How’s the performance WiiU? An interesting tidbit about the Switch version is that, apparently, playing the game portable is the smoother experience fps wise. This video shows the game sometimes dropping to 20 fps docked and constant 30 fps portable.
Any frame drops on the WiiU?
Yes. Frame rate definitely drops in large or crowded areas. Is it noticeable? Sometimes. It’s not street fighter or call of duty though so it doesn’t really affect playability or my enjoyment of the game.
Ok, here’s a protip for folks just starting. Don’t spoil any of the shrines by looking online. Go into each of them completely cold. Most of them are very clever and can be solved several different ways as long as you work within the physics of the game. They don’t all follow the old “push block on this switch to open door over there and shoot an arrow trough the hole” mentality of previous Zelda games.
After reading reviews on this one I broke down I got it for Wii U. Totally worth it. I’ve put in about 6 hours so far and I’m having a blast. I total freedom is almost unnerving. I keep feeling like “maybe I shouldn’t be going here yet.”
Does anyone know a good source of arrows? I’m constantly running out and don’t have enough rupees to keep buying more.
Played a lot over the weekend and man oh man is this thing huge.
That now famous screenshot of Link looking out over the vista as far as the eye can see? That entire area is literally 1/80 of the game map. Getting anywhere for the first time is hell of a trek. No longer is Goron mountain or Zora Falls “just up this path”. Now you’re traversing what feels like miles of rugged terrain.
It honestly feels like you’re trudging through remote parts of Middle-Earth. I was on my way to one area and I ended up going through something like the Dead Marshes. And it was gray out and it started raining. I felt like Frodo on the massive journey and felt helpless at the daunting task ahead.
Whereas some of the other Zelda games made you feel somewhat invincible and you could wrap your head around what you needed to do, where you needed to go, what the quickest route there was, etc. BOTW makes you feel very small and very vulnearable.
On the technical side I find playing on the Switch itself just awful for a game like this.
The game packs so much into your surroundings and relys on you seeing things in the far off distance or small objects in your immediate vicinity that playing on that tiny screen is almost pointless. And the joy-con side controlls miserable to use.
If you’re going to play this game at all you’ll want the pro-controller and very… large… screen.
If I somehow end up scrimping and saving enough to buy a Wii U just for this game, would the minimal 8 GB Wii U be adequate to play it? I mean…all Wii U’s can play this game, can’t they?
Go to Kakriko and sell some minerals and buy arrows from the arrow shop. I had the same problem for a while until I figured out that the minerals (opal, amber etc…) that you find aren’t rare and you can sell them to vendors for a good amount of rupees. Same for alot of the monster parts.
There are probably other places to buy arrows but that is the way that I do it at this point.
If you buy it on disk instead of downloading it should be no issue.
I have a Wii U already but can’t decide whether or not I want to buy a Switch.
The download size is 13 GB, so it’s either get it on disc, get the 32 GB, or expand the storage via USB.
Is getting it on disc somehow bad?
Nah, I’m playing the disc version.
20 hours in and I still think it’s utterly amazing.
I just made it to
last night.
I have pretty much no defense against electrical attacks except eating resistant foods. I know not having anything metal out helps against lightning strikes, but does it make a difference when someone is firing electric arrows at you?
Been playing a lot for the past week. A couple non-spoiler tips:
The time stop power is great for scouting collectibles. It doesn’t highlight living things, but mushrooms, grass, and fruits are all physics objects and become much easier to spot with the power on.
The stealth armor is a great investment. It makes catching insects, lizards, fish, and fairies much, much easier.
Max items (hearty in English, I think?) restore your health to full when cooked, so they’re best cooked individually.
Related minor spoiler:
There are some areas with a ton of max items. Keep an eye out for them, as resources respawn.
Cooked meat dishes sell for pretty well, so hunting while adventuring is worth your time. There seems to be a slight value increase from cooking five items at once, but there doesn’t seem to be an increase for specific recipes, so don’t stress out about that too much.
Buy arrows. You can never have too many and shops don’t have much of a stock, so pick them up whenever you can.
Minor spoiler that contradicts some common advice:
Gems can be used to acquire and upgrade some items, so you might want to hold on to them.
I can see why some people don’t like Zelda. Frankly, it might be in my top 3 games of all time - so far. Though I absolutely love it. It’s an intimidating game. The scope is huge. The brittle weapons make it feel like a survival horror game, (without the horror), and it’s just a big investment of time.
The controls, in my humble opinion, take a long time to master, (I’m still accidentally throwing my weapons off cliffs.)
The gist of it is – It’s not for EVERYONE.
Quick yes/no question, I’m not looking for the actual location.
Will there eventually be a main quest to get the Master Sword? I’ve been given some clues, but I’m not sure if I want to go looking for it if it will be a quest eventually.
I’ve found it, (the location was pretty obvious once you activate the Sheika tower area it’s in), however I was unable to obtain it You need something like 13 heart containers to pull it from the ground. I’m not aware of any quest for it.
Need assistance in the game.
There’s open spoilers, so I’ve only glanced at some things in this thread to me help out a little, but here’s my problem: I can’t commit to cooking, because I feel as though I’ll run out of an essential ingredient, and don’t know if I should spend my 2,940 Rupees on buying armor/elixirs/supplies.
For a sense of where I am: I have activated the Hateno Tower, Dueling Peaks Tower, and, of course, The Great Plateau Tower. I kind of back-tracked a lot. I got 16 shrines under my belt, (a few in regions that aren’t on my map yet. I got to the ‘Chaas Qeta Shrine’, it has an enemy I don’t think I’m ready for. Even if I kill him, all my weapons would be destroyed.
Any help would be appreciated!
So I’ve been playing it off and on. I’m enjoying it but having a hard time keeping track of where I am. I’m currently kind of annoyed lol I spent like 10 minutes slowly but surely using ice pillars to get to a shrine in the middle of a huge ass lake. I get inside and it’s like “MAJOR TEST OF STRENGTH”. I’m like uhh ok that doesn’t sound good. I step inside to get a peek and doors slam down and it’s a freaking laser death beam monster with freakin laser swords. I have a sledgehammer and a boko club :l All that work and I can’t beat that damn guy with my whopping 4 hearts.
Oh… and I killed some big dude who was sleeping… never killed a Guardian, (isn’t that what they’re called? The main enemies in the game,) Should I?
I think you’re where I am…there’s a raft you can take there if it’s where I’m thinking of… the Chaas Geta Shrine??