Open worlds should also be a lot more flexible in how to tackle quests. Breath of the wild has a lot of freedom yet some quests are still very fixated on the A->B->C->D structure. For example as soon as I got the Sheika slate upgraded in Hateno I went visiting some of the pictured locations I recognized for the memories. Doesn't work, Impa has to tell you first to go do that before anything happens. Same with quests that require the camera. The npcs simply ignore you until you first unlock it, then they somehow sense you have it and the exclamation mark appears. I wonder what I have missed while exploring for 80 hours without doing the start quests first.







