Topic: Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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This is probably my favourite game of all time now, but I understand why it's been so divisive among the gaming community.

The puzzles in old Zelda games had exactly one (more or less sign-posted) solution that you needed everything you had previously collected (and some brain power) to solve.

BOTW has thousands of puzzles that you can solve in a thousand million ways, but there's no hand-holding going on. You can and must figure everything out in your own time and style (or read guides).

I absolutely adored this open approach to the game. Just the fact that you can choose which Divine Beast to tackle first and that this can change your subsequent playstyle drastically.

[AndyMuller]

2 divine beasts down and I'm doing side quests as and when they come along but I am wondering is there anything that shows locations of shrines as I am missing some of them when my radar is beeping due to not being able to find them!?

[Jm55]

2 divine beasts down and I'm doing side quests as and when they come along but I am wondering is there anything that shows locations of shrines as I am missing some of them when my radar is beeping due to not being able to find them!?

The only assistance for finding shrines is the beeper radar, there is nothing more specific than that.

Obviously you can go down the route of IGN or similar which will tell you exactly where to find them, some of them are quite well hidden and require you to destroy walls or look behind waterfalls etc so they can be tricky to find.

[emergency exit]

This tool could turn out to be your best friend:

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/breath-of-the-wild-interactive-map/

[AndyMuller]

This tool could turn out to be your best friend:

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/breath-of-the-wild-interactive-map/

Thanks mate!

[Snail]

Getting the itch to start a new save, despite having clocked up about 500 hours on this game already. It's just the best.

[Snail]

The only assistance for finding shrines is the beeper radar, there is nothing more specific than that.

Obviously you can go down the route of IGN or similar which will tell you exactly where to find them, some of them are quite well hidden and require you to destroy walls or look behind waterfalls etc so they can be tricky to find.

There's a mad one where you have to climb to the top of this mountain and then glide across to another mountain and drop through a little gap in the rock to get to the shrine - I had to use a guide to find that one

[AndyMuller]

Got up to Lost Woods last night and tried to go through a few times but kept getting the white screen. Will give it another go later.

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Getting the itch to start a new save, despite having clocked up about 500 hours on this game already. It's just the best.

Have you completed the two DLCs yet? I really dug them.

If yes: New save on Master Mode perhaps?

[AndyMuller]

3 Divine Beasts down and about 60 odd shrines done. I'm just going around completing the many side missions as I don't want the game to end!

[JerseyKloppite]

Every time I see a bump here I get my hopes up that we've got a release date for the next one

[meady1981]

to be honest my switch has just been sat in the corner gathering dust for a year, waiting for the next Zelda

[kopite321]

3 Divine Beasts down and about 60 odd shrines done. I'm just going around completing the many side missions as I don't want the game to end!

Did you get the DLC? It will further extend your time in this brill world.

[AndyMuller]

One thing that puts a bit of a downer on an otherwise great game is the master trials, I’ve been stuck on the final trials all weekend and it’s just tedious shite starting all over again from the beginning when you die. The combat isn’t even that good to begin with so it’s just stupid mistakes that cost you time and time again. Thinking of jibbing it now and just going to Hyrule castle and killing Ganon then calling it a day.

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One thing that puts a bit of a downer on an otherwise great game is the master trials, I’ve been stuck on the final trials all weekend and it’s just tedious shite starting all over again from the beginning when you die. The combat isn’t even that good to begin with so it’s just stupid mistakes that cost you time and time again. Thinking of jibbing it now and just going to Hyrule castle and killing Ganon then calling it a day.

If you just want to get it over and done with with minimal fuss, I can show you a glitch that let's you skip from the first room to the last room ;-)

[AndyMuller]

If you just want to get it over and done with with minimal fuss, I can show you a glitch that let's you skip from the first room to the last room ;-)

Send over mate as a back up after I give it a couple of more attempts 

[PaulF]

Is it 'better' on the Wii U with the gamepad or the switch?
I've got both at the moment (I am very lucky).  The wii U is gathering dust so I may plug it in somewhere else (We have a real lack of hdmi sockets and I've bought two swtiches so far and they seem to break within a couple of weeks. not sure if they are just shit or they are being abused by people that don't like them)

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Is it 'better' on the Wii U with the gamepad or the switch?
I've got both at the moment (I am very lucky).  The wii U is gathering dust so I may plug it in somewhere else (We have a real lack of hdmi sockets and I've bought two swtiches so far and they seem to break within a couple of weeks. not sure if they are just shit or they are being abused by people that don't like them)

Switch as the performance of the actual game is better. Wii U version is absolutely fine apart from in villages where frame rate gets a bit crap.

Really they kind of wasted the Wii U opportunity with it so as to not make the Switch version inferior - loads of possible gamepad integration e.g. map/inventory on gamepad just wasn't there. Which is understandable but I played it first on Wii U and couldn't believe they hadn't done it, and was a bit irritated by it as similar things were done on other games and they seemingly deliberately left it out so that the Switch version wouldn't lose a feature.

[AndyMuller]

If you just want to get it over and done with with minimal fuss, I can show you a glitch that let's you skip from the first room to the last room ;-)

Finished it just now, on to Hyrule Castle! 

[AndyMuller]

Completed the game before, done Ganon on my first go. You are pretty overpowered once you do everything before facing him but what a game that was. Can’t wait for the sequel!

[AndyMuller]

The sequel pushed back to Spring 2023! Noooooooooooo!!!

[Macphisto80]

The sequel pushed back to Spring 2023! Noooooooooooo!!!

Nintendo gonna Nintendo. Suppose it's better than doing a Cyberpunk. 

[meady1981]

The sequel pushed back to Spring 2023! Noooooooooooo!!!

Ah bollocks.
Guess I'll have to play the first one again

[ToneLa]

It's amazing on PC in 4k

[darragh85]

Eventide Island is a pain. think ive attempted it too early.

[gazzalfc]

I've got a holiday coming up so will be taking my Switch.

If I'm honest I've completed this a long time ago and never really wanted to pick it back up. It doesn't feel like a game I would easily pick back up again.

It's one of those that feels like I'd prefer to start it again from scratch rather than play it from where I left off.

[PaulF]

I've got a holiday coming up so will be taking my Switch.

If I'm honest I've completed this a long time ago and never really wanted to pick it back up. It doesn't feel like a game I would easily pick back up again.

It's one of those that feels like I'd prefer to start it again from scratch rather than play it from where I left off.

I've never finished it.  Losing the person who introduced me to nintendo to a brain tumour made it too painful to continue playing.  I know she'd want me to finish it though, or rather she'll be mocking my shit attempts at finishing it. 

The sequel pushed back to Spring 2023! Noooooooooooo!!!

not too long now

[Zlen]

Sorry to hear that Paul.

[1892tillforever]

Condolences Paul 

This was bought for me last Christmas, played it for a while but never got into it, and I am a HUGE fan of Zelda games. I'm a very mediocre game player, and getting one-shotted by enemies I can't see wears thin pretty quickly. I may try again now that there's a 6-week break from the football (**** that abomination of a tournament in the desert).

[PaulF]

Condolences Paul 

This was bought for me last Christmas, played it for a while but never got into it, and I am a HUGE fan of Zelda games. I'm a very mediocre game player, and getting one-shotted by enemies I can't see wears thin pretty quickly. I may try again now that there's a 6-week break from the football (**** that abomination of a tournament in the desert).

Thanks both.

I'm really not good at the shooting bits. It's the puzzles I love (never going to forgive myself for googling my way out of the OOT water temple though). 
With that said, the enemies in BOTW don't seem too bad.  Maybe you just need a bit more patience to power up before taking them on?

[Zlen]

From what I recall they scale up with you, and they are tagged by colours. Same type, different colour - means a different level of difficulty. My main issue was never the enemies, mostly the weapons turning to mush all the time and constantly having to switch between them. Apart from the master sword, you can't really get attached to and enjoy a specific weapon.

[JerseyKloppite]

I've never finished it.  Losing the person who introduced me to nintendo to a brain tumour made it too painful to continue playing.  I know she'd want me to finish it though, or rather she'll be mocking my shit attempts at finishing it. 

So sorry to hear that Paul.