The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

i finally got through the camel boss. i watched a youtube but it still took me while to get through the third phase of the boss fight because the video i watched focused on dodging/parrying which i suck at. but i found a different approach that worked. it all clicked once i realized that he doesn't switch to a shock weapon until the third phase so i could save my one non-electricity-conducting shield for that part.

this was my approach to thunderblight for the sake of future generations:
make sure you have at least one shield that doesn't conduct electricity, and a few decent one-handed weapons (i just used lizal boomerangs the whole time, so they don't have to be amazing)
phase I: when he's up in the air, back up far enough that you can avoid his electricity balls. when he's about to come down, lock on to him, wait until he hits your shield, then hit him a bunch of times until his shield shatters, then hit him a bunch more times. repeat until he flies way up, which is time for:
phase II: when the metal pillars come down, move to the outside of the batch of pillars (so you don't get zapped), then use magnet power to pick one up and lift it up as close as you can to him. he'll zap it and knock himself back down. sometimes this takes a couple of tries but as long as you don't get caught inside the group of pillars you won't get hurt.
phase III: same as phase I but make sure you're using your non-electricity-conducting shield or you'll get zapped when he hits you. only other variation is the one attack where he locks on to you; if you're standing near the door to go outside you can duck out and use the wall to block the attack

then use magnet power to pick one up and lift it up as close as you can to him. he'll zap it and knock himself back down

Yeah that was one that completely stumped me. I was getting blasted repeatedly and would never have thought to try that myself.

"エポナと旅するブレスオブザワイルド"は中止になりました#ゼルダの伝説 #BreathoftheWild #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/Rs6ayfuWJa

— Jun.haz (@Juntendo_Sw) November 20, 2018

i wish that happened for everyone who plays BotW

it's right up there with ned stark's demise

I laughed at that. Why did I laugh at that!?

https://kotaku.com/the-worst-mission-in-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-1793526430

maybe not the worst mission but possibly the most annoying

I didn’t mind it? It felt like a “have patience” moment in a twitchy game, but it only took me a couple tries iirc

it only took me a couple of tries too, but there were enough frustrating/boring moments in this game that i will most likely never play through it again (e.g. having to shoot a giant robot camel (?) while riding a sand seal was horribly horribly done, i only got through it by luck and not skill)

Yeah that one wasnt a bother for me once I realised theres a bit where he stops and comes back so you need to hide.

The one-heart spikes everywhere dungeon on the other hand.... grrr.

Yeah that one wasnt a bother for me once I realised theres a bit where he stops and comes back so you need to hide.

that wasn’t even the bother for me, it was the stupid sand seal lurching of its own accord out of the tiny tiny circle in less than a second, again and again and again. it clearly wasn’t tested properly because it’s a mess.

O sorry no i was talking about the mist forest trial haha. I did have a bit of a time doing the sandseal race. I'm terrible with slaloms.

haha sorry

...slalom looks like a really fucked up word. Is that right?

slalom aleichem 🙏

I'm still stuck on the f'ing spikes level damnit. That and the first Hornet in Hollow knight have been my kryptonitw this year

I remember cursing the ghost-following level but it's quite fun by comparison IMO

If I had to offer one piece of advice to people playing this for the first time it would be 'buy the fucking house'. I very nearly didn't bother but the whole segment of the game that opens up after that is just a continuous run of joy.

for me the worst mission was getting the stupid bottle down the river. not generally a big fan of escort missions, though the goron escort mission wasn't as bad as i feared.

i didn't even try the sand seal racing.

i bought the house but not much has come from it yet. does the good stuff come from helping build the new town?

the new town gives some good stores

plus it's in a particularly beautiful part of the world

plus it gives you one of the best vendors, when you've completed the whole quest

oh ok I started that process but haven't gotten far into it at all. I needed to find a goron whose name ends in son.

felt really weird when I discovered both the town and the house something like 60 hours into my playthrough. a really nice surprise though!

Unrelated: I goddamn love the three-note melody that plays when you open a save game from the start screen. It does such a wonderful job of "You About To Begin An Epic Quest!" in 0.5 seconds.

Yeah Tarry Town means you get a vendor who sells loads of good ammo, and the guy sitting up on a balcony who you can buy lost rare things off of (for a steep price). And the wedding ceremony!

got to calamity ganon and took my first shot at beating it last night. i died but it doesn't seem that hard. but I'm still deciding if I want to keep attempting to beat it or just never finish it. I really don't enjoy boss fights (in any game, not just this one)

If you’ve beaten all four beasts Calamity Gabon is not that hard a fight—easier than thunderblight. Won’t take you too many tries. There’s a couple tough attack patterns. The final cutscene (maybe you only get it if you have found all 12 main-game memories?) is fairly moving and worth seeing in context.

god dammit, your typo now has me listening to pierre akendengue. he's really good.

i agree, calamity ganon is a doddle compared to thunderblight or even some of the incidental missions. the trick is to get as many hearts as you can (i.e. do shrines), and stock up on like 40 high-potency meals.

yeah i kind of ended up there spontaneously and didn't really have enough meals to get me through it. i'm going to leave and come back to it later when i'm more prepared.

http://queenoftheantz.tumblr.com/post/182196340509/im-getting-close-to-the-end-of-my-botw

Awww

petition so that josh is not allowed to play any other game or post in any other threads until he complete botw

can some pls second this motion

someone*

i second that, and i'll add that he should be straight up banned from ILX until he takes down at least one divine beast

I’m on board

Today, he weighed a cauliflower instead of playing BotW. and it is fucking bullshit.

ffs josh how are you out there on other threads weighing cauliflowers and not playing botw

Maybe because I'm living the Breath of the Wild.

remember to tare your cauliflower scale, josh. oh, and also remember to fucking play botw goddamnit, josh!

are you busting out a paraglider to travel long distances? are you engaging in slow motion archery while floating in the air? then no you are NOT living Breath of the Wild!

this is fucking ridiculous

mostly I'm just sad for josh

he's getting up these days and thinking 'I'll weigh a cauliflower today' and not 'I'm going to shoot ancient arrows into the eye of a guardian from the back of my big white horse today'

very excited for josh to finally play botw and post his opinion "it's ok i guess? i don't know why you guys made such a big deal about it ... it's fine"

hahaha, yeah, that's probably likely. tbh i kind of had that feeling for the first 3-4 hours, but then when things opened up and the full glory of the game was accessible i got very deeply hooked

I will flag that post

are your shallots in spec? are your early girls slipping? are you holding a melon against a wall in your foyer, marking the current height of that melon on the wall with a pencil? PLAY THE GAME, Josh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns

Hey, guess what? I played Breath of the Wild. It was cool, would play again. You happy?

But seriously, yeah, neat game, a much more chill vibe than Dark Souls. I just spent some time exploring and played until the first time some creature killed me, because all I had was a janky axe that broke. I assume as the game progresses my capacity to accumulate stuff expands, along with my health and stamina, like lots of these games. It was very satisfying to avoid combat by simply rolling boulders down and crushing things, though, but I'm not sure how practical that is.

It's nice that this is on the Switch, so I can play Spider-man or whatever on the TV/PS4 and just dip in and out of this elsewhere as desired.

re: the rolling boulders thing, a surprisingly high percentage of the enemy encounters in the game have nearby environmental solutions like that rather than directly fighting