Hmm. Was E3 Wii U build I imagine. So hopefully only a few seconds for Switch then.

But either way, Shrines seem to be one and done things, so that's not so bad. I don't see any reason to ever re-enter them, if you even can after beating them. So no load times in the rest of the game is steller then.

Loading the game from the Switch menu takes 10-13 seconds. Loading the map within the game is 27 seconds, so that takes up roughly to 40 seconds to get to play the game. Loading Smash on Wii U before you could choose options was 42 seconds. That's a vast improvement, especially when there are no more loading times (except shrines) and a big ass overworld. And this is coming from this tiny handheld thing.

But that's fast travel. I assume fast travel still has a loading screen, as well as dying. Or maybe there is no fast travel.
I do hope it's not for houses. I tend to avoid going inside them when it means a loading screen like in Skyrim.

I assume fast travel comment was referring to FF15? But yea it was fast travel. But the overworld was so poitless that it made you want to fast travel. In Witcher 3 I rarely ever fast traveled cause I enjoyed the environment, not to mention I would take travel time to grab a random ?. But FF15, was just boring. Even running around on Chocobo's was just boring. Nothign unique in the wolrd until you grab a "fetch quest" Witcher 3 you didn't need to grab the quest, you could stumble upon it. Sure you might miss out on some story telling/set up/ect, but you didn't need to talk to starting NPC to get the chest/monster/ect to load.  In FF15, when you get a fetch quest they would then sapwn, and usually in the place of some other monster spawning place.

Yes! That is great to hear!

It's amazing how such a minor thing is so annoying.  Multiple transitions are something I dread so much despite not really being that long in reality.  I would always put off Thieves' guild missions in Skyrim because it required TWO(!) transitions to go in and out of the tavern.  

And, even though they take just as long or longer, I much prefer methods that hide transitions, like elevators.

I think it's possible. Especially if Nintendo wants to make it a truly seamless experience. Similar games like Dragon Quest XI have seamless entry into buildings and structures so I think it's possible, then again that game's running on PS4 not Switch/Wii U.

I always assumed that it wouldn't have loading times, but it's nice to hear confirmation.

Transitions in and out of buildings is something that depends a lot on how the game is structured. Games like Fallout/Skyrim, you sometimes want a barrier to keep the experiences from bleeding into one another. For example, you don't want everyone inside a fort to come running when you're fighting everyone already on the outside. Other things you might want to keep isolated are target NPCs, quest givers, and quest items, especially when random dragons or vampires can attack at any moment. Those games also have a ton of items to manage inside RAM, which probably won't be the case with Zelda.

Good, good

Hopefully the load times into the overworld won't be too long