A lot of people seem to feel that TotK is so much better than BotW, in so many ways, that playing BotW any more would feel almost pointless.
While I can understand that, TotK is truly amazing in almost every way, I find myself missing BotW.
I miss that desolate feeling, the Guardian induced anxiety, and the difficulty of a lot of BotW that I feel is missing from TotK.
BotW and TotK are the 2 sides of a single coin, neither complete without the other.
I’m already looking forward to another playthrough of both games! (only 68% so far on TotK still!)
TotK is definitely fun and interesting, and I love tinkering around with the various contraptions, buuuut … it’s just not the same as BotW. I’m a huge fan of medieval/fantasy games in general, but TotK kinda doesn’t fit into this genre for me.
There is Zonai tech in every corner, you constantly need to glue things together to build hovercrafts and airplanes and whatnot, then you fuse a giant longsword onto a dagger to make a 1H weapon out of it, strap a rocket to your shield and swim through the ceiling and drive over a Bokoblin in your private little tank … It just doesn’t feel like a medieval fantasy/adventure world anymore. More like a mod or a Zelda skin for a non-Zelda game.
BotW might have less features but feels a lot more immersive to me. I can get mentally lost in that world for hours on end without thinking about it as a game, completely forgetting for a while that the real world even exists. In TotK, that hasn’t happened to me yet. It’s still fun, don’t get me wrong; but it isn’t half as immersive as BotW.
I completely see what you mean! I went straight from BotW to TotK and thought it kind of felt like I was using mods.