| Leynos said: Explore and experiment. Following the objective beat for beat isn't going to excite much. Exploring with the high-risk high high-reward. As soon as I left the plateau, I went straight to the castle, found my way in the basement, fought a tough boss with such bad weapons and low health, but I won and got the Hylian Shield. I left soon after lol. But that's the beauty of the game. Not to mention experimenting with things. Shooting a pond of water with an electric arrow, and the fish all die. I shot a fire arrow to an animal and they became cooked meat. Shrines can be solved in the way it wants but also experimenting can be fun. One puzzle wanted me to link some conductive things but it was annoying me so I just dropped all my metal weapons in a line, and it carried the current to solve the puzzle. Cold areas I equipped a fire sword and kept myself warm. Same with an ice weapon in warm areas. I once threw a damaged sword at an octorok and it spit it back out brand new lol. Explore and experiment and challenge your imagination. There are a lot of hidden things the game will never tell you about. |
I've mainly been exploring. Kakariko is the first beat of the objective since leaving the Plateau, and I didn't go there until 20+ hours in, I believe. Although I misspoke a bit. I didn't go to Hateno to see if I could progress the story. Because I didn't know it was part of the main story until I saw Purah. Or rather, seeing the observatory made me think it might be.
In Elden Ring you can do the main story/main bosses in the order you want, or even skip them, with very few exceptions. So I wondered if I could do the same in BOTW, despite previously being told that my next stop should be Kakariko. But Purah told me I had to go there first.
I actually found the Hylian Shield in Hyrule Castle yesterday as wel.
And I found the Master Sword. Although I can't get it yet because of I only have 4 hearts.
Next up I'm going to get the rupee's needed to buy my house so I can store 3 weapons.
The inventory system is rough for a player like me that wants to collect and keep cool weapons rather than lose them, and find a new one. So all my Korok upgrades have been for the weapons inventory, except 1 for the shield and 1 for the bows.
I think I'll start getting Hearts now as well instead of Stamina, since I think I'm in a good spot stamina-wise for now.
I tried to upgrade the Fierce Deity set, but I'm missing some materials from dragons. Apparently I need to set them free first, which I decided not to look up, but see if I can stumble upon them myself first. So I'll be rocking base defense for a while.
There's also a bunch of DLC missions I can do. I already found Majora's Mask, which is cool.
I'm guessing you arent getting a Switch 2? I'm planning to my do my 2nd playthrough (first time of the Switch version) for Zelda BotW but on the Switch 2. I last played BotW back in 2017 on the WiiU, one of the best games I've played. Clocked 85 hours and ironically played through the first 30 hours just exploring the world without doing anything story stuff, I wanted to cover/unlock the entire map and then do the story....ironically I didnt realize I could buy armor so I played my first 30 hours of the game with the default clothes you get in the beginning....using potions to beat the cold and heat and traps/strategic tactics to kill world map enemies lmao. I was dumbfounded when I discovered armor in the towns..... Not gonna make that same mistake but it was a Dark Souls experience for me when I played BotW lmao. |
I don't plan on getting Switch 2 anytime soon. But maybe in the future if there are some games I'm interested in.
I did see that you can buy armor in shops, but I haven't spent any rupees yet because I'm saving up for a house. Once I've done that I'll go buy the Sheikah set.
I am aware of one ability that you get from a story boss, and I would like to get it soon as I think it would make exploring more fun. The wind one.
