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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT| I Did Not Know You Could Do This
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LMAO I just counted and I have 36 more replays from that one play session that I saved.
THIRTY. SIX.
Plus 5 more from another session!
Well, 34 after this post.
Good lord I love this rendition of the chest theme. I remember the first time I saw it when they revealed BOTWs name and they had that first Treehouse footage. I was totally :') because I was so blown away by how different the game was. I won't ever forget when I was watching that Treehouse stream. It was a dream come true. This jingle will always mean a lot to me. I love the mysterious atmosphere. So surreal. Pure Zelda to me.
THIRTY. SIX.
Plus 5 more from another session!
Well, 34 after this post.
Good lord I love this rendition of the chest theme. I remember the first time I saw it when they revealed BOTWs name and they had that first Treehouse footage. I was totally :') because I was so blown away by how different the game was. I won't ever forget when I was watching that Treehouse stream. It was a dream come true. This jingle will always mean a lot to me. I love the mysterious atmosphere. So surreal. Pure Zelda to me.
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You can stealth it and get the arrows that way. This is actually the intended method.
Woopsie, yeah I admit I'm skipping through dialogue pretty fast ;)
Alright maybe I'll try and cheese him a couple of times and then just move on.
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It's okay, I made that mistake at first as well until I realised what I was supposed to do. :P
I personally just wanted to try my luck :V When I realized how tanky he was I said eff it and let me see what happens when I GTFO dodge then go back and stock up on the arrows.
Also best chara in BOTW
FYI the method I put in spoilers is more or less the best method to taking him out at your current status...without breaking your strongest weapon ;3
My first Lynel was the one on a plateau in the tropical area (south region), he took a lot of resources but I took him down. When the zoras spoke about a lynel being a mighty beast it kinda got me excited, then when I saw him I went "oh this dude again huh ?" hah
Took my first Lynel down last night. Gave me what I needed to finish the last question at the top of the Deku Tree not that the reward was big. Those things are tough. Also took down the ice Talus for that quest. He was easier though. Also the fire Talus for the other quest. As long as I had the Unfreezable and Unburnable outfits it's just a matter of surviving and climbing. But those Lynels are super tough. I mean I have the food that gives you triple strength and the item that revives me once, but it's still so hard. And unless you go in with enough strong weapons you're screwed.
I also still have a bunch of "Major" tests of strength to take down. I've done one but it was just as hard so I need to find a bunch of caches of strong weapons that respawn from time to time that I can keep coming back to. Or maybe make myself some ancient weapons but that stuff costs a lot. Not that I don't have thousands of Rupees worth of gems in my pocket with hundreds of ancient gears and screws. I'm afraid to sell my gems thinking I might need them for something else like outfit upgrades so I hoard them. I shouldn't. I mean they come back after a while. So it's renewable. I should just do it. (I mean I'm going to need $10,000 to revive the last fairy once I get to her.)
The stamina keeps it from getting boring. Just do what I did and alternate until stamina is filled. Two circles are enough to get around for a while. So just get 5 hearts and 5 stamina capsules to start then go from there. I wouldn't want the world to be any smaller or larger. It's a perfect size with enough to do and enough ways to travel. I just wish horses could have destinations set like GTA and just let you ride automatically. The pathfinding could make sure it can actually get to the destination before setting out.
I also still have a bunch of "Major" tests of strength to take down. I've done one but it was just as hard so I need to find a bunch of caches of strong weapons that respawn from time to time that I can keep coming back to. Or maybe make myself some ancient weapons but that stuff costs a lot. Not that I don't have thousands of Rupees worth of gems in my pocket with hundreds of ancient gears and screws. I'm afraid to sell my gems thinking I might need them for something else like outfit upgrades so I hoard them. I shouldn't. I mean they come back after a while. So it's renewable. I should just do it. (I mean I'm going to need $10,000 to revive the last fairy once I get to her.)
I think the world is the perfect size. All the shrines scattered around make it easy to get where you want. Also, we have teleportation, horses, a motorcycle, an item that launches you into the air to fly further, shield surfing and sand seals, what more do you want? Haha
The stamina keeps it from getting boring. Just do what I did and alternate until stamina is filled. Two circles are enough to get around for a while. So just get 5 hearts and 5 stamina capsules to start then go from there. I wouldn't want the world to be any smaller or larger. It's a perfect size with enough to do and enough ways to travel. I just wish horses could have destinations set like GTA and just let you ride automatically. The pathfinding could make sure it can actually get to the destination before setting out.
You can use an ice arrow on a fire talus or a fire arrow on an ice talus to climb them too
Weapon durability doesn't wear out when you're riding a lynel after headshotting it
And yeah you should sell gems, you don't need that many and they're easy to farm
Weapon durability doesn't wear out when you're riding a lynel after headshotting it
And yeah you should sell gems, you don't need that many and they're easy to farm
Any tips for the Hinox's? Hinoxes? Hinoi? Whatever the plural of Hinox is?
I need to do that shrine quest with the Three Brothers. I took one down one day and saved before realizing it doesn't save progress for it so I gave up and put it off as I was not prepared for all three. They're just too much work. Not that they're difficult. I've taken down more of them than Lynels, and Taluses combined.
Also, I both hate and love that the Champions special powers are disabled when in shrines. It's annoying and satisfying at the same time. (Do they still work when on Eventide or do they get taken away? I haven't been there since I took down my first Divine Beast.)
Haha didn't go the way I expected.
Nothing special. Just leaving the area. Figured I didn't wanna kill every single enemy in the area. Not worth the effort. But I did escape with some rupees!
Nothing special. Just leaving the area. Figured I didn't wanna kill every single enemy in the area. Not worth the effort. But I did escape with some rupees!
I don't have the 2nd DLC so I don't have the bike. I didn't like horses from my early time riding one so I dropped it. Rivali's Gale can only have you cross certain distances for so long before you gotta clear the rest of the way on foot.
Shield Surfing on non snowy, sandy or grassy areas affects durability. It's fun but it's not something I can do everywhere. Sand Seals were awkward to control for me that I kinda voided it.
I didn't mind Stamnia for climbing and for the charged attacks, but didn't like that it affected my glide time, let me glide for eternity NInty! The map world is too big and empty, and I didn't find any rewards from combat or exploring to be too grand outside of Shrines, and by end game I only found 20 Korok seeds. Hell the Korok and limited inventory for combat items are stuff the game could've done without.
Shoot the eye with an arrow then go ham. If they hide their eye when aiming, stasis them first and take a quick shot
As for eventide I don't know, the only time I did it was before I cleared any dungeon on like 4 hearts
As others have said, just shoot them in the eye, then attack them while they lie down. I didn't use stasis, but just went closer and baited the attack where he slams his fist in the ground. It is very telegraphed and you have a pretty big window to dodge. He will always gaze after you with his eye after that attack, even after he starts shielding his eye when walking around.
On a different subject. Is it really worth it clearing every shrine before facing Ganon? I have like 91 at the moment and have finished the beasts and memories. I don't really want to spend hours searching for the last shrines, but if the payoff is huge I might reconsider.
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Yes all the armor and stuff from chests can be collected just off the Great Plateau. You should get a bunch of in game quest prompts that show up once you're off the Great Plateau.
It's awesome. I wish I had the DLC my first game. It's clear some parts were designed for that DLC to be there because I came across some super suspicious spots that led to nothing in my first game, but contained chests once I got the DLC in my second game.
It's a giant Easter egg hunt. These chests aren't easy to find. Even having a good idea where they are can still lead to a challenging search. It's even harder if you haven't captured the tower of the area the chest is in.
Some of the DLC items are very useful too. Some were a godsend in my second game on Master Mode.
Sorry and by "just off the Great Plateau" I mean the quests activate at that point, not that all the chests are there. They're scattered across Hyrule. You also need to find spots that tell you where the locations are in the first place.
You get a bonus set at 120 shrines that is really not good haha
Actually the set you get for this reward is one of my favorite outfits in the game. It's really terrific-looking and also can change colorrrrrrs
Also, I just finished DLC 2 recently and holy shit was it fantastic overall, and even more so at the climax. Hands down the best boss in the game, and the cutscenes were rad. I was actually shocked at how the bike feels. It's a really visceral and strangely spooky feeling you get when you ride it for the first time. I dunno, it just suddenly felt like I was playing a different game when the sun went down and the headlights came on and I was just zooming around on mountain peaks. It is a little hard to swing your weapon around when riding, but I'm getting pretty good at snipping the legs off of Guardians as I go by them :<
Also, the "I Didn't Know That" of the month for me was that holding the button to charge an attack while on horseback (or on the bike) while using a spear-type weapon makes Link twirl the thing in his fingers overhead. Legit gasped when I did that and also don't know how I hadn't done it yet haha.
Anyways my long march to find all the Koroks without a guide is coming along. Right about at 800 at this point. Honestly they're a great mechanism for just encouraging blind exploration. I've also got chests on for my sensor and I find any of them that pop into range. Eventually I'd like to find all of those as well, and maybe max out my rupee counter. That'll probably happen before I find these last ~100 Korok fellers. Game is still blissfully fun and the world is still pure joy to be in. I can't stop taking screenshots and videos, and that's normally not my MO with games.
Can I activate the harder mode in an already existing game like Wind Waker HD or does it require a new game and can't be disabled once you start like Twilight Princess HD? (I hated that change to TPHD. I liked that I could turn it on and off in WWHD if I needed to. For some reason TPHD needs a new game.)
The motorcycle is unlocked when you get all the shrines I think. At least I'm pretty sure it can't be found somewhere. So I don't even have it. I guess it's your reward for finding them all.
I also avoid horses most of the time. They're too hard to control unless they're highly trained. The Tips tell me they'll follow paths but I haven't seen that happen enough to believe it. I just collect them when I feel like it and leave them in the stables. Also when you hit Yah! too many times and it decides to stop.
I find the seals easier to control probably because they don't fight you and just go straight when you need to and the desert is mostly empty so there's less to run into. But I hate that you have to sneak up on them every time. They're not like horses in that regard.
With a full three wheels you can glide for a pretty long time. Remember you're constantly falling so it's not like you can go forever anyway. I wonder how far you can actually go if you have three wheels and jump from the top of the highest peak... Time to do some testing. I bet someone already did it.
There's actually an NPC on one of the towers that asks you to glide for as long as you can. I wish he'd appear at the top of Death Mountain and ask you that question. It's the only time it shows you your distance.
No. You can't activate it freely. It's a new game.
It is its own save file actually. It's basically got its own title screen. You also only get one manual save and one auto save if I'm not mistaken.
Your regular save data remains in a separate screen.
Lost a fairy due to a fluke paragliding onto the stunned Hinox's foot. Then I died with a sliver of its healthbar because my spear hit its legguard.
Screw you Trial of the Sword, I don't have the patience to spend another morning getting to that. >:(
Screw you Trial of the Sword, I don't have the patience to spend another morning getting to that. >:(
Man, fuck Thunderblight Ganon. This boss is literally "rage quit and never touch the game again" material. The other Ganons were a cakewalk. Just shoot them with arrows and occasionally whack with a sword. But this one is a piece of crap. The second form is impossible. I can't get any of the spikes near him in time. They keep getting hit with the lightning and he's always too far away. I'm wearing my rubber upgraded outfit but I still get hit and drop the spike. Asshole. Fuck him. Anyone have any tips? I've had enough of him for tonight.
I'm not sure but I think stasis and bomb arrows work ?
Which one ? :^)
I forget which form this is but I assume it's the same one I had trouble with. I remember only two being tough. The fire one I got stuck on because I couldn't figure out what to do against one of his attacks (I think I was being obtuse), but the other I just remember being a bastard. Are you in Vah Naboris?
Sorry, no tips. I don't even remember what the bosses were like for the most part.
Did you flip the controller around, so that the surface underneath the maze is flat? I waited for the ball to drop, with the now-flat platform at an angle and batted it onto the other ledge.
No I was using handheld mode. I did flip the switch then realised wtf am I doing I can't see the screen :D. I did it after like 50 goes, shit was infuriating. Cool game though. I'd only ever played twilight princess before this and this just feels more accessible from the start.
Ah, glad to hear you got it though; the motion control shrines really are a major hindrance if you're playing handheld the more I think on it.
Yeah it's quickly becoming one of my favourite Zelda titles for just that reason. Granted, the previous game in the series, A Link Between Worlds, is a bit of a game-design prelude to BotW in that it tries to be as open and accessible for the player possible, so whilst this is definitely the landmark Zelda title to really change the formula for people, I think it's been clear to Nintendo for years now that people grew tired of the style of gameplay apparent in both Skyward Sword, and as you mentioned, Twilight Princess. We're just seeing the fruits of that now.
What I did was that I kept pretty close to him so when he started that attack with the pillars I would be close enough to use the magnesis on the pillar and place it over him. I think one or two hits of those pillars and he is almost dead. Of all the Divine Beasts, that one was the one the felt the most rng based on his movement etc.
This scene that is supposed to be somber and merciful started looking very different all due to some coincidental timing. I thought hellfire was about to come raining down for a second...
So I'm curious, what if you never tame or ride a horse and then go fight the final boss? Does the game just spawn in a random horse?
It is. The other three were easy as pie. And took place in wide open flat areas. This one is in a clumsy cylinder with a lot of pillars and ramps in the way. Either way even if he stayed far away, he didn't use a shield so you could just keep firing away if you need to. This one has a shield. I guess I could waste Ancient arrows since it's a blue shield? But those are fucking EXPENSIVE and I don't want to test it out unless I know it works.
I can't. He keeps teleporting away just to be far from me. If I go close, he gets far. And most of the time I can't tell where he went because he's behind one of the structures in the way. (Can I change the layout of the room during the fight? Maybe I can change it to its more open layout?)
They keep getting destroyed. Will they remain if I manage to hide one under a bridge or ramp? I thought maybe using that metal chest from before would work since it was still rolling around from earlier but the lightning never seemed to hit it. And now it's gone since I died and they disappear once you open them. Oh well, I thought I was being clever keeping it around.
This is my last Divine Beast. I just want to get it done!
Try to think out of the box and experiment. The game lets you do more things than you can imagine.
Is it normal that after playing 40h and beating 2 dungeons I still only have like 3 armor sets (Zora, Rito, lady costumne) and none if the cool shit I see people sharing in screenshots?
Also I hate cooking, it slows down the pace of the game so much... I mean it's neat but with everything Switch fitting so well into my lifestyle (40y old, owns every console but despite loving technology and gfx I'm only playing Switch while using my ps4/xbo only for netflix) it sucks that the best game on the system has me spend the whole time cooking recipes when I only have 20 minutes to fuck around with the game during a lunch break or something.
Also I hate cooking, it slows down the pace of the game so much... I mean it's neat but with everything Switch fitting so well into my lifestyle (40y old, owns every console but despite loving technology and gfx I'm only playing Switch while using my ps4/xbo only for netflix) it sucks that the best game on the system has me spend the whole time cooking recipes when I only have 20 minutes to fuck around with the game during a lunch break or something.
I believe there is at least one new armor set associate with or can be bought in each town. You find others by doing certain shrines. If you haven't already, do one memory and then head back to Kakariko village for the Champion's tunic.
The tools you get access to from early on are what make this game amazing, play with them as much as you can: solving puzzles in the world to fighting enemies, they'll help make everything feel way more creative than simple action based combat of older Zeldas.
Have fun with it!
What sort of gear are you seeing shared in screenshots? From this page I see a guy with the Champion's Tunic on, and two posts showing off the Ancient Armour set. Go visit Impa at Kakariko to get you started on the path to both of these, outside of that a lot of the more beneficial gear comes from Shrines, I could give more info on where to find some if you're interested. Other than that, some of the more 'Zelda' gear is locked behind DLC or Amiibos, so if it's that stuff you're talking about, that's the only way you're getting them.
And as for cooking, is it to help with heat/cold climates, stamina regain, or health replenishment that you're looking for the most with it?
To anyone with the DLC pass, how does the ancient saddle work? Can I use it on multiple horses? Or at least take it off a horse and put it on a different one?
I have a mediocre horse right now that I'd like to use it on, but if it's a one-time use only then I'll just save it for a better horse down the line.
I have a mediocre horse right now that I'd like to use it on, but if it's a one-time use only then I'll just save it for a better horse down the line.
Haven't tried taking it back off of my ole' Freddy, but since you can only have one horse out at any one time, I don't see it ever being a one-time equip. Will try in a moment though.