Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Finding the guardians weakness is so satisfying. With their stupid laser beans

@FGPackers about an hour/an hour and a half. I went straight to the duelling peaks after meeting the king.

@ProjectX1991 LOL i did again in the wrong way the question. How much time did you spend overall, non the trip only. I mean all gameplay. Did you guys reach it after 5, 10, 15, 20 hrs?

@Spanjard There is, but it is veryyy limited.

@FGPackers Uhh.. I think I messed around for about two or three hours on the Great Plateau, did a tower on my way to Kakariko, so I guess about four hours.

I absolutely love the cutscene memory sequences. THAT is what I wanted when I got the game. It adds more depth to the giant world and I really love the little nods to other games that Zelda has mentioned so far

The thing is you can go there from the start of the game in about an hour if you ignore everything else (other than the first four shrines as you need to beat them before you can leave the plateau - well, not really, but you won;t get far without the tools they give you). If you want to explore it could take forever. There is no standard timescale. Take it as fast or slow as you want.

@FGPackers I don't know my hours, but I would guess somewhere between 10 and 20. I didn't get off the plateau for a good while, due to combo of just loving it in the woods and exploring, and having trouble catching the thing you need to catch to get the thing to enable exploring colder areas. Then when I did get off, I went on a major hiking binge and spent time bonding with my horse, Eric. I wasn't in any rush to get to the place in question.

@Octane - I kinda figured I would regret flogging them, but I wanted to make some sartorial purchases and I've not found a better way of financing that yet.

@DiscoGentleman There are ways of cheesing them, but yeah, they can be pretty nasty customers. The best method I've found for dealing with them is to get in close and abuse flurry rush, since their attacks are fairly predictable.

Now a little advice for exploration if any of you want to hear it: i recommend to reach as much high places as you can so you can put stamps on map to save important places that are far or you can't reach in that moment. It's a really good strategy for exploration

@gcunit You wouldn't happen to have a fish named eric, would you?

My game is here! (along with the Curlos Amiibo card I ordered last month!)

See ya.

So far I'm probably over 20 hours in....Just found the first memory, and only really have the quests of "slay the big bad", "slay the big bad's lackeys" and "find the other memories....in all these places you haven't seen yet." I still haven't even entered a shrine yet outside the plateau. I intend to, then get sidetracked and do something else.....I'm desperately trying to find arrows by raiding enemy camps....it's going slowly. Trying to raise rupees by making food...also going slowly. And I haven't even gone beyond Lanayru and the two provinces around Kakariko and Hatena. Right now the official quests are out of reach, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, and I STILL keep finding endless things to do....

So before I sell all these precious jewels, are they used for anything other than selling for large rupee amounts?

I totally forgot the wiiu would install the data before allowing me to play orz

I already knew the game would be in Latin American Spanish but it still caught me of guard when I heard it hah

Found a gold rupee (300) under a rock, yay!

Just made it up to the Fire Dungeon. I have a few tips for anyone wanting to get there, as it's actually quite difficult, and there's a couple of things that make your life so much easier. I've spoiler tagged it in sections, so if you want to read a certain bit, you can.

On getting to the South Mines: Have a poke around the Eldin tower for a while, and you might either be able to catch a fireproof lizard, or a flamewing butterfly, else you can buy flamewing butterflies from Beedle at the Akkala region's stables (north of the Akkala tower, east of Death Mountain) for 20 rupees. Boiling these with two keese fangs in a lit pot will produce a Fire-Proof Elixir, which is a much cheaper alternative than what most people seem to recommend on the forums. If you then run along the path to the northwest, then you will reach the South mines.

A note when you reach the South mines (this will make your life a whole lot easier): Be sure to immediately talk to the nearby human NPC, skulking in the corner nearest the one you came in (I dunno how I missed this first time round), who'll give you a lizard catching quest (Just sneak up on them by crouching, and by pressing a twice whenever you lift up any nearby rocks. I initially missed this first time around, but it actually gives a piece of armour which gives you a permanent flame resistance, to avoid having to use too many elixirs. A good idea then, if you have a spare 700 rupees, is to buy the boots from the armour shop in Goron City, as you need a stage two flame resistance to reach the dungeon. It just means you can explore at your leisure in the next few areas a bit more.

On exploring the North mines: Note that the switches on the side of the cannon can actually be hit with a weapon to change the cannon's direction of fire, which is how it's possible to hit some of the seemingly 'unbombable' rocks. No-one actually states that you can do this, as far as I'm aware, (else I'm just being an idiot for not noticing that someone said it, cause I got stumped for a good half an hour trying to blow up the pile of rocks over the entrance) and the switches didn't actually look like switches, so I only discovered this by accident. (I went around all the cannons, trying to find one in the right orientation, and I just happened to hit a switch instead of an enemy.)

When it comes to the final approach, be prepared to think outside the box, and don't be afraid to go and have a scout alone, off the beaten path, to see what lies nearby. You cannot actually just bulldoze your way through this puzzle, I've tried it several times, and it just doesn't work, as your Goron buddy will retreat up the path when you are spotted. Oh, and a direct hit from a fire bomb will do at least 6 hearts worth of damage. (It instakilled me, and I have 6 hearts because I've been putting a lot into the stamina wheel for easier climbing.) I've found an indirect hit can do anything between 1 and 5 hearts worth.

@Operative2-0 From what I've heard, diamonds can be used to upgrade armor at some point.

Have I mentioned how easy it is to get sidetracked?

Zora Prince? OK, I'll just get that shrine first... Hey I can see another one from here... Oh, a stable... There's a memory spot near here? Might as well get it... Let's explore more while I'm at it... Ooo, haven't taken a picture of that yet... Y'know I might as well make the most of the "amiibo" rune... Heh, it's fun to pretend. Wait, what was I doing again...?

Haha I carried that metallic boulder outside the magnesis trial all the way to the maze with the guardians (still in the plateau).

My original intention was using it against them. That didn't work at all. But it did make a perfect shield against them.

I even played peekaboo with one of them for a while.