31-05-2023 12:45 via theguardian.com

Pushing Buttons: Why I don’t worry about ‘completing’ games

In this week’s newsletter: Exploring maps and finishing side quests isn’t wasting time – it’s making memoriesDon’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen the reviews for Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom went online earlier this month, I started to panic. Almost every critical reaction seemed to contain the same sentence: “I’ve been playing for 60 hours yet I’ve barely scratched the surface”. Like Breath of the Wild
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