What about the Hylian shield? Does it break? If it does, can you get another one?
I got it as soon as I beat the game (like 50 shrines in).
After 120 shrines, it's still not broken. And it's great.
Fuck weapon degradation
What about the Hylian shield? Does it break? If it does, can you get another one?
What about the Hylian shield? Does it break? If it does, can you get another one?
Sweet. Wish I had found that shield sooner.
Got every piece of armor besides thunder helmet, every shrine done, Ganon defeated, only ten sidequests left to do. Can't believe I'm apparently only at 33% completion.
What about the Hylian shield? Does it break? If it does, can you get another one?
Nintendo's been playing with the idea that technology is really behind the "mythology" for awhile now, but in SS it was pretty noticeable with the Hylia statues being basically mechanical dolls and all.
I think going far, far, far to the past is what Nintendo will do next mainline. Maybe the leviathan bones are a hint to that too, like we'll see dinosaurs next time around.
It would have to be a spinoff then since anything before Skyward Sword wouldn't have Link/Zelda
Maybe a Sheikah spinoff? I would loooooove that. Dinosaurs and ancient Sheikah tech would be so fuckin rad.
BotW ending spoilers:Zelda does say she wants to return Hyrule to its former glory "or better" and she was OBSESSED with the Sheikah tech, so I could also see them doing a sequel with a very retro-future Hyrule too
I would totally love to see what a Neo-Sheikah Revolution Hyrule looks like in a sequel. Gimme that and EP0NA Mk.II Sheikah-cycle.
It would have to be a spinoff then since anything before Skyward Sword wouldn't have Link/Zelda
Maybe a Sheikah spinoff? I would loooooove that. Dinosaurs and ancient Sheikah tech would be so fuckin rad.
BotW ending spoilers:Zelda does say she wants to return Hyrule to its former glory "or better" and she was OBSESSED with the Sheikah tech, so I could also see them doing a sequel with a very retro-future Hyrule too
Beautiful idea. The mystery and aura behind the Sheikah technology in this was very interesting. I loved the "the future was in the past" theme.I would totally love to see what a Neo-Sheikah Revolution Hyrule looks like in a sequel. Gimme that and EP0NA Mk.II Sheikah-cycle.
So the lore discussions have actually brought us to the Kojima nonsense of "it was actually nanomachines all along"? lol
So the lore discussions have actually brought us to the Kojima nonsense of "it was actually nanomachines all along"? lol
Doesn't one of the leviathan bones kind of look like Ridley?
Well, I mean, to be fair Miyamoto did say originally the Triforce WAS going to be mechanical, and Skyward Sword and especially Breath of the Wild go out of their way to show the Sheikah were technologically extremely advanced. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to have "everything was robots" be true.
So the lore discussions have actually brought us to the Kojima nonsense of "it was actually nanomachines all along"? lol
This eventually leads to an Impa lightning bolt action game where the final boss says "sheikah tech, girl!" and rambles on about making Hyrule great again.
Just realised that this is the first 3D Zelda that has placed no importance on music or having to find and learn songs
OoT and Majora had the Ocarina
Wind Waker had the baton
Twilight Princess had the grass and Howl Stones
Skyward Sword had the Goddess Harp and the Song of the Hero
The closest you have to something musical here is listening for Kass out in the wild and getting his kids to sing to unlock the one Shrine near the Rito Village
Were there any scenes or something I missed? I think I saw a post mentioning a song that talks about Zelda's love for Link?
Just beat the game, all divine beasts done, and all memories recovered.
Ganon was somewhat surprisingly easy. First phase wasn't bad and I imagine without the beasts or as strong armor would have been somewhat challenging. Phase two was easy as hell with that one easily dodged beam attack.
Parts feel incomplete still. What happened to the thing Zelda wanted to tell Link that the Deku tree told her to tell him herself? Just left for us to imagine it as...saying she loves him? I never really felt they went past respect for one another, though there might have been allusions to her developing feelings in her journal (I can't recall for sure), it didn't really feel that way in the cutscenes. In the very end it looks like Link goes back to being her bodyguard, not romantic partner or something.
Were there any scenes or something I missed? I think I saw a post mentioning a song that talks about Zelda's love for Link?
I also found it a bit awkward that Zelda's initial conversation with Link at the end concludes very briefly with 'Do you remember me?', and gives no conclusion to that scene together. I assume that is the end of the basic ending, but the extra scenes when everything is done jump to other points and never finish the initial scene. I had also kindof been expecting an explanation of why her powers suddenly manifested against the guardians. I had assumed due to her desire to defend Link erasing the grudge she had held against him and purifying her spirit (or just implied love), but thought there might be something mentioned about it.
Where did Zelda find her century old traveling outfit to switch back into at the end?
Story and cutscenes definitely went to the sidelines for this one as they focused efforts on developing the world itself.
Just finish all the quests involving Kass so you can listen to his final song.
Or if you want the answer right now click the spoilers
Basically Kass' teacher was a Sheikah that loved Zelda but he says that Zelda only had eyes for Link and his song is about that, it even mentions how Zelda awaked her powers because of her love for Link.
That they decided to tell and not show that aspect of the story is a humongous missed opportunity.
That they decided to tell and not show that aspect of the story is a humongous missed opportunity.
They do show it. Zelda spends the first memories mad at Link and treating him like shit because he was chosen by the sword instead of her. Then, after Link saves her from some Yiga she totally changes in attitude towards him. Their relationship gets stronger over the course of the memories, with Zelda clearly developing feelings for Link but not showing them. Zelda finally drops the facade when Link sacrifices himself for her, and this awakens her power. Zelda also has diary pages in her room where she explains her feelings in those memories.
yeah seriously, I got that maybe she may have grown some respect and admiration for Link but I didn't get romance.
there wasn't anything in that diary I saw as romantic. It just said that after the assassination attempt that she felt horrible and that she would change her attitude, and that they grew closer and she actually got Link to talk.
They do show it. Zelda spends the first memories mad at Link and treating him like shit because he was chosen by the sword instead of her. Then, after Link saves her from some Yiga she totally changes in attitude towards him. Their relationship gets stronger over the course of the memories, with Zelda clearly developing feelings for Link but not showing them. Zelda finally drops the facade when Link sacrifices himself for her, and this awakens her power. Zelda also has diary pages in her room where she explains her feelings in those memories.
There's no mention of her having romantic feelings for Link in the diary. Friendship, sure. Romance, though? Zelda's memories elude to an earned respect and mutual friendship, and nothing more. Before Kass tells you, you could argue that her simply protecting the Champion awoke her power, since the sacrifice to the other was reciprocated. When Kass' epilogue unfolded, the entire time I was thinking, "Why on Earth wasn't this a cutscene?"
That's the point. Zelda's romantic feelings were obvious to bystanders but not Zelda herself. Zelda's diary becomes full of talk about Link once she becomes interested in him. She totally has a crush on him and is expressing it through analysis of him, talking to him constantly, trying to crack his silent exterior, sharing personal moments with him, breaking down her own facade around him. Kass' mentor noticed how Zelda was all over Link and realized that it was love. Zelda herself didn't realize it until Link was about to die, which awakened her powers.
That's the point. Zelda's romantic feelings were obvious to bystanders but not Zelda herself. Zelda's diary becomes full of talk about Link once she becomes interested in him. She totally has a crush on him and is expressing it through analysis of him, talking to him constantly, trying to crack his silent exterior, sharing personal moments with him, breaking down her own facade around him. Kass' mentor noticed how Zelda was all over Link and realized that it was love. Zelda herself didn't realize it until Link was about to die, which awakened her powers.
I don't hope the Zelda x Link thing is now gonna be in all games that would be lame imo.
I really don't like the idea how the horrible deaths of her father, her friends, her servants, her home, her subjects, and the entirety of her kingdom didn't awaken her power, but almost losing the boy she loves does.
I like to believe that it was the combined forces of all those things and the fact she was about to lose the only person she really had left that awakened her powers, not really her realization of her love for Link.
I don't hope the Zelda x Link thing is now gonna be in all games that would be lame imo.
you make it sound like Zelda never had romantic feelings for Link in Skyward Sword
? Its been a thing since Zelda 2 though.... lol
? Its been a thing since Zelda 2 though.... lol
Hasn't that been the case in every Zelda
Besides like majoras mask
You're not getting it. The way Zelda was acting made it obvious that she had feelings for Link to people around her, but it wasn't expressed as romance because Zelda hadn't had an emotional awakening and realized herself that she was in love. She was hanging around Link a lot, talking with him constantly, treating him like a science project. Kass' teacher noticed this, realized Zelda had a thing for Link, and got jealous. People being in love and not realizing it is a very common trope.sorry but no. You're saying it's really obvious to everyone but her, but NOTHING in the game could have been outright romance until this guy tells you via song that it was. Mipha was just saying that when she does her healing that she thinks of her happy place or some crap, and that Zelda should do the same. And she gets interrupted. Everything I have seen from the game just made it seem she saw Link as a kindred soul and a good friend that she went from hating to being close to since he was the only one who understood her.
Then at the end when they're walking together in the new Hyrule she's just like 'ooh new adventure, I'm glad I have you with me' which all I saw was 'that's it?'. They could have made it clearer there that after waiting for 100 years she would be more forward.
This wasn't obvious in the least until after the fact and now you start seeing other evidence and making sense of it.
edit: on a different note do we have theories/an explanation as to why the master sword was talking to Zelda instead of Link? Because she held the triforce? Then why was Link wielding the sword, and why did she say she stopped hearing the sword in the end?
But it's not in all the games tho.
BOTW is making people forget what a Zelda game is.
and you're not getting my argument.
I'm saying that BEFORE that whole event with Kass' ending, it wasn't clear that Zelda had romantic feelings for Link. It's only AFTER you go through that whole dialogue that your mind is now observing previous events and cutscenes and taking essentially leaps into going 'oh I now see this scene differently and can explain it'.
I'm saying their method of portraying her feelings for him through SHOWING me was bad. Because with the reveal I'm left thinking they should have shown it better or had other characters made it clearer to Link, because the few cutscenes we get of Zelda don't show shit. It is beyond being vague.
This is the exact same issue that happened in The Legend of Korra's ending where something happened and people are happy and many like me are thinking 'none of the events prior to this scene made it seem that way'.