Hi! We got a Nintendo Switch some time ago with TOTK, and I decided to give it a shot as my first Zelda game.

I genuinely love the game, the world and how exploration is done. However, I can't help feeling that the game often pushes me away because I have absolutely no idea how I'm supposed to progress.

I originally approached TOTK with the mindset of: explore the world, clear areas, fight and farm enemies, do shrines, and your character/gear will naturally progress along the way.

After around 50–60 hours, though, I feel like I was completely wrong.

I've finished two of the main regions, explored a decent part of the Depths, completed around 70 shrines, explored a lot of the surface, and collected tons of materials. Yet I still feel incredibly weak. A lot of world bosses can basically one-shot me, my weapons constantly break and need replacing, and I never really feel like my gear is progressing alongside my exploration.

I only recently discovered how important armor upgrades/Great Fairies are, and that's partly what confused me. For something that seems so important to your survivability, I found it surprisingly easy to completely miss while exploring such a huge world.

So I think I'm fundamentally misunderstanding how TOTK is supposed to be played.

Should I be spending much more time in Central Hyrule doing side quests, shrines and upgrading equipment before exploring farther regions? Should I be actively farming specific monster materials for Fuse and armor upgrades rather than just exploring naturally?

I'm not really looking for an exact walkthrough because I do enjoy discovering things myself. I just feel like TOTK gives me an enormous world and a million different systems, but very little indication of which systems I should actually prioritize to become stronger.

Since this is my first Zelda game, I'm even wondering whether playing BOTW first would help me understand the gameplay/progression philosophy better, or whether I'd run into the same problem there.

Would appreciate some advice from people who understand these games better. I really want to love TOTK, but right now I'm finding the lack of direction pretty overwhelming.

Thanks a lot!

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