The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[CovisGod]

I found the Lynel easier to beat than any Guardian I've come across, as soon as you memorise the way a Lynel attacks you can just backflip out of the way and give a flurry of attacks back. The Guardians generally shoot the shit out of me while I'm. Getting my act together. 

 

I'm so glad I came back to this, honestly it's pushing its way up my favourite games of all time, I've spent so much time exploring and done hardly any missions yet, its so bloody brilliant 

[Jonny5]

I’ve started on the second dlc again now and the stupid one-shot weapon but is still annoying me.

 

I’ve opened the first shrine now, do I have to keep the special weapon to do the shrine, or can I unlock them all and then dump the silly thing and do them at my leisure (and without the constant low life beeping)?

[rgraves]

19 hours ago, CovisGod said:

The Guardians generally shoot the shit out of me while I'm. Getting my act together. 

 

If you're having trouble, take the much less fancy approach with guardians - just hack their legs off and use statis (if you have it) liberally. They are pretty easy meat really.

 

An advantage to that approach is that I think you end up with more parts (since you get some from the legs etc as you chop 'em).

[OneDvBmbr]

1 hour ago, Jonny5 said:

I’ve started on the second dlc again now and the stupid one-shot weapon but is still annoying me.

 

I’ve opened the first shrine now, do I have to keep the special weapon to do the shrine, or can I unlock them all and then dump the silly thing and do them at my leisure (and without the constant low life beeping)?

 

Been a while since I did it, but I think you still have to use it in the shrines if I remember correctly. 

 

I found this quite annoying too, but it’s worth sticking with it because once that section is done, the rest of the DLC is brilliant and has some of the best shrines in the game. 

[CovisGod]

21 minutes ago, rgraves said:

 

If you're having trouble, take the much less fancy approach with guardians - just hack their legs off and use statis (if you have it) liberally. They are pretty easy meat really.

 

An advantage to that approach is that I think you end up with more parts (since you get some from the legs etc as you chop 'em).

 

Well bugger me, never thought of using Stasis 

[Mr Do 71]

1 hour ago, Jonny5 said:

I’ve started on the second dlc again now and the stupid one-shot weapon but is still annoying me.

 

I’ve opened the first shrine now, do I have to keep the special weapon to do the shrine, or can I unlock them all and then dump the silly thing and do them at my leisure (and without the constant low life beeping)?

 

Just keep playing, you'll see. 

[mdn2]

It's taken over a year, but Breath of the Wild has sold over 1 million physical units in Japan on the Switch alone. The last Zelda game to do that was Ocarina of Time, 20 years ago. 

[Mr Cochese]

You're a physical unit.

[GC Zombie]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. I had to look up a solution to a shrine online. It was the one in the lost woods with the constellations. I don't think I would ever notice the solution by myself, did anyone else have trouble with that one?

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I thought it was something to do with the number of stars in the constellation, nope. Then I looked at the constellations on the far wall but I couldn't make any sense of that. It looked too far away to be anything to do with the puzzle anyway, grey mist kept blowing across it making it hard to see, I figured it was part of a puzzle in the next room so I ignored it. 

There was a shrine quest up in the north west that made no sense to me that I accidentally completed, "The bird in the mountains". I climbed up the tree and looked to the northwest as it says. I saw a bird flying past so killed it and got nothing other than meat. The quest said there was a huge bird and that the old man looked down to see it. Maybe it is a bit of land that looks like a bird? I looked and couldn't see anything that looked remotely bird shaped. Later I was exploring the area to the northwest and the shrine detector was going off, it took over half an hour to find it, I was going around in circles. I get there and the bird in the mountains completes? I check the quest and it says something like:

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You saw the an area that looked like a bird (no I didn't) and when you flew towards it you noticed a shrine inside (no I didn't).

Moan over, this is still the best game I've played in over a decade!

[smac]

1 hour ago, GC Zombie said:

I don't think I would ever notice the solution by myself, did anyone else have trouble with that one?

 

I worked it out, but it took a while. Like you said, not immediately obvious. Possibly the one I had most trouble with, other than taking on Major Trials of Strength too soon in the game (that tempting island off the coast...)

[GC Zombie]

1 minute ago, smac said:

 

I worked it out, but it took a while. Like you said, not immediately obvious. Possibly the one I had most trouble with, other than taking on Major Trials of Strength too soon in the game (that tempting island off the coast...)

I also did that tempting island off the coast far too early! But by persevering with that it made me able to easily beat them now I've got some guardian weapons. I think I found 3 major tests of strength in the northwest map. I didn't get hit once!

[smac]

Respect.

[OneDvBmbr]

I used a guide for the constellation one too. Spent way too long on it and didn’t have a clue how to solve it. 

[Mr Cochese]

The one where you have to match the constellation on the wall to the ones on the ceiling?

 

 

[ZOK]

I’ll happily look up a shrine solution if I can’t work it out quickly myself.

 

The shrines are probably my least favourite thing about the whole package, they are generally an unwanted interruption in the main game of hunting squirrels.

[robdood]

4 hours ago, GC Zombie said:

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. I had to look up a solution to a shrine online. It was the one in the lost woods with the constellations. I don't think I would ever notice the solution by myself, did anyone else have trouble with that one?

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I thought it was something to do with the number of stars in the constellation, nope. Then I looked at the constellations on the far wall but I couldn't make any sense of that. It looked too far away to be anything to do with the puzzle anyway, grey mist kept blowing across it making it hard to see, I figured it was part of a puzzle in the next room so I ignored it. 

There was a shrine quest up in the north west that made no sense to me that I accidentally completed, "The bird in the mountains". I climbed up the tree and looked to the northwest as it says. I saw a bird flying past so killed it and got nothing other than meat. The quest said there was a huge bird and that the old man looked down to see it. Maybe it is a bit of land that looks like a bird? I looked and couldn't see anything that looked remotely bird shaped. Later I was exploring the area to the northwest and the shrine detector was going off, it took over half an hour to find it, I was going around in circles. I get there and the bird in the mountains completes? I check the quest and it says something like:

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You saw the an area that looked like a bird (no I didn't) and when you flew towards it you noticed a shrine inside (no I didn't).

Moan over, this is still the best game I've played in over a decade!

Lol, re the shrine quest, you didn't see the bird? 

 

This angle isn't perfect, but if you climb that tree, it's quite obvious!

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But then again, I solved the constellation one immediately too.  Did you forget about your binoculars?

 

We're all wired different, I guess

[Not Thread Owner]

On 04/06/2018 at 10:51, smac said:

Yeah, I got it later from that guy - yes, you're right about the location, it wasn't from a Lynel. Maybe I snuck past him.

 

In fact I ended up at the final encounter completely unexpectedly, thinking 'Is that it? I'm here already?'

 

You can actually go to, and fight and therefore complete the game, right after you've left the Great Plateau at the start of the game.

[GC Zombie]

Now you've put it in the centre of the screen I do see it, however think it needed to be a bit more bird shaped for my idiot brain to see it without it being pointed out. The annoying thing is I was actually looking out for bird shaped areas! My excuse is that it was snowing at the time .

 

Do you ever get to the end of a shrine and think "I wasn't supposed to do it like that". Yesterday I found a shrine that had blowers pointing along walls around the room, 2 metal crates and a ball to get to a goal which raised a platform I needed to be standing on to get to the end.

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I placed the ball on the edge of the goal, then put one of the metal crates behind the ball. I climbed to the platform then using magnesis then I putted the ball with the crate like I was playing golf. No wind related shenanigans were used at all. I stood there for a bit wondering what I was meant to do.

 

[smac]

27 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

You can actually go to, and fight [Calamity Ganon] and therefore complete the game, right after you've left the Great Plateau at the start of the game.

 

Yes. I know. I've been in this thread from the release...

 

But good to say for the n00bs!

[smac]

22 minutes ago, GC Zombie said:

Do you ever get to the end of a shrine and think "I wasn't supposed to do it like that".

 

All the time. Totally cheesed it in a couple. Fire weapons are often involved...

[ZOK]

I kind of think nothing is really cheesing in BOTW. It’s a big physics playground, and anything you can do with it is up for grabs as legitimate. 

 

I’m amazed anyone ever played this and was disappointed with it, it’s a truly sublime experience as games go.

 

[Thor]

I agree. There's a puzzle where you move a ball through a maze via the motion controls to tilt the maze.  It was doing my head until i had lightbulb moment... 

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I flipped the maze completely over,  leaving a completely flat surface for me to manoeuvre the ball exactly where it need to go.

 

Edit: I agree with your first paragraph. As for your second, I can see why some found it disappointing, especially after the, frankly preposterous, overhype. 

[ZOK]

I didn’t really know much about it before playing it, other than people saying it was amazing, so I don’t know about the hype.

[GC Zombie]

I missed the hype train but I can't see how anyone could be disappointed with this game!

[Yuujiin]

Just started playing this again. It's just so good. Still have one more beast to take down. Need more bomb arrows as I mucked up the first run.

Time just ticks by as you wander around,played 60 hours and still finding new stuff and areas. Not even started the DLC yet.

[CovisGod]

I've gone a bit mad with this, I dread to think how much ive played in the last couple of weeks. I've decided I'm going full mental and going for all 120 Shrines and all 900 Koroks.... 

 

Wish me luck

[therearerules]

8 hours ago, CovisGod said:

I've gone a bit mad with this, I dread to think how much ive played in the last couple of weeks. I've decided I'm going full mental and going for all 120 Shrines

Fair enough 

8 hours ago, CovisGod said:

and all 900 Koroks.... 

[GC Zombie]

3 divine beasts in and I've discovered I have missed out on almost all the voice acting in cut scenes. Zelda would always have a voice when speaking to me from the castle and the champions would have a voice when I was inside a divine beast but all cut scenes were silent.

 

The first thing that made me think that something could be wrong was a cut scene in the lost woods where the Deku tree was talking to Zelda, the tree was voice acted but Zelda just had subtitles. I thought that was a really weird decision. Later I did the Zora divine beast and the subtitles in the cut scene were often hard to read with a lot of sunny white scenes which made it look like the text wasn't the focus.

 

I loaded up the same cut scene on youtube and found it was fully voice acted! After a bit of googling it turns out if your Switch or WiiU has its sound set to surround you might not hear voices if you have it connected to a sound system in a certain way (I'm not sure what the condition is that causes it). I set the Switch to stereo and loaded up a memory on Zelda to find they are all voice acted beautifully! 

 

Ffs 

[Jarik]

I like the fact that the game subtly encourages you to think outside the box & find your own solutions apart from the 'right' one, which i get from the fact that the monks use the word 'Resourcefulness' rather than 'cheat'.

[friedgold]

Absolutely. I've definitely had the feeling that I've not done things the 'right' way, but as long as you're not glitching or otherwise breaking the game it's all good.