>>713011678Not just the lore of the entire Zelda series but also to the game that TotK is supposed to be a DIRECT sequel to. A lot of the people who hate TotK are the ones who played and liked BotW.
The problem is that Tears of the Kingdom tries to leave almost everything relating to Breath of the Wild off the table, so that people still have a reason to go back and buy it. So even though the two games two stories should logically be closely tied to each other, Tears of the Kingdom likes to pretend that they really aren't.
This hurts the story more than anything else, because it kind of forces the writers to tackle things with one armed tied behind their back. For example, it's kind of hard for say, Tulin to have a particularly deep character exploration when he's not allowed to talk about his father or anything relating to BotW besides one blink and you miss it blurb about what happened. The same thing applies to the other Sages as well, at least for the most part.
There's more they could've done with the story, if they were allowed to treat it like a proper continuation of Breath of the Wild. Instead, they're desperately trying to make it into its own independent story that just so happens to share a setting.
