The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

poss spoiler?
You can reverse back to the time before you beat him (the game knows you've beat him and you get some extra stats) to continue playing, but you can't continue beyond a story point where Ganon has been defeated if you see what I mean. Whenever you're playing, Ganon has to be in the castle awaiting a showdown with you.

great post, cow_art!

you really should be able to join the yiga clan

yeah i love that post cow_art

Questions.

1. Early on, I assume the best way to spend spirit orbs is on heart containers?
2. How does cold resistant equipment work? I bought a warm tunic and still ended up shivering when I was wearing it.
3. I assume that beating some shrines require special abilities or equipment or levels first?

1. balance spirit with stamina for improved climbing and whelping
2. there are three 'levels' of cold protection. in addition to early cold-weather gear, you may need to eat some peppers to stay warm enough
3. beyond the first half-dozen... not really? once you're off the plateau, you can basically do anything.

Yeah you get a couple extra abilites after you defeat each champion, but theyre gravy really (though Ravioli's Gale is v useful). Its not like other Zelda's where you have to do dungeons to get iron boots/hookshots/etc

Speaking of the champion abilities, I almost never used daruk's protection. It just seemed to get in the way of my default sheild button mashing?

Yep always spend your spirit orbs on hearts - it's dead easy to equip yourself with stamina potions for those long climbs xps

The extra Champion abilities don’t work in shrines either so yeah, every shrine should be doable once you’re off the plateau.

Oh: you do need arrows for a few, and a couple I found a lot easier with fire arrows/bomb arrows.

the combat trial shrines (are those DLC?) are much easier with some extra hearts and better weapons

second play through i maxed out stamina and just farmed durian for hearts having max stamina makes the game so much more enjoyable imo just flying climbing running where ever you want

max stamina helps out with the most difficult boss in the game: a mild upward slope in the rain

lol

a BOTW Musou prequel in a few months? I liked Hyrule Warriors so getting to play as Urbosa, Mipha, Daruk and Revali sounds good to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifm8tpcO4vw

hyrule warriors botw sounds fun

oh its out in a couple months too. unironically love it when nintendo just announces stuff for the first time 3 months out

you should be able to kill kass in that

Champions Amiibo too

Amiibo for the four Champions: Daruk, Urbosa, Mipha, and Revali will be relaunching alongside #HyruleWarriors: Age of Calamity on 11/20! pic.twitter.com/eGynZdKfSA

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 8, 2020

lol plz tell me that Hyrule Warriors is not the "sequel" that everyone has been freaking out about for a year

ok never mind he explains that

yeah totally a stopgap release. i might even bite

Speaking of the champion abilities, I almost never used daruk's protection. It just seemed to get in the way of my default sheild button mashing?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, September 7, 2020 7:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm, I always disable it when I need to shield parry

Thanku, "sheild parry" is totally what I meant rather than the word salad I actually posted there haha.

max stamina helps out with the most difficult boss in the game

ITYM this one rite
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda16/Shrine-Quests/Watch-Out-for-the-Flowers/03.jpg

So with this Hyrule game ... is the implication that there will be no BOTW2 this year? Or perhaps any time soon?

no one knows, man. just give in to it

prob be out in like a year

i heard that hyrule warriors really is the sequel, as well as the final zelda game

The trailer I saw for Hyrule Warriors had the main BOTW guy announcing it and he basically said the sequel's quite complex so needs a little more time to work on. I was never expecting it before 2021 anyway. But this prequel snuck up out of nowhere!

(well to me it did, I dont keep my nose jammed in Kotaku updates)

Most gaming websites now seem to think BOTW2 will be October/November 2021 at the very earliest

So what does anyone think Nintendo's big holiday releases will be? Or, for that matter, big releases in the next 12 months or so?

there are too many games already

sad truths

i threw a lizal tri-boomerang at a stalmoblin and it caught it and fucked me up

I have never seen that happen before! D:

https://i.imgur.com/oo7reV8.jpg

True

BTW dont use guardian arrows on big enemies, cos they'll just pffft into nothingness, and then you wont get their awesome weapon and parts drops. I wish I'd learned that a lot earlier than I did.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, December 14, 2017 7:04 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

found this out to my relief when i was trying to get dinraal's scale and the fuckin lynel started shooting at me

found all the shrines. i’m happy i did, getting link’s ocarina/majora outfit was a surprisingly emotional moment for me. now i’m inventing tasks for myself to procrastinate fighting ganon.

“uhh, i need to make sure all the champions’ items are reforged and in my possession before i face ganon.”

“need to update my wild armor, better start collecting dragon scales”

“am i seriously gonna fight the calamity with such a small shield stash? better get some more korok seeds just in case!”

yesterday i grabbed a cucco in hateno village, carried it halfway across the map, and threw it in a lake

lol

I threw a Cucco in Hateno, just to watch it flap

playing enough that i'm starting to hear traces of popular songs in the botw soundtrack

korok forest - always think of usher's "yeah," i'm sorry
zora domain - the system - "don't disturb this groove" (the part right before it loops back to the beginning of the theme)

will report back if there's more

Holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvG-37yBKCg

what's happening in this exactly?

speedrunners found a way to boost across the map using that slow time effect when you're about to land on an enemy's head. For some reason it launches you. Other exploit trick stuff happens later but that's the first one. The rapid hover thing is suspect however...

wow!!

That's pretty wild. I'm still waiting for enough time to elapse that I've forgotten most of the world layout before replaying this, though I reckon the sequel will be out by then.

The specific awesome thing happening in that clip is that they/link fire an arrow into the distance, apparently at nothing, then hops/hacks a way to follow it to its destination, which turns out to be a guardian, which he takes out. Or maybe described best thusly:

After jumping from the balcony of the Temple of Time near the beginning of the game, Neko fires an Ancient Arrow into the sky seemingly at random. It’s only by following that arrow across a vast distance (and more than one loading zone) with a “bullet time bounce” that Neko is able to show the projectile’s destination: an unsuspecting Guardian, which is soon reduced to a pile of smoke and rubble.

Neko says the Guardian is over 1,400 meters away from their starting position, but that’s not a number they guessed at. By combining the Bird Man Research Study mini-game (which measures how far you can travel with Link’s para-glider) with a couple of glitches, Neko is able to come up with a fairly accurate distance for their sniper shot. It’s all explained in the video (make sure to enable English subtitles if you can’t read Japanese).