Emperoreddy
Show Me What You Got!
Got all the glyphs and whoa the story got crazy.
Now to get the Master Sword
Now to get the Master Sword
Lol I'm hoping to simply finish my second temple tonight.
What else is there in the depths beside battery upgrades? I feel no inclination to explore the depths. I don't like not being able to tell what I'm walking towards. So I've spent probably 35 minutes total down there out of the 65-70 hours I've spent on the game.
I've also had no trouble getting around the sky islands without any battery upgrades.
Lots of loot, lots of bomb flowers and muddle buds which are hard to come by anywhere else (also puffshrooms but I never seem to run out of those)Turns out I did an unintentional sequence break. But it also turns out I have more main quest than I expected. MAYBE this weekend I'll complete the main story.
Yeah, lots of good loot down there.
Im a pretty big fan of weapon durability to be honest. Especially with fuse being a thing now. Keeps you on your toes and inspires you to get creative. It just simply doesn’t make sense to have weapons you can just use forever in this particular gameplay loop. However if I had one criticism it would be that Link has no recourse when his weapons break without you going to a menu and selecting a new one. At least have some sort of melee animation.
Ultrahand does get a bit unwieldy when you attach a bunch of long pieces to make a bridge.
I've done the four temples and now I'm just wandering around looking for shrines, I'm up to 76, and trying to figure out how to get up to the castle.
Yea, I thought the lookout tower was further away for some reason. Just blasted my way up and glided over.It's actually really simple to get up there.
Close to 100 hours into this game, and it still feels like I'm only scratching the surface of what it has to offer.
Still intentionally not reading or watching anything about this game (including other posts here) to be as blind as possible to maximize my enjoyment. My take so far is that given BotW already felt like it was maxing out the Switch's capabilities, the fact that they were able to cram so much more in remains astonishing to me. I'd say that the narrative seems a bit lazy, especially with the mostly rehashed cutscenes after the main dungeons (I've done three of the four disturbances so far). I look forward to watching videos in a month or two only to discover that I've been completely missing a core gameplay mechanic or a major questline or the like.
But I put close to 300 hours into BotW over two different playthroughs, and they somehow amped up the world more than enough to still feel fresh. As someone that had been actively worrying about not being able to enjoy TotK as much as BotW due to the rehashed world even if they improved almost everything else, they kept the exploration fun while more or less improving just about everything from BotW.
This is honestly a monumental game and justifies my excitement with BotW being an amazing protoype for the future of the franchise. I can only hope we don't have as long as a wait for the next game, but I'll be an extremely happy man if Nintendo keeps this up with the 3D Zelda franchise. BotW was honestly my favorite game ever, and I'm using past tense as I'm thinking TotK has surpassed it.
I miss durians, though, even recognizing that they utterly broke cooking in BotW.
Got the last ability and am finishing up the last temple I'm on (sand) and yea there is literally no reason to ever play BOTW again which is kind of weird to say about something considered an achievement in gaming. Despite being somewhat formulaic I am enjoying the temples a lot more than the divine beasts, which I didn't really enjoy at all. I wish there was more of them.
You’ve still got one, ahem, ‘temple’ left after that - I suppose it is optional but it helps, but what a wasted opportunity it was - to not use its namesake’s iconic beast of a score.
I suppose it is a ‘soft’ remix - too soft.
152 shrines - I’d have rather had 120 and bigger, badder dungeons even though they were a big jump from the divine beasts.
Almost done myself - the best game I’ve played in the last five years, not that I game super hard anymore or there’s much comp; yeah Ghost of Tsushima was rad and Elden Ring was pretty cool (for a min-maxing, vague sidequesting hit roll roll roll game with a compelling but empty open world). God of War was pretty cool too but not the same level and don’t even start me on Asscreed Odyssey or Valhalla.
Definitely better than BOTW by a margin but it doesn’t dethrone Witcher 3 in my book.