Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Upgraded another heart, another two energy wells, found Tarry Town, and am trying to build a good house.

Up to... 16 hearts, max stamina and 36 battery wells. Still finding shrines and caves and puzzles everywhere. Gosh dang this game never ends.

@Xyphon22 he won’t be in Hateno until you fix his hot air balloon

It’s part of the quests with the new mini Purah

I don't know who might find this helpful, but I crafted a "Master Grind List" spreadsheet for armor upgrades in TotK.

Enter your current levels of your armors on the Armor Status tab, and the grind list updates automatically to show what you still need to look for to fully upgrade all armors in the game. Also listed are the effects and set bonuses of the armors.

Specific armor needs are on the second tab of the sheet ("Component List").

NOTE: Because this is the list I'm currently using for my own game, you'll need to reset the "Current Level" for your own game to 0 (for Base Armor) or 1-4 (for upgrades) to match your own game. I did it this way because I can make ongoing upgrades/fixes (one of which I've already found and fixed) and keep the same link.

Get it from DropBox here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ve1gqu3wn12bsk/Zelda%20Tears%20of%...

@praetorian75
That's incredibly useful. You must have put a ton of research and time into this!

@JaxonH Thanks! I was an Excel Expert at one point, and generating sheets like these is almost as fun as actually playing the game (I'm weird that way).

NOTE: I've already fixed one error, so you'll want to redownload the file.

It took me over a hundred hours in the game to realize the green Zonai Bows have a charged shot feature. If you hold the shoot button to charge up a shot, it will do a long distance shot.

(While the conctruct bows are green, too, they don't appear to have the feature. Only the bows with "Zonai" in the name.)

I've feel like I am almost done with TOTK (130+ hours, calculated as 142 hours 15 mins if the app is to be believed but I know a good 10 hours or so would have been me idling.) I have done the final boss, all the temples, 144/152 shrines, fully mapped the depths, found all the great fairies (only done some upgrades), completed the compendium (with money rather than photos), and about 120ish Korok seeds out of however many exist. I might do a comment later, giving more details thoughts, but if I had to do quick summary...

Better than BOTW. Refined gameplay and polish with a lot to do involving the depths and caves. Don't feel the dungeons went far enough as still essentially "find these four/five points" and Shrines for the most part felt weaker, in the sense there were a lot more blessings rather than actual puzzles. The Ultrahand mechanic is an amazing technical feat, but I still feel like it is alien in a Zelda game.

STORY SPOILERS BELOW

@MS7000 and leave the Hylians leaderless? Chaos would have ensued within a few years. I have always viewed the Calamity as Ganondorf’s evil intent. Dude hates/covets the world so much that even mostly dead he haunts it. Basically a super phantom ganon. Same with the gloom/malice/blood moon. He pretty much poisoned the world with his evil. Explains why Ganon looks the way he does in AOC (since the malice didn’t succeed in hijacking the divine beasts so it went with what it knew). I’ll bet if the calamity had succeeded it would have tried to break the seal on ‘dorf. I think the two games fit because Zelda loses the direct ability to shape the world once she decides to repair the master sword. So what became the Sheikah took what Zonai tech/knowledge they could and made the towers/guardians/shrines. Using handed down knowledge and what by the time the Sheikah rose to prominence was myth about what happened previously. Zelda’s focus was aiding her own time knowing that the rest of history would pan out because it was history in her time. The whole thing is a circular paradox. I haven’t beaten the game yet but my only issue is that they don’t confirm a child between Sonia and Raruru but there has to be or the whole history is moot. Especially as both games depend on Zelda inheriting the powers of both. Granted I am not done with the game but knowing the devs they didn’t wanna get that granular.

@MS7000 I'm fairly certain the calamity was really just the gloom goop taking form. Ganondorf is so full malice, that giving it enough time can cause it accumulate and manifest into Calamity Ganon, or whatever evil is currently tormenting Hyrule.

It perhaps was not strong enough to undo the lock in his physical body, but it still tried to bring destruction in every way it could.

As for a heir to Sonia and Rauru, I'm certain that's just an off-screen fact. The story would not work without it, so while it would be nice to get to see them, it's just one of those things that must be true. We can just assume Rauru did his best to keep them safe and out of the way during the war... Maybe they were studying abroad in the Labrynna Academy.

(This is their child coming back home)

Well, I'm only 6 battery wells away from max battery. And I now have the complete Zonaite armor set. Though, it's only upgraded to 12 defense each because for the life of me Idk where to find Captain Construct II to get their horns.

Did manage to compete my Ocarina of Time armor set, and Windwaker armor set, and Twilight Princess armor set. Just one piece away from the Hero set (no idea what game that's for, the first?), and two pieces away from completing Skyward Sword and Link's Awakening armor sets.

Maybe it's time to move on with the story and do Zora's Domain, then the Goron mountain. Save fully exploring the world for last, before the boss.

@JaxonH I think (not 100%) but Zelda Maps has an enemy location.

edit: yes you can search or enemies if you are having trouble.

@JaxonH are you finding all those armor sets by chance, or did you know where to go in the first place?

@NintendoByNature You can get treasure maps, but in general, you'll find them mostly in the smaller abandoned mines, and other such sites of interest. So if you see a mine or suspicious place you haven’t visited yet, go there and find a chest.

@JaxonH I’m fairly sure the hero set is meant to represent the one from the first two games (because the 8-bit amiibo gives it)… plus all the other unrepresented classic/2D Links as well I suppose, since they tend to share that same hairstyle and lack of pants.

I finally beat the last boss. It was challenging unlike the Calamity Ganon in BotW.

I can confidently say that Tears of the Kingdom is way better than Breath of the Wild

How games were meant to be played.

Wait, what?

@Magician I do find the collector mentally so boring because of stuff like that. It seems it is less like the experience of the game, movie, music or whatever itself and more like putting mint condition junk on a shelf to make up for a lack of personality.

@jump Maybe the better term is Hardcore or Tryhard Collectors? Because the first thing I did when I got my Collector's edition was to open it and look through all of the goodies! Otherwise, as you said there is NO point in owning them just to put them on a shelf ...

Also the metal poster for that edition is super cool!

@jump
While I never understood the whole grading thing, I think it's ignorant to degrade the people who enjoy the hobby in that way as simply "lacking personality". I don't think personality or lack thereof has anything to do with anything. Some people just like to collect (I certainly do), and some people are into the whole grading thing. And while I'm not, I respect anyone who is. If that's what you're into, go for it. Your money, your hobby, your love, you do you. I'm not gonna insult large swaths of people I've never met just because they enjoy something in a manner I don't relate to.

That's bordering way too close to, "people who play games are just manbabies that never grew up". People who can't relate to said hobby insulting those who enjoy it. Where does the line get drawn.

@NintendoByNature
Amiibo gave me most of them, though there were a few I found in chests in various hidden alcoves.

I mean, Hyrule had no royal family for 100 years. Granted the situation wasn't perfect, but I wouldn't say it was chaos, there was still communication between all the races of Hyrule and travellers were still freely on the road with commerce. You could argue that it would have fallen apart eventually in BOTW, but after TOTK, supposedly all the evils have been destroyed, so peace should have reigned comfortably for a time.

I am not sure I buy the calamity being an offshoot of Ganondorf given that the calamity happened 10000 years prior to BOTW as well 100 years before. If Calamity Ganon was an offshoot, are we seriously saying that in both attempts the calamity wouldn't have been drawn at all to Ganondorf under the castle and find some way of freeing them. Heck, in the latest attempt, they managed to control all the guardians and divine beasts etc, that should be enough. The game seemingly can't decide if they are separate entities, aspects, or the same.

Also, going back to Zelda, would it be such a bad thing if the Goddess Bloodline died out? They seem to be making it less relevant over the last couple of games, so why not go all the way and get rid of it entirely.

On a slightly unrelated topic; why do they keep pointing out Fi's existence but not actually do anything with FI otherwise? The stupid Master Sword makes the same sound as Fi and supposedly communicates

Sorry for the mad ramblings, just story in Zelda always seems to infuriate me.

@JaxonH They aren't playing games though, they are buying things for the sake of it without experiencing it. Kinda defeats the purpose and spirit of gaming to not game.

Fun fact, Sigmund Freud had a theory that people who collector and horde stems from their time of toilet training and it's really an attempt to gain control once again. Although most of his theories are no longer supported due to changes and advances in the psychoanalysis field.