I completed trial of the sword on normal and I don't see how you can clear the final trials without being able to consistently parry beams. You simply don't get enough weapons to do it any other way.
You can find like 6 Ancient Arrows.
I found 9
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
Also I started up master mode and it's crazy. The health regeneration seems like overkill. I'm kind of itching to just start a new run on normal but it sucks you can only have 1 "slot" for normal and master modes.
Whenever possible, use Bombs to knock enemies into water.
I'm sitting at 114 shrines, with the Quest log saying I haven't doe 6 shrine quests. Which should mean that I just need to find the starts of the quests and can stop using the Sheikah Sensor, right?
Except I found Kass again today, and he sings me the verse of the region or whatever, and then says "Oh, I see you've solved this already"
At which point a Shrine Quest title pops up, then clears
still at 114 shrines, but now i have 5 non-completed Shrine quests, meaning theres one that just hanging around somewhere with nothing pointing to it
I'm sitting at 114 shrines, with the Quest log saying I haven't doe 6 shrine quests. Which should mean that I just need to find the starts of the quests and can stop using the Sheikah Sensor, right?
Except I found Kass again today, and he sings me the verse of the region or whatever, and then says "Oh, I see you've solved this already"
At which point a Shrine Quest title pops up, then clears
still at 114 shrines, but now i have 5 non-completed Shrine quests, meaning theres one that just hanging around somewhere with nothing pointing to it
Did you get the one in the middle of the island in Lake Hylia
I'm sitting at 114 shrines, with the Quest log saying I haven't doe 6 shrine quests. Which should mean that I just need to find the starts of the quests and can stop using the Sheikah Sensor, right?
Except I found Kass again today, and he sings me the verse of the region or whatever, and then says "Oh, I see you've solved this already"
At which point a Shrine Quest title pops up, then clears
still at 114 shrines, but now i have 5 non-completed Shrine quests, meaning theres one that just hanging around somewhere with nothing pointing to it
You could check your path on the map and see if there's somewhere you haven't been.
I just looked up a map on the internet after getting to around 115.
I did all the shrines and still have one or two shrine quests I haven't found.
I'm sitting at 114 shrines, with the Quest log saying I haven't doe 6 shrine quests. Which should mean that I just need to find the starts of the quests and can stop using the Sheikah Sensor, right?
Except I found Kass again today, and he sings me the verse of the region or whatever, and then says "Oh, I see you've solved this already"
At which point a Shrine Quest title pops up, then clears
still at 114 shrines, but now i have 5 non-completed Shrine quests, meaning theres one that just hanging around somewhere with nothing pointing to it
Did you get the one in the middle of the island in Lake Hylia
That ended up being my last one
the big island? yeah, ive been there
and my hero's path shows basically full coverage of the map, but im pretty sure there are spots where i didnt have the Shrine sensor on and was chasing ingredients for armor upgrades or something
Yes and no. Like, I went in expecting it to not hit the notes of "Zelda game" that I wanted, but hoo boy did that trailer in particular set up an idea of a story that it completely failed to deliver on. It totally met my expectations in terms of having a cool world that felt good to explore, but just about everything else it tried to do fell so flat for me and it could have been so much more than just that.
i had a dang good time with botw but I also a) tend to particularly enjoy the weirder entries in the series and b) don't really hold the zelda series in such high reverence so for me it was pretty much just "yeah that was a heckin' good videogame" and not much more
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Yeah, I'd have liked it to had been way heavier on story like the final trailer showcased, but BotW did hold me attention like no other open world has since Red Dead Redemption. Most of them I find to be cluttered with a load of boring things to do and I don't like having a load of icons vomitted on the map.
Even Horizon I didn't like as much as most, since the side activities just felt like #Content for the sake of having stuff thrown all over the place.
I feel like such a chump for saying "you know that game with near-universal acclaim that was an instant classic? Yeah, I really liked it"
but I did!
The one thing I could say that I think most sums up how this game worked for me is I almost certainly have at least a mild form of ADD, I have a hard time just focusing in on one thing at a time unless it's like a movie theater where I literally can't do anything else but sit and watch, when I'm at home I'm never doing just one thing at a time
when I played this game I played it with my full undivided attention for over 50 hours, I didn't want anything else but that
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I'm over 120 hours into BotW and finally burning out so I need to finish the story before I never do.
I love the game and its gameplay but I absolutely don't care about the story. I know Zelda games don't have the most engaging stories, but I don't think they really knew how to do the story with the "go anywhere anytime" style. Most of the story parts had to be written to stand alone for whenever you get to them, so they can't reference other story parts and it feels (to me) like it doesn't matter.
I would've made the Divine Beasts a linear progression (you have to beat them in a certain order) while keeping the rest of the open world stuff. Doing that would let you add in the classic Zelda dungeon items, too
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I am not burned out and would prefer not to look at the number of hours logged (my only consolation would be that I have a bad habit of just leaving a menu open and walking away from my TV).
More importantly, I'm finally moving westward in The Great Korok Search and wtf am I naming this magic white horse? I really wanted to go with Banana Milk but it won't fit.
E: update, no need, horse's name is Fabio
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Yeah, I tried to do the stealth thing again in the Proper Way, got noticed a few times, got super-frustrated, and then remembered that I have Ancient Arrows and also that I am Too Old For This Shit, and started enjoying the game again.
With how the camps are set up (one or two high-tier monsters surrounded by base-tier monsters) in combination with the One-Hit Obliterator's properties (two attacks every minute or so), I feel that picking most of the enemies off with arrows is the expected solution. You're not supposed to ninja the entire enemy camp, you're supposed to knock out the small fry from afar and use the OHO for mop-up.
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With how the camps are set up (one or two high-tier monsters surrounded by base-tier monsters) in combination with the One-Hit Obliterator's properties (two attacks every minute or so), I feel that picking most of the enemies off with arrows is the expected solution. You're not supposed to ninja the entire enemy camp, you're supposed to knock out the small fry from afar and use the OHO for mop-up.
Minute? It recharges in seconds, just like the fire/ice/thunder swords.
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With how the camps are set up (one or two high-tier monsters surrounded by base-tier monsters) in combination with the One-Hit Obliterator's properties (two attacks every minute or so), I feel that picking most of the enemies off with arrows is the expected solution. You're not supposed to ninja the entire enemy camp, you're supposed to knock out the small fry from afar and use the OHO for mop-up.
Minute? It recharges in seconds, just like the fire/ice/thunder swords.
Speaking of, can you get them again? I have them in my inventory, but I don't want to lose them forever.
With how the camps are set up (one or two high-tier monsters surrounded by base-tier monsters) in combination with the One-Hit Obliterator's properties (two attacks every minute or so), I feel that picking most of the enemies off with arrows is the expected solution. You're not supposed to ninja the entire enemy camp, you're supposed to knock out the small fry from afar and use the OHO for mop-up.
Minute? It recharges in seconds, just like the fire/ice/thunder swords.
Yeah I went through three camps exactly as described, expecting the stick to take forever to recharge; felt pretty dumb when I was able to clear the fourth by just stabbing, running, and stabbing.
With how the camps are set up (one or two high-tier monsters surrounded by base-tier monsters) in combination with the One-Hit Obliterator's properties (two attacks every minute or so), I feel that picking most of the enemies off with arrows is the expected solution. You're not supposed to ninja the entire enemy camp, you're supposed to knock out the small fry from afar and use the OHO for mop-up.
Minute? It recharges in seconds, just like the fire/ice/thunder swords.
Speaking of, can you get them again? I have them in my inventory, but I don't want to lose them forever.
Yes you can find more of the elemental weapons. Late-game, the Arena should have one of each type (fire/lightning/ice plus spear/1h/2h) and they reset each Blood Moon.
With how the camps are set up (one or two high-tier monsters surrounded by base-tier monsters) in combination with the One-Hit Obliterator's properties (two attacks every minute or so), I feel that picking most of the enemies off with arrows is the expected solution. You're not supposed to ninja the entire enemy camp, you're supposed to knock out the small fry from afar and use the OHO for mop-up.
Minute? It recharges in seconds, just like the fire/ice/thunder swords.
Speaking of, can you get them again? I have them in my inventory, but I don't want to lose them forever.
Yes you can find more of the elemental weapons. Late-game, the Arena should have one of each type (fire/lightning/ice plus spear/1h/2h) and they reset each Blood Moon.
Generally they also respawn wherever you originally found them. Including non-shrine chests, IIRC.
I can think of at least one Flame Greatsword that's relatively easily available from the moment you get off the Plateau, for instance.
Once you get Revali's Gale, the arena is a great shopping spot for elemental weapons.
Boost up to the top, and you can work your way down with a series of pretty easy sneak attacks until you reach the weapon you want, you don't even have to deal with the Lynel.
I've done everything in this game, but one
Tomorrow, after just about a full year of playing this, I will ride this motorcycle straight through the gates of Hyrule Castle and beat the snot out of Calamity Ganon
I've done everything in this game, but one
Tomorrow, after just about a full year of playing this, I will ride this motorcycle, naked, straight through the gates of Hyrule Castle and beat the snot out of Calamity Ganon
Beat Wind Waker. That final section was incredibly strong.
Two things stuck out to me.
When the King makes his wish on the Triforce, Ganondorf scoffs at the idea that a future for them is possible, because for him the ocean is a desolated land. And it is in a lot of ways, but Tetra and Link have no trouble at all with imaging a better future, because for them the ocean is their home and the only one they've ever known.
This is small but I was really glad that Medli and Makar showed up in the ending. The little tragedy of them leaving their homes to pray in a temple forever really bummed me out, so seeing that they were no longer beholden to the old Hyrule was great.
Time to finally listen to those Book of Mudora episodes!
Beat Wind Waker. That final section was incredibly strong.
Two things stuck out to me.
When the King makes his wish on the Triforce, Ganondorf scoffs at the idea that a future for them is possible, because for him the ocean is a desolated land. And it is in a lot of ways, but Tetra and Link have no trouble at all with imaging a better future, because for them the ocean is their home and the only one they've ever known.
This is small but I was really glad that Medli and Makar showed up in the ending. The little tragedy of them leaving their homes to pray in a temple forever really bummed me out, so seeing that they were no longer beholden to the old Hyrule was great.
Time to finally listen to those Book of Mudora episodes!
Makar and Medli are on the pirate ship at the end!
My interpretation of Ganondorf calling Link the hero of time reborn is that he is mistaken. He's an old man obsessed with reliving a conflict from long ago and he believes, or wants to believe, that only the reincarnation of that boy from back then would be able to stand against him or do what Link's done.
I don't think Ganondorf is totally deluding himself about Gerudo life. They seemed to be doing okay in Ocarina of Time but Link was ultimately just a visitor to their lands and couldn't really understand the fullness of their experiences, so I'm willing to believe that life in the desert was a lot harsher than previously thought. I agree though that Ganondorf did what he did for the sake of himself, not the sake of his people.
Started playing Skyward Sword and oh my god Groose is perfect. I already loved him but then I walked into his room and found out that he has both a framed picture of himself on the wall and a punching bag with a drawing of Link's face on it.
Also I can't help but feel the developers merged Rauru and the King of Hyrule into one character solely to spite @Wyborn .
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Whenever possible, use Bombs to knock enemies into water.
I'm sitting at 114 shrines, with the Quest log saying I haven't doe 6 shrine quests. Which should mean that I just need to find the starts of the quests and can stop using the Sheikah Sensor, right?
Except I found Kass again today, and he sings me the verse of the region or whatever, and then says "Oh, I see you've solved this already"
At which point a Shrine Quest title pops up, then clears
still at 114 shrines, but now i have 5 non-completed Shrine quests, meaning theres one that just hanging around somewhere with nothing pointing to it
Did you get the one in the middle of the island in Lake Hylia
That ended up being my last one
You could check your path on the map and see if there's somewhere you haven't been.
I just looked up a map on the internet after getting to around 115.
I did all the shrines and still have one or two shrine quests I haven't found.
the big island? yeah, ive been there
and my hero's path shows basically full coverage of the map, but im pretty sure there are spots where i didnt have the Shrine sensor on and was chasing ingredients for armor upgrades or something
It was
Glad I looked it up as my hero's path showed me going I think directly over it once and near it several times, but obviously without the sensor on.
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Yes and no. Like, I went in expecting it to not hit the notes of "Zelda game" that I wanted, but hoo boy did that trailer in particular set up an idea of a story that it completely failed to deliver on. It totally met my expectations in terms of having a cool world that felt good to explore, but just about everything else it tried to do fell so flat for me and it could have been so much more than just that.
Even Horizon I didn't like as much as most, since the side activities just felt like #Content for the sake of having stuff thrown all over the place.
but I did!
The one thing I could say that I think most sums up how this game worked for me is I almost certainly have at least a mild form of ADD, I have a hard time just focusing in on one thing at a time unless it's like a movie theater where I literally can't do anything else but sit and watch, when I'm at home I'm never doing just one thing at a time
when I played this game I played it with my full undivided attention for over 50 hours, I didn't want anything else but that
I love the game and its gameplay but I absolutely don't care about the story. I know Zelda games don't have the most engaging stories, but I don't think they really knew how to do the story with the "go anywhere anytime" style. Most of the story parts had to be written to stand alone for whenever you get to them, so they can't reference other story parts and it feels (to me) like it doesn't matter.
I would've made the Divine Beasts a linear progression (you have to beat them in a certain order) while keeping the rest of the open world stuff. Doing that would let you add in the classic Zelda dungeon items, too
More importantly, I'm finally moving westward in The Great Korok Search and wtf am I naming this magic white horse? I really wanted to go with Banana Milk but it won't fit.
E: update, no need, horse's name is Fabio
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What wasn't dead in that room was definitely killable before it could get a swing of it's weapon in at me.
Urbosa's Fury in that room is soooooooooooo good
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Minute? It recharges in seconds, just like the fire/ice/thunder swords.
Speaking of, can you get them again? I have them in my inventory, but I don't want to lose them forever.
Yeah I went through three camps exactly as described, expecting the stick to take forever to recharge; felt pretty dumb when I was able to clear the fourth by just stabbing, running, and stabbing.
Yes you can find more of the elemental weapons. Late-game, the Arena should have one of each type (fire/lightning/ice plus spear/1h/2h) and they reset each Blood Moon.
Generally they also respawn wherever you originally found them. Including non-shrine chests, IIRC.
I can think of at least one Flame Greatsword that's relatively easily available from the moment you get off the Plateau, for instance.
Boost up to the top, and you can work your way down with a series of pretty easy sneak attacks until you reach the weapon you want, you don't even have to deal with the Lynel.
My gf has tried both ice arrows and hitting white chuchu jellys next to them, but they still give mostly topaz
My googling hasn't returned any results either
Tomorrow, after just about a full year of playing this, I will ride this motorcycle straight through the gates of Hyrule Castle and beat the snot out of Calamity Ganon
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Two things stuck out to me.
This is small but I was really glad that Medli and Makar showed up in the ending. The little tragedy of them leaving their homes to pray in a temple forever really bummed me out, so seeing that they were no longer beholden to the old Hyrule was great.
Time to finally listen to those Book of Mudora episodes!
I don't think Ganondorf is totally deluding himself about Gerudo life. They seemed to be doing okay in Ocarina of Time but Link was ultimately just a visitor to their lands and couldn't really understand the fullness of their experiences, so I'm willing to believe that life in the desert was a lot harsher than previously thought. I agree though that Ganondorf did what he did for the sake of himself, not the sake of his people.
Also I can't help but feel the developers merged Rauru and the King of Hyrule into one character solely to spite @Wyborn .