>>719161272
>BotW's greatest transgression was making the full critical path available as soon as you leave the Great Plateau. That IMMEDIATELY relegates the rest of the game to "make your own fun".
No it doesn't you chuckle fuck retard. It opens the game to being a actual adventure.
You "can" just head straight to the final boss but it's mist likely you will get fucking annihilated before getting anywhere near the castle.
So the game then becomes about the player preparing for this confrontation. Which means no linearity, no gatekeeping, no mandatory on-rails story based trigger points.
Just the player vs the world. And they can save when they - not the game - decides to.
This was next-level shit in 2017 and still baffles the fuck out of developers in 2025.