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YouTube Critic's Two-Hour 'Breath of the Wild' Analysis Is Worth Your Time

YouTube Creator Joseph Anderson has a nearly two-hour epic on the design ethos of Breath of the Wild. It’s worth every second.

I've put well over a hundred hours into Breath of the Wild at this point (and I haven't even finished all of the main quest content, there's a Divine Beast still stomping around in my Hyrule), and I cannot seem to tear myself away from the game. The exploration, the economy, the secrets hidden in this vast, beautiful world, it's all just so much (and so well-designed). There is something fun, or at the very least, interesting, in every imaginable nook and cranny of the space.

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One of my favorite YouTube creators, Joseph Anderson, also enjoys the game, but he isn't without complaints. In this almost-two-hour video, he dives deep into Breath of the Wild, including the aspects that worked well for him—the world, the implicit player-created stories, the exploration and traversal, and those that don't. I don't agree with Anderson's assessment of the shrines (he is decidedly not a fan of most of them), I certainly understand where he is coming from, as a fellow fan of previous games huge, well-designed puzzle boxes.

Anderson also goes in deep with the combat, going so far as to actually, scientifically calculate damage based on enemy, weapon, and armor stats. It's fascinating.

I am probably going to come close to 100-percenting this game (minus the 900 Korok seeds, that's just… too much), and I basically can't get enough of the hidden secrets. One day I'll quit this game, but man… that day won't be here for awhile.

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