gamingeek said:

Vader did you read the Eventide island thread on GAF?

Also you guys seen the thread on GAF that lets you know about some of the unexpected and cool things you can do in BOTW? It's mindblowing.

Also I fought a Lynel on the snowdrifts and he destroyed me. Compared to the one you fight within the campaign he's much harder.

I also beat a rock giant, but then I faced one in the snow and it was completely different and so much harder. I got my ass beaten hard.

It's impossible, you move slowly in the snow, he's an ice rock creature so you cannot touch him or he freezes you. You shoot him with fire arrows but he only drops for an instant so you cannot run up him in time. He never has his back facing you so you cannot hit his weak spot. There are no high points to fly down onto him so you cannot just drop onto his back. And if you climb out of his little cove, the fucker follows you out onto the mountain.

Topping this off he throws huge ice boulders at you that can kill you in two hits.

Any ideas guys?

I also followed a green light at night to a mountain top, crossed over 4 map regions on horseback in a rush to get there before morning. Got there, found an interesting scene I wont spoil for you, not sure what I'm suppossed to do there though.

I never ran into him myself but if you have the Snowquill outfit with each piece upgraded by the Great Fairy at least two times the wearing the whole set will make you immune to freezing so that may help.

Nice to see everyone enjoying it. I've accepted that this game is just not the zelda I want. I keep playing and while brilliant in many ways not the ways I want. For all the things that make me smile I am left wanting more. I feel I am so powerful now that even fights aren't that great anymore. The combat system is great when you are scavenging for ways to stay alive, once you can use powerful weapons it just becomes a lot of mashing the button and dodging. Even lynels fall into a simple pattern of repetition. The shrines have been bugging me lately, I've had some combat ones, or a gimmicky fake golf one. Almost no actual puzzles.

I'm at death mountain now and Im going to do the third beast.

GG,  I suggest you try against the one at the great plateau first.  It seems weak enough that you can practice with it and figure a strategy to beating them.

Edit:  then again, stock on bomb arrows and stay far away.

I don't have any powerful weapons yet so I'm at the point in the game when it's probably at its hardest....I mean I'm actually running away from random goblins now. Not something I can recall doing in a Zelda before.

Thunderblight Ganon was fantastic!  Best boss yet!

travo said:

GG, that scene that you're talking about....try mounting it and shoot the other animals.

Sounds perverted.

travo said:

Rito village has the best theme music, right GG?

I rode on top of a bear this morning.  I had to shoot him with a few arrows first.