The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Wild West - The Bear and Badger

hylian_elf

RamSteelwood wrote:

I defeated my second DB the other day, so last night started up determined to head west into uncharted lands...except first I wanted to return some stuff, but then i was definitely going to head west....ended up on Eventide island ...

Hah. How did you fare?

RamSteelwood

got it done in the end....

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Nina

Escape wrote:

Nina wrote:

There are supposed to be some old

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Skeletons, not bones. There are several in the game, and it's hard to miss them when you're nearby.

I've found one of those in the west part of my map. Not sure if I tried to capture it, so might need to go back later.

I'm currently in the Lost Woods, doing a trial. Anyone has a hint on how to navigate here? I'm pretty sure they've made it easy once you know how to do it.

Vela

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Nina

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Getting a bit annoyed by these woods but I guess that's their thing.

Turns out that it mainly was my lack of knowledge of using

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Vela

Can you tell me exctly what bit you are doing then?

Nina

It's fine, I did it.

It was

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mistercrayon

I think i just

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Vela

My hint was to do with another bit haha.

I just did what crayon did.

Rev

Got a loan of this on the WiiU and it's very big and open. And empty. But lovely.
But empty.

mistercrayon

soon you will see.

Yossarian

More empty spaces.

stonechalice

Hardly empty. Just full of the same stuff over and over.

RamSteelwood

it's empty and full!

Escape

Vela wrote:

I just did what crayon did.

I get the feeling that that was designed to encourage compartmentalised engagements, but after a couple of unforeseeable moments of absolutely unfair gamefudge, I just ghosted it.

As with GTAs, the tighter the mission structure, the more regular its openworld failings.

mistercrayon

I think it's not helped by being adjacent to another frustrate o mission.

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Having said that. I wonder if the ghost is the way to do the mission. There's zero chance this wouldn't have been picked up in playtesting and the goal of the challenge could include observing you

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Escape

The bastard!

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Vela

Escape wrote:

Vela wrote:

I just did what crayon did.

I get the feeling that that was designed to encourage compartmentalised engagements, but after a couple of unforeseeable moments of absolutely unfair gamefudge, I just ghosted it. As with GTAs, the tighter the mission structure, the more regular its openworld failings.

It wasnt a complete ghosting. There are still some encounters you can't avoid, so you have to be good enough (hi Bob) to take out the sneaky/dangerous enemies quickly and avoid the riffraff. Any of the minor enemies can still fuck you up and knock you into the bog.

Escape

Default behaviour:

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Nina

mistercrayon wrote:

I think i just

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ignored all the baddies and ran straight through on that one.

That's what I tried but I ended up either in the mist or in the swamp, contrast between different things was just a bit too low for me to find out where I was supposed to be going.

And I do think your supposed to ghost this as much as possible, I thought that the Korok

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Tempy

I played a good chunk of this last night. Finished up with guiding an unruly horse into Kakriko Village.

I managed to goof up right at the start, somehow accidentally deleting the marker for the first quest because I was playing it with pals and goofing. Anyway, a quick google showed the map co-ordinates. Got it done, up the tower, four incandescent glowy orange things (one of which I'd found in my wanderings), get em done, bish bash bosh, give me that glider you old fuck. Give me the glider. The glider please. Give it. Aha! I have the glider!

It's basically a delightful MGSV with physics puzzles, which for now I have no issue with. Everything that I try basically works, which is great. The confluence of systems overlapping and creating dumb scenarios is joyful. So far the real star is the sound design, everything is crisp and inventive, the music ebbs and flows in like strange glitches caught on the wind, tiny stings that make your hair prick up. Cooking is second best, nothing like the smashing glass accompanying a failure, and the way everything hops and fizzes.

I am unsure how I'll get on with it in the long term as these games are love or hate for me, but so far I feel I am in the love camp, even though heading to Kakariko made me feel like I was ignoring some important exploration.

Nina

I don't think that feeling of ignoring something will ever go away. I'm 95 hours in (out close to it) and still have that feeling.

Main thing is I keep finding these Korok seeds

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Keeps the world a magical place, I'm ok with it. I've realized by now that I will never find all the treasures, get all the items or find all seeds.

Kow

It's the game that keeps giving and giving and giving.

hylian_elf

Like milking a cow?

Kow

No, like beating an elf around the head with a stick.

hylian_elf

Ouch, baby. Very ouch.

Bob

Found four terminals in Vah Ruta. By Jove I may have cracked it boys!

Vela

Yay bob!

Bob

I had to you tube The whole thing,

Enjoyed the boss fight though.

stonechalice

Oh dear

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