A lot of them have pretty similar loops as far as go to dungeon -> solve puzzles and do fights -> get item -> solve puzzles and beat boss with item -> repeat for every other dungeon, with some sidequests and collectable maguffins. I like them and I wouldn't say the recycling is as egregious as, say, the main Pokemon series, but it's there for sure.
They're all pretty different games?
A lot of them have pretty similar loops as far as go to dungeon -> solve puzzles and do fights -> get item -> solve puzzles and beat boss with item -> repeat for every other dungeon, with some sidequests and collectable maguffins. I like them and I wouldn't say the recycling is as egregious as, say, the main Pokemon series, but it's there for sure.
Yeah, definitely not super new games each time, but they still all build on that formula in their own ways.
There's also usually a minimum of two years between games, usually more. Sure that's a lot of games but they also came out over the course of 35 years
I think there's a difference between recycling and using a format.