Twilight Princess takes 50+ hours to beat the first time and that's with being shepherded through by game mechanics. Even then a couple of things take forever

Twilight Princess takes 50+ hours to beat the first time and that's with being shepherded through by game mechanics. Even then a couple of things take forever to find. I like what the author says but when you have to find something and you don't know what you're looking for you have to resort to a brute-force search. The original Zelda's overworld had 16x11=176 blocks per screen and was 16x8=128 screens. At a minute per screen that's two hours to do a rough exploration of the entire overworld. Twilight Princess is roughly four times the map size* and 8 hours looks like a long time to explore. Compounding the problem is in the original Zelda a rock was pushable/not-pushable, a tree was burnable/not-burnable, a wall was bombable/not-bombable. That binary "I have checked this/I have not checked this" has largely disappeared. Not to mention 2-D vs 3-D. Basically there is no fast Zelda Search Algorithm so either the game A) has a small map size, B) limits where the user needs to search, or C) takes forever. *-http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/the-size-of-hyrule-area-comparison.188648711/ http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/the-size-of-hyrule-area-co...