I have completed all 152 shrines and actually done some pretty heavy spoiler things that lie past the first four “regional happenings” that the game has you work on for most of the time.
I am very close to going to get the bad guy, so to speak, at the end of the game and I will make recommendations to @Hampshire , though I have yet to go destroy/fight Ganon(dorf?).
I have 37-38 hearts. What do you have?
My armor total is: 20 for head, 18 for legs, 32 for body. It’s Hylian Hood, Champions Leathers(did you get these?), and soldiers legs. A total of 60 for overall armor has meant even big enemies do no more than 2-3 hearts damage. Even if Ganon does 5 hearts, I can recover.
My plan is to cook a bunch of hearty truffle meals so I can full heal every time.
My other meal will be a bunch of sundelion ones so I can cure gloom damage.
I have the Master Sword, which you should realize can also fuse a strong item to it.
I have several other one-handed weapons with strong fusions on them.
I think I have about 23 hearts (a full row and 3 in the second).
Armor is soldiers head, body, leg all leveled up to 18. I do have the champions leathers.
Sundelions and meat are easily available so the meat-meat-sundelion-sundelion-sundelion food combos heal and replenish hearts at the same time.
Do hearty truffles provide temporary extra hearts?
Make some gloom resistant foods (I can’t remember the ingredient name but you can get it from the statues in the depths). That way you barely take any gloom damage. Your Master Sword won’t depower in the fight, so just fuse a high-powered enemy part to it. Otherwise, you really just have to flurry rush and parry.
I do have some, I think it’s called, Dark Clumps I got for defeating a few of those gloom hands that spring up. Will have to find a recipe involving those.
Yes, though if I am remembering correctly, ALL yellow heart disappear with a single gloom damage. It depletes all yellow hearts and glooms your first real heart.
Still, any hearty truffle food, even just one hearty truffle(cooked!), will heal all of your regular health.
I needed more Sundelion recipes than I realized. Anything to remove Gloom is huge. I made it, but even with 40 hearts(two were yellow) and good armor, some of the Ganon fight was difficult.
I told my daughter, “When I play this again…someday…I need to cook more Sundelion things at the end of the game. Like, double.”
Final regular Ganon form was very tough. He flurry rushed my attacks and he even flurry rushed my flurry rushes. It was really difficult.
Just beat him tonight also. Wasn’t worried about running out of hearts as i had plenty of recovery foods but it was really hard to land a hit on him near the end. The final act was really cinematically beautiful.
53 years young and every major Zelda game completed. Wonder how many more I’ll play in my lifetime?
I’ve got the depths fully lit up now and I’m down to about 25 or so shrines. The problem is it seems like most the shrines left are all in caves, which make them a real pain to find. i want to try to get them all but I might be moving on to a new game soon.
I got a Switch a couple years ago and played Breath of the Wild and LOVED it. As soon as I finished it, I downloaded Tears of the Kingdom, starting playing, and… didn’t love it. I found the Fuse mechanism clunky, and I just didn’t enjoy it all that much. I put it down to starting it too soon after finishing BOTW. So, I stopped and decided to wait and pick it up again later.
OK, so I’ve picked it up again and I’m having the same problem. It’s not holding my interest. I hate that my weapons seem to break after two hits. I feel like I’m just wandering around aimlessly most of the time. Did anyone else find it boring? Does it have a clearer sense of throughline/quest down the line? I want to like this game, but I just… don’t. Ugh. Maybe I should pick up one of the earlier Zeldas that I never played…
I still play it (but I’ve never finished it). I don’t think the overall story is as strong, but I do find that I enjoy it more when I use the building options and make sure I fuse weapons.
And then I run around and do side quests and go revisit old friends from BoTW. Maybe someday I’ll finish it.
I got maybe 90% of the way through it, defeated the boss, and then was told, “Oopsie daisy, the boss is actually in another questline of indeterminate length!” and I was like, okay, buddy, you have fun being at the end of that quest, I’m out.
Tons of fun along the way, but that decision to tack on a final extra quest did not work for me–especailly since it involved lots of time in the underworld, which I did not enjoy.
I put 145 hours into Tears of the Kingdom and love it the whole way. I think it is better than Breath of the Wild in many ways, but BotW deserves credit for being wholly new.