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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT3| Your Free Time is Badly Damaged

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Ashtar

Member
I need some help
I'm on my first divine beast and I want a hint to see if I'm going about this all wrong
its the elephant girl
I'm inside the elephant and switched the first two switches the third switch is in a gear next to that gear is a treasure box and a ball thingy, does this ball thing have any bearing on the switch at all? I tried putting stasis on the ball and hitting it so itd go in place but I can't get it to work just want to know if I'm barking up the wrong tree
 
BarringGaffner

BarringGaffner

Member
Ashtar said:
I need some help
I'm on my first divine beast and I want a hint to see if I'm going about this all wrong
its the elephant girl
I'm inside the elephant and switched the first two switches the third switch is in a gear next to that gear is a treasure box and a ball thingy, does this ball thing have any bearing on the switch at all? I tried putting stasis on the ball and hitting it so itd go in place but I can't get it to work just want to know if I'm barking up the wrong tree
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light hint: go to your map and move the trunk
the game doesn't really explain that at all and I was stuck for a long ass time :0
 
StAidan

StAidan

Member
Got my 119th and 120th shrine tonight, north of 110 hours on my Switch activity log. I ended up looking up the last two on a complete map online, I was just at a loss for where else to look for them.

The last one was a shrine I had found weeks ago, but forgot to go activate and complete it. :|

Oh well. Gonna go to Hyrule Castle tonight to find the last memory, then I'm off to fight Ganon.
 
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wild wild rice

Member
Feeroper said:
I finished this (as in beat Ganon and completed most of the missions, armor upgrades, all the memories etc) last night. God I loved this game so much. I figure it is time to move on to a persona 5, finish Final Fantasy 15 and Yooka Laylee, but I feel kinda empty inside now. I don't think anything is going to live up to what I experienced with this game.

I will be coming back to it over time of course as there are many korok seeds left, some shrines, side quests and of course the dlc to complete. However I have to force myself to play other games now. I see Persona 5 getting rave reviews and a lot of love for it but it's hard to get into anything after such a milestone of a game like BotW. Totally different games, but still, I feel so consumed by it.
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I feel you. Tried playing Yakuza 0, which is pretty great, but I kinda just want to get back to Hyrule.
 
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Pif

Banned
Feeroper said:
I finished this (as in beat Ganon and completed most of the missions, armor upgrades, all the memories etc) last night. God I loved this game so much. I figure it is time to move on to a persona 5, finish Final Fantasy 15 and Yooka Laylee, but I feel kinda empty inside now. I don't think anything is going to live up to what I experienced with this game.

I will be coming back to it over time of course as there are many korok seeds left, some shrines, side quests and of course the dlc to complete. However I have to force myself to play other games now. I see Persona 5 getting rave reviews and a lot of love for it but it's hard to get into anything after such a milestone of a game like BotW. Totally different games, but still, I feel so consumed by it.
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We all feel like that with games we love.

I am now awaiting Las of Us 2 to have again a videogame experience like Zelda gave me. I don't think anything else already announced is gonna be THE game before Tlou2.
 
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Weltall Zero

Member
FreedomFighter said:
By Castle Town Prison, there are three statues (Korok puzzle) with rusted Knight shields in the pedestals in front of two of them.
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Speaking of that Korok, are you supposed to bring a rusted shield with you from somewhere else? I didn't see any shield lying around.

BarringGaffner said:
light hint: go to your map and move the trunk
the game doesn't really explain that at all and I was stuck for a long ass time :0
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The game does explain it each time you board a beast, you must have skipped it.
 
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bridegur

Member
Just bought the Uncharted collection on my PS4, started replaying them, and immediately realized that BOTW's climbing and freedom might've ruined other games for me.
 
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Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Patrick Bateman said:
Went to maze island today.
Jumped down the shaft with the air flow and nearly got a double heart attack. First when I thought all those guardians were deactivated and suddenly one gets active. I manage to beat it, grab the chest and suddenly 4-5 guardians activate..
Hauled ass and got out there as fast as possible..
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I did the exact same thing as you but then once I got out I said fuck it and jumped right back in and took care of business.

EternalNewbie said:
Does anyone have the link to the map that tells you only how many shrines are in each region?

Really should've bookmarked that...
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http://i.imgur.com/Gh6vsyz.jpg
 
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malikhaing_bayag

Member
So I am still wandering around Hyrule without going to Kakariko yet. Now I am looking for Farosh but can't seem to spawn him. Any where I need to go first aside from praying to the goddess statue?
 
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HawthorneKitty

Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
bridegur said:
Just bought the Uncharted collection on my PS4, started replaying them, and immediately realized that BOTW's climbing and freedom might've ruined other games for me.
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After you stop playing the game for like a month, do you think you'll leave that feeling?
 
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TrojanAg

Member
After 90 hours, I've finally just beaten it. Definitely one of the greatest games I've ever played in over 30 years of gaming. The fact that I can even say that without hesitation is all I need to know. I had to force myself to finally beat Ganon because I didn't want the game to end.

I'm going to have a hard time moving on to other games now. I had to stop playing Horizon after 7 hours to focus on beating this game. I still have that, Persona 5 and pretty much every other major release from Q1 waiting for me, but I can't push myself to move on for a little while. I'll probably go back to it every now and then to get the remaining shrines I have left and some other things here and there.
 
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NimbusD

Member
Finally forced myself to beat the game at 105 hours or so. Only 20 shrines left, but I was starting to feel like I was rushing through them to end the game instead of enjoying expiring for them, so I went right up to calamity Ganon and kicked his ass.

Thoughts:

yeah ending is def a bit lackluster.
It's beautiful, and the music is a fucking tour de force, but I was expecting like one last memory or something. It would've made sense, seeing Zelda for real woulda sparked something. I hope the next game has enough story for all the game there is, cuz if I wasn't constantly fucking around, the game would have been over so soon. There's still more game left even with over 60 hours of just dicking around trying to find things. It's way unbalanced in that regard. I mean tbh I'd play a game that was just this with zero story so I can't complain... But I really enjoyed what story was there. Flashbacks were good enough, but tbh it was the beasts that sorta sucked. Only miphas really struck a chord storywise. The rest were pretty dull. Probably a result of having most of the story take place in the past. Not much dead protagonists can do. Oh well. I love this game. Time to go find those last 20 shrines.
 
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pwnzernator

Member
Just beat the game at 90 hours and approximately 70 shrines. The original Zelda was my favorite console game of all time. It just got overtaken nearly 30 years later. What a masterpiece!
 
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Mistle

Member
malikhaing_bayag said:
So I am still wandering around Hyrule without going to Kakariko yet. Now I am looking for Farosh but can't seem to spawn him. Any where I need to go first aside from praying to the goddess statue?
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earlier in the thread we came to the conclusion that
dragons
mustn't spawn until visiting kakariko/impa
 
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Anteo

Member
NimbusD said:
Finally forced myself to beat the game at 105 hours or so. Only 20 shrines left, but I was starting to feel like I was rushing through them to end the game instead of enjoying expiring for them, so I went right up to calamity Ganon and kicked his ass.

Thoughts:

yeah ending is def a bit lackluster.
It's beautiful, and the music is a fucking tour de force, but I was expecting like one last memory or something. It would've made sense, seeing Zelda for real woulda sparked something. I hope the next game has enough story for all the game there is, cuz if I wasn't constantly fucking around, the game would have been over so soon. There's still more game left even with over 60 hours of just dicking around trying to find things. It's way unbalanced in that regard. I mean tbh I'd play a game that was just this with zero story so I can't complain... But I really enjoyed what story was there. Flashbacks were good enough, but tbh it was the beasts that sorta sucked. Only miphas really struck a chord storywise. The rest were pretty dull. Probably a result of having most of the story take place in the past. Not much dead protagonists can do. Oh well. I love this game. Time to go find those last 20 shrines.
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Did you find Zelda's diary and the kings journal?
 
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jotun?

Member
Red said:
I would like a stricter limit on how many meals can be carried, not a restriction on how often food can be consumed.
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If they do that, they'd better include a way to get rid of crappy food like all the different roasted fish and steaks that you get from a Hinox. It's annoying that you can't drop it and you can't eat it if you're full on health
 
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Mistle

Member
jotun? said:
If they do that, they'd better include a way to get rid of crappy food like all the different roasted fish and steaks that you get from a Hinox. It's annoying that you can't drop it and you can't eat it if you're full on health
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you can eat it, it's just slow as you have to confirm every time
 
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Sammy Samusu

Member
I thought I had explored the whole snow area but I was walking across Rito Stable and I saw a traveling merchant on his horse. I talked to him to buy some stuff and he said he had to go to Snowfield Stable to restock some mushrooms.

I thought "I have never been to that stable!" so I rode my horse, followed the merchant and he actually led me to the Snowfield Stable.

This game is too perfect.
 
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Tripon

Member
I'm at that point of the game where I'm trying to find Korok seeds and then fighting any Lynels I find. The funny thing is that they all seem to be either White Lynels or Silver Lynels. At some point, the game thought I was tough enough to only fight the two toughest variants. I actually found the White Lynels harder to fight because on average, they seem to have the stronger weapons.
 
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ghibli99

Member
Finally "threw in the towel" on this game recently... 120 hours, 102 shrines, 210 Korok seeds. Probably the best Zelda I've ever played and one of the best games I've ever played... but there is certainly much room to improve upon this. Which is probably the most exciting thing about BOTW -- that this is not even close to being the pinnacle of what they can achieve with the Zelda series. I hope we see one more Zelda on the Switch.
 
Alebrije

Alebrije

Member
Best 3D Zelda done by Nintendo. This is basically the original NES Zelda done with actual tech. When you play this kind of games you get why Nintendo does not needs a Hi tech hardware to deliver a great experience.

I remember playing original NES Zelda and exploring every inche looking for secrets , BOTW is the same, you see and edge on a mountain and think : maybe there is something ahead... and most of times there is something.

Lots of funny moments thanks to the lots of ways to kill enemies or the way enemies try to kill you.

This is the game that truly gives veracity to the phrase: "See that mountain over there , you can climb it"
 
Aldric

Aldric

Member
Lee Chaolan said:
Has anyone come up with a way of leaving The Great Plateau yet without the Paraglider? (Without dying from the fall, that is ;p)
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You can do it, using stasis on a metal door next to the bombs shrine, but you can't freely move around Hyrule because there's a death zone around the plateau and everytime you touch it it spawns you back to the plateau.
 
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Lee Chaolan

Member
Aldric said:
You can do it, using stasis on a metal door next to the bombs shrine, but you can't freely move around Hyrule because there's a death zone around the plateau and everytime you touch it it spawns you back to the plateau.
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Hmm, surely it's possible to move past this "Death Zone" then, yes? I recall hearing of Aonuma saying you could beat the game without needing all 4 shrines?
 
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Kyuur

Member
Finally beat the game! 95 hours, although I also watched my fiancee play (she finished yesterday) so I've spent closer to 200 with the game altogether :lol:

Had to look up the last couple shrines, no way I was going back throughout the world to try and find them. 2 were well hidden and neither of us had the sensor on as we were going through those areas. The other 2 were quests and kind of annoying; for one, we had talked to the NPC in question at the right time but were not given the quest for whatever reason, and the other completely missed although we visited the spots they could be at (just bad timing I guess).

Not flawless by any means but still one of the best games I've played. Onto Persona 5!
 
Aldric

Aldric

Member
Lee Chaolan said:
Hmm, surely it's possible to move past this "Death Zone" then, yes? I recall hearing of Aonuma saying you could beat the game without needing all 4 shrines?
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l don't think l've ever seen a source for that Aonuma quote. Speedrunners seem to think it's impossible to beat the game without the paraglider. Obviously they might eventually find a way, the game is still very young.
 
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Bagu

Member
So a Yiga dude shows up because it had been 5 minutes since the last visit when a traveling Gerudo busts out a knife and yells, "Know your place!"
 
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watershed

Banned
Lee Chaolan said:
Hmm, surely it's possible to move past this "Death Zone" then, yes? I recall hearing of Aonuma saying you could beat the game without needing all 4 shrines?
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Nope he never said that. It definitely seems like you need all 4 powers and the paraglider, even when speedrunning.
 
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ciD_Vain

Member
I hope Hard Mode has you (final boss fight spoiler)
boss rush the Blight Ganons before Calamity Ganon even if you free the Divine Beasts
.
 
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MaverickHunterX

Member
GAF fam, I hate to do this, but I need a hint please. I got through the rest of the game without spoilers, so a simple nod can help.

I'm at the end of the game, and I went back to Impa after finding
all 12 memories on my own. She shows me where the last one is located, but I have no frigging idea where to begin searching. One of my co-workers hinted that it's by the plateau from the beginning - is there any truth to this?
 
Dice//

Dice//

Banned
MaverickHunterX said:
GAF fam, I hate to do this, but I need a hint please. I got through the rest of the game without spoilers, so a simple nod can help.

I'm at the end of the game, and I went back to Impa after finding
all 12 memories on my own. She shows me where the last one is located, but I have no frigging idea where to begin searching. One of my co-workers hinted that it's by the plateau from the beginning - is there any truth to this?
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Naw. Between the dueling peaks (just east of it), there's THAT plateau there.
 
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Triforce141

Member
MaverickHunterX said:
GAF fam, I hate to do this, but I need a hint please. I got through the rest of the game without spoilers, so a simple nod can help.

I'm at the end of the game, and I went back to Impa after finding
all 12 memories on my own. She shows me where the last one is located, but I have no frigging idea where to begin searching. One of my co-workers hinted that it's by the plateau from the beginning - is there any truth to this?
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I'm pretty sure it's near Fort Hateno, south of there in an area filled with non-functioning Guardians
 
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mrklaw

MrArseFace
Jackstin said:
Out of interest, did you use a guide? At this point I'm wondering whether using my a guide for a few core things might make my game more enjoyable.
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Use a guide if you get completely stuck, or ask on here. But I wouldn't use one for armour - you're just starting out, the game isn't set up to provide full sets of armour linearly (except when presented in shops) so just explore naturally and see what you find. I was two divine beasts down before I found the climbing headgear for example (actually I noticed my daughter find it so went back to that shrine)

If you want some direction rather than being completely aimless, the game nudges you towards kakariko village and then hatena. That's a pretty good way to start out



Do the labyrinths have specific things in them? I've done the the one near akkala but there are two more? Just wondering if there is important treasure hidden elsewhere in the maze, or is it just in the shrine area? And I don't suppose the map accurately shows the labyrinth layout? Tempted to take a photo on my phone if so
 
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8bit

Knows the Score
mrklaw said:
Use a guide if you get completely stuck, or ask on here. But I wouldn't use one for armour - you're just starting out, the game isn't set up to provide full sets of armour linearly (except when presented in shops) so just explore naturally and see what you find. I was two divine beasts down before I found the climbing headgear for example (actually I noticed my daughter find it so went back to that shrine)

If you want some direction rather than being completely aimless, the game nudges you towards kakariko village and then hatena. That's a pretty good way to start out



Do the labyrinths have specific things in them? I've done the the one near akkala but there are two more? Just wondering if there is important treasure hidden elsewhere in the maze, or is it just in the shrine area? And I don't suppose the map accurately shows the labyrinth layout? Tempted to take a photo on my phone if so
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The layout is mostly correct but there are doors/gaps in the labyrinths not shown on the map so you can't rely on just that. They have some good gear but nothing you shouldn't miss IIRC, although there is a pit under one labyrinth that might be worth checking out especially for returning to later on.
 
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Persona7

Banned
I can scan each of my non-zelda amiibos once every 24 hours, right? Or is it one non-zelda amiibo every 24 hours? (or whatever the reset time is)
 
Chinbo37

Chinbo37

Member
DecoReturns said:
Aonuma would be ashamed.


I looked up the dame korok forest shrine, because I didn't realized the torches to side were the numbers. I felt like an idiot.
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I did this one last night!

So far I haven't looked up anything online. But I have seen a couple small spoilers in this thread but I try to avoid that stuff.

I can't remember the last rpg/open world game I played without a guide but I'm going for it this time!
 
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Dagobert Duck

Member
Thursday I beat my first lynel, died like 10 times and it took me close to an hour but oh so worthy.

It was the one in Hebra and afterwards I even found some shrines and now I'm at 62 shrines after like 60 hours...no end in sight....but somehow I feel the need to finish this before Mario Kart drops
 
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Chaos17

Member
After playing P5, I can say that long dungeon without puzzles are boring. More games should take example on Zelda Q.Q Zelda I missss yaaaaaaaaaaaaa! *sob*
 
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