Breaking away from the rigid dungeon progression of its predecessors, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds redefined Zelda’s core formula with a refreshing nonlinear approach.

Breath of the Wild and its sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, account for nearly a third of the series’ all-time sales, and it’s hard now to imagine a return to the more rigid dungeon structure of ...

But as I initially wrote, there was a little bit of hopium in Yoshida's words—a promise that things would be "rolling out at ...