So Breath of the Wild seemed great, despite all its flaws. Now, TOTK, apparently a complete rehash, is just amplifying the bad since there isn't enough fresh anything to distract from it. What am I talking about?
1. Piano music for everything. I mean everything. Open a pot, beat a mini-boss, enter a shrine, talk to somebody... constant annoying slowpaced piano music. OK, it's no secret that I hate 90% of piano music, but when they use it in place of the old 1980s Zelda sounds, it just grates on every nerve.
2. Slow paced is an understatement.
It takes like 45 seconds to enter a shrine, even when you are clicking every skip option available. This is insane. But then when you beat it, it takes another 45 seconds. Hell, I can beat some of these early shrines in 2 minutes, not including idle walking time or the 45 second enter/exit. Pure waste of my life, it feels like. Even talking to a character is slow as molasses most times, they take away the ability to skip past quickly... you are always waiting for something.
3. The damn modern technology in a fantasy Zelda game? Yuck. If I wanted drunk hookers in my soup, I'd ask for it. Zelda is about swords, monsters, magic, elves. Not cell phones, ipads, robots, cars, batteries, etc. It's just total crap. Get that junk out of my Zelda games.
4. Overly cute and silly looking creatures. Nintendo is pretty bad in the modern world for over-correcting for extreme youth friendliness, but it does annoy the adult in me.
5. Rehasing everything. Shrines, check. Same fighting, check. Koroks, check. Horses, cooking food, graphics, cutscenes, etc. are all pretty much the same with tiny tweaks.
So yeah, I wanted to love this game, but it is a serious chore right now. Ultra slow action, no grit, slow scenes, goofy monsters, etc. Probably going to give up if it doesn't get wildly new content to make me forget about all the annoying things in the next 10 hours of playing.