Yup, it is just half an hour before, very commonly used here. There's some other English language (Australian?) where it means the opposite - totally not confusing.
We also use quarter to/quarter past as well of course
Yeah these games are definitely about the journey, not the destination. The journey is awesome, but I was also super underwhelmed by the endings.
Instead of making a massive empty underworld in TotK, I wish they had focused on transforming the normal world after beating Gannon, for some extra content at the end.
We do it in Europe too, but maybe for 10-20 houses. Not 200