The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) • Page 44

Crazy

 

Ha, I do this on Google Maps and it drives my wife crazy.

 

Rightfully so.

the fuck do I care where north is nerds

 

It’s a FFXIV habit from having to adjust for mechanics

 

Some day I'll decide to progress the story

 

I've been mostly shrine and tower hunting since getting this game and I've only found 34 shrines lol

 

I hit 50 shrines today and cannot believe that’s only like 1/3 lol

 

I'm nearing Akkala and the combat shrine where they take away all of your weapons by the stable is killing me, no idea what I'm supposed to do heh

 

Ok so the new versions of them are called “Ancient blades”

 

there’s multiple like that

 

Yeah I did the one where they're going around in a circle in the water on rafts, and just figured out this one with the robots. Wasn't too bad

 

Because it is INCREDIBLY easier to navigate which direction you’re going!!!!

 

I pretty much played it like a twisted metal game

 

Listen, you gotta let it go. Wii U was a bad idea, marketed poorly, and it failed. The good news is that the games didn't have to suffer.

 

Pfft, where's the NES version?

 

just imagine the wii pad and the ultra hand

Someone would make the next Mona Lisa

 

More like a Goya painting out of Koroks.

 

I’m seeing these puzzles in my dreams. In my sleep I am furiously rotating shapes in annoying ways

 

Hateno Village music

 

I’ve been playing at least 20 hours and have hardly scratched the surface. haven’t gotten started on great fairies, only been down in the depths twice, only did one story temple, have 2-3 dragon tears, not sure how many shrines or towers I’ve done but I’ve probably done the most of those, but I’ve mostly been totally content to just run around on foot taking out enemy bases and finding new shit to explore

 

I know botw got the comparisons all the time but I only played a little bit of that game, but this game just reminds me of how Skyrim basically created the “walk in any direction and you’ll find something worthwhile every x amount of feet” template for open world games but outside of elden ring this is the only game that actually understands that philosophy and makes the overall story and narrative work within that framework (brilliantly by spreading out four different options on opposite ends of the map) whereas a lot of open world games have this weird mishmash of an explorable sandbox and a weirdly linear story path that guides you through it like a theme park (reminiscent of the questing flow found in theme park style mmo’s hence the name). a lot of the excitement of just finding cool shit all over the place feels inconsequential and less of a priority when a huge quest marker that you know pushes the narrative forward is in a totally different direction

 

Finally got my copy! Gonna smoke this joint and dive in

Target still had the free bag with the game deal too so I was hyped about that

 

My stats so far:

18 Shrines
5 Towers
3 Geoglyphs

I'm going to do Wind Temple part of the main quest soon.