Is it unusual for such an anticipated title that's only several months away to not have much known about it?
I don't usually follow games along their pre-release stages, so perhaps a lack of info is standard.
Personally, I'd rather a lack of info when it comes to games that I plan on playing. I don't care for spoilers, or to watch every trailer that comes out.
I'd have thought there'd be more out about it though. But again, I don't usually follow along with the progress of game development.
> |>> Yeah, but it takes practice at fighting lynels to get good at those things. By
>> the
> |>> time you've fought plenty of lynels and gotten good at those things, then yeah,
>> you
> |>> could beat one with 4 hearts. But not just starting out.
> |>>
>>
>> Good thing the game let's you save and load. No need to beat a bunch if you just
>> practice on one over and over.
>
> True!
>
> |>> He's unlikely to have a strong weapon yet since he's so early in the game, is
>> the
> |>> other thing. I love that trick though, I'm so glad they kept it in this game
> and
> |>> didn't remove it after BotW.
>>
>> Plenty of weapons out there, just need to travel a bit to get to them. And if
> he
>> could find a diamond, that would be a +25 buff. Shoot, if he has amiibos, he could
>> possible get some good stuff from just scanning them.
>>
>> I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's possible early game depending upon
> how
>> much effort you want to put into it.
>
> Yeah, definitely possible, just not very realistic. It didn't sound to me like he
> was wanting to Google where he could go raid some high-powered weapons, he was just
> trying to fight them with what he has currently.
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.
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.
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.
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?
> 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?
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.
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.
> 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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".
> 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.
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.
>> 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.
>
> 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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
> 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.
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!
> 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.
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.
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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.
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.
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.
>> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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.
Full disclosure the Lynel fight was tough. He'd have killed me many times over if I wasn't loaded to the gills with health buffs, and none of my attacks dropped it's health much at all. It was death by a thousand cuts. The two gloom fights were easy as I just sat back and bomb arrowed them, and the master sword wrecks gloom Ganondorf.
👆👆👆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 also fought and beat Phantom Ganon after the Gloom Hands! Got his bow and spear, which are pretty sweet.
> I still haven’t even seen a lynel outside a cutscene. Where are they hanging out?
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!
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.
> 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.
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
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.
> 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
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.
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?
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.
