Best explanation why Zelda BotW is great

[TheLastStarFighter]

Slarvax said:

Thespiralmatrix said:

What doesn't immerse me in the world is weapons constantly breaking after only a few enemies. Also enemies give no exp or incentive so I'd usually just run past them to keep my feeble weapons intact. People claim it adds realism but it doesn't.  Who are these blacksmiths making swords that can't kill two goblins without breaking? Why can't I craft or repair weapons?

It's a really fun game but it's got plenty of flaws. The two I mentioned are just the ones that annoyed me most.

Assuming there are no blacksmiths (which no, there are none) most of the weapons are around 100 years old. Story wise, I would expect this to be cause all blacksmiths were either in Hyrule Castle or part of the Royal Guards, which died when Ganon took over the Guardians. 

Now crafting and repairing, I really don't get why it isn't in the game. I have my theory that the minerals you get where at some point in development used to craft your own weapons, because when you look at it they're the items with the least uses in the game (selling, some sidequests, and upgrading), but they probably couldn't implement it or ran out of time. There is some special crafting though, the Anti-guardian items. Probably the coolest weapons in the game.

There are four blacksmiths in the game.  They repair the 5 story weapons you get in the game.  They take diamonds to repair.  I wouldn't be surprised if you're right though, the lesser gems were probably for fixing lesser items and they eventually said, why bother?  It would slow down the game.