The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT| A Link from the Past

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When you're a beginner who has low stamina, you can only tame horses that have spots on them, an npc at stable explain that to you.
Also, depending of its personality it will be easy or not to manipulate but don't expect it to turn 90° degree when you want it to turn specialy when it's running.

When it begin to walk, you only need to choose direction with your stick and you don't need to keep pressing the stick. It will move auto in the direction you choosen.
Stay on road if you want semi-auto pilot.

Edit: sorry for my bad english

That's incorrect, my first horse ever that i still have to this day was a full color horse that I managed to tame and we have the tightest bond ever. This could potentially be because I chose stamina as my first upgrade, but in general i didnt have a problem.
 
Ok I must be missing something then. How do I cook my stuff?

Use torch to take fire from logfire to the bowl, press Y to swipe the torch

open inventory, press X to hold an item and then A on each item to hold it, you can hold up to 5 items

then walk up to bowl and press A to cook
 
is there a way to equip bow besides going to inventory? If i have a melee weapon and i press ZR (wii u) to draw it doesn't automatically equip the bow, i have to go into inventory and equip it.

Thats odd, are controls differnt on wiiu compared to switch? ZR automatically brings up the bow on Switch. Only Y brings up melee weapons.
 
I set out from
Kakariko
to
Hateno
and I have no idea how I ended up on top of a snowy mountain with a giant
fucking black dragon just hanging out
. I noped out of there with the quickness.

The paraglider is so much fun. You can cover so much ground!

Beat the final boss after 59 hours.

All I can say is that this game set new standards for the industry, really, I don't see any open world game that can get close to that. It's polished at a rarely seen level, the gameplay is fantastic and used brillantly by the overworld which is probably the best openworld ever seen in a video game in term of level design. To be honest, it's probably a top 5 game in terms of level design. The world is charming, the sound design is amazing, quests are fun, shrines are cool, characters can be great and even the story was not underwhelming unlike most of zelda games.

It has a lot of flaws but what this game pulled is so incredible, so fantastic, I'm just going to ignore that because even with these flaws, it will be probably a game of a caliber I'll never see until the next decade.

btw the game said I only beat 19.85% of the game

Omg lol. Its hard to really understand just how huge this game is. I'm about 12 hours in and I thought the plateau was massive. I think I only saw about 40-50% of it before I left it too. I was honestly shocked that there were mountains and snow in the Plateau, I assumed it was a totally different region. Its so fucking massive holy shit.

And then on the road to the first village, I basically stuck to just the main road skipping over 2/3 of it. I cant wait to go back and explore every little bit.
 
is there a way to equip bow besides going to inventory? If i have a melee weapon and i press ZR (wii u) to draw it doesn't automatically equip the bow, i have to go into inventory and equip it.

If your bow broke than you have to press zr and the right on the dpad
 
That's incorrect, my first horse ever that i still have to this day was a full color horse that I managed to tame and we have the tightest bond ever. This could potentially be because I chose stamina as my first upgrade, but in general i didnt have a problem.

I'm just repeating what the npc said, lol
 
Thats odd, are controls differnt on wiiu compared to switch? ZR automatically brings up the bow on Switch. Only Y brings up melee weapons.

If you already have a weapon/bow/shield equipped, they're all appropriately mapped. If your weapon breaks and you don't have one equipped, Link just grabs at nothing. You have to equip a weapon first, and I don't believe you can access the quick menus without having a weapon already drawn.
 
That flurry rush mechanic gives you massive i-frames combined with slowdown and it isn't hard to get those to activate when you can be slightly outside the enemy's attack range so you are never really in any danger then do a backflip and it activates.

I find it hard to do against enemies with spears and rods/sticks
 
I'm really awful at this game. I didn't watch any gameplay before the game came out aside from whatever was in trailers, but I just don't know anything. I didn't know I needed to cook food to create buffs to cold areas, it took me such a long time to figure out how to get to that shrine without dying from the cold.

Now I can't find this dude to get the paraglider, but this one is just me being dumb I'm sure. I go to where all 4 shrines would cross in the middle of the map and I can't find him.

You can also
get the winter clothes from the old man in exchange for "something"
He hangs at different spots, also depending on the time of the day.
As per your question, keep looking for landmarks in that area. Or if you want a straight answer
go inside the castle's ruins and pray the goddess' statue.
 
Oh snap, the Blood Moon rises!

If you already have a weapon/bow/shield equipped, they're all appropriately mapped. If your weapon breaks and you don't have one equipped, Link just grabs at nothing. You have to equip a weapon first, and I don't believe you can access the quick menus without having a weapon already drawn.

You can quickly tap the ZR and press the right directional button when you have no bow. It'll bring up the quick menu for you to select a new bow.
 
Went to
Hateno
instead of
Kakariko
like I was supposed to/meaning to. Now I'm on
Eventide Island
which is really cool though I've died twice trying to do it lol.
 
This part with Ruta
the elephant
is the shittiest in the game by far,its not hard but very annoying,with unstable framerate and i had to let the ice cubes hit me to be on the correct side for the final arrow after many tries but not sure why :/

I don't know about the other beasts, but that part really flashed me. It was so much fun! I didn't expected it and it blew me away.

Don't know about your problem though, it worked for me perfectly.
 
If you already have a weapon/bow/shield equipped, they're all appropriately mapped. If your weapon breaks and you don't have one equipped, Link just grabs at nothing. You have to equip a weapon first, and I don't believe you can access the quick menus without having a weapon already drawn.

As long as you hold ZR, even if Link is just doing its empty hand animation pressing right will pull up the bow quick switching
 
Should I be selling those rock items like Rubys and amber and the items I get from the Guardians or will I be able to craft using those items later in the game?
 
If you don't know what the names "Ruta" and" Spring of Wisdom" mean, don't click the spoiler.

WOW that was incredible. I kept hearing about how the dungeons aren't all that but I thought it was outstanding. The build up, the puzzles, even the boss fight were enthralling! After that I went to explore Lanayru mountain but I didn't have any food for the cold. Luckily I kept my flame blade in tact, I just equipped it, put on my warm clothes, and voila! The last thing I expect was to see the ice dragon. Paragliding and shooting his infected spots... yeah this game is incredible

I'm kind of starting to see where all the 10/10 are coming from. This really is an exceptional game. Though I have to say, so far I think I like Skyward Sword better.

*runs*
 
I made it out of the plateu without getting the warm mallet. Much later I returned and climbed Mount Hylia but nothing happened. Still, there is a big rock with smaller rocks around it, and the ground is weared off like the shape of the rock, suggesting the rock could be laid there. After some time trying everything I could think of I gave up. The rock didn't seem to respond to weapons, stasis, bombs...so, does anyone know if you can do something with it? The whole setup screams "Koro seed" to me :S
 
Should I be selling those rock items like Rubys and amber and the items I get from the Guardians or will I be able to craft using those items later in the game?

Keep the guardians parts.
You can sell the gems but keep some you will need them later, I don't know exact the amount.
 
I don't know about the other beasts, but that part really flashed me. It was so much fun! I didn't expected it and it blew me away.

Don't know about your problem though, it worked for me perfectly.
It looked cool the first time but i was just glad it was over :S

Couldn't be on the correct side after unless i let them hit me wich was very weird
 
Any tips for mounting wild deer? They keep shaking me off/draining stamina. Is there a way to soothe them or should I stock up on stamina replenishing foodstuffs?

More in particular, it's regarding a Shrine:
Up on a hill plain near Kakariko, Kass is next to a buried Shrine and sings something about a crown of bone. I'm assuming I need to mount and tame the stag in the area (which looks a bit different than usual, I think). He keeps shaking me off though.

If you don't know what the names "Ruta" and" Spring of Wisdom" mean, don't click the spoiler.

WOW that was incredible. I kept hearing about how the dungeons aren't all that but I thought it was outstanding. The build up, the puzzles, even the boss fight were enthralling! After that I went to explore Lanayru mountain but I didn't have any food for the cold. Luckily I kept my flame blade in tact, I just equipped it, put on my warm clothes, and voila! The last thing I expect was to see the ice dragon. Paragliding and shooting his infected spots... yeah this game is incredible

I'm kind of starting to see where all the 10/10 are coming from. This really is an exceptional game. Though I have to say, so far I think I like Skyward Sword better.

*runs*
Both of these areas, especially the latter encounter, were amazing.
 
I hate that even in BOTW there still isn't a way to mute the "nearly dying" beeping sound, ugh SO FREAKIN' ANNOYING! Can't wait for cheat/mods to appear for the Wii U version... TLOZ:SS was unplayable for me without using Ocarina codes to shut Fi's mouth and get rid of the beeping and much more.
I don't even carry skeletons' arms anymore because they too make an annoying constant sound.

Can I get a straight answer: is there a way to swap a shield or bow (maybe via the d-pad quickmenu) for a new one when your inventory is full without having to go into the menu? You can throw weapons to fix this issue but not shields/bows as far as I can see. Solution? :)
 
That's incorrect, my first horse ever that i still have to this day was a full color horse that I managed to tame and we have the tightest bond ever. This could potentially be because I chose stamina as my first upgrade, but in general i didnt have a problem.
This is also my experience.
 
This part with Ruta
the elephant
is the shittiest in the game by far,its not hard but very annoying,with unstable framerate and i had to let the ice cubes hit me to be on the correct side for the final arrow after many tries but not sure why :/

You do realize you could
swin on the waterfall, let it launch you to the air, open the glider, glide to the other side of the elephant and snipe from there? You even get the time stop when you pull your bow while gliding
 
Frankly the Spring of Wisdom is one of the best moments in any game I've played in the last 5 years or so.
The unique serenity of the environment and music combined with the visuals, animations and game mechanics manage to produce some powerful sense of grandeur in a way that is anything but cheap, the melancholic ending to the sequence is the icing on the cake. A minimal story told solely through interesting gameplay and action above the words.
 
Being busy sucks, but I have got to put a decent chunk of time in finally. I went in almost completely blind, barely even watching the E3 blowout footage, so even the Great Plateau was a new experience for me. And I explored it very thoroughly and just made it to the next area. It's fun so far but nothing extraordinary... Lots of empty space just as I'd feared. But if anything, that was a hell of a lot better than the last several 3D Zeldas with long, boring ass tutorials. Gonna play more now :)
 
This part with Ruta
the elephant
is the shittiest in the game by far,its not hard but very annoying,with unstable framerate and i had to let the ice cubes hit me to be on the correct side for the final arrow after many tries but not sure why :/

You can very easily float over to the other side...
 
You can buy it in the second village you encounter.
Damn, that's a bummer. I was hoping to explore more of Mount Hylia. I guess I may have to just return later...

Go to his hut southeast of the Temple of Time. Or buy one in Kakariko.
Will he still be at the hut now though?

You have it already. You got it as soon as you made him the food. How did you reach the shrines in the snow without the warm clothes...?
With nothing short of a torch and a lot of balls lol!
 
So some guy in
Hateno Village
not told me to collect 10 restless crickets...

...I haven't found a single one and I don't have any in my inventory.

What do?
 
Ok so played a lot more today and the game is growing on me, the shrines may be short but they are fun little diversions. Just wish the tracker was better rather than going off even when a shrine is far away.

I'm still not a fan of the awkward controls (why can't I aim my bomb) and quest design though..it's very barebones, boring and some of them are a bit excessively vague. I can't really enjoy exploring right now because everything kills me and fuck those guardians that chase you and have long range..But that will change later.

There are also certain weird design decisions like horse staying where you left if you fast travel..Forcing you to be on foot and nullifying fast travel. And things like the inability to rotate objects lifted up. But overall it's alright.

The first dungeon will make or break this game for me.
 
It's been years since I've played a big release here on GAF at the time of release, but I think I prefer how OTs flow when you're LTTP to a game; it's (understandably) difficult to get answers when there's so many posts in such a short time.
 
So some guy in
Hateno Village
not told me to collect 10 restless crickets...

...I haven't found a single one and I don't have any in my inventory.

What do?

Collecting bugs is extremely hard. You have to spot them before they fly away and you have to sneak up on them to catch them.

I have no advice. It blows. I have zero insects of any variety.
 
Collecting bugs is extremely hard. You have to spot them before they fly away and you have to sneak up on them to catch them.

I have no advice. It blows. I have zero insects of any variety.

Any idea on where I might find them? Like, is there a specific zone or something?

...I'm getting Xenoblade Chronicles X flashbacks!
 
Haha I'm such an idiot. Just did the Ha Dahamar Shrine
(Water Guide, using the ice pillar skill to get the ball into the hole in the ground).. I didn't realize you could cast the ice pillar from such a long distance away, so I'm making ice pillars, climbing on them, dodging the ball, getting catapulted off when the ball comes down. I felt like an ant trying to get a crumb through an obstacle course, but I did it. It wasn't until after that I saw the cast distance is much further than I thought.
 
Im so close to hyrule castle right now, im probably at the last stable you see before heading into dangerous territory, Im so nervous to run into my first guardian, you dont even know.
 
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