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Hambo posted...

Maybe the flood never happened and the Rito evolved due to some other environmental pressure or historical trigger. Maybe some Zora survived the flood somewhere outside of Hyrule and migrated back later. Or maybe some Rito evolved into Zora again after WW.

Honestly the original "zoras just evolved into Rito" lore was so fucking stupid I wouldn't be mad if it were just outright ignored going forward.

Though I do prefer the WW designs to the generic furries in BotW. I mean yes they were functionally just elves with beaks but I liked everything they had going on. NuRito feel like a completely different race anyway.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Honestly the original "zoras just evolved into Rito" lore was so fucking stupid I wouldn't be mad if it were just outright ignored going forward.

Though I do prefer the WW designs to the generic furries in BotW. I mean yes they were functionally just elves with beaks but I liked everything they had going on. NuRito feel like a completely different race anyway.

The thing I hated about the Zora -> Rito pipeline is that it supposedly happened in like 100 years. They coulda at least given it a few centuries. I know it's fantasy evolution, but still.

And yeah, I did prefer the WW Rito to the BotW ones. I also like the OoT and TP Zora more than these ones. They were more fishy and less teletubby-y.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The game doesn't say what they are, they're just "fragmented monuments" you just kind of infer they're the twilight mirror because they form a disc and glow at night in the twili colors

They glow like luminous stones, something we know the Zonai used quite a lot, and may be the source of Zonai Magic. Whether or not Zonai = Twili is something we won't know until, maybe, TotK.

Hopefully they show off the weapons system not having crappy durability in this game. If it does at least add it to hard mode so players can enjoy their game normally.

--Zero- posted...

Hopefully they show off the weapons system not having crappy durability in this game. If it does at least add it to hard mode so players can enjoy their game normally.

We are almost 100% getting Durability again. Fans expect a crafting system so you can effectively "bank" weapons and replenish them more easily, but I highly doubt they'd ditch one of the most central game mechanics just because some fans didn't like it.

Uta posted...

We are almost 100% getting Durability again. Fans expect a crafting system so you can effectively "bank" weapons and replenish them more easily, but I highly doubt they'd ditch one of the most central game mechanics just because some fans didn't like it.

I think the durability will actually get reworked into a crafting mechanic. The art book suggests you get to attach things to weapons, so perhaps it's just the attachable parts that have durability. Maybe you have to attach things to the Master Sword since it's broken.

Nintendo should make a game where we play as Ganon. In 1 generation, Link is born all messed up. He has a disorder that makes him evil. Even Ganon realizes this is a problem and he sets out to take Link down

Tyranthraxus posted...

Probably gonna announce Oracles for the GB app at the minimum. I'm sure there's other stuff.

Im actually most excited about getting a release date for those, since Ive never played the Oracle games

BakonBitz posted...

I think the durability will actually get reworked into a crafting mechanic. The art book suggests you get to attach things to weapons, so perhaps it's just the attachable parts that have durability. Maybe you have to attach things to the Master Sword since it's broken.

That would be more restrictive than having a pool of weapons available and the ability to craft more. We also seem some cool "magic weapons" in the trailers, like the flamethrower and bomb launcher (name pending) that might ignore the durability system and rely on magic instead. Functioning as a cooldown system to let the breakables go further.

One way or another I'm sure the weapon system is getting tweaked to be better, but it won't go away.

9 minutes. Their yt page hasn't updated with a stream yet tho

Let's go!

2 minutes and still no stream link on their YT lol

Where's the stream

It's most likely not a stream, just a pre-recorded video. Just wait a couple minutes and it'll pop up.

Edit: Yeah, there it is.

Speed run videos are gonna be fuckin crazy ass shit

New abilities look really cool. I wish they would confirm if they have actual traditional dungeons in this game

So judging from how they're wanting to show off Tears of the Kingdom, the goal for the game is essentially to just expand on Breath of the Wild's idea of freedom. You're given even more tools for experimentation than before and more to explore. They're keeping story and the rest of the game content a secret for now because they don't like pre-release spoilers (Kit, who used to work for Nintendo, said as much).

And I'll be honest, I spent a ton of time on Breath of the Wild just screwing around. So TotK allowing me even more freedom sounds great. I'm curious to see all the different things attaching items to weapons and arrows will do.

The fuse mechanic looks insane.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

New abilities look really cool. I wish they would confirm if they have actual traditional dungeons in this game

I'm not really a fan of ascend. Seems like the main purpose of it existing is to sidestep the need for climbing. None of the botw slate powers had an effect that could only benefit link.

Reverse time thing is potentially interesting need to see what it works on in game. It would be cool if it worked on enemies as well as objects.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I'm not really a fan of ascend. Seems like the main purpose of it existing is to sidestep the need for climbing. None of the botw slate powers had an effect that could only benefit link.

Reverse time thing is potentially interesting need to see what it works on in game. It would be cool if it worked on enemies as well as objects.

Ascend will be nice when it's raining and I just want to climb a little hill (assuming there's a cave).
Yeah, trying the reverse time on other things will be fun to see how far they went with it.

Building different things will be fun too. Overall looking forward to the game.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Ascend will be nice when it's raining and I just want to climb a little hill (assuming there's a cave).
Yeah, trying the reverse time on other things will be fun to see how far they went with it.

Building different things will be fun too. Overall looking forward to the game.

I'm guessing there's going to be some kind of throwable rock weapon you can find all over the place and fusing it with red chu jelly is the bomb replacement.

I think it's great that we have a reason to use all those enemy parts

I am whelmed. Weapon durability and climbing stamina are easily the worst parts of the new Zelda games.

lww99 posted...

I am whelmed. Weapon durability and climbing stamina are easily the worst parts of the new Zelda games.

Eh, on the other hand fusing an object to a weapon seems to be the game's way of "repairing" weapons since he did it with a stick about to break and suddenly it was like way more durable than before. So it's kind of a fix to the durability without outright removing it (with the plus of adding something new to experiment with).

I think basically everything being a weapon and ascend are enough to ease my complaint on both weapon durability and stamina tbh

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Looking forward to tomorrow!!