"You're 120 hours into Tears of the Kingdom, you don't have the Master Sword yet, you don't have hardly any of the tears, you're still missing maps of areas...how are you playing this game?!"

I kind of have a way that I'm playing the game.

First off, I stay away from the sky because I have a fear of heights. I'll go there if I'm directed to, but I don't explore it much yet. I will, but not for a while yet.

Secondly, I havetn' gone underground. Not confident enough with the number of hearts I have. But I will eventually.

Thirdly, I rarely fast travel and talk to EVERYONE. I tend to ride Eopna to destinations, talking to everyone along the way. Quick way to get clues and learn about quests to go on. If the trip is a long way off, I'll try to glide there instead of fast travel. But I will fast travel if it's an area I've covered a lot or is a LONG ways away.

When I start the game, I look at my map. Any marks I've made of stuff that caught my eye, I'll visit now. Like Korok puzzles, shrines, that President Guy. Usually these are quick puzzles. I'll clear all those out.

After that, I go through my Adventure Log, from the bottom up, and finish/update as many as I'm able (skipping sky/underground stuff unless necessary or a main quest, or quests that take me to areas I've not opened up).

After I've done that, I'll try to unlock areas I've not opened up (I still have the Lurelin areas to map.

At the end of my day, I trade in all my korok seeds, trade out any poes I may have, grab any stamina/heart vessels I can, do a run through of all 26 of my amiibo, cook food, and stay at the Gerudo spa to get all my hearts back and some extra stamina. And spend time with the gals. :)

It's led to a lot of stuff done, but not a whole lot of the main game finished. But I'm not tired of it, or getting bored (minus the busywork scouring for caves, which I've started cheating on with walkthroughs).

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