Zelda is a snooze fest, same old, same old  with poorly implemented animation and the music for that trailer doesnt fit at all. However it is suitable for children

Horizon Zero Dawn is completely original story and gameplay, with most excellent graphics and looks like a game that most ages would  enjoy except for children where it is not suitable.

So if you are a child you dont have a choice, otherwise the choice is clear.

Town and animal density or "empty" aren't some dichotomy. There is plenty to do in Zelda's world from what we've seen in the treehouse. Exploration, combat, shrines, various difficulty of enemies, camps, etc. Just because it is more spaced out (which is made up for with transporation methods such as the glider , horseback, and climbing) does not mean it is empty.

I disagree that it is bad game design. Different games try to accomplish different things. An Action-Adventure needs to play with scale. It needs to contrast the less-interesting with the very interesting so that it motivates you to explore. From the five or so hours I've been watching the treehouse Zelda  does this, and does it well. You see something off in the distance and you want to go there. Then once you get there you get some action. That is the point of an action-advanture. RPGs play differently. While they can have exploration, that isn't their core. Their core is character development, story telling, lore building, and world-building. Entirely different things from Action-Adventures, and that is why comparing two games from these genres is silly. Horizon is a much better comparison, because it is also primarily an Action-Adventure game, but even then there are different goals (it is more action-oriented, while Zelda is more adventure oriented.)

I have also played all those open world games you mentioned, half of them get boring in a week, bue that's another story, the thing is I have played them and I still find this amazing, people trying to find things to dislike it was completely expected and If you haven't played a soingle Zelda game in your life then you know nothing about how extremelly polish, charming and fun to play they use to feel once you are actually playing it, you think you can know how good is a game just by the looks of it, but that is only a part of the extremelly superficial culture of gaming of today, where everything has to look like a cinematic generic blockbuster for teenagers to be cool.

then you are in the wrong thread and talking about the wrong games. 

space me your analysis of what is and isnt wrong with the industry, and your teenager comment is ironic, considering teenagers are a big target audience for zelda games

Of course there is stuff to do, I never said there wasn't. But, again, compared to other open world games it's pretty empty. You also act like this is the only game with more than one way to get around. Which certainly isn't the case.

The issue isn't just that there's a lot of space between things to do though. You could have a world with the same amount of open space, but if it's filled with a diverse array of scenery and life, it's going to be more interesting to travel through. From what we've seen so far, the open spaces in BotW are pretty baren. I'm watching a section of the Treehouse where he's running through woods, and even this is pretty empty. There are certainly more trees, but animal life is still pretty rare, and there isn't much in the way of underbrush. Things like that could make the spaces in between actual things to do more interesting.

I also didn't say Zelda had bad game design. Because it also doesn't have a realistic world. Like I said, you don't spend hours climbing mountains, you don't have to walk/ride for miles to reach objectives, you have to stop and sleep for several hours each day. I'm saying that game worlds are made to be enjoyable, not realistic, so saying that it's a bad thing to have a dense world because it isn't realistic is silly.

No they aren't really, that's the biggest issue Nintendo has ever have, they never catter to the teenage minded, wich is the biggest audience among gamers.

Of course there is stuff to do, I never said there wasn't. But, again, compared to other open world games it's pretty empty. You also act like this is the only game with more than one way to get around. Which certainly isn't the case.

The issue isn't just that there's a lot of space between things to do though. You could have a world with the same amount of open space, but if it's filled with a diverse array of scenery and life, it's going to be more interesting to travel through. From what we've seen so far, the open spaces in BotW are pretty baren. I'm watching a section of the Treehouse where he's running through woods, and even this is pretty empty. There are certainly more trees, but animal life is still pretty rare, and there isn't much in the way of underbrush. Things like that could make the spaces in between actual things to do more interesting.

I also didn't say Zelda had bad game design. Because it also doesn't have a realistic world. Like I said, you don't spend hours climbing mountains, you don't have to walk/ride for miles to reach objectives, you have to stop and sleep for several hours each day. I'm saying that game worlds are made to be enjoyable, not realistic, so saying that it's a bad thing to have a dense world because it isn't realistic is silly.