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What about the UK?

I wonder what other countries he's banned from, and what he said.

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I wish animals got better treatment. Pretty much the only useful one is dogs. I wish all animals could find magic spells or weapons or something.

Doesn't the rest of the map just not even open up until you talk to Seadall? Even if you could make it through the level without the terrain changing abilities from Corrin's ring (getting Camilla's ring from the DLC would probably help this a lot) I don't know how you could beat the level without recruiting him first.

There must have been talks about adding a new game plus. I wonder why it never happened. Maybe because no matter what you cant miss any characters?

They did. I used to work there. The only time they were called is when management found them embezzling.

it was way too easy to sequence break the master sword quest.

after the last tear I saw dragon zelda and just hopped on her and grabbed the sword. and I read later online the deku tree is part of the quest. I still don't understand why would you go there instead of the dragon? lol I know the sword was there in BOTW but it was very clear in this game that zelda has it.

I did the deku tree later and got basically no reward so yeah great quest design

i didn't even know you could do it without him

Does anyone else constantly forget about Ascend?

I generally didn't have much need to run. Their one attack is super telegraphed and easy to dodge, so it's just a matter of sidestepping and bonking them twice.

As soon as I saw the first couple, I assumed axes would make quick work of them. I was right.

I got jump scared by a moving tree

It's not truly open, but it does offer a similar degree of freedom while preserving the item-based progression that has characterized the Zelda series for so much of its existence. Balancing freedom with meaningful progression is always a bit tricky, and BotW leaned a little too far in the freedom direction, I found. Past the Plateau, nothing new you found ever really enabled anything you couldn't already have done some other way, aside from a couple specific examples (like the gerudo disguise letting you into the town). The extent of progression there was pretty much limited to "now I have enough stamina to climb this cliff," which doesn't exactly feel exciting. TotK does a bit more in that regard by letting you find new devices to use, even if you can already solve most of the problems those devices might help with by sticking more logs together or abusing Ultrahand+Recall, so that's nice, but it's still a very different experience from, say, Adult Link the first time he walks out of the Temple of Time in OoT and Adult Link walking into Ganon's Castle.

ALBW managed to strike a pretty happy medium there, in that you had ready access to different items that opened up different parts of the world/dungeons, and could pick and choose which ones you wanted. It fell short in that each item was gated behind rupees and the only thing you had to do to just take all of them was farm a bit, kind of making the choice pointless, but I could get behind bringing that concept back with some tweaks. Maybe stick with rupees for the initial rental, but only allow one to be rented at a time, and have a sidequest unlock after that item's dungeon that enhances the item and allows you to keep it permanently.

This is what I mean by a middle ground. The dark world in aLttP almost does this for half of it, and its would-be-remake turned sequel LBW tried its own take on it, where there is definitely a set progression in the narrative or where you need or want to go, but you can choose the order.

Like in aLttP I always leave the first dark world dungeon after getting the hammer to grab the gloves from the fourth dungeon, and then I ask myself where I want to go from there. Temper my sword, run to the ice palace, or dive into the second or third dungeon? Options!

Just like the first LoZ. You have the items to get into any dungeon? Have your pick as to where to go. But! Unlike LoZ, there's a narrative guiding you, some quests to complete, and so on.

If a future Zelda game can balance it where we can explore and do fun things in the world like TotK, collect useful items in the world more like in aLttP, and have meaningful dungeons like aLttP through TP, and do this without gimmick controls like motion controls or the DS game nonsense--I hate that mic and its implementation so much, I swear to all of the gods of all pantheons--I'd be totally for it. Drop us into the world like LoZ and BotW. Give us a compelling narrative guide. Make the major locations and enemy strongholds matter more than "lol gonna get some loot now." I know this can be done. It takes effort, and I hope the successes of BotW and TotK at least show the effort can and will be worthwhile.

These aren't the only two options

I'd be less skeptical if TotK did a single thing to address the shortcomings of BotW, which it didn't. They filed any complaints directly into the trashbin.

I don't know about that. I can already imagine how handy it'll be to just create things out of thin air. I do really need to head back up to the sky to grab some extra capsules, though, particularly the control platform thingies. Not being able to steer my shenanigans is a pretty major limitation.

Also I don't mean to get political but if rito evolved from zoras why are there still zoras

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Is the blood moon back? I just learned that you can stop it from activating. Wish I had known that before.

"you'll never actually run out of weapons" is unrelated to why the durability mechanic sucks.

It's not about running out, it's about constantly needing to go to the menu to swap weapons mid fight because your shit is made of paper.

For the most part, there were only like 5-6 different weapon types (I can actually only think of 4 off-hand, counting bows), with most weapons just being reskins of those types with different stats. There were a few versions that had some kind of special gimmick to them, like the elemental weapons or the boomerangs, but all in all I don't think you'd need more than about 15-20 slots to hold one of everything, and if memory serves that's quite attainable. You could even cut down that number by quite a bit by offering elemental enchantment options for weapons instead of having a fire/ice/electric version of each one, which would probably be the most sensible option if they were going that route.

Ill be honest, my issue with the weapons in BotW wasnt the durability. It was having to pick and choose which weapons to leave and take. The inventory simply wasnt big enough

Arguably, that was because of the durability system. If not for the durability system, there wouldn't need to be so many different weapon drops to consider picking up and the inventory limit generally wouldn't have been a problem.

If it was just other weapons I would be fine, but the fact the master sword has durability as well is dumb to me and I refuse to play it because of it.

There's no real Zelda timeline, Nintendo just makes it up as they go along because it isn't important to them.

You guys remember that scene in Windwaker where Link stabbed Ganondorf in the fucking head

Apparently the day 1 patch already went out and people are reporting big performance gains.

Oh cool Kotaku is having a feud with Nintendo over not getting to preview the game so they published an article with all the known leaked information. :|

It's fine to enjoy the basics and never branch out. But people can't be surprised when others who have vast knowledge and experience verbally trash these.

Diamont is my favorite male character so I get why he's so popular.

Alfred doesn't make much sense though. I thought he was good at the beginning but I lost interest in him when better characters showed up.

I'm 4/4 pairs broken, and we play smash a lot.

There's no throwing them across the room.

Joycons are basically cardboard and will all break eventually. Never seen one of those $70 controllers last more than 2 months without breaking.

I don't know if it's my joycons or my Switch itself but they keep coming detached while playing. Not sure how to fix it if it's the Switch.