Zelda Breath of the Wild - Wii U vs. Switch

[MrPopo]

So far the best stuff has been from the shrines that don't have puzzles in them; either the test of strength ones or the ones where getting to the shrine is the puzzle and they just give you a chest and an orb when you get inside.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Accordions rule.

[Xeogred]

Only downside to this game (and others like it sometimes), for me is that I don't feel too compelled to play much on workdays. Even though these are the kind of games you can slowly chip away at and make a lot of progress in... I just really want more full days to binge play it forever.

[Sarge]

Oh, I want to play, because I can just tackle a random shrine or two I see, and call it a night.

You know, when I actually pry myself away.

Yeah, I need some sleep.

[Tanooki]

120 Shrines, 900 Korok Seeds. The grapevine says you only need 450ish to cap your inventory space. Elemental chu chus are for upgrading certain gear. Got the Master Sword and did my first Divine Beast.

I'd believe the seeds but the shrines? I don't see how there could be 120 in the space the game takes up as I've walked like 75% of the map as it is so far. Unless we're lied to and we have a light world and a dark world flip side like back on the SNES where exactly are they hiding all that?


fastbilly: That Major Shrine was that remote island in the southeast right? I can't do it with what I have, tried like 5x and backed off. I can get to the blaster part at the end, but don't have enough to make a dent in it. Really infuriating my cheap trick of using an ice arrow and rushing in to wreck it won't work as it cracks right out of it. :\


Count me on the list of feeling wrong about the open world bs stuff from before. It's not so much to me open world, but more of a MMO style land with finite borders like the original Guild Wars. You can go wherever, do whatever, but you have a plot to follow in time to get the ending. You can do it now, later, never, go find a bunch of side jobs in each outpost and town just like Guild Wars. I think that's why I'm not put off by it which is fine by me.


That shrine you speak of with the hammers and freezing and balls. Is this the pachinko machine kind of looking thing with the laser off to the left, various triangles, and like 5 moving balls that keep coming down a water (45 degree) fall off an edge. You have to basically get the ball and smack it to that divot to get the door? Hammer isn't needed for it...none of it. You can get the chest in that one just freezing the ground to block the laser, then another near the raised wall (high side) as you can climb it that way, then jump over. And then for the big ball, statis lock it, slap it with any weapon like 5+ times and it'll roll right on it.

[MrPopo]

I've done 61 shrines and there are large sections of the world I haven't extensively explored. There are also some shrines that don't show up on the radar until you engage in a sidequest.

[Tanooki]

Hmm ok.

I think I know this one, but there's no way to tell if you cleared a shrine vs unlocked it for teleportation on that map is there? The other day when I hit the Tabantha region and east of it I spotted some, unlocked but walked as it was getting a bit late and I forgot which.

Hate to do it but I may just buy that big guide book just so I can find all the screwball stuff I know I will miss because there's no way I'm committing like a 100 hours to this most likely and don't want frustration setting in. I just enjoy going around anyway at this rate more than messing with the story seeing the sights and unlocking shrines and towers.

I just wish I could find a way into the too hot and too cold (for warm doublet armor) areas.

[Xeogred]

The uncleared shrines have a yellow/orange dot in the middle of the icon.

It's literally like a dot spec. Very hard to see and probably gets harder to see the more populated the map gets. They kind of goofed on that.

[Tanooki]

Yeah I agree, I noticed it a little bit ago. I found a backdoor of sorts that worked ok for me to get both the wasteland tower, but I couldn't find it without help but did locate the gerudo one in a nook in the cliffside. I got into Link crossdressing for the heat and parked it inside the throne room there before chatting. I could go do a +1 of heart or stamina, really not sure which I'd like to do that with perhaps stamina this time. I did a hot plate challenge with some gorons too which was cool, got a shrine and cleared it, found 2-3 others but didn't do them as I wanted to poke around (which is how I saw that lit spot.) I'd hate to try and see that on the 7" screen.

[alienjesus]

120 Shrines, 900 Korok Seeds. The grapevine says you only need 450ish to cap your inventory space. Elemental chu chus are for upgrading certain gear. Got the Master Sword and did my first Divine Beast.

I'd believe the seeds but the shrines? I don't see how there could be 120 in the space the game takes up as I've walked like 75% of the map as it is so far. Unless we're lied to and we have a light world and a dark world flip side like back on the SNES where exactly are they hiding all that?

I've found 18 shrines in basically just the Great Plateau, Necluda and a little bit of Lanayru. I think there's easily 120.

Some of the shrines are hidden btw - I found one in a cave I had to blow up.

Some of the shrines require you to do side quests to reveal them too.