Why was this map way more fun to explore than Witcher 3s or RDR2s?

Why was this map way more fun to explore than Witcher 3s or RDR2s?

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Dynamic movement. More shit per square inch

>fun to explore
You think coming across korok seeds at basically every turn is fun? at least in RDR2 you stumble upon some genuinely cool secrets

Freedom of movement. Instead of planning your route by going around this and that you could just cut through some stuff and find something along the way

the boundaries between areas felt organic.

No empty open world game is fun to explore. There's nothing to fucking find. At least TW3 has a ton of sidequests with interesting stories and memorable characters to distract from just how utterly pointless the open world is.

Because it wasn't. Good side quests make a good open world. Case and point, best open world games (Gothic, Morrowind, Witcher 3, New Vegas etc). Ironically, the best Zelda game """"coincidentally"""" had the best quests in the franchise (Majoras Mask).

This. There's nothing fun about an open world when you're still stuck past invisible barriers or waist-high piles of rubble that force you to go the long way around. BOTW throws that in the trash. You can glide, climb, and jump your way through everything, skipping a lot of unnecessary fighting and running if you're smart.

the total free movement is what makes it boring though, there is no sense of navigating around a world when you can just bypass everything.

All open-world games are trash.