9 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Here are some cool features that we wish we knew were in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild when we started playing that we want to pass on to you.

[@soSAMuksUKslotchannel]

This game is preventing me from getting a good nights sleep, I keep finding myself at 3am still playing it since the kids went to bed at 7pm lol

[@blackhornet111]

soSAMuk's UK slot channel yeah same... except I stay up a couple hours past that as well... Not sure if I should be sad or happy about that lol

[@alisons8916]

soSAMuk's UK slot channel Same here, the time passes so fast playing this game.

[@merunasg]

Sad

[@soSAMuksUKslotchannel]

What's sad is that now I'm finished these a massive hole in my life lol

[@merunasg]

You could fill that hole with money and real life adventures. I don't know if you have a business but you should try to create an online business, research about it on the internet. Thank me later.

[@teamfruitsalad7335]

10. I wish the game told me you can't register a deer as a horse to ride on at the stable. This would have been nice to know before I rode 10 miles with it only for him to turn me down and the deer just runs away.

[@ItsPowie]

You think that was disappointing, imagine me riding my stahlhorse through a ton of enemies during a blood moon before being told that they don't take monsters.

[@ne6cro6man6cer6]

TeamFruitSalad I did the same thing witha bear sadly.

[@bafbegagglestick6241]

annnd now I just found out you can ride things other than horses o_o

[@Tachiiiiii]

TeamFruitSalad I think you need to win a saddle through a mini game to tame it

[@minacarkacer]

There's bears???😱😱

[@tobiornottobi8710]

Cutting the grass in Breath of the Wild isn't only good for crickets and wheat and such. if you cut long grass at night, there's a chance that a pink fairy will appear!

[@codyporter8524]

On master mode and did not know it was a night time thing... 😅

[@viperplayz5966]

please be aware that a fairy won't appear if you already have 3 fairies

[@dannyhilljr518]

Me either lol that's a good tip

[@yourstruly5677]

Tobi or not Tobi that’s nice to know I need fairys

[@hellooo2411]

Viper Playz Thank you, that's actually really good to know because I've saved my fairies and been wondering why there's no fairies appearing anymore

[@JeremyKramer7]

Intro: "beware of potential spoilers ahead" Me: "but these are things you wish you knew before...? What the heck."

[@thesurvivorssanctuary6561]

Here's the secret to success, but be careful, it can lead you to ruin!

[@Dare-mx3re]

Lol

[@abdulla-Xshe4ro]

I'm playing zelda right now I have unlocked my first memory I dont know what to do know should I grind tasks or just explore

[@elliottpaine9259]

lol

[@nava9109]

The word is "wish".

[@torchick163]

The game doesn't tell you about perfect dodge and counters, yet immediately after you mention it you show the combat robot that teaches these moves.

[@makna4021]

Blahbasaur it's in a shrine. im about 35 hours in rn, and it took me too long to find this out, I was lucky to have stumbled upon the right shrine

[@Kamizhou]

Makna 182 I suppose, but they do try to indirectly point you towards this shrine. If memory serves, I believe it's the one in Kakario Village, which you have to go to anyways.

[@superzeldafan64]

It's at a shrine VERY early in the game, right in Kakariko

[@makna4021]

Vortan The Toaster you're right, it just took me a while to get to kakariko

[@gorgolyt]

You don't have to go to Kakariko at all. The ghost of the King only makes a strong suggestion. The player can go wherever they want.

[@eliseo5416]

Shield Sledding does not use durability if you are doing it in sand or snow. Just a note they didn't mention

[@erick_ac]

The jump on the shield does make you lose durability

[@lyndenhaineault3225]

its shield surfing not shield sledding

[@mattdboucher9164]

Eliseo Palacios oh really tysm

[@zacharygomez2344]

Another note there are FOUR fairy shrines not THREE. 1. Kakariko 2. Near the Ritos 3. In a Leviathan's skeleton in the desert sandstorm 4. To the right of the Eldin Volcano region

[@slapsticksloth3839]

That's cool

[@pikanoob]

"how to perform a charged attack- hold Y" Thanks Gamespot. definitely didnt know that before you told me

[@kevinchen5167]

aldenVlogx It's called sarcasm you 5 year old

[@tsukikami6272]

explosions and stuff pretty sure they were being sarcastic, too.... jeez.

[@shapelessweirdo8381]

*Urbosa's fury is ready*

[@matthewrease2376]

(it's also taught to you in a shrine lol)

[@QuestionTheAnswers]

Supersecret insider tip: "Press the plus symbol button on the paddle to pause the game at any time with no penalty" Next week: We will be discussing alternate methods to press plus,and also we will be revealing the winner to our free apple DLC item contest winner.

[@greenmoonmoon]

But... but... the game tells you all this! If you speak with the npcs they gives most of all this information and the combat mechanics where fully explained in one of the shrine near kakariko!

[@mae5167]

Ikr this video is useless T-T

[@Zelielz1]

They dont tell all of those secrets

[@mosesherrera1101]

zeliz these are hardly secrets, the game tells you nearly every one of these things if you explore the game as it was intended. Totally a click bait video

[@junton]

Yeah. On halfway of video I thought this that this is waste of time, because everything is actually told in game

[@ArrowRaider]

I don't like talking to NPCs

[@PACR66]

This game seems far more complex than most Zelda games.

[@Bulletsprayin]

it was for the time

[@joeymea]

Can't leave Skyrim out of that list. Of all the games I have played (single player) Ocarina and Skyrim are the top two. I hope some day to add Breath of the wild to that list.

[@fuckthediet]

I've started a Zelda notepad... It's that complex!

[@ThanhCNgo]

and they even have DLC afterwards O.O

[@LouTheLoo]

It is!

[@damienjohn]

*Another big tip that many people don't know* : You can flip over a lot of the dead guardians for additional/rarer ancient parts. Easiest way to do this is to topple them with an iron box/boulder using the magnesis rune.

[@mochagawd]

wow! i only have done the ones in water with Cryonis!

[@Eviscerator18]

One thing I would add to this list: Don't worry about carrying around Korok leaves or torches, as inventory space for melee weapons is precious, and leaves/torches can usually be found close by anything that needs them.

[@carolynbraunius1914]

Two tips we've picked up are: If you knock an enemy off of a horse, the horse is already tamed. Enemies mostly ride spotted horses, but sometimes ride single colored more powerful ones. We also used the sheika slate tracker option to take a picture of a chest. We can now track down all of the hidden chests around the world.

[@sierra3139]

The pure white horse, it spawns near the 10th memory (where the horse statue is). It has 5 stamina stars (5 spurs) and 4 strength stars. Its one of the best horses you can tame in the game. Also if you take your horse to a stable that has someone feeding the horses, you can change the mane of the horse and the outfit.

[@Arclor]

I think it's also worth mentioning that perfect dodge depends greatly on the attack. For example, when enemies use vertical, stabbing/leaping/charge attacks, you have to dodge to the sides or else their attack will still hit you. When enemies use horizontal/diagonal attacks, you have to backflip/dodge backwards to perfect dodge the attack. There may be some exceptions to this (not sure about thrown or ranged attacks) but I've generally found this to hold true.

[@EnzoFoove]

Thank you so much for this, cause I had no idea!!

[@adriannanitaa]

You said there are three Great Fairy Fountains, there are four, and another fountian containing the Horse God.

[@lukeroberson9702]

A. Kassandra Maybe he misspoke.

[@The.Neurotic]

Well then that would make 5

[@mlutra5676]

@@The.Neurotic the horse god fountain looks like the other fairy fountains, but isn't usually regarded as one interestingly enough. Instead of enhancing clothing it revives a horse if it's been killed. (I wish I'd known about it before loading a previous save file after my horse got struck by a guardian, I really loved that horse 😭😂)

[@sunshinesaccharine]

Makka Pakka My fave horse Died once, but the horse fairy kinda creeps me ouy

[@zionnemakoma1398]

I'm wondering which one he didn't find

[@AnthanKrufix]

Two things to bear in mind about the sword's charged spin attack: You don't actually have to hold charge to do it. If you're familiar with other Zelda games you can do it via those commands too. If you're not familiar then it's: spin the left stick around once and press attack (make sure it's a complete rotation of the stick, if you're only 99% around when you press attack then it won't work). This makes the spin attack instant without needing to charge. And also it's not just swords, any one handed weapon can be used, like the Boko Clubs or even magic rods like the fire rod which sends multiple fireballs spinning out all around you.

[@theforgottenones1542]

This is the most fun I've had with a game in a long time I get bored of most games and can usually only play like 1-2 hours at a time, but this game I can play until I can play no more. Also, you can get Epona by scanning the super smash link amiibo

[@dose532]

The Forgotten Ones right people are so mad hating on the switch and the game but it's so good I've been playing every time I have a chance and on handheld mode the game looks perfect 👌

[@_cjrriley]

*checks to see if I have Smash Bros. Link amiibo* Looks like I'm getting Epona! ^_^

[@Chillwave6]

i get random foods instead

[@Oban2006]

The Forgotten Ones too bad I didn't waste my money for them

[@gdmt]

This is my first time Zelda and WOW am i having fun!

[@daniellike5pie777]

This game literally has something for everyone. Exploration, intense fighting, survival. It's truly the perfect game

[@SpoopyKatt]

"9 things everyone will learn eventually"

[@JuiceExtraction]

Another thing is that you can use fairies to help you cook, just simply hold them with what you want to cook and they will greatly increase the amount of hearts it replenishes normally by 5, 6, or 7

[@rahnyc4]

game of the year right here, folks. i dont see any other game coming out in 2017 that has this kind of potential.

[@enzorubius4297]

Sr DeSilva *cough* rdr2 *cough*

[@adiazrue5776]

The only game I can think of that can match BotW is Mario Odyssey. How crazy that we get Zelda AND Mario in the same year?

[@rahnyc4]

Enzo Rubius unless they do something revolutionary with the open world aspect, it can get 9s, instead of 10s like zelda.

[@darylvaldez2222]

God of war?

[@redgeoblaze3752]

Sr DeSilva game of the century.

[@Corroidz]

As a heads up on the Korok seed tip: The cost of each expansion gets higher for each slot you you've bought.

[@davidduran2663]

I highly recommend the Sheika Armor set. It helps to Sneak up on enemies, catch faries, and get closer to horses.

[@HeppyHenry]

Lol the way this boi pronounces Zelda names: Hylian: "HEELEAN" Korok: "KOROAK"

[@lichofthewoods1132]

it makes my OCD hurt

[@bww2160]

Man that Korok seed pronunciation hurt

[@Kilopix]

When he said Koroak I almost spit out all the water in my mouth

[@alexanderosinubi5154]

I love this game's horse mechanics. Let's say you are looking for a horse with a lot of speed. What I do is chase a herd(?) of horses and the one that gallops away the fastest (the one that's ahead of all the other horses) I mount.

[@MattRevs]

I scanned my smash 4 Link amiibo for the first time expecting a chest, but instead, Epona appears out of thin air, I was so confused yet so satisfied

[@durkadur27]

if you keep scanning you can get more special stuff you will really want... you can save then scan and reload til you get it.. all of the link amiibos have something similar

[@joeybagz4214]

44yr old gamer here and just got this for me and the kiddos. It’s absolutely fascinating to see my son thrilled playing this!! We can’t get enough of this game

[@popeyeisgood]

i honestly dont get why people complain about the graphic of this game. it looks amazing on the small screen. the design/color/atmosphere is in a league of its own. not everything has to be realistic looking to be believable. this is a prime example of wonderful art direction giving so much life to the game, not to mention the level of details it has.

[@onedeadboy5680]

It should be noted that inventory expansions costs more seeds each time. 1 the first time, 2 the second time and so on

[@deadestegg]

Right now I need to pay 21 korok seeds to expand my weapon inventory.

[@username-yn5yo]

@@deadestegg makes sense Then 13 (8+5) + 8 = 21

[@Mediamatix]

You can attach lots of things like a bomb-barrel to the monster item "octo ballon" to have it fly over enemies, then shoot it with an arrow to rain death upon 'em. To do this, select the ballons on your hand and drop em over the item you want to send flying. It's a very easy way to clear camps.

[@KarlRock]

So much to learn! I just started playing. Thanks

[@Child-pf8ht]

good luck😅

[@completefuss7715]

When are you going to play Botw tears of the kingdom??

[@ieyke]

"If there's anything we missed", as if 9 things somehow might've possibly covered the hundreds and hundreds of things that there are to know about this game....

[@haylz27]

Not sure if anyone will read this. Figured something out today after using my smash bros Link amiibo. Epona is summonded, but make sure you summon her when you're near a stable so you can register her. you're only able to summon her ONE TIME with your amiibo!! I nearly cried when I found out lol luckily it autosaved when I still had her!

[@dose532]

Hayley 헤일리 figured this out yesterday it was so funny to see Epona pop out of nowhere 😂

[@haylz27]

+OSWALDARUS Okay so someone replied to me yesterday but I can't find their comment. Epona has maxed out stats, including maximum bond and has 4 spirs. I like wild horses usually have 2. you have to train wild ones but with Epona she's already perfect hahah

[@bearfaery737]

Actually the summoned amiibo Epona is the second best horse in the game. A black haired Epona that shows up near stables is the best horse in the game

[@haylz27]

+bearfaery Cool, I haven't seen her yet!

[@rayallen73]

Didn't work for me. Just got a chest and some ingredients.

[@phillipbabich9135]

Break the dented metal crates and large wooden crates you see scattered at monster camps and other locations. They usually have fruit, and sometimes cooked meat, arrows, or even rupees. Some camps can have a handful of crates and the salvage adds up. I usually use the iron sledgehammer I carry for mining on them, though bombs can work in a pinch if you don't mind chasing down the scattered contents.

[@damienjohn]

"Ka-roke"? I've always pronounced it Kor-ock.. Which is correct? I'm not sure I've heard any VA dialogue where they pronounce it yet.

[@tonyflamingo3444]

kor-rock is correct not karaoke

[@Connor19000]

Yeah, he repeatedly butchers pronunciations

[@jenniferchough]

yeah, i love how he pronounces Hylean as HEE-lian. >.

[@pinkbanana4462]

I always say Kor-ock as well... He also says "He-tain-o" rather than "Ha-ten-o"

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Came to the comments specifically for this.

[@Leo-kx4ek]

"Things the game doesn't tell you''? Thats like saying: Did you know that in BotW you can fight with Bow? The game gives you an extra shrine to teach you Dodge and all that! And the rest you can find out yourself! Zelda is a game, where you need to explore the World (especially in BotW ) in order to move on in your Game.

[@chickenfortress7956]

Simple things that would have made my life easier if I knew: - You can enter the castle and leave as many times you want without having to face ganon. - Divine beasts are mainly quests and you can thrive with food and weapons alone even with few hearts. so dont take forever to go for them. - The powers you get from the divine beasts will make your life A LOT easier when exploring, gathering resources etc. - Mark on the map the positions of: Lynels/Hinox/Molduga/Plebbits, great ore mines, mini games, dragons and praying points. - When you see totem statues with food offering, just offer the same food to the empty statues to get a korok seed. - You can sleep for free in korok forest (lost woods) - Master swords is impossible to grab until you have 13 hearts, so dont even bother if you are not there yet. - Stealthfin fish can only be found in 1 place dont waste your time looking for it around the whole map. - Keep an Ice/blizzard rod + electric weapon with you if you can. Freezing and hitting will triple the damage but if you freeze then hit with electric weapon is a massive AOE damage. MASSIVE! - Sneaky hits from behind the enemies will almost hit kill enemies. - Throw octorok balloons on things to make them fly, like giant metal plaques. Dont need Stasis and hit with weapon which will constantly break your swords. - Throw wood and clint on the floor and hit with a sword to make a bonfire.

[@TenogradR5]

This game has so much to explore. I am having a great time and can't decide what I am going to do next. Endless possibilities.

[@neilburgin8893]

If you try and fail to get the master sword while you have lots of stamina upgrades but not enough hearts, the Deku Tree will pretty much outright recommend that you trade with the horned statue to get enough hearts. This happened to me since I spent a lot of spirit orbs on stamina upgrades early on. However, I ignored the advice and just looked for more shrines instead.

[@biggestchicken8001]

Another thing to note is that if you use a certain type of mushroom and throw it into some water it would leer that type of fish. Like Hylian mushrooms it leers Hylian fish and Chillshroom leers the fish that gives you heat resistant.

[@exnnaerdin424]

Perfect dodge is kinda like witch time

[@azzzanadra]

if this link becomes the link in smash bros he might be overpowered.

[@neonblackbeast7243]

lee gaming and also stasis lol do I need to say more?😂

[@Chillwave6]

Counter= Flurry Rush

[@Jerails]

Perfect Dodge and Witch Time are kinda like Dark Stepping.

[@NikkiTheViolist]

Witch Time and Dark Stepping are kinda like Paper Mario's Action Commands.

[@quietstormtcb8543]

This game is soooooo Awesome!!!!

[@fightnight14]

Brad Davenport I've been playing it mostly in handheld mode and it still amazes me how they made this game possible in a tablet. 😻

[@lmeza1983]

fightnight14 thank Nvidia and epic games

[@rahnyc4]

why would one thank epic and nvidia?

[@aicu6014]

Sr DeSilva Nvidia was able to make a small and cheap graphics chip that helps BotW run on the switch...

[@higgs135]

definitely the best open world game ever created

[@ltcmdrtobyfox3969]

During a heavy weapon spin attack, to cancel the slam that occurs when you let go of Y, press X instead to cancel the spin. Particularly helpful once you obtain urbosas fury.

[@MyriadMythial]

Perfect dodge, shield parry and charge are actually taught in a shrine. Shield surfing is explained in the loading screen hints. The horse thing is literally explained at every single horse stable if you bother to talk to the npcs. The great fairy fountains are talked about by MANY NPCs in the game.

[@GlitchyPikachu]

Myriad Shield Surfing is hinted at. You're never told how to perform it.

[@jonhdew3292]

Yea you are. I forgot where, but there are two brothers along a main path that tell you how tp shield surf.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I think I had an easier time starting off as I didn't get my Switch until about August of 2019, and didn't get BOTW until a couple months later. I'd been talking to my friends who had it, as well as watching YT videos, the entire time it was out, so I knew a lot of these things before I started, and even made a few friends "kinda mad" when I didn't struggle as much as they did.

[@libertylemonz7145]

It's also good to note that food or elixirs which give you bonus hearts or bonus stamina (known as "hearty" and "enduring" items respectively} also fully regen your hearts or stamina Even if you use only one ingredient while cooking a hearty or enduring dish, your hearts or stamina will still be fully restored

[@Syragar]

Some things I would add to this... * As for charging attacks... that consumes stamina. The more you charge the more stamina you use. If you use up all of your stamina, you will do a powerful attack... but you will be out of breath for a while afterwards. * As for parrying with your shield... he forgot to mention that doing so against a projectile (and in some cases... a beam) will reflect it back at the aggressor rather than just blocking the attack. * The fairies that you can obtain in the game will only appear if you do not have very many in your inventory. When I have 5 fairies in my inventory, none appear at the fairy pond. Once they have been used, more fairies will eventually appear at the fairy pond. * Some items will not restock at stores overnight if you have a lot of that item. For example, I have almost 200 arrows. Stores will not restock in arrows overnight until I use up my supply. Once I've used some arrows, I'll start finding them for sale again. * Not only can you buy a house, but you can also help create an entire town after you buy the house. This town will also have a couple of shops that offer things you can't buy in other places (like sapphires, rubies, diamonds, etc), and a shop where you can buy a hard to find ancient gear every day... which are required components of the very useful guardian armor set. * Your number of hearts determine if you are able to pull the master sword or not... not your stamina (probably a reference to the original Zelda in which the number of hearts also determined if you could use the sword). So if you want to pull the sword as quickly as possible... choose health over stam... or switch your health/stam to have 13 hearts when you want to pull the sword and then switch back. The master sword cuts through divine beast bosses and guardians like a hot knife through butter. * Using bows or shooting beams with the master sword will cause damage (or deplete energy... when it comes to the master sword... which takes 10 minutes to recharge when depleted). Swinging and missing does not cause damage. Swinging at switches in dungeons does NOT cause damage (contrary to what many media sites seem to claim). I've tested this by taking a weapon that was about to break and attacked a switch repeatedly for a long time... and it never broke. Chopping trees and mining ore veins with weapons DOES cause damage. * Because mining and chopping trees causes weapon damage, I suggest using bombs for gathering wood or mining ore. It takes two bombs for trees... one to knock down the tree, and another to convert the log to gatherable wood. However, when it comes to mining, this will cause ore to fly in the air. So if the ore can fall in a bad location, I'd use a weapon instead. * Generally, cooking food at a pot will cause any food to have double health affects. For example, an apple heals for 0.5 hearts and a palm fruit heals for one heart. One cooked apple heals for 1 heart and a cooked palm fruit heals for 2 hearts. A cooked meal of 3 apples and 2 palm fruit would heal for 7 hearts. * Different types of status affect foods shouldn't be mixed together. But adding more of the same type of effect will either provide a stronger affect or make the effect last longer. Rock salt will cause a status effect to last longer. One of my favorites is mighty bananas, which give attack power. 4 mighty bananas and a rock salt will give you 3x attack power for 4 minutes and 20 seconds. You can do similar recipes with other status boosting items like sunshrooms for cold resist... or silent shrooms for stealth (which can be amazing, as you can do 1-hit kills if you backstab an enemy that is unaware of you). * Food that will raise your max health always seem to give you a full recovery when cooked. This is why I like to keep a lot of hearty truffles. I can cook one truffle by itself, and that dish will give me a full recovery and raise my max hearts by one temporarily. I primarily use it as if it's a full recovery potion from other Zelda games.

[@SafireRanmako]

1. The instructions are in the Shrine above Kakariko Village. 2. Those instructions are on a hill in North Hyrule Field. Or on the northern most part of the Hebra Mountains an expert shield surfer teaches you how to do this. 3. Go to a Stable for these instructions. 4. That's part of the Great Fairy Subquest. Side note to this one: there are actually four Great Fairy Springs, not three. 5. Fairies act like bugs, the fact that fairies are usually catchable in Zelda games tends to make this point moot. 6. The mechanics of this are explained in the side quest that starts upon talking to the statue. Apparently there is a kid that leads you to the the statue during the day, wondering what the creepy statue is doing there. 7. This one is actually a lot of fun. Although figuring out what the signs for the Koroks are, at least the ones with the pinwheel stumps, kind of annoying. 8. Of course they don't explain this one in detail, it's a side quest. 9. I always go for purple.

[@auraxfire]

Rename to : "9 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but then was glad I didn't because discovering those things made the game even more fun"

[@MrDostoeyevsky]

Wrong

[@bluebomber875]

MrDostoeyevsky is that a a joke? You can’t just say “wrong” to someone’s opinion

[@waruru9219]

I wish the game ran 60 fps though. 30 is okay it's just that it looks so much smoother when watching on KZbin.

[@purplekiller2429]

Not Kelvin its 60 fps on switch but 30 fps on Wii u

[@megabyytte]

Nah I got it on the switch, it's still 30. :(

[@JackFrost-1856]

purplekiller 242 it's 30 on Switch too lol

[@tanekvi]

isnt 30 fps is the standard fps for console ? as most of our TV only run at 30 fps , same with the ps4 and xbox one

[@deltazebes7326]

Not Kelvin If you expect 60fps on a giant, open world console game...then you expect too much.

[@neilburgin8893]

Yeah, I wish I knew about Hestu from the beginning. Since I tended to climb over obstacles rather than going around them, and didn't travel on the roads much, I never found him until late in the game when I used an online guide to round up missed sidequests. While a normal person riding into Kakariko by horse would find him pretty much at the start of the game...

[@GlaciaGalaxy]

I Found out that you could ride Deer, I was running from monsters and ran past a deer and pressed the mount button. Also the shrine with the maze that you have to guid the ball through, the maze can be flipped upsidedown making it easier to get the ball through.

[@The_RedVIII]

Actually, the game explains many (if not all) of those things mentioned in this video either by talking to NPCs or reading the loading screen tips.

[@ungezoockt]

Am i the only one that read the tips in the loading sreen and have the moment u knew all tips cuz u read then ALL? xD

[@moramoment3536]

even though it’s a little sketchy, and uses a lot of rupees, the horned village outside hateno is sooo useful !!! i found myself in koror forest without enough hearts to reclaim the master sword, but i traded some of my stamina for hearts and then traded back once i had the sword LOL

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

The most useful tip I have that I have yet to see a video cover is this: you know how if you open a chest with a weapon bow or shield and you are full on those it shows you what buff the equipment has without taking it. Wait one blood moon and try to open the same chest the buff will now be different. I went to the lover's pond with full weapons and pulled out the chest it had a throwing spear one time with long throw and another time with an attack buff. I regularly go there every blood moon anyway for the hearty beats so I always check to see if it gets anything good.

[@treysonnier1961]

Him: “Hee-lian tunic” Me: **Screeches in reluctant politeness**

[@brosephthomas3764]

I feel like it's more enjoyable to discover these bits of info throughout the vast over-world while exploring the game

[@dothackjhe]

How about the idea of using "stasis" to temporarily stun opponents? I find this method extremely useful in the game, especially when dealing against tough monsters. In addition, the ability to use "bombs" to cut down trees with fruits is also helpful.

[@Luijbi]

Did they patch this? Doesn't work for me

[@dothackjhe]

@@Luijbi Which one, exactly?

[@nimaabbaszadeh3125]

@@Luijbi stasis on enemies only works with certain types, I think. For example, you can't do it with the red lynel on ploymus mountain, but I am pretty sure you can do it against higher-tier lynels.

[@7on]

@@Luijbi You need to upgrade Stasis to Stasis+ with Purah. You can even freeze Ganon's first form.

[@Thechroniclesofjenni]

Horse hack: Instead of sneaking up, simply shoot it with ice/shock arrow and wait for it to start running, jump on it.

[@shlop1904]

Tip 10: Press the A button to start the game!

[@dbhlnn]

"9 basic things nearly everyone learns in the first hours of the game or have been shown at e3 already"

[@Hjkhjfhhhgch]

I've been playing this game alot within the past week and only knew about half of them. Why do you have to be such a downer? Don't click on these videos then if you're such a know it all.

[@dbhlnn]

obviously because I expected to find out something that wasn't shown to me in the game within the first hours of playing. 1. is addressed very very early into the game and was shown repeatedly in next to every video on breath of the wild on the internet. 2. was shown in the same amount of videos and also introduced very early in the game 3. genuinely a no brainer and also shown countless times 4. if you do any amount of exploring, literally any, you will know this after or during the very first storyline quest following the plateau 5. is basically like telling you "you can catch bugs" 6. fair enough but again, absolute basic exploring shows you this as well 7. no excuse. you cross the guy during a storyline quest. that's even earlier than the great fairy 8. that's even in the village and it's in the first conversation with them 9. it's in the same village... a village that you have to go through during a storyline quest. I watched this video because over the 120 odd hours of playing this game, I constantly found out new things that I didn't know before. they usually weren't things like "you can swing your sword by pressing Y" or "the first area of the game is called the great plateau". doesn't take a "know-it-all" to play the game and talk to people inside of it. if you only rush through the story, never talk to any npc and never explore - fair play. you probably don't know them all. if you do deviate from the story quests even a little, there's no way you don't know at least 8/9 of these things

[@JoeFoxe]

@@dbhlnn i would say 8 is the only one you can miss i missed the house one the first time i played cos it behind some houses cross a bridge, it wasn't till i broke my hylian shield and had to replace it i found out by googling you could buy a house and (spoilers) had to do so to initiate the quest that lets you replace your hylian shield but there is actually a shrine for 1 where it teaches you how to do it, and the rest basic exploration or talking to NPC's covers i was expecting some secrets in this video i missed but nope just basic stuff you learn from playing the game

[@fishschtick8985]

This game is perfect.

[@crimsonhead100]

dat kool aid is incredible

[@fishschtick8985]

Clorox Bleach except for this one.

[@deckardmanne]

Ah but a perfect game would have a fishing rod wouldn't it

[@ProtestantsRUs]

Seriously? The game looks and runs like garbage. Weapons and shields break so fucking quickly and you have to constantly go and equip new ones. your inventory fills up quicker than no mans sky. there's no dedicated healing system, you have to pause the game and eat. Sprinting uses stamina, runs out in like 5 seconds, then you move even slower. In this huge open world, that's garbage. the movement is clunky and stiff, like in the witcher. the button layout is counterintuitive as hell: sprint is a button, not on the stick, and cuz it's rotated cuz nintendo buttons are b where a should be and vice versa, just makes it even more confuzing. An incredibly poorly designed and optimized game that rehashes the same bullshit defeat ganon rescue zelda arc again gets a 10? Kiss my ass.

[@Eep-]

Wesley Tomsky if you played the game most of the problems your talking about are solved through upgrades, but the framedrops are fucking annoying

[@candycoatedrox]

Okay a lot of these are explained directly in the game in places you will most likely find them. The Kakariko shrine explains #1, I don't remember how but some NPC or something tells you about #2, and as you are 99% likely to head to Dueling Peaks Stable right off the Plateau, you're pretty sure to find out #3 quickly. You will actually get a main quest to find the Kakariko Great Fairy Fountain (#4) right in town.

[@velxsii]

I'm someone who picks up a game, plays it for 3 weeks straight, then just gets bored of it and comes back 2 months later forgetting everything about that game. getting these reminders for botw really helped me re-learn the combat style of this game and anything else I forgot

[@ThatGuyWhoComments1]

This game is so much about exploration and discovery so you really dont need to know anything before playing. Game is so damn good.

[@Kyle_116]

Regarding horses, the game DOES tell you a lot of information that you covered. Dueling Peaks Stable (the first you should come across if you head towards Kakariko like suggested) has two children that tell you how to tame/train a horse and the differences between spotted and single colors.

[@dantethunderstone8980]

Also if you surf on snow or sand it doesn't affect the durability of the shield. And you sadly can't register a stalhorse, Lord of the forest, bear, or dear, but you can ride them. If you go to I think outskirts stable there is a lady who can change the gear or hairstyle of your horse, unless it is epona or the big horse you find In a valley somewhere (careful, there are two lynels in the way!)

[@Objectional_Opinion]

This is so incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

[@Linda-qv8wm]

The game literally tells you everything you just said😧

[@classicbass3456]

It does tell you all of theses in the tips when loading 🙂 and the shrine in kakoriko village teaches you the flurries

[@cody3504]

I dyed my hylean clothes to look like the Tunic of Wild until I finish the Shrines and it looks really good. I almost like it better than how the real thing looks especially with the hood. Makes Link look more mysterious

[@dwirtz0116]

Great video! I know this is a super basic tip but as a new player it's something I'm having to constantly remind myself to do. That would be LOCK ON, LOCK ON, THEN LOCK ON SOME MORE! 🤣 I instead find myself playing like Hades battle mechanics totally shutting me off to an entire block of this combat system. As well as re-familiarizing myself with the switch controller. I'm still having a blast though 😁👍 Thanks for the tips and keep up the good work!

[@jacobjett8227]

korok...KOROK...where did you learn how to pronounce it that way?

[@MalloryJay95]

Jacob Jett Yeah, it's not koroke. 😂 Lmfao

[@toriko4603]

There are 4 great fairy fountains not 3!

[@spogeti2009]

And the horse fountain I forgot it’s name

[@dufoot1]

There's also the sneakstrike. When you sneakingly approach an enemy's back and then you press Y, you'll deal more damage than usual. And when you find a Blupee (those glowing blue rabbits that mysteriously disappear after they spot you, like the one that always appear in the forest, near the shrine, beside Kakariko Village), shoot lots of arrows at them and they'll drop a lot of rupees.

[@thirtyacres7504]

I did not know about being able to purchase a home with upgrades. That's so cool. Thanks man!

[@jeremiah5511]

what song is that in the beginning? i never heard it before

[@jeremiah5511]

i still just wanna know what song is playing at the beginning. its been 3 years...

[@davidem759]

Wow! I found this video about 9 things that the game actually tells you and even makes you do actual quests for them very useful!

[@MiscelaneaReview]

Charge Attack is the same as old games. You just press Y and then make a circle with the left stick, it charges right away rather than waiting to charge.

[@guilmon182]

I don't think the game needs to tell you about the Charge Attack. It's a Zelda game. Everyone knows to hold the attack button to do that sweet spin.

[@jaredrodriguez7222]

Like how u have to go to a diary then get a fish to finish a dish to get a fucking shirt that keeps u warm so u can go to a shrine

[@ProbyWaN1337]

That one guy everyone remembers the are 3 ways to get that tunic. you don't have to give him the recipe

[@jaredrodriguez7222]

ProbyWaN1337 damn it

[@ididit4fun]

wait, what are you talking about? the warm doublet? all I had to do was climb a mountain and the old man gave it to me. and I did that after doing the shrine lol I just made a few meals with the spicy pepper.

[@Ba12a198]

just cook a meal with a spicy pepper or use a torch and talk to the old man at the top of the mountain

[@jaredrodriguez7222]

Blake Antone or make the dish and get the tunic

[@lilymcguigan3435]

1 there are I think five fairy fountains, one of which is the Horse God who can bring your horse back to life, (which is also useful for trading horses if you run out of room in the stable.... A little dark but useful) 2 most of these (like the perfect dodge) tell you somewhere in the game, like, one of the people on Hebra Mountain, (or one of the stables) tells you about shield surfing, and also another useful tips is that you shield durability doesn't deplete when on snow or sand (unless you fall onto the ground with your shield out) And back to the Fairy Fountains, the one's in Kakariko Village and Tabantha Region I don't think have any benefits, but the one in the Akala Region I believe you don't need as many materials, and the one in Gerudo Desert can upgrade it four times instead of three like the other ones

[@Todie85]

Side note: wilder horses can harm enemies by kicking at them. The amount of times you can upgrade your gear is proportionate to the amount of fairy fountains you have unlocked, so if you want to upgrade your stuff to the max, you will need to find and pay them all, which amounts to well over 10k rupees!

[@AuzzMose]

I’m just starting out in Switch love the games

[@igortrindade9644]

Dark souls players are like "Dodge? Parry? what is this?!".

[@SashaMasonVR]

Just recently finished Dark Souls 3, then started Zelda Breath of the Wild, and noticed you can parry. I'm like: "Totally not from Dark Souls".

[@TomatoesInMyRamen]

You could dodge/parry in twilight princess and skyward sword -_-

[@SashaMasonVR]

+TomatoesInMyRamen If only I would've played those games

[@giantWario]

What annoys me the most about Dark Souls diehard fans is that they keep thinking that Dark Souls invented shit that it quite obviously didn't. I love Dark Souls but when you get down to it, it didn't do anything original with its gameplay or mechanics at all. It did do all of them extremely well though.

[@TheGlasgowGamer]

You are not applying this to me right? Because I totally agree with you. Souls did not invent the mechanics. It merely implemented them in a unique fashion.

[@luckyrichardson1677]

Here are a couple things I would have added to your tips list. more of an in addition to though really. You can also use fairies to help improve your cooking. Using elemental attacks help stop or disarm your opponents giving you time to do a power attack.

[@ti07shadow]

heh learned quite a bit from this. such as the reassign heart and stamina, never noticed nor knew that!

[@InternetRat]

whats that song at the beginning of the video? tis lovely

[@linktheordonianhero9098]

Ah yes, the Hillian Tunic. Worn by the folks who live in Hirrule. The HYLIAN Tunic, however, is what appears in Breath of the Wild.

[@jenniferchough]

haha nice!

[@schalaofzeal]

I started playing Legend of Zelda long before they added spoken dialogue to the game. It's too late to change my pronunciations now! :D

[@20marzboy]

there's 4 great fairy fountains.... good informative guide guys nice >_>

[@julieyeonglee4865]

TYSM for the job ur doing u r teaching me so much keep it up bud! 😄😁😃

[@okinawacairo8224]

or "9 Things That Are Really Fun And Magical To Discover On Your Own While Playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

[@AriakeMikazuki]

More hate than love in comments --> haters have time to comment while fans are busy playing the game.

[@RadionWave]

The battle techniques are explained in a shrine near Kakariko Village, it's a shrine needed to quick travel so many people likely checked it out

[@Warstonescoolnoobs]

I’ve only just started to play this game...amazing!

[@dimitriboaz998]

Here's a handy tip: you may have seen Link with a paraglider in the promotional material of this game. During the beginning minutes, you exit a cave and you're introduced to the vast, flourishing land of Hyrule. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE PARAGLIDER IS ALREADY IN YOUR INVENTORY AND JUMP OFF THAT CLIFF. I can personally assure you that, no, it is not

[@emoimo4171]

... Dumbass.

[@emoimo4171]

... You have to pick up your fucking PANTS, dipshit. Seriously, how stupid can you possibly be?

[@dimitriboaz998]

Emo Imo Is this how you make yourself feel better after the bullies mop your ass up? Is this what you do with your life?

[@dimitriboaz998]

Emo Imo Oh now you're quiet? Ran off to pretend to do something with your life? Ran off to patrol another video's comment section? You think peoplr are going to think you're cool when you run up on them through fucking KZbin? Sorry piece of shit.

[@MiauMichigan]

LoL 😂😂😂😂

[@TheNetworkDNB]

What's the music at the beginning at the video? Anyone know?

[@EnteIexia]

I just discovered that you can change your *Horse's appearance and gear!* At the *Highland stable* (to the South near Faron grassland) talk to *Phanna* while your on your horse. The only thing is she would only edit if the horse has a strong bond with you so choose a horse that loves you. She can change the mane color/type, bridle, and saddle . You can receive an *Extravagant Bridle* from *Blynne* in the same stable by beating his time in the horse course.

[@THE3ELITEGAMERS]

Keep every guardian part you find it comes very useful later in the game , and i find that the rare gems are rarely worth the item you use them for so sell them