Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

@Jalex_64
Thanks!

@WoomyNNYes it’s certainly a surprise when you finally get touched by one

Another heart container locked (up to 18 now, with max stamina), and about to max out my battery with blue.

Did another labyrinth (ground, sky, depths) and working on yet another now (currently in sky). Gosh dang though, I need Captain Construct II horns and cannot find any, even with the Sensor+ and checking in the sky islands the description references.

After this labyrinth I'm heading to upgrade some armor pieces and then it's onward to Zora's Domain.

@JaxonH you can search for specific enemies on Zelda Maps. Helped me a ton with the Wing suit.

@blindsquarel I just managed to find the last one today. It was actually very small, almost completely unnoticeable, right by the Fire Temple. But I know I got them all, as the game rewarded me with the Dispelling Darkness Medal, which you get when you activate all the Lightroots. But now I hopefully won't have to use Brightbloom Seeds as much anymore to explore the Depths.

@WoomyNNYes The thing is, I got the Master Sword before going to the Great Deku Tree, thinking that it would help me with the Phantom Ganon below him. Needless to say, it did. But does that cutscene only appear if you don't get the Master Sword first? If yes, I'll have to find it on YouTube. I'm not about to start a new save file, considering how far I've gotten on this current one.

@AstroTheGamosian
That’s how my final one was. I just flipped between Hyrule and the depths until I could find a light root that didn’t match.

I think that only applies if you don’t have the tears. I had all the tears before I got the master sword and knowing how it got there made me bawl like a baby retrieving it. The Deku tree cutscene is good for a info dump if you didn’t watch the tears but I don’t think having the whole thing revealed with no context is better. The deku tree scene after the tears lets you know where the idea to repair the sword came from but none of the rest of the decisions that the tears cleanly lay out. The only benefit to deku tree first is it lowers the altitude of the master sword location. So personally I would say, tears, then deku tree, then sword.
(Granted i did the tree last because I kept getting booted out of the woods. )

Has anyone collected any Lynel guts? I need 6 to do the last upgrades on the fierce deity armor, I have beaten more than a dozen lynels (include the 5 in the coliseum) and I haven't got one yet.

Pretty much the first major thing I did in this game (outside of completing shrines and getting the towers) was see all the memories and collect the Master Sword. I didn't even know the Deku Tree was in the game until it was mentioned in this thread...

I think I had the Master Sword before even jumping into the depths.

Crazy how people's experiences of this game can be so different.

A little stuck with something, contains a minor puzzle spoiler.

@Nintendancies I’m pretty sure you need to jump and paraglide to the platform, without touching the ground.

@blindsquarel That makes so much sense, I really am an idiot xD Thankyou so much!

@MarioBrickLayer
I don't know if this is true, but I suspect enemy drops depend on weapon type. I couldn't get ice lizalfos tails using a blunt weapon. Only horns. But as soon as I switched to a cutting weapon... got my tail. And I thought hmm, blunt breaks horn, sword cuts tail, maybe that's it? And maybe it's not a guarantee but it affects drop rates to simply be more likely. Idk.

Maybe someone else can confirm or deny.

@Owl1
I'll try that. I was searching for the horn itself but maybe the enemy would be a better choice.

@Nintendancies I'd never seen a korok challenge like that before either, but you just land on it. I did it with Tulin's wind, but I didn't analyze things enough to know if Tulin was needed.

Onto Ryu_Niiyama:

I can agree with that.

@MarioBrickLayer I think I saw an Austin John video showing base level lynels don't drop guts. I've only killed a couple base level lynels, and got no guts. I think you need to kill harder lynels for guts. (someone correct me if I'm wrong)

(@JaxonH I redacted my comment on getting tails from lizalfos. I thought I had a knew something doesn't work, but realized I don't really know. 😆 My original statement was that I don't think I get tails if I kill ice lizalfos with elemental fire, but the more I thought, the less sure I was on that statement.)

@blindsquarel Same here. In fact, there appears to be one Lightroot that does not appear to match with a Shrine on the Surface. My Purah Pad Sensor is not pinging when I go near where the Shrine is supposed to be. So I'll probably have to Google it to see if a Shrine is actually there.

Already 100 hours into the game and I just took down my first gleeok haha (the thunder one in the colosseum.

Spoilers for post-secret of ring ruins:
Just finished building Mineru’s construct. It’s pretty cool but it is so dang slow.

@AstroTheGamosian
I think I know which one you’re talking about. It’s just a warp to the construct factory beneath the great plateau, not a light root. That one had me confused for awhile.

There are some shrines that won't appear on the sensor until you've done the associated quest. I've been caught out by that a few times when searching based purely on the location of the Lightroot.