JeTmAn81
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Admittedly until recently I didn't even know Lynels dropped nice loot, but the feeling of simply vaporizing one of those nasty mofos with a single arrow is probably the best prize of all.
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Admittedly until recently I didn't even know Lynels dropped nice loot, but the feeling of simply vaporizing one of those nasty mofos with a single arrow is probably the best prize of all.
Agreed, I never got the "5 shrines glued together" conplain until I finished that one. Althought the aesthetics is really fine.
For me from worst to best it's:
Rito << Goron < Zora ~< Gerudo
Yeah, handheld mode + great screen at last(!) is a godsend for my SO to watch her shows and not feel bored while I binge on Zelda. Sometimes I forget I'm playing on a Nintendo handheld when I'm deep into some quest and I'm taking gliding around and taking screencaps of beautiful scenery... And all this from the same company that pissed me off with its dreadful screens on Wii U gamepad and 3DS/N3DS. I was initially worred about the 720p res but it's right at the point where you won't notice unless you're looking closely and pixel peeping.
Hope you're able to get one soon. It's a game changer in my opinion!
The secret is kill them for their meat.
A certain armor set requires his body parts as well for upgrades. Which is fitting for that armor set. It's what drove me to try and kill one for the first time and I was so far into the game it was a damn
silver-maned
Colosseum
lmao, i'm ruthless with the widllife too, I think I murdered the only bear in Hyrule. One of my new favorites its bomb fishing. There's this pond in Faron that if you lift a metal door fish come pouring out, like 10s of them... one well placed bomb
SoraanTribal
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Can you refight the final boss after you beat the game?
Impulsor
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I beat Ganon yesterday and immediately continued playing.
I can't stop. I don't want to either.
I still have like 36 shrines to go and a lot of sidequests.
I wanna get a lot of korok seeds too, and upgrade all the armors... and just free roam and kill stuff and explore every nook and cranny of this marvelous world.
To your heart's content. You get placed in a save RIGHT before fighting the final boss, and you get a star in your save file too.
SciencePilot
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Does anyone remember at E3 they showed a brief video clip "Off the great plateau", and in that clip they showed Link gliding around with a different hairstyle? Anyone know where to get that head gear? Can I get a hint? It's not the stealth head gear, the hairstyle looks different from that...
balladofwindfishes
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It's a strange feeling only knowing where 3 incomplete shrines are (event island, the last maze and one major test of strength I never beat), when I know I've only actually beaten half the shrines (I have 64 shrines beaten).
I should still be tripping over them, and yet I'm not. My "get to the highest point in the area and scope out shrines" strategy has probably reached its limit. Guess I'll need to do some actual leg work.
How vague of a hint do you want?
Mild spoiler:
Medium spoiler:
Detailed instructions:
I should still be tripping over them, and yet I'm not. My "get to the highest point in the area and scope out shrines" strategy has probably reached its limit. Guess I'll need to do some actual leg work.
How vague of a hint do you want?
Mild spoiler:
It's gear made for the desert
Medium spoiler:
It's found in Gerudo Town
Detailed instructions:
It's in the secret shop in Gerudo Town. Ease drop in on the bar ladies conversations until they give you the password. It's behind the clothing store on the immediate left when entering the town.
LucidMomentum
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So, this house in Hateno.
Do I want to buy it or nah?
Do I want to buy it or nah?
Finale Fireworker
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This is becoming my problem as well.
I've done 60 shrines and have completed/explored about half the map, so I'm numerically on track, but I have a hard time believing I've completed everything in the eastern hemispheres of the map. I look at the map and see all the shrines, towers, and Korok Seeds I've found and notice big blank spots where I've found nothing. I go explore there in hopes of finding a shrine I overlooked or another puzzle, but generally I don't find anything.
balladofwindfishes
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It's a free inn and weapon storage, it's pretty useful.
Oh, I don't even bother with arrows anymore for them. I just go in and beat them down point blank. They telegraph a LOOOOOT, so I spend at least half the battle in slow motion XD
Though, to start off the battle I usually paraglide over with the sheikah armor on, and then mount them from behind.
Impulsor
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There are a lot of awesome shrine quests, that reveal hidden shrines, and also, a lot of super cleverly hidden shrines, without a quest tied to them.
My favourite part of this game is hunting for shrines.
40 hours into the game and I still haven't reached
at this pace once I finished the game the final count will be 1000 hours! I just really love to explore and get lost on the world. Can't remember when was the last time I got so hooked into a game before, I think it was RE4 more than 10 years ago.
Kakariko village
LucidMomentum
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Oh shit.
Yeah those two things I'd really like so sweet.
Was hoping it'd be more than just a neat little room to myself or something.
victreeb3l
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Yuuuuuuuuuuup
SoraanTribal
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Awesome, thanks!
haha that was the first one I saw, relatively early on. he just manhandled me about 4x before I just left the area.
OrbitalBeard
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Yes, you buy it. The house itself is worth it. The sidequest it unlocks, even more so.
Sleeping Lesson
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Whaaaaaat?? Crazy! I thought they were hard-baked into the landscape. Apparently not. LOL
Aaronrules380
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Yeah there are some that I have no idea how I'd find without the sensor tbh
Impulsor
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Even with the sensor, I sometimes have to walk around a lot before I find the shrine.
victreeb3l
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This game constantly manages to surprise me. Wow.
This are the kind of details that make stand this game above others <3
Same! I thought they were just part of the land props/textures but holy damn!
Every time I've provoked a Lynel I'm dead within seconds. I honestly haven't gone it enough to get a feel for how to counter them, I'm always too scared, haha. They're one of the most intimidating enemies I've ever encountered in a game, far worse to me than anything from Bloodborne or Souls.
Seriously, it's so gorgeous.
Aaronrules380
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Yeah. I'm currently stumped trying to find access to a certain shrine
that's visible between an impassable crack in the hebra area
Holy crap. And it took so long for someone to try it.
Damn Nintendo, lol
[shrines / hearts / stamina talk]
Does the game cap you off at 30 hearts / 3 wheels, or can you opt for more of one or the other?
Yeah dude, stay out. I'm 50+ hours into the game and I still find things in here that I wish I didn't read, haha.
Prof. Bathtub
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Three wheels is the maximum.
Speaking of hearts / stamina, as someone who focused exclusively on stamina early on I found it pretty annoying that getting the
Master Sword is tied to how many hearts you have and not a mix of hearts / stamina. Hell, it should be based on how many Spirit Orbs you've collected, really.
Skittzo0413
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I hope you guys have tried attaching octo balloons to literally everything like I have. It's SO much fun.
Tree trunks, giant slabs, boulders... anything.
Tree trunks, giant slabs, boulders... anything.
And here I was feeling all smart finding out you can get items from them by 'searching' them...then this made me feel dumb for not even thinking you can do this! xP
Can you get the Twilight Bow from the BotW Zelda amiibo? I read they're the same chip as Smash Zelda.
Also my playtime finally displayed: over 70 hours. If I take out an approximate 5 hours of idle time, that's likely almost 70 hours. I'm closing in on half the shrines completed and I've done two dungeons, but I only have 60 ish Korok seeds... I'm likely less than halfway through at this point.
Also my playtime finally displayed: over 70 hours. If I take out an approximate 5 hours of idle time, that's likely almost 70 hours. I'm closing in on half the shrines completed and I've done two dungeons, but I only have 60 ish Korok seeds... I'm likely less than halfway through at this point.
Oh so the memories aren't connected as one big story? I figured 1-12 would be in chronological order
This is why I think people should play without the sensor if they want a real challenge. It dumbs down the game's exploration aspect by having a loud buzzer point out secrets. I have found some incredibly well hidden shrines by taking the initiative and exploring way off the beaten path and I would've been disappointed if the game had told me they were there. Far more rewarding discovering things all on your own.
balladofwindfishes
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Nope
BotW Zelda mostly gives out crappy shields and gems, if you want to bother save scumming for a gem, you could spend 3 minutes killing a rock monster to get.
There's maybe 4 or 5 shrines where the sensor is actually going to hurt you. Things are buried hard under mountains and when the sensor is going off and how it is going off couldn't be further from where the actual entrance is.
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