Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

It really is, and what's more, covering a wide variety of tastes.

Honest Trailers called Ganon: Ganondilf

Mega Barrel Bomb one shots several elite bosses.

14 bombs. 63 Zonaite per autobuild. But damn.

I put a lot of time into farming both of these mats, but also I liked doing it, so that’s lucky for me, I guess. In general, I had no problems with Rupees. There was always far more than I needed.

That said, I spent a few hours, I estimate, doing nothing but hunting elk in the Tabantha Highlands and selling the Meat Skewers I cooked from them. I like the hunting part, and it felt thematically accurate to how Link might meet his Rupees requirements, so I was glad to do it. Granted, this was a small part of my experience, since I logged in something like 315 hours.

In general, you can make Rupees out of almost nothing. You can cook most monster parts and critters into Elixirs and sell those. The most basic would be Energizing Elixirs. These come from harvesting Restless Crickets from cutting grass and cooking 4 of them with any monster part, usually 1 Bokoblin Horn. The exact recipe doesn’t matter much, so long as it’s not Dubious Food. You can always sell the result of the cooking for about twice the value of the parts used to make them. So you could just cut grass randomly while going around, take the Restless Crickets, make Elixirs and sell those for Rupees.

I wouldn’t do that, but it’s plausible.

Resolving certain side quests also gives you areas you can freely harvest for food ingredients that you can cook together and, yes, also sell for Rupees. It’s just one step short of literally picking up free money from the ground. Of course, there are certain very high-concentration areas with Rare Ore nodes that you can harvest regularly and sell the gems. That works, too.

You could also run around on a horse or a buggy and slow-mo kill birds for fowl food ingredients and sell those. Birds tend to be super common, so if you just made an effort to hunt about half the number you run across incidentally, you could make 1000 Rupees relatively quickly.

The Zonaite you do absolutely have to go down to the Depths, but every monster camp down there yields a fair amount, and if you don’t want to fight, you can just head to an Abandoned Mine regularly and harvest those. Might as well pick up any good Pristine Weapons you run across on your mining runs, too, just to get a little extra power.

I reckon you only need about 2 or three Abandoned Mines open and available for easy Zonaite mining to get a fair amount to both trade for Energy Cells and also get parts from the Zonaite Gacha.

I hope this helps and wasn’t too spoilery. There’s a pattern to where the Abandoned Mines are, but they’re all over the place anyway, and you’ll figure out the pattern soon enough.

I've been making money by doing the monster fortress battles every bloodmoon. Doing all six battles nets 600 rupees and a bunch of useful monster parts.

I've got 2 temples down, almost a 100 shrines, ~70% of the depths revealed(thank you hoverbike).

One of my favorite moments so far was exploring in the depths and finding the Floating Colesium, where I had an epic fight against 5 Lynels for Majora's Mask(big shout out to whoever's r/HyruleEngineering video showed a build for a six beam turrent).

I am having a ball, I have so much to do but it doesn't feel overwhelming or like I'm working a checklist like so many open world games. I get side tracked so much on my way to do one thing I end up doing five other things often completly impromptu which reminds me of games like Fallout:New Vegas or, you know, BOTW in all the best ways.

One thing I stumbled across is that those Poe collecting heads will also sell you certain weapons back. I don't know how many for sure so far the only thing available to me is the Sword of the Hero(heavily implied by the flavor text to be the silver sword from the first game). Still 17 base damage for 100 poes isn't a bad exchange.

Fought my first Lynel last night. Silver, I guess, because he dropped a silver thing afterwards. More annoying than dangerous since I have a tendency to stock up on food (I love cooking in this game). I really don't see how the heck one would fight 4 of them at the same time, though. Their rush which knocks you over was anger inducing to say the least. Also annoying that he seemed to be immune to all forms of elemental attacks? Fighting things is my least favorite thing to do in this game.

I also found a VERY big horse.

Well since I did it twice, might as well post.

The poe head at Lookout Landing will sell you the location of other statues. Their worth finding because

Ugh, I still haven't found the big horse, I've looked a couple of times then got distracted. I am one Steele away from having all those lore tablets from the sky islands though. That has been an entertaining side quest.

Nice. That looks fun.

I can't recall if it has already been linked in this thread, but https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngin... is an amazing resource for silly building ideas. There are some insane looking combat drones people have designed and posted there. I'm taking a little TotK break while I work through FF XVI, but I'm planning to try out several of these when I come back.

Just finished the Fire Temple last night. I loved it all.

Still haven't figured out how to get into Master Khoga's last hiding spot. Just got a quest in Rito to find a cave that might help. We'll see.

I did everything I could to avoid watching spoilers, guides, and what have you. Now that I'm pretty close to the end I think

I'm now starting to watch some construction guides and fuse guides, and realize how much I didn't do in this game, so now i"m using that info to work on side quests, get some more materials, just try some fun stuff. I have a weird thing where once credits roll, I don't go back to a game (the only notable exception are looter games like Diablo or Destiny), so I'm holding off finishing as long as I can.

If someone wants to tell me (from my spoiler) that I still have a ways to go, let me know and I'll keep moving on the main quest line, but I don't want it to end..I know I won't come close to 100%, but there is still so much exploration behind every corner.

I'm in the same (main story) position, with the same mindset, and had the same question. Thank you.

There is a last bit of optional thing to do that’s pretty important, so don’t go beneath Hyrule Castle until you do that part. That last bit has a nice atmosphere to the overall quest line as it involves all three levels of Hyrule. I’d also do the Labyrinths if you haven’t done that part yet. Not necessary in any way, but pretty fun.

I would also go out of my way to fight all the Gleeoks, if you haven’t, already. Also unnecessary, but they’re always a fun fight to figure out. The Village questlines are a nice bit of flavor, too.

The last bit where you actually go down there and finish the game is very quick and not particularly difficult or interesting. It really is just a slap-down fight. It’s worth finishing, but only after you’ve done all the things you want to do.

Ah I didn't think of that. Oh well, probably get another chance at it in the depths if I want.

Yeah I haven't touched it all week but I need to push for the end.