Map towers vs auto map vs no map

[Goodnightmoon]

SvennoJ said:

Goodnightmoon said:

The game gives you the option, you don't have to use the towers, the important places you go to still get marked in the map, so you could just don't activate any tower.

As for me, I don't see how it hurts the game at all because it unlocks a mostly empty map, so I only see terrain but have no clue of what I'm going to find on that terrain, only the names of some zones.

You can see every tree and puddle, enemy camp layouts, likely places for Koroks, mini boss encounter areas, guardians, springs, maze layout and other important features. Maybe the first few zones it seems like an empty map, yet after a while it's a big spoiler.

Anyway I completed exploring Akela first before heading up to the tower (nice one to sneak on to) and my mental map was pretty accurate albeit 45 degrees rotated compared to the actual map. I still rather have an automap then no map, the flame carrying quest was a bit confusing to find the way back in the dark and rain.

You can if you try hard, because I didn't even know you could find such level of detail after 75 hours of gameplay and, as I said, the game is giving you options, no tower is needed, and still most things to discover are not visible no matter how hard you look, this is not comparable at all with the towers that fill the map with marks in other games, after unlocking the map here I see only terrain and I'm clueless of what I'm gonna find there and I don't stop to study the map inch by inch since I get no fun doing that.

This system is good because if you really need a map you can have it but is not gonna hold your hand once you have it and you need to do things in order to get it, and if you want to be completely blind you can just ignore them or activate the towers only when you think you have already explored the zone. Personally towers are never my main objective.