Tears of the Kingdom

[deep dawn]

Switch makes it pretty easy to transfer images from console to phone

[fading axle]

Personally ||I like the new Zora power a lot better than grace, and gerudo power more than lightning, but yunobos power just feels like they just wanted to give players bombs…. Without giving us bombs, and it’s more than a little annoying that one of the powers is just “we removed a feature! But! We created a worse solution for it, on the other hand, it’s all you have now! Go suffer!”||

[deep dawn]

I have enountered one of the bad shrines people mentioned here. ||Roomba shrine sucks. Would have been a neat little thing if it were like 2 enemies. Not a whole hoard of them||

[deep dawn]

Master Sword get

[lavish yew]

||Even the Like Likes had more character development than Yunobo.||

[fading axle]

||they had multiple elements! and chests! and loot!||

[fading axle]

||yeah that shrine suuuuucckkkeeeeed. I did try to warn you, not much good it does.||

[lavish yew]

||And one hell of a glow up from the last time they showed up in a Zelda game. Because, man, are the new Like Likes creepy af.||

[fading axle]

||what were they before now? I didn't recognize the name.||

[lavish yew]

||They were slightly spikey tubes that slid across the ground, swallowed you if you got too close, and then ate your shield and spat you out if you didn't mash fast enough. (Also dealt I think it was a heart of damage each time they "ate" you, slowly a 1/4 heart at a time over the course of the animation before spitting you out either from hitting the full damage dealt per "eating", or you successfully mashing out.)||

[fading axle]

well now thats just rude.

[lavish yew]

||The last time they showed up was the Link's Awakening remaster, and the last time before that was whatever the last Top Down 2D Zelda game was.||

[fading axle]

||Link between worlds I think?||

[lavish yew]

||Prior to Tears of the Kingdom, Like Likes were purely a 2D Zelda enemy.||

[fading axle]

||they also got a model in smash, and google CLAIMS they appeared in a 3d zelda||

[lavish yew]

||Technically they're in I think it's OoT, but only in a single area, if they are even there.||

[fading axle]

||OOT specifically.||

[fading axle]

||that would do it.||

[lavish yew]

||In the 2D games, they're in multiple places. OOT they were only a single area, so I don't really count them as being in OoT.||

[fading axle]

||fair enough.||

Goron story ||its been at MOST 12 minutes, most of that is travel time, and Im already at the god damned temple. how in the ever loving hell did this get past QA, who thought this was done, what genius thought THIS is what yunobo deserved.||

[fading axle]

||my little scared dude with his shield of radness deserved better.||

[lavish yew]

||The Goron-Hater ™️ , of course. That's who thought that this is what Yunobo deserved. And they were right, even as a properly adult Goron, his voice is grating.||

[fading axle]

||I never said his voice didn't desrve him getting punted into oblivion, its just he's the only living relative of the greatest goron to ever live and has his power, so until he gives that power to ME, I have to at least pretend to be his friend.||

[fading axle]

||Im manipulating a small idiot child to gain immense power from Daruk is what Im saying.||

[lavish yew]

||Good news, you get the power at the end of the dungeon, via his ghostly visage, and never have to see him again.||

[fading axle]

||not THAT power. his actual power, that nintendo forgot he had apparently. Daruks protection. but nooooo, instead he just, rolls, like literally any goron. literally anyone could have had his role, instead they gave it to the one named character they had, and removed his super ability.||

||the mad had a shield that literally made him IMMUNE to guardians, and he seemingly just FORGOT HOW TO USE IT.||

[lavish yew]

||He's obviously using Protection to protect himself while he uses Actual Explosives ™️ to do the exploding bit.||

[fading axle]

||grumpa rumpa rumpa. Gorons in this game just..... suck. they did them dirty. at least in BOTW they had a really cool power, and there was lava and stuff around, now its just... annoying. They removed our unlimited bombs, then gave us Yunobo as a bomb. why. why is he our replacement, why did bombs need a replacement? where did the shika slate go? why can't I tell people where zelda actually is? why are the edges of this game so rough, and yet the core gameplay so good? I just don't understand.||

[lavish yew]

||You have an alternative to Unlimited Bombs, though, assuming you have Zonaite to spare. Autobuild with a creation involving Time Bombs.||

[fading axle]

||yeah I have that but its just not the same. You know that.||

[lavish yew]

||It's better than Yunobo the idiot temporary Drug Lord.||

[fading axle]

||he was worse than temporary, he was there for five minutes. thats not temporary, thats barely a substitute. he was barely evil, he was COOL when he was evil! I thought I was gonna work with like a new goron to try and free him from his madness, and go through a mini dungeon, and have fun, and kick ass, and then this other goron would have hte power. but no, it was yunobo, being worse bombs, after hitting him THREE TIMES.||

||but thats enough venting, Im gonna read some manga and cool down.||

[lavish yew]

||He was there for a lot longer than 5 minutes. He was there since the Uplift happened, since that's canonically when the Fake Zeldas started going around and causing all the bullshit.||

[fading axle]

||I mean fair I guess. but for me he was there for 5 minutes, the drugs weren't even doing really anything. Just made the gorons cripples, instead of being, oh I don't know, interesting enemies. they just, were druggies. ||

[fading axle]

||because of them being druggies I even got a DISCOUNT on the flame proof armor. Id like them to continue being druggies if I keep on getting discounts on everything!||

[fading axle]

its so hard talking to people who are playing the game who haven't finished the tears quest, I have things I want to tell them, and I can say, nothing.

pain.

this mans only done the very first tutorial tear, he doesn't know anything about anything else, merely the very intro.

so much I wish to say, and yet, cannot.

[lavish yew]

Then say them here. In spoilers, of course.

[fading axle]

was actually talking talking

so, makes it harder

[lavish yew]

Well, talk via text, but of course in spoilers. :P

[fading axle]

I

you

well

hm

[fading axle]

Goron dungeon ||why is temperature not nullified here? Why do I still have to wear this unupgraded junk of armor, and why does it have FIVE OBECTIVES?! It’s the longest yet, with the shortest build up!||

[lavish yew]

||The Bird Dungeon also has 5 objectives.||

[lavish yew]

||And the Gerudo dungeon too.||

[fading axle]

||gerudo had 4. I just did it yesterday. But good to know birb is gonna be long too, on the other hand it might have a possible story. If not. Chmkn wings.||

[lavish yew]

||The Gerudo dungeon had 5 objectives as well. The minifight against the boss at the startish of the dungeon was the 5th. :P||

[fading axle]

I have absolutely no idea whatever the intended solution of this dungeon was. What I do know is I snapped it over my knee.

[fading axle]

That doesn’t count!

Goron dungeon ||well that was at least an actually interesting boss fight. Only issue is that they DIDNT LET ME USE MY ACTUAL ARMOR!||

[lavish yew]

Yes it does. ||It's a diversion from the main objective of killing the boss, just like the panels.||

[fading axle]

Bah humbug.

[fading axle]

Big BIG exploration thing ||I think I just accidentally found a sage. Somehow. It’s unclear and it’s…. It’s really cool and really terrifying.||

[cold sky]

What is this thing? What does it do?

[fading axle]

||i in fact just did. Sweet Jesus. There were 5 rings, so of course 5 sages…. By the nine.||

[fading axle]

Weapon attachment.

That’s it

As far as I can tell

[cold sky]

Oh, ok. Neat. Thanks

[unkempt haven]

There could always be a secret that requires it though :p, since no-one knows

[fading axle]

True. Buuuut DONT CARE FOUND SOMETHING HUGE AND AMAZING AND WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[unkempt haven]

Yeah, sounds fun

[fading axle]

ITS 1:24AM AND IM NOT STOPPING TILL IM DONE

[unkempt haven]

would be nice if I had a switch to enjoy it

[fading axle]

[unkempt haven]

This is very much a case of me having the money but being too stingy though

I am not yet a working member of society earning my own money, so my money is finite

so I cannot waste on frivolous things until I get an income

[tranquil star]

Oh right I forgot to mention this, so my brother hasn’t touched his Switch in months right? But he finds out Nintendo randomly charged him $70, so he boots it up and finds out Tears of the Kingdom bought itself

And the charge was this month when it came out so he didn’t Preorder it, and he didn’t want to spend $70 on it to begin with

[lavish yew]

Clearly he sleep-bought it.

[unkempt haven]

TotK has been ultra broken now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZNiUJK5Edk

In the video, extremely minor spoilers for first dungeon ||(it's just tulin's power being visible in a few shots)||

[lavish yew]

I see we got the Lag-induced jank back, from dropping tons of weapons.

[fading axle]

….. sweet Jesus….. ||I’ve got a mech suit. Not one of those custom built ones. A literal in game mech,||

[fading axle]

||and there’s a temple with a scourge. Ya know, the game never points you here. This entire bit, could be completely missed. An entire character and set of mechanics.||

[lavish yew]

||Scourge of the Underground: Colgera? Expect to see them again, and fairly soon if you're heading up near the Birds.||

[fading axle]

||scourge of the spirit. With heart piece.||

[fading axle]

||this ENTIRE THING HAS A PIECE OF HEART ATTACHED SWEET JESUS.||

[lavish yew]

||Were they called Colgera, though? If so, then expect to see more. They're like Gleeoks, there's many of them.||

[lavish yew]

||And like Gleeoks, they fly.||

[fading axle]

||no. It was a rock em sock em robot off. In caged electrified arena.||

[fading axle]

||this woman, was inside the purrah pad, THIS ENTIRE TIME?!||

[lavish yew]

||The Mech Suit?||

[fading axle]

||complicatedly, Mineru took the long way round too, but as a spirit. She now resides inside the mech.||

[fading axle]

||oh hey! She also explains that the sage of time is Zelda! Fun!||

[lavish yew]

||Mineru is the one that's the sister of Rauru, yes?||

[fading axle]

||yup!||

[fading axle]

||astral projection lady.||

Ooh! ||cutscene lore time!||

[fading axle]

||tldr: she irons out the details of Rarus final act and some other small stuff. I wonder if after you complete the other 4 sages you would be pointed to her quest, or if she is completely optional.||

[lavish yew]

||Technically everyone is optional.||

[lavish yew]

||Even remeeting Purah is optional.||

[fading axle]

Heresy.

[fading axle]

||extending upon that it also covers what Zelda does! EMOTIONAL DAMAGE RIUND TWOOOOOO||

[lavish yew]

I know, but ||Speedruns will inevitably figure out a way to skip her, because she is optional.||

[lavish yew]

||Fake Evil Zelda, or Real Dragon Zelda?||

[fading axle]

||real dragon. Also: I can produce Zoanite stuff now! This sidequest was…. The motherload.||

||shields, bows, swords…. And arrow heads….||

[lavish yew]

||Infinite one shot arrows?||

[fading axle]

||all horrifically expensive, but all worth it.||

[fading axle]

||50 zoanite a pop but yes.||

[lavish yew]

||That's just a single mining session of killing everything in the Depths between a blood moon for 10 of those. :P||

[fading axle]

||pretty much!||

Well, that, was an experience.

If anyone wants to know how to start that madness I’m happy to point them in the right direction…. Later. I need sleep.

[lavish yew]

||Which means it's time to Bird Up.||

[fading axle]

||not yet. Grabbing all sages wills first. They already found em all, so I’m grabbing em all. That’s what accidentally led me here to begin with!||

[lavish yew]

||But Bird Up! insert "Bird Up!" meme||

[fading axle]

||fair point.||

https://tenor.com/view/bird-bird-up-terminal-montage-monster-hunter-gif-16266096

[lavish yew]

||Plus, the Rito have a really solid food ingredient store. Worth rescuing them so that you can get that store restocking a bunch.||

[fading axle]

||damn. I probably should. But sages wills first.||

||there’s just 8 more.||

[lavish yew]

||Easy Cane Sugar and Wheat restocks.||

[fading axle]

Yeah I got no idea what those do.

[lavish yew]

They make cakes.

And Pies.

[fading axle]

Fun?

I have golden apples

[lavish yew]

And other sweet things, for ||Cane Sugar.||

[fading axle]

If you find a place that stocks blue lizards, tell me.

They may or may not ||make full heal potions.||

[lavish yew]

||I mean, you could just use Hearty Tagged Food, instead.||

[fading axle]

WELL I HAVENT FOUND A CONSISTENT SOURCE OF THAT YET!

Anyways

Good night!

[lavish yew]

||Should be some Hearty Durian in the Jungle.||

[fading axle]

||that is nondescript and unhelpful. Thank you.||

[deep dawn]

Just curious. How much do y'all use the map stamps? I use them to mark shrines I'm not currently going to, Korroks I don't feel like dealing with, and big enemies that look like a chore

[fading axle]

Fights I want to revisit or go to, shrines and lamps I’ll get around to, and this one shop that isn’t actually marked on the map.

Oh also I heart cool terrain features.

Like that one pool that was shaped like a heart.

[deep dawn]

Should add Addison to that list of things I mark as well. If he's distant, I'm in a hurry, or it just looks like a pain

[fading axle]

Addison?

[deep dawn]

Sign dude

[fading axle]

Ohhhh. Him.

I just ignore him

His idiocy annoyed me too much.

[deep dawn]

Poor guy. He's usually pretty easy, but some of them are finnicky as heck

Plus I figure there's gotta be a good reward for doing all his stuff. I hope. Otherwise his signs won't be the only thing falling

[tranquil shard]

I use the markers for shrines. But that’s what I’ve been focusing on. The stamps I haven’t really used

[deep dawn]

I use the markers for stamp accuracy. Mark it with the scope then change it to a stamp. I also use them for current goals so I don't get too sidetracked

[tranquil shard]

I should be more organized. But I keep goals small and focused generally and ignore other things

I wonder how many shrines there are in the game.

[deep dawn]

||150|| is what I heard

[fading axle]

||im half done already? Damn.||

[deep dawn]

Cool mask. ||Found a miners mask yesterday. It looks cool and glows||

[quasi plume]

||its the radiation ||

[leaden oracle]

||The whole set just glows a bit.. nothing extra so far and the range isnt that great either then...||

[deep dawn]

||yeah I figured it wouldnt be great based off of how the mask is going. Still looks cool though and that's the important bit||

[leaden oracle]

Full set

[deep dawn]

||Better than I had hopes for actually.||

[leaden oracle]

|| But in terms of lighting is outperformed by throwing brightblooms .. ||
|| Personally I hoped it would actually help with mining Zonaite , but nope ||

[deep dawn]

||I figured that'd be the case. Though I expected the full radius would be maybe 2/3rds of that. A mining buff would have been great. Something like reduced durability loss when mining or increased damage to stone/ore||

[deep dawn]

||but after the glowy skeleton set last game I didn't have high hopes for this set||

[fading axle]

||it’s set bonus does leave glowing spots behind you every so often, which can be helpful. They have roughly half the glow of the full armor, but it helps.||

[deep dawn]

Goron ||Got the companion. Still gotta do the area to keep him but I like his ability. Really save some effort mining||

[fading axle]

Killed a king ghidora….. and the answer is….. ||wow that was some underwhelming drops, but the one off chest bonus was nice.||

[lavish yew]

||What was the one off chest bonus?||

[fading axle]

||sages will. I’m guessing each of the 3 kings have one.||

[lavish yew]

||So that means you'll be Birding Up, now, since the hassle of getting all 3 of the Wills from the King Gleeoks isn't worth it?||

[fading axle]

||nope! Fights fairly simple. Tank and spank really. Shoot heads, down dragon, melee.||

[lavish yew]

||But bird up power is really handy for doing stuff in the air.||

[fading axle]

||well…. IVE COMMITED! YOU CANNOT STOP ME!||

[fading axle]

Another down…. Hooh these guys just eat up arrows

[lavish yew]

||The Bird Town has a Fletcher, who will provide you arrows.||

[fading axle]

||AND IM NOT ABOUT TO GO THERE!||

[fading axle]

And that’s the third dead. If any of you wanted to know how to fight them: don’t. It’s not worth it.

Silver boko parts are more powerful.

And easier to get.

[runic mortar]

looks up what the hell silver boko parts are

[fading axle]

Most powerful version of boko currently in game.

Boko is most basic mob.

[fading axle]

TLDR: the most powerful version of the most basic mob, gives better weapons than the Uber world bosses.

[runic mortar]

(already looked it up)

[fading axle]

Ah

Welp

Rip

[runic mortar]

people greatly underestimate alot how fast one can search up and find the information

also i did say i was looking it up

[fading axle]

I mean I’m used to dealing with morons who don’t know how to google things to save their life.

I’m sorry for putting your googling powers anywhere near that level.

[deep dawn]

Soooo did some story stuff in Hyrule Castle ||Fighting phantom gannonderp was fun. Sad that there was no shadow ball tennis this time. Also climbed to the top of the castle. Some cool stuff up there. And yes there is also dissapointment. I knew I'd find one up there. It ruined the view||

[fading axle]

||no…. THEY DID NOT!||

[leaden oracle]

|| There is actually quite a lot to do in the castle and equipment to get. The Phantom Ganon can spawn in a plethora of places, basically everywhere you see gloom on the surface that isnt a chasm is Phantom Ganon Spawn ||

[leaden oracle]

|| He also drops an assortment of weapons that use your health, either gloom weapons that cause the gloom effect when used on you but are powerfull or a bow that gets stronger the more max health you have ||

[fading axle]

Question: ||where to find hand tentacle monster? I wanna stab shadow gannon with my 5 stands.||

[leaden oracle]

IIRC this is the spot in the castle

There is a giant breakable floor outside the castle above the prison

Like it took some bombs and 2 weapons to get through those layers

[fading axle]

Danke.

[leaden oracle]

Two others I found :
Underground : || Lowest left corner in gerudo area , underneath the big skeleton ||
Gerudo ish area || in the middle of the Giant labyrinth (below the cube in the sky ||

[fading axle]

I’ve got…. Alternative means of breaking things.

[fading axle]

Only one I found was ||outside the topside shrine on great plateu but then he never showed up again.||

Help. ||I have too many stands and they keep staggering enemies off of cliffs and sky islands.||

[fading axle]

Rito story/ minor other story: ||just GETTING to the dungeon, this is an awesome set piece. I can see why they tried to send me here first. The gorons and gerudo just do not stand up very well to this.||

[runic mortar]

||not what?||

[fading axle]

||the build up and story for the gerudo and gorons was short and not brilliant. Comparatively, they do not stand up well to the other stories.||

[runic mortar]

||i only remember the gorons getting high on weird rock meat||

[fading axle]

||yeah, and you fixed it roughly 12 minutes later. It was barely a story.||

[lavish yew]

||It's the same one from BotW, actually. Same pattern for the Korok and the same location.||

||The only difference is now it's higher up because the castle got lifted into the sky.||

[fading axle]

||yeah but I was hoping maybe THIS TIME it wouldn’t be there.||

Rito dungeon ||why can’t temperature be nullified? You did that last time. Why do I have to wear a specific set of armor to even be able to reasonably explore.||

Rito dungeon ||WHERE THE HELL DID THEY FIND A SCREAMING DEATH?! Look at a screaming death, then look at this bug centipede nightmare and tell me they aren’t sinilar.||

[limpid vigil]

||Bug goes brrr||

[fading axle]

….. ||this isn’t a boss fight. It’s a playable cutscene! NOT AGAIN!!!!!!||

[fading axle]

||and it can teleport….. this is just gonna be annoying. I was so excited that it was gonna be a cool bug dragon boss fight. But NOPE!||

[lavish yew]

||Welcome to Colgera. This isn't the last you'll see of them.||

[fading axle]

||Oh hey built in speed strats. That’s fun. Hit from bottom a bunch and it ceases to exist!||

Finally! A second row of hearts!

Took long enough!

Well, all that’s left is shrines and thrashing the castle, then I might do more quests.

And by thrashing I don’t mean actually completing the MSQ

That would be rediculous!

[fading axle]

Exploration ||found the hands I knew of again…. He was really easy….. the hands got distracted by my stands, and then Gannon himself kinda crumpled master sword attack up 3.||

||sweet loot though!||

[fading axle]

It would seem theoretical max is 40.

Combat ||Having all the sages out and upgraded really just, trivializes combat. It goes from a 5 on 1 to a 5v6, except enemies aren’t equipped to properly select between 6 targets.||

[runic mortar]

||thats cause there all filthy peasants||

[fading axle]

I have searched high and low, and have come to the conclution, that hearty durians no longer exist.

so it would seem high class foods have been.... rarified.

eh, I got apples

which are fine.... enough.

I really should just go and hunt down some lionels.

buuut Ill find em eventually or somethin

[runic mortar]

heres a question @fading axle have you beaten any of the big bad monsters (not bosses) with any warmachines you might of build or do you just fight them?

[deep dawn]

||Yeah I only have Riju upgraded right now but enemies have trouble handling the harem||

[deep dawn]

Took some more screenshots. Neat blood moon with a dragon flying by

And on second thought not posting the second cause it's the moment you get the master sword

[unkempt haven]

Post it spoilered as such

[runic mortar]

the blood moon rises!

[deep dawn]

3 stam wheels and 15 hearts. Feeling good

[leaden oracle]

would need to do more shrines for that

2 and 2 bits stam , 8 Hearts

[fading axle]

I just fight em.

21 hearts 3 wheels.

Life is gooooood.

[deep dawn]

I love killing 3 enemies in 1 swing. ||saphire wand + fire lizo = lots of dead lizo||

I wish on the world puzzle shrines that need you to bring the crystal to it, that the game would just give you the blessing there rather than make you go in

I get why it doesnt. Would be nice to not have to do a loading screen though

[leaden oracle]

Many things would have been nice

Taking a picture of a map with some info on it ? Copy to map

Taking a picture of a recipe ? Recipe known

FAVOURITES IN ITEM MENU

[deep dawn]

Let me fix that last one

FAVOURITES IN ITEM MENU!

[fading axle]

Let me also FAVORITE ARMOR

I have 7 full sets or so and a bunch of one off bits. I NEED a way to sort this crap besides by body part or by set.

[deep dawn]

I love that you can sort weapons. Only by type though. Might as well not be a thing

[leaden oracle]

I mean , you can sell armor you dont need

[deep dawn]

Sacrilege.

I'd sooner sell my mother

[fading axle]

No.

@lavish yew ||ITS A REUSED BOSS?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!||

[lavish yew]

||No, I am not kidding you. Say hello to Colgera, the "New and Improved" ™️ Random World Boss. :P||

[fading axle]

||im so glad I found that speed strat.||

[fading axle]

||that jaw though…. +36 damage. HOOOOOH||

[lavish yew]

||Yeah, the World Boss versions all drop that jaw, whereas the Temple Boss version didn't.||

[fading axle]

||well, I’m less upset now. I’m not HAPPY, I’m just less upset…. Wait does this mean other scourges have world boss versions?||

[lavish yew]

||Not sure, only one I've seen so far be repeated as a World Boss is Colgera.||

[fading axle]

👍

||if I find any I’ll ping ya.||

[lavish yew]

||Though in all likelihood the other 3 are also repeated.||

[deep dawn]

||I can confirm that the fire temple one is at least||

[lavish yew]

||Cool, which means the Frog and the Ghoma likely are repeated too.||

[deep dawn]

Finally found a solid refrence to the divine beasts ||Vah Rudania helmet||

[lavish yew]

||There's also a helmet for each of the other 3 BotW Main Plot Beasts (the Beast Link gets for himself at the end of the Champion's Ballad DLC is still suspiciously missing.||

[fading axle]

oh hey I got that from my amibo!

so that means I can find the one I dont have the amibo for, cool.

[lavish yew]

||If you do the Mayor Election Quest in Hateno, you can also buy them from a lady called Cece.||

[fading axle]

||fun! Did that quest, twas fun, buuuut her stuff pricy and Id rather just find it all.||

[leaden oracle]

@fading axle I need the shrine master

Where shrine ?

root says its there but I dont see a remote way there or underground in a cave or so

[deep dawn]

Pretty sure that one stumped Gurm for a while as well

Shrine info ||Gotta go through the cave there||

Gurm spent forever looking. I tripped over it

Rupee making tip ||save your gems rather than selling them. There's a Gerudo in Goron City who will by them 10 at a time for a higher price||

[fading axle]

yeah theres a cave at the bottom of the plateu near sign idiot.

drove me BATTY

[fading axle]

||WELL NOW YOU TELL ME||

[leaden oracle]

Over THERE ??

[fading axle]

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP

ITS THE STUPIDEST SHRINE SO FAR

and I had to deal with some REALLY dumb ones.

like that one that tried to defeat me with motion sickness

[leaden oracle]

Oh also not a spoiler but general thing I just found which let me cheese a shrine deluxe level

[fading axle]

ohhoho?

wait deluxe level?

[leaden oracle]

The target fields in shrines that you have to hit balls into

Just bomb arrow them

it triggers the plate

[fading axle]

target fields...... if I ever find something like that, Ill try it

[leaden oracle]

They look like massive target plates

[fading axle]

I think I already did a bunch of those

buuuut Ill consider doing it your way next time

already did 90 someodd shrines my game claims

[leaden oracle]

Only 44

[fading axle]

currently working on cleaning up the under dark

[leaden oracle]

Hey and 44 roots

[fading axle]

oh sorry I mean australia

[deep dawn]

Tha sounds lovely Cryo

[leaden oracle]

I am even

[fading axle]

wait roots have their own count?

[deep dawn]

Also is there a way to check shrine count or is it math?

[leaden oracle]

Yes

[fading axle]

fun

[fading axle]

laoding screen

[deep dawn]

Oooo. Duh. Me dumb

[fading axle]

you could also math it

but I like the loading screen

armor question: ||anyone found the chest piece for the battery set? Havent found it and I really don't want to google more things, I already googled a ton. I just want to outsource these days.||

[fading axle]

||Im just saying SOME THINGS SHRINE were really stupid to find.||

[leaden oracle]

The bomb skip for those type of shrine puzzles

[fading axle]

I could have saved

so much

time.

I spent 15 minutes on one of those

multiple times

[leaden oracle]

Now you know

[fading axle]

agony

which is really helpful

now that I did all of them

or well most of all

[leaden oracle]

But the shrine is also in agony if that helps

with me ignoring the puzzle

and substituting it with my own

[fading axle]

all I can say is sucks to suck.

Ive done that a few times

see here.

[leaden oracle]

I mean thats a creative way of solving a t different

What I posted probably shouldnt have worked

[deep dawn]

Hey I did that one the same way

[fading axle]

probably.

[fading axle]

they gave me a prey glue gun, IM USING IT!

[deep dawn]

Hateno village ||The house is no longer Links but Zelda's. There's an armor hint there as well||

[lavish yew]

||Presumably it's shared, and Zelda, being the Woman of the House, simply got final say on decor, hence why we no longer get to display equipment there.||

||Link will only sleep in beds that he owns, has purchased for the night, or has explicit permission from the owner to use. And you can sleep in the bed in the Hateno house.||

[deep dawn]

neat

[fading axle]

||where IS my house anyways. I never figured out where that village was. Also what do you mean I can't store cool weapons and gear there, Ive been saving things I want to put on display!||

[lavish yew]

||If you mean the house you get to store Weapons at, from what I've heard its in Tarrey Town. If you mean the Hateno house that used to be yours and is now taken over by Zelda, then it's the one on the edge of town (the side of town opposite the hill with the Lab at the top), across a small bridge.||

[fading axle]

||I am the confused. We had two houses?||

[lavish yew]

||If you mean Hateno itself, go into the bunker in Lookout Landing, and talk to the guy standing near the map of Hyrule with the circles on it, and ask about Village locations||

[fading axle]

||okay, map man can tell me things. thanks! I already had hateno, just didn't know about the house there.||

[lavish yew]

||In BotW, you could buy a house in Hateno. That is the one Zelda took over. In TotK, you can now apparently buy a house in Tarrey Town.||

[fading axle]

||rad. Also god damnit Zelda. I NEEDED THAT TO STORE MY COOL WEAPONS AT!||

[lavish yew]

||And she needed a house that wasn't a Health Hazard (Castle is massive and cleanup would take forever, even ignoring what happens to the castle at the start of TotK.)||

[fading axle]

||true…. That place needed a power wash or 37||

[deep dawn]

||new powerwash sim collab?||

[lavish yew]

||Powerwash Simulator: Hyrule Edition. Just powerwashing the entirety of Hyrule of all the Gloom Puddles.||

[fading axle]

||yeeeeeeessssss||

[fading axle]

||yeah….. yeah.||

[deep dawn]

Sititng at 71 shrines, 32 roots

85 Koroks

[fading axle]

Fun

How the hell did you find so many

Or have I just been ignoring them that much.

[limpid vigil]

but that one's easy? solution is ||Water physics puzzles, just ultra hand the ball down and it launches up||

[leaden oracle]

Was just one I knew that had this target

this applies to all

[deep dawn]

Koroks shrines or roots? I kinda just trip over them

[fading axle]

korok

all Ive been able to consistantly find is suavemente, roots, and not much else.

[deep dawn]

Climb everything, pickup every rock, help hitchhikers, complete circles, jump in circles. Pretty standard stuff really

Hard to say really since I haven't been trying to find them all that hard. Even have a bunch marked as come back later cause they looked like a pain or not the way I';m going

[fading axle]

Hey so….. where can I sell clothing?

I just got a helm dupe

[fading axle]

Neat. I’m probably just gonna look up a guide.

[deep dawn]

Yeah if I ever need more that's plan.

[lavish sentinel]

https://vxtwitter.com/liccnuke/status/1660095930228686848?s=20

https://vxtwitter.com/ChaosDrives/status/1659711741230718976?s=20

[quasi plume]

So question for botw

Is it worth playing without the dlc

Or should I just wait until I have enough to get the dlc and play then?

Cause I really want to play it

But I don't want to miss out

[deep dawn]

It's still worth it. In fact the DLC is pretty meh IIRC

Also little detail I just noticed, may have been in BOTW ||If you're barefoot and kick a chest open Link pulls his foot back in pain||

[quasi plume]

(which thank you again murglebot)

Huh, I've heard the opposite from googling

[deep dawn]

Oh yeah I bought that for you.

[quasi plume]

Reddit and co just say " don't bother playing without dlc"

And I know some games(cough paradox games cough) are like that

[deep dawn]

I mean it's okay i guess? I don't remember it being anything other than some QoL stuff, armor, and the trials

[quasi plume]

Alright thanks

[leaden oracle]

It doesnt add any story IIRC

[quasi plume]

That helps a lot

[leaden oracle]

Just the Cycle for Link would be the biggest thing but thats just a general mobility thing

[quasi plume]

Just with totk made me reconsider but yeah

Gonna enjoy base game

Thank again murglebot best of the bots

[leaden oracle]

So no , you are not missing out on stuff withouth the DLC

if anything makes you question more

WHERE IS THE BIKE ???

[quasi plume]

Lonk had a concussion

[deep dawn]

Different timeline. This Link was too broke for DLC

[quasi plume]

Is it actually a different timeline?

[leaden oracle]

Dont know but would be the easiest explanation for all things that dont add up to Botw

[quasi plume]

I saw you guys talking about cycles and such earlier, could be that? Similar world but different cycle?

But yeah, I got like 2 dozen hours in but then stopped(sorry about that murgle, super grateful) but hopped back on now

[fading axle]

I miss my master cycle.

[fading axle]

EXACTLY! WHERE! IS! MY! SUPER! SUIT!

[fading axle]

nononono that cycle stuff is for COMPLETELY differnt things

that was me trying to understand ||time shenanigains.||

[fading axle]

||when dealing with a character who goes back in time to change the future I differentiate things into loops/cycles, basically which one are we on, and how has it changed things. I didn't read the entirety of the perfect loop to not then have a vague understanding of how time works. I know FAR TOO MUCH about loops and time shenanigains now, and well, Im stuck with that.||

[tranquil star]

https://vxtwitter.com/scourge_5555/status/1659724119070633985

[deep dawn]

HAH

[runic mortar]

wow that looks like the planetary annihilation core digger weapon

[lavish yew]

Champion's Ballad adds story, and is worth getting. The rest of the DLC meh.

[fading axle]

Master mode is a thing that exists. insert screams of agony

[deep dawn]

Master Masochist Mode

[quasi plume]

You specifically like it

[fading axle]

You…. YOU CANT PROVE ANYRHING!

runs off with gold bokoblins

[quasi plume]

do you forget how texts work

[deep dawn]

What how does text work Weegy? 😄

[fading axle]

Nope! I just don’t care.

It’s finals week weegy. The amount of anything I have left is dwindling by the hour.

I’m staying sane with book and Zelda, and I’m running out of book.

[deep dawn]

Get more book

[fading axle]

That takes money

That I don’t have.

[deep dawn]

Library?

[quasi plume]

MORE BOOK

[fading axle]

They don’t carry litrpgs.

[runic mortar]

the bike also can be summoned anywhere cant it?

[fading axle]

No one does.

[quasi plume]

I just signed up for another book

because,

you know what, no. thats not needed

[deep dawn]

Theft and murder always get me through

[quasi plume]

if you enjoy them, all the power to you

[lavish yew]

Yes. It can.

[runic mortar]

(i was reminded if you leave a horse somewhere it just stays there forever)

[fading axle]

My library thinks that litrpgs are DnD rule books.

[quasi plume]

Also another book for your list(both gurm and murgs)

Kajiu Preservation Society

[runic mortar]

what you have a smart Library or something

[fading axle]

Sounds familiar.

[quasi plume]

John Scalzi

[deep dawn]

Kajiu or Kaiju?

[fading axle]

No it’s just explaining what a litrpg is is complicated and annoying and they don’t carry them.

[quasi plume]

which ever is the correct one

[deep dawn]

😐

[fading axle]

It’s Kaiju.

[quasi plume]

i hope they both aren't real words

this yes

that one

[fading axle]

It’s a real word.

[lavish yew]

Kai-ju

[fading axle]

Wait. When did minis name change.

[quasi plume]

a few days ago

[deep dawn]

I may have an issue here. I turned Zelda off for a bit. I can still hear the shrine radar on occaision

[fading axle]

Yeah me too. It happens.

[quasi plume]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-it-get-some-help-meme-gif-26433748

[deep dawn]

Okay yes. It's fine so long as I'm not the only one hearing it

[fading axle]

What? You don’t imagine hearing video game noises you played for 6 hours straight?

[quasi plume]

6 hours? rookie

[fading axle]

I have FINALS TO STUDY FOR

[deep dawn]

]]]]]]]]]'''''''''''''''';';';''''''''''''''''''''';

[fading axle]

And a sleep schedule

[deep dawn]

Don't mind that. Cleaning a couplekeys

[fading axle]

Fair

[deep dawn]

Now that I've finally managed to turn the game off I'm super behind on this seasons anime

And book. I haven't read since the game came out

[fading axle]

I’ve been flipping between book and game.

For anime I highly recommend DIY.

As in do it yourself.

It’s cute anime girls doing cute things.

[fading axle]

Mini, why do you know horny computer flirting?

[deep dawn]

That was a good one. I binged it between the end of last season and start of this

[deep dawn]

Why not?

[fading axle]

Fair.

[fading axle]

Fair.

[unkempt haven]

You can boomy zoomy as a general mobility thing though

[fading axle]

Or, you can ride around on a bike.

[cold sky]

Lurelin Village || ok, the fight, kinda rough. But not too bad. The restoration took me a little bit, especially the first part with the log collection. I had an enemy destroy my original batch of logs right as I was about to finish collecting, so I had to start over, then I died to the black moblin in the forest up the hill and had to start over again. Ugh. But the ending, after doing some ultrahand maneuvering with some logs, the reward is super adorable. 8/10, would replay mission lol||

[limpid vigil]

Spoilers/help for the call from the depths mission ||Bring the eyes to the statue as soon as you throw them down the chasm, they can despawn and you'll need to turn the game off then on again to respawn them on the surface spot||

[leaden oracle]

Thats false..

They just respawn when you lose them

[limpid vigil]

it just did it to me

[leaden oracle]

Then thats a bug on your end

My first just re-appeared

[runic mortar]

we could also consider Cry is the buggy one

[leaden oracle]

Given the fact that the game tells you thst you have to go back to the surface when you walk to far away or lose or take it on a not intended way .. I am willing to take bets that the other one is the buggy

[runic mortar]

i bet one dollar one Cry

[cold sky]

Ok seriously

Fuck the hands enemy

How the hell do you damage it?

I can't manage to do jack squat to it, if freaking mercs me

[unkempt haven]

You saying the hands have hands?

[wet arrow]

Have you become their Right-hand hand?

[leaden oracle]

Bomb arrows and arrows to the eyes

Though if you have issues with the hands maybe just run for now as they trigger a mini boss

They cant climb at all so any high ground is safe

[wet arrow]

Did the Wallmasters get Upgraded in TotK? I don't have the game.

[leaden oracle]

no || those are Demonking Ganons grabby hands which attack you and when grabbed reduce your max hp temp and they are relentless. After managing to kill all 5 they spawn a Phantom Ganon which usually does about 8 hearts dmg per hit ||

[wet arrow]

Mmmmmm sounds fun.

||Reduce your Max HP and then come in with a Heavy Hit to possibly Oneshot.||

[runic mortar]

i will never forget jacksepticeyes first reaction to them

[cold sky]

What does the square zoanite device do?

[lavish sentinel]

https://twitter.com/aquatic_ambi/status/1660363339921494016?s=20

💙ambi☁️ (@aquatic_ambi)

she was right this whole time
and grew an entire 2 inches taller in the process!

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[leaden oracle]

Yes thats a slab

a slab that does a float

[cold sky]

A float?

Like, it doesn't go down when you have power?

[leaden oracle]

mid air

[cold sky]

Neat

[leaden oracle]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/52/c8/be/52c8be7cd1e877b2c0d8630c6e5e1ea6.jpg

basically

[limpid vigil]

I have a question for people who've finished the dragons tear quest big spoil stuff ahead no read otherwise ||Considering the game actively references being after breath of the wild, does that mean trechnically zelda dragon was there just like chilling high up in the sky? or is there timey whimey stuff going!||

[leaden oracle]

I only saw the first and end of this sentence and the answer : Timey wimey

otherwise it makes no sense with the inconsistencies

[limpid vigil]

i mean, if you haven't bothered reading the question i won't bother reading your answer

[unkempt haven]

All I can say is that I've been wondering the same thing

[leaden oracle]

Then I will call you out : What the fuck

References to Breath of the Wild : Timey Wimey stuff going on

If you had payed attention in what we discussed already over days in this channel then you would already know what we all think of this issue

[limpid vigil]

you do realize not everyone has the free time to keep up with discord chatting right?

[unkempt haven]

If it was in the seas of spoilers, then I wouldn't have seen it

[leaden oracle]

saying "imma ignore your answer" is just a dick move then

As my answer gave a perfectly sound reason which we concluded on after talking about various things

[unkempt haven]

I might not care about spoilers, but I don't wanna click a million different ones just to read along

[leaden oracle]

From story to flavor and and non spoilers

Shiekah Shrines , shiekah tech missing , plot points of the past game ignored
All things not discussed in spoilers

[limpid vigil]

because this doesn't come off as being a dick?

[leaden oracle]

I explained it below that ????

Short simple answer and then the explanation FOR that answer

Dont cherry pick the reply

[limpid vigil]

I don't see why I shouldn't when you came off as chery picking the question

[fading axle]

Shoot eyes with arrows, melee.

Now of course melee only works once you get weapons with damage around 40, same with bow to the eyes, but that’s how ya do it!

[fading axle]

||its an echoed timeline, meaning that technically yes but no. To everyone in the timeline things suddenly changed, because unlike how actual time travel should work, an echoed timeline (that’s what I call them no idea about official nomenclature) has the change catch up to those who exist in the timeline, rather than changing something in the past and creating a split. Basically, that’s not how time works, but it’s how lazy writers do it.||

||reason I call it an echoed timeline is because like an echo it waits until the moment the person traveled back in time to echo all of their changes forward, instead of a true split which is what SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED YOU LAZY GITS! Or better yet, STOP SHOVING IN TIME TRAVEL! You barely got it right the first time, let alone now. Now you’ve just added confusion and nonsense! I hate time travel. Basically no one does it right.||

[limpid vigil]

still spoilers for dragon tears no read!||So does that mean that until link sent the masterword back there was technically two of it? Like the secret stone zelda had? Or is there only ever one mastersword and it wasn't on the dragon until after it went back in time?||

Still dragon sad Spoiler!! ||Actually would that make zelda's secret stone the one ganondorf stole?||

[fading axle]

Yes.

[fading axle]

No. ||the stone she had was rarus. So when she went back until she ate it, there were 2.||

[limpid vigil]

|| isn't raraus stone white and not gold?||

[fading axle]

||they change depending on the weilder. The stones enhance the persons power, and alter their appearance upon doing so. You literally saw this with Gannon.||

||he stole a golden stone, and it went black, then white.||

[limpid vigil]

ooohhh

[fading axle]

[limpid vigil]

||I thought that was just the whole ganon corruption thing, was mislead by every other stone being the same because the sages being descendants||

Spoilers for a different optional thing ||Theres a sidequest/trial on top of the sky island time temple it's pretty dope|| reward is ||A paraglider skin||

[fading axle]

Shiny.

[fading axle]

Nah. It just be like that.

Well. Back to Zelda and trying to hide from the overwhelming dread!

[limpid vigil]

back to trying to find heat armor before going to the desert

[leaden oracle]

You get that in there

[limpid vigil]

imma go hunt down more cool food ingredients then

[leaden oracle]

You can fuse a white chu to your shield

[limpid vigil]

oh yeah the game has that

[fading axle]

@lavish yew ||found desert boss repeat. it would seem that they are repeated, but rotated around a bit. desert boss is under central hyrule, and ice boss is, well, you know where that idiot stick is.||

||its arguably nice that these fights arent one offs, but the rewards for killing them.... well ice boss was kinda lame, maybe desert boss will have something nicer.||

[fading axle]

||the drop was a single weapon thing. None of the ghibdos dropped bones….. these repeat bosses just ain’t worth it after the first kill.||

[limpid vigil]

Big Labyrinth time

oh I do not like this

[fading axle]

I do like that the labyrinths start in Australia.

It’s fun.

[outer yew]

So the flipping ||gloom hands|| are terrifying. Just met one of them for the first time after about 8 hours of playing.

[tranquil star]

Wait until you actually try to fight them

[limpid vigil]

for those the most effective way is ||Bombs and ice arrows||

[outer yew]

All I'll say is I'm glad I have yet to find them in Australia. Fully expecting to at some point but haven't yet.

Cause I can only imagine being in the dark with it chasing ya

[leaden oracle]

In the overworld its easy to spot as they often are a random puddle of gloom

down under

shits everywhere

[quasi plume]

would you say

all you feel is doom and gloom

[leaden oracle]

Nah

Ganon is just gloom

I'm adding the doom to his life >:D

https://tenor.com/view/choose-choice-woke-up-chose-gif-23847919

[fading axle]

Wait, so do none of you just have an inventory full of royal bows? Why waste bombs. My arrows nearly insta gib the hands.

legitimately just wondering.

[limpid vigil]

not everyones on new game plus gurm

[fading axle]

I haven’t even beaten the MSQ yet!

I’ve just been chilling around with my harem lighting up the under dark.

Marking where silver enemies are.

Killing hinoxes.

[leaden oracle]

Actually the more you progress the more they spawn everywhere

[fading axle]

Yeah, noticed that. I still like knowing where they are.

[leaden oracle]

for me many if not most camps have silver bokos or Moblins

I got so many silver boko parts I stopped caring

[fading axle]

They all seemingly have at least one but I still like marking em.

Also I just like doing it.

They gave me 300 pins cryo

I’m using em.

Also: they are SIGNIFICANTLY less common above ground.

Maybe one in 3 above ground, effectively every under.

Which makes sense, but it’s something to note.

[leaden oracle]

Wow thats little for you overworld

Almost all camps have em for me

[fading axle]

….. huh.

[leaden oracle]

especially those a little bit more away from center

[fading axle]

Why does my overworld hate me.

[leaden oracle]

Dunno

[fading axle]

Maybe I need to give it another sweep.

Remark some camps

[limpid vigil]

labyrinths are conquered

[fading axle]

yay!

rewards?

[limpid vigil]

|| evil spirit stealth gear set piece each dungeon||

[fading axle]

||fun!||

well, back off to lighting up the underdark, and probably then a sweep of the overworld

I MUST MARK EVERYTHIIINNNGGGGGG

[limpid vigil]

Link bout to light up ||Ganondorfs|| world like nobody else... ||again||

[fading axle]

Just killed a Lionel…. White Lionel that is….. 51 damage parts….

Sweet Jesus.

1 sword part, 1 mace part.

I’ll be saving those for my final battle, hopefully I can find more.

[cold sky]

I've literally never encountered the gloom hands in the Depths, only the over world. I had a feeling they were down there too, but I've never seen them

[fading axle]

cryo apparently has found one, it was in a weird spot.

but yeah, they are seemingly everywhere BUT the sky, which like, I am kinda suprized there

they sky tbh, feels kinda underused

like its really cool, and really neat

but besides the king ghidoras and some interesting puzzles it feels real empty

buuuut we DID get the entire underground as well, so like, all is forgiven really

I can't get too mad when they doubled the map size for funzies.

[limpid vigil]

first gloom hand I encountered was underground as part of ||Deku tree|| quest

[fading axle]

oh crap, I need to head over there.

[limpid vigil]

You left ||Best tree|| hanging??

[fading axle]

and in other interesting news, found a hidden clothing quest.

||turns out zelda beefed up our tunic of the wild in secret, and was going to gift it to us after our little gloom investigation happened. sadly.... well.... everything else happened first.||

[fading axle]

look man, Im busy lighting up australia and killing handsy monsters.

[limpid vigil]

about that one gurm ||How you get into the castle?||

[fading axle]

||I just took the first moonshot cannon you unlock, and just.... glided in. I mean I used small childs boosty powers as well, but that was all there was to it. theres no barrier, no secret, hell, I bet you can actually just build up to it if you wanted to.||

[limpid vigil]

huh

[fading axle]

||launch tower. whatever. apparently I refered to them as moonshot cannons in my head.||

speaking of such things ||there is in fact a white lionel in the MASSIVE PIT under the castle, and it was gloomified. now THERE was a fight. man broke 3 of my best shields in just as many hits. I mean each shield wasn't top notch but still. Also lionel melee weapons seemingly no longer exist, kinda a bummer, but their bows and shields still rule.||

anyways

off to light up australia, then hunt down every last shrine, annnnnd then.... well.... I might go save the world, might not.

hard to say tbh

might learn how to suavemente first.

[cold sky]

I'm having a lot of fun exploring

[fading axle]

it is real fun

but uhhh, well, theres a light root that I CANT GET ACCESS TO. ITS SURROUNDED BY WALLS. THERES NO WAY IN.

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-in-eric-andre-wanna-come-in-gif-13730108

[cold sky]

The map being altered means everything feels fresh, even if it does also feel slightly off as a result

[fading axle]

the closest I got to understanding hte map was by playing Age of Calamity and let me tell you, that map does NOT HELP

[cold sky]

There's one spot I found like that. Two ways in. Find a chasm float down, if might be a Depths Monster House, or find a tunnel with bombable rocks and find your way in

[fading axle]

depths monster house?

and the walls have bombable segments.... of course..... why wouldnt they.....

don't mind me Im just off to..... slam my head into a literal wall.

[cold sky]

Kek

Won't lie

The water sections in the Depths are terrifying

Pitch black as far as the eye can see

And nobody knows jacks squat what's down there

[fading axle]

This light root. I want access.

[cold sky]

Scroll out, then show me approx location in overworld

[fading axle]

[limpid vigil]

Any possibility of a ||Chasm in a cave?||

[cold sky]

||Yeah, it's not the one I know of, so I don't know for sure, but I'd say to look through the local cave systems, there might be a chasm leading down in a cave somewhere nearby. I'm looking at the map, and maybe there might be a well? Look through that too if there is one. ||

[deep dawn]

||One of the yiga books mentions that some walls in the depths may have secret paths towards the tops||

[fading axle]

Well boys, I accidentally found the final boss room

[limpid vigil]

yaaaay

[fading axle]

Time to reload a save and go ANYWHERE ELSE

[deep dawn]

ha

[fading axle]

It’s ||back where it all began past a shadow Gannon fight. Bring max hp restores.||

[limpid vigil]

time to summon the exterminatus fleet

[fading axle]

[fading axle]

Interesting

But yeah I entered that room with 6 max hp left. Gloom is nasty.

The worst part is the game takes away your harem.

[limpid vigil]

Sunbloom gurm

I wonder if the games got a special animation for when you get all stamina and hearts back

[deep dawn]

I'm doing a cool quest right now. Main Story so I won't say more.

[limpid vigil]

is it the quest where you do the thing?

[deep dawn]

Should probably spoiler that but yeah

[fading axle]

You uhhh…. Well…. So…. ||you will have to chose between health and stamina again. For some reason.||

||either 37 hearts and full wheel, or 2 2/5ths Stam and 40 hearts.||

[fading axle]

No. Sundelion.

[limpid vigil]

nope screw that lighning lizalfos, i'm reloading to get my stuff back

[fading axle]

Thundered you off a cliff?

[limpid vigil]

broke all my gear

or despawned it cause cutscene after either or

[fading axle]

Rude.

[limpid vigil]

i dont mind missing out on it's loot but i'm not loosing a bunch of gear

Noooooo the ||Gerudo stable closed||

[deep dawn]

Okay that fight was clunky but awesome. This quest is great

Like when thing 1 happened I thought the quest couldnt get better. Then thing 2 happened

[limpid vigil]

time to sand sled

[deep dawn]

I seem to finally be right before the end of the game. Which means I have all my tools and time to ignore everything

I got some explorin to do

[limpid vigil]

I could pay 50 rupees for a seal... oooor

rocket sled

[fading axle]

Found it

Stupid unmarked aquatic cave piece of GARBAFE

Positive note: silver giga frog crystal guy.

Sorry I mean “blue white”

JUST CALL IT SILVER

YOU HAD A SYSTEM

USE IT

[tranquil star]

https://twitter.com/s_kinnaly/status/1660738437195108353

S-Kinnaly🌙 (@s_kinnaly)

You know what type of shrines I'm talking about...

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Twitter · May 22, 2023, 8:04 PM

[deep dawn]

Pain shrines

[fading axle]

those are actually quite easy. they often give you a spear and a bow.

thats all you really need.

I mean sure, a lot of hearts help too

but also

spear and bow makes the enemies go away

[lavish yew]

Bow=instant win.

Just need to find arrows.

[fading axle]

they often limit you significantly on your arrow count, but yeah.

you give me a bow and 10 arrows

that shrine is DEAD

Ill miss like 3 of em, but thats 8 instant kills.

roughly

there was this really funny shrine I actually never "geared up" on. just had a massive pool of water in the center

funny how you mitigated my one weakness by giving me a long stick and a pool of water.

there was some big and scary T3 robot with a real nasty something or other, and I just.... sidestepped and stabbed him

relaly the only thing I suck at in this game is flurry rushing (parrying too but there aren't guardians so I don't care about that all too much), because the things I want to flury rush are in the deep dark, annnd the conciquence of missing that is max HP reduction

which while an interesting mechanic, is slowly starting to annoy me.

the longer I spend in down under, the more I dislike the health reduction.

yes there are foods to fix it, the issue is those mats are annoying to get, and you only let me carry FIFTY MEALS. thats not nearly enough!

for anything!

especially not after durrians were removed and all the other hearties were made stupidly rare

[lavish sentinel]

https://vxtwitter.com/Kestrel_elf/status/1660822815829024768?s=20

[runic mortar]

i dont even fully understand all of what i just witnessed

[tranquil star]

https://vxtwitter.com/impasbitch/status/1660700058650591248

[fading axle]

They overcompensated for their lack of actual weaponry with tricks and nonsense.

[runic mortar]

only trick one needs is super warmachine

[fading axle]

The only trick I need is knowing that a simple sidestep will dodge that attack, and then I can spin around until he dies.

My spin lasts longer then weapon durability.

Which is nice.

[runic mortar]

ok this is a what le fuk moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFATJg1Zx9s

[leaden oracle]

I have seen someone else do this but the box cleanly darted off into the horizon behind castle Hyrule

[limpid vigil]

doing the gerudo stuff rn, the ||Aura of bzap is real fun||

[weak ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQFJfTo0yQ

[runic mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/well-waiting-were-waiting-gif-5848728

[weak ember]

removing embed, but that was the immediate thought I had

[limpid vigil]

Gerudo spoils no read || I hate mirror puzzles thank god it's was one time activated stuff tho||

also still spoilers ||nopenopenope guibdo can burn||

[runic mortar]

ah you mean ||gibdos||

[limpid vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/godzilla-2019-king-of-the-monsters-roar-victory-gif-19048879

for real tho ||Tornadoes suck||

time to do every side stuff

also the map needs a compass

whats west, and east, and south and north?

you know, i feel like link should be telling people about (dragon tears spoiler) ||zelda being a dragon||

[leaden oracle]

You do know you can lock the minimap to north , right ?

[limpid vigil]

i can?

[leaden oracle]

Its in the options

[limpid vigil]

nice now whats east an west?

is east right?

the map has no compass flower

[deep dawn]

I mean north is all you need

[leaden oracle]

Also any map by default is written directed north

North is up

forward

[fading axle]

North is up, East is right. South is down. West is left. That is how every map is written.

Never eat soggy waffles.

[unkempt haven]

North is Up, South is Right, West is Down, East is Left

[fading axle]

….. no.

[unkempt haven]

[fading axle]

Noodle I’m actually trying to help

Don’t add confusion and delay or I’ll brick you up into a tunnel.

[unkempt haven]

fine...

[fading axle]

[limpid vigil]

||I found this games equivalent of twilights princess magic armor||

||Shame i'm broke||

[fading axle]

||oh god.... no..... NO. THAT ARMOR WAS SO STUPID, WHY DID THEY MAKE IT EXIST AGAIN?!||

[limpid vigil]

i got 15 rupees and a dream lets go

[limpid vigil]

is this only counting the ones you get from shrines? ||i know of one pick between each that was quest reward||

[quasi plume]

@fading axle you have a problem

[fading axle]

Including everything.

[fading axle]

Explain.

[quasi plume]

Addiction

[lavish yew]

||Cave of Ordeals speedruns in Twilight Princess actually do sometimes use the Magic Armor, in order to guarantee retaining ability to use Great Spin (which requires full hp).||

[fading axle]

||that’s nice and lovely, counter argument, it’s a stupid piece of armor.||

[fading axle]

No! I can stop whenever I want!

If anyone finds the Zora city chasm let me know.

Or a way into it’s light root.

[limpid vigil]

mmmh

It's ||Under the waterfall coming in to the city theres a cave|| that area is also ||Part of a side quest for the zora Armor||

To start it, ||Talk to sidons wife||

[fading axle]

I did the entire Zora area first. But thanks. Glad to know where it is now.

[limpid vigil]

ooohhhh

[fading axle]

Ohhh????

[limpid vigil]

Spoilers for themain quests after the quest for the four regions ||So theres a fifth sage|| Even more spoilers for this ||You build it's body||

[fading axle]

||yeah buddy! You found mecha waifu! Nicely done! Found that one a few days ago in the morning, was a hell of a trip. There’s a reason I’ve been referring to my fights as 5v6s. There’s 5 harem members.||

[limpid vigil]

||Ganodorf aint ready for this||

[fading axle]

||no he is not. Also you unlock the zoanite weapon shop after finishing her quest, it’s really cool.||

||it’s the biggest secret I found on accident and it’s just, I love it. I didn’t look up any guides, I just stumbled into it. Was great.||

[limpid vigil]

||This is gonna make exploring the depths way easier||

brain go derp

[fading axle]

||not…. Exactly, but yeah, she helps. The bigger thing is in combat, every hit she does is a GARUNTEED knock down, except on the big big world bosses, but normal mobs she bodies.||

[limpid vigil]

||She can also walk over gloom||

[fading axle]

||ya heard of just… not caring?||

[deep dawn]

||That's why I love her||

[fading axle]

||gloom is a slight deterrent, not an actual danger, at least for me.||

[deep dawn]

||I did really enjoy her boss fight. That's what I was doing last night||

[fading axle]

||now THAT was a boss fight.||

[deep dawn]

||Yeah Gloom is totally managable but mechs||

[fading axle]

||I never said she wasn’t a complete awesome badass, I’m just saying, that it’s not her main draw for me.||

[deep dawn]

Oh dear Tingle I found something I did not want to find. ||Rock armored Gloom lionel||

[fading axle]

||oh HEEEELLLLL NAAAWWWWW||

[deep dawn]

Made use of glider slow down to ||put 5 bomb arrows in it's face and it only took half it's armor. I ran||

[deep dawn]

Found my new favorite proving grounds shrine. ||Flow is a shrine where you have these tower rafts floating around in a circle with Constructs on each one.|| Solution ||rather than jump between these while dodging arrows and what not you can just hide behind a a crate and flip each raft as it passes||

[tranquil star]

https://c.vxtwitter.com/sennamatic/status/1660992497730895874

[quasi plume]

"roommates"

have we ever had them married in a game?

[tranquil star]

No?

I definitely would’ve heard about it if they had

[deep dawn]

They've never had a canon romantic relationship. Skyword Sword was the closest IIRC

[fading axle]

I wish I had come up with that when I did it

[fading axle]

no, buuuuuut the fandom basically agrees that they are.

but ALSO

in this game

dont click if havent done the dragon tears ||theres at least one cutscene that hints at it very heavily||

||the romantic relationship that is.||

||only downside is she ya know, BECAME A DRAGON. WHOOPS.||

[quasi plume]

I really hope that the next Zelda game has a line where it reveals they've always canonically been siblings

That would be a great screw you from the producers

[fading axle]

I mean, something like that just happened in an anime I was watching

the main ship of the anime, who were HAVING a budding romantic relationship, are half siblings.

whoops!

[quasi plume]

Half incest is half okay!

[fading axle]

NO IT IS NOT

AT ALL

[deep dawn]

I found a shirt ||the lobster shirt from windwaker|| Location is ||under the pirate ship at lurelin||

[fading axle]

rad

[tranquil shard]

I feel called out. What’s wrong with a mattress on the floor

[fading axle]

also I have bad news.

the wild tunic does not display HP values.

or, whatever its called.

the blue shirt that we all really liked because it showed us how much health things actually had so we could properly choose our weapons accordingly?

yeah it don't do that no more.

it is, the big sad.

[fickle iris]

Looks like the speedrunning community is already breaking TotK over their knee

||https://twitter.com/CrypticJacknife/status/1660721072420057088||

[deep dawn]

||https://twitter.com/CrypticJacknife/status/1661015913506955264||

[leaden oracle]

…

What da Link doin ?

[runic mortar]

the this game is for psychopaths video i watched was quite the hilarious times

[lavish yew]

SS and BotW/TotK are the closest ones in the franchise to having Canon Zelink. TotK has them canonically co-habitating between the end of BotW and the start of TotK, but not married, while SS was the most canon for an actually romantic relationship between the two (the scene at the very end of SS, especially, has very romantic overtones (not just subtones, but overtones, they try to make it that obvious that it stops being subtones)).

[lavish yew]

Champion's Tunic. And it makes sense it doesn't, it is a completely different item now (it has that extra padding and whatnot, instead of just being a shirt).

[deep dawn]

About the co-habitation thing assuming it means the Hateno house. Doesnt actually say anywhere they lived together. The diary even mentions Zelda having it built for herself

[lavish yew]

No, she had the School and the Work Area in the Well next to the House built herself.
Also Link can sleep there, and the only beds he lets the player make him sleep in are ones that are completely unowned, that he owns, that he has purchased for a night, or that he has explicit permission from the owner to use.

The only two that could at all apply for the one in the house in Hateno are "that he owns" and "that he has explicit permission from the owner to use", both of which would fall under standard definitions of co-habitation.

[deep dawn]

The diary right in the house says she had Bolson build it does it not?

[lavish yew]

Plus the group photo you get as a reward at the end of Champion's Ballad is still hanging on the wall near the bed.

[lavish yew]

The school. She had Bolson build the school. And also the little Work Room in the well next to the house.

Bolson-built structures are very very obvious that they are Bolson-built (as opposed to Bolson-repaired), as they share the same style as the houses in Tarrey Town (boxy, flat colors, and modular).

And the only building in Hateno that has that style, is, you guessed it, the School.

[fading axle]

…… but it did the thingy, and now it doesn’t.

[leaden oracle]

|| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnd2YoRe_xw ||

[fading axle]

I’m fairly certain she yells at you after a bit or if you take her too far.

[deep dawn]

Sage spoilers ||Wonder how Raaru feels about the fact that we've turned his sister into a personal mount||

[fading axle]

||well she did that, and Raru was dead by the time that happened, so he doesnt really get a say. Reminder that her plan was the MOMENT link woke up, to fly out of the purrah pad and into her mech, hickups because of gannondorf prevented that.||

[deep dawn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lavish yew]

||And if not for those hiccups, the plan would have worked, given how powerful the mech is.||

[fading axle]

||yeah. That thing could have stompped through the entire underdark and into the topside by the time we got off the first sky island. which by the way, just, complete random question: why weren't there more islands like that? I mean I get it, the entire underworld was doubling the map size, but why not a major sky island per each major area? I mean that would have been cool, instead we get fragmented bits of mines and what not. Which while cool, I still feel like ya know, somethings missing.||

||tutorial sky island was magnificently done, why not more like it?||

[deep dawn]

||Was really hoping for more big islands yeah||

[lavish yew]

||Culling reasons, probably. Easy to cull out Australia when you aren't down there, hard to cull out sky islands unless you are currently in Australia.||

[fading axle]

||yeah fair enough. I still kinda wanted more though. ah well. mayhaps DLC? idk what their plans are but htere will absolutely be DLC.||

||hopefully a way to power up the master sword again, as is, feels kinda weak.||

[deep dawn]

||you can fuse things to it||

[fading axle]

||I know that, even THEN, it just dont feel all too strong.||

||it feels like just a moderately sized beat stick, and Im using attack up 3 stuff.||

[lavish yew]

||Be careful what you wish for, or else you could end up with the Master Trials again.||

[deep dawn]

||Base attack on it is 30 right? That means modded with something like a diamond it's one of the strongerst 1 handed in the game?||

[fading axle]

||I liked those.||

[lavish yew]

||But 10x longer.||

[fading axle]

||40, and no, its not. Gannon has swords at 41.||

[fading axle]

||OH HELL NAW.||

[lavish yew]

||And more time before reaching the safe areas or the checkpoints.||

[fading axle]

||but to our knowledge, its 40 attack again, and gannon drops swords that deal 41, which like, why. why do shadow gannons drop swords that are just ONE BETTER than the god damned sword that seals the darkness. also the best stuff ive found is white lionel, and that does +51 because its just that horrifying.||

||hell not only swords, I think gannon has 1 weapon from each type. all at 41.||

[lavish yew]

||No Gold or Silver Lynels found yet?||

[deep dawn]

||So it's still one of the highest base attack weapons then? Though personally I feel like it's less that the sword is too weak and more that with the inclusion of silver creatures and boss bokos the hp pool on enemies has just gotten too much larger. I feel less like I'm weak and more like I'm attacking tanks||

[fading axle]

||Gold is only master mode you know that, and this was a thing I found DEEP under the castle itself in the underdark. if I had to guess its the strongest variant currently in the game.||

[fading axle]

||that may be it too, but again, is why I want a way to power it up, so that it feels like a proper endgame weapon again. Also could have sworn silvers were in the previous game.... or was that golds from master mode? either way, yeah, silvers are stupidly tanky.||

[deep dawn]

||I don't remember them previously at least. Never played master mode though so hard to say||

[lavish yew]

||Red>Blue>Black>White>Silver>Gold, get enough kills and you would upgrade the enemies following that order. Master Mode just kicked the upgrades ahead a tier for free, meaning you got Golds when non-Master Mode would get Silvers.||

[fading axle]

||enough kills? they upgrade based on how often you murder them? seriously? what a weird system.||

||I dont think this game runs on the same system, or at least, it doesnt feel like it. Seems to be each dungeon cleared bumps a rank.||

[lavish yew]

||Yes. And also based on region, each region having a different base teir (the further you went from the Great Plateau, the higher the base teir).||

[fading axle]

||or bumps the rank of a few anyways.||

[fading axle]

||well, I hope someone figures out the system for this game, because if I can garuntee silvers just by doing a bunch of murder, that makes my life easier.||

[lavish yew]

||Higher Base tier region enemies would not start upgrading until the upgrade tier reached one higher than the region base tier.||

[fading axle]

||lovely. well if you ever figure out what kind of system this game is running on, that would be great. also if you know where more white lionels are, please inform me.||

[lavish yew]

||Besides the non-respawning guaranteed ones in the Australian Colisseum?||

[fading axle]

||yeah besides those. garunteed respawners.||

||I need nicer bows, and nicer shields, and more of their parts.||

[deep dawn]

||Only one I know off the top of my head is the blueberry rock boy||

[fading axle]

||but thats blue, not white.||

[lavish yew]

||Have you tried North-north Eldin (north of the mountain, along the giant gorge at the edge of the map)? There used to be a fair few Lynels up there in BotW.||

[deep dawn]

||Yeah that's the issue||

[fading axle]

||Ill try, enemy locations seem fairly similar. big ol north eldin, along the giant gorge.... shouldnt be too hard to spot em if they exist.||

[fading axle]

||fair nuff.||

||Ill still take the location if you got it.||

[deep dawn]

||Would have to boot my switch up for it. Off of memory it was on the lower west side of Akala in the border area between there and the lava zone to the north of a rooot||

[fading axle]

||alright thanks, Ill check it out. worst comes to worst I pull up a map of all lionel locations, but that feels like cheating.||

[lavish yew]

||Found a vid, apparently they still use World Level system, and have either cut Gold Lynels entirely, or the threshold for Gold is way higher this time around and the person here just had not reached it yet.https://youtu.be/qAd0ym-LvCs||

[fading axle]

||world level system? so more kills = stronger foes? neat.||

[deep dawn]

I mean my switch is 15feet away. I could roll my chair to it

[fading axle]

nah I have vid now apparently

which is arguably cheating

buuut

screw that

[lavish yew]

||Yeah. It is how it worked in BotW, and is apparently how it still works in TotK.||

[deep dawn]

Ehhhh. At a certain point I find it hard to care. Your probably around a 100 hours now right? That seems like a great time to say screw it and look things up

[fading axle]

||so basically, kill everything, all the time, always, and eventually, everything will become so powerful that I can just run around and kill anything.||

[fading axle]

close enough probably yeah.

I mean I looked up a ton along the way but that was for real stupid things like THAT ONE GOD DAMNED SHRINE

SO STUPID

[deep dawn]

I know I was just over 80 the other day so probably about right

[fading axle]

but alright

world level

[lavish yew]

||Some enemies in BotW were locked to the lower tiers, and never upgraded higher, so that you would always face at least some Red Bokoblins, and it is almost certainly the same here in TotK, but yes.||

[deep dawn]

And yeah some shrines are ugh

[fading axle]

thats actually kinda clever

[fading axle]

||I mean honestly, the only place I can get effective weapons these days is from bosses. if it doesnt have royal in the title, it doesnt have enough base damage.||

||Id say some base enemies makes sense for compendium, but we have robbie these days.||

||who just, sells you photos||

[deep dawn]

||I got 4k rupees at the moment. I refuse to buy photos||

[lavish yew]

||He did in BotW, as well. But here it also makes sense for inventory completionism reasons, since they drop unique horns based on tier.||

||Gotta get 999x of everything, after all.||

[fading axle]

||I know the locations of 5 stone talusses half of which are classified as rare. I also refuse to buy photos.||

[fading axle]

||no. absolutely not.||

[lavish yew]

||But inventory completionism.||

[deep dawn]

||yes, must have all the money||

[fading axle]

||INFINATE MONEEEYYYYYY||

[fading axle]

no.

stop that

bad hero

Im off to watch anime

and regret my life choices

and eat some goat cheese

mmmmm goat cheese

maybe some fig jam too.

[lavish yew]

But completionism.

[fading axle]

when I have 1000 hours and get bored of the game, sure.

for now Ill do what I can

[lavish yew]

Speaking of completionism... ||Are you going to get all 1000 Korok seeds?||

[fading axle]

||thats the plaaaaannnnnnnn||

Hero

I intend to do everything but that inventory completionist nonsense

and that means EVERYTHING

every photo

every item

EVERYTHING

[lavish yew]

999x of every item might as well be added in too, then. For proper completionism.

[fading axle]

go to hell

no wait

go to ohio

[lavish sentinel]

https://twitter.com/SXodium/status/1661584263488364545?s=20

SaltyXodium (NO COMMS) (@SXodium)

L-Link?... #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch

Twitter · May 25, 2023, 4:05 AM

[fading axle]

I hate that hat

so much

[tranquil star]

Why does it give him lipstick????

The hair could be a wig that’s part of the hat, but lipstick?

[lavish yew]

Because the display it is on before you buy it also has the lipstick.

[tranquil star]

The blank bust has lipstick?

The hat is magic and it’s magic is lipstick

[lavish yew]

While the hat is on it, yes.

[fading axle]

yes.

its a really stupid hat

it doesnt even do anything

[tranquil star]

It puts lipstick on The wearer, that’s what it does

[lavish yew]

And also a pink eye-covering Beiber-bowl haircut.

[leaden oracle]

I mean

the frost attack set you see also gives Linky blue fingernails

[deep dawn]

It would make me super happy if that hat had the best head item defense in the game. Make the players choose to wear it.

[weak ember]

||https://twitter.com/GifZelda/status/1661538750961254400 ||

Zelda Gif World (@GifZelda)

When you scan Wolf Link amiibo in TotK, instead of getting Wolf Link like in BotW, you get a crap ton of meat

What did they do to Wolf Link 😢

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Twitter · May 25, 2023, 1:04 AM

[tranquil star]

NOOO

[fading axle]

SUFFFFFEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR

[limpid vigil]

Welp only one main quest line thing left to do

time for exploration

[fading axle]

Yay!

[lavish yew]

||To be fair, Wolf Link in BotW was super jank, so it makes sense they cut that feature of that particular Amiibo.||

[fading axle]

Hey @lavish yew you know that “white” Lionel I found? Yeah finally actually read the part name. That boy be silver. Along with a few others I’ve hunted down.

Also I found the downside of the 41 weapons. Jack all durability. So that’s their real “downside”

[fading axle]

||that boy was supposed to be red. He was NOT!||

[lavish yew]

||Meaning he likely got upgraded by your World Level.||

[fading axle]

||absolutely. All the way to bloody silver.||