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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again
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2Smashed4U
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Real talk, fuck the mushroom twins. I've saved their asses so many times across Hyrule and they've given me nothing, not even a handful of rupees.
They can deal with the bokoblins themselves next time.
Ganon is about as easy as an easy Dark Souls boss. I wouldn't be nervous.
J_ToSaveTheDay
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I got the Cap of the Wind and the Wind Waker Boomerang from my Smash Toon Link amiibo.
Note that amiibo usage can be save-scummed. Save your game before you start scanning amiibo in and if you don't get what you want, just reload that file. The game will usually autosave as soon as you open the amiibo chest, so make sure you have manually saved before you attempt it.
EmCeeGramr
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They spawn all over
the Great Fairy Fountain behind Kakariko, around the pedestal with the Master Sword in the Great Woods, and on top of Satori Mountain.
victreeb3l
Member
I tried that but with some other characters. Its probably what EmCeeGramr is saying that they serve as indicator that particular item is nearby. It would be cool if they would accept stuff from me like horses do.
Primethius
Banned
I'm kinda disappointed that falling trees don't do anything to enemies. I lined up a tree to fall on an enemy as I chopped it and it did nothing.
Nah they're just regular plant pickups. There are some near the
great fairy fountain
(Ridable "special" animal spoiler)
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Too bad you can't keep him 
He has unlimited stamina, for example.
He has unlimited stamina, for example.2Smashed4U
Banned
Anyone else find out that you can give horses buffs for stamina and speed too by feeding them the right items?
ferrasvansen
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Well it's been 9 days, me and my nephew are taking turns about and still loving every minute of it. I have done more exploring, shrines and korok seeds, but damn he is well ahead in dungeons and rare loot. I have been watching him play and it's such a great feeling seeing him enjoy a game without guns or online, and best of all telling me today Zelda is now his fave game, made me near tear up having been a fan since my old Snes days. I just hope it's not over 5 years till the next one, maybe they can squeeze one in in 3 or 4 years.
Nocturnowl
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They should do, I crushed an Octorok under one.
Riposte
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's exactly the kind of reaction I got when I tried to do this with the Silent Princess couple. Was mildly impressed and annoyed at the same time, though maybe I misread it to begin with.
I believe journalism/critics are becoming less and less "critics," and more and more opinionated people. One over the other isn't a bad thing, but if a person is writing a professional review? Critique it and review it as such. Don't go into a project, this being a review, and let personal opinions get in the way. It's a critique review, not a personal review (academic vs anecdotal).
Going over many reviewers scores, Sterling being one of them, there is no consistency with in their own rules and guidelines. Have a game with 1 pro and 5 cons, but manages a score of 9+, or a game with 4 pros and 4 cons with a score of 5. If these reviews are to give impressions, then look and score professionally. If these guys want to give an all out opinion, let certain things cloud their judgement, then are other means of giving out scores. Users give their opinions and rate accordingly. Make a video. But if it's official/professional, reviews absolutely cannot say "I like this game better, so I will give this a lower score.
Unfortunately, this is prevalent through out the industry. Even though scores/expectations do not really affect us gamer's short term, in the long term it will. Many publishers rely on metacritic as a means to hold jobs over these developers heads. Having a few reviewers who decide to get a bug up their ass, and are playing another game they like more at the moment, throw random low scores at these games and poof...developer gets the ax.
Back to Sterling, I believe that if he is going to review the game then stay consistent so that way the score makes sense. In this case, the score does not.
2Smashed4U
Banned
That's strange, seeing as Link can be hurt by them, like if you watch Dunkey's video where one gets struck by lighting and hits him.
malboroking
Banned
Depends on the degree. The program I was in wouldn't accept you unless you had at minimum a 3.6.
thebisonxrc
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This was such a happy place.
Who cares how Jim Sterling scored Zelda? It's his opinion, his review scale, and he's entitled to score it how he likes. His criticisms are fair.
Let's just get back to playing and discussing one of the greatest games ever made.
Who cares how Jim Sterling scored Zelda? It's his opinion, his review scale, and he's entitled to score it how he likes. His criticisms are fair.
Let's just get back to playing and discussing one of the greatest games ever made.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
What's the issue?
Maybe he just liked it more?
As I've said before though I think it's silly to compare review scores given previously. Peoples taste, thoughts and opinions do change over time, that's a fact, and no reviewer is going to look at every single score they've given previously so they can give a correct score to a game...
As for problems with the game, have you not seen the 500 threads regarding durability, or all the complaints regarding weather effects? I'm amazed a reviewer didn't use that to knock points down before.
Either way, sometimes people can just not like an highly rated game as much as other people for various reasons. Reviewers are human. I'm pretty sure if I did a review of Last of Us, I'd be getting the same kind of shit Jim Sterling got, because I just didn't really think it was that great, good but not great. Even though everyone else thought it was gods gift to mankind. I feel that without having any feelings of ill will towards Naughty Dog or Sony.
I could not disagree more.
Lord Azrael
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Spoilered images don't work on mobile... You should probably change this to a link to preserve innocent souls.
Agreed, I think it stands as a testament to the incredible appeal this game has to so many people -- it won't please everyone, and that's totally fine; for me though it's probably my GOAT.
I also loved Fallout 4 and agreed with Jim's 9.5
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Deleted member 30609
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The Hebra skeleton exists. Tears.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Oh yeah I did get a boomerang once. Okay, so it's possible that I can get the costume, cool!
Yeah I save scummed a chest once on accident and realized you could do that. I don't care that much, I'll get it when I get it.
FloweryMarston
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With a 97 breath of the wild is joined by mario galaxy, galaxy 2, metroid prime and gta v. With 98 it is joined by GTA IV.
Either way what i wanted the most was that this game would be the best reviewed zelda since ocarina of time to show that nintendo is definetely going to the right direction. cosidering that 2 lower scores didn't affect it much and it still is a super well reviewed game, and a vast amount of people are loving the game, it really doesn't matter.
Either way what i wanted the most was that this game would be the best reviewed zelda since ocarina of time to show that nintendo is definetely going to the right direction. cosidering that 2 lower scores didn't affect it much and it still is a super well reviewed game, and a vast amount of people are loving the game, it really doesn't matter.
codemonkey
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Silly personal grudges also grow. He just threw his review credibility out with this one.
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Deleted member 30609
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Pan the camera around.
Look around at the top.
Please, if he truly wanted to do that, he'd have given it a far worse score lol.
Strange. I'm playing on Wii U. Generally, bad framerates appear in towns or stables. Haven't seen one of those unintended freeze frames yet myself.
I really wish the review thread was unlocked so that it can stop being talked about here ad nauseam
Nocturnowl
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Took me a long time to get a freeze frame but it's happened a few times now, always moblin related.
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Deleted member 30609
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I can't get over how overpowered some of these abilities area.
The lightning just destroys whole camps in two strikes. The auto-heal and super jump are very very useful too. I still don't know what the Goron ability is.
Jangowuzhere
Banned
At first, I was a little pissed to find out that the enemies and equipment were scaling with me. However, I guess it makes sense in the end. They still want you to explore the entire map. If you were breaking all of your weapons on starter enemies segmented to specific areas, you would completely lose your arsenal.
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Kain-Nosgoth
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just listened to the
song in Rito village, it was great! Found it only now, after doing the 120 shrines, must have missed it
final kass
ColonialRaptor
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Top left corner of the map in the snow areas... there are some large animals that drop heaps of raw prime meat.
victreeb3l
Member
Where did you get it?
Finally went to the first settlement in the story. For some reason I wasn't that intimidated by the size of the map before but I'm sure as hell now. I was just thinking of the time I spent doing stuff in just a small portion. Will follow the story a little more to unlock some things.
BTW there seems to be a severe lack of physical copies of the game. Shouldn't be too hard to provide a decent supply of some plastic cartridges?
Even saw some Switches in shops, but no Zelda everywhere.
BTW there seems to be a severe lack of physical copies of the game. Shouldn't be too hard to provide a decent supply of some plastic cartridges?
Even saw some Switches in shops, but no Zelda everywhere.Kain-Nosgoth
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without spoiling too much for you, find the
ice dragon
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