I’m a completionist at heart, so to say I’m grateful to have a job where I get paid to play the heck out of my favorite games is a massive understatement. I landed my current role just before the launch of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of th🐬e Kingdom, and I read along excitedly as those with prelaunch codes explored this revamped Hyrule in the days before I could do it myself. When I finally booted the game up on launch day, I didn’t even make it off the Great Sky Island because I was busy questing for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the first set of in-game armor🍷 (and getting lost in the process) so I could write the guide on it AS🌱AP.
I was new in my role, and Tears of the Kingdom was performing expectedly well - I really wanted to knock this out of the park. And so, I bested 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:all 152 Shrines and then located their 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:correlated Lightroots before taking to the sky to find all the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Zonai Device Dispensers, too. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I found all the armor sets, and then I 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:upgraded them one by one. I braved the Depths for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bargainer Statues, trekked across the oversized overworld in search of all 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Stables, made every single dish 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in the recipe book, and even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:advertised for President Hudson in all 81 weird, remote locations. Addison, my guy, who exactly do you think will see a billboard on this random rock in the middle of the Hebra Mount💛ains?
൩ 𓆉 Tears Of The Kingdom Has Permanently Altered My Gaming Habits
I want to savour every second of a new Zelda game
But what I never did with Tears of the Kingdom was finish the game. According to my Switch, I spent 410 hours in Hyrule going here, there, and everywhere - except, that is, to Ganondorf. After almost two and a half real time weeks, by the ti🥀me I had finished all my guides, I was too OP to find any actual challenge in the game. Besides, Story of Seasons: 🐎A Wonderful Life was coming out, so I moved from Hyrule to the Forgotten Valley without ever beating the big bad.
Underpowered, And Happy To Be
It’s now been almost a year since Tears of the Kingdom launched, and my job has changed quite a lot since then. One of the things I do now is cover events, and both me and the folks from will be at Anime NYC in August. As I researched everyone’s work from outside the group in the hopes of sitting down with them at the con, smilin༺g as I recognized characters and titles from their resumes, I realized that I never saw Matthew Mercer’s name in the credits for TOTK because I never actually got to them.
So I began a new save, determined to grind only as much as I needed and finish the story once and for all. I still need the towers, some Shrines, and various armor - but not all of them. I don’t have to collect every single little thing there is in the game; I already did. Now, when I landed in Hyrule for a second time and Pyrrah told me to start 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:heading up to the Wind Temple, I beelined for Rito Village instead of meandering and going almost anywhere else like I did last year. I met Hestu on the way out, but I’m 🎐certainly not going to collect💧 as many Korok Seeds as I did before. Love your dance, buddy, but I won’t be seeing it so much this time around.
At the same time as I dove back into Tears of the Kingdom in my free time, I was also covering the most recent Stardew Valley update for work. We’ve got guides on almost everything else - trust me, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I made our directory for the game - but what we didn’t have when the update launched was information on how to do the game’s Joja Route. I’ve written more in-depth with my exp🎉erience in anot🌸her article, but it flipped the game I’ve known and loved totally on its head. Instead of completing all the Communit🧜y Center bundles in that game, I was in a race to make as much money as I could, no matter how I had to do it.
Changing How You Play Games Refreshes Those Old Faithful Titles
I’ve been a completionist since I was a kid, consistently pouring through printed game guides, con🦩sulting the glossy pages of magazines to ensure I got everything before approaching a game’s final boss. To be the one to write them nowadays feels like a privilege, of course, but it’s not exactly conducive to taking your time with a new title.
Forcing myself to change how I approached both Tears of the Kingdom and Stardew Valley, though, simultaneously made me appreciate them that much more. I love my job, but it’s not always possible to find time to stop and smell the roses in a game when there’s always another article to write, more data to consider, more screenshots to grab, more, more, more. Normally, given my lifelong drive to 100 percent the games I play, that’s perfectly fine by me - it’s💮 why I applied to write for TG in the first place.
Taking off the completionist goggles, though, refreshed my love for games which I worried had grown stale. They’re the first two titles I’m trying this with, but who knows? Maybe I’ll continue enjoying the occasional pause of just playing a game. No acဣhieve🌄ments to chase, no recordings to set, and no expectations other than that I just simply enjoy myself.
The End Of Tears 𝓡Of The Kingdom Is Everything Viღdeo Games Should Be
As a laid-back and generally unreactive pers🐼on, Tears of the Kingdom’s ending had me losing it.
