It’s not limited to those two, it’s very common, generally the norm, not having a postgame state when the stakes are too high. You’ve got two choices :
let the player come back to it after you beat the big bad, so you have to create new interactions to try and reflect that, and not change the world significantly so all the stuff that’s left to do is still available and makes sense. It often feels like saving the world achieved nothing.
show in the ending that the player actually achieved something big, to the point coming back after it would not be the same game, basically.
How would you explain returning to BotW after killing the source of all shit and still having hostile guardians and blood moons resurrecting monsters?
He’s not supposed to be still there. He is, but we can’t know that until TotK, and blood moons had stopped until he was reawakened.
If you just take BotW as a whole, you’ve saved the world.
I hated how original Xenoblade X (I haven’t finished the switch remake yet, so not sure about it) had a “fake ending” that didn’t solve anything, and didn’t even explain why shit was still going on, just so the game could continue indefinitely.
Or return to the save point just before the final boss fight.
Looking at you, BotW and TotK.
It’s not limited to those two, it’s very common, generally the norm, not having a postgame state when the stakes are too high. You’ve got two choices :
let the player come back to it after you beat the big bad, so you have to create new interactions to try and reflect that, and not change the world significantly so all the stuff that’s left to do is still available and makes sense. It often feels like saving the world achieved nothing.
show in the ending that the player actually achieved something big, to the point coming back after it would not be the same game, basically.
How would you explain returning to BotW after killing the source of all shit and still having hostile guardians and blood moons resurrecting monsters?
Ganon is still down there. Have Purah and Robbie be really confused about it. “Why didn’t all this stop? It’s almost like Ganon is still alive?”
He’s not supposed to be still there. He is, but we can’t know that until TotK, and blood moons had stopped until he was reawakened.
If you just take BotW as a whole, you’ve saved the world.
I hated how original Xenoblade X (I haven’t finished the switch remake yet, so not sure about it) had a “fake ending” that didn’t solve anything, and didn’t even explain why shit was still going on, just so the game could continue indefinitely.
Calamity Ganon doesn’t look like the Ganon in the historical records (other games), and Link already fought his remote control minions four times.
are you fucking kidding me? I’m finally getting around to properly playing BOTW and I assumed you could continue the open world post end game.