This is the absolute peak of the Metroidvania genre, an unbelievably polished monster of a game. I am a huge Metroid fan and didn’t think this would top those games but it just does everything so incredibly well. The combat, the exploration, the boss fights, it’s just so satisfying to play. I don’t usually replay games and I’ve gone through this three times so that speaks for itself, you have to play this game!

Heard good things about this and a lot of the praise I would agree with, it has all the charm you expect from a Zelda title and the gameplay is mostly solid. There were a couple of things I didn’t click with though, being able to rent all the items takes away the excitement of dungeon crawling and finding your next new toy and I wasn’t a huge fan of the “painting” mechanic. Despite this I still enjoyed my return to this version of Hyrule and was glad to tick it off my list.