Death's Door launched on Xbox yesterday and we absolutely love it. It's the first game that we've given a 10/10 rating to this year due to its perfect blend of multiple genres. It's also a game that is packed with cute, funny little moments, and players seem to unanimously be loving this one singular feature.
Out of everything in the game - the bosses, world design, and intricate puzzles - everyone seems to be obsessed with what happens when you slice a sign in half. Wondering around the world you'll see signposts pointing you towards different locations, which you can interact with for more information. Strike it with your sword and it cuts in half.
But what's so good about that, right? Well, interact with the sign again and it will only display the bottom half of the text since you've massacred it. You can even waltz on over to the chopped half to read the other part. It's a meaningless little inclusion, but players on Twitter and Reddit are falling over themselves about it.
Some players have said this is something they've "been waiting for Zelda games to do for years", while others are saying the clip alone has convinced them to buy the game. If you think this is impressive, then Death's Door is full of wonderful little moments like this, and we can't overstate enough just how special the whole game actually is.
Did you know about this feature in Death's Door? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com, via reddit.com]
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I'm playing the game currently and it's fantastic. I'm currently in the second dungeon, and I like how the game continues to impress me with its little details (cutting the sign in half), secrets and difficulty. Even in the first dungeon there is a fantastic secret that is very easy to miss because there appears to be nothing in the room, but if you look hard enough you'll see it and receive a nice magic charm upgrade.
@The_New_Butler I agree wholeheartedly. There is one secret in the first dungeon I want to discuss, but I don't want to post any spoilers. I just thought how it was setup was really neat.
Removed - unconstructive
@Nerdfather1 If you want to share things like that with other players who will know what you're talking about without spoiling it for people who haven't played it, you can put that part of your comment behind spoiler alert bars, like so:
hey! you actually clicked on the black bar!
(click on the black bar to reveal the text underneath)
@The_New_Butler I'm going to try to avoid spoiling it, but the one I'm thinking of involves a room with a bathtub. Is that the one you're thinking of, too?
I do agree with your take on the comparison to Zelda dungeons.
Hmm, I guess I’m going back to find that tub room secret!
@awp69 Let us know when you find it!
Yeah all the little details tightly packed into the layout of the maps is fantastic. First time I found a bush path to a seed I was very delighted. I was a little pessimistic about the difficulty but I enjoy that you aren’t heavily penalized for death. And things stay unlocked.
Thanks again for review of the game that pushed me over the edge to purchase the game. Also to the community here for showing lots of positivity for it too.
I’ve been thinking about this game all day and can’t wait to get home and play more.
How do I "constructively" express that I don't appreciate clickbait articles?
Just change the headline to something like "Death's Door Players Are Loving the Game's Close Attention to Detail" or "Death's Door Players Are Loving the Game's Neat Sign Chopping Mechanic" Boom. Done. No longer clickbait. Is that "constructive" enough?
Removed - flaming/arguing
@ThanosReXXX The headline purposely leaves out a detail to make you click on it to find out what that detail is, which is the definition of clickbait.
Also, I reported you for abusive behavior.
@Nerdfather1 Found it! Very clever indeed!
@everynowandben That person wasn’t being abusive. People are allowed to disagree with others and give reasons, and in this particular case, legitimate reasons why.
@awp69 Glad to hear you found it! After I discovered it I began to really start paying attention to my surroundings very thoroughly lol.
@everynowandben You shouldn’t have clicked it then. Lol.
@Nerdfather1 They name called and attacked me directly for voicing my opinion. The person could take their own advice and ignore me, but they chose to viciously lash out at their fellow community member.
Please don't encourage cyber-bullying.
@Nerdfather1 I clicked it to call out content I view as below the standard community members should expect from this site. People are allowed to not like things and voice their concern regarding quality control.
This is a wonderful game and certainly deserving of its 10/10 so far (on the second dungeon, the one with the Frog King).
The combat is amazing and so finely tuned that it puts a lot of other games to the sword for their slip ups.
Close to perfection.
@everynowandben best way to give feedback is via the contact form and talk to us directly.
However, on this one I think we'd simply disagree with your interpretation of clickbait. Our standpoint is that clickbait is a headline that is knowingly misleading and/or not representative of the article behind it. Just because the headline is interesting or entices you to click, isn't clickbait, unless it is misleading.
For obvious reasons we try to make our content appealing to click as we are competing against every other website, however, I don't believe we fall foul of any issues and our headlines are always accurate to the content behind them.
@everynowandben Good for you, completely adult behavior. Again, clickbait is not what you seem to think it is.
If this were clickbait, then the article should either be completely different from what the title mentions, making it misleading, or it should be non-informative, adding nothing to what was already mentioned in the title.
Neither of these apply here, ergo: no clickbait. Instead of posting criticism that is actually constructive, the first thing you did in this comment thread was to accuse the website and the author of the article of posting clickbait.
@Nerdfather1 Thanks for understanding. But having said that, I could have been a bit milder in my criticism, so my bad on that part.
Still, my criticism was definitely warranted.
@ThanosReXXX Google clickbait definition
click·bait
/ˈklikbāt/
noun
(on the internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.
@everynowandben by that definition every single article we publish is clickbait, as is every article on any news website.
@antdickens LOL can't argue with that
Edit: Honestly though I'd hope the "main purpose" of a news/enthusiast site would be to inform rather than simply to get people to click on links.
@everynowandben Seriously though, no offense, but now you're just being stubborn for the sake of it. You have two people (one of which actually being the site manager for this site and NintendoLife) explaining to you what the facts REALLY are, and still you're digging your heels into the sand.
It's perfectly fine if you don't agree with an article, but rather than dumping on it, why not simply forego the negativity, which adds absolutely NOTHING constructive, and only causes unnecessary irritation/annoyance?
Having an opinion is also perfectly fine, so you're welcome to it, but the same applies to that. If your only contribution is to post negative comments underneath articles or items that you don't like, then you're not really a positive addition to the site's community.
@everynowandben P.S.
You may have found the meaning of the word from the dictionary/the internet, but what we're talking about here, is the very definition of what constitutes clickbait, so without that context, we don't get the full picture.
And so, I quote:
"Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, with a defining characteristic of being deceptive, typically sensationalized or misleading.
A "teaser" aims to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers of news websites curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content. Click-bait headlines add an element of dishonesty, using enticements that do not accurately reflect the content being delivered.
The "-bait" part of the term makes an analogy with fishing, where a hook is disguised by an enticement (bait), presenting the impression to the fish that it is a desirable thing to swallow."
Clearly, none of that is going on here, as @antdickens has also already explained.
Anyways, that's all I have to say about it. I bid you a good evening.
@everynowandben we can’t fit all the information from an article into the headline, hence people need to click and read the full article to get the full context. The headline is always a condensed version, as a summary, for the reader to decide if they want to read the full thing.
As above, clickbait is more commonly associated with deception. This isn’t what we’re doing. Every piece of media you consume is designed to encourage you past the headline, otherwise you’ll probably end up with half the story/context.
@antdickens I made suggestions as to what possible headline length summaries for this might look like. The headline here is purposely not a summary. The goal of the headline of this article is not to inform, but to force people to click on the link. That's clickbait.
@everynowandben we’ll have to agree to disagree on this then.
@antdickens Fair enough. Thank you for listening/interacting. I'll go through the proper channels if I ever feel compelled to voice concern going forward. Thanks, again.
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