SpaceBacon

No. I think one of the more concerning aspects of internet usage these days is muting/blocking everyone who says something you disagree with and living in a bubble. Not healthy. Blocking is supposed to be a tool for straight up harassment in my opinion. Most comments are fine and I can easily just not care if someone is being stupid.

Addendum: Also, saying you have never seen anything positive in the comments is an extreme exaggeration if I ever saw one. I would say I would be hard pressed to find a single video that has 0 positive comments. There are some odd videos where there are a ton of garbage comments but even so there are still positive ones peppered in there.

Some of those hotlines have changed into different kinds of hotlines

It's up now, the wholesome call is still in but number has been taken out. Win-win.

I hope they will put the video up with number edited out or something at least. I had to go to sleep after just like half an hour and wish I could see the rest.

I thought of one more thing, making a new post because the first one is gigantic enough as it is:

I wish I was able to pick and choose what UI elements to show. There's a lot of unnecessary clutter in the top left corner but the options merely provide a setting to turn ALL the UI elements off except for hearts which is too much. Minimap and weather are the most important ones. Temperature you can see by observing link and the sound meter isn't so important once you get a feel for how fast you should be moving when trying to be stealthy.

• Lack of proper dungeons. I mean I can appreciate them thinking that since the world itself is full of stuff and kinda the main attraction with shrines and such maybe long dungeons on top of that would be too exhausting but it's not even the length really, it just bugs me there are basically no enemies in them, just some puzzles. I want proper showdowns with minibosses/multiple enemies at once.
• Some of the voice acting, mainly Zelda. She kinda sounds like a "princess", sure, but she does NOT sound like the kind of character that is portrayed on the screen and in the writing. She sounds like some completely out of touch sheltered princess who just attends tea parties and has never seen the world. Her acting is especially bad during the emotional scenes.
• Rain is too common. It wouldn't be so bad if climbing wasn't a key activity in this game or rain didn't make it impossible. If you are in the middle of nowhere and it starts raining you need to just wait it out in case there isn't even shelter to build a fire under.
• Combat somehow feels like "two steps forward, one step back". They changed up the basic combat from "Battle dudes with a sword and sometimes use your items a bit." to a style that accommodates melee combat, ranged combat, stealth and environmental tactics which I think is great. Also they gave you multiple weapon types which again is great. What bums me out is all of the melee fighting feels very basic. What happened to being able to choose between horizontal slash, vertical slash and a stabbing attack? What about being able dodge behind the enemy with a roll to attack their back, being able to finish off knocked down enemies or attacking the head with a helm splitter from TP? Those were all fun and I wished they would add more move variety in future Zeldas, not simplify it.

Even with these complaints I find the game amazing. I tend to honestly complain more about games that are really good than about games that are merely okay because flaws feel worse in something that is close to perfection.

edit: Oh also I realize this might be kind of hard to deal with in a truly open world game but it's pretty easy to break the difficulty. In the very beginning I was dying often enough if I screwed up but it didn't take me that long to find the gear with seemingly the best defense and upgrading it to a point where something exploding in my face takes away like 1/4 heart. In the future I might challenge myself by putting restrictions on what armor I allow myself to use. I guess there's that hard mode to look forward to... in like half a year. I'm hoping it will be actually well thought out, not just stat inflating.

Putting hard mode behind DLC seems kinda lame though it remains to be seen what it is exactly, if it's just stat fiddling like most video game hard modes then yes: lame. On the other hand if it rearranges the game in a meaningful way to add challenge I could see it being fair for it to be behind DLC. Cave of Trials is probably something similar to what Wind Waker / Twilight Princess had where you go through like 50 rooms of enemies and it gets progressively harder. I like those.

What I'm most wondering about is the "additional map feature". If it's something very useful then being behind DLC will be kinda scummy. To me DLC should offer extra playable content, not essential features. Those should be free updates if anything.

As for DLC pack 2 it looks great all around. The type of thing I'm happy to get when I've already exhausted the contents of the base game.

I hope Drew's next job is just being a cool action guy (who flies a plane).

I'm ready.