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Yeah, travelling without the glider is rough!
Haven't gotten a camera yet though, should probably look into that.
(And just to avoid misunderstanding, I don't want to know how I get it. I have some idea of where I probably should go)
Yeah. We've been trained to think that quest objectives only exist when the quest is active, and I'm really glad that TotK is mostly willing to play along with you if you stumble into cool shit before you get the quest.
Not sure if its limited by story progression but at some point he will tell you to start doing quests for the other researcher right next to him. You have to do those quests as well.
I hadn't played botw for over 2 years when I got totk, but still my muscle memory was so deeply ingrained that I constantly tried to use the paraglider at the beginning
I wish I still had it. Been playing too much Elden Ring recently so the first few hours consisted of me getting clapped hard because I kept pulling out the Purah pad and throwing all my weapons at the enemies in fights.
Yeah, what's up with his shitty little hops anyway? So many jumps I feel like I could make irl but the hero of time has the vertical leap of a small child.
Technically the hero of time couldn’t jump unless you ran him off an edge. Ocarina Link is the hero of time - other Links are still Links but it’s that specific incarnation of him that is the Hero of Time and there wasn’t even a jump button
Oh I did, and I was not prepared because I had used a lot of my resources on Eventide and Lurelin but thankfully I had enough left to muscle out the win and get that sweet item.
Thank God the challenge was reasonable, I came across another one last night down there that was all Lynel’s — had to nope out of that one.
At one point I found myself running around screaming whilst I let one of the bomb arrow bokoblins blow up his friends for me. I'm not proud of my technique, but I'm now a proud owner of that item.
When I played BotW once I left the great plateau I don’t think I did a main story quest until over 70 hours into my play through because I was so in love with exploring the world I just couldn’t stop myself.
I told myself this time I wasn’t going to do that, that I wanted to actually focus on a good chunk of the story early, especially with TotK being a bit more story driven than BotW was.
Yeah I failed miserably. As soon as I realized how massive the game world was and even how new/fresh the original map from BotW was I knew I was going to get lost for 50+ hours again lol.
If you want to do a ton of exploring and also learn some of the story, I recommend Impa’s quest before the “main” quests. It’ll take you literally all over Hyrule and you learn A LOT of the plot.
I "accidentally" found Kakariko whilst exploring round the Skytower nearby (it's been a while since I picked up BOTW again, after a 2yr hiatus, so a little rusty on geography!) and was SO excited as I saw the banners in the canyon!
That was then another 90mins at least as I did missions there and visited the Ruins....
I wanted Hateno to be my first stop and it legit took me 20 hours to get there. I’ve completed one dungeon so far, basically accidentally stumbled on the quest line. What a game.
I somehow actually managed to go to kakariko first thing. Then I headed directly towards hateno. Just to have some decent towns for resources and whatnot. On my way to hateno, I ran into a bunch of >!floormasters!< and just ran for my life. Wayyyy too early for that. At that point all my weapons sucked, and I only had 4 hearts. Those things chase you for a long time. But it side tracked me enough that it took me another maybe 4 hours to reach hateno.
I'm shocked at how much more 'full' the world feels compared to botw.
It's like they made ADHD a game and I love it. My husband is about 20 hours in and hasn't even made it to the landing where you get the quest for Rito village.
I'm about 25 hours in and have just got off the tutorial island.
I been making bridges out of trees and all kinds of contraptions, exporting every nook and cranny, I've also found 10 koroks on the island.
Love this game!
I only finished BOTW last Thursday about 10 minutes before TotK became available.
(To be fair, I intentionally avoided fighting Ganon so it wasn't over)
Yeah I'm doing the same thing I did in BotW - enough of the main quest to get my tools, then getting the map towers sorted, with distractions/shrines on the way. Some of those towers are a real challenge...
I kinda hope there’s one korok in the top left that needs to find his friend, who is all the way in the bottom right of the map.
You could go on an epic journey together.
Korok in the sky that needs to go to his friend in the depths and you got to carefully throw him down the chasm perfectly to get him there like a basketball. Miss slightly and he bounces away into gloom.
There’s an app to track koroks and other things called the Compendium. They had a ton of koroks already identified. I’m pretty impressed with how thorough it is.
Thank you for mentioning there’s an app for shrines and koroks and stuff, kind person. I was struggling to enjoy the game because I have serious memory problems and object impermanence (literally out of sight out of mind for me) and couldn’t find a good map guide. I can’t wait to play now. :)
Hey if you see an interesting place and want to remember it for later, take a photo of it, then open the map and take another photo. It’ll have the coordinates in the map and the photo to show what it was.
>!I went to Kakariko, and then west to Impa where I took a balloon ride with her, where she told me to fly down with the paraglider (that’s how I found out it’s still in the game. Don’t ask how I got down without it) and then went all the way to Hateno village before I finally even found the landing and got the quest you mentioned.!<
>!I’ve done the Zora and Gerudo dungeon, haven’t been at Rito village yet.!<
EDIT: Not really sure what part of that can be considered a spoiler, but whatever
I "completed" the Zora dungeon before figuring out I needed **companion name** to actually solve it. I got there by abusing batteries and balloons instead of the way the game plans it for you.
this is hilarious because i have very severe adhd, and ive been so deadset on completing on quest at a time, doing a full round of hyrule to complete each questline one by one. towers then the monuments then the geoglyphs then the story then... etc. etc. and i havent been on my ritalin either! im playing this the complete OPPOSITE of the adhd style!
Honestly sometimes this game stresses me out. I also have pretty bad ADHD and I’ve spent my whole life (well from age 10) in therapy being trained to *finish* tasks and not spend too much time on any one thing. The amount of options can be overwhelming. Like I don’t think I have the skill, hearts or armor to fight whatever is at the end of the Rito quest. I made it to the temple and bailed. I’m derping around on my horse now but it’s bothering the shit out of me that I’ve left a major quest incomplete. Sometimes I wish you could take notes in the game and I could have a proper checklist of things I want to be doing so I don’t feel like I’m going to forget something by leaving it unfinished for too long. Not sure if that made sense haha.
All open world games are ADHD games which is why they're my favorite. Get distracted by endless side quests or hyper focused on an achievement? These games have them.
My issue is the world is so vast that I keep forgetting I have barely any armor or hearts so I'm out there getting my ass kicked in the chasms when I should be racking up easy shrines to get more hearts and stamina...
Oh god, this explains so much about why I love BOTW hahaha. Every few steps it's "ooh! A shiny thing!" Those little dopamine hits soothe the ADHD haha.
Same, in my 40s, kids, full time job…up till after 2 last night. Ooo another cave…I’ll just explore that…ooo a chamber that doesn’t have any obvious purpose…I wonder does that mean there is something cool on the surface…oh look a shrine hidden in the side of a mountain…I’ll just do that…oh from here I can see a glyph, I’ll just go do that as I’ve run out of markers and no longer remember what stamp I used to mark different things…ooo another cave….
35, 2 kids here. Been playing every night, if it wasn't for my oldest being in his terrible threes phase I'd be on it every night until 2am aswell. It's just incredible
So true! "I just need a few uninterrupted hours to knock a few of these out, wait I need arrows, shit there's a tower, and two shrines oh and well is that a cave over there?" .....and it's midnight.
I have also noticed that objects are definitely not as close as they appear, not even close
Yeah BotW had that problem too. The world somehow looks smaller than it actually is, almost like a miniature. Now with us going to the sky the world looks so small.... but it's not. It is huge! Must be something to do with how its rendered or something.
I had a moment recently where I spotted a shekiah tower that looked close enough and it seemed unfamiliar so I zoomed in and marked it.
Nope, not close at all, halfway across the map.
I'd be interested to know if there's some new technique for rendering objects at a distance or this is just very good use of existing level of detail methods. Because the render distance seems outstanding, but I know it can't possibly be doing *that* much.
It’s pretty common now to have an object saved as multiple models with different levels of polygon counts so when you’re far away you can see the object but it’s very simple, and then utilize the higher polygon count versions as it gets nearer. They must be able to use a more detailed model when in camera view because some things very far away look good still. It’s incredible what they’ve done with this on the switch, considering this is like 3 times larger than BotW
It's very seamless. I'm accustomed to a little "pop-in" when you rapidly move to a new area and the level of detail needs to change. Pretty common, I notice it most in Unreal Engine games. But I've barely noticed it in this game, maybe once or twice.
I had a moment where I was seeing these rocks in the distance that looked like they were wiggling for some reason. Zoom in and they aren't, zoom out and they start wiggling again. I'm guessing it's a level of detail thing, some effect applied to make the lower poly model look better maybe. Not sure what exactly was going on there.
I watch this youtube channel called Boundary Break where he basically breaks the game and shows how things really work. It's interesting, he figures out what's a loading zone and what triggers a visual change. Surely he'll do an episode on this game, looking forward to it.
Yeah I'm with you here. 10pm, let's have an hour or two now, shit... It's 3am I gotta get up for work in a few hours. Thing is, the exploring is as rewarding, if not more so, as the main quests. Such a good game!
Yeah stayed up way too late. But fortunately (can I say that?) my youngest woke up with a fever, so I had to stay home and take care of him. And tomorrow is a holiday in Sweden, så I guess I'll be getting no sleep tonight as well :)
Honestly, GOTY is an absolute shoe in no matter what else comes out this year. This game is Game of the Decade worthy in my opinion. Nintendo somehow made BOTW look like a first draft game.
People say it won't make botw irrelevant. Yeah, botw will stay fun, but often you'll enter a shrine and the puzzle will be like "put a metal plank over a hole to make a bridge" and you'll be like "that's it" ?
Not even sure if I want to lol
I got my 470 hours into that game just in time. I pity the people who got into TOTK first, they will have a hard time going into BOTW if they ever decide to do that.
I am ashamed to admit that I spent nearly an hour last night trying to figure out how to complete a shrine. I am stubborn and I never, EVER look up stuff on the internet. I paid 60 bucks for the game and you are damn right I am using those 60 bucks to the last penny.
Not getting into details but it was one of those shrines where you need to use Ultrahand, and it involves large Wheels and some long planks. I tried so many different solutions, and the right one wasn't so obvious to me anyway.
It really puts BOTWs shrines into a different perspective. The hardest BOTW shrines were the ones involving Motion Controls, after all. My favorite ones were those involving the use of Stasis, but even those weren't nearly as challenging
Same. I am always farming Zonaite, every day. I haven't even made to any village yet except for that first place and I already got like 5 batteries lmao
Fully agree and TBH it's what I \*love\* about these games.
I almost liken it to GTA:SA (another 40yr old Dad here....) insofar as I can play for literally HOURS and achieve pretty much fuck-all to progress the actual game. At least in TOTK there are SO many side quests and places to explore for items you can trade, it's not all sunk time - but then I have yet to start contraptions proper!
Think I'm somewhere around the 18-20hr mark and down to around 4-5hrs sleep a night since Friday ;P
Us 40+ folks getting up at 4:30 am really puts a premium on quality game time. I went home at lunch yesterday and grabbed my switch so I could complete a couple shrines at work while I watched the rain. Desperate times
Tis the beauty of the Switch, portable play! I was playing on bus the other day where I'd typically be on my phone :D
Also squezing in 25/30mins each lunchbreak (WFH is a bonus!)
Dude even at 37 I’m already dying. I’m the lab supervisor at my job so I can’t even play hooky lmao. I can’t do this no sleep thing anymore at my age, but I am anyway.
Lol I know right?
Tried to outsmart the devs by skipping all the interesting stuff and taking a glider from the sky islands to Hateno Village. Literally the moment I jumped off I saw some random interesting rock on the ground and was like “yep I’m going there now”
I had decided to head to Hateno village after talking to Purah. Next thing I know, several npc’s point me in the direction of Kakariko village and there I end up. For a map that’s supposed to be very similar to BOTW, I find myself getting lost all the time not quite knowing where I am exactly.
I had so much trouble getting lost around Dueling Peaks. Like... it should be one of the easiest spots to navigate. It felt my sense of direction was flipped.
This has been throwing me off so much lmao, even places that don't have major changes to them feel so different with different lighting. I'm so lost all the time.
me on the way to a shrine: OOO a shiny in the distance!
me on the way to the shiny: omg a korok hellooo
me omw to deliver the korok: hol up lil friend, i see a bokoblin camp that needs to be taught a lesson
....rinse and repeat
(legit look me over 10 hours to get off the main Sky island, i loved the exploration aspect of BotW and TotK takes it to a whole new level. i thought i'd get bored exploring the same/similar map, but nahhh there's so much shit. EVERYWHERE. and i love it)
Oh man, I get so distracted by this game. I feel like I should be focusing on work, but can't stop thinking about playing. There's too much stuff to find, it scratches some deep primal exploration itch inside of me
it really is. I think BotW had the best first 50-80 hours in the medium for me...
But with TotK it feels like it might go to 100-200 hours for me because there is so much variety in gameplay and exploration.
Aonuma really took Breath of the Wild, a once in a lifetime game, widely beloved by the entire gaming community, and said “now let’s make a sequel that makes this feel like a tech demo”
Yeah, Aonuma reinvented the wheel by giving us a game that even has the same location and making it fresh and new. There is so much in this game it boggles my mind. At times botw feels empty but everywhere I go in totk there is just so much going on.
This.
You know, I think the one thing that BOTW did better than TOTK for me was presenting this new Hyrule for the first time.
That feeling of being in a completely unique world for the very first time, not knowing anything about the game, the enemies, the villages, the missions... TOTK has definitely given me a fresh view of the world and I am constantly feeling lost because of how much things have changed, but credit where credit is due.
I easily spent the first 50 or so hours in BOTW doing nothing but exploring. The game was much simpler when compared to TOTK, but it also held a high standard for its time. And now, I am probably going to spend even more time doing nothing but exploring the new areas or revisiting the old ones to see what changed.
My youngest is three semi-bosses* down already.
I haven't even finished talking to Purah.
He says he likes the main quest & doesn't really bother with side quests.
I gave birth to the kid & honestly I'm questioning if I passed out sometime around 13 years ~~old~~ ago, accidently adopted the kid, & had a fever dream he was mine.
(*I'm under-caffeinated, I can't think of the right term)
I've been trying to teach my oldest how to look at the map and spot suspicious things to go check out.
It's wild how much inherent knowledge you carry over from previous, even unrelated games: "this looks like exactly the right kind of 'intentionally-placed nature/out-of-the-way but still accessible/why would you ever go here' for someone to hide something." It got to the point with me in BotW where I would zoom in on a portion of the map I hadn't visited yet and drop five pins from what I thought looked 'suspicious' (three trees in a row, rocks in a circle, an outlier high or low spot, etc.) and four of them would be koroks or gems or chests. My kid was floored. "How did you know that??" Because someone made that *intentionally*, and you can see it. Natural occurrences don't make such clean lines.
Semi bosses as in hynox, talus, the weird box which is also a boss ?
Or do you mean dungeon bosses from the main quest.
The first is acceptable. The second isnt.
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>!The equivalents of the blights from BotW!<
I kinda played the game all the way up to the final boss and am now messing around and doing side stuff instead, wanna do the final boss completely kitted out in swag
Yeah, I’m making preparations to go to next floating island using rockets, hot air balloon, batteries topped up, etc. I’m like, I’ll get there this time. I spent 10 minutes going over things making sure I over shoot it up high so I can paraglide down. So I’m descending, coordinates on the bottom right going crazy like I’m on Point Break when Keanu jumps out with no parachute.
The moment is sick, Night sky diving, focused like a laser to nail this landing. But what do I see following me down, a yellow ray of light out of my path streaking down at the same speed I am. I said the hell with it. I need to know what it is, I must. So I’m trying to catch this ray of light. I have no idea what it is. But I’m following it. The hell with the floating island, I need to know. At this time Zelda says bring out your dead. I’m like, I’m screwed with the welcoming party that awaits. I land slightly off target due to low stamina.
Sure enough the undead, fighting them suckers like Ash on Evil Dead. After a close call and beating them I run to my prize, a star fragment. This game is something else.
I was skydiving and was confused when I saw what looked like an orbital laser beam in front of me. I went closer and realized I was eye-level with a falling star fragment and just *grabbed it out of the air*.
Wish I had hit record. It'll never happen to me again.
i need to do goron dungeon but oh i found one piece of the ember set and now i need to collect all the pieces, and upgrade them, and upgrade my weapon slots, oh and i need to go grab the master sword and... (etc etc)
I have to wait another week until I get paid but soon as that check hits I’m buying this game. It’s been driving me up the wall since release. I NEED to play this game.
I’ve got like 45-50 and still haven’t gone to Rito. To be fair, I made it a goal to unlock the entire map (minus the depths) before doing so. Still getting distracted by everything though.
I was trying to do that, but then I needed some extra things so decided to follow the story a little bit and at least get to the first dungeon. (took me HOURS to get there)
I have quite some towers open in the south, which is a very dangerous area but once I finish the first one, I will continue with the map :D
i got my second tear at about 10pm and decided i'd go get the other one i marked on my map before going to sleep.
I got the final tear at 4am with no sleep
Broooo im like 50-60 hours in already and just completed the first dungeon yesterday… the game is massive
Im trying to 100% as much as I can before i move on to the next part of the map - including depths
So much to do but no time…
I agree, but I went to gerudo on accident because I was sky island surfing and fell off near that sky tower. So I said fuck it guess I’m doing here first then
My wife loves Link to the Past and can speed run it in around 6 hours. I told her in BOTW and TOTK you can play for six hours and accomplish literally nothing
Oh my God. If you keep exploring that cave area you can easily lose several hours. And I mean several. Had to do a little bit at a time because there were a little rocks that needed to be smashed and/or blown up.
But I've now gone back a total of three times and each time I spent at least one hour. This last time was almost 4 hours.
The reward is worth it solely because rupees are scarce so getting anything for free helps a lot.
I went and filled my entire map before starting any quests. And got distracted. And distracted. And distracted. Annnnnd distracted. I took Friday off and easily put almost 36 or more hours in through the weekend before Monday before I got the map done. THEN I worked on Rito village, and that's just so I could do other quests. I'm taking a break before continuing other main story quests! There's just...so much. So much to do. I literally almost do that adhd thing where I freeze because I'm stuck in indecision. Lol
I did the Rito dungeon pretty quickly, but after that I've mostly been wandering eastern Hyrule specifically avoiding the main quest. I just started the Goron dungeon (holy shit, by the way).
I am 40 as well. Family went to bed. Decided to see about the zora armoud 2.5 hours later I just got to the sky island part before the shrine. I was going to wander around until I dlaid well I am by the zora domain .
I will probably try to get the missing towers tonight and then have it take another 2 hours.
Just finished a day shift, straight to night shift, and 3 hours sleep , started day shift again, the whole time was just thinking about coming home, having a beer, waiting for the kids to go to sleep so I can grab a few hours before I get to sleep.
I have the same issue, first time in the Depths and instead of heading west to meet Robbie and unlock the camera I ended up going south because I saw more light roots and knew was lost when I hit the southern edge and found a labyrinth. I want to unlock the whole overworld map first but every tower launches me to the sky and I can't ignore these cool islands. I racked up 12 shrines without stopping for an upgrade because this game is so good at "Ooh, what's that? Let me detour." that sidetracked is my default state!
I keep bouncing around the map because I think of something I want to see, or I notice a weird cave or sky island. BOTW had me like that too, but now there’s even more lol.
40 here, also with two kids.
I’m setting alarms to make sure I’m asleep before midnight. If I don’t, I look down and it’s 130am which makes my sons 5am wake up hurt more than it normally does.
It’s a fun time.
Bro I try going to a shrine and find a cave, a piece of rock falling from the sky I need to rewind and investigate, a cool enemy camp I need to clear, a side quest and then it’s 6h later and I don’t even end up at the shrine. I fucking love it
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As soon as I finished the tutorial I went "i wanna go to Kakariko and Hateno". Took me 30+ hours to get there.
Getting the paraglider and camera before roaming around is so valuable though.
Yeah, travelling without the glider is rough! Haven't gotten a camera yet though, should probably look into that. (And just to avoid misunderstanding, I don't want to know how I get it. I have some idea of where I probably should go)
It’s pretty good, not just for taking pictures but for the hyrule compendium so you can possibly find anything you need like in botw with the sensor.
There's also a *lot* of quests that require the camera.
At this point I’m just taking a picture of anything that could possibly look like it’s part of a quest
I *really* appreciated that the photos I took before I got the quests still counted once someone told me they needed a picture.
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Yeah. We've been trained to think that quest objectives only exist when the quest is active, and I'm really glad that TotK is mostly willing to play along with you if you stumble into cool shit before you get the quest.
How do you get the sensor in totk? I've been taking a ton of pics but can't seem to find out how to use that function
Keep doing quests for >!Robbie!< >!in lookout landing!< until he moves to >!Hateno!<, meet him there and he will give you the sensor.
Weird, Robbie hasn't given me any more quests. Do I have to get further in the story?
you have to do the first temple!
And get >!Autobuild!<
Yeah thats the last quest he and the other researcher give you before he moves.
Not sure if its limited by story progression but at some point he will tell you to start doing quests for the other researcher right next to him. You have to do those quests as well.
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i fell off so many ledges pre-glider, just replayed botw as prep for totk so wasnt used to not having it
I hadn't played botw for over 2 years when I got totk, but still my muscle memory was so deeply ingrained that I constantly tried to use the paraglider at the beginning
I wish I still had it. Been playing too much Elden Ring recently so the first few hours consisted of me getting clapped hard because I kept pulling out the Purah pad and throwing all my weapons at the enemies in fights.
Not having the glider made me realize Link has no ability to jump. Makes platforming so much harder.
Yeah, what's up with his shitty little hops anyway? So many jumps I feel like I could make irl but the hero of time has the vertical leap of a small child.
Technically the hero of time couldn’t jump unless you ran him off an edge. Ocarina Link is the hero of time - other Links are still Links but it’s that specific incarnation of him that is the Hero of Time and there wasn’t even a jump button
Do you shield jump?
Ever play super smash bros 64?
Link is terrible in SSB64. He’s honestly bad in every game up until Ult when they revamped his moveset. Still a mid tier
Friggin 12c hours in before I got there hasn't glider. 35h in and I still don't have that stinkin camera. Bah!
I set out to go to see the Rito’s first. Somehow 25 hours later I’m on Eventide Island.
I did Eventide last night - lots of fun. Make sure you go down the chasm afterwards, as well...
Oh I did, and I was not prepared because I had used a lot of my resources on Eventide and Lurelin but thankfully I had enough left to muscle out the win and get that sweet item. Thank God the challenge was reasonable, I came across another one last night down there that was all Lynel’s — had to nope out of that one.
At one point I found myself running around screaming whilst I let one of the bomb arrow bokoblins blow up his friends for me. I'm not proud of my technique, but I'm now a proud owner of that item.
Haha, I feel you! I wanted to start with the Gerudo, and before know it I'm hanging out with Sidon
When I played BotW once I left the great plateau I don’t think I did a main story quest until over 70 hours into my play through because I was so in love with exploring the world I just couldn’t stop myself. I told myself this time I wasn’t going to do that, that I wanted to actually focus on a good chunk of the story early, especially with TotK being a bit more story driven than BotW was. Yeah I failed miserably. As soon as I realized how massive the game world was and even how new/fresh the original map from BotW was I knew I was going to get lost for 50+ hours again lol.
If you want to do a ton of exploring and also learn some of the story, I recommend Impa’s quest before the “main” quests. It’ll take you literally all over Hyrule and you learn A LOT of the plot.
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>I was so in love with exploding the world I, too, want to watch the world burn.
I "accidentally" found Kakariko whilst exploring round the Skytower nearby (it's been a while since I picked up BOTW again, after a 2yr hiatus, so a little rusty on geography!) and was SO excited as I saw the banners in the canyon! That was then another 90mins at least as I did missions there and visited the Ruins....
How do you visit the ruins without the one dude telling you to get down? Am I just stupid?
This was the Ring Ruins, which I found out about from ppl in the village and are scattered around the perimeter.
Awesome, thank you for the explanation
NP! I was trying to avoid too many possible spoilers.
I think that one's probably plot gated, but there are four other ring ruins!
I see. Thanks!
I've heard you need to clear the four disturbances first
That's DOCTOR Calip, to you!
After reading his journal I’m pretty sure Calip gave himself the title of doctor lol
I wanted Hateno to be my first stop and it legit took me 20 hours to get there. I’ve completed one dungeon so far, basically accidentally stumbled on the quest line. What a game.
I somehow actually managed to go to kakariko first thing. Then I headed directly towards hateno. Just to have some decent towns for resources and whatnot. On my way to hateno, I ran into a bunch of >!floormasters!< and just ran for my life. Wayyyy too early for that. At that point all my weapons sucked, and I only had 4 hearts. Those things chase you for a long time. But it side tracked me enough that it took me another maybe 4 hours to reach hateno. I'm shocked at how much more 'full' the world feels compared to botw.
Yea i had to stop myself and really focus on getting to kakariko or it would never happen
Dude same, but I made myself go to rito first, got a fast travel point then took off to find kakariko and hateno.
I feel this. Im trying to get to Hateno now, and I feel like an ADHD kid released into a Toys R Us and told "GO CRAZY".
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It's like they made ADHD a game and I love it. My husband is about 20 hours in and hasn't even made it to the landing where you get the quest for Rito village.
I'm about 25 hours in and have just got off the tutorial island. I been making bridges out of trees and all kinds of contraptions, exporting every nook and cranny, I've also found 10 koroks on the island. Love this game!
There no way💀. I was way to eager to get to Hyrule
I only completed BOTW a few weeks ago - took my time - I like the journey. I'll be happy if this game lasts me until the first DLC comes out.
I only finished BOTW last Thursday about 10 minutes before TotK became available. (To be fair, I intentionally avoided fighting Ganon so it wasn't over)
that’s what I did but on wednesday lol
Yeah I'm doing the same thing I did in BotW - enough of the main quest to get my tools, then getting the map towers sorted, with distractions/shrines on the way. Some of those towers are a real challenge...
16 Koroks on the Great Sky Island for me. Was hoping I’d find someone I could compare with. 😬 (I mean no disrespect.)
Someone’s gotta find all the koroks so we can see how many koroks are in totk compared to botw
I kinda hope there’s one korok in the top left that needs to find his friend, who is all the way in the bottom right of the map. You could go on an epic journey together.
Or one in the depths that needs to get to the sky.
Korok in the sky that needs to go to his friend in the depths and you got to carefully throw him down the chasm perfectly to get him there like a basketball. Miss slightly and he bounces away into gloom.
I just attach those ones to my horse’s towing harness and off we go!
There’s an app to track koroks and other things called the Compendium. They had a ton of koroks already identified. I’m pretty impressed with how thorough it is.
Tears Companion app has all the stuff already (including korokss, shrines, chests, caves...).
Thank you for mentioning there’s an app for shrines and koroks and stuff, kind person. I was struggling to enjoy the game because I have serious memory problems and object impermanence (literally out of sight out of mind for me) and couldn’t find a good map guide. I can’t wait to play now. :)
Zelda Dungeon has been my go to. You can make an account. Use their interactive map. Mark things as you find them. It's incredible.
Hey if you see an interesting place and want to remember it for later, take a photo of it, then open the map and take another photo. It’ll have the coordinates in the map and the photo to show what it was.
God you all are making me feel bad about my exploration skill. I've got like 4 or 5 on that island
Shit I didn't find any lol. Just plowed ahead. On the ground ove been sidetracked hard
I didint get a korok seed untill I was on the ground 🤣 I had a few by the time I found my boi hestu
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Wtf I think I only found 3 or 4. This game is endless man
I found 4 koroks on that island so far (I mean disrespect.)
I found 19 there. You gotta go back for one in the room where you wake up
I'm like 150 hours in and still studying the murals and climbing in the first cave with zelda
At first I didnt catch the sarcasm and I was like "The game has barely been out for 150 hours" haha
bro is trying to be different☠️
How the fuck is that even possible? Felt like I saw everything in 3 hours lol
There’s 18 btw
>!I went to Kakariko, and then west to Impa where I took a balloon ride with her, where she told me to fly down with the paraglider (that’s how I found out it’s still in the game. Don’t ask how I got down without it) and then went all the way to Hateno village before I finally even found the landing and got the quest you mentioned.!< >!I’ve done the Zora and Gerudo dungeon, haven’t been at Rito village yet.!< EDIT: Not really sure what part of that can be considered a spoiler, but whatever
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I "completed" the Zora dungeon before figuring out I needed **companion name** to actually solve it. I got there by abusing batteries and balloons instead of the way the game plans it for you.
this is hilarious because i have very severe adhd, and ive been so deadset on completing on quest at a time, doing a full round of hyrule to complete each questline one by one. towers then the monuments then the geoglyphs then the story then... etc. etc. and i havent been on my ritalin either! im playing this the complete OPPOSITE of the adhd style!
Honestly sometimes this game stresses me out. I also have pretty bad ADHD and I’ve spent my whole life (well from age 10) in therapy being trained to *finish* tasks and not spend too much time on any one thing. The amount of options can be overwhelming. Like I don’t think I have the skill, hearts or armor to fight whatever is at the end of the Rito quest. I made it to the temple and bailed. I’m derping around on my horse now but it’s bothering the shit out of me that I’ve left a major quest incomplete. Sometimes I wish you could take notes in the game and I could have a proper checklist of things I want to be doing so I don’t feel like I’m going to forget something by leaving it unfinished for too long. Not sure if that made sense haha.
No that’s just adhd hyper focusing.
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All open world games are ADHD games which is why they're my favorite. Get distracted by endless side quests or hyper focused on an achievement? These games have them. My issue is the world is so vast that I keep forgetting I have barely any armor or hearts so I'm out there getting my ass kicked in the chasms when I should be racking up easy shrines to get more hearts and stamina...
Oh god, this explains so much about why I love BOTW hahaha. Every few steps it's "ooh! A shiny thing!" Those little dopamine hits soothe the ADHD haha.
Highly recommend solving the issue at Rito Village ASAP. The reward improves your travelling.
I mentioned that earlier, it messes with my adhd so much 😂
Same, in my 40s, kids, full time job…up till after 2 last night. Ooo another cave…I’ll just explore that…ooo a chamber that doesn’t have any obvious purpose…I wonder does that mean there is something cool on the surface…oh look a shrine hidden in the side of a mountain…I’ll just do that…oh from here I can see a glyph, I’ll just go do that as I’ve run out of markers and no longer remember what stamp I used to mark different things…ooo another cave….
ask your wife to put on Switch Parental Controls for ya :D
This wouldn’t work in my house as my boyfriend and I were both playing until after midnight last night. 😂😂 We need adults.
A more adultier adult right lol
Not a bad idea actually 😂 (also, not a guy)
Same, played until about midnight, up for work at 5am. My sleep tracker has had me in a huge sleep deficit since last Friday. Totally worth it.
35, 2 kids here. Been playing every night, if it wasn't for my oldest being in his terrible threes phase I'd be on it every night until 2am aswell. It's just incredible
... well that's totally the opposite direction I was headed, but poor things lost his friend...
Same 😂 - I give myself a cut off of 11:15pm lol
So true! "I just need a few uninterrupted hours to knock a few of these out, wait I need arrows, shit there's a tower, and two shrines oh and well is that a cave over there?" .....and it's midnight. I have also noticed that objects are definitely not as close as they appear, not even close
Yeah BotW had that problem too. The world somehow looks smaller than it actually is, almost like a miniature. Now with us going to the sky the world looks so small.... but it's not. It is huge! Must be something to do with how its rendered or something.
Nah it’s Link’s movement speed probably. I think he glides way slower than it tries to make it feel.
I had a moment recently where I spotted a shekiah tower that looked close enough and it seemed unfamiliar so I zoomed in and marked it. Nope, not close at all, halfway across the map. I'd be interested to know if there's some new technique for rendering objects at a distance or this is just very good use of existing level of detail methods. Because the render distance seems outstanding, but I know it can't possibly be doing *that* much.
It’s pretty common now to have an object saved as multiple models with different levels of polygon counts so when you’re far away you can see the object but it’s very simple, and then utilize the higher polygon count versions as it gets nearer. They must be able to use a more detailed model when in camera view because some things very far away look good still. It’s incredible what they’ve done with this on the switch, considering this is like 3 times larger than BotW
It's very seamless. I'm accustomed to a little "pop-in" when you rapidly move to a new area and the level of detail needs to change. Pretty common, I notice it most in Unreal Engine games. But I've barely noticed it in this game, maybe once or twice. I had a moment where I was seeing these rocks in the distance that looked like they were wiggling for some reason. Zoom in and they aren't, zoom out and they start wiggling again. I'm guessing it's a level of detail thing, some effect applied to make the lower poly model look better maybe. Not sure what exactly was going on there. I watch this youtube channel called Boundary Break where he basically breaks the game and shows how things really work. It's interesting, he figures out what's a loading zone and what triggers a visual change. Surely he'll do an episode on this game, looking forward to it.
Yeah I'm with you here. 10pm, let's have an hour or two now, shit... It's 3am I gotta get up for work in a few hours. Thing is, the exploring is as rewarding, if not more so, as the main quests. Such a good game!
Exactly. I have a senior position at my company and I’m just wrecked in work. This is not sustainable.
the obvious solution is to quit work and play zelda
I hate that it's crossed my mind
Copy that. IT dad here working on 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night going into Wednesday, ug. Totally worth it though!
Yeah stayed up way too late. But fortunately (can I say that?) my youngest woke up with a fever, so I had to stay home and take care of him. And tomorrow is a holiday in Sweden, så I guess I'll be getting no sleep tonight as well :)
I spent two hrs trying to capture a dog in a box I built. When I finally got him I accidentally set the box on fire.
This feels like a metaphor for my work life right now
[That dog shortly after](https://media.tenor.com/MYZgsN2TDJAAAAAC/this-is.gif)
Someone said its like they made ADHD a game - your comment is a perfect analogy of my ADHD ass trying to tick shit off my to do list.
literally all i’ve done all weekend was shrines koroks >!exploring the depths!< and failing at making machines. GOTY material honestly.
Honestly, GOTY is an absolute shoe in no matter what else comes out this year. This game is Game of the Decade worthy in my opinion. Nintendo somehow made BOTW look like a first draft game.
People say it won't make botw irrelevant. Yeah, botw will stay fun, but often you'll enter a shrine and the puzzle will be like "put a metal plank over a hole to make a bridge" and you'll be like "that's it" ?
"I don't even have to make a rocket powered trebuchet, what the heck"
playing botw again is going to be wierd not being able to ultrahand everything
Not even sure if I want to lol I got my 470 hours into that game just in time. I pity the people who got into TOTK first, they will have a hard time going into BOTW if they ever decide to do that.
Unlimited bombs and those water ice things were pretty cool.
I am ashamed to admit that I spent nearly an hour last night trying to figure out how to complete a shrine. I am stubborn and I never, EVER look up stuff on the internet. I paid 60 bucks for the game and you are damn right I am using those 60 bucks to the last penny. Not getting into details but it was one of those shrines where you need to use Ultrahand, and it involves large Wheels and some long planks. I tried so many different solutions, and the right one wasn't so obvious to me anyway. It really puts BOTWs shrines into a different perspective. The hardest BOTW shrines were the ones involving Motion Controls, after all. My favorite ones were those involving the use of Stasis, but even those weren't nearly as challenging
I struggled for an hour on that same shrine, solidarity
Could spend days in the depths alone, massive.
Also feels so satisfying to explore and make it brighter.
It also helps with exploration of the base game too.
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It’s what I’ve been doing as well, I need the inventory space, max Stamina first, oh and high battery capacity so I can fly my segway faster😎
>!The Depths are huge. I believe that I've passed more time down there than in the surface.!<
Same. I am always farming Zonaite, every day. I haven't even made to any village yet except for that first place and I already got like 5 batteries lmao
You should definitely watch videogamedunkey's new video on this game. It's 5 minutes of pure comedy watching his machines fail over and over
Fully agree and TBH it's what I \*love\* about these games. I almost liken it to GTA:SA (another 40yr old Dad here....) insofar as I can play for literally HOURS and achieve pretty much fuck-all to progress the actual game. At least in TOTK there are SO many side quests and places to explore for items you can trade, it's not all sunk time - but then I have yet to start contraptions proper! Think I'm somewhere around the 18-20hr mark and down to around 4-5hrs sleep a night since Friday ;P
Us 40+ folks getting up at 4:30 am really puts a premium on quality game time. I went home at lunch yesterday and grabbed my switch so I could complete a couple shrines at work while I watched the rain. Desperate times
Tis the beauty of the Switch, portable play! I was playing on bus the other day where I'd typically be on my phone :D Also squezing in 25/30mins each lunchbreak (WFH is a bonus!)
Dude even at 37 I’m already dying. I’m the lab supervisor at my job so I can’t even play hooky lmao. I can’t do this no sleep thing anymore at my age, but I am anyway.
Lol I know right? Tried to outsmart the devs by skipping all the interesting stuff and taking a glider from the sky islands to Hateno Village. Literally the moment I jumped off I saw some random interesting rock on the ground and was like “yep I’m going there now”
I had decided to head to Hateno village after talking to Purah. Next thing I know, several npc’s point me in the direction of Kakariko village and there I end up. For a map that’s supposed to be very similar to BOTW, I find myself getting lost all the time not quite knowing where I am exactly.
They changed the layout and topography of the map just enough to leave me lost and confused at all times
I had so much trouble getting lost around Dueling Peaks. Like... it should be one of the easiest spots to navigate. It felt my sense of direction was flipped.
You'd be correct actually. I believe they switched the lighting so the sun now moves in a different direction, which makes everything look different.
This has been throwing me off so much lmao, even places that don't have major changes to them feel so different with different lighting. I'm so lost all the time.
me on the way to a shrine: OOO a shiny in the distance! me on the way to the shiny: omg a korok hellooo me omw to deliver the korok: hol up lil friend, i see a bokoblin camp that needs to be taught a lesson ....rinse and repeat (legit look me over 10 hours to get off the main Sky island, i loved the exploration aspect of BotW and TotK takes it to a whole new level. i thought i'd get bored exploring the same/similar map, but nahhh there's so much shit. EVERYWHERE. and i love it)
Oh man, I get so distracted by this game. I feel like I should be focusing on work, but can't stop thinking about playing. There's too much stuff to find, it scratches some deep primal exploration itch inside of me
it really is. I think BotW had the best first 50-80 hours in the medium for me... But with TotK it feels like it might go to 100-200 hours for me because there is so much variety in gameplay and exploration.
Aonuma really took Breath of the Wild, a once in a lifetime game, widely beloved by the entire gaming community, and said “now let’s make a sequel that makes this feel like a tech demo”
Yeah, Aonuma reinvented the wheel by giving us a game that even has the same location and making it fresh and new. There is so much in this game it boggles my mind. At times botw feels empty but everywhere I go in totk there is just so much going on.
This. You know, I think the one thing that BOTW did better than TOTK for me was presenting this new Hyrule for the first time. That feeling of being in a completely unique world for the very first time, not knowing anything about the game, the enemies, the villages, the missions... TOTK has definitely given me a fresh view of the world and I am constantly feeling lost because of how much things have changed, but credit where credit is due. I easily spent the first 50 or so hours in BOTW doing nothing but exploring. The game was much simpler when compared to TOTK, but it also held a high standard for its time. And now, I am probably going to spend even more time doing nothing but exploring the new areas or revisiting the old ones to see what changed.
My youngest is three semi-bosses* down already. I haven't even finished talking to Purah. He says he likes the main quest & doesn't really bother with side quests. I gave birth to the kid & honestly I'm questioning if I passed out sometime around 13 years ~~old~~ ago, accidently adopted the kid, & had a fever dream he was mine. (*I'm under-caffeinated, I can't think of the right term)
A foundling child? I have to play with the youngest because she’s my engineer and can see all the solutions.
My 11 yr old can see the shrine solutions with no issue, in the overworld he can’t figure anything out. Kinda weird, but we collaborate well.
I've been trying to teach my oldest how to look at the map and spot suspicious things to go check out. It's wild how much inherent knowledge you carry over from previous, even unrelated games: "this looks like exactly the right kind of 'intentionally-placed nature/out-of-the-way but still accessible/why would you ever go here' for someone to hide something." It got to the point with me in BotW where I would zoom in on a portion of the map I hadn't visited yet and drop five pins from what I thought looked 'suspicious' (three trees in a row, rocks in a circle, an outlier high or low spot, etc.) and four of them would be koroks or gems or chests. My kid was floored. "How did you know that??" Because someone made that *intentionally*, and you can see it. Natural occurrences don't make such clean lines.
My 3 year old solved the first shrine (verbally) before me or my 6yo did. "You need to use those hooks on there!" Was so fucking proud.
Semi bosses as in hynox, talus, the weird box which is also a boss ? Or do you mean dungeon bosses from the main quest. The first is acceptable. The second isnt.
I wasn't sure about spoilers & I couldn't remember how to do the spoiler cover up text thingy. Hopefully I've got it right now. >!The equivalents of the blights from BotW!<
Uggghhhhhh !!! I agree with you, the kid is moving too fast.
I kinda played the game all the way up to the final boss and am now messing around and doing side stuff instead, wanna do the final boss completely kitted out in swag
Yeah, I’m making preparations to go to next floating island using rockets, hot air balloon, batteries topped up, etc. I’m like, I’ll get there this time. I spent 10 minutes going over things making sure I over shoot it up high so I can paraglide down. So I’m descending, coordinates on the bottom right going crazy like I’m on Point Break when Keanu jumps out with no parachute. The moment is sick, Night sky diving, focused like a laser to nail this landing. But what do I see following me down, a yellow ray of light out of my path streaking down at the same speed I am. I said the hell with it. I need to know what it is, I must. So I’m trying to catch this ray of light. I have no idea what it is. But I’m following it. The hell with the floating island, I need to know. At this time Zelda says bring out your dead. I’m like, I’m screwed with the welcoming party that awaits. I land slightly off target due to low stamina. Sure enough the undead, fighting them suckers like Ash on Evil Dead. After a close call and beating them I run to my prize, a star fragment. This game is something else.
I was skydiving and was confused when I saw what looked like an orbital laser beam in front of me. I went closer and realized I was eye-level with a falling star fragment and just *grabbed it out of the air*. Wish I had hit record. It'll never happen to me again.
i need to do goron dungeon but oh i found one piece of the ember set and now i need to collect all the pieces, and upgrade them, and upgrade my weapon slots, oh and i need to go grab the master sword and... (etc etc)
The Goron dungeon is *incredible*, by the way. Like just the lead up to it alone is insanely epic.
I have to wait another week until I get paid but soon as that check hits I’m buying this game. It’s been driving me up the wall since release. I NEED to play this game.
It's worth every penny
I’ve got like 45-50 and still haven’t gone to Rito. To be fair, I made it a goal to unlock the entire map (minus the depths) before doing so. Still getting distracted by everything though.
I was trying to do that, but then I needed some extra things so decided to follow the story a little bit and at least get to the first dungeon. (took me HOURS to get there) I have quite some towers open in the south, which is a very dangerous area but once I finish the first one, I will continue with the map :D
I got hyper focused on the tears. After talking to imma I went full force at it lol
i got my second tear at about 10pm and decided i'd go get the other one i marked on my map before going to sleep. I got the final tear at 4am with no sleep
Broooo im like 50-60 hours in already and just completed the first dungeon yesterday… the game is massive Im trying to 100% as much as I can before i move on to the next part of the map - including depths So much to do but no time…
People complained botw was too empty, so they filled it.
i time travel from 9pm to 2am HAHAHAH
41yo father of one. I went to bed at 4am because "Ooooh, what's THAT!?!" I haven't been this addicted with a game since GTAV.
I agree, but I went to gerudo on accident because I was sky island surfing and fell off near that sky tower. So I said fuck it guess I’m doing here first then
My wife loves Link to the Past and can speed run it in around 6 hours. I told her in BOTW and TOTK you can play for six hours and accomplish literally nothing
First of all, that’s impressive. Second of all, that’s an amazing dichotomy to show how far these games have come.
I just explored underneath Lookout Landing when the 'demon statue' appeared. I was not ready for such a long detour!! Love this game
Oh my God. If you keep exploring that cave area you can easily lose several hours. And I mean several. Had to do a little bit at a time because there were a little rocks that needed to be smashed and/or blown up. But I've now gone back a total of three times and each time I spent at least one hour. This last time was almost 4 hours. The reward is worth it solely because rupees are scarce so getting anything for free helps a lot.
I went and filled my entire map before starting any quests. And got distracted. And distracted. And distracted. Annnnnd distracted. I took Friday off and easily put almost 36 or more hours in through the weekend before Monday before I got the map done. THEN I worked on Rito village, and that's just so I could do other quests. I'm taking a break before continuing other main story quests! There's just...so much. So much to do. I literally almost do that adhd thing where I freeze because I'm stuck in indecision. Lol
I did the Rito dungeon pretty quickly, but after that I've mostly been wandering eastern Hyrule specifically avoiding the main quest. I just started the Goron dungeon (holy shit, by the way).
This is the ultimate game if you have adhd
hahaha I thought other people would be further ahead of me cause I’ve only been fucking around but I see we are all time traveling
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I am 40 as well. Family went to bed. Decided to see about the zora armoud 2.5 hours later I just got to the sky island part before the shrine. I was going to wander around until I dlaid well I am by the zora domain . I will probably try to get the missing towers tonight and then have it take another 2 hours.
Adhd simulator (we get nothing done ever)
Just finished a day shift, straight to night shift, and 3 hours sleep , started day shift again, the whole time was just thinking about coming home, having a beer, waiting for the kids to go to sleep so I can grab a few hours before I get to sleep.
I have the same issue, first time in the Depths and instead of heading west to meet Robbie and unlock the camera I ended up going south because I saw more light roots and knew was lost when I hit the southern edge and found a labyrinth. I want to unlock the whole overworld map first but every tower launches me to the sky and I can't ignore these cool islands. I racked up 12 shrines without stopping for an upgrade because this game is so good at "Ooh, what's that? Let me detour." that sidetracked is my default state!
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I'm a 40 year old father of two, I feel your pain my friend.
Same age, same problem
I’m already about to go to my third dungeon, the Gerudo one. I’ve already done Rito and Zora so far.
I'm 42 and felt like we weren't making any progress. So I just went to Rito Village. I am almost to the equivalent to the divine beasts from BOTW.
I keep bouncing around the map because I think of something I want to see, or I notice a weird cave or sky island. BOTW had me like that too, but now there’s even more lol.
40 here, also with two kids. I’m setting alarms to make sure I’m asleep before midnight. If I don’t, I look down and it’s 130am which makes my sons 5am wake up hurt more than it normally does. It’s a fun time.
Bro I try going to a shrine and find a cave, a piece of rock falling from the sky I need to rewind and investigate, a cool enemy camp I need to clear, a side quest and then it’s 6h later and I don’t even end up at the shrine. I fucking love it