Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@JohnBlackstar Just press B while aiming

@fgpackers Thanks!

Or X if you switched the jump button.

Which btw feels a lot more natural.

I caved today and bought the official collectors edition guide. I'm avoiding the walk through but it has some great tips and information in it and the art work is beautiful.

I think I'm mostly done with the game at this point. I think I'm just gonna go on a rabbit hunt for the last shrines for the good ending (which I already saw). Overall, I feel I'm in a good enough position to say that I've enjoyed the game.

@Meowpheel I actually really disagree. Without fully remapable buttons, it makes sense to have X, the jump button, be "up" and B, the let go and sprint along the ground button, be "down."

The ''jump'' button has been all over the place in games, especially not-platformers, so I don't really care. I can get used to them. TLG had jump on triangle, so I just went in TLG mode when I started Zelda.

Welp I just beaten the game, made sure I was ready with loads of hearts, best foods, etc etc, now to complete the game which will no doubt take a while longer.

I feel it plays better with jump on b and cancel on x.

Anyway I found a lava talus. The fight went somewhat like this...

Gets punched, falls on lava. Respawns right there again. Repeat until game over.

I'm pretty sure the Lynel 'fight' is meant to be your first stealth section. Don't all the NPCs specifically state that it's brutally powerful and should be given a wide berth? The whole plateau's geography is shaped such that the Link always has somewhere to hide and can stealthily circumnavigate the area on the opposite side of the circle to the Mane Man - hiding behind helpfully placed rocks when necessary. All you need are the arrows. The Lynel is just there to make things interesting. I'm amazed anyone managed to beat it that early on.

On a similar note, but with more of a banana flavour, I successfully managed to wipe out every enemy in the Yiga base by sneak-striking them. It wasn't really necessary, but it got me loads of bananas (I finished with 70), and bananas mean more attack power, and attack power means beating more Lynels! The whole Yiga base thing was awesome. In fact, the whole Gerudo thing was awesome, and hilarious. Aah man... so good. : ) Vaguely planning on heading off to Death Mountain next, if possible. Some armour upgrades due before that.

@Maxz
Your post makes a lot of sense, but I fought this guy a million times until I finally beat him lol (my first dungeon - probably had about 4 or 5 hearts)

When I first tried to beat the Lynel in Lanayru, that didn't go so well... But when I had to beat it to get Shock Arrows for the Zoras (actually, I'm not sure if I had to beat it for that quest, but whatever) it went much smoother. Then again, I brought lots of food and elixirs with attack, defense, and heart boosts, so perhaps that is key.

@rallydefault Yeah, it's pretty hardcore. I tried to fight the one in the coliseum for lols, and got OHKOed so many times that I learnt my lesson; Lynels are srs bsns. After that, I knew to avoid them at all costs, and it was some time after that I beat my first one. Then when I learned how to use Statis+, that made hunting them a lot easier. Like, a bajjilion times easier. I didn't just have to stand around and get hit by their seeminly undodgeable charges anymore.

Complaints that it's "an unfair difficulty spike too early on" are like complaints that Ganon is an unfair difficulty spike too early on - if you run straight towards the cast;e at the earliest opportunity. It's possible, and if you manage it then well done indeed, but it's not the solution the developers probably intended, even if they allowed it.

I completed the goron quest.

Man that was easy. I think I might have gone backwards in terms of quest complexity.

I have to admit that the bosses are probably all equally hard, and me having better equipment makes them feel easier. At least the dungeon was fun.

Now I'll find the one memory I'm missing and then go try my luck at beating Ganon. I think I'm missing at least one great fairy too.

Oh well it's not like beating ganon will delete my file so I'll be able to go back and complete stuff afterwards.

So @Tsurii and @Octane I worked out what that pinwheel was.

There was a seed being intermittently thrown over a tree line which was visible for a good...2 seconds that you need to shoot.

I have yet to even try a full go at a lynel or guardian. Some of the stronger variations of moblins can just about OHKO me, and I'm up to 12 hearts now. Plus I've got some rarer weapons that I want to save for the final fight.

I also found a dragon today at the top of a mountain. The thing was huge and I figured I had no chance so I just pegged it oh my map. I'm astounded by the amount of stuff I'm still discovering, and I've still barely touched at least 3 or 4 major regions.

I've gotten better at dealing with guardians. They're not too smart.

I kinda feel bad for some of them.

Of course when there's more than one at the same time it gets scary.

@Meowpheel Try taking all of them in the basement of the labyrinth out. Without the Ancient Arrows. It's like a laser disco.

@Maxz Yeah, when they play with guardians they really go ham. Even the first tower from the Switch event Treehouse stream is crazy when you finally get to it — three ruined guardians firing on you from all sides as well as one active one.

I'm still at the beginning of the game when the old man tells you to get all the treasures from the surrounding shrines…. I still haven't found them even after I thought I marked them on the map…. anyone offer me some advice?

I ended up fighting a rock monster moss and killed it but the one with the laser kills me so I run away.