Obviously it was amazing in a lot of ways. The new abilities are way more fun than BotW, the story is definitely stronger than BotW, the puzzle design is way better than BotW, the overworld design is much more interesting, there seems to me to be less useless filler. Someone who likes open worlds will want to explore every inch of this place because it is so well done.
It definitely has some flaws as well though. Weather is perhaps explained slightly better but still sucks. Rain and lightning especially are awful and add nothing to the game but frustration. Upgrading armor is a super important part of the game that is basically completely opaque. The questline required to fully upgrade your armor might as well require searching on the internet. There were a bunch of shrines that were "transport this crystal back to the shrine" quests that were sometimes fun but usually super tedious.
While the main land has been vastly improved, the added sky and depths areas are sorely lacking. The sky area is great at first until you realize that it is mostly the exact same area copy pasted about 10 times. The depths has some fun enemies / mini-bosses but is mostly a vast emptiness made worse by the annoying gloom mechanic and darkness requiring you to constantly throw or shoot little seeds to light up the way. Tediousness is not gameplay.
Some of the controls are weirdly clunky. Trying to run or jump while crouched doesn't work until you uncrouch. You have to run to put away your weapon otherwise the shield button does nothing. There are a bunch of times I can no longer remember when I thought things should work one way and worked another instead. Also, switching between powers was weirdly slow, I couldn't just push the power button and the direction and instantly get the new power. I had to hold the power button for a half second until the power menu came up and THEN I could point a direction to switch powers.
The open world does not do any favors to the progression of the story. Because you can do stuff in any order, they re-explain what is going on about 15 times. There is one long major cinematic that is repeated almost verbatim 4 times in the game. It is so identical it feels lazy. I did a series of quests to get a bunch of background story and that ended up being basically a waste of time because all the interesting bits were called out later about 5 more times in other story parts.
Overall, highly recommended but definitely flawed. If you like open world adventure games, it may be the best one ever made. If not, ymmv.
It definitely has some flaws as well though. Weather is perhaps explained slightly better but still sucks. Rain and lightning especially are awful and add nothing to the game but frustration. Upgrading armor is a super important part of the game that is basically completely opaque. The questline required to fully upgrade your armor might as well require searching on the internet. There were a bunch of shrines that were "transport this crystal back to the shrine" quests that were sometimes fun but usually super tedious.
While the main land has been vastly improved, the added sky and depths areas are sorely lacking. The sky area is great at first until you realize that it is mostly the exact same area copy pasted about 10 times. The depths has some fun enemies / mini-bosses but is mostly a vast emptiness made worse by the annoying gloom mechanic and darkness requiring you to constantly throw or shoot little seeds to light up the way. Tediousness is not gameplay.
Some of the controls are weirdly clunky. Trying to run or jump while crouched doesn't work until you uncrouch. You have to run to put away your weapon otherwise the shield button does nothing. There are a bunch of times I can no longer remember when I thought things should work one way and worked another instead. Also, switching between powers was weirdly slow, I couldn't just push the power button and the direction and instantly get the new power. I had to hold the power button for a half second until the power menu came up and THEN I could point a direction to switch powers.
The open world does not do any favors to the progression of the story. Because you can do stuff in any order, they re-explain what is going on about 15 times. There is one long major cinematic that is repeated almost verbatim 4 times in the game. It is so identical it feels lazy. I did a series of quests to get a bunch of background story and that ended up being basically a waste of time because all the interesting bits were called out later about 5 more times in other story parts.
Overall, highly recommended but definitely flawed. If you like open world adventure games, it may be the best one ever made. If not, ymmv.