So Breath of the Wild... I spent, I dunno, 40, maybe even 60 hours (the game-save files don't seem to give a count) playing it and was really enjoying it.
Then I got to the point where I'd had enough exploration and just general messing around and wanted to finish up the game, complete the main quest, etc.
In a game like Fallout or Skyrim I'd already be high-level by that point, and have a ton of loot, have completed many side-quests, etc. - basically just breeze through the story.
BotW doesn't have a traditional leveling system though - killing enemies doesn't get you XP - only the "shrines" really count.
Now, I had been doing the shrines along the way, so no problem there, I think I've done about half the total - 62 or so - but I put most points in to stamina, because that makes climbing and exploration easier. Only a few into hearts.
Then I found out you need like 13 hearts to get the "Master Sword" (or this game's version of it). I've got 9 or 10 hearts at this point, and it's 4 shrines per heart. Tedious.
In addition to that there are the "Divine Beasts" - I did the first one I came across, the elephant, and found that to be kind of tedious and boring too. It's like a super-shrine, where you have to solve a bunch of puzzles in row, and find a bunch of hidden chests. The shrines are fine because they take about 5 minutes each, maybe 15 minutes if you get stuck on a hard one - but the Divine Beasts, oy... they're just a pain. Not fun IMO. I don't think they're required to defeat Gannon, but they make it easier and the game really pushes you towards doing them.
So basically, I'm stuck. I don't want to do any of the remaining tasks the game is offering me. They're not fun, and if a game isn't fun... well fuck it. Entertainment is the whole point here.
Never had that happen with a game before, where I was really into it, enjoying it, put in tons of time, then... bam - brick wall.
I've come across plenty of games where I just couldn't get into them in the first place, but anything where I've put in more than 8 or 10 hours, I've always finished.
If there were cheat codes for this game I'd use them, just to see the ending. I've checked though, and there don't appear to be any - which sucks, single player games should always have cheat codes IMO.