Tag: Zelda

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!

I did it. I got off the pot?

Posted on by Shawshank

No, not that pot. I got off the video game pot, and completed BotW. Yes, that’s right, I BEAT MY FIRST EVER VIDEO GAME. Next up, getting paid to stream playing games on twitch. I need a gaming chair, a headband, and an energy drink sponsor. It took about an hour and a half for the two battles.

Probably closer to 2 hours, by just minutes. The first one was wicked intense, but finally, I managed to get through it. Half of it was my kinda game – brute force and ignorance, the other half is all Crystal. Strategy, and cunning. The second battle was a lot tougher. But you don’t want my review of a game that came out in 2017. And if you’ve been on my site for any length of time, you know I’m not a wordsmith. You’re here for the pictures.

So here you go!