Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@FriedSquid Remote bombs, sorry, not bomb arrows. I always find there's a decent supply of them about.

Is this the first game since the SNES where the bombs aren't black?

Wow i explored researcher village and there is so much to do! It's devastanting for how much it overwhelms you!

I'm really getting impressed with all of this. Aonuma-san did really a fantastic job. I know that i'm a little bit repetitive about this...but really there's no contest for GOAT. This game deserves it hands down. Again, i really think that there is so much to do, and in a so much variety of ways, that this game will take me even into summer to say the least. I'll start Splatoon 2, will be downloading the first DLC, and maybe i will still have to do something to finish the game. I'm enjoying really a lot doing it with my times (and i know i'm slow), but i wanna feel and taste it every second, every bit, every frame. It's simply gorgeous!

@Dezzy Wind Waker and Skyward Sword had blue bombs.

Oh ok. So they switched between blue and black. Didn't notice that.

It's been a week since release and I don't have the game yet. I pre-ordered it and it was sent on Tuesday before the release but it hasn't arrived thanks to bad postal service. I ordered the game to my family's place since I have a free week and I brought my Wii U so I can play it the whole week but everything was ruined. I'm going back to school on Monday while the game is heading towards here. I'll make my family send the game to my apartment once it arrives. At least I'll get to try out Switch once I'm back at school since couple of my friends got one.

omg i wish i knew that, it took me ages to get through that shrine !

I was on my way to the Central Tower, which is very heavily guarded by guardians, and the horse I just tamed decides to stop right when two guardians start aiming at me...

Luckily I still managed to climb the tower. I'm glad I'm focusing more on increasing my stamina rather than my heart count, since it seems like stamina is much more handy for these types of situations, and just for exploring in general.

Okay so I know this is very relative but how long should I spend in the starting area, the great plateau? Even it alone seems huge, and I am enjoying exploring it.

As long as you like..?

It's also a great spot to collect resources and serves as giant watchtower to jump from.

Okay today i played REALLY A LOT, like 7-8 hrs. This game has me! Almost done exploring East Necluda where i did really so much! Cooked so much meals that i filled the entire capability! And i have materials for so much more! Beat my first 2 Hynox and it was awesome! Did first 2 Kass quests (the gold rupee and the riding buck to discover a Shrine). Found a lot of Koroks (should be almost at 60 now) and did even like 3-4 Shrines (17 completed) and discovered other 2 that i can't do right now, don't have good gear since they are combat based against tough guardians. And after that i started the memories quest and discovered the first one: Ganon awakening. I stopped just after the scene and will explore the remaining part of East Necluda (the most to the east, with the huge mountain. Don't know the English name) going through the door. Then i'll continue with another zone. Now that i started with memories the story is starting to come out and i'm really starting to wonder how it will turn out. I'm so curious to discover it that i can't really wait to continue! Someone has to stop me!!!!!!!

@scubydo yeah i can confirm it. Stay there as much as you like and grab all things you can to create a base for the rest of Hyrule. It is really overwhelming!

@FGPackers
Can you tell me how to get the Kass quests and which photo is of the 1st memory? Are they in order? I'm like 50 hrs in with 9 hearts and 2 stamina upgrades, even beat A Major Test of Strength shrine, and have the entire map filled out south and east of the Great Plateau. I saw Kass by Dueling Peaks and then again in the tropical jungle by the electric storm shrine, but never got any quests from him

@JaxonH i don't think photos are in order. By the way i did the stone arc with the mountain behind it. Got it hinted by a little quest in Kakariko where you have to make a photo of the Great Faity Fountain. Kass quests are both in East Necluda. The gold rupee on the sea, south of the researcher, on a rock in the water. The other one is, if i remember right, west of the high mountain near a kind of Shrine platform and you have to ride the buck on it right in front of Kass. And then the Shrine will appear

Can't wait for the activity log to tell me how much hrs did i spent on the game to keep tracking it!

What happens when you complete the main story? Can you still play in the open world and mop up any side quests you've missed?

I finally found the lost woods. After being lost in a completely different forest near them.

I can see that left right left right forward won't work here.

Is there something I need to do before I can get through them? Or am I supposed to just brute force my way in?

Edit: wait I think I figured it out.

Edit 2: yup!

Anyone have suggestions on whether to upgrade hearts or stamina? I've only added one heart so far. I have about 20 orbs, so about 5 upgrades more or less pending...not sure how to spend them!

I spent only about an hour. The game's just so much more fun with the paraglider.

I did the Rito part of the main mission and it was like... Easy?

Except for the Falco wannabe tsunbird, it's not very memorable.

@Meowpheel I looked up the trick to the Lost Woods and don't feel like my experience suffered for it. Too much like dousing anyway.