I think it was a creative solution that pretty much no other game of botw/totk caliber has pulled off effectively.

I know what debate I’m getting into here, you either like the mechanic or you don’t at the end of the day. Both opinions are valid.

But I found it extremely refreshing mid-late game to not just be picking up random weapons to sell and make no use of whatsoever. It really feels like an ongoing adventure, as opposed to something like Skyrim where you settle in with the best weapon you find and the rest are just merchant fodder.

Yeah, it makes the early game a challenge. But that’s a thing that is consistent across all zelda games. The early game is supposed to be a challenge. It’s hard to do that from a dev perspective in a game as freely open as these two.

I do think it would have been cool to have other legendary weapons get their own slot and timer like the master sword though.