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   Gwen The Red Moss (gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 10:50:11 JST Gwen The Red Moss

   Fell off Xenoblade 3 and TotK again and ended up going back to Xenoblade X.

   One day I'll finally beat XC3. Until then, I'll probably beat XCX another two times.

   And maybe someday I'll actually get into TotK. BOTW was my crack when I got it. I have to force myself to go back to TotK.

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     Jon Lindemann (mrdiamondj@mrdiamondj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 10:50:00 JST Jon Lindemann

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     @Gwendolyn @cmrv TotK is wholly overrated. I couldn't stand it. Felt like work. Every time you try to have fun and explore there's some stupid arbitrary game mechanic that prevents you from doing so. And the building puzzles were like, okay, you cobble together some half-assed solution from the objects lying around. After the 80,000th time doing this I was like I GET IT. Utterly tedious. Least fun Zelda game I've played.

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     Gwen The Red Moss (gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 10:50:01 JST Gwen The Red Moss

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     @cmrv Oof. That doesn't fill me with apprehension at all :P

     I think my main problem is that mechanically I'm just not having fun. There's something with how they've got things set up that I just feel so restricted by the classes and shit.

     The world is more open and connected than 2, but it can also be unfun levels of maze-like.

     Like, I like it a lot more than 2, which I kind of hated a bit on every level. 1 and X had me both mechanically, and with their stories and worlds. 3... I like the stories and the world is pretty good... But actually playing it is meh.

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     Orbis Tertius (cmrv@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 10:50:09 JST Orbis Tertius

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     @Gwendolyn good luck, beating XC3 felt like coming home after a long day at work

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     Jon Lindemann (mrdiamondj@mrdiamondj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 23:13:13 JST Jon Lindemann

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     @Gwendolyn That's it exactly. I always felt like a clock was ticking on how long I was allowed to have fun. Want to explore on your horse? That's cool until you go to some remote region. Then you get off your horse, it disappears, and you're stuck in the middle of nowhere. Want to climb a cliff to get somewhere new? Fine, until it starts raining and you slide down. Build something? Great until you run out of a component that isn't around any more. Game made me rage every time I played it.

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     Gwen The Red Moss (gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 23:13:15 JST Gwen The Red Moss

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     @mrdiamondj Oh. My. God. Thank you! This has been the first time I've heard a negative opinion about it! (I'm admittedly very behind on the podcast, so if you said something there, I'll get to it)

     I have felt like I was taking crazy pills. Everywhere I go, all I ever get is praise for TotK, and it's had me just scratching my head wondering "what am I missing?!"

     Like, there's a ton of really neat things in it. There's a lot of stuff to like, but EVERYTHING feels so goddamn fiddly. In BOTW you could get your little dopamine hits here and there. Find a random korok? Hell yeah! Little mini puzzles, hidden treasure chests, there were all kinds of little things that were super simple spread between the bigger puzzles.

     I don't feel like spending an hour on a fiddly physics puzzle where I end up rocket launching the damn korok over the horizon instead of over to his buddy on the other ridge. Sure I'm going to laugh my ass off as he Team Rockets into the sun, but after it's done. I'm down tons of mats, and have gained nothing in the game.