I adore the fuse system. First off, it’s just cool. Being able to stick a rock to a weapon got a good laugh out of me, and combining two long weapons to make a really long weapon looks fun. But what I really like is that it’s a response to some of the common complaints from BotW. I especially like that they used a tree branch as the first example by showing how quickly it breaks before adding that, with proper fusing, even a weak weapon can have its durability and strength significantly improved. The durability system is still here (which I still argue is essential to the game’s combat), but there are clever ways to get around it, and it incentivizes you to care about all kinds of items. It also makes materials more useful beyond selling/trading since you can combine them with your existing weapons and arrows. And being able to combine other items lets you make whatever weird things you can think of, expanding on people making things like flying mine carts in BotW.
The other additions look good too, but this is the type of new mechanic I was hoping for: something that compliments the systems from the original game while awarding creativity.
