But how on Earth (or in Hyrule) can Nintendo improve on the best video game ever made?
The only problem is, how can you possibly top it?
“Weapons in the older version break easily, for instance.”
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How Can Nintendo Top BOTW?
The easy answer is that it doesnt have to.
For most fans, more of the same will be more than enough.
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you’re able to just wander the world, cooking, hunting, and taking selfies.
To expand the game, Nintendo has chosen to soar into the sky.
In the trailer, you’re able to see floating islands in the clouds.
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How do you get to these?
A 2019 BOTW 2 trailer took place underground, so thats another direction that may expand Hyrule.
Perhaps thewarp tilesconcept will return.
Perhaps, as the trailer seems to show, you will “swim” to these sky islands.
Or, perhaps, as one theory goes, you will use time travel.
One gets the feeling that Hyrule was once an advanced technological society.
Zelda expert Triforce Trends hasspeculated on the time travel aspect.
The style of the architecture is more ancient, for one.
The original BOTW has plenty of flashbacks to Links adventures from 100 years prior.
Perhaps hes going back there?
Or disappearing even further into the past?
Weapons break constantly, and you have to find new ones.
Some folks hate this, and want everlasting weapons in keeping with previous Zeldas.
Others love it, or at least tolerate it.
“I dont understand peoples gripe with weapon durability.
A change here seems unlikely; unbreakable weapons would break the natural-world feel of the game.
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This IGN videoexamines the minutiae of the trailer.
Theres redesigned armor, new shields, and new enemies to fight.
It seems, then, that Nintendo really is just giving us more of the same.
And thats great news.
