Breath of the Wild

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Breath of the Wild

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School me on it

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Oh don’t worry. The game will have you covered in that department pretty quick. You don’t need our help.


In all seriousness, the game is literally just memorizing your environment and the proper tools you need to conquer the landscape that you’re surrounded by. Pretty much like you’d have to do in real life.

If it’s raining, you can’t climb walls well at all to the point you might as well not do it unless they’re about 7 feet tall. You have a stamina meter and can jump instead of relying on ledges to trigger a jump mechanic like in the past. There are enemies right out of the gate past the first area that are gonna kick your arse all over the place if aren’t careful and hide.


If you’ll remember Jurassic Park 3 and what Mr. Kirby said about his son’s hypotheses of the dinosaurs’ locations on the island, it can be applied very easily here. Until you’ve got some really good weapons and armor, stay away from the fricking middle of the map.


That’s all I’ll say without spoiling anything. Do NOT go into the middle of the map unless you’re axtively trying to unlock the tower and then scram.

Doesn't sound grindy at all

Unlocked one tower, cleared two trials. Need the old dude's warm shirt.

Not bad so far. But this level of weapon degradation is dumb.

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Oh, and for those thinking I've lost my fricking mind and purchased a Nintendo product...emulating on my pc.

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Yeah why would you ever want to support the most creative gaming company on the planet

You mean the company that rehashes the same four IPs? Those creative folk? The one that disregards online as an essential component of gaming? The one that has it's head so deeply buried in the sand, it doesn't realize gamers aren't 7 anymore?

But that isn't what this thread is about.

I'm still going through my first play through and my advice would be to try your best to solve everything on your own without looking it up, but if you get stumped don't feel bad googling a walk-through. It's very rewarding figuring something out on your own, but there are some missions/shrines that are really tough to figure out where to go or what to do without a hint. Plus, there are some nice upgrades or perks you might never run across on your own. I just recently re-visited the research lab in Hateno village by accident because I thought it was something else and it turns out I was able to upgrade a bunch of my runes there. I thought I was done with that place in the story, so I never would have gone there again on purpose.

Another thing I'll mention is the game does a good job of letting you solve puzzles or beat enemies in a number of creative ways. Older Zelda games had only one way of doing something. I'll be using a certain strategy against an enemy, then find in a walk through there's a much easier or more creative way to handle them... such as, instead of fighting an enemy straight up you could lure them to a trap (shoot down a honeycomb by them to have them swarmed by bees, or get them near a cliff and use magnesis on a metal box to knock them off the cliff, or find a big boulder up a hill and push it down towards the enemy encampment, etc.) Also, I'm pretty sure I did a lot of shrines in an unconventional way, but still got the job done

learn to use and love every weapon you find

I just want to find a zwei and boost my str

I borrowed a friends Switch to start a play through and couldn’t get through two hours. The weapon system is beyond horrible.

I’ve watched people play the game and it looked great, I enjoyed he story, but something that annoying and unnecessary was unplayable for me.

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I put 200+ hrs within the first month.

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There are like 700 hours in a month lol

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The weapon system is beyond horrible.

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This is the one negative for me right now. I don't mind weapons degrading, but let me at least kill one enemy before it happens. And give me a means to repair. Like Fallout 3. Combine the same weapon to boost condition.