How a wrong turn led to a 40-hour Elden Ring marathon in Tears of the Kingdom

The author of this article spent 40 hours playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom before discovering the existence of armor upgrades. They had assumed that meeting the Great Fairies would happen as part of a main mission later on in the story. The author struggled through three of the four major boss battles using a combination of buffed meals, elixirs, and a steady stream of Bomb Flowers. It wasn't until they took a peek at their colleague's armor screen that they realized they had missed something huge and had to go back to the Lucky Clover Gazette to learn about the Great Fairies and their armor-buffing abilities.