Why not give me no indication of which direction I should be heading, so I come up against things I'm not equipped to deal with, then make it impossible to escape from them?

You know how Mario has the occasional bit of frustration among a sea of joy? This is like the opposite.

AJ wrote:

Why not give me no indication of which direction I should be heading, so I come up against things I'm not equipped to deal with, then make it impossible to escape from them?

You know how Mario has the occasional bit of frustration among a sea of joy? This is like the opposite.

Use the map and run away. It's not far cry with indicators. The idea is to explore the world, without that it's a ten hour but of nothingness.

And you can take anything on with anything.

I can't even comprehend that to respond mate. Greatest of all time, this game.

AJ wrote:

I'm leaning toward saying that this game is objectively badly designed

Lol.

You will definitely die more in this than any other 3D Zelda. That is indeed part of the learning.
At that point you have options though.
1. Bugger off elsewhere remembering that enemy type is tough.
2. Look for better weapons and/or craft buffs that will give additional hearts or damage variants.
3. Look to see if the enemy has a weakness or if the environment is offering things that can be used to help e.g piles of logs.
4. Use the tablet powers to your advantag and set traps.

I thought the game pretty naturally guided your progression Eastwards, which was certainly reflected by a good 70-80% of people's maps I saw heading east first.

You must be pretty bad at the game. Every single encounter can be toppled with stuff around the environment, with base health and stamina. It's been done. YouTube vids galore. You can do anything straight out the gate after leaving the plateau.

There are enemies that will one shot you easily - it teaches you to avoid them. There's always a way to escape. The game can be very much about stealth and avoidance and is often more enjoyable when played that way IMO. Sadly, the combat is not good enough to warrant getting into scraps constantly.

I need to give this more time. It seemed all-very-wonderful and I can absolutely see why people adore it, but it hadn't quite clicked with me. The survival stuff and weapon degradation irritated me too.

I've not tried it on the big screen. That might make a difference.

I didn't die much in this.  I was honestly crap at the combat too, never really got the timings down, often forgot the buttons.  I made sure I always had a stock of fairies as a safety net and if I faced something that swiped my hearts away too quickly I ran or warped.  Part of the beauty is that it caters for all sorts of players - people might say you're playing it wrong for rushing it, but I enjoyed doing the quest at a canter.

Great fairy spoilers below.

You can get more by fast travelling to Kakariko Village and heading up the hill to the fairy fountain.  There's another one within gliding distance of a tower but I can't remember where.  Restocking only ever took 3-4 minutes including load times.  I didn't venture out during blood moons.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Great fairy spoilers below.

You can get more by fast travelling to Kakariko Village and heading up the hill to the fairy fountain.  There's another one within gliding distance of a tower but I can't remember where.  Restocking only ever took 3-4 minutes including load times.  I didn't venture out during blood moons.

I find they don't restock except at blood moons. Maybe a patch changed it out something. Or I'm just not paying attention

Dark Soldier wrote:

The combat is incredibly easy.

I can't trust any of you any more.

You're taking to someone who gave up on Dark Souls in Undead Burg (I think that's what I was called; really early area) and has never played a Bayonetta on anything above normal. I often use the "casual" difficulty setting on things. I thought you knew this.

I barely used fairies during my playthrough. When you can make OP healing items from food very easily I found them pointless. Just pause the game and heal whenever you're in trouble. It makes all encounters trivial. One of the games big flaws if you ask me.

stonechalice wrote:

I barely used fairies during my playthrough. When you can make OP healing items from food very easily I found them pointless. Just pause the game and heal whenever you're in trouble. It makes all encounters trivial. One of the games big flaws if you ask me.

When you've few hearts and 1-2 hits from many things kill you, they're pretty damned useful. Also if, like me, you don't always remember to pay attention to how your health's doing.

I can’t recall exactly, but it’s in the SE of the map, the tower is next to a cliff, close to something that I don’t want to spoil but which was pretty much the only thing that I saw that I thought was genuinely pretty awesome in the whole game.