Seemed like another fresh experience after Majora's Mask, but it can't carry the mantle and it broke down for me.

It still carries a lot of the lackluster QoL of former games, but respectfully those games did so much to make up for it. This isn't the case here. Sailing the great sea sounded much better than it is. I thought getting the teleportation melody would solve it, but still I had to endure a lot of just stale beelining, sailing right through enemies without a second thought. I caught the habit of using the emulator's turbo and still it got painfully boring.

Combat is identical for the most part to older titles, dungeon design learned a few new tricks, but they're far and few to hold it together. Quests feel samey and less memorable than Ocarina or Majora, which are huge boots to fill but that's the toll of being a mainline Zelda game.

In a vacuum it isn't bad at all, but it's disappointing to me as a Zelda sequel.