Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The oracle can be found in the little closed area left of the, uh, palace?

It's on the opposite side of the training grounds the guards train in.

After making a offering, she gives you a fortune. Which in my case ranges from "the desert is hot" to "seals dislike noise".

@Octane @Tsurii Oh, that "oracle". She should give up her day job - I spoke to her three or four times and didn't learn anything new so I'm pretty sure she's not part of the 8th-heroine quest (or any quest for that matter). I think the only way to do it is to follow the (vague) clues from the 7th-heroine quest.

Also, can anything be done with the girl eating melons? She just tells me to go away. I've managed to advance some dialogue, with other people mentioning her, but her dialogue stays the same.

Follow where the melons bits go.

I will be so disappointed if it turns out to be just a Hinox.

@jump The melons just land in a pool of water and I can't do anything with them.

Maybe something or someone is near that pool of water...

I've noticed that.

The melon rinds land in a tiny pool in an alley where a kid says she'll have a secret garden.

But other than that, and some dialogue from the girls at the bar about her, I haven't heard anything major about the melon girl.

Edit: about that spoiler above, I haven't gotten the girl to say anything besides "I'll have a garden here".

Have you done the Gerudo dungeon and talked to princess/leader afterwards? She mentions about solving the people problems so Link can earn their trust which opens some more side quests like Barta, melon etc.

Yup. I did all the relevant quests and beat the game once already.

At this point I'm just shrine hunting and doing the side quests I skipped.

Edit: about Raji (or whatever her name is), all she says whenever I talk to her is that she could hear a voice call her name during the fight with the beast.

I did notice that examining the helmet prompts her to ask me if I want it... Maybe I need to say yes?

After 95 hours and all shrines conquered, I think it's time to call it a day with this game and move on. I still have a few side missions to do but they are nothing spectacular, so they can wait until the DLC comes out.
Overall I'm happy with the game - it was probably the first 3D Zelda I played where the overworld feels as much as a puzzle as the dungeons (actually, the overworld feels like the real dungeon this time).
The game, personally, has its share of problems - first and foremost, the main dungeons are underwhelming - but it does so much stuff well that it doesn't really matter.

@Tsurii Gratz yo. BTW how do you post screenshots to forums? I can do Twitter and Facebook, but I don't necessarily want to post to Twitter or Facebook.

I have a theory about something in this game, in terms of its inner workings. Even though we don't "level up" I have a feeling there is still a "leveling" system hidden inside the game, and I think it uses hearts as "levels." Completely unscientific, but on Saturday, I was tackling my second Beast, taking on the "thunder" boss, and he was ripping me again and again. I went in there 26 times. I was using perfect-dodge backflips to take him out, and the first half of the battle would go by pretty easily and quickly, but the SECOND half, every single time he would electrify and keep coming after me. He'd very very very seldom drop his electric and let me get a strike in, so I just ran around in circles trying to avoid him, but he'd come at me from odd angles often enough and I couldn't escape that wide swipe attack which would one-shot me. I ate constantly to keep my hearts up, I ate damage boost, didn't do much. I hate moderate elec resist, it didn't help. I ate def up, it didn't help, I'd get one shot or on rare occasion, luckily get left with 1/4 heart. Used tons of food. But I'd so rarely get a chance to get an attack in without him electrified, it was very much the opposite of fun.

Up to this point I was still hoarding all my orbs so far, not spending them, so I had 5 hearts (+ Mipha's Grace bonus hearts ). So I finally went out and bought 7 hearts or so. I went back in. Now maybe it's pure coincidence, but this time around, he was only periodically electrified, dropping his guard often, didn't hound me down relentlessly to the point I couldn't outrun him in the limited space, at one point when I actually missed he appeared to just STAND THERE waiting for me to attack him. I lost only 4 hearts the entire battle, and did not use any food at ALL, not to heal, nor to buff, and did the whole thing in one easy shot.

Could be that Hylia or Lucky Cat was smiling upon my RNG that round, or that leaving the Beast and returning somehow reseeded the RNG to a lucky roll, but it appears to me as though after buying hearts I "leveled up" and now was over-leveled for the boss and he played weaker to make me "stronger." It felt very RPG-ish.

Maybe that's why some of us (the ones hoarding our orbs) feel like we're playing Souls where everything is a OHKO and the motto of the game is "don't miss." maybe it's scaling.

@Meowpheel Wow, I just can't imagine how on earth can you have managed to cover all that in such a short time! I've played every single day since launch day and still have 3 map sections unrevealed, 2 beasts undone, and tons of area in between entirely unexplored with less than half the shrines located. And I'm not a particularly slow player! Haven't even set foot in RANGE of the castle yet, and I left a bunch of side-quests for after I have some better gear. Haven't even raised funds for better armor sets than the tunic yet!

Anyone actually beaten any of those labyrinths yet?
Have been into the one on the north east island (the one that you can just about get to by floating across there from the top of the research lab). However, I am still yet to beat it. I'm not sure whether it's a case of a secret tunnel of some kind that you just have to explore the whole labyrinth in order to find, or whether it's something simpler than that like having to have ancient arrows in order to kill all the flying guardians in order to open the cage bars which contain the shrine. (Those were my two guesses, but is there anyone on here who has actually beaten this particular labyrinth shrine that can help me out here?)

The game does have scaling but ive only seen it with Black/Silver enemies appearing as you progress

@GoronBrudda Its a path you must find in each labyrinth.

And they are Lomei Labyrinth here in the UK too. Not sure on the pun.

@Tsurii You don't need to beat them though. Just don't use the map to find your way through the maze.

@Tsurii I beat them only on the ground...am I doing something wrong? :/

New update! Hitted 55 hrs mark and did a really good number of things. Killed a couple of Guardians with the Master Sword and i have to say that with it it's pretty easy. It's the Master Sword! Did all of the surroundings of the Korok Forest and went to the next zone: the one with Hylia Lake. Did all of the left half, next is the right one. In the meanwhile: i'm around half Shrines (56 or 60, don't remember well), bought enough Hearths to reach number 16 and the third Stamina upgrade too. Got enough materials to create a second piece of the Ancient Armour Set (legs) and upgraded it to 2 stars. Now i miss only the chest. And for last obviously got some more Korok Seeds, should be around 160 total

A nice, fun and incredible way to deal with bokoblins that are riding horses and using bows against you, if you have some problems getting them to the ground: just use upgraded Stasys on them! ahahahahahahahah

Out of the three mazes I beat I never needed to climb the walls to see where I where I was going, I did need to climb a little bit to get past some ooze. The Guardians are just there to discourage you from climbing the top and cheating a short-cut.

I've discovered a trick with the raft and combing it with the magnet rune

@Meowpheel Ive been to two separate places. One has a door with lots of frog statues covered over. The other is a bottomless pit covered lanterns. But higher up. Neither has anything significant about it in terms of items.

All that happens at one is Yiga archers appear and drop bananas when beat them. Their bows are in no way significant, to my knowledge, and the only variation in the frog statues is height, but that's likely to give variety instead of copy and pasting models.