Damn these shrines are fun

Quote from: Titanfall 2 Was a Mistake on April 02, 2017, 09:58:08 PM

Glad you're enjoying it. How long have you played thus far?

according to the game it would seem 22 Hours.
Ive got 6 hearts and enogh orbs for another one and a half. I'm going to activate this one Tower before I head to the laboratory like Impa told me, Unfortunately this one is surrounded by a lake full of electric enemies.

Quote from: TBlocks on April 02, 2017, 10:34:18 PM

Quote from: Titanfall 2 Was a Mistake on April 02, 2017, 09:58:08 PM

Glad you're enjoying it. How long have you played thus far?

according to the game it would seem 22 Hours.
Ive got 6 hearts and enogh orbs for another one and a half. I'm going to activate this one Tower before I head to the laboratory like Impa told me, Unfortunately this one is surrounded by a lake full of electric enemies.

Spoiler

Got rid of the mage i'm in the clear

that tower gave me trouble too. it was one of the last towers i needed before i had the whole map filled out.

Quote from: Titanfall 2 Was a Mistake on April 02, 2017, 10:42:08 PM

Quote from: TBlocks on April 02, 2017, 10:34:18 PM

Quote from: Titanfall 2 Was a Mistake on April 02, 2017, 09:58:08 PM

Glad you're enjoying it. How long have you played thus far?

according to the game it would seem 22 Hours.

wait how do you check your hours played?

ignore that I was mistaking the time saved tor hours played

uh don't think that's supposed to happen

Whoa....what a ride

Also somehow I keep getting dropped out of flurry attacks seemingly at random which usually results in my death, anybody know what causes that?

Getting 1 shorted is starting to get pretty tedious at this point. Maybe I don't have the right gear but having to start boss fights from the begining just from getting grazed by an arrow gets old after a while.

it's definitely a gear issue

you could also just not get hit

Conflicted on whether or not I should go fight Ganon now.  I kinda wanted to go after all the shrines and I feel like there's plenty of stuff I haven't found, but at this point I'm just wandering around the map trying to find things to do, and I feel like I'm OP as fuck.

I haven't been playing because of work. I really really want to get back in, but it's hard lately. Fuck me sideways.

so what are you guys opinion on kakoriko village?

i'm not really the biggest fan of it cuz of the whole japanese (?) thing going on... idk, it just feels off

i think it's fine--my only real issue is the pretty bad frame drops that seem to happen a lot there

and the fact that it doesn't use the classic traditional kakariko theme

i liked the kakariko village quest. i thought it really made you care for the characters there.

So I finally fought Ganon, and wanted to share a few thoughts.


I think I'll skip most of the good, because it'll be more of what's already been said countless times.  This is a bit of a party-pooper post, but that shouldn't be super discouraging - it got like 80 hours out of me and is obviously a very beautiful entry.  While it's nothing extraordinarily new to games in general, it's well thought-out, detailed, and polished to an amazing degree.  Overall I absolutely love this game for these things.  I think the game has a lot of "best Zelda ____" elements to it.

That said, here are some of my criticisms:

1)  Why do I have to watch the cutscene EVERY time there's a blood moon?  This game's so organic - every person is doing their own thing completely independent of you - but in this ONE aspect, everything has to come to a stop to show you that all the Bokoblins in starterville are back.  I know you can skip it after it takes you out, but it's still a nuisance and kinda kills the mood: I don't need this information for the 20th time, I can clearly see what's happening.  They could have just played the dramatic drum beat and you watch it happen in front of you, and it would be cool and sensible.

2)  It's very easy to cheese a lot of shrines.  For example, I ran into 4 or 5 shrines that dealt with getting to a platform before a ball rolls into a receptacle.  Yeah, I could do that, OR I could just freeze the ball right next to its destination with that one gadget that's sorta emphasized in the majority of the game's puzzles...and then casually stroll over to the platform.  I've seen people do some intricate things like use bombs to propel themselves over fences - no, it's nothing like that.  The shrine is practically begging me to abuse a core mechanic like this: it took less time to think about, set up, and pull off than it would have to do things normally.

3)  Speaking of cheese, the game got monumentally easier with each divine beast power.  I think it makes sense to progress and eventually get stupidly powerful, but these abilities made me feel like I fast-forwarded to the end.  Once I got Urbossa's Fury, there wasn't a single enemy I felt like I needed to be cautious about, and I think that kills what the game was built around.  The strongest enemies in the game, including bosses, as well as anything nearby can be wiped out with 2-3 hits of the thing.  I think these abilities should have required upgrades or have been tied to elemental gear bonuses.

4)  I think there were a lot of missed opportunities with the shrines.  I haven't finished ALL of them, but I've done a good chunk.  I ran into way too many "Tests of Strength"; eventually, it gets to a point where I'm developing ways to speedrun the tests by killing the enemies as aggressively and thoughtlessly as possible out of boredom.  Even with these types of shrines, they never tested your strength with (get ready for this) TWO guardians.

Overall, I still like the shrines: there are a lot of entertaining and unique ones, and I also recognize that a bunch of them have puzzles associated with getting to the shrine.  But I think there's a bunch of shrines that get repetitive and others that require almost no thought.  I think they could have played around with more outdoor mechanics than they did (one that I kept expecting but never saw was the idea of powering a windmill with the draft made from setting grass on fire) and added just a bit more intricacy to the shrines a bit more often.

5)  This one's super generic, but...rain.  I like the idea of rain and the specific mechanics that they introduce: use the noise to your advantage, find a way around without climbing, look for these flowers, find a spot for a fire.  I don't like unscripted rain.  A lot of times that it rained out of the blue, I was going somewhere extremely remote (so no real carefully designed alternate path) or doing something with fire.  So eventually, instead of thinking "well I'd better adapt to this situation", I was thinking "well fuck, I'm gonna go find the nearest fire/fast travel, wait it out, and come back later".

I saw you could cheese a electricity centric puzzle with metal weapons. Thats some attention to detail.