/vr/ - Retro Games

Ironically, what Nintendo ultimately lacked was Courage.

>>7467856
I see this argument a lot, but I don't get why is supposed to be countering this >>7467834 point of view except if the discussion was taking place in like 1990 or something. Back when only two games had been released and each was wildly different, of course calling them "Zeldas" would simply refer to the brand name and the characters. But after one, two and a dozen games came afterwards clearly favoring one of the originals' cues for their core gameplay elements, it's inevitable that starting weighting increasingly more for the definition of what a "Zelda" game is.

>>7467862
Full disclosure: I haven't played BotW, but it's supposed to keep the general 3D gameplay of the recent ones but expanding on it, mostly doing away with how these games were structured instead and making everything more open-world-type, right? So I see it like the opposite to Zelda 2: that one adhered to the general structure seen in the rest of the series but played much differently, while Breath does literally the opposite of that.

>>7430559
It was barely an experiment in terms of innovation, unless you count Frankenstein-ing together a bunch of different genre elements (which IS valid to count).

They just decided it didn't work well enough to keep the series in that direction and went back to the original formula, which was a smart move given the oversaturation of side-scrolling games.

>>6952196
Shame it never got an All-Stars-type SNES treatment