The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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

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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.

well, you can also forget the shield parry exists and win the game because balancing

yeah, but it makes you feel like a real badass, which is the really important thing

I tried and failed to do the second ancient furnace quest about 10 times because of a guardian blocking my way and then I discovered the parry move

you just shield parry and it refelects the laser?

yeah! do it three or four times and the guardian will be dead

and you'll feel like a real badass

cannot wait to occupy new heights in my son's esteem after i shield parry this guardian

One parry is all it takes. Lock on using the L shoulder button (I forget which one), the guardian will target you and press A when the area around the eye flashes white, a fraction of a second before the laser fires.

definitely gonna go die a bunch trying to do that to the ones around the central Hyrule tower I haven't gotten yet

I didn't even deal with those guys. Just intermittently hid from their tracking beams and eventually made it past them and up the tower. I may have had the fast climbing bandana on, though. I've been dumping shrine orbs into extra stamina vessels, and I'm now very happy that I did so. New strategy is to use faster climbing and greater stamina to visit fairy ponds before big battles. fuck a heart container.

i did the first divine beast last night (the zora one), that was very cool. the boss was pretty easy though compared to a lot of normal enemies. does the difficulty ramp up on the other beasts or are they all about the same since there's no official order to them?

The first beast I did (and only one so far) was Vah Medoh and I was surprised at how easy it was so I guess they'll all be about the same. A few hits with bomb arrows and it was all over in about 2 minutes.

How critical is the stealth armor? I've been saving up for it, but it's pretty expensive! Also, any good strategies for getting rupees? I've just been hunting, cooking, and selling skewers. Is that about right?

Still having a tough time with fighting. Generally I start panicking as the camera swings around, end up in a crouch, and get my butt kicked. The only time I feel confident is when I eat a big defense crab stew. Just waiting for the controls to click and start feeling natural, I guess.

i need to get back into this; feeling like i lost patience way too early for no reason.

yeah i'm definitely not good at the combat still, having mostly opted out of the dark-souls-ification of gaming over the past decade. luckily the game is structured such that you don't ever really have to fight the hard stuff.

I keep getting sidetracked! Was going to one of the test of strength battles, decided to go harvest some crabs, ended up back in the village, didn't have enough for the stealth armor, went hunting, ended up in new area, found a few shrines, and now I'm off in some new place, and who knows when I'll get back to that test of strength. I don't even remember where it was at this point! And I keep finding seeds, and getting ridiculous little side quests. It's feeling more fun now, but it's still completely overwhelming.