Reviews

Ghost Recon Breakpoint if anything is the best proof that current Video Game rating systems (score) must die. Also, a reminder that RAWG still doesn't have an It's OK rating. Just good or bad. So I was wondering which one to use „Meh“ or „Recommended“. Stayed with „Meh“, cause that's how I feel, but couldn't use any of proposed tags, cause they're really negative :D.

The game got 4 to 5 out of 10 on most review pages and this is simply not fair. By default, if we wouldn't take prequels into account, it's an ok game. Even comparing to Wildlands it's just somewhat worse. Still, as a multiplayer, open world, modern combat sandbox it's still great and has a somewhat unique setting (Aurora consists of several amazing Biomes with human presence as if it would be invaded by Tesla of Google). It failed me to a large extent due to a somewhat cowardly and poorly written story in an attempt to dodge any potential controversy. Therefore story-wise it doesn't really fit to bear Tom Clancy's name but is passable as a shooter narrative in any other context. Visually it's stunning. In terms of mechanics, it's somewhat bloated, there's a lot of everything, but since when we're unhappy with a sandbox that has too many toys. It took something like 50hours or roaming and engaging in random firefights until I realized that I'm not progressing through the story and it's quite a lot of time to realize that the game is not entirely fitting my taste before going back to Wildlands. But I'd definitely stick with it for 50hours more if I wouldn't have such an option. 

TL:DR: One of the weakest showings in the series, but quite an enjoyable sandbox in a general sense. Definitely not a day one purchase, but after a reasonable discount, Auroa itself is fun to explore and new investigation mechanics propels that to a quite addictive level. 

The first time (or times) I played MM I was 11 years old and contrary to what I thought, my English wasn't that good so playing this game again on my thirties was like see another whole new game.

First of all, is not that I have mixed feelings towards MM, I love this game but there are some things that I wish they were less notorious than they are. Let's start with the bad first and move it out of the way: the dungeons, they're memorable but not in a good way (there are only 4 so maybe that also helps), is not that they're terrible, I think they all have a lot of problems in their navigation and design, but what brokes the experience to me is the Stray Fairy mechanic (you need to hunt down 15 fairies in each dungeon in order to obtain power ups), it makes you do a fair amount of backtracking and remember chambers in dungeons that as I told you before, have poor navigation and design, this thing just goes worst on each dungeon, being the 4th dungeon the supreme offender (in there you need to do a mechanic that makes the whole dungeon upside or downside, so if you forget at least 1 fairy you have to reverse it and go all the way to get it), when people joke about the OoT water temple beign annoying because you have to equip and unequip the boots, its because they know nothing or at least they don't know the Stone Tower Temple.

The boss fights have this half-cooked mechanic in which you need to use certain race to defeat it, being a Zora, Deku or Goron in theory that sounds amazing but the only one that hit the mark was the Goron fight, the other ones kind of doesn't. Speaking of fights and continuing with the bad things, the controls can be very stiff in more than few situations, the worse one is the aiming, if you're going to use first-person perspective, good luck.

Given what I told you, you may think that I don't like this game, and in other games sure I wouldn't recommend it but, what this game doesn't have in dungeon and control quality, it triples it in the atmosphere and putting you in the boots of Link. This is a sad game that has all kinds of sad stories and moments, treason, death, abduction, there is a lot of hard and sad themes that are extremely well handed in here, merge them with an outstanding soundtrack and you'll have a game for the ages, it also has this time mechanic which serves as a reminder for you the player and for the world of Termina, it's brilliant 4th wall breaking without you noticing it. One of my favorite things in the game is that no matter how hard you try, you can't help them all because you have limited time and even when you do it, the time resets and everything will happen again, is a sad thought but it does a lot to help the narrative.

Another thing that newer Zeldas haven't matched yet, are the side quests, specifically the Mask quests, they feel so magical and esoteric and makes you connect tons to the characters, my favorite one may be the one of a certain couple, which I won't spoil but it takes three days and some masks to complete, and gives you a fantastic closure to it.

Eiji Aonuma did something very impressive and not short of brilliant, no matter how I hate certain things, they're overwhelmed by the good ones, to me, in no other Zelda game I have felt the weight of the Hero of Time like in Majora's Mask. If you haven't tried yet, please do so, just be wary that the Game Cube (Collector's Edition) version has some crashes and can be very hard to swallow.