mZuzek said:
To some extent yeah, but moreso the actual whole point of the game is freedom and always allowing you to do things how you see fit and dealing with the consequences that come from that. So, in a game that is so hellbent on letting you do whatever you want, it's pretty dumb for it to just stop you with nonsense barriers with the dungeons. Allowing experienced/smart players to skip things wouldn't harm the game or its story, it would just add an extra option that most first-timers wouldn't even know about. There's plenty of ways you can go about opening these dungeons up without making them too easy to get in. For Naboris for example, you have to carefully time a jump and fly all the way from the ridiculously far away mountains and have loads of stamina. For Medoh, you'd have to build a flying machine or maybe they could have something a little bit more intentional, but still extremely hard, and so on. Both of these dungeons can be accessed in these ways as of right now, but when you get to them they just won't load and are useless until you do their whole quest. All of that is just boring, and contradictory for a game that made such a big fuss with the whole "you can go straight to Ganon!" thing, but you can't go straight to the Divine Beasts because plot. I mean, if "ruining the story" was an issue, they shouldn't allow you to go straight to Ganon either, right? |
You are allowed to skip things. You can skip the Divine Beasts and "go straight to Ganon". (Sorry in advance for the dickish response, I couldn't resist.)
But, back to my point, if there were ways to enter the Divine Beasts that did not require the aid of the decendants of the great champions, I really do think the entire story of the game would be massively diminished. Like I said, those quests are about teamwork. An overpowered Link that doesn't need to meet anyone, doesn't need to talk to anyone, doesn't need to enlist anyone's aid to accomplish certain (but not all) tasks, doesn't sound like an enjoyable game. I don't see them as barriers just for the sake of being barriers. They very purposefully want you to know that in certain situation Link is going to need a helping hand from someone. That doesn't diminish the game for me in any way. Yes, you can go straight to Ganon. And, you will die. And the lesson there is that it is going to take more than just Link to defeat Ganon.