LogFAQs > #949866198

I don't know why you bothered to replay it, just from the tone of your posts it seems kinda like you went in looking for a bad time and expecting to pick out every single flaw you could.

I agree about padding and handholding but those are problems to various extents in all the 3D Zeldas before BotW. I think of Fi as being more of a pointless inconvenience than actually spoiling the game though, for the most part you still have to figure out and execute on puzzles. I'm not sure what counts as "padding" vs. legit gameplay either, these just seem to be arbitrary lines people draw to describe aspects they like or don't like. I guess it's kind of a "you know it when you see it" thing but if you were trying to objectively review it I don't think it's much of a helpful measure. That's another reason why BotW blows all these out of the water, almost everything in the game is as worthwhile as you want to make it.

There are some decent shakeups to the story and gameplay that I appreciated, it was a series that at the time was very retread heavy and TP might have been the worst offender. Not everything was so great but I don't understand this idea that it's some unmitigated disaster. The main issue I think is that some of the changes were okay for one game, but didn't feel like a logical leap forward for the series overall. Luckily BotW did a complete reboot of the series which is perhaps what SS should have been, but I'm glad that idea wasn't wasted on the fucking Wii.