THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD
The great thing about Breath of the Wild is not just its attention to detail, but also how that attention to detail gets integrated into the core gameplay loop for the title itself. If you’re wearing metal armour in a thunderstorm, you attract electricity and are likelier to be hit with a lightning bolt. If you go into a cold area, you need to dress warm or you start losing health. If you make sure to take away all the weapons from a camp before attacking it, your enemies start panicking, and larger moblins may start picking up bokoblins and swinging them around wildly. Shoot wildlife with Fire Arrows, and the meat you get is already cooked. It’s little things like these that contribute to the game’s overall unbelievable sense of place. Other games have managed to pay more attention to a greater number of details, but nothing else has been able to make its attention to detail a meaningful part of its gameplay like Breath of the Wild has – just one more reason why the game still continues to captivate so many, almost three years after launch.
