See, I can't decide where I fall. I played the Far Cry series (through 3, plus Blood Dragon) and I was told that each was wildly different than each other, and that's true, for the most part, but there was a spirit flowing through them and other than some aspects of 2, they fit well and I liked all of them to varying degrees (I LOVED Blood Dragon, but that was the most different of all so hard to count).
I don't need each one to be a direct continuation from the other. But - and this is on me, I get it - I'm a sort of completist. I play from 1 through n, and it's difficult to separate out or skip when you have a JRPG (first I've heard of that) then another RPG, then a combat game, then a first-person shooter... I guess it depends on the quality of the game - Bio Shock Ultimate was very different than 1 and 2, but it was probably my favorite of the three in it's own way - but I'm not really interested in a combat game with Link. I want a sort of spiritual successor, even if the names have been changed to protect the guilty. That FF game I told you about scarred me for life! HAHAHA.