Hand-note: I have not finished the game yet, but almost have.
This is a beautiful, awesome game. It’s wonderfully made and the money is ABSOLUTELY worth it! My only problems with it, personally, are the side quests, random encounters, and a smaller thing I LOVE!!!
1. The Side Quests
Don’t get me wrong, I get how hard coding is, I dabble in some EASY programs, not anything like real game coding, but, after a while, you have no reason to do the fetch quests anymore. They become very predictable and bland. The rewards don’t really mean much when you have to gather something like 10 basic-mushrooms, just to get a simple sword you already have 108, or something? Or, you have the super-hard quests that take months, or you end up never finishing them. Like, here’s one, for example. Basically there’s a kid who wants some weapons for, um, some reason. I haven’t even finished that quest and I’m almost finished with the game (main quest)!
2. Random encounters
Again, don’t get me wrong, I know coding is incredibly hard, but here’s my rant, I guess? Okay, so, a bit of a spoiler, I guess? A VERY tiny one, though. So, there’s these sisters, one wants to collect a special, giant truffle to get a lot of money, the other HATES this and BEGS to not, saying that they’ll get killed before they ever find any truffles. You find them while traveling, sometimes. They’re being attacked by bokoblins and you (if you’re a normal person, or, at least, the first few times,) defend them by killing the bokoblins and talk to one of the sisters. You’ll get a spew of mushroom-hunting hatred from one of the sisters (she voices the opinion that “we’ll die trying to find these stupid mushrooms” to which the other sister buds in and says something, I forgot), and a truffle-advocate-ing speech from the other. I OFTEN HAD THE TYPE OF MUSHROOM THEY NEEDED!!!! You should be able to give them the mushroom, or something!!(Sorry to the Mushroom aficionados that I used mushroom and truffle interchangeably :I)
3. The way you cook
THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT
THIS IS SO FUN!!! :0000
Thank you very much for listening to my Ted-talk :>