24th February 2017, 7:07 AM
Breath of the Wild looks to be the hardest Zelda in years, something more closely resembling the difficulty curve of Zelda 1 (in keeping with it's return to the Zelda 1 style across the board). I'm okay with this. Very okay. Zelda games were really getting insultingly easy as of late, even the amazing Link Between Worlds.
ABF probably isn't going to be happy with this though. I know LTTP was too tough for his tastes. Zelda in the past tended to avoid overt "difficulty levels", but in recent years it's really expanded on unlockable "Hero modes", namely in Skyward Sword, A Link Between Worlds, and the HD remakes on Wii U. Hero Mode generally doubles damage taken and the amount of stamina drained from abilities while also making random dropped hearts either more seldom or missing entirely. With this game, a "Beginner mode" might be in order. For my part, I'm jumping in head first.
ABF probably isn't going to be happy with this though. I know LTTP was too tough for his tastes. Zelda in the past tended to avoid overt "difficulty levels", but in recent years it's really expanded on unlockable "Hero modes", namely in Skyward Sword, A Link Between Worlds, and the HD remakes on Wii U. Hero Mode generally doubles damage taken and the amount of stamina drained from abilities while also making random dropped hearts either more seldom or missing entirely. With this game, a "Beginner mode" might be in order. For my part, I'm jumping in head first.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)