Some people actually like the BotW formula. I like it because it's better than the games where the companion (who is usually beneath you) tells you to turn around and go back to your chores in the dungon when you want to explore, as though they expect you to care what they have to say or don't...
What takes so long to make? The Zelda team has an engine, resources, and a history of re-using those things to make a spiritual successor for almost every game (see above post). Sure, it will take a long time, but I think Breath of the Wild will have a spiritual successor within 5 years. I don't...
Granted, but you can't control the direction or speed you make things fly, and everything you target tends to explode when it hits something else.
I wish A Link to the Past was more popular.
However, this effect was no more, and the people walked away with their heads down in great disappointment; never did they suspect there would be a long and deadly drop in their path.
Granted. You will now have difficulty training horses in Breath of the Wild; all horses will buck you off until it happens the millionth time.
I wish I had a tardis that can transform like the police box once could.
Hundreds of puppy and kitten corpses were discovered at the base of a popular landmark where a giant meteor had landed a thousand years before, and for the first time, someone noticed the protected remains of the meteor were glowing a sickly green color with star-like patterns glowing deep red.
And now to answer the first post of this thread:
This is just like Link choosing to wear his conductor's uniform in Spirit Tracks. There's really nothing new here.
The hand holding is around the level of A Link to the Past. The fewer main dungeons thing is nothing new -- see the Gamecube...
Unlike the Wizard of Oz and The Hobbit, Breath of the Wild lets you do the main quest in whatever order you decide, and most players do it in the most logical order. Wind Waker, on the other hand, is a lot more like the classics mentioned above in that the order to do them is strict. One must...