>>46342260>>46342197It's a great game but it is overrated. It has many important flaws but most people tend to ignore them because everyone is so used to play games with a braindead mindset and just do quests with no substances in other RPGs nowadays, so give them something a little better and they pop off and say it's the best game in the world because they didn't know better for years now.
Still, the side content is for half of it uninspired or straight up lazy, and the main content is too short and could have been even more amazing if they expended on it. The Weapons system existed already in other games and have even been done better in older games like Dark Cloud. The open wolrd part too existed before in other games (we already had a Zelda game close to do the same in Wind Waker). So making it out to be a masterpiece which did things no other games did before is misleading and false.
It's a great game, it's up there as far as 3D Zelda games go. But with the technology they have access to now, they still were timid and acting safe compared to what they tried in the past. The only risk they took was on the open-world part of the game. BOTW2 might come out as even better if they flesh out the main and side content, and then it could really be called a masterpiece.
TLDR : It's a great Zelda game, it has inherent issues, everyone is doing open world just to blindly copy because of the hype and not to actually do it with care and love which makes these games just BOTW's bootlegs and not their own.