I know this sounds like a very negative thread from the title but I had limited space to explain lol
Basically, I thought it would be interesting to share any perceived problems or minor issues with the content in the game itself, as there might be solutions that we're unaware of at the moment. To be clear, at about 70 hours in I love this game more than any I've played in ages, so I'm not attempting to rag on the game at all... just thought it'd be interesting to see what kind of frustrations people might come across and if there's a way to deal with them.
Also, this is meant to focus on the content of the game itself as opposed to technical issues (such as frame rates).
Anyway, below are a few that I can think of. Please avoid spoilers when sharing yours.
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest syndrome (aka Blood Moon)
I might as well start with this one... I never thought we'd encounter this in gaming again but somehow it's back lol; if you're unfamiliar with it basically in Castlevania II everytime night or morning would come around the game would be paused, a slow text box would appear, and the whole process took about ten seconds.
While it doesn't happen as often in BotW, my lord has the Blood Moon gotten irritating. While I'm strong enough now that it's not particularly dangerous, in the past I would have it occur at very inopportune times and find myself surrounded by newly respawned enemies, and I've also had loot I was going to pick up suddenly disappear. Outside of providing a lore-backed explanation for why they'd return, there just doesn't seem to be any need for it.
Jewelry Counts as Head Armor
This one really disappointed me as, in a very real way, it minimizes the usefulness of what should be its own category of gear. Jewelry is quite expensive and offers resistences to various climates or enemies much like the different armor sets do. Unfortunately, while it would be a neat way of granting some resistence while wearing a different armor set (such as combining some heat resist with Soldier armor, for instance), it instead replaces the helmet.
Given how useful set bonuses are in this game it's almost never worth using the jewelry that, at its price, should be a decently significant upgrade. Instead, it's usually either a downgrade or rendered completely useless by a helmet that offers the same magical effect.
As in almost every other game of this nature, jewelry ought to have been its own armor slot, offering a later-game option to slightly hybridize your chosen gear. As things currently stand I can rarely find any time where it's worth using any jewelry (one exception is for heat resistance as the Gerudo Veil cannot be upgraded), and that bums me out.
Can't Climb When Raining
This is one that I'm only slightly peeved by. Basically, I'm totally fine with there being some slipping due to rain and thus a greater stamina drain, but the way they currently have it set up you really can't make any progress whatsoever when climbing in the rain. For some regions where it rains almost constantly this can get very, very old.
I just don't understand why they had to make it essentially impossible to climb in the rain, when just additional slipping would have been a neat and adequate feature that you'd need to adapt to. Whereas it could be a situation where you had to plan your route more carefully, you instead have to just sit on your ass and wait, and that to me is replacing a fun challenge with an frustrating sense of helplessness.
I initially concluded that there would likely be an item that allows for some degree of climbing in the rain, but I've never been able to find one and so have come to believe it's unlikely that there are any. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
Cooked Food is Too Effective
I know this is a weird sounding complaint, but hear me out. One thing I really, really looked forward to was exploring cooking for the best recipes and the like, and I've spent the game collecting and buying every ingredient I could fine. I've indeed had fun experimenting with different combinations for both food and elixirs, and I had a notebook next to me that has essentially served as my "cookbook" where I've been taking notes lol
Unfortunately, I've recently found certain combinations that are simply far too powerful, essentially rendering pointless most of the ingredients and experimentation in game and, in a way, making me damn near invincible without even any serious buffs.
I'll put these two examples in a spoiler in case you don't want to see it, but I feel they prove my point:
Hearty Salt-Grilled Prime Meat: Hearty Radish x1, Raw Prime Meat x 1, Rock Salt x1
Result: Full Recovery of Hearts, +4 Maximum Hearts
Hearty Omelet: Heart Durian x1, Bird Egg x1
Result: Full Recovery of Hearts, +4 Maximum Hearts
Basically, that means if I had only one heart left I, being someone with 14 hearts, could heal 13 hearts and gain 4 more (17 hearts total) from eating just one of those meals that include nothing remotely rare. Seriously, one involves neither the best meat nor the best vegetable of its own kind (so what really is the point of the better option of meat?). Heck, I could pump out a hundred of these right now and be essentially immortal if I so chose.
To me, the "Full Recovery of Hearts" option is ridiculous and really kills the motivation to experiment with different combinations and such, especially as it becomes exceptionally overpowered as you continue to gain additional hearts, with a meal that might have reasonably cured 4 hearts now inexplicably curing 14.
Obviously there's still some experimenting that can be done with the special effects, but in general I feel the effectiveness of food should be greatly decreased. Perhaps the greater difficulty option coming in a future DLC will do that.
On a side note, I also would prefer being able to que many dishes when picking ingredients and then watch him make them in succession, rather than having to go back to my inventory and repeat the process for each item.
The Sheikah Sensor
I swear this thing is broken lol, I've never used a more confusing sensor in a game. Despite hours of experimentation I still cannot definitively state how the thing actually works... it seems to beep faster when heading in the right direction, but I swear it just changes its mind sometimes, and often it will inexplicably jump to a new target as you're trying to find your current one. Exactly how it factors in altitude is also a mystery to me, as it occasionally seems as if it considers something far above or below you to be close.
These things are remarkably easy to include in a game, and something as simple as increasing the frequency of the beep as you approach an object (akin to "hotter, hotter, colder, hotter") would work just fine. Instead, they have this cryptic mess of a sensor that will have you running in circles and feeling like a chicken with his head cut off. I've actually found I have greater success finding things when I just turn the damn thing off and start running around myself.
Can't Fast Travel Directly to Town/Camp
This one is very minor as they generally include a shrine very close by. Still, it just seems weird to me that they don't allow you to fast travel straight to the town or location itself, instead making you use the adjacent shrine.
Can't Full-Screen or Share Pictures Taken With Camera
I'm rather hoping someone tells me I'm wrong about this one, but I just can't seem to find any button to full-screen the pictures taken with the in-game camera, share them to twitter/facebook, or transfer them to a memory card.
I rather prefer the camera for pictures in this game as you can get the best screenshots with it, but while utilizing the camera itself there's obviously the display and such visible, so one can't screenshot there and then. When looking at them in the album afterwards, though, there's no way to actually make them full screen that I've found (the only option is to delete), which is unfortuante as that would allow for the screenshot if you could.
At this point it seems like my only option is to screenshot the picture as it looks in the album, put it on a memory card, and then crop out the surrounding sheikah slate, but that just seems so silly and unnecessary. Why would the in-game camera not function as a proper camera? Besides, there's still vertical blue lines shooting through the damn picture from the sheikah slate, so even with a cropped screenshot it'll look off.
Well those are some of the only things that have been bugging me so far. Anyone have some of their own?
