| spemanig said: Point 1: Epona is the King of Red Lions The most obvious thing is Epona. Epona controls almost exactly the same as the King of Red Lions does in WWHD. The difference is that while the King had a swift sail to speed up, you must repeatedly mash the A button to speed Epona up. I think it's great that Epona now controls like the King, because the worlds are built in such a similar way, but repeatedly needing to mash a button to maintain a faster speed bothers me. It seems like they got rid of the absolutely horrible stamina meter for dashing, which makes it infinitely more tolerable, but my point still stands; don't punish your player for wanting to traverse your world in a faster way. I know that the game is still trying to maintain believability in the way a horse works, but this is a game and Epona is a game mechanic. Don't screw up a game mechanic for immersion. |
I'm stopping right here. There is no evidence that you have to keep mashing A to speed Epona up. None whatsoever. It's entirely plausible, for instance, that they'll make it all feel fluid by working with something similar to the Hyrule Warriors dash mechanic, where the character starts dashing if you run (normally) for long enough... but if you hold dodge for just a few seconds either when starting to run or while running, you leap straight into a dash. Epona may take a bit of time to get up to speed normally, but pushing A a few times gets her moving faster more quickly... but once at her top speed, she stays at the top speed so long as you keep her running.
Heck, there's direct evidence that you won't need to keep actively speeding Epona up, in the form of the one great thing we know about Epona - she'll control herself to free you up to use weapons, etc, smoothly. Hard to do that while being forced to keep actively influencing her speed.
More generally, this "point" basically assumes a lot for no reason... or rather, it assumes a lot purely so that you/they (not clear whether this is your work or copy/pasted) can use it to constuct the argument being put forward. And indeed, at a skim of the rest, I got the same sense from the rest of it.
