For starters, I haven’t played BOTW. I’m in the camp that it isn’t a Zelda game as they were known before BOTW. I feel like Nintendo “fixed” so many things that weren’t broken in their attempts to continually innovate the franchise. Do masses of people still love BOTW for various reasons? Well sure. But it is not what most Zelda fans know as a Zelda game. And TOTK seems to basically a rehash of BOTW’s map except they changed some topographical things and added a bunch of floating islands.

I’m one of the Zelda fans who found Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess to be the perfect Zelda substrate. Will Nintendo ever go back to this approach for new titles, or are we pretty much stuck in this new “open world, breakable weapons, have to find/eat food, no dungeons” paradigm that Nintendo seems to have borrowed from other games that go that route?