Is encountering the Lynel for the first time now one of the greatest gaming moments ever?

I got had the same way.

Wandering through the dessert and never saw it before. Tried to study it from a distance to see if it revealed any movement patterns for battle analysis. Engaged via horseback to size him up when the previous method proved to bare no fruit. Realized I was outclassed and tried to ride out of the danger zone.

I was desaddled via fire arrow and then met my end when I mistimed my jump to avoid his charged big axe/hammer swing.

Got better at it taking them on later when I developed evasive timing/and acquired the thunder god attack.

However I also avoided them until the end when I wanted to upgrade my armor before Ganon and needed their parts.

I was just walking through the tundra minding my own business looking for shrines and shite in the snow. That's when I came upon this oddly empty land. No trees, no enemies, no nothing. Just a giant flat patch of snow. In the distance I can see the orange glow of an undiscovered shrine, in front of it, a black blob. Naturally I head toward the alluring orange glow only to realize that black blob was indeed a Lynel. Nintendo saw fit to have this entire open area protected by a single Lynel, standing not 50 feet away from the shrine. Could have very easily just booked it for t he shrine and used the cutscene cheese, but I ain't no bitch.









Took me 2 hours to kill it. frick that. Not even remotely worth it.

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I’d easily put the moment in Dragon Age Inquisition when after 40+ hours in the Hinterlands we lost a bigass battle and I walked through the snow for 30 seconds to realize I had just beaten the fricking prologue.

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When she starts singing.

i swear

Anor Londo

That was pretty awesome.

It's up there.

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It's up there.

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No. It's not.


Of all the amazing things I've heard about this game, I literally have never heard of a Lynel from any place other than here.

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I faced one while collecting electric arrows to open the water beast/dungeon. 

Which I am actually stuck on at the boss stage. 

And that brings me to a question...am I doing these beasts in the wrong order? One swipe, I'm dead. I am playing with three hearts only...

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There's nothing wrong with doing water first. I think most people do, actually. Personally, I'd go and do some shrines to increase your heart containers by two or three.

For the boss fight, remember that you can use cryonis to shatter his ice projectiles and stasis to stop them in the air and send them back at him. Cheesing the fight with electric arrows is also totally viable.

It freezes him for like 2 seconds but it interrupts the high damage attacks nicely