Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@spizzamarozzi Don't think too hard, it's very easy. Don't pay attention to the individual stars.

@GoronBrudda

Yes its possible, though it very much depends on the location of the Guardian.

@Spanjard It's interesting that most of us seem to follow the same general path. From plateau to Kakariko, then I went to Hateno via Fort Hateno, Lanayru (entrance, anyway, haven't gone to the cold part yet, just the snowfield.) discovered the start of the Zora area, but then went to explore the southern part of the map, then central hyrule (noped out of that pretty fast), Akkala, then did the zora part, and now I'm working my way up the west side of the map. Haven't been anywhere in the northern part except Akkala. And there's tons of places in these areas I haven't actually been yet. I keep discovering new places within these places that I'd thought I'd already explored all the time.

It's almost like it was designed with that general route in mind.

The only one that struck me odd was in that southeastern area are two shrines with "moderate" and "difficult" feat of strength tests. I feel that characters are nowhere near equipped to take those challenges on when they're likely to find them.

@GoronBrudda We were talking about it earlier you can kill them with a shield. Any shield. Just parry.

@Operative2-0 @Tsurii @Octane cheers guys, at least now I know you had the same thought process. Still, I feel like a huge idiot, doing everything well on my own in all the other dungeons and hitting a dead end at the stupid observation test!!
Anyway, I'm going to let it sink and try again on my own. If I can't figure it out by the end of the week I'm going to read Tsurii's vague hint. If the solution happens to be too easy and I was just too stupid to see it, I'm quitting videogames as a hobby for good and go back to my first love: gardening.

Yeah that confused me many times, but by now I got better at interpreting the beep. It seems like the beep is only working on a 2D axis.

No, not a all. You just need a strong enough weapon, like the Knight's Claymore which has an attack value of 38.
And then just hit them until they try to shoot you, then go hide behind a (non-destroyable) wall or ruin, then attack them again.

Or just use a strong melee weapon. Otherwise everything you wrote applies - just make sure they don't shoot you.

I don't know what you're talking about but back in January I watched the story trailer about 20-25 times. ^^

LOL. Just lol. That's why this game is so awesome.

Actually, I'd advise against selling them (like NL did in their guide). Yesterday (after finishing my second dungeon) I finally learned what you need them for. But yeah, you can get them there (see the spoiler part ).
Oh and they're called luminous stones.

Wow. It's not a 100% congruence, but the path you described is very similar to the one I took. I also went everywhere else first when I discovered the Zora area. And I keep finding new places in the areas I've already discovered.
56 hours in (actually it felt more like 80, but I just didn't have much time to play lately) I feel like I've discovered a lot but still have a lot to discover.

Anyone else agree Mipha is a drip (and the worst voice acted character) but Lady Urbosa is FIERCE.

Over forty hours in and still discovering so much and only completed two of the divine beasts.

Actually, no. I really liked her and liked her VA better than that of Zelda. I don't know the other character you mentioned though.
I've only completed my second divine beast yesterday (at 56 hours), after finishing the first one I actually took a lot of time to do other things. And I still haven't discovered the whole map (2 or 3 areas left).

The LA Spanish voice acting is really good actually.

It only kinda sounds out of place when the characters use it during normal gameplay (their dialog grunts and laughs). They sound distinctively different compared to other npcs.

And when they actually speak outside of cutscenes, it's very distracting too.

A super easy way to kill a guardian is to target them and parry their beam with your shield. If you time it right, they'll be dead in 2-3 hits.

So, about the dungeons... has anyone else felt that the 'second' one was way easier than the 'first' one?
Just to be clear which dungeons I mean: The first one was at the Zora domain, the second one where the Rito live.

@Meowpheel Yeah that was my impression too from the trailer language comparison videos. I still liked the Japanese one better, but the LA Spanish voice acting was basically on shared second place (with the Russian VA) - and the only one from my top 3 I could actually understand.
Unless I've already learned enough Japanese until then, my second playthrough will be in LA Spanish.

@rishisquid Yeah with the right shield (not all of them can reflect their beam), it should be doable, I was told by the game. But I've never actually tried, I barely use my shields. ^^

@Octane Thanks for whatever it is that you put behind tags for me, but I'm not gonna read it, not yet at least. Gonna persevere for now until I get ultra desperate.

But I noticed further down the same page you mentioned you had 15 hearts by that stage. I've got 4. That probably partly explains my situation

@Meowpheel English VA is pretty crap. Most of the characters are bad. Zelda is acceptable, Mipha was pretty good too, but maybe I just liked her story more..

@gcunit I see, I guess you went west first in that case. Following the main quest meant that I had around 6 or 7 hearts when I entered the first dungeon. Still, I think the others were a bit easier..

I've tried but the stupid metal box would break

I'm still not feeling Zelda's voice at all. Which sucks because I have loved her character development from OoT on; to the point that I really do feel like I'm playing the Aragorn to her Frodo (which given the name of the series is a good thing) and I adore that feeling. However she sounds... distressed all the time, not just when the script demands it, but it feels like overacting. I've only heard Lady Urbosa in the memories and I think she is just fantastic. Badarsery wise she is my stand in for SS's Impa; like I just know she gets stuff done, but she also seems kind. I do hope the DLC pack lets us go back to 100 years ago as I'm sure Impa murdered hordes of monsters with her combat prowess.

I "met" only Zelda (through 2 memories) and Mipha (through obvious reasons) and i love both. Obviously Zelda more! Cant't wait to meet others, even if i saw them briefly in a memory, just for seconds. And i love italian VA, it's done really well

@meleebrawler Lol what? No, I haven't. Just encountered one and defeated it by conventional means.
How does that work? Do you have a video of that?

@Tsurii I was gonna say no, but then I wasn't so sure anymore... maybe it was me? But I couldn't find it in my comments, so maybe it wasn't me who said it after all. ^^
But thanks for reminding me, I should really watch a few of those - the ones I've already witness in-game, of course - videos in German, now that I have a better basis for comparison.

Also, I've been meaning to look for the books in Hyrule Castle (for a different side mission), but I just didn't have (in-game) time to do that. ^^

@Ryu_Niiyama I've come to accept Zelda's voice (or just got used to it), but I have been very critical about her English VA from the start. It's hard to pin-point exactly what it is that I don't like about it and maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think it's a mix of her sounding entitled/arrogant/grown-up/serious/worried.
Sure, she's always been worried, but I always expected her voice to have some playfulness in it, for example.

This is probably the exact reason why Nintendo never used voice acting (apart from adlibs) in LoZ games before. They didn't want to potentially ruin it for some players and let their fantasy do the job instead.
And guess what, now that they do use some VA, that's exactly what happened.

@Tsurii I haven't finished the memories yet so I'll take your word for it. Keep in mind I am the resident anti-voice acting person but I'm trying to play with an open mind. I understand that she is under duress for the majority of the game and now that her role in the Trinity is more fleshed out I can imagine there is a ton of self doubt, but she sounds like she is at the end of her rope every time she speaks. l don't get a sense of emotional range from her, which makes her feel unrealistic. So far. For all I know the other memories might clear all that up for me.

@shani That has always been my complaint with voice acting. I let my imagination supply the nuances to characters to fit the dialogue. For me games have always been mostly interactive books and I hate audio books for the same reason. It is jarring to have someone else's voice supersede the one I imagine them to have. However I refuse to have my most beloved series ruined because people don't want to read. Also, my personality reflects this. I prefer the written word; when writing I'm overly verbose. If any of y'all met me in person I'm sure some of you would think I'm mute or training to be a mime.

I think the exact opposite. Not arguing or what, just saying my point. I really like it and i'm happy they did it. It's more immersive to me