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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again

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I beat my first regular Guardian last night. Got much better with parrying.

Lost only one shield and no damage taken. In due time I'll be taking these losers down on horseback.
 
Is there a way to get rid of a horse in your stable or at least rename it?

I named my first horse Epona (cause of course) but I'm about to get the Amiibo so I don't want two Epona.
 
There's maybe 4 or 5 shrines where the sensor is actually going to hurt you. Things are buried hard under mountains and when the sensor is going off and how it is going off couldn't be further from where the actual entrance is.
It was actually helpful to me in those cases. They may be the ones for which I'm glad there's a detector (I often turn it off when I discover a new area, but I enjoy the help after some time... Korogus will be the real "explore everything" challenge.

There's shrines the detector don't detect, too ;)
 
No idea where the
Hykian Shield
is. I've done the 4 divine beasts, need 3 more memories. I've got the sword. Can someone give me a cryptic clue without straight up telling me where it is?
Very cryptic:
It's near a prison
Less cryptic:
In hyrule castle
 
Last night after beating the Divine Beast of the Gorons I tried to glide from a cliff to the
Lost Woods.

lol but I guess I should have imagined that would happen.
 
No idea where the
Hykian Shield
is. I've done the 4 divine beasts, need 3 more memories. I've got the sword. Can someone give me a cryptic clue without straight up telling me where it is?

The Knights of Hyrule kept their best gear in a place where they could protect the Royal Family at a moment's notice. Now, the monsters rule the roost and are hoarding the best gear for themselves.
 
Last night after beating the Divine Beast of the Gorons I tried to glide from a cliff to the
Lost Woods.

lol but I guess I should have imagined that would happen.

I did the same the first time, from a different launch point.

Same with Thyphlo Ruins.

Guess you need to start at the entrance sometimes lol.
 
Where do i find a windcleaver after the
stealth section?

The
Yiga Clan stepped up their attempts on my life
after that. They appear most often for me in central Hyrule and near the castle. There are two variants that can spawn, the burly guys drop the windcleaver.
 
Peléo;231987304 said:
You can get them from enemies from
the Yuga Clan.
. More specifically, the
Yuga Blademaster.
. One of my favourite swords from the game.

But where do I find them? The
blade masters i mean
 
tips on parrying regular monsters? i've tried and tried can't seem to get the timing. Flurry attacks are no problem however. Is there something Im missing?
 
Oh, I also wanted to mention something regarding the Wii U ver.

I heard a LOT of people saying that on the Switch areas like Death Mountain and Korok Forest are unplayable but I went to them and while the forest is kinda dodgy (and this is only in one section) the entirety of Death Mountain is actually quite good performance wise and I only had a 1 second freeze while beating a Moblin but that also happened with them in other areas.

From what I explored so far the only area that I had a lot of consistent bad performance that is not a town or stable was the base of Akkala Tower in which the framerate tanked to low 20s

I still have not explored most of the east side of Hyrule, Gerudo Desert and some kind of jungle kind of area so yeah.
 
I don't know if this is the intended way but in the shrines where you have to use metal objects like crates to power the electricity you can just drop a weapon on the pads to power them instead, which was awesome until I stepped on it and it electrocuted me
 
Gerudo desert ran fine for me on the Wii U. It's very spread out and there's no real foliage.

Korok forest is playable on the Wii U, but it's not a fun sight. By far the worst performance I've seen in a Nintendo game since the N64

Everything else runs moderately okay, with some hangs when it rains in cities and the known Moblin problems.
 
lol, I loved that section of the game. laughed out loud
when the first guy freaked out over the bananas

That entire segment was great (although it was pretty confusing when I couldn't find the item that I went there for). I loved finding the
gigantic stash of bananas, as well as how the guards reacted to the bananas in general. Once I made my way into the one room that seemed to be where I'd find the Thunder Helm, I had to laugh when I opened the chest and found more bananas.
Really clever and charming segment.
 
That entire segment was great (although it was pretty confusing when I couldn't find the item that I went there for). I loved finding the
gigantic stash of bananas, as well as how the guards reacted to the bananas in general. Once I made my way into the one room that seemed to be where I'd find the Thunder Helm, I had to laugh when I opened the chest and found more bananas.
Really clever and charming segment.

YES! I was opening the chest, thinking "watch it be more
bananas
"

and it was! I laughed out loud.
 
Did the Shrine quest yesterday with the Rito sisters.

I had a Korok leaf in my inventory already, so I loved figuring out that you have to use the leaf to blow through the holes to make tones. I had been trying to shoot arrows through them because of that other shrine quest. But when I came into work and was talking about it, my buddy was confused as to why it took me a few to solve. He didn't have a leaf, so one of the sisters just handed him one...thus revealing the solution.

A similar thing happened where I thought the solution to the second half of the
Lost Woods
was so cool. My friend didn't get it...he just wandered around until he got to the village.
 
Oh, I also wanted to mention something regarding the Wii U ver.

I heard a LOT of people saying that on the Switch areas like Death Mountain and Korok Forest are unplayable but I went to them and while the forest is kinda dodgy (and this is only in one section) the entirety of Death Mountain is actually quite good performance wise and I only had a 1 second freeze while beating a Moblin but that also happened with them in other areas.

From what I explored so far the only area that I had a lot of consistent bad performance that is not a town or stable was the base of Akkala Tower in which the framerate tanked to low 20s

I still have not explored most of the east side of Hyrule, Gerudo Desert and some kind of jungle kind of area so yeah.

Never had an issue on death mountain myself. Korok forest it drops but it's not unplayable. Ever.
 
It's funny that I decided to beat the game because I wanted to move onto the other really good games that came out this month.

Here I am though, still hunting down koroks and shrines.
 
An interesting thing I noticed when fighting my first Lynel:

After shooting an arrow at its face and mounting it, the weapon hits don't seem to drain durability while mounted.
So it seems pretty safe to just equip the most badass weapon in your inventory and go to town once mounted.
 
Exploring the castle for little side quests, it's fabulous.

Yeah, I've already decided that after I finish the third dungeon I'm going to explore Hyrule Castle a big by sneaking in through the side. Once I'm ready for the final battle I'm going in through the front. I kinda want to explore the ruined hyrule castle town now but there are just so many guardians that it makes me nervous lol
 
Did you guys have to look up guides or online for any of the quests? Some of them are so vague I am having trouble figuring out exactly what I am supposed to be doing.
 
It's a strange feeling only knowing where 3 incomplete shrines are (event island, the last maze and one major test of strength I never beat), when I know I've only actually beaten half the shrines (I have 64 shrines beaten).

I should still be tripping over them, and yet I'm not. My "get to the highest point in the area and scope out shrines" strategy has probably reached its limit. Guess I'll need to do some actual leg work.



How vague of a hint do you want?

Mild spoiler:
It's gear made for the desert

Medium spoiler:
It's found in Gerudo Town

Detailed instructions:
It's in the secret shop in Gerudo Town. Ease drop in on the bar ladies conversations until they give you the password. It's behind the clothing store on the immediate left when entering the town.
Thanks for the help! I checked your medium hint. I'll take another look there.
 
Ok I finally unlocked the "activity log" yesterday I was at 50hours on Zelda with this :
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My article about the exploration of Akkala is up : http://www.letswitch.eu/en/2017/03/13/botw-journal-9/
 
Did you guys have to look up guides or online for any of the quests? Some of them are so vague I am having trouble figuring out exactly what I am supposed to be doing.
I havent so far.

IF I cannot resolve some riddle I just put it in the backburner until later... which means that I have some Kass missions from the beggining of the game still in my queue lol
 
Just a general hint, like near a village or a north, south, west or east direction would be fine.

click to reveal as much as you want
region
......akkala..........
nearest tower
....akkala citadel....
nearest geographical point
....lake akkala.....
nearest shrine
.dah hesho.....

east of
...the akkala citadel tower
west of
..tingel island........
north of
...kaepora pass....
south of
east akkala stable....
 
People need to explore more: Hyrule castle instead of going straight to Ganon, it's a dungeon itsself but I saw none mentioning it.

I did, my final impression of the game is that if they could have made a few more Hyrule Castle's the game would have had a perfect balance. They could have done things with the Forgotten Temple that had nothing to do with the story but provided a tight locale to explore that was full baddies and loot. Same with the Yiga fortress. I hope the DLC has a tightly focused area like Hyrule Castle or that future games with this engine get more. I'm guessing it was just time that they couldn't put more in.

I enjoyed the open world the most about the game, it was truly refreshing, but if I were to pick between Divine Beasts or more Hyrule Castles it'd be castles. You don't even have to make it a traditional Zelda dungeon. Give people the option to storm the gate, sneak around, or find a labyrinth to work their way through.

Ok I finally unlocked the "activity log" yesterday I was at 50hours on Zelda with this

Damn, the sign of a true explorer, more Korok seeds than shrines.
 
Trick to getting behind these doors in the hebra mountains?

They appear to be stone but can't be stasised or otherwise - tried rolling boulders and shield surfing into it - no levers or anything that I can see either - dunno
 
I did, my final impression of the game is that if they could have made a few more Hyrule Castle's the game would have had a perfect balance. They could have done things with the Forgotten Temple that had nothing to do with the story but provided a tight locale to explore that was full baddies and loot. Same with the Yiga fortress. I hope the DLC has a tightly focused area like Hyrule Castle or that future games with this engine get more. I'm guessing it was just time that they couldn't put more in.

I enjoyed the open world the most about the game, it was truly refreshing, but if I were to pick between Divine Beasts or more Hyrule Castles it'd be castles. You don't even have to make it a traditional Zelda dungeon. Give people the option to storm the gate, sneak around, or find a labyrinth to work their way through.

For me, the experiences this game has that "resemble" dungeons are:

Hyrule castle
The Gerudo Hideout
the path to Zora's Domain
The quests leading up to Death Mountain Divine quest
The dragon Shrines, because of the epicness.
Lost forest
The dark ruins
the four divine beasts themselves
The Labrynths
Eventide island
And even some shrines. I've done a couple of shrines that are super huge.

Add to these some really awesome shrine quests and open world bosses.

I think that taking these into account, the gameplay experience of this game, cannot be matched.
 
I want some help with a quest, the one where you gotta snap pictures of certain bone structures...

The "Leviathans". I know they're around the mountains, but can someone give me the general map area to look? Like "in Hebra" is so vague and that region is so damn huge, but as a fan of cryptozoology this quest speaks to me.
 
I want some help with a quest, the one where you gotta snap pictures of certain bone structures...

The "Leviathans". I know they're around the mountains, but can someone give me the general map area to look? Like "in Hebra" is so vague and that region is so damn huge, but as a fan of cryptozoology this quest speaks to me.

I'm having trouble with this too. I've found lots of ribcages and stuff that resemble huge remains, but never any skulls, which are what you actually need.
 
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