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

Running around under Hyrule on my skeleton horse (Ossery) over patches of red-black gloom and laughing at all the monsters who can’t catch me. There’s no way this can backfire.

(Reader, I am lost.)

^ gets it

I remember how delighted I was when I sighted my first skeleton horse

I'm about midway through Echoes of Wisdom and I would say it has a bit more in common with TOTK than with classic 2D Zelda. The emphasis is much more on creative problem-solving rather than the traditional lock-and-key structure. The possibilities for sequence-breaking are much wider. It also has in common with TOTK/BOTW the terrible endless scrolling item menu and the tedious cooking system. On the whole it's a pretty good time and if you've ever enjoyed a Zelda of any vintage, you'll probably like it.

It's so fun! I adore the nods to A Link to the Past in the overworld.

Before they announced EoW, I was thinking how much I would enjoy a 2D LttP-style game in a world the size of BotW/TotK. This is better though.

I haven’t been on a horse in two days because I’m climbing around the mountains and fellas I gotta say, I fucking love when I can just ascend my way up because I am not about that grind

*cries in botw*

They need to let you skip that blood moon cutscene. It’s both meaningless and annoying. You shouldn’t have to watch part of it, it’s the same thing every time! Give me the skip button at the start!

Can you actually catch those little sprites that come from the cave frogs?

I love the shrines so so so much. I have autobuild now and I hope I pick up a schematic for a horse cart at some stage cos not having one yet is extremely annoying. I don’t want to do those Korok tasks without one!

IIRC you can press X then + during the blood moon cutscene to skip it

I have tried that but it still plays way too much before that comes in.

Finding out how to turn off Sidon was the best day of my Hyrule life.

yeah the blood moon cut scene is annoying; it should stop running after the idk 10th time

if you shoot those sprites they drop $$ but you can't literally catch them afaik

I’d eat a marble rock roast ngl

I suspect the blood moon scene needs to play out because part of it's purpose is memory/cache flushing, saving, etc? I am only guessing this, but mainly bcs I know you can force a blood moon (seen it referred to as a 'panic moon') by doing shit that wigs out the game, so it does one as a sort of reset.

yeah i think thats right

Oh I didn’t know that - fair enough!

- I managed to get all the way to an island on a makeshift raft of a piece of wood, two fans and a battery
- but before I did that I rescued a shipwrecked guy by following a faint trail of brightbloom seeds across the sea
- bananas!
- I need more money basically all the time
- more towns should have stables
- firing puffshrooms at monster encampments is extremely good. For me, not them

Puffshrooms are v useful when fighting lynels.

Following Zelda into the fire temple

https://i.postimg.cc/xCZdgXnJ/IMG-6461.jpg

Also, FUCK Gerudo Town

i spent so much time on this game in the year after it came out, felt like i had found pretty much every big location, but i popped it back in yesterday and promptly found an entire stable that i had missed lol

That royal hidden passage cave that never ends is unreal.

Climbing around this decaying castle full of monsters and I’m like is this…Soulsborne? For kids?

Anyway I googled this and found this out and lmao this is me too, having completed all four temples without a single armour upgrade!

https://www.gamesradar.com/i-spent-40-hours-playing-tears-of-the-kingdom-in-elden-ring-mode-all-because-i-took-a-wrong-turn/

Ha. I still don't have a Switch, but Echoes of Wisdom looks more enticing than the other games because the mechanics seem very A Boy & His Blob.

I finished the whole game without ever upgrading armour. It didn't feel that extreme, although I did maintain a strategy of running away and attacking from a distance throughout.

ha thats wild im fully focused on getting the best gear when playing these games, and getting all the gear

Yeah I don’t tend to play like that, I very much go off on a whim and so I’ve cleared all the temples and done a million shrines etc but I’m still with “hit Link hard enough and it’s instant death” armour. Well, I didn’t want to finish this game yet anyway! Also upgrading my armour means I don’t have to spend so much time cooking.

theres even the whole big clothes themed side quest in tears, they get it

Ha yeah I got that big stupid hat, that quest was annoying. And I never wear the big stupid hat.

lol

The easiest temple monster was the ice temple one where you’re up in the air. I loved falling back in slow motion shooting arrows at that fucker. I would have completed it the first time if I hadn’t been focusing so much on shooting the thing that I forgot to press glide before hitting the ground. Basically the ending of Aeon Flux short Gravity.

Things I have done since I last posted:
- several shrines
- rode an ice dragon for a while
- acquired two more horses (one is the side quest horse Spot)

Things I have not done:
- upgrade my armour

For whatever reason I decided to start the Call to the depths side quest. It started off fine; I found all four eyes easily and threw them into the chasms.

Now to retrieve them.

So I jumped into the last chasm & found the eye quickly. I knew roughly where I was supposed to be going and what I was looking for (a statue). So I got there without too much hassle, and looked. And looked.

Made my way to the secret spring of recovery which seems like the kind of place you’d find a giant eyeless statue. I placed the statue on the side of the spring while I went swimming around. I got lost. Flashback to being a teenager and taking aptitude tests in school. My guidance counsellor: “Maybe you skipped over the page and filled in the wrong boxes?” No, I told her, I really am that bad. My Achilles heel popped up again.

You might be wondering, why didn’t you look up the location of this statue? And reader, I had. I had the coordinates and I couldn’t find them. Not only could I not find them, when I made my way back to the spring the eye was gone. Who loses an eye? Did someone steal it or did the game simply move it back to where it was? I frantically searched for the missing eye, on land and in water, without realising one final indignity was about to befall me.

I ran out of stamina in the secret spring of recovery and died. That doesn’t seem like something you should be able to do, but I did it.

I hope my sleep is dreamless and i am not haunted by the missing eye 👁️

I was referring of course to my spatial ability which has been, in a word, appalling my whole life ^

i'd love to read more about how BOTW/TOTK were designed. like, for example- (i think this would be a common experience for players): using a rocket to boost up to a cliff/pathway in the depths, I land exactly where i needed to go before running out of fuel. this sort of thing happens frequently, all over the place. another example would be paragliding and landing on a platform right where you need it to be before your stamina drains

were the pathways/platforms/etc at that height designed first, and the rocket/tools/abilities based around the need for the player to navigate these commonly traversed areas? or did they define the abilities of the rocket/glider/etc first and then design platforms/areas at a ‘rocketable/glideable’ distance ? …OR were the tools/powers and the landscape developed in tandem and adjusted throughout?

i hesitate to say the latter because in my mind that would create a nightmare of exponentially cascading adjustments affecting EVERYTHING in the game, since all the systems are so interconnected and used in so many varied ways. it seems a lot easier to set the parameters for link and the tools/powers first to more easily ensure consistency in the world construction, but that also doesn't leave as much room for creativity or craft, two elements that are clearly abound in the game

i guess what’s truly insane to me is that they *really* did have to develop everything with three dimensions in mind (or four, given the recall power). compared to most games which are 3D, sure, but you are operating largely on a ‘flat’ plane conceptually

Gosh I cant say I ever got that experience. I'd always just miss platforms in the sky or come up short on a cliff in the depths. Maybe it depends where you go, I dont know.

i could see there being some rules in there that help you get places if youre close enough i know its a common practice in video games to sand off rough edges like that, kinda doubt distances between things are measured out in glide lengths since thats upgradable and buffable so it ends up being a ton of different lengths

yeah a lot of the powers seem elastic, like ultrahand distance being (imo) longer in certain shrines for the sake of the puzzle

One thing I have always noticed about Nintendo games is it is very very unlikely to get yourself stuck in a way you cant get out of.

I have upgraded my armour 😎

I am uprgdaing ym amruor as I tpye tihs

nice job everyone

i’ve been failing at a supposed exploit where you use recall on a thrown board spear, ultrahand the spear midair and attach it to a plank of wood then use recall on the spear again- supposedly it launches you insanely high. maybe my reflexes arent quick enough, or its been patched out

getting more armor and armor upgrades as well- the set bonuses along with elixir/meal buffs will make for some cool stuff

I stopped following some of the reddits but I know bombing for speedruns was a thing at least in BOTW, not sureif it got patched in totk. I never really tried any exploits!

all that bomb glitching is prob why they eliminated the remote bombs from totk and just said, “you wanna fly so badly, then fly!”

the more i tried to do it i realized it was a glitch and got less interested, not into cheesing… the game gives you plenty of easy workarounds for basically any situation

i’ve been marking spots where there is a little parade of a boss bokoblin and 4-5 minons marching… great to test weapon platforms on, trying to perfect a bomber plane basically

also discovered a good fuse combo yesterday- cannon sword/spear… if you use the throw button you can target the cannon. before this i didnt find the cannon good for much except blowing myself up, even on a construct head

I have been kind of just going around finding and completing shrines and caves and spending a lot of time in the depths. Also riding dragons and chipping various pieces of them off.

I would happily shoot and eat a million meadow animals but I always feel a little guilty about descaling a dragon.

I just started this again - last year I got as far as meeting Purah for the first time (i.e. not very far) and then had a break and forgot everything. Now I’ve restarted it from the beginning (just got to Purah again!) and enjoying it a lot more the second time around. I think I had elevated expectations last time – now I’m treating it more like a BOTW DLC. Before I reached Purah I tried building a lot of shit cars — that was fun. The game should play a sad trombone sound every time you start driving something that falls apart in the first second.

The dragon doesn’t even know it’s happening! Their own breath can kill you!

how much "main quest" material is left after the regional phenomena missions? i've got all the geoglyph tear things and just arrived in goron city, my last remaining region. i seem to remember things wrapping up pretty quickly after the divine beasts in BOTW

as a slight aside, the fanboy grouchiness i see over "inconsistent lore" while skimming discussions about TOTK is fascinating. points to nintendo for trying to add some character depth and development, but demanding a deep plot seems to miss the point of nintendo games

careful theyll hear you

vague spoilers: there are a few more main quest missions you'll get between finishing the regional phenomena and the final battle

the mission immediately following the regional phenomena is one of the best parts of the game

TOTK plot is good and much better than BotW for me

Yeah except they kind of ruined the memories movies by cut and pasting "demon king!? Secret stones?!" in each scene lol.