*** Zelda: Breath of the Wild ***

Have played this little gem for the last 2 weeks, it's one of those games that start really hard but once you get the mechanics it gets much easier. I mainly concentrated on completing the game first which still took a lot of hours, about 25h. I have now clocked in about 50 hours and managed to do all 120 shrines.

There is just so much to do and if I decided to do a 2nd play though it would be so much easier.

Also it's one of those games that you constantly check online how to do things, without the knowledge certain parts of the game seem to be very challenging.

Haven't been this excited by a game for a long time, well worth playing.
 
apatia77 said:
Have played this little gem for the last 2 weeks, it's one of those games that start really hard but once you get the mechanics it gets much easier. I mainly concentrated on completing the game first which still took a lot of hours, about 25h. I have now clocked in about 50 hours and managed to do all 120 shrines.

There is just so much to do and if I decided to do a 2nd play though it would be so much easier.

Also it's one of those games that you constantly check online how to do things, without the knowledge certain parts of the game seem to be very challenging.

Haven't been this excited by a game for a long time, well worth playing.
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I spent 120 hours on it (all quests and all DLC, but only 500 ish korok seeds) but I didn't look up a single thing online as that really spoils open world games. The surprise, frustration, adventure and multiple solutions are a huge part of the game.

Hunting down that last shrine without cheating was such a thrill, I punched the air when I found it.
 
Kreeeee said:
I spent 120 hours on it (all quests and all DLC, but only 500 ish korok seeds) but I didn't look up a single thing online as that really spoils open world games. The surprise, frustration, adventure and multiple solutions are a huge part of the game.

Hunting down that last shrine without cheating was such a thrill, I punched the air when I found it.
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I just don't have the patience to figure things on my own where there is so much to do.
 
Aside from the seeds, finding everything else isn't too bad. I think I used a guide for one of the hidden shrines because accessing it required some rather fussy placement. I knew where it was and I'd been on the right track but would have wasted hours just trying to open it.
 
I had this on Wii U, but trying to find a decent price on switch is painful, even at CEX its £48 e.e I have asked for it as a Bday present this year.
 
Got this game to go with my switch 1.1 for Christmas. I haven't played it as much as I liked, but so far it seems pretty good. It took a little while to gel with me as the game seemed a bit empty and the shrines just gave me that vibe in oblivion where it's just another dungeon.
I found a few seeds, but I definitely don't plan to collect them all as I find I get bored of doing stuff like that. I really love the music in this game and the go anywhere style gameplay. The story is knowhere near Witcher 3 level, but it doesn't have to be as the world is really fun to explore.

Without spoiling too much apart from collecting all the seeds and doing all the shrines what else is there to do as I see some of you with over a 100 hours clocked up. I didn't get that for Witcher 3 with dlc despite doing everything, minus Gwent.
 
bakes0310 said:
Without spoiling too much apart from collecting all the seeds and doing all the shrines what else is there to do as I see some of you with over a 100 hours clocked up. I didn't get that for Witcher 3 with dlc despite doing everything, minus Gwent.
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Collect and upgrade equipment (clothing), complete side quests, complete the main story quests, find special items, complete challenges for upgrades to special items.
 
bakes0310 said:
Without spoiling too much apart from collecting all the seeds and doing all the shrines what else is there to do as I see some of you with over a 100 hours clocked up. I didn't get that for Witcher 3 with dlc despite doing everything, minus Gwent.
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There's snowball bowling and sand-seal racing... :)
 
KraniX said:
How you getting on now mate, loving it? You should have clocked up 100+ hours by now :)
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I don't think I've even clocked half of that. I've sort of got stuck on what to do and just end up aimlessly making recipes and doing shrines. Gave it a rest now as I've got octopath traveller and Mario kart. Will go back to it at some point though.
 
bakes0310 said:
I don't think I've even clocked half of that. I've sort of got stuck on what to do and just end up aimlessly making recipes and doing shrines. Gave it a rest now as I've got octopath traveller and Mario kart. Will go back to it at some point though.
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I get sidetracked a lot with side quests but especially upgrading armour, need money to unlock the fairies and then collecting all the various upgrade materials which may including farming dragon parts etc.

Have you completed any of the divine beasts?
 
I never actually finished this, I tend to revisit once a month or so, I just never really got into it. That said, I've had some really great moments in it that I'll never forget, they're just too far betwee the nothingness.
 
I started a new playthrough on Master Mode last night, man this is a lot harder...

Anyone else done a MM playthrough?

I've promised myself I won't use Amiibo to help but not sure that'll last unless my ability to parry and dodge significantly improves.
 
Hey guys :-) I thought I'd bump this thread as it's the largest BOTW thread on this forum.

BOTW is now available on the Switch 2 and I've been playing it for the first time, having missed out first time round on the Wii:U and original Switch. The only Zelda game I've previously played was Link's Awakening on the Switch.

I'm loving BOTW so far. On a big TV screen, it's pretty immersive with the world map, villages and dungeons (shrines). I like that orange means that it's an unchecked colour and blue is a checked colour which applies to shrines / map markings but also for loot chests. A hybrid orange/blue means it's checked but not completed. The weapons breaking is rather annoying and I managed to lose all of them at one point, but it was easy enough to start over at the starting point in the game, grabbing tree branches and I quickly geared up again. Ganon-Waterblight was a damn hard boss for me when on 5 hearts, so I held fire for a bit, got Link's hearts to 9, then Waterblight was an easier fight and I got him down ok. I've never really been able to figure out the flurry attack following that tutorial shrine, so I used the ice pillars rune as a defence for most of Waterblight's attacks. For armour, I have the stealth set, the cold resistant set and a few incomplete sets. I found 2 fairies - Cotera and Kaysa, for armour upgrades. I'm not sure if it's the right answer or not, but I decided to use both fairies on the stealth set, so that set is now upgraded twice, then I'll just keep upgrading that if I see any more fairies.

My current progress is I'm now in a high up village that talks about bird-men and that big iron bird high up in the sky, which is probably the 2nd boss (the one after Waterblight).

I'm stuck on the memories, having only retrieved 1 out of 12. I'm also stuck on that quest between the 2 tech labs, so I need to figure these out.

Shrine-wise, I'm keeping Google to a minimum as I'm quite good with the problem solving shrines, but I did have to Google up some of the fighting-based shrines as I'm not good at those.
 
Some of the early fight shrines are pretty much tutorials but some of them are challenges and can be very hard early on. You’ll get better weapons and gear as you explore and things that seemed impossible will eventually become trivial. Glad you are enjoying it. One of the best games ever and the sequel is as good, possibly even better.
 
Breath is one of my favourite games of all time, but the fighting shrines are one of the worst aspects of the game for me.

There are so many excellent shrines I think they could have dropped nearly all of these, barring the easy early ones which teach you a specific skill.
 
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