Game Compare

Ib is a role-playing 2D videogame that involves mystery, horror, and various canvasses of art that the player can step into. Made in RPG Maker 2000 in 2012, this game helped spawned the beginning of many horror RPG games over the years. In the story of the game, you play as a little girl visiting a museum with her parents where she gets separated along the way to end up in a netherworld of a darker version of the museum. Soon the girl befriends another character also trapped in the same dimension, where they team up to explore the parts of the shadow realm to find a way to escape and return back to the museum.

Now let's look into another game --- Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild. This is a 3D videogame that involves the player to go on on a series of quests to reach the objective on their own terms and at their own time. With an massively large open-environment like BOTW, you can find yourself completing tasks in the game using the Nintendo Switch controller. You do activities in the game such as dressing up in the game's fantasy outfits you paid or traded for with other NPCs( non-playing characters spawned in the game to help the player navigate through the game), cook various types of food that you harvested and hunted, and fight using weapons you fought for or obtained through the course of your game play.

Between the two games, BOTW focuses on completing the story's objective more relaxed than the other, while Ib is more plot heavy given the game's mechanics. They both explore a vast unknown environment with companions to help guide them through it, as well as collect items to help them in their journey. However, given the genres between the both of them, BOTW is a light-hearted fantasy game while Ib is a psychological horror game with elements of fantasy. Ib is seen as a game where the environment can be claustrophobic overtime as the game's overall tone becomes darker and darker. BoTW becomes more and more open as the player continues to explore, partaking in happier pastimes such as fishing, trading, sailing, hunting, and more. Ib, however, is you as the player escaping the monstrosities lurking around the corners of the haunted version of the museum you once traveled in. Due to these sharp distinctions in tone, it can affect the gameplay quite heavily as both of the player's journeys still concentrate on the end objective to finishing the plot to win.

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