boiled goose
good with gravy
It's like you're focused on destinations when the game is all about the journey.
You're trying to play it as a collectathon when the game is actively trying to dissuade you from playing that way.
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It's like you're focused on destinations when the game is all about the journey.
You're trying to play it as a collectathon when the game is actively trying to dissuade you from playing that way.
if it's the Zora one the cutscene there actually suggest you to stealth the way
If you don't pull out of weapon and stay far the lynel will not attack you
Like everything else in the game, we figured it out by reading in-game books. Talk to everyone, read everything.
Fata1moose
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update:
He killed me, i am dead
The Awesomest
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The Awesomest said:
Quoting myself for the new page.
SciencePilot
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The memories are absolutely sequential, and this is how you use clever thinking to find the last memory. It does help to think about which direction they would have headed after the previous memory. And look for the painter nearby.
Nothing gets deleted, but if you load an old autosave and keep playing, new autosaves after that will be placed on top. The manual save will not be altered until you manually save again.
I see, I had a similar idea.
I can agree with your argument. The game's geography was designed to inspire exploration of the world and so if a tally is implemented it would be a disincentive to ever going back to that region, but mainly because aside from taking in beautiful scenery the only real push for me was the collect-a-thon nature of the game, collecting shrines and collecting korok seeds. And it's probably because of this disillusionment that my journey has ended much shorter than others although in almost half the time as you I collected 90 shrines, 80 seeds, all the memories, and towers, and did the dungeons, so it's not that I didn't explore or reach nooks and cranies of the map. It's just that I was in a goal oriented mindset that I suppose doesn't suit the views of how others take to open world games.
However, when shrines became scarce for me (a little over 50% of shrines found) I wasn't exploring the map in a brownian motion. It wasn't directionless. I would go to areas that seemed to me points of interesting topology where no shrine marker was near using the map as a guide, and still had trouble finding new shrines. And I think this is why it's frustrating because I was moving with purpose and found nothing.
I think part of my issue though is that I was never interested in engaging in the combat either, so I never found myself attempting to take an enemy hideout unless it was part of a side quest, and so while you have said you have always found a point of interest wandering I did not consider enemy hideouts points of interest.
psychotron
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You get hints from a few npc outside the town
The answer:
therr is a small hub with stores and a inn before the town. Look on the roof of said inn.
psychotron
Member
Oh ok. I'll head back there. Thanks!
SoldierOfLight
Member
O M G .
So I warped to the nearest Horse Stall. Picked out my ride , saved the game and said "let's go kill Ganon"
Lost my horse the moment I entered the walls of Hyrule, went on foot and entered through
Wow for anyone who went cheap straight to the boss, I would recommend doing it the long way. It was like the most epic adventure like movie experience.
Well I fell into a
trap and damn did he use up all my good weapons and I still died. Never made it to Ganon 
So I warped to the nearest Horse Stall. Picked out my ride , saved the game and said "let's go kill Ganon"
Lost my horse the moment I entered the walls of Hyrule, went on foot and entered through
the prison
Wow for anyone who went cheap straight to the boss, I would recommend doing it the long way. It was like the most epic adventure like movie experience.
Well I fell into a
lynel
I don't think it dissuades from playing that way at all. There is high incentive to focus on collecting shrines orbs and korok seeds because both are used for highly needed upgrades via stamina to be able to explore comfortably, and health and weapon slots to have a comfortable time with the combat.
I feel like before following that tip, you have to hear about it from an NPC around the town first to trigger the 'event' to get the thing you need.
Your mind is on the right track.
Talk to the guy standing next to the shrine right outside Gerudo Town. He'll talk about a male merchant who manages to make his way into town to do business and sell his wares. This merchant travels back and forth between Gerudo Town and Kara Kara Bazaar. If you have trouble finding him, look around Kara Kara Bazaar at night time.
A book in the village points you to the required quests.
After playing for 10 days it gives you a "played for over xx hours" in your Switch profile. The number increases in increments of 5 hours.
olimpia84
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"Finally" beat the game.
100 hours
88 shrines
108 Korok seeds
All memories except the last one
In short, this game is a masterpiece and worthy of all those perfect scores; this is the type of game that will be remembered for a very long time. Definitely ranks high on my list of favorite games of all time.
I need to go back and get the last memory and then get all the shrines, not sure if I'm up for going for every single Korok seed but we shall see.
100 hours
88 shrines
108 Korok seeds
All memories except the last one
In short, this game is a masterpiece and worthy of all those perfect scores; this is the type of game that will be remembered for a very long time. Definitely ranks high on my list of favorite games of all time.
I need to go back and get the last memory and then get all the shrines, not sure if I'm up for going for every single Korok seed but we shall see.
The one that involves
bananas?
*That's a meta spoiler, for a spoiler.
I thought that was a really fun change up in scenarios,
but I also didn't think it was that hard and was too short as you could fly up into the rafters and just sneak around dropping bananas to get through doorways.
Just played this sequence and repeatedly died. Then I realized I could crouch around and just snag the arrows. Revelation.
Thanks
So I'm playing the game, I was on one of the towers and noticed a light shining up from an area. So I traveled there by quick traveling and normal hiking then saved my game. I got to the area full of light and noticed some rabbits running around and then the lights disappeared. Having no idea what happened, I reloaded my save but I didn't see the light anymore. Does anyone know wtf my save doesn't reload properly? It took me half an hour to travel there for nothing???
Yes, but the supply for both is way higher than what you actually need. You will find an ample amount of seeds and shrines even without specifically looking for them. You can hunt for them if you like, and some of them are well hidden to challenge these kinds of players, but the game never requires that you do it.
It's a timed event that happens every now and then. It's just something cool to see.
It's kind of random I believe. Try camping until you see it again.
CharminUltra
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It'll happen again. Just keep an eye on the area.
As for the save, that also happens with other stuff, like the
dragons
boiled goose
good with gravy
There's so many of both that you gather plenty. The fact that you finished main quest with 80 seeds is amazingly low to me. I had 450.
Most shrines can be seen from a distance and marked on map. With the sensor,running into them while exploring is trivial.
I can see how wandering and collecting everything could get a bit boring after s while. After 200 hours and 600 seeds and being op, it's getting there for me. After 40 hours and completing main quest? It seems to me like see the game as a checklist to complete. It's fine. Your personal gaming style can be different. It just baffles me.
Common Knowledge
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Man, I just got played by a non-existant Korok puzzle.
I swear, Nintendo put lone rocks into suspicious places just to troll you sometimes.
Just to the Southwest of Piper Ridge, around where the Great Fairy's Fountain is, there's this set of high columns that have some small temple ruins on it. On the nearby, slightly lower column there's a lone rock just sitting there. I spent about 25 minutes trying to get it onto the higher column that has the ruins and a line of rocks using Octo balloons, and then trying to fit it into the line somehow, as I could have sworn it looked like a "missing rock" puzzle. Finally I just looked at the guide map and itsfuckingnothing.gif.
I swear, Nintendo put lone rocks into suspicious places just to troll you sometimes.
Hahaha, I love some of these shrines. I was working my way through the Shora Hah shrine.
Jumped on a button assuming it moved me up to the end. Instead, it dropped down a ramp with a massive spiked boulder rolling straight for me. I had an actual Indiana Jones moment where I was like OH FUCK and ran as fast as I could to avoid it.
JershJopstin
Banned
I agree this is a fine mentality to have, and it was a blast getting to 115 or so shrines this way... but now I'm at the point where I feel I've done everything that I've been 'guided' towards, and I still have 2 shrines missing. It'd be nice if there was something to hint at where the last few might be, because there's just sooooo much ground to cover.
Yes, I realize there's that map floating around the internet giving the numbers of shrines in each region, but I've come this far without it...
EDIT: I'm missing *one* shrine quest. Really wondering what that is... and if I've inadvertently done it already lol.
But what else is there to do outside of this and wandering? Because I never saw anything compelling that didn't lead to a shrine or seed.
Without spoiling too much can someone help me out with this thing I found above Kakariko Village?
any ideas?
i was looking for the fairy shrine for that one main quest (the painter) and I went right of the path and found what looked like a shrine platform but in the middle was a dip that looked like it would house one of those orange lined spheres. There isn't a sphere around the area that I could see and the only one that comes to mind is the one in Impas house in kakariko village, but I'm not allowed to take it.
I just didn't find anything really worthwhile outside of exploring the landscape for shrines. As for the korok seeds I already explained that for me 80 was enough. I began passing them up because I didn't feel they were worth stopping what I was doing to collect them by doing a redundant puzzle.
A lot of shrines that I've found in the last 10 hours have been hidden and could not be seen from a vantage point.
You and me both dude
At around 50h I just got bored and did all the 3 divine beasts I had left and rushed to hyrule castle. Finished the game with 60h on the clock
I think I had like only 45 shrines done too. I was getting tired of shrines tbh, their aesthetics suck and most of them are just boring
I was also skipping korok seeds like you near the end lol
Getting into the shrine quests takes this game to another level. I'm discovering so much stuff I never discovered on my intial playthrough. I beat Ganon after 75 hours or so and have now put in around 50 post-Ganon hours and there's still more to do. I know I haven't found all the named locations yet for sure. This game keeps on giving.
I agree, towards the end my thrill was in finding the shrines, not entering them for what is usually a menial task. I think the best shrines are the ones that have an environmental puzzle outside to unlock it and then just give you an orb.
I agree with everything here, except that sometimes I found some cool bosses while exploring.
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