Its been a few months since BotW's release, and in case you don't remember me, I'm the criminal that gave the game a 7/10 after beating it a couple weeks after release. I thought about it more and more and realized that a was a mix of objectivity and subjectivity, and here I've decided to give my objective and subjective thoughts separately. So here goes. Objective Review: 8/10 I think we all know how great of an open world experience this game is. I've never played a game that lets you go anywhere quite like this one, and that truly is special. The combat was very smooth and there were great side quests. The weapon diversity was nice and same with outfit ability diversity as well. My issues were that the dungeons and bosses were far too simple, short, and forgettable, whether you're a fan of Zelda or not. My other issue is that although the world has plenty to do, there isn't much of a reason to do a lot of the things in the world. I'd love to be able to see what bandit camps I've defeated kinda like The Witcher 3. Because for me its just a waste of time and weapons. Overall the game is great when looked at entirely objectively. But when I look at it as a Zelda game, That's where it truly fails me. Subjective Review: 5/10 These thoughts come from the 12 year old that played the original Zelda on the NES 28 years ago, and every Zelda since. I was really excited for this game, and its a shame that it was this mediocre. And here is why. (SPOILERS BELOW) 1. Terrible villain. Every great Zelda game gives you as the player a reason to hate Ganon moreso than "he wants to take over the world." Obviously that's bad, but in every great one Ganon gives you a reason to be pissed off, and to truly hate him. From the very beginning of Wind Waker, Ganon takes your sister and throws you in the ocean to drown. You just hate the guy from the very start. I felt none of that in this game. They just throw you in and say that the villain is this big fireball that's been going in a circle for 100 years. And the game establishes absolutely no sense of urgency about it either. Nobody is scared of Ganon, nobody even talks about him. You forget what you're even supposed to be doing half of the time because it doesn't even feel like it matters. There is really no motivation to beat the game other then to just "beat the game." 2. No Green Tunic as a (free) option for the majority of the game. This is a big one for me. I shouldn't have to buy an ammibo for a green tunic, so I'm discounting that. But the no green tunic really dimished the feel of a Zelda game for me. I get that its "post apocalyptic" and all. But so is Wind Waker, which still gives Link his classic tunic. And I'm ok that they changed Links traditional outfit. What irritates me is that they didn't offer a way to get a green tunic for players like myself that really wanted one (without paying for an amiibo). 3. Poor dungeons and awful bosses. Its a shame that a series known for these two things failed so miserably in both aspects. I appreciate the change in formula, but it doesn't mean it was a good change. Nintendo wanted to move away from the "get an item, use the item to win" gimmicky dungeon/boss design. And good on them. But the bosses just became extremely easy fights without even a gimmick or real name to remember them by. That's a real shame. These are the 3 big things that make a Zelda game worthy of the name. And it makes me sad that they did such a poor job in each aspect. And I don't want anybody to think I hated the game. I enjoyed playing it, as I described in my objective review. If you got this far thanks for reading.