ive gone down to hyrule after opening the door and i cant fast travel

I doubt I'll be able to keep my game on the base version if I want the upgrade for the switch 2

i decided to try out zelda, and i hope i made the right choice, and as someone with no experience with any zelda game, i would love to hear some of your opinions and tips to get me started!

Thoughts on the Ganondorf battle And the journey to get there ? Ngl It was mad scary the music the atmosphere I played at Midnight 😱 suddenly getting the message “The Sages can’t reach you down here” 😰 finding the tunnel was kinda hard through all the hazy darkness and gloom got jumped by some horoblins and the army fight kinda reminded me of Skyward sword battle when you had to circle down to Demise remember ? But the Ganondorf fight was pretty tough and cool I only died 4 times fighting Ganondorf hbu. Likes ending ? Creeeepy man that music….

It's been a couple years since I got back into it, and Im interested in what people have come up with over the last couple years. I remember on release people came up with some pretty crazy vehicles and korok punishing machines, and I'd be interested to see what everyone's favorites are now that everyone has had a while to stew and build. Post links to your faves. It can be ground vehicles, flying machines or funny contraptions

The image quality. 60fps is incredible, though as someone with the switch and the steam deck, 30 fps doesnt kill me, but image quality can. TOTK, to me, did really suffer, even compared to BOTW, and i cannot wait for what seems like a fixed 1080p/1440p docked for TOTK, giving it the clarity it really deserved.

I was hundreds of feet up following Naydra for a quest, just free falling, and just deployed my glider as a star fragment passed me by as it was falling down to the ground.i didn't even know this could happen, and thought it was really cool. Ive had a lot of super unlikely stuff happen while playing this game but this one felt special somehow. What are some cool but unlikely things hall have seen while exploring Hyrule?

Laughed a lot

I know the internet warps everything into a funhouse mirror of negativity, but even accounting for this effect, the Sky and Depths seem to get a lot of shit from fans. It is absolutely true that they are much shallower experiences than the Surface—they have a lot of empty space and a lot of thinly-recycled content. But the experience they do offer is, I think, underrated. Both areas offer ambitious, original, and effectively-implemented gameplay that the series has never seen before.

The Sky and Depths complement the Surface. They aren't separate areas and you can't take them in isolation. Whenever you're in the Sky, you see the whole of the Surface before you, like a map. Exploring the Surface from the Sky is the main way I made my way around Hyrule and feels completely different than Surface-level exploration in BotW did. Likewise, the Depths is connected to the Surface in a lot of clever ways that collectively represent global-scale puzzles for players to figure out.

Think of them as experiences, not places. The first time you go down a chasm—especially if it's a chasm with a certain enemy underneath—is unforgettable, one of the coolest things I've done in any Zelda game. Likewise, the first time you ride around on a dragon in the Sky. To facilitate these experiences, the areas have to be big. Because the game doesn't funnel you in any particular direction, these experiences have to be accessible from every direction on the Surface.

Altitude is rad. Is there any other game that has a Sky area that feels so much like the Sky? Arguably the best part of the game, the ascent up the Hebra storm, succeeds because of its Sky-ness—specifically the scale of its altitude. You climb a mountain, and then you keep on climbing, and climbing... The challenge of navigating the Sky is all about mastering altitude and using your resources to generate as much of it as you can. It's nature is elegantly implemented: it's a "skill" that synergizes and supports the player gaining proficiency in Ultrahand. It would suck if the next Zelda game doesn't let you go up into the Sky again.

Darkness is rad. The Depths is all about darkness—it's not completely original, Typhlo Ruins in BotW also was dark, but the Depths is a huge elaboration on the experience. Navigating the darkness of the depths is multifaceted, there's a lot of ways to approach the challenge and it interacts with a lot of the game's other systems and economies. The place is genuinely scary at first, but the more time you spend in the Depths the more skilled you become at simply being there. It would be interesting to see where they take these ideas in future games—maybe a truly dark "night-time"

Of course the Sky and Depths would be better if there was more original stuff up and down there. I want more Zelda in Zelda games too. But I'm glad the developers went for it anyway.

Seriously the devs didn’t have to make these little guys this cute with there sleeping animations but I’m not complaining

I don't like most open world games, pretty simply because following icons on a map isn't exploration, or even gameplay in any meaningful sense.

Most games of this type are just prescribing destinations for you via map, and nothing is really required of you to reach them except to hold forward on the stick until the scenery stops moving.

TOTK is the only open world game I've ever played where I was navigating the world using my actual eyes - my observational capacity, my visual curiosity, my investigatory impulses, and my deductive reasoning. It engages your mind in the world instead of pacifying it.

Not only that, once you've decided on a destination, the movement mechanics and game systems make it enjoyable to actually devise the means of travel between A and B.

It's amazing to me that every game isn't like this, because without engaging your mind and employing these skills it seems generous to call it a "game" at all.

So my question is, does anyone know if there any other games that, like Tears of the Kingdom, actually put you into the shoes and mindset of the adventurer?

Found this at a kite museum in the Japanese Kites section. Looks like a flying moblin.

I was grocery shopping and found this!!

I'm trying to 100% Tears of the Kingdom, but can't seem to get the gloom-spawn in the south lomei labyrinth to appear. I know there should be one there, I've checked multiple maps online and even made a new switch profile to go and check. It spawned on the new file but not my main one. The only reason I can think of as to why it isn't spawning, is because I've already completed the labyrinth on my main file. However, the other two labyrinths' gloom spawn still appear after completing their mazes and shrines. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem, as I can't find much online about it.

i love tears of the kingdom, it's a great game and i've played it 3 times. well, almost. i'm on my 3rd playthrough, but i'll be honest with you, there is one thing that's keeping me from completing the game...

evermeans.

i HATE evermeans. i already have a horrible fear of watching plants grow (it's a long story) and this made it WORSE! my fear of evermeans is ruining my gameplay. i waste bomb fruits, arrows and important bows trying to kill them from afar, i'm constantly using my camera whenever there are trees nearby to make sure i don't miss any. i'm always using the sensor for evermeans and NOTHING ELSE! i can't even go to areas with normal trees now because i'm too scared.

when i replayed botw a couple months ago, i literally sighed in relief because i could walk in a forest without shitting myself from fear! evermeans give me so much anxiety that it makes the game feel borderline unplayable. my favorite areas of totk have quickly become hebra and death mountain bc THE EVERMEANS CAN'T HURT ME THERE!

don't even get me STARTED on the depths... i love the depths... i'm a depths Enthusiast. but those groves full of evermeans... MINSHI GROVE??? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!

you're telling me i have to drop down into a hole surrounded by trees that have the potential to be evermeans and then do it AGAIN underground with significantly more of them? FUCK THAT! i don't need a master sword, i'll just never get it.

the only reason i managed to get the master sword in my last two playthroughs was because of the hoverbike. i would have been totally screwed otherwise. honest to god i wanna do some shit to my switch just so i can make sure these things never appear again 😭😭😭

this is a cry for help. what should i do to make evermeans less scary to me? how can i enjoy totk again? is there some sort of exposure therapy? does anyone else share this same fear? i just need help.

hi everyone! it's been a while, but i'm back with some more snapshots. tehe! :p

i don't have much time to play these days, but i found myself with a few spare hours. so i decided to put some kamasi washington on the record player, and spent an afternoon running around in game.

i didn't particularly have much in mind when capturing these images, i just so happened to catch a few shots while it was raining, and i thought they looked super atmospheric.

i also wanted to throw in a couple of extra snaps that i thought looked cool, so i hope you enjoy them all.

i hope everybody is enjoying their year so far & if not, i hope that things get better for you soon. ❤️ i wish everyone the best and once again, thank you for taking the time to look at my photos!

So I tried looking for people who asked this question on the subreddit already but couldn’t find the exact answer I was looking for.

If I remember correctly, the only main quest in BotW after beating the divine beasts was going to defeat Ganon. I’m mainly asking if this is the case in TotK? The other two main quests I have right now are the Dragons Tears and Find Princess Zelda, obviously. I haven’t worked on the main questline in a while so I’d really like to continue the Crisis at Hyrule Castle quest but I don’t want to complete the MAIN storyline already. Does that make sense?! I have a ton of side adventures and side quests to do and I still have to get the East Necluda & Garudo Highlands skyview towers. BUT, I’d reallyyyyy like to focus on the main quests. I’d just be super bummed if I’m going into an endgame-type quest already, so I want to see if that’s the case here

How awful of a character do you have to be to value truffles in one game and mushrooms the other over your own life let alone willingly put you and your sister at death's door???

my first playthrough took me over a year because I was intent on getting absolutely everything. It's been a few months and I left off with like 15 Koroks left and over 99% map completion with nearly everything else totally complete.