Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@Nicolaison - I think I remember that village being part of Faron.

@Nicolaison Faron. The tower is called thr Faron tower iirc, despite the fact that Faron Woods are located in the Lakeside Tower area. Borders are difficult to see once you've filled out the map.

Finding all the memories actually gives you something.

It gives you (actual spoilers) the extended good ending.

@Meowpheel Is that the "alternate" ending?

Yes, it's the one where Link actually fully remembers his time with Zelda and they go on and work together to rebuild the kingdom, and it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger.

@Meowpheel Seemed to me more like something extra than a different ending.

It's quite literally a different ending, because it ends differently. I did say extended though.

The regular ending simply ends with Zelda asking Link if he can actually remember her, and is implied maybe he only did it on pure instinct.

@Octane Ah, I didn't pay attention to name of the towers. Good thinking.

That's good; I've been calling that area Faron this whole time.

@Nicolaison I tried keeping track of all the Korok I found. I figured that writing them down per district was the easiest way of keeping things tidy. Until I opened up half of the map and I couldn't remember where the borders between the Faron provinces, the Necluda provinces and Lanayru were... My notes got a bit messy after that...

I cant for the life of me remember where the borders for Necluda/Lanayru/Faron are.

All the others? Yeah sure, either because they have clear defining landmarks, like Eldin Canyon, the edge of Death Mountain facing East borders Akkala, Central Hyrule has water on all sides, Woodland is north of that, Hebra is the north west, Ridgeland is straight West, Highland and Wasteland are also clearly defined.

Its just that south east that blurs.

The main story quest of Gerudo, from the Yida hideout to the divine beast: it feels like they took aspects of Zant and distilled them in both the Yiga boss and Thunderblight. The former takes on the comical aspects (the way he floats and face-plants feels way too similar to be a coincidence), while Thunderblight takes the frenzied, teleport-spam of his last phase. And the falling pylons also remind me of when you get sealed in for those Twilight encounters.

@DarthNocturnal
Lol that boss... oh my gosh. I was probably in that fight for - not even joking - 30 or 45 minutes before I figured out what I had to do in the second phase. And that was only because I'd exhausted all other options.

I think it was just the attack animation/graphic looked so intimidating that I was like, "There's no way I can use THAT move on it."

Well, yep. It was THAT move lol

So after the aerial battle with Vah Medoh, apparently if you leave the beast before 'taming' it and go back to the Flight Range to talk to Teba, you'll see him in pain from his wound and say "Dammit!".

So I've just had a look at the image on the 900 Korok Seed page, and as well as the reward for that, and other familiar objects, there seem to be 3 medallion-like objects. Does anyone know what they are? Are they amiibo related?

Mega spoilers obviously:

EDIT: It's okay, I've looked closer and now I assume they're the trophies Kilton gives you for defeated the Tali, Molduga and Hinox

EDIT EDIT: I've also noticed that the player seems to have both rows of hearts complete. Maybe they're related to that.

@Maxz I got the Molduga one because it's easy as hell and it didn't change anything to my notice. Another Zelda game that's weird about hearts.

On the loading screen where it tells you your stats,what's the icon that looks like 2 wings under the stamina wheels?I thought it might be memories but I have 4 of them now and only 3 of the other things.

Man, why didn't Nintendo give us an achievement system for Switch? Playing this game with achievements for collecting so many Korok seeds or finding so many shrines, killing an enemy by glide bombing them from the air, for wind sailing so many feet... it's a goldmine for achievements. Not that I particularly care about them that much, but nomatter what I do in this game it feels like it's just forgotten afterwards, whereas achievements would allow your accomplishments to live on, forever, for all to see.

Major missed opportunity imo

Isn't that the amount of spirit orb thingies you currently have?

Okay... 170 hours in and I'm still missing an ability. I thought it would be the Flurry Rush but it hasn't registered as such... hm, so what am I missing? More importantly what technique have I failed to discover in all this time of playing?

@Maxz Yeah, they're the trophies. Regarding your second edit, you'll notice that the stamina wheels aren't complete. I think you can only max-out either hearts or stamina, but not both (which, if true, is a bit daft).

@OorWullie That icon is for the orbs you collect in the shrines. In order, the icons are: hearts, stamina, shrine orbs, completed shrines, Korok seeds, rupees, Divine Beasts.

I'm down to the last 11 shrines (120 from what I heard) I am missing just 1 actual heart. Maxed out most of my armor sets and subsequently assaulted by the fairy queens many times. Not sure if I should feel sorry for the guy or jealous. A futurama "death by snoo snoo" sequence it seems. Anyways, not too much left for me to do as I'm sure I've got a lot of the side quests done. Missing the Hylian shield but as far as I'm concerned, I farm Lynels for their weapons and shields.