I finally bought a switch a few weeks ago and the first game I got was BOTW after hearing its praises for over a year now. My Zelda experience was not fun for me however. After about 5-7 hours I had managed to die multiple times, start walking a direction just to turn around in another direction 30 min later because I couldn’t decide if I wasn’t supposed to be in that area or if I’m just bad at the game, and ultimately just not know how many upgrades I should have roughly by the time I make it to point X in the game. Was I not exploring enough? Was it alright to already make it to this point in the game? Don’t get me wrong, I knew this game wouldn’t hold my hand going into it. I just didn’t expect me to be turned off by it as much as I was.
I couldn’t let that be my experience to a game that I’ve heard SO much about. So instead of putting the game down, possibly without ever coming back to it, I decided to just use a Walkthrough. I must say, I’m enjoying the game a whole lot more now. I don’t use the walkthrough for the shrines though. I want to solve the puzzles on my own. I’m basically just using the walkthrough to make sure I’m doing the game in a more structured way instead of wandering around lost.
So what’s everybody else’s stance on walkthroughs/faqs? Never? Always? Only when stuck? Certain genres (I do tend to like a walkthrough for my jrpgs and I don’t know why.)
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