What's your favourite moment in Breath of the Wild?

>>383987539
Eventide

And finally finishing the master trails and seeing that purple glow

>>383987539
God, too many to count. I think if I had to say one of the top of my head I would have to say scaling Akkala Fortress

When the shops run out of arrows and never fucking restock them

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>>383987539
WHEN IT ENDED

DOHOHOHOHOHOHO

>>383987539
The pitch black forest trial.

>>383987539
The fight agaisnt Vah Ruta.

>>383988028
Gotta agree with this
Just goes to show how much an actual soundtrack improves the game. It's a shame so much of the game is quiet

Finally learning you can stasis guardians

After doing everything in the game on normal and halfway through Master Mode

>>383987539

The first time I fought a Lynel in the Zora area.

>>383988075
Kind of like Dark souls , where a soundtrack is used to enhance a moment

Getting disappointed each time you've done some exploring and found some cool place and all you get is another shrine

>>383988095
Yeah I feel like master mode is actually teaching me how to play the game
Spent an hour trying to kill a silver lynel and I'm actually getting the hang of doing things besides mashing attack

When you free that dragon spirit from the blight, all while gliding along with it. 10/10 moment.

>>383988192
>tfw you do this and there isn't even a shrine or anything

>>383987774
>>>383987539 (OP)

>And finally finishing the master trails and seeing that purple glow

Do the master trials have a different ending or do you mean the trial of the sword?

>>383987975
They don't restock if you have a lot in your inventory

>>383988192
Genuinely not a problem for me because I love doing the shrines

death mountain and when it rains cause I can Shield surf.

>>383988279
Trial of the sword of course, I remembered the name wrong

>>383988261
>>383988192
>tfw don't even care about any reward, just like to see new areas

>>383988295
I have 8
I just bought a shitload from beedles across the map though, kinda overpriced though

>>383987539
Van Ruta. I loved the entire part of it

>>383987539
probably fighting Naydra. Spending half the fight in the air paragliding down the mountain after them firing off arrows was pretty memorable.

>>383987539
The ending
Fuck your niggers I tested up a little

>>383988627
>tested up
Teared up*

>>383988627
I did too when I realized Ganon wasn't going to be able to hit me and literally became "shoot the eye to win"

>>383987539
1. First time going to Hyrule Castle
2. First Molduga
3. Beating the trial of the sword

>>383987539
Too many to really decide
The attack on Van Ruta, The thunderblight fight, and Hyrule castle really stood out to me among some others

>>383988759
I meant the ending cutscenes. I also liked the Ganon fight On master mode but it's far from my favourite

>>383988075
I would actually prefer quietness to the little ambient piano jingles that play in the overworld. I am so sick of them.

When I started a new file, the stillness of the plateau was so refreshing.

>>383988302
Yeah, they can be fun. But I miss the sensation of feeling like you've found something special like in the older games.

>>383988964
>o the little ambient piano jingles that play in the overworld
hate how they went for a minimalist soundtrack but still only made one song for day time and one song for night
you'd think they'd put in multiple piano tunes for the general overworld kind of like minecraft did

>>383988976
Yep. Would love more optional runes

>>383987539
When I entered lost woods and the atmosphere hit me

>>383987539
Seeing a dragon for the first time. I freaked out, thought it was gonna eat me.

>>383988947
>I meant the ending cutscenes.
Are you 12

>>383987539
Returning it for full price

>>383987539
When I first paraglided off the plateau

And then when I finally took down a lynel for the first time
>>383989206
I know this is weird but I like that the dragons are passive. Make them seem so much more noble and majestic than if they rush down at you. Even the corrupted one just goes about its own business

>>383987539
The content tends to feel watered down as if to fill the space the game insists on taking up. You walk more and do less and the shit you do is never as in depth as a game that takes care to craft more curated scenarios.

Good example is taking MGSV:GZ and MGSV:TPP. Ground Zeroes is the best fortress between the two games by far.

Similarly, BotW would only benefit by taking its core mechanics (the physics based shit is fantastic) and focusing it into 8 or 12 dungeons designed to test the player's problem solving, exploratory, and technical mastery of the game.

And on this note, the locations can and often do look great but for the most part the game utilizes that space simply by making you traverse them and do nothing with vast stretches of those areas. They overstay their welcome. There's no focus.

The game is Zelda: Meandering Edition. And the devs knew it. They knew the space had to be filled so they padded it out with tiers of weapons and armor AND made them consumables so they'd never be redundant by the vast world offering them too much.

When you make a game so large that you can't sufficiently fill it with -unique- rewards not too far apart from one another you have a fucking problem. A problem the very first fucking Zelda avoided while still being a Goddamned sandbox.

It's a great game but a better sense of focus would have only made it better.

>>383989290
>this copypasta again
>praises the first Zelda when it has the exact same problem
Jesus fuck you never stop do you?

>>383989290
Waiter! This pasta is stale!

>>383988192
>I only explore for the reward and not for the exploration itself
You are what's wrong with gaming. At least a big part of it. Go and play a freemium mobile shit that will give you the skinner box you need.

>>383987539
I really liked the part when I pulled out the master sword while my hearts drained. I did not know how much I needed and thought I wasn't going to make it, but I did

>>383987539
The trip to the zora's domain. So well designed.

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Surfing around the desert, fighting Molduga w/out bombs by forcing him to surface using the environment before filling his eyeballs with arrows.

Or taking an intentional hit, opening the paraglider in midair and stabbing his fucking face on the way down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwyhYmGzKLU

>>383987539
The moment when I was able to parry a laser back to a guardian

>>383987976
>BOTW
>Ending

Dohoho indeed

>>383990083
The ending wrapped things up nicely though? Zelda is rescued, Ganon is done, and both of you head of to a new adventure. Standard happy ending schlock

>>383990173
Hmm best if you dont post again.

>>383987539
When I stepped out of the shrine of resurrection. What an amazing feeling

Realizing I can ride trees I sent flying with stasis,exploring hyrule castle,everything about building tarry town

>>383990030
>mfw I found out by complete accident
Best feeling

>>383987539
My first guardian encounter was amazing. Tense as fuck with the guardian firing lasers everywhere

That part where you entered a shrine and it told you it couldn't be fucked to put a puzzle in.

Fuck BotW.

>>383991215
Blessing shrines? They have an outside puzzle connected to them or a side quest though. Why so salty?

>>383991280
Feels cheap as fuck.
Shrines were a let down.

>>383990369
More or less this. I wanted to go in blind so I really hadn't watched any footage outside of the reveal, the "open your eyes", and the one from the Switch reveal. I didn't want to hype myself up, but I figured if this game was TRULY going to be a "we looked at Zelda 1 for freedom" style, I wouldn't get a real experience of just traveling an unknown world since... well, 1989.

It's not perfect, but it's the first 3D Zelda I truly enjoyed.

It's funny how huge the plateau feels at game's start.

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>>383987539
>mfw its finally playable at Cemu

>>383991349
I liked the content of the shrines, not so much the aesthetics. Hell I even liked the first few combat shrines

Best was the beginning with that whole open world infront of me but it was so good that when i finished with everything done it was the first time in my life a game has left me feeling empty and bummed out knowing nothing will top it.

>>383990252
>hmm You just proved me wrong but I'm so smug I don't want to accept that

>>383987539
When it first started thundering it was pretty memorable. I got struck by lightning too

My favorite moment was when the Champions attacked Calamity Ganon.

Also really liked standing on top of the dueling peaks. That was pretty much the first thing I did after leaving the Great Plateau.

Also, the end of the Tarrey Town questline.

In other 3d Zelda games-

Ocarina: Reuniting with Saria after 7 years/ Saving the Gorons from Volvagia
Majora's Mask: Four Giants
Wind Waker: Showdown with Helmaroc King
Twilight Princess: Chasing down King Bulblin
Skyward Sword: Meeting Ghirahim

>>383992135
Rain is so atmospheric and nice in this game

>>383992236
TP: Also the entire Ganondorf execution scene was amazing I thought.

>>383988947

darkbeast still a stationary bitch on master mode? It's one of the only things about the game that I can't reconcile

>>383992718
Yes, but your archery has to be on point and you have to be far more mobile this time

When the beasts fired the laser

>>383993119
ehh; good enough for me. I figure after the first ganon fight darkbeast is would be more frustrating than anything else if it were actually challenging, and thematically it fits in with the rest of the game. Thanks for the straight answer.

first time finding a stalfos hinox was a pretty big moment. Training to fight guardians at the central hyrule tower in ancient gear/ goron set was also pretty fun.

I think the best thing about the game was getting to go on a truly self-directed adventure. So many ludonarrative moments where Link's intentions are 1:1 in line with the player's. the plot played it safe, but the game design took some huge risks.

I still really enjoy just wandering the different biomes casually adventuring for korok seeds. I can't wait for their next addition to the franchise to have this design. Can't get enough of it. the basic gameplay feedback loop is like crack for me

When Kass starts playing his accordion to the Rito Village music and his children join in singing.

>>383987539
climbing the dueling peaks on my first playthrough.
i had just finished hatao and I made stam food and climbed it. comfy as fuck.

Also climbing back up to the great plateau was comfy too

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>>383988207
>an hour trying to kill a silver lynel

>>383993801
Holy fuck that's mine too
>mfw main theme starts playing
Sooo good

>>383989206
>Seeing a dragon for the first time
this was aazing.
i was climbing a ladder on an enemies camp near lake hylia and saw farosh from a far, so I jumped off got on my horse and B-lined it for the bridge.
I was pretty freaked out and amazed at it's size and thought it was a boss dragon as it was spewing electric, until I took a photo of it and knew the name was one of the gods name, so it was friendly.
Still took me a 3rd time until I saw it again to pluck up the courage to take a shot at it.

>>383987880
This so much.

I love how they took something as mundane as getting the area map by climbing and activating a tower so epic.

You can see the tower from ages away, and once you actually reach the area it's dizzyingly tall. Not only do you have to climb all theway up there somehow, but there's a bunch of flying Guardians, which you have no idea how to deal with. It's like walking into a dungeon/temple/level the whole fortress is a big puzzle obstacle course thing.

Like so many places in botw, it's one of those areas that completely sucks you in, and you usddenly realize that you've spent an hour or more just doing stuff in that one place, unaware of the rest of the gameworld around you.

>>383987539
When I turned this trash off.

>>383993507
I liked how guardians surrounding the castle were kind of a way to test yourself if you are ready for major enemies.
As soon as the guardians are easy to deal with you know you can go and take on a few silver lynels

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>>383987539
The first time I saw a dragon

>>383991541
Fuck off, pirate

>>383995758
Hell yeah that was great

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>reach that shrine near the entrance of Zora's Domain covered by impassable spikes
>no high ground nearby to paraglide myself
>see what can I use nearby
>a lone tree stands in the island
>always heard about people using the octoroks balloons to create airships and such
>ahh fuck it
>chop down the tree, and throw a single balloon on it
>the goddamn log tips over and falls
>realize I should had used more balloons
>only had two more
>new plan
>I stand atop of the log and quickly attach one ballon to each tip
>Starts raising
>Fuck yeah
>Suddenly one fucking balloon explodes
>oh shit
>the log tips over and remains in a vertical position
>I quickly grab the side of the log with every inch of my virtual body as my resistance started dropping down
>oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck Im over the fucking spikes
>the other baloon pops
>Shit shit shit
>I jump off the log, paraglide the fuck out of there, and barely cross over the spikes, reaching the shrine

And thats how BotW is the best fucking Mega Man X game of all time

>>383989395
>what's w
Yeah, sure.
So exploring with a purpose is not wrong.
Like every Zelda game so far where every nook had a secret like a heart or an upgrade, or a new tool, or a secret stash of fairy, or an hidden merchant.
Yeah, surely these kind of things ruing gaming.
I fucking hate fanboys like you.

Hyrule Castle

>>383987539

When I turned it off after a hour and knew the game was shit

>>383996327
Maybe you should take off your rose tinted glasses before looking at the old games.
They had a bunch of empty nothing and useless rupee rewards. In fact most "secrets" where rewarded with rupees or literally nothing.

It is not wrong for exploration to reward you, it's wrong to expect exploration to keep rewarding you with something exciting on every fucking step you make.

Also Shrines which you complain about are basically hearth container rewards.

>>383996507
>it's wrong to expect exploration to keep rewarding you with something exciting on every fucking step you make.

Go home and play some Gone Home you fucking hippie, if you want a walking simulator.

>>383996507
I was just pointing out that hating the concept of rewarding exploration with something different than exploration itself is retarded.
I mean, you explore an hidden zone in ANY open world? You find something unique, just remember the hidden cities if FF7 or FF8, which you could totally miss.
In BOTW, you reach shrine, but they feel a bit stale after a while, with always the same "achitectural theme", I think exploring the world was actually better than finding shrines, that more often than not resulted in some mechanical task.
Anyhow, I find that appreciating BOTW for "the exploration" for the sake of it, means I should appreciate No Man Sky, but everybody hates it, so why the double standard?

>>383996454
Same

>finally manage to get into Castle Town
>holy shit, it's just a pile of ash
>manage to get into the caves by doing some borderline retarded climbing under the main bridge
>suddenly huge fucking 3D minimap
>dat music comes on

My second favourite moment in HC is getting shot down the walls right before the first Lynel guardhouse. Survived with Grace and had no clue where I was, so I ended up taking a completely different route on the way back up.

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>>383996067
>impassable spikes
>set fire to them
retard

>>383996454
first time going there and the music kicked in was great

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>>383993308
>>383992236
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PqXj1DQrqA

>>383996868

I love the inside of Hyrule Castle. Just the feel of it and music, all those weapons you could collect. It felt like a proper dungeon.

>>383997237

Oh fuck yeah. The music was amazing

>>383987539
Finding out about octaballoons

>>383999017
Then you realize they pop after ten seconds and the disappointment sets in

>>383999309
Until you find out you can chain them.

>>383987539
The camel dungeon. Was so good

>>383999017
>>383999642
How do you even get the balloons?

>>383999991
by killing octoroks or buying them in lurelin town

The ice mountain dragon and the pitch black forest

>>384000175
Seconding, flying around with Naydra (?) was the coolest. Even better was just finding that out of the blue.

>>383987539
The dark shrine was great. The hinox scared me

>>383987539
That moment when I realized how to navigate the lost woods

>>384001131
Without finding the hint?

>>383987539
Probably "fighting" the elephant divine beast. Too bad the sequences never got any better than that.

>>384001326
I didn't pay much attention to dialogue so I had to figure out myself

>>383990173
The ending sucked
Ganon sucked
Wish I never did the Dungeons

>>384000805
I swear when a hinox snores it sounds like "kill him" is it just me that hears this?
creeped the hell out of me because I had never encountered a sleeping hinox before so I was alone in the dark and kept hearing kill him

>>384001416
I also managed to miss that guy and bungled through it with the "wrong" solution.

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The fight against Vah Ruta, and the realization of how you were supposed to fight it.

>>384001521
Pretty sure that's your imagination

Every time there was a stories thread on /v/

the best part about the game aren't specific set pieces, but personal experiences instead.

>Get chased by guardian to high hell and back
>Nearly dead
>No food
>No good weapons left, only run
>Start running across the bridge still targeted and sweating trying to dodge them all
>Its the bridge leading to the Giant tree stump in a lake
>Fuck fuck mobli-- FLAMEGREATSWORD SHIT
>Guardian gave up but the moblins spotted me before I made it over
>Asshole could crush coal into diamonds at this point. Sprint through and dodge attacks
>Grab the flame greatsword and jump off into the lake
>Right as I do lighting kills the moblins behind me

The game has experiences that make it feel like only you got the experience and was unique to your playthrough.

I don't want to play a zelda game this big again though
It leaves fucking great first impressions, but fades once you know every secret the game is hiding.

>>383987539
Getting the paraglider and leaving the plateau. Nothing else was very grand after that, except maybe Vah Ruta.

>>383988192
I absolutely HATE HATE HATE this about the game.

BotW went from a 10/10 to barely an 8/10 for me when I realized the meat of the game is shrines. Almost everything cool in the game has a shrine at the end of it. The sheer volume of them actively taints the geniunely good ones.

God I'm so tired of those stupid monks.
I'm so tired of spirit orbs being the end reward for everything.
I'm so tired of that fucking ancient high tech look.
I'm so tired of "Duuuuun, duun, du. Dududduuuuun du du."

Did I mention I hate shrines?

>>384002281
Yes you did not to worry

>>384001950
I can't imagine replaying this game again besides a straight to hyrule castle run. It is awesome the first time through but I cannot imagine doing it again

>>384002078
Vah naboris is better

>>384001950
I feel that way for all the 3D Zelda games, just not worth a second playthrough

>>384002281
This is me after the 100th shrine. But I did enjoy myself before that so meh

sneaking into the castle only a few hours in.

When I got off the Plateau and met the first NPCs that were being attacked by some Moblins
When I saw a Dragon for the first time

>trailer music isn't in the game

;_;

>>383987539
Stumbling across hateno randomly. What a comfy ass town

>>383992236
>Tarrey Town questline

lmao get me 9000 woods

>>384003516
It would not fit anywhere in the game desu, it is pretty obviously tailor made for a trailer. Maybe the final moments of the Ganon battle?

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>>383987539
That's tough but s much as I loved a lot of different parts throughout the game from start to finish, going to the Temple of Time was very special to me.

I spent hours just running around exploring the ruins and I still go back to the Temple every time I load up. Its such a beautiful area.

>>384003650

It'd perfectly fit the final battle and would be hype as fuck, specially if he wasn't so easy. Imagine hitting that last light arrow with that playing.

>>384003516
The trailer music is in the game but unfortunately only during the end credits.

>>384003964

Are you sure? Aren't you thinking of the first E3 one? I was talking about the Switch event trailer music, that epic one.

>>384003908
Temple of time was great
But the guardian room was better

The one when I realized all the bosses in the open world were either giant shitskin goblins wth googly eyes or rocks with the sole exception of one.

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including the tarrey town quests

>>384004253
Might have gotten confused between that and the other music. I was thinking of the narrative based music where it starts off very serene but picks up to a very climatic tone.

>>384004330
Do you mean the guardian room with a billion lasers? That was scary.

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>>384004397
>shitskin goblins
AYO HOL UP

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>>383987539
The Climb to the Zora was pretty cool, and Sidon's theme is one of my favorite zelda tracks now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZkklcIfTo

>>384004703
Yep the room is even scarier in master mode as the lasers become less predictable

>>384004739
The first time I saw one of these I was so excited. I was like they're gonna have all these unique boss monsters just sitting in the field waiting to be encountered.

But they didn't. It's just goblins and rocks. How awesome would it have been to digit Gohma in the lost woods or that fire dragon from OOT in the mountain or a big yeti monster in the snow area?

>people unironically typing "epic" to explain their stories

shills, all of you.

BOTW is a 6 out of 10 at best

>worst ending in any Zelda game
>15 enemies max minus recolors
>plenty of houses in towns but literally nothing of interest in them
>artificial playtime due to constant pausing of the game
>no recipie book - razorshrooms and rushrooms are self explanatory, but more complex dishes are just a pain in the ass to remember
>no memorable music outside of Zoras Domain and Rito Village only because its somewhat recognizable
>no bug catching net / bottles
>no rolling
>no magic meter
>shrines shrines shrines shrines shrines
>items replaced by runes
>weapon damage without any notification other than it glowing red and a message popping up, even a simple % number would do, like when the master sword recharges, it gives a timer
>emphasis on exploration but only rewards you with poorly placed shrines and korok seeds

>>384004869
Yeah enemy variety is one of my only disappointments in the game. Hope they add in more via patches or DLC or whatever

>>384004910

also, to add

>calamity ganon was disappointing and less of a challenge than say, the Gerudo boss that uses the magnet gimmick
>master sword isn't required for the final blow, just use light arrows 5 times during a on-rail shooting segment

>>383988759
I tried to make the final strike on his eye with the master sword and he shot a laser from his mouth a killed me.

>>384004910
>people unironically call other people who like a game shill
Wtf I hate BOTW now

>>384005001
>>384004910
>bunch of nitpicks and subjective opinions
Oh you got to try harder man

>>384005054

i did not say that, you fucking idiot. I said people are typing shit like it's their first day here. Epic is not used seriously, anywhere, ever, anymore unless it's marketing a "gamer" product or its like a movie or something during the trailer.

I'm not even trying to brag about being here for so long because this place is a shithole but im just trying to make a point that I didn't say anyone who likes it is a shill, I said there are people that type like this trying to think they blend in with everyone else and anyone who's been here longer than a month will realize that no one types like this unless they're not from here, or underage.

You can like BOTW, but its not an amazing game.

>>384005296
I like it and think that it is an amazing game despite its flaws. There are also a lot of awesome moments.

Sorry I don't agree with you anon

>>383987539
Building Tarrey Town. It felt like I was actually making a difference in the world and the whole marriage bit was actually pretty cute.

>>384005115

>nitpicking

they removed things that have been present for the last 30 years. I went into BOTW with an open mind, expecting it to be different, but i didn't realize how much they had removed until it was too late.

at least i got to sell it on ebay for full price.

>>384005551
>it's bad cause they changed somethings
>it's different but not the different I want
>thus its objectively not an amazing game according to me
Yeah nah

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First time I saw a dragon off in the distance. It was pretty magical. Seeing one up close for the first time was just as amazing if not more so.

>>384005369

how can an amazing game be amazing if it has a shit ton of problems?

i think you're just experiencing a breath of fresh air because usually these games have a lot to do and its all laid out for you.

BOTW you need to explore but you explore for so long that even the smallest thing is rewarding.

>>384005296
>You can like BOTW, but its not an amazing game.
Says who?

>>383987539

>Storming Hyrule Castle
>figuring out the Lost Woods puzzle
>Eventide Island
>the Fi easter egg

and of course, pulling the master sword. I have a weakness for repeated music over a series. every damn time i hear the jingle it sends a chill. Hyrule Warriors and Skyward Sword had the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjr4UxiJAk

>>384005686
I don't think it has a shit ton of problems, my main issues are with its difficulty and enemy variety but that is about it, and I think the shrine orbs are rewarding enough, and they are seen often. Funny how people have different opinions

>>384005686
Most of the problems I have with this game are far overshadowed by what I like about this game, so yes the game is still amazing. Why can people not understand this? A game can be amazing to you if you think its merits far outshine its flaws

>finding the jungle area
>keep thinking it would be cool if they put a village there but there is basically no way they would bother
>there is actually a themed jungle fishing village

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>>383987539
Top three moments:
1. Stumbling across the Seven Heroins quest and solving it on my own before ever reaching Gerudo City and with no heat resist gear and potions, using the shadows of the statues to avoid the heat in the early day and campfires to wait for night time at noon
2. Leaving the Plateau for the first time, going the complete opposite direction than the one the King pointed to me, stumbling upon a baobab grove, trying but failing to tame a giga-horse, running away from my first Lynel by climbing a mesa where I fought my first Talus (and won after a few deaths) only to follow a smoke signal to a new shrine and a shitty cook
3. Racing against Dinraal, my first dragon, alongside the Tanagar Canyon while riding on a deer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGR2hXj4tKE

>>383987539
All of the Plateu actually, and up to the point of the split mountains.
When things were new.

What's the point of the lower west side of the map, there's nothing to do there right?

Definitely Eventide for me, went there early game because I mapped all of Hyrule before doing the divine beasts and I'd strongly recommend that other people do the same. The major test of strength on the way there is a good challenge too, took almost all of my weapons to beat it.

Best part of the island for me was realising halfway through the hinox fight that kiting him with bombs was taking too long so I used magnesis on one of the metal boxes and slapped him with that a few times instead.

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Fav moment was getting to ride best boy sidon and save his town. But also just the ending, going into the castle and having the haunting music play while knowing you're finally getting close to your goal. For me I put off actually beating the game until I had done all shrines and gotten all memories so it felt momentous. Trying not to get my hopes up that Champion's Ballad is going to be a post-game thing since that would mean that you get to see Hyrule after you defeated him and got true end.

>>384006515
How do you feel about the trials?

Yiga Clan Hideout nigga

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>>384006790
You my nigga

>>383987539
Fighting vah ruta

>>384006685
I think they were eventide done better, considering the only way you can cheese them is by eating for food buffs before entering.

Reusing the "stripped down" gameplay wasn't bad and is a reasonable way to balance the trials for both beginners and endgame players but I hope in the next dlc we get something different for people who've done everything there is to do and use our beefed-up master swords/savage lynel crushers/whatever on new mobs or something.

>>384007026
>people like van Ruta better than vah naboris
Explain yourself

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meeting rito because i i found them cute and i wanted to fuck them

>>384007178
Good to hear, I loved eventide but was on her fence for the DLC. Will definitely be getting it now

The memory where link fucking dies

And the Thunderblight battle

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>>384007261
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E

>yfw when Thunderblight started teleport dashing

>>383987539
The entire Lost Woods segment

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>>384007708
HE-HE'S FAST!

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>>384007919
HEYITSNOTHISSPEEDHESJUSTUSINGTHECHAOSEMERALDTOWARP

>>384007679
>no star fox-like sequence with your bow
Missed opportunity

>>384008348
Kamiya is that you?

Exploring Akkala for the first time and climbing the fortress. It felt amazing just seeing the desolation and resteuction left behind by the guardians

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>>384007708

>enter Hyrule castle for the first time
>Ganon roars
>straight rip of his Ocarina of Time intro sting plays

nice

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>>384007708

>>383987539

I would list my favorite moments and even criticisms I have with the game however I don't feel like being mauled by rabid fans this morning as I see a few others already have.

>>384009169
The only guy I see getting mauled is one who claimed his opinions have objectivity.

The constellation shrine. I got me stuck for a day and made me go check online for the solution. The realization of my stupidity makes it very very memorable

>>384005001
>on-rail

epic

subscribed

>>384009968
what did anon mean by this

>>383987539
The whole Hebra region is great

>>383987539
The coliseum. I was pleasantly surprised there were actual fights inside with rewards

when i sold my switch and botw after i finished it and only lost 39€ to what i payed

>>384010745
>he didn't make money off it
>instead he lost money
Are you retarded?

>>383987539
The entire Gerudo section was great

>>383987539
When I was trying to board the camel. And my first sandworm fight

When I found the maze in the upper right side of the map
>pirate it when the game leaked
>play it with absolutely no world spoilers with anons on /v/
>losing our shit when we found Eventide, the mazes, the old ruins, the pitch black island and the secret shrine behind the sandstorm

Shit was fucking great

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The Great Plateau with the old man.

>>384011671
>secret shrine behind the sandstorm
What the fuck

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>>384009825
>find the shrine
>remember friends who have already done it talking about how hard it is
>look around the room for maybe 2mins
>figure it out by myself

felt pretty good ngl

>>383987539
I can't choose just one.

Exploring Hyrule Castle
Yiga Hideout
First Sandworm
That moment when I realized I could fulton things
When I first killed a Guardian (accidentally learned I could cut off its legs during the fight, shit was lit senpai)
Vah Ruta and everything about the Zora's Domain questline (strongest part of the game imo)
Those opening hours on the plateau when I am learning everything
When I returned to the plateau and read the old man's diary and the final page added in.

>>384011714
I like how subtle the tutorial man this time is handled

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>>384012113
>find shrine
>break the rules and finish it easily

>>384010848
why would anyone overpay when they get it on amazon the day after?

>>384012514
In the US you can sell one above retail easy

>>384012321
>final page added in
NANI?

When I finally managed to get to the top of Death Mountain, and to celebrate I had a massive barbeque by just dropping raw ingredients on the floor and letting them burn up.

>>384012721
A new page is added to the diary after you get the paraglider if you interacted a lot with the old man/did his optional stuff like cooking for him. It is very touching. There is a lot of stuff like this actually. New pages get added to Paya's diary as you progress the main quest too.

>>384013028
Wow I never knew, I should check it out now

>>384003585
The end of it, autismo.

I also really enjoyed the rito section, the archery bit was fun and exciting

>>384010131
It's not on-rail, you have to manually control your horse

>>383988237
This. I wish all three of the dragons had been hit by blight. It was such a cool moment.

>>384014256
Said no one ever

>>383987539
Really loved the whole Zora quest line.

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>>384012321
>Returning on the Plateau just before going off to beat Ganon for nostalgia's sake
>Enter the Chamber of Resurrection
>YAHAHA!

>>384014906
>mfw I have 118 koroks
Thanks anon

>>384014642
I agree with him

>>384007708
What were you supposed to do when he starts putting electricity in his shield?
I think I just waited for the single frame without it and attacked, might have use a bow in there too.

>>384016165
When he starts zipping around, parry him. When he starts throwing lightning rods at you, redirect them at him with Magnesis, otherwise shoot/wack his shield until it breaks. Using wooden/bone weapons is preferable as they don't conduct electricity.

>>383987539
Doing the blue flame shrine

>>383987539
Riding on a sandseal while tackling modulga

>>383987539
It was all so diluted by no content, I don't thing anything other than maybe getting the Master Sword was memorable. And it didn't really take much, it was an easier version of the Lost Woods.

>>384017228
Damn what shit taste you have. Also it was a better version of lost woods

>>384014642
But it was fun and exciting. Everybody says Rito was the worst not because of what you do but because there's barely enough of what's there.

The parts where you manipulate the divine beasts are great

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>>383992236
Ocarina: Climbing the stairs in Ganon's Tower
Majora's Mask: Curing Pamela's father
Wind Waker: The final battle (Favorite moment in the franchise)
Twilight Princess: Midna's Desperate Hour
Skyward Sword: Dropping it
Breath of the Wild: FIghting my first Lynel

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this

>>383987539
When I traded it in for store credit

>>384017228
>>384017228
>And it didn't really take much, it was an easier version of the Lost Woods.

You mean the Lost Woods in OoT? How can people be that deluded?

>>384018938
Nostalgia faggots are a thing.

>>383988192
>>384002281
nice try samefag

>>384018694
>pomf
>What are we going to do on the (gr)ass?

Meeting Sidon. Best bro in the Zelda series

>>384020112
Yep. Great design, personality and usage in gameplay

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>>384021281
That theme, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZkklcIfTo

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Exploring hyrule castle will always be my favorite

>>384004910
>no rolling
I feel this
I just want an open world game like BOTW with Dark Souls-tier combat

>>384022029
How did you get so many Hylian Shields? Hacked Wii U?

>>384022029
Did you hax or is there a way to get multiple hylian shields?

>>383987539
Favorite moment is when I shutdown the game. It's just too boring and bland for me. I like the setting and comfyness but eventually the eeriness is stopping the game to progress. It's too timid and you'll find yourself repeating the base game mechanics over and over again - i.e. gathering stuff constantly, constantly switching weapons, constantly just walking in forest. But it's still very comfy but not 10/10 as everybody says. Solid 7/10, still a good game.

>>384023048
>>384023071

New glitch that resets most treasure chests as if you never got them and able to get infinite korok seeds. Only works if you have the DLC trial of the sword available and access to at least one divine beast on normal or master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8rTSJKAgxA&feature=youtu.be

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>>384023656
have a you

>>383987539
When Link got mounted and bred by a Lynel

>Ocarina:
Opening the door of time, it just felt so triumphant despite Ganondorf fucking up everything later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0u7WuXoBb8

>MM:
Defeating the ayys for the first time, particularly because I was scared shitless the first time I faced them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkcjFC0zc-Q

>WW:
Round 2 against the Helmaroc King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMM81kXeP40


>TP:
Catching the damn Hylian Loach and the Stallord fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k7zrCR4O-8

>SS:
Sailing through the Sand Sea

>BotW:
Seeing Dinraal for the first time, I was fighting some moblins at night at the side of the canyon and suddenly that motherfucker shows up

>>383987539
Getting to the Korok Forest and finding the Master Sword.

>>383987539
I found a door in Hebra, rolled a snowball down a hill, and found a big cave. That was pretty tight. Also climbing Mt Lanayru was cool as hell, and the fight with the dragon was really fun.

>>384001512
I'm sorry anon
I would have felt the same if I had done the dungeons before I'd already played for over 120 hours
I was pretty pissed off, but doing most of the Shrines first made me feel a little relieved

>>384001604
I didn't realise until playing Master QuestI've played 405 hours of this game and also didn't realise you could use bait for fish, different fruit depending on the fish, as well as the path to Zora's Domain having lots of Cutscenes with Sidon, until I played Master Quest

>>384001604
You DID Stasis and tennis back Waterblight's ice blocks, right?

>>384017680
Naw, Lost Woods was the original. BOTW you can just tree hop for most of it. It has nothing in it too except some chests with the same useless shit.

>>384018938
Yeah, OoT had good stuff mixed in there. Rehashing can only go so far.

>>383990173
Zelda should have been dead after 100 fucking years. Or at least an old fucking woman

The ending is such a cop out

>>384025930
In this case, I'll just accept the happy ending. It would be a super downer if after all that time Zelda was a ghost too, and Link just wound up being alone in the world after his quest.

Especially since you get to spend all of this time learning about her and it's a major quest to find all of the memories of her. Remember it's a game for kids, yo.

>>384025930
But then who will have Link's babies?

>>384026193
Paya.

>>384026193

Purah

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>>384026287
t. Paya

>>384026169
Kids need a dose of reality. It's all the happy endings that make people so depressed because they think their life is shit in comparison

The Grimm Brothers knew how to tell kid's stories

The first time doing a Major Test of Strength shrine I was super underpowered and pretty much used every weapon and food I had at the time just to kill it.
There were way too many of the Test of Strength shrines though

>>384022029
How many guardian lasers can a durability-up Hylian Shield take?

I think a normal one takes ~21 shots

>>384026675
>The most kid friendly Zeldas (LA, WW) had the least happy endings

Really makes you think

>>384025930
I wanted her to be dead and make the DLC story about Link going back in time to fix shit.

>>384008218
I don't understand, i didn't have a single problem with Thunderblight ganon, why do people say he's hard??

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>>384029602

>>383987539
The first time lightning struck me was an experience as it was also coupled with the first time I saw a blood moon

>kill a group of lizalfos in the rain, early on in the game so it was an accomplishment
>suddenly red everywhere
>wtf.jpg
>look in the sky, see death
>scary music
>lizalfos come back to life, i shit myself and go hide since I was on a quarter heart
>wtf is this electric shit surrounding me
>lightning hits, die

Pretty fun desu

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>>383996759

The gameplay loop of Botw stands out as part of why it's more enjoyable than NMS. being able to actually walk from eldin volcano to Gerudo Desert to the Hebra tundra to the zora's domain in real time without loading screens is actually fantastic even if we take it for granted.

I stopped warping about halfway through my first playthrough and it increased my appreciation for horses and stables. The quiet time of a game that points you toward things and lets you handle it entirely your own way is the best thing it has going for it. They kept enemy camps and beasts fairly straight forward, but being able to engage with any of the content when and how you want to is startlingly freeing. I'm also one of the few people who stopped giving a shit that every reward was a shrine. It's just them reusing the game's central aesthetic to give out experience points, why would I be mad about that? it's only stale if you expected a different aethestic after a point, which has never been how zelda does things. look at tp or albw; they both have one central aethestic that stands our pretty clearly against the hyrule backdrop. they took a risk by using the central aethestic on the dungeons as well, which I think is where they crossed the line. The four big area/threats should have just been traversable areas rather than gundams. The next game will probably fix this anyway, because the series hasn't reused aethestics aside from very specific direct sequel instances. This was our dose of space-tech hyrule, and the next adventure will probably keep the majorly good points of this game and take things in another direction.

>>383987539
The first time I Zora-climbed a water-fall
Climbing with ice blocks is just so long


A shame the swimming never went full Zora Mask mode

>>384024609
good taste

>>383987539
When i turn the Switch off and realize it was a waste of money.

>>383987539
One moment? Too many but don't remember everything

1. Hyrule castle for the first time.

>2 divine beast completed, curious about the castle
>Sneak in, music set in
>steal few weapon, avoid most battle
>Find hylian shield by accident
>Get scared by the fantom skelton from the malice that get behind me
>Insta teleport and never come back until 50 hours later.

2.Traversing the gerudo ice desert with no anti cold equipment

>walk into the fog
>only use wood equipment set in fire
>No idea when it end but move foward.

3. The Zora arc
4. Yiga Clan with no stealth(i didn't talk to the gerudo i just went just full Itachi)
5. Taking the akala tower

It's a tie

>Lomei Labyrinth Island
>Naydra and the Skyrim tribute leading up to it
>Eventide Island before I'd even cleared any Divine Beasts and had like 6 hearts.

>>384024178
Game is overhyped to the point of being banal. But people like you make me angry. You probably wear beanie or even a fucking fedora. Your obnoxious attitude really gets me. In real life you wouldn't be that obnoxious as you would have your teeth kicked in.

>>383987539
>What's your favourite moment in Breath of the Wild?

Probably the first time I got off the plateau and started making my way to Kakariko Village, when the sheer scale of the world and the amount of freedom I had suddenly hit me. I haven't felt a twinge of excitement like that in many years of gaming.

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>>384036554
Man the labyrinths were good. I went out of my way to never scale on top of the walls/use Ravioli's gale because I loved exploring them so much. If they made a spinoff or DLC that'd be nothing but mazes, I'd buy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4C7S_64Z5k

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>>384037284
What the fuck HIROSHIMOOT THAT'S NOT MY PICTURE

>>384037284
I wish they had more traps/monsters, but I totally agree.

>>384037048
faggot

>>383989338
>ignoring the whole point being made about first Zelda
You're painting it as if he is saying Zelda 1 has no problems, but he never said it was perfect. Because talking more about Zelda 1 would be him going off topic about another game entirely and it's issues, which isn't the point of the post.

The point is that Zelda did rewards right but had a similar reward structure. Zelda BOTW doesn't have any meaningful rewards but has an even bigger open world that's made all the more meaningless for it.

Learn to focus on the main point.

>>383987539
Fighting Vah Ruta, that moment had lots of build-up and it was the first Beast I tackled

>>384037760
>Champion abilities
>Champion weapons
>Minigames
>Expanded inventory space
>Money for the various expensive moneysinks.
>Weapon spawnpoints

When Paya called me master.

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>start Master Mode
>go to grab the first memory at Lanayru Promenade
>Lynel sees me when I'm walking past the opening to get the peppers
>still only have 3 hearts
>fuck it
>fight him with a tree branch, a soldier's broadsword, and a soldier's claymore
>mfw I actually killed it
People complaining about Master Mode must just be bad

I see so much shit talked about in BotW threads that I never saw, it's great. I'm not ready to play through it again yet but it's cool that I've got a bunch of stuff saved for a second playthrough.

>>384038673
They literally are.

Unless it's Master Mode Sword Trails: Floor 10 AKA: Cheese or die.

>>384038673
>looking for memories before leaving the plateau
>no mention of bows or arrows
>totally awful weapons that ensure a 30+ minute fight with no mistakes, dozens of arrows, and a handful of bows

really pointless thing to lie about, honestly

>>383987539
pressing the off button

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>>384031552
This is (you)

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>>384039732
I want you to know that you're a cunt

autists are comparing this game to no man's sky? what the fuck is wrong with these people?

>>384041016
/v/tards will find literally anything to complain about, even if they have to make shit up

>>383987539
Going into Hyrule Castle early out of curiosity just to see what was in there. The moment when the music kicked in was pure 10/10.

>>384042178
I love how the game actively encourages the player to go and explore the castle without forcing you fight the final boss.

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>riding horse over Hylia Bridge
>hear some weird music and look around at the enemy encampment and back up at the bridge structure to make sure nothing's watching me from above
>suddenly see that big ass fucking dragon flying over the bridge I just crossed
>gallop the hell away because I didn't know what the fuck was happening and it looked like it was flying towards me

>>384042902
I wouldn't say the game encourages you to go there at all, but it doesn't need to. Curiosity is pretty powerful. Hiding the Hylian Shield down in the deepest depths of the Castle with zero indication that it is there was pure genius in that way.

>>384043472
one of the earliest sidequests in the game is to find a cookbook in Hyrule castle

>>384044084
Legitimately never came across that in 200 hours of playing.

>>384000175
I thought I could be a real clever dude and just glide in as close to the center as possible, since I figure that's where an important location would be

boy was it a shock to find it it was literally pitch black, and the only thing I had on me was a fire sword that was about to break

>>383988192
>>384002281
Shy why were shrines acceptable in every other Zelda game?

>>383994784
whats up with the idubbz costume?
im guessing nintendo doesnt watch youtube memers so is it a japanese meme that idubbz is joking about or something?

>>384036554

Same on all three counts. It's better to do Eventide early, anyone who did it late missed out.

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>>383987539
i sold it and my switch for kingdom hearts 3

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>>383987539

having just enough stamina to clench out the glide to the north east maze island the first time I tried it

stupidly cathartic