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, and so far it's my 2nd fav 3D Zelda (after MM). This game aside from the first hour or so is amazingly put together.
Major complaints:
-Never ending, intrusive and spammed text pop-ups, tired of this shit. I don't give a shit about any of it and most of it makes me just want to not play. 99% probability that Nintendo needs to ditch this bullshit and at least give the option to bypass 99% of it, MGS-style.
-Motion control swordplay would have been better with a stick and button, period. You get the circular direction on a stick and press the attack button. It would have felt faster, more precise and lost every bit of the issues from the controller not recognizing the intent to reposition vs. initiate an attack (ex. going from a top right diagonal position to a bottom left position and the game instead does the top right diagonal attack, instead of repositioning). Rarely happens, but when it does it breaks my enjoyment.
-Needless crap fetch quests. To add insult to injury their forced, boring, repetitive and predictable. Zelda team can do a lot better than this, surely they understand the need to create a pace and flow without resorting to this shallow fallback. Where the Silent Realm could have been fun, instead it was forced and I just wanted it to be over.
Minor complaints:
-Sky area is just underutilized and bland, and the "islands" are a total step down in every way from MM/WW/TP in terms of stuff to do and places to hold your interest.
-Well, the obligatory text pop-up every time you boot the game is still present, and still completely stupid. Another subtle aspect that ruins immersion for me, I end up spamming the A button wanting it to end.
-Fi is a dumb sidekick, enough said. Had they been able to inject consistent and real humor into her it would have been a different story. She comes off as sterile, boring and annoying.
-Artstyle isn't what it should have been, and it's really hit and miss. Some parts look ripped straight out of TP, while the sky and certain textures retain the artstyle, it's just inconsistent. They really needed to do a whole new engine to bring it to life imo.
-Music is hit and miss too, some pieces sound great, others are completely forgettable.
-Character archetypes are copy/pasted from OoT onward, and it's getting a bit old, as are their copy pasta'd sound effects.
Anyway, that's the mean stuff I'm sure there will be more to come but that's off the top of my head. I'll post what I enjoyed a bit later.
