Yeah I'm not really following. What things are getting in the way exactly? I'm in the same phase as you basically and I don't see that at all.
Forget it, Fistful. It's Bebpotown.
Sure, but as there are legions of Zelda fans overrating every aspect of it, I think some negativity balances it out a bit. I'm not even negative on the game. It's fantastic and still probably my favorite Zelda game. OoT might be better by the time BoTW ends, I'll see. Right now my 2017 GoTY is either Zelda or Nier but I gotta finish both to see.
Because of the way the game is designed, many of the negatives have to do with RNG or bad luck and so it's the kind of game where someone might go through with everything always working out perfect and having a wonderful experience from start to finish, whereas other people may have some shit times. But there are things the game could have done to control the RNG a little better.
Things that I've had happen in my last couple of play sessions:
-Had to wait for a Blood Moon for a quest at a specific spot. No big deal right? Just throw some logs out, hit it with a fire sword, wait until night, repeat. Well with my RNG, spent 40 mins going through 3 weeks game time, no blood moon. Also because when you camp until "night" it's 9pm and just as the sun is setting, you have to wait a couple of mins each time just to see if it's going to be a blood moon night. And then when it rains half the time and puts your campfire out you have to move to a spot under something or warp somehere (loading) and warp back (loading). I read online and basically the solution for the game is to next time you hit a blood moon while playing normally, to reload your last save and warp to the nearest shrine and get to the point.
Any solution that requires save/reload tactics is a bust imo. One thing that would've helped the RNG in that situation is more time periods to choose from when sleeping at a campfire. I wish I could have chosen 10pm instead of 9pm so I could immediately see if there's a blood moon before sleeping again. Also some sort of formula for blood moon spawns wouldn't hurt.
-Spent an hour yesterday trying to get a:
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Farosh Horn to upgrade my Champion Tunic to 2 stars. Game was bugged as fuck. I'd camp, wait for it to spawn, get near, fly at it, shoot the tip of the horn which would glow and fall...and the game kept giving me a fucking scale. Watched all the videos on youtube to make sure I was doing it right and I was. Did this maybe 10 times over an hour and half the time the glowing drop would land on the bridge, I'd get knocked into the water by the electric orbs that would chase me no matter how fast I dropped and parachuted away after and then it'd be raining so it'd be a pain to climb back up to the bridge just to check it out to find out it's a scale.
This could've been handled better if
1) My game wasn't fucking glitching for an hour giving me the wrong drop
2) Saving/Reloading actually worked with Dragons (it doesn't because if you load a save right before you jump at the dragon or anytime after the dragon has spawned the dragon is not there and doesn't spawn, so the best you can do is save right before it spawns and then wait for the 3-4-5 mins until it gets close enough, take a shot, go get the drop, reload and repeat).
Eventually I got the 2 horns, but this experience has killed any desire to do the other dragons now because it was such a pain in the ass.
-The rain is a piece of shit and can go fuck itself constantly in the corner. Over a long enough time span of playing, the rain has fucked me over so many times I've lost count. Either making it so I can't climb right when I need to climb, or putting out campfires or torches when I need them for quests. Outside of the desert/snow/fire it rains ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME. Like it feels that easily more than 50% of the day it's raining. I had one time where I was standing twiddling my thumbs posting on internet forums hoping the rain would stop so I didn't need to go somewhere else and sleep time passing just to advance and the rain stopped and I went to start climbing and IT STARTED RAINING AGAIN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS LATER. At that point I said fuck it and warped and slept it off. The RNG on the rain could have helped by either toning the frequency of the rain down a lot, or after you beat the Zora area (which requires rain), you should get a reward of CLIMBING GLOVES which makes the rain not effect climbing.
-Sandstorm can be a little annoying, but the frequency is much less than rain so I'm ok with it. The downside is you can't warp so if you're just popping in somewhere to grab something and warp out RNG can fuck you there.
-Horses; been there; done that. We all know the score. I'm lucky if I stick with a horse for more than 5 mins before I need to ditch it to go somewhere.
-Camera definitely has issues the more I play. It's fine for big open environments which is most of the game, but sometimes it's kinda shit. As I mentioned before big enemies where you can't see their attacks suck, also has trouble with fast enemies like Gerudo boss, but in small areas sometimes the camera does not get where it needs to be to see where you're going. Especially when carrying objects.
-UI & controls; personal preference, but a lot of people have issues with it as well. Using items, throwing items, etc... is cumbersome. Also throwing inventory items sucks as I learned throwing bananas. The aiming controls are awful. Other control things are when you're swimming and dashing (aka the only way to swim) and you're locked in directions and can't move unless you stop and turn. Feels 1990. Also when locked on, about 1/3rd of the time I press back & jump to do a backflip he does a side hop and I get hit :| Horse controls pretty bad too but that's more on the horse.
-Did a shrine that is the only shrine so far that's had one bs puzzle you would need to make a mistake to figure out the solution, take a very wild guess, or faq it. The rest of the puzzles are fantastic but was stumped on this one and though the solution was kinda bs. Tiny, tiny nitpick since the shrines are super good.
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Throwing the ice cube through the fire and it doesn't melt
-Also this might change as I finish it, but I feel how helpless and useless they've made Zelda is kinda weird considering this was the Zelda people were asking for a female link to make the game more equal in sex. It's like they went the complete opposite and every flashback seen is Zelda being useless and praising Link for being amazing.
Anyhow, there's other stuff but most are minor "fuck you game" moments that I don't remember and are completely outshadowed by how incredible the world design is with secrets absolutely everywhere, tons of shrines filled with some of the best puzzles in zelda, and pretty good dungeons/boss fights. But sometimes you get bad luck/RNG or bugs/glitches and the game can be annoying.
