Zelda: Leaks of the kingdom thread

[KIss My Ass]

Did you complain about the Cave of Giants in Dark Souls? It's the same thing.

 

[Ezekiel]

Hell, old Zelda and Twilight Princess had a lantern you could hang from your belt. When do I get that? Or let me off-hand a torch while holding weapon in right, like in Dark Souls. If there's a way to attach a light source to a shield, I have not found it.

Did you complain about the Cave of Giants in Dark Souls? It's the same thing.

Had better ways to light and tighter level design. Wasn't too long.

 

[KIss My Ass]

I think the entire point of the underworld is it's meant to move you out of your comfort zone. You're supposed to feel uncomfortable down there and have a more difficult time as opposed to what's going on in Hyrule. And if you get tired of it you can just fuck off and go back above ground.

 

[Junmarko]

 

[pakoito]

Hell, old Zelda and Twilight Princess had a lantern you could hang from your belt. When do I get that? Or let me off-hand a torch while holding weapon in right, like in Dark Souls. If there's a way to attach a light source to a shield, I have not found it.

Did you complain about the Cave of Giants in Dark Souls? It's the same thing.

Had better ways to light and tighter level design. Wasn't too long.

There's an armor set precisely for this, and it's close to the first Depths entrance. You can also cook food that'll make you glow. Most building stations have a headlight you can take with you. Also, there are environmental hints to know where to go, check my post from a few pages back.

You gotta engage with the gaaaaaaame to get things done

 

[polo]

For anyone playing this, is it me or loading a saved game resets constructions, floating blocks and shit?

 

[notpl]

Yeah, underworld irritates me. If they taught me how to destroy the corruption, I don't remember. Annoying to have to leave before I've reached one of the markers, after going so far in. THIS dark place is where most of the new map is? Disappointing.

Will you plz stop whining about the lack of light? That's the entire fucking POINT! It's a gameplay mechanic. You are supposed to create light. Have you ever went into a fucking cave in real life? Do you think there are magical lights strung about providing warm fuzzy comfort? That is not how life works! Real caves are filled with cold musty air, darkness, giant spiders and centipedes, and many other horrors.



Now whine more about your video game being too dimly lit armchair critic.

Real caves are mostly filled with nothing whatsoever, because life requires sunlight and water.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

I heard these new Switch Zelda's are kind of like Deus Ex and play it your way?

Yes, the fun is in niggering the system which they mostly let you do, it's fun
Much better than botw for fucking around with shit so far and the

Spoiler

go up through ceilings

ability is sweet.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Real caves are mostly filled with nothing whatsoever, because life requires sunlight and water.

Wow. Watch a fucking cave documentary is all I can say. Educate yourself you poor clueless sob.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

There are "single-mechanic build pieces" peppered all around the map; think Korok Seeds and enemy camps but not as obnoxious. EDIT: or maybe equally obnoxious.

The tablet skills are worse than in BotW.

This is bullshit. Most shit can be used in fun ways and the tablet skills are much better so far, a much more open system.

 

[Caim]

What stuff is now amiibo only? I've head that the alternate Link costumes can be found in the game, and I found a bow that used to be locked behind the Zelda amiibo. This might some alternate skins for the glider, is that it?

The location of the bow, for those who are interested

Climb all the way to the top of Hyrule Castle: theres's a chunk missing in the uppermost spire whre you can find the bow. Make sure to grab the Korok all the way at the top so you don't need to go back there again. If you haven't found it at that point look down to see the shrine located in the castle, make sure to tag it before you leave.

As for how to get there, stock up on some stamina regeneration potions so you have roughly two full rings worth of stamina. Shoot out of the tower in the starting town and glide to the north, there's a suitable landing pad on the southern most part of the castle.

 

[pakoito]

There are "single-mechanic build pieces" peppered all around the map; think Korok Seeds and enemy camps but not as obnoxious. EDIT: or maybe equally obnoxious.

The tablet skills are worse than in BotW.

This is bullshit. Most shit can be used in fun ways and the tablet skills are much better so far, a much more open system.

I agree that one tablet skill is better. The other 3 are much narrower in scope.

 

[Duraframe300]

Not making a particular point about the game or BOTW or about Zelda in general, but...

The reception of this game in other places outside the codex reminded me again of my personal pet peeves about the gaming community.
The *Sequel improved so that clearly means now the original is superfluous shit* effect

I've now seen so many, so many people flip-flopping who couldn't help themselves to shill for BOTW in the past, have 100's of hours in it and now saying shit like BOTW is *a tutorial* *not worth going back to* *first-time players should go straight to TOTK*.

Fuck me, this happens constantly when actually improved sequel to popular thing is released and it somehow annoys me every-time on principle. If you fucking liked the first one don't go on to pretend how shit it suddenly is just because new thing is shinier.

/rant over

Carry on.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Not making a particular point about the game or BOTW or about Zelda in general, but...

The reception of this game in other places outside the codex reminded me again of my personal pet peeves about the gaming community.
The *Sequel improved so that clearly means now the original is superfluous shit* effect

I've now seen so many, so many people flip-flopping who couldn't help themselves to shill for BOTW in the past, have 100's of hours in it and now saying shit like BOTW is *a tutorial* *not worth going back to* *first-time players should go straight to TOTK*.

Fuck me, this happens constantly when actually improved sequel to popular thing is released and it somehow annoys me every-time on principle. If you fucking liked the first one don't go on to pretend how shit it suddenly is just because new thing is shinier.

/rant over

Carry on.

Um it's not exactly unwarranted in this particular case. TotK shares the same map, combat, physics etc. It's literally the same game but with more mechanics and content. So in this specific special case it would be kind of pointless to go back and play BotW unless you hate the new mechanics introduced in this game (which would be odd).

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Still planning to play this at a later date
But curiosity got the better of me after seeing here than Yuzu runs the game pretty well
So I installed the newest version toady and indeed it runs decently - 30/25 fps on average, dipping towards 15/10 fps in more intensive areas; no shader glitches as well

Played until finally getting the paraglider
Regardless of what improvements it might have made over BotW, this game suffers from a tutorial segment almost as lengthy as Twilight Princess (it even has a pointless fetch quest at the end) and for that I'll think twice before ever starting a new game, something imo isn't a problem with BotW
Also forcing people to upgrade the Heart container is wrong imo - also also, wasn't the Temple of Time the cathedral in the BotW Plateau?

The tutorial island despite being smaller than BotW Plateau, I feel its much "denser" than the latter
The Box Golem was a pretty cool fight
I quite like the new spells, mostly beacuse they're amazingly versitile
Ultrahand is a massively improved magnesis and combined with it's glue ability, it kinda breaks alot of challenges - traversal was the first thing I noticed to have become far easier (only have 1minute of 'Cold Resistance' left which isn't enough to climb the snowy mountain? just chop down some trees, glue the logs together and proceed to run up them)
Fuse must've been a pain in the ass to test all possible combinations, but it does lend some quite fun results - one of my first fuses was a 2h club with some mushrooms and to my surprise it made the club have a quite bouncing effect that proceeded to send every construct flying off the island
Ascend is the less versatile spell but still if it did exist in BotW, it would have made the Hyrule castle a cake walk
Rewind is awesome and I can see it being used to sequence break alot of shrines (need to get up some floor by solving a puzzle? fuck that, just thrown the object in the air with Ultrahand, then after it lands, climb it and use Rewind)
But I do think that getting rid of the Stasis and Ice spells was a mistake...

Well, that will be all of this game for now
At this pace by the end of June, the Yuzu emulator will be in a pretty sweet state

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Not making a particular point about the game or BOTW or about Zelda in general, but...

The reception of this game in other places outside the codex reminded me again of my personal pet peeves about the gaming community.
The *Sequel improved so that clearly means now the original is superfluous shit* effect

I've now seen so many, so many people flip-flopping who couldn't help themselves to shill for BOTW in the past, have 100's of hours in it and now saying shit like BOTW is *a tutorial* *not worth going back to* *first-time players should go straight to TOTK*.

Fuck me, this happens constantly when actually improved sequel to popular thing is released and it somehow annoys me every-time on principle. If you fucking liked the first one don't go on to pretend how shit it suddenly is just because new thing is shinier.

/rant over

Carry on.

BOTW is still a worthy game, but it's true that the sequel improved and, more importantly, expanded on almost every single way. To the point it makes the prior game feel like a beta of this one. It's an exageration of course, but you'll get the point if you play the games in order.

 

[notpl]

Not making a particular point about the game or BOTW or about Zelda in general, but...

The reception of this game in other places outside the codex reminded me again of my personal pet peeves about the gaming community.
The *Sequel improved so that clearly means now the original is superfluous shit* effect

I've now seen so many, so many people flip-flopping who couldn't help themselves to shill for BOTW in the past, have 100's of hours in it and now saying shit like BOTW is *a tutorial* *not worth going back to* *first-time players should go straight to TOTK*.

Fuck me, this happens constantly when actually improved sequel to popular thing is released and it somehow annoys me every-time on principle. If you fucking liked the first one don't go on to pretend how shit it suddenly is just because new thing is shinier.

/rant over

Carry on.

BOTW is still a worthy game, but it's true that the sequel improved and, more importantly, expanded on almost every single way. To the point it makes the prior game feel like a beta of this one. It's an exageration of course, but you'll get the point if you play the games in order.

I cannot believe how many people are saying "It feels like the exact same game, but marginally better!" as a pro instead of a con. This thing barely even qualifies as a DLC, let alone an eighty-fucking-dollar game!

 

[Ezekiel]

https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/issues/4422

I don't think Ryujinx supports surround sound.

It does now.

 

[grimace]

Is every new Zelda game designed for 12 year olds? The extended tutorial sections and unchallenging not-dungeons seem to be a complaint.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I found the tutorial section to be pretty light-handed and not very intrusive as far as Zelda games go.

In other news, I've decided to keep playing on the Switch. It's nice to take it into the crapper and resume from where I left off, and I've grown used to how it looks on the big screen. It looks quite alright in native portable resolution (720p), all things considered.

 

[Gerrard]

 

[KIss My Ass]

Game looks alot better in handheld mode than it does on my 70 inch 4k tv. Is that normal?

 

[Great Deceiver]

Game looks alot better in handheld mode than it does on my 70 inch 4k tv. Is that normal?

Of course. In handheld mode it runs at a maximum resolution of 1280x720 most of the time, which is the screen's native resolution, so it will look good and sharp there. In docked mode it runs at a max res of 900p, which is being upscaled by your TV by a factor of 2.5x. All of the tiny imperfections in the image (FSR upsampling, dynamic resolution getting shifted all the time especially during camera pans etc.) are greatly amplified in docked mode, especially on larger, higher-res panels.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Have Nintendo been playing Besiege between BotW and TotK?

 

[Talby]

This is so fucking boring. Why did it take them 6 years to make a DLC?