If you came for more DtL like on the DS, do NOT play this game. I made the mistake of buying this game day one as someone who had this franchise very close to his childhood, and even after three years of waiting, they have not released ANY fixes to major bugs in this game (i.e. softlocking on loading/saving screens, major graphical bugs of missing characters or level assets, falling through the floor for no reason, etc.), nor its tedious and repetitive gameplay/visual style.

The true epitome of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

instant ten out of ten. there's a few things i like about this game a LOT, with it being my childhood zelda next to twilight princess.

- they expanded on the whole non-linearity thing. in lttp you can do like three dungeons out of order. HERE IN LORULE, though, you can do turtle rock first and the dark palace last, you can start with misery mire, hell, do the ice palace if you wanna! how cool is that?
-buying tool/use items is far more intuitive than finding them in chests, as chests in dungeons now have cool gear to help you instead of an item you need to unlock a new dungeon.
-being able to upgrade your stuff is really flippin cool
-the art and music are done stupendously, the ost was even composed at a high treble to better suit the 3ds's speakers.
-it has irene
-THE ANTAGONIST AND HIS MOTIVES ARE SO COOL AGHHHH THEY DID AGAHNIM BUT RIGHT

gotta love zelda gaming.