Open worlds should try this.

[Mnementh]

SvennoJ said:

onionberry said:

breath of the wild does that, every side quest has a hint or a location, but not the exact location. "you should go to this town or this region, there's something there" "she likes this specific flower" or "there's a statue with creepy eyes"

Not every sidequest. For example I'm stumped on having to offer Farosh's scale after finding a hidden shrine. No hint, no one to ask. Usually it's around the area yet nothing. There are a lot of fetch quests too, yet those are just filler anyway. And I still have no clue how to find memories after 80 hours, stumbled on 2 so far.

For memories: This guy that turns up practically everythere where are beds and creates paintings, he can tell you about the photos saved on your device. You can approach him and he tells you something about that photo, where it is. Still not easy to make out the location, but radically reduces the search-area.