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

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One hour left at work until i can go home and carry on playing. I haven't been this addicted to a game in a while.

Omegasquash said:
My son has far sharper eyes than I do. I climbed down a gap between a path and a wall in Hyrule Castle so as to avoid
detection by flying Guardians
, and while I was spinning the camera he saw a chest, underwater, that was pretty far below me.

I'm the exploring type, but that's just one example, of many, that my son has really helped me.. It's tough to play for a 7 year old obviously, but he really enjoys watching, and he's been hype for the game for as long as I have.

It feels like I'm about to really pass it on, too.
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Ha, reminds me of about 20 years ago when I watched my dad play OoT, before I took over and completed it myself.
 
if you find yourself running out of arrows try breaking every barrel and crate with your hammer and always loot the 5x arrows that lookout bokoblins drop. been doing that and I am sitting at 200+ arrows.

and if you want to make coin try making elixirs with whichever ingredient you have an abundance of and sell it. i'm selling one for 100 rupees.
 
tanuki said:
Where should I go after Hateno Village? Seems like the game really opens after that with Divine Beasts quests, but I went to a few different places and the enemies all seem to be much tougher than what I faced up to now.
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This the order I did because the weapons scaling matched this path:
Kakariko > Hateno > Zora
I didn't tried yet the Mt Lanaryu snow mountain, so I don't know if you can do it before Zora.
After that, I'm not sure about going Goron or Gerudo because from 20+ atk I had in Zora domain, it jump to 30+ directly in Goron zone. I wonder if there is an intermediate area to do before meeting a new race.
 
DNAbro said:
I'm still trying to figure out why Zoras evolved into Rito in Wind Waker when they were a water based species.
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Is it not because Zoras can only live in fresh water while the sea in Wind Waker is salt water. Thus they evolved to be able to fly out of the water to survive. I could be wrong on this.
 
Gai Murakumo said:
I hate when I am in the middle of an open field and the weather turns to lightning then I have no choice but to either just let myself get killed by the lightning or warp to somewhere else. It is really annoying sometimes.
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Had an incident last night where I was riding through an open field during a lightning storm, watching lightning strike left and right setting off brush fires, when I came across an NPC in distress. Of course it was
a Yiga assassin who was so intent on killing me that she attacked during this weather. So I danced around the strikes and brush fires to kill her, just barely thanks to the crap weapons I had at the time.
Then I went running back for my horse and got nailed by lightning.
 
Watch Da Birdie said:
Not that I'm complaining, the Rito are so much cooler this time around...

Too bad there's no Anouki or Mogma though (or is there...?), loved those too.
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And here I thought I was alone in liking both Mogma and to a lesser extent Anouki.

Deku Scrubs continuing to get robbed though, these grassland octoroks from here and SS just make me sad.
 
Heavy Iron Industries said:
The jingle that plays when u get a Spirit Orb is so fucking good.
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What I never grow tired of is the remix of the traditional treasure chest opening theme that plays when the droplet comes out of the Sheikah eye and onto the slate when you activate a terminal and the four-note motif upon completion of the process.

Also, and this is for the sharp ears, but who else noticed the Mario 3 whistle motif (which is also the Ocarina of Time title screen motif) in the shrine theme? It's there, I pointed it out to my girlfriend and it blew her mind.
 
Silent_Ocarina said:
I'm generally the only one who primarily plays Nintendo games in my circle of friends. I was the only one with a Wii U (although many of my friends picked up a 3DS years into its life). One of my friends planned to get a Switch later this year; he ended up getting one the Sunday after launch. He also bought Zelda. He's never really played Zelda before or was a fan, but he's in love with the game. He brings it to class and has a Joycon in each pocket and plays with his hands in his pockets. When the professor comes by, he just puts the console to sleep, and it looks like a regular tablet. He talks about his experiences in the game frequently in our group chat and says that Zelda is probably the best console game he's ever purchased. :]

This game is something special. I think I remember reading about how Miyamoto wanted kids playing the original Zelda to talk to each other about their experiences, and it looks like they achieved that once again with Breath of the Wild.
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People in that tired of single player games thread we're talking about how botw fans sound like some cult or something with how much praise it's getting. The truth is that the game really is just that good, this game is just pure magic.
 
I really need to get used to just exploring the world without direction. It's weird after playing games that always tell you what to do/where to go. There are so many potential things to do in this game
 
After getting only two hours of sleep last night, the only thing I can think about at work is getting home to do it again.

This game is a masterpiece. So extremely detailed, lush and beautiful. I have never played a game where you WANT to speak to every NPC for instance. If you see it, you can go there with the right items or ability. Just the little things like that help make this game amazing. A true benchmark for games of its kind.
 
brandonh83 said:
Yeah they're great. When I saw the child Zoras I think I dawww'd so much it made me black out.

And the kids running around and playing in Hateno is exactly the kind of detail that makes the world feel alive. LIVED IN unlike
A Link Between Worlds
(lol)
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The kids in Hateno village are great but the DOGS are what got me. I took so many pictures of the dogs.
 
Magic Mushroom said:
I find it the most fun to just pick a direction and explore. It's what the game does so well. Sure, you can get killed by giant creatures that are way more powerful than you are, but to me that's part of the fun.

Breath of the Wild just nails the adventure part of action adventure in a way few games - if any - have done before.
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Another plus for this game is there's no obvious "beef gates", i.e. an enemy designed specifically to block you from an area. There are dangerous ones of course roaming about, but there's always a way around them if you're clever. And the game for the most part lets you decide what's dangerous, there's no alerts letting you know an enemy is out of your league or anything like that.

Of course that's the benefit of being an action game using basic numbers as opposed to an RPG like Xenoblade X or Digimon World Next Order, there's no major power gaps---just a skill gap. People say they want Pokemon to go this route but as a turn-based RPG it just wouldn't work the same way in my opinion, stats are far more restricting in that game where a Level 5 Pokemon has no realistic way to take down a Level 100 Pokemon excluding super gimmicky and obscure strategies.
 
brandonh83 said:
What I never grow tired of is the remix of the traditional treasure chest opening theme that plays when the droplet comes out of the Sheikah eye and onto the slate when you activate a terminal and the four-note motif upon completion of the process.

Also, and this is for the sharp ears, but who else noticed the Mario 3 whistle motif (which is also the Ocarina of Time title screen motif) in the shrine theme? It's there, I pointed it out to my girlfriend and it blew her mind.
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I didn't notice it but I did notice the Link's Awakening key alert jingle.
 
Silent_Ocarina said:
I'm generally the only one who primarily plays Nintendo games in my circle of friends. I was the only one with a Wii U (although many of my friends picked up a 3DS years into its life). One of my friends planned to get a Switch later this year; he ended up getting one the Sunday after launch. He also bought Zelda. He's never really played Zelda before or was a fan, but he's in love with the game. He brings it to class and has a Joycon in each pocket and plays with his hands in his pockets. When the professor comes by, he just puts the console to sleep, and it looks like a regular tablet. He talks about his experiences in the game frequently in our group chat and says that Zelda is probably the best console game he's ever purchased. :]

This game is something special. I think I remember reading about how Miyamoto wanted kids playing the original Zelda to talk to each other about their experiences, and it looks like they achieved that once again with Breath of the Wild.
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This is the funniest thing I've read about the switch thus far, bless your friend lol.

But that's great, I'm really happy for Nintendo's success with both this game and the switch. This game really came out of nowhere for me with how good it is.
 
Gai Murakumo said:
Is it not because Zoras can only live in fresh water while the sea in Wind Waker is salt water. Thus they evolved to be able to fly out of the water to survive. I could be wrong on this.
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Majora's Mask has salt water zora though. I guess they technically aren't the same as the OoT but they exist.
 
PancakeBurglar said:
People in that tired of single player games thread we're talking about how botw fans sound like some cult or something with how much praise it's getting. The truth is that the game really is just that good, this game is just pure magic.
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"ONE OF US. ONE OF US."

Yeah, really it is the fact that the game is just that good. As someone who loves Exploring in video games, this is a dangerous drug.
 
Watch Da Birdie said:
Wait, how are there Zora and Rito in this game at the same time?
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Okay, so my theory (timeline spoilers)...

They exist because this game is meant to be the Wind Waker of the Child timeline. There are copious amounts of blatant Wind Waker references (probably more than any other game in the series), and the whole world being mostly little towns dotted around a barren, post apocalyptic setting is basically Wind Waker. It also takes place well after Twilight Princess, more than Wind Waker from Ocarina, but still, it's a big time skip. That longer time skip also explains why they look more like birds. I know this is after Twilight Princess because in one of the memories, Zelda lists off all the times the Master Sword has been used and they were all in the Child Time line, ending with mentioning it being used by the Hero of Twilight. No Hero of Winds or Hero of Light and Dark worlds or whatever the other branches call their hero.

This is just sort of bizarro Wind Waker's world, with Koroks and Rito existing, but races like Gerudo and Zora that died out when everything flooded still survived. If you frame the game as alt-timeline Wind Waker, it makes sense why Rito would exist, because they have to exist because they did in Wind Waker and this is a parallel story to Wind Waker.

While swimming up stream in a small mountain wasteland creek, they stopped to rest. While they were sleeping, the river suddenly dried up. With no way home, they set up camp in the wastes. Over time, the needed to climb higher and higher to survive, their fins slowly turning more and more wing like, allowing them to get around the canyons easier. This is entirely made up, but it explains it.
 
Have to admit I just made my way through the
Lost Woods on pure luck. I had no idea about the particles thing, I went from looking for trees with faces to following the road where it was quiet, etc. That seemed to make most sense, like a reverse OoT thing.
Don't think I would've picked up on it either.

But eh, made it out :) I wonder, is this
(general area) where the master sword is? Feels like it should be. It's in a big forest, and this is looking like the only one that fits the bill so far.
 
tanuki said:
Where should I go after Hateno Village? Seems like the game really opens after that with Divine Beasts quests, but I went to a few different places and the enemies all seem to be much tougher than what I faced up to now.
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Pick a tower in the distance and make your way there. You'll find about half a dozen distractions on the way and when you eventually make it up to the top and unlock a region, you'll spot another half a dozen things to go see.
 
LOL @ the Super Smash Bros amiibo for Link being sold out on Amazon.

It's weird to see such a common and unpopular amiibo be in such immense demand now. Well, I mean, I guess I can't really say it's unpopular. No amiibo is. But you know what I mean - Link was never the one anybody was trying to scalp and nobody loved the look of that plastic yellow support beam.

Now they're $70 from resellers.

I bought a new Zelda amiibo. She's the best.
 
balladofwindfishes said:
Okay, so my theory (timeline spoilers)...

They exist because this game is meant to be the Wind Waker of the Child timeline. There are copious amounts of blatant Wind Waker references (probably more than any other game in the series), and the whole world being mostly little towns dotted around a barren, post apocalyptic setting is basically Wind Waker. It also takes place well after Twilight Princess, more than Wind Waker from Ocarina, but still, it's a big time skip. That longer time skip also explains why they look more like birds. I know this is after Twilight Princess because in one of the memories, Zelda lists off all the times the Master Sword has been used and they were all in the Child Time line, ending with mentioning it being used by the Hero of Twilight. No Hero of Winds or Hero of Light and Dark worlds or whatever the other branches call their hero.

This is just sort of bizarro Wind Waker's world, with Koroks and Rito existing, but races like Gerudo and Zora that died out when everything flooded still survived. If you frame the game as alt-timeline Wind Waker, it makes sense why Rito would exist, because they have to exist because they did in Wind Waker and this is a parallel story to Wind Waker.

While swimming up stream in a small mountain wasteland creek, they stopped to rest. While they were sleeping, the river suddenly dried up. With no way home, they set up camp in the wastes. Over time, the needed to climb higher and higher to survive, their fins slowly turning more and more wing like, allowing them to get around the canyons easier. This is entirely made up, but it explains it.
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Wait, this game takes place in the
Child
timeline? Then how
do the Zora know of Ruto becoming a sage and helping the Hero of Time?
 
PancakeBurglar said:
People in that tired of single player games thread we're talking about how botw fans sound like some cult or something with how much praise it's getting. The truth is that the game really is just that good, this game is just pure magic.
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That's why I'm happy to see new people here that not used to play Zelda (or Nintendo) game at all, gave it a chance and are enjoying it. Support shouldn't matter, only the games.
 
PancakeBurglar said:
People in that tired of single player games thread we're talking about how botw fans sound like some cult or something with how much praise it's getting. The truth is that the game really is just that good, this game is just pure magic.
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I just checked the thread out, and I actually have to sympathize with the OP. I'd be annoyed if people kept pushing a game down my throat, especially if I made it clear I didn't have any interest in it. It's unfortunate that he doesn't enjoy the game like we do, but it's not like everyone has to like it. I'm just happy I like it as much as I do. :]

ionitron said:
This is the funniest thing I've read about the switch thus far, bless your friend lol.

But that's great, I'm really happy for Nintendo's success with both this game and the switch. This game really came out of nowhere for me with how good it is.
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Yeah, it was really clever of him, haha. I didn't know you could put the console in sleep mode just with a Joycon, so you can be really sneaky with it.
 
Kinsei said:
Wait, this game takes place in the
Child
timeline? Then how
do the Zora know of Ruto becoming a sage and helping the Hero of Time?
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idunno for sure, but if it isn't, there's a much bigger question of how Zelda knew of the Child timeline heroes and only the child time line heroes.
 
brandonh83 said:
What I never grow tired of is the remix of the traditional treasure chest opening theme that plays when the droplet comes out of the Sheikah eye and onto the slate when you activate a terminal and the four-note motif upon completion of the process.

Also, and this is for the sharp ears, but who else noticed the Mario 3 whistle motif (which is also the Ocarina of Time title screen motif) in the shrine theme? It's there, I pointed it out to my girlfriend and it blew her mind.
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It was in the original Zelda first iirc for that whistle.
 
I'm confused about what to do on one of the Korok Trials.

I was taked with following the little guy on his trial without being seen -- So I did it, and he got to a shrine, and he stopped. It was over. So I went back to the first guy and he didn't recognize that I had done it yet, now the guy I was supposed to be following is nowhere to be found.

Is my quest bugged now?
 
I thought having over a hundred shrines would make them easy to find. But some of these are pretty well hidden and I can't figured out how to make the ones underground come up.
 
ChemicalCutthroat said:
"ONE OF US. ONE OF US."

Yeah, really it is the fact that the game is just that good. As someone who loves Exploring in video games, this is a dangerous drug.
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I've told friends asking about Zelda that this game is unintentionally the best Assassin's Creed game ever. It's like they took the good exploration bits from AC and put them into a real game with tons more charm and personality.

This game is the sum of many parts but the execution is unparalleled.
 
Berordn said:
They're far more avian than the Rito of Wind Waker, so they're probably just a completely different race with the same name.
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I imagine they redesigned them to look more like birds (and add more variety) because the game already has lots of "humans" kinda like the Zoras were changed from the 2D games to Ocarina to TP/BotW to be a bit more fish like.
the big one playing music is great

Though i miss the old Ritos,they looked cool :(
 
brandonh83 said:
What I never grow tired of is the remix of the traditional treasure chest opening theme that plays when the droplet comes out of the Sheikah eye and onto the slate when you activate a terminal and the four-note motif upon completion of the process.

Also, and this is for the sharp ears, but who else noticed the Mario 3 whistle motif (which is also the Ocarina of Time title screen motif) in the shrine theme? It's there, I pointed it out to my girlfriend and it blew her mind.
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I'll keep an ear out for it next time im in a shrine.
 
balladofwindfishes said:
Link is only into fish women. They have no chance unless they suddenly sprout fins and gills.
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I always kinda feel bad for Zelda now in BotW it's a
fish women
. In TP it was Midna or that farm girl from ordon, but that is done so open you probably can decide yourself whoever Link liked more i guess both.

In OoT Saria/malon maybe the fish women(i think).

But Skyward Sword and Spirit Tracks were fantastic with it Skyward Sword is very open about them both liking each other and in spirit tracks there are very big hints.
 
balladofwindfishes said:
idunno for sure, but if it isn't, there's a much bigger question of how Zelda knew of the Child timeline heroes and only the child time line heroes.
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To be fair, (Timeline Shit)
She only vaguely references the Twilight Realm, not the events of Twilight Princess itself. The Twilight Realm itself isn't something that only exists in the Child Timeline, and this game in particular seems to allude to the fact that there have been many more Links and Zeldas and Master Sword adventures than we've been privy too.

Also, I think she also references The Master Sword traveling through time in that scene, and that never happened in the Child Timeline, it stayed inside the Temple of Time. I think those lines are more likely references for the fans, than confirmation of it's timeline placement. The Downfall timeline makes the most sense.
 
Need some help. I'm about 8 hours in, and I still have yet to find a rupee. Not only that, I'm having trouble keeping any weapons. Even the Guardian Sword I picked up in one of the shrines outside of Kakariko Village didn't last long at all. Any tips? Should I be using something else to take out Bobokins?
 
effingvic said:
On the train and im listening to hateno village theme while its raining outside and i can pretty much just float away happily right now
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Was playing last night and my wife was sitting next to me working on something completely unrelated. I galloped into Hateno Village and she started humming, completely unaware she was doing it.

The music in this game is so, so good.
 
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