The expansions are... nice? I don't feel like they heavily enhanced my experience as a whole, even if it was nice to have something new this time around.
Master Mode is at first nice, especially on the plateau, and works as added challenge for the minibosses and Lynels, but became rather annoying otherwise. For one, I am unsure if it was a good idea to both increase every monsters level and on top of that give them regeneration. Two, I don't know how to feel about the regeneration. Like I said, in the plateau it is great. With the limited resources, everything becomes a threat that is however still manageable. Exit the plateau, and with that have a larger arsenal, infinite bombs, stronger variants and lizalfos who will constantly evade, and it turns from threatening into annoying. The further you progress, it turns from a harder mode to a more annoying mode. In the Master Sword trial, however, master mode makes it frustratingly difficult. Or rather, stage one is made frustratingly difficult. Because it does impressive things like putting 3 silver lizalfos against you in a 90% water arena when you have awful equipment. In the other stages, you never have an arena as awful as this again but also better equipment. So it... feels very unbalanced. I guess the Master Sword trial on its own would have been a nice and fine trial, but it's not like I can change difficulty mid-game.
Straying away from the poor Master Mode and the Master Sword trial which would have been nice were it not for master mode, there are new clothing pieces I really did not bother to collect and the Champions Ballad. Which is also a mixed bag. The beginning is nice, refreshing and challenging. Then you need to go back to all 4 main areas and do three tasks that are mostly repetetive. Oh, you also have 16 new shrines which are... fine? Nothing special? Then, you rematch every titan boss with limited equipment. Which was at first challenging because of master mode but then you figure out the trick and it becomes boring again.
The highlight is, for one, more time with Kass, as he appears multiple times (its a Ballad after all). And two, the end. Where you get a whole new dungeon and a completely unique boss. And as a reward, a fucking motorcycle. It is insane and makes no sense, but it is a nice thing to have in the endgame where you have nothing left to do.
Overall, this isn't really too good? Master Mode was not really worth it and the other two major additions are nice but nothing necessary, and the fact the Ballad just reuses bosses kind of nags at me too. But it did not worsen the game, either. And if it did, you can basically ignore all of it with the exception of those new Oktorok chests and the fucking Nintendo Switch t-shirt.
Master Mode is at first nice, especially on the plateau, and works as added challenge for the minibosses and Lynels, but became rather annoying otherwise. For one, I am unsure if it was a good idea to both increase every monsters level and on top of that give them regeneration. Two, I don't know how to feel about the regeneration. Like I said, in the plateau it is great. With the limited resources, everything becomes a threat that is however still manageable. Exit the plateau, and with that have a larger arsenal, infinite bombs, stronger variants and lizalfos who will constantly evade, and it turns from threatening into annoying. The further you progress, it turns from a harder mode to a more annoying mode. In the Master Sword trial, however, master mode makes it frustratingly difficult. Or rather, stage one is made frustratingly difficult. Because it does impressive things like putting 3 silver lizalfos against you in a 90% water arena when you have awful equipment. In the other stages, you never have an arena as awful as this again but also better equipment. So it... feels very unbalanced. I guess the Master Sword trial on its own would have been a nice and fine trial, but it's not like I can change difficulty mid-game.
Straying away from the poor Master Mode and the Master Sword trial which would have been nice were it not for master mode, there are new clothing pieces I really did not bother to collect and the Champions Ballad. Which is also a mixed bag. The beginning is nice, refreshing and challenging. Then you need to go back to all 4 main areas and do three tasks that are mostly repetetive. Oh, you also have 16 new shrines which are... fine? Nothing special? Then, you rematch every titan boss with limited equipment. Which was at first challenging because of master mode but then you figure out the trick and it becomes boring again.
The highlight is, for one, more time with Kass, as he appears multiple times (its a Ballad after all). And two, the end. Where you get a whole new dungeon and a completely unique boss. And as a reward, a fucking motorcycle. It is insane and makes no sense, but it is a nice thing to have in the endgame where you have nothing left to do.
Overall, this isn't really too good? Master Mode was not really worth it and the other two major additions are nice but nothing necessary, and the fact the Ballad just reuses bosses kind of nags at me too. But it did not worsen the game, either. And if it did, you can basically ignore all of it with the exception of those new Oktorok chests and the fucking Nintendo Switch t-shirt.