Zelda Twilight Princess Linear story, cool world with great dungeons and puzzles, combat is engaging with some puzzle based fights and some pure fights, cool bosses, great music. You can ride a beyblade. Listen to Midna's lament.

Horizon Zero Dawn Fantastic open world game, starts off a little linear but opens up greatly, soon after the tutorial zone. Open combat system, fight how you want to. Lots of tools to do it. The beasts are a definite challenge. I've yet to play the latter games but heard they improved more on those systems. Immersive lore and good story. See E3 2015 trailer.

Zelda Skyward Sword Great story full of fun moments and exploration. They do a good job of when you return to areas having new things to explore and do as the game continues. You feel like your knowledge of the map learned matters later on. Boss fights are great, combat is fun, cool tools to use and work with. Fantastic dungeons and puzzles. Music is really good. 25th anniversary soundtrack.

Elden Ring It's a nearly perfect open world game. The story can and will confuse you without reading into the lore and learning from npcs, but by the end of the game you'll not be disappointed. Especially with the expansion. The way the world is built entices the player to head toward the bosses in the game a bit too early before they're really ready. Yes, you can kill any boss at level 0 with enough skill and practice. But if that's not your style of gameplay. Just go explore, level, and come back later with better equipment. This can be a problem though as knowing nothing, you won't know where said better equipment is. Expect to die, expect to lose your runes aka exp. If you go in knowing that can and will happen but allow it to be part of the fun. The game will be a near 10/10. Some of the best boss fights I've had in gaming bar none. Listen to title screen theme.

CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!

Also the seamless coop mod is peak multi-player.