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Just over 12 hours in – No Man’s Sky

Posted on by Shawshank

Hey hey video game nerds. I’ve found a game that took my mind away from TotK. You see, I’m 90% of the way to end game on it. I just have one temple to go, and then if I wanted, I could battle Ganon. But, I have no real want to beat the game. BotW totally lost its replay value when I defeated Ganon. You’re just transported back to your last save point, and it was like the big battle never happened.

That kind of annoyed me, and I pretty much never really picked up the game again. I don’t want that with TotK. So technically if I never beat it, I’ll never have that disappointment. Right? Anyways, that’s my logic.

So last Saturday, I took it upon myself to buy No Man’s Sky – henceforth known as NMS. Besides it was like 50% off or something like that. So while I waited for it to download, I turned on TotK. I futzed around until the download was complete. So probably only like 15 minutes or so.

So lemme tell you – I’m just over 12 hours in, and I have no clue what I’m doing. But I have realized that I’m a pretty good ship-to-ship fighter. I picked up the wrong thing on the wrong planet, and I had the robot police after me. The Sentinals. I fought them on the planet, and into space. It got to the point that I was like 5 star wanted, but they just kept coming. I think with the advice of Crystal, I ran to a near by space station. That did the trick.

A couple of nights ago, I finally pulled the trigger on a new ship. It’s a little faster and has more storage than my old one, aptly named star spooge. Just before I swindled an innocent alien out of their space ship, I’ll pull all the modifications out of it, and traded ships, with a few units tossed their way as well.

This ship without the modifications on it is better than my old ship. Sure it’s a class C, but a lot of the modifications already in it were class S (which is the best), and with the ones I installed, made it a really good sleeper. It’s deadly and fast.

I still have no idea what I’m doing.

Finally!

Posted on by Shawshank

So the middle of last week or so, after weeks of trying, I finally did it! I was finally in the right place at the right time to be able to climb up on to the light dragon. As I landed on it, I quickly passed by all the ??? On the back of him. I ran up to the head, dropped a weapon so I’d have an open slot for the Master Sword.

As soon as I grabbed the hilt, the dragon went crazy – shaking his head in order to try and shake me loose. It didn’t work. I had read that if you could get in the dragon, you’d need a minimum of 2 circles of stamina. I have three, so I knew I’d be ok.

After a wicked cool cut scene, I had the Master Sword. I didn’t even need to drop the other weapon, the Master Sword created its own weapon slot. Damn, I had dropped a pretty good weapon too!

More Zelda musings

Posted on by Shawshank

Here we are again, me talking about Tears of the Kingdom. Just when I think I know what I’m doing, shit will enviably go sideways! But I’m slowly getting the handle in things. I’m currently ignoring all the main quests – I’m doing side quests, exploring, and just general fuckery.

Crystal is currently playing. For the last couple of weeks, I think, she’s been deep under Hyrule, exploring the Depths. I’ve been down a few times, but she has a huge chunk of it mapped, where I have just a small smattering. On the other hand, I have just about the whole top side map opened up. So we’re doing the same thing, but in completely different areas.

I’m doing all the “useless” side quests, like taking pictures for Sayge in Hateno, which gives me new paraglider skins. I also travelled up to Death Mountain, to get some Goron spice so I can start to grow my own food stuff. That’s pretty neat.

I also did a handful of quests in Tarrey Town – and subsequently I own a plot of land, and have a quant two room “dream home”. I’ll be able to build on that. I can have ip to 15 rooms, so it’ll be a build over time, to be a Barbie dream house.

You can’t tell me how to play the game!

First impressions: Tears of the Kingdom

Posted on by Shawshank

So, I started TotK this morning. It’s massively huge. it took me about 4 or maybe 5 hours to get out of the hell that was the starting area. Don’t get me wrong, it was a really nice starting area, but a couple of things stuck out that were bothering me.

1. You wake up, and get the usually welcome back talk. You are provided with pants. Just pants. I was second guessing my exploring skills thinking that I missed the shirt. I was actually going to restart this morning, because I wanted to find the shirt.

2. I know BotW was spread out in the beginning, but there was a lot more … life out there. This “sky-island” (which shall henceforth be known as a “sky-land”) was pretty empty.

3. After you *think* you’re just about done, they pull a fast one, and then tell you that there’s just one more shrine – across the map. Thankfully they then show you how to warp back to where you started, and then make you search for the damn thing lol

Then finally you can leave the starting area. I think think that I’ve died so many times, just starting out.

Then as I’m plummeting to my sure death, my mind tells me, you missed a major item. You didn’t find the paraglider. So I’m freaking out as I’m falling to my death. I ended up aiming for a lake so, I can live. Which put me miles away from where the little yellow dot is telling me to go.

Contrary to what I just wrote, I am having fun, and I probably could’ve stayed in the starting area for a few more hours to try and find more things of interest.

I can’t wait to play more tomorrow. Crystal is playing right now, and I’m gonna try and help her as much as I can.

I need to start killing monsters and such. I just came from BotW with over 30k in rupees, and now I’m completely broke again!