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LinkPizza posted...

I thought of ALBW But the difference is that world wasnt open You needed items to get to a lot places

It's not truly open, but it does offer a similar degree of freedom while preserving the item-based progression that has characterized the Zelda series for so much of its existence. Balancing freedom with meaningful progression is always a bit tricky, and BotW leaned a little too far in the freedom direction, I found. Past the Plateau, nothing new you found ever really enabled anything you couldn't already have done some other way, aside from a couple specific examples (like the gerudo disguise letting you into the town). The extent of progression there was pretty much limited to "now I have enough stamina to climb this cliff," which doesn't exactly feel exciting. TotK does a bit more in that regard by letting you find new devices to use, even if you can already solve most of the problems those devices might help with by sticking more logs together or abusing Ultrahand+Recall, so that's nice, but it's still a very different experience from, say, Adult Link the first time he walks out of the Temple of Time in OoT and Adult Link walking into Ganon's Castle.