Phew, I just completed the most difficult (for me) shrine so far. I just wasn't getting what it was trying to tell me to do. I ended up going to bed and coming at it fresh today, and even still I was stumped for a bit. I was just about to leave, but then something caught my eye and it turned out to be just what I needed.
It was the "Fire and Ice" shrine, for what it's worth.
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I love Link humming classic Zelda tunes when he cooks. Oh my god.
Ran out of weapon slots, but there's another weapon you want to pick up? No problem!
Just attach it to a weapon you already have!
This is known as the "yo dawg" methodology.
Not even through the tutorial island and my wife just told me to buy a second copy...
I love Link humming classic Zelda tunes when he cooks. Oh my god.
It gives me creepy ludo-narrative dissonance. Like wait a minute, Link can HEAR the same thing as me, the player?
I feel like I spend a lot of time fighting with the menu system and interface. I can see that they've tried to smooth out the interface as much as possible, but it just isn't really working for me.
Of course, I'm also used to xbox controls and the face button positions are reversed from where I think they should be.
Me tooooooooooo. Being normally an Xbox controller person, the controls are just killing me (or killing Link, rather). Everything is wrong. I was used to this at one point but a few hours in and Im still getting myself killed with the wrong buttons or getting frustrated closing a menu when I wanted to open it.
Yeah, same here. I’m loathe to try to swap button configs at this point though.
Why a game with this level of polish doesn't have an option in the settings to switch to the "other" set of button configs is beyond me.
Why a game with this level of polish doesn't have an option in the settings to switch to the "other" set of button configs is beyond me.
There should be an option for text speed as well.
Jonman wrote:Why a game with this level of polish doesn't have an option in the settings to switch to the "other" set of button configs is beyond me.
There should be an option for text speed as well.
And Link should speak! We need to hear him.
My biggest takeaway so far is how much short shrift I gave BotW - looking back over my GotY lists, it didn't even get an honorable mention. Couldn't honestly tell you why, I certainly played it a fair bit, but it didn't quite bite.
TotK is very much a remix of that game rather than a new game, and by golly it's divine.
I'm right there with you Jonman. I played through BotW to completion, and normally love the Zelda formula, but it just didn't click with me. It's certainly possible that the open-world design eventually soured me on the game by the end, and I'm worried that TotK may suffer similarly as a result. Otherwise, yeah, I don't know why.
In other news, I'm starting to think that, for as fun as Link's innate powers in TotK are, the real star of this game is going to be all of the Zonai devices. I just discovered some new ones that weren't available on the Great Sky Island, and ooh, they seem like they're going to be FUN.
I put a couple hours in today, got through two of the Tutorial Island shrines. Found the experience a bit frustrating, frankly. Having my BotW toys taken away, but not yet being proficient in the use of the TotK toys' fiddly bits, and all.
I picked up a leaf, and it told me I could attach it to a stick to make a fan. So I gamely spent twenty minutes attaching it to each of the half-dozen variations of "stick" I had in my inventory, in different angles and configurations, only to have it fall apart when I tried to pick it up. So I'd try it again, in a slightly different way, getting more and more frustrated, only to find that attaching inventory items is a different power than the one that attaches items in the world, and I didn't have that power yet.
Only inventory items DO work with the "items in the world" power too, so it's a bit of an artificial distinction. Felt like that could have been explained better.
I'm sure it will be a minor speed bump in my overall enjoyment of the game, but it got me feeling cranky.
All my beautiful horses are still there! 
Played BoTW for 55 hours back in 2017 and never finished. And never went back. Was at Walmart today and picked it up.
Do you think I should start over in BoTW and finish that before starting this one? Am I going to be missing a lot of I go straight to Tears? Im afraid I'll restart BoTW, get bored at 50 hours and never play the new one.
You will not miss out on anything if you go straight to TotK; it's a fully self-contained game with just a few sprinkles of references - none of which are in any way important. At least from what I've seen so far, 10+ hours deep.
Ummmmmmm, so, they don't limit how many Amiibos you can scan per day in this game unlike BotW. So, remember back in the day when we were all Amiibo crazy? I still have all mine and just scanned all 22 of them, mostly Zelda related.
I like that they just let you break the game.
I have soooooo much foooooooooood.
Yeah I only have about 5 but scanned them all and got a special skin for glider, which I don't even have yet
Yeah I only have about 5 but scanned them all and got a special skin for glider, which I don't even have yet
Which Amiibo was that? I didn't get anything like that...
I’m a dozen or so shrines in, and just wandering and collecting the map. Man, I’m just right back into it. Still gotta get some of my combat skills back up—oh and I was shocked when I couldn’t board my second horse only to discover hours and hours later that all my old friends are still in the stables. Yay!
Also, where is my TotK Purah Amiibo? That is a bad-ass costume.
I’m a dozen or so shrines in, and just wandering and collecting the map. Man, I’m just right back into it. Still gotta get some of my combat skills back up—oh and I was shocked when I couldn’t board my second horse only to discover hours and hours later that all my old friends are still in the stables. Yay!
Yay!
Got the paraglider. Makes me feel much more complete. So used to having it, especially after playing lots of Horizon Forbidden West recently.
Stele wrote:Yeah I only have about 5 but scanned them all and got a special skin for glider, which I don't even have yet
Which Amiibo was that? I didn't get anything like that...
Wolf of course. Was hoping to get the pet but didn't. But was still in sky intro area.
tuffalobuffalo wrote:Stele wrote:Yeah I only have about 5 but scanned them all and got a special skin for glider, which I don't even have yet
Which Amiibo was that? I didn't get anything like that...
Wolf of course. Was hoping to get the pet but didn't. But was still in sky intro area.
Twilight Princess wolf? I have that one...
Are there some random rolls?
What’s this? Hmm. Seems impossible but I have an idea. It worked! Feeling so clever. 
Okay, my first genuinely awesome mini-story (not related to my last post). Keeping it fairly spoiler free but will hide it and a cropped screenshot anyway (took out all the UI for possible spoiler reasons)
I’m falling from high, find myself through the clouds and immediately a shaft of light crosses my screen. I turn and I’m falling -with- a falling star. Right next to me. Screenshots and video while I’m trying to gauge the ground distance as well. Amazing moment.
I spent about a half hour banging my head against a shrine that required the glider which i didn't yet have!
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