Actually there is no lag with the parry system, but its got weird timing compared how parrying works in pretty much every other game, you have a much wider window for parry then you usually do. You want to parry earlier then you think since it lasts longer then you expect.
Are you referring to the parry when the blue symbol shows up, or the parry for just normal attacks? I don't really have a problem with the former, but do with the latter.
Both, you want to parry a bit early since the parry window seems to last like 5 to 10 seconds, depending on balance or fencing as the weapon class.
Ah. That makes sense. I tended to spam the parry with the smaller mobs, and was confused when it didn't seem to be working.
Yeah, I only barely understood parry though the campaign, I didn't get a better handle on it till I started doing operations more and more.
Don't do it, Johnny! The 14 hours of pain and misery aren't worth it! Johnny....Johnny (echo)!!!
I'd be happier if the shrines didn't suck so bad. And yeah, the divine beasts were underwhelming, but Hyrule Castle was pretty good. Felt like a climactic end game assault.
I was shocked that there wasn't more to the main quest. That the four divine beasts and Hyrule Castle was it. My memories must have been mixed with the things you do between "dungeons" in Tears of the Kingdom (whose campaign was ALSO poor). Again, you can't build good dungeons around the acquisition of new items and have that kind of adventurous progression if the world is so massive that tracking back to locked-off areas and secrets with the new items is too tedious. Fans who say "I liked it but want better dungeons" miss the point.
Eiji Aonuma speaking at the Game Awards 2023:
"It's interesting when I hear people say [they prefer the old entries] because I am wondering, 'Why do you want to go back to a type of game where you're more limited or more restricted in the types of things or ways you can play?' But I do understand that desire that we have for nostalgia, and so I can also understand it from that aspect."
https://www.ign.com/articles/zelda-...iew-nintendo-eiji-aonuma-hidemaro-fujibayashi
Aonuma doesn't get it either. Assumes it's only nostalgia, doesn't even try to think about WHY fans want the more linear experience.
Didn't write this response to Aonuma's quote, but thought it was a good post.
"That’s quite a clueless statement. It reeks of the same philosophy of the advent of 3D gaming and why anyone would prefer 2D when they can have 3D.
"Player agency has never been Zelda’s core appeal, a grand sense of adventure has. If they want to turn the franchise into a physics-based sandbox toy at the expense of marginalizing that sense of adventure, then attribute players’ desires for it to return to basic nostalgia (an incredibly reductionist viewpoint, IMO), then it’s obvious the game is in the hands of a current designer who holds no sense (or care) of the original spirit it was conceived in. I believe many fans of the franchise would be willing to sacrifice the freedom these sandboxes afford for that magical and wondrous feeling of progression through a more linear and structured framework, even if quite a bit more restrictive.
"Not everyone wants to play with a toy, they want to experience a journey. Unfortunately, that’s not the philosophy that Nintendo builds their games upon anymore."
I did beat Hyper Contender . The one on one platform fighter. I chose knife girl. The last boss is just a mirror match.
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Sadly that’s really lowballing completion time, unless the story can be skipped somehow.
It's been over 4 years since I played TLoU 2 before selling it off, but I remember thinking that it felt like one of those infamous Hollywood flops in terms of its pacing. Like the game had been given carte blanche to put every single scene concept into the game to show off the production values, no matter how meandering or indulgent they were in execution. Hence the looooooong riding sections in the beginning with Dina and Ellie, the eeeeeven loooooooooooooonger sections of slowly following chatterbox NPCs in a cutscene pretending to be gameplay, and an overindulgence of detail in every place, sometimes to the detriment of the gameplay (and definitely the devs' health). Nothing cut out, nothing trimmed, which makes for a slog of an experience.
Don't know where you are, but count the times characters will just be somewhere, or an area will just be safe, because the story demands it. That whole ludonarrative dissonance that Uncharted got criticized for... TLoU2 was like 'hold my beer'.
Clickers actually echo locate now, which is cool. Also a tip; just go prone when approaching a clicker from behind. You can just fully push the analog stick without risk of being heard that way.
