The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

It was far too unnecessarily elaborate. That bit especially with the 3 or 4 metal blocks you had to slide around in 3 jillion combos before it all lit up the electrix... how could anyone work that out? I couldnt even have FOUND that bit without the bloody walkthru.

ANyway the boss dude after all that wasnt so hard, I guess. Now I've unlocked the new DLC Champions Ballad stuff so Ive more to do before finishing Ganon off yay.

Any chance you could post a link to the YouTube vid you used?

every time I see a lynel
https://youtu.be/gP9C3V5w8NE

Nate: this is the one I used but its not the best, he speeds up a lot of the bits where hes picking the map rotations. But he skips bothering with all the chests, so its a good quick guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMYUs5084lY

I bought Odyssey and I played it for half an hour and went back to playing zelda for a week. I guess I missed my horse.

I watched that video and literally have no idea what's going on.

Right!? Thats how fricking confusing that puzzle/dungeon is. Pointlessly so, if you ask me.

(the fact he speeds half of it up doenst help tbh)

thought all the dungeons were kinda dumb and hard. used a guide on all of them. used a guide for lots of stuff really (kilton, tarry town, master sword). some shrine puzzles. life’s too short

What's interesting (to me, anyway) is the dichotomy between good combat and good puzzling. My bf sailed through half the game that was about fighting-- he went to Zora first and beat that first lynel with four hearts after less than ten tries. My mom collected 80-90 of the puzzle-oriented shrines, and was able to master the dungeons like immediately, but couldn't do any of the "test of strength" shrines or the dungeon bosses. Well balanced imo!

i haven't found a shrine puzzle that stumped me yet, the only found but unfinished ones i have are some major tests of strength that i didn't have the gear for at the time i found them.

I'm pretty crap at both - puzzling and fighting - but I love exploring. I spent the whole weekend in the Hebra Mountains just randomly climbing up things without advancing the story. Fun! I found the lonesome pine from the "Bird in the Mountains" trial, but more by accident than design.

Even after six weeks I'm still really crap at fighting. I just end up running rings around the baddie then getting shot when I run out of breath, or I get tense and keep pushing down the right joycon stick and opening the Sheikah slate while I'm being attacked.

I also - after six weeks! - just figured out that climbing up the towers unlocks the maps for the area. DUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH.

lol

I used to accidental crouch mid battle. Have never pulled out the slate.

lol chuck thats like the first thing you have to do :D

And yeah I'm always accidentally crouching. I also never got the hang of the fecking flurry rush either.

accidental crouching should at least confuse the enemy. why force us into conventional fighting modes, nintendo?

immediately hit me with your bat after the second accidental crouch, sure.

it was getting really stressful having all those NPC side quest conversations, the "I hear there's a secret surprise in X wood by Y mountain just east of Z river and [twee name] bridge", and I was thinking "Where are all these places??? Am I supposed to write this down like an old text adventure map???"

Anyway, I was super enjoying it while paying it wrong for six weeks, and now it's even better!

My only other confusion is the shrine radar - sometimes the shrines are SO far away from where it starts bleeping, I feel like I must've found a second shrine. But I guess the radar is a bit tempremental too.

Also I never sleep now and am officially dead

there are underground shrines that beep when you are near the shrine, but you are actually far from the entrance to, for example, a cave leading to the shrine.

Oh yah those ones did my head in. Forbidden Temple especially.

it was getting really stressful having all those NPC side quest conversations, the "I hear there's a secret surprise in X wood by Y mountain just east of Z river and [twee name] bridge", and I was thinking "Where are all these places??? Am I supposed to write this down like an old text adventure map???"

Anyone says anything like that to me, and its a quick hit on the image capture button, and its all saved..

[Forehead slap] Of course! Thank you

Omg the Forbidden Temple, serious high point

Pretty sure all those NPC-based mini quests go into the skate somewhere.

Has anyone completed that fucking side quest where you have to follow a note in a floating pot down a river for 20 minutes and then every time it just gets stuck and/or disappears and I can never finish it and it shits me.

Yeah, it was a bit annoying. the key is to blow up the wooden boxes under the lizard pier before the pot gets there. It gets stuck in 2 places otherwise but you can pick it up on those occasions. Apart from that you just have to make sure you're not way too far ahead of it, although you have a fair amount of leeway on that.

Makes sense. I know the reward is crummy anyway so I've not bothered completing it lol. "oh a silver rupee. I already have 20,000 rupees and nothing left I need to buy but sure ok"

hah yeah i remember that disappointment

Thanks for that video Trayce, I think I found it when I got stuck on that beast a few months ago, it made no sense then or now

I still haven't played this, but my younger daughter was playing this for the first time, and I go downstairs to check on her. She's hitting some monster with an ax or sword, and I ask her, where did you get the sword? Because her sister was still hitting things with sticks. And she says, I dunno, I just killed this thing and got the sword, or something like that. So I ask her older sister, who had played it a few times, about that, because her sister, last I checked, was struggling to kill anything, since she just had a stick, and she said she was afraid to fight any of the creatures. So my other daughter says, well, how did you fight anything then, with just a stick, they break all the time. And my older daughter says she just spent a ton of time just gathering sticks to fight with.

Yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw47n8vGyjA

Ha ha! That would be a great trailer for a game. Right before the animals go crazy and you must escape.

I've been stuck for ages on two simple shrines where you have to use Magnesis to build a bridge to the top of the room, and I JUST COULDN'T DO IT, so I used an Octo Balloon and floated to the top instead.

Feeling a weird mix of pride and guilt

no guilt necessary imo - the game's systems are there to be played with! if anything you should eb proud you outsmarted nintendo's designers

think there was one shrine called blue flame (?) which i've never completed :/

Yeah, I'm just starting to work out how to be a bit more creative about puzzles and fights, instead of my usual tactic (quit or run away as fast as possible).

Although I'm definitely a fan of climbing up to a platform and dropping bombs on things, as mentioned upthread.

This is definitely a good a game as I've ever played.

*As good a

the only shrine i've had to leave incomplete so far is the golf one. i did the main part, but on the harder second part for the treasure chest i burned thru 3 iron sledgehammers and didn't even get close, so i just left it and will probably not go back

ha yeh that took a lil while to perfect

My favourite shrine "cheat" so far is the rolling marble maze game, "Myahm Agana": realising you can just ignore the maze and turn the whole platform upside down, and also the joyous moment realising that you can *jump into the maze* to get the treasure chest.

think there was one shrine called blue flame (?) which i've never completed :/

If thats the one im thinking of (you start walking up to a spiked trap you have to lift with magnesis) I was stuck on that one too but then I had a lightbulb moment particularly in one part where, for the only time in the game, the puzzle required lighting torches simultaneously with a spin attack - something so many other zelda games do and this one never does!

haha yeh that's the one, this is the first zelda game I've played so probs explains my scratched head

Tip with that dungeon - always have a torch to hand cos once you use the one in the chest it doesnt come back grrr.

Three beasts down, only, er, 80 shrines to go

I've been playing this too, finally, after my boy played through it in January. Well, he beat Ganon, now he's also playing to get the rest of the shrines. I'm not that far, got the elephant beast, now I'm trying to get more shrines too. The wilderness is astonishing, I just want to walk and walk in it, like reality but better.