Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I've done all the DLC, all the shrines, tons of the Korok Seeds (but no desire to get them all), most of the outfits.

Went back a couple months ago to start fresh on a Master playthrough, but just kinda petered out after the Zora area. Just wasn't feeling it. The difficulty was fine, it was good having to plan encounters and stuff, but honestly I just wasn't motivated to do it all again. Strange for me because I LOVE replaying literally any other Zelda game. BotW is just so massive it's... exhausting, to be honest, which is what makes it such an epic adventure the first time through but a chore subsequent times in my eyes.

@rallydefault did you beat all trial of the sword? I never beat the last part. Just curious.

@WoomyNNYes
Honestly, I can't remember lol I should go back and check.

I want to say I got to that last room with the guardians up on the towers and stuff and didn't make it through there.

@rallydefault No need to check. That sounds like a homework assignment. If you don't know off the top of your head, that's fine

@SortingHat Oof, that shrine challenge on the western end of Lost Woods island, man, I dread that darkness shrine challenge. haha. Did you get the BOTW DLC? Champions Ballad? Just chekcing. It's a good chunk of game, I thought.

How many people agree with me that the Trial of the Sword DLC was actually better than the Champions Ballad?

@Dezzy I never could beat the third part of Trial of the Sword. Therefore, Champions Ballad is superior. 🤪 I'm just playing. I never wondered which was better. I was so glad there was more content, and I liked them both in their own way. Did you beat the final part of Trial of the Sword and maximize your sword power?

@WoomyNNYes

Yeah I beat all parts. The third section did get pretty damn tough on some of the levels. You needed to find ancient arrows to 1-shot some of the lynels, or it'd just be too hard.

Trial of the Sword was just the latest version of the Pit of 100 Trials.

Granted, it was more interesting than that (there were things in it other than enemies!), but not as interesting as at least the better parts of Champion's Ballad. It added another Divine Beast, which the game badly needed in particular.

Champion's Ballad was really good, in my opinion. Tested your knowledge of the game in a lot of ways, and I refused to look up answers online for matching the locations. I had a really good time with it, though it's already fading from my memory lol

I haven't even beaten the second part of Trial of the Sword. It was too frustrating for me, I much preferred the Champion's Ballad.

I found it boring.
Guess im on my own with this one.

So I just reset the game and started over again. It's almost like I'm playing it for the first time.

@psychoBrew Heck yeah. I think I played the beginning at least 4 times. The longer you wait & the more you forget, the better
I may have unlocked all towers at least three times.

And every time you restart it, you realize how great it is all over again. BOTW is pure magic.

@WoomyNNYes @psychoBrew I recently finished my 2nd full play-through, did a half play-through somewhere in between. I'm already looking forward to forgetting lots of the stuff so I can start over again. A part of me even hopes that BOTW won't arrive before mid 2022, so that I have time to forget my 2nd playthrough and finalize my 3rd

There's not a single game in my life I have enjoyed more than this.

So I spend all this time finding a place where I need to start climbing and it starts pouring down rain. How typical.

@psychoBrew Did you already beat the Zora devine beast(elephant)? As part of the plot, the game rains A LOT in that map region - on cue when you climb a mountain or enter the zora domain

It never rained on me when I climbed a mountain in botw. You must be playing it wrong 🤔
( haha im kidding)

Yes, I beat Vah Ruta. I just thought it was funny because that's something I would experience in real life.

The rain in the Zora region is such a key part of the atmosphere for that area, so I deliberately do that Divine beast last so it keeps that atmosphere for as long as possible.