for people who really just wanted more of BOTW in all the good and bad ways. all of BOTW's issues still exist in TOTK, including the janky combat and hysterical UI. this time i actually feel like the UI issues were worse because i was really in there for about half the game just endlessly scrolling through shit i could attach to my arrows. all my favorite parts of the game were, once again, the mindless exploration parts, but how much more of this kind of zelda game can we really take before i finally turn into the joker?

re: story: TOTK's story was comically weak and the ending was a major letdown. the game spent nearabout its entire runtime setting up a genuinely moving, gorgeous tragedy that could've completely upended the series' storytelling reputation and become a story that haunted me into the rest of my life the way earlier games do for so many of us. you also can't spend an entire game building up the tragedy that zelda can't be returned to her time and true form, then flat-out tell us that is the case, and then do some whack-ass cop-out at the end that is summed up as "unexplained ghost magic just cuz :3"