I put a few hours in handheld mode on my Switch. In my opinion it is a bit too heavy and uncomfortable to play for long stretches. I was laying down mostly. While holding it like a book in front of me, supporting all the weight in my hands it caused cramps in both my wrists and hands. It feels a bit awkward in handheld mode after putting in 30+ hours docked using the Pro. For the most part, I believe that is where it will spend most of its time.
I have put most of my time into Zelda and I have to say, I am still unimpressed. The difficulty is sure the most in any Zelda. Although, it does lend itself to fun and challenging combat (sometimes). But most of the time I am just wandering around getting stomped by the enemies. I am still on one of the first quests, find the ancient ones or some shit. Its the typical Zelda go find Zora, Goron, desert people and what not. Well, every time I do I get curbed stomped by enemies. And I can't find the Shrines for shit. Even with the finder dinging like a crazy bitch, I don't have a clue as to where to find them. Then the times I do find them I can't get to them right away because I don't have the necessary equipment to get in them (flint and wood). Or when I do get in them there's a fucking octopus thing with a sword and shield and he kicks me in the balls. Everything I hit it my shit just breaks and does little damage. Which leads me to....
Every weapon I find breaks after about 6 hits. Please tell me there are weapons that don't break all the time. Please tell me there is a Master Sword/Hylian Sheild and they don't break. I mean it wouldn't be so bad if I could repair the weapons. Can I do that?
In reality, I don't know what I am supposed to be doing. I am avoiding walkthroughs on the net. I may have to follow one cause I am loosing interest.
I did get a screen protector for it. I got the Amfilm glass one. It installed nicely, but I fucked up on the first getting a piece of dust under it. I also had an air bubble I couldn't get out. A couple things I learned while installing the second one it came with. You can gently pry up the side corner or edge after pushing an air bubble toward it and it will smooth it out. I kept trying to just push it out with out doing that and it was impossible. You can also gently pry up the edge and use the stickers they give you to pull the dust out if it is close enough. Use a thin plastic pry tool to do this.
It looks good although, I messed up the adhesive on the edge because my pry tool was kinda mangled. If I used a new pry tool this wouldn't have happened. I will probably spend another 9 bux and get another pack.
That is if I decide to keep the Switch. I got caught up in the hype. Now I am in the same position I was in with the PS4 when it first came out. Just two real decent games to play and too few features on the system. I ended up selling my launch PS4 due to that. I did end up buying one again, so there is that.
I just hope Nintendo goes in a direction I can follow. Quality Nintendo games without requiring a shitty input method (motion).