i couldn’t figure out how to do this but i did get him to eat his own spiky balls which worked too!
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spam them with arrows, you get criticals for hitting their eyes which briefly stuns them. if they get too close, you’re just kinda screwed, but you can toss a bomb at them to gain some ground back (this can, of course, also kill you lol). try to focus on taking out one tentacle at a time, the more you get rid of the easier the whole group is to deal with.
if you have enough spare keese eyeballs or similar, they make them a lot easier to deal with as long as you start attacking from far away. also, if you can get to higher ground they often can’t reach you and you can pick them off safely. note that they are on a timer regardless and will despawn if you don’t kill them quickly enough.
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I mean was she not clear when she said she’d enhance your trousers?
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Pretty sure that the timer only applies in the overworld and outside of designated encounters or the timer is a lot longer in the depths, also Ruji’s shock arrow ability is very helpful
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that’s odd, I explored pretty much the entire depths and I can’t remember encountering gloom hands down there. that would definitely make sense though. now I’m wondering what I missed. maybe I didn’t encounter them because I used a hovercraft for the majority of my exploration
I’m not super far into it yet, but there was a room full of those things underneath a labyrinth, and one time a floormaster got summoned in when I opened a chest and a phantom ganon appeared after I killed the hands that time
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i came across one when i was running from gibdos in the southwest corner of the depths
I’m guessing this is where I tapped out. It seemed similar to the Yiga boss, but I was plum out of resources. I just got the fifth sage power though and it seems relevant.
Now that I’ve seen most of the story, I have some observations:
- The Master Sword should last longer than it does. I mean, c’mon.
- Everyone just buys into lovestruck Zelda’s super cool boyfriend from the future and they deserve whatever they get (I’m not competent).
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If you’re worried about missing certain photos, maybe four in particular, you can find the four temple bosses in the depths, just sort of doing their thing, once you beat them in the temples
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I think this game rates higher than botw just for Lurelin Village letting me pull off the jankiest pirate ship siege ever
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i found hands and a phantom ganon in a cave once! it was a pretty cool experience but I simply could not handle him, my hearts were too pathetic and I hadn’t even upgraded any armor at that point yet. I haven’t been back yet but I plan to return someday with one bazillion bombs and some really strong clothes
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I think the biggest criticism I can levy against this game is its button to function economy. It takes a lot of button presses to just throw an item from your bag. It’s also a hassle herding your phantom sages to get thier skill assists. They should’ve been hot mapped to another button and dpad to trigger specific one and a double tap direction to hop on the 5th sage. It’s a lot to juggle in the heat of combat.
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honestly the game should probably be played on a keyboard and mouse and it’s very fascinating that the best Zelda they have made in at least 30 years that is more attentive to outside design trends than Nintendo has ever been, came out that way
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What is that contraption and did it work?
It’s a Yiga bike (more of a tricycle with an extra wheel to prop up rotating spikes) that I stapled two beam turrets (construct head+stabilizer) and batteries onto. I got knocked off of it and activated it to pilotless-ly let it wedge itself into a corner of the deck so it ended up being more of a distraction but helped me knock most of them overboard as they focused on it chipping away
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I guess it makes storyline sense that the death machines I try to build in this game are always trash given how easily Ganon owned these goat aliens.
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One thing I felt the need to mention was that I kludged together my little disaster thanks to unlocking autobuild blueprints that I combined, but you can add a prebuilt vehicle like at the Yiga camps to your autobuild favorites by modifying it (or just attaching and detaching another object to it if you want to keep it as is)
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the backstory to this game is also weirdly anti-pacifism, with the implication that by not militarizing you are gonna get rolled
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IIRC the backstory of BotW was don’t militarize because it’ll backfire so I’m not sure what to believe.
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