Ronnie

Didn't take long!

Just paused to come here and say... how beautiful is the Rito Village area!!

Seconded on the terrible music

I haven't picked one up yet, the tech might be amazing but short of a few short experiences I see no reason to jump in now. I wonder if VR will have a big E3 presence. If not then it's pretty poor of Sony to suggest people fork out a few hundred quid on this and then barely support it. It's the Vita all over again.

No offence was obvious

Edit: never mind

@Clownferret saying "I think you've probably ruined the experience by rushing it" doesn't warrant the last half dozen posts directed at him. NO ONE is "attacking" H-O-T. Clownferret was sharing an opinion, that's all and doesn't deserve the ridicule. I also don't think skill level has anything to do with how long people take playing an adventure game like Zelda.

I thought her point was pretty clear. The release schedule of titles to play is good enough not to have any droughts. The fact that some of the games are sequels has nothing to do with the point she's making.

She clarifies... [TWEET]855855371549802496[/TWEET]

Emily Rogers on Switch's first year software Hard to disagree with most of that. https://arcadegirl64.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/quick-thoughts-on-switchs-year-one/

I imagine their online subscription cost will be quite cheap. Kimishima suggested approx £14-20 a year when asked about it.

Looks great, another to add to the long list of games on Switch I need to pick up.

Wow, 94 on Metacritic!

You should have taken it out the dock, and showed it running as a handheld

If Eurogamer says so then I believe it, and am very excited by the prospect.

What's the gameplay like, is it similar to any other sort of 2D platformers?

It's a breath of fresh air to the openworld formula. It'll be interesting to see how soon other games start copying aspects of it. I'm looking forward to trying Horizon, but I feel bad for it, coming out the same weekend as this.

If they had big third party releases, then a 9-10 month first party release schedule with Zelda, Mario, MK8, Arms, Splatoon 2 and Xenoblade 2 would be incredible. Not sure I expect them to add anything else before Mario with all that going on. Maybe an Animal Crossing or Pokemon Stars.

For a March release that's very good news. The software for the rest of the year is probably good enough to keep momentum up, hopefully E3 shows off their plans for 2018.

An attach rate for Zelda over 100% lol. Good news, hope it continues till the end of the year, Mario Kart, Splatoon, Arms, Xenoblade, Mario + Minecraft and Skyrim should see to that... [TWEET]852679026183471104[/TWEET]

It's so nice that after having 1 town in MM, 1 in WW, 1 (basically) in TP and 1 in SS, we finally have lots of towns. I was surprised when I came across the one in the south. Hadn't seen it in any trailers or gameplay.

Salmon run looks good, glad to see a new mode added. Also that squid amiibo!

Probably the same game as was released last year on PS4/XBO?

Interesting, I can see your point actually, I remember the tech lab at Hateno sending you north, but I haven't actually done that mission yet, and went clockwise instead. Without any spoilers is the tech lab north of Hateno worth doing early in the game or would it be ok to go there towards the end?

This game is just incredible. 90 hours in, 2 dungeons done, 50ish shrines, just under half the map uncovered. I'm having such a great time taking each region in turn and it's so exciting knowing there's another 7 or 8 towers/areas still to uncover. I can't imagine unlocking the whole map in one go at the very beginning, I'm sure people who did that enjoyed it, but personally I could never play it like that. What I find interesting is that whilst it really is 'go anywhere, do anything', the game definitely tries to lead you a certain way. A lot of the regions have a very clear entrance point, and I also suspect most people will have gone east from the Plateau, to Kakariko, then to Hateno, then south filling in the bottom part of the map. Just a feeling, could be wrong of course. The latest little touch to make me grin was noticing that an ice block was melting because I was carrying a fire sword. The regions with the dungeons in them feel like traditional Zelda, a town with lots of sidequests and story missions, cutscenes, new abilities etc, and the rest of the regions feel like they brought the overworld of the original Legend of Zelda into 3D and modernised it. Magic.