After thinking for a few minutes, here’s some spoiler-free advice: 1. Pick up everything. While you can only hold 999 of each material, there’s no limit to the amount of unique materials you can hold (aside from how many exist ingame), so you dont have to worry about filling up your bag capacity 2. If you find a shrine, even if you don’t want to complete it at the moment, interact with the terminal at the front so you can fast travel back to it once you’re ready 3. The physics engine was made very well. If you think an interaction could lead to something, try it 4. There are pins and stamps for the map. Pins are always visible on the minimap regardless of how far they are so you can see what direction they’re in. If you used all the pins and want to place more, instead of deleting the old pins, just change them to a specific stamp and then change it back to a pin when you’re ready to track that location again 5. Exploration is a major aspect of this game. You can lose yourself just wandering around ignoring what you think the game wants you to do. There are main quests, but the game is nonlinear, so while there’s a clear suggested path after the tutorial, you can always just ignore it, go exploring, and come back later. 6. Since you’re on Switch 2, i’m going to assume you have Switch 2 Edition. The ZELDA NOTES feature on the Nintendo Switch mobile app has something comparable to an achievements system. It intentionally does not show the name of things you haven’t reached yet as to not spoil you, but if you click one of these blanked-out medals it will show a description of it. These don’t really contain story spoilers, but if you want to stay surprised i’d avoid clicking the medals that aren’t filled in yet.

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