SupremeAC said:Spent 15 minutes ascending a floating platform towards a big round sky island on the edge of the map to see what was there. It was the Gleeok-king. Made it down again in a minute flat.
Most exciting thing was meeting a travelling fashionista whose garb was adorned with a pattern of dongs. She wanted peole to believe they were mushrooms, but they were clearly dongs.
Made some big strides the last few days, just not in the main quest. A lot of time was spent in the depths, including an anazing quest that led to....
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A fifth temple that I was completely unaware of. It didn't even feel like a temple untill the boss fight ad I received a heart container. What an awesome fight, felt like a match straight out if ARMs. The bosses continue to impress.
I’m at the final quest in the main quest line but have been doing a bunch of the side stuff and exploring more.
I've played over 25 hours and so far have only done one temple. A lot of time was spent just exploring Hyrule, above and below. Being able to travel way up high it always amazes me how compact the overworld is. When you're a mile high you can see the entirity of the map at a glance.
I got my Tingle outfit. Game of the decade.
travo said:I got my Tingle outfit. Game of the decade.
Yeah I got that not too long ago also. 
SupremeAC said:Spent 15 minutes ascending a floating platform towards a big round sky island on the edge of the map to see what was there. It was the Gleeok-king. Made it down again in a minute flat.
Yep I did the same. Well I actually attempted it... lasted about a minute. But I have gotten my revenge since!
I don't have tingle 
. I did get the entire Links awakening set, the giant cartoon head link is awesome lol. There is just so much going on in this game. It's overwhelming, breathtaking at times. And still I get frustrated that so many ideas feel unexplored. Some shrines are so simple, it's a intro to a mechanic puzzle and almost never do they go to the next layer of the puzzle. So many mechanics are introduced and hardly used again. So much of the content is at the first phase of complexity and rarely does the game push for that next level where you really put those ideas into more complex puzzles or activities. That's what's holding this back from being perfect.
But I can't stop playing, I am never bored and I still don't want to stop. So it's doing something right.
It's a game that wherever you look, there's always something to do. Even if what there is to do is often very similar. A small monster camp, an NPC that needs help, a shrine or a korok to discover. I agree that it's a bit overwhelming, because sticking to a quest means ignoring all these little bubbles of gameplay you pass on your way.
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LOL that's one way to do it.
last weekend I said I would do the desert, I failed. This weekend I will do the desert!
Same here! So many distractions!
After you rebuild Lurelin Village, the Village Head will hold a feast in Link's honor. At the feast, the villagers will officially announce that Link has free use of all the establishments in Lurelin Village, including a NEW Lucky Treasure Shop!! Link can open a chest every single day for FREE and receive a special reward. Tweaking with the game's clock, players can exploit this shop and get their hands on infinite treasure, including powerful fushion materials!! You can also give the owner a roasted armored porgy to choose from the remaining two chests!!
You don't ever need a minecart!! Just use a shield by itself on minecart rails to jump from track to track.
With ANY gerudo weapon, any fushion added will double that fushion's attack bonus!! For example the base attack of The Scimitar of the Seven is 28, fuse it with a silver lynel Saber horn who's original attack power added is 55, and it will double it to 110, giving you a high durable sword with an attack of 138 permanently, in any weather or condition!!!
At the Horse God's Spring, Malanya can not only bring your horse back to life, but she can now upgrade your horse's stats to all 5 stars in all categories if you bring her certain meals!! Malanya will also describe the ingredients of these meals in the Malanya dreams you can have at the stables
If you throw a dazzlefruit at any Stal monsters (skeletons) it will defeat them instantly!! *Does not include Stalnox
If you give a horse an Endura Carrot, it will add 3 extra stamina boosts for up to 8 hyas if your horse already has 5!!
You can make your own home with the possibility of having up to 3 rooms each of bow, weapon, or shield stands! There are also rooms with blessing statues, cooking pots, and a room called gallery where you can use one of your photos that you've taken to make into and display a large painting on the wall!!And a stable where you can display a horse of your choice!!
If you have a weapon that is about to break or even if it's been used a little bit, if you place it before a rock octorok, it will suck it in and when it's thrown out, it will be repaired instantly AND give it a white bonus such as critical hit or attack+!! Use that weapon until it's about to break, then place it before a 2nd different octorok and it will become new again with a yellow bonus such as durability or higher attack+!! After using said octorok, mark its location on your map and kill it. Whenever a blood moon occurs, you can go back to said octorok and repair your weapons/roll your stats on it.
If you fuse any mushroom to the weakest of shields, it will disarm and throw into the air, even the strongest enemies, if you face them with it and press A to shield parry when they swipe at you!!
If you fuse a mushroom to a weapon and attack them, it will disarm them AND send them flying through the air as they bounce away!!
If you first make a campfire (using a bundle of wood, adding flint, and striking it with a sword or shooting the wood with a fire fruit) then add a Hylian Pine Cone AND an Oil Jar at the same time, it will make a super powerful updraft that will send you flying high in the air. Alternatively, if you dont have a flame emitter on hand, placing a twig in the center of a Zonai Air Balloon, lighting it on fire, then placing the Hylian Pine Cone and Oil Jar on top will send the Air Balloon zooming into the air with a powerful burst!! When you light a wooden weapon on fire with this combination, it will stay lit, even in the rain!!
Lynel Hoofs break Talus and Frox weak points better than bomb arrows and do considerably more damage.
If you attach a sapphire to any weapon and swipe it, it will cause all materials on trees, walls, or ceilings to fall right to the ground for you!!
You can can earn a FREE extra heart or stamina container (you choose) no shrines required!! Go to coordinates -0556, -1503, 0019 on the outside base of the great plateau where you will see a bomb rock in the wall. Destroy it and it will drain the largest lake on the great plateau leaving a bargain statue at the bottom. Talk to it and complete "A Call From the Depths" side adventure and you'll get a free heart or stamina container!!!
You can fuse pieces of island that have fallen from the sky to any weapon for a quick, powerful fushion!!
If you collect 4 Sage's Wills, take them to a blessing statue and you can strengthen the powers of a sage of your choice. There are 20 total to upgrade them all!!
If you're fighting a Stone Talus and they throw their rock at you, you can recall it and it will stun the talus so you're able to jump on
If you fuse a frozen slab of meat to your shield, you can shield surf on any surface without the meat falling off or being destroyed, even flat surfaces, and surfaces covered in gloom without taking any damage!!
A great but slightly weaker alternative to Sundelions are Sun Pumpkins. Speak to Mayor Reede after completing the Mayoral Election questline in Hateno Village. He'll be standing in a vegetable field on the west side of the village. He wants your help to protect his crops at night from monsters. Agreeing will take you straight to nighttime where there will be a few waves of stal monsters you have to defeat. Just throw a dazzlefruit at each group to instantly kill all stal enemies! After he will give you a few Sun Pumpkins and you'll also then be able to buy them at the Hateno General Store!!
You can grow 1 crop from a list of fruits and vegetables, including Big Hearty Radishes, Hearty Radishes, Endura Carrots, Swift Carrots, Pumpkins, Hylian Tomatoes, Hylian Rice, Tabantha Wheat, Hydromelons, and Wildberries!! Go to the school in Hateno Village between 9 am to 3 pm and complete the 2 side quests the teacher asks you to do, then in the field down the hill to the southwest of the school, an old lady (Uma) will tend a crop of your choice for free!!
Did the lightning temple, it was a great dungeon, great setup to get inside, love how it looked from the outside, I wish there was more structures like that around the world, that’s my dream Zelda game to see palaces around the world. Great puzzles, still too basic compared to dungeons of old but way better than BOTW, right up there with fire as the two best dungeons, the lead up still goes to wind.
This game is flying up my Zelda all time charts, move over WW. It won't reach the top but maybe top 5.
I finished that temple tonight as well, my personal favorite. Im glad I saved it for last.
Whenever I receive a new quest it seems to turn that into my new objective marker so rather than focusing on the story I end up doing whatever side quest comes my way and what I'm doing the side quest I get distracted by whatever I see on the map and just run off in that direction.
So for the moment the game feels a bit like breath of the wild DLC to me. I prefer one in new Zelda has a new world and a new art style this just seems so similar.
Basically I want to press up on the d-pad to select an item and hold it so I can throw it.
But I only seem to be able to drop the item at my feet and sometimes I can't pick it up to throw it he just puts it back into my collection.
Spent 15 minutes ascending a floating platform towards a big round sky island on the edge of the map to see what was there. It was the Gleeok-king. Made it down again in a minute flat.