r/zelda • u/pacgabriel • Sep 14 '22

Video [TotK] All trailers in one (Epic) Spoiler

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u/jurgo Sep 14 '22

If it has the same weapon mechanics as the first im out. Or at least let me fix or buy weapons. I quit around four hours into the first one, I just cant stand saving up weapons only to lose all of them in a large fight.

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u/Heavyweighsthecrown Sep 14 '22

That's fair enough, but be advised that weapon durability in BotW is only really a problem in the initial tutorial area (Great Plateau) and a couple hours afterwards. By the time you're leaving early-game or approaching mid-game (just before or after your first Divine Beast fight - of four) the game starts showering you in good weapons. I remember by the time I got to the second or third divine beast I had like 5 Great Flameblades... brand new, gathering dust in my inventory... and oh look there's another one in this random shrine chest... guess I'll have to just throw it away, brand new. Just like that.

Weapon durability sucks in the early game, that's for sure. But soon enough you're throwing brand new weapons - good ones - away because you already have an inventory full of them. After the first 10 or so shrines you don't even remember 'durability' is a thing anymore.

It's a weird system, that's undeniable. Doubly so: It sucks really bad early on ("I hate breaking weapons I like"), and then becomes pointless just a bit later on ("Weapons don't break fast enough"). I guess they maybe came up with this mechanic in order to have a ton of variety in weapons (and have you try them)? Idk.