively deep gameplay. No other franchise has so many perfect games and that’s not my hyperbole that’s just looking at their critic scores.

I don’t use this to justify my opinions though as there are two major areas where I disagree with the consensus, and that is when it comes to Twilight Princess and Breath Of The Wild. I’ll say it straight up, I not only don’t like Breath Of The Wild I completely refuse to accept it as a Zelda game. Even with a different name I would think it’s boring, much too spread out, and I hate the breakable weapons.

As a Zelda game it’s even worse: there’s no proper puzzles, no proper story, and the bosses are terrible. Everything that should be best in the business for a Zelda game is the worst it’s ever been in Breath Of The Wild, and no-one even argues otherwise. I’m all for doing something different but when what results is unrecognisable as the thing it’s supposed to be, what’s the point?

I assume that Breath Of The Wild 2 is going to be largely similar, at least in terms of all the things I don’t like, and I’m resigned to that. I am reasonably confident that Nintendo will create another game though that doesn’t follow that formula. In fact, if it weren’t for the pandemic, I imagine they probably would’ve