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

For gits and shiggles to kill some time before playing "taxi" for family I went onto Youtube and looked up the Ganon fight for BotW.

I weep for the fandom.

I can understand it if you (generic "you") are dicking off on purpose in the middle of the battle, but some of those videos I saw were 5-10 minutes of people just running around and not even trying to get in any hits or failing so badly at it that they would've been better off with turning off the console and going to bed.

Now, I'm not some super master at beating games, but at least I have the decency to not inflict my stupidity on others.

It may be their first time. Part of boss battling in this franchise is kiting circles while watching to see what moves the boss can do.

I think you confused Zelda with Dark Souls. At the very least, I've never fought a Zelda boss that way.

He's probably talking about Breath of the Wild, that particular title does play a bit like Dark Souls and has enemies that are far from the typical Zelda pushovers in the other games.

I think that this might be the first Zelda game where circle-strafing is an valid tactic...Excluding those Darknuts from the Gamecube games.

I mean, like Dark Souls, naked runs are a thing, but unlike Dark Souls, naked runs don't have any benefit other than the simple challenge factor.

Naked runs totally have a benefit. You get to see Link shirtless.

Speaking of which, I always stripped Link to his underwear when I went to Lurelin. There's no gameplay benefit, I just figured it would make sense he wouldn't wear heavy clothes when at a beach paradise.

Just strip him when you go to Impa's in Kakariko, and watch Paya squirm.

Hell, him stripping is even part of the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab plot.

I guess Nintendo figured a little female-targeted fanservice wasn't out of reason given the other kind they do.

(But seriously, not sure what the Doc Brown surrogate was seeing, since Link's skin doesn't seem to actually have any damage to it.)

Too bad they don't show scars, but it probably means the 100 years spa treatment works wonders!

Not to mention, there's a quest where you have to stand in just your undies on one of those pedestals during a blood moon. Fuck that shrine, btw.

Piece of cake if you have the Travel Medallion from the DLC, though. Just plank it down there anytime, and pop over the next time a Blood Moon is starting up.

The Blood Moon is very fickle. When you don't want it to show up, it does. When you do want it to show up, it never does.

As I recall, the quest that requires stripping at the blood moon is close enough to another shrine (or maybe it was a tower) such that you can check when one is about to happen (as in, the first hint that a blood moon is on the horizon), then immediately warp to said shrine and then glide over to it, which also conveniently moves you past all of the encounters along the way. I do think you need a second full stamina wheel to do it that way, but I'm fairly certain that's how I pulled it off (also, as I recall, there is a bit of fudge time in there - I think as long as you're in your undies and on the platform in the hour after the blood moon officially triggers its effect (i.e. between midnight and one), you count as having accomplished it.

Yeah, you can get there by warping to the shrine on Satori Mountain and gliding down. Cook up some Endura Carrots ahead of time if you don't have enough stamina. The DLC travel medallion makes it way easier, though.

It was my last shrine (this was pre-DLC, so I didn't have the Travel Medallion at the time). I had to just wander around killing shit because the Blood Moon just wouldn't generate. Took about a whole month and a half of in game time before it finally did. The first ten or so IG days, I just waited outside the stable and hoped it worked, but it never came. After that, I started killing random things to force it to generate. It still didn't. It didn't generate until after I had killed every single enemy on the Great Plateau, around Hateno and Kakariko villages, cleared out a few Lynels, and was rampaging my way through Hyrule Castle Town farming Ancient Parts. Soon as I started hearing the tense strings, I warped the fuck over to Satori and did glide down.

Once I got the shrine done, I was well-stocked on equipment materials, and was able to upgrade a lot of my stuff to second and third tier.

Just for the hell of it, I've decided to hunt down all the Korok shit seeds, even knowing it's totally worthless once your caches are maxed out, using the Zelda Dungeon seed location walkthrough (seems to be the most thorough of the various guides around teh intarwebz).

When I was looking for them sans guide, even with the Korok mask to help guide I missed a lot of them which should've been obvious.

Edited by Nohbody on Aug 21st 2018 at 12:31:58 PM

... there’s a Korok mask?

It's a DLC item. Basically, it rattles when you're close to an unresolved Korok puzzle.

Oh. One of those.

Way less useful than Majora's Mask, which functions the same as the Dark Link mask, or Majora's Mask's Stone Mask by making you invisible to all enemy types except the smart ones, like Lynels, Guardians, and Wizzrobes.

Octorocks also don't give a damn about Majora's Mask, they still attack you even if you wear it

What about Hinoxes?

They still attack. All the minibosses attack you no matter what you’re wearing.

I forgot about Keese.

So you're invisible to all Mook enemy types (Bokos, Lizals, Mobs, and a few others), but all Monster types, all Blight types, and all minibosses and above see through it.