This is going to be a wait and see for me. Been waiting for a new 2D Zelda for the entire Switch life cycle, and this looks awesome...except it's entirely passive action. Love the gameplay mechanic, except for the fact that they took away the actual fighting.
Not sure how fun just playing entirely passively will be. I don't want to place an enemy down and then just sit back watching it. If they did this whole mechanic AND you still fought that would be marvelous. But if its just passive action I'll probably pass on this. Too bad, soooo close to looking like an great new addition to Zelda, but they took away action with this new gameplay mechanic thus turning it into more of a gimmick than a cool new thing to add to the game. Feels like a typical Nintendo decision, come up with something cool but instead of just adding it on to the formula they actually replace the already fun stuff with it. This mechanic should be an addition, not the whole gameplay.
Very unfortunate, but for people who don't mind passive action this should be a great game. I was very excited until I realized the mechanic wasn't simply an add-on but instead they entirely got rid of fighting.