TLoZ: Tears of the Kingdom Spoiler Thread!

[uneven hazel]

and I think they were probably trying to avoid a 'this is just BotW 1.5' scenario

but like

explaining why the most base mechanics and enemies of the last game are completely gone would make sense

[south mural]

Actually that being said

Based on what I pieced together form the story ||zelda turned into a dragon in order to heal the master sword and ‘travel in time’, as she is immortal she can withstand time and reach the present day totk||

||so then how is she still… Zelda in botw||

||technically speaking there would still be a light dragon there||

[uneven hazel]

I don't think I'm going to read that

I'm only 30 hours in so maybe it is referenced

[south mural]

If you’ve got the master sword that should give the gist of it

[placid flume]

|| https://vxtwitter.com/OshawottKing23/status/1657895472051421184?t=E9Soo5RaDg5ucDNLH-L4zg&s=19 ||

I was actually freaking out at this because i ran out of fairies and those blocks one shot me

Also weak weapons

[south mural]

https://youtu.be/3XXLUqc3-M8

TONY HAWK

THATS SO FKING COOL

WHAT

[placid flume]

Oh yea

The animated series is canon now

The 80s animated series

||Bomb shield jump||

[south mural]

I went into uni today for an online lecture that I didn’t know would be online

So basically I could’ve stayed home the whole day

I’m feeling the Zelda withdrawal

I have so much I want to do still

[upbeat idol]

Or where the hell is all the Sheikah Stuff, you even see it used in the new towers, runes and all, but the entire world was littered with so much Sheikah tech it's pretty much weird that everyone forgot about it (unless this gets explained and I am not far enough) (or maybe they were just afraid of it getting taken over again and just destroyed it all)

[south mural]

||the great plateau shiekah shrines all have chasms where they used to be||

But all other shrines aren’t like that

Does the master sword glow in the presence of gloom or gloom covered enemies?

[vague path]

lol (not really a spoiler but doesn't hurt)

[south mural]

“OHHHHHHHHHH!”
“THANK YOU!”

[still atlas]

Nah I bet they were all conveniently crushed by sky rocks

[south mural]

Took me way too long to realise beedle’s hair is his hair and not a cool looking beanie hat thing

[still atlas]

You thought he was bald?

[south mural]

It’s like Brendan in Pokémon

Does he have white hair or it’s just a beanie- it’s just a beanie

I really hope there’s some sort of guardian in the game

Like a jump scare thing

Like you go underground and discover buried guardians

One turns on

Piano escalates

Ptsd kicks in

I cry tears

[upbeat idol]

Brother I had an encounter yesterday in the field

God damn ||malice hands like what, no mercy, they tore me apart and suffocated me in gloom||

[south mural]

I hate them

||honestly scarier than guardians because you never know when they appear||

[junior pilot]

had the same experience on my first encounter
but then i just stayed far away and shot a few bomb arrows at them which made it really easy to defeat them

[south mural]

||at least guardians are… you know big enough to see them and are relatively easier to avoid||

[south mural]

||how did you fare against the next phase ||

[junior pilot]

||<#1106197832148463636 message>||

[upbeat idol]

I had no chance at all and will not click for now lmaoaoao

I just strolled around with my 4 hearts

||I was on my horse but they literally just swallowed me||

||I escaped on next resume by climbing over a ruin wall, they don't pass that apparently||

[south mural]

||when I fought them inside the deku tree at one point they stopped attacking me and just stood there while I was completely backed into a corner, I just kept firing arrows for my life||

[south mural]

Is there an offical list of VA in the game?

I think I recognise Sonia’s voice but I don’t know for sure

The final boss of TOTK

Floweblight Ganon

(Not spoilers it’s just funny)

[fierce escarp]

i don't think there's a complete one

[fierce escarp]

there's a few partial ones but I don't think any of them have Sonia

[south mural]

Finally killed ||my first gleeock||

Jesus Christ that was hard

I cheesed the “first phase” by jumping off the platform and bullet timing it as soon it was recovered from my attacks

The ice variant started raining down icicles and it took me a while to realise I have to stand on and recall my way above the storm to reach the ||gleeock||

BRUH

I FOUND MY FIRST LYNEL

BY SHILEDSURGING DOWN A LITTLE

[placid flume]

everyone has already said this but

Purah just did a massive glow up

[south mural]

Just beat the gerudo dungeon

That’s the main 4 point quest done

I wonder how you get to the final boss

I’m not gonna do that now because I don’t want to be the person to say “I beat totk in 3 days”

[placid flume]

i havent done any of the main story quests lol

just me vibing around and doing shrines

[south mural]

I think I’m doing them now so that I don’t have to ‘plan out’ what I’m doing yknow

“I need to do the main stuff eventually”

So do them now and get it over with

I’ve barely touched the depths except for some quests

[placid flume]

only activated like two roots in the depths

[south mural]

They’re connected to shrines on the surface

And vice versa

[placid flume]

i do know i have to come back to the depths soon tho cuz theres stuff i wanna do

[sturdy flint]

I barely survived on one heart. I too have been at 4 hearts this whole time having now invested 12 full LoBs into stamina. I just want to ask which sick bastard decided that ||each hand has an individual health bar||. What is this Dark Souls enemy design? Ridiculous I just can’t kill them all before taking too much damage.

Enemies in this game hit like truck-kun

Starting to think I need to invest into HCs

But stamina stronk

[upbeat idol]

I was swallowed whole and I am not ashamed of it

[sturdy flint]

So you're saying you like being sw- nevermind

[uneven hazel]

Think I accidently stumbled across the final boss?

'accidently' he says having been like 'this is a bad idea I should not be going here' for about 90 minutes beforehand

[uneven hazel]

||Bomb Arrows|| are your friend for this little guy

They give him a little tickle on the head (hand? Eye?) and he goes away

[south mural]

Just unlocked all memories and the final memory

Quite an interesting take on ||Zelda as a character||

[uneven hazel]

and I stupidly didn't think to ||get the travel medallion|| beforehand

[south mural]

Feel like this is the most plot importance she’s had in a long time

[south mural]

How?

[south mural]

For this I mean

[uneven hazel]

If it was the final boss

it took quite a lot of effort to get to

which is fair enough I am not final boss ready

but like it would've been nice to be able to get back there without having to do the preamble beforehand

[south mural]

Did you go to hyrule castle lol

[uneven hazel]

I did

got all ready for it too

Hyrule Castle has a banger soundtrack

again

both layers

also I was having thoughts about the Master Sword

If it's where I think it is there had better be a damned good explanation

if it isn't where I think it is

there had also be a damned good explanation

[sturdy flint]

Idk how tf you guys are so far into the game

I've legit done zero story content and barely scratched at what's available lol

[uneven hazel]

I'm more story-orientated than game-orientated

don't get me wrong I don't think/hope I'm not halfway through yet

I just don't get as distracted by sidequests

much

I did get stuck on the Great Plateau for a few hours

That one was

eye opening

[south mural]

I’ve barely done any side quests

I’ve only done the major side adventures

[south mural]

The master sword is where you expect it

To avoid potential spoilers

I’ll leave it at that

[uneven hazel]

no

that's not ||Yunobo||

nothing you can say to me will convince me otherwise

what the fuck

[south mural]

HAHAHAHA

[naive imp]

....fear

[sturdy flint]

Alright well

We achieved peak fiction
Korok transport mission shenanigans have made me laugh so hard.

"Oof..."

[vague path]

same

I've spent my time doing all the shrines and the underground in the center of Hyrule

Haven't done any story beyond briefly checking up on Kakariko

and ofc the prologue

[placid flume]

Ive been mostly running around the world doing side quests, getting shrines and collectinf korok seeds

Havent really been doing alot of the main story quests although thats changing cuz im in Zoras domain

[sturdy flint]

100% accurate to my adventure lol

[placid flume]

I did a suicide mission to Hyrules Castle

[sturdy flint]

I haven't even visited any of the other races yet.

I did visit Hateno which was whack

[placid flume]

|| https://vxtwitter.com/OshawottKing23/status/1658153421147635712?t=1ZfDabjkYXChlfdVd2CyPA&s=19 ||

Also it has been me slaying these guys

[sturdy flint]

I also went and visited Eventide and wow. This game is magic.

Also I remember scoffing a lot at the Ascend ability. I figured that'd be situational at best and wouldn't amount to much.

Other than Ultrahand which obviously gets the most use I've used Ascend more than any

It's easily the best utility and quality of life this game could've gotten. Brilliant idea.

I think I've used Recall the least? It just doesn't feel very functional in heated situations yet. I've been experimenting with it though. If anything it pauses the game to give me a chance to analyze what's going on. Some of these combat situations are ridiculous.

[placid flume]

HERE HE IS

Sometimes i tend to forget i have recall and ascend and forget that i can do some insanity with those two abilities

[junior pilot]

i rarely use Recall but i need to remember to use it more often. it's incredibly useful, and it's range is huge.
any time an enemy shoots something at you, you can recall the projectile.
need to reach a high place? grab an object with ultra hand, hold it high up and then let it fall to the ground. go stand on the object and recall it back up.

[cyan copper]

Side Quest spoiler: ||The controversial Hylian Zora friendship is back. This time Sasan and Finley are working together to find a shrine.
They really got a strong bond!||

For anyone who doesn't know

Refering to this quest from BotW https://youtu.be/PGfuPgTAfm4

[placid flume]

Ok ngl

||The water temple was really fun||

[placid flume]

am done for today

i did another risky trip to Hyrule castle to try and get the Hylian Shield

i got it by sheer dumb luck

[naive imp]

Does it break?

[south mural]

Unfortunately yes

[naive imp]

:(

[placid flume]

it was breakable in the first game iirc

[south mural]

They were really nice to make some amiibo exclusives obtainable in game

There’s a quest to obtain ||the fierce diety armour + sword, and doing the typhlo ruins quest gives you the sword of seven sages||

||and apparently there’s an armour set in the design/artstyle of Link from link’s awakening remake||

[south mural]

There’s another side quest where you can ||infiltrate the Yiga hideout and you can learn the earthwind technique the blademasters use as well as get the thunder helm||

[south mural]

Finally got the hylian shield

It’s really easy to get tbh

||Same spot where the shrine in hyrule castle was in BOTW||

||be aware there is gloom spawn (the hands) as you walk through the docks||

[south mural]

For what I can tell

You can’t fight the final boss without doing main story quests

||You don’t actually fight the final boss once your main story objective directs you to hyrule castle (when you’ve done the 4 other quests)||

[still atlas]

||my face when Lynel #5 shows up in the underground colosseum||

I had a day

[wary pumice]

Ha, I've actually found myself stuck at a shrine here for once..

Anyone here reached Mayachin Shrine, out of curiosity?

|| I've been stuck for about an hour, trying to figure out how to launch the ball to the target here haa ||

Never mind, I got it now.. 😭

[azure needle]

So i played for about 3 hours now and it's pretty fun so far but oh but was ||the first snow area|| a pain. I ran out of materials to cook and died like 10 times

[south mural]

I’ve finally started the second row of hearts 😭

[south mural]

||if you still want weapon mounts, head to tarrey town||

[cyan copper]

I gave it up and haven't tried again yet. Any hints are aprecciated

[wary pumice]

Hmm..

Best hint I can think of is, don't overcomplicate things

The straightforward solution is the best one

[placid flume]

Those things man they give me flashbacks to the ones from Wind Waker

[placid flume]

I think i reached that one, not sure

Ill let ya know

[still atlas]

Is it the one with ||baseball!||

[wary pumice]

:p

yee

[still atlas]

⚾

I ended up doing the extra credit part by gluing the board to the top lol

[wary pumice]

I got stuck trying to go for a solution where I'd hold the ball in place, then use the two logs to strike it in
But, I couldn't get the angle right, nor enough power to have the ball actually reach the switch..

|| Then, I went for the straightforward solution of just playing pinball here ||

[still atlas]

||I just let it roll twords me and hit it||

||the extra credit one was the one they gave me lots of trouble, I spent at least 15 minutes trying to angle the ball right only to discover you don't even need to deal with the obstacle||

[placid flume]

I think this is too early for me to say this but

Im sorry

[still atlas]

So far for the most part it's true

Although I miss Cryonis a lot

And stasis

[placid flume]

Remote controlled bombs are like the one i miss

[still atlas]

I kinda miss those too, but I feel that had to happen

Remote bombs were just too useful

I really feel the lack of free damage in TotK

[south mural]

So there a very

Very long process

But there’s a ||fifth temple||

Story required

[sturdy flint]

Well

The work week has begun again

And after a full weekend plus Monday off to play I can say

This game is a game that games.

I've done so much I don't even know where to start.

While completing exactly zero story progress at that lmao

(almost 0 I guess I did the first ||Dragon Tears|| part with Impa)

[south mural]

Oh damn

||the master sword is a required story objective not an optional main objective||

I guess because it also gives the total scope of the story

Have unlocked all memories/cutscenes now

We are so kicking dorfy’s ass

The final main story objective

[south mural]

Honestly

I’ve come so far

I’m going to do the final boss

It’s a long and hard way to the actual final boss

If anyone is at the final boss pint

I highly highly reccomend setting down a travel medallion there

[south mural]

Holy shit

I’m not gonna say anything about the fight or the build up to it

But my god

[sturdy flint]

Jeez Puff chill out bud

I haven't even done a single region yet lmao

[south mural]

I am underprepared

[sturdy flint]

lmaooo

[south mural]

Tbh I just want to do the main stuff so I can do side quests after

Because yknow

Get that out of the way first

If that makes sense

[sturdy flint]

Oh of course that's how my wife plays, that's how many people play. I understand I'm in a minority doing almost everything else but Main Story first lmao.

I'm the kind of player that when you tell me to go in the direction but don't limit my freedom then I'm going to go in the opposite direction.

That doesn't stop me from being like JEEZ you made it far. Like I'm thinking these four regions have exploration/lead up to temples/temples/post quest cooldown/travel to the next one. How long does that take and how much have you done in between via inventory expansion, shrines for stamina and health, etc.

There's a lot of factors unless you're legit still a 4-hearted Lonk against the world just powering through XD

This game is not small by a longshot

AND enemies hit so hard it almost seems better suited to go on Shrine hunting/gear expansion than just ramming into hard fights over and over ya know

So all that combined.

In my eyes you've gone a LONG way in what I assume a short time period XD

It's impressive

[south mural]

Im like at 2 hearts second row

Trust me

[sturdy flint]

wtf

[south mural]

I have done barely any side quests

Just mainly story side quests

[south mural]

You get ||6 heart containers from story||

And at least 1 from a major side quest

[sturdy flint]

Oh wow that's nice.

[south mural]

In my defence I had finished my assignments for the week and my weekend had nothing lmao

[sturdy flint]

I guess my assumption that ||beating a temple gives you a HC like the classics|| holds true then

Which is great validation for me

[south mural]

Indeed

[sturdy flint]

Did you do all the Geoglyphs too???

[south mural]

If it makes you feel better (slight spoilers about the area not the fight) ||there is gloom everywhere and I tried fighting the final boss with 3 hearts because everything was gone lmfao||

[south mural]

Yeah

They’re not that hard tbf

[sturdy flint]

Yeah I guess you're right since they're so big and visible

How much of the Depths have you done? I guess the Depths is almost exclusively side mission related

Except I Think there is a temple in there

From what I gather from dialogue

[south mural]

||there is one temple and technically another but it’s not a dungeon||

[sturdy flint]

Dungeon is the better word yeah whoops*

[south mural]

^

Ok yeah I’m

Not gonna fight it

[sturdy flint]

Almost as many lights as me even though you focused story. Crazy

[south mural]

Absolutely underprepared considering my food stuff lol

Can’t teleport out once you’re in the final area

Sooooo

Luckily I kept making manual saves!

Yeah I’m gonna legit start side questing now

It’s very hard

This game will kill speedrunners LOL

[sturdy flint]

They'll find a way.

[south mural]

Or

Hmm

[sturdy flint]

Oh yeah

[south mural]

I think yeah

[sturdy flint]

How many of you have done Hateno stuff? Wondering if y'all are on Team Cece or Team Reede

[south mural]

It’s a lot less straightforward than Botw but you can rush into the final boss

Team cece

You can choose teams?

Judging by the dialouge I thought it would default to cece

[sturdy flint]

The game asks you straight up in the moment when Reede confronts Cece if you support either one lol but if you say "Undecided" Cece just assumes you're on her side. I said Undecided but after doing a few more quests around Hateno I think I'm team Cece.

Reede is very kind though still think he deserves it too.

[south mural]

Ah yeah I did undecided too

That makes sense

Have you done anything regarding the Yiga clan?

If you really like exploring I suggest going to the Yiga hideout

Because it will send you further for some other things

[placid flume]

Damn this game keeps getting me side tracked

Right when im about to start a quest or finish one

Suddenly i spot a shrine

[south mural]

I love the feeling of finding a shrine on the surface while in the sky

And then abandoning all your plans and diving right down to it

https://tenor.com/view/black-adam-gif-26989330

I wanna give some quick thoughts on the game before I sleep + I’ve reached a point where I’ve seen pretty much the whole story except the direct ending

Story related, ||ngl something about Zelda being MIA doesn’t sit right with me, the game you think she’s here but no she’s the funny looking dragon you see sometimes (which fucks with the story of botw because… Zelda is right there), but other than that, much better improvement over BOTW’s story, mainly because they expand more after you beat the regional phenomena quest and having the champion descendants fight with you is AWESOME||

Gameplay, ||tad overwhelming at times with resource management but my god they’ve made HD Minecraft. The fact the devs saw players break the physics of BOTW and implemented that as a core feature of this game says so many things. Also expanded enemy variety. Ironically it means I see less enemies like lizalfos and especially Lynels but it definitely makes each battle more unique, especially with the new overworld bosses added. Also want to quickly point that thank god flurry rushes are faster, they were kinda boring in Botw because on most bosses it was just a backflip and flurry rush, repeat, but now with the added speed I really feel like I’m doing more damage. My only issue is they patched out whistle sprinting and we can’t windbomb anymore ||

[sturdy flint]

This is kind of how I've been playing this whole game tbh. Seeing something like a Skyview Tower in the distance and saying "Alright that's where I'm going"

Then an hour later I find myself elbow deep in the Depths following Naydra on their set flight path because it's cool to follow lol. Then I remember two hours later "Oh yeah I meant to do that Tower whoops"

[south mural]

I remember diving into a chasm and almost speared myself on a dragon that was coming out

[sturdy flint]

XD

[south mural]

Also you can chill and ride on them while they fly in the depths

[sturdy flint]

Oh wth

You can stand on them now?

[south mural]

It’s not really fast but better than touching all the gloom

Yup

[sturdy flint]

HUH?!??

I never tried because I assumed from BotW you couldn't!!!

[south mural]

You get a new material from them that can only be collected by standing on them

[sturdy flint]

Yo I know what I'm doing tonight.

[south mural]

Standing on a dragon is uh important at some point

[south mural]

Ganon won’t ever see this coming

[placid flume]

i cant help but say ''Fortnite'' whenever Link jumps off an island

and dives

(i think this game basically shows proof that a Nintendo character can be in Fortnite)

[south mural]

Link has access to zonai devices too

Like

Rocket

Flamethrower

He really is a fortnite character

But they’ll still carry over weapon durability

[placid flume]

Yea

[uneven hazel]

God fucking dammit

every memory I've found has been in the wrong order

so they make no fucking sense

or the ones that do make sense have so much less power to them

they should've unlocked in a set order

given that none of their ||tear|| locations match up with the actual memory

Found out that ||Sonia|| dies

Then found the memory before it

but still haven't actually found the one where it happens

now I've just found what I assume to be the final one chronologically

featuring characters I haven't seen yet!

so fucking cool

really love it

like the story is cool!

weaker than the gameplay

but still cool!

but imagine how much cooler it would've been if I'd found out where ||Zelda|| is after seeing literally anything else

BotW's memories worked bc it didn't really 'matter' what order you viewed them in

ok maybe the calamity appearing should've been last

but they were all tied to locations

anyway

on a brighter note

||I was fucking spot on when I said Zelda was on the Plateau in that one trailer cutscene||

[placid flume]

THERE HE IS

[south mural]

The legendary Poe

[fierce escarp]

this is an amiibo only unlock, right

[south mural]

Don’t think so

You can get BOTW amiibo exclusives through normal quests now

Ie ||majoras mask, fierce diety armour, sword of seven sages||

[placid flume]

Its actually both an amiibo unlick and a overworld quest reward

||North of Hyrule Ridge, a archipielago go to the 2nd largest island called the Thundra Plateau||

Careful tho theres a Hinox

[naive imp]

I got to ||Korok Forest||

It's so sad :(

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[south mural]

You can save it!

[vague path]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

(Hyrule Castle lockup spoilers)

|| There is a Gloom monster there and when I beat it PHANTOM GANON came up weqpohfwqfhe98 ||

[south mural]

||there’s more||

Is it possible to get the champion’s weapons again?

I assume you can still add them to your compendium because the successors wield the weapon except riju doesn’t have urbosa’s shield

[naive imp]

In ||Goron City||. WHAT HAPPENED TO SWEET BABY ||YUNOBO|| OH MY GOD

[naive imp]

Not with my six hearts lol

[south mural]

You just gotta believe

[vague path]

Finally advanced the story past the point when you get back on the surface
Gotta say, the presence of ||memories|| (returning system from BOTW) makes me very nervous

[south mural]

WHAT THE F

YOU CAN GET ANCIENT ARROWS

[cyan copper]

Don't the hands alaways spawn one? No matter where they appear?

[naive imp]

I guess I did pull off ||Queen Gibdo|| with four hearts

[still atlas]

So apparently ||there's rematches against bosses in the underground||

There's nothing like ||fighting Colgalra again but in the dark with only a platform lit below|| (post-Hebra spoilers)

It felt amazing

[still atlas]

Capitalism

[south mural]

IM IN THE FINAL BOSS

HOLY SHIT

IM SO SCARED

and that’s all I’ll say about it

||I beat the first 2 phases||

IVE DONE KT

FINAL BOSS

holy shoot this is a hard game

English VA cast (as credited) if anyone is curious

I WAS RIGHT ABOUT ||SONIA||

[sturdy flint]

Doesn't the questline tell you where to go next? Impa specifically tells you? Is that not true? Because if she leads you to Tears out of order still then I'd rather wait until an official list order comes out.

If you're just running to whatever Geoglyph you spot and activating it I can only imagine how that'd go.

[south mural]

She doesn’t direct you non

She will appear at locations but

[sturdy flint]

Are you sure??? She straight up tells you where to go after the first one

[south mural]

||once you enter the forgotten temple she will stay there essentially||

[sturdy flint]

Is that not the case for all?

[south mural]

||thats not for a memory||

[sturdy flint]

Are the Geoglyph tears NOT memories?

[south mural]

They are

[sturdy flint]

It's called that in the Menu lmao

[south mural]

But where she directs you after the first one is ||not for a memory||

[sturdy flint]

Wuh

Well that's odd tbh

[south mural]

||it leads you to a mini map of hyrule that has all the geolyphs on it, basically a guide||

[sturdy flint]

Incredible.

Well dang

[south mural]

Credits are rolled

I don’t want to explicitly say anything about the final boss because it’s… too soon

But god this game is good

[sturdy flint]

Guess I'll look up a geoglyph order then lol

[south mural]

If you want I can dm you the order

[sturdy flint]

Just goes to show the downfall of keeping your game as free and open as possible while also trying to tell a compelling story is difficult. They decided not to make that quest linear to keep with the freedom of the game and it ends up hurting it.

[south mural]

Each memory is numbered on the map as you see it

[sturdy flint]

Yeah that's perfect. When I am ready to do the glyphs I'll use it for sure.

[south mural]

I’ll dm you now then?

I’ll spoiler it of course

[sturdy flint]

Whenever! Yeah thanks!

[south mural]

Np

First game clear and I’ve completed this much % of the game

Ngl that’s way more than I thought lmao

[vague path]

The game was only 5 days old lol I didn't know
just thought it was exciting

[maiden creek]

re: memories out of order - I found one early just getting distracted by shrines before I even made it to lookout landing lol

[cyan copper]

So

Armor spoilers:||Figured out how to get the Zonai armor! YAY!||

[sly shadow]

hello im not stopping for long, just to share these

I started playing today

first korok I found got dropped, ofc

I didn't realise there was constantly blowing wind across this lake cause I'm blind, so I did Deforestation™️ instead

this korok is now paste

[uneven hazel]

Just finished the ||Fire Temple||

easily the best one so far

by a long long distance

||Wind and Water Temples|| felt like Divine Beasts without the movement gimmick of the Divine Beasts

but this?

this was insane

I was actually beginning to wonder if it was possible to have a ''''''traditional'''''' Zelda dungeon in this engine bc, by the very nature of the runes, it's so easy to break out of an intended path

||but the way the Fire Temple is laid out kind of negates that. Each of the gongs is its own unique puzzle and, while I'm sure I cheesed at least two of them, it didn't feel easy||

and the music

just like the others

insane

Actually incorporating ||Daruk's Theme|| into it too?

This ||dungeon|| might just have single-handedly elevated this game above BotW for me

not to let it away without a complaint though

typing this as the ||ancestor|| cutscene plays in the background

happy to ignore it bc

it's exactly the same cutscene for each region

pretty disappointing

still

This was impressive

god I can't believe they're actaully called secret stones

what a fucking stupid name

when you even have Tears in the name of the game

also Yunobo's voice is the single most annoying thing I've ever heard

Also love how we just ||completely forget about rescuing Zelda after defeating the boss||

good job yunobo

[fierce escarp]

trur

[south mural]

I thought goronz saying “goro” at the end of their sentences was a weird speech tick

Not just

A thing

Unless it actually means something

[lone junco]

I don't know how I feel about the idea that|| ancient Hylians intermarried with goat-bird people.||

||Hylian marriage with fish people is strange enough as is.||

[lone junco]

I like how I got|| blood mooned literally the first night I am on land.||

[south mural]

There’s so many blood moons omg

I feel Iike 3 in game days would have passed before “oh goddamit”

[south mural]

||I mean have you seen Sonia||

[lone junco]

Only positive thing I got on my first night was that I halo dropped onto an area with a bunch of useful flowers.

[vague path]

So after 50 or so hours, I finally completed one of the four areas on the map it tells you to go to once you beat the prologue. Turns out, they are || dungeon quests. || The one I did specifically was the Rito one || with the ship || .

Impressions: Not super impressed with the design of the || dungeon layout|| itself tbh, though the ||boss fight was amazing. Easily the best new 3D Zelda boss in over a decade (considering BOTW was the only 3D Zelda before this in that time...)||

||It kinda just felt like a Divine Beast with a little more flavor in the design. Activate the 6 turbines + a boss and it's over. Wasn't all that difficult either. ||

I'll say this though, the presentation was fantastic

I loved how you || slowly make your way up some sky islands to there with the little bird kid + the music getting more active. ||

Oh, I also found out that many of the DLC QoL features from BOTW return in this game but they are locked behind a quest

At least they aren't making them DLC again lol

[south mural]

Ok

Hear me out

They’re gonna do dlc for this game like don’t even deny it

Master cycle zero

But

Because it crossed over with MK8DX

in TOTK it will have anti-gravity wheels

That will allow you to basically fly or hover etc

And offers more mobility than the paraglider compared to that of the dive suit which grants extra mobility while diving

But you can only use from a grounded surface

[south mural]

God the detail in this game is so good

After doing the gerudo main quest

You’ll get thrown into jail if you walk into the town with no clothes

But you’ll also get thrown into jail if you wear the Yiga clan armour

The jail guard even makes a comment about it if you speak to her with it

[sly shadow]

ok i need some help

how do I attach materials to weapons/shields?

cause I can't work it out

can't do it through any of the menus or anything

and there's no guide in game I can find

doesn't let me if I hold nothing, nor if I pull out my weapon and press up, nor if I press up while fuse is active...

[south mural]

You need to hold them in the menu, exit out and drop them, then select fuse

It’s convoluted as heck instead of just selecting from the dpad but that’s how I’ve been fusing stuff

[sly shadow]

whaat

that sucks

you can do it through the menu with arrows just fine, why not weapons

[south mural]

I guess because you have the option to do shields too

While it’s just arrows for.. arrows

[sly shadow]

yeah but you could just have different buttons

like how it already is if you're doing it with items on the ground

oh well

thank you

[lone junco]

I like building little cars and not doing anything with them because I realize that the topography doesn't really lend itself to a car all that well.

[sturdy flint]

In my opinion they’ve essentially hit Metroid Dread level of buttons to push

The ability wheel helps a lot, but they’ve kind of run out of buttons and dedicating buttons for every fusing would only complicate it even more

I’ve done Fusings while taking my time, as well as fusings in the middle of a fight and despite the messy nature of it, because menuing freezes Time it’s gives me a lot of time to decide what i want to do.

They’ve already got overlapping button pushes going on as it is.

Easily one of the weakest aspects of the game so far. It’s so much fun I don’t mind it and Dread taught me a lot about having tons of buttons to push that did things so I’m used to it… but there’s a lot going on with the controller during hectic moments in the game.

Just to shield surf requires three button inputs. I had a similar opinion about BotW and now with all this extra s t u f f it’s even worse lol.

I LOVE throwing items from my inventory. Using all that junk feels really good. I dislike how I have to almost accidentally throw my frickin weapon to make it happen lol

[lone junco]

My least favorite part is ||how long it takes before the game truly allows you to "explore", in BOTW as soon as you left the Plateau you had all the tools you needed to go anywhere. Here the game still locks stuff out from you after leaving the sky islands. ||

[sly shadow]

I do like the wheel, even if it took me a bit to get used to it

much better than the menu

i do wonder what the materials menu is really for outside of fusing

[sturdy flint]

Still getting used to it myself. Can’t count how many times I activate an ability when I wanted to swap.

[sly shadow]

see my brain is still suck on dpad up is abilities lol

press to use, hold to switch is nice

tho i don't like how the ability activates immediately once you switch to it

[sturdy flint]

Yeah totally get that

[sly shadow]

especially if you're switching to fuse or recall

also why is one of the wheel slots used up by....the map?? lmao

that's literally just on select

[sturdy flint]

Yeah it makes me not want to switch in preparation lol

Probably to maximize the size of the wheel without using a blank space, or allowing for a quick press of L instead of removing you thumb from the stick? Only reasons I can think of

I’ll be honest I use the map on the wheel more than Minus

Or Select

Whatever you call the buttons

[lone junco]

It almost feels like this was designed for a mouse and keyboard setup, but that would be dumb because A.) No Nintendo employee would be stupid enough to map controls to mouse and KB for Nintendo (who doesn't even make games for PC) and B.) I don't think the Switch even has mouse and KB compatibility.

[sly shadow]

yeah I mean it's definitely to fill space on the wheel

just seems odd

[sturdy flint]

Maybe. But even M+K controls you can just push a button for the map instead of using a wheel lol.

[sturdy flint]

Agreed.

[lone junco]

as for M+K for Switch https://knowtechie.com/can-you-use-a-keyboard-and-mouse-with-the-nintendo-switch/ Apparently it does, kind of, technically, if you work at it.

[uneven hazel]

oh the arrow fusing mechanic fucking sucks

or rather

not the mechanic itself

but the menu

oh you want to fire a bomb arrow?

sure just scroll for 30 seconds

[vague path]

Yeah that isn't done super well

you can set it to "most used" and that helps

but it just mitigates the issue rather than solves it

it's also not default so

automatically you'll be dealing with that

[uneven hazel]

I agree with what you said earlier DW

at least I think it was you

same colour

about the approach to the ||Stormwind Ark||

That and the ||Fire Temple|| have been highlights

||Water Temple|| was a little boring

[placid flume]

https://vxtwitter.com/OshawottKing23/status/1659230806378942464?t=NYSjT6nSTu546FWIUv24gA&s=19

[uneven hazel]

alright

whoever said the Master Sword wass where you'd expect it to be

what the fuck

why would you lie to me like that

[sturdy flint]

I think the inventory button is for sure the weakest part of the gameplay so far. It's extremely cool to have quick access to things in the inventory, but it's... almost the same speed as if you just legit paused the game and dropped it from the inventory there.

Sorting by Most Used is actually useless for me unless I'm using seeds ||for lighting in the Depths||. That's legit the only time Most Used is helpful since I'm throwing that crap every 15 seconds it feels like.

Otherwise the only two sorting options that matter are Type and Zonai

On top of that

Why IN THE HECK can I not sort my Weapon Inventory by damage value???

That's the NUMBER ONE THING most people want to sort by. Idc what TYPE these weapons are fusing them changes their type all the time anyway. So what the heck game wasn't that an option in BotW why did you remove it XD

[lone junco]

I am kind of mixed on the weapon fusions as well, it's a neat mechanic but also kind of disappointing when an enemy drops a cool weapon only to find out it's a tooth on a stick.

[sturdy flint]

Oh I love that. This is not me hating the functions I'm just saying the method is a little underbaked. They could have streamlined things a little more I think.

But yeah dude gimme that stick with a mushroom on it why do you have that silly bokoblin

You guys are crazy

[lone junco]

I really think they should have consolidated some of the functions, or instead of having a wheel for it make it so some things can be done at dedicated locations.

not everything mind you, like the pickup and attach mechanic should always be there but some stuff.

[sly shadow]

HANDS
i have never run so fast in my life

[lone junco]

I used up all my bomb plants on those things.

[lone junco]

So would this be the physically oldest link to daate?

because, physically, every other Link has been anywhere from 9-17.

[lone junco]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-hysterically-giggles-on-fire-gif-14586632

[placid flume]

I thought he was saying that it was super cold asf

Lol

[south mural]

I was finally prepared for the hands (big spoilers for some unlockable story abilities which I had active + the actual hands themselves)

[lone junco]

When I fell into one of the ravines, I don't know what I was expecting...||it sure as heck wasn't that I would end up in Mordor.||

[south mural]

I COOKED PIZZA

IN ZELDA

actually hungry rn

[still atlas]

I know the truth, all tears collected, and have broken into Korok Forest

And it destroyed me

[still atlas]

See that's when you stick the horn of the enemy onto the stick

[south mural]

The legend of Zelda: tears of the fanbase

Unironically

Cooking became a lot more fun once I unlocked cheese as an ingredient

[naive imp]

THERE'S CHEESE????

Also how do you get more tomatoes. I got some from Beedle but ran out

[placid flume]

I killed a Lynel

After 10 attempts

[naive imp]

...I've gotten a few of the tears but have done Korok Forest, is this gonna hit me like a zonai powered truck when I get all the tears?

[uneven hazel]

hate that the ||Master Sword can still break||

actually just don't like weapon durability

like in general

was passive about it in BotW

but this game feels so much worse

I'm not hesitant to use my strong weapons bc there are just no strong weapons

[south mural]

You just find them ig

There’s quest in hateno village that lets you grow your own crops

If you go to the school there to start quest line

And to unlock cheese as an ingredient you’ll have to start the mayor election quest then talk to the girl overlooking the pond in the hateno farm up the hill

[south mural]

If you want to avoid total spoilers/stay in with memory continuity pull the master sword after you’ve seen all memories

I dmd deemo the list of chronological memories so lmk if anyone wants that too

[naive imp]

I've just been doing them as I find them

And I need to keep going because I want to get to Hateno but I'm starting the ||Fire Temple||

....I need more flame proofing

[uneven hazel]

if you want to unlock cheese as a mechanic, on the other hand, you'll need to beat the Ukouh Shrine

[naive imp]

Got it

[south mural]

[sturdy flint]

Me with a 71 power spear

[uneven hazel]

You would think that

given the whole

Calamity Ganon thing

||Zelda would be a little more worried about Ganondorf in the memories||

||"I believe that man's heart holds many dark intentions"||

are you... stupid?

Anyway that's a

strange place for the final memory

sure

[uneven hazel]

:/

I'm beginning to suspect this story isn't as fleshed out as I was hoping

still

||Final 'memory' found and there's still missing cutscenes, so content after four main dungeons?||

[placid flume]

so Breath of the Wild took alot of inspirations from Princess Mononoke, and i figured that the sequel took those same inspirations but also toss some stuff from Nausicaa

like

aw crap i forgot to spoiler the images

[cyan copper]

They grow some places. Don't remember where though

[placid flume]

the place that has a ton of tomatoes is Kakariko Village

otherwise, theres alot of them scathered around the field areas

[cyan copper]

Iirc they do grow on sky islands

[placid flume]

i found a ton of them in the Great Sky Island yea

[sly shadow]

absolutely

totk has a ton of similarities to nausicaa

I haven't seen princess mononoke but it seems quite similar to botw

but yeah totk and nausicaa share a ton

especially with the gloom and stuff

[placid flume]

and then theres the obvious lol

[naive imp]

I think most of BOTW's inspiration was from Castle In The Sky

[placid flume]

oh yea Castle in the sky aswell

[sly shadow]

I think with TotK/Nausicaa the similarities aren't even just on an aesthetic level but like in the world and themes and stuff

it's really cool

don't need a zelda movie just go watch ghibli >:))

[placid flume]

yea

[placid flume]

why need a Zelda movie if it already exists

[sly shadow]

which is cool because even if it wasn't direct inspiration they're both reflections of the sort of culture they were made in
if you want to think about stuff like shinto ideas and whatever

[naive imp]

At least the gloom isn't slowly spreading while the game progresses

....that I know of

[sly shadow]

aaaaa

that'd be cool but also scary

[naive imp]

Fun fact: when people compared the end of Nausicaa to the bible and Jesus Miyazaki got so ticked he wrote the end of the manga to be anti-human

[sly shadow]

i still need to watch castle in the sky and mononoke

IS THAT TRUE

[naive imp]

Something like that yeah

[sly shadow]

(i haven't read all of nausicaa yet btw)

[placid flume]

watched Mononoke and Nausicaa and i really love those two

[sly shadow]

I'm 4.5/7 ways through

[placid flume]

(i think Mononoke might be my favorite Ghibli movie)

havent seen Castle

tho ik that the robots in that movie inspired the Minecraft Golems

[naive imp]

Anti human isn't really the best description but more "humans shouldn't play god" which on one hand he's right but on the other hand the way he goes about it is kinda dark

And also makes me wonder if he didn't quite understand the comparison people were making

But yeah I was looking at the lightroots and immediately went "TOXIC JUNGLE BASEMENT!!!!!!"

Though the lightroots themselves remind me of TP heart containers because they've got the same color scheme

Probably just a coincidence with that one

[sly shadow]

i thought the depths would have been more toxic jungle

idk i haven't been down there yet

maybe a bit too spooky to be like the toxic jungle

[naive imp]

No yeah they're definitely toxic jungle inspired, but demonic instead of toxic

[uneven hazel]

||Gerudo 'approach|| S Tier

[naive imp]

The reason I thought of the basement was because--

[naive imp]

It was not S tier with only four hearts

Heads up that boss absolutely sucks.

[uneven hazel]

I really like generally how happy the game is (and BotW to an extent) to break mechanics and things

oh I'm talking about the ||protecting the town|| bit

Haven't reached any further yet

[naive imp]

Ohh yeah that

Trust me it gets worse fast

[uneven hazel]

ie having heart requirments to proceed, not just have the approach segments to dungeons be straight up battles ect

also including the ||mini-boss that appears on Death Mountain?||

like

that's almost wasted with how easy it is

[sly shadow]

hmm

[uneven hazel]

but makes up for it in like

cool points

like

[naive imp]

I just got to Zora's Domain

[uneven hazel]

what the fuck this is so cool

[sly shadow]

i still haven't got to rito yet :((

[naive imp]

How would you rate that one

[sly shadow]

im so early still

i only have 4 hearts

and I can't find any statues :(((

[uneven hazel]

so like I say I haven't completed Gerudo yet

But my rankings so far would be

Goron>Gerudo>Rito>Zora

[naive imp]

Of course I did the worst one last

😔

[uneven hazel]

The Rito approach might be as high bc it was my first one and I wasn't expecting this much atmospher

e

Zora isn't bad it just doesn't have as much punch as the others for me

[naive imp]

I loved the Rito boss

[uneven hazel]

The other approaches all have either stakes or pizzazz

Zora is just

||low grav||

[sly shadow]

i shall now vacate the spoiler thread again lol
to avoid
spoilers
(wow)

[uneven hazel]

that's it

[sly shadow]

ok bye

[naive imp]

||Pollution||

[uneven hazel]

that's the mechanic

I've already said that Rito and Zora were just ||Divine Beasts|| without the cool bits

Goron was almost a ||traditional Zelda dungeon|| for me

Gerudo remains to be seen but I really like what it's done so far

What I don't like

is how static the story cutscenes are

they're all the same regardless of the order you do things in

Hope you like the story of how ||Ganon overpowered the original sages|| because you're hearing it 4 times

BotW I think did that better

[junior pilot]

Went to Kakariko to meet Paya, traveled to Hateno to see if my house still exists, checked how Tarrey Town is doing and then made a trip to Hyrule Castle to get my clothes and my shield.
Time to actually start the game now. First destination: the big storm.

[sly shadow]

wait wdym clothes

are there other clothes aside from the ones on the sky island

that's a stupid question ofc there are other clothes

but which other clothes did you get

[cyan copper]

There is clothes in the depths as well

[sly shadow]

ohhh ok

i thought there might have been some at the little camp thing

[cyan copper]

In Benny's instance:||Champions Tunic from BotW||

[junior pilot]

||Link's Champion's Tunic from BotW||

[sly shadow]

ahhh ok

assumed it'd be that

[cyan copper]

||There are maps scattered in chests on Sky islands, that lead you to other chests where you can find clothes/armor like the above||

[sly shadow]

ohhh

maybe I'll find one soon >:))

[uneven hazel]

having finished Gerudo now

(that boss was nightmare fuel btw)

I think my order is Goron>Rito>Gerudo>>>>>>>Zora

god why do I have to watch this cutscene again

anyway

are the ||sage|| VAs the ||Champion|| VAs?

Cause I find their whole existence really weird

Why don't we see their faces

why don't they even have names lmao

This is exactly the same cutscene footage btw

with one (1) different shot

ok maybe 2 my b

also I'm beginning to think that maybe this ||Imprisoning War|| isn't the same ||Imprisoning War|| that we've already seen

which is also a v strange decision

like were the ||sages|| a last minute addition?

feels like it

No name, reused VAs, literally not even a face

ah you see this is where the fucky open-world-story-driven objective problems arise

because I've already been there game

and nothing happened

so why will this second visit progress the game hmm?

[naive imp]

Considering ||Riju and Yunobo|| are both voiced by the same VAs as the champions, probably

[uneven hazel]

I am all about this new music though

reminds me a bit of how Age of Calamity had three different world map themes

[junior pilot]

it's hard to express how much i hate the underground. the complete darkness, dangerous enemies, floor that kills you and occasional jumpscares. it's such a hostile environment, but it's so well designed. i'm probably feeling exactly how the developers want me to feel.
"hate" might be the wrong word, i really love the area, but while exploring my brain is constantly screaming "I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE"
i jumped down a hole today and unintentionally spent three hours down there doing nothing in particular, just running around and collecting stuff.

[naive imp]

Finished my last ||temple|| and made it to Hateno!!!!

New goal is to find all the memories, then do the shrines

[south mural]

Good luck with the shrines

There’s more than Botw

I don’t know the exact number but my friend did all the shrines just yesterday

His life’s goal

[wary pumice]

You know, I ended up beating a temple during the last time I played, but..
|| It wasn't any of the 4 main temples, I believe 👁️ ||
I.. really need to figure out how to get more Zonai batteries now, I don't know where to find more Forge Constructs besides the one in the starting area..

I have a crap ton of Zonaite, but not enough charges for the upgraded battery aa

[uneven hazel]

I assumed there were more than ||4|| bc Link's middle finger is still empty

[wary pumice]

|| yeah, I kinda stumbled upon on it and had that be my 2nd temple lol ||

[still atlas]

I completely MISSED the start of the chain after finding the shrine that goes with it lol

It wasn't until someone accidently clued me in on it that I knew something was up

||as for the factory, for a long time up to that point I was trying to figure out what was going on, so it wrapped up two threads at the same time||

As for the main story, I've just been running around and not doing it for awhile lol (I do have Rito and Garudo done)

I did collect all the memories though, including #18

[still atlas]

I actually prefer to have the ai take care of it

[south mural]

Wait so you can do ||the fifth temple|| whenever?

[still atlas]

Not having to focus on it means you can fight

[still atlas]

Yup

#3 for me

||I could have done it as my second if I was paying more attention lol||

[south mural]

Can I ask how you did it

Unless you don’t get the ||fifth ability|| I don’t know how you’d beat the boss there lmao

Doing it the intended way is a loooooooooong process

[wary pumice]

You mean beating the boss of the || Spirit Temple? ||

There's stuff on the ground to smack the boss around with, with more stuff being dropped over time

[south mural]

Yea

Ah

[wary pumice]

|| ie. spiked iron balls at the start, then cannons/shock emitters/fans later on ||

[south mural]

You haven’t gotten the ||fifth ability|| yet right

[wary pumice]

nop

[south mural]

That specific part of the game felt very linear in terms of story at that point so I didn’t really expect people to beat it early let alone find it

[wary pumice]

I mean
|| I ended up exploring the Thunderhead Isles early for the heck of it ||

|| Because of that, I stumbled upon the heart door early, didn't have enough hearts at the time, came back after beating enough shrines for it, and.. voila ||

[placid flume]

https://twitter.com/NinEverything/status/1659600058604720128?s=20

Nintendo Everything (@NinEverything)

Voice actress says Link and Zelda “are in a relationship” https://t.co/pKN6W04LRq

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Twitter · May 19, 2023, 4:41 PM

[naive imp]

Water is wet

[south mural]

Ngl

I guess it would feel forced but

There’s so many times in this game where it would’ve made sense for Zelda to at least confess about link

Doesn’t have to be directly to him but still

[naive imp]

Apparently the actress said she likes how their relationship is ambiguous, and the article title is misleading

But let's be real they're totally in a relationship after BOTW

Second to maybe Skyward Sword in terms of romance

[south mural]

I like how it’s implied that Zelda and link live together in hateno village (or could only be Zelda living there since there’s only one bed but….)

And then link gets a another house close to tarrey town

[sly shadow]

finished the rito quest

[lone junco]

I guess that explains why this Link is clearly the oldest Link thus far (not counting the 100 year sleep thing)

Since it is obvious it has been at least a year (probably longer) since the events of BOTW.

[still atlas]

just a canon and two spike balls do the trick

||spike balls to smack around and canon to instantly knock out of the sky||

[placid flume]

https://vxtwitter.com/Gaziter/status/1659932209661222914?t=BsBaXPFTwzOE7FmlIuMszg&s=19

[uneven hazel]

Rescued the ||Lost Woods|| and uh

I assume that wasn't the bonus ||temple|| people were talking about

bc it doesn't seem to actually do anything lmao

underwhelming

[naive imp]

Got all the skyview towers and geoglyphs

https://tenor.com/view/ascend-winnie-the-pooh-ascend-winnie-the-pooh-skyrim-skyrim-death-gif-19256969

Now what

How prepared would you all say to be before heading to Hyrule Castle

[sly shadow]

hi
just so I know where to set my expectations - are the Depths actually like horror game material or are they just a little spookier than average?
I've gone down a bit and all I've really found are harder versions of regular enemies

like are we talking "it's dark and there's some skeletons" or "early botw monster designs" level of scary

[uneven hazel]

it's dark and there are some harder versions of enemies

but like

very dark

[uneven hazel]

depends when you're heading there

||If you've not been told to go there yet then you don't really need to prepare bc there's nothing there||

[junior pilot]

you know when you're playing botw, just running through a field and suddenly piano music starts playing?
the depths are like an amplified version of that, but nothing actually scary.
sometimes a tree you're running past starts moving, or a slime jumps out of the floor and steals half your hearts, or you're walking through the darkness and suddenly there's a lynel trying to kill you.

[sly shadow]

ahh

ok

so it's not like actual horror game lol

I saw some people calling it that and was like
there's no way

[still atlas]

Yeah it's in no way a horror game

Especially if you have seeds

[lone junco]

It's closer to a Metroidvania game than a horror one.

[still atlas]

Which you'll get like 500 of easily

[lone junco]

When I first fell into the deep dark ||I was looking for a dragon scale that fell somewhere around there. It was actually kind of neat because it was a small source of light illuminating the pitch black.||

||I didn't even know it fell into the hole, I just got hit by some enemy and went tumbling down.||

[still atlas]

||Dragons in the dark!||

[sly shadow]

ok i need someone to explain cause maybe I missed the explanation or it just doesn't tell you
what are zonaite and crystalised zonaite for?
zonaite is for autobuild right? like if you don't have all the parts it'll fill it in for you

[junior pilot]

with the crystallized version you can get more batteries

[vague path]

regular zonaite ore is used at refineries to trade for cores

you normally find them || underground || at the largest mines but I think there is a tunnel on || Great Sky Island || that has one

[sly shadow]

does that happen automatically or do you have to talk to someone?

[uneven hazel]

Talk to the ||Sentry outside the Recall Shrine||

I think

There's a few dotted around the place

It might be the one in aforementioned cave

think the one outside ||Lookout Landing|| also does it

[still atlas]

I like to use the latter location

It's the most convenient

[junior pilot]

"today i'll go to rito village to start the main quest"
*runs around hyrule for several hours*
i did not go to rito village today

[sturdy flint]

OH????

How wonderful of you to say :'))

[south mural]

Hyrule castle itself? Not much just be prepared for a bunch of fights really

||You don’t fight the final boss there + there’s still more to the story after going to hyrule castle||

There’s a shrine behind the sanctum if you need to fast travel there btw

||https://youtu.be/IcQMrLZO884|| slight spoiler for a character design

[still atlas]

I went there with 4 hearts so you'll be fine

The enemies scale

[south mural]

Was this before or after beating the temples

Because there’s some story stuff at hyrule castle after the temples so it’s best to be somewhat prepared

[still atlas]

Before, with 0 temples completed

The place is relatively benign to explore

[wary pumice]

Hmm..
I wonder if anyone here's explored much of the || hidden passageways under Hyrule Castle ||
|| I stumbled into there after finding the Horned Statue, feels like I was there for hours just exploring the tunnels aa ||

|| so many weapons broken from breaking the boulders.. ||

[still atlas]

||Yeah, I fully explored them||

||I really should have waited until I got the lightning arrow||

||rip all those rock hammer claymores and bomb flower arrows||

[wary pumice]

|| Aw, does whatever this lightning arrow is help with breaking boulders.. ||

|| oh well ||

[still atlas]

||You found the Stalnox, right?||

[wary pumice]

|| I did find the Stalnox, yeah ||

[still atlas]

||Riju's lightning has bomb properties||

||So if you are willing to wait a little you can just fire a ton of normal arrows and break through places||

It's the only way I mine now

[south mural]

You can also use ||Yunobo||

[wary pumice]

oho..

As a side note, in Hyrule Castle, in the Lockup, did anyone || fight the hands that spawn behind that closed gate, I wonder? ||
I honestly couldn't figure out how to open the gate, but

|| I may have used bomb arrows to still kill the hands lol ||

[south mural]

Tbh most of my exploration of hyrule castle was for story purposes and finding the hylian shield lol

I did explore the passageway though

im missing the knights helmet I will not rest until I find it

[wary pumice]

I see, I see..
I do wonder if you've fought || Phantom Ganon (or Phantom Ganondorf? I forget) || (mini-boss spoilers) before then..

[south mural]

The hands spawned when I ||got the hylian shield|| but I was at a different level to it so they eventually despawned lmao

[wary pumice]

I ran out of bomb flowers while fighting the hands trying to get || the Hylian Shield, || but..
|| the bow I got from Phantom Ganon ended up taking care of the hands lmao ||

[south mural]

You can also use Lynel bows or chuchu jellies

Oh yeah the ||phantom ganon bow|| is absolutely busted

[wary pumice]

oo

I've actually yet to find a Lynel

[south mural]

If you really want to find some

Go to the coliseum in the depths

Directly under the surface coliseum

[south mural]

Do people miss when Zelda was a lot more music-centric?

I’d still argue ‘modern’ Zelda is very reliant on music callbacks and themes more than most other franchises that are just “Easter egg”

Even if they don’t have a plot centred around an instrument like an ocarina or harp

[sly shadow]

hi so I found a shrine that you just can't complete??

[south mural]

What shrine

[sly shadow]

the one on the great plateau

[south mural]

Gotta be more specific

Otherwise dm me if you want to avoid spoilers here

[sly shadow]

||the one on the west side that's surrounded by cliffs||

I didn't think there were multiple there lol

[south mural]

Lightroots are connected to surface shrines

I forgot what the puzzle for that was

[sly shadow]

are they?
I didn't know that lol

||you have to like use sticks and gears and stuff||

[south mural]

Is it like

||You have to raise 2 platforms with a couple of sticks?||

If that’s what I think it is

You can cheese that one lol

[south mural]

Gonna make shrine hunting a little less painful lol

[sly shadow]

yeah

idk

I can only see one way to do it and it doesn't work

sooo

[south mural]

Ok well

[sly shadow]

don't think they playtested much it lol

[south mural]

Cheese it

[sly shadow]

yeah I can't see any way to cheese it either lol

[south mural]

||raise the bottom platform as much as you can (prop it up with a a stick)||

||ascend through it||

||fuse a stick to the bottom of the top platform to extend your reach, hold up the platform for a bit||

||let it drop, recall the platform then ascend through while it’s in recall||

[naive imp]

Oh dang, that makes life a lot easier

[sly shadow]

oh ok

I keep forgetting about recall tbh lol

[south mural]

Recall -> ascend tech is nuts

[sly shadow]

||ngl there's nothing quite as satisfying as fighting a boss and being able to just go "you have no legs now"||

[junior pilot]

oops i did it again.
i'm never going to finish this game.
today i explored some sky islands, fought a very fun boss that tried to kill me with his car, and got a new hand ability.

[sly shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/watch-out-run-you-over-gif-5729865

[junior pilot]

wtf you can't just post a video of the boss without spoiler tagging it

[naive imp]

I just did that boss as well

Oh my gosh

Though ||I'm stuck on the second one||

[placid flume]

https://twitter.com/NinEverything/status/1660320705194627072?t=V1_nokpl8tcYqfMeG3_Pcw&s=19

Nintendo Everything (@NinEverything)

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was basically complete when the March 2022 delay happened, extra year spent on ensuring physics worked and polishing https://t.co/4fXB8uBntB

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Twitter · May 21, 2023, 4:24 PM

Ill be real for a sec

Nintendo dodged the fattest bullet with this delay

If they didnt they had to deal with Elden Ring

But also the delay was also justifiable imo cuz

Physics

[sly shadow]

honestly good for them

I think all the building mechanics and stuff have been so well received because it's so flawless

im sure there are bugs but

if you built a car and it hit a rock and went flying then a lot of people would be singing a different tune rn

[placid flume]

Polish will always be better than cutting corners

[sly shadow]

||https://twitter.com/GifZelda/status/1660311957063233537?s=20|| AAAAAAAAAAA

[uneven hazel]

Finished the bit after you do all four races

||i.e. found Mineral||

Thoughts as of now

||Minueru's construct|| is the clunkiest, worst designed thing I've ever seen in my life

it deals 1 damage

||Spirit Temple|| was cool

liked the boss

wish it laster longer

and did something different in its second phase

Realising now that this ||Imprisoning War|| is not the ||Imprisoning War||

which is a shame but it would've bound the game to a particular timeline I think so fair enough

When they were ||sealing ganon|| it would've been a perfect opportunity to mention the calamity and malice

god I'm begging you to even mention BotW

it's like this game takes place in a parallel universe

oh right but the thing I came here to say

The music in this game is stunning

blows BotW out of the water

sheer variety, cutscene stuff, Lookout Landing evolving as you go to each region, the interlude after the ||Blood Moon||

[uneven hazel]

oh and ||Kogha's|| music slaps too

Headcanon that whenever you find ||kogha he goes on about how Link is his arch-nemmy and their rivalry spans millenia and Link just has absolutely no idea who this guy is||

a la Thanos

[placid flume]

I think they improved ||Kogha|| in this game

[junior pilot]

Lookout Landing evolving

it does!?
i love evolving towns

man i really need to do the main quests lmao

[uneven hazel]

I think so

I only noticed its music after I'd done all four so maybe it doesn't

but the hub certainly does so it wouldn't surprise me if the music does too

so it was the final boss I stumbled across a few days ago

Interesting how the story points you in that direction

Making ||Kogha|| 'required' in that sense

[uneven hazel]

oh those fights are so much better

anyway beating the story tomorrow

or god help me

I cannot waste another week of my life on this

[placid flume]

https://twitter.com/impasbitch/status/1659907734593064965?t=lWA_iTpi7HmXOJCBM4OmNA&s=19

dorian ▴ (@impasbitch)

omg real 😍😍😍😍

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Twitter · May 20, 2023, 1:03 PM

[lone junco]

It is kind of funny that Beedle is now one of the eternal souls of Zelda alongside Link, Zelda, Ganon, Impa (kind of), ect.

[placid flume]

Beedle is an interesting character

Bro is friendly