So I recently started playing ToTK, having finished BotW some time ago.
Playing through, all is well until I find myself in the Depths and having to return.
Selecting shrines or towers on the map gives no option to warp to them whatsoever.
Have I managed to softlock myself out of teleporting?
SOLUTION: I forgot I changed my health because fuck this tutorial. Changing it back to 3 before opening the second door makes it work.
There is a big door behind the goddess statue inside the temple, after you learn rewind you have to press a button to push on it and it consumes your hearts, but you will fail because it needs you to have 4 hearts. That triggers the cutscene to grab the fourth shrine, so you have enough to get the extra heart from the statue.
Opening that particular door is the trigger to unlock the tutorial and let you into the open world, it is, as far as is known, a required step, and even speedrunners do it because there are no known skips. If what you did somehow skipped that and was not just a goof on your part, you have just found out a glitch that will shave minutes off a speedrun and speedrunners would be very interested to know how you did it, if you can recall.
After restarting and finding the tutorial incredibly infuriating, I’m guessing I edited my health earlier in my previous playthrough than I thought.
Just as an aside though, I think it’s silly game design to lock an entire feature behind a single conversation. Kinda feels like it should’ve automatically activated once I opened that door, cheats or not.
Ah, ok, the trigger that unlocks fast travel is activate scene to push the door and then cancel it, so even with edited hearts you would have to cancel the door opening instead of succeeding to unlock it first, your other save is definitely boned.
You could find one of the columns and ascend to the surface, then find a piece of sky and rewind back up or shoot up with a tower, but that door is already opened and you’d never be able to fail and unlock fast travel.