The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

https://i.imgur.com/QtVewxc.png

releasing may 12, 2023 for nintendo switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZuiFDQwQw

crying ass kingdom

lets be clear despite my skepticism i will be buying this the weekend it comes out and playing for like 20 hours before i look online

tears as in crying or tears as in rips in the fabric of reality. much to think about!!

i hope the tears in the kingdom can be repaired. probably several ancillary tears and then one major rip near the middle, right through hyrule castle

xp it's definitely tears in the fabric of reality. also tears in link's tunic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q1RWbAqYtU

That was supposed to start at 2:56

More like Tiers of the Kingdom, right?

tears as in crying or tears as in rips in the fabric of reality. much to think about!!

― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, March 6, 2023 4:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

nintendo said its crying, the kingdom is crying, sad

In the name of the Goddess Crylia, I bestow upon you this Spirit Orbison.

fp me

lol

I was gifted a Switch and hadn't really gamed since I was a kid. This will be the first new game that I've been excited about since... the Mario game where he can turn into a raccoon? Or something?

I'm in the second phase of the Master Sword trials and digging it. Can't wait for this!!!

gamers are freaking out that nintendo isnt providing them with the customary level of marketing for this game lol

as long as the pre-order hits on 5/12, why complain?

it might just be the youtubers who rely on that stuff for c0ntent

yeah the guys who make like 2 hour videos breaking down a 1 min trailer

that said,

Join The Legend of #Zelda series producer, Eiji Aonuma, for roughly 10 minutes of gameplay from The Legend of Zelda: #TearsOfTheKingdom on 3/28 at 7:00 a.m. PT on our YouTube channel.

▶️ https://t.co/uMUCfVjFQL pic.twitter.com/y49N4jRUTz

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 27, 2023

10 minutes of the cooking song

lol

yeah the guys who make like 2 hour videos breaking down a 1 min trailer

10 minutes of demo = 20 hour breakdown video

cant wait to do things by thinking whats even possible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6qna-ZCbxA

it looks sick

ULTRAHAND

i'm excited

also i loled when "Your Tree Branch is badly damaged" popped up

kinda wish i hadn't watched this, gonna be very impatient to get these abilities during the obligatory tutorial section lol

the only limit is your imagination how quickly you'll get fired for not showing up

finally a killer app for keese eyeballs

nintendo saw ppl making flying machines and riding launched tree trunks and were like oh this is what you sickos like ok

i love the idea to make the monster parts actually useful for a reason besides exchanging for fun bokoblin masks

yeah would be cool if the items in general are more useful and varied

sadly its not what i like doing myself in games even if the vids are cool

you don't like to ascend?

i've only just gotten to rito village, can i watch this overview without having anything being spoiled?

ya it doesnt really reference botw at all

seems like with the new powers the game will be pretty puzzley but not with just one or even a set number of solutions which is cool and unusual imo

I need to get back on the Master Sword quest. I managed to make it to the very end and oooooh shit nonono did not allocate my resources very well.

Can’t wait for this, so stoked.

idk i would contend that a puzzle without a fixed solution or number of solutions is an obstacle, not a puzzle

its a puzzling distinction

tip re the trial of the master sword in the final trials theres nine ancient arrows three chests of three and finding them all makes it much easier

I paid zero attention to video games for decades and only got into BOTW about a year ago so this pre-release hype is all new to me.

I'm assuming there will be a shitload of people sprinting to finish the game ASAP for internet glory? How long would something like that take to do?

i mean i'm sure at least one person will but these games are open and dont have much story to spoil so people will take their time

Totk truly Puzz3D to BotW's jigsaw

is this game looking to be more like a big DLC or more like a majora's mask

the latter imo

did botw have a long game-spanning sidequest chain i forget. if not they need to bring that back

captured memories, kind of

thats the main story isnt it?

i think tarrey town probably counts

i hope you can build more new towns in this i hope its kind of like sim city

xp yeah you're prob right

i should play some botw ahead of this coming out

dont think ive touched it since 2017 honestly, despite never finishing it. i think thats fine tho

i tried and failed several times to do the trials to get the motorcycle, that was probably the last thing i did on it

sad for you guys that you never got to ride the motorcycle that you never got to gas it up with raw meat

not being able to save during it is what made it frustrating

i got the link motorcycle on mario kart, basically the same thing

ascend power looks pretty goofy

they had to do something about the climbing raining situation

maybe they took out rain entirely but the catch is that hyrule slowly becomes an arid wasteland

maybe i'll understand the point of the mechanic better when i play it but i have to imagine there was a better solution for getting on top of stuff in a game largely about exploration than to slowly warp through the ceiling. odd choice for a feature to highlight. why not just bring back the grappling hook thing

maybe link is dead and is a ghost now and that's why he can gloop through ceilings

Homing eyeballs! This looks wicked.

Okay I was gonna defend Ascend. Then I saw someone say it was created because people thought climbing was boring. Climbing was my clear favorite part of BOTW. Never Ascend.

https://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/album/cdart/allelujah-dont-bend-ascend-516bf701f3546.png

Link can Onionhead through the ceiling because he is green

they had to do something about the climbing raining situation

no this is part of the beauty of climbing, it's like life, goals that seem achievable and then slip out of reach, or vice versa

If Nintendo based new features off of BotW videos, there will be some serious sicko shit with the Yiga Clan

i'm ok with ascend but they really need to rework it so that it's explicitly a zonai hookshot

xp featuring lots of mighty bananas hopefully

Climbing that first tower was so satisfying.

Watched this with the kid earlier and he pointed out it had been uploaded 4 hours earlier and there was already a 2 hour long response video

Also rain climbing sucks so much, I keep thinking there would be some element of clothing or recipe that let you climb in the rain but fuck no

Speaking of towers, I assume sheika towers wont be the way maps unlock in this, given that's happened already. Unless this is set before BoTW... still isnt clear on that. The reverseo-chango skill has me wondering.

you can see towers in the background of that video theyre different towers tho

Ah I should rewatch it hah.

gotta watch the two hour youtube really get into it

I think, most of all, I shall want to Fuse a poe soul to my wooden boy

Most maddening BOTW element is accidentally crouching when I'm panicky and trying to run from something horrible

Already seeing some excellent memes out of all this.

https://i.redd.it/bm3i7z2a9jqa1.png

Finally watched that video, new game (mechanics) look awesome. I rarely play my Switch, but will def. (eventually) get this.

I'm unemployed and looking for a job, I'm not sure if this is coming out at the best or the worst possible moment

heh

i think the only way to manage it is some sort of rewards system (identify a possible job opp, reward with a shrine, update a section of the resume, shrine, 20 minutes straight of trying to find a job and failing, shrine). however, i have never successfully implemented this system for longer than a day. signed, unemployed happy guy

beers of the kingdom

complete a shrine, drink

break a weapon, drink

actually, don't do that. zelda would kill millions of people that way

zelda is out of control she must be stopped

i think this game is going to be great botw was amazing even tho it often wasnt that good as a game where it seems like they stepped up the game stuff with this one, lord willing it will have dungeons

In the sky!

seems like theres going to be underground stuff too i mean theres def going to be underground stuff theyve shown the caves we just dont know how deep it goes

idk i am still skeptical that it will have dungeons i'll believe it when i see it. i do miss the dungeons though, you need a lot of cool overworld setpieces to make up for their absence and botw barely managed it

one thing people (youtubers) picked up from the trailers is theres clearly two sets of powers one whos icons are lil pictures of the power and one that look like japanese characters, you could assume that one set is picked up in the tutorial area but then where do the other set come from, dungeons?

I worry that I'll miss the amazing newness of experiencing BOTW for the first time, and that this sequel will just seem like a larger-than-usual DLC.

But as my therapist says, "stop anticipating what you're going to worry about, and worry about it when it actually happens" (or something)

my theory is there are dungeons and you get an apostrophe from the goddess hylia every time you beat one

https://i.imgur.com/arTPF2r.png

yeah those are prob the lil vials link carries on his hip that serve as the battery for the vehicles you build the more tears the further you can go which is a common formulation from life that we all know

it could be that you get a power midway through the dungeon then use it to complete it where you get the tear which would be in the style of classic zelda dungeons

Holy shit thats so obvious given the title, how'd I not spot it haha.

gimmie da zelda

ayy we wanna ride da horse

Using the Heroes Path mode to find all kinds of things I hadn’t discovered. It’s amazing how much is in this game. Last night I found the bowling with snowballs cabin.

its awesome to find new stuff i hope theres even more stuff in the new game

As I wander i’m wearing the korok mask. I’m not trying to get 900, but those lil fuckers are everywhere! Do they ever show up inside shrines? I can’t remember.

naw

apostrophes of the kingdom

i have watched the trailer the game looks incredibly sick there are flying boats

updated village dropped

https://i.imgur.com/XYggAkS.png

the game should have mario in the corner of the HUD like that, just to remind you of mario

its a me in the corner

Watched the new trailer and learned Link is the final hope (spoilers).

thats a lot of responsibility

Link must confront Zelda and ask her to please stop crying. "there is no crying in Zelda, please"

link you must find me im down bad

sporadic play-by-play of the Mets-Dodgers series and "money currently on Dodgers" in the corner

i think on a long enough timeline they eventually make a zelda game that has like a surprise section where you play as zelda for a while like halfway through the game but its funny just how resilient they have been to the idea. also the botw nonlinear progression model kinda prevents stuff like that

i also hope they make another 2d zelda someday, they did it with metroid which has me hopeful

lot of people were speculating on playable zelda in this one but idk

smash ultimate has soured me against playable zelda, she was so gd annoying

i think its good to keep the tension of never having her playable even tho the game is named after her

can i set the camera at a crazy dutch angle when link is diving out of the sky like in the trailer

Holy shit this new trailer. I really wasn't going to play this, I do not have time, but ...

lol I know! When I played BOTW I was home during the pandemic and had the time to get lost in it. I'm going to have to play this in thirty minute segments every night with an alarm to make myself get to bed on time.

Adulting suuuuucks

My Switch is kinda gathering dust, and my Playstation backlog is huuuuuuge, but I had such a good time with BOTW that it will be hard to resist. Still, the time before I get to it allows all the nerds to figure out many of the secrets and tricks, which I have no problem with. In fact, at this point it's tradition: I had the original NES, and I beat the original Zelda, but I could not have done it without the (printed! published! possibly mail-ordered!) guide.

gameplay reviews are out, looks pretty fn sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMZzW7hj0M

Those constant disclaimers are hilarious.

Looks cool, like the perfect match of design/material and (relatively limited) console technology. Which makes sense, its predecessor basically perfected open world exploration.

My son and i were trying to ponder how many thousands of hours of footage are going to be on youtube 1 hour after it's released.

I don't know if it's good or bad but he's going to know everything about it within a week.

i recommend looking at as little stuff as possible until you've played the game for like 30 hours

A friend of mine bought a Switch maybe a year ago, and I'm pretty sure I convinced him to buy Breath of the Wild right off the bat. He finally got around to starting it today, and gave me a call with his mind blown. Of course he was overwhelmed, so I told him to doof around for many hours and then when he hits a wall do a quick Google to get over the hump. Compared to impenetrable stuff like Dark Souls or lots of Metroidvanias, it's actually not that bad, considering doing nothing is one of the most important things you can do in Zelda.

The gentle learning curb is one of the best parts.

the idea of someone buying a switch without getting that game is weird but i guess it can happen now that theres 6 years worth of other games and not 1 or 2

i wonder where ultrahand tech will be in a few years

perpetual motion machines

artificial black holes

real milkshakes you can drink in the real world

https://www.destructoid.com/psa-looks-like-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-has-leaked-online/

hmm maybe they should just release it today then

yeah i was briefly perplexed to see it on the anime torrent site earlier when i was looking for something else. zelda is anime confirmed

i preordered a physical copy so i'm half-expecting that i won't be able to play it on release day

all the big online retailers have always managed to ship me switch games on day 1 but this one is probably a busier release than any of the ones i preordered

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/04/us/zelda-nintendo-history.html

i am ready to play the game

ive have purchased the game and it is downloading to my device

i lied i will not be playing this quite yet i have other games to finish

wait it's downloading already? waiting for shipping on mine

its downloading

Is it possible to buy and download remotely or can it only be done via the shop on the Switch?

Shocking amount of goatse in the early going

i'm picking up my preorder tomorrow!

xp nintendo website has a shop but i'm not sure if it can send it straight to your switch or if it gives you a code

Downloading. I’m not ready.

I had a friend cancel dinner plans but now TOTK is downloading so who needs FRIENDS

Kid already found a 20 hour playthrough video on YouTube and I made him swear not to spoil things for me.

He’ll be at school all day tomorrow and my wife has a bunch of meetings but my grades are submitted and I have no obligations other than this

I went to buy a digital copy off the eshop but IT IS FIFTEEN DOLLARS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE FUCKING HARD COPY WTF

You cannot play this software yet.

its unfair to let us download but not play

Blessings of being an Australian.

I’m already liking more than BOTW. Seems like a pretty straight upgrade

gaming from the future

It’s only for the most committed of us.

Was meant to bring my switch to work to play in my lunch break (don’t judge, it’s an isolated job) but left it at home damnit.

If you were all real gamers, you would have moved to Australia by now. Bunch of posers

damn its true tho

i cant game tonight anyway because of important basketball and tomorrow morning i have to work but starting in the afternoon i will be traveling to the mythical kingdom of hyrule bigtime baby

BF came home with a copy for me from EBGames, what a legend. I shall crack it out this evening!
...or more likely tomorrow, its the feller's birthday tonight and thre's burritos, lemon cheesecake and booze to be had.

Hell yeah more Aussie gamers. Enjoy your night and tomorrow

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is more than double the size of the original game. It has long, engaging side missions that feed into the main story. I mainlined the story in 60 hours and I’m not even close to half finishing it.

This will take up my 2023. https://t.co/69KVaTXsMP

— Gene Park (@GenePark) May 11, 2023

120+ hours? Penciling this game in for ... 2025.

“A historic moment” - my 10 year old
(Personally I prefer the manageability of the OG game, where there like 8 items and not 800 to manage…)

Ugh Zelda can we just fight some instead of all this Archeology stuff.

i bet the story is 40 hours like every long game that people say is 100+ hours

doesn’t really matter how long the story is. i prob logged 200+ hours on botw, wouldn’t know how to determine how much was story and how much was exploration or just goofing around

i spent an hour hopping from treetop to treetop in the thundra plateau

Starting now, p excited

i bet the story is 40 hours like every long game that people say is 100+ hours

The WaPo guy in that tweet claimed to have cruised straight through the main story, and *that* is what took him 60 hours.

I lent my Switch to a friend and I’m glad I did! I will play this in the winter

the beginning of summer in Montreal is the absolute worst time for this to come out

lol Chicago's situation is not that different.

gonna try to keep my game time to week nights, we’ll see how that goes

just picked up my preorder :)

I will likely never play this but I'm looking forward to all the crazy contraption clips.

played it for about 5 hours so far still in the starting area and feel like i missed a bunch of shit AMA

hiding vague negativity behind spoilers and maybe just wait a year for the shine to wear off but something annoying happened that showed me my main hangup with BOTW (utterly busted cost/reward balance) is probably not really addressed at all and might be worse, and i'm already sour about it... shouldn't have played BOTW right before this cause all my complaints are still fresh

you can make link smoke blunts though lol

https://i.postimg.cc/FH85WCgb/2023051203025000-CC47-F0-DEC75-C1-FD3-B1-F95-FA9-F9-D57667.jpg

played for a few hours on the plane. it’s just as mesmerizing as breath but i feel a little intimidated by the sheer amount of possibilities lol

I just started Elden Ring (6 hours in, still in Stormveil, getting mauled by dudes on horseback), but this game gets here tonight - feels like between those two I have enough gaming to last me the next two years now

i finished the opening section and checked out the changes in hyrule a bit i love the new town in front of the castle its very cute

Alrighty, two shrines down, on to shrine three

So apparently I'm not the only one who saw goatse in certain locations (according to reddit) and now you can't unsee it either thank u yr welcom.

That aside I havent got far in yet - didnt get a chance to get into it til late afternoon because the whole household insisted on watching the opening cutscene. I'm stuggling a lot with the fuse mechanics, I dont know if its just me but the rotation is annoying the piss out of me.

Also how the fuck do you steer a raft with a fan?

I kinda like ULTRAHAND, the rotation stuff clicked after a bit and it feels easier than manipulating similar things was with magnesis.

Also I feel super limited because I am so used to parasailing and stasis-ing constantly to find stuff

On that raft-steering point -I’m really enjoying how janky and uncontrollable my rudimentary creations are at this stage. Just point it in the direction you want to travel and hang on for dear life!

I’m pretty sure that the steering etc comes later as you unlock more toys to mess about with but right now I’m loving knocking up a piece of shit go-kart and riding that thing in a straight line across country until I crash into something interesting

Unlocked the first sky view tower which was my aim for now, Eurovision pause

Incredibly fun game

i got deep into the rito village quest all the way to "the dungeon" but ran out of cold protection youre prob supposed to buy the rito village clothes but i didnt have nearly enough money, prob equivalent behavior to just doing a divine beast right away in the last game, have to remember where i found the chili peppers lol

xps I thought "goatse" the first time I saw the Thing in Question, and I'm worried what that says about me

This game is so cool. The beginning tutorial area was such a slog, though.

the shrines are so much better this time i like the puzzles :)

the rotation is annoying the piss out of me

the Shape Rotation Shrine broke my brain

Where is everyone seeing Gotse? Proud of myself for not seeing it.

Rotation fine, driving in straight line very fun, pinball shrine too hard to figure out, embarrassingly already looked up how to solve it. Love holding up this blokes signs every 10 or so minutes with ultra hand puzzles. You think he’d figure it out and not need my help by now. Got myself a horse, A tree came to life and started attacking me. Entered a zone which is much too hard for me right now, we’ll see how I go

Rotation was doing my head until my kid taught me. Not sure I can do it in words but basically it’s a three part move: get the horizontal in the right position so that the vertical move will rotate into the desired final vertical state, then put the horizontal to its desired final state. Now I can’t remember why I was confused.

nintendo releases the greatest game ever and my entire playthrough is me mistakenly pushing dpad up when i should be holding left bumper

only in the starting area but totally entranced by this already, the sound design especially is incredible

新しい神獣 #ゼルダの伝説 #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/uBBAc0HWir

— ZAKUYA (@ZAKUYA_BOTW) May 13, 2023

xp the sound design of BotW and now this game are absolutely pinnacle. My partner even came out and said "I miss those sounds" when I was grabbing apples up in the starting area. With nice headphones, just listening to Link walk around was so satisfying in BotW. The elegance of the piano in that game and the more eerie ethereal string motifs in TotK (so far) are so expressive and unique in gaming and so incredibly immersive. Audio and sound design is the great equalizer with gaming these days (pun intended)!

2 minor OMG spoilers ahead:

OMG it remembered all my horses from BOTW!

OMG STILL CANNOT PAT DOGES >:|

man the crafting controls on this are so fiddly (bad)

Where is everyone seeing Gotse? Proud of myself for not seeing it.

are people enjoying the tutorial island

who came up with this fs

initial island was a bit of a slog and quite confusing to navigate but finally into hyrule now - this game must be massive

OK so I watched a pro tips video on youtube and there are so many things you can do with the powers that are not intuitive but would make your life so much easier on the tutorial island if you knew them

Xp Yeah given the level of praise these games have received for how well-designed the world is, that opening island was a real chore.

Spent ages fooling around trying to get to where I needed to be and wondering what I was missing before realising eventually that I would have to retrace my steps and go round the other way, which was in itself a bit of a nightmare. Felt like it had been designed for you to travel in one direction with no thought given to how you could get back.

the world itself once you’re let loose is a real joy to climb / ride / glide / sail / surf / drive / fly / bounce / jetpack / time travel around though so I’m prepared to overlook it

Also even while that opening island was testing my patience I was still so happy to be back in this world, which is by some margin my fav video game space

I kinda liked the opening island! There are lots of hidden routes in there which make aimless exploring quite fun. I was well stocked with food and weapon add-ons by the time I hit Hyrule

I keep forgetting I don’t have a glider when I jump! Love the clattering ceramic sounds of the constructs.

this game is insane

spreading the good word #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/ufWrqwboZN

— Kam (@YoungerPriince) May 13, 2023

more like tiers of the kingdom

My MAGNUM OPUS: Korok BBQ V3 @GetGianni pic.twitter.com/yUd6eIBUbC

— Oyff (@Oyffie) May 14, 2023

OMG THE UNDERWORLD

💔

I wasnt too bothered with how anoying the starting island is bcs I remember the great plateau being the same.

(BTW, I wonder if the great plateau is still there. Guess I'll find out soon enough)

I'm back into that "this kind of game needs hours of your time but argh I have housework to do and meals to cook" angst.

The Great Plateau is still there, and I recommend you pay it a visit, there are some wild surprises in and around and beneath that area

I like how this game repurposes and reconfigures BOTW's map. It's akin to when you dream about a familiar place but things are all mixed up.

It really is

Ha yeah it is confusing me! I just got to Kakariko and its like.. wah where is the shrine oh yes different shrines WTF are those big things hey whered this hole come from .

this game is like 50 breath of the wilds

Oh my heart when I got to Rito. The music. It broke me.

i didn't have any issues with the opening island, wonder where the disconnect is there.

i imagine this will keep me occupied throughout the summer. it's a loooot.

I glanced at a couple of streamers playing it, and the first thing that came to mind was "Doom" vs. "Doom Eternal," in the sense that the first one was an inspired reinvention of a beloved old series, and the new one took that as a starting point, refined and tweaked the gameplay and then added a bunch more to it, for better or for worse. Which is to say, this new game looks like a lot! Or, yeah, a loooot! There was a story on I think Kotaku about how long people are taking just to move on from the tutorial area.

I thoroughly recommend pairing this with the new James Holden record: sky arpeggios for sky archipelagos! Continuous Revolution is the PERFECT soundtrack to floating over beatific islands 10,000 feet up.

I couldn’t start this until today but I had the day off work so I got up as far as opening the first observation tower.

I miss infinite bomb power and infinite hand is pretty clunky but I honestly appreciate that they’re changing up stuff like the powers when they could have left them all the same.

It’s so weird to go back to only having three hearts and no stamina. I keep dying!

I really need to work out where Hestu is. I assume he will still be how we expandapandabanda our pockets.

I found him by accident. He does though. He was near some scary trees.

muddlebuds and puffshrooms are cheat codes

Damn those scary trees btw. Fuck u, Birnam Wood.

mad that the performance is so stable - frame rate tanks a bit on ultra hand sometimes but been otherwise solid for me so far

some of the shrines are an absolute treat - could make a fully fledged game consisting of their puzzles alone and you wouldn’t feel short changed

THE DEPTHS !!

this game is like botw... on acid lol so much loony stuff going on

It's only been, what, a week? This shit is already nuts:

https://kotaku.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-zonai-tank-bomb-totk-zonai-1850437597

Muddlebuds are great. Not tried a puffshroom yet.

so what strategy did you all follow after finishing the tutorial stuff? follow the storyline? explore a concentrated area? head off into the distance?

i'm generally going from shrine to shrine to up my hearts. if i see something interesting i let myself get very distracted.

also i'm playing with a 5 year old so i am beholden to her whims. so there's a lot of cooking and korok finding ("ya-ha-ha guys")

Heading out from all four directions from lookout landing is a nice start xp

Only about 4 hours in, after the tutorial I'm doing basically the same as I did it BOTW - spying towers and marking them on my map, heading straight for them and doing any shrines I find along the way. Might do a couple of mini missions but the main story can wait for a while.

went to lookout landing, got the paraglider, then went looking for hateno village to see if my house from botw was still standing. stumbled upon the zora world instead! went and said hi to prince sidon and got the zora armor. but i'll try to fill out the map and up my hearts & stamina before diving too deep into the story.

im more or less doing the main quest did the rito part almost done with the gorans but stopping and checking things out along the way, love visiting all the towns to see whats going on say hi to old friends, everyones doing goofy shit its pretty absurd lol, its maybe more interesting than getting a totally new map, which is a good job nintendo couldve easily been too familiar

I’m all about getting the surface and sky maps right now. I collect shrines as I go as travel points but have only done a few thus far.

I started with looking for shrines near the Lookout, then Rito village by way of meandering through the west/northwest non-canyon parts of the map to stock up on shrine stuff and check out some caves and find rupees to buy the Snowquill hat (I think like 80% of that purchase was funded by helping Sign Guy). I did the first gloom/underworld quest, which blew my mind for managing to be both beautiful and sinister. I'm not sure I've encountered anything like it in any game. I'm on my way to Goron City now, then might see if there's anything going on in the Lost Woods. I'll leave the Gerudos til last if I can.

It's been a long time since my BOTW playthrough, but this game seems to give a bit more direction in the early phases..? like, it clearly wants you to go to Rito village first, and then lots of people you encounter talk about or are going to Woodland Stable/Goron City as a hint of your next stop. Nothing wrong with it given how expansive and frankly overwhelming this game is (god there is so much stuff, and so much stuff to do), or maybe I've just forgotten and BOTW had some early-on signposting too.

Fun/useful tip if you haven't stumbled upon it already: if you see block fall from the sky near you, climb on top of it and use rewind on it and it'll take you back up. It's handy for surveying the landscape or accessing floating sky stuff or falling/gliding to parts of the map that might be tedious to traverse on foot.

I never think about using rewind.

the game really doesn't let you loose as soon as you get to the surface because you don't have the paraglider and if you've seen a commercial you know there's a paraglider

so i did lookout landing, and then robbie tells you to go to hateno for purah pad stuff, i don't know what's in store there but if there are ability upgrades like in BOTW i want to get them asap. so i started heading in that direction but wanted to stop in kakariko first, and then i went into the great fairy chasm because i felt very confident that the way to access the 5th ring was to ascend past the barrier from the underground (turns out that was wrong), and i just ended up spending a ton of time underground. that's where i am now.

in both of the big underground areas so far, i find it really hard to stop. they're just massive, the darkness is really good at piquing my curiosity and there's always a fast travel flower in the distance to walk towards, and there's no natural stopping point because it's all the same biome. it just keeps going and going, there's no point where i think "oh this area is slightly different, i'll come back here later." i can see myself getting really burnt out on it.

Muddlebuds are great. Not tried a puffshroom yet.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, May 16, 2023 11:46 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

puffshrooms are a tasty treat you can take out of your pocket to basically reset combat. if you're surrounded by multiple enemies they just grind things to a halt. it's a really strong effect and it lasts a long time.

I wandered for a while not realising that I had to do at least the start of the main quest because thats how you get the parglide. Felt silly when I realised.

Since then I've also been wandering trying to hit shrines and towers, ocasionally pop back up to Great Sky Island and grab goodies there (those vending-machine bubble tool packs are v useful!).

The side quest I'm doing that I think will be useful is the newspaper one because it drives you to hit up all the stables, so you cover lot of map and find things on the way.

I spent 30 minutes last night trying to rescue that fucking horn player out of the hole and gave up. I think I was doing it right, it just didnt want to work! I feel like a bad engineer.

BTW am I the only one who

lucked out on the starting island and explored a few nooks and bits after the 4th shrine, thus stumbling on a cave with a chest containing the warm pants that meant I could do Rito without warm food?

haven't got to rito yet but got them yep

climb on top of it and use rewind on it and it'll take you back up

Yes this has proved to be v handy, just as a booster. It sucks not having revalis gale but in a way this is better, well between this and pine cones.

just had my first adventure below, so good!

So I havent properly tried puffshrooms are they like chucking a smoke bomb at the enemy so you can do a runner?

I spent 30 minutes last night trying to rescue that fucking horn player out of the hole and gave up. I think I was doing it right, it just didnt want to work! I feel like a bad engineer.

I eventually did it by sticking the balloon onto the wagon, standing above the crater at its edge, and ultrahanding the balloon + wagon + guy out.

Fun/useful tip if you haven't stumbled upon it already: if you see block fall from the sky near you, climb on top of it and use rewind on it and it'll take you back up

It works at least sometimes with ones you don't see fall too!

My most memorable moment so far - trying to get a Korok across a river to his pal, I place him on (not thinking to attach him to) a glider, attach a rocket, and blast us straight into a cliff face. The Korok falls into the river and gets swept downstream, I desperately pursue (I assume he'd have respawned, but I couldn't do that to the guy), eventually finding him miles away beached on a river bank. Slog my way back to his pal and cross the river more sensibly this time.

After the opening island I meandered for a while, went to the depths, then did the Rito trip since everything was pointing that way. I then decided to do a Hateno trip just for fun, and am somewhat regretting it as I repeatedly get my ass handed to me by tough monsters along the way.

My korok highlights have been strapping one directly to a rocket and dropping another down a long, rocky hill. A bit mean but got the job done

then might see if there's anything going on in the Lost Woods

:)

I threw a korok off a cliff.

I’m not proud.

They bounced.

My korok highlights have been strapping one directly to a rocket and dropping another down a long, rocky hill. A bit mean but got the job done

I also just destroyed a sentinel by grinding it between the big wheels of a makeshift truck

Who really is the monster here, hmmm

ventured off on my own a bit but am gonna double back and do the main quest mostly in order cause i ran into some enemies i’m not ready for yet. got obliterated by a stone talus, which reminded me i’m not playing botw anymore lol, and ran into some evil eyes monster that killed me pretty much instantly

one small thing that i like is that if you open a chest and get a weapon (for example) but your inventory is already full, it gives you the option to drop a weapon from your inventory and pick up the new weapon all in one move

def way better shouldve been in the first game

yes that's way better

shame they haven't added a customer sort for items tho

*custom

Yeah that’s bliss.

The horrible gloom eye hand monsters are horrific.

Man this game is like Godfather 2 and Empire Strikes Back. A sequel that not only lives up the the huge success and creative breakthrough of the original, but exceeds it on its own terms. Holy shit Nintendo. BotW was my favorite game of all time. This may become the new one

I am really confused by the Tumi gust power... thing. I click on him and he gusts me... sideways? How is that meant to help me get UP somewhere. I feel like I'm missing something. I ended up climbing to Hebra peak instead.

Tulin, I mean.

I don’t get it either

btw this game made me say “man, I love video games” out loud

This game is so huge, how the hell did they get it all on that little cartridge?

It’s nuts. The bookkeeping and memory management must be wild. Use the rewind on arbitrary objects and you’ll see they are persisting the trajectories forever (or what seems like it). Black magic stuff.

I am really confused by the Tumi gust power... thing. I click on him and he gusts me... sideways? How is that meant to help me get UP somewhere. I feel like I'm missing something. I ended up climbing to Hebra peak instead.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, May 17, 2023 8:43 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah its just sideways, helps you glide further/without descending as much, seems like they way youre intended to use it is once youre gliding hes just there asking if you want a lil gust

Thinking about something like RDR2 - maybe the maps are bigger (maybe?) but that game feels really sparse and empty compared to this game, and that came on two Blu Ray discs plus an additional approx 30 minutes of downloading!

tulin's power seems pretty useful for gliding around and trying to reach just barely out of reach places

i'm still holding out hope that the game will eventually give me a hookshroom or hookfruit that i can fuse to my weapon AND my shield so i can have not one but two hookshots

they took away the best durian farm and put a fucked up hand monster in its place, very rude

I'm now in the middle of the Tulin sky islands area and luckily thre's a shrine halfway up because omg I was noootttt prepared and need more pockets/weapons/arrows/meals.

Bow and arrow seems to be HEAPs more neccesary/useful in this than BOTW, on that note.

I don’t think durians exist anymore. And I’ve barely seen any radishes. Or truffles.

Truffles are def about! Ive found a few. I cant recall where now. In caves maybe?

The ones I’ve seen were in caves, aye. I definitely need more yellow hearts. One more shrine will take me to 7 red hearts and one and 3/5 stamina wheels.

Also sticky frog potions are a WINNER

i slayed the pirates and freed the village, bit of a hero nbd, black bokoblin horns are nice for fusing

I’m planning a fire spewing monster seeking tank for that.

oh good idea i need to get more into building stuff im kinda just playing it like the last game

Thinking about something like RDR2 - maybe the maps are bigger (maybe?) but that game feels really sparse and empty compared to this game, and that came on two Blu Ray discs plus an additional approx 30 minutes of downloading!

― nate woolls, Wednesday, May 17, 2023 9:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

RDR2 had detailed horse balls TOTK has some environment textures that wouldn't look out of place on the gamecube

i've tried to avoid a lot of videos of stuff like people building crazy contraptions but is there any way to actually steer the "cars" that you can build? i haven't done too much with it yet because it doesn't seem that practical in terms of getting around. it seems more like a fun creative minigame that is separate from the main game.

i guess instead of asking that i should play around with it

yeah there is a steering wheel attachment. haven't found any in the gacha machines yet but i've found a few laying around in the early game. there's one by the lake in the stable near lookout landing

i think things dont show up in the machines until you build with ones youve found, not 100% on that but it seems like it

i def got a couple of zonai devices from the machines that i hadn't yet encountered

I’m sure there are other examples of underground areas like this but it’s really hard not to think about the parallels with the underground areas in Elden Ring

then might see if there's anything going on in the Lost Woods

:)

― c u (crüt)

:(

lol @ gacha machines.

Also the fire temple is hurting my eyes and my brain

I'm stuck on the spinning cloud over Rito. I'm halfway up, but after shrine #2 theres all those bouncy bed ships and I get yea-high then cant reach any further ships :( I'll keep at it, I refuse to look stuff up like I ususally do.

Omg Gerudo town

Also I did a shrine with a giant jenga puzzle.

Some of the shrine puzzles are absolute brain busters.

As much as I am not super into the fire temple I do really love the way the temple music builds from sparse and mildly menacing to more complex and triumphant as you progress. Makes it less of a slog, like, hey now that I've done 2/5 things there's a fun jazzy riff in the mix, what will I get next?

From what little I've spoiled for myself about this game, it looks kinda ... hard.

The enemies seem to hit harder! Or maybe it's just cos I'm back to few hearts. They seem to stagger me more too.

I encountered this huge boss in the sky called a Flux Construct boss. Saw him chaging fecking shape and shooting out lasers and noped out as I had NO idea how to fight him let alone beat him.

that guy isn’t too hard once you figure out the trick

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i have committed vehicular homicide

Did you run over your horse! >:|

nice little musical touch when you find the golden horse

Trayce, I was confused too. You need to jump into the portal.

I’ve been experimenting with beating bosses using devices. My favorite is the simplest: add 20 beam emitters to a hover stone, put the hover stone in the air, attack the boss, then hit the stone with an arrow. It’ll instantly delete everything.

Now that I write this I’m going to try just putting 20 beam emitters on the trolly device and pushing it into the boss room.

i'm so dumb about the machines. i did almost the whole shrine that introduces you to big wheels before realizing that you can hit them to make them roll. i accomplished like 75% of the shrine just with the "move with infinite hand, reverse with time reverse" trick.

I've done the same with forgetting to use ascend. I was in the depths climbing this mushroomy tree, thinking "how could I possibly get right on top of it?" then facpalming myself.

Best LOL moment from my weekend of loads of play:
going after the autobuild, and discovering the whole shebang was guarded by MASTER KOGHA. So THATS what happened after he fell in the hole! I LOVED that bit of lore followup.

In the subsequent travels, I assembled a glider with fans and steering column and glided toward a distant lighroot, tried my best to aim at it, but smacked into it nose-first. Well, needs must.

For fuck's sake, I totally forgot about ascend.

lol

Its ok I forgot about cryonis ALL the time in BOTW.

BTW: is it just me, or does it rain a HELL of a lot more in this game?

i haven't noticed more rain, but i have noticed more frequent blood moons

I'm not sure about the rain, but I like that they give you gear & consumables to let you climb in it. I've gotten once piece of the frog suit so far.

haven't needed to use sticky solution yet, but hope it allows you to not fall when your stamina runs out

I have also noticed what seem like more blood moons, yeah.

Sticky solution works ok, but Ive only made it at one level, it just made me go further but I'd still slip.

Does nothing for stamina.

Question for anyone who has it or knows - this magic scepter I found. It seems like a once off. Will it break? Am I meant to use it just to shoot spells and not hit anyone (in which case, will it break?).

SO MUCH RAIN and so many blood moons and my game doesn't let me skip the cutscene for some reason

Isn't it every three days like in BotW? Feels the same to me and y'all just forgot how annoying it was originally

Rains just as much too but at least you can get around that now

@Trayce:

The sceptres/wands/staves will break, but there are ways to get more. It's better to just fuse them with gems and shoot magic rather than bashing enemies with them. Either way they'll break eventually.

The wand system is pretty sick in this game imo

Are all the chasms linked? Or are they separate?

I'm assuming the entire depths is the same area as surface map, but down below? Hving not explored it much I couldn't say for sure but its what I've assumed.

Things I am yet to see:
durians
radishes
any porgy fish

Things I didnt expect and dont know wtf to do with it:
Golden apple!?

I’ve found radishes, albeit very sparingly. I think durians are gone.

Theyre certainly not where they used to be in the cliffs just above Lakeside Stable.

Oh which reminds me - its weird seeing the dragons just idly surfind round in the sky now. They dont seem to dip down like they used to. Ive been able to surf near one on the way down from a sky archipelago, and when you get close they do still trigger the music and the updraft, and you *can* still shoot scales/horns etc off them.

Yeah I shot a scale off one within the first couple of days, but - get this - that was UNDERGROUND. First time I leapt into a chasm was at Kakariko and Naydra was just gliding around down there. Blew my mind re: the scale.

I had a similar experience where I was in the Depths but I heard the distinctive, lovely dragon music before I saw anything. I was so surprised! Then I looked up and saw one of them just working their way up thru a Chasm.

A note on the Depths/Chasms: the geography is the inverse of the surface. Mountains are valleys, bodies of water are walls. Also the lightroots/shrines correspond to one another.

I’ve found a couple of shrines that don’t have light roots and vice versa.

i was sky diving and a star fragment just pulled up next to me both of us falling tother i reached out and grabbed it, blessed moment

I still don't really know what star fragments are for

in botw they were mostly for upgrading armor tho you could cook with them too, in this game you can also fuse them to weapons

game seemed a little slow to get started, then I actually went to Lookout Landing

BOTW got me so used to having a permanent quest marker at the castle that I always ignored

I read somewhere that shrines don't always correspond with lightroots, but all lightroots are attached to shrines. Unknown if confirmed, though I'm sure someone's already 100%ed the damn thing.

Assumed fusing a diamond to a weapon would be extra durable. Was sorely disappointed.

xxxp Trayce wrt to the dragons I was near the chasm at Kakariko and heard the music only to witness Naydra descending into it! Was a glorious sight - decided to fall down with her, and then realized YOU CAN GRAB ONTO HER AND RIDE HER. Basically some Shadow of the Colossus shit - which just made me feel incredibly giddy. Seems like they regularly fly around in all three regions and you can use them as transport!!! Just make sure to have the appropriate armor to protect you form their elements.

I wondered about that! Given I wasnt getting frozen when I was right up next to Naydra. It now occurs to me I was dressed for the Rito temple so.

This game is so fucking great.

IME, shrines on the sky islands don't correspond to lightroots, but the ones on the surface do. I haven't yet found a counter-example. It is wild that I have logged almost 80 hours in this game and it is still surprising me. I just found my first low-gravity zone for example.

had a similar dragon experience as octobeard. amazing moment for sure

On corresponding shrines, the names of the lightroots are their matching shrine names spelled backwards

Who’s built themselves a house yet?!

i built the beginner house but i havent done anything with it

Now I have a fancy house I basically feel like I’ve completed the game.

Fire temple argh. Theyve taken the bit of Minish Cap I hated most and made it 3D and added lava.

i have beaten the game

thank you for saving the kingdom

I was running around the fire temple confused trying to figure out why I couldn't do anything. Turns out that I had just climbed in instead of taking my buddy with me. Didn't realize you needed to have him to really do anything.

But overall I found it much easier to eschew the trial and error of the mine carts and just use a combination of climbing around and ascend to skip them.

Yeah this is what half of reddit are saying too - ascend + fire hydrants. I tried this cheese but I just got hopelessly lost and also nowhere I tried would let me ascend anyway.

as with the divine beasts of BotW, I've gotten through the Rito place and the fire temple by doing random stuff until it somehow worked.

My brief Gleeok encounters so far have me feeling there won't ever be a time when they won't obliterate me instantly.

gleeok strat fire eyeball fused arrows at their heads

i have beat the game, while prob completing 20% of it, looking forward to the real work of getting all the outfits

i defeated my first gleeok last night and then immediately died when phantom ganon showed up and i'd already used my good items

I love those little guided tank things

Stoked to get back to Lakeside Stable and environs for some reason. Just a good spot.

Finally went back to the wind temple and finished it. Then got stuck into the secret tunnel at Lookout Landing…

I'm in the middle of that boss battle, it's annoying

Yeah, that's (the Wind Temple boss, I'm assuming you mean) is a cool fight conceptually, but in practice is deeply annoying. Conversely, the Water Temple boss is conceptually irritating, but in practice isn't so bad.

I finished the main temples and did the subsequent goose chase around Hyrule Castle/Phantom Ganon boss fight and now I'm not really even sure where the game wants me to go next. So it's back to aimlessly trawling the Depths for treasure.

i enjoyed the wind temple boss because diving through them ice holes is real satisfying

spoilers for great plateau+depths area: was probably expecting too much but i was really disappointed in the resolution to the big bargainer statue quest - the dialogue made me think it would go in a much more interesting direction and maybe provide some small gameplay perk you didn't have before. i actually stayed up way later than i meant to because i was so curious about what would happen. instead it was just unlocked the next bargainer shop item and threw in a heart/stamina container. doubly disappointing because it was basically all there was to do at the great plateau, which was one of the more intriguing areas to revisit

i do think this game improves on BOTW's problems with intrinsic rewards but still not great

to me getting the outfits is the most important thing

outfits are imo one of the only good intrinsic rewards the games offer and totk seems to be better about how they're distributed than botw but in this case the outfit reward is the exact same thing you'd get for randomly stumbling on any random bargainer statue that isn't missing its eyeballs

that one was kind of a lot and i got really confused for a minute as to where the statue was after i already had two eyeballs in it, i somehow lost it, it turned out to just be way lower than i was looking

it's annoying how you get basically the same 5-minute cut scene each time you beat a temple boss

I should not have purchased this on an overriding impulse on Friday night. Digging it but damn is the Great Sky Prologue/Tutorial/First Biome way too long. The open nature of the rest of the game is kinda contradictory to the more on-rails needs of the tutorial. I spent a good 2-3 hours wandering round and exploring the snow-packed sections before realizing I needed to hit the waypoint in another island first to activate goals.

Oh and the “should not have purchased on Friday” is because this weekend was also a 2-day meetup I attended so I wouldn’t get home till later in the evening and then play till like 1-2am because it was that compelling. That was my mistake.

I also explored the snow section too soon, but actually really appreciated that I could - someone new to the series might have missed the tutorial on cooking beforehand and just moved elsewhere.

If anything it reminded me a lot of the Great Plateau. You were locked into it similar to this, it took a somewhat similar amount of time/effort to trudge through, though the shrines were accessible initially, limiting the notions of "early" exploration.

I think this expresses one of the main differences of this game vs BotW. The original was a bit more structurally open from the get go, and far less "linear". TotK, while still being largely open, has a more defined and structured set of things to do early on, both in the tutorial and the world at large.

I think that works great for players who have played BotW first, and builds on the existent magic of the world. For those coming in fresh, the "mystery" and novelty of the world as perfectly presented in the OG is not quite as well laid out. I.e. I feel the game is 10/10 for those who loved BotW, 9/10 for n00bs.

in short, feels to me like exploring the world *was* the game in botw, while totk is more objective/task oriented. of course you can ignore those objectives and just build death machines if you like.

exploring the depths has felt the most similar to botw to me, where the joy is in uncovering the map and making discoveries. its also a higher degree of difficulty, reminds me of botw when i would get blindsided by a strong enemy or fall from a height when running out of stamina. that doesn't happen so much in the overworld in this game

I spent ages last night on that shrine "built for rails". I'd keep thinking I totes had it, with my various slapped together slabs but theyd all fall off halfway along where the rail broke. I was ready to give up but something tickled the logic/sceience part of my brain and I started being methodical, then actually worked it out.
Now maybe other ppl would've instantly gone "oh yeah you'd need to do this" but I never do, and I was pleased with myself!

That said I cheated the section before it by just railgrinding, which is a suprising mechanic. You just dont fall off as long as yr moving!

i like exploring the sky islands theres a lot up there, i got some cool stuff

the shrines are so good in this one but its such a shift in mindstate from the roaming the world that i usually dont even go in them once i activate them then i come back a knock a bunch out at once

Yeah Ive been doing that too - just going "eh I cant be arsed working this out right now I'll come back" quite a lot. I'm never gonna upgrade hearts that way!

That’s my approach too.

If anything I’m less linear / quest driven on this.

Diablo 4 tore me away for a few days but I’m back.

the shrines are so good in this one but its such a shift in mindstate from the roaming the world that i usually dont even go in them once i activate them then i come back a knock a bunch out at once

― lag∞n, Monday, June 5, 2023 7:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I’d kill for a game that was entirely shrines (i.e., something similar to that Captain Toad spin-off that was just a collection of Captain Toad stages).

maybe everyone already knows this but you can attach a ruby to a shield and wear it on your back and it will keep you warm in cold areas. you can also hold it out to melt items frozen in ice without having to wear down a fire weapon. presumably you can do the same thing with a different gem to stay cool in the desert.

sapphires

i love doing the shrines and always stop to solve them when i discover one. i've found it's a good way to break up the exploration (and stop myself from playing for 6 hours straight)

there have been a couple of shrines where i have tricked myself into thinking the solution is more complicated than it actually was. in the spring shrine, i thought i'd have to launch a spring to the second level and catch it with ultrahand, then activate the spring on the second level to complete the shrine. took about 30 mins of trying and failing that tactic before i realized i could just attach three springs together to launch me to the top level

xps - all the fire / ice elemental materials have that kind of temperature effect, though i never thought to use a shield instead of a weapon!

That’s super cool.

I just got Hero’s Path and that feels significant.

My kid needs one more stamina ring to get the master sword from the dragons head

I've found some of the combat shrines in this to be very challenging and engrossing, so I too have passed on them to return in a more focused effort later. I didn't do that all too often in BotW.

Speaking of Shrines and their power ups, I've found myself upping stamina far far earlier than I would have in Botw. Already have a 2nd full ring and only 6 hearts total and that stamina boost has really paid off in terms of climbing and gliding. Much easier to just boost defense via armor and potions when necessary.

xp wrt the ruby binding to sheilds and weapons for warmth, I've found a few weapons with rubies attached to them from some foes and bringing them to the kid at Tarrey Town to break them up is an easy way to add some dosh to your stash.

i always go for the stamina over hearts all about the stamina baby

I keep forgetting about that guy who can break apart weapons without destroying the attachment.

I got an extra couple of hearts early doors and then went for two full stamina rings asap - gliding is such a big part of this you need it more.

Then I took hearts hearts hearts - up to about 16 now, and now going for more stamina.

Haven’t looked for the master sword yet!

Had a ride on a dragon this morning though…

Always stamina before hearts before me.

i kept on getting one-shotted in the depths so i prioritized hearts. there are fewer hearty items abound this time around. meanwhile, there's a restless cricket under every rock so i have more energizing elixirs than i know what to do with.

people that underprioritize stamina are shallow, people that underprioritize hearts are foolish, is how I break it down

That’s about right.

How tough do I need to be to take on a gleeok? They look scary.

I came across one in the depths. Noped out of that one.

I suck at defending myself so I do 2-3 hearts for every 1 stamina upgrade :/ I have ~14 hearts and two full circles.

Lately I've been enjoying spelunking, esp finding the cherry blossom trees and Misko's gear. I'm a bit disappointed that the game hasn't yet presented me with a nutty Yakuza-style side quest where I get to model my fashionable outfits to an adoring audience. Maybe it's coming.

I've been working my way around the map clockwise from the west, trying to do the above-ground then below-ground stuff before moving on, and I really wish there were easier options for below-ground traversal. More bone horses, or crafting stations with better item variety. Some of those lightroots are difficult to reach. I find the emptiness is also a bit of a challenge. Stumbling across Yiga hideouts or abandoned mines is joyous for the feeling of finally having achieved something down there.

Finally finished the fire temple. Yunobo was completely useless in phase 2. Lucky I had a golden bow and heaps of arrows and keese eys, or I'd never have finished the boss.

the sages just arent too helpful in general, a shield fused with a frost emitter on the other hand

I have 23 hearts and I *still* keep getting my ass handed to me by the Lake Hylia Gleeok. I think with these enemies its less about how strong you are and more about how strategic/creative you can be about taking them out. Just trying to run up to it and take it head on is almost a guaranteed failure.

Yunobo is good for spelunking/mining, saves your bomb flowers & rock hammers

yeah yunobo is good for smashing rocks and tulin is good for extending flights but all in all for people who call themselves sages its just not that impressive! this is the age of machines baby

i posted a gleeok strat that makes them pretty easy upthread fyi for all gleeok fighters

i don't like having all the sages summoned because it clutters up the screen, but i'll summon 1 or 2 as needed. also i slept on sidon for a long time until i realized he makes you wet so you get the "water warrior" bonus from zora weapons

he is pretty handsome haha

Anyone else kinda hit a burnout with these nu-Zelda games? I never finished BOTW and I’m kinda losing momentum on this one too. As inventive as they are, they still do rely a lot on the standard open world trope of dotting the map with a handful of the same activities.

Also maybe I’m misremembering, but are the shrines noticeably easier this time around? Pretty sure I relented and looked up some solutions in BOTW but been mostly cruising through these. Pretty chill level of difficulty though, not a complaint.

Anyway, quality game. Got a coupla dozen hours in. Might just take a break.

shrines are harder and better in this one imo

I agree the shrines are harder this time

Also agree a bit on burnout though, but maybe from a different angle. I usually try to complete as many quests as possible before doing final bosses, so this game feels... insurmountable. My moments of burnout come from feeling overwhelmed by all the stuff still to do.

Yeah I just got the master sword and I find myself calculating “how much” of the game I want to do before sticking to the main quest and finishing it.

I’m mostly finding the shrines easier, but I’d never played a puzzle based game before BOTW so the experience I had playing that has helped massively.

Some stuff feels easier than BOTW simply due to the mechanics available - like how easy it is to get on top of a Talus now (though I feel weird going up its bum).

I'm only 2 sages down, and somehow I've managed to stumble on the Mineru build-a-bear body quest by accident. I guess I thought "whats up in this cloud thing?"

I've triggered her speaking to me but not started assembling her yet and googling seems to suggest I should prob back off and do other stuff? Like, am I meant to go to actual Hyrule Castle mid game?

follow your bliss it doesnt matter

The option to do things in any order and play the game in a way that fits your personality is part of the deal. Just like in BOTW, you can go fight the final boss at any time without doing any of the other quests / dungeons. Personally I ended up playing through all main quests because I wanted to experience the adventure

That said, if you want to play through all main quests then you will need to go to Hyrule Castle at some point after getting the 4 sages - and if you want to do things "in order" then yeah do it before Mineru's quest

i did the main quests in order but i also went to the castle at the beginning just to see what was going on, make sure no one stole anything

I do a couple of the main quest parts and then basically explore and do everything else before finishing.

i basically just did the main quest and beat da boss then explore, still so many clothes to find

still havent completed the yiga storyline figured id stumble upon it but i have not dont tell me tho

its funny how everyone you run into in the underworld is yiga all wow you tricked me again

finished 4th temple, all good except fire one which I got bored of and just climbed up. I liked that the journey to most of the temples was a big part of them. going to do some spelunking next, mapping out the depths while listening to podcasts is a great way to waste a couple of hours (or six)

love to ride the hover bike from root root through the depths

how big a thing can i build with ultrahand, can i play bokoblin tower defense

it will stop you after a while not sure what the rules are tho

you can ignore the notch on a lincoln log as long as you chew gum

Started this yesterday. It is glorious, however, if a like like swallows me I will quit forever.

The Master Kogha fights are really good fun. So silly.

big majora's mask vibes @ lookout landing

Man, building things ain’t really much of a thing until you get any steering controls, is it

probably for the best early game, i'm still not that far along (maybe like 30% map explored between the 3 levels) and i'm never at a shortage of steering sticks

its funny how everyone you run into in the underworld is yiga all wow you tricked me again

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yeah i haven't been so successful with the wile e. coyote techniques, unlike, say, this guy from tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81xUkAN/

(tarrey town spoilers) something i haven't seen enough people talking about: the monster diorama feature is so cool. when i first showed my bokoblin picture i figured at best it would recreate, at best, a black bokoblin model maybe carrying the same weapon because we know the camera captures weapon info too... it not only recreated that, it recreated the boko's stone armor and exact pose! i'd really like to know how it works, whether it's a 1:1 recreation of the picture i took or an approximation of where the active animation was... i have three pictures of a horriblin doing its ouchy-butt animation, i should see if it would result in 3 slightly different models

though i guess it's not far off from what the recall ability does. it's just nutty to me what this game is capable of handling on switch hardware.

Water temple down. It was the easiest one of the lot so far, and the low gravity everywhere was doing my head in. Sporinging around, floating in big bubbles... fun!

I took advice someone mentioned either here or on reddit and conjured up a hydrant for the boss fight and just sprayed wildly all about. Worked well enough.

Sporinging? I meant sproinging. Which still isn't a word, I suppose.

This is impressive. Nobody told me there would (could) be math.

https://kotaku.com/tears-of-the-kingdom-totk-computer-calculator-switch-1850538820

crazy no one thought to make a big game that was half minecraft before

tbh that stuff has kind of turned me off

build a switch to turn yourself back on

It’s fun. Bored nerds can be creative.

Maaaaaan. I just realized that you can put ANY zonai thingies in the gumball machines, including the little robot dude’s horn. I thought they only took charges.

Also, I have spent far too many resources getting to the top of extremely talk sky islands only to realize that it’s a test and a robot dude at the bottom would have sent me there easily.

Anyone else found things that they were slow to pick up on? C’mon, make me feel less stupid please.

I promise I'm dumber than you. Last night I tried to get to a labyrinth way up there using a hot air balloon with rockets attached to the base. Failed. Tonight, I'll try adding more rockets.

I'm so dumb I spent an hour in those caves looking for the mushrooms the guy at the tower had talked about, thinking they were important or something lol.

I have spent far too many resources getting to the top of extremely talk sky islands only to realize that it’s a test and a robot dude at the bottom would have sent me there easily

Ha. I did the same in reverse if you mean Courage Island. I sailed over it and dropped onto the higher rings, then spent 10 mins running round each ring, dropping down, etc, wondering why the fuck there was nothing on any of them.

BTW: it is fcking impossible to do that dive in 20 seconds.

Anyone else found things that they were slow to pick up on? C’mon, make me feel less stupid please.

for those building balloons, i’ve found the zonai flame emitters to be the most effective lifting tool

dumbest thing i've done so far: when i got to the water temple, i basically "solved" all of the puzzles to access the water wheels but couldn't get any of the water wheels to actually activate. for a while i thought maybe you had to redirect the bubbles to turn the water wheel so i was trying to ultrahand all this stuff to make a course to send the bubbles to the water wheels. it turns out i had just never clicked on whatever i needed to click on in the main area to make sidon follow me around and give me access to his powers

it took me a while to figure out that sidon's power doesn't just form a protective bubble, but also lets you shoot water

NA I did exactly the same thing! I was messing with those zonai faucet things to try and make them turn for far too long

Yes! I did the water level first and COULD NOT figure out how to make those things turn. Eventually I broke down and turned to the internet and felt stupid.

def have missed some stuff via not wanting to read all the dialog

demon king? secret stone?

for those building balloons, i’ve found the zonai flame emitters to be the most effective lifting tool

I saw a YouTube video where someone Ultrahanded a thick stick to the side of a balloon, just above a flame emitter. The stick keeps burning after the emitter runs out and burns long enough for the emitter to recharge.

There is a schematic for a dirigible that does something similar with torches

they should let you upgrade the wing and balloon duration

sounds like DLC to me

This Sneakstrike Combat Training shrine can fuck off.

Eventide Island is a lot of fun though

the best part of having my own cozy house on a hill is the weird guy that stares at it 24/7

Can anyone explain what the giant hover blocks are useful for? Outside of one or 2 shrines, I cant work it out. I keep finding sky islands littered with em with rockets, but nfi what if anything I can do with them.

I just realized that you can put ANY zonai thingies in the gumball machines, including the little robot dude’s horn

I didn't know this either, so I tested it. Charges will give you more than the amount of items put in (eg 5 charges seems to spit out 10 items?) but, construct horns are like for like.

throw a fan on a hover block and you can get pretty far

I guess the advantage is it wont drop out of the sky once it stops?

I found a Yiga Clan hideout which had hover blocks stuck to a big wheel with two flame emitters, was a pretty effective weapon.

I guess the advantage is it wont drop out of the sky once it stops?

u can ascend through them which is handy, but yeah i didnt really use them other than when theyre provided for specific puzzles

finally found a specific piece of armor i was looking for - i probably spent more time searching for this thing than playing the main story lol

its funny how they have all the nearly identical outfits from the previous games and theyre all difficult to upgrade, true sicko material

I spent WAY WAY too long over the weekend trying to scale the impossibly high walls in the depths that I knew were enclosing a reverseo-Zora's Domain, and failed. Only to then follow anothre set of statues near there properly and find out there was a fecking hole in the side of the wall-moat around the back of where I was. Grrr.

The schematic it led to felt like a really baffling let down after it all.

Figured out how to cook pizza.

There's cheesy bread, as well!

ooni zonai

Direct announced for tomorrow, maybe some meaty TOTK DLC?

gimmie da dlc baby

they're gonna bring back kass and he will fight penn the pelican to the death

lol

I never played the BOTW DLC, maybe that's why my Master Sword got fucked up in TOTK

u fucked up the timeline

(botw dlc is really good imo)

agreed, the trial of the sword was a fun combat challenge (not sure if i ever finished the final one) and champions' ballad did a good job deepening the story, with a great final boss fight to boot

I'm only 2 sages down, and somehow I've managed to stumble on the Mineru build-a-bear body quest by accident. I guess I thought "whats up in this cloud thing?"

I did this too and did the quest, and I do think it kinda diminished the narrative - a lot of conversations where Link does his ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ thing to explain that he's actually already done the next step.

Still, not as foolish a subversion of the suggested linear path as when I hopped into the Hyrule Castle chasm just for fun.

I just finished it (but still havent done whatever's sposed to happen to clear the cloud over Faron?). It was in context bcs I waited, except the weird thing is they encourage you to go do all the Geoglyphs early on (least, I stumbled on it really early?) so I'd already seen ALL the memories before Mineru's history lesson which seemed repetetive as a result. I dont know if that is what was intended?

I'm now glad I noped out of the hole under the deku tree ages ago too, wouldve spoiled related things I think.

I'm only 2 sages down, and somehow I've managed to stumble on the Mineru build-a-bear body quest by accident. I guess I thought "whats up in this cloud thing?"

I did this too and did the quest, and I do think it kinda diminished the narrative - a lot of conversations where Link does his ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ thing to explain that he's actually already done the next step.

just did this - also with 2 sages down. quite an adventure.

and my main question now is - do y'all tromp around with your buddies, or you do wait to call them when you need them? they get in my way sometimes.

i mostly kept the flying guy on cause hes helpful for flying and brought out the smashing guy in caves, never used the rest, tho theyd def help with fighting if you had them all out

i usually have 1 or 2 out depending on the situation. i might summon all 5 if i'm trying to kill a gleeok or something

can i just say its outrageous that you cant get the cece mushroom outfit that all the fashionistas wear

otm

Wait, you can make your friends go away?

also no proper high heels to go with the cece hat xp

Wait, you can make your friends go away?

yes, you can turn them off under key items!

yeah they should have a whole fit for that too xp

i usually keep the sages summoned. they are my friends!

v annoying to trigger them when trying to pick something up tho, that WEEHOO noise the flying one makes is especially grating

yeah it's just small annoyances like that

tho, it is super cool when you start paragliding and tulin flaps up alongside

Love when I’m trying to sneak up on a horse and instead send a fireball their way.

its too busy with them all around link is a loner by nature

don't mind the occasional stuff like yunobo accidentally setting me on fire or tulin blowing away my goodies cause it adds to the game's roadrunner/coyote-esque humor

a lot of conversations where Link does his ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ thing to explain that he's actually already done the next step

looking forward to that part. "oh you have a dramatic speech to give me about how important it is to do some quest? yeah i'm way ahead of you"

i do like it when the quest is "find 10 bright-eyed crabs" and you get to be like, "what you didn't think i'd have 10 bright-eyed crabs, you nitwit, you fool..."

I still only have tulin cause I guess I'm just gonna explore the entire map before progressing main quest, my biggest irrational pet peeve in this game is how he's always flying in and out of my pocket and making an annoying sound effect every time, it drives me nuts

I usually only have:
- Tulin out if I'm general exploring, handy for flying/bridging gaps
- will add Yunobo if in a cave, he sorts out gems and walls handily
- I'll add the others in a boss fight. They can pretty handily dispatch minor mobs alone!

I finshed off all of the Hyrule castle multifight quite easily thanks to them, esp because diff monsters call for diff use cases eg Hinox can be headshot by Tulin, Gibdo can be zapped by Riju, etc. I tell you what though I went into that not expecting wave after wave of fake-Zelda monsters to be chucked at me, phew.

It kinda feels like using a mimic tear in Eldin Ring.

I almost always have tulin out. His arrows have saved my bad at fighting ass so many times.

Until he WHEEEYOOOOs your shit off a cliff, grr.

Oh! And Riju's power is really good, but geez, trying to get near her in a fight to trigger it is difficult - its like she actively runs away!

apparently they'll come to you if you horse whistle

I've tried that and it never seems to work!

Theyre in my face when I dont want em and everywhere else when I do!

ran out of arrows!

That happened to me in the middle of the bloody lightning temple - the one place where you absolutely have to have arrows. I had to use a travel portal, run off and buy a pile, and come back.

I hover around 250 arrows. If I get below 170 I get nervous. Smash every crate and pot, kill every bokoblin archer. I rarely buy any.

I don't think I've ever had more than about 80. Currently on zero.

yeah i buy arrows every chance i get

The walk to Zora’s domain doesn’t seem to be as arrow rich as it was in BOTW.

I was going thru too many arrows esp in the depths til I learned you can just throw brightblooms, you dont have to arrow them (unless you want to shoot off a big one a long distance I guess).

really wish you could craft arrows, but maybe it would throw the balance off or something

I also think they should’ve done a Cappy-style co-op mode, with the sages. Let player 2 decide which should be out.

I'm disappointed that the guy obsessed with bubbul gems doesn't keep trading you stuff after you complete the gear set.

otm

https://i.imgur.com/jGfXbMz.jpg

roaming the depths on a stalhorse laying waste to monster mining camps, the overworld only a dream

that's my vibe lately, all gollumed out collecting zonanite in my mining mask, overworld is for normies

I'm trying to hit all of the aboveground shrines before I spend a lot of time underground. I wander down if there's a specific quest or something, but I'm saving it for last.

I just got to Gerudo Town and I am excited to see the return of the gibdos

Ask me again in a few days and I might be wishing for them to go away though

omg that "Bridging the Sands" shrine was so painful

not even fulfilling to beat. I think the long bridge I built just happened to break in a lucky way.

so far the most aggravating thing i've gone through in this game was getting the palm tree trunks to line up perfectly through the support holes when rebuilding the houses in lurelin

the story and memories in this game are so much better

yeah totally the zelda storyline was actually kinda good

Wait, gibdos are the mummies from the first Zelda?!?

imagine if there were darknuts, that would be sick

we need some armos too

imagine how fucked up it would be to see someone Ascend irl

I really resent the lazy koroks that can’t move to go to their friend.

every korok opens an REI credit account at the register

I really resent the lazy koroks that can’t move to go to their friend.

Ha right?
"I can't reach my friend, I'm too tired!" *indicates friend a short distance away on a completely flat and straight road*

It doesn't help when your backpack is about 20x your size

made a 100+ weapon, phantom gannon club + lynel part

LOL @ the ring ruins quest, which really isnt as well-telegraphed as it could be as part of the main quest so I just went and did the Mineru thing on my own BEFORE I triggered it.

And now I have Calip the nerd and Tauro the swole islander getting all excited about mysterious zonai ruins when I already know their purpose/end game haha. Why am I not telling them? Stupid. Still, at least I didnt know I was missing some cool armor sets from not having done this bit before now. Seems like its actually completely skippable which is a bit odd.

Funnily I'd been tooling about in Faron ages earlier and I spotted the statues and said "those look like lightning rods" .

made a 100+ weapon, phantom gannon club + lynel part

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made some much better ones from the pristine weapons you find held by shadows in the depths

didnt realize the deal with pristine weapons until after did everything lol

I'm getting the occasional pristine weapon from amiibo drops and chests. I'm too scared to use/waste them.

Oh, speaking of which do y'all know about the lava-octorok weapon boost?
This time round, instead of de-rusting old weapons, they suck them in, do some magic on them and spit them out with a boosted base HP. If you then take it to a 2nd octorok and do the same thing, it'll boost further. There's a chain of 3 or 4 'roks along the lakebed where the lizard lakes are at the north of death mountain. I tried it on a cobble crusher and got it from 5 to 16.

Lightning temple > water >> fire >>>> air

the climb to the wind temple is so epic though

Yeah the wind temple fly/bounce/fly was fun (once I worked out not to fight against the current lol)

For me it was:
Water>air>Lightning>fire.

Hated the fire temple. Straight up looked up a walkthrough bcs I just could not be arsed.But I loved the airy, low-grav weirdness of the water temple.

I appreciated that they didn't really care how you did the fire temple.

Princess Zelda hands you some Hyrule.Herb. "Only by fusing this with the Master Sword can you fulfill your destiny and defeat the Demon King." Too late, you realize Hyrule Herb is mistletoe. Loki has tricked you into murdering beloved Balder.

I got the robot. That was a satisfying quest.

further weapons research gerudo weapons double the fuse power of anything theyre fused to, so if you get a pristine one in the gerudo depths and fuse it to a silver lynel horns itll have ~130 attack

Without telling me how to do it, is there a way of getting past the jobsworth guarding the fifth Kakariko village ring? If yes, does it require any special gear or items?

I could look it up online but I really only want a hint about how to get there if it's even possible, not to be told exactly how by a walkthrough

there def is but i dont remember how i did it

I haven't done it but I think you have to finish all four sages' quests first

i just looked it up and thats basically right tho not exactly

I have too much stuff, and it is overwhelming

I want to fuse something to my arrow before I dome this bokoblin but there's a nonsensically large and varied Perkins Menu of items here

u can sort in useful ways by pressing y

fun hover stone tech i discovered after like 100+ hours: if you fuse a hover stone to a weapon, you can throw it and the hover stone will de-fuse itself from the weapon to hover in midair

Whoa that opens up some fun stuff

you can also fire one as an arrow

nice!!

how? I havent been able to work out how to fuse non-pocketable things to arrows (like it'd be mega useful to be able to arrow-fuse a timebomb for Moldugas for eg)

the gacha capsules. when you're selecting an item to attach, one of the sorting options puts those first

Oh right, why didn't that ever occur to me!

ok i have 129 shrines and finally got the soldier armor. prob time to go fight ganon.

i always over-prepare to fight ganon, a reflex from my first ocarina of time playthrough when i ran out of magic potion and had to reload the save file lol

I think I'm too uninventive to make the most of this game, like I forget to build homing carts to help w big fights or to stick stuff to shields, just basic things

And I keep getting angry at the star-flower island waaay above lookout landing bc I can't figure out a way up and it's my last of those islands to get and it's taunting me

me too, I make so little use of my devices. It feels like the game mechanics could have leaned a little harder into requiring inventive device use, though tbh I'm already a bit overwhelmed by everything there is to do.

not gonna say more than this, but they did a pretty good job of making the ganon fight actually difficult, as opposed to the breath of the wild fight which was a joke!

Ive seen people make things like spinny wheels with frcking lasers on their heads, and laser homing carts - do they also damage oneself if you get in the way?

I also dont use devices much. Heck I'll go all the way back to a stable to get my damn horse when I could just quickbuild a grass skiff or a little wheelycart, but I just never think to.

I mainly just build the wing/fans/steering stick thing or the dirigible to get up really high. An occasional boat. All the other stuff is cool, but I don't have the patience for it. So much rotating objects in space.

Speaking of balloons reminds me : are the black areas on the depths map completely inaccessible, ie stuck to the "roof" and can't be climbed over? I think I have been futilely trying to climb walls I shouldn't bother. I know they correspond to deeper bodies of water. I ran into issues because I was trying to find the lightroot corresponding to the shrine next to Duelling Peaks stable. It seems either there isn't one, or I cant find it.

the black spaces on the depths map are impassable, as far as i can tell

if the map is black and the wall is covered with stalactites that usually means it's not passable

Ive seen people make things like spinny wheels with frcking lasers on their heads, and laser homing carts - do they also damage oneself if you get in the way?

As far as combat contraptions go, I have an Autobuild favorite that I'll drop in sometimes, it helps. Looking forward to having more battery to truly melt things.

Yunobo on a vehicle has no cooldown apparently, could be a fun way to take down a big guy.

Was exploring and accidentally went to the last battle unprepared. Lost in the second demon ganondorf phase. MF’er.

Ok the last part of getting the master sword was one of the most mf'ing epic things I've ever done in a game.

I eventually got the schema for the 'autobuddy' autobuild or whatever it's called - the one built from a homing cart + stabiliser + flamethrower - and found it super handy for battles with lots of enemies.

I finished most of the quests and the main story on the weekend. The despair and darkness in the last stretch before the final boss felt oppressive and interminable and losing access to the sages made it even more uncomfortable.

And that last stretch felt super long and very tense! By the time I got to the real battles I was actually shaking from the build-up and the pressure, like did I bring enough healing items? If I die how far back do I have to start from? Do I have to go through the unpleasant doom tunnel again? Or am I stuck here forever? etc

Fight was challenging but not insurmountable. Ganon v2's health bar extending across the screen was a great touch, did not expect that. Also OF COURSE Ganon was going to eat his stone and go dragon, but I am slow and completely didn't even consider that until it was happening, but I'm kind of grateful for that because it was a cool surprise.

The whole endgame experience was weirdly really emotional for me, but maybe that's just what happens after 80? 100? 120? hours of investment.

errrrmmm oops, that second to last line was supposed to be in an H tag

It does feel like I’ve spent a lifetime on this game. And I’m still finding wells and caves I hadn’t previously.

I was actually pretty burnt out for the last couple weeks of it, like, I was feeling panicked about how much time it was sucking away from other hobbies. A sensible, non-obsessive person would've parked it and come back to it, or balanced it better with other things, or said 'hey maybe you don't need to finish nearly all the side quests before you finish the main story', but that is not me. And now that it's done I'm a bit sad. Can't win!

i bounced off of it after getting two of the sages. i'm sure i'll come back to it eventually, but i wasn't feeling naturally drawn to it or getting any immediate satisfaction from it and i don't play games out of a sense of duty to complete them. it's a very impressive game, but for whatever reason the feeling of endless possibilities in a massive world filled me less with the joy of freedom and more the dread of pointlessness. i'm not sure why this hit me that way and botw didn't, maybe just too much of a good thing, or maybe it's just me. i think it is just me. my favorite part of totk so far was the depths, something about how my options were curtailed down there made it feel more like something to chew on, steady progress rather than just randomly doing fairly easy things in whatever order punctuated by a somewhat more annoying thing here and there. if i could pinpoint a moment when it started to lose me a bit, the first time i encountered a section that indicated i should build a four-wheeled vehicle and then drive it over nearby terrain i was not impressed by the experience

sorry for being a bummer!

although salsa shark's description of the endgame does make me wanna get there

I finally built an updated version of the fan bike where you only need one fan and one bit of fence from a shrine or something and damn if it ain’t great.

The dissolving thing on the flying vehicles is so annoying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99BO4-R3Vwc

People are creative. These builds get crazier and crazier.

ok that thing at 18 minutes is fucking wild, holy shit

It’s certainly starting to remind me of the Minecraft community and the crazy shit they build. I wonder if Nintendo will lean into it further and release updates/expansion just to focus on making stuff.

i've been playing through a second time, trying to do the 4 main dungeons with no paraglider and no fast travel. it's fun!

Wait what??? How do you do the Gerudo desert one without the paraglider???

fancy zonai vehicles, maybe?

the gerudo one is the only one I've done so far! it doesn't require a paraglider. i'm more concerned about the rito dungeon boss tbh. when i first started out, i assumed i could get the glider suit and level it up to be impact proof, but the great fairies are locked behind the newspaper quest which i believe is locked behind the paraglider

You are a maniac

Thank you for your service.

Arent large parts of the main quest locked til you get the paraglider though?

Or just the prompts for them?

some things are, but the four main dungeons aren't

finally found all the shrines and lightroots. i am still addicted enough to play for a little while longer and collect some more armor sets, but i'm not motivated to find all the wells or hudson signs or whatever.

i think the link's awakening remaster is next on my list

finished the dungeons without the paraglider. i was able to upgrade my armor after all, thankfully.

the link's awakening remaster is just about perfect

Okay wtf why am I so bad at this game? I’ve gone through all the fromsoft games with relative ease but combat in this game just ruins me.

Pls give me tips on how to be better at this, it’s killing me atm

Co-sign links awakening remaster being amazing. One of my favourite plays from this year

explore the depths, pick up lots of muddle buds and puffshrooms. they will help a lot vs all regular enemies

attaching a frost emitter to a shield makes combat maybe too easy

or a sapphire if you wanna look cool

Latest "did not know" weapon combo I found was the forest dweller spear - you can fuse it to "burst" items like dazzlefruit and it wont disappear, it'll recharge!

Was handy in the depths against mini frox and skellies.

Sorry by "it" i mean the fruit you attach.

I think I was just doing things I wasn’t supposed to yet. Trying to clear out lurelin village while only having 5 hearts. Just finished my first temple (water) and feeling I am playing the game more as intended now. Lots of fun!

gotta get the hearts

Heck yeah my first task was to find and knock over as many shrines as I could, main quest be damned.

Still have 5 hearts but now I have an extra stamina wheel (ocd meant I needed to finish it after getting one extra part). Hearts from here on out. Currently meeting the founders of hyrule in a cutscene. Looks like Zelda’s travelled further than imagined. Oh well she can wait; shrines to explore!

Finally opened this, put about 200 hours in over the last month. Just excellent. Amazed that they really nailed it.

I finally decided to give Ganondorf another shot (after initially stumbling upon him earlier). Lost again, not enough gloom busting food.

I really just spend the majority of time just exploring. I’m still finding new caves and wells. Still need to beat a bunch of the Gleeoks. Many side questions remaining, but I think I’ve finished all the main ones, with the exception of the final battle. Need to find all the damn armor too.

I've been putting off fighting Ganondorf for weeks now. I'm still running around doing sidequests. Amazing game

The Ganondorf battle really is something else — they went above and beyond atoning for the disappointing final battle in Breath of the Wild

This game is to BOTW what A Link to the Past was to Zelda 1

Just picked this back up on a flight after playing Elden Ring for so long. I really need to be in the right mindset for this game after switching it up. I can't easily go "back and forth". It's so much easier to get side tracked in this game too.

BTW given I've started up Elden Ring this year, and will likely dive into BG3 once I've beaten that and TotK, this is looking to be a completely ridiculous year in gaming for me. And I'm really looking forward to that new Mario game and Dave the Diver once it's on Switch.

I bought this months ago & have just started playing it. First Zelda game too. I love exploring the islands even if I don’t know where the fuck I’m going. When I managed to fly to Time Temple it felt incredible.

Intriguing! I imagine most people don't start with this one, or at least play "Breath of the Wild" first. Most of the complaints I've seen about "Tears of the Kingdom" come from people who prefer "Breath." I wonder if the converse will be true? You are a living experiment!

those people are nuts, frankly, Tears is better on almost every metric imo

I actually never finished Tears. I got deep into Elden Ring which ended up scratching the itch way better. Breath of the Wild is still my all time favorite though, and perhaps I'd feel differently myself about TotK if I had started it first.

yeah agreed a lot of people seem to feel that way tho and it sold a lot less, prob has a lot to do with being such a direct sequel xp

will say tho that in tears the added terrain was pretty uninspired compared to the original map, all these new uh levels sky tunnels and depths are pretty samey across levels where the original map is a wonder of variation

Yeah the rewards also are a bit more repetitive too, and while the first game felt relaxing and rewarding in its own way (and all the shrines were so on point), Tears felt less "relaxing" and more frustrating at times. I need to go back and at least beat it, but I'm not going to 100% it like BotW (okay I didn't get all 900 korok seeds, but everything else).

That said - I'm excited to try Echoes of Wisdom!

i found botw shrines pretty generic and boring, ones in totk are better imo but still not great for the same reasons, a lot of the game play in botw wasnt that great it was more a cool world to run around in, i think totk improves on the game play part

but then the exploration suffers since you already know the world, i did like checking in on my old friends seeing what theyre up to tho

I have a horse, I have registered said horse and I’m roaming across Hyrule collecting shrines and fighting monsters. What a great game.

Beers of the Kingdom

I spent so much time exploring and doing all of the side quests on BOTW. After that I was a little burnt out and so working with the same map made it hard for me to want to spend as much time on TOTK. TOTK is probably objectively better and def has a better big boss fight, but it felt less immersive because of the familiarity.

yeah i think if theyd made the new terrain more varied it wouldve helped, someone pointed out that theres a cave underneath the akkala citadel ruins why didnt they let you go in the citadel and look around instead its just a cave that looks like all the other caves

would love it if they reined it in for the next one and made something thats halfway between the new and old formula in size vs structure. dunno if they would though, no other dev seems willing to walk back open world map size once they make the jump to it but maybe nintendo could get away with it

Beers of the Kingdom

― calstars, Sunday, September 29, 2024 7:46 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Had to abandon my main horse halfway through climbing down a mountain - Fair enough, it’s not a mule - but felt guilty about it cos I knew I was never going back there. Thankfully reached a stable on the other side and was able to stable said horse there, but if they let you teleport a horse to the stable, why can’t you teleport it at the shrine travel points? Anyway.

would love it if they reined it in for the next one and made something thats halfway between the new and old formula in size vs structure.

― ciderpress, Sunday, September 29, 2024 1:38 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the thing people seem to really want is the old style dungeons where you have to look around a maze to find the special item which will allow you to get to the boss, but nintendo seems very dedicated to the i guess open exploration model where you can just do whatever you want in any order cheese the dungeons go directly to the final boss etc which is pretty cool but some things do suffer for it

part of it is just i believe games should take 3 years to make and not 6. give me half as much stuff twice as often i will still pay $60 for each

yeah the amount of resources committed to big new games is crazy

It’s been ten years since gta v right

11

whatre they even doing

Rockstar? Probably having pints and arranging another business trip to Miami

I enjoyed what I’ve played of TOTF but I miss the sheer wonder of discovering things in BOTW, and the slow accretion of understanding “oh this place is next to that place”, and the way all journeys seem infinitely long at the start of the game when you don’t know what’s coming up next, etc etc - it really needs a new entirely map for that. Or even - just quitting at perfection and never making another