The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I like that they disable 'em in the shrines at least.

You should start with all the powers and have to sacrifice each one to beat the corresponding beast

Legit a great idea

Hire me Miyamoto-san

I mean ...

https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/3/22264390/botw-breath-of-the-wild-zelda-nintendo-switch-speedrun-100-percent-damageless-joedun

When he finally pulled it off, his chat erupted in a sea of “EZ Clap” messages.

thinking about that trick shot vid. i want to see a version where they shoot Link with an ancient arrow

You mean like, he flies into his own arrow somehow? I wonder if the physcs even allow for that to do anything ha.

While playing the DLC, wandering around doing nothing, I found an original-game shrine for the first time since 2018 or 19, and my heart went a-flutter

Buried somewhere in canyon east of Tabantha

Which, the one in the forgotten temple?

Man, I love this game

i didn't find the south akkala stable until a dlc side quest pointed me there, that's after playing the game without dlc for 150+ hours

It was almost at the bottom of a canyon on the way to Rito village. Rito was my first divine beast on my first playthrough. I'm sure I would've heard the radar ping, but I wouldn't have had the endurance to climb up and down to find it back then.

And I'm sure there's still a bunch of impossible-to-find shrines under the snow in the NW section of the map.

Haven't played for a while but it's still the best game! I never feel like I've wasted my time playing it, even when I'm up till 2am and feel like crap the next day.

even when resorting to maps the last few shrines were a real bastard to find. Even on the second playthrough there were some I struggled to find again

I definitely resorted to maps for the last 10 or so. No regerts, happy to 100% it. Should actually play the DLC someday though

i started playing on master mode got maybe half way through then just devoted myself to killing taluses and now i have so many gems

master mode is kinda dumb imo its not that much harder you just end up avoiding fighting more

it basically just makes it really hard to fight a bunch of guys at once because of the life regeneration

im playing this for the first time now

Omg all this time we were heckling Josh and you held out like two full years longer.

I'm about a month in to my first playthrough, 75 or so shrines down. The DLC is worth picking up, right?

Yes. I held off getting it until I had virtually finished the main game and feel like that was the wrong way to go.

okay, good to know, thanks

I finished the game first and then got the DLC so it was easier to spot the differences. You can start the DLC from the last save game before completion, you don't need to start the whole game again.

(Either way is fine though!)

I'd say it's inessential in the sense that the main game is enough, but the DLC adds about 20 or so new shrines which are all slightly harder than average. (Sometimes too hard - one shrine I was stuck on for about six months.)

But it's essential 'cause its MORE BOTW.

i didn't find the south akkala stable until a dlc side quest pointed me there, that's after playing the game without dlc for 150+ hours

Ah! same!!

I'm not sure actually if it was the same stable (I think it was?) but yeah there was one stable I didn't find until way way way way after I'd done pretty much everything

the south akkala one is nested in between some mountains, not really near any of the akkala landmarks like tarrey town. i actually had found the stable’s associated shrine but i guess i didn’t hear the stable music and just went off in another direction

just downloaded the DLC, and it has dumped a load of new quests into my Adventure Log, like I didn't have enough to do already FFS Princess Zelda!

Omg all this time we were heckling Josh and you held out like two full years longer.

― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:15 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just had other things to do! And wanted to wait for a Zelda game to go on sale, a thing that never happens! But, inexplicably for 24 hours, it did (for 60 cad instead of 80)

Anyway I hated it at first but I'm getting into it and it's pretty good.

goontie, every time I play this game even now, I'm riding my horse at night and think of what you said way upthread about the music (cutting and pasting here):

"the pointillistic piano part just kept escalating and escalating until a full repeal of ObamaCare was suddenly upon me"

lol

ok does that repeating motif in the pharaoh sanders/floating points album remind anyone else of rito village?

the very beginning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk4uGUrM868

I said in that thread that it reminded me of video game music!

it does hah, botw in particular has a few 6-7 note, ambiguously modal themes like that one

if BotW were a computer game, the pc gamers would be lording their "saxophone patch" over us

of course I'd buy it as an expansion

I guess since people are flipping out over BOTW2, I guess I should try playing this again? I got really bored the first time through, and trying to find the temples only to feel stymied by the puzzles was not enjoyable.

Even I loved it. It's one of the few games I finished that I've kind of wanted to play again even at the expense of games I haven't started. And for that matter, "finished" is debatable, since I finished the story and a lot of the side stuff, but I know there is much more I could do. The world is just so rich and interactive and fun to explore.

I think that's going to be a bit of a hump for me to get over -- I don't care much for exploration, especially for its own sake.

Well, if that's the case, then yeah, there's a lot of exploration, to find the thing that does the thing to do the thing at the time it needs to be done, and so on.

if theres one thing that sets breath of the wild apart from other open world games its that it very purposely does not contain "find the thing that does the thing to do the thing at the time it needs to be done" stuff, which is why its possible to beat it in a half an hour

Huh, I recall a lot of that stuff (not in a bad way) when I played. But maybe none of it was necessary?

yeah you really dont have to do any of it, people who arent experts will have to do some of it to get armor hearts and endurance but theres no order or requirements for which ones you get, you dont have to do any of the divine beasts if you dont want, theres all sorts of options like for instance on my second play through i just did enough shrines to max out endurance because i like to be able to glide climb and run for a long time, but instead of getting hearts i just farmed durians

the one exception would be at the beginning on the plateau you do have to do all the shrines to get the slate powers and to get the glider but thats sort of a tutorial

the fact that the game is truly open world not just in scope but in action is a really cool thing about it, they just left out the constant leveling up mechanics that most games take for granted as necessary and just made a cool game you want to play instead

leveling up mechanics are still there, but if you don't want to go around and collect items to upgrade your armor you don't have to.

they just left out the constant leveling up mechanics that most games take for granted as necessary and just made a cool game you want to play instead

otm. so many games these days, across many genres, are basically Level Upgrade Tree Decision Time: the Game

yeah its such an accepted approach people dont even think about it, nor imo doesnt botw get enough credit for breaking from it

like you cant even get more powerful weapons really because they break