For those of us who loved the Nintendo Switch?s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the last two years have been rough. After completing the game?s stellar campaign, it was hard not to wonder what was next for the series and even the genre as a whole. As if they were listening to our most personal thoughts, Amplify Creations has a new experience that hopes to answer this question: Decay of Logos. Thematically picking up where Breath of the Wild left off, with a little bit of Souls-inspired shenanigans mixed in for agonizingly good measure, the game aspires to offer up the next great open world adventure worth exploring.
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Before we get too far into the review, I would like to offer up a bit of a sneak peek behind the curtain. At some point last week, we were informed that our review code for Decay of Logos was not only a hot glitchy mess, but for some reason it was a build from over two months ago. How a version of the game so ancient (in tech time, anyway) went out to critics is a bit beyond me, but gaffes like this do happen from time-to-time. Given that I was already facing a ton of difficulties with the initial broken build we were provided, I waited for their first major patch that was supposed to iron out a vast majority of the title?s issues. Spoiler alert: It didn?t. While the experience was slightly improved after the update, with malfunctions like texture pop-in becoming less prevalent and full-on game crashes being slightly diminished, t...