I’m having divisive feelings on BotW, can someone enlighten me?

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Vini256 said:

sc94597 said:
Since everyone else answered the other questions I will answer about whether it feels like a Zelda game or not.

It feels more like TLoZ than any game in the series since the first. Having said that, the game is not a "typical western open-world game". The open-world design is different from the western style. The themes in the game, the lore, and the world all have strong TLoZ vibes.

The only way this game can be construed as a " not a true Zelda" title is if you've only played/enjoyed 3D Zelda games. It is much more like the 2D games, except 3D.

That's probably it, I vastly prefer the 3D ones to the 2D ones. The only 2D Zelda I've ever played was A Link Between Worlds, which was pretty good but also pretty easy.

Yeah, think about how ALBW focused on a nonlinear dungeon order (you chose which dungeons to do first) and puzzles, but more extremely pursuant to that, much more difficult, and in a 3D open-world. That is what this game is like. 

 

One thing to consider is that there is very little combat in this game's dungeons. All of the nitty-gritty combat is in the overworld. The dungeons are mostly puzzle focused, but they are a lot of fun and intricate, and they have story significance which I won't spoil.