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

[rjason12]

archer9234 said:

Renna Hazel said:

Yeah, I shouldn't use words like 'never', but it's true 99 percent of the time. the game does not force you to go off path. You may need certain clothing to access certain towers, but that's part of the path to accessing them. You do not need a minimum of 5 hearts to activate the towers, you CAN do it with 3, it would just be very difficult. Obviously if your goal is to go to every region of the world without ever upgrading, it will be very difficult, but you still can do it. You can fight Ganon right after the tutorial, but it would be very difficult to win. 

Obviously if you set some really difficult challenges as soon as you start the game, it will be much harder to do them without upgrading. I don't believe it's impossible though, save for maybe one tower that seemed rather difficult to scale (even then, there may be a way around it using the surrounding area. 

No. The endless tower, in the minning area, is impossible. With zero stamina upgrades. Same goes for the central tower. You must defeat the guardians. Unless you can fight with no proper arrows. You'll be cut off. The games forces you to find upgrades. If you try the towers, over everything.

Game doesn't force you, I got up the central tower fine without fighting the guardians, was too weak, used stealth potions.