[thom]

It’s not really like other Zelda games, nor really an RPG. It gives you lots of freedom and bodily autonomy, but personally I found it very hard to piece together an interesting experience out of the (admittedly very flexible) constituent parts. It’s an extremely good physical simulation of a world I struggled to care one iota about, and there were so few ways to express yourself as a character that you can’t really tell your own story in your head. I sometimes feel similarly about the Assassin’s Creed games - what a lovely engine, that gives you this unique feeling of freedom even within a huge, teeming city, but I wish somebody would make a different game with it. I don’t think you’d enjoy it coming from western RPGs, with slightly meatier worlds and a more developed sense of self. It’s more like Minecraft, if anything.