How can it be a western game if it is being developed by a japanese company?

Well, that's certainly different now.

Didn't Anouma said he took inspiration in western games for Breath of the Wild? The influence would definitively be palpable, then.

Do we now take every feature apart in a videogame and search for the origin to yell: "That's a blatant copy! Try to be more innovative!!

Nope, is an action-adventure with western rpg elements.

Only when is Nintendo, it was specially hilarious with Splatoon.

You made a thread like this before only to easily be swayed to a different opinion.

But I do share your concern... Sort of.

Japanese developers do not get open world games. They just dont. Even Hideo Kojima could not create an interesting open world setup leading to the only boring MGS in the series. Quite frankly, I dont think Nintendo is gonna pull it off because of their "we dont look at other games mantra" and just being old.

I dont even think FF15 is gonna pull it off. Open world is a western thing.

But Dragon's Dogma is one of the best games ever made, and it's both japanese and open world.

It's pretty obvious that Nintendo looked at a lot of western games.  Which, honestly, is good.  For a long time, it seemed like Nintendo's motto was that they weren't going to pay attention to anything else because they wanted to "do things their own way".  The best way is where you do what you want but you're also open to innovation that is happening elsewhere.  

The key is really the style.  If they keep the Zelda style, the elements that came from other sources should fit right in.

Do you really have to always play the victim?  Every single time someone says anything about Nintendo, even if the point is valid, you do this.  People talk trash about everything in gaming.  It's like dealing with the emo kid who very gently cuts their wrists because they believe they are the only ones with problems.

^ that is a good looking woman, and a nice tattoo :)

Zelda BotW is 90% Far Cry gameplay. It's not innovation but still a good thing.

It always mirrored the western RPG.