I have pretty much all the same issues with this game that I had with the first, but I do feel this is undeniably better. I liked the new areas of the sky islands a lot, but thought that the underground area felt empty and generally pointless. I liked the abilities a lot more in this game and enjoyed the freedom they gave to creatively problem solve. The colors, environments, and just general vibes are also similar to BOTW but better here. I still hate the shrine system of leveling up and think that most of the shrines are boring and become tedious very quickly. Both of these games are way too big and the world just never clicked with me enough to want to explore every nook and cranny. Elden Ring took the innovative open world design ideas introduced in BOTW and perfected them, but I feel like TOTK doesn't learn from Elden Ring at all. I really hope they go back to making smaller and more linear Zelda games, but with the success of these games I don't know if they will which makes me sad.