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I think I have close to 150 hours in ToTK now and I've yet to receive a single hint as to where to find the Master Sword because I've mostly just been doing my own thing. I've seen enough tidbits to know it has something to do with a "light dragon" , but I refuse to just look up how to get it so I'm waiting for the game to just give me something. I put together a robot body for Mineru and I left off at the beginning of the Spirit Temple last night, so maybe I'll get something from this because from what I've also picked up, it's supposed to be "the last sage." I think I might need to actually focus on the quests instead of getting sidetracked by every shrine and cave I find as well as "oh I only need to find five crabs to upgrade this armor, I'll do that real quick" and two days later I've rescued several Koroks, killed a Gleeok for its guts, took out a pirate based, liberated a village, rescued a guy from a cave, etc. but where I draw the line is I'm not chopping wood to rebuild your village you lazy fucks. You're telling me your entire village can't chop down 15 trees without the Legendary Swordsman? This is why you're in a recession.
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Mar 26, 2024 14:06
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Mar 26, 2024 14:07
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Rebuilding Lurelin was fun just for the "stick as many trees together as possible and slap wheels on it and fuckin' send 'er down the hill" aspect
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Mar 26, 2024 17:00
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codo27 posted:I've read posts about the caves and sky islands in Tears, how close is the main overworld to how its presented in BotW? I had 200+ hours in BOTW. I was very familiar with Hyrule. I am about 150 hours in TOTK. I feel like Gandalf when he says he has no memory of this place. The same geographical layout but the landscapes and landmarks are changed significantly. Gerudo region especially is improved. Veg fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 18:44
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Veg posted:I had 200+ hours in BOTW. I was very familiar with Hyrule. Also the Sun is now in the southern half of the sky instead of the north, so everything is being lit from the opposite angle, it's loving uncanny
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Mar 26, 2024 18:48
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Asterite34 posted:Also the Sun is now in the southern half of the sky instead of the north, so everything is being lit from the opposite angle, it's loving uncanny Oh my god. Lightbulb moment.
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Mar 26, 2024 18:49
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bawk posted:I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure similar to the Koroks, only the pure of heart can see the dragons. Link rolling up to say "oh hey yeah that person who looks just like Zelda isn't Zelda, that's Zelda" *points at empty sky* would just make rock-eating sword-breaking Link look more insane. yeah in TotK there's a part where an NPC is standing near a chasm by Kakariko where Naydra can show up and he'll remark on the breeze if she's passing by but can't see her at all
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Mar 26, 2024 19:14
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Mercury Hat posted:yeah in TotK there's a part where an NPC is standing near a chasm by Kakariko where Naydra can show up and he'll remark on the breeze if she's passing by but can't see her at all See I just thought that was another example of NPCs being dumb as poo poo. Kind of like the drummer in the stable band who thought he could catch bees by drumming.
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Mar 26, 2024 19:18
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I think the NPCs are just playing dumb and they're just extremely lazy. "Oooh, no, it's gonna take a long time to fix this stable, it's missing a plank of wood. Our horses will die. <sigh>"
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Mar 26, 2024 19:23
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I'd do it too if there was a guy right there who can lift heavy poo poo by magic.
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Mar 26, 2024 20:01
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Link shouldn't be using ultrahand for anything meant to last though. A bridge built with ultrahand will quickly collapse. Airplanes will just fall apart mid-air as if they were engineered by Boeing.
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Mar 26, 2024 20:16
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Speaking of poorly designed, what the hell was going on with the construct factory? What kind of assembly line is that? Yes this part of the factory will use a conveyor belt which is just upside down motorcycle wheels, this other part will just launch the parts at you with gliders, this part of factory is filled with lava for some reason...it was like drunk orks built it.
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Mar 26, 2024 20:19
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Speaking of poorly designed, what the hell was going on with the construct factory? What kind of assembly line is that? Yes this part of the factory will use a conveyor belt which is just upside down motorcycle wheels, this other part will just launch the parts at you with gliders, this part of factory is filled with lava for some reason...it was like drunk orks built it. True, but the landscape has probably changed in the 10,000+ years since it was built.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:02
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So those dragons are the Goddeses, huh.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:07
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Speaking of poorly designed, what the hell was going on with the construct factory? What kind of assembly line is that? Yes this part of the factory will use a conveyor belt which is just upside down motorcycle wheels, this other part will just launch the parts at you with gliders, this part of factory is filled with lava for some reason...it was like drunk orks built it. Drunk rabbit people built it. Or it was some big make-work project so much so that they had to split up the manufacturing of individual pieces even though they're symmetrical.
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Mar 27, 2024 01:17
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Link shouldn't be using ultrahand for anything meant to last though. A bridge built with ultrahand will quickly collapse. Airplanes will just fall apart mid-air as if they were engineered by Boeing. I replaced the Rito bridge with some ultrahanded trees, lousy flying penguins didn't even bother to try it.
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Mar 27, 2024 01:19
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I ended up getting the Master Sword after completing the part of the game that pointed me directly at it. And I see what people mean about things not making sense out of order. Getting the memories out of order is one thing and doesn't really bother me, I can dig it - you're piecing things together from a series of flashbacks, it doesn't have to be linear. And yet I still can't get access to that ring ruin after learning Ganon impersonated Zelda in the past to kill Sonia and that Zelda herself turned into a dragon, and I just pulled a sword out of her head. Look just let me into the ring ruin. Fire temple is up next, I guess.
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Mar 27, 2024 02:06
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Or it was some big make-work project Tbh Zelda should force Hudson to turn his construction company into a New Deal WPA work corps to rebuild Hyrule. Dude’s one of like 3 people who appears to know his rear end from his elbow.
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Mar 27, 2024 03:04
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Asterite34 posted:Also the Sun is now in the southern half of the sky instead of the north, so everything is being lit from the opposite angle, it's loving uncanny Veg posted:Oh my god. Lightbulb moment.  
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Mar 27, 2024 03:43
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Asterite34 posted:Also the Sun is now in the southern half of the sky instead of the north, so everything is being lit from the opposite angle, it's loving uncanny What the hell
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Mar 27, 2024 06:14
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Night is also 2 hours shorter. Both BotW and TotK consider 5:00 AM to be the start of "day" and 9:00 PM to be the start of "night", but in TotK the sun rises at 3:00 AM for some reason. This bugged me because I prefer the game at night more, but if I had to guess, it's because the depths meant that you'd be in dark conditions more often and they wanted to offset that a little.
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Mar 27, 2024 06:59
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Docjowles posted:Tbh Zelda should force Hudson to turn his construction company into a New Deal WPA work corps to rebuild Hyrule. Dude’s one of like 3 people who appears to know his rear end from his elbow. She did, but then Ganondorf happened.
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Mar 27, 2024 07:03
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Asterite34 posted:Also the Sun is now in the southern half of the sky instead of the north, so everything is being lit from the opposite angle, it's loving uncanny It’s genuinely uncanny how much this tiny change makes the landscape feel completely different t despite having seen it before
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Mar 27, 2024 07:05
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:So those dragons are the Goddeses, huh. makes sense. isnt it stated in skyward sword that Zelda is a reincarnation of the goddess Hylia?
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Mar 27, 2024 07:24
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bawk posted:makes sense. isnt it stated in skyward sword that Zelda is a reincarnation of the goddess Hylia? Not just a reincarnation, an indwelling - Hylia specifically chooses to indwell Zelda because she needs Link for the fight, and she knows Link will do anything for Zelda, so she indwells Zelda to compel Link to join her fight. It’s super manipulative in retrospect!
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Mar 27, 2024 07:28
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It's more like an avatar situation. Zelda is Hylia incarnated as a human. And the reason she chose to do that was because gods cannot use the triforce, and I guess she needed it to defeat Demise. I think Skyward Sword Link was mostly just incidental, albeit useful. She probably also returned to being Hylia after Zelda died.
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Mar 27, 2024 07:51
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After completing BotW I still felt compelled to keep playing and find all the shrines, but for some reason I have no desire to find anymore in TotK. I've found about 70. They've just been mostly disappointing. Most are either a tutorial, a quick game, a blessing, or a "removed all your items" battle. I think only two have had me slightly stumped so far. BotW had many that were pretty fleshed out.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:27
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:After completing BotW I still felt compelled to keep playing and find all the shrines, but for some reason I have no desire to find anymore in TotK. I've found about 70. They've just been mostly disappointing. Most are either a tutorial, a quick game, a blessing, or a "removed all your items" battle. I think only two have had me slightly stumped so far. BotW had many that were pretty fleshed out. Yeah sadly I think the only really fun TotK shrines are the Eventide Island rip-offs. I'm having a hard time thinking of any others that were particular stand-outs, except for the flowing sand one that is honestly way too big. And maybe that even was a no items one.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:33
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Ravenson posted:Yeah sadly I think the only really fun TotK shrines are the Eventide Island rip-offs. I'm having a hard time thinking of any others that were particular stand-outs, except for the flowing sand one that is honestly way too big. And maybe that even was a no items one. The rails shrine, and the driving over lava shrines are the standouts from my playthrough.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:54
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There were too many uninteresting ones, but I still felt way more compelled to check them all off than in BotW. The addition of the lightroots and clearing the depths map made it interesting enough that I wanted to check them all off, rather than giving up on combing the map with probably a couple dozen left in the first game.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:59
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:After completing BotW I still felt compelled to keep playing and find all the shrines, but for some reason I have no desire to find anymore in TotK. I've found about 70. They've just been mostly disappointing. Most are either a tutorial, a quick game, a blessing, or a "removed all your items" battle. I think only two have had me slightly stumped so far. BotW had many that were pretty fleshed out. Interesting. I was basically the opposite in Botw and ToTK. In BotW it took me some time after my first endgame to hunt down all the shrines. I definitely had to use guides to find a few of them In ToTK my first attempt at Ganondorf was thwarted, I subsequently spent my playtime hunting down all the lightroots and all the shrines before going after him again. Didn't use a guide. To be honest, I kind of regret hunting down all the lightroots. It turned the nightmarish dread of the subterranean realm into a generally unsaturated underworld with very few interesting quests . Did use a guide to hunt down the last well, though. I wasn't going to gridwalk all of Hyrule with the Purah Pad Sensor just to hunt it down. I'm probably not going to go for all the monster medals. Too many monsters, not enough markers. I'm fine with the Gleeoks and the Moldugas.
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Mar 27, 2024 23:52
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Holy sweet adorable gently caress knuckles. Took care of death mountain, boss was too easy, didn't take one hit. Might as well go grab the sword now. Had tons of hearts leftover, could have gotten it much sooner. Save and quit. Fire up the game today. What are these trials? Whole time I'm just hoping there isn't one with a lynel. Well, that was easy. Oh, there's a second (and obviously third) tier? Medium trials took a few tries. Got frustrated with the final trials, kept thinking I was close to the end. Get to the ice golem thing, one shots me cause I kept loving up grabbing the fairies at the break level. Well that fuckin sucks. I gave in and went and checked out if that really was the final level...yeah I'm not trying that again. I dunno whats waiting for me at the castle but I'm sure I can handle it with the sword the way it is.
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Mar 28, 2024 00:25
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maltesh posted:Interesting. I was basically the opposite in Botw and ToTK. In BotW it took me some time after my first endgame to hunt down all the shrines. I definitely had to use guides to find a few of them I did a 2nd run of TOTK a few months ago, and I tried to just do the core components as quick as I could the regional disturbances, find the sword, get the 5th stage, castle battle, go kill Ganondorf, get enough armor and shrines along the way and it was fun. Because of that I hardly spent any time in the depths, and I fired it up recently to go tool around and explore and see what I see. There's something so fun about releasing a brightblooom seed arrow and not having any idea if it's going to hit the giant pillar-tree-root-thing 3 feet in front of you or go sailing off an enormous cliff. Paragliding and seeing a lightroot but then it just totally vanishes. is it a column? A big tree? is it behind a mine building? So much mystery!
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Mar 28, 2024 02:09
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God damnit I still have 31 loving Bubbelfrogs to find Jesus loving christ how many loving caves ARE THERE
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Mar 28, 2024 03:08
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TotK does put one fhrough a whole gamut of emotions.
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Mar 28, 2024 03:15
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:God damnit I still have 31 loving Bubbelfrogs to find Jesus loving christ how many loving caves ARE THERE
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Mar 28, 2024 12:41
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isn't the main reward for the whole bubbelfrog thing an armor set that will make you bleed rupees instead of lose hearts? sounds like a waste of time unless you're really into watching kolton turn into a goblin or whatever.
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Mar 28, 2024 14:15
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Mulaney Power Move posted:isn't the main reward for the whole bubbelfrog thing an armor set that will make you bleed rupees instead of lose hearts? sounds like a waste of time unless you're really into watching kolton turn into a goblin or whatever. Some people just need to complete every task put in front of them
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Mar 28, 2024 14:20
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I got that armor set long ago I just decided to find all the bubbelfrogs because I got curios about exporing all of the caves (hey I like them) and since they have those weird beasts in every one of them then why not. Now that Ive been doing it for so long I want to get them all.
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Mar 28, 2024 14:23
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I tried to collect every capsule toy at one point in Shenmue 2 so I definitely can't judge
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