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

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My friends warned me to not carry a torch on horseback or I'd set the plains on fire.

I AM BECOME LINK. DESTROYER OF PLAINS.
 
No spoilers please, but can someone tell me what to do to see different endings/final boss fight stuff? I assume that there are the following: (no real spoilers below, just my guesses)

All memories found, all beasts done
All memories found, not completed all beasts
All beasts, not all memories
Not all beasts, not all memories
 
I saved at Satori mountain while it was glowing. Finally got to play again after a few days, but the glow was gone as soon as I resumed. I tried reloading my save thinking I had made a mistake. Nope. The mountain is glowing in the save thumbnail but not in game. Is it tied to real time somehow? Does it only work certain days of the week?

A guy at a farm told me about this mountain and how he met his dog there. A really cool little story by an NPC and it didn't even trigger a side quest or anything. Just that I could go visit that mountain. Cool stuff.
 
Probably been mentioned before but if you get the frequent blood moon glitch, quitting the game and restarting it fixes it. (Not sleep mode, obviously)
 
Is it true that the Smash Link Amiibo can only unlock
Epona
once? I was scanning amiibo in the starting area like an idiot a while ago so I couldn't get anywhere to register.
Update on this. I just scanned again and got
Epona
so I guess it works more than once.
 
No spoilers please, but can someone tell me what to do to see different endings/final boss fight stuff? I assume that there are the following: (no real spoilers below, just my guesses)

All memories found, all beasts done
All memories found, not completed all beasts
All beasts, not all memories
Not all beasts, not all memories

all memories = extra scene at the end
You are forced to fight against any ganon blight you didnt beat in dugeons before you fight ganon. At least in my experience the battles were sightly different compared to the ones inside the beasts. Its just like a boss rush, you dont get any rest between each blight and ganon.
 
can someone tell me: Is there a way to enhance certain cooked meals? Like throwing 5 apples together makes a 5 heart restore meal. Can i throw like 4 apples + something to make it restore more health effectively? I have a bunch of the 1/2 heart foods
 
Being over 13 hearts it's like you never use healing items, you just finish a new shrine.

can someone tell me: Is there a way to enhance certain cooked meals? Like throwing 5 apples together makes a 5 heart restore meal. Can i throw like 4 apples + something to make it restore more health effectively? I have a bunch of the 1/2 heart foods
2 apple and a hearty radish will blow your mind

also works with 2 shrooms
 
I saved at Satori mountain while it was glowing. Finally got to play again after a few days, but the glow was gone as soon as I resumed. I tried reloading my save thinking I had made a mistake. Nope. The mountain is glowing in the save thumbnail but not in game. Is it tied to real time somehow? Does it only work certain days of the week?

special events reset when you restart.
.so if you see one of the two elemental dragons in the sky and save, if you reload the dragon will not be there anymore, for example
 
can someone tell me: Is there a way to enhance certain cooked meals? Like throwing 5 apples together makes a 5 heart restore meal. Can i throw like 4 apples + something to make it restore more health effectively? I have a bunch of the 1/2 heart foods

Of course. Check the description of the items, some of them explicity say they will add extra hearts as recovery or even add more hearts on top of your max.
 
Finally finished the game, every main quest finished. Damn this was/is such a good game.
Love it so much holy shit.

Definitely my favorite game of all time I think.
Game has given me over 80 hrs of gameplay since launch and I still have things left to do!!
 
talking about cooling, they should have made it so that more complicated dishes or specific recipes gives you more than just slapping meat
and a big heart vegetable and get a full recover + 10 yellow hearts

I mean it's fun to try new recipes but you don't get many incentives to do so.
 
all memories = extra scene at the end
You are forced to fight against any ganon blight you didnt beat in dugeons before you fight ganon. At least in my experience the battles were sightly different compared to the ones inside the beasts. Its just like a boss rush, you dont get any rest between each blight and ganon.
Thanks! That doesn't sound so bad. I thought I might have to try and play through the end multiple times, but I guess I'll just get everything done before going in.
 
This is actually interesting to know since I've not exited the game or turned off the console in weeks.

I don't use sleep mode on PS4 because it breaks things, but I love it on the Switch.

I have literally never had anything "broken" on my PS4 across dozens of games that I have put in sleep mode. Other than always online gsmes, but that's obvious.
 
all memories = extra scene at the end
You are forced to fight against any ganon blight you didnt beat in dugeons before you fight ganon. At least in my experience the battles were sightly different compared to the ones inside the beasts. Its just like a boss rush, you dont get any rest between each blight and ganon.

No spoilers please, but can someone tell me what to do to see different endings/final boss fight stuff? I assume that there are the following: (no real spoilers below, just my guesses)

All memories found, all beasts done
All memories found, not completed all beasts
All beasts, not all memories
Not all beasts, not all memories

Also
calamity Ganon gets zapped by divine beast lasers and has correspondingly reduced health ... he has half health if you beat every divine beast.
 
I did the dungeons Gerudo>Goron>Zora>Rito. Pretty sure I did them in reverse difficulty order, and not just because I was way stronger by the time I got to the last one.

Ok someone tell me what fucking shrine this is.

https://twitter.com/AndroidSparky/status/842220897125703680

This is amazing.

That shrine was hilarious. What you didn't see:
When you get to the top, there's just a lone switch and when you press it the floor falls away and drops you into a huge room full of lava.

Don't remember where it was though.
 
lol i just stumbled upon eventide and beat it in 5 minutes


that's like the 10th thing people have jizzed over with this game and then I do it and it's... I feel nothing


i've been having fun just exploring for shrines though :)
 
lol i just stumbled upon eventide and beat it in 5 minutes


that's like the 10th thing people have jizzed over with this game and then I do it and it's... I feel nothing


i've been having fun just exploring for shrines though :)

Eventide is challenging if you have five hearts.
 
Ramble incoming, but frustrated...



I like the game okay but i'm about to drop it, it's a little too repetitive for me i guess? Like all games are repetitive but the lack of characterization from link or leveling like an rpg just makes me feel like link isn't getting much stronger, so i don't feel drive to explore, which makes me just focus on the main quest, which isn't great.

I think I might get a switch down the line once there's a pokemon game for it, then get BotW on it. I don't hate the game, I just feel like I'd enjoy it more in small chunks like I'd play a handheld; console/pc games I generally wanna be able to sit down for hours with, and that usually requires a lot of changes in the hour-to-hour gameplay for me to be interested.

Weirdly, it's a lot like Dark Souls, which I'm also not a huge fan of for similar reasons. Generally, if a game will be more than 20 hours long, I need it to either have a very strong main character [lots of personality/voice acting], a deep RPG leveling up system, or really fast-paced, action-y combat.

I think ultimately my main problem with the game isI can play for four hours and when I stop, I'm not much stronger or better than I was. That lack of progression kills me.

I enjoy it in the moment but an hour after I set the controller down I couldn't tell you with confidence what I even was doing


This is kind of a rant, but TLDR: I think the game is an incredible achievement in open world gameplay, but the lack of really feeling like Link has a strong personality or more RPG systems to develop my playstyle is a buzzkill for me and I might pick the game back up later for cheap when I can buy a Switch.
 
^ If you can't deal with the possibility of not making progress by embracing the wanderlust, yeah, it's probably not a game you want to try to power through.
 
^ If you can't deal with the possibility of not making progress by embracing the wanderlust, yeah, it's probably not a game you want to try to power through.


Yeah, I really can't deal with that heh, it's kind of a dealbreaker for me, at least for a console game. I feel like I'd have a higher tolerance for it if I was able to play it on the move.
 
Anyone else's Switch get really hot in portable mode when in the Zora domain? My fan kicked on high when I was there in the rain at night...

Cooled down after a minute but I heard it audibly whirring.

Anyone else?


I was in the zora domain last night and when loading the fans started getting really loud, but I was playing in docked mode so idk how hot it was.
 
Sorry to repost this, but I'm still looking for some answers to these questions. Thanks:

That's either one of two things.

It's either
a shooting star that fell to the ground, in which case you can go that spot and pick up what's there (it does disappear after a while).
Or if it's a hazy blue-ish light at the top of mountain it's
...well, just go see it for yourself! :)

Would you mind just explicitly stating what the hazy light is, or at least how to trigger it? I tried to reach it once but it disappeared and I have no idea how to trigger it again, or where it can even spawn.

Also, how do I get Kilton to (shop spoilers)
sell the Lizalfos and Lynel masks? When I've visited him he's only carried the Bokoblin and Moblin masks.
 
Stuck on a terminal in the
Goron
Divine Beast. I got 4. There is one right by the entrance and it's behind a door. Been flipping the beast both ways seeing what it is I could find or what power to use. Drawing a blank. Any minor hints?

There is also a chest behind some bars at one of the terminals that I also can't figure out how to open. Very secondary though. All the other terminals in here have been a sinch. This one has me scrambling around for the last 15 minutes.

EDIT: Nevermind. Got the last one
 
I think ultimately my main problem with the game isI can play for four hours and when I stop, I'm not much stronger or better than I was. That lack of progression kills me.

Eh - I feel the opposite. There's roughly five progression spheres, right? Runes, weapons, armor, hearts, and stamina. All five can effectively be "leveled up", though a lot of the progression is item-based rather than experience based.

If you want to "level up" your health, for example, complete shrines, and feed the spirit orbs into your heart count. Ditto for stamina. Similarly, the further you get in the game, the stronger the weapons you consistently find, which more or less results in a consistent increase in strength. Runes can be fed and upgraded as well, permanently enhancing your abilities. Likewise, new armor raises your defense stat, as does upgrading it.

Of course, I'm sure you know all this. I'm just trying to frame it the way I see it. It's not an RPG in the sense that there's an experience system - rather, leveling up is accomplished through items discovered in the world, which emphasizes and adds meaning to the game's exploration.
 
Eh - I feel the opposite. There's roughly five progression spheres, right? Runes, weapons, armor, hearts, and stamina. All five can effectively be "leveled up", though a lot of the progression is "item-based" rather than experience based.

If you want to "level up" your health, complete shrines, and feed the spirit orbs into your heart count. Ditto for stamina. Similarly, the further you get in the game, the stronger the weapons you're consistently finding, which more or less results in a consistent increase in strength. Runes can be fed and upgraded, which enhances your abilities. New armor raises your defense stat, as does upgrading your current set.

Of course, I'm sure you know all this. I'm just trying to frame it the way I see it. It's not an RPG in the sense that there's an experience system - rather, leveling up is accomplished through items discovered in the world, which emphasizes and adds meaning to the game's exploration.


You're definitely right, it just doesn't click for me. I think a big part of it is because I judge character growth mostly by evolution of my moveset. New spells, new attacks, etc, and those feel pretty scarce. Yeah, I get more health and some cool abilities from equipment, but combat never -fundamentally- changes from hour 1 to me. I've mostly taken down every enemy I've fought so far by plinking their weak spot with arrows, dodging, and flurry rushing.

I realize I -can- fight enemies differently than that, but none of the alternatives appeal to me. I don't really get enjoyment from 'creative' kills like hang-glide bombing or setting up elaborate traps. I just wanna do sick combos and get new skills.

I'm not trying to say the game should be like this; I know everyone's not into that and Zelda clearly isn't built for me, and that's fine. Just articularting why it's losing me.
 
this game should finish downloading in an hour or so. i haven't played a zelda game since ocarina of time 3d came out, anything i should know? i plan on making my way through BotW without any guides unless I get completely stuck somewhere.
 
this game should finish downloading in an hour or so. i haven't played a zelda game since ocarina of time 3d came out, anything i should know? i plan on making my way through BotW without any guides unless I get completely stuck somewhere.

Don't know anything. Just go in completely blind and you'll have the best experience.
 
this game should finish downloading in an hour or so. i haven't played a zelda game since
ocarina of time 3d
came out, anything i should know? i plan on making my way through BotW without any guides unless I get completely stuck somewhere.

Its so different to other zelda games. So dont expect a zelda game like those you remember.
 
this game should finish downloading in an hour or so. i haven't played a zelda game since ocarina of time 3d came out, anything i should know? i plan on making my way through BotW without any guides unless I get completely stuck somewhere.
Don't explore every inch of the overworld.
 
this game should finish downloading in an hour or so. i haven't played a zelda game since ocarina of time 3d came out, anything i should know? i plan on making my way through BotW without any guides unless I get completely stuck somewhere.

the game expolains to you everything you need,and when it doesn't,it will if you continue playing
 
Has anybody here done the three hearts challenge?

I tried to go right to the final boss after getting off the plateau but that proved to be more of a challenge than I thought. I got to the boss, but I didn't expect
to have to fight all the other bosses first!
So I'm off to find better equipment now, plus some fairies and as many arrows as I can buy. But no hearts or stamina upgrade. Should be a fun challenge.
 
So the lady eating watermelon on of the rooftops in the city of
Gerudo
put rinds on the water and they follow the flow without despawning.

I just quite literally spent 5 minutes looking at non-selectable waste in a videogame on a friday night. I don't regret a second of it.
 
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