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Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch/Wii U)
Evan_B:
If you want to maximize your enjoyment of the game, I’d strongly recommend the DLC. The cave of trials is one of the best aspects of the title as a whole, and the Champion’s Ballad is pretty much a highlight reel of all the best moments in the game.
Stratos:
So someone modded BOTW to make Zelda playable.
It actually made me think a NewGame+ or Master Quest mode starring Zelda would have been a great extra. Imagine changing the story slightly to have Link be the one to dive into Calamity Ganon and sealing them away together, and Zelda is the one who awakens in the healing chamber 100 years later with amnesia and has to free Link and kill Ganon.
Would have been a great thing to add for a DLC #3.
Khushrenada:
So, I've been putting more time into this game to finally fully complete it. In the past few weeks, I've explored through the 60 of Death Mountain I hadn't gotten to as well as a bunch of large gaps in the Akkala region that I purposely left because I wanted to save some of that colorful fall foliage for later especially after going through the winter Hebra zone and then wastelands and Death Mountain harsh terrain.
I've now completed all 120 shrines and I've now acquired all clothing items (aside from the Amiibo items) except the Tingle pants. I'm working my way to them in Central Hyrule as I finally conquer that area. I'm glad I saved it for last. It's lush green fields are so inviting and peaceful aside from having to occasionally rough up a Guardian or two. Especially with winter and snow now here where I live. Having a nice summer area is so nice.
I finally finished up the Trials of the Sword last night also. The Final Trails weren't as difficult as I thought. I did take me three tries although the second was just bad luck of lightning electricity somehow carrying over to me during the Stalnox fight ending my game. The first one was from learning the opening couple floors a bit and not playing smart and taking a lot of damage. But I got it on my third try and once I got past the Stalnox acquiring his weapons and getting some food made, I was able to rock it the rest of the way. I could have made a bit easier on myself since I ended the trial with three ancient arrows still in my possession but not knowing how long it would go or what I would face made me want to save them just in case.
I also started up the Champion's Ballad DLC. For some reason, I thought it was just 4 shrines and a Divine Beast dungeon but I see it's actually 16 shrines plus a dungeon. If I had known that I wouldn't have spaced out those last shrines in the base game as breaks from the Korok hunt as much. On the subject of Koroks, I just need to find 21 of them suckers. The in-game completion from the Sheikah Slate puts me at 96.65% complete. Getting closer and closer.
At this point, I just need to get the Tingle pants and all Side Quests from both base game and DLC will be complete. All Shrine Quests are complete. The Compendium is complete aside from the hard mode enemies that don't appear in normal and you can not get pictures for then. I've defeated all 4 Moldugas and all 40 Stone Taluses. I just have 2 Hinoxes left to find. Not sure if I missed one or two or if they will appear in Central Hyrule. Running out of new places.
Thanks to the terrain of Akkala and Central Hyrule, I've been using a horse to roam through the areas a bit faster. With the Korok mask, it allows me to move faster without having to stop and search from different angles in an area to make sure I'm not missing anything and cover some of these big plains faster. I'm enjoying this opportunity to do more horse riding in the game. Never got to do to much of it since I was often going over so many steep elevations in my searching of the land. Now I'm finally in areas where the horse riding can be used. Although, I do wonder about working through the Champions Ballad to acquire the motorcycle and using that for the rest of my journey in Central Hyrule but I'd rather finish searching for Korok seeds now and then do the rest of those challenges. Guess I'll just take the motorcycle out for a few spins to see if there are any other treasure chests out there I've missed and to enjoy the view a bit.
Next up for me is the eastern border of Central Hyrule by a Bottomless Swamp and soon the Ranch ruins where the Tingle Pants should be. Soon, I'll be going through the ruins of Castle Town and that should pretty much cover it for places to see. It's been a long journey (so long that my Hero's path is disappearing from the south which I covered extensively in my beginning of the game) but the end is now in sight. That said, I'm still learning new things even now. For instance, upgrading the Tunic to its full potential required some dragon parts that I had never farmed before. I now have a bit of a better understanding of their components which a lot of you may already have from your time playing the game but it's been a bit of news to me. What a game!
ShyGuy:
What a game indeed
Khushrenada:
Well, it's time. Time to wrap this up.
I finally finished my journey covering the center of Hyrule from south to north and finishing up by exploring Castle Town. Have taken down so many Guardians. They are nothing anymore. They used to be a threat but now only the Lynel provides a challenge and even that has really diminished. At the end of this journey, standing at the gates of Hyrule Castle, I find myself short 5 Korok seeds. I'm not surprised. I expected this might happen. I've since consulted with an online map and have found 5 seeds on that guide that I'm not seeing on my map.
You may remember this image from year ago in this thread where I highlighted what portions of the map I had searched for Korok seeds and other wonder of Hyrule and what my plan of progress was.
At the time, I was finishing up on the Tingle islands and then going to face Ganon and then starting working in a counterclockwise direction from the north of the Gerudo Highlands to Akkala to finish the border and then attack the juicy center. At the time, I did not have the Korok Mask so I just had to move very carefully and keep my eye open for potential spots. After I beat Ganon, I decided to check through the red area shown to see if I had been successful in finding all the Korok seeds to that point. I was not.
I can't really remember the number anymore but 38 sticks out to me. I missed a bunch but then there were also some Korok methods I needed to learn or missed like shooting arrows at certain Hyrule crests. Reading this thread, stevey mentioned that at one point but somehow I missed that advice also. Some were stupid misses on my part. Like there was one that I knew was coming up on my map because it showed the rock pattern for those complete the design Koroks. Yet, somehow, I was so busy searching around the area for other Koroks that I missed actually seeing and doing that Korok rock placement and never noticed that I didn't grab it. Some were under rocks on high cliff ledges that I guess I just never got the right camera angle to see them as I was searching. I thought I had covered Hyrule Castle well but there were a few more there. I remember being surprised at the Bridge of Hylia because I had found 5 along it and discovered there were three others I missed. Some places were bunched up like that and there were other areas that were very sparse with seeds.
Around the time I got the Korok mask, I was in the Hebra region and exploring that. After I wrapped up that northwestern corner, I decided to check my work again. There were 3 Korok seeds missed in it. Now, part of the could be from doing some of the zone without the mask but I did try to go back and quickly cover some territory just to be safe with the mask. Still, it showed me the mask wasn't infallible so I had a feeling more might be missed by the time I finished my journey. However, of the 5 left, only one is an area I went through fully using the Korok mask and that is in the Tenegar Canyon which required a lot of up and down elevation to check the walls. So, I get why that was missed. But the other 4 are more galling. They are all in earlier areas that I thought I had checked over when I did my first double check and saw those 38 that were missed. So, I don't know what happened there but it that really changed my opinion on the Korok mask. Considering the failure rate of was about 2 - 4 seeds missed over, maybe, 33 - 40 % of the map, I guess that thing does it's job pretty good after all.
The other thing that surprises me is that I missed a Hinox somehow. I don't know how I pulled that off as I felt I covered the map pretty darn good and fought them when I saw them. I'm thinking it has to be in an area close to my early adventure days where I may have encountered one and not fought it but I usually marked enemies like that on my map and later took them out when I became more confident in my abilities or covered an area in the search for Korok seeds. First thing I'm checking is Eventide Island in case that one didn't count the first time because of it's shrine set-up. Then I'm searching out a few other Necluda spots. All in all, though, I'm not terribly upset by this search since it will give me a chance to use the Master Cycle Zero.... which I don't have yet.
That is because I just need to do the Final Trial. It is where I left off on my game. One year after it was released, I've finally been playing through the Champion's Ballad. On the whole, I've quite enjoyed it and it has had a couple good and tricky puzzles. I was surprised that the Champion's Ballad was added to count towards the game completion percentage since it was DLC but I don't mind since it's been really worth it. Taken as a whole, the Ballad with it's shrines and tasks, the DLC Treasure hunt for costumes and abilities like the teleportation medallion and ancient gear for your horse, along with the Trial of the Sword are solid additions to the game that are really worth playing through. Finding and completing all of that DLC content has probably been, at least, 20 hours of extra playing time so the cost has been worth it for me even if I haven't used all of it like Hard Mode which I've never tried.
Now I hit the post button and get to it. Hopefully by the end of tonight, I'll have wrapped this game up. (Until I decide to try and get the Amiibo costumes as well, one day, after picking up the Amiibo for cheap or getting some pirate type solution.)