Alright, based on this I abandoned the forest and I have started making progress over at Death Mountain, instead. Bought two pieces of the fire set, they make me super fragile in combat because they are non upgraded but protect me from the elements. I am hoping I can take one piece off once I get inside the Divine Beast. I probably could upgrade them, but I dunno whether it is worth the effort, given I will never be wearing this set again probably once I clear this beast. I did also clear a couple of shrines while I was here, so I am on my way to number 13.
The puzzles with the cannons was fun/intuitive, but the sort of stealth escort mission… thing to get up to the Divine Beast is honestly pretty painful. Dude constantly goes out of range or seems to get stuck on the terrain or something. It also isn’t always particularly intuitive in what it wants me to do, either. I fired my first cannon at the beast, then decided to save and take a break for a bit as it was starting to get on my nerves.
The good news is that you're nearly there now. Just two more cannon shots at the divine beast to go.
You won't need the Flamebreaker set for inside the divine beast at all. However, you have to go outside to access two of the terminals and for the boss fight, so upgrading it is useful. You just need a bunch of moblin horns and flameproof lizards, which shouldn't be too hard to pick up.
Death Mountain has a lot of places worth exploring beyond the main Divine Beast quest, too... So perhaps it would be worth you materials upgrading the armor set.
The best part of botw ( as I believe voidoflight already stated), is that you can literally move on. There's no reason to get upset or sour with the game if you can't figure out a puzzle or boss fight. Just leave, turn right, and start heading that way finding whatever it is that you want to find. Get more shrines, hearts, ingredients, elixirs, weapons, armor, and Shields. You'll 100% come back at a much later time and crush the part you struggled with much earlier in the game. Botw is like an aged, fine cut of steak. You don't want to shove it down your throat as fast as possible. Take small, meaningful bites and enjoy every bit of it. Not trying to be that guy, but thunderblight wasn't that bad. I usually saved that for last except my 3rd playthrough. It was probably my 2nd blight.
Yeah, I think that is a big part of where BOTW and I clash. I like exploring an open world, but I like to be progressing to a goal the whole time. I wouldn’t ever just go explore somewhere for the sake of exploring it, it just isn’t how I play open world games. I would only ever explore if there is a benefit in doing so.
And yes, technically, there is a benefit in exploring in BOTW, as it all adds to Link’s overall power indirectly, but you’re just as likely to find yourself in some sort of empty field or something with no reward at all as you are a shrine or something else.
The game is beautiful, the performance on the Switch is some kind of miracle, but I think the world is bigger than it needs to be, there is a lot of empty or repeated space which results in a world, at least to me, where I just don’t think the world or the rewards are often rewarding or interesting enough to deviate away from the path I know will help me progress the game directly, rather than indirectly. Also, where is my photo mode?!
I mean I technically will have no choice if I still can’t clear Thunderdude but I am not one for the aimless wander in the hope of finding something. Just don’t have that kind of time or patience at my age anymore.
I actually think BOTW would have benefited from taking place in a much smaller world, or a series of hub areas/zones and had more structure to it, overall, but I know that isn’t a popular opinion.
@X-Slayer yea exactly. In fact, all this talk makes me want to fire up a new game again. It's been a little over a year, but there's no greater feeling that getting to the great plateau and having all of hyrule right there to explore with little equipment at the start.
@Pizzamorg Ah, the yunobo escort section, "my favorite," it can be a bit of a slog at times, but just remember that if you hit drone with a piece of metal (magnesis), a boulder (you can often find them resting conveniently above), or an ancient arrow (at it's weak-point), then it will instantly die. Also keep in mind that you can go way ahead, clear out some obstacles, and then go back and have Yunobo follow you.
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Tears of the Kingdom - Switch
I got excited based on some of the comments here, but the Fireblight is almost as miserable as the Thunder one. The first phase is a test of just pure and utter tedium, chipping away tiny increments of health and then running around like a Benny Hill sketch waiting for your next stun opportunity. Then in the second phase it just one shots you with a fireball forcing you to go through all the tedium again of the first phase. I know it’ll be a big waste of time, but I am just not enjoying this game so I’m thinking of just calling it quits here. I am just not having fun with this game like I was at the start, every new thing I have to do either bores me to tears or frustrates me completely.
I enjoy lots about BOTW but I just think there are layers upon layers of unnecessary BS layered over the top that sour an otherwise delicious cake.
Anyway on maybe my fifth attempt, I beat the fire boss. It either glitched out or got caught on the terrain or something because it just suddenly stopped moving. It was still attacking, but was glued to one spot and the attack went right over the top of me, so I could just freely wail on it until it died and couldn’t take any damage!
Nice to see something actually go in my favour for once, even if it was a glitch.
Fireblight is probably the second easiest blight, only loses to Windblight imo.
He is a bit on the slower side, and massive. His big explosion attack also has a “sucking” phase you can use to your advantage, by throwing a bomb to stun him.
Anyhow now that you have Daruk’s protection, that’s three easy shield parries you can use to defend yourself.
For me, I think the easiest one was the Bird one, followed by the Fish one (I just kinda spammed bomb arrows on this one and won, so it is hard to judge. But none of the mechanics or phases stopped me from doing that, unlike some of the others), then this fire one and then… gulp… thunder. I’m gonna go try and get the MS now and then… gulp, face my nemesis once again.
I went from almost giving up and uninstalling the game to probably having the most fun I’ve ever had with the game.
Now Thunder is beaten, I feel like such a weight has been lifted. With one task left, I feel truly free for the first time and am just soaking up the world, ticking off pins I flagged along the way of places to come back to (I found at least three shrines that way with no puzzles, they just rewarded me for finding them which was cool), clearing out side missions or just venturing into far off corners just to see what is there. When I get all of this out of my system, I might start the Master Sword trials and then maybe think about heading to the castle.
I just couldn’t have enjoyed the game like this, with the pressure of my failure hanging over me, but now I can finally vibe like everyone else seemed to be able to and I never really understood before. It is a joy.
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