>>717979018
I preferred BOTW over TOTK but I wouldn't call Tears "slop". It's still a quality game, it just didn't really match the sky high expectations everyone had.

I think Nintendo spent too much time in R&D testing out stuff THEY thought was neat like the glue mechanic and the new powers instead of things that would resonate with the fanbase like a better narrative or more enemy variety. The Sky Islands are the big new advertised feature yet there's like three of them, meanwhile the shitty depths are absolutely gigantic, literally the size of the overworld.
Just odd priorities all around. No DLC is a shame too. I know the official reasoning but Nintendo could have done something like a playable Zelda campaign. Maybe they didn't because they knew that Age of Imprisonment was in the pipeline anyway.