The start is fucking horrible. Goat herding? Fishing? Finding a basket? Why?? it only picks up once you get to the forest temple, and that’s a significant way in.
The whole game just meanders and moves at a glacial pace. It’s the complete opposite of Link to the Past, for example. Still good but I remember being frustrated with it.
Not as frustrated as with Skyward Sword and that swimming part. Hooooly shit that was bad.