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- May 10, 2020
Hi! I'm the happy new owner of BotW now (and the Switch, actually), and I'd just like to know what is the best way to enjoy this game with minimal frustration. So far, I've beaten the first area and have the parachute, and the King told me to go to somewhere in the east for the next main quest, but I decided to just go south instead for the hell of it.
Clearly, BotW was designed to give total freedom and not really tie people to any specific sort of path, so I was just curious as to if there are some areas I should/shouldn't go to at this point in the game to optimize my experience. (In other open-world games, you have areas that are locked off/require specific tools to access, and there are also areas that offer useful tools to have that make the rest of the game easier to deal with.)
I kind of have the basics down, cooking random things here and there, knowing where to find a horse, climbing up mountains and stuff. I just finished a temple straight down south from the starting location, which was on top of a mountain, near an NPC that was cooking. (I couldn't grab the chest though; wasn't sure how.) I'm thinking of heading west from this point on, climbing more mountains.
I briefly looked at the interactive map, and it's really massive, and seems to have a ton of stuff to collect and areas to explore. Unlike other games, BotW doesn't use a "fog of war" map that clears up wherever you go, so it's kind of hard to keep track. I imagine the towers are necessary to reveal the map, and the shrines are the main points of exploration that I should be checking out to raise my health and stamina. The rest seem to be unimportant or 'spoilery', so I hid them all.
Would seeking out all of the towers and shrines (and doing whatever happens in between) be a decent approach to the game, or should I stick to the main quest (to a certain point first) after all? Thanks!
Clearly, BotW was designed to give total freedom and not really tie people to any specific sort of path, so I was just curious as to if there are some areas I should/shouldn't go to at this point in the game to optimize my experience. (In other open-world games, you have areas that are locked off/require specific tools to access, and there are also areas that offer useful tools to have that make the rest of the game easier to deal with.)
I kind of have the basics down, cooking random things here and there, knowing where to find a horse, climbing up mountains and stuff. I just finished a temple straight down south from the starting location, which was on top of a mountain, near an NPC that was cooking. (I couldn't grab the chest though; wasn't sure how.) I'm thinking of heading west from this point on, climbing more mountains.
I briefly looked at the interactive map, and it's really massive, and seems to have a ton of stuff to collect and areas to explore. Unlike other games, BotW doesn't use a "fog of war" map that clears up wherever you go, so it's kind of hard to keep track. I imagine the towers are necessary to reveal the map, and the shrines are the main points of exploration that I should be checking out to raise my health and stamina. The rest seem to be unimportant or 'spoilery', so I hid them all.
Would seeking out all of the towers and shrines (and doing whatever happens in between) be a decent approach to the game, or should I stick to the main quest (to a certain point first) after all? Thanks!
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