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I picked up an OLED Switch and BoTW around Thanksgiving. At some point during my initial play through, I decided I was having enough fun to make me want to eventually 100% the game. As a result, I stopped trying to find all the shrines and korok seeds and decided to save it for my Master Mode play through.
I recently started my Master Mode play through and honestly I'm considering going back to normal. Nintendo seemed to have taken an extremely lazy approach to making the game more difficult. In doing so, Master Mode just makes the game more tedious. Specifically, the monsters self healing seems to actually limit how you go about killing monsters instead of making it more engaging and interesting. It seems like you have to play hyper aggressively to prevent the monsters from healing, which removes a lot of the creativity I was allowed when they didn't self heal. It becomes even more tedious when you take into consideration the weapon durability. I actually enjoyed the weapon durability during my initial play through as I thought it forced me to actually think about when to use what weapons where and made me have to use a wide range of weapons. It also makes it always exciting to pick up new items. In Master Mode though, a decent sized group of monsters can burn through pretty much all your weapons if you don't kill each monster in the most direct, aggresive manner possible.
I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll eventually 100% this on Normal vs Master Mode. I'm still slightly learning towards Master Mode since it does had some new sorta fun things like flying platforms and Gold Lynels. And honestly the normal mode is just too damn easy towards the end game. Really seemed like a missed opportunity by Nintendo make Master Mode really something special given how great the game is.
Curious what mode everyone preferred.
I recently started my Master Mode play through and honestly I'm considering going back to normal. Nintendo seemed to have taken an extremely lazy approach to making the game more difficult. In doing so, Master Mode just makes the game more tedious. Specifically, the monsters self healing seems to actually limit how you go about killing monsters instead of making it more engaging and interesting. It seems like you have to play hyper aggressively to prevent the monsters from healing, which removes a lot of the creativity I was allowed when they didn't self heal. It becomes even more tedious when you take into consideration the weapon durability. I actually enjoyed the weapon durability during my initial play through as I thought it forced me to actually think about when to use what weapons where and made me have to use a wide range of weapons. It also makes it always exciting to pick up new items. In Master Mode though, a decent sized group of monsters can burn through pretty much all your weapons if you don't kill each monster in the most direct, aggresive manner possible.
I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll eventually 100% this on Normal vs Master Mode. I'm still slightly learning towards Master Mode since it does had some new sorta fun things like flying platforms and Gold Lynels. And honestly the normal mode is just too damn easy towards the end game. Really seemed like a missed opportunity by Nintendo make Master Mode really something special given how great the game is.
Curious what mode everyone preferred.
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