The floating islands of Hyrule invite you to fall toward the ground only to climb back into the sky.

This recent edition still has few votes, so the profile is one to confirm, but it points high almost everywhere. On the desert island, this Zelda ranks ahead of nine games in ten, the promise of the shipwreck companion. Connection and fun follow close, above eight titles in ten, as do the controller feel and the art style. The sound stays solid, ahead of nearly eight games in ten. Only one line breaks the momentum, rediscovery, right at the bottom, ahead of barely one game in six. The tension is there, quiet but clear: you love playing it today, you grow attached, yet the idea of living it as a first time appeals far less, no doubt because it extends a world already walked rather than opening a brand new one.

Among the great open worlds, few offer this freedom to tinker and this verticality. The lack of freshness comes mostly from its status as a sequel.

So who is it for? You, if you love inventing your own solutions and getting lost from the ground up to the clouds. Much less so if you crave the thrill of discovering a universe for the very first time.