@NEStalgia Yeah my brother wanted an unboxing video so I used that as an excuse. It's Zelda...I'm practically a priestess of the golden goddesses (sorry Hylia but while you are super awesome as you reincarnate as the world's most badarse princess you didn't make the world) at this point. I've been playing so much, that I've talked myself out of getting an 8 ball as my next ocular prosthetic and I'll get either the Wingcrest or the Triforce instead. Seriously, why did I even buy bomberman? I've played two levels...popped in Zelda and then left it in the Switch ever since. The thing that gets me is this feels like a breathing, living world. I've always loved the zelda mythos and I've been slightly obsessed with the Sheikah since seeing Impa in OoT so imagine my delight when I walked into Kakariko. Even Link is less of a cardboard cut out for once. He blushes, he waves, he stubs his toe and while he has had reactions before such as in WW I don't think I related as well because it was really over the top and he was a child. Plus, the amnesiac plot point means you don't expect him to have a personality but you are surprised when he does. I'm like one percent in and I cant shut up about this game.
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Wow i can't read anything here. I'm really a lot behind you guys. I'm just finishing West Necluda, the first zone after the Plateau. Need to start the second soon
I'm also in the club of people that feels using fast travel is somehow weirdly sacreligious. Each area feels so unique and special and well considered that just warping from one point to another feels like it'd rip the continuity that holds the whole world together. It's like, until I get my mental map of this world together, I don't want to confuse it by suddenly appearing in different points. And the world is so so full of secrets that there's nearly always an exciting new way to get from A to B, even if you've made the trip many times before.
Before release, I wondered what a game really had to do to get a 98% rating. I've still got an awful lot to discover, but the answer seems to be somewhere along the lines of "shove ten 96% games into a single cartridge and tie them together masterfully".
Having felt that all the "big moments" in video games had pretty much already happened, it's a wonderful feeling to be caught up in the middle of this one.
I prefer to walk too to try discover the most out of it. But i'm starting to fear that i will not discover that much unfortunately. I fear i'll miss really a lot in this game...
@Ryu_Niiyama LOL, the Wingcrest would probably look better than a Triforce which would look oddly cyborg. But for canonical accuracy, doesn't it really need to be the Mark of Naga?
Poor bomberman. I've been making sure to get some time in on it....it's fun, it's crazy, I can't beat the world 2 boss for the life of me. But next to Zelda it gets last priority all the way. I want to play with more things on the Switch just because, but this world...it just calls to me. It really is a living breathing world....what parts remind me of is the one thing that struck me and made my love Oblivion. There was this one trail from the Imperial City to...forget the name but the "This is Totally Not Rohan, we Swears it on the Precious"city. It was through the forest and meadows and there were a lot of places to just ride the horse through, stop, pick some ingredients....it was so immersive and lifelike. It was only a small section of the game though, but it's the part I remember to this day. In BoTW, the ENTIRE GAME is that trail. And I never want to leave it.
@Maxz And there's too many very important things you might miss by teleporting! So many times I stumble into a spot that has a korok hiding with a seed that I would totally miss if I were fast traveling from "discovered point to discovered point." So much of the game happens in the non-destination points.
"shove ten 96% games into a single cartridge and tie them together masterfully".
The Switch is a beautiful thing when that line can be read literally instead of as retro-ironic hyperbole
You're so right though, just when gaming became routine and every game was entered with an expectation of "I wonder how it will blend existing tropes in a new way and improve the formula", I didn't think it was possible for a game to come and totally shatter the formulas to the point that even dedicated gamers feel like we're learning how to play for the first time. That it's Zelda doing so once again, is poetic.
So, I'll just tell the story of my first day playing the game. I'd like to believe it's spoiler free.
After my adventure playing Magnesis peekaboo with the guardians for the bomb runes, I spent what felt like hours trying to hunt a boar to make the old man his favorite dish.
After I gave up I noticed I could've simply used bird meat as steak 😓 but on the bright side I fought a Talus and got minerals out of it.
Anyway after I got the warm shirt from him I headed to the Stasis trial. Some energizing mushrooms skewers were used to climb the mountain to get there. I may or not have died on my first try.
Immediately after that I headed for the last trial, when I saw a shooting star crash in the distance. I marked it with the slate and headed there immediately after I got the paraglider.
It was already too late. It fell down near the lake with the big bridge near Faron. Since I was already there I headed to the tower and after running away from various Lizalfos, activated it.
From there I saw a trial on the distance and headed for it. Various koroks later I found a ranch, and horses. There I got Mona, a calm and well rounded horse.
Then I got completely sidetracked playing around with Mona and ended up going back to the area below the plateau (Mona followed the path there!).
There I saw my first Blood Moon and yes it was a bit unnerving.
After that I headed for the twin peaks and found found lots of minerals, various trials and another horse ranch.
In the field behind the ranch, I found tons of dead guardians... And a blue horse. I spent another eternity trying to tame it, and then one of the guardians woke up.
After a gracious retreat I made some stamina foods and went to have my revenge on the horse. He is faster than Mona, but slightly weaker.
Then right there I found some kind of old fortified forest with a few npcs in there and more guardians "attacking" the wall.
One of them woke up, I hid behind another one and noticed it looked at me but couldn't aim at me, so I slowly killed it with arrows. And that's my first guardian.
Then I followed the road through the forest and after another bunch of koroks we ended up in the town of Hatelia.
My session ended at 3 am, after I was told to go visit Impa in Kakariko first.
@Octane I manage to do it!Near the cutted tree there are a couple of jumping acorns. Shoot them with the bow. But they are a little difficult to spot. Look on top of the tree That was quite challenging to understand...
@FGPackersThe targets appear above the large oak tree. Stand next to the pinwheel and look up, above the tree, you'll see them. Hit them all with an arrow and the Korok will appear.
@Octane Divine Beast Vah Ruto. The trunk terminal stumped me a little as did the large water wheel and timing Stasis but the boss was nothing and it felt...short? The puzzle level was good though.
@BLP_SoftwareThe boss was indeed easy. I've done two of them so far, but the Elephant is my favourite so far. The second one was a bit disappointing, it felt even shorter and the boss seemed easier as well. I don't think the difficulty scales with your gear and weapons. So everything gets easier as the game progresses I suppose.
Not really a spoiler, but the water boss was surprisingly difficult for me. I only had five hearts at the time and I was low on supplies, so he steamrolled me for a good bit since all my equipment was meh. Once I refilled, he was a peace of cake.
A little question to people who bought armor sets in Kakariko: if i buy an entire one, does a new type appear after some time? I ask because i sold some gems and bought the stealth set and upgraded it to 1 star
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