balladofwindfishes
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I don't think there are any. I'm pretty sure every item has at least some kind of use somewhere.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT| A Link from the Past
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I don't think there are any. I'm pretty sure every item has at least some kind of use somewhere.
Frozen food is like a ghetto healing potion. Works for 1 minute.
Yes, delete photos you take just to add stuff to the Compendium - the small part of that photo is retained in the compendium even after deletion. And if it's a crappy photo you can replace the compendium entry with a better one later. I got an amazing one of lightning striking a wolf as it bared its teeth at me.
SpiceMelange
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For hot areas
Absolutely every item in the game has some kind of use, but gems other than diamonds are some of the safest items to sell as they're used to upgrade very few things. My advice is to keep at least two or three diamonds and ten luminous stones in your inventory and sell all the rest.
Lmao this game
ChemicalCutthroat
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I do wish the recipes had more variety to them. All the meat is just meat, and all the fish (and snails) are just snails. It is a little more simplified than I figured. I still like cooking, but I also wish there was a way to make a whole bunch of something at once.
OrbitalBeard
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Follow the direction the flames are blowing. Use the torch once you come across it.
Tilting the board 90 or 180 degrees is a lot easier than doing it the intended way 
RPGCrazied
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They better make those Amiibo costumes DLC since you can't even fucking buy those Amiibos anymore.
SpiceMelange
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Riverside stable, then korok forest
I didn´t know you could outrun the last laser, thanks! I was just saving my best weapon for that phase and trying to kill it before it could charge up, which was a tactic that failed a lot of times
Some tips of my own for fighting small guardians:
When it does the circle laser he creates a wind current, you can open the paraglide, shoot an arrow in slow-mo to it´s eye to disable it (or any electric attack) and land next to it, allowing you to get a lot of free hits. The rest of it´s attacks can be evaded to get flurry attacks. Spears work very well as they have nice reach and the last hit in a combo will make it flinch (this happens will all weapons, btw), so you can keep it at a safe distance while dealing damage.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Link flexes and checks out his biceps when you idle with no shirt on...lmao
You can also cause
Paya
After the first mission?
you'll find him near the stables at the southern tip of the zone where the Lost Woods is. You can purchase like 4 or 5 slots from him while he is there and then he says he is going to the Korok Village.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Huh, that was one of the things that I tried, but
the embers never really seemed to be pointing anywhere specific.
EroticSushi
Member
He's heading
north to Korok Village but you'll find him at horse stables along the way.
riskybusinesstomcruise
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Yeah I was trying the parry, but ended up using other methods. Not without serious resource cost tho LOL
QuixoticNeutral
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Picking up where I left off in my previous entry:
I am fairly sure I have now cleared the 50-hour mark, and the play sessions over the past day were significant in their own right. This game hasn't let up at all in providing a sense of progression and discovery, at least not yet.
Noteworthy events of the past dozen hours or so:
- Southeast corner:
is by far the best shrine challenge out of the 50+ I've cleared so far, functioning as an entire self-contained video game in itself. I haven't seen any of the main-quest dungeons yet, but this challenge captures the ideal of what a TP/SS-like dungeon might look like in a BotW world: integrated into the natural environment with a tightly designed series of Zelda-like objectives (exploration, combat, puzzle-solving with what you pick up along the way, building up to a boss encounter that tests your preparation), but open to be tackled however you want, and also risky enough to keep you on your toes
. BotW's design lends itself so naturally to resource-constrained challenges, and at times this segment reminded me of RE4, where you struggle early on to conserve your ammunition until you can get your arsenal in order.
- I sailed all the way up the eastern side of the map and completed the northeastern
. I may have to go back for treasure when I have the means of dealing with the Guardian, which I bypassed completely.
- I completed my ambition of revealing the entire map, proceeding in an anti-clockwise spiral and working my way in. This meant that the last tower I seized,
, was by far the easiest as it lay along the game's suggested tutorial path. None of the towers put up as much of a fight as
in the west, which was the second one I captured after leaving the Plateau, though there is a good deal of variety to how all of them are accessed or defended.
- Approaching the quest-suggested eastern vicinity of
last also meant that it wasn't until about 50 hours into the game that I first encountered a number of elements in the game that were clearly set up as early-game content.
, for instance, was the 46th shrine I cleared, so up that point I had no recollection that those mechanics even existed, let alone how to use them. Until that point I also didn't know where you could upgrade your equipment or which resources you needed for it, as I didn't know
.
- North of Hyrule Castle:
In older games like LttP or TP I always loved the mood of
, and in BotW the environment absolutely teems with wonder and mystique. And the shrine quest where you
is just transcendent—one of my favourite moments in the entire game thus far. On paper, it's
, combining two of many players' least favourite things. But the mood, character, and overall flow (escalating to the final test) were all so captivating that I didn't mind stumbling into failure multiple times and trying it over again. My only problem with the quests in this area was that
.
- For all that, I still have no idea what the
are for. Don't tell me; I've been playing the whole way unguided.
- One peril of coming into this area with only seven hearts was that
, which meant I had to scramble around
to look for the damned thing that would do it for me, feeling quite lost in the process and wondering if I might not be better off just finding and clearing more shrines. But lo and behold,
. The NPCs are so full of life in this game, from the way they cover their heads and run for shelter in a rainstorm to the way they show up all over the world on their own parallel adventures, like the
.
So: with 50 hours in the bank, all the towers reactivated, and
in hand, I should probably get around to one of the main dungeons or figuring out what this game's incarnation of
even looks like (since it seems I need to talk to that character anyway before I can use the
). But I'm in no hurry to do any of that. I still have to figure out how to approach
, which is the only area in the game thus far that seemed placed behind a "hard lock" rather than the soft-lock of where you can go with your wits/food/clothing/stamina—and even in that instance, I later encountered a hint that a collectible item in the world would do the trick. Looking for that item is the tricky part, as I haven't come across it at all in the natural course of playing.
I am fairly sure I have now cleared the 50-hour mark, and the play sessions over the past day were significant in their own right. This game hasn't let up at all in providing a sense of progression and discovery, at least not yet.
Noteworthy events of the past dozen hours or so:
- Southeast corner:
The Robinson Crusoe scenario on Eventide
(as death, like the careless one I had when fighting the Hinox after completing everything else, bumps you back to the start)
- I sailed all the way up the eastern side of the map and completed the northeastern
labyrinth without the use of the minimap (since I hadn't mapped the region yet), scaling it all the way to the top with the aid of stamina food and hopping pillars until I saw a crack of light near the centre that revealed the passageway to the shrine
- I completed my ambition of revealing the entire map, proceeding in an anti-clockwise spiral and working my way in. This meant that the last tower I seized,
Duelling Peaks
Ridgeland
- Approaching the quest-suggested eastern vicinity of
Kakariko Village
The tutorial shrine that shows you how to use timed dodges and flurry attacks
where the Great Fairy resided or what her function was
- North of Hyrule Castle:
Everything about the Korok Forest is divine from the moment you step in and everybody hides as you approach.
the Lost Woods or Sacred Grove and their equivalents
sneak behind the Korok making its way to the shrine as a rite of passage (The Lost Pilgrimage, though they could very well have entitled it It's Dangerous to Go Alone)
a stealth and escort challenge
it was often a little to easy to step out of bounds and get ejected from the woods
- For all that, I still have no idea what the
Korok seeds
- One peril of coming into this area with only seven hearts was that
I had to reallocate my upgrades in order to obtain the Master Sword
Hateno Village
a little boy running around invited me to follow him and led me right to the statue
truffle hunters
So: with 50 hours in the bank, all the towers reactivated, and
the Master Sword
Impa
Ancient Tech Labs
the Gorons by Death Mountain
brandonh83
Banned
The
going up on the overlook was fucking badass
elephant Divine Beast
SpiceMelange
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The embers points to the next torch. Once you get the portable torch it's not a single simple direction anymore. It changes as you progress through the forest so you need to check your portable flame to correct your direction.
SinCityAssassin
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The desert is so hot, I need a frozen steak.
PadWarrior
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Can the hylian shield be repaired if damaged?
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
I'm having some trouble with the
Elephant dungeon.
I'm on the third terminal, the one in the middle of the cogs. I am stumped. I tried throw bomb between the two stone slabs and freezing one with stasis but it's too quick, and I can't freeze the ball once it hits where it's supposed to go. Could someone nudge me in the right direction?
I'm on the third terminal, the one in the middle of the cogs. I am stumped. I tried throw bomb between the two stone slabs and freezing one with stasis but it's too quick, and I can't freeze the ball once it hits where it's supposed to go. Could someone nudge me in the right direction?
TheGoreMagala
Member
What the heck, I did the
Three Korok trials and it looks like it will still take 13 hearts to pull out the master sword :/
Alcotholic
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You have to Move the elephant trunk so the water is spraying the cog causing it to rotate. Make sure you have the dungeon map so you can activate the elephant trunk.
TheGoreMagala
Member
Move the trunk to the very top to get the big cog to turn, I had to glide in order to land on the big cog and jump to a higher area
Oh, once the all lands in the socket you're supposed to enter the terminal and wait for it to straighten up
Didn't figure out how to get the chest
nintendoman58
Member
The elephant's trunk is constantly spouting water. You can control the trunk by opening up your map.
Flying Toaster
Member
Yep.
I believe it is by design to make it so a player does not fast track to just that.
How the hell did you manage to do it? I fucking gave up
EroticSushi
Member
Anyone know how to activate the Korok seed where it's just a tree stump with a paper fan on it?
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Thanks. I knew I saw him somewhere. Riverside it is. Haven't located the other spots you mention yet.
ScrabbleBanshee
Member
So far a few gripes with the game are:
1) Climbing takes too friggin' long and there is a stamina penalty for speeding it up by jumping. Really makes you think twice about climbing stuff because the actual climbing is boring. Should really be sped up to encourage exploring more, what's the point making us wait so darn long to get up there.
2) There isn't a lot of incentive to really spend extra time looting chests, particularly if they are not very easy to get to. 99.5% of the time they just contain a weapon you don't have room to carry, or if you do throw something away to take it it'll just break after 2 fights anyway. Not a lot of incentive to me to go after those chests when the fruits of your labor just fall apart in 5 minutes and you're back to using the trash that monsters drop again anyway.
3) Sorry, the horses SHOULD be "magic". Even the Witcher can call his horse from wherever, no it's not realistic, but how realistic does this game need to be. It just makes slogging distances harder than it needs to be and you know sometimes you just want to get there. Get to a spot your horse can't go and you just want to keep going you just have to abandon the poor sap there and there he stays.
4) I don't care for the cooking. It's not a good crafting replacement, and there isn't enough variety in the effects you get from making different dishes at all. It seems as a whole just a boring thing tacked on that again just slows the game down for no reason.
5) With no experience points, there is little reason to actually engage monsters unless you absolutely have to. You just end up with broken weapons and the need to eat in exchange for replacement weapons for the ones you broke and maybe some materials worth a pittance.
1) Climbing takes too friggin' long and there is a stamina penalty for speeding it up by jumping. Really makes you think twice about climbing stuff because the actual climbing is boring. Should really be sped up to encourage exploring more, what's the point making us wait so darn long to get up there.
2) There isn't a lot of incentive to really spend extra time looting chests, particularly if they are not very easy to get to. 99.5% of the time they just contain a weapon you don't have room to carry, or if you do throw something away to take it it'll just break after 2 fights anyway. Not a lot of incentive to me to go after those chests when the fruits of your labor just fall apart in 5 minutes and you're back to using the trash that monsters drop again anyway.
3) Sorry, the horses SHOULD be "magic". Even the Witcher can call his horse from wherever, no it's not realistic, but how realistic does this game need to be. It just makes slogging distances harder than it needs to be and you know sometimes you just want to get there. Get to a spot your horse can't go and you just want to keep going you just have to abandon the poor sap there and there he stays.
4) I don't care for the cooking. It's not a good crafting replacement, and there isn't enough variety in the effects you get from making different dishes at all. It seems as a whole just a boring thing tacked on that again just slows the game down for no reason.
5) With no experience points, there is little reason to actually engage monsters unless you absolutely have to. You just end up with broken weapons and the need to eat in exchange for replacement weapons for the ones you broke and maybe some materials worth a pittance.
eXistor
Member
Has anybody encountered this Blood Moon glitch where it occurs every 2 minutes real time? I've just had 5 bloodmoon cutscenes in 10 minutes. Resetting the game didn't help it seems, I went to an inn to sleep, hoping it would solve the issue, but I got one immediately. I really hope this is a temporary thing.
Your experience of the game mirrors mine to a huge extent, except I only went about 12-15 hours before starting the main quest. That said, it was 30+ hours before I made it to Death Mountain at all. Even better, I was playing before release, so I could browse threads freely and not get spoiled, lol. And I couldn't ask for help (which I usually would) so it forced me to man up and play blind. One of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
Only thing I disagree with you about was that Korok 'tailing mission'. Hated it. Too hard to see him and the bounds of the area were too arbitrary. Failure put you back too far as well.
Totally agree that Eventide Island was the highlight, though, and contained everything that makes this game special in a one-hour slice.
SomedayTheFire
Member
First foray into the Castle. That was cool. Bouncing out now after getting what I needed.
ScrabbleBanshee
Member
Tilt it back, then tilt it forward all the way down and at the last second tilt it back up far and the ball with get thrown from the ramp where it needs to go. Yes, it was frustrating on the Switch because it keeps getting out of sync with the actual position of the system so I ended up practically physically spinning my whole body in circles before I figured out that you had to leave and re-enter the puzzle with the system oriented as flat to the ground as possible at the start and try over.
Yes, in both.
TheGoreMagala
Member
Once I get the sacred blade I can just return all my hearts back to stamina, right?
balladofwindfishes
Member
So...
Are the Korok just model rips from Wind Waker HD?
It's one of those things I noticed but thought "no way, they wouldn't just rip assets from a completely different art style" but then I looked closely and they're identical to WWHD. A few are palette swapped for variety, but I've counted nearly every Korok type from WWHD (beside Makar and the potion guy) and no additional ones other than some of the NPCs in the Korok village and the fat guy.
It doesn't really matter, they fit just fine, just an odd bit of "lazy" in game that's otherwise completely jam packed with care and work
Are the Korok just model rips from Wind Waker HD?
It's one of those things I noticed but thought "no way, they wouldn't just rip assets from a completely different art style" but then I looked closely and they're identical to WWHD. A few are palette swapped for variety, but I've counted nearly every Korok type from WWHD (beside Makar and the potion guy) and no additional ones other than some of the NPCs in the Korok village and the fat guy.
It doesn't really matter, they fit just fine, just an odd bit of "lazy" in game that's otherwise completely jam packed with care and work
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
I literally figured it out right after I posted that but thanks anyway!
Totally agree with this. I hated travelling by road since the horse was such a pain in the ass, and climbing one hill meant you invariably left him behind. That meant I missed a lot of the planned content on the roads - where the game designers obviously expected you to be.
Had the horse been 'magical' I might have used it more than three times in my entire 50+ hour playthrough. The horse was a disappointment.
The only reasons to engage enemies in this game are the only two reasons a game should ever give you to engage enemies: Because they are in your way (an obstacle) and because fighting them is fun.
That's what I did. No penalty.
They figured upon finding them, players would throw rocks on them anyway, so why bother?
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
I might go back and try again,
the portable torch didn't seem to help all that much.
Crazyorloco
Member
QuixoticNeutral, thank you for covering those spoilers. I like what you said about BotW feeling like RE4 because of the resource-constrained challenges...I feel that I really have to think about how i'm going to survive later constantly. I love that about this game. It provides an added challenge and makes me feel like this is real. I'm really apart of this world. Whenever I see an apple on a tree i'm getting it lol
The blood moon respawns everything. And as for the
lynel,
mount him as a sort of counter attack but you can't ride him like a horse / other mount.
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