Totk is the better game, but botw is amazing and I strongly recommend starting with it

I would eat that as cheese bread

Jumping on your last point, I was in a local Game store and a woman who clearly knew nothing about games was birthday shopping for her son, she asked the owner what if he thought Superman 64 would be a good gift.

To the man’s credit, in complete deadpan, he said “that game is absolutely terrible, it’s the worst game on the system”