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The wait is nearly over. The game is being detailed left and right by the media,… the amiibo have been announced,… and the Nintendo Switch is imminent… The Legend of Zelda series has been a special one for Nintendo fans since it began and the next chapter starts on March 3rd, 2017.
A hero's tale begins anew. Open your eyes and see what is true.
Fun Facts: Vast open world where you could go find the end of the game within 15 minutes… but you won't survive it. Weapons have stats and durability. Climb pretty much anything you want. Eat and cook to regain health. Full voice-acting for all except Link
Lets use this thread to discuss the game on the Nintendo Switch. To help hold the tide of the wait, here are some beautiful screenshots and links for your perusal.
Hey, here's a random question that might be interesting.
Did any of you mess with the map settings in the game? After I got to Kakariko for the first time, I realised I kept getting turned around and was having trouble getting my bearings. And I figured a big contributing factor to that was the minimap swinging wildly all over the place, interfering with my ability to get a mental 'fix' on my position. So I set the map so it was fixed to north and found it a lot easier to navigate.
Did anyone else have issues with this, at least to start?
Here's a huge one I only discovered last night and felt like a HUGE MORON for not realizing before. My brother missed it too.
**I'm not spoil tagging this weapon because it's an early one (and has been shown since E3) and I think everyone here has put in enough hours..**
You can aim the fucking rod weapons. Fire, Ice, whatever. You can aim your shots with the throw weapon button. I only fucking found out last night when I was kinda messing around after saving my game. I was gonna throw my Fire Rod up at a Bokoblin camp only to see Link aim 3 fireballs up at the camp. I was like....WAT.
I eventually just turned it off completely and now only go into the map screen to fast travel. I find when I am too reliant on a map, I never really learn where things actually are. BotW's overworld is good enough with unique landmarks that I can use those to figure out where I am and where I'm going. In pretty much every other open-world game I have to use the minimap because they don't have particularly standout level design, but in BotW I found it unnecessary at a certain point.
Haha, yeah, that's initially why I turned it off too. But once I realized I didn't need it at all, my experience was all the better for it. I get so much more out of actually understanding the details of the overworld, and I've always found a minimap gets in the way of that and becomes a crutch. It's a testament to how strong BotW's world design is at such a sheer scale that I rarely need to even look at the main map screen anymore.
I will say start and select are kinda confusing since Quests is hidden within the inventory screen and Compendium is hidden on the map screen. I also get the time and temperature sometimes confused and end up hitting both buttons. Basically I'm saying it's a bit unintuive but obviously not game breaking. Maybe a bit redundant but I wish time, temp, and weather were just on both screens or something to make it easier.
Oh and the beacon is maybe slightly too hard to find? Especially without different zoom options with the Slate zoom. I'll know exactly where it is and still have trouble finding it. Renders it kinda useless a lot of the time? Maybe I'm being picky.
BTW do shrines always contain what you need to beat them inside? I was just in one where it seemed the only way to progress was with arrows, but I didn't have any and didn't see any anywhere around, so I had to leave and buy a bunch and come back, and then... I ran out of arrows trying, and this time I left and bought a TON more, and then came back and almost ran out again... literally made it with like 2 arrows left.
But I was wondering the whole time if there was an easier solution I somehow missed?
It was the shrine in the Goron area where you have to get the blue flame all the way to the end.
I don't think there's another way to do that last section without arrows, but I could be wrong. I did find that multi-bows (like the ones that give x3 shots, etc) really helped for that last part.
@Shadowlink I saw the option but I was fine with default.
@carlosrox Since I tend to throw weapons when they're about to break, I found this out with my first or second rod. I was actually disappointed that I couldn't throw it, ha ha.
@Zero I ran out on that one too. Came back, and found that it saves what you've already done, so that was nice. In order to light those 5 or 6 torches at once just do a spin attack while holding a torch (or in my case, a burning bokoblin club).
Multi bows fire more than one arrow with each shot, but only take up one of your actual arrows. So when I'm swooping down on unsuspecting enemies and I fire a Bomb Arrow with a 5X bow... 5 times the pew for the same low price!
@Zero Mmm aside from situations like needing arrows (or possibly fire or something else) , everything should be self contained, yes. At least from my experience. I also did a shrine just a few mins ago where I basically needed fire and arrows. Luckily I had both but my fire weapons were running very low. I thought I might have to leave but then I found the solution pretty quickly.
Oh man that shrine. I got RIGHT to the last part where the circle of torches is and those statues keep pissing on them every time you light them.
That literally stumped me for 10 minutes trying arrows first (not fast enough!) and using stasis on the statues to try and plug them up (too many!). Then I thought maybe there was an order and was looking around for a hint...nothing. How? HOW DO YOU HIT ALL THESE BASTARDS AT ONCE?!
Then it finally hit me that you could just spin attack with the lit torch . I was so used to not being able to do that, that it didn't come to me intuitively. I kicked myself when I finally worked it out. Well played game.
I think the first time through, you always get what you need, but not necessarily if you go back. There was one shrine that required a Korok Leaf to progress, and you get it at the beginning from a chest. But when I went back later to get a treasure that I had missed the first time, the initial chest was still empty. So I had to go get one myself and bring it back.
@TheBigG753 The one I just went to gave me a bow but no arrows, and fire was there but it could easily go out doing the puzzle (which it did for me). So technically I wasn't given everything to do it unless I did it in one go.
. I was so used to not being able to do that, that it didn't come to me intuitively. I kicked myself when I finally worked it out. Well played game.
