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[The Legend of Zelda] Link's Awakening remake coming to Switch in 2019

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    RidleySariaRidleySaria AnaheimRegistered User regular
    edited March 2019
    vamen wrote: »
    After seeing Captain Marvel last night, I realllly want Ultimate Alliance 3 to hurry.

    And I need
    Goose

    to be a playable character.

    What’s that got to do with Zelda?

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    JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    Pretty sure @vamen thought this was the Nintendo Switch thread

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    MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
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    SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Been playing BotW (recent switch purchase) and o have a few questions if appreciate answers to with minimal spoilers if possible
    - i was offered to upgrade bag size for weapons, Shields, or bows, but not armor or items. Can i assume those later ones are infinite or will i eventually have to like chuck a shirt to make room for a nicer shirt?
    - should i bother even trying to fight the big laser quadropeds now or is there some specific weapon i need first? This is not so much a problem outdoors yet (though it did prevent me from unlocking a tower since i couldn't climb it without getting shot) but i got annoyed when i ran into a shrine where i had to fight one and literally all my weapons broke by the time i had it at like 40% hp. So i was like i guess I'm doing this shrine later, then the very next shrine i found is the exact same thing (mountain near town where you can buy a house and island near that beach).
    - speaking of buying a house, i blew all my gems in doing it only for it to seem completely worthless and the guy wants more money for furniture. Is this more if a luxury thing to show off or something i should be chasing down more aggressively at this point?
    - i have 6 hearts now and no stamina upgrades. Whereabouts should i start investing in stamina, given that i can make food and potions to recover stamina (mid climb/swim/flight) but things have definitely one shot me from full hp (i.e. no food is saving me there)?
    - if i see something that clearly screams secret (i.e. circle of dimes 3) but none of my things seem to do anything, I'm not missing something silly with stuff i have, i just haven't unlocked some power yet, right?
    - side quests are straight forward, and mostly what I've been doing other than trying to find shrines and towers. But the main quest seems to be "look at these 20 pictures, memorize them, and if you happen to come in that location while playing and you take a camera picture, something cool will happen". Am i correct in that? Because... i forget what the pictures look like the instant i close them, or just about. And the game world is huge!
    - I've been experimenting making different foods and that's great that i can click a good and it tells me what it took to make it. What I'd like it's a list of recipes i discovered so far (don't even tell me what I'm missing) and ability to make a particular thing if i made it before and still have ingredients. Am i just missing this or am i supposed to memorize it?

    Thanks all!

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    skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
    vamen wrote: »
    After seeing Captain Marvel last night, I realllly want Ultimate Alliance 3 to hurry.

    And I need
    Goose

    to be a playable character.

    I would've agreed if this had been about BotW and playable Groose.

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    AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    Smrtnik wrote: »
    Been playing BotW (recent switch purchase) and o have a few questions if appreciate answers to with minimal spoilers if possible
    - i was offered to upgrade bag size for weapons, Shields, or bows, but not armor or items. Can i assume those later ones are infinite or will i eventually have to like chuck a shirt to make room for a nicer shirt?
    - should i bother even trying to fight the big laser quadropeds now or is there some specific weapon i need first? This is not so much a problem outdoors yet (though it did prevent me from unlocking a tower since i couldn't climb it without getting shot) but i got annoyed when i ran into a shrine where i had to fight one and literally all my weapons broke by the time i had it at like 40% hp. So i was like i guess I'm doing this shrine later, then the very next shrine i found is the exact same thing (mountain near town where you can buy a house and island near that beach).
    - speaking of buying a house, i blew all my gems in doing it only for it to seem completely worthless and the guy wants more money for furniture. Is this more if a luxury thing to show off or something i should be chasing down more aggressively at this point?
    - i have 6 hearts now and no stamina upgrades. Whereabouts should i start investing in stamina, given that i can make food and potions to recover stamina (mid climb/swim/flight) but things have definitely one shot me from full hp (i.e. no food is saving me there)?
    - if i see something that clearly screams secret (i.e. circle of dimes 3) but none of my things seem to do anything, I'm not missing something silly with stuff i have, i just haven't unlocked some power yet, right?
    - side quests are straight forward, and mostly what I've been doing other than trying to find shrines and towers. But the main quest seems to be "look at these 20 pictures, memorize them, and if you happen to come in that location while playing and you take a camera picture, something cool will happen". Am i correct in that? Because... i forget what the pictures look like the instant i close them, or just about. And the game world is huge!
    - I've been experimenting making different foods and that's great that i can click a good and it tells me what it took to make it. What I'd like it's a list of recipes i discovered so far (don't even tell me what I'm missing) and ability to make a particular thing if i made it before and still have ingredients. Am i just missing this or am i supposed to memorize it?

    Thanks all!

    1. Armor and Items inventory size doesn't need to be upgraded. Just weapons, shields and bows.
    2. You can fight the big laser robots whenever. They will be considerably easier with stronger weapons, chop off all their legs and they become almost helpless. Early in the game if you want to kill them you will need to learn how to shield parry their laser blasts. It will reflect the laser back at them for big damage. Learning the timing is not easy, though.
    3. I forget what buying a house and upgrading it all the way does. It will allow you to store some weapons, but I forget if it's got any other quests or rewards tied to it. It might have something to do with another quest where you help this dude build an entire town.
    4. Don't worry about hearts/stamina too much. Just do what you think you need. There's a way to change it later if you want.
    5. Most of these are korok puzzles and most of them don't require special equipment.
    6. The 20 pictures thing is optional. If you do it, it will give you some extra story detail but that's it. You don't have to take pictures, just find the spot in the world where the picture was taken. You'll find a glowing spot on the ground that will trigger a cutscene if you walk into it.
    7. You pretty much are going to be memorizing any useful recipes.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    edited March 2019
    I'll say for the faerie rings in the water, because they're kinda stupid, you have to
    dive into them from a certain height. But it's very picky about the height.
    The land faerie rings, if you're curious,
    are missing a piece out of the circle and there's a nearby loose rock to plug it up with.
    But yeah they're just Korok seeds, no need to go back and get the ones you passed. Also probably worth mentioning you can only parry the laser blasts with certain shields? At least I think so, since some shields specifically say that. I've yet to actually do it, sprinting around in circles gets the job done for me.

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    PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    There aren't fixed recipes for the most part, it's basically an algorithm of what ingredient types you use (meat, plants, etc) and any effects on them (e.g. hot peppers). I want to say there are a very few fixed recipes for a quest here or there?

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    WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
    You can parry lasers with any shield, up to and including the humble lid of a soup pot

    If the big laser robots are giving you trouble, put an arrow in their eye. It does OK damage, but the big thing is that it will stun them long enough for you to either beat feet or get up in their grill. This is the best way to approach them, especially early in the game, because they really like to backpedal while shooting you

    Be forewarned, though, that Guardians are kind of a dicey resource proposition for a lot of the game if you try to kill them with weapons. Parry their lasers? You're golden. Go after them with swords? You're going to break a lot of weapons taking them down.

    Later on you get a weapon that's made almost just for busting up Guardians and related threats that are out in the world. You'll know it when you have it.

    The Guardians in shrines are best taken on with weapons dropped by their own kind, because those get a huge damage bonus (I think to the tune of 50%) when used against them. Failing that, shoot them in the eye and use electric weapons to stagger them. Where you are in the game now you can probably take on a Minor Test of Strength; Moderate will probably also be fine if you have the weapons from a Minor. Major tests of strength are a no-go until you get swole.
    the magic number is 13

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    BronzeKoopaBronzeKoopa Registered User regular
    For cooking here are some good reources online:
    https://www.guideofthewild.com/
    Has a cooking pot calculator that lets you play around with recipes.

    https://imgur.com/a/eMX7h
    Gives detailed effects and magnitudes off all foods and potion ingredients.

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    StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    You got all the "puzzle" powers in the Plateau, before getting the hang-glider. The only other powers you get from beating Divine Beasts, and they're for combat and traversal.

    The key to parrying the eye beams back to the Scout Guardians is the special big bweep they make right before shooting (between the bebebebebebebebep and the beam being fired).

    The picture quest is worth it (for story), and you don't need to memorize all of them. Just note the major landscape features in the background, to get an idea of where they *should* be, more or less, then talk to the painter guy at all the stables, he can help you a lot.

    The house quest is... fine, but finishing it unlocks one of the coolest sidequests of the entire series.

    I personally maxed out Stamina pretty fast... Sure you can eat stuff, but life is so much easier with lots of stam. The secret for not being one-shotted is more "don't get hit" and "get moar armor!" And it's pretty easy to swap from stamina to hearts and back.

    As said above, avoid guardian shrines above "minor test of strength" until you get some better weapons.

    Note that parrying and perfect dodges can help you a LOT with combat. I never got the hang of parrying anything other than the Guardian eye beams, but the dodge is pretty learnable and actually makes your life a lot easier.

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    SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
    Yeah i found one minor and 2 moderate combat challenge shrines, and the weapon i got from minor was long gone by the time i found the moderates (back to back).

    Also like an hour after posting that i found the painter telling me about the memory near Kakariko, i had been ignoring his "follow me to a great fairy" because i had already found the one right near the village and figured he was talking about a different one and didn't feel like doing an 100 mile escort quest just yet. Whoops. Also learned all about Lynels that can see me across map, freeze me, and then one shot me.

    There was also a shrine in the ruins over the water nearby (the radar was going nuts like i was right on top of it but i couldn't figure it out). It's happened before too (the one where a researcher near Hatena fort is talking about it) so i figure I'm missing some condition being fulfilled.

    I do need to learn to parry.

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    WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Knight grade or above weapons will also get you through Moderate tests of strength; you'll want Royal for Major

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    anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Getting close to beating Link Between Worlds, and I have to say it's quickly become one of my favorite Zelda games. Probably will move on to replaying Link's Awakening once before getting the remake later this year.

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    AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    Late in the game those major test shrines are great for harvesting powerful weapons. They respawn their guardians every blood moon.

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    ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Knight grade or above weapons will also get you through Moderate tests of strength; you'll want Royal for Major

    It's a test of strength.

    Go in there with sticks like Nayru intended.

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    MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Slight spoilers regarding the Leviathan bones side quest:
    Are those the bones of Levias, the Wind Fish, and Oshus? If so, that's both neat and morbid. :)

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    SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Late in the game those major test shrines are great for harvesting powerful weapons. They respawn their guardians every blood moon.

    Ooh so maybe i should farm the minor shrines to take on the medium ones?

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    The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    A tip for things combat: stack modifiers and abuse buffs.

    This mostly means abuse things like freezing a Target, then whacking it with your biggest bestest fuck of two hander while having +50% (3atk up icons). Or of it's raining/there's water, abuse electric weapons.

    You can do a TON of damage this way, even in master mode vs gold enemies

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Slight spoilers regarding the Leviathan bones side quest:
    Are those the bones of Levias, the Wind Fish, and Oshus? If so, that's both neat and morbid. :)

    That seems to be the implication yeah

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    I wonder if they intended the Stasis powerup to also be your Radar powerup. I use it more to scout for enemies or to find the interactable object a puzzle requires than I do actually stasising things.

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    DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Skyrim has the Aura Whisper shout; BotW has the stasis power.

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    Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    The Champion's Tunic also essentially works as an enemy radar.

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    The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    You know what's super satisfying? Rocking up to the Yiga Hideout in mastermode with a Savage Lynel bow, Revali's Gale and barbarian armor.

    Get bent, stealth mission.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    I just gave up on the hideout for now because sneak strike was being supremely finicky and getting me killed repeatedly. And apparently getting through it will spawn more enemies when I'm roaming so I guess I'll just save that beast for last.

    So now I'm in Goron territory and the fireproof armor is slick as hell.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    After bailing the yiga hideout because stealth in this game is shitty I'm now in the trailing mission in lost woods and please kill me now.

    I got right up to the end but then it wouldn't let me shoot the wolf at the end so I panicked and lost track. After it teleported it revealed it had deequipped my bow after one of the other trials even though I still had a korok bow in my inventory.

    The rest of the game is so good that when you hit these missteps it feels like pulling teeth.

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    PailryderPailryder Registered User regular
    After bailing the yiga hideout because stealth in this game is shitty I'm now in the trailing mission in lost woods and please kill me now.

    I got right up to the end but then it wouldn't let me shoot the wolf at the end so I panicked and lost track. After it teleported it revealed it had deequipped my bow after one of the other trials even though I still had a korok bow in my inventory.

    The rest of the game is so good that when you hit these missteps it feels like pulling teeth.

    weird for sure. i thought stealth worked fine in that i never felt i was cheated. if i was caught it was because i rushed or did something that got me caught. for the korok mission that you have to follow the guy, i don't remember any specific equipment requirements but i do remember there was another challenge where you had to use all wood stuff.

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    SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Pailryder wrote: »
    After bailing the yiga hideout because stealth in this game is shitty I'm now in the trailing mission in lost woods and please kill me now.

    I got right up to the end but then it wouldn't let me shoot the wolf at the end so I panicked and lost track. After it teleported it revealed it had deequipped my bow after one of the other trials even though I still had a korok bow in my inventory.

    The rest of the game is so good that when you hit these missteps it feels like pulling teeth.

    weird for sure. i thought stealth worked fine in that i never felt i was cheated. if i was caught it was because i rushed or did something that got me caught. for the korok mission that you have to follow the guy, i don't remember any specific equipment requirements but i do remember there was another challenge where you had to use all wood stuff.

    I just did these recently

    Wood one
    You have to use all wood weapon/shield/bow. If you don't have them, a korok gives them to you. If any of them break, you have to start over. There is a bunch of enemies and environmental problems (i.e. quicksand).Trick is
    using the environment again the enemies as much as possible and your special abilities to get past stuff, like making islands to hop across with I've rune.
    if all else fails you can always brute Force it since enemies don't respawn unless there is a blood moon.

    Stealth one
    You have to follow a blue korrok going through a blue Forest on blue grass on blue most. If you get too close he sees you and you fail. If you get too far, you can't see the korok. Hell, sometimes i was almost in top of him and didn't see him. At some point a wolf tries to eat him and you have to Jill the wolf without him noticing. Oh and if you go in a path he didn't take (because you lost sight of him and are trying to figure out wtf he went) you fail.

    Stealth armor and potions give you some leeway though he can still catch you when
    he randomly backs up.. until you learn his pattern.
    This one took me so many tries.

    The easiest one is similar to getting in the forest to begin with
    You gave to make it through the woods and then solve a simple puzzle of moving objects around. The hint the korok gives makes it easy.
    use magnesis power to see which trees have metal rocks in mouth, hop from one such tree to next. Use magnesis to move stuff around for puzzle in the end.

    When you finish all 3 climb on top of
    the great Deku tree.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    The thing that got me was the set "haha gotcha!" patterns. I was way back in level 2 full set stealth, it didn't see me normally. I immediately said fuck it and looked up the whole thing because it walks so fucking slowly for no reason so each attempt feels like it takes forever.

    And then the wolf thing happened so I had to go through a third time.

    My issue from the Yiga hideout was crouching basically in the guy's armpit and even though they didn't notice me it still refused to give me the stealth strike prompt. If I'm in sword length and undetected let me do it!

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    SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Oh i haven't discovered the Yiga hideout yet, just been getting randomly jumped by disguised people.

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I was pretty proud of myself for remembering where all but one of the shrines were this time around.

    Remembering how to do them immediately, not so much. Although I did still have a set of pictures for the twin Dueling Peaks shrines so that helped. And I remembered to get over to that one blood moon shrine as soon as I saw a blood moon rising.

    All the “apparatus” type shrines can lick a Boboklin’s ballsack though. Even knowing to drop the left joycon and just use the right, waggle is still too damn finicky!

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    PailryderPailryder Registered User regular
    The thing that got me was the set "haha gotcha!" patterns. I was way back in level 2 full set stealth, it didn't see me normally. I immediately said fuck it and looked up the whole thing because it walks so fucking slowly for no reason so each attempt feels like it takes forever.

    And then the wolf thing happened so I had to go through a third time.

    My issue from the Yiga hideout was crouching basically in the guy's armpit and even though they didn't notice me it still refused to give me the stealth strike prompt. If I'm in sword length and undetected let me do it!

    that definitely sounds frustrating. did you try using bananas to reposition people?

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    MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    You don't really need to kill anything during the yiga stealth part though, right?

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    MMMig wrote: »
    You don't really need to kill anything during the yiga stealth part though, right?

    No if you hit the bananas and stay on the roof its fairly easy to avoid everything.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    edited March 2019
    but I wanna kill them >:c

    I couldn't figure out the banana thing. I expected it to be like a normal stealth section where you throw something to distract them but dropping a banana in their line of site didn't seem to do anything.

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    The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    I found that using the bananas really helped to kill them. Without them everything just feels too damn squirrelly, prompts won't appear, they'll see you out of the corner of their eye, ect. If they're distracted though, I think their peripheral vision and hearing drop to zero and you can just trudge right on up to them and take them out.

    The one change they should have made to that whole section should have been to remove the one-hit kill handicap imposed. I fucked up and have to fight all these guys at the same time? Sure, fine, I can handle that punishment. If I have the health, armor, and weapons to do it, then let me do it. But fuck off with the "But do it without getting hit ever!" bullshit.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
    but I wanna kill them >:c

    I couldn't figure out the banana thing. I expected it to be like a normal stealth section where you throw something to distract them but dropping a banana in their line of site didn't seem to do anything.

    There's not much they drop to be honest. After this you get the randos that with whirlwind swords and stuff though

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    RonaldoTheGypsyRonaldoTheGypsy Yes, yes Registered User regular
    I found that using the bananas really helped to kill them. Without them everything just feels too damn squirrelly, prompts won't appear, they'll see you out of the corner of their eye, ect. If they're distracted though, I think their peripheral vision and hearing drop to zero and you can just trudge right on up to them and take them out.

    The one change they should have made to that whole section should have been to remove the one-hit kill handicap imposed. I fucked up and have to fight all these guys at the same time? Sure, fine, I can handle that punishment. If I have the health, armor, and weapons to do it, then let me do it. But fuck off with the "But do it without getting hit ever!" bullshit.

    And then rub it in with the mocking laugh death scene

    yeah

    it was a bit railroady

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