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-=-=->S P O I L E R S<-=-=- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Spoiler Thread
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I'm sick of his Ganon form being a big pig on four legs. I want the Ocarina/LTTP version back. I didn't like it in TP but I get they were going for a beast vs beast thing. Then it was in HW and now this. It's boring compared to the classic Ganon. BotW was the perfect chance to bring it back with the whole inspiration from Zelda 1 thing going on. Huge missed opportunity.
What's your outfit? It looks good.
Looks like Hylian Hood with Rubber shirt and pants.
kunonabi
Member
Yeah, I really thought we had a chance with this one. Instead we get that god awful spider thing and another 4 legged beast that they seemed to forget to actually design any a.i. for.
yep. This games aesthetic customization is off the charts. Hope it gets carried over to the next one.
Yeah considering how I was constantly blown away the entire game, the way they missed the mark with the final boss is pretty disappointing. It felt rushed almost.. I dunno. There is an even bigger emphasis on the final boss, as you can go there immediately, it's always there looming the entire game. It should have been a truly epic battle to live up to the narrative, but ended up just being a victory lap battle.
I was expecting a form similar to OoT, but with intense fighting mechanics like a Lynel. Would have been incredible. Or if they went with "massive beast" like they did, at least make it hard and have me climb it SotC style, like they teased the entire game with the Stone Talus. Even the champions involvement felt rushed, after I spent a whole game saving them and their villages, it just equals a 50% health drop?
BotW is like my favourite game ever but yeah I was pretty let down by the end. All the blight bosses actually weren't up to usual standards. Luckily Hyrule Castle was perfect.
I was expecting a form similar to OoT, but with intense fighting mechanics like a Lynel. Would have been incredible. Or if they went with "massive beast" like they did, at least make it hard and have me climb it SotC style, like they teased the entire game with the Stone Talus. Even the champions involvement felt rushed, after I spent a whole game saving them and their villages, it just equals a 50% health drop?
BotW is like my favourite game ever but yeah I was pretty let down by the end. All the blight bosses actually weren't up to usual standards. Luckily Hyrule Castle was perfect.
Serenitynow
Member
I noticed some white lines drawn across the floor of Hateno Ancient Tech Lab with some Hylian words written next to them.
They are dividing the lab in half between Purah (Director) and Symin (Famulus). The lines and text get more faded the closer they get to Purah, meaning she's been redrawing the line and shrinking Symin's division of the lab.
Haha that's hilarious! God this game
WordAssassin
Member
I noticed some white lines drawn across the floor of Hateno Ancient Tech Lab with some Hylian words written next to them.
They are dividing the lab in half between Purah (Director) and Symin (Famulus). The lines and text get more faded the closer they get to Purah, meaning she's been redrawing the line and shrinking Symin's division of the lab.
Oh my GOD
I love it, that is so fantastic. Great little character moment and gag subtly hidden in plain sight, I love you Nintendo
I liked spider form.
Vampirolol
Member
I really liked Spider Ganon because I had this constant feeling that the four champions were helping me, especially in his second pahse when I had some problems deflecting the attacks (both Urbosa and Daruk nailed it)
Beast Ganon looks cool, has the best song in the game and feels epic, but at that point it's really just a playbale cutscene. I was ok with that only because the whole game felt like a long battle against Ganon.
Beast Ganon looks cool, has the best song in the game and feels epic, but at that point it's really just a playbale cutscene. I was ok with that only because the whole game felt like a long battle against Ganon.
I kind of feel like even with that; Beast Ganon deflated the momentum that had been built throughout the game. Even if you treat it as a victory lap and narrative climax over a traditional boss battle; I feel like it just doesn't bring anything positive to the pacing of the final act, and doesn't make your overall victory feel any more satisfying. The music was definitely one of the game's best tracks, but that's all it has going for it.
kunonabi
Member
I couldn't get with it A big golden spider mixed with SFV Akuma just doesn't fly for me.
Kinda hope the next Zelda game goes back to awesome character writing and better stories.
TP, WW, SS, OOT and MM all were better storywise.
There is no nice build up and the King sort of tells the whole story right of the bat lol.
So i hope they fix this in the next game either use the old way of story telling or just copy Witcher 3 or elder scrolls (lore books) or an entirely new way, the memory stuff was horrible and the story is very sparse.
People might think i am crazy but i play Zelda games for story also (for dungeons/puzzle, adventure, gameplay and story).
Dungeons also were pretty meh in the next game they should be like Hyrule Castle but with puzzles added and scattered around the overworld.
Still a 10/10 game but story is sparse sadly.
Guess TP, OoT, MM, WW and MM spoiled me with their charming and cool stories/characters.
Also what happened in that ending it was meh...normally Zelda endings are soooooo good and emotional.
Anyway this are my problems with the game after playing for 150 hours. Oh and enemy variety ofcourse.
Kinda hope the dlc dungeon will be a large traditional one or one like Hyrule castle + puzzles and i can't wait for hard mode,cave of trials etc. Hopefully the dlc story fleshes this game out more!
Ganon was okay (Spider was awesome) but the malice form was meh indeed.
Sorry for the ranting and i still love this game these 2 points are just my biggest concerns with the game
and otherwise i would not have spent 150 hours on it and still play it hehe
TP, WW, SS, OOT and MM all were better storywise.
There is no nice build up and the King sort of tells the whole story right of the bat lol.
So i hope they fix this in the next game either use the old way of story telling or just copy Witcher 3 or elder scrolls (lore books) or an entirely new way, the memory stuff was horrible and the story is very sparse.
People might think i am crazy but i play Zelda games for story also (for dungeons/puzzle, adventure, gameplay and story).
Dungeons also were pretty meh in the next game they should be like Hyrule Castle but with puzzles added and scattered around the overworld.
Still a 10/10 game but story is sparse sadly.
Guess TP, OoT, MM, WW and MM spoiled me with their charming and cool stories/characters.
Also what happened in that ending it was meh...normally Zelda endings are soooooo good and emotional.
Anyway this are my problems with the game after playing for 150 hours. Oh and enemy variety ofcourse.
Kinda hope the dlc dungeon will be a large traditional one or one like Hyrule castle + puzzles and i can't wait for hard mode,cave of trials etc. Hopefully the dlc story fleshes this game out more!
Ganon was okay (Spider was awesome) but the malice form was meh indeed.
Sorry for the ranting and i still love this game these 2 points are just my biggest concerns with the game
and otherwise i would not have spent 150 hours on it and still play it hehe
kunonabi
Member
Kinda hope the next Zelda game goes back to awesome character writing and better stories.
TP, WW, SS, OOT and MM all were better storywise.
There is no nice build up and the King sort of tells the whole story right of the bat lol.
So i hope they fix this in the next game either use the old way of story telling or just copy Witcher 3 or elder scrolls (lore books) or an entirely new way, the memory stuff was horrible and the story is very sparse.
People might think i am crazy but i play Zelda games for story also (for dungeons/puzzle, adventure, gameplay and story).
Dungeons also were pretty meh in the next game they should be like Hyrule Castle but with puzzles added and scattered around the overworld.
Still a 10/10 game but story is sparse sadly.
Guess TP, OoT, MM, WW and MM spoiled me with their charming and cool stories/characters.
Also what happened in that ending it was meh...normally Zelda endings are soooooo good and emotional.
Anyway this are my problems with the game after playing for 150 hours. Oh and enemy variety ofcourse.
Kinda hope the dlc dungeon will be a large traditional one or one like Hyrule castle + puzzles and i can't wait for hard mode,cave of trials etc. Hopefully the dlc story fleshes this game out more!
Ganon was okay (Spider was awesome) but the malice form was meh indeed.
Sorry for the ranting and i still love this game these 2 points are just my biggest concerns with the game
I can't imagine the story being so weak next time since they can't really do the amnesia thing again and they hopefully won't have to drastically alter the scenario halfway through like they did with BotW either.
thechristoph
Sir!
That's my take as well. All of the bosses were forms of Ganon. It built and built and built and landed at the big beast. I didn't have a problem with it, but I would have liked to have a non-motion controlled swordfight. TP's end boss sequence was better.
Prince of Space
Banned
I noticed some white lines drawn across the floor of Hateno Ancient Tech Lab with some Hylian words written next to them.
They are dividing the lab in half between Purah (Director) and Symin (Famulus). The lines and text get more faded the closer they get to Purah, meaning she's been redrawing the line and shrinking Symin's division of the lab.
This is amazing.
Same happened to me lol
Vampirolol
Member
Yes, it's painful for me to say it since I wasn't a big fan of that Ganondorf, but TP had a great battle. Also Wind Waker was spectacular. This is like Majora's Mask with Fierce Deity, something I like but that doesn't stand out.
thesaucetastic
Unconfirmed Member
Probably what the confidential envelope is for.
WordAssassin
Member
There's also that island to the west of the Hidden Forest that has just... nothing. A dead tree. Not even a Korok seed. Seems incredibly suspicious to me to be honest. I know there are places in the game that are just wilderness but that one in particular strikes me as very odd. I mean even most empty areas have a Korok puzzle or two.
I noticed some white lines drawn across the floor of Hateno Ancient Tech Lab with some Hylian words written next to them.
They are dividing the lab in half between Purah (Director) and Symin (Famulus). The lines and text get more faded the closer they get to Purah, meaning she's been redrawing the line and shrinking Symin's division of the lab.
Snap!
Purah's great.
Yoshimitsu126
Member
Replaying OoT:3D and realized Zelda and Ruta's characters swapped places in BotW.
Prof. Bathtub
Member
At night, a large amount of stals encircle you there.
This game is incredible. I've played for over 120 hours now. I beat the game. I beat all 4 dungeons. I got the master sword. I've filled out every region of the map. I have the special horse, tons of maxed out armor, etc. But today after doing all that, I stumbled upon the Wetland Stable for the first time! Somehow this game is big enough that I'm still discovering landmarks after all this playtime. The sense of new is still there.
Lights and Waves
Member
tauroxd
Member
120 hours and you missed a stable?
What have you been doing this whole time haha
Hahaha basically this. Stables are too noticeable to miss even one after 120 hours.
This is nice
https://mobile.twitter.com/Swiffy22/status/849197322567331841
Didnt know you could do that.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Swiffy22/status/849197322567331841
Didnt know you could do that.
I came across the npc that gives the only bit of backstory for the fortress in Akkala just the other day.
This is what happens when you don't follow the roads.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Colonel Nasty
Member
So I beat this finally and is there no gameplay post ganon? I just reload my save and do go in this time?
That's how i am gonna do it when one of my friends comes over and we replay the game together.
Ditto.
Beat Ganon tonight. Ran right to the castle for the first time right after I beat the last Divine Beast. Ganon was epic-looking in both forms and kind of fun, but waaaaay too easy. I took him on after only completing 47 shrines and the 4 Divine Beasts (took a few memory pics too), so I felt like I was going to be underpowered, but nope.
Not really a complaint, to be honest... it didn't sour me on the game or the end of the game at all.
I'm still so in love with this game. I have almost ALL the side quests to do, so there's still plenty to dig my teeth into.
lvl99 Pixel
Member
this is the Ganon wins timeline ofc
wow what
Let me see if I understan what happened.
So the player finds a way to enter ganon's lair from the Gliding minigame, and then it leaves the world state with Ganon in, but the player is kicked out since they landed. This gets rids of all other objects/instances in the game I presume? Leaving Link and Gliding dude as the only ones left?
Even gliding dude is gone after you speak to him. Unfortunately the guards to Gerudo city still manifest if try to enter it, lol.
Guess this is the first major game breaking glitch?
I'm not sure why people expect it to have a use. I think it's simply an in-game achievement reward, just like Hestu's Gift.
Wow that's really interesting. It's strange that they programmed a barrier for the Sanctum entrance complete with a message. I wonder why that is.
It gives you a star next to your profile, and on your map you get a % completion stat. There is no new content after you beat Ganon, but you can still do whatever you want and finish off sidequests etc.
It seems so, though to be fair you have to try really hard to actually trigger it. Nintendo will probably still patch it though, since now that it's on youtube people might try to emulate it without realizing it will permanently fuck their saves. I would think the easy fix would be to make it so the gliding game ending triggers before anything else, rather than after.
I'm guessing the barrier would usually be approached from the other side, it's just two-way for some reason.
Actually me too because I had talked to the guy at the wall at Fort Hateno who told of the story that the champion (link) died in the final battle there. So as soon as impa said there is one more and I saw the pic I was like holy shit I am travelling back to the spot where I died. It was a really cool feeling for me
It's very strange . A bunch of skeletons and chus. Nothing else
kunonabi
Member
Not much of a reward if you can't actually look at the damn thing. At least the dung is a blatant F U.
Finally decided to finish the main quest, didn't think I was super powerful but the whole fight was incredibly easy - ate two pieces of food and barely even had to think about it. So that was a bit disappointing. The ending in general was pretty disappointing.
I also really dislike the whole 'sending you back to a save before the fight' thing, and it seems pretty unlikely that the 'original story' DLC will be about Zelda & Link after the final fight, following one of their adventures in a post-calamity world.
But none of this really changes my thoughts on it being one of my all time favourite games, it's absolutely incredible. I adore this game for so many reasons.
I also really dislike the whole 'sending you back to a save before the fight' thing, and it seems pretty unlikely that the 'original story' DLC will be about Zelda & Link after the final fight, following one of their adventures in a post-calamity world.
But none of this really changes my thoughts on it being one of my all time favourite games, it's absolutely incredible. I adore this game for so many reasons.
JershJopstin
Banned
120 hours and you missed a stable?
What have you been doing this whole time haha
Last night, with 4 shrines left to go, I was following the Sheikah Sensor and found... the Gerudo Canyon Stable.
Really.
My 118th and 119th shrines were both stable shrines. Riverside Stable and South Akkala Stable. I never really thoroughly explored the Hyrule Field area since of course I wanted to see how far I could push the game and wanted to activate all the towers, and I didn't see the South Akkala Stable because when I climbed Akkala Tower, there was a huge thunderstorm and I couldn't see it. I also found the stable in the Faron area jungle pretty late in my adventures as well.
I beat the game this week, but during some post-Ganon playing I found the mounted archery and Goron golf minigames for the first time. Also I apparently have about 15 more sidequests to do. Just when you thought you've done everything, you find something. I stumbled upon both the Observation Room and the King's Study poking around Hyrule Castle AFTER I beat Ganon.
And speaking of new discoveries, I just found out you can dye the Wild tunic set. I kind of wish you could carry multiple sets, but I don't wanna grind for those dragon parts again...
I beat the game this week, but during some post-Ganon playing I found the mounted archery and Goron golf minigames for the first time. Also I apparently have about 15 more sidequests to do. Just when you thought you've done everything, you find something. I stumbled upon both the Observation Room and the King's Study poking around Hyrule Castle AFTER I beat Ganon.
And speaking of new discoveries, I just found out you can dye the Wild tunic set. I kind of wish you could carry multiple sets, but I don't wanna grind for those dragon parts again...
kunonabi
Member
yeah, dragon farming is terrible. Star farming isn't much better.
It's weird despite doubling down on systems created by SS none of them actually feel like improvements outside of the stamina guage.
Mohonky
Member
Whats the pre-requisite to the 'Alternate' ending.
Finally decided I would kill Ganon and I get to the cutscene where Zelda asks if I remember her, then it goes to credits. After the credits theres another video. However isnt there something immediately after her asking if you remember her?
I have;
All main quests complete (except kill Ganon before the final fight)
All memories found
All Shrine quests completed and 120 shrines in total.
Do I need to complete all side quests?
Finally decided I would kill Ganon and I get to the cutscene where Zelda asks if I remember her, then it goes to credits. After the credits theres another video. However isnt there something immediately after her asking if you remember her?
I have;
All main quests complete (except kill Ganon before the final fight)
All memories found
All Shrine quests completed and 120 shrines in total.
Do I need to complete all side quests?
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