the game isn't dogshit, but weapon breaking is. having to click a little menu every fucking time you want to shoot a fire arrow or seed arow is. having to scroll through 95 items to find a flint to throw on a log to start a fire is. having to watch vegitables bounce every time i want to cook a meal is. FOUR dungeons kind of is.
The weapon breaking mechanic is the reason I stopped playing. It was the first time that I started a Zelda game and did not finish. It just did not feel like a Zelda game to me. My kids loved it though.
I thought it was dogshit boring. I bought a Switch to play TotK (having never played the original BotW) because friends kept acting as if it was the second coming of Christ. The game is just a massive collection-fest with single brain cell combat mechanics. And, yeah, the constant menu accessing is TERRIBLE design. I accept the fact that the graphics weren't going to be mind blowing, and I can appreciate the world design, but that super annoying haze that permeates the view really distracts from what beauty could be there.
BotW was a better game. All the kids in my neighborhood loved it. My son played through it multiple times. TotK they were all super excited for but they all gave up on it really quick. They got tired of stopping the gameplay to constantly build shit. They only played it for a couple weeks, none of them beat it. The dungeons were cool, just like the first, but the little temple things were terrible.
