In 2017, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a monumental action-adventure game, and the Switch's first must-have title. While there are understandable criticisms of some of the game's design decisions, its critical and commercial success revealed something profound about how many players want to interact with the game worlds with which they are presented. Indeed, Breath of the Wildproved that modern open-world games need not be frictionless experiences that lead players carefully by the hand, and the ripples of that lesson are still being felt nearly eight years later.