It’s fun seeing all the builds people do, but I’m more interested right now in what you feel your greatest accomplishment is in this game. Maybe it’s not the most technically amazing moment. My favorite is just a testament to my own stubbornness.
Mine is trying to reach the light root beneath the dueling peaks. I started at the bottom, all out of large blooms. I ran completely out of blooms halfway up. Scaled that puppy by hand in near darkness and barely knowing where my target was. Could I have used a hot air balloon… Maybe. Did I do things the hard way on accident… sure. But I would not be defeated by using technology or following the easy route.
My proudest moment is cheesing the hell out of the Goron temple. Without spoiling anything, I did not follow the path I was supposed to follow and somehow bumbled by way through to the end.
I only did Goron and Rito so far, and the Fire Temple felt kinda meh…
Maybe it’s the fact that it doesn’t really make sense as a place that people once used, nor as a temple, or maybe I just really don’t like minecarts.
I ended up doing all sorts of weird shit to get through it and failed miserably, so I had to actually follow the map to get to the last two terminals
Discovering the secret in the storm clouds up by Hateno. Realized you could kinda see the islands on the map through the storm cloud icon, so I used that to try to navigate is basically-whiteout visuals. Used the shrine radar and Tulin’s ability to blindly fly through and find the relevant island way before I was actually supposed to. Still haven’t even finished Zora’s Domain yet.
I was in a one of the shrine (can’t remember which) where you are stripped of all gear and items. There was parts to make a vehicle, so I made one and used it to mow down every construct in the place. It took way longer than necessary, and I had some really close calls when I got hung up on a corner, but it worked. It was the cheesiest thing I’ve done so far and it was pretty fun.
In breath of the wild, I didn’t like the trials/fight shrines. It was too scary. In TotK, for some reason I really enjoy the almost puzzle aspect of clearing the room of enemies. Maybe the little robots are less intimidating here? Or maybe the powers to manipulate give me more confidence than breathe did?
I think there’s something really fun about going into this type of shrine, quietly freaking out about getting hit, killing your first construct, then getting great satisfaction from the immediate boost in DPS by fusing their horn with your weapon.
I’ve also enjoyed them as a nice way to re-experience “powering up”, since I’m close to endgame.
Oof, I remember that lightroot…
I have a similar story of stubbornness, where I hopped back and forth between two floating blocks, slowly ultrahanding them forward and up until I got to a sky island I wanted to explore. Now that I have way more battery, I’ll never do that again! But it was extremely satisfying that the game allowed me to inch my way through the sky like that.
I once fucked up one of those shrines in the sky and dropped the crystal. I was still early in the game and didn’t realize I could just use the rewind power (I have no idea how it’s called in Englisg), and I jumped.
I discovered to my surprise that the game actually keeps those crystals loaded for a while and so I found it on the ground, glued it to four fans, put a cloche on top of it and flew my new crystal sky-bike back to the island.
I wiped out all of my cores to not drain the batteries, but it was worth it (even more since I can now use the autobuild whenever I have to move those crystals around)
I had a similar story. I was spinning the stone on a remote platform, and didn’t see it had fallen to an island below. Spent a long time driving stakes into the walls to try to get it back up. Now that I have the hot air balloon autobuild, it would have been a lot easier.
Pro tip, every so often go back to Lookout Landing to see if there’s anything new there!
Pro tip, every so often go back to Lookout Landing to see if there’s anything new there!
I did it a couple of times, but it has been a while, thanks for reminding me!
On a sidenote, damn I haven’t used the hot air balloon in a long time, that would have solved a lot of situations in the last few hours!
