SvennoJ said:
That's 3 hours a day since release. I wish I still had that kind of time to spend on games :) |
I started playing 6 days after the launch so more than 3 actually...
Trust me, it will take far more than 230 hours without fast travel if you want to unlock everything the game had to offer because this game is much more packed and fast travel speed up things a lot. I've unlocked the towers as soon as possible and fast travel the whole game like crazy, plus I'm now much more experienced in the game mechanics like sensors. Spent well less time exploring some Hyrule regions and much less time climbing mountains as well
If I've played TOTK brand new without playing BOTW before I believe it would take me a good 180 hours to beat it, no doubt
Sky islands will be particularly painful... if you for some reason make a mistake when calculating distance/stamina and fall from them, returning will sometimes not be fast. Yesterday I was trying to reach a sky island very far, and only succeeded when teleporting to a specific Dungeon in the sky and paragliding from there. The problem is this dungeon take a good 30 minutes to reach if you go to no fast travel route (you can reach it trough a very fun platforming section in Hebra region). There is an workaround, which is saving your game periodically and returning to it if you fail to reach a sky island, but I don't know... seems even less fun than teleporting...
The developers realized not even shrines were enough this time, you can unlock some portable teleport seals that let you place them on every flat floor and you can fast travel to them. For instance if you are in a sky island very troublesome to reach and there is no shrine close, you can place the mark on the floor and teleport to there anytime (up to 3 marks, which you need to complete quests to unlock)
There is a mechanic you can use though. This time you can travel on the top of the dragons! This can make you reach some sky islands, the ones not that high
Just make sure to have a gear that is resistant to the Ice and Fire dragons
The Light Dragon flies over 5km I think, and take 2 real world hours complete it's travel around Hyrule. You can mount her from the top of the archipelago you start the game, you just have to... wait 2 hours for her and then travel on top of her until you reach the island you want to reach and... good luck
(But Don't finish Tears of the Kingdom questline, for doing so the Light Dragon will go down from 5km+ to ~2km and you will no longer be able to reach every island from her, although it becomes much easier and fast to find spots to mount her to farm her scales/horns/etc)
