For me I think if you need to skip it, it's making the problem go away by avoiding it entirely and that seems flawed.
My opinion is that the system is good, but ontop of that if for any reason you hate it there is always a way to totally skip it. I think there are some very rare scenario that create issues and skipping is an "incase of emergency break glass" situation but the fact that it's there means that even if you hate it you can just skip it.
allowed you to get some sort of rest it would have been a good way to allow the player to skip some of the tedium if they felt that way.
Most places you have to climb have small rest spots that a lot of people miss. Using them you can recover. Often using these spots makes it so that you are less climbing and more running and jumping up the mountain. You can totally avoid slipping down by letting go and switching to walking right as you are about to slip. As you said, you are probably in the minority who hate climbing, so I don't think they need to "fix" the system to make you like it when there are already things in the game that let you totally subvert it.
Actually, I found a video about it.
He mentions using a glitch and takes it to an extreme, but you don't need that at all to do this, you can recover stamina by walking up instead of running. Besides you can probably go even faster with skill and climbing properly at times without using that glitch so don't think you need to break the game to do this kind of thing. I think I remember the devs doing it before the game was even out to go through the great plateau during E3.
The amount of times I've been at max weapons and couldn't find a weapon I was happy to have break mid battle has been enough to be my strongest take away from the system. I ended up specifically keeping a "Burner" weapon for situations where I was forced to waste something, as I saw it. Maybe it comes down to individual play style. Next playthrough I'm glitching myself the MS immediately to cut down on that.
Weapons don't despawn or randomly float away. so you can literally just put a weapon on the ground fight enemies and grab it later and doing so would not add more than 5 seconds to a fight. I'd say this is again something wanted as a quick QOL. Let the player quickswap what they are using with weapons lying around via a single button press. I think anything to give the player what is effectively a "temp slot" with which they can quickly grab enemy weapons and use them instead of their own would be the best solution. Preserves everything I like about the system but makes it clear that you never need to sacrifice a weapon
But while I do think that should be done I don't think it's a giant issue that makes fighting enemies not worth it. Just giving a simple solution to absolutely not wanting to use any weapons of your own.
in my experience playing through the game you are constantly finding weapons that do 40+ damage by the time you have those kinds of weapons hoarded. And will run into weapons near max damage every handful on encounters. Basically, I'd run into the "best weapons" so often that outside of keep around a handful of elemental stuff I can just mindlesslessly wack enemies with the best weapons and still run into something just as good before it breaks.
Perhaps the difference in our experiences is due to you starting to avoid fights early causing enemies to drop weaker gear down the line, I dunno. I could be wrong maybe it's my experience that's strange.
Fair take.
Once, while I was doing the "climb climb climb jump" method in the rain that everyone started doing early on, I realised it was nothing more than an inconvenience. It didn't add to anything to the experience, it was just a hindrance to get round. An annoyance that got in the way of what I wanted to do. If the solution is to make it go away through time skip or potion spam, then it's something that could do with some improvements. Again, even some gear would go a long way towards helping here.
Yeah like I said, you can bypass this via skill 90% of the time, and I think doing so is a fun challenge. But for those who don't want to, there is usually another route or a way to flat out skip it. I just see it as there being many options for different people.
I'm glad it's not just me with the dodge system. That's another thing that put me off the combat, although I'd forgotten about that. I will roll for days in Dark Souls, but I could never really get BOTW down. I don't know if it was the framerate on Wii U or more than that. I've seen some videos on how it works and it seems strange - and leads to some odd situations where you can end up doing parry teleports.
The rush attack is definitely very strange, Usually it's exremely lenient and you get it for simply dodging near an enemy when they attack, Like a bayonetta situation. But if you miss it you are then doing an "actual dodge" with zero invincibility frames and ontop of that even when you do land it there is a lag when it's over leaving you open making it hard to dodge follow up attacks, sometimes even impossible.
Anyway, I could literally double the length of this post just by continuing to talk about the issues with that one mechanic, So don't take me going against some of your complaints as me thinking the game is perfect. I just value the things I think it did right enough that I'd still rate it higher than games with less to complain about but also less to love.
