What happened here? This honestly feels like it should be the entry between 3 and Reverie. Just so much bloat and new mechanics that don't even sound fun on paper. The pixel art can be nice but generally feels kind of cheap? Completely unlike the charming and atmospheric art in Reverie. Pretty disappointing. I hope the dev can work on something they are more passionate about in the future because you can really feel the lack of it here.

So far, I would say that if you haven't played Breath of the Wild, you should skip it and just play this one. However, if you have played a lot of that one, I think this isn't really worth getting. The changes they added are not interesting / in depth enough to play through the whole map again, in my opinion. The new areas to explore also seem lower effort than the surface map. I'll try to have a more detailed review later.

got so bored with it that I immediately opted for the alternate ending instead of doing the last island

Wow this communism stuff is really scary I guess. 😨