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

[rjason12]

archer9234 said:

JakDaSnack said:

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.

Kinda reminds me of what my dad told me he and his friends use to do with the original Zelda. Someone would figure out some incredibly cryptic puzzle or secret and share the info with everyone else. The info for all of this stuff could be found in the hint screen, or looking online. We have tons of sources for that stuff nowadays. Though I myself have only looked online for this game once or twice and have figured everything else on my own.