recent: tears of the kingdom, or as i like to call it botw 1.2, its the same thing all over again just with one or two added gimicks, the open world is dead, npcs are boring and nintendo just got away with it like that
not so recent: i cant stand persona 5, joker and his entourage are annoying teenagers, the time management is a horrible gameplay addition and the artstyle is just a visual overstimulation
with that being said,~~ plz dont kill me~~
I tried resuming with an old character. From what I can tell, they removed all lower-level areas you might have once used to level up an older character, and new ones would start at a higher level. Probably the most terrible implementation of power creep leading to the most abysmally unplayable returning user experience.