(LogOut/ So quests like navigating the huge mazes on the map, or completing the challenges in the lost woods, or Eventide Islandwhich was one of my favorite parts of the game. And while a lot of these encampments were too samey and had the same giant skull, the few that utilized the glider and climbing in ways like this made these encounters such a joyful experience. This place is a paradise. I can break down what I think the goals of this system were into six main points: In my mind, only one of these succeeds. Have the same introduction from a ghost of the pilot who died inside when Ganon took over. The Sheikah Slate is essentially a magical smart phone. And when I saw a hinox rip a tree out of the ground to use it as a weapon. And this is where you upgrade your equipment slots and return to try to pull out the Master Sword when you get a new heart container. And this mechanic, with freezing a ball mid-roll, is something taught to you in the tutorial shrine. But then again maybe this is a joke that failed to land. And I am certain that I likely missed another 300 hidden in those same areas I went through. But if you rush here then it becomes this huge eleven phase struggle that took me over half an hour to do from start to finish. Close . I think its worth mentioning a few other examples real quick though. But they shouldve put some real restrictions on all the prepared meals you can make. Hyrule is so vast, and beautiful, and overflowing with detail. They would be impossible. This early on in the game, because the lynel didnt have a fancy health bar, I thought this entire region was full of this enemy type so I should go somewhere else instead. If you go there first, right after getting the glider, there are enough monsters in the levels around the lynel that drop good enough weapons for you to comfortably kill it early on. So there are a handful of instances that its different. It is not an exact copy of the text in the game, but it is very similar and includes several special characters that are not used in the game. If you dodged it, you could pick up the spear and there you go, you have a weapon that could be balanced around this fight that you had to earn for yourself. In particular, the way that towers fill in a map but dont actually tell you where the shrines or anything are is great. I saw Death Mountain in the distance and I immediately wanted to go there. Which is something else thats a shame because I like how they look and move. That way all the ingredients that just increase how many hearts a meal gives you would matter. Then there are opening chests with weapons in them, which makes you have to decide whether its worth taking, what you should throw away for it, and then have to open the chest again to do so. In summary, its not an absence of permanent weapons that ruins this game. Link is so acrobatic outside of combat, but the moment the weapons come out the game screams NO. Although my guess is that most players wont realize exactly how important that is in this first stage. It's a huge world! As soon as I saw this snowy one I was sold. With your eyes or your ears. Then, when you raise the tower, the cinematic that plays does an even better job of this. Except for when an attack glitches out and deals damage twice quickly in succession, which was rare. If I bump my armor up to 60 then all of it is now gone. I strongly agree about the food. This may also be why there are so few enemies in the dungeons, so you dont break your weapons and have them for the boss. The only other different one is the spear, which I enjoyed a lot, but I found much fewer of these than any other weapon type. And this is the sort of thing the other lynel needed in the canyon. Its a decision you need to make and for you to determine whether you can make the climb. Ever. If something can be good why not have it in the game? The riddle that requires you to stab a platform with a specific weapon should have really had a puzzle shrine underneath it. Another one that delivers on the promise of timing bomb explosionsfirst with a simple introduction of an automatic thrusting pillar, then one you have to control, and then a final room that needs two bombs set up in a slightly clever way to solve it. The most interesting thing they can do are when the bats come at you in swarms at night, or when an octorock is on the fringe of a battle youre fighting at a camp. Its cool. The shrine puzzle was in the world instead. Unfortunately its often impractical to use it because its hard to line up the wood properly. In Breath of the Wild, if the player traverses the dangerous Hyrule Castle and visits Zelda's room, they can read the princess' diary. Its a progression on the idea each time. Ignoring the option entirely isnt a good answer. Probably. My favorite idea that could also improve the story is that Link starts with a broken Master Sword. So shrines already have an intrinsic value and allure for you to find them via exploration. They could keep the overheal idea but limit it to stuff like the Inns. The other, far more fun reward is the glider. How on Earth did Nintendo manage to make this? This is a two-way street and, unfortunately, with the other problems on this list it keeps getting worse. And through that admission, I hope I can help you understand how conflicted I am on this game and how difficult it is to properly judge it. Scarface Script (1932) Dialogue. Im forced to use it because thats the only way to dodge. There are quite a few shrines that are like this. 4. There are patterns in the world that youll start to notice and, 9 times out of 10, whenever I thought to myself I bet theres a korok hiding over there, I was right. I think most people dont realize this since they defend the system because theyre so enamored by the second point on this list. Theres a lot of verticality in this game. Tougher enemies start showing up. He doesnt try to do anything. "Link. I love how you tested the actual damage values to support your points. Even though the reward you get for finding some of them is importantIll argue later that its even gamebreakingthe amount of seeds you need for each upgrade slot quickly ramps up so that its not all that worth it. That Lynel encounter was a super unfortunate way to start the game. If 20 shrines are about the same size of a dungeon when combined, then that could be the equivalent of about 6 dungeons that were chopped up into bite-sized chunks and spread throughout the world. And yet even understanding that Im expecting too much, I cant stop myself feeling this way because of the Zelda in the title of this game. "Open your eyes." Princess Zelda. I tried to do something new or a little more daring with every enemy camp I came across. But the other 5 were terrible. More important than all of this however, is that I stumbled into the Lost Woods and found the Master Sword. This opening is interesting and could potentially get you wondering about what happened. You get off and say Yep, its a shrine. Or you hear it with your shrine-dar in the slate and play a game of hot-or-cold to locate it. Even ignoring the main quest, its clear that exploration is front and center. This uses so much of Links mobility tools in a way that clicked with me, even though you can cheese it with the bomb cannons. The giant cyclops monsters called the hinox. As long as you have food, you are effectively invincible. Every heart container is made up of 4 quarters. And finally silver. These groups are also almost always in encampments in the world that you can approach and plan to engage. AAMP files are used in Breath of the Wild to store parameters that define the game's behaviour. And it is very, very easy to get lost in this game. in Gothic > Various 462,708 downloads (249 yesterday) 7 comments 100% Free. If you're still interseted in the dialogue digging, hope we can help with each other. So fighting enemies is something that you have to go out of your way to make enjoyable for yourself, because there are far too many pitfalls and temptations that make it too easy. Less fodder and more demanding of your attention. In Zelda, theres a hell of a lot more in the spotlight. Although I do prefer games to have at least 60 frames per second, I am not a big frame rate snob. Combat often involves switching weapons when something breaks. You heal by pausing the game, opening your inventory, and eating raw ingredients or cooked meals. Where the game succeeds however, is that youre still given a lot of flexibility in how you go about completing this area. Even those who have the job to help you seem so lazy about it. Then you have to guide a Goron through something sort of like a stealth section in order to board the divine beast. The first finally lives up to that famous line about open world games: See that mountain? Ive went through and split the 70 puzzle shrines into the five groups you see now. Lets go. You can also see examples of this when, during the slow motion dodge animation, Link actually collides with the enemy weapon from a bad dodge and still gets the rush mode. When you enter a shrine or what masquerades as a dungeon. Hyrule is now a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting. Which I think, after how long this section went on, deserves its own. Even with footage like now, I am occasionally dodging at random because I cant properly see or stay locked on to what I want, purely because of the controls. Same for the wizzrobe enemies. The other was that the canyon stretching off into the distance looked like an interesting place to explore. And thats the first two major problems on this list that I couldnt find a way to bring up until now: My hope is that by now you should be getting a decent idea on why I labeled the combat as fragile. Which, if you recall the beginning of this section, was the other word along with fragile that I used to describe the fighting in this game. And the game really does have those flawsnot just nitpicks, although I have plenty of those toobut huge, critical problems that I do not understand how so many reviewers managed to ignore. Well in Skyrim this means finding a set path and following it to the top. That boss is actually pretty good if youre not overpowered. The next group are 15 shrines that I consider to be good and interesting. End of Scene 1.) I had ruined the game by playing it the way I had. I also wish that there was a quicker way to turn spells on or off. Thats likely a reason why many of them followed a similarly gated design. 9 hearts multiplied by 4 quarters in each heart is, of course, equal to 36. Its an abundance of breakable ones. Whether thats with clothes or temporary food buffs. You want to avoid the situation of having half of your weapons with low durability, so it makes sense to keep using the same weapon until it breaks before moving onto another, which also frees up a slot for whatever weapon you find next. And how Breath of the Wild turned durability into a four letter word. I have no clue if there was some challenge I skipped over accidentally but I dont think that matters. I actually thought Oh I guess I cant go anywhere after all, because my gear might not be good enough for some areas. Its definitely the best way to make something memorable, but Id argue everything is equally importantthe beginning to grab someones attention, the middle to keep their attention, and the ending to make everything that came before worthy of their time. The weapons available here could also have their attack power reduced. This shrine requires you to place a bomb on a block and then use another bomb to blast it in the air so you can break through the ceiling. First off, the easiest examples to get rid of are the combat shrines. Or I could not dodge them either, even that didnt matter. (LogOut/ Most of the shrines involving electricity also followed this pattern. There are so many wonderful hit-and-run tactics you can use during group fights. Aside from an even easier optional ball for a hidden chest, this was all there is to do in this shrine. They have to be consistent and are therefore limited on what the interior can be. It was also the first weapon I would always use during fights before moving onto waste my breakable ones. And you can only carry a fixed amount of them. Push boulders the old fashioned way to crush them. I was curious enough to want to see how far Death Mountain was from the Plateau. And Korok Seeds could now be used to increase the amount of hits your weapons can deal before they break, instead of increasing inventory size. The medium sized guardians show a similar problem. So balls wont roll down a declinewhich is how the shrine tests you on the mechanicand that any series of strikes you land on something while in stasis will compound by the end. Links mobility. I, the player holding the controller, was able to learn and beat this challenge. This means that the shrines dont actually have to physically match their entrance location on the map. Easy to find without a quest. This is especially true when your character is in a compromising situation, which should be quite often since that often makes for a great scene. Identified font Rodin Suggested by r21_ROM Suggested fonts With your hands and feet. Go for it. Maybe there could even be a new Sheikah Slate app thats introduced in these Mega Shrines that adds a new twist to the existing mechanics, so that theres even more possibilities for the developers to get creative. Breath of the Wild lets you climb anything. The pillar of ice is exactly as it sounds. How was this performance seen as okay? Korok Seeds and Shrines have one main thing in common: they appeal to a completionist mindset. Because if you can do them all in any order, that means really difficult ones could ruin the experience for players if they happen to stumble onto a challenging one early. Tip 1: Let the Dialogue Advance the Plot and Serve a Purpose. First, you should visit and reclaim the four Divine Beasts around the land, that were set as weapons to help defeat Ganon before he corrupted them. Because not only does it contextualize why monsters have now respawned in the world, it also clearly announces it for you so its not a guessing game when you want to go back to old areas. Conversely, discovering the ruins at the end of the games biggest canyon, and fighting my way through many broken guardians, was one of my favorite moments in the game. Ive watched a couple of speedruns of the game and even those players dont try to dodge this attack, they cheese him in a doorway instead so Im fairly comfortable saying that theres something wrong with this. So this shows theres a minimum amount of damage each hit should do, but this is so low its still effectively zero. Not even the shrines build on any of these concepts introduced by the first ones on the Plateau. Tip 2: Let the Dialogue Assist with Character Development. In reality though, its anything but that. Maybe it could be upgraded to create ice blocks even when there isnt water around? Even if you like all of that, there isnt really any weapon variety in Breath of the Wild. These are the lynels I mentioned earlier. Despite only being three, theyre all quite similar. : . You may already have guessed which one that is. This turned me off the combat for dozens of hours after this. Throw bombsbut be careful that theyre not kicked back at you. Like I said earlier, I had to stop and ask aloud how Nintendo possibly made this game because it really is that vast. Theres something very wrong with the story, tone, and world in this game. And its too easy to accidentally break it with armor upgrades. I also finally understand why you were *so* bitter about weapon durability early on (via Twitter). Im curious if hard mode will have large enough changes to fix a lot of problems I have with the game, although I seriously doubt it. Its the same thing. Theyre quite rare and only ever attacked me alone when I was out in the world. He doesnt try to target it. Some of them are interesting but they still dont have much to them compared to some of the puzzle content and level design in the previous Zelda games. In contrast to these, you have some good shrines that feel like they got 10 times the attention, which is why Im only half-joking about my Bring Your Kid to Work Day explanation. Which is exactly the same as the very first thing the game taught you to do in the stasis tutorial shrine. Because theres something thats even worse than this in the game and far more obvious. You've played as her, but there's always been something missing. This was a very long climb and, once I reached the top, I discovered that I wasnt prepared to withstand the cold. You have shown unflinching bravery and skill in the face of darkness and adversity. It just isnt. It simply does a check for the area around Link to see if theres any sources of active damage. Then I started to experiment. Shrines reward you with spirit orbs that are functionally heart pieces from the previous games. But I look forward to being proven wrong. Because maybe thats the alternative. Welcome to Breath of the Wild. This, like many other shrines like it, should have been the first phase that builds on this concept. Lastly is the pillar of ice ability. What it boils down to is this: too many shrines were like this one. Or stasis boulders or logs to smash into enemies. Or, more specifically, his weapons couldnt. Cups? The difference is that they have climbing walls with a set path to follow. Climb around them. I can say that because its barely even a fight. And I came to the incredibly reasonable conclusion that, if the world was this dangerous, then surely the dungeons and Ganon must be even more so? The main goal. Same fight. The opposite happened to me with the shrines. This walkthrough, divided by chapters, will cover all the essential story elements of the game as outlined by the in-game quest log. paywalls or sell mods - we never will. Then they could repair themselves so they can still fight, while you go and pick up your new weapon. It had fewer chances to impress me. And then being given one of many riddles to solvewhich were always easy but were still enjoyable. Likewise, if I gave him a Royal Sword that has 36 damage, he deals 9 full hearts of damage to me. Games Screenshots Articles About Wireframe Mockup Cookie policy Copyright complaints Privacy policy Terms and conditions Wireframe Mockup Sometimes the shrine guardians will keep on trucking through a pillar and not be stunned even though theyre supposed to. No quest. Because although I eventually did find a way to make combat in Breath of the Wild a lot of fun, it wasnt like that after my first hour of game time. There are a lot of cool things to see if you get lost. The game actually encourages exploration, rather than following a GPS religiously and going down a checklist. But it doesnt always mean that. More often than not the shrines that require the completion of a quest will be elaborate. Every player is going to know this. Hell if you did this right Link could get away with just having one weapon slot, period. Its yet another example of how much freedom the game offers each player to choose their own journey to a destination. This argument makes a bad assumption in that if weapon durability was removed, that it would be the only changethat you would still be finding all of these weapons everywhere and you just keep replacing old ones with better ones. The first was one I think a lot of people will understand: this was the shortest trip to the edge of the map and I wanted to see what was at the boundary. Google is failing me. And to be frank I think the game would work better if they got rid of the hearty food entirely. Enjoyable. However not all of the quests are worthy enough of this pass. And for the most ridiculous of all, a silver moblin with a shitty spear thats on fire will do 9 and 3 quarter hearts worth of damage. I dont think you have to do ALL of them to consider yourself finished with the gamealthough I dont think its crazy to go that route if you likebut doing more than half, maybe even 80 of the 120, is reasonable if you explore most of the world and do all of the main quest. But thats it. Whos speaking to you? At the end of the game, while searching for the final ones, I was finding modest and minor combat shrines that I could kill without any effort at all. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It genuinely breaks my heart that the lock on sucks and theres no way to dodge outside of it, because that flexibility is whats missing here. Then you scramble ahead of the dazed goblin thing and pick it up to kill the enemy with their own weapon. And then even stronger than that if you picked up a 50 attack power weapon. So lets split this up because that was a fairly bold thing to say and I need to support it. Another in a cold lake that was very easy to find and get to. Moblins especiallythey feel like theyre just larger bokoblins. Weapon Durability. Also while were here and just mentioned No Mans Sky, am I alone in having flashbacks to how the inventory upgrades here? I rarely saw these guys and, when I did, they were almost always alone. More than once, too. I do have to say that this fight has a lot of cool details. Thats the thing I look forward to the most. Honestly thats the biggest thing I hope is different in hard mode. It feeds into that idea of freedom. However, by reading the dialogue options you can use to respond to NPCs, you're given access to Link's less serious personality, seeing a whole new side of Hyrule's chosen hero. But I would have rather had dungeons and more Zelda-content instead. A simple way to do this would be that raw ingredients dont heal Link. And it is. The first time a hinox covered his eye so I couldnt shoot it had me grinning like an idiot. However this clearly backfires because of this very quality. But when I finally went to finish the dungeon content that all changed. Although I hate the wasted time loading into these things for what amounts to a free pass, its more than acceptable that some of the shrines are like this because some of the quests are complicated enough to justify it. Get a quest to glide to a nearby area with no combat whatsoever. I loathed that I had to run away from this lynel because my weapons werent good up to the task. This is especially true if the weapon is so cool looking that you dont want to use it. Writing simultaneous dialogue in a screenplay is largely about denoting the character that is speaking and what they are saying. Then, when you begin to slowly glide down from up high, you have the time to look around and study everything as you descend. I think that the world scales very wellits easy to understand the stronger colors of each enemy, and the weaker colors never vanish. Instead its already over. But if you give him the same 2 damage stick, he now deals 6 and a half hearts damage. It deeply confuses me that Nintendo thought this was enough, when they poured so much effort into the world that supports these features. Youre guided by a voice through this small area and walked through the basics of the game. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)ModsUIText/DialogueLinkle Dialogue Fix [EN] (Wii U) Overview Updates 0/2 Issues Todos License 40 Likes Embed 1 Thanks Admin Permits Withhold Flags Report Make the botw world know you as linkle! You take it to the inactive power switch and youre done. Gained some more hearts and stamina. After freeing the Master Sword you could start using Korok Seeds to make some weapon slots permanent. Or lighting these torches in the desertwhich takes less than a minute. Ganons weapon is also on fire by the way so I feel thats a fair comparison. Except I can think of three solutions to this problem, and Im just a guy with a YouTube channel, not a legendary experienced developer at Nintendo. There are other solutions tooespecially if you agree its later on in the game that the weapon clutter gets to be the problem. I hadnt really upgraded my armor and hadnt thought to investigate how it worked, so that added to how much I was getting smacked around by these high level enemies. Adding this concept to the lynelhe could have had a huge quiver full of big spears on his back that he could occasionally throw at you. This shrine has a fair amount to do with using stasis to launch objects, but this is the same puzzle the tutorial used to TEACH you this mechanic. Because the potential was here to make this something special. The four on the left are the tutorial shrines on the Great Plateau. Good job on including that choice Nintendo. Notice when your mind has wandered. After you climb these stairs the shrine is over. Holy hell that game really did a number on me. Hold it down for a sprint. Finally, the Into The Wild script is here for all you fans of the Emile Hirsch movie from Sean Penn. Contents 1Description 2Locations 3Quests 4Dialog 5Trivia Description[edit] Revali is the Rito Champion of Hyrule. Tap it for a dodge. I enjoyed next to none of themalthough some of the characters had some funny lines and were charmingand thats okay because they were clearly filler content to me. Hylia Serif is probably the "Breath of the Wild font" you are looking for. If you time a jump right before that, you dont lose any of the height youve gained. I wish I captured more of the dialogue as I played through the game, but I've included a few gems below along with some of the classics. Say Anything. I wish you could press a button to turn them on/off quickly. But in my mind, changing the durability system would require a lot more changes to make the game better. Now the answer to those problems are to just not use themdont eat during combat, and dont wear armor. Its there because by having so many, they can be crammed all over the place for people to find easily without being glaringly obvious. Zelda: Breath of the Wild horses are your most useful companion in the game, allowing you to travel around the game's massive world much faster, saving time and allowing you to evade powerful foes . Problem solved. There are multiple ways up here too, and more than one way to combat the cold. Its not a bad way to play and the option is welcome. Well the other solution is a tweaked version. When you have so few weapons and theyre all breaking regularly, when switching between them is a really quick decision, or you scramble to steal another weapon that was just flung onto the floor. Its like yeah whatever Link, if you feel like rescuing Zelda then go for it. Now, my dear viewers, if youre experienced with action games that have dodge triggers or parrying systems, let me ask you. This is the first boss I fought, and its the first time I am ever fighting him. Same for some of the lynel attacks. Instead, I felt like I was being punished for playing the game wrong. Now go." Princess Zelda. At the beginning of the game, after finishing the Great Plateau and being given a glider, I wanted to ignore the main quest and begin exploring. Theres a tangible sense, especially early on in the game, that youre climbing to places youre not supposed to get to yet. But mechanically its really boring. One of these is clearly not like the others. I was wondering if anybody would be willing to offer any feedback on the code, ways to improve or possibly implement a . Theres a surprising amount of freedom found in combat that mirrors the exploration in the world, and how you can creatively break the games puzzles.
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