rejj treefroggy something objectively good
It may help you with your mental struggles to first accept that this is in itself a falsehood.
the struggle is over. I bit the bullet and played video games. Playing SEGA Mega Drive snapped me out of it, and I can see clearly now. The issue was completely a personal motivation and instant-gratification monkey brain issue, that may have resulted from playing only modern games like botw for the past 6 months or so. Now I can separate what was just my weird feelings from the experience of playing the game.
I do think totk is as close as you can get to an objectively great technical achievement and good game, the things that pester me about it are still just as real, specifically lore stuff. But the gameplay loop is good. The motivation issues I was having were the same as one would have with any other game. Just to be clear.
My dominant trait is I’m all about the mood in games like this. BotW had great atmosphere. I came to TotK expecting a more trippy Majora’s Mask like experience, and what I actually got tripped me out from how unassuming it appeared on the surface. The mood of this game is slightly weird, in a way that just wasn’t clicking for me.
But I think I can definitively say now, that it is the Oracle of Ages/Seasons of BotW.
Those games are great, but have a lot of issues as a result of how awesomely experimental they were! The lore makes very little sense and doesn’t care, and I kind of respect that. It gets the job done.
To say the very least, the experience I’ve been having with Tears of the Kingdom is quite a journey, both in the game and out.
I refuse to be the type of person who doesn’t take responsibility and paints themselves as helpless in the face of enjoying video games.