@Secret_Tunnel

It depends on the enemy. Lynels I'm good with but Shrine Guardians rarely, for example.

Got to that big area just north of Hyrule Castle and my fucking God it's beautiful.

I also have NO idea how to proceed. My bro says I nay need to talk to someone with a key piece of info.

edit: Ah so my post got lost again. Of course it did.

I posted how I wish caves made it in from long ago but figured they prob wouldn't make the cut :(

I wonder if that DLC cave might actually be a real cave? And the DLC "dungeon" is also...exactly as the name implies. That'd be awesome I'm sure we'd all agree. Those are two Zelda staples that shouldn't go away!

Ps. I also said that enemy and wildlife AI could use some improvement as how they disappear is a bit weird (even though it's an intentional design in hunting them within a time limit once they've spotted you) as well as them running in little circles too often.

Pss. Why are there SO many foxes???

@carlosrox There are a few caves in the game, but they're not as easy to find as in LoZ.

@Secret_Tunnel It's a really narrow window and it took me like 60 hours before I was any good at it. I'm still working on shield parrying, but I'm getting better at it.

@Cubed777
Seriously?? I've found cave LIKE things but no actual like cave/tunnel system.

I'm basically trying to fill up the map right now and some of the towers are really challenging to get to.

One of the towers is surrounded by a lake filled with electric enemies, there's a tower that's surrounded by those decayed guardian turrets that will try to shoot you down while your climbing it.

And then there's the Akala Tower which is probably the most cruel one of all.

pokepal148 said:

One of the towers is surrounded by a lake filled with electric enemies.

I did this one yesterday. Dispatched a bunch of Lizalfos and one tactical Wizzrobe but as I started my climb the FRICKIN BLOOD MOON HAPPENED and lo, the prancing electro-pest was reborn to promptly zap me back into the water!

It's these (fairly) unique experiences that make this game so personal and memorable. I'm still in awe almost every night.

Omfg. I just saw ONE fact from "100 small things in BOTW that will blow your mind" and it really blew my fucking mind.

This game is insane to the point where you don't want spoilers but many things feel damn near impossible to find unless you're explicitly told about it.

Here's the FIRST thing I read.

1) If you throw a rusty weapon at some Octoroks, they will suck it up and spit back out a cleaned, new weapon.


............WTF

@carlosrox
Wow! That's a pretty cool one.

Have you guys seen that video where the player lures a guardian close to one of those big rock monsters? They start fighting and the rock monster punches the guardian across the body of water they're next to. Super awesome!

The end is in sight now. Explored Central Hyrule quite a bit, climbed my last tower and found a few more memories (so now I only need one more, and at least I know where this one is, I think). I destroyed a bunch of guardians by leaping off my horse and using ancient arrows, recreating the first BotW trailer several times. Unfortunately, one guardian vaporized my horse (my best horse, too! The white one that I appropriately named "D-Horse 2", since I selfishly sold D-Horse 1 for 300 rupees). Thus, I had to go pay a visit to the Horse God.

I came across a really great shrine, one that wasn't hard to find but was probably the most substantial one yet. This one seemed to be the culmination of everything, with several puzzles that made use of everything I had learned up to this point. It was definitely the most "dungeon-like" of any shrine I've done so far, and after doing 107 now, I don't believe there's too many of them left.

My shield inventory is now maxed out, and coinciding with that there's been a noticeable upgrade in gear in Central Hyrule. I've found a ton of strong shields so far, so I've been able to finally drop a bunch of my Level 40 Knight's shields in favor of Level 50 Royal ones. I wish I was finding better one-handed swords, though.

I pinned 3 or 4 interesting spots on the map that I want to check out, but after that it's on to the castle. Tonight may be the night, we shall see...

@pokepal148

For the electric one, I ate a shock-resistant meal and then equipped some shock-resistant clothes. I was such a non-conductor that the lightning going on at the time didn't target me, and electricity from the Wizzrobes would hit me with zero effect! The lightning orbs would just fizzle out upon reaching Link. It was pretty cool.

@Abdooooo
....wow

In Nintendo's BOTW GDC talk they showed Link blowing a bomb across a chasm with the Deku Leaf.

I was floored.

@TheBigG753

I'm in a similar boat to you. Planning to explore more and then make a run at Ganon when I have more time Saturday.

There is no way to parry when an enemy swings a weapon around them right? You must dodge or block it?

@carlosrox

Not sure. Perhaps parrying in the backwards direction may work depending on your distance.

@DrFinkelstein
It does, but I haven't fully nailed the timing down for any of these things really. Not where I can go in there and parry/dodge every move all the enemies make.

I managed to acquire the Master Sword. Basically because of the way I'm playing this game I was able to pretty easily meet the requirements for getting it (I'd already gotten most of what you need to be able to get it so there's no reason not to grab it.

I did clear my first dungeon as well but I'm probably going to stick to messing around in the overworld for a while.

Hmm, as cool as swimming up waterfalls is, it feels weird that Link moves so fast and it takes no stamina while regular swimming still is so slow and takes a ton of stamina.

Omfg the (spoiler for important area) Lost Woods is marvelous. The Master Sword thing I'm apparently not ready for is awesome. The design of this game is brilliance.

I'm at Lake Saria :') Utter brilliance in every way here. GOAT game.

Loved the cutscene here too.








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@Zero

The part of those "BoTW: The Making Of" videos that really stuck with me was about how the art style was just real enough for the physics to be believable but just cartoony enough to allow for some abstract ideas. I guess the ability that you are talking about does stretch the abstract a little too far. "Why can't this salmon-tech be used on the horizontal?" But then you remember you're playing a video game and your dude is wearing magic armour and there be flying dragons so I can live with it.