Gaming The Legend of Zelda | Earthquake: "It's actually ridiculously good, and keeps getting better." ★★★★★

Ødegaard said:
No, I went for the master sword after my first beast.
You just need 13 (I think) heart containers to be able to pick it up.

Assuming you get the gear and skill to deal enough damage to Ganon, you shouldn't even have to do any of the beasts.
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Haha so i've got it completely backwards - maybe i need to follow the adventure log to work out the main quest / story.

I've got it so disjointed, i thought the divine beasts that each focus on Ganon / death mountain with the lasers (or whatever they are) were obligatory to progress the story!

13 heart containers! Think i'm on about 8 - so assume i've just got to farm shrines for more spirit orbs! I assume the temporary hearts wouldn't work?

Cheers.
 
Heardy said:
Haha so i've got it completely backwards - maybe i need to follow the adventure log to work out the main quest / story.

I've got it so disjointed, i thought the divine beasts that each focus on Ganon / death mountain with the lasers (or whatever they are) were obligatory to progress the story!

13 heart containers! Think i'm on about 8 - so assume i've just got to farm shrines for more spirit orbs! I assume the temporary hearts wouldn't work?

Cheers.
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Yeah temporary hearts won't work.
 
Heardy said:
I love this game, i just wish i had more spare time to play it!

I've done 3 of the divine beasts - I assume that the last one is in Goron City / by Death mountain. I feel like i've sunk a lot of hours into this without achieving a great deal.

Do you need to complete the divine beasts before going after the Master Sword? Because i've picked it up and put it down over a long period, i kind of feel out of the loop in terms of the actual story - i just assumed the Divine Beasts would lead to Ganon and that was the main quest, but i thought i'd need to get the Master Sword / Hylian Shield before getting to the end...

Am i missing something or overcomplicating it?
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The game doesn't hold your hand and you're free to approach it anyway you see fit. You can go and face Ganon as soon as you get off the Great Plateau if you want to.

Divine beasts will assist you in a battle with Ganon if you defeat them. I'd recommend doing them all and the one you seem to have left gives you the most useful ability IMO.

The game is an absolute masterpiece but there isn't a structured narrative of that's what you're looking for. You have to seek out the story elements.
 
Heardy said:
Haha so i've got it completely backwards - maybe i need to follow the adventure log to work out the main quest / story.

I've got it so disjointed, i thought the divine beasts that each focus on Ganon / death mountain with the lasers (or whatever they are) were obligatory to progress the story!

13 heart containers! Think i'm on about 8 - so assume i've just got to farm shrines for more spirit orbs! I assume the temporary hearts wouldn't work?

Cheers.
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You're right to do the beasts first, from what I know they damage Ganon. But they just aren't required. :)

Temp hearts doesn't work. :)
 
b82REZ said:
The game doesn't hold your hand and you're free to approach it anyway you see fit. You can go and face Ganon as soon as you get off the Great Plateau if you want to.

Divine beasts will assist you in a battle with Ganon if you defeat them. I'd recommend doing them all and the one you seem to have left gives you the most useful ability IMO.

The game is an absolute masterpiece but there isn't a structured narrative of that's what you're looking for. You have to seek out the story elements.
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Yeah I like that those areas weren't mandatory but were just challenging enough with a decent bonus at the end of it all to make it worthwhile anyway.
 
I've killed Ganon two or three times, done a billion shrines, chased dragons around the map, got the master sword and still haven't done all the divine beasts. There really isn't a linear route through the game.
 
So I picked this up with my switch a year ago, played it for a few hours and for whatever reason dropped it.

Want to get back into it - any of the DLCs worth it?
 
So, I've cleared two Shrines on the Plateau, the one where you get the magnet thing and the other one where you get the bombs. I can't seem to reach the other shrines, both of them seem to be high upon a mountain and the only way ( I think) to them is via an area which freezes Link to death after a few seconds.

Someone help. Any non spoilerish tips would be mucho appreciated also.
 
DatIrishFella said:
So, I've cleared two Shrines on the Plateau, the one where you get the magnet thing and the other one where you get the bombs. I can't seem to reach the other shrines, both of them seem to be high upon a mountain and the only way ( I think) to them is via an area which freezes Link to death after a few seconds.

Someone help. Any non spoilerish tips would be mucho appreciated also.
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Think 2012 horror film featuring Chris Hemsworth
 
DatIrishFella said:
So, I've cleared two Shrines on the Plateau, the one where you get the magnet thing and the other one where you get the bombs. I can't seem to reach the other shrines, both of them seem to be high upon a mountain and the only way ( I think) to them is via an area which freezes Link to death after a few seconds.

Someone help. Any non spoilerish tips would be mucho appreciated also.
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Look for a top thats in a house somewhere in the woods, it has cold resistance, if you don't find it you need to cook something that will give yoh resistance
 
Snowjoe said:
Think 2012 horror film featuring Chris Hemsworth
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That was like a game within itself. Had me reading the synopsis for Snow White and The Huntsman. Left me even more baffled.

syrian_scholes said:
Look for a top thats in a house somewhere in the woods, it has cold resistance, if you don't find it you need to cook something that will give yoh resistance
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I ended up cooking chilli peppers. Teh fcuk with that this elusive house.

But thank you!
 
I spent maybe 2, 2 and half hours doing that Divine Beast in the Gerudo Desert. I'm bolloxed. It's so overwhelming.

Questions. Is it worth doing the memories? Does everything break? Any decent stores to buy gear? I've got 2.5k. Help.
 
DatIrishFella said:
I spent maybe 2, 2 and half hours doing that Divine Beast in the Gerudo Desert. I'm bolloxed. It's so overwhelming.

Questions. Is it worth doing the memories? Does everything break? Any decent stores to buy gear? I've got 2.5k. Help.
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I dont think theres any reward for memories beyond seeing the memory. Pretty much everything breaks, later weapons last a lot longer, Master sword loses energy and has to recharge at times.
Theres a few towns that sell gear. Think the main town in the game is in the middle of the map. I was kind of led there after leaving the plateau. Powering gear up goes a longer way than buying or getting new gear mostly. You do it at fairy shrines. First one is near that town in the middleish of map, just past shrine. Cooking is your friend and a game changer. Use it more.
 
caid said:
I dont think theres any reward for memories beyond seeing the memory. Pretty much everything breaks, later weapons last a lot longer, Master sword loses energy and has to recharge at times.
Theres a few towns that sell gear. Think the main town in the game is in the middle of the map. I was kind of led there after leaving the plateau. Powering gear up goes a longer way than buying or getting new gear mostly. You do it at fairy shrines. First one is near that town in the middleish of map, just past shrine. Cooking is your friend and a game changer. Use it more.
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Arigato!

Made to the Rito Divine Beast, did it in 20 mins! A far cry from the 2 hours it took me to do the Gerudo one.

Its a lovely fecking game, this.

At times it can feel like Dark Souls what with the constant dying though. :lol:
 
DatIrishFella said:
Arigato!

Made to the Rito Divine Beast, did it in 20 mins! A far cry from the 2 hours it took me to do the Gerudo one.

Its a lovely fecking game, this.

At times it can feel like Dark Souls what with the constant dying though. :lol:
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I think it starts a hell of a lot harder than it ends. And i think the Gerudo Divine Beast is the hardest in the game, particularly early in the game. After a certain point you have a billion hearts and dozens of full heals and extra hearts in your inventory and nothing can touch you.
 
Massive Spanner said:
I have no idea how you did the Gerudo beast first. Think he was my third and it was still ridiculously hard.
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There's zero hand holding in regards to quests, I saw it was the closest one and did it. I had leave it multiple times to stock up on shit, plus the boss kept one shotting me so I had to look up a guide on how to beat him. How was I to know you had to use the magnet to pick up those pillars he drops and use it to shock him.
 
I've been going through a back catalogue of classic JRPGs lately and I have to say that they feel a lot like this game, only with more interesting stories and character development. I once argued that wasn't the point of BotW - it felt like a streamlined reaction to the very bloated open-world games we've been getting in the past few years - but even I'm starting to wonder if maybe its minimalism might impact its place in gaming history. Maybe I'm just being hyper-critical. IDK.

For people who played it on release, are there things about the game that have stuck with you ever since?
 
Vidyoyo said:
I've been going through a back catalogue of classic JRPGs lately and I have to say that they feel a lot like this game, only with more interesting stories and character development. I once argued that wasn't the point of BotW - it felt like a streamlined reaction to the very bloated open-world games we've been getting in the past few years - but even I'm starting to wonder if maybe its minimalism might impact its place in gaming history. Maybe I'm just being hyper-critical. IDK.

For people who played it on release, are there things about the game that have stuck with you ever since?
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Chasing the dragons about and messing with the guardians are probably my main memories. I'm not sure its a game for specific memories really.
 
caid said:
Chasing the dragons about and messing with the guardians are probably my main memories. I'm not sure its a game for specific memories really.
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Interesting you say that actually. BotW is a sandbox experience so I suppose everybody will have their own memories of stuff they did in it. It's quite different to the classic JRPGs I mentioned which people can share collective experiences of because the main memories they have come down to stories/characters. I still think they're similar in terms of atmosphere and tone, but they're very different experience so maybe I was wrong to use them as a metric.
 
I was trying to think of a specific thing that stands out but it's just the whole thing really, each thing fits into everything else, just the whole game has stuck with me basically :lol:
 
Eventide Island is probably the big one for me.

There was one shrine too, it was all electric box puzzles, but most of the paths were metal scaffolding kind of things. Dropped a electric box on the floor at one point and fried a handful of guardians that were waiting for me. :drool: Didn't even realise it would happen, I was just carrying the box along to have an extra one for the next puzzle. :lol:
 
So far, using my metal weapons as a link to open a gate on the Gerudo Beast was a stand out moment for me. I googled it and it seems everyone did the same thing.

Like this:

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Thought I was a proper genius like.
 
Vidyoyo said:
Interesting you say that actually. BotW is a sandbox experience so I suppose everybody will have their own memories of stuff they did in it. It's quite different to the classic JRPGs I mentioned which people can share collective experiences of because the main memories they have come down to stories/characters. I still think they're similar in terms of atmosphere and tone, but they're very different experience so maybe I was wrong to use them as a metric.
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Yeah ... my strongest memories are really small things tbh. The waterfall near the outpost in the south. Being in storms half way up a mountain, that valentines lake quest. Shield surfing. I just found every minute of it really refreshing and ... playful?
 
Playing this in 4K is breathtaking. I don't deserve the "Thief" tagline because I bought it for my little bros and since they live with my mother, I thought it would be kosher for me to emulate it. :angel:

Some 4K screenshots.





 
I didn't know where to put this so I'll leave it here.

BOTW was my first Zelda game and that got me exploring old Zelda games on my 3ds and Wii so I played both Oot (amazing game) and Wind Waker (also an amazing game) and I was wondering if there's a recommendation on which title to play next? I was thinking either Twilight Princess or Majora's Mask, or just go as far back as Link to the Past.
 
syrian_scholes said:
I didn't know where to put this so I'll leave it here.

BOTW was my first Zelda game and that got me exploring old Zelda games on my 3ds and Wii so I played both Oot (amazing game) and Wind Waker (also an amazing game) and I was wondering if there's a recommendation on which title to play next? I was thinking either Twilight Princess or Majora's Mask, or just go as far back as Link to the Past.
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I played Twilight Princess just before Breath of the Wild. It wasn't great imo. Very sparse, quite vanilla and not very memorable were my main thoughts. Wolf Link was kind of fun but just felt there was very little else going on with the game.
 
syrian_scholes said:
I didn't know where to put this so I'll leave it here.

BOTW was my first Zelda game and that got me exploring old Zelda games on my 3ds and Wii so I played both Oot (amazing game) and Wind Waker (also an amazing game) and I was wondering if there's a recommendation on which title to play next? I was thinking either Twilight Princess or Majora's Mask, or just go as far back as Link to the Past.
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I want to replay OOT soon but the thought of having to navigate through the water temple puts me off. I absolutely loathe that temple, and the final boss in it was shit too.

That said, I heard they did change a few things for the 3DS version to make it somewhat more bearable.
 
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