The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

at the very least, you shouldn't feel too bad about killing anything that appears again after the blood moons. they're all stuck in eternal recurrence anyway, it doesn't matter

That blood moon is a wrinkle of a challenge. As I was blowing up guardians in the castle it occurred to me if I waste too much time they might just all come back!

Steampunk Camel was easier than I expected. At one point I lost track of a green electric ball and was about to bail, but then I got lost and stumbled on it on the way out of the beast and was able to get that last terminal. I did have to look up how to beat the boss, though. His second stage was sort of inexplicable until I learned the trick.

I guess I'll start gathering supplies and take on the magic castle in earnest next.

a fun way to take on the castle is to try out a few different entrances - the approach will play out very differently depending on what you choose, and they are fun in different ways!

been puttering around my old save file btwn tetris matches. my one complaint re: this game is that i wish there was something more to do at east reservoir lake. such a sweet location but nothing going on!

that's where you're supposed to record your vlog, in character as link

I've been to the castle twice before, briefly. Both times took me to very different places. The first I got trapped in a room with a Lynel and died, or at least escaped. The second took me to a shrine and a library, but then I decided not to explore further at the time.

The only music I remember from the original Zelda is the main theme and iirc I haven't heard that yet in BotW.

Its there! Go galloping on a horse at night for a while and keep yr ears peeled :)

Horses and shields, haven't really seen the point of either.

i love that josh is still challoping this far into the conversation

Ha. I mean, I literally know what they're there for, but shields ... I've not wanted or needed to defend myself with one, deflect anything or surf anything, ever. And the horse, I just remembered I did at one point train, name and board a horse, but ... I forget where. I think I named it Horse? Hope it's OK. Maybe I'll go for a leisurely ride after I've killed the Big Bad and retired.

The other day I did hop on and ride a deer for a little while.

I find the horse riding relaxing! Doesnt even matter if you abandon it on the edge of a cliff or whatever anyway cos you just rock up to any stable and its there. Or, get the Ancient horse gear so you can teleport him to you.

There's just so much climbing in this game that riding around on a horse feels ... terrestrial. Or like jacking a car and going for a joy ride, I guess. Then, yeah, just abandoning it somewhere by the edge of a cliff.

Riding a bear is fun.

Stumbled upon and therefore fought the Big Bad for the first time. Seemed to be going OK, but then he went all shiny yellow and I could no longer do damage. Take damage, yes, but do damage, no. I assume I lack a magic widget or something?

Have you done all 4 champions?

Yep. That reduced its health by half. I beat it down further for a bit but then it just becomes and stay impervious, as far as I can tell. I went through almost all of my shields and food and anything to replenish hearts, so there must be more to it than attrition.

Hm I'm struggling to recall that. I dont feel like he was that hard. Do you have any ancient arrows?

Yeah, lots! They didn't do anything. Must have a weak spot or something. I guess I can just look it up.

once his health gets low enough hurting him requires expert timing or using one of your champion skills

There, I beat Ganon (second try).

1) There is something very ironic about going all this time without much use for shields or horses only to find the final battle inextricably linked to shields and horses.

2) I don't think the final battle was particularly satisfying, given that my driving feeling throughout was that it was making me break or use up all my equipment, and that I couldn't wait for it to be over so that I could replenish supplies. I guess that's a testament to how great the rest of the game, everything but ... the bosses, all of which were easier than random Lynels.

Glad you all pressured me into playing, though! Back to maybe Cuphead or something else in the interim before I (probably) dive into Dark Souls 3.

sequel announced

ubisoft also announced a sequel:

https://kotaku.com/gods-monsters-is-a-new-ubisoft-game-thats-like-zelda-1835387169

i don't know why i crapped up this thread by mentioning the ubisoft game, sorry

pumped for the real sequel!!

so much of zelda relies on it actually being zelda

i just imagined pulling up the awful ubisoft map and seeing 4 trillion possible objectives

Kinda hoped they'd go in another direction for the next mainline Zelda, but I'll gladly take more BotW, especially if this is the Majora's Mask to BotW's Ocarina (which it looks like it could be).

feel like it's probably a long way off (tho hopefully not)

maybe zelda will be a playable character? or co-op'able?

That trailer made me plotz.

i think it shows up holiday 2020 at the earliest, holiday 2021 at the latest

that sounds about right

don't think they'd repeat the mistake of botw which they first announced for the wii u in like 2013 and then strung people along for years

more likely than the mistake of shipping a game that doesn't actually work

string me along all you like, as long as i don't die i'll play the game whenever it's ready

They have the engine and map and everything already. I'm wondering if this will answer all the BUT I WANT DUNGENNNNZZ people by... being a completely underground game, lol.

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

excellent.

hey i finally got around to going back in and beating ganon. it's pretty easy overall, but the first chunk of it is at least challenging. it's weird that you're then ported outside and do the easy part of shooting arrows at big targets on dark ganon's body.

yeah it's a dramatic playable cutscene, it's supposed to be easy

And they dont let you keep the damn light arrow *grump*.

I wish they'd made the monsters less adorable, in particular I feel bad about killing hinoxes (when one sits down on the ground and clutches its eye is v adorable.)

Surprisingly, the most fun moment I've had so far is getting okay at disarming bokoblins / moblins with a shield parry. Pretty easy (I guess they were blue), very satisfying. I might try to git gud, which I never would have expected.

Have done water elephant, no desire for more Beasts right now. Gonna buy a house and get some hot-weather gear. I have the cold gear from Rito village and it's really satisfying to have after hours of avoiding snow.

Very rarely on a horse since my favorite thing is climbing, and my second favorite thing is gliding.

i think i spent less than 5 minutes of the game on a horse, cumulatively

Yeah, don't see the point in horses as you can fast travel most areas and miss loads whilst riding.

My son loves them though, has five different ones and will happily spend hours just riding around on them finding cool ways to dismount.

yeh no horses here, but that beautiful white boi was worthwhile

Horses were great until I figured out, one divine beast in, that climbing the towers unlocked the maps, duh

Still - the horseride from kakoriko to rito, near the start of the game, without a map, realising how huge the playing area was vs. Ocarina of Time, dying very often, was one of my favourite gaming experiences ever

So I thought I was kinda over this game, and then I randomly grabbed my first sand seal in the middle of a sand storm, it dragged me through an area I'd never explored before, past a couple moblins to a treasure chest with a diamond in it (which I keep hoarding expecting to need for armor upgrades at some point.)

Upgrading barbarian armor to four stars was fun. Also, if you mount a lynel, when it bucks you off after the fifth hit, immediately lock on with the left trigger and then hit the right trigger to get three cheap headshots from behind.

Yeah the other good thing with that is apparently mounted Lynel attacks dont degrade yr weapon.

Upgrading barbarian armor to four stars was fun. Also, if you mount a lynel,

snicker

Mom I think I'm not supposed to be in this chatroom

i'll tell you who's an ancient screw

the motorcycle is kinda disappointing so far. i think i'm ready to kill ganon and put on a mario hat.