Definitely a step up from Botw, I felt like BOTW was one of those games where you can play for about 100 hours and after that theres no replayability, but with the abilities and how much more explorable Hyrule, the depths, and somewhat the sky islands are, I can easily say this game is one of the best games I have easily played this year, I really wasn’t interested in the story that much but I did like how everything Link did felt important to get to the climax of the game. Also the first two phases of the ganondorf fights were sick as hell. The shrines were still braindead, but honestly thats mostly because of how many options you can make just solving them with all the resources you have on hand, and I was glad the dungeons returned but none of them really were fun to me, except maybe the lightning temple. Nonetheless, I can’t wait for future DLC.