I recently had to upgrade from a 200GB card to a 512GB one.
You may want to contact Nintendo directly. Theyāve always been great with repairs.
morlac
1927
My 5 minute review is similar. The pew pewing is similar to Star Control imo with different ships/weapons. Hell the tutorial is pretty much exactly like Battle/combat mode from SC2. This is the First Even Horizons, havenāt gotten to the second yet. Worth the pennies in Golden Nintendo coins I spent.
Is there any kind of campaign mode or tactical game (eg, SC2 or 1, respectively)?
rowe33
1929
Oh wow, didnāt even realize there was a first one. Will probably grab that whenever itās on sale too.
rowe33
1930
In the 2nd one (Station Defense), youāre building up a space station with modules that you find or buy. Things like armor, power, shields, weapons, etc, that fit in your station in a tetris-like grid. You also have various upgrades that improve through earning experience that add to your shipās damage or protection, or your mercsā ships, etc. And can hire mercs that also level up and could have special abilities.
The game itself seems to progress through various stages, with one-off missions springing up on the side along the way. You can go back and play through previous stages as well. The graphics are pretty base level but itās got a fun little game play-reward loop with the upgrades.
morlac
1931
Yes, it is pretty much a lower budget Star Control. You have been selected to lead a deep space expedition in The Event Horizon! You have a fleet of ships you use in combat, move around a Starmap in your main ship, explore planets (just scan), etc. You can upgrade either by crafting or buying it seems. crafting seems tied to some research tree you unlock via stars? I mean I finished the tutorial that covered combat only and was dumped in the home system with no further explanation. Nothing on icons, upgrading etc. Considering the plot so far has consisted of 3 sentences I wouldāt get to excited about a grand space opera but I could be wrong.
Today: I took a mental health day and played Zelda like fish pee in the ocean (all day!).
My goodness, what a superlative game. I am slightly concerned at how badly I suck at it, but I am having just an absolute joy of a time wandering that world.
Stop it, youāre making me want to start playing it again. And take a mental health dayā¦ ;)
BotW astounds me constantly with how damn full of joy it is. My previous experience with similar open-world games comes via Shadow of Mordor and Infamous Second Son. I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly, but the fundamental interactions you have with the gameworld are almost exclusively finding new and exciting ways to murder new and exciting bad guys.
I feel like I barely fight in BotW. There are so many other things I spend my time doing: Looking for forest spirits, following clues from a villager, ooh I havenāt seen that color horse before, BUGS cāmere buggies Iāma sneak up on ya, whoa hey thatās a big deer fuck YES prime meat mmmhmm, whatās this dude walking down this lonely road, hmm tell me more about this Yiga Clan WHAT, lol yep fire will burn this whole encampment out sorry moblins, just on and on and ON with new shit around every corner pulling me onward.
Also thereās a main quest and shrines and towers and shit. Because it wasnāt enough to make an amazing open-world Zelda game, Nintendo was like āPortal was dope, letās put that in here but make sure itās like super fun and not frustrating or jarring.ā
I havenāt fallen for a game like I am right now sinceā¦hmm, Civ V (shutup Tom) probably?
Superlative.
Yeah itās a masterpiece. Youāll keep discovering wonderful interplay between the systems as you go.
The way Link shivers if your clothing is not warm enough. The way when cooking, each item is physically present in the pot and bounces around satisfyingly. The way wind matters, and how fire creates updrafts. The danger (and utility) of metallic weapons in lightning storms. Surfaces becoming slippery when wet. Chopping down trees. How clever the tutorial area is in guiding without throat-shoving. So much more that I donāt want to spoil. :)
Yet some people find it an empty world devoid of life.
One of the things Iām currently enjoying is how the game doesnāt overload you with stats. A typical Western RPG would display like nine stats to the user for each weapon: reach, damage, durability, 1h/2h, material, type, origin, fighting style, blood type, whatever. Here: āIt hits for 12. Figure the rest out.ā I really appreciate that; I donāt need to rank up my Spears to A class to unlock a descending MEGAKILL or whatever. āOoh, big spear, hits hard. Dope!ā (It is.) āI bet this metal axe lasts a hell of a lot longer than this bone spear.ā (It does.) āSeems like spears would be the jam for attacking from horseback?ā (They are.)
How are you finding the weapon durability, or lack thereof? Thatās been a bit of a divisive topic.
I like that it makes me use lots of different weapons, or experiment with alternative methods. But then thereās comparing and swapping items around all the time, especially when your weapon slots grow numerousā¦
Itās fine. I would prefer something more like having your baseline sword but then finding limited one-offs that you could use to do whatever. But itās fine.
When youāve played enough, watch these videosā¦
You should be able to find the rest from there. Whatās absolutely brilliant about Breath of the Wild is it was created based on the original Legend of Zelda, and thatās arguably why it resonates so well with most people that play it IMO. Itās a classic 2D design taken brilliantly into 3D in a way that is completely different in many ways from how they handled Ocarina of Time, which is also still brilliant.
Enjoy. Videogame adventures just donāt get any better than Breath of the Wild IMO. I cannot wait to see what they do with its sequel.
rowe33
1940
I need to actually play this more than 10 minutes at some point. Now that The Last of Us 2 is behind me, probably time to sink into this.
Man, I lost like two hours (ālostā heh) today dicking around in this canyon system full of big monsters. Eventually I got up to the top of this big mountain and was promptly one-shotted by an electrodinosaur.
After fruitlessly dying on him three more times, I snuck around insteadā¦and proceeded to sneak around several packs of like three of them plus additional electrobuddies. Yeah, that was definitely not gonna happen. Eventually did make it to the tower and solved the physics puzzle to climb it and activate the dumb thing and promptly teleported the hell out of that madness.
I have this horrible habit of starting a giant open-world game like this and going, āI didnāt get that far last timeā¦I should just start over.ā Then I play for a few days, get busyā¦then eventually come back a few months later and go, āI should just start overā¦ā
Someday I just need to block out time every night and play this. Iāve heard nothing but amazing things about it.
If you go to the Zelda thread there are plenty of contrary opinions. But theyāre all wrong of course. ;)
Clay
1944
You just described me. Iām trying to get through the original The Last of Us now and Iāve repeated that cycle 3-4 times already. Sigh.
