It's not one thing, I forgave one or two things, it just keeps happening over and over that missing basic info causes huge un-fun headaches

• I wasted like 3 hours bashing my head against a wall not knowing how to progress getting caught in the storm multiple times, because I didn't ever have enough food to sleep before the time ran out. Until eventually finding out that the seemingly background decoration blue fruits it never told me were food are food...

• Maybe I would have tried picking them up, if not for the fact that it's never told me what the point of weapons are, which seem basically totally useless, so I stopped experimenting with pickup-ables. Hitting enemies just slightly knocks them to one side which is almost never useful, so I don't see the point. I'm probably wrong because there's like 15 weapons and I doubt they'd include all those for no reason, but none of them appear to do anything more than trivially helpful, so stopped trying.

• Got scammed out of a couple more hours of frustration by repeatedly arbitrarily dying to that freaking vulture out of nowhere with zero warning. I'm in the middle of a body of water, and the thing swoops out suddenly and randomly and insta-kills me before I can more like 10 feet in either direciton. Uhhh... fun... cool. Maybe there's a way to predict it, but game never taught me if there was and I don't even see the subtlest of indicators (there's a shadow a few seconds before but it's way too late already by then if you aren't RIGHT next to cover)

• The little orange guide is great, although annoyingly sporadic. Would be nice to have a button I can hit to make him show me the way. That was you can have more immersion if you want but if you're just sick of being lost you can say "okay tell me where, enough" when you want to. I feel like I aimlessly wandered in circles for probably a combined nother hour or two just waiting for him to show up knowing I was lost already.

• But then he just completely stopped showing up at all... I haven't seen him for the last hour anywhere. So I have no idea what on earth I'm supposed to do. I got to the little guy with the white flies above his head, I grabbed one and he was like "no no!" so I put it back down and looked for a way out, but nothing, nada, complete dead end. No help at all from the orange guide. I brought him pearls in case that's what he wanted. He didn't give a shit, threw them at him, they pass right through him into the water. No other way forward, so they're forcing me to eat the flies, apparently. I eat them, he dies I guess, and I get a glow around me. Okay great, something changed, game is progressing I suppose. But NOPE, still no guide, no door open, no change, still a dead end, no idea what's going on, quit the game in great frustration after aimlessly wandering forever, and came to reddit.

• My only remaining theory is that the achievement nodes are relevant somehow, but they also appear to do nothing at all, or if they do the game did not bother to tell me anything about it. I got survivor and "The Saint" so far, but neither appear to do anything. Do they give me some powerup like double jump or something I can use to access a next area? If so I don't know how to activate it or what it is.

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