The Last Hero Of Nostalgaia: Beginner's Guide

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The Last Hero of Nostalgaia wears its heart on its sleeve and showcases its clear Dark Souls inspiration with clever level design, challenging boss encounters, and even obtuse phrasing and information funneling, having you piece together bits and pieces of the game's lore and the world through item descriptions or vague dialogue from NPCs.

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Fortunately, like most Soulslikes, The Last Hero of Nostalgaia has ways you can make things much easier on yourself. While it will be impossible to eliminate the challenge of your first run-through, there are many things you can do to prepare yourself for the daunting and bleak world ahead of you.

Tethers are The Last Hero of Nostalgaia's version of Bonfires, the game's checkpoint system that allows you to level up, increase your Heroic Icon (Estus Flask), and more.Resting at a Tether will bring all enemies back to life, save for bosses you have slayed, and restore your Heroic Icons. However, one more aspect of Tethers is crucial to understanding how it works to avoid trapping yourself in a dire situation. And that's how the Warp mechanic works.

Whenever you rest at a Tether, you will see the "Set Tether" option, with the "Tether Warp" option directly underneath it. Setting your Tether will make whichever Tether you are currently at your Warp Point, allowing you to travel back to it from any other Tether in the game with the aforementioned "Tether Warp" option.

Setting your Tether doesn't make it so you will spawn there whenever you die, so please avoid marking every Tether as your Warp Point, as you can potentially paint yourself into a frustrating corner. Whenever you activate a Tether or rest at one, that will be your spawn point for