Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

@WoomyNNYes lol np. I wanted to say something too. Or even give a hint, but I think they just wanted to vent.

@WoomyNNYes @NintendoByNature Yeah, just venting. Not that I'd be that upset if you told me where to find him, but I would prefer to find him on my own. Chances are I've probably even been pretty close but got distracted by a korok or a shrine or something nearby and missed him. Good times.

So how many of you have had to look up shrine solutions online? I try really hard not to but there's been a few that just racked my brain to the point of frustration. 😤 Then when i look it up i feel like an idiot.

There was this one where you had to sorta build a paddle to swat a ball into a couple bulls eyes and i just didn't get it. It had these nail like pieces that could just stick into other things without having to actually attach them and that threw me off.

So yeah i got annoyed and looked it up. I face-palmed after seeing the solution and felt like i should turn in my gamer card and take up knitting instead LOL.

@Truegamer79
Once or twice but not to often.

@Xyphon22 yea, you've probably walked past him and not realized it. If you need a real hint, let us know.
@Truegamer79 only twice so far I believe. Maybe 3 times max. Most of them aren't too bad and I genuinely enjoy being a teenie bit stumped. I for sure did a puzzle incorrectly last night but it actually worked which made it all the better.

@NintendoByNature

Yeah i remember a few shrines in BOTW where i cleared them anyway but it probably wasn't exactly the intended solution they wanted the player to use. If it works it works!

You... you can fuse a beehive to your weapon and shoot bees out when you hold the attack button.

How is this not the greatest video game of all time.

@JaxonH WAIT WHAT!!!

@JaxonH ahhhh i had that thought to try that the other day, but ended up on a tangent. Interesting.

@Truegamer79 I had to look up a few things to open my eyes. Ive been figuring shrines out since, im at 54 shrines now. A few have been tough, though. Don't feel bad, its a lot of really new concepts. Don't feel bad about skipping them either. In time, you'll likely see or learn things in-game that will help you solve those baffling shrines later. That's how it was with botw; shrines I couldn't beat int he first 15 hours, I was able to beat them when I came back to them later.

@Rambler

Yeah sometimes i just can't wrap my head around some of the shrines and those stakes that just magically stick to things confused me. It's funny you mentioned the music cause i remember hearing a little riff from the original zelda overworld theme once while exploring on horseback and it made me smile. I was like oh cool!

Nice Avatar BTW. Love Midna and Twilight princess!

@Rambler I would only say that TotK is more difficult than BotW in the sense that it builds a lot on what BotW and is more complex as a result. I think the new abilities in particular require a lot of out-of-the-box thinking that might be intimidating to new players. I probably wouldn't recommend TotK over BotW to a casual gamer.

That said, I wouldn't say the moment-to-moment gameplay is significantly more difficult than BotW. I remember getting my ass handed to me a large number of times at the start of both games.

@Rambler

Yeah TOTK is definitely a little more complicated. I wasn't expecting it to look much better than BOTW but it does! When i first started up the game and came out into the sky world my jaw dropped all over again like the first time i played BOTW!

Being able to explore central Hyrule and most of the castle without hearing an aggressive piano playing every three seconds actually made my first few hours in Hyrule feel easier than in BotW.

@Eel false sense of security cuz of the gloom hands/floormasters.

@StarPoint I know, I just miss his traditional content. The clubhouse games series was great though

@Eel I asked a while ago but I dk if anyone saw. Is it safe to explore hyrule castle early? Like, I won't get into any final boss stuff correct?

@NintendoByNature I haven't really explored the floating part, but the part still attached to the surface is safe to explore. If you don't mind the odd encounter with a certain cluster of life-sucking hands.

I assume the floating part is ok to explore too, since I'm fairly certain the final boss is in the cave under the castle, where the game began. Speaking of which, even if you go there early, it's pretty easy to tell when you're getting too close to the final boss, so don't be afraid of going there early if you want to snoop around.

@Eel well then. I guess you just gave me another reason to get side tracked from my current objective.

On a side note: Finding shrines in caves has to the best feeling. Now I find myself scouring for blossom trees to offer fruits. Then marking all the cave entrances and exploring all of them until the region is secured. I've found quite a few shrines underground that way.

I rank this game so far alongside Wind Waker; not amongst the very best in the series overall for me, but does have some of the best moments in all of Zelda.

We can reveal spolier content in this thread, Shirley?

Seeing a dragon fly into a chasm for the first time was stunning.