OK, I must admit that it is a bit of a click bait heading so apologies. BUT......
I bought Breath of the Wild on the day of release and have repeatedly tried to get into it over the years. The formula is always the same - get a couple of hours in (at most) get stuck, give up. The “getting stuck” bit varies but usually means dieing in the middle of a hostile landscape and being unable to restart.
Let me explain with my current situation - maybe you can help me out of this tricky situation and also explain that it’s me, not bad design and help me love the game?
So I restarted about 45 minutes of game time ago, and decided to follow the IGN game guide to avoid issues. I am on The Isolated Plateau, headed towards the Shrine Owa Daim which is apparently at the eastern side of Mount Hylia.
I’ve been given several routes - one of which is across a Tundra behind The Temple of Time. I’m told to pick the peppers at the start and eat them to protect me against the cold, so I do and set out on my quest.
I start to lose hearts (even though it’s only -4 degrees, I mean WTF for a start? How can someone DIE in only -4 degrees???????). So I eat the pepper. No effect. It doesn’t protect me. I die.
Now the problem is, an auto save has kicked in at some point and everytime I restart the game I’m in the middle of the tundra and don’t have any peppers left.
I am completely stuck as I restart the game and if I try to get to the shrine, i die. If I try to get out of the tundra back to the temple of time, I die.
SOOOOOO, this is kind of typical of everytime I try to play this game? Surely this is bad design? I mean how can this happen? What if I’d played the game for days and got stuck like this? There seems to be no way out?
Or am I being stupid? Do I have to start the game again? Or is there a way out of this? And also can you recommend a good guide that wont get me into this trouble and will help me appreciate the game?
I want to love it so much. The environment is amazing, the graphics superb. It seems to have potential to be so so good - but I just can’t get into it.
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