I usually hate hate amnesia tropes in books and movies but for some reason I really enjoyed botw, which shocked me because I have stopped reading books because a character had forget their memories and it made me so angry I was unable to continue. I have been thinking about this and I have finally realized what about botw felt different.
Link made an active effort to regain he memories and he was the one who took the incitive. The memory side quest on botw is entirely optional, no one is making Link remember his memories, he (the player) chooses to do it for themselves. A lot of the time a character has no interest in regaining their past memories and someone for the life before has to convince or force them to make and effort and remember.
Link is not expected to act the same, or fulfill his past role. Of course there is still the expectation that he will draw the master sword and defeat Gannon, but no one is forcing it on him. This is mainly by the virtue of most of the people from Links life pre calamity being dead, but even the people who are still alive don't really try to get you to do anything except what is necessary for game progression. This allows Link to not be held to certain things like his possible love interest with Mipha
In the end I thinks botw did an amazing job of handling a trope in media that often can come across and annoying or lazy, and it makes it one of my favorite games.
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