One more shrine to go on the great plateau, was in desperate need of a drink after playing 4 hours straight. The game is amazing, just a shame it's so quiet, I miss the music. Also the frame rate dips on the big screen can get in the way, for example when hunting boar in the spirit forest. Plus my hands must suck cause changing arrows with the bow drawn hurts with the joy-con controllers, not comfortable. Yet on the positive side, I haven't had any more joy-con disconnects after putting the console within 2 meters of me. It's sitting on the side now with a longer hdmi cable. Nintendo and their wireless issues....

I was going to divide my time between Horizon and Zelda, but not gonna happen tonight. Still got that rock monster to try again. I got a bit sidetracked with cooking, ended up with 3 pages of prepared food. Kinda pointless to have meals that restore 7 hearts while I still only have 3 lol.

About 12 hours in now. I've been to four towers so far and opened up a lot of the map, but have only been to a couple of shrines outside of the Great Plateau. Apparently the central tower is the hardest, but I went there first, not too hard if you are any good with timing. As someone who has never enjoyed, let alone finished a Zelda before, I'm having a great time with BOTW. Storywise, I'm in Kakariko village.

Try playing the game using the claw style, it takes some getting used to but makes changing weapons far easier as you master it.

I'm taking my sweet time. The game reminds me so much of the first time I played Zelda back in the 80s.

I just explore everywhere. I see something interesting, I go see if there's something I can do there, and then I spot something else, and then something else...

I only just got to Kakariko village, after spending a full day wandering around, discovering plenty of stuff everywhere...

Performance issues aside, the game is awesome, fun and addictive.


That's all for now. Going back to Hyrule. 

18 shrines beaten for There are some combat-based ones, when I managed to get a whooping 60 damage weapon. Don't get too attached to them. It broke easily on a boss fight but it helped me with a nice damage boost. This game is still brilliant, nothing to complain about. My wet gaming dream coming alive.

Got ambush by a member the rival clan of the Sheikah, be careful who you talk to outside of villages.

Ha I think I went ot central tower first. Or at least tried to. I just stood on great plateau and looked around. Though, hmm that one looks close I'll head there.

Did various thing on the way, found a horse and started making way there. As I was getting closer to it, I started to realize this tower was looking quite close to Hyrule castle and thinking maybe I shouldn't be here. Practically 3 seconds after thinking that the dreaded laser line from a guardian is locked on me. So I quickly pull a u-turn and start fleeing as fast as I can on my horse.

I've been fleeing for a good minute, yet still the laser is target on me and I'm having to zig zag to not get hit. Luckily I had just found this horse and thus he didn't like me very well and so he was doing his own ziggin and zagging along with me. But as I said it's been like a minute and i'm thinking wtf, how far a range does this thing have. As I was having trouble directing the horse, i never really rotated teh camera to look behind me. I decided to finally do that and see the guardian is running behind me like 20 feet back. It's like holy shit, did not expect that. So used to games having this small radius that enemies stay in before turing back. Took like another minute of running and trying to get rocks and trees and cliffs inbetween his line of sight and me, cause it really seems like enemies unless they lose line of sight never stop chasing you.

But as for how far I am. Played porbably about 6 hours. Have 8 shrines, thus 2 upgrades. And I'm Kakariko village, doing random shit like throwing chickens in a pen. 

Another neat moment was while I was at the village, or near I shoudl say. I found some chest stuck haflway in the ground so I used my magnet powers to rip it out. It flew over my head and down a waterfall into a river. Annoyed, since I took so long to climb up there and was planning on paragliding to a shrine I coudl see, I head down the cliff and waterfall to the river below. I spend like 10 minutes roaming around the cliff edge, water edge, ect to try and magnet the chest to me that was stuck on the riverbed floor now. Never manage to get to where I could grab it. Give up and go on with life. This morning while lying in bed I all of a sudden remember my ice powers. I quick grab my switch, run to that spot and see the chest still there and use my ice powers on teh water, jump over to teh ice pillar I created and then I can finally use my magnet to grab the chest and pull it to land where I can open it. 

Plenty of other neat moments, but I don't want to spoil anything for others. It's just all these small moments and mysteries. Like seeing some mysterious blue glowing bunny thing. Have yet to catch it, killi t, or whatever you are supposed to do. Keeps dissapearing. Seen it twice now. Once saw a bear, he OHKO me. Reloaded and though, wonder if I can sneak up on him and ride him. He saw me, so I quickly ran up a tree, then all of a sudden a giant boss reticle shows up and I'm like "oh, no wonder I couldn't senak up on him, he is a boss" But then all of a sudden I see this ginormous thing hulking towards me and I'm like "nope, not the bear. Tree no longer safe" So now I'm running from a huge boss and a bear who can both OHKO. 

Fun stuff. 

Yea, I love and hate the weapon breaking. Hate it at the moment cause my inventory is so small. Got two upgrades, but need more. 

My coolest find, I've yet to use. But I really need more space. I feel liek I always need a torch in my inventory for lighting stuff reasons. Always need a big ass hammer for any time stop reasons. Always need a sword, cause obviously. Always need a spear of some sort for those kinds of fighting styles. Always need a big claymore or something. THen a good club for blunt damage stuff. THen I want the leaf for times I might need that.

Be nice when I get like 20 sword slots so I can hold one of each type I want and then start stockpiling weapons for breaking. Right now, I find I use a weapon that is good suited for the current enemies, yet i breaks during combat, then I have no spares of that weapon type cause as I said I have a variety of weapon types for any situation. Just the situation can't last long, lol. Like that rock monster on the great plateau. Saw another in Hyrule, who clearly had more HP. My hammer broke before I even made a dent in his HP, and looked at the other weapons in my stock and was like, "nope, gotta run"

No it was in thé jungle , i think its called Draco something.

And OMG ... Am i right when i think éven After thé great plateau what you see on the whole map is limited ans There are still hidden parts ? It looks like it.

Éven as it is thé map is freaking huge , its Amazing,when you see thé Castle from thé plateau but its really not

Just about to jump off the platue lol. I spent a lot of time exploring and just trying to cook everything, kill everything. About six hours so far.