People's reaction to negative Zelda reviews reminded me of this gem.

[Peh]

archer9234 said:

JakDaSnack said:

You can make stamina food or elixirs for that tower.  Guardians can be one shotted by reflected their laser with your shield.

That no one will know. Unless they travel around enough. To understand how to make the elixers. And getting that timing off is hard. Again, need to know the info too. Or people will think they're invincible. If you just start litterly from plateu and go to the farthest one. Without knowing anything. It won't work. That's what I did. The first tower, I was trying to go for; was the top left area. I was planning to work my way back to the starting point. When i entered the areas. I didn't know about manually mixing stuff, or the elixers. I didn't even know you had to cook at certain places, only. So, I kept getting pushed to the right side. And when I got threw ruta. I was like oh, now I get how to do this. You can probably do everything, if you played the game before. Not, when you're new.

You are grasping at straws. First you will get the info by reading the description of the material. Mix this insect with a monster part etc. Do that and voila, elixir. Second, afaik the old fart will tell you this if you bother to talk to him and read the actual text.

Third, tips are displayed in the loading screen.