Yeah it's great. Talking to my brother in law who's further ahead than me in the game we're comparing stories and finding we're overcoming challenges in completely different ways... there is literally no one way of doing any part of the game. There's ten ways to get anywhere. Ten ways to kill anything. Dozens of different philosophies to playing.
You start in the middle of the map and hoi whichever direction you want from the start, including going straight to the castle to take on the end boss with only 3 hearts.
It can be frustrating tho because sometimes you do something difficult or go off on a big tangent and you assume the payoff for getting to the end will be worth your while. But it could just be you took the shitty way of getting there and you get squat for it even if you used up half your arrows or potions to do it.
The nintendo switch though. I'll play on my tv at night and pull out from the cradle in the morning and take it on the train... nice and compact.... you don't realise how convenient that is until you've tried it. I'll want that from every future system now.