The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again
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Gosh, just when I think I´ve seen everything in the game there are 4 posts mentioning stuff I haven´t come across. Such a huge world.
It really sets the mood for those locations, I totally flt like I had been transported outside of the world to somewhere else and was trapped there until I could solve the maze.
It really sets the mood for those locations, I totally flt like I had been transported outside of the world to somewhere else and was trapped there until I could solve the maze.
mindatlarge
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Was speaking more of what inspiration they may have had when composing it. One of my favorite tracks from the game so far.
balladofwindfishes
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Is there any point to the Arbiter's Grounds, or is it just a "Hey, Twilight Princess reference, remember that game??" type thing?
mindatlarge
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Indeed, after spending hours in them, that track is embedded into my cerebral cortex. Not a bad thing though.
mentallyinept
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The monster masks let you move past that enemy type without them attacking. You can't hang out or anything but it's real useful for blowing by Lynels.
Haven't tried it, but
the former could be useful for the Ruins above the Great Forest?
Same here, though I'm sure it's mostly because I forget about that ability...
Love the game. Ive beaten it now I'm just going exploring and doing all the leftover shrines. As much as I love the game, they need to dial back the rain!
The lack of armor, food or some other trinket to negate the rain is awful. The climbing gear upgrade bonus should make you not slip in the rain. Rain = Fun killer. There are other areas that could be improved but a huge easy QoL improvement would be rain mitigation.
The lack of armor, food or some other trinket to negate the rain is awful. The climbing gear upgrade bonus should make you not slip in the rain. Rain = Fun killer. There are other areas that could be improved but a huge easy QoL improvement would be rain mitigation.
Freeman76
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They should have buried an ancient ocarina somewhere with the song sheet for the sunsong, just for that reason.
I had the sort of star part tone around the bottomless swap but couldn't see anything. It sometimes happen.
I know, the funny thing is the NPCs react to it as well all the time "Seriously?!" <= when it's starts to rain.
ReplacementPelican
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Hi guys, wondering if anyone could help.
So, this is my first Zelda game and I absolutely adore it, so much so that I really want to dig into the rest of the games (will probably wait to see if any/all come to Switch in the next year or so) but I realise this is the first 'open world' one so how exactly do the other games play? I can't really imagine Zelda as much else having not experienced it.
So, this is my first Zelda game and I absolutely adore it, so much so that I really want to dig into the rest of the games (will probably wait to see if any/all come to Switch in the next year or so) but I realise this is the first 'open world' one so how exactly do the other games play? I can't really imagine Zelda as much else having not experienced it.
balladofwindfishes
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One Gerudo NPC even notes how she thought the rain was cool at first, but now it's just annoying.
It almost seemed self aware.
Jim_Cacher
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The Flower Girl is awesome. Not even the Hero can hurt her flowers!
balladofwindfishes
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They all (except for a couple mediocre DS games and some spin offs) have a largeish overworld type place where you can wander around (no climbing though, the areas are pretty closed down), but the game always leads you where you need to go. Dungeons have a set order, and each dungeon has a signature item you get that is used heavily in that dungeon's puzzles (instead of getting every tool at the start like BotW).
WrenchNinja
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The climbing gear's real bonus ability should have been the ability to climb in the rain. Seems like a really obvious thing they should have done.
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Dungeons don't always have strictly set order, per se - Ocarina of Time's can be done in varying order, and Majora's Mask allows you to swap Stone Tower and Great Bay Temple. But they are much more heavily restricted, certainly.
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You can't, no. You'll be three hearts short. To me, this implies there will be 12 DLC shrines. Alternatively Nintendo likes fucking with completionists.
See: Hestu
The big exception to this of course is Link Between Worlds, where you can get all your tools early on like in BotW and do dungeons in whatever order you want (to an extent). Of the other Zeldas it's the most like BotW, but the Dungeons are much longer and more of a focus like in older games.
I'd recommend that that anyone whose first game is BotW (hell, I'd recommend it to anyone in general just because it's a really good game).
Disagree completely. It would be nice to keep this expanded scope because it's the first Zelda that truly calls back to Zelda 1 and 2. What they need to do is have more traditional dungeons. While I don't mind the smaller, more intimate puzzles of these new dungeons I would also like the kind of grand design of previous games.
Otherwise, anything less than this kind of dynamic open world Zelda is a step back.
Oh man. I only need one more heart which means I'm going to be stuck with an unfinished stamina meter. Thats going to drive me crazy!
balladofwindfishes
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Doesn't Stone Temple require Great Bay's Ice Arrows? And Great Bay's Hookshot? From what I remember, it needs both of those items.
Ocarina of Time and Link to the Past are often recommended as starting points for people.
I feel like Ocarina would be a good starting point in that case because it would be more removed in time, and you can kind of see how the last big revolution in Zelda went and what latter games took as a model. Something like playing the previous Zelda game right after this, Skyward Sword, would feel really weird I think. At the time, Ocarina felt open world.
Link to the Past is always a recommended option if you want to try a 2D game as well.
OrbitalBeard
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There's no going back from this. That being said, there's plenty of room for improvement and I'd be ok with seeing some "traditional" elements return.
Just in the area alone where you get the quest you can get more than 9.
2D Zeldas can be the limited style of previous games, but 3D Zeldas cannot look back.
They don't help there actually -- I had originally thought that too, but chances are you can deal with those ruins as soon as you get there,
as long as you
enter in the correct spot.
... on the on the
west side.
What that gear *does* let you do is
Just chill with skeleton mobs. They won't attack you or anything if you're wearing it and it is upgraded x 2 in order to get the 'disguise' set bonus, they'll just kind of walk up and look at you funny.
I only really use it on snow and sand, where it doesn't damage your shield. It's fantastic, and you can use it on only slight downhill slopes where you cant glide properly.
I really enjoyed the dungeons in this game, as a next-level puzzle to solve. I wish there were more shrines that were like the dungeons, actually, even if they weren't story-related.
That said, I would really like to see some areas return which are more like
Hyrule Castle
Forgotten Temple
Akkala (?)
Skittzo0413
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I've put over 100 hours into this and I still have no idea what the 4th "ability controls" ability is. Does anyone know what that is?
OrbitalBeard
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When I say "traditional", I'm mainly referring to some standard dungeons with unique puzzles and bosses.
A new, full-on traditional Zelda should stay in 2D, yes.
Shrines are awesome, but I'd have preferred it if we had gotten both shrines and longer dungeons. The rare shrines we get that are longer are such a treat and I like the feeling of being effectively trapped in a place until you figure out a number of puzzles, and the one DB I've done just can't compare to a good Zelda dungeon.
Manny Calavera
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Happy to see so many first timers loving the game. I've been playing the game soon for two weeks and I've completed only one dungeon so far but I've been absolutely loving my time with the game. I can just explore the world for hours on end. When I'm not playing I'm thinking about playing all the time.
They've been described above, but temper your expectations! They're all extremely polished puzzle games with mostly a charming bit of world building (and sometimes puzzle gimmicks that may be a bit obnoxious), but they all fall short of BotW horrendously in one aspect: their game world and the interaction with the game world.
Just don't expect any of them to have an exploration aspect that comes even close to BotW, so you won't be too disappointed there. Then you might also like those. If Nintendo treats the Switch similarily to the WiiU (Virtual Console, HD-makes), you might even be able to play most of the Zelda games on it some years down the line.
On that node, ports of the 3DS' OoT und Majora's Mask remakes would be pretty welcome on the Switch in my book.
The armor system is just completely and utterly fucked. One of the worst in gaming by the time you get to the end game.
If you want the game to be hard, you basically can't
wear "heavy" armor upgraded to 3-Starts
OrbitalBeard
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God, I would love this.
Hmm, does that work on a
Stalnox? Probably not I guess. Normal masks already work on their respective Stal versions, so not too exciting a bonus.
Sorry if this has been asked before but its a big thread to go through!
My wife is playing through this on her japanese account, can I switch to my english account and start a playthrough without affecting her save?
I read theres only one system file for the save so not sure.
Edit - OK appears I can have a seperate save on my account
My wife is playing through this on her japanese account, can I switch to my english account and start a playthrough without affecting her save?
I read theres only one system file for the save so not sure.
Edit - OK appears I can have a seperate save on my account
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