The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/YMMV

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• Americans Hate Tingle: Invoked. The Trope Namer doesn't appear, but in the DLC, Link can gain the Tingle Set as a Joke Item. Its only real benefit is that it increases walking speed at night, but it has horrible defense, and NPCs will be noticeably frightened if Link talks to them while wearing it.
• Awesome Bosses: Monk Maz Koshia, the Final Boss of the Champions Ballad DLC. Yeah, first of all, the very revelation that you have to fight a Sheikah monk hits most players as a shock, as most of them do nothing except sit in their Shrines and give Link instructions on how to complete their Trials. Then you find out just what this guy is capable of. In effect, he is a Final Exam Boss, his attacks and abilities reminiscent of other enemies you fought previously, including the Yiga Footsoldiers, Yiga Blademasters, Thunderblight Ganon, Master Kohga, Hinoxes, and the Guardians, but also has a few tricks of his own like creating multiple copies of himself. Yeah, you truly want a challenge, this is the guy.
• Broken Base: Many players were upset that Zelda was given a voice for this game; others didn't mind so much.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Bomb arrows + Exploding Barrels = Entire Bokoblin settlement destroyed. Lots of Catharsis.
  • Once you complete the goal at Eventide Island, you can go back and wreck revenge against the mobs that kept smashing you - including that Hinox - with your real weapons. You don't have to, but it's SO satisfying.
  • When you finally get the Thunder Helm, lighting is No Sell against Link, and it's extremely satisfying to simply stroll untouched through one of the thunderstorms that had previously OTKed him.
  • When you start the game, Guardians are nearly indestructible and unbeatable juggernauts of death. When you finally gain the weapons you need to blow them into spare parts, it just oozes Catharsis.
  • Slaying a Lynel. These mini-bosses are hard, with a wide variety of attacks, can do ridiculous amounts of damage, and look pretty awesome to boot. A battle against one of them will likely be long and hard, and winning feels very rewarding.
• Hype Backlash: Arguably gaming's ultimate example, due to a very unfortunate combination of its nearly unanimous "10 out of 10" magazine review scores and the infamous "Skyrim with a Zelda skin" stigma that it clearly is plagued by.
  • And that's not even mentioning how much controversy was stirred up by the game's numerous incredibly massive changes to the "formula" that Ocarina of Time had previously served as for the Zelda franchise...
• One-Scene Wonder: Magda, aka the "crazy flower lady". Quite a lot of Memetic Mutation with her like this one.
• Scrappy Mechanic: While most players don't have an issue with the game's realistic environmental effects, the rain is their biggest beef. You need Link to climb a mountain, a tower, or a wall, and and he's like Spider-Man until it starts to rain and he slips and falls. Even worse, waiting the rain out is a problem, seeing as the only way to suppress time is using a campfire, which you can't start very easily if it's raining. Yeah, rain is pretty annoying.