@adamconover Dude, you *gotta* play TUNIC after that. It’s the most first-Zelda-like modern game there is! And it gives out this exact feeling.
One of its main hooks is actually the fact that it has a charmingly old-school instruction booklet in-game, which gives out the clues for the game, in the exact way the first Zelda does. You collect its pages in-game.
It’s gorgeous, it has been mentioned in several Best of 2022 lists, and there’s apparently no way you’re NOT going to love it.