Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a ridiculous amount of Korok seeds because you were never meant to find them all

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild fans have come to the conclusion that you're not meant to find all the Korok seeds in the game.

Spend any amount of time roaming around Hyrule in Zelda Breath of the Wild, and you'll come across your fair share of Korok seeds. They're everywhere, in fact, and while gathering a healthy supply of them is easily doable, collecting every single one isn't a task for the faint-hearted. Moreover, as one Zelda fan recently pointed out, it's probably not something you're actually supposed to do. 

There are no less than 900 Korok seeds in total, and Twitter user CptAstro argues that such a large amount was added to the game "so that no matter where you went, would you find some", but "you were never meant to find all 900". As fans will know, the reward for spending countless hours combing the landscape for every last seed is an item called Hestu's Gift, which is an entirely useless object that looks like a small golden poo. The Twitter user adds that this utterly bizarre reward is a way of "discouraging more players" from pursuing this time-consuming and ultimately pointless endeavour.

THERE WERE 900 KOROK SEEDS SO THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU WENT, YOU WOULD FIND SOMEYOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO FIND ALL 900THE GAME GIVES YOU LITERAL POOP FOR FINDING ALL OF THEM TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ACHIEVEMENTWHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY*DISCOURAGING* MORE PLAYERS TO PURSUE THIS pic.twitter.com/hGV3z8yDcMApril 27, 2023

It appears that Nintendo felt that collecting 441 Korok seeds, the number required to max out Link's inventory space was enough, and if you happen to still be on the hunt for them, you're better off calling it quits there unless, of course, you're dead set on having a golden turd in your collection.

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