BOTW (and most Switch-era Nintendo titles with high marks) will go down as some of the most overrated games of all time. You'd think Nintendo fans have never played an open world game prior to BOTW with how they crow about it.
Not sure where all the rating hate is coming from, but Nintendo always gets high marks from the amount of polish in the gameplay and design. The biggest thing BOTW accomplished was taking the "you can go anywhere, basically" approach from the original NES Zelda and translated that to an open world game far better than any game previously. Most open world games gate players hard with obvious gated entry to areas. BOTW integrated natural progression in a much more thematic way.
The destructable/interactable environment was also a big innovation that only a few other games had attempted at the time. You can argue the shrines were repetitive or the fighting too easy but that is complaining that the game isn't what you want it to be and not looking at it for what it is and who it is for.
Your impression of BOTW doesn't line up at all with how it has been received by both fans and critics.
One of the things I love about BOTW is that the world is very intentional and uses altitude as a significant and important feature.
Compare this to so many other open world games where "content" is strewn about everywhere and your choices as a player are meaningless because you'll find the same bland crap whichever way you run.
I don't care, I don't need my opinions to match the majority. The bias of critics is obvious and has been analyzed to death, and the bias of fans is equally obvious. Very few people who aren't already Nintendo fans would bother to spend money on a Switch.
I didn't grow up playing Nintendo games. I didn't even know anybody growing up with a Nintendo. I think the first (and only, prior to the Switch) Nintendo experience was buying a Gameboy Advance to play Mario Kart (briefly).
I bought a Switch solely to play Breath of the Wild.
I regret nothing.
You seem to rail against "majority think". I've encountered this many times. There are a lot of people who take the contrarian view basically because it's the contrarian view. That's actually worse than the alleged "majority think" because these people think their contrarianism is somehow virtuous.
There was really no reason for you to reply to my comment. It added nothing. All you really said was "I don't like BotW" and "I don't like Nintendo". Ok, that's fine. But you couched it in language like "overrated", like that's some objective standard. It's just your opinion.
You may want to examine why you're so hostile and quick to present your opinion as fact. For your sake.
