Zelda: Breath Of The Wild: All Great Fairy Fountain Locations

Fairy Great Spoilers, NL.

Dat Fairy tho!

Have only just found the first one, so I'm sticking this in my favourites until I'm later in the game. Thanks!

You mean there's more than one? Spoiler Alert!

Only found one but haven't used the upgrade yet as I was uncertain if it was a one time deal or what?

So if there's only 4 fairy's, then you can only upgrade 4 items total during a play through?

@Gelantious
I've heard it's you can only upgrade one item per fairy, but you can upgrade it multiple times. But I am not entirely sure, just heard it from someone on youtube who got the game early.

Was on my way to the first fairy, then got sidetracked with towers and shrines. I'll circle back around... eventually.

Not looked at the article. Shame on anyone that's actually looking for this sort of information at this stage.

This is the greatest exploration game of our time. Go explore!

...But, while I'm here...

the Great Fairy is one hot mama!

No way I'm using a guide on the first play through.

@FelixTheMagician This is untrue. I've only found the first fairy outside Kakariko and have upgraded at least 4 pieces of gear.

@Gelantious @FelixTheMagician You can upgrade as many items as you want using the Great Fairy, as long as you have the necessary materials to do so. In my experience, the first fairy only upgrades items by one level. So far I've upgraded two full armor sets by one level and I've only reached the first fairy.

But why would someone...

Much appreciated, Nintendo life.

I think you guys missed one. There's an interesting location right by one of the horse stables near Lake Hylia.

@Baker1000 Why wait, go now. I've already unlocked all but 1 tower, cheesed a couple field mini bosses and have come across some other things I will not mention because I don't want to ruin the surprise.

SPOILER WARNING!!!

Those fairies are high maintenance!

Not reading the rest of the article though. Too much fun to find everything myself. I only just jumped off the Great Plateau. I must say that the art work on this game is absolutely gorgeous.

@TechJunkie69 Because I'm still exploring the parts of the map that I have unlocked.

It is sad but this game is now evil. This game has some spiritualistic undertones for example Demon ruler, god you pray to, spirits, resurrection etc. I can't believe Nintendo ruined this fantasy series by taking it down this path. None of the prior games were like this at all. The thing is none of this was needed to make the game great. The game would have been great had they stuck to Zelda traditions of the triforce and defeating Ganon.

Now Ganon is a "Demon" and the King (Zelda's father) is a sprit, Link died in a battle long-ago and was resurrected. You gain spirit orbs from evil looking statues and have to pray to some god to gain hearts. I am sure there is worse as most of this content is revealed shortly after you make initial progress and gain the "paraglider".

I am saddened Nintendo ruined such a great series by adding all these unneeded spiritualistic themes/content to what is supposed to be a game safe for kids. I expect the sword fighting and fantasy monsters/enemies, but what me and my kids saw was inappropriate for kids - Everything about this game screams evil.

All this qualifies as a "Teen" game under the suggestive theme content as per below:

TEEN
"Content is generally suitable for ages 13 and up. May contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling and/or infrequent use of strong language."

Had this been a Teen game, many people don't buy it for their kids (like me) and I know Nintendo knew this... I am appalled at this oversight by the ESRB (look at their game description) and Nintendo hiding this content....

As it stands both my kids ask me about the game being evil....

You have all been warned.

As for content, I figured I give those who don't care about the spiritualistic side something to think about:

1. This game has not been polished, there are technical issues/glitches and gameplay frustrations that show poor quality control. For example, you are given meaningless tasks that are intended as filler for time such as having to create a specific dish and figure out the last ingredient required from your 1 million food items picked up. It gets better though, one of the ingredients for that dish you can only get by hunting an animal that produces two steaks per kill. The best part is there is only one animal (Bison?) that shows up in one location randomly which is fairly large and you have to explore to find (because that is totally realistic that only one would appear). The point is the task is made a difficult as possible and fills like a plot to get you to waste time.

It gets better, some mountains that you can climb up you will randomly fall off from even if you still have stamina. Also, the bisons I spoke of earlier (that you must hunt) will disappear if chased even in an open field (enemies will also stop following after a while). All these screams poor game design.

2. These random tasks get become frustrating as you have to figure out things on your own with very minimal hints. I suspect a group of people will get bored and stop playing here.

3. The dungeons take like 5 minutes to compete and don't have more than one basic puzzle to solve. It is actually more difficult to find the dungeons than to spend the 5 minutes to clear them.

4. The combat is basic and you will not die fighting until you fight some mini-boss type of character in the open field that kills you with one hit, of course since enemies have no intelligence, the game would be too easy without this cheapness.

5. While supposedly a huge game there is very little to directly interact with that serves any gameplay purpose other than to waste time - the producers of the games could have focused development on the inhabitants of this world rather than making everything so random.

Now you can decide if this game is worth your money based on these issues.

@TossedLlama I can't believe I read it all either. I too find the game AMAZING!

@Switched I would refrain from coming off a bit preachy on a game site. As for "spiritualistic" many of us feel that Demons, gods, spirits, etc only exist in the realm of fantasy. Which means they fit perfectly into the Zeldaverse.

@Switched I can't believe I got sucked into reading all of that =/ Most of your criticisms are not even remotely valid. There have always been spiritual and demonic sides to Zelda. I'd suggest learning the difference between a fantasy video game, and real life - if you (And your kids) are unable to separate the two, then perhaps it's not for your family.

I find it odd that you would be upset by praying to a goddess for assistance in destroying evil demons, but you have no problem with running around murdering hundreds of monsters?

As for your game play critique, most of them don't even make sense. Every open world game with have some bugs as a result of how they are designed - still, Zelda has put out the most polished bug free example of an open world game I've ever played. Perhaps your experience was different.

Dungeons are by no means 5 minute experiences, there are traditional dungeons and there are shrines. Even some of the shrines a far more lengthy than that. Combat is great, especially for this type of game - if you say you have never died to a normal group of enemies, you are either lying or haven't played the game for more than an hour, which it would seem is the case, considering you claim you never die and don't know the difference between a dungeon and a shrine. It's not all that difficult to get swarmed by higher level enemies and get killed.

As for number 5... well, I simply disagree. I'll accept that this is a subjective point, so there isn't much point in arguing over it, but in my opinion, Nintendo has created the most interesting open world I have ever played. Simply discovering the towers and shrines is a blast. Then you are rewarded for visiting odd placing with Koroks - something I do in every game anyway, but not there is actually a purpose to it. Loads of enemy camps, the entire landscape is beautiful and interesting, it's huge excellent design graphically... I really have no complaints about their world. Only game that comes close for me was Witcher 3's world. Again, subjective, I know. But if you can't find something to do and enjoy in this world, I don't think you would enjoy any open world game.

EDIT: And obviously there are several awesome things happening throughout the world or excellent missions... but I omitted them for spoilers sake.