Because Breath of the Wild is on this list, I just want to let you know that it is my dad's favorite game of all time. He picked up a Switch last year and started playing it and fell completely in love with it. My dad is in his 70s and has pretty much exclusively played stuff like Tetris, Dr. Mario, with the occasional FPS thrown in. Medal of Honor: Frontline, the GameCube 007 games, and the Halo series are among his favorites. However, after he discovered RDR2, he wanted to play more modern titles, and so wanted to branch out into the Nintendo side of things. He struggled for a while with BotW. He loved the sense of exploration, but it's actually generally the difficulty curve of the game that i think he had the most trouble with. There was a whole history of 3rd-person action games he just never quite learned the language of! But he persevered, learned, and he loved the game so much that after he beat it (he and mom said he cried, something my dad does not do terribly frequently), he started it over again, saying "I know I could just continue where I left off...but I want to start over now that I know how to do it all better." To me, that's the magic of that game. It speaks to a primal "set my own goals in this game" that life tends to present you, allowing problem solving and planning to happen in a closed, but wide, environment. I hope you're able to "get" the game. Perseverance I think is the key. Keep at it, when you feel so inclined, and make sure to set your own extrinsic goals, because that makes the game maximally rewarding. Love the video, friend! I need to make one of these myself...

This was a great video. Loved hearing your thoughts on each game. I, too, dropped Sekiro. Twice. 😂 Also, Ni no Kuni II is amazing ❤

Oooooo! So excited about this one!!! Love that you are doing this!!! 🔥

Great video. I could never finish Tears of the Kingdom! I got maybe 25 hours in and just dropped it for some reason. Open world games can become very overwhelming to me because I want to do everything

Keep the dream of video responses alive my dude!

If you care about story, play BOTW. The story is pretty good considering the open world format. TOTK on the other hand is a mess in that regard, but it has interesting mechanics and a nice physics engine to play around, but it's a LOT more tedious and it's building system is quite limited. I think you should try completing BOTW, and if you LOVE it, maybe play TOTK for the building system until you get bored.

Second No No Kuni is way better imo. But I love the city building part and armies.

My dream for you to finish Sekiro dies with a good video. I can accept that lol for Zelda if lack of progression due to scale is the main issue I’d start with the first over Tears. Tears adds another bottom level which further spreads out your possibilities. Chunking out activities like lighting beacons or completing shrines is a great way to scale down the game into bit sized sessions

I asked myself the same question while playing Sekiro…am I even having fun? I definitely was not! Like you, I will never touch that game again which is a shame because I love From Soft titles. Great video!

I loved this! Sad you dropped Ni No Kuni, but it's all good!!! Love the old school video response though. Also, I am not a fan of the new Zelda format, it's WAY too daunting and intimidating. I much prefer the top down style so I'm looking forward to the new one in September!

Keep it og my dude . Love the video, i'm tired of ultra edited videos.

Love to see new Rusty videos pop up! I bounced off Ni No Kuni for similar reasons. It felt like a 10/10 RPG with a 5/10 battle system. I kinda felt like I was missing something so maybe giving it another chance is something I should do as well. A game i recently put down after several tries is Cyberpunk 2077. I tried picking it up again after the 2.0 update this year. I honestly feel overwhelmed by all the systems, menus and just overall stuff in the game. I know if i persevere it will click and ill end up loving the game but I don't know when ill be going back again. Looking forward to the next one!

Just came across your channel, like the vibe and the content - have subscribed 🙂Anyway, I dropped Skyrim after 10 hours. It really just wasn't doing it for me. Got to the first big city and did the first big part of the main quest but then... stopped. And never went back. Picked up Hades instead and became insanely addicted to that, meaning Skyrim had no chance... will I go back? Meh.

I took months to get used to BOTW, and then entire weeks to just grasp the game mechanics. My motivation was to make it story driven, to focus on the memories (I played in Spanish first time, then tried a second time in English). Then the beasts. An in both BOTW and TOTK, it is ok to try and see if we can bare the difficulty or prepare more. I spent so many hours preparing stuff like upgrades and potions, it turned out I over did the preparations for a bit. Also, please, play TOTK once you beat BOTW, personal recommendation as I love TLOZ, and still feel overwhelmed with both massive interconnected games.

Ni no kuni was such a chore to get through because i despise the battle mechanics too but the art and story was beautiful so i forced myself to finish it. Ive stayed away from the 2nd one but if it plays different like you mentioned maybe i shouid give it a shot! Also DNF breath of the wild too...

The 2 big games that everyone loves but I ended up dropping were Sonic Mania and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. With Sonic Mania, I loved the visuals, music, and the gameplay was pretty fun, except when it came to the save points. Some bosses were very hard and annoying to fight with only like 3 rings, and when I died the fact that I had to start the whole act over again if you ran out of lives is just dumb to me. I wish there was some way to create a save point and not have the lives system that resets back your entire progress! I just ended up dropping the game as a result. With Ocarina, everyone says it is one of the best Zelda games, and after my experience I think it hasn't aged all that well. Really, really slow start and it is extremely easy to get lost pursuing your objective. I got to the Goron village and didn't know where the hell I was supposed to go, so I dropped the game and was happy to be done with it. I was just frustrated because everyone praises this game to high heaven, and I walked away annoyed and frustrated with the game. I think it is dated and has issues that people just like to ignore for newer fans to the franchise. I got into Zelda by playing Breath of the Wild when it came out, my favorite game I've ever played. Since then, I've played Skyward Sword HD, Link's Awakening remake, and Tears of the Kingdom. I totally understand the people being angry that you didn't finish a Zelda game, I've done the same. While I'll probably never go back to OoT unless there is some major remake or something, I would encourage you to get back into Breath of the Wild. It is amazing and after having finished Tears of the Kingdom, I still think Breath of the Wild is a better game and will give you a more cohesive experience overall. Plus, if you finish Breath of the Wild and want to go back to Tears, it'll make you appreciate all of the new abilities and upgrades and the story context a lot more imo.

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I have been trying to find the right Souls/Souls-like game to get into. I’ve asked a few people about Sekiro and they all say it’s hella difficult…like hard hard. As cool as the premise is, I’ll respectfully leave that game alone. Days Gone was okay. I stuck with it and saw the credits roll. The pacing is all over the place and it’s way longer than what it should be but there was something about the monotony of the gameplay that just kept me going. Also kinda liked the narrative as well. I keep saying one of these days I’m going to get back to Ni No Kuni. I remember playing it a bit on the PS3 but never rolled the credits.

You’re daughter will finish Zelda BOTW before you ever do. 😂

I played Pokemon Moon, and while I was enjoying it to some extent (toucannon is one of the most fun pokemon I've ever had on a team) I just wasn't really into it after a while. I know generally where I left off, and I was having a lot of fun with it at the time, but something really made me put it down... and I think it might have been that I was just done with Pokemon. I just feel like it jumped the shark ages ago. I still like certain Pokemon, but really wish things could just be simpler with it. For example, I think a great direction Pokemon could go and hasn't is the cozy game direction. What would be more fun than a game about living alongside Pokemon out in the country, growing your own berries, vegetables, herbs, cooking with them, selling them; having Pokemon help you, catching Pokemon to help the other townspeople, even having an interactive element with other random players (or just keep it contained in the game like Rune Factory) with a "county fair" where you have your crops or dishes you've cooked or Pokemon judged... etc etc. That's what it would take to get me to come back to Pokemon, I think.

I played about the first hour of Pokemon Sun and then lost the charger to my console so I never picked it up again. But given that the franchise is on a downward slant, maybe it was a blessing from Arceus in disguise.

I am pretty sure the point of pkmn sun was to diverse from the repeating pattern and evil teams and take a step back so it’s fair you don’t like it

Dude i am a criminal for putting games down, so I definitely understand exactly where this video is coming from :) I loved Ni No Kuni I played it twice once on PS3 when it came out and again on PS4. Both times i put it down like 5 hours in and picked it up again like a month later and finished it. The slow combat is a fair critique tho

Breath of the Wild was very much a one and done for me. I did give Tears of the Kingdom a shot, but after putting roughly about 60 hours in. I became fatigued and never wanted to go back to it. This is probably due to the over saturation of both BOTW and TOTK's world. Between both games, not much has changed other than a few new mechanics and two new levels of that world that just weren't very interesting to me at all. The point is I was done looking at it and I was SUPER tired of the breaking mechanic and dying in one hit, no matter how many hearts I had...

Ni No Kuni, I felt the same way. I loved everything except the battle system and familiar fusion. Battle system felt so clunky. Me: "Esther, why are you doing physical attacks for 1 damage, summon your familiar, you moron." Manually switch to her and summon familiar and do decent damage...only for her to go right back to attacking for 1 damage. Sold it on PS3. I did pick it up again for PS4 super cheap and since I've always loved Level5 games, so I'll probably try it again.

Gotta agree with your first two picks! Even though I finished both of them, they're definitely my least favorite of their respective series. That said though... you gotta get back to Ni no Kuni! I believe that if you try hard enough, you can convince yourself to enjoy that combat! 😅😅 Great video buddy

I’m glad I’m not the only one to quit after the raging bull in sakiro 😂 I was punished to the point of no return to the game.

Wow, BotW hooked me pretty hard. Spent probably 120ish hours on that and about the same on TotK

I love this topic, we all have those games that didn't quite click or we just feel like we are missing something. I can't blame anyone for moving on from a modern FromSoft game. They are huge commitments that take time to really click with its combat and intricate systems. That brings me to Demon Souls (PS3), I remember I tried to give that many tries and would get a little further each time but always hit a roadblock that I didn't feel like overcoming. Maybe with the PS5 version I can change that... The Ni No Kuni pains me but also the die hard rpg fan in me actually gets why the combat might not appeal to everyone. It's pretty slow combat early on and that subtle disconnect of not directly controlling your familiar's and instead commanding them like pikmin is a very acquired taste. But the story is so endearing and heartwarming, music is stunning and the world design is lovely. I enjoyed Ni No Kuni 2 with its slightly slower paced "tales of" battle system and the world design was really strong still, but the story didn't leave as much of a impact and the kingdom building was not something that appealed too much to me, besides being a neat little diversion.

From those I would recommend going back to Ni No Kuni and Pokemon Sun (and the other 2 Pokemon games you skipped too). I'd suggest skipping BotW and going straight to Tears of the Kingdom, which is the better title and does not really require you to play BotW first.

I dropped Assassin' Creed Unity a few times but once I "got it" I was hooked. I literally just started Ocarina of Time again as I have dropped that so many times and always stopped at Jabu-Jabu's Belly, managed to get past that dungeon this and looking forward to the rest of the game.

My take on Breath of the Wild, and any game one is having a hard time picking back up: if you need to convince yourself to do so, then it’s not important to you now; play something else. My experience with BotW is that every shrine blended itself into repetition over and over again in order to even have enough stamina and heart; and my excuse was that I was going to have fun once I prepared myself enough; and it became this massive shore of boredom, for me… I dropped it before the fight with Ganon. It is a great game; it has great mechanics; the story is awesome, but this experience is not The Legend of Zelda for me.

The big one for me is Final Fantasy VII. I originally bought the game on PS3 and didnt get very far. I bought it again on Switch years later hoping that it would grab me the second time around and got out of Midgar but soon after I dropped it again. I really dont know why but I just can't seem to commit to it 😅 I've never really liked the look of PS1 games but I am by no means a graphics snob! Maybe I should just go for the remake when I eventually get a PS5 and the full release is out 🤔 Great video as always Rusty! Pokémon Sun was the worst IMO! Too many tutorials 🤦‍♀️

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Cuz you need to finish BOTW. That's the game that jump started me to get back into gaming. If you just do the main story/missions it doesnt take that long but knowing you you'll want to do all the side missions as well. Lol. I would finish BOTW before playing TOTK because of the story.

I’ve tried Sekiro but couldn’t get into it. I’ll stick with Elden Ring! Days Gone I tried and left it. It wasn’t really that interesting (finding gas was annoying but I get it, it’s an apocalypse) but I’m hoping to finish. I played BOTW back in 2017-2018 and stopped. I was determined to finish plus the dlc before TOTK. I finished it last year and I stopped playing TOTK because of being overwhelmed by everything lol. Got over 80 hours in. I’m almost done with the story but there’s so much to do and discover! I highly encourage you to finish the first one.

Pokémon legends arceus. I don't know why so many people were convinced that catching 40 bidoofs would be even remotely fun. It feels so weird seeing people praise that game so much when it's probably the least engaging open world game I've played.

The thing is though BotW isn’t a Witcher 3 or Persona 5, you can take the game at your own pace, that’s why it’s so great. I really encourage you to give it your full attention an just play for an hour or two.

There is no point to going back to Pokemon Sun. The game was rushed before it was able to be finished. I had the same problem you had when I started playing Pokemon sun and most of the game felt excrutiatingly slow and poorly paced. Then, Ultra Sun came out and it fixed A LOT of the issues, including an improvement of the Soundtrack, a WAY faster tutorial and included tons of missing content and post game. There is really no point in going back to Sun or Moon if you want the Alolan experience, just go right to Ultra versions.

Sun & Moon and their evolution games in Ultra Sun&Moon are actually great games if you can overlook the fact that there are no arenas. And those games are actually challenging if you are not overleveling like an idiot :D I mean X&Y whould be great games if the inlineskates weren't that annoying and the game actually being hard. But no gym has more than three Pkmn and the whole elite 4 has only 4 Pkmn each. At least the champ got a full team of 6 but all in all X&Y are the weakest games in the main line series. And i'm still upset because I'm sure an game Z could have solved those issues...

You don't parry the ogre tho :)😂

sorry, i cant vibe with anyone who dislikes pokemon sun and moon. those games were peak.