Tons of positive reviews for Tears of the Kingdom have come out, favorably comparing it to BotW. But, I haven't seen much said on improving over BotW, other than 'it has more stuff'.
I know the simple solution is 'just pirate it and try it out', which, yeah, I might do eventually when I have time, but I've emulated enough to know that it's not always super easy to get everything working right.
Regardless, I felt that BotW was too big and aimless, with an open world that felt empty. The people that like BotW seem to 'make their own fun', and use physics to solve open ended problems. Which, sounds fun, but my fun was kinda killed by the feeling that nothing had a point. I just felt like most of the 'rewards' were just weapons that would break (which, I don't even mind weapon durability, but it did make weapons as a reward suck), or collectables that had minimal impact on the game. Only a few set pieces did much for me, and they were very few and far between. Overall, played about a dozen hours, then went and killed Ganon, to little fanfare.
And, if Tears of the Kingdom is strictly BotW 2, I'd rather not 'waste' another 12 hours. But, I've heard some people say they added dungeons, and more direction to the game. Any opinions from you all?
Yeah, I suppose that makes sense. I get why people who liked 3D zeldas would be disappointed with it spelled out like that.
And yeah my biggest complaint going from 2D -> 3D is that the 3D games always felt slower and more linear to me. Windwaker was one of the few ones I liked. I know the "freedom" in a 2D zelda is mostly a mirage, but it had a sense of exploration that I just never got out of any of the other 3D zeldas. That's just me though, I accept that I'm weird. I know people love Ocarina and Twilight Princess, they just aren't for me.
i totally get you! i love most of the 2D games and also had so much fun in BotW but i could never get through the old 3D games like Ocarina without tiring