I started up Skyward Sword again, and for some reason I can't get a handle on the landscape. With every single other Zelda game I've played, I've already memorized where everything is and how to get to it. Here, I can't even figure out where the houses are in Link's hometown. I can remember focal points like "lake," "big tree," "open field with mushrooms" and be able to navigate them with ease, but I can't remember where they are in relation to one another. Is "big tree" north or south of "lake?" How do I travel from "lake" to "open field"? No idea.

I've been racking my brains and the only solution I've got is this: For some reason, Nintendo didn't add a minimap for this game. You have to open up the menu to orient yourself, and it's not even that good. Not A Link to the Past awful but still undesirable. It's weird because I live my life without a minimap and can still make it around in a 3D environment, but this is just impossible. Maybe because there aren't as many visual cues like in real life. A ledge looks like the same as every other fucking ledge.

Either way, what the fuck Nintendo? You couldn't add that shit? Or is it because half the fucking screen is taken up with instructions on how to play this shit?