Zelda: focused or just dicking around?

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SvennoJ said:

Only 80 hours? That's about when I visited Koriko village for the first time. I spend 172 hours on the game, exploring the entire map without ever using fast travel and leaving the towers until last to avoid spoilers. I was laser focused on exploration the whole time!

I'm trying the same approach with HZD atm yet that game likes to punish you for exploring. Just yesterday I ran into an auto reload barrier again losing an hour of gameplay for crossing some invisible line I wasn't supposed to cross.

Zelda is great at exploration based gameplay. I wouldn't rate it all that high when played linearly, the divine beasts are clever yet not much more than a distraction and Ganon a disappointing anti climax. Luckily the Lynels saved the day, awesome enemies.

I think I got to Kakoriko Villiage within 9 hours. The previous hours was me unlocking the map.