Ah, I happen to be at that tower now. Dunno if my skills are good enough to capture it, though.

Haven't come across the other thing you're taking about, though.

Yossarian wrote:

Here you go.

According to that guide,

Unless it’s been patched:

Must have been patched, I guess. I'll try and report back about it when I'm in a position to test.

I'm sure it's doable, I just don't know how to add have not confidence I'll be able to beat the guard.

Here's something possibly odd/amusing I've noticed: I'm currently doing a normal/no assist run on Bayo 2 and keep getting tempted back because I find that easier than Zelda.

I really don't know if this discussion is with using spoilers for, but I'll continue.
Just came across the thing you were taking about. Cool, but the impact was lessened as I'd just spoken to a guy at the stables who told me about it.

That's my next test. Raw they do nothing special.

After pouring over a 100 hours into BOTW, I have to say I’m with AJ on this one. I really can’t be arsed extending my stamina meter when the game makes traversal so plodding. I’m not digging the dungeons either. Physics-based puzzles are not so rewarding when you’ve seen them done better elsewhere.

So, I had a good few hours yesterday without anything stupid happening or having anything more than a tower that required climbing (seriously, that is a dull mechanic and can get to fuck). Did some overworld puzzles, completed some enjoyable shrines, and made the run up to Zora's Domain. It was all fairly pleasant.

Nothing GOTY worthy, especially in the same year Odyssey came out, but if this keeps up I can see it knocking HZD off my list. I've also learnt two things: look at the map because a big, fuck off mountain in your way might only mean you're a little off, rather than going the wrong way; and pick up all the rocks because there's decent shit under a surprising number of them.

Climbing improves as you go on.
Extra stamina means you can jump more often when climbing and there is a something later which helps a lot.

There's gear that improves climbing, plus an ability that makes things easier.

Fast travel is a weird one, I use it here and there to get to Hateno and Kakariko and the other research place, but I'm usually more than content to just trot along listening to the ambiance. I think the incredibly sparse soundtrack works for me in that regard, I find the world very soothing to be in, even though it doesn't give two shits about me.

I will say at the very least that climbing just doesn't feel very good. It's not got any kinaesthesic feel to it, so it feels really un-Nintendo like especially when stacked up against Splatoon and Mario Odyssey.

Tempy wrote:

I will say at the very least that climbing just doesn't feel very good. It's not got any kinaesthesic feel to it, so it feels really un-Nintendo like especially when stacked up against Splatoon and Mario Odyssey.

I'm genuinely amazed that Spider-Link hasn't become a meme.

No, because he climbs walls like fucking Spider-Man. These are literally the only two things I've found so far and one's no even related to BotW, as far as I can tell:

https://clips.twitch.tv/BlightedTalentedGnatNotLikeThis

Except they just allowed you climb everything, not just the things you should be able to. Vertical surface with no hand holds whatsoever? Fine. Technically, it's not much better than not being able to climb anything. Hell, Spider-Man 2 had this in an open world on the PS2.

I'm fairly certain you could ensure that with some not overly complicated maths. As I said, it's been done before, in Spider-Man games. I'd imagine most games don't do it because you have to tag all surfaces as to whether they can be climbed or not, so as not to look fucking ridiculous, but that takes ages.