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I've found myself using my shield more than ever in this game. It helps that I usually having something fun fused to it. I know this isn't combat related, but anytime I find a rocket or bomb barrel lying around that I don't need, I'll fuse them to a shield for an easy height boost. I've also been shield surfing way more than I did in BotW. But for combat, I think it might be because the enemies are so much stronger than before, but I have really focused on blocking, parrying, and flurry rushes way more than I did before.

theJaw, I fought one of those guys in The Depths. It came out of the gloom arms (whatever it's called) that attack you. I don't know if it's the same type of boss that you're referring to. I found him to be very easy, although the gloom arms give me a really hard time. I don't know if there is a trick to them, but they kick my ass every time. I usually run away.

@bonham2 yah that sounds the same as the one I fought, had to take out the gloom arms first and tbh, those were what gave me more trouble than the actual mini-boss. The trick I use on gloom arms is fusing bombs or lightning materials to arrows and just rapid firing at them, can usually take them all out with 4-5 hits to the center. (But yah I also usually just run away lol)

The toughest fight for me so far was Phantom Ganon in Hyrule Castle. He multiplies in that fight and spreads the gloom all across the arena. I don't remember how many hearts I had but had to use every healing item in my inventory. Beat a King Gleeok yesterday, which wasn't even that difficult. Just bring a lot of arrows and keese eyeballs for the Gleeok fights, and a Savage Lynel Bow, and they are pretty easy. As long as you have enough health to not get one-shot, anyway.

I haven't even attempted a Gleeok yet. I saw two and ran away. I'm probably ready now though. Maybe I'll try tonight.

Yah I’m still not effing with them yet… if I ever do. I played like 200 hours of BOTW without ever beating a lynel because I’d just avoid them, so I’m in no rush to face off with the tougher non-bosses lol

Yesterday, I was running across a large, open field, trying to reach one of the towers up in the Hebra region, when suddenly I looked over and saw a Gleeok heading right for me. Freaked me out. I was not prepared to fight it so I hid behind something until it circled back, then made a run for it.

Gleeok is the 3 headed dragon boss dude from past. These things are regular world mobs?

Feeb wrote:

They're overworld mini-bosses, like Lynels.

Again, just bring plenty of arrows and the homing eyeballs for the Gleeoks. You might be surprised by how easy they can be. They do hit hard so probably best to have at least 15 hearts before fighting one. I suggested a Lynel bow because they can fire multiple arrows (and hit multiple heads at once - hit all three heads to stun it), but they aren't really necessary. The hardest part is the last phase when they go up high in the sky. You have to figure out how to reach them, which is also pretty fun.

One I haven't beaten yet is the Ice Gleeok, though I only fought one. That one will constantly freeze you, as you probably could have guessed.

I beat the Wind Temple. Pretty easy

It was pretty easy, but that was my favorite temple of the game. I loved the build up with the ships and the boss was real fun.

Reaching the Wind Temple was just as fun as clearing the actual Wind Temple.

Agreed. They don't have to be hard to be fun or memorable. The build up to the Wind Temple was great.

I decided to finally go after some Gleeoks last night. I was looking for the Awakening set, so I had to take on a Thunder Gleeok and a Fire Gleeok. They were both much easier than I expected. I am pretty strong at this point, and some of the abilities can make combat pretty easy. Like I said before, I always have rocket shields ready to go, so they made the later stages of the fight very easy. The arrow bullet time is really overpowered. If you wanted to cheese the game, you could just use that over and over, stun enemies, and then hack away. I do prefer to actually fight the enemies though.

I still have only beat two temples. I really don't want to move on. I usually find in games that once I'm ready for the endgame, I find it difficult to keep exploring. There's so much that I still want to do. I still probably only have about 1/3 of the Depths uncovered. I still have tons of shrines to find. I'm probably only around 100 Koroks at this point, and I still have a ton of armor sets to find. I don't want to move on.

I also have still never gone to Hyrule Castle. I figured that's where the final boss is, so I'm staying away, but now I see people online going in there early on in the game.

Kommie wrote:

I found the Water Temple to be easier imo. Those are the only two Temples I've completed as of yet.

bonham2 wrote:

Just like BotW, I'm really taking my time with it. I did quite a bit of exploration before even doing my first temple, and I'm going to break up the rest of the temples with even more exploration. In BotW, I didn't fight Ganon until I had finished all of the divine beasts and shrines, so I'll probably do the same thing this time around. I did continue playing after that, but just to finish maxing out my armor sets, and to find enough Koroks to max out my inventory slots.


I haven't either. In BotW, I made a couple visits throughout the game to grab a couple specific things, but for the most part, I waited until the very end of the game to explore it. The main thing I wanted to grab was one of those really powerful Royal weapons to use on Lynels.

bonham2 wrote:

I'd highly recommend visiting the castle. Just don't go into the depths. Stay on the elevated portions of the castle. There's lots of great equipment hidden in chests that can be quite useful.

My girlfriend filled me in that there is a mini-boss in the area, but I haven't found them yet.

Though I made it to the fire temple, I never went further, just felt got there to soon and was weak. Made it to the Wind Temple last night was an epic fight just kind quick. Are the other 3 Temple Bosses this way? I started the other 2 too but not all the way to the temples.

After beating the Wind Temple, I went back to Robbie and he finally went on his way, when we met back up I got every upgrade he offered, guess I did this much later than I should have.

I did think I found the light dragon and flew up right away but it was a different dragon

I need to go back to Robbie and get those other quests, he should give them to me as I did one Dungeon.

There's a shrine called Jiukoum Shrine - Built for Rails.

I was stuck at it for awhile. Finally beat it, but the way I went about it didn't seem to me like it was intuitive. I'm curious how others went about it.

Here's some pictures and an explanation:

Idk what it is but I just can’t get into TotK and I absolutely loved BotW. Exploring isn’t as exciting now after elden ring and I’m just not that into it. It’s a great game but just can’t get into it. I’m happy playing Diablo and then ff16 is around the corner.

I’ve been anticipating this game for years and sort of bummed that I’m not enjoying it. Everything just feels like a chore

I made a similar contraption. My bottom rails were wide enough to connect to the outside of each of the beginning rails and then were still close enough so that I wouldn't fall off the 3rd rail once I landed on it. It took a lot of time to get the contraption perfect.

Shane12m wrote:

Legit my thoughts exactly. It's super fun, I'm < 10 hours in so really can't comment overall ... but eh, I dunno, it's not grabbing me. I think more focused/dedicated time is needed, but D4 + FFXVI are calling me more at this time.

bonham2 wrote:
You did similar? Interesting. It didn't feel intuitive, but I couldn't figure out another way to go about it.

You didn't have to rebuild mid ride? It just slid onto the next rail and kept going?

MrBean wrote:

Same. This one is tedious. I’m only about 10-12 hrs in too. I’ll definitely finish the story at some point.

Feeb wrote:


BotW is a top 3 game for me. Still on the fence on whether TotK will top it. Slightly swung towards no at this point.

Just spent around 30 minutes failing to figure out what to do at the Makasura Shrine. Some of these puzzles, I just can't figure them out. I can get creative in order to make progress and figure out a workaround, but that only gets me so far. I left the shrine. No idea what to do.

I prefer TOTK over BOTW in just about every way, to the point that I really can’t see myself being tempted to revisit BOTW with TOTK on my shelf.

nonamesleft wrote:

Yeah, but it took a long time to get it perfect. I spent more time on this shrine than any other by a long shot.

I try not to "cheat" on the shrines, although I know it's not cheating if you use what the developers put into the game. I just can't help but feel cheap building a super long bridge or using recall to float over a gap or using a rocket shield to fly over an entire shrine. I still do it every once in a while when it seems like an obvious solution, but I always try to do things the way I feel they "should" be done or use a creative way.

nonamesleft wrote:

I just did this shrine recently. I had a platform that was exactly the length of the two starting rails, so I just connected pieces at the very edge, going down, which fit in the outer rails perfectly. Then I had another piece in the middle, going down, to fit into the middle rail at the transition. I was worried it would tip over when it got to just the single rail in the middle, but it didn't. I made it perfectly on the first try.

I've got about 70 hours on TOTK and love it. The world has more going on, the building is amazing, and the numerous QOL improvements have removed a lot of the tedium I found in BOTW.

I've beaten the four temples and am now just faffing about, once I start getting tired of the game I'll run to the castle and keep moving with the story. I'm really enjoying the building and am working on maxing out my batteries.

My biggest complaint is the fact that the wings expire after gliding for a certain amount of time. I understand why they expire from a gameplay perspective but would be much happier if they could be infinite or have a longer functional time before they expire.

Yeah, I completed the 4 temples, I got the memories from the Tears of the Dragon quest, and I just completed the quest to retrieve the Master Sword. Now I'm just exploring a bunch before continuing the story, currently working on tracking down shrines so I can vastly up my heart count. Already have 2 full stamina wheels, but may add more (if you can?) once I'm content with my health bar.

I completed the maze labyrinth up in the very North East corner of the map last night - did that shrine and a nearby shrine. I stopped right as I spotted some ships in the ocean, so I'll probably explore whatever's going on there before heading up into the sky to continue the labyrinth up there (found the one in the sky before doing the one on the ground, so I can just teleport to the Shrine that's up there whenever I'm ready).

bumsplikity wrote:

This is the biggest thing for me. My favorite thing about BotW was exploring, and the exploration in TotK is just so much better. You're not just running around on grass and mountains, there's also caves (some of which are quite large and interesting), wells, sky islands, AND the depths. I'm constantly switching back and forth between all of these environments, and it's just so fun. There's only one thing missing that I was really hoping they would add: water exploration. In a lot of Zelda games, Link can swim around underwater, but sadly this is not available in BotW/TotK. This could open up a ton of possibilities. Nintendo has already confirmed that they're sticking with the BotW/TotK style moving forward, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get underwater exploration in the next game.

Another thing I'm loving is having access to the Hero's Path so early. I got it recently and it's making it so much easier for me to thoroughly explore without being over-the-top tedious with it like I was in BotW. In BotW, I did 1 region at a time, and wouldn't move on to the next until I had thoroughly explored every inch of it. I did that because I was worried it would be difficult to remember where exactly I had explored, and where I hadn't. But I don't have to worry about that anymore!

@Scott Maybe that is their plan for the third game. We've already got building, so in the next game maybe we can create submarines.

And not only are there more biomes to explore, but there seems to be more life in those biomes. More NPCs with quests, more repeatable quests, more varied encounters.

bumsplikity wrote:

Submarines

The building is already pretty solid, but I can't wait to see where they take it in the next game!


Very true! Also, while TotK has much better enemy variety than BotW (one of my main complaints about BotW), there are still SO many enemies from past Zelda games that they could bring back! It's so fun seeing an old enemy in these games for the first time. Remember seeing your first Lynel? Your first Like-Like? I do "like" what they did with Like-Likes in this game, but I kind of wish they moved around, and would capture you if they touched you, like in the original.

The Like-Likes can still swallow Link if you get too close to them. It's happened to me a few times and the Guardian companions as well. It stole my weapon once, but otherwise hasn't really done any harm. The compendium entry says they can eat either your equipped shield or weapon, but they haven't taken a shield from me yet.

Zelda: Breath of the Subnautica

I finally grabbed the Master Sword yesterday and decided to progress the story a bit by getting to the Lightning Temple. I didn't complete it yet, but I will tonight. I can already see the lightning power as being way OP. I might decide to dismiss that one too once I beat the temple. I keep Tulin activated for his gust power, but I really hate how he helps me fight. I'll be in the middle of a tough battle, and then he'll headshot the enemy and knock him down making the fight way easier. I don't like that.

Has anybody done any of the big battles where the villagers fight alongside you? I saw that in a video a while ago, but I haven't come across anything like that in the game yet. I'm wondering if it's a story related quest, although I was under the impression there were multiple side missions with that.

You can disable Tunlin.

bonham2 wrote:

I haven't come across that either, I don't know where it happens or anything like that. I'm pretty sure I did the quest that the video shows the villagers helping, but I did it alone with no villagers. I watched a YouTube reviewer talk about how one of the things he just had to get used to as far as new Zelda goes was "the missions where you can go out and fight alongside villagers" so apparently it is in the game somewhere, I just haven't seen any evidence of it.

Kommie wrote:

I know. I dismissed the Goron dude. He's annoying and kept getting in my way. I'll enable him when I'm exploring areas with a lot of rocks to break, but other than that, I don't want him around. I keep Tulin enabled because I use his gust power all the time.

theJaw wrote:

I started it with helping the General at Hyrule Caste
Gate. He stops looking there for Zelda and starts helping the people fight Monsters. Tells you where he is going and you can help. After each fight tells the next mission. I also have come across tents with a fella cleaning weapons and a women near the cooking pot worried about the groups going to fight, you can grab the weapons and she usually gives you a food item.
Also found a group lead by a Lieutenant or horseback near a ship and joined them, they didn't fight as well so lucky they had me

Also they mention after the blood moon respawn but they want to fight anyway.