What did you all think about the Ship parts in Phantom Hourglass?
When I first was going through the game, I thought it was pretty cool. Just another collectible item for Link to get. When looking at all the ship parts, it looked like it was quite a collection process as there were a TON of ship parts. However, as I got further in the game and realized how the ship parts actually worked... I began to really hate them. There were several reasons and I've listed them below.
1. Duplicate ship parts. Unlike say... heart containers or the spirit gems in Phantom Hourglass, certain ship parts were not uniquely found in certain parts of the game. Instead, they seemed to just randomly appear anywhere. This made trying to complete an entire ship set... let alone trying to get all the ship parts yourself... rather difficult. As a completionist, I wanted to get every ship part, but even after playing the game well after I completed the main quest, I still can't get all the ship parts... and I've since quit on the mission.
2. Lack of ability. What really makes me mad... is that the ship parts, when customized on the boat... do absolutely nothing other than increase the boats 'health'. It's just a way to decorate your boat. While some might like the idea of mix and matching different ship parts from various sets... I thought it was pointless. I would have MUCH preferred there be some actual distinctiveness between the different sets. For example... wouldn't it be cool if the ship had RPG elements to it? Where you could put one type of ship set together and it would make your boat 2-3x as fast? Perhaps another ship set that is purely armor based and will make it have extra health. Then another ship set that will make your fire power much more powerfuly? Then another ship set that will allow Link to ram into enemies and defeat them? Stuff like this.
What did you all think of the ship parts from Phantom Hourglass?
When I first was going through the game, I thought it was pretty cool. Just another collectible item for Link to get. When looking at all the ship parts, it looked like it was quite a collection process as there were a TON of ship parts. However, as I got further in the game and realized how the ship parts actually worked... I began to really hate them. There were several reasons and I've listed them below.
1. Duplicate ship parts. Unlike say... heart containers or the spirit gems in Phantom Hourglass, certain ship parts were not uniquely found in certain parts of the game. Instead, they seemed to just randomly appear anywhere. This made trying to complete an entire ship set... let alone trying to get all the ship parts yourself... rather difficult. As a completionist, I wanted to get every ship part, but even after playing the game well after I completed the main quest, I still can't get all the ship parts... and I've since quit on the mission.
2. Lack of ability. What really makes me mad... is that the ship parts, when customized on the boat... do absolutely nothing other than increase the boats 'health'. It's just a way to decorate your boat. While some might like the idea of mix and matching different ship parts from various sets... I thought it was pointless. I would have MUCH preferred there be some actual distinctiveness between the different sets. For example... wouldn't it be cool if the ship had RPG elements to it? Where you could put one type of ship set together and it would make your boat 2-3x as fast? Perhaps another ship set that is purely armor based and will make it have extra health. Then another ship set that will make your fire power much more powerfuly? Then another ship set that will allow Link to ram into enemies and defeat them? Stuff like this.
What did you all think of the ship parts from Phantom Hourglass?