MyNameIsRye
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No, it's the longest.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again
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No, it's the longest.
By far the longest.
I went to Gerudo first too. My rationale was that it was a small piece of the map and I could start there and then tackle the other 75% of it. It probably wasn't the best one to do first, but it's just kind of the way this game works.
Zora beast down. Man, I really liked it.
Both the
I also got the
from that
sidequest, so I assume there is a sidequest here for the
? Is it this sidequest to gather
perhaps?
Both the
outside fight with my bro Sidon, and then the dungeon itself, I thought the puzzle were good, and so was the layout, just overall really enjoyed it.
I also got the
Zora armor pants
lydel photo
helm
10 luminous stones
Depends what you mean by everything. Main story should take you about as long as any other Zelda.
4 divine beast + mastersword 30 hours
120 shrines 50 hours
100%? Good luck with that.
victreeb3l
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I couldnt figure out the Ralis Pond one so I doublr checked all the monuments even the ones I already got. Thankfully I finished it. Its annoying since there arent many shrines in the area so theres a lot of back and forth. But it made me appreciate how beautiful the Domain is.
I used to be super careful but after I found the coliseum Ive been using high powered weapons for dumb things as well. But silver bokoblins can sure take a beating.
50 hours for all the shrines? No wayyy. I haven't seen anyone come close to that.
I'd personally estimate the Divine Beasts and MS as lower than 30 hours too, but 30 sounds accurate.
Regginator
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I've never spent more than 40 hours on one run in a Zelda game before. Twilight Princess took me the longest in my first run, 38 hours. But now Breath of the Wild has almost tripled that amount of time: 105 hours.
victreeb3l
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Only a handful of quests left 
25 more shrines to go
25 more shrines to go
Mister Negative
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I really hope this game shows up at SGDQ. I wonder what kind of speedrun strats are being worked on. Also wonder what the most interesting category to watch would be - can assume it won't be 100%...
edit: Also, spoilers for one of the beasts:
edit: Also, spoilers for one of the beasts:
the bird beast is disgustingly easy - seems like they really phoned that one in. None of the beasts are particularly hard, but that one didn't even have interesting puzzles. It was basically just "this end needs to be higher than the other so that you can glide to this thing.
I don't plan on playing anything else between now and sometime August. So I'm up to doing a possible 100% run
SweetDonuts
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Omg the
. I was gasping at everything.
I don't like what they've done with the
. I feel like it should've been linked to the Divine Beasts somehow. It doesn't fit with any other Zelda story pertaining to it.
Lost Woods
I don't like what they've done with the
Master Sword
Schnozberry
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Yes. It powers up around any source of Ganon's corrupted energy. Guardians, malice pools, etc.
Yeah, maybe with a guide you'd be able to hit 50. I'm at ~65 with something like 20 shrines to go.
100% sounds nuts if that includes Korok seeds and armor upgrades. I'm doing all sidequests, shrines and memories and that feels like more than enough for me to be satisfied.
I would like to see speed runs on unlocking all map towers. For many towers, there are so many different approaches possible, where the most obvious one usually is the worst.
That's it! Thanks!
Vlaphor
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So yeah, I beat this game last night and am feeling a bit conflicted about it. Got about 43 shrines, all four dungeons, one memory, and the master sword. Then I walked up to Ganon and beat him really easily, which left me wondering why there are still another 80 or so dungeons left. Don't get me wrong, I though the game was a lot of fun, and if you were playing it on the Switch, then it's the only game you have for awhile, so I can see the appeal of getting everything in that case, but at 43 shrines, I was already significantly overpowered for the final fight, so I'm personally not seeing a reason to go back and do the rest of the stuff. That, and the game has a bunch of small issues that have already been discussed to death here and elsewhere (stamina, weapon durability, rain climbing, movement speed) that make me not want to go back. Death by a million small cuts in my case, but at around 35 hours, I think I'm done with this game. Good game, but an 8/10 for me.
Lord of Ostia
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It's possible, but I bet it didn't cost as much to make as many other Open World games. Nintendo gets a lot of bang for their buck.
CrazyHorse
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Do we finally know what the cut in the music stands for?
The shrines are for the exploration and the fantastic things that belong to the major shrine quests. To me personally, beating Ganon is of little importance.
victreeb3l
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The Koroks are so damn cute in this game. The forest is oozing with charm. So much charm the
lol
frame drops significantly
CharminUltra
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Switch can only handle so much CPS before the FPS begins to suffer.
Charm Per Second
Milly Osworth
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The ending cinematic.. was a bit short and dull. Anyone else thought so?
Regginator
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It wasn't a bit short and dull, it was fucking short and dull. Like, I don't want a 30-minute ending cutscene of course, but this was literally a one minute scene where
Zelda thanks Link
both are headed towards Zora's Domain
Nintendo shit the bed with BOTW's main story stuff. Everything else is fantastic, but if they had nailed the main dungeons, final boss, and endings as well, it would have surpassed OOT as my perfect game.
Milly Osworth
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Yeah agreed on all points. Especially the dungeons.
Regginator
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You can't rename horses. But you can register other horses until you hit the 5 horses limit, then you can choose to let go one of the horses. In your case the garbage horse.
got a wii u to play this game I'm a total zelda newbie never played it before in my life but the reviews and previews for this game grabbed my attention.
So far I like it but I dont see where all the amazing 10/10 reviews in every single place come from
its basically the same stuff that almost every major open world game has done these days other games get slack for having a bit of jank but that's in here aswell IMO
The towers that reveal the map that's here
The Dungeons/shrines all feel so similar
Link is slow to get around the stamina gets annoying after a while with a game this size
but I am liking the game these are all just things that I think got overlooked in this yet other games get knifed for these things I don't understand that
So far I like it but I dont see where all the amazing 10/10 reviews in every single place come from
its basically the same stuff that almost every major open world game has done these days other games get slack for having a bit of jank but that's in here aswell IMO
The towers that reveal the map that's here
The Dungeons/shrines all feel so similar
Link is slow to get around the stamina gets annoying after a while with a game this size
but I am liking the game these are all just things that I think got overlooked in this yet other games get knifed for these things I don't understand that
SweetDonuts
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Noticed that today, dropped a LOT but the place is so gorgeous I didn't care
The Greek Freak
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Is there any way to cheat on the motion controlled shrines? I had heard flip it over, but it still took me literally 25+ minutes.
My least favorite 25 minutes playing a video game since the ending of ME 3.
Loving 95% of the game so far but I almost spiked my switch like a fucking football.
My least favorite 25 minutes playing a video game since the ending of ME 3.
Loving 95% of the game so far but I almost spiked my switch like a fucking football.
NOLA_Gaffer
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I keep finding more and more hidden rooms in the castle. Still haven't found that recipe yet.
WordAssassin
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There are two direct references to Skyward Sword in relation to that, as well as references to like three more Zelda games too. It's the most connected to the rest of the series it has ever been.
victreeb3l
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Im down to my last 3 sidequests 😭😭😭
SweetDonuts
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I mean in terms of actually obtaining it. It's linked to strength / hearts when that hasn't been the case before.
Vincent Alexander
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I'm really wanting to love this game, but the combat is really killing me...not even the durability, which I'm not against. The fighting itself just doesn't seem too fun. Maybe I'm just annoyed that the last few places I've explored have had monsters that wreck me due to one hit kills or me not having arrows or something to properly deal with them with. Then I have to leave, and spend forever getting somewhere else with this annoying stamina system just to get killed there also.
Really wanna love this....
Also, is it a glitch that the markers Impa put on my map for villages to do divine beast quests have disappeared twice now?
Really wanna love this....
Also, is it a glitch that the markers Impa put on my map for villages to do divine beast quests have disappeared twice now?
Does anyone find some of the side quests just a bit meh...??
Dont get me wrong there are some decent ones but i find myself ignoring a lot of it " fetch 10 of this" "kill this thing" "give me this ingredient" I just dont want to do any of this stuff at all.
I think im spoilt by Witcher 3 in this regard.
just got the MOST ANNOYING MISSION
Dont get me wrong there are some decent ones but i find myself ignoring a lot of it " fetch 10 of this" "kill this thing" "give me this ingredient" I just dont want to do any of this stuff at all.
I think im spoilt by Witcher 3 in this regard.
just got the MOST ANNOYING MISSION
THAT GOD DAMN INSTA FAIL STEALTH !!!!! AHHHHH (Korok woods trials). I still havent done it yet, Must have tried 10 times now
That's what ancient arrows do
OrbitalBeard
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TW3's sidequests tend to boil down to "follow this trail to find this person or thing", but they have interesting stories and characters tied to them.
It excels in story, but not in gameplay, where BotW destroys it. It all depends on what's most important to you in a video game.
frankie_baby
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It was difficult but adorable
victreeb3l
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frankie_baby
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I did that too, gutted got no loot
The game will only mark one main quest objective on your map at a time. If you make any progress in a different main quest, the markers for the divine beasts will disappear and the markers for that quest will appear instead.
If you want the game to be easier, upgrade hearts instead of stamina and follow the main quest. The game will not stop you from going to places with enemies well out of your league early on.
Probably just a bit shorter than that. Maybe 20-25? Which, yes, would make it probably the shortest 3D Zelda if you focused just on the main quest.
But that would be missing the point. It's not really about the main quest, and in fact would have still been a great game without it.
That's exactly what the requirements were in the very first game.
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