I mean, really, what is it about this game that people go crazy about? In terms of Zelda, there are more in-depth epics told and in terms of open-world games, there are way more immersive. The incredible music and cutscenes you hear are about 30 minutes collectively of the whole experience. You find these beautiful or horrifying memories scattered few and far between over dozens of hours for only a few minutes. The iconic music in-game is almost completely missing until the last stretch. Even then, its not that great. Its just incredibly jarring to hear something besides the discordant keys of an enemy nearby or plain, ambient nature sounds. And the puzzles and dungeons WTF happened??! There are maybe 125 shrines to unlock, ALL of which have the same environment skin, so be prepared to look at the same shit over and over and over again. And as for the "dungeons", there are only four Divine beasts in the game, and they look very similar on the inside and so do their bosses!

Cooking was cool, but be prepared to memorize recipes 'cause theres no log. Going anywhere is cool, but its mostly empty space and some korok seeds. It's not like Skyrim where you go from A to B and get 12 sidequests and explore caves along the way. It's not like the Witcher 3 where even the most mundane side quest is part of a greater whole.

You get all the important tools at the beginning, so theres no new gameplay elements to look forward to. Sure, you can interact with every tree and, rock, but it's 1000x easier to run up to an enemy and smack them rather than dick around with a tree for 10 minutes. MGSV has more versatility options, Witcher 3 has quests and combat over it, Skyrim has the density, Elden Ring has all of it, so what does this REALLY have? The brand? I don't fucking get it.