Originally Posted by
Anonymouswizard
What bombs?
My point was that the early game gives you no tools and then expects you to still be able to kill enemies, whereas without any melee weapons or arrows and with only the magnesia spell that was a bit of a problem.
Like, I'm sure it gets better somewhat one you have bombs, but I didn't.
And yes, they could have started you put with a basic axe, spear, or whatever, made giving it an upgrade part of the 'leave the starting area' quest of they wanted to give it an upgrade system, put a couple of additional weapons in the plot path, and used the open world to hide yet more weapons behind various challenges. If they really wanted weapon durability it should be something like Dark Souls, you lose your weapons of you for the better part of an area without a repair (and even in Dark Souls one of the first things I did was get the item that allowed you to repair at bonfires).