Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@FGPackers That seems random. Why not have it available after you beat the boss itself?

@Haru17 i really don't know lol

@Tsurii No, but I was able to buy waterblight before the final boss. Why's it different for him?

@DarthNocturnal @FGPackers Ohhhh! I hadn't discovered that yet...that's a relief! **Phew!** Thanks!!

EDIT: Oh yeah! Now that you mention it, I seem to remember Purah at the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab offering them for sale...maybe I will try to complete it after all!

@Haru17 Maybe Thunderblight Ganon is the canon 4th boss? As in while you can do the Divine Beasts in any order, Nintendo expects you will do the one with Thunderblight Ganon last?

@DarthNocturnal thanks i don't think i was holding the button long enough

Has anybody created a memory wipe machine yet? I want to play this game blind again and put another 200 hours! XD

@Jen10 Yeah Ancient Armor, while not necessary, is fun for the castle approach....you can just take a few laser hits lasers and keep strolling around like a day in the park

And, no, the Thunder Helm isn't needed for the Fury ability. The only purpose of the Helm AFAIK is that you don't have to take your weapons off in a thunder storm. Which IS convenient, but by the time you're strong enough to hunt Molduga's to get it, you've probably already spent most of the thunderstorm hours you're going to be spending in the game

Can I borrow the machine after you please?

@NEStalgia thanks for the explanation on the Thunder Helm. I'm sure the Ancient Armour will be a great help when i brave the Castle as the only way i seem to be able to get rid of those pesky Guardians is to get close to them & hit their legs & turret until they explode which is probably not the best way as i've been zapped a fair few times lol.

@Eric258 its called a neuralizer , Agent J and Agent K have one

@Jen10 Haha, that's actually the best way to dispatch guardians at least with the Master Sword, I think. But a little Stasis+ goes a long way to keep them from running away until you hack off a leg or two and keep stunning them. That said, the walking ones are in front of the castle. Most of the ones IN the castle aren't walking around, and there's a stationary heavy duty variety as well that has a little more hitpoints. But it's the darned flying ones that you can see even from outside that are likely to keep frying you if they spot you

IMO getting to that last memory photo location is the most dangerous part of the castle (Sanctum/Ganon aside, which I haven't done yet!) because there's a lot of exposed climbing involved in Guardian territory.

@NEStalgia I didn't like getting that memory simply for the fact I didn't want to go that far in the castle. I felt if I did then I would explore more then that would lead to me to finishing the game way before I was ready.

@Spoony_Tech I agree! The memory thing felt like something that should be done earlier in the game to "build up to proper strength" and putting that all the way up there meant you HAD to explore almost all of the castle way before you were done with the game and ready to do the castle. I intentionally put it off even though I wanted to finish the memories, and then found my way into the castle out of curiosity (when a guardian wasn't guarding it and I kind of slipped in while doing a guardian hunt for parts for the armor) and figured "well....I'm here....and that location is over there.....maybe I'll just do it." Though I accidentally set foot in the sanctuary door instead....nope...nope...oh heck NOPE! Reload save! But yeah I agree, it takes away the big rush of storming the castle when you have to go slinking around it to complete the first quest you're given just to finish the story background.

@DarthNocturnal Hah, yeah I stood right next to that darn shrine and looked at it curiously and didn't put 1& 1 together and walked out. Found out what it was later...how frustrating!

@ NEStalgia that's a great tip to use Stasis + on them , thanks 😊 I wouldn't have thought to do it but will give it a try. I've managed to find ( more luck than anything lol) the shrine in the castle but haven't completed it yet as I was really low on food so will stock up & go back & attempt it. I managed to avoid a couple of the flying guardians ....... so far lol. I must admit the map of the castle looks quite scary so goodness only knows what it'll be like when I actually venture inside lol 😊

@DarthNocturnal Yeah....that location I knew something seemed important about it but for some reason never equated it with actually doing anything with it. Eventually I went looking for a guide on where the shrine is in there, saw the screenshot and thought "THAT thing? I stood there for like 5 minutes!"

I'd love to see a rebuilt Castle Town....that's a cool area, too depressing, especially with the music, and there's really not much actually THERE once you start walking around, just stumps of identical ruins and unique names on the map to make you think of what once was there. After you visit once there's just not much to do there other than hunt guardians for parts!

@Jen10 If you found the shrine in the castle you actually already are "inside". That chamber is really part of the castle interior (as the map shows.) There's of course lots more outside and inside area, and passages all over, but that's certainly part of it! The Castle Keep area ("Sanctuary" on the map...the actual "Castle-looking" part) is really the boss battle area (or at least starts it) where the orange dot is. You won't want to go in there until you're ready for that (if you accidentally go in you can load a safe from before...or if you get killed after going in (and you will) it should start you in front of the gate so you can walk out again.

With fully leveled ancient armor the "Major Test of Strength" quests only do about a quarter heart damage to me each time I get hit....I can just swipe on them and snack on apples

@NEStalgia thanks for the explanation, i took the plunge & went into the shrine & managed to defeat it without much loss I decided to have a nosy around the castle & managed to find my way up to the library & 2 other rooms. I decided to go back out & finish a few side quests & then go back in lol

Twilight Princess wasn't actually hard at all to 100% (there really wasn't all that much to collect) Windwaker definitely takes alot longer, especicially if you count all the figurines (but that one was actually alot of fun).
However, for Windwaker, I didn't actually 100% it on my first playthrough (it's something I did later for replay value) but once you know what to do and where to look, it takes nowhere near as long as it seems the first time you play it. That game used to take me forever, but I pretty much breeze through it now, and have replayed it all the way through quite a few times. (but that's just because it's my all time favorite of all the Zeldas). BotW though seems like it will take forever no matter how many times I play it. Have nearly 100%ed it on the WiiU, and have started it on the Switch concurrently, which is what I use when I'm not at home (but much less is done on the Switch version, as I'm out less often than I'm at home). However, I will say that the bits that I have done on the switch so far were definitely alot quicker to find than when I played it the first time round on the WiiU, so it's possible that it's just a case of the unknown seems scarier and longer than it is. (I still reckon BotW is alot bigger though).

For what it's worth, I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even get that far. I got through death mountain the first time round, but after the first palace the other side, I got stuck in death mountain on the way back due to running out of magic (and being genuinely quite useless at that game), so just kept dying over and over again for hours/days on end, and couldn't bring myself to start all over again. But I am determined to go back and beat it one day. I think the instant restore points on the 3DS version definitely will help alot in that sense, as you'll get to choose exactly where and when you replay your save from. (I honesty wish all games had that)

for those black boxes, just write spoiler tags. To do this, simply write:

(spoiler)
stuff you want hidden behind the black box goes here
(/spoiler)

(only, you need to use square brackets instead of regular ones). I just used regular brackets above so you could see what the code looks like without the functionality kicking in and it just turning into a black box.

@GoronBrudda I never had the patience to do all the bugs....or even a large number of them in TP that's the kind of 100% that turns me off from 100% ing things. I also think games like Zelda feel wrong when you 100% them. It's supposed to be Links adventure and the paths he takes to get where he's going, not methodically scouring GPS-style to sweep all resources Well, ok, that actually DOES fit BotW because he actually DOES have a GPS on him But not the older ones!

@NEStalgia Awwww you didn't find all the bugs in twilight princess? That means you missed out on some of Agitha's "Cute" lines that makes u question what she will actually do to the bugs......