The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) • Page 126

Oh, I also forgot, I still have Call From The Depths to do, and I'm not happy about it, because early on I threw all the eyes down their respective holes, with the intent of continuing the quest down the road.

Well, down the road is here, and when I couldn't find one of the eyes in the Depths, I thought I was losing my mind. Turns out that the eyes will respawn on the overworld if you're too far away from them, and I didn't know this was a thing. I just assumed that the game knew I threw it down there and would respond accordingly.

 

I just got back into this after a nearly 3 week break. It feels refreshing and exciting again after I was very burnt on it after doing 4-5 hours a day for weeks.

I'm going ham on the depths at the moment. Aiming for about 10 lightroots per day. Think I've gotta get on this hoverbike trend because fuck the walls/blockages in the dark.

 

I mean, what doesn’t respawn after leaving it for awhile?

 

I don't know. I guess I thought since it was part of a quest and the game acknowledged that I threw them down there that they would at least have a new spawn point down there.

 

Oh god, I’ve yet to find the Gleeok den but I am feeling more confident fighting them. I do wish they weren’t such a resource pit.

Lynels still give me the most trouble, especially the armored ones in the Depths. Giving them armor just seems cruel lol.

 

I mean, the armor goes away pretty quickly.

Unless you’re not using a hammer type weapon.

 

Also, the gleeok den is the easiest place for farming King gleeoks. Sadly, you gotta wait for blood moons.

 

Yeah, the armor is really the least problematic thing about the Lynels. It actually seems like a deceptive measure more than anything.

"Oh man, this armor is breaking fast!"
(armor breaks)
(weapon breaks on Lynel's rock-like abs)
(Link dies)

 

My weapons rarely break on Lynels. No weapon durability lost when you mount them.

 

Just now finding out you can use ultra hand to grab bomb flowers and other plants from cave walls.

 

It's faster IMO to just climb.

 

Some of the caves have really high cliffs and most are wet. I only have two pieces of the sticky frog gear and fall too often.

 

Fair.

I've actually never used the Froggy armor. At first because I didn't have all of it and then just because I forgot about it.

I just found other ways to get where I needed, like Ascend, or using a fire's updraft where possible.

Sometimes sheer dogged perseverance. If you climb a little and make a big jump, Link will slip but you'll still end up higher than before, so I'd just do that if nothing else.

But that's the joy of this game, you can play it the way you want to play it.

 

i stopped doing this the first time i accidentally closed out of UH and the bomb flower fell, exploded, and killed me lol

big climber over here

 

Forgot to relay this anecdote yesterday.

I was flying over an Obsidian Frox on my hoverbike and first he jumped and knocked me out of the air, and then the douche inhaled and swallowed my hoverbike. I was so annoyed.

 

Visited the Shrine of Resurrection out of curiosity last night (the place where Link wakes up in BOTW). No shrine there anymore, just a puddle of healing water, and a tiny hole that drops down into a Yiga hiding place, where a robot told me to come back later on. Made me wonder how much “time” had passed between games.

Also didn’t open up a new side-quest or anything—which is something that occasionally frustrates me about this game. It makes you rely on memory based on certain things said to you in passing. I guess that’s a side effect of a game this massive. There’s just so much. But how can I be expected to remember anything that isn’t being recorded?

 

from what i have seen on the 'ol internet, TOTK is 2-3 years post-BOTW.

 

I get it, but it's because what the robot gives you isn't tied to a sidequest, or at least not directly.

I believe you have to have started the Master Kogha quest in the depths and learned about Schema Stones, because the robot gives you the Beam Cycle Schema Stone.

But it can't give you something you're not supposed to know about yet.

 

The frog gear still slips when you jump climb even with the full set. I was hoping it’d work just like climbing when it isn’t wet

 

When you upgrade it twice it becomes 100% slip proof. Game changer.

 

Anyone else surprised Penlab uses a hoverbike? Didn’t you say at one point also you thought Link moved at a solid rate of speed so you didn’t even make him sprint? Maybe I’m misremembering here or just inadvertently merging different viewpoints.

 

Well for starters, if I remember correctly, this was about me choosing hearts over stamina. My stance on that hasn't changed.

I also clarified it wasn't that I wouldn't ever increase my stamina, just that I didn't hold the same importance to it as health. That hasn't changed either.

Me using a hoverbike has nothing to do with stamina. Therefore, they're not inconsistent points of view.

Link does move at a decent clip. The depths are also vast and unfun to navigate on foot. Both are true statements.

 

SOAR LONG

 

Stamina not mattering is a wild take. How do you glide anywhere?

 

I mean, between Tulin and stamina shrooms, you can glide pretty dang far.