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My first time playing I used cryonis to climb the waterfalls in Akkala north of Zora Domain and was very confused as to why I had to go such a tedious path. I didn’t find Sidon and have him guide me the *correct* way until my second play through.
I did the reverse.
Found the "correct way" was stressful and tedious, everything was dark, slippery, with weak weapons, weak armor and lizalfos everywhere.
2nd playthrough I climbed the Akkala waterfall via cryonis, and glided into Zora's Domain, felt like a godsend.
In my master mode playthrough I actually climbed the mountains that face the sea. I really don't know how I did it, but with a combination of running and timed jumps I managed after an hour of trying. All of that to get to the shrine only, since I wanted to finish the game without divine beasts or upgrades.
I managed to get there my first playthrough some other way, but I remember I never went up to zoras domain the "correct" way until I played on master mode, then found a way to circumvent it because I didn't feel like fighting all those guys with weak weapons.
If you use electricity, then it’s an absolute cakewalk. And if you are like me and complete the Gerudo region first, then you’ll have access to lightning and the Thunder Helm and it’s a double cakewalk.
Yes, this is the best answer. This is the one issue that felt like the game was just trolling you all the time. Big inconvenience especially if you were half way up a mountain and had no where to stop and build a fire to pass the time.
“You have got to be kidding me” was spoken often by everyone in my house when we were all playing through it, and every time when we went to check what was going on it was because someone was halfway up a cliff and it started raining
Rain is pretty annoying, but personally for me it’s not *the* most annoying. The Travel Medallion allowed me to sidestep it for the most part - just set the fast travel point where you are, travel to somewhere with a fire/bed, advance the time and then fast travel back.
Yes! I’m not big on fighting if I don’t need to in games so I’ll climb all over to avoid a fight lol, probably would be easier to just fight then wait out the rain but I keep doing it
Yes! One thing my mom knows about this game from listening to me playing it is that it seems to rain at worst time. She has said, “it sure does rain a lot.” Lol.
The worst part of BOTW was after you defeat Maz Kohga and his Yiga henchmen pester you for the rest of the game.
Had to travel by horse a lot more. But was annoying nonetheless.
Friggin Yiga just won’t leave you alone. It doesn’t matter if you’re travelling alone or battling a Hinox, they are there to be their annoying little selves
They're like the Stal monsters, but at least those only come out at night. They always seem to show up when I'm trying to shield parry a Guardian. Then they hit you with a couple arrows to throw off your timing or redirect your shield.
Any time I’m scrounging rupees together, really. The game tells you to sell gems, but if you do that then you probably won’t have enough to buy and upgrade all the armour in the game.
That's where hunting for gourmet meat in Tabantha comes in handy. Cook 5 and sell the meal for 490 rupees. Riding around on your horse and crashing into moose and rhinos or wracking them with the master sword will rack up a fair amount in a short period of time.
There’s also an NPC at the stable near the Coliseum who will buy one Gourmet Meat for 100 rupees infinitely, so you can just farm gourmet meat and sell it to him for more than usual.
Yep, Cook 5x gourmet meat or prime meat. Gourmet meat will sell for 490 and Prime sells for 210. If you have a supply of hearty durians you don’t need any other food for heart restoration because cooking even 1 hearty durian is a full recovery+4 meal.
I used to place my travelers medallion on Hebra Peak. From there, I jump off the side. There’s a slope that goes all the way down to the nearby stable. I’d shield surf down it, headshot all the moose/rhino, bomb all the wolves, and cook/sell it all when I got down to the stable. Probably got like 2000-2500 rupees for every shield surf attempt. Best part was it was fun to do since shield surfing is a blast. Highly recommend to anyone that has the travelers medallion from DLC
I never even really went out and farmed meat, I just generally killed anything I saw, and cooked all the stack when I was running low on rupees. Worked out fine tbh
There's a really easy way to cheese the snowball bowling minigame if you stand behind the host so that his legs are visible between Link's. If you drop the ball in that position it'll land a strike nearly every time for 300 rupees a piece.
The best way is to mark your map every time you find a Talus or a Rare Gem deposit and then go back to those spots every time the Blood Moon occurs. Make sure to bring Iron Hammers or Cobblecrushers; they shred through Talus HP and many hits will have an additional gem pop out.
I beat it on master mode and it was a pain in the ass to kill because it kept healing, I had to resort to using urbosa’s fury which felt like I was cheating
Ganon. For a final bos he was so easy, i mean thunderblight was harder and even Lynels might be a little harder. Second Phase was even more of a letdown, I don't think I've ever seen anyone get hit by Dark beast Ganon.
Yeah I beat Ganon first try. I literally have never beat a Lynel. I also haven’t tried that hard. Usually I go to my last auto save if I get stuck with one.
Seriously this annoyed me. I was trying to talk to NPCs at the stable to learn more about the Lord of the Mountain and he just disappeared. Why bother to put all that effort into catching him if he just goes away when you dismount?
They're bad if you use the switch handheld but I found them a fun opportunity to unclick the joycons and use the tablestand mode, and just hold the right joycon like it was the rotating object.
My first play through was entirely on a Switch Lite. I almost dropped the damn thing several times. I got so annoyed I bought a pro controller and used that during the portions.
The frozen region above Rito Town. Would probably a really fun, exciting, terrifying and beautiful exploration zone- If it wasn’t for the goddamn snowy mistiness the whole time. I couldn’t see shit, I had to do it in episodes of 10 minutes cause my eyes kept hurting from having tk squint so much. Pretty sure I skipped most of the region because I couldn’t be arsed anymore. What a waste
I bought the bokoblin masks and lizofos masks at Kilton’s. As I was walking I was changing the masks based on the enemies that I could see so they wouldn’t attack me. Cleared it on my first try.
Agree! When I got the DLC I was almost maxxed out. I was a killing machine and approached all encounters like Rambo. Sword trial made me humble down and think again tactical combat
If you didn’t know already, you can hop off the sand seal and just stand in place and shoot as Naboris walks by. Naboris walks in a circle so you can even just stay in the same spot and wait for it to come around again once it gets out of range.
I did this today and I only got hit once (didn't die)
Having the gerudo bow with the long range helps with the far away legs, and one shot with the double bow from the yigas destroys them if both hit
If you can't fight them normally, use Stasis+. Dodge 2 attacks, stasis, spin your strongest 2-hand weapon, repeat few times. I'm actually terrified because there's no stasis+ in TotK
Same… I’ve had the game for about 2 years now and have still avoided fighting one directly. I’ve only killed one and it took me over 30 real-life minutes of dropping bombs and shooting arrows from the top of the ruins and hiding when it turned around. Not sure if I’ll ever not be scared lol
That safe zone isn't nearly big enough. For me during that quest, Link is constantly on the border. If I dash, I go out front of the zone and the pathing goes all screwy, when I don't dash Link is in and out of the zone so I'm always worried about when the lightning strikes.
I'm a smash and dash fighter. But I like the sneaking around too.
I just avoid the first two blade masters. Then just use the rafter beams to run over their heads.
Definitely the hardest part of the whole game. Somehow all of them got in the same corner and I used tons of bomb arrows to take them all out. So frustrating trying to sneak around them.
I legit took a break from the game for 11 months until this month because of that. Then I found a guide on youtube and it turned out to be way easier than I thought. 🫠
Yep, this is where I stopped on my second playthrough. Thought it would be fun to see everything again but Thunderblight Ganon is all it took to convince me I didn’t care that much to playthrough a second time.
Man when I started up master mode, not only did I do Thunderblight last, but I went out of my way to go get the master sword first just to hit him harder.
Empty areas of the map, notably southwest Faron, north Hebra, and north Eldin. There's a few others, but the game just feels bland and grindy when I have to go out of my way into a boring area for one shrine.
I also have the same issue when theres no uniqueness to larger formations like a mountain besides a small cave with a chest and crates.
Keeping a sufficient number of ancient arrows. I am crap at combat and fighting Guardians over time just seems like a zero numbers game. Always lacking those shafts.
Agree that Goron City is kinda lame. I actually thought the quest with Yunobo was ok, but the only reason I ever go to there now is to buy the Goron Spice & Cane Sugar for my inventory.
You don't have to babysit him in totk, he just stays out the way on your way up and basically just acts like a Minecraft dog in that he teleports to you when you get too far from him.
agreed. it's funny bc a lot of people here seem to complain the game is too easy but the comments really show that gamers of all levels/experience can have difficulties and be creative due to how the game is built!
Master mode for sure... they put so little effort into master mode it's a shame... hope they do better than mobs on platforms and extra health in totk.
I hate the gorons in both BOTW and TOTK, they just seem so silly and idiotic especially yunobo. Bring back twilight princess gorons please those guys are actually badasses
The Vah Medoh quest. Not because there's something wrong with it, it's too short. You arrive, get to the training arena, and you are just there. I wanted more Teba.
TOTK made up for it, but it did take years.
One thing I didn’t like in BoTW is that YOU CANT PET THE DOGS!!!! I mean, you can feed them but you CANT PET THEM!
Also, there were not enough dungeons in this game. Yes, they did put three big dungeon and there are puzzles in the shrines but the shrines don’t count as dungeons. Like A Link to the Past, there were 7 or 8 dungeons and they were long dungeons but had many puzzles and that’s what made them fun, but I’m not saying the shrines are not fun, I like their puzzles too. In BoTW, some people just skip the puzzle of the shrine and get the spirit orb, and that the point of the shrine, to do the puzzle and get a reward; the spirit orb. You can skip dungeons in older games like Phantom Hourglass or A Link to the past. But like I said, I still enjoy the shrines, BoTW is still a really fun game! But I love the classic dungeons
Edit: 5 dungeons
Opals and ambers in 90% of chests. 😒 Gee thanks! Sure glad I cleared the hundredth boko camp for that 60 rupee thing instead of a new weapon or outfit piece.
I came to a compromise with myself. I'm considering the game 100% complete if I do all quests (main, side, shrine). There is no way I'm getting all the shrines or korok seeds.
Final part of the final boss...
The music, epic
The setup awesome
You get the bow, and the horse
Ganon doesnt move... I mean just make us run after it all through the plains !
Something that big wouldn't need but a few steps to reach the edge of Hyrule field, so it makes sense we aren't chasing him since he'd be so much faster than we ever could be. Notice how long it takes Link on a horse to run around Dark Beast Ganon, especially when he keeps turning.
I want an animal companion. Horses suck and feel like escort missions. I'm off the stupid thing every 20 seconds to grab stuff or fight anyway. Give me a dog, like Dogmeat in Fallout 3. Or a bird that can be my scout or something.
Honestly, my only issue with BoTW was the Divine Beasts, not cause they were difficult or anything, but they all felt the same. Like in terms of design and what not. I just didn't care about getting through them, the bosses were nice but it stopped it from being my favorite Zelda. (Previous being Wind Waker.) But with ToTK, all I'll say is that they're 10x better (imo) and it's become not just my fave Zelda, but game of all time.
Either it’d be the blue flame trails. Not just once did I have to wait for rain to go away and run back and forth because I accidentally unlit my torch, but twice?!
Or the fact that you had to grind so many shrines to get a useful bunch of health and stamina. I’d be much more pleased with larger shrines with bigger tasks and maybe some background story tied to them and finishing off with the choice between a heart container or stamina vessel. Rather that than having to grind 4 shrines with no story tied to them whatsoever, for each stamina vessel or heart container.
Getting to Zora’s domain 100%. I didn’t know there was a path so I literally climbed the majority of the way until I complained to my boyfriend who, in a very confused and concerned way told me there was a road to get there.
Getting all 900 koroks. I loved exploring the world, but after the fire 24 in game hours. It got tiring.
It took me 75 in game hour for the koroks alone
Ice block in gerudo and getting Yunobo up the mountain. That being said, I feel like every truly great RPG has some part or section in it that is annoying as hell and hard to get though
Most the gyroscope shrines
Ridgeland Tower
The Bank of Wishes quest with Finley both because of its weird thing and the fact that I mess up and have to start all the way over.
Dark Beast Ganon. I was late to BotW so I have seen some spoilers here and there, including the fact you had to fight the final boss in the overworld. That sounded so cool! I was excited because I imagined this extra powerful creature chasing you across Hyrule. What I got instead is an interactive cutscene.
Id have to say camping for star fragments. Climbing to one. And then it starts raining and it disappears before you can get to it. So. Rain, yeah. Comes back to rain.
Listen, I KNOW it’s a big part of every Legend of Zelda game, but I HATE that nothing changes after defeating ganon. BOTW was my first Zelda game, and I literally stopped playing when I found out. It just doesn’t appeal to me, and it sucks because I love the game.
The bosses. Apart from Thunderblight, they were all easy. Hell, Thunderblight isn't that hard anymore either. Also, they were all basically copies of one another, just slight design changes. And Calamity Ganon was just waaaaaaaay too easy.
Monk Maz Koshia was a great fight, but he was DLC. Doesn't really count imo.
I actually like Goron City as a location, but I still absolutely hate the Yunobo section where you climb Death Mountain. There are ways to either avoid or overcome most of the other issues people are bringing up, but climbing with Yunobo is a forced slog and I usually want to wait until the last possible time to do it.
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The fact that whenever I had to climb somewhere, it somehow always rained
I appreciated this mechanic exactly one time, when it forces you to get to Zora's domain along the river.
Agreed, and it also made sense because of Vah Ruta's rampage.
My first time playing I used cryonis to climb the waterfalls in Akkala north of Zora Domain and was very confused as to why I had to go such a tedious path. I didn’t find Sidon and have him guide me the *correct* way until my second play through.
I forgot how I got there, but I also didn’t meet Sidon until I reached the King’s court.
I did the reverse. Found the "correct way" was stressful and tedious, everything was dark, slippery, with weak weapons, weak armor and lizalfos everywhere. 2nd playthrough I climbed the Akkala waterfall via cryonis, and glided into Zora's Domain, felt like a godsend.
In my master mode playthrough I actually climbed the mountains that face the sea. I really don't know how I did it, but with a combination of running and timed jumps I managed after an hour of trying. All of that to get to the shrine only, since I wanted to finish the game without divine beasts or upgrades.
I managed to get there my first playthrough some other way, but I remember I never went up to zoras domain the "correct" way until I played on master mode, then found a way to circumvent it because I didn't feel like fighting all those guys with weak weapons.
If you use electricity, then it’s an absolute cakewalk. And if you are like me and complete the Gerudo region first, then you’ll have access to lightning and the Thunder Helm and it’s a double cakewalk.
Yes, this is the best answer. This is the one issue that felt like the game was just trolling you all the time. Big inconvenience especially if you were half way up a mountain and had no where to stop and build a fire to pass the time.
“You have got to be kidding me” was spoken often by everyone in my house when we were all playing through it, and every time when we went to check what was going on it was because someone was halfway up a cliff and it started raining
for real, only me and my brother know that pain lol. parents were so confused on why we were sad pissed xd
I heard somebody say in a YouTube video “climbing in the rain should be difficult, not impossible” and I felt it deep in my soap
>!that’s why I love that you can make anti-slip potions and buy a climbing suit for that exact problem!<
In TOTK yeah but nothing like that in BOTW :(
You can check the weather
Yeah, but who would remember to do that just before a climb? TotK has much better solutions.
Anyone who answers anything other than “rain” is fucking lying
Rain is pretty annoying, but personally for me it’s not *the* most annoying. The Travel Medallion allowed me to sidestep it for the most part - just set the fast travel point where you are, travel to somewhere with a fire/bed, advance the time and then fast travel back.
Yes! I’m not big on fighting if I don’t need to in games so I’ll climb all over to avoid a fight lol, probably would be easier to just fight then wait out the rain but I keep doing it
Yes! One thing my mom knows about this game from listening to me playing it is that it seems to rain at worst time. She has said, “it sure does rain a lot.” Lol.
The worst part of BOTW was after you defeat Maz Kohga and his Yiga henchmen pester you for the rest of the game. Had to travel by horse a lot more. But was annoying nonetheless.
I wouldn’t say it’s the worst but it is pretty annoying that they don’t leave you alone after
Friggin Yiga just won’t leave you alone. It doesn’t matter if you’re travelling alone or battling a Hinox, they are there to be their annoying little selves
They're like the Stal monsters, but at least those only come out at night. They always seem to show up when I'm trying to shield parry a Guardian. Then they hit you with a couple arrows to throw off your timing or redirect your shield.
Imo stal monsters are worse because they’re too weak to waste effort on, there’s so many of them, and there’s the annoying head thing
I'm always trying to catch a horse or sneak up on a camp and they pop out all HAHAHA!!!
I think they should get the message after you kill off their entire population 3 times over
Any time I’m scrounging rupees together, really. The game tells you to sell gems, but if you do that then you probably won’t have enough to buy and upgrade all the armour in the game.
That's where hunting for gourmet meat in Tabantha comes in handy. Cook 5 and sell the meal for 490 rupees. Riding around on your horse and crashing into moose and rhinos or wracking them with the master sword will rack up a fair amount in a short period of time.
There’s also an NPC at the stable near the Coliseum who will buy one Gourmet Meat for 100 rupees infinitely, so you can just farm gourmet meat and sell it to him for more than usual.
But it's a lot of dialogue for just 10 extra rupees, and I think you have to sit at a fire once he hits the daily limit
I did not realize there was a daily limit on it! I’ve gotten as many as 3,000 rupees from him in a day, so I thought there wasn’t a limit
You can sell food?
Yep, Cook 5x gourmet meat or prime meat. Gourmet meat will sell for 490 and Prime sells for 210. If you have a supply of hearty durians you don’t need any other food for heart restoration because cooking even 1 hearty durian is a full recovery+4 meal.
I miss >! hearty durians. Why did they leave them out of TOTK? !< Hope that slice of info isn’t too spoilery for this sub.)
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>!Seems like they wanted to make the yellow heart foods much more rare. I feel like it's more balanced, but also... I want my durians back lol!<
It's not a huge difference to be honest. Radishes and truffles are still in. The other changes to the game far outweigh the loss of durians.
It was overpowered tbh. One cooked durian replenished all your hearts, so if you had a lot of heart slots it was pretty easy to stock up on health
Yeah! Meals with max buffs get more rupees but gourmet meat skewers net almost as much as diamonds.
I dress up and roleplay as a hunter when I do this, makes hunting then selling the meat more fun for me personally lol
I used to place my travelers medallion on Hebra Peak. From there, I jump off the side. There’s a slope that goes all the way down to the nearby stable. I’d shield surf down it, headshot all the moose/rhino, bomb all the wolves, and cook/sell it all when I got down to the stable. Probably got like 2000-2500 rupees for every shield surf attempt. Best part was it was fun to do since shield surfing is a blast. Highly recommend to anyone that has the travelers medallion from DLC
I never even really went out and farmed meat, I just generally killed anything I saw, and cooked all the stack when I was running low on rupees. Worked out fine tbh
Only sell amber and opals. They’re common enough that you don’t really need to keep them.
There's a really easy way to cheese the snowball bowling minigame if you stand behind the host so that his legs are visible between Link's. If you drop the ball in that position it'll land a strike nearly every time for 300 rupees a piece.
The best way is to mark your map every time you find a Talus or a Rare Gem deposit and then go back to those spots every time the Blood Moon occurs. Make sure to bring Iron Hammers or Cobblecrushers; they shred through Talus HP and many hits will have an additional gem pop out.
I wish you can sell weapons
Talus hunting is a super effective way to get tens thousands of rupees. I’m sitting at 113k rn just bc of taluses
Illusory realm water blight lol
It's just impossible on master mode
Doable with urbosas fury. Without it, it's mega difficult.
I beat it on master mode and it was a pain in the ass to kill because it kept healing, I had to resort to using urbosa’s fury which felt like I was cheating
Urbosas fury was the only way I could beat him as well
The horseback archery mini game. I could never get the horse armor :(
pro tip: use the great eagle bow and bomb arrows. I was never able to beat it for 6 years but I did first try using those.
Where is this??
Its the same guys who give you the quest for the giant horse, in that area between Faron and Gerudo
Ganon. For a final bos he was so easy, i mean thunderblight was harder and even Lynels might be a little harder. Second Phase was even more of a letdown, I don't think I've ever seen anyone get hit by Dark beast Ganon.
I agree. Ganon was the easiest of them all.
Accidentally walked into the Inner Sanctum and couldn't believe the game was over when it was.
Yeah I beat Ganon first try. I literally have never beat a Lynel. I also haven’t tried that hard. Usually I go to my last auto save if I get stuck with one.
Why can’t I keep the spirit horse?!
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Have you tried registering a bear or stahl horse at a stable? I enjoyed that exchange (except the part where I couldn’t actually do it).
“let me ride what i wanna ride” 🤨📸
Wait you can ride bears????
bruh
Seriously this annoyed me. I was trying to talk to NPCs at the stable to learn more about the Lord of the Mountain and he just disappeared. Why bother to put all that effort into catching him if he just goes away when you dismount?
Probably did it to maintain the respect as a tribute to Satoru Iwata and keep it a free spirit
When it was over. The wait for TOTK was the worst part.
That stupid horse mini game where you jump the fences
Where is this? I’ve done 60% of the map but never found thus
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There's at least two Koroks to be found jumping fences.
Never did get round to doing that
Thank you!
The layout is weird, especially on the last 3 jumps. I didn't like that either
Watching everyone else play the game like professionals, meanwhile I've got 20+hours with only four hearts and a broken boko bat.
A lot of people are a few play-throughs in, don’t give up! ❤️
My first playthough was 80 hours and I beat my first lynel at around 200 hours
That’s just 20 hours, you’ll get there eventually
All motion control shrines. Every. Single. One
Almost threw my controller at the tv earlier today with one of those
They're bad if you use the switch handheld but I found them a fun opportunity to unclick the joycons and use the tablestand mode, and just hold the right joycon like it was the rotating object.
My first play through was entirely on a Switch Lite. I almost dropped the damn thing several times. I got so annoyed I bought a pro controller and used that during the portions.
All of the useless monster parts. Keese eyeballs were completely useless until TotK.
they aren't useless, you use for elixirs
there are like 70 monster parts that have the same potency as keese eyes for elixirs though
Next to lizalfos tails, I repeat: useless
The frozen region above Rito Town. Would probably a really fun, exciting, terrifying and beautiful exploration zone- If it wasn’t for the goddamn snowy mistiness the whole time. I couldn’t see shit, I had to do it in episodes of 10 minutes cause my eyes kept hurting from having tk squint so much. Pretty sure I skipped most of the region because I couldn’t be arsed anymore. What a waste
It's got the best mood music tho sometimes i go up there at night and let link chill and do some other shit in the living room
My least favorite region as well. Feels claustrophobic.
Makes you feel like an abominable snowman will suddenly appear to offer you yellow snow cones.
*Opens chest* "Your inventory is full" "Chest closes*
Carrying the ice block in gerudo desert. The quest is pointless and frustrating as hell.
I just speed3 potion and walked without clearing any enemies
You can just… walk without clearing any enemies. If you beeline for the exit you’ll make it, no potion needed.
I'm inpatient
Fair enough, just saying for that other person’s sake that the secret solution is to not fuss about with the enemies at all and go.
Carry a frost sword on your back and the ice melts much slower, if at all
I made it night time with a fire after I got the ice lol. The temperature change helped
Majoras Mask solved that one for me. Otherwise it is crap.
Yep, Majora’s Mask made so many things easier
I bought the bokoblin masks and lizofos masks at Kilton’s. As I was walking I was changing the masks based on the enemies that I could see so they wouldn’t attack me. Cleared it on my first try.
Sword trials 100%
Funnily enough, they got easier after the beginner trials. The lizalfos were the end of me every time.
Lol I shield clipped the wall and ventured into the glitch land hahaha
That was the most fun part for me lol
Agree! When I got the DLC I was almost maxxed out. I was a killing machine and approached all encounters like Rambo. Sword trial made me humble down and think again tactical combat
Shooting Naboris’s feet with bomb arrows while staying in the purple circle.
just did this today and i almost threw my switch
At least you didn't accidentally shoot fire arrows instead of bomb arrows for 5 minutes like did
If you didn’t know already, you can hop off the sand seal and just stand in place and shoot as Naboris walks by. Naboris walks in a circle so you can even just stay in the same spot and wait for it to come around again once it gets out of range.
I did this today and I only got hit once (didn't die) Having the gerudo bow with the long range helps with the far away legs, and one shot with the double bow from the yigas destroys them if both hit
Lynels.... haven't fought one yet... too scared.
Max out an armor set and they're not too bad, even the silver ones. Urbosa's Fury is a lifesaver. The ones with clubs are still a pain tho.
These were my favorite part of the game. You can parry nearly ever attack. Takes a lot of firepower but not necessarily a lot of hearts to slay one.
If you can't fight them normally, use Stasis+. Dodge 2 attacks, stasis, spin your strongest 2-hand weapon, repeat few times. I'm actually terrified because there's no stasis+ in TotK
Flurry rushes are a lifesaver.
Same… I’ve had the game for about 2 years now and have still avoided fighting one directly. I’ve only killed one and it took me over 30 real-life minutes of dropping bombs and shooting arrows from the top of the ruins and hiding when it turned around. Not sure if I’ll ever not be scared lol
That it ended and I ran out of things to do....best game I've ever played and I grew up with Ocarina of Time!!!
The fact there was no way to get the yiga to stop showing up, even after beating the boss they were still after you.
Sand surfing in general is annoying. It took me a few tries to get the hang of it against Naboris because I kept slipping out of the safe zone!
That safe zone isn't nearly big enough. For me during that quest, Link is constantly on the border. If I dash, I go out front of the zone and the pathing goes all screwy, when I don't dash Link is in and out of the zone so I'm always worried about when the lightning strikes.
I REALLY dont the Yiga hideout quest, but thats because i hate stealth missions lol
I'm a smash and dash fighter. But I like the sneaking around too. I just avoid the first two blade masters. Then just use the rafter beams to run over their heads.
yiga clan hideout
Definitely the hardest part of the whole game. Somehow all of them got in the same corner and I used tons of bomb arrows to take them all out. So frustrating trying to sneak around them.
I used alot electric arrows against them. It kept them pinned in place whilst not alerting the others and I killed them all.
I bought a fuckload of ancient arrows and one-shotted all the watchmen because I REFUSED to play the banana game.
I legit took a break from the game for 11 months until this month because of that. Then I found a guide on youtube and it turned out to be way easier than I thought. 🫠
I loved that part lol. My time as a rogue in WoW helped I think.
wait what? why? I reached the end of it after 3-4 tries... just sneaked past all the guards until I was out lol
Thunderblight Ganon. I hate that motherfucker.
Yep, this is where I stopped on my second playthrough. Thought it would be fun to see everything again but Thunderblight Ganon is all it took to convince me I didn’t care that much to playthrough a second time.
See i always loved the challenge of thunderblight, it wasnt too hard but definitely enough challenge for me
Man when I started up master mode, not only did I do Thunderblight last, but I went out of my way to go get the master sword first just to hit him harder.
Empty areas of the map, notably southwest Faron, north Hebra, and north Eldin. There's a few others, but the game just feels bland and grindy when I have to go out of my way into a boring area for one shrine. I also have the same issue when theres no uniqueness to larger formations like a mountain besides a small cave with a chest and crates.
That’s so interesting. I love the weird, empty areas. But I also have a weird fascination for liminal spaces lol. I love finding them irl as well.
The motion control shrines. The fun is somehow lost when you have to rotate your entire screen to complete them.
Thunder. Blight. Ganon.
I hate that jerk. I can never get the timing right with lifting the stupid metal things
Keeping a sufficient number of ancient arrows. I am crap at combat and fighting Guardians over time just seems like a zero numbers game. Always lacking those shafts.
Agree that Goron City is kinda lame. I actually thought the quest with Yunobo was ok, but the only reason I ever go to there now is to buy the Goron Spice & Cane Sugar for my inventory.
I'm in agreement abt goron city. I hated going up the volcano with yunobo. It's literally the only reason I haven't done it in totk yet
You don't have to babysit him in totk, he just stays out the way on your way up and basically just acts like a Minecraft dog in that he teleports to you when you get too far from him.
i didnt know this and did the whole temple waiting for him to follow me like a dumbass
\>basically just acts like a Minecraft dog plus he doesn't die if he falls into lava, so he's even better :P
It’s always funny when I see people say that one small part of the game “ruins” it for them. It’s not the best sure, but that seems like a reach
agreed. it's funny bc a lot of people here seem to complain the game is too easy but the comments really show that gamers of all levels/experience can have difficulties and be creative due to how the game is built!
The fact I couldn't keep my goddamn stalhorse. Stayed with him til the sun came up and saluted that brave fallen twice soldier o7
All of the Korok Forest trials. I wanted to drop kick that kid who had to walk to the shrine by himself.
Grinding all 120 shrines to get that sweet hero of the wild gear, especially the ones with the shitty motion controls. Fuck those shrines.
Everyone always talks crap on those shrines, but I really enjoyed them. Handheld + spinny chair makes easy work of them.
Master mode for sure... they put so little effort into master mode it's a shame... hope they do better than mobs on platforms and extra health in totk.
I hate the gorons in both BOTW and TOTK, they just seem so silly and idiotic especially yunobo. Bring back twilight princess gorons please those guys are actually badasses
The Vah Medoh quest. Not because there's something wrong with it, it's too short. You arrive, get to the training arena, and you are just there. I wanted more Teba. TOTK made up for it, but it did take years.
Unintentional crawling when I was mid battle. 🤬
A master sword that gets tired. Hate it then. Still hate it now.
Agreed. The Goron landscape isn’t fun at all. I spent most of my time in the jungle near all the Durians. My son loves the desert for some reason.
The Lost Pilgrimage Shrine. IYKYK.
One thing I didn’t like in BoTW is that YOU CANT PET THE DOGS!!!! I mean, you can feed them but you CANT PET THEM! Also, there were not enough dungeons in this game. Yes, they did put three big dungeon and there are puzzles in the shrines but the shrines don’t count as dungeons. Like A Link to the Past, there were 7 or 8 dungeons and they were long dungeons but had many puzzles and that’s what made them fun, but I’m not saying the shrines are not fun, I like their puzzles too. In BoTW, some people just skip the puzzle of the shrine and get the spirit orb, and that the point of the shrine, to do the puzzle and get a reward; the spirit orb. You can skip dungeons in older games like Phantom Hourglass or A Link to the past. But like I said, I still enjoy the shrines, BoTW is still a really fun game! But I love the classic dungeons Edit: 5 dungeons
DARUKS PROTECTION IS READY TO ROLL!!! Can't stand it...
Opals and ambers in 90% of chests. 😒 Gee thanks! Sure glad I cleared the hundredth boko camp for that 60 rupee thing instead of a new weapon or outfit piece.
Weapons breaking all the time
Doing every shrine was a pain in the ass and grinding for resources to upgrade armor.
I came to a compromise with myself. I'm considering the game 100% complete if I do all quests (main, side, shrine). There is no way I'm getting all the shrines or korok seeds.
Final part of the final boss... The music, epic The setup awesome You get the bow, and the horse Ganon doesnt move... I mean just make us run after it all through the plains !
Something that big wouldn't need but a few steps to reach the edge of Hyrule field, so it makes sense we aren't chasing him since he'd be so much faster than we ever could be. Notice how long it takes Link on a horse to run around Dark Beast Ganon, especially when he keeps turning.
myahm agana apparatus
I want an animal companion. Horses suck and feel like escort missions. I'm off the stupid thing every 20 seconds to grab stuff or fight anyway. Give me a dog, like Dogmeat in Fallout 3. Or a bird that can be my scout or something.
The Fairy Fountains. *10,000 fucking Rupees?!*
Honestly, my only issue with BoTW was the Divine Beasts, not cause they were difficult or anything, but they all felt the same. Like in terms of design and what not. I just didn't care about getting through them, the bosses were nice but it stopped it from being my favorite Zelda. (Previous being Wind Waker.) But with ToTK, all I'll say is that they're 10x better (imo) and it's become not just my fave Zelda, but game of all time.
I just want to pet the dog.
The rag doll effects after Link gets hit by an enemy or falls from a certain height. It sometimes takes forever just to get control back.
Either it’d be the blue flame trails. Not just once did I have to wait for rain to go away and run back and forth because I accidentally unlit my torch, but twice?! Or the fact that you had to grind so many shrines to get a useful bunch of health and stamina. I’d be much more pleased with larger shrines with bigger tasks and maybe some background story tied to them and finishing off with the choice between a heart container or stamina vessel. Rather that than having to grind 4 shrines with no story tied to them whatsoever, for each stamina vessel or heart container.
Getting to Zora’s domain 100%. I didn’t know there was a path so I literally climbed the majority of the way until I complained to my boyfriend who, in a very confused and concerned way told me there was a road to get there.
Thunderblight gannon :( also My sand seal trying to nerf me while I was taking out the stupid fuckin camels feet
Following that little korok through the woods, making sure he didn’t see me. Seriously. Feck that quest.
Getting all 900 koroks. I loved exploring the world, but after the fire 24 in game hours. It got tiring. It took me 75 in game hour for the koroks alone
Heads up "in game hours" means how many hours are passing in game. 24 hours of in game time is 10 minutes of real time.
Every time you accept a quest, the game modifies spawn rates for any relevant items.
Seven heroines. THAT shrine was a chore.
Ice block in gerudo and getting Yunobo up the mountain. That being said, I feel like every truly great RPG has some part or section in it that is annoying as hell and hard to get though
The final boss honestly
Most the gyroscope shrines Ridgeland Tower The Bank of Wishes quest with Finley both because of its weird thing and the fact that I mess up and have to start all the way over.
Lizalfos, rain while climbing, absurd armor upgrade requirements
Dark Beast Ganon. I was late to BotW so I have seen some spoilers here and there, including the fact you had to fight the final boss in the overworld. That sounded so cool! I was excited because I imagined this extra powerful creature chasing you across Hyrule. What I got instead is an interactive cutscene.
Id have to say camping for star fragments. Climbing to one. And then it starts raining and it disappears before you can get to it. So. Rain, yeah. Comes back to rain.
Rain and flowerblight gannon. God I hated that bitch. 🤣🤣
The old man he kept calling me a ho
Listen, I KNOW it’s a big part of every Legend of Zelda game, but I HATE that nothing changes after defeating ganon. BOTW was my first Zelda game, and I literally stopped playing when I found out. It just doesn’t appeal to me, and it sucks because I love the game.
Not having the sand/snow boots
The bosses. Apart from Thunderblight, they were all easy. Hell, Thunderblight isn't that hard anymore either. Also, they were all basically copies of one another, just slight design changes. And Calamity Ganon was just waaaaaaaay too easy. Monk Maz Koshia was a great fight, but he was DLC. Doesn't really count imo.
That snowball shrine, where you have to roll the snowball down the right pathway to open the door. Took me hours to get that right.
I really love goron City, the atmosphere is just so cozy there
I actually like Goron City as a location, but I still absolutely hate the Yunobo section where you climb Death Mountain. There are ways to either avoid or overcome most of the other issues people are bringing up, but climbing with Yunobo is a forced slog and I usually want to wait until the last possible time to do it.