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

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There's such an easy way to make quick money in this game. I went up from 200 rupee to 1000 in about less than 5 minutes. Requires save scumming though.
 
Aside from the castle, is there any place I can't go from an early point in the game?

I just only
got my sheikah with the tacking upgrade and I'm going to talk to Impa for the second time
. But I think I'm going to get a couple more hearts first.

Also, how do I
un-track and item in my sheikah+? Its stuck on the mushrooms but I don't care any more if I'm near them lol

You can go to the castle
 
Horses seem to be included more for casual players who just want to experience the main story, since following the roads leads you to all the major areas it seems---considering they can auto-run down the roads I think younger kids and those who are more focused on beating the game will like them more.

The Ze Kasho shrine was painful (the one where you have to
rotate the board to get the three spheres onto the switches
). I'm not a fan of the
motion control
puzzles at all; are there many more of these?

I did that on my first try. :P

In fact another motion control one I saw people complaining about earlier I did in one try too, bonus chest included.
 
I disagree actually, and I think they're some of my favorites. I wasn't enjoying combat very much until I had to face a Major Test of Strengtg trial. Learning the dodge mechanics to beat that with only weak-ish weapons has made me enjoy enemy encounters more on the whole.



My favorite part of this game is playing with others. It's so fun to experience the world with other people, and to solve puzzles like you said. My friend helped me with the first dungeon and it was a blast for both of us
My brother and I don't get to see each other too often, but he made it over one night and we put a good six hours in. The only point of frustration was
not being able to figure out how to damage the divine beast by the Gerudo village.
An earlier post in this thread made it sound to me like
this can only be done after another specific quest is completed,
which was a little disappointing to me. For one, the game makes no indication of this and allows you to engage as soon as you find it. Two, I shot away many useful arrows. Three, it kind of breaks the "go anywhere, do anything" promise that permeates so much of the rest of the game. We spent nearly an hour trying to figure it out.
 
Climbing makes up like 90% of travel in this game, so horses seem pretty useless.

Yea, I'm doing the same. The completionist in me can't justify riding a horse when there's so many things to explore that a horse cannot traverse. Might change my mind if I ever discover a cool horse.

The biggest fuck up with horses is that they can't spawn near you. I don't why they opted for this when every other game you can have them spawn near you by whistling/playing a tune. Not to mention with so much shit being put on mountains and off the main path, to explore like I am means more climbing and gliding. Horses are useless in this regard.

I don't mind horses, but I'm not going out of my way to use them.

I'm glad to know that my approach isn't as weird as I thought it was! I just ran into too many instances where I left my horse to go climb, and suddenly realized I was on the other side of a giant mountain range with my poor horse left behind.

I agree with you Admiral, if the horses just spawned next to you when called I would probably use them a lot more. Instead, they just feel like something that holds me back from exploring the way I want to.
 
By the way, anyone know exactly what the Defense stat on the clothes and armors does?

Got my Link up to over 40 now, and I notice it takes a pretty hard hit to hurt him. Is it just flat out damage reduction so all attacks do [damage]-46 now? If so... how much is a heart worth?
 
Do you guys find yourself constantly changing out gear, or picking a set and treating that as your main set?

I'm doing the latter, with the Sheikah stealth suit. It just looks so fucking cool, and I actually really enjoy utilizing stealth in this game. When I get to a particularly tough fight, I'll switch over to something with more protection, but I'm in that stealth suit like 80% of the time, at least.
 
Upon reading a different thread, I came across a question I felt like asking here. Does anyone else find themselves avoid horses entirely in this game? I tamed one at the very beginning, but quickly found them to be annoying. They control just fine, but I'm always way too tempted to climb everything I see.

As a result, I've found myself using a combination of fast travel, climbing, and gliding to get just about everywhere and I haven't felt the need for a horse at all. Anyone else playing like that? If nothing else, it's great that the game affords me that option!
Using a horse is so useless in this game. Most of the time you'll be better off climbing, paragliding, or fast travelling..meaning your horse is left behind. The few times you'd want to use a horse you can't since you cannot spawn it with a whistle and need to go out of your way to a stable and they are limited to very specific locations where you wouldn't even want a horse.

Poor design decision, yes it encourages climbing and all but at the expense of limiting you when you actually want a horse.
 
There's such an easy way to make quick money in this game. I went up from 200 rupee to 1000 in about less than 5 minutes. Requires save scumming though.

Ugh that's what I've been trying to do the past few days. Just wandering around death mountain mining as much ore as possible. Is there an easier non save-scumming way?
 
Using a horse is so useless in this game. Most of the time you'll be better off climbing, paragliding, or fast travelling..meaning your horse is left behind. The few times you'd want to use a horse you can't since you cannot spawn it with a whistle and need to go out of your way to a stable and they are limited to very specific locations where you wouldn't even want a horse.

Poor design decision, yes it encourages climbing and all but at the expense of limiting you when you actually want a horse.

Eh, I think they're just different options. I've played utilizing a mix of horseback riding and climbing/gliding. Both have allowed me to find things that I wouldn't have likely found using the other traversal method.
 
Do you guys find yourself constantly changing out gear, or picking a set and treating that as your main set?

I'm doing the latter, with the Sheikah stealth suit. It just looks so fucking cool, and I actually really enjoy utilizing stealth in this game. When I get to a particularly tough fight, I'll switch over to something with more protection, but I'm in that stealth suit like 80% of the time, at least.

Yep! Though I've been doing things the opposite way. I have a high-protection set that I wear at almost all times, but I change into other sets based on buffs. Last night I spent a ton of time in my cold resistance set just to climb mountains.
 
Do you guys find yourself constantly changing out gear, or picking a set and treating that as your main set?

I'm doing the latter, with the Sheikah stealth suit. It just looks so fucking cool, and I actually really enjoy utilizing stealth in this game. When I get to a particularly tough fight, I'll switch over to something with more protection, but I'm in that stealth suit like 80% of the time, at least.

I wish this game had a loadout system, since I have various outfits I've matched and dyed for various purposes

Regular armor
Climbing gear
Cold gear
Hot gear
Hero of Time Cosplay

My "normal" gear is a brown Hylian Hood, the Hero of Twilight's Tunic and knight's pants painted tan.

You really get into it when you have some huge mountains to climb and you change up your gear. It feels so nice to think about Link wearing appropriate gear for climbing and the clothes match the part (white painted climbing hat, climbing shirt, snow boots, no sword/shield/bow equipped)
 
Using a horse is so useless in this game. Most of the time you'll be better off climbing, paragliding, or fast travelling..meaning your horse is left behind. The few times you'd want to use a horse you can't since you cannot spawn it with a whistle and need to go out of your way to a stable and they are limited to very specific locations where you wouldn't even want a horse.

Poor design decision, yes it encourages climbing and all but at the expense of limiting you when you actually want a horse.
In hand with that, the ability to only call horses in range of you is so annoying. I get off my horse to check something out and usually end up very far away. At that point I'm like screw the horse I'm going on foot I guess...
 
Using a horse is so useless in this game. Most of the time you'll be better off climbing, paragliding, or fast travelling..meaning your horse is left behind. The few times you'd want to use a horse you can't since you cannot spawn it with a whistle and need to go out of your way to a stable and they are limited to very specific locations where you wouldn't even want a horse.

Poor design decision, yes it encourages climbing and all but at the expense of limiting you when you actually want a horse.

I use horses specifically to traverse roads quickly. It seems that a lot of stuff is designed to happen around roads so it's a nice way to travel quickly without having to worry about steering. Found a lot of stuff I had missed by skipping the roads up to the Akkala tower.
 
Ugh that's what I've been trying to do the past few days. Just wandering around death mountain mining as much ore as possible. Is there an easier non save-scumming way?

You can sell prime gourmet meat for 100 rupees a piece to some guy at some stable. Can look it up where exactly if you want.
 
Ugh that's what I've been trying to do the past few days. Just wandering around death mountain mining as much ore as possible. Is there an easier non save-scumming way?
The one I mentioned is save scumming but you don't have to wander at all. It's a betting game, if you lose you just reload...There are only 3 options to choose from so every try you have a 1/3 chance to win 300 rupee.

Also you know the luminous stones ? They are fairly common in some areas. 10 of them can be exchanged for a diamond in Zora domain which goes for 500 rupee. But instead of doing that (unless you need a diamond) sell the stones as they go for 70 rupee netting you 700 instead of 500 if you were to trade it for a diamond and sell them.
 
THIS GAME IS SO GOOD.

I finally understand why people enjoy Souls games. I wanted to get all the climbing armor, but one of them requires defeating the MAJOR test of strength shrine. Which happens to be next-door to the moderate test shrine which I have been struggling with. Imagine my dread when I found out I had to defeat the major one. But I stuck with it, learned his patterns and finally defeated him. It was so satisfying. Then I went back and defeated the moderate one and it was a breeze!
 
Do you guys find yourself constantly changing out gear, or picking a set and treating that as your main set?

I'm doing the latter, with the Sheikah stealth suit. It just looks so fucking cool, and I actually really enjoy utilizing stealth in this game. When I get to a particularly tough fight, I'll switch over to something with more protection, but I'm in that stealth suit like 80% of the time, at least.

that thing's real expensive but I could probably afford it if I sold the gorillion ore I'm hoarding. Is buying it the only way to get it?
 
I use horses specifically to traverse roads quickly. It seems that a lot of stuff is designed to happen around roads so it's a nice way to travel quickly without having to worry about steering. Found a lot of stuff I had missed by skipping the roads up to the Akkala tower.
Yea ofc, those are the times I would want a horse. Except in order to get one I have to go out of my way to a stable. Whistling to spawn one really should have been in there.
 
Just entered Hyrule Castle to get the
last photo memory than high tailed it out of there for now.
Finally the music is getting really good, not like it was not good already, but the track that plays there is awesome.
 
In hand with that, the ability to only call horses in range of you is so annoying. I get off my horse to check something out and usually end up very far away. At that point I'm like screw the horse I'm going on foot I guess...
And that range is so short. It's annoying to be able to see the horse and be told Horsey McHorseface can't hear your call.
 
Is arrow lady the first canon divorced person in a Zelda game?

And that range is so short. It's annoying to be able to see the horse and be told Horsey McHorseface can't hear your call.

It's even stranger with Epona because Epona used to be able to hear noise from a grass whistle from the other side of a continent
 
I found it a bit amusing that the game's explanation for why Link is silent is
that he has seen some shit and so chooses to be
 
Ugh that's what I've been trying to do the past few days. Just wandering around death mountain mining as much ore as possible. Is there an easier non save-scumming way?

I picked up about 1500 rupees yesterday in five minutes without even save scumming.
In the snowy region north east of Rito village (I believe) there's a snowball bowling game which awards 300 rupees for every strike after the initial win. If you start a bit to the right of the middle and throw back towards the left of the path you'll get a strike every time. I eventually stopped because clicking through the text gets pretty boring after a while.
 
I use horses traversing areas I've already been, but never to explore new areas - I think that's a good approach

I also enjoy the idea of finding an awesome horse - although the last one I suspect I did bucked me off several times and I couldnt tame it - is there a way around that?
 
Yea ofc, those are the times I would want a horse. Except in order to get one I have to go out of my way to a stable. Whistling to spawn one really should have been in there.

Well, stables have shrines near them so getting to a stable ain't bad, and they're always on roads.

I mean, I get wanting the convenience of a magic horse, but I kinda like having the two modes of travel so clearly separated with each one having pros and cons.
 
Put a couple of hours into it. I've just been goofing around, haven't done the Impa quest yet.

+Game looks way better than I imagined. Obviously some of the textures are rather bland, but the colors are so vivid and the weather really has a distinct effect on each area.
+The shrines are so cool. You truly never know what you can encounter and you always get something interesting.
+Exploring is satisfying. I killed a wizrobe and took his fire rod. I found a colosseum with huge monsters and goo. I climbed a tower while dodging three separate guardians. I saw a comet crash down to earth. I got attacked by some Lizalfos in a river SINCE WHEN COULD THEY SWIM

-I feel like the buttons don't do what they should do. I really wish we could remap them. I get the LRs and Zs mixed up so often. Maybe I just need to get used to it and muscle memory will kick in, but there is a learning curve.
 
If you read the Journal of Various Worries in Impa's house there is a hilariously innuendo filled entry regarding Arrow lady :lol

I wonder if you can alter some of the mini stories in the villages that don't trigger side quests (like the childs trying to figure out who the little girl in the lab is) or if this is just lore that doesn't change.
 
The Ze Kasho shrine was painful (the one where you have to
rotate the board to get the three spheres onto the switches
). I'm not a fan of the
motion control
puzzles at all; are there many more of these?
I had a run of like three in four shrines that used that stuff, including the one you're describing...so it's possible you'll have the same luck, though in my case I was warping back to Zora's Domain from around Lake Hylia and I forget if my string of
Wii flashbacks
started before or after that.

The only one that made me hate life though was one where you're basically playing
mini golf with a motion controlled club
, and even then only the optional puzzle for the bonus treasure. At least the sword I got for clearing it was really cool.
 
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lmao. what the fuck am I supposed to do with THAT.
 
Game is great, but every time I see a gyro shrine I dread it. Depending on how you are playing this (handheld, nunchucks, controller), they range from pain in the ass to extreme pain in the ass.
 
I found it a bit amusing that the game's explanation for why Link is silent is
that he has seen some shit and so chooses to be

He's not really silent in this game, either. There are full conversations he has that we just never hear or have text boxes for his half of the conversation.
 
Just entered Hyrule Castle to get the
last photo memory than high tailed it out of there for now.
Finally the music is getting really good, not like it was not good already, but the track that plays there is awesome.

it's great. but i find music is lacking overall...i know it's because of" breath of wild" but it is too discreet and/or experimental to my own satisfaction.
 
I was up in the snowy area trying to climb the tower when I realised it was surrounded by giant icicles that I couldn't get past. I've been carrying around a Fire Rod for hours, but of course I got rid of it at some point, and I didn't have any fire arrows. I did have normal arrows, firewood and flint, though, so I thought I'd start a fire then fire arrows through it. I got too close when I did it, though, and actually set my arrow on fire while I was still holding it in the bow, so I just kept 'dipping' my arrows in fire and firing them at the icicles :P

Now I'm wondering if I could have nocked an arrow, set it on fire, and then just walked up to the icicles and held the arrow up against them to melt them all without having to waste an arrow.
 
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