Board 8 > Starting Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(+) Yeah! (+)

thanks. time to activate this new tower, then. it takes all my stamina to climb, but we've officially activated hateno tower

this game is so beautiful
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we leave our horse and continue adventuring. we stumble upon a pair of girls attacked by monsters, but even after we kill the monsters, they're still set on finding truffles. i search a little but find none.

into haterno village! a kid offers to show me something and... it's a creepy rock carving... and it talks oh crap
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what the shit it just stole my stamina
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okay i got it back

time for the myham agna shrine!
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oh god that pinball tilting was painful. finally manage to guide the ball out of the 3D (?!) maze, and down the ramp into the trigger point. i freeze the maze at its most accessible point and grab the bow in its treasure chest, too. phew.
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You can actually turn the entire maze upside down to get a flat surface with no walls and then you can kind of flick the platform to catapult the ball into the trigger point.

Most of the shrines have a bunch of solutions.
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i figured out turning it upside down, but the idea to use the smooth surface never occurred to me!

i talk to this lady who 'for some reason' looks like a loli (thanks japan!). she's got a lot of attitude and demands that i return a blue flame. a torch is conveniently in this building!
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i should mention that seamless entry and exit of buildings is fucking awesome

also, i'm wearing some new clothes from the village, woot
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nice diary! it earns me a 'punishment.' on the other hand, i do manage to light all the blue flames (and i manage to get it to blow up in my face too at the end)

let's repair this thing
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Purah best BotW character.

The upgrades she gives are incredibly useful.

Creepy statue may be of use at some point.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Yeah that's likely. You could always cook a ton of stamina restoring food, but that'll probably be a pain in the ass. It'll be easier to tame better horses when you have more stamina.

It didn't really seem that hard to me. Took about three stamina potions to tame a solid color horse which was pretty easy to make.

It's totally worth it. I didn't want any of those dumb "underwear" horses.
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All right - I go back in and get my Sheikah Sensor upgraded, then perform a tutorial for Symin using the Sunshroom in the back of the lab. This actually triggers a mini-sidequest in which I head down and collect more Sunshrooms (and have lots of fun taking pics of everything to add to the Compendium!)

After that, I refocus on the 'main quest' of returning to Impa (yawwwn). But I decide to take the scenic route. There's a big pit in which I fight some stone creatures (and snap photos of them). They all drop rock salt, amber, and opal as rewards, which is fun. I finally slay a Fox and a Heron, but they only give raw meat. What's the point of these animals if killing them doesn't give interesting/unique rewards?!

I also encounter a NINJA girl who tries to kill me. I smack her down with the 20-strength sword, but she's on the verge of breaking my badass Shield of the Mind's Eye. :'(

I spend about twenty minutes trying to track a Shrine and finally find it (avoiding a Blood Moon in the process) - taking circuitous routes to get over a cliff, then finding myself above the Shrine (at a waterfall). I go down the waterfall by parasail and find a cave under it. Time to enter Dow Na'eh.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

What's the point of these animals

SeabassDebeste posted...

raw meat

You gotta make some meals!
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shrine cleared! this one is called 'three boxes,' which winds up being the hint i need. i find out that i can use my magnet power on them, and i eventually carry all three onto the big switch in the middle. it depresses, and i'm able to grab a big magnetic box that lets me get to the goddess statue.
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I like the random animals because my three-heart Wolf Link can safely kill them. <_<
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I just chuck bombs at them.
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wut.

i just stumbled upon a glowing dais out in the wild. it doesn't seem to do anything. marked on my map.
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... what the fuck is happening

after arriving at kakariko village, i talk to a dude who transforms his sidequest - a desire to see a fairy fountain - transformed into a main quest

now i've just paid 100 rupees to free the great fairy in a RIDICULOUS scene

she's gained about 40 pounds since her N64 days and looks much more... human.
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Oh good, you found the fountain
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stumbled upon it blindly after following the old guy. i was going for the cool flowers, happened to talk to a weirdass pumpkin thing and paid the money for cinderella. she upgraded my armor, which is nice.

back here, i'm... presenting a photo i never took, of a mountain gate at the bottom of mount lanayru, west of naydra snowfield. great, i guess? when i need it?

i go back to impa, who tells me to check out some of the locations in the photographs. she also marks the locations of the four divine beasts for my edification.
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The fountain will let you upgrade your armor which is really helpful
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Yeah, I upgraded some armor.

On my way to Mount Lanayru - but first, we stop in the marshes of the Daka Tuss Shrine!
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Daka Tuss cleared! Had to use magnesis to control the big bowl underwater, scoop up the balls, and move them into the spaces where they would trigger reactions. The second time, it took me a while, but you have to use to big bowl to depress the underwater switch, after having moved the ball on top of a trap door.

The treasure chest reward here - a badass Zora Longsword. Awesome.
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we korok seed #2 now. this one's flittering around like tinkerbell at night.

died to a guardian though. 'whoa what's that funky shaped animal in the marsh -- OHHHHH FUCK' and ELECTRIC KEESE what.
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uhh just died to the electric keese
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Metal conducts electricity
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apparently shields do too. i didn't try hitting them with my sword.

the first time i thought i accidentally shielded, and the keese self-destructed. no idea what happened this time.

anyway, octoroks! and i discovered that the korok leaf can be used to propel the rafts, though this one didn't go anywhere interesting. (small body of water)
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okay so i thought that was a potential shrine

it wasn't, it was another guardian

oops
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Anything metal, be it sword, shield, or even clothing with metal
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so i climbed a bunch of mountains in search of my memories, then noticed that there was a tower behind me, so i reversed course

i've now drowned my entire health bar away trying to reach it
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getting my brain wrecked by this rucco maeg shrine

completed the soh kofi (a quick battle gives a bow!!) and activated lanayru tower, talked to zora prince man

but god whaaaat
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figured it out! had to leave and re-light the flames
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so i've done the five flames

anyone want to give some advice on how to get those two damn treasure chests? brain is drained
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oh god fuck this shrine
the chests are the easy part
the answer is a tricky kind of fire arrows
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thanks - totally didn't occur to me

i only realized that you needed the flame to solve the puzzle when i left, checked the map, and saw 'five flames' as the puzzle name
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to be continued!
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Bump
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thanks. NBA finals tonight meant no zelda. might be busy for a few consecutive nights :/
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bumpin this

Sidon best character
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Find a traveler who informs me I have to circumvent the river to the east to reach Zora's Domain. Also, this Mountain Doe is much more profitable than the goats for meat!
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A Zora accordionist! Nope, it's a bird... specifically a Rito. He generates a sidequest! 'The Crown of Bone.' Also a platform, but I have no idea what to do with it.

I've finally gotten to the west gate! I chat with a traveler who turns out to be another ninja and kill her. But... the gate doesn't seem to be unlocking any memories. Any thoughts, amigos, before I go Zora up?
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in absentia of ideas i'm headed to zora domain for now

electrocuted by electric keese lol
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apparently bokoblin arms conduct electricity too fml
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I found Kass again! This time, he's got a riddle about landing on a platform with wings of wood and cloth. That's the parasail?
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caught two koroks, and snapped a pic of a water buffalo. but this unclimbable cliff is giving me a real tough time - can't figure out how to get around it, as there's water on both the east and west sides of it

maybe i should try parasailing to the little islands i see off the eastern coast? odds are much better i drown, but i guess i gotta try something...
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in frustration i slaughter a lizalfos encampment. those shock arrows are annoying as hell, used up a ton of food on it

i also have 9 spirit orbs, maybe i should upgrade my health/stamina
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oh fuck i woke up hinox

teleporting and saving for now, frustrated at the lack of progress
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yeah shock arrow lizalfos are the worst when trying to get on the Zorapath

Hinox arent that scary once you learn their moves
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SeabassDebeste posted...

Find a traveler who informs me I have to circumvent the river to the east to reach Zora's Domain.

So, this guy screwed me up too, I feel like this is one of the only errors I've seen in the game. He meant west. I haven't heard anybody else complain about this, though...
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that major test of strength shrine was no joke