Still playing Breath of the Wild

[conuly]

Also, incidentally, thinking about Ender's Game, some. At one point in the book, Ender breaks the unbeatable computer game by using lateral thinking and a surprising, even for Battle School, penchant for utterly unnecessary viciousness. Nobody had ever done this before or since, and unlike real world games this one doesn't merely glitch out, it ascends to a higher plane.

Back to Zelda, here's a YouTube video of somebody who has very determinedly gotten to Zora Domain without meeting the Zora prince - the devs anticipated that somebody might try this, and adapted the dialog to account for this improbable feat.

There are videos of people luring Hinoxes, not found near water, all the way out to water to see if they can swim (yes), of dragging Cuccos around so that monsters get swarmed by flocks, and of luring Bokoblins into disturbing maze traps. (Some of the people on the last group belong on some sort of watchlist, I swear.) People have patiently induced Guardians to fight Lynels, snuck weapons into a weaponless challenge, and generally done everything they could to break this game, as I'm sure they habitually try to break all games they play.

There is a lot you can say about Ender's Game, much of it critical. I think, however, that the most important takeaway here is that OSC clearly didn't know the sort of people who played video games.

Comments

[havocthecat]

Only sometimes. My first build was TERRIBLE. My second and third were worse. I hit a couple good strategies on four through six, and now I have a really nice one, but I might have to shift some points around now that I'm hitting the late 30s in levels.

I've never gone all the way through, though, to the top level. But they added an expansion after 10 years and I wanted to play through the whole game and then do the expansion!