And just after the fight: Bloodmoon.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again
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And just after the fight: Bloodmoon.
TheGoreMagala
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I was looking for the Hylian shield and didn't really pay attention to the map so in my quest I stumbled upon the throne room and once the cutscene happened there was no going back and since I spoiled myself I'm like "screw it I hope I'm strong enough" and I was.
Playing on WiiU as well, apart from the ball minimaze I had no problem with any motion controls shrine, but I think people playing on Switch are complaining precisely about that same puzzle.
Oh my god, the feeling when all you hear is about a dreaded motion controlled mini golf shrine and you manage to beat with your very first swing!
You´re mixing things, there´s the motion control ball maze (which people complain about a lot), then there´s the motion controlled minigolf shrine (which is easy and no one complains about) and the golf shrine where you have to use stasis and no motion controls (which is really hard, specially the hidden chest).
julesodies
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The song in the last area is so sexy 
. Glad I played that part with headphones on, should have done it way earlier.
. Glad I played that part with headphones on, should have done it way earlier.It happened to me too, there is no cutscene of "big bad evil is in this room are you sure you want to go in".
Door is open, I walked into it expecting loot and a warning that the game will end if I push forward, nope, small cutscene showing the last boss and the battle inmedialty starts.
Can you fight the Yiga Blademasters anywhere? They are a really cool enemy, I hope you can encounter them out in the world and have a proper duel without them calling in 3 archers and 2 other Blademasters (and that they deal massive damage instead of 1HKO you).
Well, the map shows a big glowing orange dot that says GANON...
Argh was trying to edit my previous post and somehow created a double post sorry
After beating the story a calm came over me while playing and I enjoy the freeroam more now. I'm just exploring areas that are still shrine-free on my map to see if there is stuff I missed. I think the shrine quests are my favorite part of the game, I love figuring them out. Like yesterday I did the one where you had to
There are a few sidequests I keep putting on the backburner, like finding those Zora murals. May end up using a guide for that.
I have the full Zora set now and just fashion-Zelda wise it looks glorious. And climbing with the full hiking set... Full Spidey wallcrawling now.
I'm just playing for completionist purposes now and to get all shrines, but I'm actually having more fun now than when I was still doing the story.
get struck by lightning, and there's even one OoT homage with firing into the sun.
There are a few sidequests I keep putting on the backburner, like finding those Zora murals. May end up using a guide for that.
I have the full Zora set now and just fashion-Zelda wise it looks glorious. And climbing with the full hiking set... Full Spidey wallcrawling now.
I'm just playing for completionist purposes now and to get all shrines, but I'm actually having more fun now than when I was still doing the story.
I feel like people complaining about rupees as a side quest reward a crazy! I just explored some of the Akkala-Region and it's crazy how many Rupees you need to get the most out of this region!
Plus I think you can probably spend hours and hours of grinding for stuff that you need to upgrade your armor. I really love that aspect - gives me a new reason to actually fight enemies now that I'm not really in need of good weapons anymore!
Plus I think you can probably spend hours and hours of grinding for stuff that you need to upgrade your armor. I really love that aspect - gives me a new reason to actually fight enemies now that I'm not really in need of good weapons anymore!
Wait, there are no Darknuts in this game?! Sad
After WW and TP they became my favorite enemies in the series.
Oh my god, the feeling when all you hear is about a dreaded motion controlled mini golf shrine and you manage to beat with your very first swing!
...it was supposed to be difficult?
Of all the motion controlled shrines, it was the only one I've real real fun controlling.
gooderthanu
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I feel the same way!!!
I don't like the smaller dungeons... I miss the old zelda layout
I like the enemy camps but the map seems way too big. Should have been an eighth the size and have 8 traditional dungeons.
I do feel like an explorer and it's somewhat neat but there's like 4 sets of enemies... lizafos , bokoblin, bats, jellies... there's a few powerful ones but they are repeated too
Do you mean the not-so-secret dungeon item? Please, no more of this antiquated bullshit in Zelda. The way those items were inplemented are the most contrieved progress blockers there are and a good part of what prevented previous Zeldas from feeling in any way organic.
"Look, there's a blue door. Pity you can't open it before you haven't done the puzzle sequence of the blue door dungeon and gotten the magic item of opening blue doors. That's three dungeons down the line, so come back later!"
That's antiquated game design from the early nineties and the reason BotW world feels like an actual place, rather than a bunch of puzzle rooms with a bit of world-skin on them and some characters placed as means of puzzle triggers, is that it does away with this antiquated rubbish. If ever they regress to dungeon items, I hope they don't regress to blocking overworld progress by means of those items. That's okay if the game does it once, e.g. the BotW glider. But that actually more or less explains why you couldn't get down from the plateau before and is an item with universal usefulness. In other Zelda games it's pretty baffling why nobody in the whole world of Hyrule ever tried to move the blue magic block of "you're not supposed to go here yet" or why the only means of aquiring bombs necessary to clear a blocked path in the world is in some building with an asinine puzzle sequence, that only the chosen one in tights will ever complete.
This old template simply doesn't do anymore to build a world, when every other open world games unmasks it for what it is: A design form the early nineties that has been superseeded,
HawthorneKitty
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You don't check your map though since it doesn't help much unless you're in a corridor with split paths.
It's still relevant, just not the double meaning.
Zomba13
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Man, why does the sun rise so early? It's only 3:45am!
I really wish the nights were darker. Their length is fine, the amount of time Stals spawn is ok as it is, I just wish it was darker, more black and less light blue for a bit then early morning.
Moff
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do you honestly even remember three dungeons from wind waker, twilight princess and skyword sword? I sure as hell don't
the are the epitome of stale, oldass zelda design, they needed to go.
the titans are so . much. better.
you can see them from afar, they are threatening and spectacular, talking with the different peoples you hear how they are influenced by the titan. you help them fight the titan. as with everything in this game, they are truly a part of the world and have an effect on this world. inside the dungeon you can go/look outside and see the area you did exploration and questing a few hours ago, it is spectacular and incredibly memorable.
no, none of the old ass dungeons even came close to that., they had better bosses, though, I'll give you that.
Zomba13
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Most definitely that. Also
she wouldn't stop beeping an annoying, high pitched, repetitive beep to constantly remind Zelda that Link's health is low.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I heard there's a certain unlock you need to have a certain amount of hearts to get. How many hearts?
I love the divine beasts as the dungeon replacements, by now the temples/ dungeons in Zelda games are quite predictable and boring so I am glad they did something different here.
However. With the shrines being used to "train" the hero I think it was a missed opportunity to have a traditional style Zelda dungeon based on the shrines. Kind of like Tower of the Gods in Windwaker it could act as a way of proving you are worthy and having a traditional Zelda dungeon would work in the context of the game world as "training" the hero.
However. With the shrines being used to "train" the hero I think it was a missed opportunity to have a traditional style Zelda dungeon based on the shrines. Kind of like Tower of the Gods in Windwaker it could act as a way of proving you are worthy and having a traditional Zelda dungeon would work in the context of the game world as "training" the hero.
I found funny that
Zelda asks Link of he as a choosen hero can hear the voice of the sword. Then in a later cutscene she is the one that hears the voice, she also seems to carry the full triforce. She is like "look at me, im the hero now"
Following up on this, I checked and you can't (final boss spoilers)
bring a chicken into Calamity Ganon.
Can anyone help me figure out exactly where to find silver Lynels? I want to fight challenging enemies. I beat my first silver lynel yesterday without healing.
Not sure why people say they are hard. You have to upgrade your armor and use good weapons though.
The guide book only lists regular red, blue, and white mane lynels. Those are not silver mane ones.
Can anyone tell me exactly where to find any silver mane lynel?
I only know about the one in the
Not sure why people say they are hard. You have to upgrade your armor and use good weapons though.
The guide book only lists regular red, blue, and white mane lynels. Those are not silver mane ones.
Can anyone tell me exactly where to find any silver mane lynel?
I only know about the one in the
coliseum ruins.
Not terribly often in Zelda games is there an overworld progress blocker tied to dungeons; most have some element of non-linearity, or the progression is tied more firmly to narrative events. It isn't Super Metroid.
Second of all, this doesn't make any sense. You seem to be angry at the ludonarrative dissonance the blockers cause, but you're totally okay with preconstructed dungeons *all* across Hyrule that precisely require four items that can only be obtained in four exact shrines that the player *conveniently* finds outside his chamber of resurrection, and cannot move beyond until they're completed? It's nonsense. We accept these things because we understand how games work, but don't pretend that BotW is some bastion of realism in this regard.
Finally, most of us are complaining about the dungeons' size, complexity, and end bosses, not that there isn't a specific item you obtain that affects further progress in the game world. A Link Between Worlds manages to have fantastic dungeons without progress gating, and these divine beasts fall very, very flat for me.
casey_contra
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:Motorbass
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I love this new formula and am looking for variations in the next title.
Before, I tried to finish TP HD (again), but it was like: uh enough of pointless zig-zagging to hyrule castle and some other NPC, finally a dungeon. But then the dungeon got tiresome as well and I wanted to be done with it. And that repeated. In BotW i can do more stuff that also has more meaning and is fun.
Before, I tried to finish TP HD (again), but it was like: uh enough of pointless zig-zagging to hyrule castle and some other NPC, finally a dungeon. But then the dungeon got tiresome as well and I wanted to be done with it. And that repeated. In BotW i can do more stuff that also has more meaning and is fun.
I do like the shrine, but I wish the dungeons them self held some of this style of puzzles found in the shrines. I also kind of miss the whole 'fight enemies to unlock room' kind so one had to fight something different and prove a different kind of challenge, especially with the combat system here being more interesting than past Zelda games.
But I can see they decided to expand outside the dungeons as the world itself has dungeon elements. I do hope for the sequel they do scale it a bit in term of size in the over world (but not much, maybe have one region less or something), add a bit more dungeons with that maybe are attach to the over world (instead of mechanical beast).
also, whats the max amount of stamina? 3 circles?
Akiyama_AE
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Goron divine beast escort mission is terrible .
Jim_Cacher
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Did anyone try to sleep the blissful
? Link is having fun with the bed lol
water bed in Zora's Domain
casey_contra
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Finally was able to check my play time. 85+ hours and 23%... I'll definitely be using a guide for the Korok seed but I'm hoping to do shrines on my own. May look up numbers of how many are in each region or something.
Speaking of... how many are in
I only found one and was really surprised.
Also, I had one of my favorite shrine quests last night in the Faron region...
Speaking of... how many are in
Hyrule Castle?
Also, I had one of my favorite shrine quests last night in the Faron region...
I probably could have laid a weapon down in retrospect, but I stood on the yellow stone and got electrocuted. It was awesome!
It gets easier when you realize how to dispatch the drones quickly, but yeah it's not great.
casey_contra
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Really?? I actually felt the opposite. I was expecting it to be Makar/Medli/Ruto bad but I was really impressed with the AI.
Magnesis is your friend. Didn't feel like an escort mission. I was mining ore in the meantime lol.
Akiyama_AE
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It got easy when I started using magnisis but after raging of him getting spotted lol
I will never understand the complains about weapon durability on this game. This is what I was greeted with when trying to figure out what to drop to pick up a guardian spear 3.0:
(also I like to have a torch and a kolog leaf at all times)
I guess I'll drop the electricity and ice rods lol
I have only completed 2 dungeons, and I never know what to drop because all my weapons are usually very good. And when I fight a weak enemy I don't know which weapon to use because I usually don't have any weak weapon. And people complain about not having enough good weapons or them breaking too easily lol.
(also I like to have a torch and a kolog leaf at all times)
I guess I'll drop the electricity and ice rods lol
After you defeat the divine beast you get an ability that
lets you shoot up incredibly high in the air and auto pull out your glider.
I have the same problem. Plenty of weapons and always having to decide which to drop when I find a new one. I find having enough shields much harder. They seem much less common, especially non-rubbish ones (pot lids or basic boko shields).
I know. I beat the game and I have 100 hours in it now. I just want to
fly
casey_contra
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Can't try at the moment, but except for amiibo gear can you dye pretty much everything? Just got full
and it's kinda kinky. Wanna see if I can make it even kinkier.
rubber armor
I don't have confirmation, but I'd say yes, killing more Bokoblins makes harders versions of the Bokoblins spawn after bloodmoons.
Finale Fireworker
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This upsets me. Because this means that they basically wrote Zelda
as the hero meant to wield the Master Sword.
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