This solar system is locked in a time loop: every half hour or so the sun explodes and you're sent back to the start of the game again, but with everything you discovered still in your head and on your ship's computer. One of them lies at the heart of the game. Keeping track of it in my head would be impossible, but it's also the sort of problem that well-meaning UIs only make worse in their attempts to solve it. Outer Wilds is so close at times to being the best game I will never really play, because keeping track of all this stuff could be completely defeating.
Everywhere I land when I blast off to the stars in my little ship suggests thrilling mysteries, and while I suspect a lot of these individual mysteries will dovetail, it's still a lot to keep track of.Īnd that's the danger. You play as a member of a sort of cobbled-together space initiative exploring a clockwork solar system filled with dynamic forces and constant change.
Outer Wilds is already one of the greatest games I have ever played and I have no idea how far through it I am. Those pins narrow your focus, and make a huge landscape manageable.
There's only a handful of them to play with in Zelda, meaning that you have to really choose what you're going to aim for on the map, while the game also ensures that you can't become overwhelmed. Sometimes, as with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the difference is as small as waypoint pins. The difference between a good exploration game and a great one isn't always down to the quality of the landscape, the story, the stuff you're actually exploring.
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