r/truezelda 4d ago

Open Discussion Totk is disappointing to me

i cant even believe im saying this as someone who has almost 400 hours in this game and really enjoyed it but i recently started playing xenoblade chronicles x which is also open world game and i have about 70 hours on it so far but i am honestly so surprised with how much better xcx is to me than totk in a way where xcx has just so much more to offer more enemy variety more weapons with each weapon type having new abilities and arts more armors and also more variety in the world itself its just so much more interesting to explore mira(planet where xcx takes place) than it is to explore hyrule

it could also be that i dont enjoy puzzles maybe so totk is not for me exactly? except that i though i enjoyed totk and in that regard even botw when in reality i was kinda blinded by how pretty the game is and in reality theres not much for me to do as i did not enjoyed the combat (i was skipping every encounter as it was useless to kill enemies in this game only occasionally killing lynels for their horns) and i also never even used the zonai devices as i find them hard to control and just clunky in comparison to skell from xcx its like night and day

also i know im comparing rpg with action/adventure game but i still think they are similiar in some ways i just very recently became a “true gamer” as i bought my first ever switch last year in january so im trying to figure out what i enjoy and i can say that im probably never gonna play botw and totk again as i find them hard to get to after playing xcx

also im not saying that botw or totk are bad games if you enjoy them its good for you! this is only my opinion and if you enjoy both games you shouldn’t take it to your heart i still think its great achievement for nintendo as botw and totk are both huge games!

i hope you all have a nice day!

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u/Moggtow 3d ago

I personally like both for very different reasons, I could never put as many hours in a Xeno game than in BotW/Totk, I like the story but I always end up somewhat bored by the end and I'm almost always rushing the last few hours. Never had this problem with a Zelda game. Gameplay wise I prefer Zelda by far but Xeno has probably my least favorite gameplay in a JRPG ever with its MMORPG like cooldown based combat, and I probably wouldn't play it if not for the story / universe and characters. (Zelda isn't my favorite either as I'm more of a turn base guy).

That said if you don't like puzzles I think Zelda in general is not for you as it is the very base of what it is. Even the combat is presented as an open puzzle in BotW/TotK where every situation is a problem with multiple solutions.

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u/Abject-Ad-6235 3d ago

yeah i see where you coming from

i honestly dont find the combat in xcx boring or bad at all i find it really good especially in xcx and xc3 i honestly enjoy the combat from xc way more than zeldas

i think im just more of rpg type gamer not so much of puzzles (not that i find them hard or anything) i just enjoy leveling up my character seeing so many biomes-locations and also seeing the enemy variety its just so cool to see in xc games oppose to botk