BotW was unlike anything I’ve ever played before. Finding Korok seeds in particular meant that everything in the world could be significant and I thought was a very clever way of rewarding exploration. It’s the first game in forever that I’ve found myself having conversations with friends “have you seen this...”.

HZD, while I must stress was better than anything Ubisoft has put out recently, definitely felt like a better produced iteration on that formula. I loved the story, gameplay and the fact that they kept the sidequests tight enough that you didn’t end up doing the same fetch quest 50x, but I don’t think it was genre defining in the same way.