Couple questions about the progression:
1) I got to the unlock memories part in the main story quest. Got a couple of memories and went back and it seems like the only way to complete this part of the main quest is getting...all of the memories? Cause that's gonna require exploring the entire world and I can't imagine I complete that until pretty far into the game. So does the main story just stop right now and the rest of the game is exploring/doing shrines until I get all the memories?
2) The person at Hateno said afterwards to go to the research lab in Akkapula or something. So I guess that's where I'll head next in the upper right but it's listed under side-quest as opposed to a main quest. But yeah, that's where I'm gonna head next.
3) I don't like the non-teleporting realisim of your fucking horse. Since I fast travel around a lot I never get my horse and I'm just running & gliding everywhere. Does this ever get better? It's also not like I find horses in the wild so I can just jump on some random horse. I've never seen any outside of the stables area near Kakariko. So if I want a horse I have to warp to the stables, summon my registered horse and then ride wherever from there which can be inconvenient.
4) Defense-wise I'm slowly getting stronger through clothes and clothing upgrades. Offense-wise...even like 20 hours in or something I don't feel any stronger than I was in the first few hours. I'm still just using whatever the enemies drop, so 4 damage boko clubs or 6 damage spears, etc...with a few heavy swing 12 weapons for bigger enemies. This basically means if I run into packs of enemies that are strong I can't really do anything because I'm too weak on the offensive. Do I just need to buff with foods or something? I'm not using foods at all because I don't know almost any recipes.
5) Speaking of foods, one reason why I haven't even tried cooking stuff (besides not having any idea what to throw in) is because I don't know how to start a fire. So I run across pots in the wilderness with the fire out and I have wood but I don't know how to start the fire so there's not many places I can cook at.
6) Also it rains A LOT in the game for some reason. Like way more often than normal sandbox games with weather. Kinda annoying when climbing because of the slippery climb feature :|
7) Ran out into Central Hyrule looking for memories and got to the central tower. Enemies are pretty rough there at this point for me. Probably shouldn't be exploring there yet.
But yeah, game is super good. Also I got my pro controller today and was suprised how little difference there was from just using the default joycon in dock controller. Aiming with a bow is better since the analogs are too tiny/sensitive on the joycons, but otherwise feels about the same. Joycons aren't bad.