Elemental and influential, with a perfect structure that allows each dungeon to feel like an escalation of the story and world than a list of things that need to be done before you can wrap things up. It is also more cinematic than most games that have come out in the modern era (that TRY to be cinematic) because it knows how to be patient.

An example at the very beginning - the pace at which the “Deku Tree” doles out his portentous speech sets up the tone and sense of grandeur that would go missing if everything were sped up and streamlined for player convenience.