Brb just have to go to the slow to realise thread
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Basically if thereās anything at all that looks slightly weird in the landscape, itās a Korok puzzle.
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Oh shit! Sure I tried chopping them down and nothing happened - thatās about as cerebral as my problem-solving gets! Lucky I starred them on the map.
I had to go check:
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Anyway, found the last 2 shrines last night. Turns out the āthat bit of the map is emptyā strategy does work. Working through the side quests now, really trying to drag this out, loved playing it (though thereās a real problem with power creep imo)
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Quite enjoyed this
Is that Scruffyās video? Heās got quite a few nice ones on Nintendo soundtracks. Worth a browse through his history if youāve got the time.
I used that strategy when I had one shrine left and spent hours wandering about aimlessly. Eventually resorted to a guide - still no luck. I then realised that one of them was a slightly different colour - A Major Test of Strength Iād found right at the start but was too weak to complete. 
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Oh thatās annoying. And I guess the shrine detector would go off as youād already found it
They do look fairly obviously different - theyāre half blue, half orange. I just didnāt notice.
Yes, thatās the one. Iād never heard of him before but watched a couple now.
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do you mean on the ground they look blue/orange, or are they blue/orange on the map too?
The map
So, I realised that the Beadle dudes sell different cool ingredients in each location, hence I looked up where to get electricity potion stuff and got some madeā¦then I managed to get me some rubber tights! Nice.
So I went back and went for the THunderblight Ganon and while the dude isnāt getting me electrocuted any more due to my maximum resistance, the fucker is so fast I couldnāt dent him really.
Need more practice. I thought I was getting the hang of it but the worst thing is my turning, I have to get the hang of taking my finger off ZL, hitting back then hitting ZL again I guess. Tough.
Also I seem to have gone through all my powerful melĆ©e weapons right now. Itās pissing me off. I guess I could get Akala to make me a sword but itās a bit depressing when you know theyāre just going to break soon after and it costs such a huge amount.
EDIT: Up to 10 hearts though. I now have 3 shrines where Iām stuck, two that I just need to get the technique and one where I canāt even work out what Iām meant to do right now.
Whatās the one you canāt work out, out of curiosity?
Canāt recall the name or even the rough location now, but you come in and itās like a series of platforms swinging on chains. You can use Magnesis and Stasis on them but my attempts to get them swinging were really hampered by the fact I couldnāt get a good angle for Magnesis so it was swinging out at a not-ideal angle and I just got stuck on the first one I landed on. Iām not the best at timing jumps either so Iāve left that to one side.
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Despite playing for 200 hours the first time around with the DLC, I forced myself to leave a bunch of shrines (25ish maybe) to do for whenever I felt the urge to come back to it. Absolutely besotted with it again, and finding the first 10 or so has brought me to ten different corners on the map, some I hadnāt covered at all, hiding in plain site. I even found what Iām pretty sure is a new stable despite being 100% sure Iād found them all . This game was my return to proper gaming after a long break, and I really havenāt found any other games I can sit and play for hours on end like BOTW. Most Iām bored with after an hour max but itās just so relaxing and constantly rewarding to explore Hyrule, even without any particular objective in mind.
BOTW 2 now please.
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After similar playtime and now going through again with the kids Iām in a very similar position. Are there any other games that are this much fun/relaxing/rewarding to justā¦be in?
Iāve come to the conclusion that the paraglider is the star of the show. It opens up so much and itās really quite cathartic to glide down form a tower for ages to a distant point. Would the game be anywhere near as fun if you didnāt have this option; if you could only fast travel or climb down the mountain, run across the ground for ten minutes, then climb another mountain, to get to the same place you could glide to in seconds?
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I honestly think BOTW has ruined very other game for me.
No matter how much Iām enjoying something else or putting some serious playtime in, 99% of the time Iām thinking āItās no BOTW thoughā or āYeah, but I could be restarting BOTW right nowā¦ā
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