> With TotK's flop, people were able to see BotW wasnt that great
Uhhh, what? https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/all/all/current-year/
Uhhh, what? https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/all/all/current-year/
Compare the Skyward Sword reviews with the remake. The original saw massive praise while the remake got a lot of flak for not fixing enough of the issues with the original. No idea if that's started happening to Breath of the Wild, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Skyward, even at the time you could tell that some parts were not going to age well or weren't even really good. Skyward gestured towards a lot of stuff that was perfected in botw/totk, but was clearly limited by hardware and time.
Maybe Tears is actually good enough to survive the test of time. From the outside, I can easily imagine people in ten years saying "then I needed to craft a slightly different car for the billionth time."
I'm just talking about from my own personal experience of playing Skyward and TotK both pretty soon after each came out, it was easy to tell which would age better.
> From the outside, I can easily imagine people in ten years saying "then I needed to craft a slightly different car for the billionth time."
Doesn't sound realistic, I mean there's a whole mechanic in the game to avoid that problem. I get that that's just an example, but it seems indicative of what I mean, you really have to work to find much to complain about beyond nitpicks. The devs clearly understood their game and worked hard to fix many of what otherwise would have been issues.