The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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).

i've seen the bullet-time bounce trick before, but how are they doing that hop-in-place-and-get-higher thing?

Hahaha it's like "here's a trick shot that is near-impossible, blink and you'll miss it tho" followed by "now, here is an unspeakably complicated method of measuring the distance of this trick shot"

That's totally the insane speed run mentality though, isn't it? They can practically play blind. "Two steps, pause, swing, pause, jump jump, now fire an arrow into this one spot and initiate the glitch, now arm with sword, then drop the sword, then pick up a rock and the sword at the same time and you bounce three frames to the right, which will save you a half-second on your run." Etc.

it IS insane, and I love it

i've seen the bullet-time bounce trick before, but how are they doing that hop-in-place-and-get-higher thing?

― stet, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:48 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

is called moon jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q3TseThXQ

they don't just hit the Guardian from 1400m, they hit it in the eye, otherwise it wouldn't die instantly

the hop-in-the-air glitch is activated in the mounted archery camp minigame IIRC — you have to hop off your horse onto another, wild horse, and make sure the horse is still trying to buck you off at the time the minigame ends. I've never tried it because I don't want to bork my game

xp

I guess it's possible the hitbox for instant Guardian kills is wider when you're that far away

that's amazing, thanks. also not going to bork my game but this is v. cool

That's totally the insane speed run mentality though, isn't it? They can practically play blind. "Two steps, pause, swing, pause, jump jump, now fire an arrow into this one spot and initiate the glitch, now arm with sword, then drop the sword, then pick up a rock and the sword at the same time and you bounce three frames to the right, which will save you a half-second on your run." Etc.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:15 (three hours ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcOd82Q6-oU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dDDJeTIOw

will report back if there's more

― shabbat bloody shabbat (voodoo chili), Monday, December 28, 2020 7:55 PM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

mipha’s theme sounds like costello’s “almost blue”

Got the switch versh of this just afore xmas for no raisin, thought I'd give it a replay. Ive done in a week what took months to do first time round.

I'm finding getting Revalis Gale first (rather than Mipha's Grace) has made a LOT of early game shit much easier. And I can navigate so much of the map from memory now haha /lolsad.

revali > mipha > big charge attack > shield thing

you can do a lot w/shield thing that i didn't realize for the longest time