One of the big problems I have with BotW/TotK is the fact that they want to tell these huge sprawling stories with tons of characters but I can barely REMEMBER any of them and the ones I do remember were all ones I hated
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Lady, EVOLVED 
@coriander i don’t think they do want to; i think they want to present a large number of marketable blank slates that fans can project onto
@Lady Yeah, that's a good point
@coriander also zelda games have always had large casts of characters whose names you will never remember but it used to be fine because everyone was playing for the dungeons anyway, and characters served clearly functional roles like “lady you bring the bugs to” or “guy who gives you the bomb bag in the earth temple”