(about the first 2 replies...this ended up sounding more aggressive than I intended, don't take it the wrong way, it's just easier to make my point understandable if I'm more "direct")
Saying that it's like time stopped whenever you shoot an arrow is a pretty fun way of saying that Link was really fast (or just a way to describe how Link's abilities work to the player).
That interpretation takes a lot more assumptions that going with what the Diary, Teba, and the gameplay shows us.
I'm trying to find the scan, but I'm pretty sure there's an explanation in one of the Breath of the Wild guidebooks (like Creating a Champion) that states that Link slows down time when he focuses, but I'm still looking for it.
It
is a way to say that Link impressed him through skill and speed yes, that's what I said, but let's compare assumpitons:
1) Link is surprisingly fast because, by sending his reflexes into turbo-mode
(a power he's well esablished to have) he can "skip" the process of aiming and retain surgical precision while moving as fast as his body allows.
2) Fking somehow Link can decide to surpass his own normal fighting speed to an insane degree
(Idk if you have a multiplier, I've seen both 100x and 20x, point is...it's fking huge) and move at speeds faster than anything he has shown outside of it because there's half a statement that may be interpreted that way.
In 1 we explain how his mega-reflexes allow him to be "faster" without inventing new powers.
In 2 we say "fk it, he can also do this now. Pay no heed to the fact that the only proof that doesn't also point at
option 1 is the same gameplay that would have us believe a 3 meter fall has any chance to harm, or even kill, Link".
Also, if his movements are shown faster, they're faster.
Bullets in One piece are also shown blitzing a stupid amount of fighters, is One Piece slower than bullet now?
Link is also shown weaker than a micro-sized explosion from a barrel, is Link stuck in tier 9 now?
You can't even try to break a wall with a powerful spell by the rules of D&D,
obviously this means that even disintegrate doesn't hold a candle to the all-mighty
GUN and all the "me shoot gun at dragon, me kill, 1 hit" were right all along.
Sonic's movements in game are shown to not even be close to the speed of sound, is sonic the biggest fraud ever now?
(depending on who you ask I guess some may say yes, I'm neutral, I've never played Sonic)
Back to the Future spoilers I guess
In back to the Future 1 the Lightning that powers the DeLorean at the end is shown as slower than Doc'c movements...is Doc MHS? Is the lightning bolt human speed?
Need I go on?
I agree with the game mechanics critique. I haven't been here long but some of it is just wanked to insane degrees. "Oh your character can move at 1/25th the speed of this in game lightning using his MACH RUN? Clearly the intent was that he was moving at MHS speeds. Since that's the case we can get kinetic energy for it as well which comes out to 7-B". It makes no sense using in game engine built speeds to scale to other in engine movement because they simply can't simulate that in game. It results in crazy high results that often heavily contradict statements and game cutscenes. The only exception should be when it's a game mechanic to react/dodge/block projectiles like in Sekiro or if there is a cutscene that corroborate this level of speed.
Well I was referring more to the "powers from nowhere" problem than to the "inflated ratings" problem that dancing around game mechanics can cause
(as I haven't looked into that side too much) but it's highly likely that that's a thing too
