They have experimented plenty of times while still making a game that actually resembled, played like, and felt like a Zelda game. Majoras Mask is easily the most different game in the series yet it still plays like a traditional Zelda game. BotW was literally just a game that was made to keep...
FSA is easily one of the worst games in the series, even worse than TP, and god knows how much I hate TP. it’s fine to be different but if you’re going to make a game this different you might as well call it something else, because that’s what it was. Once again, this would be like making the...
Breath of the Wild plays nothing like a Zelda game though. Zelda has never been this open, even the first one railroaded you to quite an extent. It’s not that I dislike the mechanics, on their own I quite enjoy them, but they don’t belong in a Zelda game. Calling BotW a Zelda game would be like...