>>717874183
>I replayed the game recently and I'm puzzled how the two are compared.
It's purely because Nintendo themselves directly compared them with some little prototype mockup of botw in zelda 1's style and other allusions to it. So a bunch of people just latched on to that as botw "going back to its roots" and a bunch of those people never even played zelda 1 to begin with.

>>714257895
>Never been a focal point of Zelda
Bullshit.
And what had been a focal point of Zelda was a strong sense of progression and pacing.