The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

his three garbage sons

Finished Master Sword Trials!!! Once I got into the groove it wasn't too bad. The two things that helped me the most were mastering the shield parry to defeat guardians which gave me a surplus of ancient arrows at the end, and quickly switching between round bombs and square bombs to keep a constant stream of them raining at enemies.

At the very end of it I was shooting Bokoblins with ancient arrows and it felt soooooooo good.

I just noticed that I have 7 side quests I haven't done, so that should keep me busy until the new one comes out.

Is there any greater joy than firing arrows methodically from a great distance until you land one right into an enemy's head?

I don't think so.

i realized i never really explored thundra plateau, the area with all the huge mushroom plants. i kept climbing them and then gliding over to other ones and climbing up them, expecting eventually i'd find something cool (aside from the obvious shrine puzzle) but nope, just a bunch of bird eggs. disappointing.

it looks cool tho

something interesting but obscure about the thundra plateau: there are rainbow-colored birds flying above the trees that aren’t found anywhere else and are needed to complete the compendium

! I never knew that. I honestly thought I'd snapped all the birbs already.

Finished all of the side quests, now i’m wandering and filling in gaps on the map while wearing the seed mask.

One of the side quests involved a kid that wants a barrel to float so you tie some octorok balloon things onto it and he gives you a star chunk, I think. Anyways, he talks about these myths about people in the past living in floating cities. Which makes me wonder if Tears of the Kingdom involves going back in time? Does this floating city mythology pop up elsewhere in Zelda?

I always assumed that was a nod to Skyward Sword. Given BoTW is so far into the future, its now a myth anyway.

i fell off this game so hard, still haven't done two of the beasts or the castle and i'm not sure i ever will. my hero's path line is hilarious, like 2/3 of the map is completely covered in green and the other third just has a few big lines zipping around to some major landmarks

don't get me wrong this game world is a stunning accomplishment (and i feel bad saying anything negative about it) but i do wish it was smaller enough that it didn't have to recycle its interesting concepts. the most emblematic experience for me was finding the first labyrinth island, going "holy shit this so cool", then finding a second labyrinth island and going "oh this again?" and then finding a THIRD labyrinth island and saying fuck it i'm not doing this again, the first two were virtually the same
the world probably works better for people who are cool with leaving some content undiscovered and don't feel a need to overturn every rock. biggest thing i would change is the korok seed uhh economy... either make them rarer or gate more useful things behind them. in the beginning of the game those are your rewards for being an explorer, especially in the random patches of woods that don't really have anything unique going on aside from being named on the map. but they're designed to get less and less valuable the more you explore - both because it takes more of them to exchange for the same reward, and because you reach a point where you don't actually need more weapon or shield slots. eventually it didn't seem worth it to glide over ten feet to pick up a rock with an obvious korok under it. by that point the game just died for me.

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been years but i finally finished it, had to really clamp down on some completionist tendencies to avoid falling into the same trap but i did do 120 shrines (albeit with help from google towards the end)

feel ready to make an annoying 2 hour youtube video of mostly complaints, skimming through this thread i honestly might agree with JiC more than not

but i'm overcome with hype for totk and ready to go through this again, need to actually acquire a nintendo switch though

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— Keifer (@DannyVegito) April 17, 2023

I've been kind of wondering if I should give this another try? Although I wonder if being indifferent towards fooling around in a physics playground and explain for its own sake (Nintendo: "See that mountain? You can climb it!" Me: "Why would I want to?") just means that I should accept that the game isn't for me.

i dont like sandbox games either but i still enjoyed the exploring and puzzles and atmosphere

yeah if you dont like finding out whats on top of the mountain then it might not be for you, the new one might have more reasons to do things tho, well find out soon

As I've said before my biggest concern with the new game is that it seems to deemphasize climbing

yeah my concern was that the new fuse ability looks like a push further into making physics sandbox goofing around the main attraction, i dont think i want to have to be building contraptions constantly to explore the map

reviews are out with a 96 on metacritic, looks like Aonuma has done it again

Pure Magic

I recently just started this. Only given it about an hour's play so far, so really not far in

This sez YES TOTK for people like me: https://www.gamegrin.com/articles/should-you-play-tears-of-the-kingdom-if-you-hated-breath-of-the-wild/

so what strategy did you all follow after finishing the tutorial stuff? follow the storyline? explore a concentrated area? head off into the distance?

there is a thread for the game fyi The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

my bad - i've been following that thread but just clicked on this one by accident bc it was higher up

i will say that i went back to BOTW a bit in anticipation of TOTK and i somehow have 32 shrines i still haven't found??? i've been like everywhere on the map, i do not understand how that many could still be hiding from me

have you done all the side quests a lot of those make a shrine pop out of the ground when you solve them like the riddle type ones

also some behind bombable walls etc that are hard to find unless you put the radar thing on