Snake Maze posted:

Make sure you're following the questline in the village. It's possible to enter the dungeon early without actually being able to do anything there yet, frustratingly enough.

duodenum posted:

My son refuses to spend 10 minutes at a pot making meals to heal up or to make elixirs, he'd rather just freak out and eat all the apples and mushrooms in his inventory every time he nearly dies.

Frankston posted:

I do like that the fire temple just lets you completely trivialise it by climbing and gliding everywhere instead of using the minecart tracks.

Phenotype posted:

Got through the Fire Temple last night. Really feel good about saving the Gorons from the crack epidemic and wish it were that easy in real life. Also not a big fan of my new Goron buddy. I'm pretty sure he's saying "I can do it!" but it really, really feels like he's yelling "why'd you do it??" very accusingly at me. (Actually, the Rito buddy kinda sucks too, made me feel like I'm guest-starring in an episode of DuckTales, but at least he's mostly shut up now that he's in ghost form.)

How do I go about getting the Master Sword? I haven't wanted to google it in case of spoilers, but I haven't even gotten a breadcrumb or anything yet, and I'm 2 temples in and explored quite a bit of the map now. I forget how it worked in BotW, but I thought I'd been pointed there by now but had been put off by the heart requirement.

e: gently caress I gotta go find the korok forest, don't i?

PageMaster posted:

Yes, those. I thought I was being smart by tagging locations above light roots to check shrines there. For a game that just let me stumble into the master sword, I assumed the game just wanted me to get a little more creative in how i'm traveling (similar to how I got to the forest in the first place), and didn't think they they would be locked behind a quest until now because I could already see them from the right spots.

Tunicate posted:

turns out multiple rockets on a construction don't stack

Phenotype posted:

I finished the third temple yesterday and I should probably start thinking about finishing the game at some point here, with Street Fighter 6 and Diablo 4 out, and Final Fantasy 16 in a couple weeks. I'm nowhere near what feels like "endgame" progression, though, even though I've got like 15 hearts and two stamina wheels and level 2-3 gear. I've only got 3 full batteries and it feels like I've barely explored much of the Depths and I've only seen a handful of sky islands. I dunno, the world is just SO big with SO much stuff going on.

So what are the must-see quests and stuff that everyone's run into? I've still got the Water Temple and that area of the map to do, but otherwise I've explored (at least scratched the surface) most of the land regions now, and I dunno what I really need to do before doing the last phenomena and trying to finish up. I don't want to miss anything really cool, though!

bawk posted:

Finishing the very last shrine, just occurred to me: they have these neat hands basically serving as Floormasters in this game, I wonder if they thought of/maybe tried having them crawl along the ceiling at some point?

It's one thing to walk into a cave and see the pool of Gloom appear to make you go "oh gently caress oh poo poo" but I think it'd be next-level if you were walking around a cave with ceilings juuuuust high enough to be out of view, and then hear that same noise coming from seemingly nowhere.

Feels Villeneuve posted:

if it's like BOTW it's beating enemies

Runcible Cat posted:

I finally put my big hero pants on and fought them when I very obviously had to to save the Deku Tree.

They and their goopy friend chewed through all my fairies, all my sundelion meals and the 2 best weapons I had on me but I gottem all first go. And squelchy got finished off with an about-to-break cobble crusher, which was strangely satisfying.

PageMaster posted:

Lol, did this and emerged in a mud pit which immediately killed me. Game goes hard to eliminate conveniences.

Also is the reward for the mayoral election any good or just like 50 rupees? Getting flashbacks to Xenoblade Chronicles side quests trying to find exact person at exact time of day to give out mushrooms.

bawk posted:

y'all cowards don't even eat marble rock roast

Chronicler of Dongs posted:

This kind of bugged me more than I care to admit and I'm sure it was already discussed in the last 300 pages. The guardians I can see being dismantled so they're not littering the landscape anymore but it would've been neat to see more parts being repurposed around the kingdom.

But yeah what the hell happened to the shrines? Some would've been buried, but in spots where there should definitely be one right out in the open there's just nothing there at all. Did Hyrule's scrap metal freaks come out and dismantle every single shrine?

Bruceski posted:

Hmm, would it be Wind Wakier or Windier Waker?

The Postman posted:

Insane game. How did they do this???

dodgeblan posted:

liberated fishing town with rock man friend, bird boy and a robot cannon. the combat is a clusterfuck but an enjoyable one. I know there are people who play this like dark souls but for me it's the anti dark souls where the goal is to never interact with the enemies timings at all. It also helps that you can avoid most attacks by just running the gently caress away. I don't think I even know where the dodge button is.

Electric Phantasm posted:

Glory to Master Kohga

epic bacon posted:

does anyone else have the feeling of like "i'm satisfied with the amount of Zelda i have played today" and then shortly afterwards you find yourself catching up with this thread and 15 posts in you're like "i desperately need to play Zelda more than anything in the world right now"

Steve Yun posted:

There’s just too much to remember that you can do in this game

Last night I spent way too much time jackhammering away at a cave that was 100% filled with rock only to remember oh yeah I coulda brought out a cannon

MokBa posted:

AstraZenmaster posted:

So, amazing game, clearly.

But I'm a bit miffed (Rito spoilers) that the game allows you to find your way all the way up to the wind temple by yourself, without alerting you to the fact that you must have your little bird buddy with you to get through it.

I'd found the book in Rito Village revealing the legend of the boats in the sky, figured it was a pretty clear hint to go explore up there... then followed little birdy dude up the mountain path, but took the wrong fork just before getting to the cave. Instead found a big Rito guy who told me that my princess was in another castle, got frustrated, saw a tower in the distance and went off to explore.

That led me to some sky islands with bits to build a mobile platform, with steering and fans... then I used rockets I'd collected from the gumball machine to boost all the way up.

I managed to get there but got a red-X when trying to activate the Zonai gate - but it let me solve a bunch of riddles, unlock chests, etc, without ever indicating that I'd skipped an essential part of the buildup - I only realized it after giving up and heading to Google. Seems like a bit of a failure of storyline contingency planning - a little disappointing...

Asterite34 posted:

The rewards suck, but the experience is cool at least.

Still got a fun "Oh what the gently caress!?" moment in the Hebra Labyrinth running around avoiding the Gloom Hands like a Pac Man ghost until I got to the center, then started taunting them from behind the bars. Que activating the doodad, getting the message that the Sky Labyrinth was open, and looking around and seeing the sudden absence of bars, producing a feeling like being at a zoo and suddenly noticing there's no actual glass between you and the tiger enclosure

Captain Hygiene posted:

I saw it mentioned in passing here, but I don't remember seeing anything about it in game. I don't know if I would've noticed on my own, I wound down my first playthrough with 1/3 of a battery in the second row so I wouldn't have had very long to think about trying it if I hadn't known already.

Spanish Manlove posted:

It's not as much of a deal as you think

HootTheOwl posted:

One thing I learned in BOTW, that I relearned here in TOTK is: You don't have to engage with every monster who aggros you. It's a much bigger deal earlier in the game where just about everything kills you in one shot, and it's pretty annoying in the depths when you stumble across a boss between you and that lightroot you're chasing, but you can (and I do) just runaway from most monsters because they're not worth the rust on my blade.

Giggy posted:

My main problem with durability is that I strongly disagree with the idea it encourages experimentation. If anything I think it can do the opposite even if it's partially a mental issue on my part. Instead of experimenting, for most encounters I usually ended up using whatever weapon I didn't mind losing as opposed to a weapon I thought would be more fun or appropriate.

HPanda posted:

In particular, the Hylian Set is all purchased for cheap in the first quest hub area, so it’s a good candidate for upgrades. It also needs generic enough parts that you’ll get them as you need them pretty much (the amber req is a bit much, but those things are everywhere).

It’s generic, but it absolutely suits the “armor” needs the game is expecting. I have two of the pieces at 3 and one at 4, and silver enemies just do what I would consider to be reasonable damage while I wear it.

Steve Yun posted:

I finally got a hoverbike that doesn’t drift

Is there an ideal part of the fans to glue vertical-wise or is it all the same

HPanda posted:

Also, and I can’t stress this enough, go straight to Lookout Landing after hitting the surface and do the main quests there. BotW had me in the mindset that the big quest I got after leaving tutorial land was the ultimate final quest, so should go exploring for other stuff. Not having the paraglider for a weirdly long time is what got me to finally glance at a website to see if they for some reason took that out of the game. And then I felt silly.

Turns out the quests there quickly unlock some of the most important basic tools.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

"WHY'D YOU DO IT"

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

I didn't realize the Emperor of Japan was descended from cat goat men

Bismack Billabongo posted:

I am continuing my slow, leisurely rescue of hurtle. Finished 3/4 regional phenomena last night.

Definitely enjoyed the actual Fire Temple more than the Sky or Water versions. The lead up to sky and water was better but I liked the minecart stuff. I do wish there was a little more combat stuff involved in these but whatever.

The boss was way too easy, at least the Sky temple monster had the insane spectacle and kickass dive bombing. The idea of shooting yunobo up the rafters was cool but outside of the quarter heart damage you take from getting tossed off the boss, I didn’t get damaged a single time. Hoping the gerudo temples boss is a bit more challenging.

Finally started getting silver baddies to show up on the way up death mountain. I am probably “over leveled” for the regional phenomena quests at this point as a result but they’re still fun.

Definitely starting to hit a little bit of a wall as far as exploration goes, I think I’m gonna have to start tapping out on some of the stable quests and similar stuff soon. On the bright side, I think the vehicle building stuff is starting to be a little more fun now that I have sufficient battery to actually power stuff for a little while, and access to basically all the parts I need.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I got blowed up by lightning in it

HPanda posted:

On one hand, having them all out definitely gets in the way a whole bunch and trying to gather stuff on the ground inevitably means the world will turn yellow while I get covered in water, the ingredients will be set on fire and blown off a cliff, all while I jump onto another sage’s back and accidentally leap off the cliff myself. Because some rear end in a top hat decided that both gathering and activating each sage’s power would use the “A” button.

On the other, I do love watching a bokoblin get stunned by one sage and then slammed off a cliff by another.