Imagine if PayDay and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom had a baby with a voxel and fully destructible world and a campaign where you get paid by some millionaires to vandalize each other while a cop blackmails you into getting evidence to jail them. Yeah something like that.
The campaign (and expansions) is extremelly addictive. The whole concept of "you have to do X in one minute, but you can change the map beforehand however you like it so you make it in time" is extremely powerful. Some specific levels (like demolishing stuff or the levels where you can kill robots) are really fun to play.
As a minus, this game seriously lack a multiplayer mode and some way of procedural generation for missions. I can't imagine the time I would waste on playing this if you could beat random missions in coop.

Kinda short compared to other 3D Zelda titles. The general pacing is light, and the Ganon fight is really cool, but the Triforce pieces shenanigans was really unnecessary. Another dungeon (you have earth and wind, so why not a sea temple?) would've been much better.
The sea stuff felt really slow in general, you unlock fast travel practically in the midpoint of the playthrough and the fast sail, which is almost mandatory to not go insane, is bought at the auction house that I didn't even know it existed because the game doesn't give you any indication about it. So yeah, I prefer the Phantom Hourglass or Skyward Sword travelling systems over the one from this game.
A couple of other items (ghost ship chart and the cavana papers) are also very difficult to come by unless you were 100%ing the game. I don't mind to search the wiki if I want to look for concrete stuff like getting all bottles or bag upgrades, but being forced to do it to advance the story seems wild to me.
Also, WHY DID THEY WHITEWASH ZELDA WHEN SHE GETS THE DRESS?

Yeah so I saw many people being like "oh you like the Zero Escape saga? You should try these games too, they're from the same author!" And then you have a story about some guys conducting a psychology experiment to detect some god-complex schizophrenia syndrome that makes you inmortal, cures all illness or allows you to warp reallity and time travel (I wish this was satire).
The best part is that the game takes the form of a romantic visual novel, so you have to time travel your way into romancing 4 different girls before unlocking the true "curé" ending (in which they explain all of this, because anyone would think that the time travel shenanigans is an excuse to allow the MC to kiss random anime girls and not a plot-relevant thing, but yeah after like 20 hours the game actually turns into sci-fi).
At the very least, someone made a complete diagram to unlock all different endings that ressembles an eldritch entity not because they did a sloppy job, but because the game has so many random flags that it is chaotic to follow all of them.
I want to cut the man some slack because it's the first game of this saga and come on, this was made in 2000, the OST is glitched and I had to play this on 600x600 sure, but how on Earth did this guy write all the shit that happens in VLR but before that he made this monstruosity of a visual novel? Who knows, but the next games in the saga have much higher scores so I guess I'll eventually play them after I recover from this one.

It is really adicting, but has its flaws. Once you get to play for a while, you will have no idea what's going on because you can't check additional information about the production or consumption of stuff. There is a "nerd mode", but it's not clear or helpful. There's also no indication about how many resources each machine can process or in which order, which makes the complicated recipes feel overwhelming.
As a roguelike, I think there's some balance between really niche cards and generally good cards, but the card system is stupid. The cards get consumed when you use them, so there is not a deck in a classical way, which defeats the whole purpose of using cards. In these kind of games, you rarely need to get a certain card more than once or twice for assembling a synergy and you can control the number of cards (by not adding them or removing old cards), but here you either get lucky and roll the specific cards you need everytime, you play a bit of everything and hope the crops don't interfere with each other or you have some way to produce cards from other cards, which basically breaks the game.
I played until I got the "you win" message at round 200 and kept playing until my farm collapsed at 220. There was so many stuff in screen that the game lagged every new turn. I think the game can be a pretty decent roguelike, but it needs several changes to the core gameplay.