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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.
@carlosrox Holy shit, I am officially a failure as a Zelda player and as a human being. I have never even tried using a slab of meat as bait like that. And I keep telling everyone how much like Zelda 1 this game is.
@r_hjort I've only done it a few times but very very recently in my playtime. I had no fucking idea it would work as bait. I forget if I found out on my own by accident or if I read about it.
This was definitely my most noteworthy use of it though. I had tried other times and got boring results or it didn't work out at all how I'd hoped.
Picked this up again earlier this week, working on finishing up a few last things. Got about 4 side-quests left, finally did the horse obstacle course thing, and slowly upgrading all my armour to max. Still finding new stuff as well, its crazy how much is here.
Glad to hear it. My nephew just got this for his birthday and it was fun seeing and hearing him play through it. He was having trouble with the Vah Ruta boss but I'm sure he'll get it in time. It's great when people play Zelda. Makes the world a better place.
The horse obstacle course was way more frustrating than it should have been. I felt like there were multiple times where I should have jumped the fence but the horse kinda just stopped.
@cooliocuneo I think the obstacle course is near a stable in the southern parts of Hyrule. I wanna say somewhere south of Lake Hylia, but I might very well have it confused with something else. As for the archery, the only one I can remember is the one in the mountains north of Rito Village.
@r_hjort Oh, I was thinking about horse back archery. I need to finish a handful of things and buy the DLC some day. Probably not till the fall when I feel less guilt playing video games :)
@cooliocuneo Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that! I can see the place before my eyes, but I don't know where it is exactly. This is probably just another sign I should play more Zelda.
Got back into this and have been playing a ton the past week. I've always seen this as an anti-completionist game, but when I realized how few shrines and quests I have left to finish, I decided to go for it. Nine shrines left and a handful of quests that I probably won't find. Heck, I probably won't find the shrines anytime soon either; combing the map with my Sheikah Sensor turned on doesn't sound too appealing to me. But whenever I get the urge to run around and aimlessly explore again, I'll have a nice goal.
Still have no idea what the pierced snowy mountain is though. I feel like I've found three or four mountains that could qualify! How is the one with the massive sword stuck into it not "pierced"!?
That was the only one in the entire game that I just had to look up the answer to. I think there must be some really rare dialogue with a particular character that you don't normally run across that describes the mountain as pierced, because the answer isn't something I ever found in-game.
I don't know how to give you a hint about this, so here's the answer if you want it: if you go to the base of Mount Hebra and look up at it at a certain angle, you may notice that there's a portion of a giant cylinder carved out of the mountain's side. If you travel to Hebra's Peak, jump down, and look back up at the mountain, you can tell that it looks like a giant laser beam blasted through this section of the mountain. That's what they're trying to convey by "pierced mountain" somehow.
I am in the same boat as you were now though. I have six shrines left and can't decide if I should look them up or play the long game of letting the mystery sit there for however many months/years it takes me to stumble upon them naturally over the course of randomly popping the game in whenever I get the desire to.
I really want to play this one again. Even have the DLC from back at Christmas!
Alas, making games sucks up all the time... But hopefully at some point. I really need to figure out how to schedule in more playing time amidst development time.
Finally decided to check a guide for the handful of shrines and quests I had left. Just a few I missed here and there; some of them I had done on my previous playthrough. There were two shrines that I don't think I ever would have found without scouring the whole map with the Sheikah sensor, haha.
The one that surprised me the most was the Kakariko village shrine. I assumed that you couldn't get that orb until completing all the other shrines, since I had done pretty much everything else the game had to offer and it seemed like a big deal; turns out I never did the firefly sidequest. I remember seeing that girl outside the store and trying to release some fireflies in front of her a couple times. Not sure how I missed her in her house at night, but apparently that quest is a prerequisite to the Kakariko shrine quest. Cool stuff.
Nothing mindblowing, but it's satisfying having that squared away, haha. Time to give this masterpiece a rest for good now. Don't wanna overindulge on Zelda before Majora's Mask of the Wild comes out...
