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

There are a bunch of mountains in California. The biggest ones are on the eastern side of the state and in the far north. As far as I know, mountains are the only places that routinely get snow. Lower altitudes might get cold in the winter and get ice on cars or frost on plants, but the conditions aren’t right for proper snow.

ILikeRobots said it right, basically - we have all the biomes. Or most of them. We don’t have rainforest (although the far northern end of the state is closer to Pacific Northwest levels of wet), and we don’t quite hit the tropics (you’d have to go further south or southeast into Mexico for that, I think), but we have pretty much everything else.

Edited by SapphireBlue on Mar 24th 2020 at 11:31:53 AM

Right. Even though I'm playing a few games right now (Tales of Vesperia, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, and I still need to get back on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 main and Torna for the post game, and New Game Plus), I'm about ready to finally download the DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Once again, outside of Kilton now keeping track of the Mini-Bosses you've killed, is there anything I should be looking out for in the regular post game before I start the DLC?

Isn't there supposed to be a Moldera King or something that only appears after you beat the game?

Anything else like that?

Just by Ocarina and Majora's association,I believe Kilton may play a huge role on Breath 2,also, we will need his balloon to reach floating Hyrule Castle, may be a major travel tool on the game like the Odyssey as Zelda and Mario aways have similar game design Ideas trough,generations,another evidence is Kilton being the only source of Monster's Elixir,implied on diaries to be used by the Castle's confectioner on some evil plot and maybe is a infiltrated Yiga clan member behind the calamity.

Edited by LoutishHelminthic on Mar 30th 2020 at 12:44:07 PM

I don't think there's any post-credits changes to the game other than Kilton's scorekeeping.

The King Molduga appears as part of the DLC quests.

I will admit that at first I was annoyed with the mechanic of getting struck by lightning, but now I understand that this was clearly in service of the endgame of putting on the Thunder Helm, decking Link out with metal, and laughing like a maniac as the wrath of the heavens descends in my wake.

I'm about ready to beat Ganondorf, but I want to finish the shrines first. I've got about a dozen left: is there a graceful (i.e. not scouring 120 points on the map) way to check what I'm missing?

Personally, i didn't finish the shrines, and only finished a little over half before fighting Ganon because i wanted an awesome final boss fight that was still a challenge. I think if i got the shrines and the upgrades, Ganon would be a joke.

Ah, but consider: I am not good at this game.

I guess years of Zelda and other action adventure games makes me a veteran.

What's your usual go to weapon? If not using the Master sword, i rely on the Zora tridents and Gerudo scimitars.

Also pro tip, spam Urbosa's ability on Ganon. Not only is it helpful, it's so fitting.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Mar 30th 2020 at 11:28:43 AM

The only way to check for shrines quickly is to look it up online.

Fast: How many shrine quests you have done and have left.

Long: Guides have pics of the map location for non-quest shrines.

Otherwise just have the radar on.

Whoops, triggered the fight by accident while exploring the castle. Did in fact beat him with Urbosa's special.

Though for the second phase it sent me the crappy horse that I found first, that I'd only been keeping for sentimentality's sake. Since I hate the horse controls anyway I just did it on foot.

I had Ganon's horse when i fought him. So fitting.

I used the motorbike.

FYI when you fight Ganon's last stage, you get whichever horse you don't have currently boarded at the stables. So you can pick.

So after putting it off for some time, I finally bought the BOTW DLC. Got everything in one pack too.

Gonna give it a try later, but I still got a few other games I want to play first.

Champion's Ballad is a must-do, IMO. IIRC it's actually considered to be part of the main story.

I loved how much the Champion's Ballad added to the story. The diaries alone were worth it.

First thing I'm gonna do is find Majora's Mask and never worry about being jumped by enemies again.

Then I won't be so reluctant to go out at night anymore. After that, it's the travel Medallion. Then everything else.

Still playing this game!

This time around, I decided to put off activating the Divine Beasts. Like, I went as far as killing the Blights, but didn't do the final activation that triggers the cutscenes and endows you with Champion powers. So the landscape wasn't spoiled by great red beams, and I couldn't rely on Champion powers while exploring. (Yes, I know you can turn them off, but this way I couldn't be tempted to use them.)

One thing I noticed: the enemies in the Coliseum didn't level up. Not just their weapons: the lynel remained Red even when White-Maned and Silver lynels were spawning elsewhere.

And it gave me the interesting situation where the Ganon fight went straight to Calamity Ganon (no Blights), but he doesn't get his health cut in half.

It's funny what this game will let you do.

Wait. If You don't activate the Beasts, it doesn't reset everything at the next blood moon?

I assumed you'd have to do it all over again.

Nope, the Blights are gone for good. The other enemies in the Beasts return - I ran into a couple of Guardian Scouts when I returned to activate the Beasts - but that was it.

I was in the middle of alternating playing Xenoblade DE and Mystery Dungeon.

But I got on a Zelda/Link fanfiction binge last week and it got me motivated to play BOTW for the first time in a couple of years.

I never beat Calamity Ganon, so I've been slowly wrapping up everything before I face him.

Getting all 120 non DLC shrines was a bit of a pain, but made a lot easier by using a online map to figure out which ones I was missing.

Now I'm working though the Trial of the Sword before ticking off all the sidequests and doing the Champions Ballad DLC.

I remember thinking a few years ago that the Trial of the Sword sounded kind of boring, I think I only tried it once.

But my opinion has totally changed, I'm only up to the second section, but I think it's really fun.

It's challenging, since I was never great at the BOTW combat, but dying isn't too stressful because of the checkpoints. But it's punishing enough to teach you to play very conservativly.

The first part of the Trial of the Sword was a nightmare to clear in Master Mode, as was the Waterblight Ganon refight.

I forgot the other things I learned when kill the Blights but don't activate the Divine Beasts: the Beasts' behavior. Vah Ruta and Vah Rudania stop making trouble for their respective areas. So the weather in Zora's Domain goes back to normal, and there are no more magma bombs on Death Mountain. Also the eruption cloud over Death Mountain clears up.

Vah Naboris, on the other hand, continues to generate a sandstorm and will still zap you if you venture too close.

Vah Medoh should've had an environmental effect. I was thinking that it should've made gale-force winds around Lake Totori that would make paragliding nigh impossible. Or maybe it could generate random tornadoes, to be a nuisance similar to Vah Rudania. Either way, it would give the Rito more reason to be upset.

Right. At some point, I'm gonna get to the DLC I downloaded for this, but it'll take a while.

I'm currently about to go through New Game Plus with Xenobladechronicles 2, and more to the point, I much prefer playing BOTW on the tv as opposed to the handheld part.

I don't always have control of the T.V. though, so I'm going to be seriously limited on that point. It's frustrating, but I'll do my best to deal with it. I do look forward to having the opportunity to play it more often though.

Finished BOTW! Wrapped up the Final Trail and then beat Calamity Ganon. According to my Switch profile I played for 115+ hours.

Didn't get all of the Korok Seeds, but I did use an online guide to finish off all 90 side quests before tackling the Champion's Ballad.

I originally thought the Champion's Ballad wasn't a great a piece of DLC, I still think its a bit expensive for what it contains.

But its a very well crafted piece of DLC and I very much enjoyed it. The Champions diaries in particular were great.

Of the new memories, the last one with the photo was my favorite.

So much you can notice in the small actions by everyone. Like Urbosa being close to Zelda, Revali initially standing away from the rest and Mipha creeping slowly closer to Link before getting nervous.

Overall I'm very glad I played the last parts of the game, I think the last time I picked it up was late 2017/early 2018.

My opinion on BOTW had soured somewhat from negative discussion I'd seen and agreed with in this and the main Zelda thread.

And I still think there are aspects about the old approach I prefer.

But I let myself forget the good parts about the game, and how much of a delight it is to play.