This was one of the better pieces criticizing the game I think:
Breaking down why Breath of the Wild is highly overrated
I will want to counter that some.
- You farm Hinoxes,and Taluses for its loot. Hinoxes for easy high grade weapons etc, Talueses for minerals. You learn to fast kill them. It's why they have tons, some with different loots, bookmarks them for favorites then come back after blood moon.
- 20 Guardian shrines ranging from Minor to Major test of strength from 140+ shrines (including DLC). Major test can wreck you early on. Everything else is different, well except for the theme. Also you farm those Guardians.
- You fight enemies for loot, and for the loot to become better. The more you fight, the more you will see high grade loot. Avoiding fights is a no no. At the end you even farm Lynels.
- Stables are checkpoints with horses. You get recipes, the picture memory guy, cooking pot, and most importantly, quests.
- Fauna graphics are copy pasted, but the terrains are user curated to entice you in every way. More interesting than fancy graphics imo.
- If you are already bored with running, "aimlessly", just go with bare minimum and defeat Ganon. It will be fun.
- THERE ARE TONS OF QUESTS YOU HAVE TO BE PATIENT TO TRACE ON. This is not mindless korok seeds adventure.
- Use horses mostly only on tracks for new territories, they auto gallops tracks, that's how it's done. Then you discover stables, then you trace the towers if you haven't done, then explore. Using horses should be a faster approach.
- "Designed by six year old". That's a clear lazy insult. So much for better criticism,
- Musics are ambiance music, which really works actually. You don't have to hear them like some people did after hearing certain open world musics over and over, at the end they just hate it. It's just a different approach. Also, all great Zelda songs variations only comes when you're riding.
- "Not innovating" lol. Its terrain focused adventure are already dope enough for innovation. People should at least acknowledge that. "It used concepts from other games and no it did not reinvent or improve them just because it's Zelda ".
I'm confident, dude had already ingrained the overrated narrative in mind. He got shallow observations and not even touching the strong points, you got to grab both for constructive criticism.