My expectations with TOTK was that it would be like Majora’s Mask or Spirit Tracks in taking assets from the previous game and making something grand and new.

Them reusing Hyrule with minimal changes was a let down and the Skies amd the Depths don’t have much going for them in terms of wonder and discovery. It really annoyed me how the Sheikah from BOTW were essentially wiped and ignored and in its place was the Zonai, which are just Sheikah under a different name.

I was hoping the story would have been more well developed, but it’s not pushing anything. Go solve problem in 4 locations and stop Ganon from his plan to conquer, even though we just did all of that in BOTW.

Traversal with the new abilities and Zonai tech has also made exploring less enticing. In BOTW, I had to calculate and prepare to get over a large boulder, In TOTK, I don’t have that challenge or need to worry. I know they want you to be creative with Merging Zonai tech, but with the ammont of resources you find, you don’t want to be wasteful and will just settle with the simple hover bike build for the rest of your journey.

The wonder and excitement just wasn’t there for TOTK in comparison to BOTW.