The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (contains spoilers)

I don't think this has been posted before.

3D printed Guardian Stalker with lighted runes and rotating turret.

I was at a convention where a dealer was selling 3D-printed Zelda stuff and she mentioned that. She didn't have any, unfortunately.

Did You Know Gaming - Breath of the Wild

I was wondering why I've been finding crap in canyons and from scaling mountains.

Well, cliff walls are a unique habitat for certain plants. It's certainly safe from predation there.

I'm on my third playthrough now. I'm doing this thing where I take moody/atmospheric photos of the Sheikah towers before activating them. I think they're prettier when orange, like giant candle flames. I especially like the shot I got for the Dueling Peaks tower.

Also I'm fighting lynels because this time I'm going to fill the entire Hyrule Compendium with ONLY my own photos, darn it! So I'm all proud of myself for taking down some red-maned lynels early on.

While experimenting with clothing colors, I dyed the Hylian Trousers navy, and now they look like jeans. I like it!

Conquering all those 120 shrines was a harrowing expenditure of time and effort the first time around. The last shrine took soooo long to find because, while I realized it was underground fairly soon after coming into contact, I couldn't find the entrance, because the entrance was beyond Sheikah Slate Sensor range. I had to LEAVE the area with the beeping radar blips to find the door. God I hated that shrine

The one by the snow fossil?

Either that or the one west and south of it where you can see the shrine through a crack but have to go through a cave in a different cliff to get to it.

Or the forgotten Temple. Only visible if you approach from the canyon. Of course I didn't; I flew in.

And then you run that gauntlet of Guardians...

Though that makes for a great Ancient component farming spot after the Blood Moon. Plus, that's where it drops the Wild set of clothing.

Which takes a minimum of an in-game two weeks to upgrade -_-

I'll stick with my Champion Tunic, I think.

Question: has anybody identified Kass' tunes when he recites the riddles to the shrine quests? I would swear at least one of them is the Ballad of Twilight, but I could be imagining things.

(For a musician, my memory of tunes is kinda bad.)

I'm pretty sure almost all of them are just variations on the game's main theme. The only time I heard different themes was a) his own theme, and b) the Champions Ballad DLC, where he plays the four Champions' themes.

You know, I wonder if the climbing mechanics in this game were inspired by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol?

Highly doubtful.

So it occurs to me:

The Hyrule of Breath of the Wild might be the most advanced one to date, what with Magic Tablets, towers for teleporting, and advanced Sentry Robots and Ro-Beasts.

And this is because, unlike previous versions of Hyrule, not only did they manage to prepare themselves for his arrival (military advancements do tend to lead to advancement in civilian tech), but also because they beat him, then had 10,000 years of peace. This had never happened before. He'd always just rolled in and knocked everything to hell, allowing to kingdom to at least slightly move out of the Medieval Stasis that has mostly defined the series for so long, and Hyrule in particular.

But then some idiot decided Science Is Bad and banned it, driving the most technologically advanced civilization into hiding or dark age, ensuring that when Ganon inevitably returned, the good guys were the only faction without that same fancy advanced tech they beat ganon with before.

The only reason Link defeated Ganon again was due to Zelda's resourcefulness and the fact that Link managed to recapture the deadliest weapons from the Blights.

Wait?

Someone banned it?

Who did that? And why?

Because their research notes all referred to the enemy as "Calamity Gannon".

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Jul 27th 2018 at 8:59:37 AM

Seriously, one of the kings felt that ancient tech was uncontrollable and very dangerous. He was right, apparently.

To be fair, that's because they got Hijacked by Ganon...quite literally.

Before that, they worked exactly as they were supposed to.

It was a long time ago, too. For all we know the Sheikah realized that Ganon could hijack their technology, told the king about it, and that's why he ordered everything buried. The Sheikah were apparently still happily serving the royal family a hundred years ago, so it doesn't seem like they were particularly upset about it.

Though scrapping all advanced technology seems like an overreaction. They couldn't have made some sort of magical antivirus? At the very least, the basic tablet technology seemed to be immune to corruption.

That's because the ones who weren't happy about it formed the Yiga Clan.

They only GOT hijacked BECAUSE they were buried and nobody knew how they worked! It's the equivalent of taking our nukes, tanks, jets, carriers, etc and burying them intact, then ordering ALL engineers to go be farmers or something and forget everything they ever knew. You know what happens? The engineers seek employment elsewhere. People dig up relics. All your enemies get the cool toys, and your people are stuck fighting with knives tied to mop handles.