Ive not played a Zelda since snes which was a few years ago!! I’ve bought my kids Nintendo consoles over the years so we can play the games together,I thought MARIO odyssey is another great game but started BOTW this weeks and feel a little disappointed, I’m probably going to get crucified in here for saying this But climbing these towers and getting map locations reminds me of assains creed am I missing something from this game as played
A lot of open world games like fallout but can’t get into this
The towers are optional in this game. As is everything else. You don't have to climb them if you don't want to. That's what stands this game out from all the rest. If you don't want to do something, don't. If you see something, and you want to go to it, you can. If you fancy a crack at the very last boss in the game in your undercrackers as soon as you wake up and exit the cave, then go for it. These are all things that 99.9% of game designers out there wouldn't have the balls to even attempt, and if they did, they probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.
I'm currently playing Horizon on the PS4 Pro. Great game, but I can't help but feel that BoTW has spoiled it a little for me. The most simplistic of things like facing Aloy up to a sheer surface, only for her to reject it like it's an invisible wall is frustrating. Even though the game is an open world, it just feels that much more linear and smaller because of that. The world just doesn't feel as interesting either. There's just something magical and mysterious about Hyrule that captivates you to go off and explore. I found myself constantly being dragged off in directions I'd no intention of going in. A couple of hours pass, and I realise I was supposed to go off and check on something else. I'm not getting that from Horizon.
If there is one thing I'd have liked to have seen from BoTW, is the devs exploiting the 'wild' part of the game, and introducing some kind of hard survival mode. Make stuff like flint and food hard to get. Energy drains as time goes on, and the only way to replenish it is to hunt and cook food. I mean, we're talking about a game where rain affects climbing surfaces, and wind affects the direction of rain, allowing for dry spots under ledges of cliffs so that you can drop some wood and flint and spark a camp fire under to pass time.