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If this game wasn't a Zelda game, I probably wouldn't have taken the time to try to play it all the way through. But I'm glad I stuck with it because it does get infinitely better the further along you get in the game.

Agree I committed feels like 200hrs into it. If it wasn’t a Zelda game, I would have certainly lost interest and quit very early on like OP claims.

—I went a week or more without a map. I thought I was supposed to find actual maps and didn’t realize climbing towers revealed the map

. I had stupidly given up on towers at first after getting eviscerated a dozen times by the guardians around central field tower.

—The entire map was absolutely incredible but almost too exhaustingly massive despite being able to teleport between shrines. That was my major goal was to see and explore and reveal the entire map and beat all of the shrines along with completing side tasks that came along.

—Weapon degradation was just too much and happened way too frequently to be ‘enjoyable’. Hated that aspect throughout and the charging master sword was a big disappointment. Cooking was also too much of a chore that didn’t add to the game for me.

—Divine beasts and Ganon battles were probably my least favorite part about the actual gameplay. For me the game was much more about improving and full discovery of the world itself.

—I spent 2 whole days on that mystery island that was its own shrine. I had no idea how to tackle the quest at first and would come so damn close on several occasions only to have to start over. I didn’t read help guides so I had to figure it all out on my own. Very rewarding feeling to finally complete it.

Also I never defeated a Lynel ever. I got massacred several times, and then avoided or snuck past them for remainder of the game