Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@FireMario887 As to not give it away. I will only say this, that Shrine will not trigger until you complete 3 other local side quests in Kakariko village. So do not worry that you are missing anything. It is not available until those conditions are met.

@FireMario887 Yeah, @Tsurii is right. The side quests are not difficult. I would guess a person could do them early in the game. However, unless someone actively searches for the exact triggering events, I would assume that most people playing will just stumble on it, I know I did. But in my opinion this game is much better played blind and allowing yourself to organically discover things.
There maybe some very loose connection between the side quests but I would highly doubt that anyone playing the game for the first time would ever reason that these sides quests would lead to triggering the Shrine. But that is really no big deal. I am pretty sure Nintendo made it that way on purpose. So I would just suggest taking your time and doing the side quests as the happen in Kakariko village and things will just happen organically. I have a ton of hours in the game, so I very much take my time. I am in no hurry to win this game.

@subpopz Play in Master mode. New game right there.

@subpopz Yes, we can !

@subpopz You should be able to play in Master Mode so long as you have the season pass installed.

@subpopz I don't know for certain to be honest with you as that situation doesn't apply to me but I don't see why not, the save files are separate. I'm currently switching back and forth between the two (DLC and never got all the shrines in regular mode and sometimes I get tired of getting murdered by Lynels...but I'm at 11 hearts so that is getting better) and the two versions don't talk to each other.

@subpopz I am in a similar situation. I own both, but I got it on the Wii U first and that is where I have put all of my time. But as long as you buy the DLC on the Swtich the master mode will be available. So for example, I will play normal mode on the Wii U and Master Mode on the Switch.

I restarted the game in Master Mode and just realized how good the games beginning is, and how bad the end game is.

The beginning has you exploring, gradually reaching more and more difficult places on the map by getting more stamina, various resistances and better weapons.

On my normal mode, I was at the point where I'm supposed to collect 15 energetic beetles, and it felt more like The Legend of Zelda: Chore in the Wild.

@Agriculture I can see that. But that is when I took some time off and let it sit for a while, like a month until I wanted to play again. Then I came back and I remembered why I enjoyed the game again. And then exploring, collecting, discovering once again was not a chore. I find it amazing that I am over 300 hours in and I am still discovering new areas that I have not been to. Or little things that they hid or subtle game play techniques that makes me do things that I know where put there to make me "chase the squirrel" But I am always discovering.
I know some people hate the weapon breaking, but I embraced it and now I really appreciate it because it adds another layer of strategy that is not in many other game. Now I totally appreciate what it adds to the game.
I just think of other games that let you keep your weapons all the way through and instead of forcing you to get rid of it, they just make them obsolete by the end of the game. They have the enemies get harder and new weapons make the previous ones useless.

Even my wife who is not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination, has started to play Breath of the Wild and she plays the game very different than I do, but she is also finding things that I totally missed.

But starting over in Master Mode is a smart move. The game will challenge you again and in different ways and you will remember why you enjoyed it so much.
Take it easy.

Edit: For clarity and grammar errors.

I do in fact like the weapon breaking because it makes you think about where to use your resources. I liked that in Fallout: New Vegas too.

My favorite new thing about Master mode is the floating plattforms with enemies and chests on them

I would like a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer please.

Basically, upon defeating Calamity Ganon and reloading my save file before the entrance to the castle itself, I noticed a star on my save file as well as a percentage (24.48%) at the bottom left corner of the Sheikah Slate.

Is there any worthwhile reward(s) for attaining the 100% completion rate, let alone finding all 900 (!) Korok Seeds?

Ta.

I would like to have a go at finishing all of the side missions, seeing as I only need to find 26 more according to a side missions walkthrough I stumbled upon. I wish to find enough rupees - all 10,000 of them - to give to the fourth and last fairy too.

After that, I shall leave the game be and buy those two add-ons later in the year some time.

@Peek-a-boo No!

How can you say that? Finding all the korok seeds let you re-watch all of Hestu's dances as many times as you like. I watch them every morning. Shala-zah! Shala-kah!

You haven't heard what you get for collecting all of the Korok seeds, huh?

snickers

It's not worth it. The game is meant to be played and enjoyed as long as you have meaningful progress to make on your adventure, which is why there are so many seeds.

But the answer is "no."

This is really cool!

I finished Master Mode. It did provide more of a challenge, but not enough to warrant spending any considerable time improving your character.

In order to beat Ganon, I had to get 6 shields (I'm not that good on the perfect guard trick so a lot of them broke during the fight), 3 fairies worth of Champions tunic, some hearty durian meals, and two 40 damage swords.

It's a shame really that there isn't more DLC planned because I have an almost fully upgraded Link in normal mode, and it would be great if they made some DLC were you really got put to the test (with your equipment).

@Agriculture I'm glad there's no more DLC planned - it'll likely be more of the same. I'd rather they put all their efforts into the next game, hopefully building on BotW and fulfilling people's wishlists of what could have been and what they want. We're not going to get a restored Hyrule via DLC, for example.

That's probably for the better. Breath of the Wild is an amazing game, but lacks some fundamental things to make it perfect. If they can make the next game "open world go anywhere" like Breath of the Wild, but with proper dungeons and less collecta-thon it would be perfect.

I wonder if they will ditch the breakable weapons since a lot of people didn't like it.

I hope not. I found it to be a rather sophisticated way of encouraging players to try different weapons. Though admittedly it did get a bit harsh on the Plateau in Master Mode if you wanted to kill all enemies. Definitively doable, but a tad too tough perhaps, especially for those of us who wanted a handful of decent weapons when dropping down to Hyrule the first time. So many sticks were obliterated into tiny splinters...

Unrelated to the above, I'm currently playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (yes, a little late to the party) and I must say it makes me miss BotW more often than not. While the story is far more satisfying, I'm not a fan of not being able to climb walls or at least trees. BotW spoiled me for all other open world games ever. I understand why Nintendo has chosen to call it open air instead, it truly is in a league of it's own.