I am very much like you, OP, in that I have never actually played a Zelda game and I absolutely fell in love with Wither 3. Out of curiosity, I watched a good chunk of a BOTW Let's Play on Youtube. I suggest you do the same. The story is your basic "darkness has taken over and is about to engulf the world forever unless the hero of prophecy can defeat it" kind of thing, no surprises there. The landscape looks very nice (even though the graphics and artstyle aren't close to the Witcher) and the minimalistic music contributed to a nice atmosphere. The world gives you a little bit of those nice tingles that you want. However, there are things that don't work for me.
- Voice acting is there only for the most important bits. I've gotten so accustomed to fully voiced games, that reading silent bits of texts while talking to characters kind of bums me out
- Too cartoony for me. This goes for the art style as well as the combat. You can do colourful and yet "lifelike", these are not mutually exclusive things.
- Lack of mature themes and gore. Sorry, I just can't take a game seriously, if there's no grit and everything looks like it came out of an innocent baby unicorn's fart while it was dreaming. I get that this is a matter of taste and some people like their marshmallow worlds.
- The puzzles take you out of the world you're supposed to be immersed in. Visiting the shrines is like popping into an arcade in the middle of this fantasy adventure, it's just too stark a contrast and would break my suspension of disbelief. Think of Geralt slaughtering a band of thugs, then going to a tavern for a pint and a chat with a friend, maybe a nice game of cards as well, but then suddenly having to move some weird blocks around or using a gadget to freeze time and manipulate some arbitrary platforms that move on their own. Not good.
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