User blog:Mystic Monkey/Shouldn't triforce it.

I'm still trying to make a blog a month thing going on.

First off, sorry for no prank from me or ShadowUnleashed13 this April Fools. SU13 had his exams and I've not been feeling myself in a bad way, basically due to these inconceniances our heads were just not into pranking for that time. However SU13 is on-off cooking a doozy of a prank that we will save for next April Fools or at least a Fools Day soon.

Meanwhile I finally got round to playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This version of Hyrule is 60% bigger than Skyrim! The celshaded artstyle and the music strongly reminds me of Hayao Miyazaki fantasy movies, such as Nausicaä, Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke. It reminds me of when I first played Twilight Princess and looking at the hills surrounding Ordon Village and wishing to explore those hills than the playing area the map confined me to. This game fufills my wish for the openworld Hyrule I've always wanted to explore. And it is so huge! My only real complaint about the game is the gameplay is not as traditional to Zelda games as I wish, such as instead of finding stray hearts to replenish health, it's replaced with consuming food. While you can still find rupees in the game, they're only dropped from certain tough monsters. Rupees are found from selling things you hoarded and health is replenished from eating food. Heck even the traditional green garbs and hat are something to be made than given. While these are traditional to openworld games such as Elder Scrolls and Minecraft, they sort of break traditions from what makes a Zelda game though I imagine my digress is either a 50/50 opinion over this modern Zelda game over traditional Zelda gameplay elements or just insignificant over the overall games story and experiance. I do miss temples and dungeons though, they're replaced with these shrines which have trials that remind me a lot of Aperture Science tests. I would of loved to explore major dungeons or see the ruins of old temples such as the Forest Temple or the Shadow Temple in this world. It's not like there is no room for such dungeons, this Hyrule is huge! There would of been enough for twice as much dungeons per usual Zelda game and would still be good long travel and ingame days to reach them. I'm telling ya, Hyrule is that huge!

Playing through this huge map, going down the roads, climbing mountains and exploring the valleys got me wondering, what if Sonic got to explore this Hyrule? Imagine how cool it would be to run at his speed from one place to another, launching yourself off rocks and mountains and just going everywhere on this super-duper sized Adventure Field, I can imagine that be awesome!

Anyway thats all I can think of to discuss for this month.