The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again
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So when do I get to do the (presumably) last Kakariko quest of transporting the glowing sphere from Impa to where it belongs? I guess I have to do all side quests, but I can't find any. Do I have to get something from the Divine Beasts? I do have all upgrades to the Sheikah Slate and done the following side quests:
What am I missing?
Play with Priko (or whatever she is called in English, one of the kids)
Get back the cuccoos
Light the lanterns near the statue of the goddess
Show a photo of the Fairy to the guy painting the pictures
Get back the cuccoos
Light the lanterns near the statue of the goddess
Show a photo of the Fairy to the guy painting the pictures
What am I missing?
Its on the small bridge going from the castle to a small and tall tower on the left side
You have to climb up and avoid guardians.
TheGeniusArcana
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It's in the actual castle near
the bridge by Zelda's room iirc.
It took me 5 times beating it but I just discovered how to beat Molduga without being launched into the sky.
Feels so good =3
But also I feel sad because I wasted a TON of resources in those other fights =/
Also did I just found the "remains" of
aldk;a sld
Feels so good =3
But also I feel sad because I wasted a TON of resources in those other fights =/
Also did I just found the "remains" of
Arbiter's Ground?
MosquitoSmasher
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Yep I got the
memory and I knew about the goddess statue. But it seems I can't do much for her at the moment. I am guessing I need to go to another place for this Dinraal character/creature.
Onikaan
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See this is why I can't love BOTW. The overworld took precedence over the typical Zelda beats. (Dungeons, Bosses, End Game).
But for me the overworld in Zelda games was a foundation, a platform for me to travese to these fantasic challenges.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great game. But it's definitely not my favourite Zelda. Too much milk not enough meat is how I feel but that applies to my own opinion on what makes Zelda fun for me...
I actually have a lot to say about BOTW and it's flaws. I was surprised the reviews didn't have more beef with certain aspects. Maybe I'm just an old fart now.
*lifts hylian shield*
jfc endgame encounters can be bonkers
- Ok let's just go up to this guardian and carefully dismant-
*Poof,
*
- Get outta here, jerk
*lightning storm rolls in, shortly followed by horse-mounted
bokoblin archer, guardian still intact*
- Alright, I need to get rid of this guy real quick
*ANOTHER
bokoblin archer riding a horse replaces the first one*
- SHIT
It wasn't that difficult now that I have a ton of hearts, level 3 armor and a bunch of high-power weaponry but damn, that would be a nightmare to pull out a victory when if you're any less prepared. I'm really looking forward to that Cave of Trials DLC
- Ok let's just go up to this guardian and carefully dismant-
*Poof,
Yiga archer
- Get outta here, jerk
*lightning storm rolls in, shortly followed by horse-mounted
silver
- Alright, I need to get rid of this guy real quick
*ANOTHER
silver
- SHIT
It wasn't that difficult now that I have a ton of hearts, level 3 armor and a bunch of high-power weaponry but damn, that would be a nightmare to pull out a victory when if you're any less prepared. I'm really looking forward to that Cave of Trials DLC
MosquitoSmasher
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The blue flame in.....
Akkala. I just went up to Robbie's house and that was enough for the quest but do you get anything if you manage to light all the lanterns in that area around his house? I had this in Hateno as well. Could swear I have lighted them all, yet nothing.
You can read Impa's journal for help...but if you want to know...
At night time, find the house that the armor shop girl lives in. She wants you to catch and release 5 fireflies in her house
Primethius
Banned
This is where I am too. Really enjoying it but I dislike huge portions of the game design and especially how needlessly big the world feels. That combined with a lack of good rewards means that the feelings of discovery and the joy I get from that are far more sparse than I like.
40 hours in and nothing has captured me quite in the way the game did when I started in Great Plateau. Post initial exposition dump, I've been searching for that same high and have only hit it once (stealing around Hyrule Castle with 4 hearts).
Otherwise the game is just too inconsistent.
Thanks! I actually used the Journal of Various Worries once for tips on the Fairy quest, but totally forgot that it simply lists all available side quests... Well, the text is enough so I don't have to read your spoiler
brandonh83
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Right. I really don't understand this obsession with "overworlds." I think people think back about the 2D games' overworlds and completely fail to realize how small and segmented they actually are. Like people complain about Skyward's overworld being an "empty sky" but what about Ocarina's Hyrule Field being a big empty circle or the various complaints I've seen leveled at Twilight Princess for having an "empty" overworld.
The Zelda overworlds are a means to connect points of interest. Always have been. It's simply the illusion it creates. I didn't complain about those other overworlds-- which are actually glorified hub areas-- because I was too busy actually playing and having fun with the game. I like the world in this game, I just find it needlessly large and I'm always having more fun when I'm in dungeons or villages or the maze-type areas.
D
Deleted member 752119
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Very much this for me as well. Same for games like Horizon etc. I'm just not one who especially enjoys exploration as gameplay. It's fine at time, but I'm always more about dungeons, villages/towns/cities, NPC interactions, combat, plot bits etc. in open world games.
brandonh83
Banned
The thing for me is that I don't think having smaller or even linear environments takes away from the feeling of exploration. I got a feeling of exploration from Skyward Sword just fine. That game to me was like playing a top-down 2D Zelda in 3D. It didn't really have a lesser sense of atmosphere, exploration or discovery to me.
I don't need a game world the size of Texas to give me that feeling. This game still obviously gave me that feeling but not at all because of how big it was.
I think you were one of the few people on GAF who I agreed with on SS. Much of it felt like aLttP in 3D, to me. And I am all for contained environments within a larger, open world. But I think the scale of BotW is a big contributor to its sense of freedom and adventure. I would not trade that away.
This is so insulting to read, embarrassing really.
Christberg
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Climb Lanayru mountain and it will suddenly make sense. There are 4 shrines like this total IIRC.
D
Deleted member 752119
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Agreed. I was late playing Skyward Sword, well into the point it was getting slammed online on sites like GAF by the vocal minority.
I was blown away by how much I liked it. It wasn't perfect as it started too slow, Fi was annoying, I wasn't big on the motion controls etc. But I had a blast exploring the areas and the dungeons where among the best in the series.
I've long stopped paying attention to the general vocal opinion of games on sites like GAF though. The vocal minority is just a much more hardcore gamer crowd than me and I tend to be underwhelmed at best by the things the vocal minority rave about and love the mainstream stuff they bash.
Why are you embarrassed and insulted?
Climbing up Mt. Lanayru. I wonder what's at the top, like a shrine or somet-
I saw it in the distance last night, it is supposed to be
a divine beast? I didn't think there was one in that area
Wait there are 4? What's the forth one?
I only did the ones for
the Springs of Power, Wisdom and Courage
dragon
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
A mandatory stealth section. You just couldn't help yourselves could you Nintendo?
They troll you hard with it too.
At least it's not randomised lol.
We're talking about the
korok shrine trial #2
Fight some tallus. Also rare ore deposits. I'm swimming in ore.
drotahorror
Member
So when should I fight calamity ganon?
I've read you should beat him and then go back and do other stuff and then you can fight another ganon? I really don't know
Here's a video of what I'm dealing with.
https://youtu.be/0fSVUK9Lk_w?t=7m28s
The chest is stuck and I have no idea how to get it out.
The guy in the video tried twice and he couldn't get it to budge either.
Climbing up Mt. Lanayru. I wonder what's at the top, like a shrine or somet-
It's actually a guide in how certain shrine challenges work.
You can take issue with how shrines are implemented, i disagree with the opinion, but I can respect it.
But to call shrines as a whole, or any aspect of this game really, as "creatively bankrupt" - Forgive me, but its ridiculous
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
There's ANOTHER stealth section in the game?! But no not that. This one is actually required for the Gerudo divine beast. And it's th3 one section of the game where it doesn't let you save LMAO.
Oh boy.
MosquitoSmasher
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Yep I did that one. But he was right there and not in this case. I think I will find it somewhere else.
You cite the 2D titles but then jump straight to the 3D games to exemplify your point about the overworld. Like, yeah, most 3D overworlds pre-BOTW were pretty barren, that has always been a complaint. The 2D games mostly avoided this issue by having overworlds that, while smaller in scale, are much more densely packed with enemy encounters and secrets found through exploration and item usage. BOTW feels more like ALttP's overworld than SS to me because it hits more or less the same notes in a much grander scale: it offers exploration and lots of content, both hidden and in plain sight. SS doesn't really have much of an overworld, only linear, segmented areas that don't have much in the way of exploration. It's a different approach that doens't really scratch that same itch.
What BOTW made me realize was that I considered myself primarily a dungeon Zelda player because none of the previous 3D entries, with perhaps the exception of MM and maybe WW to some extent, offer much meaningful content outside of them. With BOTW I'm already having fun exploring when I take a little detour to see what's over there and at the end of the day I find myself at the other side of the map having climbed
Mt. Lanayru
Blue Lynel
Eventide Island
While I wish there were dungeon like areas for me to find throughout the world and it'd definitely enrich the experience, I'd be pretty bummed out if they reverted back to the previous formula now that they nailed this one so well and can improve on it in a number of ways.
This was basically my experience with BotW. My fondest memories of the game are at the beginning to about the middle of the game.
I really wish there were more late game challenges or something to do besides the things you've already been doing for 30+ hours. Like some mini, Yiga clan-esque dungeons, or some more involved sidequests. After I finished 3 out of 4 Divine Beasts, I lost a lot of the desire to explore, even though there was still a half of the map or more I hadn't even seen, because I knew generally where the last Divine Beast was going to be. There didn't feel like there was much meaningful reasons to go to some areas because I knew there was not going to be anything 'big' in them.
Thanks.
Finale Fireworker
Member
Holy SHIT White Lynels. Hard to fight, even harder to run away from!
But i mean, whats the harm?
I appreciate the moments of restraint where i'm wandering across a valley without much in the way of POI, I'm soaking in the environment, enjoying the exploration.
I don't really get the need for every open world title to be cluttered with waypoints and markers and collectibles and every last POI spelled out for you on a map - it's exhausting and frankly it makes worlds feel more artificial.
The occasional expanse lends itself to authenticity, to immersion
Thank you, I'll check it out when I get home. I got my console a little late so that's probably why it didn't show up when I checked the other day.
Klappdrachen
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What can I use the Bladed Rhino Beetles for? (Other than giving them to Beedle)
Effigenius
Member
It's really easy though. Especially if you look around at the surroundings.
If you are on the ground more than 10% of the time, you are doing it wrong.
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