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Kai_Mao on 23 January 2019
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curl-6 said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

I think the good news is that the bones of Breath of the Wild are so great that simply layering on new stories, characters, maps, and dungeons will probably be sufficient to turn out another masterpiece.

The bad news is that the novelty and the sense of discovery of Breath of the Wild will probably be difficulty to recreate in a sequel. We might have to wait another 20 years for something as momentous as BoTW.

That's the thing though, I can easily see how they can improve the formula established by BOTW to do a game that "more of the same but better", but such a game won't evoke as much of a wow factor as BOTW did cos it won't be as revolutionary. Not that a game needs to be revolutionary to be great, but I think that almost no matter what they do with the sequel, it will never receive quite the same sky-high acclaim as BOTW.

This is part of what makes the next Zelda interesting. Like Majora's Mask before it, the next Zelda will have the expectations built from being the follow-up to BoTW, let alone just being the next Zelda game in general. I guess, as some have said here, because of how BoTW was formatted, it allows more wiggle room for the next game to grow onto its own because there's an opportunity to explore deeper into the concepts BoTW built and add in new concepts that the devs have in mind at this time.