My buddy, who had 400+ hours on botw and had just finished Totk, told me he didn’t like using horses because he didn’t want to bring them back to the stables every time he took one out
He wasn’t aware the stables went and got them for you
It's always funny picturing in my head the stable assistant running out to the farthest corner of the map and scaling a mountain to be like , "Ok horsie! come with me!"
I didnt use them because I didn't want to go get them at a stable every time. If I happened to pass a stable I sometimes took them out. Otherwise nope.
It's nuts that TotK doesn't have any equivalent. Sure, you can autobuild, but you have to spend a consumable resource to rebuild your vehicle every time you fast travel or reload a save or enter a shrine or walk too far away from it.
The fact that the game pushes the Ultrahand builds as so cool and all that just to take them away when you have a Game Over or a new load is absolutely stupid to me.
The closest they have are the three teleport spots Robbie gives us if we complete his quest, but it’s not nearly as useful imo. Especially if I want to keep the three in specific places but then find another place I wanna warp to. 😔
I miss Mipha's Grace, so much better to replace all hearts with extras, instead of just a few if you have a fairy on you.
To take from TOTK to BOTW would be Ascend.
it breaks the flow of the game. Farming ore and charges, visiting dispensers, getting random devices, dropping it on the floor, cycling through weapons and fusing, then taking out the specific weapon when you need it VS holding X
Revali had like a 2 minute cooldown when enchanced and it required no time or resources. Limited to 3 sure but you never really needed more than that to climb stuff
Wrong. Even when enhanced, I found myself so often wishing I had one more pump. And it isn't that you have 3, but that you often find yourself with only 1 since you didn't use all three, thus bummer!
I wish of all the abilities, Revali's gale charged itself when you aren't using it, kind of like the horse spurs, but of course slower.
>Rockets and springs and bombs to shield can do that infinitely
Bro those are literally *finite resources* in this game. Like you literally can absolutely run out of those items. You never run out of Revali's Gale because it recharges.
Yeah, I end up going back to play BOTW specifically so I can fight Guardians. I also dont like how they sorta just retconned the entire events with guardians in botw
Well no, I think cleaning up the broken guardians is a good way to show that Hyrule is recovering. What's bonkers to me is that there is *no trace* of the Sheikah towers, shrines, and divine beasts. TotK takes place just a few years after BotW--there is no way they could have dismantled all of that stuff, even if they weren't able to maintain it (which is vaguely suggested at the end of BotW).
Such an undertaking would be a *monumental* effort, shaping the whole economy of Hyrule for years. Even if it were somehow accomplished in the in-between time, people would be talking about it, and there would be vestiges of salvage yards, disassembly tools, etc. everywhere.
Right, the guardians could be cleaned up by a dedicated crew in the span of a year, but the shrines, towers, and divine beasts are a whole different ballgame, especially if you're aiming to salvage parts and materials for the new Skyview Towers, which is how TotK tries to explain where all the Sheikah tech went.
Cleaning up guardians involves busting them up and throwing them into a pit somewhere--essentially an unusual application for a mining operation. Salvaging the other tech would take a *lot* more time, expertise, and manpower.
The only Guardian I could find in the entirety of TotK was the ruined Guardian at the top of the Heteno tech lab and I’m pretty sure that was also there in Botw as well so ultimately nothing special. I was kinda hoping that made there would be like a side quest or two where you fought along side some Guardians or maybe someone was trying to active one to make it do farm work or something.
Bro that would've been an AMAZING side quest. You pull up to Hateno, you get targeted with that red laser only to be stopped by a farmer who whacks the guardian with a pitchfork. "Down, boy!"
Then you need to go fetch parts somewhere and bring them back to him so he can properly fix his guardian, which is now a fully functional tractor.
It's less about the Trials themselves and more that I don't find the Master Sword all that fun to use outside of Ganon fights. I'd certainly welcome a new Trials of the Sword as well, but even just patching the Master Sword to be stronger and/or tougher would be sufficient for me.
Yeah agreed, I know about the durability issue with the sword. I too find it pretty useless for the most part, basically if I use it for one fight than it breaks.
Once I learned Dazzlefruit can instakill stal enemies I had to keep them on hand at all times. I hate wasting durability on an enemy that takes 2 hits despite having 1 hp
I legit freak out if I get in the low 200’s because of the one time I ran out of arrows fighting a gleeock. I prefer to have at least 300 and feel better with at least 400. I’ve recently killed a lot of enemies that drop a lot of arrows, so I’m currently over 500.
100% hanging out in the depths and breaking all the boxes (metal included) gives you so many arrows. I've been floating between 999 and 950 for months now. If I drop below 800 I just go hang out down below for one or two sessions and I'm gucci again.
MuddleBuds are the best. I snipe boss bokoblins from afar and let them take out all the little bastards, and they’ve usually got a decent chunk of health missing by the time it’s down to 1:1
The infinite use was there best feature. I got so good at taking out weak enemies like keese and stalkoblins with bombs. Now those skills are useless in totk 😢
Shoot I used them on Bokoblins and Moblins constantly. That's how I got through Trial of the Sword master mode. If you use the remote bomb and then parry at the same time your shield doesn't take damage and Bokos go bye-bye.
Do you know that dazzlefruit instant kills stal monsters? I haven’t tested this on a stalnox yet but everything else for sure, just lob a dazzlefruit in their direction and they go down immediately
Yeah, Rewind is tricky, because even if you remember to use it, you might not be able to get your cross hairs on that one pixel, or freeze things right on time. But remembering to use it ON TIME is also tricky, as I MAY remember to use it, but after I touched the item I should have recalled. DOH!
I use Ascend and Rewind constantly (I feel BOTW I used Stasis constantly, but people in the subreddit seemed to always forget it). Cryonis was my least used (Autobuild and just Zonai devices in general are probably my TOTK underused thing).
Took me probably 400 hours of gameplay to finally always be using Ascend and Recall at the right times. Recall was even worse for me, never knowing I can get something back, or ride something from where it fell or flew from.
Definitely the ancient tech to TOTK. I'd rather a follow-up instead of it just disappearing. Even if it weren't important to the story and most of it stopped working for plot reasons. I wanted to see the divine beasts again for sure
All they had to do was include Purah saying “Yeah, we weren’t about to take any chances, so we demolished all of the guardians and Divine Beasts so nothing could use them against us again!”
Which, given that G-Money was only a few years away from waking up, was a good move in hindsight.
It's subtly implied that the skyview towers are built out of all that salvaged ancient tech, and they are a definite improvement on the Sheikah towers in BoTW. Just don't think about the fact that seemingly nobody but Link can use them.
And poes. I wonder if this will degrade my A button faster since you press it thousands and thousands of times to pick up arrows, monster drops, ore, poes etc
Personally I find it incredibly satisfying, but I can see why some might prefer the option to auto-collect instead. Considering there isn't a practical limit on how many you can pick up, it seems natural to include and auto option.
The ability wheel should have a selection on it specifically for sages abilities, so when you selected a sage they would immediately come to you and grant you their power.
That would have fit neatly in the slot where the redundant map selector is. I don't think I've ever purposefully opened the map that way when there's already a single button dedicated for it.
Ascend in BoTW - though I know it would negate some of Revali's Gale. So I'd say Recall would be awesome.
For ToTK id want the upgraded Master sword for sure. That permanent blue glow, that satisfying "WHONNNNG!" when you hit someone, that durability - sorely missed. The sword spent 10,000 years embedded in Zelda's dragon head - it should have emerged as more than that. It should have become the Golden sword perhaps, from ALttP. Invulnerable. Durability be damned - it's central to the story, and should have been treated as such.
Also, Kass. 🪗🦜
Edit: typo
Totk to Botw
The throwing action, Ultrahand, Ascend, Dazzlefruit.
Botw to Totk
Stasis +, Bombs +, Revali's Gale, fully awakened Master Sword, Vah Room, Ancient Horse Gear, Robbie's Armor, Bow, and Shield, Urbosa's Fury, and the Royal Guard's Bow Durability Up+ 50 shot modifier instead of 29.
Oh yeah, you said one.
Probably Ultrahand and Royal Guard's Bow durability.
Just cook 4 big hearty radishes and a dragon horn during a blood moon, will give +26 gold hearts, and then if you don't mind breaking the game you can transfer that bonus to a seared steak, and then just make a stack of them.
>Having fairies all over the overworld
I'm confused what you mean by this.
In BotW, Fairies only spawn at Great Fairy Fountains and are a rare spawn when cutting grass. In TotK, Fairies spawn at those circular Sky islands with the pool, of which there are more of than Great Fairy Fountains, and also are still rare spawns from cutting grass. This to say, if anything TotK has more Fairies than BotW
Except nah, there are locations other than Great Fairy fountains where you can consistently find fairies in BotW, it's just they only appear at night and only if you have very few or no fairies on you.
For example, you can find a single fairy near the lone wrecked guardian in the grassy field south of the forest just south of Wetland Stable. You can get three fairies from the small circular pond found on the south end of the ridge that separates Lake Hylia from the dragon-shaped river in Faron. You can find fairies at the broken heart pond on the peak just East of Link's House in Hateno.
There are a few more sites (seriously, just Google it); the specific locations above are just what I can remember off the top of my head.
Go at night, go with few or no fairies on you (or hold what you have when you get there), and you'll find 'em.
Definitely BOTW style bombs.
Toss one off a cliff down to an encampment of enemies and set it off at just the right moment. So satisfying. TOTK time bombs are fun but tough to get the timing right.
I definitely prefer the way the champion abilities in BOTW work to TOTK. I hate having to hunt down the sages running around all willy nilly.
I love the way you can fuse stuff with TOTK though
I really can't stand how Mineru and Yunobo will just mill about right in front of Link when he's trying to shoot at things. At least the other three are small enough to see around.
It would be so good for building stuff or if you use it with ascend you could climb indefinitely (which is probably why it’s not in the game lol) or on koroks
I really do appreciate all of the "as above, so below" stuff in TotK. I wish that ethos extended more to the sky islands themselves, because they feel like an afterthought, almost completely unrelated to the surface.
botw had more efficient-feeling menu sorting, don’t know why they changed it
going back, put totk’s wells in botw. would make the map feel just a touch less empty
>botw had more efficient-feeling menu sorting, don’t know why they changed it
Only being able to switch menu tabs by completely scrolling with the stick in BotW is infinitely and objectively worse than being able to just use the shoulder buttons I'm sorry
And TotK has way better, and apparent, sort options than BotW. There's just more items to sort through
I wish I still had my botw copy so I could mess around in the menus back to back, because botw’s menu genuinely felt much smoother for me to navigate. I remember being able to wrap around the categories from one end to the other, like a single swipe right from quest items put me on weapons all the way to the left, and in totk I can’t do that even though my muscle memory keeps trying
The story of BOTW into TOTK. with certain needed mechanics of BOTW into TOTK so it would work.
Both games did not have enough main story for the physical size and hours 99% of players put into the game and with some work they could melt both stories together and make one epic story to fit 200 plus hours of gameplay.
B to T: I want the special abilities you get from each region to be bound to the button again.
T to B: Probably the special effects each weapon has (Water Warrior on Zora weapons, Flurry Rush Attack on Royal weapons, etc.)
To totk i would love the sage abilities to be cast with a specific button imput like the botw champions. Hate to have to run around to activate the one i need.
To botw the froggy armor/slippy resistance.
I know right? You'd think you would find FAIRIES at FAIRY fountains but I guess that makes too much sense. I visited the fountains many times hoping to find fairies, but soon realized that they just aren't there.
Improved Sages Abilities that trigger without having to interact directly with the sages avatars. (For BotW to TotK)
For TotK to BotW: The ability to ride on the dragons.
There’s a lot that I wish I could retro-integrate from TOTK into BOTW, but I think if I had to pick just one thing, it’d be Ascend. It’s just an absolutely revolutionary change to mobility.
As for what I’d bring into TOTK from BOTW… probably the Master Cycle Zero. Yeah yeah, I know, I can build cars and planes and all that. But I loved my motorbike.
Sheikah tech. I don't need it to be functional, I don't need it to still be in one piece, but seriously I am not reasonably supposed to believe that post-calamity Hyrule somehow dismantled/destroyed all but one guardian or that the Sheikah Shrines could somehow go back into the ground and not one of them be unearthed during the Upheaval. You're also telling me that the Purah Pad somehow can't use Sheikah runes that are effortlessly used by Kohga of all people in BOTW without the Sheikah Slate. Magnesis had much more range and speed than Ultrahand and Stasis is arguably more useful than Recall.
Also, somewhat related, what the hell happened with Typhlo Ruins? It was covered with the impenetrable darkness in BOTW as part of a shrine quest. Did the shrine cause the darkness?
I see a lot of people asking for BotW bombs—but given that they were nerfed in damage (understandable, since they’re infinite), I find TotK’s bomb flowers way better.
I’m also a hoarder who explores a ton, so I never seem to run out 😅
Totk to Botw: All the quality of life improvements, such as the map displaying during loading screens, when you open a chest and your inventory is full you are given a choice to remove an object, being able to throw objects, recipe sheets etc...
Botw to Totk: special weapons I miss them
I know this is small but God I miss the hammer. Like the ones you could find at links house after bolson & crew stopped working on it. They looked so cool and I was so excited to fuse things to it. Lo and behold, the hammers are nowhere to be seen.
Fairies aren't a big deal, there are some on sky islands and those islands have shrines to fast travel to. Get low on fairies, it takes a minute to replenish.
BotW to TotK: Trial of the Sword
TotK to BotW: Distinctly different bosses instead of the same thing with slight differences.
From BOTW I would bring Revali’s Gale, Lynel Crushers, Master Cycle Zero, One-hit Obliterater, Master Sword Trials…From TOTK I would bring Ascend, Ultrahand, recall, Glide Armor, Dragon spike shards, and weapons having special effects.
BOTW to TOTK
Oh, it’s raining? You cannot light a fire and use Pinecones for an updraft? No problemo - **Revali’s Gale Is Now Ready**.
TOTK to BOTW
More horses at the stables!
No sages and just powers, I never thought the game was terribly hard but getting 5 teammates to spread Aggro and deal damage is way too hand holdy for me. Plus they are ALWAYS in the way
My ancient armor for my horse… I want my horse to teleport again, it was so useful.
imo it wasn't just useful but essential to make horse travel viable. Abandoning your horse every time you see a slope is just not fun
My buddy, who had 400+ hours on botw and had just finished Totk, told me he didn’t like using horses because he didn’t want to bring them back to the stables every time he took one out He wasn’t aware the stables went and got them for you
Today I learned
Me too. I wasn't about to abandon my buddy.
It's always funny picturing in my head the stable assistant running out to the farthest corner of the map and scaling a mountain to be like , "Ok horsie! come with me!"
And gets paid peanuts. Oh WAIT! Doesn't even get that!
I always picture an extremely loud whistle lmao
wait whatttt
Just do your own horse fetching. Go on. Fetch boy, fetch!
I didnt use them because I didn't want to go get them at a stable every time. If I happened to pass a stable I sometimes took them out. Otherwise nope.
Honestly. Not to mention it’s one of my favorite armors, it’s very stylish. Gives me Trojan horse vibes, it was kinda fun.
I am so salty that I can't take my horse beyond the Dueling Peaks because of that broken bridge.
It's nuts that TotK doesn't have any equivalent. Sure, you can autobuild, but you have to spend a consumable resource to rebuild your vehicle every time you fast travel or reload a save or enter a shrine or walk too far away from it.
The fact that the game pushes the Ultrahand builds as so cool and all that just to take them away when you have a Game Over or a new load is absolutely stupid to me.
The closest they have are the three teleport spots Robbie gives us if we complete his quest, but it’s not nearly as useful imo. Especially if I want to keep the three in specific places but then find another place I wanna warp to. 😔
I've used a horse maybe 5 times playing both games. I wish it was more like RDR 2
The master cycle was better imo. It could go over steeper rockier terrain than a horse. But definitely miss being able to summon either one
How did I not know that was a feature until now
I honestly just miss Revali’s Gale
The outside Ascend tbh, so useful in botw 🥲 I miss it a lot. Would definitely bring that one back.
Ravioli’s Gale was great, but I like Tulin’s tailwind too… maybe better.
I miss Mipha's Grace, so much better to replace all hearts with extras, instead of just a few if you have a fairy on you. To take from TOTK to BOTW would be Ascend.
Sadly totk's overworld is built with the abilities in mind, I can't really think of any good use for ascend in botw
You mean Tustin?
Lovely spotted!
You mean Tuscany?
Nah I think it was Teegan
Tungsten
Ravioli, holy cannoli!
I go through rocket shields like nobody’s business!
Rockets and springs and bombs to shield can do that infinitely Revali’s gale was only limited to 3 turns and then hold time
Not the same though. There was something so satisfying about just holding a button and flying up into the air.
I wish this is how the sage abilities worked rather than having to interact with them directly
That, and hearing Revali say "Revali's Gale is now ready" in that ultra-salty condescending tone was just 👌
it breaks the flow of the game. Farming ore and charges, visiting dispensers, getting random devices, dropping it on the floor, cycling through weapons and fusing, then taking out the specific weapon when you need it VS holding X Revali had like a 2 minute cooldown when enchanced and it required no time or resources. Limited to 3 sure but you never really needed more than that to climb stuff
You just go to the shrine that has rockets, fuse a few to some shields then go on about your day. No cooldown, no hassle, it’s very simple.
You can't think that this solution you've come up with is actually better than Revali's Gale. You just can't.
Wrong. Even when enhanced, I found myself so often wishing I had one more pump. And it isn't that you have 3, but that you often find yourself with only 1 since you didn't use all three, thus bummer! I wish of all the abilities, Revali's gale charged itself when you aren't using it, kind of like the horse spurs, but of course slower.
If I got down to one and knew I wouldn’t need it for a few minutes, I always burned it so it could reset to three before I needed it again.
Yeah, sometimes I would be smartz and realize on my way to some mountain that I should waste that last one so I have 3 in a little while.
>Rockets and springs and bombs to shield can do that infinitely Bro those are literally *finite resources* in this game. Like you literally can absolutely run out of those items. You never run out of Revali's Gale because it recharges.
My close second.
It would have been cool if Tulin’s enhanced sage ability gave you a toggle in the menu screen: up gust or forward gust.
Oh yes! I miss the rolling bomb too
Not an element but I miss guardians, there should have been at least one spot where you could go and fight guardians in totk
Yeah, I end up going back to play BOTW specifically so I can fight Guardians. I also dont like how they sorta just retconned the entire events with guardians in botw
Yeah, even if they didn't want to include functioning guardians, they should have left in the broken ones that were everywhere.
Well no, I think cleaning up the broken guardians is a good way to show that Hyrule is recovering. What's bonkers to me is that there is *no trace* of the Sheikah towers, shrines, and divine beasts. TotK takes place just a few years after BotW--there is no way they could have dismantled all of that stuff, even if they weren't able to maintain it (which is vaguely suggested at the end of BotW). Such an undertaking would be a *monumental* effort, shaping the whole economy of Hyrule for years. Even if it were somehow accomplished in the in-between time, people would be talking about it, and there would be vestiges of salvage yards, disassembly tools, etc. everywhere.
Kind of like the Zonai research team, have a guardian cleanup crew.
Right, the guardians could be cleaned up by a dedicated crew in the span of a year, but the shrines, towers, and divine beasts are a whole different ballgame, especially if you're aiming to salvage parts and materials for the new Skyview Towers, which is how TotK tries to explain where all the Sheikah tech went. Cleaning up guardians involves busting them up and throwing them into a pit somewhere--essentially an unusual application for a mining operation. Salvaging the other tech would take a *lot* more time, expertise, and manpower.
Yeah I don't like how in totk the sheikah tech basically doesn't exist and how theres no dialogue on it
Definitely felt weird at first to be able to wander Central Hyrule and especially the ruins just south of the castle without worrying about them.
The only Guardian I could find in the entirety of TotK was the ruined Guardian at the top of the Heteno tech lab and I’m pretty sure that was also there in Botw as well so ultimately nothing special. I was kinda hoping that made there would be like a side quest or two where you fought along side some Guardians or maybe someone was trying to active one to make it do farm work or something.
Bro that would've been an AMAZING side quest. You pull up to Hateno, you get targeted with that red laser only to be stopped by a farmer who whacks the guardian with a pitchfork. "Down, boy!" Then you need to go fetch parts somewhere and bring them back to him so he can properly fix his guardian, which is now a fully functional tractor.
It would be so cool if there was one in a pitch black area of the depths. One rogue lone guardian the Hylians forgot to get rid of.
BotW to TotK: The Trial of the Sword Master Sword. TotK to BotW: Caves and wells.
YES - caves and wells.
Yes, totk needs trials of some sort, it's ridiculous se have one normal difficulty and no trials. The games easy enough on normal mode.
It's less about the Trials themselves and more that I don't find the Master Sword all that fun to use outside of Ganon fights. I'd certainly welcome a new Trials of the Sword as well, but even just patching the Master Sword to be stronger and/or tougher would be sufficient for me.
Yeah agreed, I know about the durability issue with the sword. I too find it pretty useless for the most part, basically if I use it for one fight than it breaks.
They still haven’t fixed that fact that it doesn’t get the full durability forms fuse??????
Totk to BotW: The red hand to pick up stuff I don't know the name for it
Ultra Hand.
Fuck yes. Caves are the best part of TotK. I would have preferred no depths and more caves.
Several Blackreach-style interconnected cave systems would have been 100% better than the Depths
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Once I learned Dazzlefruit can instakill stal enemies I had to keep them on hand at all times. I hate wasting durability on an enemy that takes 2 hits despite having 1 hp
I also dazzlefruit them, but a headshot also instakills them.
But I need all 447 arrows I currently have, not gonna waste them on things that can be killed with fruit!
I legit freak out if I get in the low 200’s because of the one time I ran out of arrows fighting a gleeock. I prefer to have at least 300 and feel better with at least 400. I’ve recently killed a lot of enemies that drop a lot of arrows, so I’m currently over 500.
800+ gang checking in I literally break every box and barrel I encounter Despite this I still can’t shed my hoarder/conserve resources mentality 🥴
100% hanging out in the depths and breaking all the boxes (metal included) gives you so many arrows. I've been floating between 999 and 950 for months now. If I drop below 800 I just go hang out down below for one or two sessions and I'm gucci again.
MuddleBuds are the best. I snipe boss bokoblins from afar and let them take out all the little bastards, and they’ve usually got a decent chunk of health missing by the time it’s down to 1:1
The beams didn't cost durability? I feel like I remember it breaking by throwing beams
Only the fully powered one
Ah, I see. Was there any difference between Trials Of The Sword powered up blue, or ganon nearby powered up blue?
I don’t believe so.
Interesting! I can't wait to go back and have a super beam now that I know how it works, hahaha
I killed so many wolves with bombs in BoTW…
Remote bombs were the jam. The device bombs are okay but since everything’s consumable in totk I don’t like using them.
The infinite use was there best feature. I got so good at taking out weak enemies like keese and stalkoblins with bombs. Now those skills are useless in totk 😢
Shoot I used them on Bokoblins and Moblins constantly. That's how I got through Trial of the Sword master mode. If you use the remote bomb and then parry at the same time your shield doesn't take damage and Bokos go bye-bye.
Do you know that dazzlefruit instant kills stal monsters? I haven’t tested this on a stalnox yet but everything else for sure, just lob a dazzlefruit in their direction and they go down immediately
I know but I only have 150 of them and I don’t want to run out
Imo bomb flowers are better
In terms of attaching them to arrows, yes. In terms of them being a precious commodity and not infinite like the BoTW bombs, no.
Kaas
Kass?
“Kaas” Dutch for “cheese”
Ohhh Gouda!!!
CHEESE!!!! BRING CHEESE TO BOTW! I WILL BE RICH!!!!!
kaaaaaaaaassssssss
Ascend. I'm playing botw again recently and constantly forgetting ascend doesn't exist
i am playing tears and constantly forgetting ascend does exist lol. It such a situational ability
I use Acsend in TotK 1000x more than I ever used Cryonis in BotW. The situational one for me is Rewind.
Yeah, Rewind is tricky, because even if you remember to use it, you might not be able to get your cross hairs on that one pixel, or freeze things right on time. But remembering to use it ON TIME is also tricky, as I MAY remember to use it, but after I touched the item I should have recalled. DOH!
I use Ascend and Rewind constantly (I feel BOTW I used Stasis constantly, but people in the subreddit seemed to always forget it). Cryonis was my least used (Autobuild and just Zonai devices in general are probably my TOTK underused thing).
Took me probably 400 hours of gameplay to finally always be using Ascend and Recall at the right times. Recall was even worse for me, never knowing I can get something back, or ride something from where it fell or flew from.
Definitely the ancient tech to TOTK. I'd rather a follow-up instead of it just disappearing. Even if it weren't important to the story and most of it stopped working for plot reasons. I wanted to see the divine beasts again for sure
Or at least ruins of the divine beasts
Anything!
All they had to do was include Purah saying “Yeah, we weren’t about to take any chances, so we demolished all of the guardians and Divine Beasts so nothing could use them against us again!” Which, given that G-Money was only a few years away from waking up, was a good move in hindsight.
It's subtly implied that the skyview towers are built out of all that salvaged ancient tech, and they are a definite improvement on the Sheikah towers in BoTW. Just don't think about the fact that seemingly nobody but Link can use them.
Definitely the motorcycle
RIP, 5th divine beast, you were a real one 😭
Man I miss that bike!
Why they make us push a button to grab rupees in totk I'll never understand. Every other Zelda game you just run over them
And poes. I wonder if this will degrade my A button faster since you press it thousands and thousands of times to pick up arrows, monster drops, ore, poes etc
Personally I find it incredibly satisfying, but I can see why some might prefer the option to auto-collect instead. Considering there isn't a practical limit on how many you can pick up, it seems natural to include and auto option.
Oh my god I remember coming across my first rupee and being so mildly pissed
I have to disagree, I found myself always missing the rupee when you can’t just mash the button to pick up
I'm not sure how'd you implement all of them, but just the concept of not having to summon the champions to use their abilities
The ability wheel should have a selection on it specifically for sages abilities, so when you selected a sage they would immediately come to you and grant you their power. That would have fit neatly in the slot where the redundant map selector is. I don't think I've ever purposefully opened the map that way when there's already a single button dedicated for it.
Bring caves to BotW and it would be insanely good.
Ascend in BoTW - though I know it would negate some of Revali's Gale. So I'd say Recall would be awesome. For ToTK id want the upgraded Master sword for sure. That permanent blue glow, that satisfying "WHONNNNG!" when you hit someone, that durability - sorely missed. The sword spent 10,000 years embedded in Zelda's dragon head - it should have emerged as more than that. It should have become the Golden sword perhaps, from ALttP. Invulnerable. Durability be damned - it's central to the story, and should have been treated as such. Also, Kass. 🪗🦜 Edit: typo
Mapping sage abilities to buttons.
I want infinite remote bombs in totk I want ascend in botw
Are there any chefs here??? I wish the TOTK cookbook was in BOTW!
Totk to Botw The throwing action, Ultrahand, Ascend, Dazzlefruit. Botw to Totk Stasis +, Bombs +, Revali's Gale, fully awakened Master Sword, Vah Room, Ancient Horse Gear, Robbie's Armor, Bow, and Shield, Urbosa's Fury, and the Royal Guard's Bow Durability Up+ 50 shot modifier instead of 29. Oh yeah, you said one. Probably Ultrahand and Royal Guard's Bow durability.
#The durians...the extra heart power was needed, as I died at least once fighting every boss...
Radishes, truffles, and hearty lizards are a thing in TOTK lmao
...But they're rather hard to come by.
They're still an option though if you're willing to spend to time to collect them. Hearty truffles are also in almost every cave
Just cook 4 big hearty radishes and a dragon horn during a blood moon, will give +26 gold hearts, and then if you don't mind breaking the game you can transfer that bonus to a seared steak, and then just make a stack of them.
I remember going to the jungle/forest area and being immensely disappointed when I realized all my BOTW durian farming routes are now useless
not gonna lie but Daruk’s Protection just hit hard when i was fighting a lynel
Botw to totk: new game plus and DLC Totk to botw: fusion
>Totk to botw: fusion Savage lynel blade saw.
>Having fairies all over the overworld I'm confused what you mean by this. In BotW, Fairies only spawn at Great Fairy Fountains and are a rare spawn when cutting grass. In TotK, Fairies spawn at those circular Sky islands with the pool, of which there are more of than Great Fairy Fountains, and also are still rare spawns from cutting grass. This to say, if anything TotK has more Fairies than BotW
Except nah, there are locations other than Great Fairy fountains where you can consistently find fairies in BotW, it's just they only appear at night and only if you have very few or no fairies on you. For example, you can find a single fairy near the lone wrecked guardian in the grassy field south of the forest just south of Wetland Stable. You can get three fairies from the small circular pond found on the south end of the ridge that separates Lake Hylia from the dragon-shaped river in Faron. You can find fairies at the broken heart pond on the peak just East of Link's House in Hateno. There are a few more sites (seriously, just Google it); the specific locations above are just what I can remember off the top of my head. Go at night, go with few or no fairies on you (or hold what you have when you get there), and you'll find 'em.
I miss the remote bombs. I want those back they were so easy
Definitely BOTW style bombs. Toss one off a cliff down to an encampment of enemies and set it off at just the right moment. So satisfying. TOTK time bombs are fun but tough to get the timing right.
I definitely prefer the way the champion abilities in BOTW work to TOTK. I hate having to hunt down the sages running around all willy nilly. I love the way you can fuse stuff with TOTK though
Or how they can block your view or get in your way at times.
I really can't stand how Mineru and Yunobo will just mill about right in front of Link when he's trying to shoot at things. At least the other three are small enough to see around.
revali’s gale
I want stasis from botw in totk so badly, and in botw I would add the sticky climbing gear, im a basic bitch
Yeah stasis. I would use it on those goddamn Lizalfos hopping around and jumping back when you move in. Sit still you fucker!
It would be so good for building stuff or if you use it with ascend you could climb indefinitely (which is probably why it’s not in the game lol) or on koroks
You can climb indefinitely already with recall
You’re right, I’m just bad with recall
Did you know the fairy fountains have cave systems underneath with fairies floating right below where the great fairy is?
I really do appreciate all of the "as above, so below" stuff in TotK. I wish that ethos extended more to the sky islands themselves, because they feel like an afterthought, almost completely unrelated to the surface.
Wind bombing
botw had more efficient-feeling menu sorting, don’t know why they changed it going back, put totk’s wells in botw. would make the map feel just a touch less empty
>botw had more efficient-feeling menu sorting, don’t know why they changed it Only being able to switch menu tabs by completely scrolling with the stick in BotW is infinitely and objectively worse than being able to just use the shoulder buttons I'm sorry And TotK has way better, and apparent, sort options than BotW. There's just more items to sort through
I wish I still had my botw copy so I could mess around in the menus back to back, because botw’s menu genuinely felt much smoother for me to navigate. I remember being able to wrap around the categories from one end to the other, like a single swipe right from quest items put me on weapons all the way to the left, and in totk I can’t do that even though my muscle memory keeps trying
Bombs! either way Eventide Island
The story of BOTW into TOTK. with certain needed mechanics of BOTW into TOTK so it would work. Both games did not have enough main story for the physical size and hours 99% of players put into the game and with some work they could melt both stories together and make one epic story to fit 200 plus hours of gameplay.
Throwing materials. I don't know much about game dev but I feel like it wouldn't take too much to implement in BOTW.
B to T: I want the special abilities you get from each region to be bound to the button again. T to B: Probably the special effects each weapon has (Water Warrior on Zora weapons, Flurry Rush Attack on Royal weapons, etc.)
To totk i would love the sage abilities to be cast with a specific button imput like the botw champions. Hate to have to run around to activate the one i need. To botw the froggy armor/slippy resistance.
What do you mean by "fairies all over the overworld"? Aren't there fairies at the fairy fountains still or did they change that and I never noticed?
There aren't fairies at the fountains in TOTK. They're only really found on those sky islands with the circular pools as far as I know.
There are a couple wells that have fairies too
What an odd design decision
I know right? You'd think you would find FAIRIES at FAIRY fountains but I guess that makes too much sense. I visited the fountains many times hoping to find fairies, but soon realized that they just aren't there.
Sheikah tech
Urbosa’s Fury
Guardians
Master cycle zero
Gerudo set to TotK Frostbite (or Charged) set to BotW
Botw to Totk - the motorcycle... Totk to Botw - weapon fusion
Improved Sages Abilities that trigger without having to interact directly with the sages avatars. (For BotW to TotK) For TotK to BotW: The ability to ride on the dragons.
The Sheikah Slate
Mipphas grace… I have over ten hearts and I still die too much lol
There’s a lot that I wish I could retro-integrate from TOTK into BOTW, but I think if I had to pick just one thing, it’d be Ascend. It’s just an absolutely revolutionary change to mobility. As for what I’d bring into TOTK from BOTW… probably the Master Cycle Zero. Yeah yeah, I know, I can build cars and planes and all that. But I loved my motorbike.
Throwing is such a nice little feature that i always forget isnt in botw
Sheikah tech. I don't need it to be functional, I don't need it to still be in one piece, but seriously I am not reasonably supposed to believe that post-calamity Hyrule somehow dismantled/destroyed all but one guardian or that the Sheikah Shrines could somehow go back into the ground and not one of them be unearthed during the Upheaval. You're also telling me that the Purah Pad somehow can't use Sheikah runes that are effortlessly used by Kohga of all people in BOTW without the Sheikah Slate. Magnesis had much more range and speed than Ultrahand and Stasis is arguably more useful than Recall. Also, somewhat related, what the hell happened with Typhlo Ruins? It was covered with the impenetrable darkness in BOTW as part of a shrine quest. Did the shrine cause the darkness?
BOTW to TOTK: Master Cycle Zero TOTK to BOTW: Ascend
TotK to BotW: Fuse BotW to TotK: Revali’s Gale (Honorable mention: hearty durian and wooly rhinoceros, guardians, and ascend)
I see a lot of people asking for BotW bombs—but given that they were nerfed in damage (understandable, since they’re infinite), I find TotK’s bomb flowers way better. I’m also a hoarder who explores a ton, so I never seem to run out 😅
The different smaller guardians roaming the world in botw and not just in shrines and divine beasts
Definitely the runes, especially stasis+.
Totk to Botw: All the quality of life improvements, such as the map displaying during loading screens, when you open a chest and your inventory is full you are given a choice to remove an object, being able to throw objects, recipe sheets etc... Botw to Totk: special weapons I miss them
The shrine song from botw was way better
I know this is small but God I miss the hammer. Like the ones you could find at links house after bolson & crew stopped working on it. They looked so cool and I was so excited to fuse things to it. Lo and behold, the hammers are nowhere to be seen.
oh same here!
Windbombing, much more fun then hover bikes
Wind bombing from sky Islands would be fun.
The quick menus not having lag
Fairies aren't a big deal, there are some on sky islands and those islands have shrines to fast travel to. Get low on fairies, it takes a minute to replenish. BotW to TotK: Trial of the Sword TotK to BotW: Distinctly different bosses instead of the same thing with slight differences.
Bring Master Mode to TotK. Bring Caves to BotW.
Remote bombs
I want Stasis and Recall in both games.
Revalis gale
Bomb Rune. Windbombing is just such a fun and useful way to travel.
From BOTW I would bring Revali’s Gale, Lynel Crushers, Master Cycle Zero, One-hit Obliterater, Master Sword Trials…From TOTK I would bring Ascend, Ultrahand, recall, Glide Armor, Dragon spike shards, and weapons having special effects.
from BOTW to TOTK Revali's Gale form TOTK to BOTW Ascend
Good champions in totk
BOTW to TOTK: Junping off cliffs and paragliding TOTK to BOTW: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDTIhfgueg
Clean metal weapons
BOMB RUNE! CRYONIS! STASIS! Those I miss the most on TOTK There's nothing from TOTK that could make BOTW better
BOTW to TOTK Oh, it’s raining? You cannot light a fire and use Pinecones for an updraft? No problemo - **Revali’s Gale Is Now Ready**. TOTK to BOTW More horses at the stables!
No sages and just powers, I never thought the game was terribly hard but getting 5 teammates to spread Aggro and deal damage is way too hand holdy for me. Plus they are ALWAYS in the way
The ancient bow. Damn near limitless range, zero drop