The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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.

I have had this game for a year now (100 shrines, 3 beasts, all the jewellery) but I still can't figure out how to collect any of the memories.

Spoilers I guess

When you are near (very near) one of the memory locations, you will see a yellow glowing spot. Go there, and the memory will get triggered.

they can be hard to see. You can also get location hints from a particular character at villages and stables.

I am so confused about the location of this shrine that seems to be inside of a mountain but with no entrance. I know it has to be somehwere bc I already found one like this before.

So I just need to see the glowing bit? No buttons to press, no modes to have activated? Because I recognise almost all the locations in the pictures but haven't managed to activate any, in spite of what must be hours of shambling around in ever decreasing circles. (xpost /xxpost). Also, thank you.

The in mountain shrines are the worst. My pet hate is the lack of a third axis on the slate.

I am so confused about the location of this shrine that seems to be inside of a mountain but with no entrance.

I seem to recall there was one shrine halfway down a cliff you have to bomb the entrance open to get to. Is it in a big crevasse with waterfalls?

(if it is, parachuting down and bomb arrows are your friend)

There's a shrine by a stable in the south that has been KILLING ME to find for months. Like, I've spent a whole day climbing every mountain in the area to find it. Shoulda used the bomb arrows.

I've had the game for three months - I've only got the camel divine beast left, so I'm gonna go off-story and do some shrine hunting and side quests for a few weeks.

Jewellery?

Befriend a lady who runs a shop in Gerudo town and you can give her gems to make jewelry with like circlets and earrings. All they do is give you cold/heat/guardian protection like other gear.

as with the others, you can also find some of the stuff around. place I found the diamond circlet may be my favorite moment of this game. thanks for the hints above, Trayce.

Oh! Those labyrinths were the death of me...

Actually of the whole game I have to say the bit I enjoyed most was ... I call it survival island, forget its real name.

I'm yet to give the master sword trials a go tho, and Ive just started the DLC Champions Ballad trials.

Love these mega-creepy early Guardian designs:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/04/these_early_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_concept_designs_have_us_dreaming_of_a_darker_sequel

oh yeah survival island was GRATE, i could have gone for another area or two like that

xp those look cool, though i do think what they went with was much better

they are cool, but they lack ancient technology. makes me wonder if the Guardian design or ancient tech stuff came first.

I also think they made the right choice given that there are other giant monsters that you are motivated to battle as part of side quests upgrades, etc. The Guardians as they ended up are a thing apart from the monsters calamity ganon unleashed, and this makes them feel more special.

Agree! Also, shooting them in the eye with an ancient arrow NEVER stops being fun.

Still haven't shrugged off my RPG habit of NEVER EVER using those rare consumable arrows, was even reluctant to use them in the final area. I know you can make more but it meant grinding out a lot more Guardian kills

I dunno for arrows it doesnt seem so hard - I have hundreds of bloody springs/cogs/screws at this point.

Its only giant cores that are hard to get - finite numver in the world means grinding the rest out of kill/save/reloads.

i recently went back to this after a bit of a hiatus. my last Divine Beast is the giant psychedelic camel in the desert to the southwest. the whole area is so wonderful. the rooftop cross dressing, the mush dog seals, the Yiga Clan Hideout. stealth isn't really a huge part of this game so i am glad that it's done so well for it's own section. i suppose similar to survival mechanics, which also has their own story/geographical place in the game.

it is very difficult to care about complaints of a lack of dungeons while playing this game. there are so many custom built areas, linear and branched pathways, emergent storytelling through NPC quests. i am currently in the Hideout, a sort of subterranean base done up like a traditional Japanese mansion (?). there is easily the amount of puzzle/level design from any of 8/16/64-bit dungeons as there are in these side quests before you fight the actual 1/4 official "dungeons" of the game. add to that the whole journey of leaving town and sled-riding a seal across the desert into a canyon, dodging falling boulders and traps along the way.

this game is so spoiled for custom content, well-made storylines, level design and enemy placement that is holistic with the game environment. really looking forward to Hyrule Castle. so far i heard of one entrance from the north (entering through a underground cave/mines system? i looked it up briefly and only saw a few screenshots (that looked incredible!) but now i am really excited to see what they do for the end!

https://i.imgur.com/663B3wD.jpg

Yiga clan hideout was so much fun

I beat the last divine beast today. It was the fire lizard. When my teammate looked up and saw his phantom ancestor I was profoundly moved, like, death is an end but for years afterward the dead live actively, and my rock buddy sees this and is so happy.

I have 103 shrines so I may go for 120 before Ganon. I don’t want it to end.