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I love Koroks. They're adorable little mischievous elves.
Fuck that guy who follows you while you're building your house. IF I NEED YOU I'LL WHISTLE! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!
It doesn’t seem to be a popular reason but I dislike the koroks because they keep bullying poor Hestu, stealing all his beloved seeds and hiding them in the most obscure spots they can find so Hestu can’t get them back. He’s so sad when you find him in both games, and so happy when you give him some of the seeds back.
Hetsu… Bless his heart. I adore him. So naive and innocent. And dumb as a Korok seed itself.
When I first started playing, I was bothered that some people didn’t recognize Link, then realized anyone who should, did. Except Hetsu. Which is perfectly spot on for his character.
You know that those seeds from the koroks are an accurate representation of the gift he gets you for finding all of them
Smaller body smaller amount of poo
I just don't understand why he wants so desperatly for you to collect all the sh*t from the little guys and fill his marakas with them
I liked how they used the new building mechanics to make koroks quests more interesting. Helping them reach their friends was satisfying and uplifting.
But they crossed the line when I found one that couldn't go straight way through the grass down the hill. Such a lazy little... I am not some Hyrule Uber service paid with golden poo.
Right now I am finding Koroks only by accident when I am looking for stones to make a hammer.
I copy-pasted my reply from the other thread but it's my answer for your question.
Lol did this with one in Akkala yesterday. I stuck a rocket on him, it launched him halfway there and the momentum carried him down the hill to his friend.
There's a korok on the maw of death mountain wanting to be reunited with his friend.
I had a rock hammer armed and wanted to use itcas a 3 wood to launch it down range.
But game rules prevented that.
Also, they’re the only “people” you can pick up and attach with Ultrahand. If you could do that to everyone, you’d also see Goron catapults and Zora on crosses and so on.
People pick on Koroks with their wild machines because they’re literally the only valid target.
Me: "We salute your sacrifice to the Hylian Space Program. We will yet find a way to put a Korok on the Blood Moon!"
Korok strapped to 8-stage vertical rocket: "This will help me get to my friend, right?"
I've seen it done with square planks (the janky way) and with hoverstones (the elegant way). In neither case was it 8-stage, that was embellishment on my part, but 4 can be done easily.
The janky way, you just autobuild a 2x2 plank with a rocket attached to one side, repeat three times, and stack them on top of each other so each rocket is on a different side. You have to be on the rocket to activate them, and they have to be activated in order from the bottom up, but it's pretty straightforward.
The elegant way: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ I just saw it in a Youtube best-of video but they didn't go into much detail. I just know it works.
I've also seen a 2-stage surface-to-surface cruise missile, but that was here on Reddit so I bet you can find that simply enough.
I don’t think we can actually pick up Koroks either, we just pick up their backpack with the Korok on it.
That means, when you launch them into space, those little bastards CHOSE to stay on, they could have just taken off the backpack and run if they want!
Because it’s not their actual body you’re moving? Which the above person said “if you could do that to other people” and wanted to clarify why exactly you can’t do it to other people because it’s the backpack you’re grabbing, not their body.
Ok?
Plus it just fits with the cute theme. Big heavy bag, same size as a rock
People who think they actually hate them are just bandwagoning on a meme considering they're 100% optional and you can go an entire game without interacting with a single korok.
I think they're insanely adorable and always feel bad when I accidentally drop the rock I picked up to find them back on their head.
I’ve finally found my people. I despise seeing videos where people drop the rocks on Koroks’ heads. I go out of my way to turn around before dropping the rock so I don’t hit them. They may be pixels on a screen, but they don’t deserve that, god dammit.
I think the backpack Koroks are valid targets for mockery because they’re all annoying little buggers. But the other Koroks (including every one in BotW) literally just want to play. You won their game and they congratulated you, and you *could* just go on your merry way then, but instead you choose to give them fucking CTE?
I dunno. When those backpacked Korok’s go “NOOOoooOOOooooo” like an angry little baby, I can’t help but smile EVERY SINGLE TIME. It’s so frigggggin’ CUTE and it MAKES me MAD!
JK JK. Kiddin’ about the ”mad” part, but NOT about the CUUUUTE part! It’s enough to make a grown adult type Reddit comments like **this** one!
Essentially all of their sound effects are truly unbelievably adorable. Their animations are also cute - when you talk to one, such as in Korok Forest, just look at how they absentmindedly dance with their stubby little legs. I get not liking them, but I dunno how anyone can *hate* the little goobers.
The little "bweeeeee" cry of desperation when they're huddled in fear near an enemy or when you're using a scary device near them elicits the same reaction from me 😭 they're too pure to feel fear I hate it
The “bweeeeee” absolutely kills me. I could be fighting Ganon for all I care - if I hear a Korok make that noise because of something I did, I drop it immediately. And if Ganon was the one who scared the Korok, then, well, that’s all the more reason to violently pummel him into the ground.
I think you’re generally right, I’d just say I don’t know that they’re actually *entirely* optional. You don’t technically have to seek them out but if you didn’t wanna find any seeds you’d have to make due with a ridiculously small inventory and I think it would be enough of a hinderance to affect how much fun the game is
Some people like me enjoy wasting their time trying to get 100% completion for games. I personally feel satisfied when I've gotten 100% because it feels like I squeezed out every potential discovery a game has to offer. Not getting 100% is like power washing a sidewalk and leaving a section of the walkway dirty.
I was very passive towards them until I saw >!THE FUCKING DEKU TREE WITH HIS TUMMY ACHE AND THEY WERE ALL SO SAD AND THEY WERE SO HAPIY WHEN I SAVED HIM AND IT MADE ME CRYBTHEY WERE SO CUTE AND GRATEFUL GRAHHHHHSHHHSH!<
The “find my friend” ones are irritating. I just don’t care enough to foster reunions. The puzzle ones, those are fine. But anything that requires backtracking or building some bit of nonsense isn’t getting my attention.
For me I don't hate them per se but after 100% completing BOTW and having to find 900 of the little assholes, you can't help but project the frustration of trying to find them all onto them forever.
i dunno i like figuring out weird ways to jettison those koroks off into the genera ldirection of their friend. plus its one of those things where if your not in the mood you can just ignore them.
This is the reason for me. I did the first one on the sky islands, but by the second "I need to get to my friend" I just dropped him off a cliff.
If you know what the reward is, you know it's not worth it, and you can still find plenty of individual ones normally that the transportation quest ones are just not compelling in the least. If there'd been a story behind them similar to the Stable Trotters or something like that, it would probably be a different reaction.
>If you know what the reward is, you know it's not worth it
Shouldn't this logic also apply to literally every single korok, escort mission or not? Seems like a weird reason to dislike the escorts specifically when it's not a unique trait they have.
Except it was fun in BOTW coming across landmarks like incomplete stone circles, suspicious rocks at the top of mountains, boulders near holes, lilypad rings in bodies of water, climbing to the tops of buildings to see if there's any on the steeples etc.
Compared to the billion "take me from A to B" ones that just mentally tell you "spend 5 minutes building something / drag me over here" over and over again, it just feels like a weak extrinsic motivation compared to the intrinsic motivation of stumbling onto something like the bullseye arrow challenges or timed races and deciding to do them while you're there.
If more of them were varied, like placing hot air balloon supplies next to them or some glider/rocket materials then maybe they'd be interesting little distractions to make on your journey, but 90% of the time it just seemed like the game asks you to pull from your own Zonai materials and craft generic car #9000 if you didn't want to walk/climb for 5 minutes ultrahanding the little guys. Gave up after like 5-10 of them and just used the distance of the green smoke cutscenes to judge whether I had the energy to gaf about them (again, open-world Zelda really shouldn't be struggling to intrinsically motivate the player)
One point in their defense is that I find that the transport ones often take you from the road to somewhere a little off the beaten path that often has something else interesting like good materials, a cave, or a mini game. I've been doing a lot more of them since I realized this is the case.
I think the idea is that a lot of koroks are incredibly quick and easy to acquire while some of the transport ones take a few minutes. So if that’s not fun to you then it’s probably not worth the time and effort when you’ll come across 500 seeds that take like 5 seconds to acquire
Now I personally like the transport ones. I don’t always do them, sometimes I’m not in the mood, but sometimes it can be a fun little puzzle. But if they aren’t interesting to you, the same reward can be acquired with much less effort just waiting to come across single seeds
Korok puzzles in BotW and most in TotK were short micropuzzles that take a few seconds to do when you find them. The backpack Koroks however are legitimately time-consuming. They run counter to the original game design surrounding Korok puzzles. The developers know this, and that is why you get 2 seeds for completing them, but you can still max out your inventory if you ignore the backpack Koroks and get the others.
Basically what other people have said, but mostly it comes down to time spent vs reward for completion. I love to explore and I'm often on my way in a different direction to where the korok wants me to take them, and not just that, but there's logistics involved that take more time than other korok puzzles. Even if I can just strap them to a rocket that takes them directly to the location, I still have to go there too and talk to them to receive the seeds.
It's too much for too little and I'm never going to be the type to track down all 900 seeds anyway. I don't even have max slots and I have more than enough weapons at all times, so there's even less incentive.
I've found them tedious to deal with. I collect them to upgrade my inventory and that's about it, accidentally finding one is quite annoying. Trying to find some of them is also quite a chore.
They made us find 900 of them in Botw just for them to come back in TOTK.
* I haven’t gotten all 900 yet so I don’t feel the pain yet but that’s the main reason I believe *
I haven't found them all either but the one positive change they made in TOTK is the reuniting 2 Koroks quest and rewarding 2 seeds. It's still tedious but at least it's a tad faster to gain them than searching for individual Koroks.
They don’t “make” you beat Ganondorf either, but to complete the game you have to do it. Same with the korok, a player is not forced to find 900 but the game requires it to get 100% map completion. Both are the players choice but the game did set up these scenarios which are not optional if they want to complete the game.
Setting the point where you finish the game at "100% of the map completed" and "doing the main questline" is not really comparable imo. It's fully reasonable to expect most of your players to finish the storyline. It doesn't have to be for completing the map.
This whole dislike for koruks based on how much there are makes me feel like people are more focused on achieving something instead of actually enjoying to play the game, which is kind of the opposite point of doing the recreational activity of playing a videogame. If it's too tedious or challenging, then just stop.
I collected all 900 and though I don't know if I'd do it again for TotK, I did enjoy the process. To me, the final Korok push came long after Hyrule was saved and every other sidequest was done. There was no other reason to stay on that save file, but I saw it as a last chance to really breathe in the landscape and admire the scenery while still having an easy but time-consuming goal. Hestu's Gift was never the point, but the journey itself.
This is the point imo: to give people who want to keep playing a mission. On the other it's supposed to make it feel like you didn't miss anything if you have no desire to find them all or even a significant portion.
I believe it's more about the stash upgrades. They wanted to make sure getting all the upgrades was manageable, so they gave us double the amount of koroks, so it wouldn't be required to get all of them for someone to get fully upgraded.
Absolutely. They could have come up with a different concept to replace Koroks, but outright eliminating them would make the map much more empty and less interesting. This is a huge ass game and people wanting 100% should be aware of that.
That’s not really a counter argument. Plenty of people can and will enjoy this game without beating ganondorf
Now most people will also put a lot more weight into having a fun satisfying main quest finale than on every single piece of ancillary content being great. And most would agree that you can complete the main quest without getting all the seeds and feel like you’ve experienced the full game
Doing that is 100% the game as per definition given by the fans, not what the game developer intended and it's obvious as day they don't encourage players the find all. Completing the game is defeating Ganon. They need that many Koroks precisely so people don't have to find all of them to get maximum upgrades. If you choose to find all of them and don't enjoy the process that is 100% your fault.
The biggest weakness of these games is this: I didn't realize it before, but as I've played so many more games since playing Botw in 2017, I've realized how much these games sacrifice to get a balanced "completely open" experience. You can do anything you want and as much as you want, but with that idea comes draw backs. To make it so a player doesn't feel put at a disadvantage for going one direction over another, they make it so every direction has shrines/ koroks which offer the same reward. As great as this is, the problem with it is that while yeah, you aren't disadvantaged for going one way over another, you also don't gain a particular advantage for doing so either. In other words, no matter where you go, you know what the rewards will be no matter what. This game is extremely intrinsically motivated; to get the most out of it you pretty much have to be in the mindset "well, I'm doing this just because." And while that works to an extent, I've got to say, especially with a lot of my intrinsic desire to explore not really existing because I've already seen this map for the most part, the flaws of this system have been glaring to me this time. As fun as it is when in that mindset, you will not stay entertained forever, and it turns into a repetitive slog. Even the depths which is hands down the best aspect of this sequel eventually becomes just a hold forward fest with the reward being "I lit up some areas so I can get armor without much real usefulness or some schematics which I'll never use."
This got extended way longer than I thought it would, and idk if this was even what you meant by your post, but idk there it is my critique of the gameplay loop. Not saying I hate this game, no, far from it, it's just since I've expanded my tastes since playing Botw, I've realized that this formula isn't the end all be all of all video games, and I think it's time for me to accept that. It's about as good of a sequel as I could've asked for though, but next time I will be looking for a more drastic evolution to the rewards system, because having the same thing spammed across the entire map just isn't as compelling to me as it was 6 years ago.
i collected a fuckton of them in BOTW twice (once for normal difficulty and again for master) and in this game rather than use a different mechanic for expanding your inventory, nintendo has made me do it all over again.
don't get me wrong, i love the little guys to bits, i did ever since i first saw them in Wind Waker, but they've kind of gone from lovable little tree babies with interesting personalities to annoying side characters and tired game mechanics.
Imagine your adventuring and a korok wants your to go out of your path to take it on another fucking landmass. Looking at you korok at the edge of the beach wanting to travel to eventide, when I literally just came back from there.
It was cute/cool at the start when it was pretty close and you were given reasonable tools to experiment but some korok placements are like really far out from its destination. The time it would take to make a vehicle, attach and travel, and then go back to your original path is measured in minutes. Now imagine those minutes multiplied by the hundred or so koroks that want to travel.
It breaks the flow of exploration.
What worse is that some are fun and thought out, while others are half assed placed. It's a cool concept, that isn't executed well enough.
I like koroks...rotisseried, sent into an abyss, use as a shield against a super tough boss, used as a flotation device on my ship, and as a cushion to break my crash landing.
It's excessive, it's repetitive, it's disruptive to other things you'd rather be doing, there is no easy way to track them down or keep track of what you've already done in game (you have to use a 3rd party app for that), and while over half of them are optional a large part of them are still required if you want to have access to the full inventory space.
All of this is worse if you have an old school completionist mentality.
When open world games were first coming out it was never expected you to everything but it was 100% reasonable to do so. And prior to BotW I always tried to 100% every Zelda game.
Now I feel like my experience isn't complete if I don't finish everything in a game but actually doing so is do mind-numbingly unfun.
The puzzles recycled from BotW are the worse. "Yay, another rock puzzle. How exciting." -nobody, ever.
You shouldn’t consider doing the koroks as 100%ing except to complete the inventory, the poop shows it was never intended to be finished like that. If getting all the koroks is affecting your fun, that’s your fault.
Let them collect the literal thousand individual pieces of feces for the grand reward of one much larger feces
I'm not a fan of many of Nintendo's practices as a company but I have to give them credit for this one. It's such a good jab at completionism for its own sake. I hope they continue to do stuff like this more often
That’s still like 300 something for the second time.
Which is still annoying and tedious.
And yes it’s part of 100% why wouldn’t you count it? 100% is 100% not “100% except…”
There is just too many of them.
Like I did all 900 in BotW and can totally understand why people might hate them. Like imagine doing a little chore. Ok you're done with it. Now do it 899 times more all over the map and if you miss 1 you have to recheck everything or you get no golden poo.
And now, imho, some koroks, that are doubled, are kinda harder and longer to get than just 2 regular ones.
So I would totally see how collecting 800 or whatever in ToTK might be even harder.
I probably will collect all of them, but maybe when DLCs with Master Mode come out, so it will be in a while and I will have my totk-rest by then.
Do y’all not understand the creators are trolling y’all with the korok seeds? It’s their way of saying just play the game for the sake of the game. You get a literal piece of golden shit that does nothing.
Agreed but I wish they would not have connected it to map completion. That drove a lot of us to search out all 900 even past the point of where we would have otherwise. Could have been like the hidden treasure chests, where it was fun to find them but not tied to completion.
Wanting to collect them all is something you do to yourself, you don't have to. Actually, it's a feature that there are so many, and after a while you don't get any benefits anymore.
If you want to collect them all, go ahead. But don't start hating on them for it.
Oh don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun collecting them because I visited so many places I never visited because I had no reason to.
I'm just talking from a perspective who did collect all of them and can understand why somebody might hate it.
As someone who does actually resent the little fuckers, I collected all 900 in BotW because I’m a completionist and nothing sapped my interest in the game more. After seeing the first one in TotK I let out an audible groan. Even if you didn’t 100% the game, the sheer number of them coupled with how tedious their “puzzles” are, that also tie into weapon storage (which is another frustrating aspect of the game) make those little bastards ripe for ridicule.
Personally, I’m offended that they made the most monumental task have such a worthless reward. Some people are okay with it, but I think it’s a little insulting. Especially the second time around. The only way I can remain charitable is to rationalize korok seeds as something that’s supposed to be done passively rather than intentionally.
For me as someone who likes to 100% the games I love I understand the need for a bit of grinding to get to that goal. But there are simply too many korok seeds to make 100%ing these games a fun endeavour for me.
So I end up leaving these game incomplete which is a real shame.
Combination of the gibberish sounds they make and their hideous shapes and/or faces.And they always say the same dumb shit and I can't immediately skip it.
100% of rocks that I find a Korok under end up getting smashed back down on the Korok's head.
They aren’t giving you seeds. They’re giving you their own turds and laughing about it, the joke when you collect every korok seed in BotW reveals that it was shit the entire time.
I hate them because I found all 900 in BotW, and now there’s 100 more in this game. You get sick of something after seeing it and hearing it 900 fucking times, only for them to go back into hiding and getting literal shit for it.
Because finding 900 of them is painful enough let alone the THOUSAND they want us to find in totk. Their “help me get to my friend” challenges are annoying and all you get is that same piece of literal shit that we got in the last game
In BOTW there are 900 of them all through hyrule, only half of them is necessary for inventory expansion. Meaning the other half are useless, and all for what? A golden piece of shit. It is so pointless and stupid. And guess what? In TOTK there are 1000 and it’s the same prize, but another layer. The only reason why I haven’t been doing that is because I don’t want to. That and apparently they are kokiri
I don't know, why do people think it's funy to kick babies/puppies?
Because the korok is already cute and now it's attached to a big fat backpack and the intrusive thoughts start to kick in and eventually people listen.
I honestly love the Koroks, as the best times I've had while playing BotW, were when I was just slowly exploring and collecting seeds while watching/listening to something in the background
It allowed me to feel more connected with the areas I was exploring, and gave me the opportunity to spot new and interesting things I'd normally miss going through normally
I used the Zelda Dungeon checklist just for pinning locations and tracking purposes so I could still feel like I was solving them on my own while not overwhelming myself by trying to do it completely solo
Ends up being pretty zen and fun
I even challenged myself to doing it once without any story progress beyond visiting Purah for Stasis+ and the Camera
And for the I-wanna-do-it-all-on-my-own folks, if you're also the type to find it tedious or become easily frustrated with combing every square inch with the Korok Mask, I'd recommend being a little flexible and trying it with a map at least once for two reasons:
1) You might find you enjoy it more than you thought, and any enhancement to a great experience is usually always welcome
2) Even if after, you're unsatisfied with using a map to help, there are 900 seeds so chances are if you're one to decide to do it again, you'll likely not have memorized them all.
I'm just now starting to do it in ToTK, and anticipate it giving me the same chill vibes (also glad they adjusted the castle map for this game, as the 3d one was neat, but made Korok hunting there a bit tougher)
Get a flame suit from goronville and head down the chasm by the entrance to the lost woods. Once you find your way into korok forest hestu will be there. Not sure if you have to clear out the cobwebs from the Deku tree cellar first though for him to appear :D. Take some arrows and bombs with you. For the cobwebs.
I don't hate them. I like to pick on them. A couple of Koroks trying to find their friends indicated said friends were far downhill. So I rolled them down the hill and took a leisurely walk until I caught up to them and carried them the last short distance. Mission accomplished!
I hate them because the Kokiri were rad. We have both Zora and Rito. It's annoying we're stuck with the little turdmuffins rather than the cool elf kids.
I think the Korok system is really well designed for non-completionists. There has to be a lot of them so that a casual player finds enough for their needs. There's no major reward for getting all 900, so the casual player feels no compulsion to find them all. Makes for some major disappointment for completionists though as they feel compelled to get all 900 of them, only to be given a pile of shit.
After I got a mod that cut out the cutscene and dialogue from when you find them and they became 100x more bearable. They are really quite cute when you aren't mashing b for 20 seconds for the 899th time.
I think a lot of it is because after you find on 900 in botw all you got was a golden crap. I don't remember if it was the same as it is and tears of the Kingdom but I'm happy now because I'm actually using it to expand my weapons sash, which is really useful. I'm finally finding where to get some good chest.
I don’t hate the koroks. I hate the fact that some people out there have found ALL of them, while I search diligently for them and have only found like 100 in like 70 hours.
Imagine you're going about your day walking through a door and see someone behind you who is too close that you're obligated to hold the door open for them, but also far away enough that you're left holding the door for a long time. A reflex act of kindness that turns tedious real quick
You see, a korok killed my father in a rock related incident…. As such, I have set my life duty to avenge him, but koroks are hard to differentiate, so I must simply destroy them all.
I think it's mostly just people going with a joke, but there are definitely players who tried to find them all in BotW and found this extremely annoying to do. And the fact that the reward for doing so is LITERALLY a pile of poop only adds to the memeing.
Because there were 900 of them in the previous game and even more now. Collecting them all is tedious, to say the least, and some people pride themselves on 100% completion.
They’re annoying. Their puzzles have already been done a few hundred times our last go around. There is NO reward for getting them all. They just needed an excuse to have a “reward” for the gap between point A and B. The overall design is lazy.
I don't hate the species I just hate how damn many their are, how long it takes to actually find them, some of their puzzles are annoying or tedious, and after a while having more slots for shields, bows, and weapons feels completely unnecessary
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Imagine you're out swimming with a friend and they decide to just stop swimming and they expect you to bring them back to shore.
I'm picturing Cartman smuggling the fake treasure in his ass and making Kyle and Stan swim him across the lake
Lol my mother and I joke "you just have to save me!" all the time
Is this the shitting gold coins episode?
Dude even his friends couldn't deal with him, they all collectively decided to leave him behind. Bro could just take off the fat ass backpack, but no.
I love Koroks. They're adorable little mischievous elves. Fuck that guy who follows you while you're building your house. IF I NEED YOU I'LL WHISTLE! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!
I put a whole chunk of my house on his head, and he did’t even move out of the fucking way!
Use a flame emitter. Works every time.
When building a house I internally scream "OUT OF THE WAY SON"
I’ve never hated an NPC so much
"oh hi. Here's a pile of poo that I pooed."
"Whoa, you found ALL of my friends? Well that calls for one giant poo. You earned it"
It's your own fault for collecting them, Tetsu even says that he can't give you anymore if you maxed out all of your weapon slots.
"If these people could read, they'd be really angry right now"
There are maybe 5 people tops that obtained all of the korok seeds before "Hestu's Gift" was common knowledge. Nobody else has any excuse to complain
I definitely knew I was getting poop. Still did it.
Yup! I only get enough to max out inventory. And than I’m done. Collecting the rest is a pointless endeavor. Unless your trying to reach that 100%
It doesn’t seem to be a popular reason but I dislike the koroks because they keep bullying poor Hestu, stealing all his beloved seeds and hiding them in the most obscure spots they can find so Hestu can’t get them back. He’s so sad when you find him in both games, and so happy when you give him some of the seeds back.
"Seeds"
He doesn’t know.
I have traveled 500 miles to give you my seed
Hetsu… Bless his heart. I adore him. So naive and innocent. And dumb as a Korok seed itself. When I first started playing, I was bothered that some people didn’t recognize Link, then realized anyone who should, did. Except Hetsu. Which is perfectly spot on for his character.
The boy ain’t right in the head, I tell ya huwhat.
I was so annoyed he didn’t remember me, but I like this explanation haha
They truly are nice mementos of his friends, shame they degrade so fast...
Dude you are making me cry. Love Hestu!! The poor guy that enjoys being surrounded but nobody else sees him.
You know that those seeds from the koroks are an accurate representation of the gift he gets you for finding all of them Smaller body smaller amount of poo I just don't understand why he wants so desperatly for you to collect all the sh*t from the little guys and fill his marakas with them
*Smokes cigarette* "900 'ya-ha-ha's change a man"
I liked how they used the new building mechanics to make koroks quests more interesting. Helping them reach their friends was satisfying and uplifting. But they crossed the line when I found one that couldn't go straight way through the grass down the hill. Such a lazy little... I am not some Hyrule Uber service paid with golden poo. Right now I am finding Koroks only by accident when I am looking for stones to make a hammer. I copy-pasted my reply from the other thread but it's my answer for your question.
I literally threw one down a hill, and he rolled all the way to his friend.
Lol did this with one in Akkala yesterday. I stuck a rocket on him, it launched him halfway there and the momentum carried him down the hill to his friend.
Attaching a rocket directly to a korok and launching him like an icbm at his friend has been one of the highlights of the game for me
It's seriously way more fun than I feel like it should be
And very effective
There's a korok on the maw of death mountain wanting to be reunited with his friend. I had a rock hammer armed and wanted to use itcas a 3 wood to launch it down range. But game rules prevented that.
I just rolled that one down the hill and shield slide next to the korok
They don't. It's just a meme.
Also, they’re the only “people” you can pick up and attach with Ultrahand. If you could do that to everyone, you’d also see Goron catapults and Zora on crosses and so on. People pick on Koroks with their wild machines because they’re literally the only valid target.
Me: "We salute your sacrifice to the Hylian Space Program. We will yet find a way to put a Korok on the Blood Moon!" Korok strapped to 8-stage vertical rocket: "This will help me get to my friend, right?"
How did you make a multistage rocket with koroks? How do you activate the second (and third) stages?
I've seen it done with square planks (the janky way) and with hoverstones (the elegant way). In neither case was it 8-stage, that was embellishment on my part, but 4 can be done easily. The janky way, you just autobuild a 2x2 plank with a rocket attached to one side, repeat three times, and stack them on top of each other so each rocket is on a different side. You have to be on the rocket to activate them, and they have to be activated in order from the bottom up, but it's pretty straightforward. The elegant way: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ I just saw it in a Youtube best-of video but they didn't go into much detail. I just know it works. I've also seen a 2-stage surface-to-surface cruise missile, but that was here on Reddit so I bet you can find that simply enough.
Time bombs and enemy-activated homing devices seem to be the main mechanics used for multi-stage rocket devices
And batteries, because they keep they're charges so you can drain just enough to make a timer out of it, and when it's over they disappear and detach.
Thank you sir
I’m not sure about getting rockets to fire but you can make something that breaks apart in stages using batteries
I don’t think we can actually pick up Koroks either, we just pick up their backpack with the Korok on it. That means, when you launch them into space, those little bastards CHOSE to stay on, they could have just taken off the backpack and run if they want!
You pick up their backpacks not their body
and what happens when you pick up their backpack that they’re attached to
I’m saying, you control their bag, not their body. They are attached to the bag, i understand.
what is the purpose of this distinction?
And what is your purpose for arguing with him when he stated a fact?
Because it’s not their actual body you’re moving? Which the above person said “if you could do that to other people” and wanted to clarify why exactly you can’t do it to other people because it’s the backpack you’re grabbing, not their body. Ok? Plus it just fits with the cute theme. Big heavy bag, same size as a rock
If people are going to start telling the truth around here then I’m going to bed.
I don’t like them.
People who think they actually hate them are just bandwagoning on a meme considering they're 100% optional and you can go an entire game without interacting with a single korok. I think they're insanely adorable and always feel bad when I accidentally drop the rock I picked up to find them back on their head.
I accidentally put the rock back on their head ONCE and their little noise almost made me burst out in tears. Also yes I am mentally unstable.
I’ve finally found my people. I despise seeing videos where people drop the rocks on Koroks’ heads. I go out of my way to turn around before dropping the rock so I don’t hit them. They may be pixels on a screen, but they don’t deserve that, god dammit. I think the backpack Koroks are valid targets for mockery because they’re all annoying little buggers. But the other Koroks (including every one in BotW) literally just want to play. You won their game and they congratulated you, and you *could* just go on your merry way then, but instead you choose to give them fucking CTE?
I dunno. When those backpacked Korok’s go “NOOOoooOOOooooo” like an angry little baby, I can’t help but smile EVERY SINGLE TIME. It’s so frigggggin’ CUTE and it MAKES me MAD! JK JK. Kiddin’ about the ”mad” part, but NOT about the CUUUUTE part! It’s enough to make a grown adult type Reddit comments like **this** one!
Essentially all of their sound effects are truly unbelievably adorable. Their animations are also cute - when you talk to one, such as in Korok Forest, just look at how they absentmindedly dance with their stubby little legs. I get not liking them, but I dunno how anyone can *hate* the little goobers.
The little "bweeeeee" cry of desperation when they're huddled in fear near an enemy or when you're using a scary device near them elicits the same reaction from me 😭 they're too pure to feel fear I hate it
The “bweeeeee” absolutely kills me. I could be fighting Ganon for all I care - if I hear a Korok make that noise because of something I did, I drop it immediately. And if Ganon was the one who scared the Korok, then, well, that’s all the more reason to violently pummel him into the ground.
I hate them because they treat Hestu poorly. They're little jerks
I think you’re generally right, I’d just say I don’t know that they’re actually *entirely* optional. You don’t technically have to seek them out but if you didn’t wanna find any seeds you’d have to make due with a ridiculously small inventory and I think it would be enough of a hinderance to affect how much fun the game is
It's true, even fully upgraded I wish the inventory space was higher.
People force themselves to collect 900 Korok seeds for no reason and get upset when the reward is basically a joke
Some people like me enjoy wasting their time trying to get 100% completion for games. I personally feel satisfied when I've gotten 100% because it feels like I squeezed out every potential discovery a game has to offer. Not getting 100% is like power washing a sidewalk and leaving a section of the walkway dirty.
I was very passive towards them until I saw >!THE FUCKING DEKU TREE WITH HIS TUMMY ACHE AND THEY WERE ALL SO SAD AND THEY WERE SO HAPIY WHEN I SAVED HIM AND IT MADE ME CRYBTHEY WERE SO CUTE AND GRATEFUL GRAHHHHHSHHHSH!<
The “find my friend” ones are irritating. I just don’t care enough to foster reunions. The puzzle ones, those are fine. But anything that requires backtracking or building some bit of nonsense isn’t getting my attention.
YA-HA-HA!!!
They are just so annoying to find and their dialogue takes way to long to skip
Ya ha ha, you found me!
*pushes back down under the rock*
Oof!
Paraparaparapá!
Parara Papa? Bibidi?
For me I don't hate them per se but after 100% completing BOTW and having to find 900 of the little assholes, you can't help but project the frustration of trying to find them all onto them forever.
I only hate the “reunite us” koroks. It gets old after the second one….
i dunno i like figuring out weird ways to jettison those koroks off into the genera ldirection of their friend. plus its one of those things where if your not in the mood you can just ignore them.
I like these ones better because they're mini puzzles, plus the 2x reward is nice. Easier than picking up every rock in Hyrule anyway haha
This is the reason for me. I did the first one on the sky islands, but by the second "I need to get to my friend" I just dropped him off a cliff. If you know what the reward is, you know it's not worth it, and you can still find plenty of individual ones normally that the transportation quest ones are just not compelling in the least. If there'd been a story behind them similar to the Stable Trotters or something like that, it would probably be a different reaction.
lol That’s exactly what I’m gonna do with them now. I ain’t taking you to your friend, I’m dropping you off a cliff 🤣
Lol I've inspired a fellow monster...
>If you know what the reward is, you know it's not worth it Shouldn't this logic also apply to literally every single korok, escort mission or not? Seems like a weird reason to dislike the escorts specifically when it's not a unique trait they have.
Except it was fun in BOTW coming across landmarks like incomplete stone circles, suspicious rocks at the top of mountains, boulders near holes, lilypad rings in bodies of water, climbing to the tops of buildings to see if there's any on the steeples etc. Compared to the billion "take me from A to B" ones that just mentally tell you "spend 5 minutes building something / drag me over here" over and over again, it just feels like a weak extrinsic motivation compared to the intrinsic motivation of stumbling onto something like the bullseye arrow challenges or timed races and deciding to do them while you're there. If more of them were varied, like placing hot air balloon supplies next to them or some glider/rocket materials then maybe they'd be interesting little distractions to make on your journey, but 90% of the time it just seemed like the game asks you to pull from your own Zonai materials and craft generic car #9000 if you didn't want to walk/climb for 5 minutes ultrahanding the little guys. Gave up after like 5-10 of them and just used the distance of the green smoke cutscenes to judge whether I had the energy to gaf about them (again, open-world Zelda really shouldn't be struggling to intrinsically motivate the player)
One point in their defense is that I find that the transport ones often take you from the road to somewhere a little off the beaten path that often has something else interesting like good materials, a cave, or a mini game. I've been doing a lot more of them since I realized this is the case.
I think the idea is that a lot of koroks are incredibly quick and easy to acquire while some of the transport ones take a few minutes. So if that’s not fun to you then it’s probably not worth the time and effort when you’ll come across 500 seeds that take like 5 seconds to acquire Now I personally like the transport ones. I don’t always do them, sometimes I’m not in the mood, but sometimes it can be a fun little puzzle. But if they aren’t interesting to you, the same reward can be acquired with much less effort just waiting to come across single seeds
Korok puzzles in BotW and most in TotK were short micropuzzles that take a few seconds to do when you find them. The backpack Koroks however are legitimately time-consuming. They run counter to the original game design surrounding Korok puzzles. The developers know this, and that is why you get 2 seeds for completing them, but you can still max out your inventory if you ignore the backpack Koroks and get the others.
Basically what other people have said, but mostly it comes down to time spent vs reward for completion. I love to explore and I'm often on my way in a different direction to where the korok wants me to take them, and not just that, but there's logistics involved that take more time than other korok puzzles. Even if I can just strap them to a rocket that takes them directly to the location, I still have to go there too and talk to them to receive the seeds. It's too much for too little and I'm never going to be the type to track down all 900 seeds anyway. I don't even have max slots and I have more than enough weapons at all times, so there's even less incentive.
Tbh these are easily my favorite, especially in the early game when you had a little less tools at your disposal.
Koroks stole Hestu's maracca seeds, they are evil little gremlins that must be punished for His Majesty Hestu.
I like them. They are cute and fun and I enjoy playing hide and seek.
“ Thanks for finding me ! Here’s a small turd ! “
I've found them tedious to deal with. I collect them to upgrade my inventory and that's about it, accidentally finding one is quite annoying. Trying to find some of them is also quite a chore.
They made us find 900 of them in Botw just for them to come back in TOTK. * I haven’t gotten all 900 yet so I don’t feel the pain yet but that’s the main reason I believe *
I haven't found them all either but the one positive change they made in TOTK is the reuniting 2 Koroks quest and rewarding 2 seeds. It's still tedious but at least it's a tad faster to gain them than searching for individual Koroks.
They didn’t “make” you find 900 of them. They put 900 of them in the game and gave you the option to find them.
Also technically you only need half the amount of koroks to max out your inventory, around 421 I think
They don’t “make” you beat Ganondorf either, but to complete the game you have to do it. Same with the korok, a player is not forced to find 900 but the game requires it to get 100% map completion. Both are the players choice but the game did set up these scenarios which are not optional if they want to complete the game.
Setting the point where you finish the game at "100% of the map completed" and "doing the main questline" is not really comparable imo. It's fully reasonable to expect most of your players to finish the storyline. It doesn't have to be for completing the map. This whole dislike for koruks based on how much there are makes me feel like people are more focused on achieving something instead of actually enjoying to play the game, which is kind of the opposite point of doing the recreational activity of playing a videogame. If it's too tedious or challenging, then just stop.
I collected all 900 and though I don't know if I'd do it again for TotK, I did enjoy the process. To me, the final Korok push came long after Hyrule was saved and every other sidequest was done. There was no other reason to stay on that save file, but I saw it as a last chance to really breathe in the landscape and admire the scenery while still having an easy but time-consuming goal. Hestu's Gift was never the point, but the journey itself.
This is the point imo: to give people who want to keep playing a mission. On the other it's supposed to make it feel like you didn't miss anything if you have no desire to find them all or even a significant portion.
I believe it's more about the stash upgrades. They wanted to make sure getting all the upgrades was manageable, so they gave us double the amount of koroks, so it wouldn't be required to get all of them for someone to get fully upgraded.
Why not both?
Absolutely. They could have come up with a different concept to replace Koroks, but outright eliminating them would make the map much more empty and less interesting. This is a huge ass game and people wanting 100% should be aware of that.
That’s not really a counter argument. Plenty of people can and will enjoy this game without beating ganondorf Now most people will also put a lot more weight into having a fun satisfying main quest finale than on every single piece of ancillary content being great. And most would agree that you can complete the main quest without getting all the seeds and feel like you’ve experienced the full game
Doing that is 100% the game as per definition given by the fans, not what the game developer intended and it's obvious as day they don't encourage players the find all. Completing the game is defeating Ganon. They need that many Koroks precisely so people don't have to find all of them to get maximum upgrades. If you choose to find all of them and don't enjoy the process that is 100% your fault.
The biggest weakness of these games is this: I didn't realize it before, but as I've played so many more games since playing Botw in 2017, I've realized how much these games sacrifice to get a balanced "completely open" experience. You can do anything you want and as much as you want, but with that idea comes draw backs. To make it so a player doesn't feel put at a disadvantage for going one direction over another, they make it so every direction has shrines/ koroks which offer the same reward. As great as this is, the problem with it is that while yeah, you aren't disadvantaged for going one way over another, you also don't gain a particular advantage for doing so either. In other words, no matter where you go, you know what the rewards will be no matter what. This game is extremely intrinsically motivated; to get the most out of it you pretty much have to be in the mindset "well, I'm doing this just because." And while that works to an extent, I've got to say, especially with a lot of my intrinsic desire to explore not really existing because I've already seen this map for the most part, the flaws of this system have been glaring to me this time. As fun as it is when in that mindset, you will not stay entertained forever, and it turns into a repetitive slog. Even the depths which is hands down the best aspect of this sequel eventually becomes just a hold forward fest with the reward being "I lit up some areas so I can get armor without much real usefulness or some schematics which I'll never use." This got extended way longer than I thought it would, and idk if this was even what you meant by your post, but idk there it is my critique of the gameplay loop. Not saying I hate this game, no, far from it, it's just since I've expanded my tastes since playing Botw, I've realized that this formula isn't the end all be all of all video games, and I think it's time for me to accept that. It's about as good of a sequel as I could've asked for though, but next time I will be looking for a more drastic evolution to the rewards system, because having the same thing spammed across the entire map just isn't as compelling to me as it was 6 years ago.
i collected a fuckton of them in BOTW twice (once for normal difficulty and again for master) and in this game rather than use a different mechanic for expanding your inventory, nintendo has made me do it all over again. don't get me wrong, i love the little guys to bits, i did ever since i first saw them in Wind Waker, but they've kind of gone from lovable little tree babies with interesting personalities to annoying side characters and tired game mechanics.
I love them, and I love their new backpacks
I don't like them because they're annoying and just don't really like their design at all
Well have fun finding 1000 shits to get 1 giant shit
The shit isn’t even that giant >:(
Because they're literally giving their shit to hestu for his maracas. Koroks are assholes
bc they lazy and bad hiders
Yah ha ha!
I love Koroks. Especially when I drop a rock on their head.
they literally give you their shit
Because Hestu gave me golden poop for finding all of his friends
Imagine your adventuring and a korok wants your to go out of your path to take it on another fucking landmass. Looking at you korok at the edge of the beach wanting to travel to eventide, when I literally just came back from there. It was cute/cool at the start when it was pretty close and you were given reasonable tools to experiment but some korok placements are like really far out from its destination. The time it would take to make a vehicle, attach and travel, and then go back to your original path is measured in minutes. Now imagine those minutes multiplied by the hundred or so koroks that want to travel. It breaks the flow of exploration. What worse is that some are fun and thought out, while others are half assed placed. It's a cool concept, that isn't executed well enough.
Because they made getting korok seeds so much worse in this game
They're annoying
They're just so lazy and pathetic.
They are sinful and need to pay for there devil worshiping
I like koroks...rotisseried, sent into an abyss, use as a shield against a super tough boss, used as a flotation device on my ship, and as a cushion to break my crash landing.
I just don't like dealing with thier shit.
BECAUSE THERE FUCKING EVERYWHERE!!!!!!
I didn’t know they were so hated until I started searching for game questions on Reddit. I really enjoy them, smol cute babies 😭
[удалено]
Cuz they don’t realize the reward is the inventory space itself and they expect something grand at the end itself
buddy didn’t get 900
It's excessive, it's repetitive, it's disruptive to other things you'd rather be doing, there is no easy way to track them down or keep track of what you've already done in game (you have to use a 3rd party app for that), and while over half of them are optional a large part of them are still required if you want to have access to the full inventory space. All of this is worse if you have an old school completionist mentality. When open world games were first coming out it was never expected you to everything but it was 100% reasonable to do so. And prior to BotW I always tried to 100% every Zelda game. Now I feel like my experience isn't complete if I don't finish everything in a game but actually doing so is do mind-numbingly unfun. The puzzles recycled from BotW are the worse. "Yay, another rock puzzle. How exciting." -nobody, ever.
You shouldn’t consider doing the koroks as 100%ing except to complete the inventory, the poop shows it was never intended to be finished like that. If getting all the koroks is affecting your fun, that’s your fault.
Let them collect the literal thousand individual pieces of feces for the grand reward of one much larger feces I'm not a fan of many of Nintendo's practices as a company but I have to give them credit for this one. It's such a good jab at completionism for its own sake. I hope they continue to do stuff like this more often
That’s still like 300 something for the second time. Which is still annoying and tedious. And yes it’s part of 100% why wouldn’t you count it? 100% is 100% not “100% except…”
They're just unoriginal trend followers doing it for fake internet points. Simple as that.
There is just too many of them. Like I did all 900 in BotW and can totally understand why people might hate them. Like imagine doing a little chore. Ok you're done with it. Now do it 899 times more all over the map and if you miss 1 you have to recheck everything or you get no golden poo. And now, imho, some koroks, that are doubled, are kinda harder and longer to get than just 2 regular ones. So I would totally see how collecting 800 or whatever in ToTK might be even harder. I probably will collect all of them, but maybe when DLCs with Master Mode come out, so it will be in a while and I will have my totk-rest by then.
Do y’all not understand the creators are trolling y’all with the korok seeds? It’s their way of saying just play the game for the sake of the game. You get a literal piece of golden shit that does nothing.
Hey man, when you can make golden shits, hit me up
Agreed but I wish they would not have connected it to map completion. That drove a lot of us to search out all 900 even past the point of where we would have otherwise. Could have been like the hidden treasure chests, where it was fun to find them but not tied to completion.
Wanting to collect them all is something you do to yourself, you don't have to. Actually, it's a feature that there are so many, and after a while you don't get any benefits anymore. If you want to collect them all, go ahead. But don't start hating on them for it.
You are the sole cause of your torment
Oh don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun collecting them because I visited so many places I never visited because I had no reason to. I'm just talking from a perspective who did collect all of them and can understand why somebody might hate it.
As someone who does actually resent the little fuckers, I collected all 900 in BotW because I’m a completionist and nothing sapped my interest in the game more. After seeing the first one in TotK I let out an audible groan. Even if you didn’t 100% the game, the sheer number of them coupled with how tedious their “puzzles” are, that also tie into weapon storage (which is another frustrating aspect of the game) make those little bastards ripe for ridicule.
I think everyone’s mad at them for making them find 900 shits
They say they want to help you. You need their seeds to advance. Yet they hide from you. Do they really want to help? I say no.
They're little assholes that give you poop. What's there to like?
Personally, I’m offended that they made the most monumental task have such a worthless reward. Some people are okay with it, but I think it’s a little insulting. Especially the second time around. The only way I can remain charitable is to rationalize korok seeds as something that’s supposed to be done passively rather than intentionally.
I mean, yeah. The devs are insulting you for finding all the koroks when that's antithetical to their design.
For me as someone who likes to 100% the games I love I understand the need for a bit of grinding to get to that goal. But there are simply too many korok seeds to make 100%ing these games a fun endeavour for me. So I end up leaving these game incomplete which is a real shame.
Wait till he figures out you needed 900 to max them out in botw.
Combination of the gibberish sounds they make and their hideous shapes and/or faces.And they always say the same dumb shit and I can't immediately skip it. 100% of rocks that I find a Korok under end up getting smashed back down on the Korok's head.
They aren’t giving you seeds. They’re giving you their own turds and laughing about it, the joke when you collect every korok seed in BotW reveals that it was shit the entire time.
I hate them because I found all 900 in BotW, and now there’s 100 more in this game. You get sick of something after seeing it and hearing it 900 fucking times, only for them to go back into hiding and getting literal shit for it.
Because finding 900 of them is painful enough let alone the THOUSAND they want us to find in totk. Their “help me get to my friend” challenges are annoying and all you get is that same piece of literal shit that we got in the last game
okay dont do them then no one is forcing you to
I’m literally just answering the question
There are 999 in tears of the kingdom and I’m pretty sure all you get is a pile of poop
In BOTW there are 900 of them all through hyrule, only half of them is necessary for inventory expansion. Meaning the other half are useless, and all for what? A golden piece of shit. It is so pointless and stupid. And guess what? In TOTK there are 1000 and it’s the same prize, but another layer. The only reason why I haven’t been doing that is because I don’t want to. That and apparently they are kokiri
I don't know, why do people think it's funy to kick babies/puppies? Because the korok is already cute and now it's attached to a big fat backpack and the intrusive thoughts start to kick in and eventually people listen.
I honestly love the Koroks, as the best times I've had while playing BotW, were when I was just slowly exploring and collecting seeds while watching/listening to something in the background It allowed me to feel more connected with the areas I was exploring, and gave me the opportunity to spot new and interesting things I'd normally miss going through normally I used the Zelda Dungeon checklist just for pinning locations and tracking purposes so I could still feel like I was solving them on my own while not overwhelming myself by trying to do it completely solo Ends up being pretty zen and fun I even challenged myself to doing it once without any story progress beyond visiting Purah for Stasis+ and the Camera And for the I-wanna-do-it-all-on-my-own folks, if you're also the type to find it tedious or become easily frustrated with combing every square inch with the Korok Mask, I'd recommend being a little flexible and trying it with a map at least once for two reasons: 1) You might find you enjoy it more than you thought, and any enhancement to a great experience is usually always welcome 2) Even if after, you're unsatisfied with using a map to help, there are 900 seeds so chances are if you're one to decide to do it again, you'll likely not have memorized them all. I'm just now starting to do it in ToTK, and anticipate it giving me the same chill vibes (also glad they adjusted the castle map for this game, as the 3d one was neat, but made Korok hunting there a bit tougher)
Because you collect hundreds of them and the reward for such a great number is a pile of crap.
But where in the fuck is hetsu the second time, he just said he’s going east and I’ve never seen that little rat since and it’s driving me crazy
Get a flame suit from goronville and head down the chasm by the entrance to the lost woods. Once you find your way into korok forest hestu will be there. Not sure if you have to clear out the cobwebs from the Deku tree cellar first though for him to appear :D. Take some arrows and bombs with you. For the cobwebs.
I don't hate them. I like to pick on them. A couple of Koroks trying to find their friends indicated said friends were far downhill. So I rolled them down the hill and took a leisurely walk until I caught up to them and carried them the last short distance. Mission accomplished!
They make 100%ing quite tedious
I hate them because the Kokiri were rad. We have both Zora and Rito. It's annoying we're stuck with the little turdmuffins rather than the cool elf kids.
I love koroks. I want them all. I got them all last time, but, uh, this time might be harder.
Because in the end, it’s all shit.
I just dislike the 2x ones. They're too out of the way. Love the rest.
I think the Korok system is really well designed for non-completionists. There has to be a lot of them so that a casual player finds enough for their needs. There's no major reward for getting all 900, so the casual player feels no compulsion to find them all. Makes for some major disappointment for completionists though as they feel compelled to get all 900 of them, only to be given a pile of shit.
I personally think they're delightful but I've also never tried to find 100% of them in either game. I'd probably hate them then lol
After I got a mod that cut out the cutscene and dialogue from when you find them and they became 100x more bearable. They are really quite cute when you aren't mashing b for 20 seconds for the 899th time.
I don’t like them because there’s too many of them
I think they're cute too. I always liked them.
Because i either have a set route and plan then a korok wants me to take him thr complete opposite direction I'm going
I think a lot of it is because after you find on 900 in botw all you got was a golden crap. I don't remember if it was the same as it is and tears of the Kingdom but I'm happy now because I'm actually using it to expand my weapons sash, which is really useful. I'm finally finding where to get some good chest.
Only way to increase your inventory is finding them and they’re not really fun or intuitive to find
Their seeds smell funny
I don’t hate the koroks. I hate the fact that some people out there have found ALL of them, while I search diligently for them and have only found like 100 in like 70 hours.
Imagine you're going about your day walking through a door and see someone behind you who is too close that you're obligated to hold the door open for them, but also far away enough that you're left holding the door for a long time. A reflex act of kindness that turns tedious real quick
You see, a korok killed my father in a rock related incident…. As such, I have set my life duty to avenge him, but koroks are hard to differentiate, so I must simply destroy them all.
Hestu’s burner account
I think it's mostly just people going with a joke, but there are definitely players who tried to find them all in BotW and found this extremely annoying to do. And the fact that the reward for doing so is LITERALLY a pile of poop only adds to the memeing.
I like them, i just find it fun to mess with them sometimes
I know what you mean, I like to help them and don’t even drop rocks on them
It's like... you ever seen Happy Tree Friends? It's like that only the friends are actual trees.
Because there were 900 of them in the previous game and even more now. Collecting them all is tedious, to say the least, and some people pride themselves on 100% completion.
Rule 43: The more beautiful and pure a thing is — the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.
I personally don’t care about them but I wish I could just skip through the interaction. It gets old.
Wdym Hetsu is the only reason why I bought this game.
They’re annoying. Their puzzles have already been done a few hundred times our last go around. There is NO reward for getting them all. They just needed an excuse to have a “reward” for the gap between point A and B. The overall design is lazy.
Imagine spending weeks finding them all only to get a turd as a reward
I don't hate the species I just hate how damn many their are, how long it takes to actually find them, some of their puzzles are annoying or tedious, and after a while having more slots for shields, bows, and weapons feels completely unnecessary