How Breath of the Wild is like the NES Zelda and unlike Twilight Princess

A common complaint against The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is that its early tutorial section takes hours to complete. Well, I’ve spent a lot of time with Breath of the Wild, Nintendo’s new Zelda for the Switch and Wii U, and I’m still learning new things.

But this new Zelda, due out March 3 for Wii U and Nintendo Switch, is nothing like Twilight Princess. Instead, it feels much more like The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System. That’s because even while Breath of the Wild is still giving me basic lessons hours into the story, it is giving me an open world to explore however I choose — and that makes all the difference.