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I went back to finish the game after not playing for years. And noticed that I only died once. I was watching Youtube video with people talking about how hard the permia death run would be. But is it really? Because without trying I almost did it. Or am I just better then I give my self credit for.

I died a lot so and thought it was really tough

It's the toughest 3D Zelda, but overall not too difficult. I mean it definitely is a lot easier to die compared to other 3D Zeldas simply because enemies deal significantly more damage. I don't think frequency of deaths always translates to higher difficulty though. You can die easily just by trying to do something stupid.

The Thunder boss is harder than any other 3D Zelda boss I can think of.

I dont think I ever died in the main game

The beginning was kind of a pain. I died several times at the lightning gauntlet before the Zora city. After the boss, I didn't die once

radical_rhino posted...

The Thunder boss is harder than any other 3D Zelda boss I can think of.

LOL that is the one place I died at.

The scarcity of tools in the beginning definitely makes the early game harder. But at a certain point you are kinda of a walking force of death and most difficulty vanishes.

This timeline is wildly accelerated once you start getting hearty foods. Then health becomes trivial. These things are easily obtained as soon as you get off the plateau if you know where to go so any playthrough after the first is even easier.

Yeah outside of a few instances all the "main" content is ez pz

Some of the optional stuff is kinda rough if you're going into it blind, like Eventide Island, or that other place that's all black. Lynels too are rarely a cakewalk unless you cheese them. >_>

And the robots are "hard" but in a beginner trap sorta way. It'll take a few tries to get the parry timing down, but once you do they become the easiest enemy in the game and are great for farming.

Once you learn to dodge or block with a good shield yes.

Yep

Yes.

Early on it can be a bit tough since you don't have much health and can get 1 shot pretty easily (IIRC), but as mentioned that goes away pretty quickly once you start getting better equipment, armor upgrades, health/stamina upgrades, and figure out the cooking system. And once you get the dodge + parry timings down (which isn't hard to do), even stuff like Lynels become easy to take down.

Maybe the hard mode makes it challenging (I've only done 1 playthrough when it 1st came out and never went back), but even then I'd imagine it wouldn't be that challenging due to how busted food + flurry rush is.

Agree with the general consensus.

The early game is probably the toughest that 3D Zeldas have gotten, as Link's defense and resources are very limited (even beyond enemies - an errant bomb detonation can send you off a cliff and game over). At a certain point - I'd say around the time you've upgraded your armor twice - Link becomes extremely durable and surviving becomes much easier. You simply need the ability to tank one or two hits, because by that point you probably have stockpiled enough heals that they're nearly an infinite resource.

Srk700 posted...

Yes.

Early on it can be a bit tough since you don't have much health and can get 1 shot pretty easily (IIRC), but as mentioned that goes away pretty quickly once you start getting better equipment, armor upgrades, health/stamina upgrades, and figure out the cooking system. And once you get the dodge + parry timings down (which isn't hard to do), even stuff like Lynels become easy to take down.

Maybe the hard mode makes it challenging (I've only done 1 playthrough when it 1st came out and never went back), but even then I'd imagine it wouldn't be that challenging due to how busted food + flurry rush is.

Master Mode doesn't add much challenge but you do have to learn how to work around enemy healing. If you stop dealing damage for just a few seconds they start healing pretty rapidly, so you need to be constantly damaging enemies to beat them optimally. There is one encounter in particular where the healing turns a battle that is very easy in Normal mode into a nightmarish slog of a fight. That was the only major increase in difficulty in the jump to Master Mode in my opinion.

The final boss fight was easy. Otherwise I was dying all over the place.

BotW is such a good game to fuck around in. I should go back through my twitter account and find some clips.

Hard at first, because of high damage enemies, but easy once you learn how to cook.

yes

IIRC Master Mode also randomized the timing pattern for parrying Guardian lasers, such that doing so was far less consistent.