Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@Monkey_balls I am not that many hours in, but there is a lot to remember. With 60 hour work weeks, kids, wife, activities, and then learning this game my brain is on overload. I seem to struggle the most with remembering what I can do. I'll be accidentally falling off a cliff and forget to use my paraglider. Stupid simple mistakes.

Only problem I have with controls is that I keep pressing A instead of X when trying to dodge attacks. >.<

I caved and had to look up the great fairy locations. Things are mega expensive...

Speaking of, anyone have any good strategies for making money? I finally bought my first special armor set, and that set me back a good 2k. I'm trying to collect all of the armor sets, but they're all at least 2k per set. Tracking down monster parts just doesn't cut it. I have found people who will pay Rupees for flint or certain meats, but collecting enough of those to make it worth the time is just a grind.

Also, I think I spent about 25-30 hours just trying climb all of the regional towers. Some of them are simply a pain to get to or climb, but having the full map is pretty nice. Just doing that I've been able to find so many cool weapons and quests. All that and I don't even have half of the games shrines completed.

Also does anyone know anything about the Lord of the Mountain animal? The Iwata looking guy mentions it and all I've been able to do with it is take a picture. It's surrounded by Blupees when it appears, but shooting it doesn't do anything. Is there a quest for this somewhere?

@nf_s Farm Talus, mine at the Goron city and the snow bowling mini game are great for getting money quickly. As for the thing you were talking about. You can mount it, but you can't actually keep it.

This game strangely seems to have a weapon triangle like Fire Emblem... except in reverse. Heavy weapons (axes/hammers) beat one-handers by knocking away shields and overpowering them, one-handers (swords) beat lances by parrying their thrusts and, again, dealing more damage, and the lances beat heavies by outranging and having much faster attack speed.

So I decided to find all the 120 shrines before the final battle. Half of them I found with my bare hands, half I am using an online map because I can't be arsed, honestly.

I suspect it's taken most people a while to get used to the controls simply because Link's capabilities are are broad. Every single button is used for something completely unique, so I often found myself misclicking quite a lot at the beginning. The menus are equally dense, with plus and minus being mapped to different screens, and within those screens, different screens can be accessed with L and R, and within those screens, different screens can be accessed by moving the analogue stick.

Ultimately though, I think the controls are mapped pretty much perfectly, and it's that depth that offers Link such a rich and broad moveset. It means a bit of fumbling around at the beginning, but it's worth it for the end result. It would be a bit more of a pain - for example, if you had to access the main inventory every time you wanted to change weapons, shields, bows, or arrows. This is what you had to do in the old games, but there's a fair bit more switching involved in BotW, and it's nice to be able to do it on the fly. Similarly, mapping the bow to ZR allows Link to use both bow and weapons, and cleanly switch between the two. There's no more "open menu, select bow, close menu, draw string, fire".

So more complex but justifiably so. It wouldn't be half the game it is without the depth and variety provided by all the different buttons.

A change I would like is the ability to quickly toss bows and shields, like how we do with melee weapons. It's a bit tedious having to open the menu to toss one of the two.

Anyone else think that that Lynel fight is just too much of a difficulty spike so early? I only beat it eventually because I had the stealth suit with fairy upgrades and ninja'd all the arrows. That dude is a one-hit killing machine.

Lynel is definitely a bit too difficult for beginners who are still just getting used to the control. He's not difficult when one learns how to effectively dodge as he can be predictable, but most people at that point aren't likely to be too great with the combat just yet. Especially since up to that point they've really only fought slow enemies.

@Bsham The fight isn't mandatory though, I don't think they intended you to fight him early on.

Alright guys im stumped. Korok Puzzle at this location. Pinwheel by a stump that normally spawns balloons with no balloons in sight.

Any ideas?

@Tsurii Nothing I can see. Just put it into Sleep mode for now. Ill pop back on in kust over an hour and see.

@BLP_Software They're sometimes very difficult to spot and they may spawn farther away than you expect, like far away in the distance. And sometimes they're hidden behind trees as well.

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I really have some difficulty with guardians and lynels (found my first today). I think my gear is not good enough but i'm exploring really a lot. But still did not manage to find something really useful. Don't do enough damage and their hit are one-shot. I really don't know what gear i need to do it...

I unlocked a memory where Link somehow beat multiple Lynels and etc at the same time.

All I could think was HAH as if, I can't even get one down to half health!

In other news, I've defeated multiple guardians now. My favorite strategy is... To hide and cheese it with Urbosa's fury, using all three thunders kills them effortlessly. But when I'm not stunlocked by their beams, getting up close and personal to cut their legs seems to work too.

Akkala region? Hmm, where have I heard that before.... Oh, yeah:

@joeynator3000 I mix those up too. I normally mix them the first time I battle after coming back from a break and then I do mostly ok after that.

Question for everyone: Is there an easy way to put up an arrow after you have already aimed? I normally fire them in the ground so I can pick them up again, but wasn't sure if I could cancel the arrow.

@Octane

Ill give it another shot as soon as my mate hands me back to console.

This happens a lot.

I'm very popular suddenly