The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

there's really only two easy ways to beat them: shield parry (any shield works, you just have to get the timing exactly right or you die), or ancient arrows.

parrying is difficult, but it's worth taking the time to figure out how to do it. parry right when the eye flashes. stand a medium distance away to give yourself a slightly longer window of time to react. i would just save the game before a guardian and give it a shot. you'll die several times trying to get it right, and then you'll figure it out and won't have to worry about guardians.

i'd steer away from using ancient arrows because...from upthread i can tell it's going to make you mad to lose your hard-earned ancient arrows!

Ive seen some people kill em by stasis and then cutting off their legs, but they dont stay still very long with stasis.

That’s how I kill them. Once you get a leg off they tip over and you can just systematically take the rest of the legs off one by one, without getting eye blasted anymore

I should give that a try. TBH all I really need to do now is farm for giant ancient cores if I want to replenish my ancient shield/bow. Ive done everything cept the master sword trial now.

Just plain ol' stasis?

You may need the Stasis+ upgraded version, do you have that yet?

I didn't even know you can upgrade those powers.

If you can jump off something nearby, slow down time and shoot them in the eye with a regular arrow they will be stunned enough to let you chop off a leg. If you chop off a leg, they'll be stunned enough to let you chop off another leg (plus they move slower for each leg lost).

Do they respawn or are they basically like mini-bosses that stay dead? How about the flying ones, can they just be blown up?

Oh right calumerio’s method is what I did, not stasis. I forgot, it’s been a year.

So go for the legs first? For some reason I thought you had to get to their dome and slash away.

you can hit a guardian and do damage anywhere iirc

they do respawn unfortunately. another tip: electricity can stun them for a brief period in most but not all situations

I still want to know why hitting them with a bomb or whatever seems to do a tiny smidge of damage the first time (at least in the wild) but then seems to stop hurting them immediately after.

I feel like that happened to me too when I was playing, and found bombs to be generally uneffective (though if you have a good hiding spot behind a wall, you'll kill them after like 50-100 bombs or something). It might just be a visual feedback cue they put in so you know you hit them once and they're damaged.

everything in the game respawns, thats what the blood moon is

I didn't know the things that respawned during the blood moon respawned permanently, I thought it was just during the blood moon, the same way skeleton monsters only come out at night.

i once lured a guardian to the banks of a mighty river. i then remote bombed him so that he toppled into the water, where he drowned. i watched it all unfold from a bridge. *in the air tonight drums*

I couldn't find any ancient stuff in the river afterward, so I don't necessarily recommend it as a strategy

nah the blood moon is just the in-game lore justification for the game having to reset the world every so often since theres too many things for it to permanently track

do the guardians respawn though? there are one or two you have to destroy right near the lab where you can buy ancient tech, and those don't come back

the one in between the lab and the stable definitely respawns

yeah those respawn. every overworld enemy and item does

But do treasures? Like, sunken chests and stuff?

Some treasure/weapons do - the stuff you find in the wild like elemental swords in a rock crevasse in the mountains, that sorta thing - but not stuff in chests in shrines.

Another thing I found annoying was once you are loaded up with all the arrows, the shops wont restock til you get back down below a certain level.

yeah, that's kind of in keeping with the vibe of the game though, to encourage you to use all your crap instead of hoarding things. e.g., the weapon breaking - it is very annoying but it does force you to become familiar with all sorts of items instead of choosing yr favorite blade at the beginning and leveling it up the rest of the game.

Tru dat. I became a fan of spamming anything that moved with bomb arrows on a tripler bow. Its a little cheaty :D

PC nerds have this running at 4K 60fps in emulation, and holy wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyz5zG_txsA

it really isn't that much of a difference for this game, compared to like certain wii games running in hd

It hasn't happened that often or affected gameplay, but I have had some pretty dramatic rate drops playing this game. Usually at weird times.

I succumbed and bought a Wii U & Wind Waker. Excited!

Hopefully for y’all this means the surprise announcement for Wind Walker on Switch will take place later this afternoon.

Also, recommend me some wii u games!

(I’ll take recs to another thread)

welcome to 2012 chuck!

(srsly tho the wii u was a great and tragically overlooked machine)

ones that haven't gotten switch versions, you mean? like half of them have now

yeah i love the wii u but most of the switch catalogue is just upgraded rereleases of wii u games, i'm glad y'all get to enjoy the games but it's a bit frustrating for those of us who already played these games :)

I succumbed and bought a Wii U & Wind Waker. Excited!
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 1 March 2019 13:55 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

welcome to 2012 chuck!
(srsly tho the wii u was a great and tragically overlooked machine)
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 March 2019 13:56 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ones that haven't gotten switch versions, you mean? like half of them have now
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 March 2019 14:28 (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i love the wii u but most of the switch catalogue is just upgraded rereleases of wii u games, i'm glad y'all get to enjoy the games but it's a bit frustrating for those of us who already played these games :)
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 1 March 2019 14:45 (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Given how expensive Switch games are, I realised I could buy a secondhand Wii U + a bunch of games for the price of 2 or 3 full priced Switch games. So I've retired the Game Cube from the living room, and I can finally get round to playing Wind Waker, Majora's Mask, etc. for the first time on one machine.

Anyway, er, - recommend me some Wii U games! Got my eye on SMG2 and Metroid Prime (which I've never played either)

^^ oops wrong thread for this. get it together, me

Lots of good points in the Kotaku sorta reassessment, but this might be my favorite:

Every piece of terrain you have to negotiate is its own stamina-based puzzle.

Because when you (I) think of it that way ... yeah, totally. Just getting around in this game is its own kind of puzzle, which may be why it's so much fun and/or rewarding just to wander. You're never *just* wandering or goofing around, you're sort of solving one little puzzle after the next.

lftl
https://kotaku.com/its-the-perfect-time-to-return-to-legend-of-zelda-brea-1832969388

Unrelated, I saw Free Solo today, and the whole time I kept thinking of Breath of the Wild.

"Recently, a friend of mine started playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the first time. This has had an interesting side effect: Any time I try to play anything else, I just wish I were playing Breath of the Wild. My ironclad resolve to continue making my way through games I hadn’t yet played lasted two days. So anyway, I’m playing Breath of the Wild again.

It’s been surreal to fall back into Breath of the Wild’s world so easily, especially considering how I’ve felt about new games that have come out in what was supposed to be a packed month. I ended up having mixed feelings about Metro Exodus, Anthem might be a good video game in a year, Crackdown 3 is less a meal than a throwback snack—the Dunk-a-roos of video games—and I got my fill of Far Cry New Dawn back when it was Far Cry 5, Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal, Far Cry 3, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon."

go for a fucking walk

but ... they already burned out on Pokémon Go

That review was bollocks - the guy admitted he'd only played it for like 40 hours in the first go round. "omg this game I never really got far into has all these amazing things on the replay!"

only 40 hours

I just added up the hours my WiiU says Ive played this since it came out (so thats 2 yearsish now).

It appeared to be around the 500 hour mark :/

Granted, a chunk of that would be "put the controller down and go do the dishes with the game still running" but still... yikes.

i've been playing this for a while and yesterday discovered a stable and shrine just standing out in the middle of the map that i had somehow not stumbled upon yet

200 hours by the time I completed it, god knows how many more on Fucking Rohta Bastard Chigah DLC Bastard shrine

I thought I had unlocked all of the towers but I just found one more. So far the best money spent in this game has been on my winter gear, which makes me think there is a hot weather outfit to save up for as well. Question: does the game know what I am low on? For example, if I am running low on regular arrows, am I more likely to come across them in the game than I am other types of arrows I might have more of? Does the treasure and whatnot adjust to what I need, generally speaking, or is it all set or random?

Thus far I have spent all of my orb upgrades on stamina, because that seems more important, but it might be worth upping my hearts as well. Then again, like I said before, as far as I can tell there is no real cost to dying - you don't lose anything - so I'm not sure what advantage more hearts really offers except sheer endurance/tanking through adversity.