deathofcows wrote:In experimental news: How did it take me so long to try Ruby/Sapphire/Topaz (I think?) as weapons? Even in the final trailer there's that shot of him drawing a ruby arrow. Turns out they're the most kabloomiest things in the game?! So fun to use!
For the record folks, obviously I meant this as direct throws/arrow fusions. Obviously I'd fused the stones to weapons/shields before! Anyway try it - the Ruby gives a helluva bang!
Captain Kinopio wrote:There's also the fact that Koroks hunting now just feels like box ticking whereas the 2 times I did it in BotW I always felt I was discovering new bits of landscape or amazing views. It just emphasises to me how much is lost by not having any interesting new land mass.
I think you rinsed BotW more than me which probably also affects the sense of (non) novelty in finding them? I really disliked Korok-ing in that but in this find it a (now pleasingly spaced out) neat beat of fun. I'm referring to the non-transport ones, as those are obviously more tick-boxy now that I've done a millions and have tried a million types of carriage/transport. Saying that, even yesterday evening I made a crappy horse-fan-cart thing to (slowly) do a Korok transport and it was fun!
I think the game won me over for all the reasons I've mentioned before - despite some patches of burnout/overwhelm which dissipated as I passed a critical threshold of Things Done - so now my exploration and light play is coloured by my general affection for it. It also helps that BotW I found slightly cool and flat in ways that TOTK resolves for me. Whereas it sounds like your initial excitement gave way to an overall disappointment that now colours your play?
(I loved all of it).
