DoctorFling
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Really love this game but I wish there was a way to use the Sheikah sensor to help find the remaining side and shrine quests.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT3| Your Free Time is Badly Damaged
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Honestly, personal preference. Neither is necessary - if you run out of stamina, you can chug a stamina meal, if you meet a tough enemy, you can use a defence up meal. I tend to prioritize stamina until I have 2 full stamina wheels, but only because it's more convenient.
Riding archer Bokoblins. You can farm hundreds in the same spot within a few minutes.
If it starts to rain.
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Yeah, I really wish you could 'craft' arrows in some way.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Part of me thinks it was deliberate because bow and arrows are op as fuck.
Beedle sells them at most stables if I recall correctly
Blue flame doesn't go out unless you sheath it. The extra lanterns are manual checkpoints, so you don't have to constantly run back to the source.
Stamina is for exploring, hearts are for surviving. There is a thing that requires hearts, but there is also a place where you can swap stamina for hearts later. I prefer lots of stamina. It makes you faster and allows longer flight, climb and swim without food. Having limited health makes combat more difficult, so I'd upgrade that if you feel you die too much. But too many hearts may make it too easy as well. You can avoid most fights if you want.
If you do the
Tarry town quest and recruit the Rito Shopkeeper, he sells bundles of all arrows, except the ancient ones. It's nice to pop by and just get a quick reload.
Chinbo37
Member
Oh that's it? I really thought there would be something for doing all of them in akkala. Thanks for saving me some time !
I remember the struggle to find arrows early in the game. A bundle of five arrows at a bokoblin camp was more exciting than great flameblade. I would go into shrines with two arrows and pray that I could complete it. There were times when if I botched a shot, I would have to start all over. I wasted five arrows on a korok puzzle and felt devastated.
Now I've got hundreds of arrows and shoot bomb arrows at octoroks just because I can.
Now I've got hundreds of arrows and shoot bomb arrows at octoroks just because I can.
itsbenoclock
Member
I have a real hunger for this game right now. I'm on the brink of buying a Switch just to play it then sell the console. Someone stop me.
Chinbo37
Member
Why? If you bought a switch now and finished the game in a month or so and then sold it and the switch you probably wouldn't even lose too much money. Go for it
You should do it. And keep the Switch for Mario.
Magic Mushroom
Member
This.
The best is shooting bomb arrows in the rain, and then when realizing the mistake, not even caring because you have so many. The f
lying
uardians
CrazyHorse
Junior Member
Don't sell it. Wait for the DLC.
Weltall Zero
Member
Next time: shoot it with an ice arrow, get behind it, mash A while waiting for it to unfreeze, ???, profit.
I've visited that shop over 20 times and it has had regular arrows like a grand total of 3 times. Entire in-game weeks can elapse and Link can travel round the world several times without him restocking. I wish I knew what triggered it, because I'm forced to buy them from Beedle the overpricer.
CharminUltra
Member
My free time has suffered serious wounds that I'm not entirely sure will ever heal.
You don't know the chest trick on the small island next to Eventide? A chest has 10x there and if you save and reload the chest respawns. One of my old posts has it with screenshots.
I'm at 250 hours with only 1 dungeon...
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
shut up how ?
You may have a problem tho.
Milly Osworth
Member
I really hope the quest design in the next Zelda is better. There is so much I havent done but I dont know where to begin.
In world of warcraft you have questhubs in each zone and you can track how many quests and objectives you have finished in each zone. Botw really needs that.
In world of warcraft you have questhubs in each zone and you can track how many quests and objectives you have finished in each zone. Botw really needs that.
Don't know you're gaming habits but there's a number of great games on switch already. I own 12 and there a like 4 more this month I'm getting.
Shamrock7r
Member
Tried to get a concrete answer on how previous Zelda games had better "rewards" than BOTW but I have yet to get any solid answer.
Strange as this is becoming one of the common complaints from people who disliked the game.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
It's ridiculous too. Ooh hey another rupee, yay a piece of heart. Ironically, it's these folks who are truly blinded by nostalgia.
I've felt the game slow down for me at a few points, I think every 40 to 50 hours or so, but I keep coming back and enjoying it more than the last time.
I'm at 150~ hours 92 shrines (with 5 unfinished ones too), and 192 Korok seeds, and within the past couple hours, I finally explored the region I was holding out for last, Hebra. However, I'm so far in that I have to admit exploring Hebra feels like a checklist of shrines to do, quests I have in the back of my head, and being alert for Korok seeds (then immediately solving them). It's still super fun, but exploring at this point feels like taking a comb through each area for the little things I missed, then warping right after to the next little thing I wanted to do on my itinerary, rather than a smooth, seamless journey from one amazing point of interest to the next.
My ultimate goal is to do all the shrines and quests, and to have double as many Korok seeds as shrines. Pooooosibly I'll go for the full amount needed to upgrade everything.
I'm at 150~ hours 92 shrines (with 5 unfinished ones too), and 192 Korok seeds, and within the past couple hours, I finally explored the region I was holding out for last, Hebra. However, I'm so far in that I have to admit exploring Hebra feels like a checklist of shrines to do, quests I have in the back of my head, and being alert for Korok seeds (then immediately solving them). It's still super fun, but exploring at this point feels like taking a comb through each area for the little things I missed, then warping right after to the next little thing I wanted to do on my itinerary, rather than a smooth, seamless journey from one amazing point of interest to the next.
My ultimate goal is to do all the shrines and quests, and to have double as many Korok seeds as shrines. Pooooosibly I'll go for the full amount needed to upgrade everything.
Magic Mushroom
Member
I don't get it either. Rupees and jewels are more meaningful in this than other Zeldas, cores and other Watcher parts are useful as well and there are cool weapons and armors or armor parts. That and exploration in general is far more rewarding. I don't get most of the complaints really. Most of it boils down to: I wish it was more like the Zeldas I already played dozens of times.
Shamrock7r
Member
There was one dude that tried to argue the stamina/magic bar upgrade is more meaningful in wind Waker lol
theaffection
Member
And Splatoon and Animal Crossing and No More Heroes and the list goes on
The radiant set makes the skeletons that spawn at night treat you as an ally. It also boosts damage from bone weapons as its perk if you upgrade it twice.
It makes Link look cool
Didn't know that. It's a shame you can't upgrade the
Dark Link outfit
I get the feeling it is the build up to rewards they feel is missing here, since there are so many incidental rewards for exploring in BotW (which are also more meaningful than rewards in past gamesbut hey), which makes many rewards feel underwhelming for players used to less frequent discoveries. I try to take criticism at face value, but I've been involved with a few Zelda discussions the past month and I get the sense that many of the detractors have trouble articulating what exactly they don't like ("the weapon system is bad," "the rewards are bad," "the exploration is bad"), so they rely on emotional, judgmental language as a substitute for explanation.
Rewards in this game have consistently felt valuable to me. Arrows in the early game were so so awesome to acquire because they're in such small bundles and otherwise expensive, materials give way to the permanent upgrades (other Zeldas have far fewer number of permanent upgrades since they lack the vast array of armor), armor is always an amazing new ability to have, memories are cool cutscenes, gems are essential for upgrading, and one of the few ways to make good money for the many expensive things to buy, and lastly weapons are like arrows. They're expendable, but they're still valuable so you want to collect a bunch of them. Plus, I find a lot of these things are given even more value to see them all if you want to fill the Hyrule Compedium.
Not to mention shrines, taking up both the heart and stamina rewards.
Herb Alpert
Banned
Most rewards were heart containers (or fragments of those), bottles and that's it. Majora treated it differently with the masks.
I don't get this complaint either. Personally just discovering the areas is rewarding enough for me! I had a awesome time yesterday by attacking akkala fortress to climb its tower.
Some people say they feel it's useless to do so because you get no achievements for that. Perhaps for some a 'pretty view' is just not enough.
I can imagine an argument made about Majora's Mask rewards being more valuable. The masks were core to the experience, and it would be difficult to say a person had completed the game unless they had collected the full set of masks. Much of the game is tied into mask quest linesthey were more puzzling than the dungeons and required players to keep track of and synthesize small bits of information as they were doled out. But that is a unique entry. The rest have a set pattern and a similar reward structure. I think the most fundamental difference between BotW and past 3D entries is that in BotW, progress is not sectioned off by item rewards as it was previously. Dungeon spoils had a bigger impact on progression in the older games. They were keys to unlock the path forward, and so they were tied directly to a sense of progress and an improvement to Link's set of abilities.
Sword Of Doom
Member
I liked the tests too. I'm guessing it was the
tailing mission
My big complaint with other Zelda games I've played is how every secret or chest I opened was rupees to the point where rupees weren't even necessary and I lost interest. I've played The original legend of Zelda and that was great as a kid. Then I played WW HD and A Link Between Worlds recently and they both had this issue and I stopped caring. BoTW doesn't have this problem
It was great while it lasted, but what was once a world of unknown places to visit and things to do is now something I've mostly accustomed to, so nothing's really surprising me and thus exploration itself has gotten boring and tedious. Enemies have long ago become a non-issue that doesn't even warrant my attention, and grinding for fairy fountain upgrades or scouring the landscape for korok seeds has already gotten pretty old without feeling all that rewarding.
Guess I'll wait until dlc hits to pick the game up again, but I'll be putting it off for the time being because I'm not really feeling it anymore.
Guess I'll wait until dlc hits to pick the game up again, but I'll be putting it off for the time being because I'm not really feeling it anymore.
Herb Alpert
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