I always loved finding these guys in the game so I made some for my yard. The frog is about 20 inches tall and they’re made from concrete

Whatever this is. I am loving these big creatures so far.

Photo hunt for the compendium (Grizzlemaw Bear)

To this day I didn't know there was a physical version of the keys in shrines. Found it In Tah Mühl Shrine near Foothill Stable.

It's kinda like rupees where you would only see them in chests and when you see the physical version from lifting a rock, defeating yiga soldiers or hitting a blupee it surprises you for a second.

But I'm pretty sure this is the only shrine that has this.

Just started to replay BotW and noticed that my copy is all A! Is this the first NA serial number for BotW!? Checked all my other games and it seems this is accurate.

Art made by 028ton

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Strange the colorful manes only come in long style and not normal length

I just finished my first playthrough of Breath of the Wild. I'm a long-time Zelda franchise player, all the way back to the NES days, but it has taken me a while to pick this one up. I beat Ganon a few days ago and I would like to post my thoughts on it.

First, the open world is breath-taking. Being able to get on a horse and just go wherever you want is amazing, and the lack of loading screens and the deep field of view are impressive technical achievements. Also I like the openness of it: you can go anywhere starting from as soon as you leave the great plateu, and the only thing stopping you from doing anything in almost any order is your own level of skill and preparation.

That said, the lack of proper "dungeons" in the game feels like a big departure from the Zelda Forumula of previous games. Without dungeons, there's no need to prepare for a big outing with expectation that you cannot or will not return to safety for a long time. Even in some remote areas like Hebra mountains, you only need to trek until the next shrine, where you can safely teleport out, restock, and teleport back in.

You might think "they weren't called 'dungeons', they were called 'Divine Beasts'". I didn't like the Divine Beasts, and I'll tell you why: It was like playing an entirely different game. In the overworld the hallmark of this game is mobility: You can go anywhere. You can climb. You can glide. You can hunt down enemies and use all sorts of weapons and tactics. Inside a Divine Beast you can't do any of that. There are few enemies and they are almost all easy, because you could be coming in there with 4 hearts or with 20 hearts. You can't climb anything. You're in a cramped, confined little space solving geometry puzzles. I found myself getting so frustrated by the navigation inside the Divine Beasts that I ended up reaching for a strategy guide just to figure out how to get to the next terminal. For all their technological prowess, the Sheikah engineers and architects have produced spaces that are less functional, logical and navigable than what bokoblins are building with stucks and bones.

The first Divine Beast I did, the bird (which I hear is probably supposed to be done towards the end, but that's what happens when you get an open world) I didn't even realize I could tilt the thing. I made it almost to the end with a few extremely precise bow shots and very awkward paraglider jumps and lots of trial and error before I figured that out. Even then, I felt like a few of the puzzle solutions were a little janky (though maybe I didn't do things the "intended" way?). Honestly, and I hate to say this: Navi would have been helpful in a few places to help tell me what I was missing.

Gyro-based shrines were dreadful, and even in the other "good" shrines the lessons you learned about interesting problem-solving techniques and geometry puzzles rarely applied to the outside world. Hyrule just doesn't have a lot of gears and laser puzzles that need to be solved, so once you learn to do those things you never need to use it. Several shrines felt more like "Look at the cool things we can do with this game engine" and less like integrated parts of the same game. The skills you master in the overworld don't carry over to shrines and vice-versa.

The big draw for this game is the majesty of the open world and the feeling of freedom you have inside it. The developers struck a good balance between this large open world and feeling too empty and lonely. If you got off your horse and looked around there were (usually) things to see and collect. There was almost always some flowers, mushrooms or a korok puzzle, if you looked hard enough. Some spaces were a little bit barren and boring, but I guess with a map as large as Hyrule, you can't expect every single square inch to be equally interesting.

In terms of replay, while I would love to go back and revisit this iteration of Hyrule some day, I really dread the idea of having to collect several hundred Korok seeds just so I can have a useful inventory again.

This was a great game. Arguably we could call it a "masterpiece". It is going to influence games for years to come. It wasn't a perfect game but the overall effect was a wonderful one.

Just saying I’ve been getting encounters from them and a few blademasters. Thankfully, the blademasters are a lot easier to deal with than in the hideout. I think they are designed to one shot you, but these while they can take out a large amount of your health they it be taken out pretty easily

After 7 attempts, Naboris is finally free and honestly I never want to fight that electric nightmare again.

I started BoTW in the NS1 but never finished it, I now have the NS2 and thinking about finishing but want to do it on the NS2 BoTW version. Will the data start from the NS1 version? Or do I have to start over

It took many years and over 400 hours but I finally finished it today! Now I'm trying to decide if I pick up TOTK from where I left off or start from scratch lol.

I was just inside the castle to get the shield from King Rhoam's secret room and some weapons.

When I left the area, and spawned outside the castle, I immediately saw the skywatcher roaming behind Link. I never noticed that before so I figured it's because I freed the Divine beasts so Ganon put it there for extra security.

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just stumbled across the wii u to switch save converter here : https://github.com/DeltaJordan/BotW-Save-Manager

only thing is I don't have access to a windows/linux device at the mo, would somebody be able to convert my save from wii u to switch for me? drop me a pm and I'll send my save folder over.

thanks in advance!

So I just finished BOTW, and I loved the game, but I cant believe that I dont get to see a ganonless hyrule. In TOTK, does it start off with a healed hyrule that I can explore before ganon comes to wreck everything? Because if so, Im going to buy it right now.

On my way to the second divine beast and Miphas trident acts as a -1 weapon slots curse. At the same time I want to keep them for the final boss. Is there anyway to keep them somewhere outside the inventory without them despawning?