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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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brainchild Hey, it's been a while! Throwing up the bat signal! I've continued to record videos every time I play and I continue to find cool little things. It's amazing. But I do hate juggling this thread with the other one :p
Edit: There's actually a number on this page I wanted to show you too but I dunno about posting all my videos in two threads.. one is spam enough lol.
I think you might find these interesting!
Edit: There's actually a number on this page I wanted to show you too but I dunno about posting all my videos in two threads.. one is spam enough lol.
I think you might find these interesting!
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Sup, man. At this point you've probably logged more hours in BOTW than I have!
And yeah, sparks have a distinct classification in the chain of properties for the chemistry engine, which is something I'll cover in more detail in a future video analysis for the game.
Okay one last one.
It just interrupted this Korok puzzle! I just love random feeling encounters in the game. So good.
It just interrupted this Korok puzzle! I just love random feeling encounters in the game. So good.
I wish there was a Beastiary that told you how many of every enemy type you've ever defeated as well as how many of every item type you've ever collected.
Well the Hero's Path does record deaths for the last 300 hours. But yeah, a nice screen full of statistics would be awesome. Don't think Nintendo would ever put it in though.
Finally beat the game. I'd say the first 20 hours were massively underwhelming, but once I started getting better gear, more stamina and health, Revali's Gale, etc. as well as getting used to the mechanics as well as filling out travel points, theeeeeen I started getting into the game.
At first I'd say the game felt quite empty, and yeah, there is a lot of stuff that just seems barren beyond korok seeds and random shrines, I started to appreciate the ecosystems of plants, bugs, wildlife, and enemies that become reinforced once I started focusing on upgrading my armour. The downside was that armour upgrading felt very very grindy. The armour also made potions feel redundant/useless. I get that putting on your strongest armour and eating a spicy pepper is more ideal than wearing the cold-resist armour, but for most of the game my armour was all very even in terms of the level it was at, so I would just switch out what I was wearing.
My biggest complaint was the one echoed by a lot of people, that the dungeons were underwhelming. I get that the shrines replaced the dungeons in part, but blasting through a divine beast in half-an-hour was laughable. The Elephant one was my first, and it took the longest, prolly like 90 minutes, but the other three were between 30-60 minutes.
The real shocker was Hyrule Castle...
Also, y'all know that there aren't "painters," right? That's all one dude ;)
At first I'd say the game felt quite empty, and yeah, there is a lot of stuff that just seems barren beyond korok seeds and random shrines, I started to appreciate the ecosystems of plants, bugs, wildlife, and enemies that become reinforced once I started focusing on upgrading my armour. The downside was that armour upgrading felt very very grindy. The armour also made potions feel redundant/useless. I get that putting on your strongest armour and eating a spicy pepper is more ideal than wearing the cold-resist armour, but for most of the game my armour was all very even in terms of the level it was at, so I would just switch out what I was wearing.
My biggest complaint was the one echoed by a lot of people, that the dungeons were underwhelming. I get that the shrines replaced the dungeons in part, but blasting through a divine beast in half-an-hour was laughable. The Elephant one was my first, and it took the longest, prolly like 90 minutes, but the other three were between 30-60 minutes.
The real shocker was Hyrule Castle...
So I climbed up some walls and then swam up some waterfalls and I got to Ganon in a few minutes...
That's so broken. I mean, I broke it, and I missed out on a lot of gear and stuff, but c'mon. They should have designed the castle in a way that wasn't so trivial to skip.
That's so broken. I mean, I broke it, and I missed out on a lot of gear and stuff, but c'mon. They should have designed the castle in a way that wasn't so trivial to skip.
Also, y'all know that there aren't "painters," right? That's all one dude ;)
So i'm 25 hours into this and hadn't had any problems with the enemies whatsoever.. but then i faced this Lynel guy near Zoras domain and god damn he was hard. It took me about 10 tries but it was enough to remind me of the hardest Souls bosses i've faced. Something about the controls makes me just press all the wrong buttons in stressed situations and having to go into the menus to heal doesn't help.
Either way, now I have a lot more respect for the difficulty of this game. People weren't kidding.
Either way, now I have a lot more respect for the difficulty of this game. People weren't kidding.
The toughest non-boss enemies in Zelda are usually either Lynels, Iron Knuckles, or Darknuts. Personally, I've always felt that Lynels were the hardest of the three. I'm so glad they finally showed up in a 3D Zelda, and that their design and fights were pretty much nailed perfectly*.
Except for the striping on the silver and gold ones. The red and blue ones look a lot better.
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Okay one last one.
It just interrupted this Korok puzzle! I just love random feeling encounters in the game. So good.
I've been enjoying your clips a lot, but try to avoid posting more than twice in a row. o/
I can't even get going in this game. I'm floundering trying to figure out how to get to the third initial shrine, i freeze and lose hearts, my weapons break almost immediately, it is insanely annoying always having to switch weapons/bows/shields, managing the inventory is a chore.
Just ugh so far.
Just ugh so far.
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Cooking is your friend. You can make meals that will protect you from the cold. Also, try finding the old man's hut. He can give you something that will help in exchange for something.
I played BotW specifically on the Switch, but I used to just leave my Wii U running all the time. You can disable the auto power off feature in settings.
I'm sure this wasn't ideal in terms of electricity use but it's not as though the Wii U is particularly greedy in that department.
I agree inventory management could have been handled better (and probably was before they pulled all the Gamepad features), but what aspect of switching weapons is giving you trouble? Just press the D-Pad.
I actually think the act of "swapping tools" is smoother in BotW than any other Zelda, save perhaps Skyward Sword with its wheel + pointer.
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Making my way through the Champion's Ballad. Some of these shrines are among the best in the game. And that combat shrine on the Plateau--more of the combat shrines should have been creative like that! As it was, they were all so samey, or literally exactly the same.
Edit: There we go, finished the story DLC. The DLC shrines are pretty much all of top-tier quality, and the dungeon rivals Naboris for imparting confusion. The DLC boss is the real news though. That fucker was a) pretty arguably the best boss in the game, with the coolest music other than Ganon himself, and b) basically a superboss by Zelda standards, because fuck, was that guy obnoxious in Master Mode!
Edit: There we go, finished the story DLC. The DLC shrines are pretty much all of top-tier quality, and the dungeon rivals Naboris for imparting confusion. The DLC boss is the real news though. That fucker was a) pretty arguably the best boss in the game, with the coolest music other than Ganon himself, and b) basically a superboss by Zelda standards, because fuck, was that guy obnoxious in Master Mode!
That motorcycle is still ridiculous.
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You can't just dive in. One is accessible only after acquiring the Master Sword, the other once you completed the Divine Beasts.
In that case, yes. 'Trial of the Sword' is a pure combat dlc with three separate parts, each consisting of many levels increasing in difficulty. You have to go through each without dying or you go back to the beginning of that particular trial.
It can be fun, but if combat isn't your favourite part of BotW I wouldn't bother with that one.
'Ballad of the Champions' is bigger and you could almost say, more of the same. You get new challenging shrines, a new Divine Beast and there is a very cool reward once you get through it. Also fleshes out the Champions a little more.
Question.
I got into the Calamity Ganon fight by mistake, only have 1 divine beast done. If I die during the fight, do I have to redo his earlier stages, the electric, fire, and whatever the first one was? Kind of want to die on purpose.
Does beating Ganon this early lock me out of anything? Can I still do the Divine Beast stuff?
I got into the Calamity Ganon fight by mistake, only have 1 divine beast done. If I die during the fight, do I have to redo his earlier stages, the electric, fire, and whatever the first one was? Kind of want to die on purpose.
Does beating Ganon this early lock me out of anything? Can I still do the Divine Beast stuff?
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When you defeat him, it'll just load you to just before the boss fight the next time you load your save. So, technically, you can go back and finish everything else afterwards. Never heard of anyone doing it that way, though, hah.
I also have a quick question!
I'm early into the game (~15-20h) and just made my way to Zora's domain after Kakariko/Hateno village. I have to swim up a mountain and face this 'Lynel' on top. Unfortunately he seems about a million times stronger than anything I've faced. His attacks kill me in a single hit (I only have 4/5 hearts so far) and my weapons seem to barely do any chip damage. The game has been reasonably easy thus far so I feel like I'm here way too early into the game. Am I supposed to go somewhere else entirely and save this bit for later? Or should I just keep trying? Some defense-boosting-food seems to help but even then I might not even get him down before all my weapons break. Or am I supposed to sneak around him and just pick up the electric arrows? The game doesn't seem very clear on this to me.
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Game doesn't quite blow me away like some of my friends have described it, but I am liking it more and more as I progress. :)
I'm early into the game (~15-20h) and just made my way to Zora's domain after Kakariko/Hateno village. I have to swim up a mountain and face this 'Lynel' on top. Unfortunately he seems about a million times stronger than anything I've faced. His attacks kill me in a single hit (I only have 4/5 hearts so far) and my weapons seem to barely do any chip damage. The game has been reasonably easy thus far so I feel like I'm here way too early into the game. Am I supposed to go somewhere else entirely and save this bit for later? Or should I just keep trying? Some defense-boosting-food seems to help but even then I might not even get him down before all my weapons break. Or am I supposed to sneak around him and just pick up the electric arrows? The game doesn't seem very clear on this to me.
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Game doesn't quite blow me away like some of my friends have described it, but I am liking it more and more as I progress. :)
I'm also early into the game and actually just did that part the other day! I had weapons with strengths ranging from about 26 to a two-handed weapon with 46 in power (you can find plenty of weapons with this strength just east of Hateno in the Hateno Beach area). Imo this was the first really enjoyable fight in the game ^^ I had five hearts going into the fight and he did four hearts and three quarters in one hit, thus almost one-hit killing me. And I love it! It was really suspenseful. Don't worry, his attacks are really easy to dodge. Hold ZL, jump backwards when he attacks you, and go for flurry rush attacks. It may feel like you're just chipping away, but he'll be defeated faster than you might realize :) I was also worried that all my weapons would just break, but flurry rushes do quite a bit of damage so I managed with several weapons to spare.
You could just sneak the arrows if you want, you don't have to defeat the Lynel. Remember, you get to choose your own adventure!
But if you want to beat it you should make yourself some temporary hearts and/or increase your attack damage. A high attack meal is best.
You can give yourself temporary hearts along with any other buff you choose. To really get effective meals and such down, mix together different foods that share the same buff, or mix a bunch of the same. That always gives a strong result. 5 bananas, 5 razor shrooms, or 5 mighty porgy for example will all give you high attack buffs.
I find attack to be way more useful than defense. Go high attack, it makes a big difference.
If you hit a Lynel in the face with an arrow he becomes weakened and you can mount it for a few seconds and unleash blows on it.
Remember, Stasis is your friend. As long as you interrupt whatever he's doing with a Stasis freeze his stance will reset (IIRC).
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That part is actually meant to be a stealth mission. You can collect the arrows while avoiding his attention. Unfortunately if you die, it reloads you in front of him, so you may need to run away and come back after you no longer have his attention.
Thanks for the replies!
I'll give it a few more tries then. Maybe go back to town and cook some extra food first. I didn't think of using stasis so I'll have to try that. I also have to learn how to master the dodge, seems I haven't quite nailed the timing yet.
It being a stealth mission makes sense though. So if I can't take it down I'll just pick up the arrows and return at a later time. Can't have it remain there undefeated of course. :p
I'll give it a few more tries then. Maybe go back to town and cook some extra food first. I didn't think of using stasis so I'll have to try that. I also have to learn how to master the dodge, seems I haven't quite nailed the timing yet.
It being a stealth mission makes sense though. So if I can't take it down I'll just pick up the arrows and return at a later time. Can't have it remain there undefeated of course. :p
If I recall correctly there is a quest in Zora's Domain to take a picture of that Lynel. I missed it the first time I was there and I picked it up hours later when I had much better gear, more hearts and general experience with the game. Snapped the picture, then killed that mofo. Felt good.
Aaaand then he came back with the new Blood Moon.
I didn't even bother going up to the top my first time there and instead opted to just buy electric arrows elsewhere. A lot of shops sold them. I got most of mine from Laurelin Village during my exploring and procrastinating.
Yeah it can take a while. You basically need to learn it for every single enemy attack as well.
Some moves can't be dodged though from what I can tell. BUT I think every move can be parried (even many you wouldn't expect to be able to), but that doesn't mean it's easy.
The rule is basically wait until the last second before the hit contacts you or as it contacts you, even AFTER it hits if that makes sense.. Maybe it's a collision or programming thing but many times I parry the enemy attack already looks like it's inside me. So just wait til the last moment with dodges or parties.
If you really wanna practice dodging and parrying that's where temp hearts and high defense food can come in handy.
For Wii U players: Has the framerate been improved since launch? I think I read that 1.4.1 was supposed to include gameplay improvements but is it leaning more towards a steady 30fps yet? Don't want to shell out for a Switch but would love some BOTW action
I just am having a blast with the second DLC so far, just started tonight. But I'm getting frustrated on my current quest because I feel like I'm missing something.
I'm doing Urbosa's quest and the three things they show me on the pedestal are impossible to find on the map, and Kass's cryptic song isn't helping. I just looked the quest up and even after spoiling a location for myself, I have absolutely no idea how someone is supposed to find that given the limited information we're given. Am I missing something or am I just dumb?
I'm doing Urbosa's quest and the three things they show me on the pedestal are impossible to find on the map, and Kass's cryptic song isn't helping. I just looked the quest up and even after spoiling a location for myself, I have absolutely no idea how someone is supposed to find that given the limited information we're given. Am I missing something or am I just dumb?
Just got out of the beginning zone and got my first extra heart and the paraglider. The art direction in this game is fantastic. Also love the lightning they use. It feels so soft and natural.
Liking it so far!!
Only the framerate is a bit iffy when i play docked. But the tablet is smooth and i prefer to play it that way so not a biggie
Liking it so far!!
Only the framerate is a bit iffy when i play docked. But the tablet is smooth and i prefer to play it that way so not a biggie
Yes! The lighting in this game really is something! Combined with the cel shaded look it's got it's really wonderful looking!
I love how all the shadows play out on the environment and well...everything!
My mobile doesnt like this page with all this video's Lol..
Just arrived in Kakuriko Village or something like that.. man this game is starting to get good!!
My mind was a bit blown when i found out that your arrow gets on fire when you shoot them threw Campfires or sorts. Took down a couple of enemies with a singel arrow + campfire + Bomb barrels.
Just arrived in Kakuriko Village or something like that.. man this game is starting to get good!!
My mind was a bit blown when i found out that your arrow gets on fire when you shoot them threw Campfires or sorts. Took down a couple of enemies with a singel arrow + campfire + Bomb barrels.
You can bake an apple hanging on a tree with a drawn lit arrow. Or a torch. There is a volcano location later in the game where the ground is so hot that you can just drop your food and it will bake itself in couple of seconds.
Yup. Just go to Goron City or anywhere near the volcano and drop all the Apples you can on the ground. It'll bake them, or any food, right up.
So today was eventful for me. I got all 900 Korok seeds and happily expected to be at 100%...
...only to find out that I'm only at 99.02%...
According to IGN I probably missed a "location" because for some reason locations are part of the percentage and there's like 226 of them or so. But it's hard to know that you found them. What are they? Are they the words on the map? Because I don't know which ones I would have missed or how to find and activate them.
Either way, the only other things I really have left to do are Trial of the Sword, which is a pain in the ass so fuck it for now, and find whatever armor is still scattered around. I'm sure I have thousands of chests left all over. For now though I'm happy and content in my completion. I can retire the game for a long while and maybe start up a Master Mode game in a few years when I'm bored while we wait to see what the next Zelda game ends up being.
...only to find out that I'm only at 99.02%...
According to IGN I probably missed a "location" because for some reason locations are part of the percentage and there's like 226 of them or so. But it's hard to know that you found them. What are they? Are they the words on the map? Because I don't know which ones I would have missed or how to find and activate them.
Either way, the only other things I really have left to do are Trial of the Sword, which is a pain in the ass so fuck it for now, and find whatever armor is still scattered around. I'm sure I have thousands of chests left all over. For now though I'm happy and content in my completion. I can retire the game for a long while and maybe start up a Master Mode game in a few years when I'm bored while we wait to see what the next Zelda game ends up being.
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Wow, that's awesome! My completion rate is close to 50% last I checked. I think at this point I'll restart the game to try and get 100% completion on a new save file. The Hero's Path might help you find the location that you've missed.