Tears director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma disagree. For them, two Links stand out as particularly stinky. Aonuma points to Breath of the Wild ’s version of the character, who wears a barbarian-style outfit with a bone cap and furs. “That might be kind of smelly,” he says, noting its “wild animal odor aroma.”
Fujibayashi, who says that “across the many decades” he’s given interviews he’s never been asked to consider which hero is most in need of deodorant, cast his vote for Twilight Princess. Although Link spends much of his time digging through dirt and running through dungeons as a wolf, Fujibayashi is thinking of one specific moment. “There are some scenes in Twilight Princess where Link engages in sumo wrestling with the Goron tribe,” he says. “I imagine he’s pretty smelly in that situation.”
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But not before Aonuma shared one final thought: “Actually, Ganon might be the smelliest, if I’m thinking about it.”
There’s some other fun stuff in the article like how they first started experimenting with building stuff in just the regular BOTW game with barely any changes.
Had one of those weird play sessions where the game just conspires to make sure you don’t make any progress. Got so many juicy threads to pull but each one met with hard failure. It might be my fault for doing desert first. I have low armour and everything pierces my squishy Link. Took me ages to figure out how to activate Great Fairies and because I was stubborn about going to Hebra early.
I keep spending way too much time trying to get to the X’s on my Depths map only to discover that I’m up against a wall that goes all the way to the top and isn’t going to let me get around it. But dammit, I want that gear.
i like the dungeon music layering in new stems as you progress a lot but the first variation is always sparse noodling that grates while you’re figuring things out
How are y’all doing on building up batteries? Despite having more than 15 hours of playtime and making a concerted effort to visit the forge to trade zonaite ore for crystals, I’m at 50 crystals out of 100 and still with only a single battery. It seems pointless to grind for ore in the places where it’s beneficial to do that when I’m limited to only picking up 10 crystals at a time—I’ve never gone out of my way to get ore because by the time the forge construct has more crystals, I can pick up as many extra ore as I need in the same cave. What am I missing here?
There are two warp points on the southern end of the Great Sky Island: the cave where you start, and the shrine directly above that cave. Just outside that shrine is a construct who will trade 100 zonai crystals for more battery power. If you walk past and jump off the platform to the right, you can fight one of those flux guardians for some zonaite charges and a flux core that makes a decent early-game weapon, but more importantly, that’s right next to the area where you can take the mine carts into the cave where the forge is. I thought I’d done this a bunch, but I guess it’s only five times—four times productively, once when not enough time had passed, so there was no exchange to be made.
The vast majority of ore comes from underground, you can also find already processed energy crystals in chests there. I’m at 4 1/3 batteries now but I’ve been playing a lot
i have 2 and 2/3 batteries total. there are other zonaite → crystal traders in the world. to actually turn in the crystals for battery meter, there’s a convenient one just outside of the starting town (just a stone’s throw away to the northeast, perched on a rock).
there’s also an exchanger near a warp point after you finish the second depths quest and fight a boss and i had mountains of the stuff to cash in after
