The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

No sure when I'll next be back in Hyrule. 😒

Wind and Water temple done. I think having done BOTW, these are relatively easy for me. The water temple boss was pretty run of the mill compared to the wind temple boss. Also, you can have a ton of food, elixers handy.

These are not traditional Zelda dungeons, and are like the divine beast puzzles in BOTW. I'm completely ok with this as the entire game is chock full of the best video game puzzles I've even seen.

But, I know some people long for the traditional Zelda dungeons. Definitely think Nintendo should do a follow up to a Link between Worlds / To the past on Switch.

Definitely the whole experience is about the journey. If you go in with the intention to "finish" the game, you'll miss a huge amount of the experience. This is the nub of what an open world game should be I feel, and Nintendo gets that.

Found the wind boss and the water boss both very easy. Theyre not really temples either are they. Good fun though.

There are so many abilities and ways to use weapons it can just be luck if you remember the right one. Dont want to spoiler but I should have had the water boss done in about 10 minutes. It ended up being so simple. Was partly to do with the lower gravity and didn't click it right away. Good fun yes but fire and lightning temples/dungeons are definitely better I think. A bit of thinking needed for those.

Until the enemies are upgraded to silver, where a bullet-time ambush then turns into a slow way of announcing yourself to an unimpressed bullet-sponge.

Got through Spirit Temple last night, definitely my favourite one all said.

And that's credits rolled.

Will go back tomorrow to do more shrines and side stuff. Think I have 50 more shrines to get.

Now out of curiosity, can watch a speed running video to see how it's done in just over an hour.

I got Wind Waker for Wii U. The HD version. And I found it quite tedious in places. Had to force myself through it and still haven't finished it. It has beautiful music, art ...and is great in places, but it also drags like hell.

Have to say I found Links Awakening remake on Switch to be tedious and obtuse.

Loved a Link between worlds on 3ds and Ocarina of time on N64. Amazing games.

Could not really get into Majora's Mask ... yet ...

Had to force myself to finish Skyward Sword on Wii.

All above played as an adult at various stages of adulthood 😁

But, BOTW and TOTK ( and Ocarina of Time) are probably my favourite games of all time. They are joyful and wonderful. I played BOTW twice, it was that good + the DLC. And TOTK is just as good, if not better, but I haven't completed it yet, so I'll reserve judgement. They are the sort of games you don't want to end. 😁

Yeah Im going to start doing the same. Gona play until I get a quest that sounds like the end (dont think Im that far away) then do all my exploring. When Ive uncovered everything I want to I'll finish the game. I dont want it to end either!

There's over 300 travel points in the game and you can drop a few travel medallions too. Getting about is a cinch.

Discovering there's a fair bit more going on on the sky than you might initially think, despite it looking like the more barren of the 3 maps. Saw a little island in the corner of my eye and ended up spending ages on opening up Sky Mine.

Before Switch my last Nintendo console was Gameboy. My friends had N64 and were always raving about Ocarina Of Time. I never looked at the reviews until it was mentioned in this thread. I think after TOTK I'll have to play it. The review scores are unreal.

Over 100 shrines and 50 lightroots now. Loving the way theyve done the labyrinths. When you defeat the construct always check everywhere before leaving into the Depths. There are high powered weapons to be had.

Also play the 3DS remaster rather than the original, it’s an all-round more pleasant experience than the N64 original.

Alternatively, just go straight to Majora and thank me later.

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I've not played this properly in about 2 weeks. Kinda not wanting to go to death mountain or haven't wanted to explore. The weather is too nice.

I'm on the last quest. Still so much of the world to explore though. I'm only about 50 light roots in. About 80 shrines. Haven't even touched two of the Labyrinths. There's still sky Islands to explore.

It's a bit overwhelming to be honest.

Would someone mind putting in spoilers what the name of the final main storyline quest is? I'm worried about accidentally going into it. I tried googling it but couldn't find it easily and was worried about spoilers.

Safe enough so! Thanks

So I lost the Hylian Shield. Either in the Lone Island Coliseum or somewhere in the desert in the sand storms. Didnt realise for about an hour when I realised I had a Boko Shield on. Went back to the Coliseum but all the goodies were gone and no chance of finding it in the desert if I did get electrocuted.

It lasted me 80% of the game and somehow managed to lose it at the final boss. 'Lose' as in actually lose it, it wasn't destroyed or anything. Every other shield felt super scaldy in comparison.

The underground ones are very satisfying. There’s nothing quite like the Yiga going to a lot of effort with elaborate machinery only to have their **** wrecked with a couple of eyeballs stuck to an arrow from a mile off.

You can fuse things to arrows.

Hold right trigger, then up on the D pad. Scroll through the menu with the right thumb stick. Let go of the D pad.

I was shocked when I realised how big the depths are and how much gametime there is down there.

True there is a lot of building. But when I got max stamina and found a zonai dispenser for rockets + springs it cut down on it a good bit.

Rocket shields and stacked springs (as previously mentioned here by boardsie who has found every lightroot) are really handy. Then just glide through the skys and depths.