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Googling gave me this, but it might be something else:

https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/tbxyrf/genshin_impa...

It's a gacha game (prints money with pseudo gambling micro transactions) that has the same look and mechanics as Breathe of the Wild

I don't know about the mechanics but the cel shading look of Breath of the Wild has been around since at least the Dreamcast with JetSet Radio.

Making a shader using normals for the color values has been around a long time.

A game that looks stylistically very similar to the recent Zeldas and has some similar game mechanics.

It's extremely similar to the last couple of Zelda games both stylistically and in terms of game mechanics. The "climbing up a rock wall" mechanic is basically identical, for example.

It's like chatGPT took the prompt "make a game just like zelda but with microtransactions".