Overall a really great game with a ton of great potential to build upon in the future. The open world aspects really work with this franchise much more than I anticipated. The story, the world and a lot of the characters are super interesting and fun to explore. A lot of the controls are setup in a very fluid and easy-to-handle way when you need to be swapping things out in battle. Overall there's a lot to love about this game.

The camera, the lock on mechanics though hold this game back a bit for me. Both I think are pretty bad. Some of the dungeons and puzzles involved with them are also not all that fun or interesting. I found myself more interested in looking up how to get through it and move on as quickly as possible over trying to really dive deep and figure it out myself. The final area of this game makes up for a lot of those issues though as that area is ripe with areas to explore, secrets to find, and combining a lot of your attacks and tools to get through it all.

Like a lot of Nintendo games, even though the item swapping in battle is nice and fluid, I found a lack of QOL aspects to this game as well. Looking up recipes while cooking is a pain, fast traveling to only temples and towers is nice but not being able fast travel directly into most towns is annoying.

Overall, great game that's just held back in a few areas. The potential for a legendary game though is there in the foundations of this first outing.