[All] Zelda series designs that need to change or go?
Hey all, I'm just curious what everyone's opinion is on some quirks of the Zelda games that for me have become insufferable, and that is the incessant spamming of short animations and text box pop-ups.
Examples:
I complete a shrine, interact with the altar at the end, then I get an animation that leads to a text box showing I've earned an orb, which leads to another animation allowing me to leave the shrine. I get the animation exiting and exiting as they mask load times, but I dont need or want to see an animation that leads to the text box of..."You've got a Spirit Orb" just to have to click out of it so I can get another animation as I load out of the shrine. That's over 100 dealing with this during the course of the game.
Another is finding a Korok. You get the litte yah-ha animation, a text box showing you earned your Korok seed, and the little pause before regaining control of Link. That's watching and dismissing the korok bit 1,000 times if you're crazy enough to seek them all out.
Yet another is upgrading armor. You speak to the fairy, listen to her spiel, select your armor to upgrade, get another text box before being allowed to choose another armor to upgrade, listen to her spiel again, upgrade, then rinse and repeat ad nasuem. It took me far too long and far too much button spamming through repeated dialogue to finish upgrading a dozen or so armor pieces. That's only the first set of upgrades, I have to do it all over again for 3 more fairy fountains.
Am I the only one that feels this insufferable design is maddening? I get it the need for it the first time as a tutorial, but not every time.
I just feel these have been exacerbated with the sheer amount of times this occurs now compared to Zelda games pre-BotW/TotK. It's like being forced to watch John Marston skin every animal in Red Dead Redemption and not being able to skip or disable the animation. That was maddening to the point I just stopped hunting all together, but annoying as they were required for upgrades.
Are there any other designs or quirks in the series that you find bothersome and in need of change or removal?
**Edited for Grammer and spelling errors, typing on a phone**