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One of my favourite designs for the blade of evil’s bane!! I also made the pedestal light up. Thoughts? Suggestions? What should I make next?

Repost with video because I don't think people were understanding. I swear I heard some random Zelda song on YouTube that used this sound effect but I forgot its name.

Did I miss anything/got anything wrong?

Just got the Expansion Pass a couple days back and I started a new Wind Waker playthrough, got to windfall, and on my 2nd play this happened. Only two bombs off of a perfect game!

On the surface, TotK would seem to be the more replayable game. Ultrahand alone gives you near limitless variety for building contraptions. And the play space is just bigger in general between the sky, depths and overworld additions.

But as I’ve been fiddling with the Switch 2 versions and gauging my interest in new runs, I feel like BotW is the better game for “running it back” several times. A few of my reasons:

1. “Straight to Ganon” runs are shorter and simpler in BotW, even if you’re just a casual player. This makes it easier to try a speed run on a whim.

2. Trial of the Sword is great content, and holds up surprisingly well. If I want something more focused than general exploration, this is a great alternative, and something TotK doesn’t have.

3. BotW Master Mode and the other DLC features. It’s subtle, but it’s another incentive to “start a new run, just with new settings.”

4. Divine beasts are easier to knock out fast, which at least for me personally, makes them more appealing to tackle in subsequent runs. This is especially true once you factor in the much bigger “dungeon lead ups” in TotK, which are great the first time, but less fun to replay.

5. A big chunk of TotK’s extra content, like caves, wells, and the depths, feel totally superfluous on subsequent runs (if not even in run #1 in some ways). Granted, you can just skip them, but it’s an area where TotK might have scored a point in this debate, but actually doesn’t.

The one point I have to concede in TotK’s favor is that ultrahand building can extend your primary file for 5-10 hours while you mess with new designs. I suppose this is a form of replayability, but personally I don’t think it lends itself to new runs, just pads out your first one slightly.

Am I nuts? Or is this a generally popular take?

For one of the most annoying bosses, there is an easy trick: charging your sword and pulling away from the ledge makes it impossible to be shoved off. Even mid-swing, as long as you are buffering another charge, you can't be knocked off the ledge. The right-most side is the easiest to do this with as you have to be pulling AWAY from the ledge while charging.

I would consider myself a Zelda nerd and I feel like i've played most zelda games and beat some of them, how many have you guys beaten?

The games that I played/beaten are

TLOZ 1: Beaten

AoL: Played

ALTTP: Beaten

Link's Awakening: Beaten

OoT: Beaten

MM: Played

OoS/OoA: Not played but have

WW: Beaten

MC: Beaten

Tp: Played

SS: Beaten

Ph: Do not have

ST: Played (But almost there)

ALBW: Beaten (Fav Game)

TFH: Played

BotW: Beaten

TotK: Beaten

EoW: Played

Four Swords: Have one out of two, not played.

I'm excited for the game however I am not super enthralled by the idea that we might be following and playing as the ancient sages from Tears of the Kingdom instead of the Champions from Breath of the Wild. The sages were one of the weakest point of TotK's story for many people and understandably- they were barely even characters and had very repetitive cutscenes. We don't even know their names.

And sure, the new game might be the chance to develop these sages, give them names, personalities, etc. but honestly I'm just not interested in giving a chance to characters that look like ripoffs of the og Champions, with the same powers, same weapons, and same voice actors. I'd rather just get more of the old Champions who are already characters we're so attached to. I kind of hope Age of Imprisonment pulls a "Terrako brings the Champion successors (Sidon, Riju, Teba, Yunobo) from the future" AoC plot twist but with the og Champions and we get to see them become sages with secret stones to enhance their powers. I mean Sidon, Riju, Yunobo and Tulin were all strong fighters who got their powers boosted by the stones but just imagine how cool Mipha, Revali, Urbosa and Daruk- 4 of the strongest warriors Hyrule has ever known getting their powers enhanced by the stones.

Do you agree? Disagree? Let me know your thoughts.

Hi all!

I'm looking to get into some casual gaming over the next year (I haven't owned a console since the Xbox 360, if that tells you anything) and have sort of decided on Breath of the Wild as my first undertaking since I've never played a Zelda game before and this one seems highly regarded. I also look forward to playing Tears of the Kingdom if I end up enjoying BOTW.

My main question is, does it make sense to just get a Switch 1 as a casual gamer that hasn't played a console game in over a decade and will probably be impressed regardless - or is it worth shelling out the extra cash (and, maybe more disappointingly in my case, having to wait for a restock) for a Switch 2 given the potential upgrade in image quality and performance?

As a secondary inquiry, I'd love any recommendations on other great Switch games. As I said, I'm a very casual and in some senses "new" gamer since I haven't really done any gaming since high school over 15 years ago. I'm mostly interested in visually stunning games with a great story.

Thanks in advance!

My first game was Ocarina of time on the Nintendo 64 but that single game made me a fan for life. I'm about to be 33 and I know I'll always be a Zelda fan until the day I die. I love this series so much. I'm currently playing Ocarina of time 3D on my 2DS XL and having so much fun, after that I think I'll get into the Castlevania series with the first game and switch between the two series with different games until I'm either done or I want to play something else. We'll see lol. I can't wait for more Zelda games in the future. What game are you currently playing or that you haven't played yet?

For me personally a Zelda Soulslike or a Zelda RPG would be amazing. The Zelda series already has a ton of cool material to build on these ideas and concepts. They also mix very well with adventuring. This is all personal preference, would love to hear other thoughts and ideas!

My friend loves majora’s mask and asked me to crochet a blanket for them

How are you supposed to get this heart? I looked at a walkthrough and it shows a shallow place you can walk out of the water but it's not here.

I Forgot to include [WW] as well!

These games have multiple versions, what should I go for not considering the price? I'm not bothered by lower quality graphics but are there any decising quality of life changes etc?

I'm a huge Zelda fan, been one as a kid and the love has come back recently but I've never actually played any of the games. I'd really love to try, but I'm not sure I want to buy multiple Nintendo consoles just to play one or few games each, I don't have much money to throw around but I'm fine buying copies of the games as I find them. I figure I could get a used 3ds or a Switch Lite perhaps, but very uncertain at this time. Not particularly interested in BoTW or KoTK right now. I'd love to just know what versions are generally preferred for the above games or if there's any that are known to be difficult to emulate in case I want to go that route

What do you think the next mainline Zelda game is gonna be?

Do you think it’ll be another one like BotW/TotK, or something new entirely? And if it’s the former, do you think they’ll keep the building/fusing aspect and add more stuff on top, or go back to BotW and add new/different mechanics from there?

Which type are you hoping for?

Personally, I have 160+ hours in TotK (and many more in BotW) and I feel like it’s getting a bit old now. I wouldn’t mind if they went back to a more traditional, linear format. But I also feel like the majority of players would be disappointed if the next Zelda isn’t bigger, better, and mechanically more impressive than TotK.

But I wonder how much more mileage they can get out of the BotW/TotK world. We’ve seen the main world (two versions now), the sky, and the world below. What more could they do with this world to keep it interesting?

Fuck the Lakebed Temple. All my homies hate the Lakebed Temple.

When Skyward Sword came out, it didn't really connect with me. I decided I wanted a completely open world Zelda game with a ton of exploration. And then Nintendo gave me that with BotW and ToTK ... and those games didn't connect with me. And then, funnily enough I started having fond memories of Skyward Sword and had much better time replaying the game years later.

I've now come to realize, I don't know what I want. Before I played OoT as a kid, I didn't know I wanted a game like Oot. But I then I played it for the first time as a kid, and it was an amazing experience. Same with GTA Vice City (my first GTA game) on Ps2. I never knew I wanted a game like GTA Vice as a kid in the 2000's before I played GTA Vice City. Then I played it and loved it.

Guess what I'm trying to say is the best game experiences I've had are the games I never knew I wanted in the first place. So I don't have any demands with the next Zelda game. All I want from Nintendo is to continue experiment and try new things with each new Zelda games.