I’m cool with this. The BOTW DLC was meh imo and most of items and features you had to pay for already shipped in TOTK at start (plus I feel like we all already paid for DLC because the game was more expensive than a typical new title). Sad there won’t be a master mode when I finally decide to do the final boss, though.

I milked the shit out of BotW, explored every inch of Hyrule, did all the sidequests, upgraded all the armor, etc. Meanwhile, I delayed progressing the main story for months. I’m sort of doing the same thing with TotK and it’s been fun to do all of the exploring again on what I consider to be 2.5x more map thanks to the addition of the caves, wells, depths, and sky islands (plus all the changed conditions on the OG map). And it’s been fun playing amateur engineer with all the zonai devices and seeing what other people are creating. All in all I feel satisfied with there being no further installments. Interested to see what the Zelda concept looks like going forward: the open world is great, the lack of fuller dungeons isn’t so great. I’d give up some of the former for the latter if that’s what it took to build some more challenging levels.l