[datruth29]

Outside of the first hour where you acquire the 4 relics the designers require you to have in the game, the game is all open world. You never have to complete a dungeon. You can go straight to the main boss of the game if you chose to.

That's a complete departure of the Zelda formula.

[kupiakos]

IIRC you can do the same in the original Zelda as well once you get the raft and bombs.

[tiglionabbit]

Which is why this game is about going back to its roots. All the way back to Zelda 1.