Legend of Zelda!!

[fiery trail]

which... fucking cool he's my age

[zinc monolith]

Allowed on Mount lanayru? What's that about again? 🤔

[onyx vale]

https://youtu.be/nm7Td3Y_iTs

[strong arrow]

Similar issue, but it's moreso with the community. Of course it's my decision to rush through the story at the end of the day, but after seeing other people do and have all this cool stuff in-game, I just felt the need to rush along with it. (Also the depths were getting slightly stale for me as I've spent the better half of the launch week in there)

[glossy locust]

...dunno if spoilers as I ignored trailers but ||I was not expecting to fight Whispy Woods in this games! Forests are not a safe zone, it seems...||

[strong arrow]

Peak enemy design

[glossy locust]

Going to explore around more before contining main quest more.

Have decided to brief return to it and got to the point I'm thrown 4 objectives ||as well at thrown literally. lol||

Made a beeline for the Great Plateau to explore there. Haven't died yet, but am regretting that choice slightly...

Think today, objective will be getting more armour.

[strong arrow]

What are everyone's main goals to complete in Tears of the Kingdom?

[fiery trail]

today's goal was to SPOILER FOR ONE OF THE VILLAGES ||free lurelin village||

||it was easier than expected
tried when I was weaker and got my ass handed to me, tried again today and it was a breeze, used a new robot to kill things for me, worked like a charm||

||if you wanna see the robot itself go to #event-debate ||

[strong arrow]

That one was very easy for me, except on ||the last monster. I had no idea where that thing was and even now I completely forgot where I found it||

[fiery trail]

||oh you mean the one guy down the well ?||

[sullen widget]

||This one sucked for me because i did it really early on where i put everything into stamina so i was fighting the black tier monsters with bad health, armor, and weapons.||

Also there was a bee in my room when i was doing it and it scared me ):

[fiery trail]

oh no that sucks

i'm apiphobic so i definitely relate

is apiphobic not a word

melissophobic ?

"afraid of bees and wasps"

[strong arrow]

||Yes, I wasted so much time looking for him||

[fiery trail]

||i found him on accident cause from afar there's smoke emanating from the well
so i thought "oh cool a villager is hiding there" because only civilians and koroks have smoke from their campfire
but no lol||

[glossy locust]

Not really got one yet besides acquire more armour. I just wanna explore still.

[fiery trail]

have you followed the main quest a tiny bit like some of us suggested ?

[glossy locust]

Yes, mainly cos ||I couldn't map out Hyrule|| so figured doing so would enable that aspect.

[fiery trail]

yeah wise choice

please give us your reaction whenever you encounter the big thing Nintendo concealed in marketing

[glossy locust]

That said...I made a beeline for the Great Plateau just cos I like seeing the start of past games.

[onyx vale]

I have yet to go there

I had planned to but kinda forgot about it

[glossy locust]

And...well, I haven't died there...

[fiery trail]

it's funny how in this game the Great Plateau is ||a bit of a harder region akin to like, death mountain in botw, with black bokos everywhere||

[onyx vale]

Next on my list is Akkala and Eldin

So the Great Plateau will have to wait

[glossy locust]

But can tell I'm definitely meant to be here MUCH later. lol

[sullen widget]

Ngl the great plateau was lame except for one quest ||which was underneath it||

[fiery trail]

i went here early lol you're not alone in this #event-debate message

[glossy locust]

||Am proud of myself for taking down some enemies there using basically just Fire Fruits though. Got sweet weapons and one shield to use elsewhere now.||

[regal needle]

you are not ready for ||the hands||

[fiery trail]

no one was

[regal needle]

seriously i hate ||the hands|| so much like these shits ||respawn after they die||

and then you have the cherry on the cake

[strong arrow]

Crowd control

Just find a way to deal massive damage to a large group of enemies and they're gone

It's how I did the ||Master Sword quest||

[fiery trail]

yeah they completely ||die to like five bombs tops||

[regal needle]

||its only phase 1||

[strong arrow]

||Phase 2 is easier though||

[glossy locust]

...dunno if I'm alone in this, but I actually miss Guardians.

[fiery trail]

i honestly don't

in the back of my mind they were the reason i almost never explored hyrule field

even if i could easily take them on, they're always a pain to deal with and take away some of your resources

now i can properly explore basically the whole map and i'm never really bothered by anything ever

[strong arrow]

Ancient arrows:

[zinc monolith]

They forgot to make this lava hot

[fiery trail]

they take away some of your resources

[strong arrow]

Kill guardians > get ancient arrows > use ancient arrows to kill guardians

You can use the resources from the 'test of strength' shrines to get your ancient arrows, and valuable ores are very easy to find all around the map, so that's an easy way to get the rupees to purchase them

[regal needle]

easy to get

i have like 100 of them

[somber parcel]

||There's a chance he met Sidon as a child as well, as Zelda met him during a flashback in BoTW's DLC.||

[regal needle]

how do i unable ||thunder island quest||🗿

[zinc monolith]

What do you mean?

[regal needle]

idk moz talked about a quest around this

[tropic fulcrum]

What glider designs are you guys using? The glow effect of the ||twilight mirror|| fabric is pretty cool

[fiery trail]

have you done all four phenomenas

once that's done do the purah quest

once that's done go ||talk to Paya in Kakariko to inform her Zelda is spewing bullshit||

[regal needle]

ok

[fiery trail]

i use the default one but once my ||guardian|| amiibo spamming pays off i'll rock that sweet fabric all day

[strong arrow]

I have the ||Cece|| fabric, which looks pretty nice and all, but what I'm really after is the ||Yiga|| fabric.

I personally am really liking the default one though, and it's not really something that I pay attention to, but it is something that I know other people can enjoy.

And the only reason I'll be getting the ||royal|| fabric is so that I have an excuse to fight that enemy again

[regal needle]

i talked to purah but she didnt gave any quest

[fiery trail]

let's go in dms

man this game is really quite special

[strong arrow]

Truly is. Six years was quite a lot of time to wait, but still an amazing follow-up to one of the greatest games of all time

Although once you ||get the Master Sword and (which by the way doesn't even have a damage value this time around) you can literally kill black bokoblins in four hits, maybe three||

[fiery trail]

||as I did with botw I got it and am actively not using it||
||though it doesn't stop me from killing black bokos in four hits so idk most of my weapons deal between 50 and 70 damage lol||

[strong arrow]

Though it was pretty hard to do it, I just had to use ||Riju's sage ability as a sonar through the thunderstorm in which I can literally see less than if I were in the depths||

[fiery trail]

damn so you didn't do it the intended way

[zinc monolith]

I use || lon lon ranch design ||
How do u get that? Amiibo?

[tropic fulcrum]

Yeah, it's from the wolf link amiibo

[zinc monolith]

Wolf link

I only have smash 4 TP link

Does he give it too?

[fiery trail]

i mean they're the same character

[zinc monolith]

But is Nintendo generous

[strong arrow]

Once again, every way is intended. The game offers for much more freedom than Breath of the Wild, and we now are allowed to be as creative as we want when it comes to puzzles

[fiery trail]

weird

[fiery trail]

ehhh i'd argue it offers way less freedom imo

[zinc monolith]

How less?

[fiery trail]

which isn't a bad thing i'm glad we're directed a bit more

nevermind forget i said anything

[zinc monolith]

[fiery trail]

okay no idk where gdcons found his info but ||lon lon ranch fabric is either young link from smash or oot link||

[zinc monolith]

Ya I got it from this one

[tropic fulcrum]

oh nvm you can get the mirror fabric from multiple amiibos. Smash 4 Link, TP Link

[zinc monolith]

yay thanks

[fiery trail]

... oh okay i got stuff mixed up in the convo lol

i thought tev asked how to get the ||lon lon ranch|| fabric

[zinc monolith]

Ohhh

[sullen widget]

Before getting it I used the ||gleeok|| design

[fiery trail]

i am glad that so far yiga footsoldiers don't assault you every time you walk 100 meters in totk

hope it doesn't change

by far the most annoying part of botw

[regal needle]

they spawned mostly on path and bridges

[fiery trail]

yeah well that's mostly where i travel

[strong arrow]

Then go off the paths and stay away from bridges

You might also find something you haven't seen before

[fiery trail]

no

[strong arrow]

Not much I can say for your next Breath of the Wild playthrough then, which of course will be very far in the future given the recent release of Tears of the Kingdom

But you can always use the knowledge if you decide to change your mind

[glossy locust]

Found Hetsu! Oh, glorious inventory space, we are finally reunited!

[mental igloo]

||At least the guardians got a semi replacement through the gloom hands.||

[glossy locust]

Been juggling weapons too often right now. lol

[strong arrow]

I'm still walking around with the base amount of inventory space. Being able to fuse items together is a great ability when it comes to managing inventory space, as it pretty much gives you double the space if you're exclusively fusing weapons to each other

[zinc monolith]

How do you get that

[glossy locust]

O_o

||Just took down some of the Gloom hands and...oh, what spawned in was NOT what I expected!||

||Bring it on, Phantom Ganon!||

[zinc monolith]

I was speechless

[strong arrow]

||What's interesting is that the second phase is easier, you just need to learn his timing and flurry rush as many times as you can||

||Speaking of which||

[sullen widget]

Take a picture of one and show it to the dye guy

[glossy locust]

||Yeah, I managed to bring him down easier than I expected. But still, sweet to face him!||

[zinc monolith]

That's a thing?

[sullen widget]

yeah

first ||you have to show him a chuchu as part of a quest||

[glossy locust]

||Though the hands were easier for me because apparently, a little height shut them out. Then bomb arrows went burrr. lol||

[sullen widget]

then you can get more

[fiery trail]

i'm using 10 slots for weapons and 5 slots for general junk

like i'm gonna carry 5 sticks that i fuse to like bomb barrels mid fight

[glossy locust]

I'm going to need more than 10 weapons.

[fiery trail]

and then throw what is essentially the tf2 grenade thingy

[glossy locust]

Been using the fusing feature a lot.

[fiery trail]

a Stielhandgranate

[strong arrow]

||I tried dazzlefruit and it pretty much had no effect, big disappointment given that it's such a wide radius, but I do believe that puffshrooms work to a certain degree||

[fiery trail]

||dazzlefruit does stun them a tad||

[strong arrow]

Throwing bomb flowers can pretty much get you the same effect

[fiery trail]

||dazzlefruit is such a useful item honestly
they one shot stal enemies||

[fiery trail]

yeah but you can't throw bomb barrels

but you can fuse them to sticks and create Stielhandgranate

which is fun and cool

[strong arrow]

?

[fiery trail]

i'm having fun doing that let me be

also throwing sticks goes further than throwing bombs

"just use a bow"

but then it's not a Stielhandgranate

[strong arrow]

Using a bow also consumes an arrow

[fiery trail]

yeah but i have thousands of arrows at this point

[strong arrow]

Just for people who don't have many arrows to spend

Does anybody know a good elemental counter against electricity?

Unless there just aren't any

[strong arrow]

(For offensive purposes, not in terms of armor and defensive stuff like that)

[fiery trail]

i don't think there is any

i tried throwing splash fruits/chu jellies on electric lizalfos to see if they would electrocute themselves

didn't work i thiink ?

[strong arrow]

Tried the same solution, it also did not work for me

[fiery trail]

maybe try using metal

[strong arrow]

Metal conducts electricity, it'll probably just give them an advantage if anything

[fiery trail]

oh i know throw boko horns at them

not helpful just funny

[strong arrow]

Kind of unfair how fire has two counters, ice has one, but there aren't any against electricity

[fiery trail]

wait does water one shot fire enemies

no shot

[strong arrow]

I don't think so actually

Tried it myself and from what I can remember, it didn't have the same effect as ice

[fiery trail]

maybe i'm tripping but i do feel as though electric lizal at least seem weaker than other lizalfos

to compensate for how bullshit their attacks are

[strong arrow]

Sometimes I just forget that splash fruit exist, and I just opt for regular Chuchu jelly. A pretty bad idea given that you can apply different elemental effects to Chuchu jelly, which you can't do with the different elemental fruits

[fiery trail]

the only different between fruits and jellies is jellies have area of effect

prioritize fruits when in non-hostile situation such as making an ice bridge or lighting something on fire...

[glossy locust]

Fire Fruit's been one of my favourites to use in combat.

Not even attached to an arrow. Just throwing the thing like a firebomb.

[fiery trail]

there is one material you probably haven't found yet ibli and it never fails to make me laugh

it's so efficient and so funny at the same time

[sullen widget]

Water element/dazzle fruit for gleeoks

[fiery trail]

i got my ass handed to me the other day trying to fight a fire one
i think i'll avoid them for a while like I did lynels in botw

[strong arrow]

I personally just use fruits in any situation, because if I throw a Chuchu jelly and the radius comes back to bite longer it explodes, that could be the difference between taking out half of a camp, or going back to my last save

[sullen widget]

all you have to do for gleeoks is stay behind cover or stay in the air

[strong arrow]

Thank you very much. I have yet to fight a Gleeok, but when I do, I just plan on abusing targeted lasers

[sullen widget]

Their fight sucks

I fought a ||king gleeok|| and wasted so many meals

[fiery trail]

i never cheese enemies

i'll fight them head on without meals like i always do

yes i never eat meals mid fight

[sullen widget]

good luck lmao

[fiery trail]

i'll fucking make up something

i'll install a turret or something

hmm i wonder if the ||muddle bud|| can make ||each head attack each other||

[strong arrow]

Probably doesn't work on boss-type enemies

[zinc monolith]

Nintendo loves to do nostalgic throwback songs.... Especially in Zelda games
But why not the ocarina of time title screen ( best song in the franchise )
It's also the magic flute from Zelda 1
It's not fair. It's not fair arrergg

[sullen widget]

Found an even easier way to dupe
|| https://vxtwitter.com/melonman54/status/1660734441868910592?s=46&t=tmWPncn33u5pxGNECEAU9g ||

||Glide, hold the items you want, press y & b at the same time||

slight zora spoilers btw

[regal needle]

can you dupe less than 5 items?

and can you dupe weapons?

[onyx vale]

You can't hold weapons so I doubt it

[sullen widget]

Yes but with a different method

[sullen widget]

and yes

I'm going to try different items rq

[glossy locust]

...this reads so weird to me. Link fighting by levitating his arsenal to use! lol

[sullen widget]

works as well

[glossy locust]

Not clicking it to check out...but I think I might have stumbled onto a dupe method on my own...

[sullen widget]

let's gooo now i have a fully upgraded OoT set

[fiery trail]

the first few notes of ||Mipha Court|| are those of the ocarina title screen
it probably is a coincidence though

[fiery trail]

i'm entering the "gamedevs marveling at totk" rabbit hole and i'm not seeing something being brought up

[tropic fulcrum]

Interesting, it'll definitely save on shields but I guess it's a bit slower than the shield jump method even if it dupes 1 more since you have to move around to get some height each time

[fiery trail]

maybe there's just a clever workaround i'm not seeing but how the fuck can you go from like, the southwest bottom corner of the map in the sky to the northeast corner of the map ||in the depths|| while walking all around the surface inbetween that and you could do it just with ONE loading screen at the start

like|| just entering the depths there seems to be some sort of loading period but it's.. seamless
and even then you think you can't get out of the depths through normal means but apparently no if you go high enough you will reach the surface and once again without a loading screen||

[regal needle]

||there are also big blocks that allow you to ascend (like under akala labo or eventide island)||

[fiery trail]

and let's not forget that all the fucking villages and dungeons and facilities are ALSO in the world and don't require any loading
even botw had separate zones for the divine beasts, they weren't in the game map, they were contained like shrines were
how the fuck are the dungeons in the map

[fiery trail]

||yeah i know that but they can easily hide a loading screen during ascend, i'm not buying it personally, the sole fact you can ascend only in specific places makes me question stuff||

but like theoritically you could boot up your game right now and visit all the dungeons in one go without any loading screen
it'd take hours and be tedious as fuck but it's entirely possible and... how the FUCK

[strong arrow]

This is what I play games for:

||https://youtu.be/DFjjaEvo358||

[glossy locust]

OK, inventory storage I can do atm done ||after Hetsu left me after doing only 2. lol. Like how he's at one of the towns directly though.||

Am gunning with 8 Bow Slots, 7 Shield Slots and 13 Weapon Slots.

I have a feeling two of those shields are never changing. ||The "Mirror Shield" I just left a spot with feeling it'll be handy and my "Skateboard" I made on the first island. lol||

[zinc monolith]

lol senna

[haughty moat]

Senna got the funky hat

[onyx vale]

Lol yeah I was glad that NPC returned from BotW

[zinc monolith]

The loading times in this game are kind of whack

[frigid crystal]

You're named after an NPC?

[onyx vale]

Yeah

My parents loved BotW so much they named me after their favorite character

[astral orbit]

Tingle

[strong arrow]

In your opinion, which side character has the best name?

[fiery trail]

Just finished the game

So many thoughts but will stay tight-lipped

[zinc monolith]

same

actually one thing || i cant believe ganondorf is not only a clone of captain falcon, but link too 😩 || || literally link's dad ||
lastly || the guy in the Calamity prophecy ... i always thought that looked like ganondorf, not link. Anyway that could be him?? ||

|| how is that link ||

[fiery trail]

@zinc monolith i think we should go to #1101934327614418995 for all final boss talk imo imo

[zinc monolith]

Based

[astral orbit]

Revali is a fun one to say.
Honorable mention to Urbosa

[zinc monolith]

???

[fiery trail]

man i'm in kind of a pickle right now

i didn't think ending the game would shake me like that, i don't really wanna keep playing

if anything i wanna erase my save file and start over, really taking my time

i might do that

yeah i think i'll do that

(i often do that with games truth be told, hell i had like... what, 6 playthroughs of botw ?)

..hmm actually idk
should I ? i really wanna explore more too

yeah no i'll just explore more it's too early to redo things i've done a week ago, it would burn me out

[zinc monolith]

You could always make a new account and save file

[glossy locust]

...I just tried out fusing the Boomerang with an Ice-Breath Lizalfos Tail.

Conclusion? I NEED to get more Boomerangs!

[fiery trail]

i have never once thrown a boomerang in totk

wait fusing one to a lizalfos tail is genius

wait what if you fuse a zonai device to it

[glossy locust]

...there's a good question.

[fiery trail]

wait why have i never used a boomerang am i mentally challenged

do i have problems

i need to find boomerangs omg

[glossy locust]

Also, the tail was neat cos it made it longer...but the Ice Breath tail? The boomerang was spewing ice as it span away and back to me!

[fiery trail]

okay yeah i need a boomerang

i think i fused a big boomerang to another big boomerang, saw it looked goofy, laughed, kept it in my inventory "just in case" and promptly forgot about it

[glossy locust]

I want one for every element if I can help it now. lol

[fiery trail]

oh my god you could probably use recall on failed boomerangs to catch them back

oh my god they fixed boomerangs with recall

i need to get boomerangs

[glossy locust]

Currently doing the Stables side-quests ATM cos I got showed the reward, I presume. And...going by the perks I've seen ingame, I think I badly want this reward's perk...

Also, I found ||the Fierce Deity kit! All of it!||

[strong arrow]

What is your favorite enemy to face off against in Tears of the Kingdom.

(If your enemy includes anything that might spoil the game for those who haven't seen it yet, please spoiler mark it.)

[regal needle]

||🌳 ||

[sullen widget]

The ||armored|| lynel ||under the colosseum|| was my favorite probably

[strong arrow]

I wish there were more of them in the game, very fun enemy to fight, aside from the novelty of how ridiculous it is 😂

[fiery trail]

i just like camps in general, managing multiple enemies is always very fun

if I had to pick ONE enemy though... probably the final boss

if that doesn't count... idk, ||Boss Bokoblins aren't exactly fun to fight but I really like their design and the way they command bokoblins, even if they're ultimately quite weak imo (and somehow impossible to flurry rush i swear)||

[fiery trail]

man i dumped all my weapons because they were all doing absurd damage

i shouldn't be able to kill a black bokoblin in two hits this isn't ok

i'm gonna try to use more creative fuses and start picking up worse weapons on purpose

[onyx vale]

#1095595712072388648 message

[fiery trail]

Kiuyoyou Shrine - Fire and Ice is absolutely the worst shrine i've encountered so far

had to look up the solution and honestly it makes no fucking sense

like how are you supposed to figure that out on your own

[onyx vale]

I was stuck on that one

Enlighten me, what is the solution?

[fiery trail]

so after the wind turbine, ||where ice blocks are falling and melting, there's a metal plate resting against the wall||

you're supposed to ||pick it up, make it block the fire, pick up the ice block unharmed, stick the metal plate on top of it, make it slide along the spikes||

so far i'm okay with all that, sure, don't really know why you have to ||bring the plate along with you|| but ok

but turns out it's because the ||thing where it spits fire at the entrance, there's a fucking weighted switch underneath that and nothing tells you that||

[onyx vale]

That's part of the puzzle I guess, ||finding a way to get the plate over there||

[onyx vale]

Bruh lmao

[fiery trail]

so you have to ||put the ice cube + plate on that switch so the plate blocks the fire and the ice is weighty enough to press the switch||

||NOTHING tells you that||
i'm so mad

[onyx vale]

Yeah there should've been an indication that is there

This puzzle would've been fun if there was

[fiery trail]

in hindsight it makes sense that ||fire is spewing here if you know that it has to be blocked by the plate, hence why the plate comes into the question
but if you don't know that then to you the plate only had one use..||

[zinc monolith]

|| 🐲 🐲 🐲 ||

[fiery trail]

yeah it would have been very fun I think

[regal needle]

where

[fiery trail]

||East of where Serenne Stable was in BotW (doesn't exist anymore)||

[fiery trail]

i think 99% of people playing this game will never do the monster control crew mission

not because they're hard, but because I know about them because I watched nintendo treehouse and even I can't find them

i can find the boko camps i'm supposed to assault along the monster control crew, but the crew itself is nowhere to be seen

[regal needle]

i forgot their existence lmao

[mental igloo]

they weren't that hard to find tbh

You've got a guy at Lookout Landing telling you where each team's camps are posted, and in every camp there is someone who tells you where crew has grouped up for their next assault.

[zinc monolith]

i have also been looking for them

who is this guy

[mental igloo]

he's in the underground bunker in Lookout Landing

standing next to a table that's next to a map of Hyrule

[fiery trail]

yeah but that's still so vague

"south of hyrule field" could mean anywhere when what you're looking for is someone on horseback and people behind him

and the fact it meant "southwest of the chasm" i mean... you could have just said that to begin with chief

[mental igloo]

i guess having a flying machine did make it easier to spot their campsites

[zinc monolith]

if no red ❗ then i lost

[mental igloo]

No clue about the Hyrule Field one though since i stumbled upon them by pure chance after i left lookout landing for the first time

[fiery trail]

man holy crap this game is much much more fun if you stop fusing high tier weapons with hier tier horns

i'm intentionally picking up bad weapons and fusing it to dumb stuff

or using weapons until they're close to breaking, then repairing them with good horns so it feels both more fair and more climactic

[onyx vale]

I haven't had any trouble finding them personally

Oh, been meaning to ask...

Uhhh idk how to phrase this correctly but you guys will probably get it

[fiery trail]

just died two times to the Fort Hateno Control Crew mission and yeah i'm having way way more fun

i died to a monster camp this never happened before

[onyx vale]

||So far I've only been able to find weapons affected by the malice or something, making their stats low. Where do I need to go to find someone or something that can fix weapons and bring them back to their normal state?||

No specifics please, only give me a general location

[fiery trail]

do you want me to answer ?

[mental igloo]

as far as i've discovered for myself there aren't any

[onyx vale]

South Hebra, Lanayru mountain range, etc.

[fiery trail]

I can give you a very broad location

||The Depths||

[onyx vale]

Ahh aight

Thanks

[fiery trail]

no worries

but also you're technically supposed to fix the weapons yourself by fusing them to materials

[onyx vale]

Fair

[fiery trail]

some stuff downright replaces the blade which is super cool

[mental igloo]

yeah the horns

[onyx vale]

I hate putting hammer objects on blades lmao

[fiery trail]

i love doing that

they look so goofy

[onyx vale]

Just turns it into a blade with a goofy ahh horn on the end

I reserve these for sticks

[fiery trail]

one thing i really dislike is some horns make some weapons really short

[onyx vale]

Yeah

[fiery trail]

like the two-handed blades, if you affix any blade horn to it it looks duuuumb

i only fuse hammer materials to them

[mental igloo]

Rip Iron Sledgehammer.
Your design has been replaced by a rock on a stick

[onyx vale]

[fiery trail]

you could fuse a iron box to a stick and get a similar shape

man something i don't like is how bows didn't get corrupted

i thought they would justify bows being hella nerfed with the fact you can stick very powerful stuff to your arrows

but no bows are seemingly unchanged you can just fire 80-damage arrows willy nilly and the game thinks it's okay

[onyx vale]

Dunno if it's me but I feel like there's so much more arrows in this game

I have a huge abundance of them, while in BotW I often reached the 0 arrow mark

[fiery trail]

yeah it feels that way too

but also

[onyx vale]

In TotK I stay at a solid 300

[fiery trail]

yeah no the game gives you more arrows for sure but also

[onyx vale]

And it's not like I hardly use them either

[fiery trail]

i wanna say, add up all the elemental arrows you have in botw

with your normal arrows

[onyx vale]

Fair

[fiery trail]

wouldn't that reach close to 300 too

cause lets not forget totk lets you make your own elemental arrows technically

[onyx vale]

Not at all lol

Don't forget to add context to spoiler marks lol

[fiery trail]

yeah i'm confused what you're talking about

[onyx vale]

No I mean as to what portion of the game it's talking about lol

I wouldn't have known this was about Gerudo town without clicking

[zinc monolith]

One piece spoilers || poggers ||

[onyx vale]

https://tenor.com/view/gear6-luffyfade-gear-gear2-gear3-gif-25394392

[regal needle]

https://tenor.com/view/zane-ninjago-lego-ninjago-death-fail-gif-22975365

[mental igloo]

I can't stop hearing Amogus in the || Shrine || theme

[fiery trail]

idk if you guys have found forest dweller stuff yet

but these might be the stupidest weapons/shields

they have a very cool bonus which i wont spoil

[zinc monolith]

On the topic of spoilers, somehow magically... I'd be playing and discover something cool or progress the story... and then hours later I would see a vid about it (happened with the final boss)
This constantly happened as I was playing just dodging spoiler bullets

If I was just a little slower, I would have been spoiled 😂 God praise be thy name

100 IQ TikTok showing the final boss with "spoiler warning!!!" At the top
Like buddy, all the visual information already entered my brain thu my eye balls

[fiery trail]

im glad i can now not be spoiled

[zinc monolith]

^^^

[fiery trail]

the only spoilery stuff for me is like stuff ive yet to discover and people usually dont spoil those

[zinc monolith]

Ya little details and all that

Well who knows

Who knows what is yet to be seen! 🫡

[onyx vale]

I keep hearing this one pop song but I can't remember which one lol

Oh that reminds me

[zinc monolith]

Lemme get a comparison

[onyx vale]

I was going to make a meme

[fiery trail]

lookout landing keeps japing me into whistling hateno's ancient tech lab theme

and then i'm like "no it shares the same motif but they're not the same songs !!"

[onyx vale]

100 IQ? So... average IQ TikTok?

What did he mean with this

[zinc monolith]

I meant to say 1000 IQ 😂

[onyx vale]

Lol

[fiery trail]

man i think my next playthrough will be done in french

i usually never play games in french anymore but apparently the french localisation is VERY good

everything is more faithful to the japanese names

like gloom is named miasma in french and apparently miasma is more accurate to its japanese name

or the zonai ? in japanese it's the zonau
and in french, the sonau

[onyx vale]

That's the Dutch translation as well

[fiery trail]

(and the voice cast for some reason is BANGING like a lot of people in the voice cast are renowned french VA, a lot of them worked on the mario movie too)

[onyx vale]

As a Dutch person who usually consumes everything in English, the Dutch localisation is good

But if it had voices as well I bet it would suck

I would put it on Japanese either way

[fiery trail]

japanese is a bit too cliche for me

feels too anime

i mean i guess it's technically an anime but like

man what i'm saying is completely idiotic

[onyx vale]

Lol

Idk, voice wise I try to experience everything in the original language

[zinc monolith]

Voice wise, I choose the one I understand fire 🔥 💥

[fiery trail]

has anyone else gone to ||korok forest||

i think this was probably the creepiest part of the game for me
totally unexpected and made me actually sad

[zinc monolith]

What part?

[fiery trail]

wym what part

[zinc monolith]

nvm i gotcha

[mental igloo]

The background music for all the suffering settlements are either mega sad or creepy af. ||except goron city, that one just sounds doofy||

[strong arrow]

Beginning spoilers because there's a few people out there who haven't played the game at all yet: ||I love the new approach to the Temple of Time. It feels like it's both ancient and modernized at the same time with its outer structure, and I love that||

[mental igloo]

Welp i'm doing a bunch of shrines in bulk now and ||i can see where most of the Magic Rods have been all this time.||

[zinc monolith]

are those actually good?

[strong arrow]

Yes, although they do have bad attack power

But if you're using magical effects, I think it's safe to say that you're not in it for the attack power

[regal needle]

get an opal rod if you get to the ||zora arc||

[strong arrow]

I hope it works properly.

Update: It was torn to pieces by an enemy 😭

[strong arrow]

I made a second rendition and it ate up all of my battery way too fast

[fiery trail]

gotta mine some diamonds to have better batteries then

[strong arrow]

I'm working up to it, also the enemy destroyed that one too

I have no idea how people go into these battles with all kinds of crazy laser tanks, pretty much killing anything in a matter of seconds, and here I am getting smacked out of my own car

[fiery trail]

skill issue

[zinc monolith]

What's it do

[strong arrow]

Shoots lasers, but the targeting system didn't work and it just kept shooting directly upward for some reason

[fiery trail]

do you even have a targeting system there
i can't see it

all i see are 10 lasers on a sled

[strong arrow]

I thought of heading straight to the final boss, but I think that I should take the time to really take in the game and its mechanics first

[strong arrow]

||Sounds slightly rude but I hope it isn't||

The targeting system is in-between the front and top sleds

[fiery trail]

there's your problem

idk how it's oriented but first of all the sled is already aimed upward so of course the lasers are gonna shoot upward

but also if the construct head is oriented in the wrong direction it's never gonna aim properly

[strong arrow]

I learned that when the whole unit was taken apart on-contact

[fiery trail]

which is odd why did that happen

[strong arrow]

I was facing against a ||Gleeok||, and when I got close enough to it, all it had to do was ||start flying up into the air|| and that thing was gone

[fiery trail]

well there's your second problem

||lynels and gleeoks have attacks designed to destroy constructs||

[tropic fulcrum]

I learned that about lynels like 2 minutes ago lol

I had a whole array of beam emitters set up

[strong arrow]

Yeah, but I've seen other people do the same thing all the time, whilst also managing to defeat them in seconds.

(Same approach, not the same machine obviously.)

[fiery trail]

today i tried fighting a ||gleeok|| and ||autobuilt 9 bomb barrells to drop on the poor creature|| and it barely made a scratch lol

i think bosses and strong enemies must have some sort of dps cap

for certain attacks

[tropic fulcrum]

Fusing rockets to arrows has helped me a lot

[strong arrow]

This is another thing I've seen videos of other people doing with better results. Very weird how when we do it, it doesn't end up working as well

[zinc monolith]

I think they just have a lot of health, u can kill a hinox in a second with some lasers

[fiery trail]

hinox are pus||hover||s though

[zinc monolith]

true

[glossy locust]

So finished off the Great Fairy stuff, so am focused on upgrading my gear a bit now.

Mainly, the gear that lets me withstand temperatures and being guarded from fire so traversal isn't as awkward.

Running out of weapon space too for what I wanna carry, so I think a Korok hunt is on the cards.

[strong arrow]

Plus I've been ignoring Ultrahand's more advanced side, which is filled with all kinds of crazy and unique stuff to make

[glossy locust]

Been toying with Ultra Hand a bit more now, though I oddly still prefer going by horse mostly around Hyrule.

[strong arrow]

All I need is some floating platforms and rockets, because I'm planning on making something shown in the third trailer

[glossy locust]

||Oh, I also found another Great Fairy Fountain to open...after opening all four. I smell Yiga but am going to do it once I get what they wanted later. lol||

[glossy locust]

Has anyone else caught a Star Fragment as it's falling?

[somber parcel]

||Was it the Endura Carrot one? Pretty sure that's the Horse God.||

[strong arrow]

Using Recall on thrown weapons is awesome, although it's pretty hard to get the locations right when it's time to use the ability

[astral orbit]

So...I saw what happens when you get all the memories
...

[zinc monolith]

Is it possible to beat the game without the paraglider

[onyx vale]

Is it possible to beat the game without touching any coins?

[zinc monolith]

it is, it's just really really hard

[onyx vale]

I see, I'll have to try that sometime

[fiery trail]

Yes

Any% speedruns dont get the paraglider

[zinc monolith]

That's awesome

[strong arrow]

Seeing people ask for ratings on their outfits, I've decided to do the same. What would you rate my outfit out of 10?

(I have it marked because I am wearing some newer pieces of clothing. Said items of clothing come from the depths, so if you've been there, then you probably know about them)

[regal needle]

poor drip

[glossy locust]

Have properly started exploring ||the depths. Love how the map is the same as Hyrule's!||

[fiery trail]

my outfit is just the canon outfit

the hylian hood, champion's leather and hylian trousers

[somber parcel]

Mine's the best armor I've gotten, the Diamond Circlet, Champion's Leather, and Soldier's Greaves.

[fiery trail]

booo beta gamer armor

[somber parcel]

I used the Hylian gear when fighting the final boss, and after that went and grinded for other sets upgrade materials.

[fiery trail]

i like the soldier greaves + soldier.. idk armor look cause it's the look Link rocks in age of calamity

[somber parcel]

May of had the Diamond Circlet then though too.

[fiery trail]

what does diamond circlet do that amber earrings don't ?

[somber parcel]

Attack Up and 1 additional point of defense before upgrades

[fiery trail]

i see

[somber parcel]

Alot of the game I used the ||Miner's Mask||, and Hylian gear before I started going out of my way to upgrade equipment.

[regal needle]

||miner mask??? ||

[somber parcel]

It was what I happened to have managed to naturally upgraded as the highest defensive headgear, although I did replace it once I got the Diamond Circlet even with it because ||☆glow☆|| is not useful outside of ||The Depths||.

[fiery trail]

i would argue the ||miner set|| is useless even in ||the depths||

[strong arrow]

I like the set just for the way it looks

[fiery trail]

oh yeah def it looks funky

[tropic fulcrum]

I've been using the full ||glide|| armor set when I'm not in the cold regions because I like the ||increased air mobility when diving||. If I have to switch some of it I keep the pants though. Haven't unlocked much in terms of armor yet

[strong arrow]

What's crazy about it is that ||horizontal movement while skydiving||, with just two parts of the set is faster than Link's running speed

[somber parcel]

It's never terribly useful, unless you're trying to conserve ||light items|| for some reason. It could definitely of used ||better range||. I did manage to ||run to Gerudo Abandoned Mine from where Kohga apppeared prior largely without using light items somehow though||.

[regal needle]

guys i found an ||army of humans||

[fiery trail]

yes that is called a side quest

[strong arrow]

Not the best looking armor set, but it's an amazing set to acquire for its level of functionality

[somber parcel]

I like it, but not so much its dyes.

[tropic fulcrum]

yeah, the design isn't the best looking, and I'm not a fan of the way it changes when dyed. I just went with white so it looked a bit simpler

[fiery trail]

yeah i tried to dye it but realized it looked the best by default with the green accents

[mental igloo]

Old habits are hard to shake

[onyx vale]

Looks awesome

[regal needle]

great plateau quest sucks, dont do it exept if you want some drip

[strong arrow]

Speaking of which, what is your favorite armor set in Tears of the Kingdom?

[zinc monolith]

always a fan of the dyed hylian tunic in botw

[fiery trail]

Restarting the game

In french this time

[zinc monolith]

gl

[fiery trail]

Man Zelda IS taller than Link

Hmm not sure if I prefer Adeline Chetail to Patricia Summersett

That intro is so cool
French Ganon is insane

[astral orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/oui-ouais-yes-french-francais-gif-22722658

[onyx vale]

The most purest form of pure evil

French Ganon

[regal needle]

nothing compared to german ganon

[zinc monolith]

What is this one? Am I a noob

[regal needle]

im not the only one then

[zinc monolith]

What could it be

[mental igloo]

Apparently it's Jump Slash

[regal needle]

you can probably unlock this one by doing shrines

[mental igloo]

most likely

I think i've found all the ones on the surface so i'm doing a bunch of them now

[zinc monolith]

Ah

[strong arrow]

How much did you get done in your first playthrough?

[fiery trail]

Uh completion percentage said 46%

Played what 90 hours or so

Didnt do much of the side content which is the object of me restarting the game

Now that i dont risk getting spoiled i can redo stuff and take my time

[strong arrow]

Sounds like a pretty good reason to restart the game

[mental igloo]

i'm just doing as much as i can before i go for the final battle

something tells me the feeling of finality would make it feel wrong to keep playing afterwards.

[strong arrow]

Same actually, gonna try doing pretty much everything except all korok seeds

[somber parcel]

Are you going to collect all of the ||Bubbul Gems?||

[mental igloo]

at least the game gives you the means to track down the ones you're missing.

[strong arrow]

I really want the ||armor set|| that comes with it, so as tedious of a task as it might be, I really want that ||set of armor||

[strong arrow]

Eventually Koltin stops giving you hints, so it won't work for the whole quest

[somber parcel]

You don't need all for it, I think online it says you only need 47?

[strong arrow]

The game has 46, and if that's how many it takes for the ||headpiece||, then it looks like it will take all of them, because that's also the last reward he offers before leaving

[somber parcel]

||I just got the headpiece, and he was like 'I ate all these gems and I still have not transformed?! Maybe I need to eat all the gems! But I am out of stuff to trade...'||

[regal needle]

||classic kilton brother||

[somber parcel]

Paraphrased because I don't remember the exact dialogue. And I have 1 in my inventory afterwards.

[regal needle]

also how many koroks

[somber parcel]

I read that it's 1000?

[strong arrow]

And this is why I won't be doing all koroks

[regal needle]

here we go 500 more useless shits

[strong arrow]

Cool for the inventory space, but the exponential increase in cost gets less worth it as I go along

[mental igloo]

Man, the shrines in the eastern half i got nothing but rods and scepters from the bonus chests but in the westers half of the map i get nothing but zonai weapons

[glossy locust]

...so there I was, hunting down the Dragons casually while seeking shrines...||saw the one from the start of the game fly by while doing some Sky Shrines...and the fricking MASTER SWORD is in it's head!? I was NOT expecting that!||

[regal needle]

||the dragon is not called white dragon for nothing||

[strong arrow]

The ||light dragon|| is an absolutely beautiful sight to see in-game, and to see ||the Master Sword in its head|| is a really good prelude to some more late game ||story stuff||

[glossy locust]

||Do find the contrast funny between the beauty and awe of the Light Dragon...and the whirligig out of Spyro that I used to approach it. lol||

[strong arrow]

Wait what did you use to approach it?

[glossy locust]

A metal plank with fans on it's edges, the rear one diagonally backwards and the other four pointed forwards. Also threw a roof onto it with a spinning stick as...you know, Spyro fan. lol

Yeah, I actively aimed to try and make the Whirligig from Spyro 3. Kinda failed with a functional one, but that's where the fans pick up the slack. lol

||Like how the first opponent I face with the Master Sword is a Yiga Clan member that actually didn't make me instantly sus. lol||

[glossy locust]

So...today was productive...

||After getting the Master Sword, I decided to raid Hyrule Castle's upper part as well as map out it's depthes. Well, am now heavily kitted out with tough gear but also...I think I found the final boss! Let's slow down there, Ib. Go do some actual main quest stuff before jumping right to that! ||

On a side note, I also have a ||frog suit. Rain shall ruin my climbing NO MORE!||

[somber parcel]

||It still might, it just takes longer to||

[haughty moat]

1984

[fiery trail]

HOLY SHIT FRENCH PURAH SOUNDS AMAZING

She has like... her delivery feels incredibly natural
Her concern for Link's sudden reapparence rings true

[regal needle]

no more dupe

[zinc monolith]

Hm purah in French hmm

The duplication glitches are kind of unfortunate, people should play how they want, but if you get like 100,000 rupees in a second that kind of diminishes the rewards you get from side quests... What's it matter if you get 100 rupee reward for cooking some on a pizza? U know?
Or earning a diamond for doing something like yo I got 100 of these

[fiery trail]

Oh my gosh so the french version handles fuse in a neat way

If you fuse a thing to a weapon the thing will be converted to an adjective

So like, rock + stick = rocky axe

I fused an elevator to a sword and now I have an Ascending Sword

[zinc monolith]

That's neat

Elevator?

[regal needle]

rocket probably

[tropic fulcrum]

started using this armor combo for an AoT-inspired look

https://tenor.com/view/wind-scouts-gif-24861568

[fiery trail]

Theeee platform you have to attach to a wheel so it slides along a rail in the shrine west of hyrule field

Only found in this shrine i think

[zinc monolith]

I can't picture it but sounds neat

[glossy locust]

After farming more stuff off the Dragons, I think I'll actually make some main-story progress and actually do one of the 4 main goals...||probably the Death Mountain one as I'm intrigued by that one the most right now.||

Then the next goal after doing that'll be to fully map out ||the depths.||

[somber parcel]

I'm annoyed because the hood toggle affects all of the Hylian Hoods in your inventory, so if you want one up and one down you'll have to use the toggle then buy a second, and never touch the toggle again.

[regal needle]

you cant put the hood up again?

thats sucks

[somber parcel]

You can, it's just that the option effects all the Hylian Hoods in your inventory.

[fiery trail]

get one, put one down, buy another one

now you have two hoods

one up one down

has anyone ever tinkered with Elixirs in botw in here

i noticed now you can combine a critter and a ?food item ???? and it will still make an elixir

hmm apparently you could already do that in botw

well it's never explained

(example, warm darner + spicy pepper + chu jelly = warm elixir
what perplexes me is the spicy pepper, i though those were a big no-no in elixirs but nope turns out they give you additional hearts i think ? extremely cool

[glossy locust]

||OK, seeking out the light dragon again hurts...not able to spot it at all. Evidently got really lucky with finding it earlier for the Master Sword out the blue.||

||Got gear I wanna upgrade, hence my hunting the dragons. Also kinda wanna stock up on certain parts of them for fusions, mainly the horns and the Light Dragon's Spike Shards.||

[fiery trail]

||iirc it goes around in a set path||

[glossy locust]

||...I mean, they all do. But I've figured out the other three's paths based on when they dip into the Depths. Light Dragon doesn't do that, so...yeah, not figured it's path out yet. lol||

[fiery trail]

||oh they all do ? i thought their paths were semi random||

[regal needle]

||i wanna post a picture of the path but there is some spoil||

but yeah the dragon go ||in the four mains regions||

[glossy locust]

||Yeah, don't actually spoil it for me. Wanna try and figure it out. Found it once after all...||

[fiery trail]

Ibli do not click that
||I think they already got the master sword though ? so they can't track the dragon anymore||

[glossy locust]

||Based on something Zelda said in the cutscene when I got the Master Sword, I already presumed I'd accidently skipped a bit of story anyway. lol||

[fiery trail]

yeah there ya go disregard 13's advice

wasn't sure if you already ||had the master sword or not||

[glossy locust]

Yeah, I already did. Had found ||the Light Dragon while knocking out sky shrines and decided to head to it for parts cos why not. Was really surprised to see the sword in it's head.||

[strong arrow]

I'd say place pins wherever it might be, and then visit those pins when you see that it's out and about

[glossy locust]

Don't remember which shrine though or I'd be camping there. lol

[glossy locust]

Will likely do this. Did put pins on the ||chasms the other three dragon dip in and out off for tracking too.||

[strong arrow]

And if not pins, then you could reserve a specific stamp for that purpose

[fiery trail]

is it weird if playing totk makes me want to play botw

[strong arrow]

No

[fiery trail]

i think i'm starting to see the differences between both games and botw is definitely the most serene and contemplative game, of the two

totk can still be contemplative but i feel like.. less so

[strong arrow]

I feel like Breath of the Wild would be the more survival-based game, while Tears of the Kingdom would be the more creative, sandbox style game, whilst also keeping slightly more true to traditional Zelda games

[fiery trail]

also it really feels like for botw, the driving word was "exploration"
in totk it's moreso "experimentation"
they heavily heavily heavily want you to follow one path and to play the four phenomenas in a set order (rito goron gerudo zora), which is something botw never did
every time botw had to list all the champions, or all the races or all the divine beasts, each time they were in a completely different order
but when they list those same things in totk it's always rito goron gerudo zora

[glossy locust]

...going to throw out there that I didn't know there was an intended order besides Rito first. lol

[fiery trail]

Purah says this order

[glossy locust]

But that's probably cos I've been focused on that exploration myself.

[fiery trail]

everyone pressures you into going to the rito

and as you go to the rito everyone is like "you should go to woodland stable" which is near eldin

so naturally everyone says go to eldin

[glossy locust]

I feel like experimentation is the reward moreso for the exploration in Tears of the Kingdom, at least for me so far.

[fiery trail]

when you finish the ritos, in lookout landing there's a goron and they even make a point of making him forget the road to death mountain

[glossy locust]

Whereas Breath of the Wild, exploration is the game's whole vibe.

Does give both a swell and nicely unique vibe.

Breath of the Wild also feels more dangerous to just explore too, due to the Guardians.

[somber parcel]

If I had a nickel for every game I've played where ||a character lost their shirt at the end for literally no reason|| I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[fiery trail]

...why did you mention that

it has nothing to do with what i said and is legit a real spoiler

[glossy locust]

But yeah, in short? Both games are about Exploration. TotK rewards it with Experimentation while BotW promotes more exploring later.

Not clicked it, but...would that be why they spoiled tagged it?

[fiery trail]

well it's not even a spoiler but also.. it is

like they state a very minor detail of the final battle

[glossy locust]

I've only been clicking ones that were actual responses to me so far.

Every other one, I've deemed out of bounds. lol

[somber parcel]

Not the final battle, but the cutscene after it

[fiery trail]

but why are you talking about it lol

what does it have to do with me noting totk can be contemplative

[somber parcel]

I accidentally hit reply

[strong arrow]

So, although the Great Plateau might be one of, if not the most iconic starting area from any video game, I'd like to hear your guys' take on whether or not the Great Sky Island is better.

Which starting area is better? The Great Plateau? Or the Great Sky Island?

[fiery trail]

ooh
makes sense

[fiery trail]

so i'm the prime person to reply as I just restarted the game

great plateau clears for one big reason

[regal needle]

who ||lost their shirt in botw||

[fiery trail]

great sky island is a symptom of this game being more linear
they use the concepts of isolated sky islands you have to go from one to the other to impose an order

and it's very clever cause you don't notice it the first time

[somber parcel]

Sky Island is definitely more linear

[fiery trail]

sometimes you can deviate off the main path but they clearly push you to do ultrahand > fuse > ascend with heaps of rewards along the way

it's very clever and once again doesn't feel like a tutorial but as an isolated experience i can't help but feel as though the great plateau was strictly better

everyone did something different on the great plateau but i don't think it's the same case for the great sky island

[somber parcel]

Was there a full path to get to Rewind? I used Ultrahand to build a ladder ||to get up the icy cliff||.

[strong arrow]

||I actually did notice the linear nature of it, not sure who didn't.||

I personally think the Great Sky Island is better because of its linearity, especially towards the end when you use Ascend to get to the wing and glide back to the big building

[fiery trail]

i think i was too uhh infatuated to notice it

the second time around it was glaringly obvious

[somber parcel]

||Not Botw, it's a similarity with Kingdom Hearts of all things.||

[fiery trail]

also yeah i guess that makes sense... i keep thinking linearity is bad but sometimes i can just allow the devs to make you do fun stuff
but also i don't think you can beat the great plateau

[glossy locust]

I preferred the Great Plateau myself.

[fiery trail]

like the great plateau... at least the first time, man was it good

and every time i redo it it gets even better

like it's just the highlight of my playthrough, it's so expertly balanced, plenty of side content, plenty of secrets and hidden stuff

makes me wish the whole game was smaller but as compact as the great plateau

[glossy locust]

I feel like I did do stuff out of order on the Sky Islands...but the HUGE advantage the Great Plateau has in addition to being more open is that Hyrule as a whole feels like that starting area on steroids.

The Sky Island don't exactly feel like the rest of Tears of the Kingdom to me overall.

[fiery trail]

yeah one thing the great sky island has that is scummy is making you think this is also gonna be the case

if anything the great sky island is the most you'll spend in the sky

it's the biggest archipelago in the whole game and it's... ehh i wish they had way more islands man

i'm gonna say it the sky islands suck lol let's gooooo
their aesthetic is amazing but they're so sparse, so small and full of nothing

[glossy locust]

I actually enjoyed going back to the Great Plateau in this game much more than the Great Sky Island too...||even if I did end up revisiting the Great Plateau FAR too early! lol||

[fiery trail]

if the dlc doesn't add islands everywhere i'll be sad

[somber parcel]

The difference of colors between ground and sky probably helped leave that impression.

[glossy locust]

Kinda, but I'm more on about how the world itself is built too.

I mean, the Sky Island isn't built in a way that I'd say matches Hyrule itself ||nor the Depths below|| while the Great Plateau is.

In a way, both are great tutorial areas, but the Plateau prepares you better for the game while the Sky Island prepares the game mechanics moreso.

[somber parcel]

||Wish there were more bigger non-story areas there.||

[fiery trail]

yeah same

[strong arrow]

I completely disagree. Only thing I'd say is that they're heavily underutilized

[fiery trail]

as they stand most sky archipelagos are just.. shrines

yeah that's what i'm saying 13

[glossy locust]

Found it! :D

[regal needle]

its just arena or balls

you have like two important things in the sky

if we dont count ||dungeons||

[zinc monolith]

How long till they update and add creative mode

[strong arrow]

Speaking of, and [SPOILERS FOR RITO AND ZORA PHENOMENA] by the way.

||I love how the prelude to the Stormwind Ark has you using these ships flying around it like trampolines, eventually getting to the highest point of the game, which is one of the most beautiful sights to see in-game, but other than that and the nearly perfect Water Temple, there's really not much going on in the sky.||

[onyx vale]

Man

[regal needle]

||wind temple|| is peak totk

[mental igloo]

It would make sense for the Gorons to be second because ||the first great fairy you can save is on the road between lookout landing and Goron City. It's honestly kinda weird how they're scattered all over the place yet only one specific Fairy can start the questline.||

[fiery trail]

man tears of the kingdom is awesome

[strong arrow]

Trying to do everything fast and I still don't feel like I'm done with even half of the game

[somber parcel]

||Tulin and Yunobo's Sage abilities are the most useful in my opinion, so it's better to do them first. Still did Zora before Gorons because I figured I may as well copy what I did in BoTW.||

[fiery trail]

man Teba's character design is PEAK

a bit sad he isn't a sage like the other descendants cause he'd absolutely be my favorite

[fiery trail]

oh wow boomerangs are op now thanks to recall

and fusing stuff to them is super fun

i fused aerocuda wings to one, now it deals more damage and travels faaaaar

[strong arrow]

Topaz:

Also pretty much anything is overpowered with Recall. This may or may not be true, but I don't think thrown weapons use any durability if you throw it behind an enemy and use recall

[fiery trail]

lol you can hit a guy, use recall right after it hit and it'll hit them back

[strong arrow]

It surely didn't break on-contact when I tried it in a shrine, so that might be worth looking into

[fiery trail]

a lot of weapons break when thrown sadly

[regal needle]

use ice item on it

[fiery trail]

boomerangs being the exception

yes i get it use elemental items on boomerangs i'll do it eventually let me live i have 600 hours to sink into the game

i'll get to it

boomerangs are busted #event-debate message

[strong arrow]

?

[fiery trail]

when thrown at opponents ? is that what you want me to add

[strong arrow]

No, I was referring to how weapons don't break if you throw them without hitting enemies, and then using recall to hit them

[fiery trail]

ohhh

i thought you meant throwing them at enemies and then using recall to hit them again

to which i thought "well boomerangs are good at that"

[strong arrow]

Of course not, as I know most weapons break when you throw them, which is why I've found a way to deal damage by throwing weapons (very likely not double though) without having them break once thrown

[glossy locust]

Casually exploring ||Depths||, mapping out the map.

||Stumbles onto Fire Temple. So...that's a thing!||

||Don't think I'm going to take it on right now though. I'm presuming this is related to the Goron stuff and I wanna take this on as intended, so will get here down the line.||

Don't confirm if I'm right. lol

[fiery trail]

||it's actually related to the kokiri stuff, they brought them back from ocarina of time||

[zinc monolith]

Okay, what's the secret to finding entrances to caves, because I'll be using the sensor and it says to go right here but I can't find the entrance ever

[onyx vale]

Did you try uhh

[glossy locust]

Related to my last spoiler, ||I love the way that this part of the depths looks! Not just the temple, but the surround area being like the inside of a volcano is such a lovely shift from the usual look of the depths so far!||

[onyx vale]

There's a ||cherry blossom tree in every region. If you drop an apple (or any fruit?) in the bowl next to it, a Satori will appear and highlight every cave entrance in that region with a beacon for a little while.||

If I got it correctly, at least. Haven't been to every region yet.

[zinc monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/ummmmmm-excuse-me-what-gif-19629790

When do they tell you that

[onyx vale]

I don't think they do lmao

My BotW Korok instinct kicked in so I tried it out

[zinc monolith]

I remember a gerudo telling you something about cherry blossom trees... But I just don't really read anymore

[onyx vale]

Maybe it's hidden somewhere in a journal or something, that would be cool.

[zinc monolith]

Thank you for this information

[onyx vale]

Skill issue

[zinc monolith]

[mental igloo]

Yeah, there's a ||Gerudo that mentions a spirit lurks near cherry blossom trees and that it likes apples|| that's your hint.

[mental igloo]

Welp i've gotten all the shrines now and the jump attack section of Special Controls are still not there

[strong arrow]

I love how the swirling energy make it way easier to find an unsolved shrine

[zinc monolith]

Agreed

Sometimes they don't load in when you should be able to see them

[strong arrow]

[I DON'T QUALIFY THIS AS A SPOILER BECAUSE THIS COMES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE GAME, BUT IF YOU DO, THEN PLEASE DO NOT READ]

||What reason does Ganondorf have for raising up Hyrule Castle at the beginning of the game? All it really did was drain him of quite a lot of his power for what was essentially just giving the castle a cool aesthetic, when he could've used that power for something much more useful||

[glossy locust]

While I slightly agree that's not much of a spoiler, I feel others might disagree overall. And it's probably safer to spoiler-tag what you aren't sure counts as a spoiler anyway.

Again, I feel this was fine. That last part's mostly for future note.

[zinc monolith]

|| he woke up when link and zelda got there so maybe it had something to do with that, or it was just a coincidence that his sealing power wore off till then - there's a stone tablet that says as long as the castle is there, ganondorf is locked away ||

[strong arrow]

Oh yeah I forgot about that part of it 😅

[zinc monolith]

but what triggered it is still unclear to me

well ofc he still had power because calamity ganon was doing stuff

[strong arrow]

Side note: Wonder what has become of the ||rat|| in the opening scene

[mental igloo]

probably just a pile of ashes tbh

[strong arrow]

Would've been cool to see a ||gloom rat enemy or miniboss though, given that it corrupts pretty much anything||

[mental igloo]

it mostly tends to kill things first though

what it doesn't kill becomes sick

and what doesn't become sick get's corrupted

[strong arrow]

Actually wait scrap that it doesn't sound very interesting at all

[glossy locust]

So in my depths exploring today, I found a couple of swell things.

First, ||I found all the parts of the Twilight Tunic! Awesome to have one of the classic green tunics!||

And second, ||I encountered Kohga and thus have an Auto-Build ability. There are a couple of things I've been building to roam about with often, so this is awesome to have as an ability!||

...oh wait, Third! ||I also found Majora's Mask...it cost me a few bows and plenty of healing meals as I'm out of practise fighting Lynels and was unaware I'd walked into a boss rush of them basically, but point stands!||

||Really like how the stuff that was Amiibo Exclusive in BOTW isn't anymore in TOTK.||

[strong arrow]

I absolutely love that last point, no reason why so much more great content should be locked behind a twenty dollar figurine

[mental igloo]

wolf link

😔

[zinc monolith]

I used ||majora's mask|| for the first time today, || it makes most enemies docile|| ... so what's the point of the || bokoblin, lizalfos, horriblin, and moblin mask (and lynel?) ||

[mental igloo]

||It was DLC in BOTW so Pay-to-win was it's purpose||

[zinc monolith]

I get that for that game, but why now 😩

|| earning it after the batlte? harder to get the crystals ||

[mental igloo]

I guess just making it available like all the other old DLC armors just on principle

Damn if it trivialises other parts of the game or not

[glossy locust]

Someone let me know if I'm safe to click those spoilers...

[mental igloo]

Like horses and stables

[strong arrow]

Because when you think about it (and I'm not saying everyone does this, but I know people have done this one or two times for Breath of the Wild), but that's sixty dollars for a game, with an extra twenty for DLC, plus let's say you get two amiibo figurines for outfits or something like that. That's good hundred and twenty dollars spent on a game, and a third of that was spent on outfits that cost the same, if not more than the entire DLC

[mental igloo]

I have not touched a single horse ever since i managed to make a cheap reliable vehicle

[glossy locust]

I've always thought of Amiibo as your mainly buying the figure. What it does ingame is a bonus IMO.

But then again, I only have two Amiibo. And that's counting the Shadow Mewtwo card for Pokken! lol

[mental igloo]

I despise amiibo because i just want the content they unlock in the games yet the figurines are just so needlessly expensive

[sullen widget]

I have not touched a single horse in a while because im either fast traveling too much or in the ||depths||

[glossy locust]

I did use a horse a fair bit in Hyrule. But I suspect that's no longer going to be the case since obtaining ||the auto-build ability. lol||

[mental igloo]

meanwhile after they have been used they just collect dust until the next game that they're compatible with comes around.

[strong arrow]

I don't despise them like you do, but the rewards aren't worth the price point

[mental igloo]

Maybe "despise" is a harsh word

i am annoyed by their traits though

[glossy locust]

The only Amiibo I've ever disliked that "locking-off content" part about is the Samus Returns ones. Locking out a sound test, an art gallery and especially an extra difficulty feels...off.

[sullen widget]

btw is the ancient horse armor in the game? or at least a different horse armor that's functionally the same?

[glossy locust]

The Metroid's lucky it's nice and squishy.

[mental igloo]

If it is then i haven't found it yet.

And i just recently finished the last shrine and yes, ||just like pre-champions ballad BOTW there are not enough blessings to max out your hearts and stamina||

[sullen widget]

Maybe it's the last ||pony point|| reward?

[mental igloo]

I guess i did touch a horse recently i suppose.
||It was mostly just to max out all of it's stats on a whim.||

[somber parcel]

Didn't Shovel Knight used to unlock multiplayer?

[glossy locust]

I don't remember. I owned the 3DS version, so never cared.

[regal needle]

put a fruit in the sakura of the region (with the gerudo)

[fiery trail]

||find blupees, shoot them, follow them||

[fiery trail]

i give up searching
why has no one recreated the third trailer theme for totk yet

all of the parts are available on the internet without sfx you just gotta combine them and idk fine tune it a bit i'm not a audio magician idk how you do stuff

i literally have all the individual parts in my computer as we speak but have no clue how to combine them without it sounding awful

[strong arrow]

You can probably look for someone to commission it on Twitter

Or look up a YouTube tutorial on how to remove audio clips properly

[onyx vale]

After running away previously I finally decided to pick a fight with "||the hands||", at Akkala this time

Defeating them was fun, and then ||the health bar popped up||

Never played Dark Souls but this was one hell of a Dark Souls moment

[strong arrow]

Does feel like that when going up against it

[zinc monolith]

ihope to have all shrines done before tonight is over

[haughty moat]

[glossy locust]

Still mapping ||the depths myself.||

||Expanded my battery so I can fly around it more easily.||

||Just ended up in front the Great Deku Tree too and...well, he's seen better days...||

[regal needle]

ok guys im doin the final boss

[fiery trail]

hands down the most ||unsettling|| moment in the whole game

man fusing zonai devices to boomerangs is funky but it does take a lot of battery

[regal needle]

I DID IT

[onyx vale]

What's the deal with Hyrule Castle? Can you just go there and explore? Or does it trigger something story related? It seems like the ||champion's tunic|| is hidden there

[regal needle]

lots of good stuff

[astral orbit]

Go to the memory near ||Lurelin Village|| for a hilarious time

[mental igloo]

Yeah, you can explore it freely, assuming you can get up there.
I got ||the Champion's Tunic|| before i did any of the Regional Phenomena.

[regal needle]

also ||hylian shield||

[glossy locust]

Same. In fact, I haven't done any of the regional phenomena yet.

Been playing around in this playbox too much. Goron stuff'll be done tomorrow though. Do wanna see that one through.

I have however explored Hyrule Castle. ||Partly to find the Hylian Shield as I incorrectly assumed it would be on the seperated upper part, but regardless, have done a full browse of there and got the Champion's Tunic too. My exploring included the depths below...I know where the Final Boss is. But don't wanna conclude the game yet.||

[haughty moat]

Trying out the game now

I are hoping I like it

[astral orbit]

If you liked BotW, you'll like this

[haughty moat]

WHERE TWINK OUTFIT!???!!??!

Nvm I found it

[haughty moat]

Stayed up till 2 AM playing this game I may or may not like it

[onyx vale]

If this OST doesn't win any awards then idk anymore

[fiery trail]

the OST is very good

but it also feels just like botw 2.0 somehow yknow ?

[onyx vale]

In a good way, I think

Just like how the game is pretty much BotW 2.0

It takes (and improves on) what's great from the original and adds in every bit the original was lacking

[fiery trail]

one thing i love love love about the level design of totk btw

they either take underutilized places from botw and add new important stuff there

or they recontextualize existing areas and make you go through them BACKWARDS

it's so so so cool

[onyx vale]

I don't think I've experienced the latter yet

[fiery trail]

like lindor's brow, there was no reason to go here in botw, i discovered it VERY LATE by complete accident, and in totk there's a tower there and i'm like LETS GO

[onyx vale]

What region is that again?

[fiery trail]

tabantha

flashback to botw era

[onyx vale]

Ohh there lmao

[fiery trail]

they butchered Lindor's Brow by adding the tower though

was much more beautiful in botw

[regal needle]

what are sages purpose except ||distracting enemies during final boss||

[zinc monolith]

Anyone have any good replacements for rivoli's Gale?

Burning spicy peppers makes you go extra high in this game. Pretty much just revolley scale whenever you want

But what other ways to go up if you don't have any of those spicy foods

[strong arrow]

A slower option, but you can always use a makeshift hot air balloon

Or attach a rocket to your shield

[glossy locust]

Two Springs fused together goes rather high.

[sullen widget]

fuse a bomb to your shield then shield surfing is a quick option

[onyx vale]

I like how easy it is to tell when Tev uses speech to text when it comes to stuff like this

[strong arrow]

Please only click the spoiler if you've completed the Rito and Goron regional phenomena.

||I beat a moblin by doing absolutely nothing. He got shot in the head by Tulin's avatar, then smacked by Yunobo's avatar, and then he got struck by lightning because the fight happened during a thunderstorm.||

[somber parcel]

||Tulin and Yunobo are both useful in exploration because Tulin's is a horizontal glider speed boost and Yunobo can replace bombs and smashing weapons.||

[regal needle]

purpose ||in story||

[somber parcel]

Good question
||To owe Link a favor, I guess||

[regal needle]

the champions got a job to help link to literally oblirate ganon healthbar without ||magic rocks|| but the sages were just here to ||avoid boss rush or something like they got the most powerful items in the entire fucking lore and they didnt use it||

[strong arrow]

I finally learned how to take down a ||Gleeok|| and it's so unbelievably easy now

[mental igloo]

The first one i actually tried to fight and took down was a ||King Gleeok||.

[fiery trail]

idk how i got the blueprint but there's an autobuild schema stone that's three springs and a spike

goes super high

[zinc monolith]

Hmmmmmm fascinating!

[fiery trail]

but yeah a lot of stuff are just revali's gale or stuff that goes even higher

rocket shield goes higher than revali's gale

campfire+pinecone goes about as high

hell ascend goes as high as you need to go

springs make you go super high

i'm convinced people complaining about the lack of revali's gale aren't playing the game properly

[glossy locust]

Nearly finished mapping|| the depths now. 5 spots left, I think. One I think is part of another objective, so going to do it after the rest of the mapping. And another...I have no clue how to get to, but am going to figure it out! ||

||Also found a few neat weapons, main two right now to me being the Sea Breeze Boomerang and a undecayed Royal Claymore! ||

[glossy locust]

||Also been toying with Autobuild a lot. Got a Cannon Tank, a Laser Tank, a Flying Hovercraft and a weaponised Flying Hovercraft. Wanna make a podracer now.||

[zinc monolith]

How do you find all shrines in sky

[mental igloo]

Using the ||scanning feature on the purah pad||. And keeping an eye on ||trends of what kinds of islands they tend to show up on.||

If you have difficulty finding them then you can also look at where you haven't been on the Hero's Path mode on the map screen to know where it might be worth exploring.

[onyx vale]

omg ||jenga||

Is there a way to remove ||monster statues|| from Kilton's exposition?

I accidentally made ||two Talus statues||

[strong arrow]

What attack is the hardest for you to parry/dodge

[fiery trail]

I can never flurry rush the boss boko
The only attack i can dodge from them is their punch

[onyx vale]

Tarrey spoilers
||So proud of this house||

[fiery trail]

Flamethrower boomerang is quite fun to use

[fiery trail]

||minecraft||

[onyx vale]

https://tenor.com/view/arabic-minecraft-pig-race-cow-gif-18005056

[fiery trail]

Surprised they didnt make zonai boomerangs

Attaching zonai devices to boomerangs just feels right but their energy consumption is too much

[strong arrow]

You can always use crystallized charges to increase your maximum energy

[glossy locust]

Neat!

||Mine is more of a mini hub. Got a triangle-shaped house with bed, fire, pray statue. Got a stable out in one corner and got a weapons, shield and bow display in another structure.||

[onyx vale]

Awesome

I'd love to see it

[glossy locust]

Will get pics of it in a bit for ya.

It probably sounds more impressive than it actually is. lol

[glossy locust]

Like Senna, Tarrey spoilers here.

||Here is my little spot. Stable out on it's own, a gallery on show and the main house.||

||Might toy with tweaking it a little so that there is a water bed behind the stable at least...||

||Well, that layout changed fast. There we go! Horse has water now.
||

[strong arrow]

Does anybody know of any weapons/shields/bows that don't respawn after a blood moon?

[onyx vale]

Made #1112804311978741830 real quick

[zinc monolith]

Knowing now that Zelda NPCs are just miis.... It's so obvious

Quite literally a mii

[onyx vale]

I can't unsee it either lol

[fiery trail]

right but i'm in the beginning of the game, haven't explored the depths yet

[somber parcel]

It feels so incredibly obvious in this game...

[astral orbit]

Spring Quest Reward is based

[fiery trail]

So if you guys are interested

The chamberlain who recounts the events of the imprisoning war through the 13 sky stone tablet is apparently a woman according to the french localisation

Dude lol they didnt put any effort in the ancient hylian in french, they just gave us what the chamberlain wrote in like, understandable french

[astral orbit]

You see the English translations for some of those tablets?

It's comprehensible but you have to exert a bit of brain power to understand the non-noun words

[fiery trail]

well yeah but that's the thing, in french they just spell it out for you

and you still get the interpretation of the guy afterwards, as if the text he just read wasn't clear enough

[mental igloo]

Man Traysi is a bit sussy.

Hears about some|| "barely clothed folks"|| hanging around near the Foothill Stable.
Admits how she was planning on investigating that case herself for once.
Then becomes visually pissed when she says Penn snatched the case from her before she could get to it.

[glossy locust]

So been toying with the building you can do with vehicles a fair bit and am considering doing a showcase of some of them. Not all, as one is just a pair of springs and another is that hoverbike it seems everyone online's made. Was proud when I came up with it and then humbled when I saw EVERYONE did.

But beyond that, I've gotten a few I'm pleased with, including weaponising that hoverbike.

Anyone else toyed around with building stuff with Ultra Hand a lot?

[mental igloo]

People have also already weaponized the hoverbike by combining it with the goblin glider design and slapping some cannons or beam emitters on the sides.

I've personally found beam emitters to be much more reliable especially when going between ||enemy mining sites in the depths.||

More consistent DPS .
Safer to take off while an enemy is on your ass.
Doesn't break too many deposits at once causing a ton of mineral items to despawn due to too many items being on the field at once.
Doesn't send the minerals flying everywhere so it's easier to pick up.

Quite reliable though it has taught be that construct heads and fans do indeed have an expiration timer similar to rockets and wings.

[glossy locust]

Oh, I didn't think of Goblin Glider side fans. Mine is simpler in that I added another fan to the front one then threw lasers on the side of the steering stick.

And yeah, have noticed it expires. But I suspect it's the weapons themselves triggering the despawn as the usual two fans and stick setup hasn't despawned on me while flying across the map. The game just seems to despawn the while thing as there is a lacking main body, I'd guess?

[fiery trail]

this game is great but it's even better if you follow the intended path

did you know you're supposed to encounter a frox quite early on in the depths

they also set up and tease the return of Kohga a bit before you actually encounter him which is cool

[strong arrow]

||Looking for cool stuff outside of the beaten path works too||

[fiery trail]

oh yeah deffo

but you're supposed to loosely follow the intended path while zig-zagging to the cool stuff

[strong arrow]

Does anybody know a good spot to consistently find Dinraal?

[sullen widget]

Okay but ||going into the korok forest depths first was really cool||

[fiery trail]

uh no but i know the ice dragon dives in kakariko chasm at around 9 pm

[fiery trail]

||i think you're supposed to discover that one on your own so yeah no real intended path there||

||or well the Minshi Woods Chasm is the intended path technically||

[sullen widget]

||my point was I didn't do the hyrule depths quest first||

[fiery trail]

ohhh

yeah i guess that would be quite the impression

[strong arrow]

I know where both Naydra, and Farosh like to go. Their paths are very easy to follow, but for as long as I've been playing the game, I haven't seen Dinraal once

[sullen widget]

Also im pretty sure they don't follow in game time anymore like botw

[fiery trail]

i've seen dinraal in the depths once

[fiery trail]

pretty sure they do, we were playing with my sister together and when she was riding naydra it dove into the chasm at around 9 pm

i was in kakariko around that time as well afterwards and saw naydra do the exact same thing at around the same time

[sullen widget]

the ||light dragon|| doesn't at least

[fiery trail]

||light dragon follows a set path but i don't think it does that in a perfect time loop yea||

can we talk about one addition i love

the lucky clover gazette and the fact you can see people reading it in most settlements

and they'll actually read about recent stuff you've done or stuff you have yet to do

it's amazing

[glossy locust]

Dinraal is the fire one, right?

They tend to fly north of Death Mountain from my experience and I know they fly out of the Chasm by Tarrey Town.

[fiery trail]

man yeah going the intended path is so cool

i got so much lore and info about the gorons by doing that

also the slow introduction of marbled rock roast

you could even ||technically go do a quest where you actually go mine for marbled rock roast then deliver it to someone before you even realise it's something bad
and then you deliver it and you're like... maybe i shouldn't have done that||

also in french marbled rock roast is called "savouroche", a pun on "savoureux" (delicious) and "roche" (rock)

man i'm so impressed by how modular the difficulty can be in this game

people who are absolute shit can still have fun and do crazy stuff because the game is super lenient

if you use all the options the game gives you it's a very easy game

but if you want to have a challenge (like me) then just like in botw you can self-impose rules and they work like a charm

[mental igloo]

I completed the ||Dragon Tears|| Quest and ||Master Sword|| Quest before doing any of the Regional Phenomena and the Lucky Clover Gazette missions and needless to say it made the whole ||find zelda|| and ||impostor zelda|| plotline really fucking annoying. Since you and (by extension Link) already know ||the truth||, yet Link doesn't even bother to explain shit to any of the other characters working their ass off to try and figure things out, while constantly ||falling for obvious traps and deceptions|| just because the story demands it so. Making Link look like an absolute buffoon.

So yes, i'd definitively say there is an intended order of doing things.

[fiery trail]

if you want, you can go visit ||the Forgotten Temple|| if you want Link to actually ||say he knows where the actual zelda is to someone||

[mental igloo]

Sure but that's ||one person out of several dozens||

[fiery trail]

yea

there's a point in the story where you can actually ||tell some people that Zelda isn't Zelda|| and it is quite satisfying||

[mental igloo]

Link is the kind of friend that let's his friends burn themselves on the stove

[fiery trail]

finally someone fucking loses their mind like I did a week ago
spoiler for Tarrey Town and bosses
||https://fxtwitter.com/willy_crescent/status/1662914045249478658||

[mental igloo]

yeah, i was surprised too that the ||pose was the exact same as the picture||

My best guess is that ||the game saves the bone co-ordinates, active armor layers and keyshapes of anything the camera is able to register, then applies those to the statues.||

[fiery trail]

i guess that's how it works yea

here's my initial reaction to the whole thing

[glossy locust]

||...wait...is it only monsters? Or could you have a sculpture of the Yiga Clan up? lol

Oh, actually...could you get one of Phantom Ganon?||

[mental igloo]

No clue, haven't done the whole quest yet. My best bet is that ||they only bothered making it a thing for the specific monsters that Kilton wants.||

[fiery trail]

you can get ||phantom ganon|| and also ||the final boss||

[fiery trail]

||no they made it for every monster||

[mental igloo]

Guess they did make it into an over-arching system then

[glossy locust]

||...but not the Yiga Clan still? lol||

[mental igloo]

makes sense

[fiery trail]

||Kilton wants like idk 5 monsters maybe ? maybe 10 at most||
||but you can build far more than 10 monsters||

[fiery trail]

i don't know

[mental igloo]

Depends if they show up in the compendium i guess

[fiery trail]

||can you even register yiga clan members in the compendium||

[glossy locust]

I've not been doing that yet as a whole TBH, so no clue.

[mental igloo]

Wish there was a compendium section of NPCs

||There would be so many statues of Purah||

[glossy locust]

Will be blunt. Was more focused on making my podracer work right.

But having ||a statue of Phantom Ganon sounds fun to put up. So might get on this quest line. lol||

[mental igloo]

Do the ||mace and spear Phantoms|| ever show up again or is it story exclusive?

[glossy locust]

||The mace one faced me outside of a story segment, so I presume it should. Not faced a Spear one yet.||

[fiery trail]

||the first phantom i ever faced had a spear, he was the gerudo desert lomei labyrinth one||
||the phantom that's west of Kakariko has a mace||

[glossy locust]

||Ey, my Mace one was in a Labyrinth too! The one in the top right corner's lower section below the maze but not in the depths.||

||So maybe all three have each weapon across them?||

[fiery trail]

so has anyone done any ||labyrinth
i heard you have to progress from the sky down to the depths for some reason, is that the case for all three ? i haven't explored them at all, past defeating a phantom ganon in the south one on the ground||

||is there technically 9 labyrinths to explore in this game ? lol||

[glossy locust]

I've done them all. ||You have to do the ground one first, then the sky one and then dive from the sky one down to the depths to do a battle there.||

Won't say more than that.

[fiery trail]

||okay... but what happens if i reach let's say the north one in the sky ? cause i think i can reach without too much problem
will i just see a message like "no you idiot go to the ground first" or something ?||

[glossy locust]

||Kinda. If you try to trigger the maze, which for the record you do need to do, then it'll point you to the bottom and say do there first. However, not only can you kinda cheese the bottom ones by doing it from above, but there is a shrine at the entrance to each Sky one, so you can fast travel right back.||

||Likewise, you can't access the depths part until you do the sky maze.||

[fiery trail]

okay well thanks for all these infos

i'm kinda excited cause they look cool i hope they're at least better than botw

[strong arrow]

Fun fact: This was a feature in Breath of the Wild as well, but as it turns out, if you get hit by something that would usually kill you in one hit, it would just take you down to a quarter heart. ||(Personally a feature I don't like because it takes away difficulty from the game)||

This feature was removed in Breath of the Wild's master mode, so I hope it makes a return in Tears of the Kingdom.

[fiery trail]

i like it personally

i never heal during combats and i limit myself to never upgrading armor