Kind of thought I’d found or been spoiled on every cool overworld boss. I was wrong, just got my ass handed to me 7-8 times by a new one. Love this game so much
Well for starters, some shrines are actually inside areas or you need to solve a puzzle to make them appear. For example, in my Arctic Adventures yesterday, there's a cave where you have to retrieve a crystal from a lake, and bring it to a spot inside the cave to make a shrine appear. My attempt to kill a Frost Talus yesterday was also for a similar purpose.
Anyway, today I went questing around Central Hyrule, and it's incredible just how much content Nintendo programmed into this. I mean, I can be walking down a road and come across some small minigame, like picking up some lady's stuffed toys. It might serve no purpose other than to get me rupees, but it's a fun distraction. I did have quite an adventure tonight though: I went in this one cave where there's a Shrine... and a set of Gloom Hands. Managed to cheese it though because I'm assuming they can't get too close to the Shrine? And the Shrine was on a ledge, so I shot bomb arrows at it until it died, and became Phantom Ganon. Then I started cheesing him the same way, shooting arrows from a distance and whittling away his health. Then he pulled a wild trick where all of a sudden a huge Gloom puddle started flooding the area. I was forced to come down from my ledge and glide over to a non-Gloom area. Fortunately by now he was almost dead, so I managed to take him the rest of the way. 'Twas nerve-wracking. Got a Gloom Sword and a Demon Bow out of it though. Then I went to this ruined town square to get a well there, and found another one. This time I noped out of there.
I was starting to feel a bit bummed about how open and uneventful (other than getting murdered) the Depths were but I just found the central mine, got the auto craft and spent over an hour exploring all the ruins around there and it was sick
I just had my first encounter too. And I felt it coming like some spidey sense. I was walking peacefully in this cute forest with autumn leaves in the Akkala region when I thought, this is a good spot for a Lynel. Then kept walking and I was right. Ran straight out of there. I still never mastered fighting those in BOTW.
I haven’t found a lynel yet, not sure I’m ready lol but I did find one of their bows in a random bokoblin camp chest which is dope
I was in that cave too. They can't climb, which is why the shrine area is safe. I did the shrine but they were still there once I came out so I warped out lol
Tulin's "power" seems absolutely useless to me, and i am sure there will be moments when i will need Yunobo's charge attack but, boy do I miss Nevali's gale and Mipha's grace. really weak power ups so far in this one. if that had to be my only complaint.
I saw online that Yunobo’s is great for mining without using bombs and while a very specific use case, I might prefer that one to Daruk’s. Besides that I prefer all of the old versions though, and even that one is a toss-up.
Checked my hours last night and it has me at 45+ still have only done one temple but now I have 6 hearts and filled my first stamina bar Ive been spending maybe too much time just farming high quality monster parts and expanding my weapons and shield inventory