I really think you are exaggerating. Come on, so ink pots and treasure are frivolous, so what? The rest of the game is great, (besides the innapropriate parts, of course) so why complain about such small, trivial things? Besides, you aren't a real gamer if you don't collect items if only for the sake of collecting them. Besides, all of the animal statues are part of a set of 13, so it is a goal the player can make for themself to collect them all. If you don't give a hoot about items, it wasn't very hard to figure out very, very early on that they weren't worth collecting. Those 'wasted' hours were your own fault. And those ink pots? It's not like they wasted any of your time. They're just part of the game. It seems to me like you're just looking for things to criticize.