forknknife
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I'm at 80 hours with only 2 dungeons finished and I'm holding on from staring the third one because I'm sad thinking I'm already half finished with the game. I've never felt this way about any lengthy single player game before.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT2| It's 98 All Over Again
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gooderthanu
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Just beat the game with all shrines and I feel like I'm the only one that didn't really enjoy it.
There were a few cool shrines but feel like most sucked. Enemy variety sucked too. Final boss was ok but the end battle was super boring...
I just miss my awesome dungeons
There were a few cool shrines but feel like most sucked. Enemy variety sucked too. Final boss was ok but the end battle was super boring...
I just miss my awesome dungeons
It feels short because few memorable things happen in the game :^)
BarringGaffner
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Early in the game your best chance at killing a gaurdian is much more simple...
Get near the Guardian, and destroy one of it's legs.l (either glide in or hide after it sees you and it will come to you) Then quickly move from leg to leg. Each time will stun it and take off a lot of health.
After that the Guardian should have 1/3 health. Simple climb it and beat it down. If it targets you a regular arrow in the eye will stun it and when it's not a moving target it's incredibly easy to hit.
And use guardian weapons if you have one.
After that the Guardian should have 1/3 health. Simple climb it and beat it down. If it targets you a regular arrow in the eye will stun it and when it's not a moving target it's incredibly easy to hit.
And use guardian weapons if you have one.
If you do this thhe guardian won't have a chance to fire even once.
Epona.
Yeah it really, really was. And sure it could've been a bit more "dynamic", but honestly it was so majestic and epic (DAT MUSIC) that i really don't care. I also agree about the ending cinematic, it was fantastic but i would've loved even only 5 minutes more. Did all the memories so i'm referring to the "extended" finale.
Gamecocks625
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Just got a Switch and played this for the first time today. Goodness. This game is good.
I'm just gonna spoiler my dungeon thoughts, I don't think there's spoilers but just to be safe.
Yeah the dungeons were antiquated in their mechanics, but it doesn't mean just get rid of them. They still have them but they're broken up into shrines and beasts. Those are fine but they're just tiny tastes of what we really want which is places that are guantlets of tests of wit and combat skill. What we have are a bunch of disparate ideas spread across the land k. Small bites.
I dunno I love this game, but to say it was a good idea to demolish dungeons imo is wrong. Especially for this game. Imagine if each of those maze shrines were actually.just big castles that you happened upon while traveling, or bombing a random wall on a mountain led to a giant labyrinth cavern. That's the direction they should go, make this stuff more integrated is how you make it less dated, the shrines and beasts didn't accomplish that.
I dunno I love this game, but to say it was a good idea to demolish dungeons imo is wrong. Especially for this game. Imagine if each of those maze shrines were actually.just big castles that you happened upon while traveling, or bombing a random wall on a mountain led to a giant labyrinth cavern. That's the direction they should go, make this stuff more integrated is how you make it less dated, the shrines and beasts didn't accomplish that.
Skittzo0413
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I dunno if anyone else has found this but I figured out an excellent system for farming the dragon shards.
Step 1: Go to
Shrine near Floria Falls, start a campfire to wait until night, then exit the cave and climb up to the right of the waterfall and wait just a minute or so for
to appear. Shoot him for whatever part you need.
Step 2: Warp to
Shrine near Lanayru Promenade, exit and climb up a bit (or climb the waterfall) and start heading towards Mt. Lanayru, you should see
shortly along the way.
Step 3: Warp to
Shrine near Tabantha Great Bridge, and wait until
appears in the canyon.
Repeat as needed.
EDIT: sometimes
doesn't show up this way, might be due to rain.
Step 1: Go to
Shodah Sah
Farosh
Step 2: Warp to
Dow Na'eh
Naydra
Step 3: Warp to
Shae Loya
Dinraal
Repeat as needed.
EDIT: sometimes
Farosh
2 kawaii 4 me
By the way. I didn't use the horses too much. Not that I tried to kill any of them either but it seemed hard to do so. Anytime we would get to a cliff or some steep shift the horses would just stop and not walk to their deaths. What's the trick? Run at a 100 MPH and hope for the worst? Lol.
You like the music at Rito eh? There are evolutions of it.
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When you beat Ganon a star appears in you savefile but it left you outside of Ganon chamber before you fight him
No changes. The game doesn't exist in a post Ganon world. You spawn just outside the final boss.
Nothing
DragonGirl
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It just loads the game from the save point before the battle.
kunonabi
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Just beat the game with all shrines and I feel like I'm the only one that didn't really enjoy it.
There were a few cool shrines but feel like most sucked. Enemy variety sucked too. Final boss was ok but the end battle was super boring...
I just miss my awesome dungeons
Nah, I'm with you.
AlphaDragoon
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For me the weapon durability/revolving door idea is far worse than the Divine Beasts. I actually really enjoyed the way they were a giant puzzle.
Dangansona
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Woooowww just warped to Goron City, sold a bunch of ore, made my way to the Bridge of Eldin, triggered a cutscene, and died. At no point did the game save for any of that and I loaded back to a shrine across the map. Not cool.
CarolinaMike
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I had the exact same issue and was never able to find it. Found a different solution though.
https://twitter.com/NSWCaptures/status/848265709532479488
Haha. I came upon a heavily infested goblikin camp. Assassinated a few guys sleeping in a cave, carried all of the explosive barrels within to a little clearing - seven barrels in all. Placed two bombs next to them.
Ran over to the camp proper and whistled to get everyone's attention. They spring to action, some running to get weapons (that I forgot to steal first), eventually like 10 guys chasing me. A lionel joins in on the fun (where the hell did you come from?! I thought). Blew them all sky high. Only the lionel was left, who I quickly dispatched with a shock arrow and big leaping blow from an ancient battle axe.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Ran over to the camp proper and whistled to get everyone's attention. They spring to action, some running to get weapons (that I forgot to steal first), eventually like 10 guys chasing me. A lionel joins in on the fun (where the hell did you come from?! I thought). Blew them all sky high. Only the lionel was left, who I quickly dispatched with a shock arrow and big leaping blow from an ancient battle axe.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Conveniently, the game lets you save manually!
If the tip in the spoiler tags above doesn't work for you, you could also try what we did since we didn't figure out the above tip when playing.
We would walk towards a tree, usually one with a face seemed safe, and if we walked in the direction where the forest would suck us up we'd run back a bit where we came from and avoiding being eaten by the forest. Each time we found a safe tree we'd use a star stamp as breadcrumbs to mark the path and this got us there.
Dangansona
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Never had to rely on that until now.
Lupin the Third
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Yeah I started doing it out of habit. Autosave is pretty good but you'll get the odd missing saves like that if you skip manual saving.
Chittagong
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All Possible Ways
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You don't even need
the torch, there's tons of particles floating in the air you can follow
Finale Fireworker
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I basically did that whole Beast with Shock Arrows, Yellow Chu Jelly, and abusing Revali's Gale.
I'm quite certain I activated and solved but one puzzle the way it was designed to be solved.
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Dungeons were previously my favorite part of Zeldas. However, what I realized recently is that what I liked about dungeons was discovering a new imaginative location with nooks and crannies to explore and seemingly inaccessible locations that I'd figure out how to reach. In Breath of the Wild, the overworld is providing that. For example, stumbling upon a location like
early in the game blew my mind. The same can be said for
. These locations in the world satisfied my need for imaginative architecture and structures in a way that made sense. (I think a lot of dungeon layouts make zero sense in the context of the world of Zelda games, though the interiors of the Divine Beasts don't really make sense either.) For puzzles, Shrines, Divine Beasts, and side quests are satisfying me. And for feeling more powerful/capable, there are various systems in the game (armor, orbs, upgrades) that provide those growth opportunities.
I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through my playtime with BotW, but one thing I do miss is that there aren't more intricate, large, interior environments.
was kind of the start of what I'm looking for, and I imagine
will provide something as well. I think
was a missed opportunity, but I also see why they wouldn't have designed it how I would hope.
All of these responses and posts helped. Thanks!
Lanayru Promenade
Akkala Citadel and the seven heroines in the desert
I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through my playtime with BotW, but one thing I do miss is that there aren't more intricate, large, interior environments.
Yiga Hideout
Hyrule Castle
Forgotten Temple
All of these responses and posts helped. Thanks!
TheSpaceBetween
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Just beat the game with all shrines and I feel like I'm the only one that didn't really enjoy it.
There were a few cool shrines but feel like most sucked. Enemy variety sucked too. Final boss was ok but the end battle was super boring...
I just miss my awesome dungeons
Im about 65% thru but you definitely arent alone. ALBW was an infinitely better approach to a nonlinear Zelda game imo. I'm enjoying it, but it's a very disappointing game at the same time.
Do Savage Lynel Swords decay slower when using them against Lynels or are they just very durable in and of themselves? Was fighting the Lynel near the
and I broke a couple swords on him before switching to the Lynel Sword, and then it lasted the whole fight, through a bunch of flurry rushes and stuff.
Eldin Great Skeleton
Finale Fireworker
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Lynel swords are just naturally very durable. Most of their weapons are.
Finale Fireworker
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Certain armors gives very clear elemental benefits.
Like making it you can't be frozen or can't catch fire. Another set keeps you from being electrocuted and makes you immune to lightning strikes.
Ancient Armor gives you greater defense against Guardians.
It will tell you these things on the equip screen when it is applicable. Generally, what matters most is the defense rating.
The number is all that matters for damage mitigation. But certain armors have bonus defenses against types like Ice, Electric, and Fire by making you "proof" to their effects.
GodfatherX
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So last night I decided to stop wandering around and start tackling the story
Beat the
dungeon , going in I had fears about their approach. Granted I would much rather we got 4 traditional dungeons but I walked away content with it but less so with the boss
Also beat that Lynel attached to that section, used a ton of shock arrows, and all of my good food, and then like 100 hylian rice items
Beat the
zora
Also beat that Lynel attached to that section, used a ton of shock arrows, and all of my good food, and then like 100 hylian rice items
Ah, thanks. I'm still trying to figure out if any sets I own have bonuses. I've upgraded my Hylian armor twice and nothing looks apparent in the info screen.
Finale Fireworker
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The Hylian set doesn't give any sort of passive bonus. It's just a neutral set that's easy to upgrade. You'll notice passive benefits right next to Link on the equip screen when they exist. Almost everything except the Hylian set has one.
The Climbing Set, for example, lets you climb faster and you've surely noticed the bonus on the equip screen. That's where it will appear.
CharminUltra
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I seriously love the desert theme. It's oddly soothing.
I think they are mainly referring to the extra bonus that some sets have when upgraded twice. I would say that most sets do have one, hylian set doesn't, its a just a basic easy to upgrade all the way set
Finale Fireworker
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That's what I'm talking about as well. I'm just using the Climbing Set to indicate where they can expect to see unique defensive bonuses (if their set has one).
Can we talk about how amazing the desert is? I know people talk about visual fidelity, but does any other game have that kind of cloud shadow technique going on?
The way the clouds make the sand look like grass was really impressive,
Vault Dweller 111
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Got to the Lost Woods and what it led too.
This game....
This game....
I miss the iconic Gerudo theme, but moving away from it allowed them to do some really neat stuff. I felt like that they should have done it with Zora's domain too.
Rito is amazing because you can never have too much Dragon Roost.
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