I've had a lot of games land on my desk...

[Tellis]

Wow, okay, jeez, like I said, maybe this is all foolishness, I'd need to play it to decide for myself. I've just never liked degrading stuff in games, so when I hear about it in anything I tend to turn my nose up at it, just a knee-jerk reaction. Certainly not going to change my decision to actually buy the game. It'll just be kind of nuisance if it actually breaks super easily like Dazz seems to be saying, it won't ruin my playing experience or anything. So yeah, no biggie, I see your guy's points, I'm just thinking worst-case scenario, I guess.

I mean, I can totally see the shield just being used as extra protection just fine, like something that's not necessary, it's just a thing to make the going a bit easier. Just so long as it isn't being used in puzzles and stuff too, having necessary stuff break is kinda lame, but I'll bet Nintendo thought this through (I hope). I mean, I'm sure it won't be a boss battle tool, at least until there's a permanent one (if there even is). Heck, now that I think about it, I didn't even have a shield fighting Ghirahim in the demo I played at PAX (and that's a damn fun battle), so I can say the combat works without it.

... So what the hell am I worrying about? haha