The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

also the clip above is a demonstration of the physics being broken, not of it being robust

all the bits seem to be doing their job tbh, maybe apart from the slab not flipping as it flies

also the clip above is a demonstration of the physics being broken, not of it being robust

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp)

it's a physics engine abuse to be sure, but it's an entertaining one, like rocket jumping in those old fps games

U kno the guardians are easily slayed in one of 2 ways:
- savage lynel bow and ancient arrows. They will go down in one hit.
- ancient sheild. This'll bounce the guardian laser without having to parry, and it is quite durable. Takes 2-3 hits but works well.

yeah but when you kill something with an ancient arrow, it doesn't drop anything does it? just vaporizes

Anything that isn’t a guardian, ancient arrows just do regular damage to them.

xps thanks trayce, i do the shield thing but if the timing isn’t exact your shield breaks, and reloading the game until you get it right feels like a cop out but that’s how you have to do it. ancient arrows are rare enough that i don’t want to burn them off on every guardian.

Anything else you kill with ancient arrows, yep it just vaporises, but not guardians! They still drop stuff. Its how I farmed for giant ancient cores.

Adam: what I mean is with an ancient shield you dont have to do the parry timing trick. It auto-parries.

The catch is, ancient shields require a giant ancient core to buy.

And ancient arrows you can buy too. Well I found em easy enough to buy later in the game as by then I seemed to have a jillion sprogs and screws and whatnot.

This game is pretty wonderful with allowing you to find "other" ways to do things

otm. I don’t think there’s a single thing in the game where Octorok balloons are the “intended” solution but they’re there for if you wanna try

put on the radiant armor, do some octorok whipits, and go to gerudo rave imo

omg I have tried so hard to use the octo balloons on rafts but they just tip everywhere and I fall off!

Adam: what I mean is with an ancient shield you dont have to do the parry timing trick. It auto-parries.

hey that's pretty cool

wait what. i didn't realize that!

It was a lifesaver for me!

So: (please bear with me) - a few years ago I came back to a semi-completed game of Wind Waker, and was able to finish it all (as in clear every island get every heart) by following the on-screen hints about what had been completed and what hadn't, which maps I'd completed etc etc.

I'll be getting a Switch, and Breath of the Wild, probably within the next year or so, so I was wondering - is it similar in that I'd be able to take a break and come back, or is it "if you want to complete it, you have to remember which parts you've done and where, you might as well just stick with it"?

the narrative of the game is (after the first few hours) mostly incidental. basically, you're just provided with an intricate zelda-sandbox featuring lots of bite-sized waypoints, upgrades, sub-quests, and 120 shrines (mini-dungeons). theoretically, you might finish the main quest in fifteen hours, or take upwards of 150 to explore. components of the main quest, such as they are, have a separate menu-screen w/ map-points that are useful at any point.

Yeah no, I should've been clearer that I don't mean complete as in 'beat Ganon' - the 150 hour is more what I was wondering about.

If you're looking to 100% it, every shrine you visit is marked on your map and color-coded as to whether you've completed it, and you obtain a device that helps you find undiscovered shrines. I have a 200+ hour save where I've found 112 of the 120. There are only four divine beasts (the main dungeons), which are waypointed, so those are easy to keep track of. There's also a somewhat opaque meter on the map that tells you what percent of the game you've "completed." Don't bother trying to find all the Korok Seeds; there's like 900 of them. I've only gotten about a third of them.

Tempted to use a guide to track down those last 8 shrines, but idk, I kind of want to be surprised when I find them.

heh. i eventually gave in to a guide to find those final missing ones, it was also around 8 iirc

Don't bother trying to find all the Korok Seeds; there's like 900 of them

...and the reward for it is... erm...

they should send you a fucking korok-themed legend of zelda backpack that only korok masters can wear

seriously, how much would that cost them, worst case scenario a million people do it and they have to spend ten million or so?

come on nintendo! show some passion!

just a guy in your office lobby with a dream and a two cell spreadsheet: 1 million backpacks in A1 and $10,000,000 in B1

the numbers don't lie

seriously though, 900 koroks is just bonkers. i feel like i kept an eye out for them constantly and only ended up with 200 or so

They don’t really expect you to collect all of them. There’s so many so you can be always bumping into them!

I dont think Ive ever really actively looked for them, at least not once I'd expanded all my weapon slots. But I keep happening on clues all over the place! Rock circles in water, acorns in tree hollows, flying sky targets, those popup flowers you chase from one to the other to the other...

acorns in tree hollows,

took me weeks to work out what those were

Okay, thanking you all for the info, it's starting to feel rude for me not to buy this :)

it’s definitely worth the money, and that’s coming from someone who’s probably enjoyed it less than everyone else here. you can’t go wrong.

I mostly love how escapist it can feel, too. Heck Ive had a few dreams where I'm paragliding about the place haha.

Oh btw I finally finished that one tough shrine I'd been ragequitting over a few weeks back! Persistence paid off I guess. Now I find that the 4 champions have a set of 3 challenges each, meaning I have another 12 shrines to bloody get through. I swear I have put about 400 hours into this darn game.

This game has taken over my life :/

Welcome to the club! =)

I've got one down of the DLC Champions Ballad Big Boss fights, 3 to go. Theyre harder than the initial big bosses (the various ganons), because this time round yr stripped to a bare few relevant weapons and tools, and revival foods. I still did ok though!

I finished this today! I'm sad but it was about time. Got 97 shrines, the four beasts, the master sword, and all the memories. To be honest, I could've finished it pretty quickly after the last divine beast - I've been ridiculously overpowered for the last few months - but I loved ambling about in the world too much, building my house, building the village, finding the sand shoes...

I got the special extended ending - it's still pretty weird and abrupt, but there's power in that!

Josh, have you even started this yet??

Onto the DLC.

I'm tempted to buy a Wii U so I can play the full, post-Ocarina back catalog.

hoping Twilight Princess / Skyward Sword get ported so I don't have to do that

played up to the first boss, and then put down the controller and never played it again

― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), 2018年5月20日 星期日 下午 7:34 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

96%

i've been playing this for a week and it's good but my least favorite thing is not being able to climb when it's raining

lol AA

best game ever*

*except the dumb diving beasts

yeah the rain is shenmue levels of annoying. i don't want to wait 4 minutes just to climb a tree, especially when i've done everything else there is to do around that tree. not sure why they thought slippery rain was a good idea.

what's a game that never pisses you off

slippery rain sucks but it's kinda fun being mad at pointless slippery rain

"mad"

Diving beasts?

divine?

o right prob yeah.