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Scott wrote:
You're right. I don't have very strong weapons currently. Strongest is a +26 sword, because it's fused with one of the wiggly. night skeleton parts. They pack a punch.

And you're also correct that I wasn't looking to Google where to find strong weapons/etc. I'm currently playing the game as is. No googling unless I really can't figure something out.

Groo wrote:
That Octorock trick in BotW was great. Is there logic behind it? Canon maybe?

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I was NOT equipped for that battle. I didn't even try. I tried running away. But ice beam was super effective. 1 hit KO.

Woah! Pretty sweet. Didn't expect this kind of item. The devs did some pretty cool stuff in this game. I bet I could make something awesome with this.

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Just beat my first Gleeok on my way to finding Zelda’s horse. Big frosty boy. Followed the instructions suggested by @BloodPuppetX and made liberal use of keese eyeballs and arrows. I ran out of homing eyes, so by the final phase of the fight I needed to rely on my aim as I slowed down time falling through the air, using keese wings for maximum distance.

Pretty satisfying to take one of those guys down. Felt like a legitimate fantasy BATTLE, more than some of the true bosses even.

Story-wise, I’m right at the end. I think I only have the final showdown to complete, so I’m focusing entirely on side quests and exploration for now. I don’t want the game to be over.

I also built my “dream house” recently. Pretty neat, if not entirely necessary. Nice to have everything I need in one spot but tbh that’s also the case if I visit a town or stable, just without needing to pay for a bed. But even then, it’s free to sleep at Lookout Landing.

Since this style Zelda is apparently going to be the blueprint for 3D Zelda going forward, I’d honestly like them to add a few more “casual” elements to the gameplay. Along with more NPCs, NPC houses and towns, it’d be neat if there were some sort of “friend” mechanic, so Link could eventually host parties/gatherings at his house or receive invites to others. Maybe some perks/items are only unlocked by using this social mechanic. Wouldn’t mind a little easygoing, Animal Crossing style gameplay meshed in when you don’t feel like investing in an action packed quest on any given day.

Oh man, I've been using this method to make crazy amounts of Rupees in no time. I'll never be broke again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLxu53iXB_w&list=P...

That's convenient.... I was just farming raw primal meat.

I have 6k+ rupees and haven’t used any dupes or work arounds. I just sell off the rocks I get and haven’t had an issue so far.

I got 11k selling 300 Frozen Meat things from that glitch. Now if there were a glitch for the Zonite...

Woah!!

awesome! This game really did some cool stuff.

Got some more time this weekend with it and got through the water temple. That was pretty fun and probably my favorite temple. That just leaves the sand temple. Many of the side quests feel repetitive, but at least some of them have some good rewards like armor pieces.

Had my first encounter with Shadow Ganon and was completely taken by surprise. I quickly died, but when I came back to life, I couldn't find him.

Found myself exploring Thunderhead Isles, I think before I’m supposed to since I could barely see anything. Stumbled upon a late game quest I imagine since it involved a sage and now I’m in the depths trying to finish said quest.

85 shrines down.

Okay so I’ve done a complete 180 on this game. Wasn’t digging it but now I’m hooked. I’m not a big puzzle guy so when I find a shrine I only solve it if I’m in a puzzling mood lol.

Any advice on how to find more armor sets? I got a quest to find three chest pieces for climbing, the barbarian one and shock resist, but then have no idea how to find the rest, is it just good to explore caves to find more?

Shane12m wrote:


Caves are the best place to look. With every cave having a bubble frog you need to explore pretty thoroughly. Some are hidden extremely well though. I said nuts to all that and looked them up. I don't think I'd have ever found the entire climbing set without doing so. Even looking it up it was still a pain to get.

KCPenguins wrote:

Yeah may just look some things up eventually like I did with elden ring.

Also, just got the auto build after doing two of the main dungeons and getting most of the way towers and tears. What a game changer!!

Grind one shot by Lynels. How many hearts do you need?

Regarding cave locations

Kommie wrote:

4 hearts, a few puff shrooms and durable weapons.

SwiftJAB wrote:

This thing is still one shotting me with about 9 hearts. It's Silver, I think

If it's a silver one, I believe the damage is incredibly high. You would probably need a fully upgraded set of armor to survive a single hit or a ton of hearts and maybe a defense buff.

Shane12m wrote:

I wish they weren't quite so hidden. I feel like I'm going to be basically at the end game before I have most of the armor. It would be nice to have access to them for a more significant portion of the game.

After 200 hours, I finally decided to wrap up the story. Ganondorf's final form was ridiculously easy, but much cooler than Dark Beast Ganon from BotW. I found all the lightroots, 144 shrines and less than 300 korok seeds. I did all 60 side adventures, 103 (out of 139) side quests and 29 of 31 shrine quests. Looks like all 8 shrines I missed are in the sky, even though hero's path shows I've been to pretty much every sky island. I couldn't find any on the surface I missed while comparing it with the depths map. I'm going to move on to some other games now, but will come back to this later.

So will Zelda Tears of the Kingdom get DLC or will they make a Deluxe version for Switch 2 for Spring/Summer 2024?

Did the WiiU get the Expansion Pass for BOTW?

On the performance issues people talk about what yall seeing? I am now noticing weapons not loading etc guess I have more now etc, slowdown?

I would bet good $ on getting DLC, though I don't think it will hit Online+ anytime soon there after. Could be wrong.

There definitely are performance issues, but nothing big imo. I find it funny traversing Hebra and watching the flags run at nearly a frame per second, but Link moves well enough during it.

I'd be very surprised if TotK doesn't get DLC.

Performance issues were very apparent for me when in the depths trying to fuse Zonai devices together at a construct station alongside Mineru’s construct.

Gloom Hands are beating my Butt! Cant Run this time! Side Quest for the win!

Is there a room you get access to like BotW that you can store weapons and shields?

Shane12m wrote:

You can build your House, much more intricate than BOTW. Near a certain Construction Company.

So.... Apparently I've put 70 hours into this and I honestly might drop it. Is it a good game? Yes. But it's also a complete disrespect of my time. You need to find 4 shrines in order to upgrade Hearts/Stamina. Everything is grindy since weapons break. Blood Moon refreshes every 168 in game minutes, which adds to the grind and disrespect of my time. I can admit this is a good game, just that most of the time is added so you're just wasting your time. Korok seeds? Grind/time killer with no guide. Shrines, time sink. The idiot with the post everywhere where you have to build crap to hold it up? Grindy. This whole game is just a grind/disrespect of your time. It's good, yeah but the whole is based around grind.

Kommie wrote:

None of the things you mentioned you have to do though, but to each their own and all. Enemies in the wild that refresh with the blood moon are entirely avoidable and fighting them again would just be for optional materials. With all due respect I think you calling the game a grind fest is just completely inaccurate

The only things that I would consider grindy in this game are collecting the stuff to increase your battery, and collecting all of the materials for gear upgrades. Everything else, you just do what you want to do. I tend to mostly just explore areas I haven't been before (thank you Hero's Path) so the blood moon bringing enemies back doesn't affect me. Even if I do need to re-visit an area, it's easy enough to just run past enemies. I don't see how weapons breaking makes the game grindy? I've literally never had to grind for weapons. For me, it's more the opposite, my inventory is usually stacked with solid weapons and it's hard to decide what to get rid of when I get a new one. I literally have to make myself use my stronger weapons, or else I'll just keep using the weaker weapons over and over while the stronger ones just sit there forever (like most of my Breath of the Wild playthrough lol). Korok seeds and shrines are both completely optional, but I still don't see how they're grindy. I don't go out of my way grinding exploration trying to find them...I just explore areas I haven't been before and get any koroks or shrines that I come across. I don't know, maybe we have a different view of the word "grind".

Scott wrote:

Maybe I was being a bit dramatic calling it grindy, but this is pure grind. Especially the battery upgrades. Holy grind. Do you want max battery and get it legit? Grind.

Kommie wrote:

But you in no way need max battery. You can go the whole game without ever upgrading it. In fact I played through half the story dungeons and unlocked all the sky view towers before I even upgraded my battery once. You get plenty of the materials you need to upgrade pretty naturally through the underground side story stuff as well

If you tried to 100%, I could certainly agree with our being grindy. But like the others said, you don't have to do any of that stuff. I'm trying to unlock all of the depth map. Honestly, that's a bit grindy. But to be fair, it's my choice. I don't have to do that at all if I don't want to.

I mean, fine. But for me I'd want to max the battery, I think. It's still a good game regardless of my issues.

Yeah, going for 100% is definitely grindy. I'd be pretty annoyed with how much it takes to upgrade the battery if I didn't have access to the duplication glitch.

Kommie wrote:

It's not a waste of time if you're having fun. At the end of the day, ALL video games are a time waster. It's just a matter of how much time you're willing to sacrifice.

I'm about 105 hours into the game. I have all the sages and am being asked to take on Gannon... And yet my heart keeps telling me to explore and level up more. So that's my plan until I feel I "need" to finish it.

I was around this mark when I beat BOTW, and I'd like to extend some more life out of this one.

The only grind would be for rupees to buy and upgrade armor. I’ve never had to intentionally grind for anything other than that. I just go from one quest to another and I always seemed to have the materials I need.

I left the house and let Zelda’s Horse from BOTW auto run following the roads, it was a nice break. Then dropped him off at a stable and went back and built my house the way I wanted maxed 15 pieces. Made sure 2nd floor walked out to a beautiful view of the Sunset etc.

Cooking out on my deck enjoying the view, I am not 100% as I dont speak horse and there was no sub title, but I could hear my horse nicker with slight snort. Keep my King of Horses at the house. Kingston I believe is saying, “its not a grind when your having fun. Now stop wasting time and take on those gloom hands and get the Master Sword already!”

Other than Epona any “special” horse from BOTW is in TOTK Wild so even though it was cool surprise to find my other horses at the stable. Missed on finding and catching those few horses again in the wild. Neat little story moments either way.

I need to work harder at being a reporter and dealing with the other fairies story lines to upgrade etc…..and Gloom Hands.

I've decided to go after armor sets next, then max out the ones I like before updating and eliminating the duping glitch. Even with duping I'm going to be over 100 hours easily. Will never 100% it. Great game.

Got the Hero of Winds armor set today - will be rocking the Wind Waker threads for the rest of the game (unless I need to switch it out for the appropriate reasons). Gonna try to focus on upgrading it so it doesn’t leave me vulnerable heading into the story’s endgame.

theJaw wrote:

I have two time and one wind but it makes a “set” looks wise. Are we getting these via Amiibo? I havent been using mine. One annoying thing all the Stores start rockin my gear after I have it already. Can I get some Gloom Pants Please!

KCPenguins wrote:


Dont let duping hold ya down. Get some diamonds and roll out. I am still in upper 80 so used about 12. Mainly for house building. I saw another dupe at level -156 with a Multi Bow that is even faster. Though I liked glide and take 5 the best, only dupe I needed so far.

Groo wrote:

No amiibo here. Just been exploring the depths. Found the first piece via treasure map but then used a guide to find the order two.

theJaw wrote:

Copy that, I forgot how I got most of the cloths, I used Amiibo early on but the results were slow and tedious. Seemed mainly was weapons I didn’t want and fabric. Assume some outfits I received from Amiibo but there are so many I don’t remember how I got what, plus I am missing a ton.

Like BOTW, I rock silent ninja the most.

Who else preordered the Hardcover Piggyback guide. It got delayed but I think I am gonna cancel and just get the eventual extended edition. I finally got the extended one in the mail for BOTW and it’s HUGE, I missed a lot.

theJaw wrote:

That's what I beat Ganondorf with. Didn't even upgrade that much. I think you get an attack bonus for wearing the full set.

Groo wrote:


It's not holding me down, and much of the armor sets require multiple specific colored/type mini boss drops.

Speaking of armor sets, my goodness they hid some of them extremely well. The last one I got required you to ascend into what looked like a solid column above a lava pool, but it had an empty room in it just big enough for a chest. Had to use a water construct to create a platform to use ascend. Not sure how you were supposed to find that naturally.

So went on a newspaper mission to defeat 3 monster brothers in caves. On the way there gloom hands appeared and trapped me on a small structure. I ran around patiently waiting for them to disappear. For some reason they did not this time. Then I got mad. I unleashed all of bomb flower arrow fury. Took them out, then took out the next thing. Climbed a cliff only to find a white lynel between me and the caves. Still mad I stupidly attacked head first. Eventually defeated it, then went into the cave and took on a black hinox. After largely ducking most powerful enemies for 120+ hours, for 15 minutes I was death incarnate, and hell followed me.

👆👆👆This is what I want my Zelda to be. Not finding snow pants and jalapeños so I can go in a cold cave to build a huckleberry monorail. The first few hours is pretty rough.

I’ll admit I’d like to see Zelda transition back to the original health system, just finding hearts along the way in pots and bushes and whatnot. I don’t hate it by any means, and I get that they want to add a “survival” factor considering it’s open world and a “real” adventurer would need to take that approach, but I’m willing to suspend my belief even further to get an old school Zelda mechanic back in place. The game has enough content as it is, there’s no need to pad it out with having to cook meals and whatnot. Heck, keep cooking in the game, but just make it optional - for boons or status effects, etc.

@KCPenguins I've mostly been avoiding the bigger fights too. Up until a couple days ago, I had only fought 1 Hinox, 1 Stalnox, a couple Stone Taluses, and a couple Flux Constructs. Then, in the last couple days, I've fought a red and a blue lynel, another Hinox, Gloom Hands, a couple Flux Constructs, and just now, a Frost Gleeock! It's been a lot of fun! From now, I fight every mini-boss I see. I like to mark each mini-boss on the map so that I can easily find them again in the future.

I still haven’t even seen a lynel outside a cutscene. Where are they hanging out?

Y'all all beasting n fighting and all I did was finish the Fairy story up, was fun.

theJaw wrote:

Yeah, I've been surprised how scarce they seem to be. I've only come across 1 while exploring, then used a map to find another one because I needed to fight a red Lynel specifically. I thought maybe there were way less Lynels compared to BotW, since they added a lot of other mini bosses. But, after looking into it a bit, that's not the case. There were 25 in BotW, but there are 34 in TotK. However, a lot of those are in the depths. There are only 15 on the surface, compared to the 25 in BotW that were all on the surface, so I guess that's why it seems less to me, as I haven't explored the Depths very much yet.

You'll definitely see some Lynels when you find a certain underground colosseum. You have to fight 5 in a row!

BloodPuppetX wrote:


Nice reward though! (I haven't done it)

I've come across 3 Lynels while exploring. Only took down the white one. The others were early on when I would've gotten wrecked, one in the depths and one in the snow.

On a side note, month and a half since release, 120 hours plus, I've looked up stuff online, abused the duping glitch, found all towers and light roots... Somehow I still don't feel like I'm halfway done with this game.

I should note that the game saves after every Lynel you beat in that colosseum. That's the main reason I was able to do it. And I found bomb arrows to be effective against the armored one at the end.

After 120+ hours, I finally decided to finish my 4th temple which was the Water Temple for me. Those of you that did it early on, I can see what you all were talking about with the underwhelming temples. This one is very meh. No real puzzles, no challenge. It was way too easy.

I've fought nearly every enemy in the game, although I haven't done the colosseum yet. I've fought plenty of lynels, but doing 5 in a row might be a tall order. I'll have to stock up on meals and strong weapons.

BloodPuppetX wrote:


That sounds just wonderful.

theJaw wrote:

You can play this game cooking optional, you would just have to explore a ton to find the right armors to get into the right areas, kind of like the older zelda games ;) and you can always eat raw ingredients for health, no need to cook them.

But you’d still have to eat for hearts, is my point. I miss being able to find the random heart after chopping down a bush or smashing a pot or something. And let’s be real, treating cooking as optional and depending on armor would make this particular type of Zelda super tedious, especially if you had to replenish 1/4 heart at a time eating uncooked acorns and whatnot haha

I actually like dishes and wouldn't want them to get rid of that, but it would still be nice if you could find hearts, at least as enemy drops.

Stamina food / pots is a pretty great thing.

Yah like I said, 1) I don't necessarily mind the cooking, I just prefer the old school hearts system, and 2) if they were to bring that back, it'd also be cool to keep the cooking/eating mechanic without making it the only way to replenish health. Keep that stuff around for elixirs, extra (yellow) hearts, stamina, elemental hazard protection, etc. Just let me smash a pot and get a heart, damnitall.

I think the simplest way they could do this is by giving the option to eat right away instead of picking something up.

theJaw wrote:

This is correct. I played BotW for the first time some weeks ago and didn't cook more than 6 or 7 dishes in all the playthrough. 3 or 4 of those were at the beginning when you needed to get the cold resistance. I was always eating apples and mushrooms to get my health back. You can imagine how many apples I ate during the final Ganon fight, lol. I wasn't fighting a lot because of stuff like that.

After beating a shrine, you get full health. Can sleep at your house, Inn or Stable for free or rubies or tickets for full and extra health or stamina. Eat the food cooked by your enemies. Fruits all over the place is like cutting the grass and getting one heart at the time. Healing waters for health regeneration. Many side quests pay in full meals that happen to have bonus effects for the area.

No need to cook, cooking is optional to give you options.

Would still rather just get hearts from bushes, pots and enemies. That's the only point I was personally making: my preference. For sure not pretending it's difficult to replenish health in BOTW/TOTK or anything, I just like the original mechanic and think it'd work fine in this style of Zelda. No biggy either way though obv.

theJaw wrote:

I feel the same way.

Cooking a lot of meals is mundane. They made it better by adding in recipes, but it still takes too long. I want to be able to cook as many meals as my ingredients allow. If I'm cooking 5 apples, why can't I make 20 of those meals at once instead of having to click A a million times?

bonham2 wrote:



You're a teacher, right? Does it bother you when your students exaggerate like this.

bonham2 wrote:


Crap like that was one of my complaints with Animal Crossing on Switch too.

55 hours in according to my Switch profile. Just finished the Lightning Temple. Enjoyed it much more than the Wind Temple. Will probably do the Water Temple next since I already did some of that quest line. 90 shrines completed.

A few days ago, while attempting to do one of the side quests, I found myself reaching the end of the game lol. Didn't realize I was triggering one of the final boss fights. Left a travel medallion there to get back to when I'm ready to beat the game.

KCPenguins wrote:

Not really. Although, it does bother me when people end questions with periods.

bonham2 wrote:


So one ocd vs another.

I wish my teachers would have been apt to critique Zelda. Good times.

citizen_zane wrote:

They could give hearts the ole Zelda way too if only for nostalgia feeling. Be nice while fighting a crew they drop a heart when they die that you touch and instantly get instead of going in a menu to use etc, they drop all kinds of stuff so maybe they should. How about both ways.

I cut grass but dont seem to get rice like BOTW mainly grasshoppers etc. I would take some Link’s Awakening flavor.

Something I dont like is the Blood Moon on Repeat, I dont mind the moon but I have seen the cutsence enough wish we could turn most cutscene off. If I can skip ahead, give me the option to not load it.

What duplication glitches are still in play?

I finally discussed the whole

with some people over the weekend since they finally collected all the memories.

Please use spoiler tags, but I'm curious how this hit everyone? Me personally,

I am genuinely curious to see how the ending plays out, and if it opens up a sequel to

or if it will rap it up to be a 2-parter, with the next Zelda being all-new!

Shane12m wrote:

I'm sure there are quite a few out there. Just search YouTube for "totk duplication 1.1.2". The only one I've used is the free frozen meat when auto-building a meat stick in a cold place. I've seen another that requires positioning yourself at exactly at -156 deep and shooting fused arrows upwards.

Frank wrote:


Missing a few memories yet, but...

As for hearts, the game could easily drop hearts that auto-filled 1 empty heart per baddie defeated without the need for eating. And I'm not talking cartoony hallmark hearts, I'm talking ones that would fit in with the rest of the drops.

On my 3rd temple (Water). I reached the temple before I progressed the required quest line so trying to activate the temple gave me an error. I created a Zonai device using 3 fans and a cart with control stick along with a big battery from the closest sky island that was pretty low in the sky. It took forever to actually reach the temple lol.

Once I actually progressed the quest line and had to shoot the arrow in a very specific way, it took me forever to find the "droplet". I was about to give up and look up how to do it when I found it via the appropriate angle lol.

Of the temples I've done so far (Wind, Lightning, now Water), I've enjoyed the path to this one the most.

I’ve got 12 hearts and two stamina bars and the master sword. I’m thinking of getting the stamina bars before getting more health. Anyone who beat the game, is this enough health? I’m far into things

Shane12m wrote:

Haven't beaten it myself, but I opted to max out my stamina wheel.

Frank wrote:

I think that’s what I’ll do. It just seems more satisfying and challenging (combat wise) this way. Climbing and gliding is too fun to not have full stamina. You get the full glide suite yet? So awesome

Shane12m wrote:

I believe I just have the torso. Honestly, once I ended up getting a certain sage, that helped me out with sky traversal greatly!

I think I'm going to need to hunt down the other two pieces to complete the set.

Frank wrote:

Yeah the sage is awesome for sure. I didn’t get the set until I got the full map explored and all the sky towers but it’s still awesome. The earlier the better for exploring. It’s also an extremely easy set to get if you look up a quick guide but to upgrade to second level you gotta hunt down some aerocuda a bit

Just got the last Kolton reward, and he says he wants the rest, that he can sense them. That there are 93 more! Fudge that. Really dislike the emphasis they placed on caves. A couple dozen or so would've been cool, but well over 100 with maybe a third of the shrines being hidden away in them is starting to take away from my enjoyment of this game. Got about 30 shrines left, half are in the sky and the other half are likely in caves.

Also the lightning temple felt a lot more like a traditional dungeon than the wind temple or lava temple, but despite that I wasn't a big fan of it. Not sure if the issues I had were glitches or intentional, but I lost my helper quite a bit and had to either warp or run back to the save point. Never had to do that with the other two.

KCPenguins wrote:

Not me, I love the caves! I'd be fine with even more caves!

Yah I'm digging the caves too, personally. The "more" factor doesn't really hinder my enjoyment of the game. I suppose that sort of thing could frustrate somebody trying to do EVERYthing in the first play-through, but considering you don't need to beat every shrine or max out your stats to beat the game, I just look at it as more content at the end of the day. When I beat the final boss and grow tired of playing the game, I'll feel somewhat comforted in my $70 purchase knowing that there will still be plenty of content to explore and complete when I eventually pick it back up down the road. I'm not gonna do what I did with BOTW and beat every side/shrine quest or unlock as many shrines as I can before getting to the end, because that made for some empty sessions when I tried to play it again after.

Is there a way in TotK to have more than one thing on your sensor at a time? I know you can't in BotW, but I wasn't sure if there's something new in TotK that would allow it. I'd really like to have shrines and koroks on my sensor at all times.

I don't mind the caves persay, it's I hate the fact that they shoved what seems like a third if not more of the shrines in them, and in doing so they removed actual shrine content. Just like BotW had gobs of shrines and the lackluster divine beasts instead of complex dungeons to fill the large world, TotK robbed many shrines of actual content in lieu of running around looking for caves. Find a cave, break through 8 Boulder sets, fight a couple enemies in a dark/hazy/slippery environment, enter the shrine... here's an item you likely don't need and a light orb. That's been mostly what I've been finding over the last 30+ shrines.

It's not about doing everything, but I am doing all the shrines, temples, collecting the armor I want and completing the story. I've already completed the map and filled my battery (not going for the bonus as of now as I don't see a benefit). Nuts to koroks, kolton, and any other grindy efforts to say I 100%'d the game., same as BotW (which I did twice, and would probably do a third time before replaying TotK). Thinking about it, I don't know if there is anything that would make me replay TotK tbh unless something changes. I currently see it as Minecraft, rather than replay it I can just open up my existing file and puts around.

Thank goodness for the item dup glitch. If I couldn’t duplicate materials for armor upgrades and diamonds for money I’d be burnt out pretty quick.

I absolutely love the caves. The more the better. I like that they hid away armor and shrines in them. The only knock on caves is that after collecting my final item from Kolton, the bubbul gems seem worthless. I know I will never get 100% of the caves, so it takes away from my desire to fully search the cave once I've found any big items that may be in there.

I refuse to do any dup glitches. I have about 20 diamonds (I make my money from making and selling meals/elixers). My biggest concern is going to be getting enough star fragments and dragon parts. I think I have only picked up 5-6 star fragments so far, and dragon parts have been very stingy as well.

Whoever mentioned the Lightning Temple earlier, your sage/companion is human at that point and limited to her own abilities. The puzzle you need to solve is how to get her to the area so she can use her ability to help you. It's actually a great temple.

My opinion on the 4 temples:
Wind - Best lead up, good temple (albeit too easy) with a fun boss
Fire - Worst lead up, best temple with a great boss
Lightning - Weak lead up, great temple with a fun boss
Water - Decent lead up, horrible temple with the dumbest boss I can ever remember in a Zelda game

I'd rank them overall:
1. Wind
2. Lightning
3. Water
4. Fire

I thought the water boss was pretty lame too, and for as hectic as the battle was, it was too easy. Compare that to something like the wind temple boss, which was also easy but a lot more straight forward, it doesn't hold up. I liked the build up with the "water drop" quest though, thought actually getting TO the temple with the lowered gravity was fun, and love Sidon. I think the closest to "disliking" something from the game's story was the build up to the fire temple, the "drug rock food" gimmick seemed like a kid wrote it, and I honestly didn't find the temple all that memorable. The boss WAS fun though. I thought the Lightning temple was probably my favorite experience as far as the temple itself goes, and I dug the boss battle a lot, but, in my book, nothing beats the build up to the wind temple and the sense of scope facing off against that boss. That, plus the fact that I dug the temple being inside a giant airship, and that one easily clears the others for me.

And then of course there's...

bonham2 wrote:


That was me. She popped in all the time in her human form. Anytime I flew beyond her reach she popped in. Just not in 1 area.

I really didn't like the lead into the lightning temple sans the one fight mainly cause I liked the design of the enemy (other than that the fight itself was meh).

Favorite build up: Water temple. The quests and platforming were great.

Worst build up: Lightning temple. Quests were meh and finding the temple was boring.

Favorite temple: Wind temple. Puzzles were decent and the sage seemed more useful.

Worst temple: Water temple. With the wind sage to assist, it felt way too easy to navigate.

Favorite boss: Lightning temple. Battle was challenging enough and the use of the sage helper was very relevant.

Worst boss: Wind temple. Really didn't need the sage for this one, just a good position and some patience.


Since it didn't come up in any of the lists above: Fire temple was decent, but not very memorable. Boss battle was probably the easiest of them all. Build up was not great, but it was the only temple to include the depths.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u63gM67OEuM


This sums one aspect up nicely...

Just took on the coliseum and had a blast beating them. Definitely a major highlight of the game for me. Didn’t cheese them either.

As far as the temples I’d probably rank them like this

1. Lightning
2. Wind
3. Water
4. Fire

I hated everything about the fire temple. The lead up, the character and the temple itself was just not fun for me. Wind and lighting are close as I preferred the theme of wind, but lightning was just a lot of fun overall. The water temple was cool and the boss was actually fun but it felt too short

#1 Wind
#2 The Rest

Sage I use the most Wind.
Sage I use the most while fighting Fire would be Lightening but she is no wimp and goes hand to hand combat. Have to run her down.
Sage that seems to get in the way Fire, dude is always in the bidness. I launch him sometimes just to get him away.
Sage I go out of my way to use to save his feelings, Water. All Sages are important.

So I finished all the tears, and that was some deep sh*t. It hit me in all the feels.

bonham2 wrote:

Yeah that was so good

Yah the tears quest was awesome, that’s the story stuff I’m here for.

Shane12m wrote:

I got all three stamina wheels and beat all of the temples before getting any extra hearts. I'd much rather the game be a little harder than not be able to climb something I want to climb.

Yoshi wrote:


That's what my kids are doing, but they have no upgraded armor or elixirs. When it comes to boss battles I make them try them 5 times before handing it off (if they make no progress).

I beat all of the colosseums today. I have most of the armor, although I still have a long way to go to upgrade most of it. I have around 130 shrines and probably close to 90% of the depths unlocked. I still have a ton of side quests to finish. I feel like I'm getting to my end. I am still loving every second of it, but the rest might become really grindy.

I have 8 shrines left in the sky islands, but I'm 6 hearts shy of max health. I read you can't get max stamina and health, but I thought it maxed out at 38 hearts with full stamina. I'll be at 36 hearts after the last shrine. I believe I got all temple hearts, and I got the one in the depths. Were there any others tied to side quests?

I have all major armor sets sans rubber. I'm missing a ton of the bonus armor from previous games. I duped to max out most of them as there was no way in hell I was going to do it legit. You'd have to kill dozens of each of the biggest baddies to fully upgrade many armors. If I recall correctly one armor set alone required 35 of the same Gleeok part. No thanks.

Patch 1.2.0 out. It patched out some of the dupe glitches from my understanding, like the autobuilding meat in cold weather.

General Updates
- By starting the game from within certain articles released on a specific Switch News channel (accessed via the HOME Menu) players can receive a number of in-game items.

- Depending on the state of gameplay progression or the location in which the data is reopened, there may be cases in which the items cannot be received.

Additional Fixes
- Fixed an issue where players could not progress beyond a certain point in the main quests “A Mystery in the Depths” and “Secret of the Ring Ruins”, the side adventures “Hateno Village Research Lab” and “Lurelin Village Restoration Project”, the shrine quest “Dyeing to Find It”, and the side quests “Village Attacked by Pirates”, “The Incomplete Stable”, and “Seeking the Pirate Hideout”. Downloading the update will allow players to proceed past that point.

- Fixed an issue preventing fairies from appearing under certain conditions when they originally should have appeared.

- Fixed an issue preventing the meals provided by Kiana of Lurelin Village from changing under certain conditions.

- Several issues have been addressed to improve the gameplay experience

Anyone know how exactly that "open game from the News Channel articles" thing works? I don't really understand the language they used.

Think I'm gonna go for the ending this weekend and finally beat the game. I've been trying to put it off but I just feel the drive to finally finish it, what with Pikmin 4 and some other games coming out in the coming months.

theJaw wrote:

They did this with BotW. A new post in the TotK news may have something like a recipe for an in-game dish. That post will also have a button to launch the game. If you launch the game from that post, a treasure chest (IIRC) will pop up in your game with the ingredients for that recipe. Suff like that.

I have been ready to beat this for weeks now, but I don't want it to end.

I just can't bring myself to do it. I have 141 shrines, only around 5 lightroots left to discover, most of the armor, hundreds of koroks, even about half of the extra bubbul gems (which I have no intention of completing). I've beaten every major boss and mini boss including all of the colosseums. I still need hundreds of items to upgrade my armor, but I could play for another 100 hours and not get all of that stuff. It's time, but I don't want it to end. I highly doubt I will ever play this one again. I played BotW through twice. I've already put in around 170 hours on this one, so I could never start over.

Question, what is your end game goal? Is anyone trying for 100% (I don't even think it's possible)? What is your personal 100% (if that makes sense)? I want all shrines, all lightroots discovered, all armor, full hearts, and enough koroks to fully upgrade my inventory.

bonham2 wrote:


All shrines (6 shy), towers (done), light roots (done), full stamina (done), max hearts w full stamina (4 shy... I think I'm missing 2 somewhere aside from shrines), all temples (done), all armor with environmental perks (2 pieces shy), upgrade said armor, all mini bosses with unique drops required for armor upgrades, dupe 30 of all strong/rare fuse items I have after everything else.

I'll pass on Koroks/maxing out item slots for now; never did that in either BotW playthrough. Also bubblegems. My personal opinion is "completing" this game is to unlock all maps, and finish all shrines/temples.

bonham2 wrote:

This, plus upgrading all armor to the highest level.

So exploring the sky islands I hover biked and glided to a distant high island. My reward? A King Gleeok. Figured now is as good a time as any to take on my first Gleeok. Tough fight. Blew through a ton of Keese eyeballs

KCPenguins wrote:

Springs are amazing for those fights

I'm at 98 hours and I finally got the Master Sword. I decided to hit up the depths under Hyrule castle for the first time. I think I need to go back and cook up some more dishes, definitely some gloom resistance.

SwiftJAB wrote:

It’s hard to get but the depths armor is so worth it and looks amazing

I decided to finally beat the game today. I have all armor, 152 shrines, only 119 lightroots (can't figure out which one I'm missing). I've done a ton of armor upgrading, but I won't be grinding for all of the missing materials. I might come back to this for fun in the future, but it's time to move on (185 hours is a record for me for a single player game unless you count my two full playthroughs of BotW. I loved BotW, although it definitely had its flaws. However, I can't imagine ever going back to it now. Imagine going back to all that climbing and running instead of all the countless ways we can get around in TotK. Those of you that know me over the years know that Ocarina of Time is my all-time favorite game. I think TotK might have taken over the top spot.

bonham2 wrote:


There's one lightroot that is a small circle in a deeper area. It's hard to see as since it's in a deeper area it's surrounded by dark blue map. It blends in really well.

Which one?

I don't recall, but it was the last one I got. If you have all the shrines you can just bounce back and for between maps to find it.

I did that. I consulted a map too. I can't find it anywhere.

Maybe focus on the areas of the depth with darker blue?

With the important caveat that I haven't gotten around to playing Elden Ring yet, this is the best game I have played since Half-Life: Alyx. The two games have something very compelling in common: They are very flexible, and essentially everything that creatively should work does.

Like a lot of you it seems, I haven't had the heart to finish the main game. I just keep finding new stuff. The level of hand-crafted design and attention to detail is ridiculous for an open world game.

All shrines, all hearts and all memories. Finishing strong so far. Want to complete one last thing before end game. I still say I don't think I can replay this game like BotW, but it's been a journey.

Beat this last night. System says I spent 135 hours on it.

The final hour or so had 3 moments where I said some variation of "oh crap" out loud.

Potentially my favorite game of all time. The sense of discovery and exploration is second to none.

Went ahead and beat it. Better ending than BotW. Insane number of people worked on this game. One of the best Zelda games, but I'm not sure if I'd crown it king. Definitely most ambitious.

KCPenguins wrote:

It's my favorite as of now. We'll see if recency bias applies after a while when I replay BOTW.

The ending was okay imo, but yeah, way better than BOTW's.

I've officially moved on from TOTK for now. All I have left of the main story is to take out Ganondorf, but I played the game to death and just can't play it anymore until I take an extended break. Happy to have the endgame to go back to when I get back in the mood though.

I moved on as well. I played the hell out of this. Hopefully there will be DLC to convince me to go back, but otherwise, I can't ever see going back to it. It's too big and overwhelming to start again.

I moved on after beating it, but I pop in from time to time to clear up some of the shrines I missed. I plan to gradually complete all the remaining ones I have left, but there's too much else to do/play right now.

Going after armor now...

What is the reason this isn’t fully voiced? I would have loved it if all the side quests and even the main quest line was fully voiced. That’s my one gripe with an other wise amazing game

The weird noises and groans that the NPCs make can be annoying. My wife and kids mimic the noises and make fun of the game. I honestly don't care about the lack of voice acting throughout the majority of the game. I tend to skip through acted dialogues in most games, which tends to be really annoying as their sentences are constantly being cut short.

bonham2 wrote:

The NPC's Grunts and Moans....LMAO.....Yall like you some Linky! Look, but dont touch. I have work to do, this is my longest quest yet!

Got all the armor in the game. Went to upgrade it all and Holy hell what a grind. Even with the duping glitch it's going to take awhile. No way I'd even consider it without the glitch. It requires tens of thousands in rupees, and dozens of many rarer items. I duped everything I have up to 30 each, gems over 60 and it was no where near enough. Still missing 1 bug and 3 enemy parts to be able to upgrade everything. I know it's not required, and I didn't do it with BotW, but TotK feels like it will be better to mess around sandbox wise after the fact unlike BotW which I was more motivated to start a new game.

Shane12m wrote:

That can be summed up in 2 words: "Hey! Listen!"

Shane12m wrote:


Aonuma claims this is because if the character were to say something that the player does not agree with, the relationship between the user and Link would be lost.

As for other NPC's it's likely a balance of only having key story being voice acted and the rest defaulting back to the mainstay of the series (no real voice acting). Other reasons I'm sure Nintendo would never admit is it cuts down on the size of the game and is cheaper as you don't need to hire 8 sets of voice actors. Plus you don't hear as many complaints if a particular regions voice actor is not great. Ahem Zelda ahem. I like the balance personally as I can skip the bulk of dialogue without feeling like I missed anything.

KCPenguins wrote:

I get link not having voiced dialogue it’s more a complaint with the rest of the characters throughout. I like it voiced with the option to skip lines when you want. It probably comes down to it not being worth it in their mind, I mean the game is still awesome

I agree with KCPenguins, cost and user sentiment are probably the key factors. Personally, text dialog is so much better when dealing with NPCs that don't impact the storyline. I'll read much faster than a voice actor will speak those lines. In many games I put captions on just so I can get through dialog faster.

KCPenguins wrote:

TotK is definitely WAY more of a grind than BotW was, and BotW was already quite a grind, depending on what all you were going for. I definitely plan to max out all of the armor again, but I still have access to the duping glitch, so it won't be an issue for me.

KCPenguins wrote:

I actually really like Zelda's voice in BotW/TotK. I can understand people not liking it though.

Yah I don't mind Zelda's voice either. Imo she makes the game feel more epic whenever she speaks. Has that old-timey "epic fantasy" vibe.

Scott wrote:


I completed the max all armor using duping and it still took HOURS. I can't imagine doing it legit, and never would have even considered it without duping. Now all that's left is to max my battery, update the game, and then I'm taking a break until the inevitable DLC.


Scott wrote:


I don't care either way on Zelda (could be better, could be worse, but I've seen a good amount of people complain. Frankly I found Yanubo's voice as the biggest miscast but I got used to it.

Well fudge ... one payment left and this thing ships ... how in the hell do I play this one off with the wife?

https://www.first4figures.com/link-on-horse-exclus...

MrBean wrote:

Pack your crap dude.

Dude what the fuuuck. That is an unacceptable price for a statue lol, my god.

MrBean wrote:


You really spent ~$800 on a "luxery" that was obviously not a buy it now or someone else takes it home (payments) while making said payments without consulting the better half? Oof, you really are a big dumb animal.

theJaw wrote:

Yeeeaaaahhhhhh.... It made sense at the time and now reality is setting in.

KCPenguins wrote:

Hahaha absolutely... The blessing and the curse of managing our money

MrBean wrote:
Link has a removable cloak? That's pretty cool.

MrBean wrote:
After having gone on that wild Doge coin ride, I'd say this statue/purchase is small compared to that.

nonamesleft wrote:


LOL... 'If I fudge up big time, imagine all the smalls I'll be able to pull off...'

Bean, I hope you don't have much debt, have a plan for retirement, and if you have kids you're doing something for their future. Rooting for ya.

KCPenguins wrote:

haha, thankfully ... as dumb as I am, I'm ... kinda smart, sometimes (but not really). Honestly just lucky/grateful that we both have really high paying jobs that we busted our asses for, especially growing up under the poverty line.

We invest ~45% of our combined salaries into retirement/stocks/kids 529s/and have a ton of life insurance. We have a pretty solid portfolio for our age. Should be better, but I think we're in a good spot overall. The rate we're going, retirement shouldn't be an issue (hopefully!).

STILL ... my wife is probably gonna murder me when this Link statue shows up on the desk, next to the Samus helmet and Lilith statue (both new in the last year) that just "magically showed up" ... "these old things!? pssshhh, they were in the basement, in boxes, I'm just rotating them in" --- this has worked a few times .

Retirement is for quitters.

nonamesleft wrote:

"after" ... man, I'm still stuck on that ... hahaha. It was GME that was the insanity that thank god I got out of realtively unscathed. DOGE on the other hand, still on the damn ride, waiting for my turn to get off!

MrBean wrote:
Oh, it was GME that you took us here on a ride? Thought it was Doge. Man you had us on a rollercoaster.

Finally finished this over the weekend after we lost power for 24 hours.

I had played this for 2 weeks straight upon release but had not touched it since then really. Upon coming back to the game, I was in the middle of the Water temple, after already having done the Wind, Lightning and Spirit temples/sages. I actually had already discovered the Fire Temple and the end of the game location and put travel medallions down to go back to them. Very quickly I was able to finish the Water temple and Fire Temple and then go to Hyrule Castle and then to the end of the game. I watched a speed run and saw someone could do it in less than 42 mins. I definitely did things out of order and the game dialogue reflected that (e.g., getting the Spirit sage and Master Sword before finishing 2 of the temples) and finding the final boss location early.

There's a ton of content I still need to go and do, but will do so slowly over time.

Sun of a doge, that's a long gap.

I still haven't finished the game. I stopped playing around July just before heading to the end of the game. For some reason I just haven't been motivated to finish it. I'll get to it eventually.

I played TOTK pretty consistently for like 2 months. Now the only main part of the story I have left is the ending. I tried beating it once but the path to the final boss was brutal, so I went and got the armor that makes it a little easier. I’ve still yet to go back and capitalize on that armor and beat the game, just moved on.

Love the game obviously but when you play something so nonstop for so long, it’s gonna burn you out a bit. That said, I’m already getting early onset nostalgia for it despite it only coming out less than a year ago. Anytime I see clips of it in videos on YouTube, I get a rush to go play it again.

I’ll beat it soon enough, but I also enjoy knowing that I still have a bit of the game to look forward to.

KCPenguins wrote:

Yeah, I essentially lost interest after going on a vacation, and had just been playing PS5 games and watching TV since. And the last 3 weeks I had been playing FFXVI, which I finished on the same day right before Zelda. I only picked TotK backup because our power was out for 24 hours and playing the Switch was the only thing I could do (poor cell reception if our internet is down) so I figured I should finally go back to it. I had put in 70 hours before I took the long break.

Sun wrote:
Wow. 5 months later. Definitely a big gap as KCPenguins called it. How did you like it? Good? Great? Amazing?

I put a bunch if hours into it back when it released, but wasn't really feeling it for some reason. Maybe I'll get back to it eventually.

Well I got back on Epona recently after a long time away. The Gloom Hands had run me off LOL. I picked up the Phantom Armor understood fuse better (use what you get stop collecting it) and after roaming around using heroes path finding all kinds of new stuff in places i never went around, I got the balls to take on the gloom hands and gloom ganon again!

I thought I needed to find all the gloom armor to succeed but I did fine with the Phantom Armor and weapons in the 35 attack power range. Now I have the Master Sword and everyone is starring up at the Castle do I dare? I have yet to defeat a Gleekok, I have most of the Armors sets now but nothing worth using at level 2-3. Keep workin at it, or End this thing and go to the castle?

Also I see Elden Ring has a DLC drop, TOTK next?

I believe they stated no plans for DLC as they accomplished everything they wanted to in the game.

This is one of many games I started but then didn't finish over the last couple years. I really need to get back to it, I was so close to beating it. I just had the desert storyline left, and I already had it in progress. Then I could go fight the final boss. Still tons of shrines to find, and I need to explore the Depths more, but I've done a ton of the extra stuff, like upgrading my battery, finding and upgrading all of the armor, etc.

KCPenguins wrote:

Yep, which really bummed me out. I was at least hoping for another Trial of the Sword challenge, I enjoyed that so much in BotW.