The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

finally playing this - i've managed to avoid most information about the game despite being late to the party. i'm surprised at how much it just feels like a zelda game despite the wider scope and new combat mechanics - it's just as much of a logical step forward from the previous zelda formula as ocarina was from the 2d zeldas.

so far i'm dumping all my upgrades into hearts since i'm still running into things that one-shot me - is there a point at which i'm going to regret not having extra stamina or can i get by without it until i'm in double digits of hearts?

More stamina lets you climb more and thus be a little more joyfully heedless while exploring, as you are incrementally less likely to run out of stamina while dragging yourself up a cliff.

@ cider press there is a good reason to press forward until you have 13 hearts, but I would probably upgrade to a second stamina wheel before making that plunge

You can also switch between the two

beat the game so i feel safe to finally post here. loved this.

fgti is correct, but stamina honestly makes the game much easier to get through vs. hearts since most fights can be avoided / healed through, while stamina is the only way to scale mountains. besides you will get those heart containers fast enough i assure you

you're never gonna convince me that adults repeating the same janky process over and over again for hours until they get it perfect is the result of good game design

― qualx, Sunday, August 13, 2017 1:59 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*only examples i can think of were that initial journey to the Zora's domain, which is tough going without a lot of fights. also the lynel fights. even those can be tanked through with the right equipment - none of them are required, either!
**and that one shrine where you had to use stasis to golf a boulder across some water. that was a bit tedious

but yeah this game. best of generation. 100% worth buying a Switch for. so good. makes me want to play the Zeldas i have missed, though i know they won't be as good.

after i beat the game i found a freakin' stable i missed near the start of the game, because i went completely around it for 120 hours

This is why the Heros path mode in the DLC update has been a freaking boon. There are whole mountains i've missed!

what is that?

It shows you the last 200 hours of where you've been on the map!

eg:
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whoaaaa

It wasnt much extra to buy. Theres also a master sword quest, which makes the master sword permanent and unbreakable. I'm leaving that for after-finished game tho, its apparently quite hard.

The Master Sword quest is certifiably extremely difficult, and kind of showed me some holes in the standard combat, as I couldn't consistently kill hard Moblins despite "good technique"-- so I used a lot of archery

It really can't be stressed enough that upgrading your armour is a good move. I gave directions to the three other fairy fountains to a dude in my Uberpool last month

yeah I just got to Zora's domain and that sequence was the first time it felt like a 'normal' video game. I didn't have much trouble with it though, my only death was being struck by lightning, not to enemies

love the Zoras in this game. they want me to go fight a lynel now though so I'm gonna disappoint them and wander off to explore other parts instead

the npc dialogue is so good, i want to talk to every random nobody because they usually say something funny or weird

this game is insanely immersive. i live in an area with foggy mountains, and i felt that i existed within the game while on a walk this morning. like Trayce, I've become obsessed with cooking. I spent about an hour cooking yesterday, partially because my son's face lit up every time the cooking music played. wish it would give the minimal recipe required to make a thing after you successfully made it, though, as i may be wasting ingredients. all of these gear/screws/springs/gems are just crap to trade, no? i suppose it's more realistic than a world covered in loose money, but i'm scared that i'll miss out on something later if i sell them all. are there vendors that overvalue certain items, as there were in previous games?

the ancient gears/springs/screws have a use

i don't know how far you are but i found said use pretty early on via following the main questline

ok, thanks! I've just been to the second village. so I haven't done much, and I'm taking it slow.

even if you do need to sell them though its not a big deal since the game doesn't have scarcity - everything respawns given enough time

hope to pay a future zelda mortgage with bokoblin fangs

hope to pay a future zelda mortgage with bokoblin fangs

Guess what…

the ancient gears/springs/screws have a use

A big use! Dont sell them, especially the gears and spheres and ESPECIALLY never sell any giant spheres. They are needed for obtaining ancient armour and weapons and you willllll need that shit for fighting guardians.

...someone is now gonna come along and tell me they took down a big roaming guardian with 3 hearts and a shoe, I suppose.

I fought that first guardian for so long. the load screen kept giving me the ole "don't throw yourself at enemies..." tip, and it only enraged me further. It was a lesson well learned, though: this is not ocarina of time.

Haha yes, feel no shame in running away early and often :)

I avoided all the big bosses completely for a long time but as I think Ive said before, eventually you should have a crack at it cos most of them have great weapon drops.

I need to learn to fight better, I think. In OoT, the side jump and jump attacks were so unreasonably powerful. I could fight. It feels like each enemy is his own punchout boxer in this one, and I need to look for tells. I usually sneak up on them or strike from a distance. When I need to fight in close range, I'm usually outnumbered, and that seems to be a huge problem in this game. or maybe I'm just rusty from a 10 year gaming hiatus.

I spent the first day ignorant of the motion controls, thinking that there was some kind of realistic inaccuracy built into my arrow/rune/etc aiming because the crosshair kept jumping randomly.

Yeah I switched that off on my WiiU. Only time I use it is for those FUCKING ANNOYING TILT PUZZLES WHY DO THEY EXIST WHYYYY

coming into this from 60 hours of splatoon2 i'm a savant at the motion controls now so i've been using bow+arrow a lot to get through tough bits

lmao the first tilt puzzle i got i literally flipped the controller upsided down which flipped the maze over and it's flat on the back so it was trivial, i was amused that it let me do that. i guess that's part of the game's MO though

omg that never occurred to me to try hahaha

that's what i love about the game, how completely open it is to crazy alternate solutions. you can play the whole game like it's the fool's errand. (except for the plateau. you have to do the plateau, weirdly enough.) few things are more fun than watching a casual player putting together an elaborate abuse of the physics engine because they can't figure out the intended solution to a shrine.

nice, ciderpress. i figured out an angle that allowed me to skip half of the maze, but i didn't think to flip it entirely. it probably took me 10 tries to get that ball out of the maze. the hardest part was flipping the ball from the maze platform onto the ramp. it was a freak accident when i got it. i allowed the ball to pick up way too much speed and flung it wide left where it ended up a ways down the ramp. i wonder if it's possible to fling it all of the way to the basket.

lit so many torches, and then nothing happened. unless? unless there is another torch somewhere!?!

I still have a few shrines Ive found and not done - theyre mostly fiddly tilt based physics puzzles involving balls and/or wind and/or stasis. Theres no cheating some of em, it just takes timing. And Ive no patience.

shifting focus from the main quest to shrines and tower activation has really opened things up for me. there are so many magical moments in this game. That first view of Lake Hylia at night was very moving.

a bit sad that i am virtual ted nugent in this game, and i will kill that thing at some point

the zora prince is basically a disney character

i still love the writing in this game so much, it's got such a light touch compared to the elder scrolls and witchers of the world

Western or even just non-Nintendo developers refuse to do anything whimsical in their AAA games what's up with that

the zora prince is basically a disney character

Sidon? Hahah yes, he's so campy and flamboyant, I love him!

In a similar vein I love the flouncy gay builder in Hateno, Bolson. He's the best.
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ha!!!

my cynicism made be believe the zora prince guy was gonna turn heel. but nope, he's just super cheesy, which is great!

The best thing about this game is it is extremely horny

I just accidentally saw prince Sidon hentai fanart on my work PC ;_;

yeah don't image search for that guy

I've spent three weeks since I bought this just wandering around, climbing stuff, finding towers and doing shrines. It's amazing how even now, on a map this big, there's still a surprise around almost every corner.

A big use! Dont sell them, especially the gears and spheres and ESPECIALLY never sell any giant spheres. They are needed for obtaining ancient armour and weapons and you willllll need that shit for fighting guardians.

pro-tip: learning to parry the guardian's lasers with your shield will make life much easier

Yes absolutely. It takes practice but it's a vital skill.