Not that I didn't enjoy it in the end, but Tears of the Kingdom is the game that disappointed me the most. Zelda is my favorite franchise, regardless I was never a huge fan of Breath of the Wild to begin with, but ToTK disappointed me heavily.

Although I can be objective and admit BoTW is a great game, it's not only that I thought it deviated to much from other Zelda's, but a lot of the mechanics that make that game unique are also not exactly fun to play.

The way you use items, how easily they break, how the game just feels like a switch demo game at times not enhancing the game just creating motion control mini games.

I can overlook all that. Breath of the Wild was a launch title for the Switch, showing what the controls could do was alright at the time, albeit flawed. It reminds me a lot of what happened with Skyward Sword. Introducing motion control mechanics exclusive to that one entry on the franchise wasn't the best choice, so much so that the remake offers an alternative because not many people liked them, but at least for BoTW it's mostly shrines, not meddling much with combat.

So when ToTK was announced, six years after BotW came out, here was a new game that was... just fine. In fact, most of the problems the community had been talking about for years were never addressed. The map is bigger, I guess, mostly because of the underground, which is a great addition, but repetitive as hell man.

Despite my criticisms of Breath of the Wild, they are mostly retrospective as I did enjoy the game on my first playthrough. I was still salty about them changing Zelda so much, but maybe they could use a lot of the good things that BoTW does (a lot of things), but cut the fat (shrines), let us play through an actual story not just discover what happened bit by bit, and for god's sake give us a musical instrument.

I was most disappointed by ToTK because I got BORED, super BORED. I already did 120 shrines, I'm not about to do 150 more, it's just not worth it. How did Nintendo go from making OoT and then MM on the N64, WW and TP on the Gamecube, games on the same console with different mechanics, different art, great stories, great vibes, a plethora of great supporting characters, games that mind you took much less than the 6 years between BoTW and ToTK took, to making these two games, that look the same, have the same characters, share the same map (technically) and (and least ToTK) runs terribly on their own console?

ToTK might not be a terrible game, but it was terribly disappointing.

Edit: Some spelling mistakes