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

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I kinda wish that the super strong weapons weren't so common later in the game. Like I have 5 Royal Broadswords and all of them have some sort of added buff like Durability or Damage. One of the main reasons I explored so much was because I wanted to find powerful rare weapons, but now they're everywhere and it's making the game a bit too easy.

I'm thinking about starting the whole game over again. I've only finished 2 dungeons and I haven't been to most of the southern and eastern regions. I'd love to explore them while feeling super vulnerable so that exploration and enemy encounters will be a bit more meaningful and difficult again.

What a story mark. You could drop some weapons and remove equipment. Try to use your runes to disarm enemies and steal their weapons.
 
With rupee's no longer being easily acquired on the field, they opted to make them the main prize for side quests. Also considering that the only way to get hearts/stamina is through shrines and not sidequests, the only thing left sidequests can give is either rupees, or gear. Given the open nature of the game, to ensure no one gets uber weapons too easily they generally opt for rupees.

It's more of a consequence of how different BOTW is from other zeldas that the side quests are kinda meh.

I don't know about you but I have hundreds of ore on me which equals unlimited rupees. Do you guys not blow up every rock you see? :P

maybe they should have created another collectible like shrine orbs but for the side quests involving NPCs, I guess something like the friendship tokens from SS. I miss doing a side quest for something I want (heart piece, or bigger quill, etc) rather than just doing it to check something off a list which is what every other RPG does.

The truth is most side quests are quests only in name, their true purpose is that they get you to a point of interest, so I get that. They are directions in disguise. Still I want better prizes for my mini games.
 
There are a few shrines in the game that actually go on for several several rooms and they were very refreshing to go through and made me just a big one of those rather than the short single rooms that the game is littered with.

After going through some missed shrines, I was actually surprised how many Gerudo and I think Goron ones prepare you for their dungeon. I can't recall the other ones.

Good to know, hopefully I'll run into them soon.
 
I can easily say now that Breath of the Wild is the best gaming experience i've played in my adult life, the last time I remember being this, i'll say obsessed, with a game was when I was a teenager and got Goldeneye on the N64.
Hell, Zelda has stopped me playing playing Horizon and NioH on the PS4 Pro cold turkey and Overwatch on PC!

I was rather amazed (read horrified) when I saw that my wife and I have sunk over 90 hours in to it already! Bring on the next 90 hours!
 
Zelda has stopped me playing playing Horizon and NioH on the PS4 Pro cold turkey and Overwatch on PC!

Hey, me too. I've played Overwatch every day since it came out -- I haven't played it once since Zelda came out and I think that's a testament to how engrossing the game is. It's been a phenomenal experience and I still have so much more to do.
 
I got excited when I saw Tingel Island on the edge of the map.

Journeyed all the way, and itsnothing.gif
That's how I've been feeling for the past week. I must be getting seriously unlucky with the places I explore, because it's always just shrines and Korok seeds.
 
In search of the
Hyrule castle memory i decided to actually enter Hyrule casle...... DAMM. It's pretty much death from above with the amount of Guardians on the battlements. I definitely will watch speed-runs of this when i finish. Now back to the seemingly eternal search for Hebra Leviathan Bones and that random looking forest memory.
 
That Leviathan quest was pretty neat...

It was a great example of a good side-quest...the mission is just to find three places, but in doing so I found two shrines and a Fairy Fountain, plus ran into the Fire Dragon. Looked up where the ice one was, would never had found it, and once I knew what the skeletons looked like finding the other two on the map was easy...

Haven't cashed in the photos yet, but I had a lot of fun doing it. Also the sense of LORE makes me excited, now I want a Zelda with dinosaurs---like, ancient Hyrule. Call it "The Missing Link". Bam.

Also I found a Tingle reference (and not the island)!!!

In Gerudo Village there's a cook-book written by an author who is a "pure" 35+ year old who is upset that they've yet to meet a fairy despite being so pure lol. The name is some weird anagram like a monk's name, should've remembered it to see if it's a meaningful name too.
 
Anyone have any advice for the tower to the right of death mountain that has a couple drones patrolling it and a bunch of purple goop up the tower making it impossible to climb? I saw an eye to shoot inside ruins up there but shooting it did nothing.
 
That's how I've been feeling for the past week. I must be getting seriously unlucky with the places I explore, because it's always just shrines and Korok seeds.

Sadly most of the places outside the main towns is just that.

I went 15 hours where I did nothing but hit the edges of the map and like 80% of my time was repetitive stuff. Now I am back to main questing and it's way better. I feel personal pacing is important here since the game won't do it for you.
 
So.... kinda confused on what to do after talking to the Gerudo women in the barracks? Am I supposed to go to the Valley to find the theives? Or try to fins the missing woman? Where is she?
 
Is there any way to tell how much health one of your weapons has left?

No, not really. If it's perfect condition, there will be a twinkle on the top right of the icon and if it's about the break it will flash red (along with the message on screen) but otherwise there's no way to know just by looking at it.
 
Sister sent me a new OoT Link Amiibo. Just got in mail today. I just beat BoTW yesterday. Don't know if I should open it considering how rare these got.
 
Beat the main story today after 85 hours, apparently I have only done 24,89% of the game, but it seems like Korok seeds count too much in that calculation. I have around 45 shrines left though :)

Where exactly is
the Hylian shield
in Hyrule Castle? Felt like I went everywhere, but didn't find it.

A shield/sword combo that look pretty cool is the round
Gerudo
shield and the round spiky sword
from the Yiga clan
. It looks like a big compass on Link's back.
 
Beat the main story today after 85 hours, apparently I have only done 24,89% of the game, but it seems like Korok seeds count too much in that calculation. I have around 45 shrines left though :)

Where exactly is
the Hylian shield
in Hyrule Castle? Felt like I went everywhere, but didn't find it.

A shield/sword combo that look pretty cool is the round
Gerudo
shield and the round spiky sword
from the Yiga clan
. It looks like a big compass on Link's back.

It's in
the dungeon.
 
How would you guys feel if the sequel used the exact same map but with added towns, enemies, and some changes here and there. I really dig the map, and since it IS hyrule and the game will take place in hyrule Id like to see a graphical upgrade, better VA and story, etc but on the same general map.
 
A shield/sword combo that look pretty cool is the round
Gerudo
shield and the round spiky sword
from the Yiga clan
. It looks like a big compass on Link's back.

I've had the Daybreaker shield for fucking ages, it's not breaking. So much for these shitty, brittle items.
 
Getting close to the end now :( I don't want this ride to end.

I am proud of the amount of Shrines (92) and Korok Seeds (313) I have found so far without a guide. I only have the Gerudo desert left, then on to fight Ganon!
 
Just saw the first page and I don't recall seeing such a fantastic OP for OT in very long time. Enormous amount of time and work must have gone into making it.

Thanks OP. It's a work of art.
 
Getting close to the end now :( I don't want this ride to end.

I am proud of the amount of Shrines (92) and Korok Seeds (313) I have found so far without a guide. I only have the Gerudo desert left, then on to fight Ganon!

Gerudo desert is probably my favourite area of the game so far. It's the best desert setting in an open world game ever, and easily so.
 
Damn why do side quest rewards stink in this game. In past game every single activity mattered and went toward getting all items and hearts. Every past mini game had two layers of prizes one being a weapon upgrade and another a heart piece. Every past Zelda side quest lead to some tangable piece of equipment. Here it's almost all rupees, I have infinite rupees with all the ore I have, its pointless.

Hmm, I've gotten armor from a couple sidequests and I would also count the shrine quests as side quests. They usually call for doing something cool in the environment and interacting with NPCs that give a reward that isn't always rupees.
 
Note to self

Fire doesn't destroy chu jelly, it usually converts it to red chu jelly. Flame weapons and fire arrows are okay to use

Ice has a chance to destroy chu jelly. You need to freeze one jelly which will destroy it and create an ice cloud that can freeze the others. It you hit every thing with an ice arrow or ice weapon, youll be out of jelly
 
I think I broke a side quest. I am seriously stuck

Robbie's Research

I lit furnace with the blue flame before I saw Robbie since the getting the light up there cause many deaths I am not sure what went wrong but the robots store is open. Robbie has nothing to say but asking if I am Link. I can't get a dialog to tell him I got the furnace working
 
Sadly most of the places outside the main towns is just that.

I went 15 hours where I did nothing but hit the edges of the map and like 80% of my time was repetitive stuff. Now I am back to main questing and it's way better. I feel personal pacing is important here since the game won't do it for you.
I've tried to just do the main quest, and I'm still having a bad time. I did the Rito dungeon and it sucked, I was devastated when I realized that it was just a collection of 5 unrelated puzzles in a line. I'm in the process of getting to the Zora dungeon, so far I've
run through a path only obstructed by Lizalfos, sat through an awful anime cutscene with the Zora girl, and pressed A against a waterfall so that I could climb up and kill another Lynel. Then I saw Tingel island in the distance and prayed that it would have something interesting, but it was just another shrine.
 
Just completed "From the Ground Up". Really a quest where the final part made it all worth it.

I laughed pretty hard when she had to make that unique vow.

All smiles. This game is certainly a special one.
 
I think I broke a side quest. I am seriously stuck

Robbie's Research

I lit furnace with the blue flame before I saw Robbie since the getting the light up there cause many deaths I am not sure what went wrong but the robots store is open. Robbie has nothing to say but asking if I am Link. I can't get a dialog to tell him I got the furnace working
Take off your clothes
 
I'm having a really weird problem while trying to hunt down the
Stalhorse
in Tabantha.
I found them one night but it the sun rose as I was riding one away, now they don't seem to spawn near the maze at night but every once in a while a horse will just blink in and out of the game in front of me.
What the heck.
 
I don't quite get the rupee complaints myself.

If you go to a mountain range, and break ore, you can get 2000+ rupees worth of ore in a few minutes. This isn't limited to Death Mountain, but any mountain will do, really. I burned around 2000 rupees on armor set, left to a mountain shrine, broke some rocks in a few minutes, came back and burned another 2000 rupees on another armor set.

Maybe people don't know how good the hammer is for breaking ore safely? It's one of the first tips you get if you follow the somewhat guided storyline.

Everyone has the hots for Link. Princesses, fish people, workmen, great fairies, etc.

Handsome, rugged mountain man and swordsman who is built like a bishounen. In all honesty it was weird that more people in-game didn't have the hots for Link before. lol
 
Where do people find so many seeds?

After 66 shrines and finishing the game I only had like 35 seeds iirc
I have 52 seeds after only 18 shrines. I need to find more shrines. Seeds are everywhere. Everywhere! You can barely go from one end of a field to the other without stumbling onto two or three.
 
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