One interesting thing is, Ocarina of Time has interesting dungeons and kinda meh overworld, which is opposite of BotW and TotK.
OoT has sidequests, there just isn’t a quest log to track them. I’d list a few but I don’t want to spoil them. Finding them just takes a deeper level of exploration than most of the quests in BotW/TotK.
So it’s basically Metroid Prime in 2.5d?