Opinion: Rain in BOTW is a positive addition to the game

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NightlyPoe said:

curl-6 said:

If I just had to wait, I'd hate it, as I'm not a patient person, but I guess I don't really think of it as waiting as in searching for an alternate route I was still exploring and hence the gameplay never stopped for me. Not only did I usually get where I wanted to go, but I very often stumbled across something new along the way that I might otherwise have missed.

You keep mentioning alternate routes, but sometimes they just don't exist if you have to climb stuff.  The most memorable time that I got stuck time-locked by rain was when I tried to climb that pillar just outside of Kakariko Village with Silent Princesses on top.

And that was just a small peak.  I suppose later on I could have set a fire to get up there, but at the time, just starting out and didn't have the tools.  But there are plenty of points of interest much higher where even that's not an option.

Early in the game though, with almost the whole world to explore, even if I didn't find a way up I'd still be constantly covering new ground, and at the very least likely to find somewhere to start a campfire and skip the storm. I dunno, I guess I was just so involved in the game world that rather than seeing the rain as a stop sign I saw it as something to plan around. Later on of course, I not only got Revali's Gale, which meant it wasn't even a hindrance anymore, but also discovered the mean-spirited joy of taking advantage of the rain to stealth and electrify enemies.