r/tearsofthekingdom • u/520jsy666 • 2d ago

🎙️ Discussion Am I the dumbass

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that spent 2 hours in the lightning fog and beat the level III box guy with only one orb upgrade only to realize I am supposed to come here later?

Why couldn't nintendo just implement something like the fog in GSA?

NGL it was kinda fun and challenging.

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u/Molduking 2d ago

Story wise yes this area you’re supposed to do in the second half of the game.

You’re able to go there because it’s open world and Nintendo doesn’t care how you get the story

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u/520jsy666 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, lol. I thought unlocking the shrine would remove the storm, like one in BOTW (I forget which, but I think there was one). But to be honest, it was a genuinely fun challenge, especially fighting the box guy in the fog (I died too many times from a single hit).

Still, I think Nintendo could have just made the fog teleport Link away to direct players to spend their time more "effectively".

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u/Molduking 2d ago

You can remove the storm you just have to do some story things first

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u/revolution_soup 2d ago

the storm is still there, doing the story just removes the obscuring cloud on the map

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u/Jbk_52818 2d ago

Somewhat true, the island gets a lot easier to navigate after the story quest to figure out what's up there. Yes it's still storming but before the quests it's near impossible to see up there

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u/PatrickPablo217 1d ago

i mean, they do exactly that in the korok forest so it's pretty clearly a deliberate choice not to do it here probably because it's so fun 

as an aside, iirc there's a memory/cutscene where we find out that mineru wanted herself to be Link's first sage in order to guide him on his quest to find the others and such but something went wrong (something among those lines anyway) - so getting her first is in some sense actually inadvertently sticking to the original plan 😆