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

[archer9234]

JakDaSnack said:

archer9234 said:

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.

Yup, but that's a preference thing, I like that the game encourages you to talk to npcs, and to try new things. If you follow the basic main storyline until you get the four divine beasts quest, you'll learn about elixirs and food, the guardian thing is an experimentation thing which the game encourages.  It sounds like you would prefer a tutorial that shows you everything from the get go, like on previous zelda's, that's cool if you like that, but not everyone does.  Some people like to figure it out for themselves, and that's the audience this game is geared towards.

Yes, but this is open world. If you walk into certain directions, you can miss a lot. Someone here didn't even know you could upgrade your inventory and had over 100 seeds. He simply didn't go to that one small area, on the haneto road. Or certain things won't be in that area. That you need. So the helpful info pickups give you. Isn't there. So you'll get stucl. I didn't want a tutorial. That was the whole point of me doing what I did. The point was: I did get blocked. Because, I didn't know what to do. So than I went back to the main area. By the time I figured it out. How to open up all the rest of the towers. I did 10 shrines, and completed one divine beast.