Hard to sum up so apologies if this rambles a bit. Anyway, very good. Whizzed through in a mere 65 hours which despite being the longest time I've spent on a game since Skyrim, still feels like a bit of a cheat. I barely touched the desert and death mountain bits apart from the divine beast quests in those areas. And I probably completed it with the minimum possible amount of memories restored (if doing all four beasts). Despite really liking the story sections, chasing all those things down was just too much of an ask this time. I'm almost certain to replay in future, a more complete run through with all DLC. 
Skyrim is my main comparison for this because I've barely played any 3d zeldas, no souls or souls-likes. So, no idea how the design has been influenced by those or really how it's evolved from past games. I replayed Lttp last year though so I've got that to mark it against. 
Some of this is mind-blowingly impressive. The overworld is wonderful. I loved the powers. I've got a hard on for the minimalism of the UI - stuff like the little frost explosion on the screen when you enter a cold zone. Fucking around with enemies and combinations of stuff is great. The monsters, though it could do with more types, are all full of character. The NPCs are just bloody brilliant. I could go on like this for a while. Just imagine aspects of the game listed by the Brilliant man from the Fast Show.  
There's bad bits. The rain is awful. I understand why it's there but really what is it adding? The bloody camel rotating stomach thing was horrible and tedious. The palette swapping on the fairies is disappointing given how crazy and how far out there they went with a lot of the other characters. 
Then there's design choices which could be a bit of a mixed bag. Cooking for instance, is a pain in the arse. If they'd have added a recipe section, then I'd have simply spammed the same ones over and over and not experimented. So they went for this quite tactile approach and forced experimentation, but it just means long periods of tediously dicking around in the menus. Maybe the key is to do it little and often but I just did it all in two or three mass cook offs when I ran dry on top ups. But the hour or so that took each time was painful. Skyrim is full of that sort of tripe though. 
The weapon degradation is just too much for me. In the early game, you've got no inventory space and nothing lasts for more than one or two fights. Forcing 'experimentation' just meant that I avoided a lot of fights, and because my load out was constantly switching, I couldn't settle with the combat system (which is more or less ok but doesn't hold up that well for big group battles). 
This wasn't a problem by the end game as much because I had the Master Sword and the weapons are more durable by that point. 
With the cooking and weapons, it's essentially making you play the game a certain way. And it's not rewarding. Travelling works much better. As your fast travel options open up, you can go the long way or zap somewhere instantly. So you get the choice. And the long way almost always rewards you with a new find or two, something completely out of the blue. You just don't reap these same benefits from the other systems. 
Around the 30 hour mark I was pretty sure I wanted a more contained, more guided Zelda than the one I was getting. Despite it's strengths, I didn't think the trade-offs they had to make were worth it. The fights are too easy in general but especially around the big set piece story bits because they don't know the experience of the player coming into it. Ditto the shrines. I don't want to make this a 'waaah where's the dungeons?' post but there's very few parts of this where they combat is pitched right. It's either too hard for your current equipment or too easy. The bits that are more satisfying are where the devs guide you more. The path up to Zora's domain being the first bit where I thought it was actually getting somewhere now. The eventide island bit is so good because it melds the openness with a complete knowledge of your equipment and everything. It tests everything you've done in the game up to that point.   
I stand by all that stuff but I just didn't care as much by the end of it. Divali's gale, loading up on hearts and stamina, upgraded gear and loads of weapons. Once you get that all that going it just transforms the landscape. There's plenty of good fights to be had, hunting Hinoxes and Lionels and all the rest of it, not bothering with the little boglin things. And there's probably another 40, 50, 60 hours of game that I could have played in that sort of mid-powered state. So in the end, there are trade offs but they are worth it. I'm really interested to see where they take Zelda now. 
I don't know if they'll do a direct sequel or what but I think something like different types of shrine could have worked well. Different coloured ones that you can identify from the outside - orange is puzzle, red is combat, purple is a dungeon-like mix. Something like that. 
Anyway, it gets the coveted Monkey Two Thumbs Up.