Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I'm roughly 15 hours in and only about half way to Kakariko.

I've spent like 3 hours exploring the area around the Twin Peaks and the open field behind those stables there. When I went east of the stables there was that war base with the old guardian outside that attacked me. It took me by surprise but since it couldn't move I took it out pretty easy.

Are the ancient springs and other parts you get from those broken guardians worth keeping? Or are they safe to sell?

I'm already at impressed with this game so I can't wait to finally see Kakariko!

@MrMeow13 Keep them.

@Octane kinda wish I asked this earlier since I already sold a bunch of them....

Do they have a use later on?

@MrMeow13 Yeah, they do, and I'm not sure if they are an infinite source. I have yet to test and see if they respawn in the broken Guardians.

Responding to an earlier qyestion about the Constellation puzzle in a shrine.

@BLP_Software Please use spoiler tags!

@Octane Quicker on the edit than I am on my phone I'll give you that.

Still, spoilery mathematics and patterns. Yep.

I think I have been playing this game very wrong lol.

How do I type a message on here that can only be seen once clicked on (what I want to say maybe classed as spoilers and I don't want to ruin anything for anyone).

Man, this game keeps getting similar to Majora's mask to mii.

@Octane hopefully they are with the amount I've sold....

@MrMeow13 Ya you can get a lot of them, but whatever you do, keep the cores, they are very hard to find, maybe even limited since most can only be found in chests.

They don't, but you get A LOT for killing Guardians later in the game. Absolutely DO NOT SELL THE CORES or any rare item for that matter. They all have a use later.

@BLP_Software What's more, if you've gone straight to the sage to collect your spirit orb, you've only done half the puzzles in that dungeon. Poke around a little bit.

So I've killed my first Guardian. I got the arrows from Robbie, and then saw they were quite expensive, so decided to see if the Guardian weapon drops I'd picked in some trials would do any damage. Turns out they did, and I managed to take down 3 or 4 Guardians before they all broke. So now I'm just left with the arrows when it comes to glowing blue weapons. As I've said, they seem expensive to replace, so I'm cautious about using them. So my question is basically; what's the most cost effective way of beating them? Do Mini Gs spawn anywhere and thus provide a free source of weapons? I wish I'd known they were so potent earlier as I'd wasted most of my blue weapons on standard battles.

@ocelot20

square brackets with "spoiler" in the opening one and "/spoiler" in the closing one. Without speech marks.

Boy, the Stone Talus' look tough, but they're pushovers when you figure out how to kill them.

I sold a bunch of machine parts earlier in the game. Stupid me. Hopefully I can find enough to upgrade all of my stuff.

I'm almost 40 hours in and seen so much yet so little. I'm having a ton of "wow" moments, but also finding a lot of areas with nothing in them at all (which can be a bit boring at times). The landscape is deceiving - landmarks seem to be much nearer than they actually are - and trying to get a decent horse back to a stable can be a chore if you've found it on a mountain. I had to name one horse "Lucky" - the poor beast got hit by a Guardian's laser, punched by a Stone Talus, fell off a huge cliff, yet still survived. His stats? 1-3-2 (strength, speed, stamina). Lucky, indeed...

I stumbled across the Hylian Shield (stat: 90). No specific build-up. No special cutscene, etc... Just found it in a chest. Plus, it's breakable, which is rather disappointing.

Actually, that's my biggest complaint with this game: the traditional LoZ stuff (Hylian Shield, Hero Tunic, Epona, etc) are almost afterthoughts or Easter eggs; apparently the latter two can only be obtained by amiibo. At times it feels like this was supposed to be a different game and the Zelda assets were shoehorned in. It reminds me more of Xenoblade Chronicles than LoZ (or XCX with a Zelda skin and combat mechanics). I'm still loving it though.

I went to Hyrule Castle quite early: ran in, picked up some sweet gear, then ran out. I've also ridden on a Lynel. Didn't last long though!

Is there any way to store items in this game (the same way we can store horses)? It's getting to the stage where I don't want to use my weapons because they are too strong (and therefore too good to waste). By the way, a tip for surviving cold areas: if you have a fire weapon (fire rod, flame sword, etc), equip it and it'll keep you permanently warm.

I just destroyed Mellie's garden with remote bombs and now I feel guilty.It was her life.

@Tsurii Should i sell some gems to grab it? Does gems have a use later in the game (asking everyone)?

@Tsurii Guardians are super easy to kill so long as you're only dealing with one. Just stun them by shooting them in the eye, hack off their legs, keep stunning their eye, whack their bodies till they die. Simple. I actually killed a few around the castle earlier today.

I've noticed some of the smaller Guardians in the battle shrines respawn while others don't seem to. Very weird.

@FGPackers Hm, well you could keep your gems for later...
If you need money, make lots of fancy meals and sell them for a decent price. Or you could farm a load of monster parts and sell those (can be time-consuming though).

@Ralizah There's a much quicker way to kill the Guardians... You want a hint?

Maybe this depends on when you are returning to them? For example, before or after a blood moon respawn?