The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

i've been playing this for a few weeks but i'm just exploring, finding towns, visiting shrines, etc. i've seen two of the divine beasts but haven't made any attempt to reach them. i'm particularly avoiding any serious combat; fighting is my least favorite part of video games and even though i've been through the combat training and gone through a couple of the easier combat trials, i don't really feel prepared for big fights. if i run into any big bad guys i sneak by them, and i still tend to deal with the bad guy camps by finding somewhere high up where i can throw bombs down at them. i flew over to that island where you're not allowed to save or bring your gear and made it through most of it before getting killed by the hinox and losing all my progress. sooner or later i'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn how to fight.

theres no leveling up or anything so you don't have to fight other than the bosses, and combat trial shrines if you want to do those

most of the bad guy camps have alternate environmental solutions to taking them out, like explosive barrels, big chunks of metal you can swing around at them with magnesis, etc

I pray that the sequel to this game follows the exact same format, art direction, and everything, but scales down the number of shrines to 30, makes them all larger and more like dungeons, and doubles up the number of (and improves upon the quality of) the four boss pre-Ganon bosses

Exploring Hyrule Castle is just the greatest thing

suspect they'll keep the engine and art direction but change the format/focus, e.g. oot vs majora

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I felt the same about fighting, but it gets easier as you get more hearts and better weapons, and more fun too. By the end of the game, I was ridiculously overpowered, and I actually enjoyed finding some challenging fights (the castle is good especially)

Also - learn how to use your shield. That helps

it gets easier as you get more hearts and better weapons

i was going to mention something similar. avoiding fighting is a viable and fun approach to the game, i think. as you progress you'll get better EQ and abilities, so when you run across the low-level enemies you'll be more comfortable just wiping them out. and then as you encounter higher-level enemies, you'll be more accustomed to thinking creatively and using environmental skills to get by, which will always help.

Agree that the camel was the only bad one

Nothing in the game proper is a s frustrating as trying to complete the spiky temple on half a heart in the DLC

Hahah yes see upthread for me raging about that. There is no way to cheat it, you just have to keep trying. Hated it.

i really want the proposed sequel to cover the parts of this game you can see but can’t get to, but this is nintendo and zelda, so it’ll probably be a whole new space with like three times the surface area (which would of course be better).

the stuff i like most about this game is basically all the stuff i liked about morrowind: exploring new areas, running errands, collecting stuff, wandering aimlessly for an hour before going to bed. botw really makes you earn that freedom, so it’s more rewarding getting to that point, but i’d sooner replay an elder scrolls game than this.

I did wonder if a DLC would add some more access because theres at least one named mountain you cant get to (Mount Agaat). Theres been heaps of speculation as to why.

f the parts of this game that don't let you save

stuck in the yiga camp. im figuring it out but i hate having to start at the beginning each time i get caught. though I love the delighted prance they do when they see bananas

of course I beat it immediately after posting that

funny how the yiga ninjas are pretty tough but the guards and the boss are such doofuses

Hahah the end boss on that dungeon was my favourite. Such an idiot :D

I was *so* proud of myself for getting through the Yiga camp without using hints - it's pretty hard! - and then I got stuck in an empty room forever because I didn't see that there was a FUCKING DOOR OUTSIDE in the room. The door that took you to the boss.

Felt like the Yigas needed a bit more story - unless I missed something? They kept attacking me after I'd completed the boss, and I wanted another showdown. They're basically Hyrule nazis.

lebowski nihilists

I didn't mind the camel divine beast once I realized you could rotate the components in the map but this boss fucking sucks

i had to watch a youtube vid to get the camel boss

Yiga banana dance is the absolute best

i finally got through the camel boss. i watched a youtube but it still took me while to get through the third phase of the boss fight because the video i watched focused on dodging/parrying which i suck at. but i found a different approach that worked. it all clicked once i realized that he doesn't switch to a shock weapon until the third phase so i could save my one non-electricity-conducting shield for that part.

this was my approach to thunderblight for the sake of future generations:
make sure you have at least one shield that doesn't conduct electricity, and a few decent one-handed weapons (i just used lizal boomerangs the whole time, so they don't have to be amazing)
phase I: when he's up in the air, back up far enough that you can avoid his electricity balls. when he's about to come down, lock on to him, wait until he hits your shield, then hit him a bunch of times until his shield shatters, then hit him a bunch more times. repeat until he flies way up, which is time for:
phase II: when the metal pillars come down, move to the outside of the batch of pillars (so you don't get zapped), then use magnet power to pick one up and lift it up as close as you can to him. he'll zap it and knock himself back down. sometimes this takes a couple of tries but as long as you don't get caught inside the group of pillars you won't get hurt.
phase III: same as phase I but make sure you're using your non-electricity-conducting shield or you'll get zapped when he hits you. only other variation is the one attack where he locks on to you; if you're standing near the door to go outside you can duck out and use the wall to block the attack

then use magnet power to pick one up and lift it up as close as you can to him. he'll zap it and knock himself back down

Yeah that was one that completely stumped me. I was getting blasted repeatedly and would never have thought to try that myself.

"エポナと旅するブレスオブザワイルド"は中止になりました#ゼルダの伝説 #BreathoftheWild #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/Rs6ayfuWJa

— Jun.haz (@Juntendo_Sw) November 20, 2018

i wish that happened for everyone who plays BotW

it's right up there with ned stark's demise

I laughed at that. Why did I laugh at that!?

https://kotaku.com/the-worst-mission-in-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-1793526430

maybe not the worst mission but possibly the most annoying

I didn’t mind it? It felt like a “have patience” moment in a twitchy game, but it only took me a couple tries iirc

it only took me a couple of tries too, but there were enough frustrating/boring moments in this game that i will most likely never play through it again (e.g. having to shoot a giant robot camel (?) while riding a sand seal was horribly horribly done, i only got through it by luck and not skill)

Yeah that one wasnt a bother for me once I realised theres a bit where he stops and comes back so you need to hide.

The one-heart spikes everywhere dungeon on the other hand.... grrr.

Yeah that one wasnt a bother for me once I realised theres a bit where he stops and comes back so you need to hide.

that wasn’t even the bother for me, it was the stupid sand seal lurching of its own accord out of the tiny tiny circle in less than a second, again and again and again. it clearly wasn’t tested properly because it’s a mess.

O sorry no i was talking about the mist forest trial haha. I did have a bit of a time doing the sandseal race. I'm terrible with slaloms.

haha sorry

...slalom looks like a really fucked up word. Is that right?

slalom aleichem 🙏

I'm still stuck on the f'ing spikes level damnit. That and the first Hornet in Hollow knight have been my kryptonitw this year

I remember cursing the ghost-following level but it's quite fun by comparison IMO

If I had to offer one piece of advice to people playing this for the first time it would be 'buy the fucking house'. I very nearly didn't bother but the whole segment of the game that opens up after that is just a continuous run of joy.

for me the worst mission was getting the stupid bottle down the river. not generally a big fan of escort missions, though the goron escort mission wasn't as bad as i feared.

i didn't even try the sand seal racing.

i bought the house but not much has come from it yet. does the good stuff come from helping build the new town?

the new town gives some good stores

plus it's in a particularly beautiful part of the world

plus it gives you one of the best vendors, when you've completed the whole quest

oh ok I started that process but haven't gotten far into it at all. I needed to find a goron whose name ends in son.

felt really weird when I discovered both the town and the house something like 60 hours into my playthrough. a really nice surprise though!

Unrelated: I goddamn love the three-note melody that plays when you open a save game from the start screen. It does such a wonderful job of "You About To Begin An Epic Quest!" in 0.5 seconds.

Yeah Tarry Town means you get a vendor who sells loads of good ammo, and the guy sitting up on a balcony who you can buy lost rare things off of (for a steep price). And the wedding ceremony!

got to calamity ganon and took my first shot at beating it last night. i died but it doesn't seem that hard. but I'm still deciding if I want to keep attempting to beat it or just never finish it. I really don't enjoy boss fights (in any game, not just this one)

If you’ve beaten all four beasts Calamity Gabon is not that hard a fight—easier than thunderblight. Won’t take you too many tries. There’s a couple tough attack patterns. The final cutscene (maybe you only get it if you have found all 12 main-game memories?) is fairly moving and worth seeing in context.

god dammit, your typo now has me listening to pierre akendengue. he's really good.

i agree, calamity ganon is a doddle compared to thunderblight or even some of the incidental missions. the trick is to get as many hearts as you can (i.e. do shrines), and stock up on like 40 high-potency meals.

yeah i kind of ended up there spontaneously and didn't really have enough meals to get me through it. i'm going to leave and come back to it later when i'm more prepared.

http://queenoftheantz.tumblr.com/post/182196340509/im-getting-close-to-the-end-of-my-botw

Awww