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Alright, looking through the past few pages, much of the discussion is off topic with some users taking personal jabs. If you guys keep making snide comments at each other and derailing the thread, moderations will be handed out. No excuses.

Some people can have legitimate problems with the system, of course they can, in my opinion most problems comes from going with a wrong mindset, hoping the game plays like a totally different game insted of adapting to its style of gameplay, however, no, I wouldn't say every problem everyone has with the system is their fault, it doesn't, the balance of the system is not in the sweet spot for everyone, some think it should be less punishing, and while I disagree because to me worked perfectly, I can totally see why some people can have some problems with it, and there is some room from improvement too, in fact, if they balanced the game in a way the weapons last twice as they do I think less people would have problems adapting to this sytem and the game would still mantain its particular style.

Then there is of course the possibility that you just hated this kind of systems with all your soul, which is fine too, but I think it would be too arrogant from those to call it bad design, because it can be perfectly argued why it isn't, if you want to get attached to weapons on a game that clearly doesn't want you to get attached to them, its kind of your fault, that doesn't mean you don't have reasons to dislike it, but is not really the games problem.

I'm glad to see that in spite of the bs Joe faces from Nintendo, he gave it a very honest and unbiased review.

The few nitpicks and negatives he has - I easily overlook those because of my own tastes, but I understand them.

It's refreshing to see someone totally new to the Zelda franchise actually review it.

Durability regenaration is what happens with the Master Sword, it breaks, but then it regenerates itself after a period of time, that makes it feel special.

Your system could work, it doesn't sound horrible, it still makes you act in a kind of strategic and creative way to solve problems but I don't think it will work as well, you see, in this game i'm often hoping to break a weapon because that means I have space for another, because i'm constantly finding cool weapons and many times I just don't have enough space for them, so that makes me want to use them more instead of keeping them to myself for the future.

Now, the game kind of forced me to think this way, but the thing is I enjoyed it way more because of it, I learned that weapons are like amunnition, when you want to save this ammunition you start to play with all the options the game gives you, making combats more variad, strategic and interesting, and I feel constantly rewarded for the new weapons I'm getting to play with, sometimes is a bad ass giant boomerang, other times is a sword that electrocutes the enemies, other times is just a freaking broom, but if they didn't break, I would just use the strongest ones because feels like the logic thing to do and probably I wouldn't even catch the ones with lower attack power, however, since they break and I know the game is designed with this in mind, I feel free to try them all, which makes the game feels more playful.

With your system not only the Master sword would feel less special but also people would just keep the strongest ones and constantly switch them in a way none of them breaks, it would actually change the way people plays it and probably it would require a different balance.

How about we quit arguing with people who have not played the game about weapon durability.

That would be great.

Sour grapes position.  It's the flipside to the buyers remorse position we saw with No Man's Sky defenders.  Very interesting to see it play out, especially for a psyche major.  :)

The amount of micro-management really turns me off. If I really felt that it was a near perfect game I would buy a switch right now but it's just...Nintendo games always disappoint compared to their reviews. I mean Skyward Sword got a 93 and that game had me about hurl a Wiimote for all the wrong reasons.

Not sure what you mean by micro-management. You mean like cooking food?

the constant cycling of weapons seems like it would make inventory management annoying.