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People get overly attached to their weapons despite the fact that they're meant to be used and you will always find more good weapons. Thereby many hoarde and ruin the core gameplay loop by their own volition.

I honestly think the dislike of the weapon breaking is mostly from an admittedly understandable gamer attachment to the idea of acquiring and upgrading gear in games. We're mostly used to finding and savoring quality weapons in games, so the sight of high level weapons breaking after only a handful of enemies seems counter to what we're used to. So it creates a built in impression to treat great weapons as special items that you horde but never use. With that mindset, I think many just artificially limit themselves to a smaller set of weapons, thereby ruining the core gameplay loop.

Here's the thing, though..... weapons in BotW are not special. They're just ammo. Use your weapons, you will always find more weapons. If you play it with that mindset, the game is far more liberating and open than you think it is.

That being said, there are more valid criticisms in my book. Motion control puzzle segments are all bad, but thankfully they are few and far between. But man, do they suck when they come up. Also, while there are loads of puzzle solving (probably more than any other game in the series by a wide margin), but their breakdown into shrines and samey divine beasts results in not really having memorable dungeoneering experiences compared to past games in the series. And while enemy designs are fantastic and well-defined, there is a very disappointing lack of number of enemy types, and with their diffculty ultimately getting increased by just making them more spongey to hit. The upgrade system for armor is also pretty vanilla without any depth and needlessly prolonged (as in the process of upgrading each item, one at a time, one upgrade at a time, each with a semi-skippable cutscene). And potion/meal crafting gets utterly broken once you realize durians are OP.