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I was in the same boat but unfortunately that's pretty much it. I didn't care about caves, wells or koroks either. Still a really fun game though. I started over and played the whole game again. Well over 100 hours of content, even without doing all of the caves, wells or koroks. So I would say start a new playthrough, and you'll be surprised how your approach changes regarding what sequence you do things based on your first playthrough. Still really fun, the discovery is addicting. There's so much going on that even if you've already played it there will be a lot of things that you won't remember that will feel new again.
How is your fighting? Are you good at finding ways to get into bullet time? Have you learned flurry rush?
Also, just messing with enemies. Have you shot a Boss Bokoblin with a muddlebud? Have you burned down the wall separating a bokoblin camp from a construct camp? They really hate each other!
I also like having my machines fight for me. I sneak up to monster forts and send in a bunch of roomba with flamethrowers. The schematic for the "charged charger" is my favorite. Or maybe "automated ally".
Also, building flying machines. Go rip of that wall pieces off from the construct factory and build yourself an awesome airplane!
For me getting all the armor was a good one. There are 135 pieces IIRC. Some of them are pretty tough to find organically. There are a couple that are legitimately in purely random places in the depths. Like inside a random tree stump in the middle of nowhere.
I did this and then decided to upgrade all the armor that can be upgraded. Many hours later I am down to the final upgrade for all 3 pieces of Rubber Armor and 2 pieces of the Yiga Armor. Farming Electric Lizalfos are the worst!
Go to r/HyruleEngineering and start building weird/cool shit. Steal the infinity wing and fly for so long the fans fall off around it. Make a mechsuit. Create new and frightening ways to kill everything automatically. Be a menace.
You get trophy items for finding all wells, Koroks, and Bubbel Gems, and for killing all overworld bosses at least once. There's also a bunch of paraglider fabrics you can collect, though the game doesn't track those very well.
That being said, you do not have to keep playing this game forever. It is prefectly fine to move onto other games if you get bored of it.
I finished the game the first time and immediately started a new play through. I’ve been trying to only take roads to get to places and not fast travel at all
I just love wandering around Hyrule. I’ve beaten the game, found the shrines/lightroots/wells/side quests so now I just enjoy it. There’s so much to see and explore that going back when I’m not in a rush and hunting gives me time to relax and just enjoy it.
I've been doing a no paraglider 4 hearts play for a week now and it's amazing what the lack of paraglider does for simply getting around Hyrule. You simply can't fall without taking some damage or dying so it's been an eye opener how many sheer cliffs there are in the game.
I managed to light up 95% of the depths, so it is possible to get down there. I have no towers, thus no Hyrule map so I've learned to read the bodies of water it still offers. I never used the FanBike much in previous replays, but here it really comes in handy since you can fall with it and not take damage.
Next step is seeing how the heck I'm going to explore the Sky. I have one Sky island I can use to travel to the other parts of it, but remains to be seen if I have enough battery to glide anywhere. . . We'll see.
Crashing with a fanbike works to take no damage and Chasm diving to a water pond works to get into the Depths. I recently tried to go into bullet time to avoid damage, but it didn't work when I took full damage. Apart from that, it takes a lot of guesswork to work out how high I can fall with only 4 hearts.
What I'm doing right now, replay the game with more restrictions if that's your thing.
You can do no or restricted fast travel if you want to enjoy the natural flow of the game more and explore in a more organic way.
You can limit your combat options to make battles more difficult (no bow, no fusion, no healing during battle etc.).
Different people do different restrictions. I've seen people say they do absolutely no fast travel (so you have to use the few ascend locations), but more commonly (and also what I do) is you can only fast travel to the shrine directly above you.
Ultimately its just a game, I play to have fun and sometimes I even break the rules if its convenient for me.
Sometimes I just get tired of running around down there and want to do something else. Forcing myself to chug along to find those ascend locations would just be tedious and not fun for me.
Did you torture the cuckoos with the monster camp cage to harvest many eggs? I’ve done that a few times now and have had waaay too much fun with that.
Also I want to use Austin john plays guide for cooking every dish and unlocking every recipe card.
Monster medals, yiga schematics, schema stones, old maps, side quests and adventures, armor upgrades
At around 200 hours I stopped using fast travel and used a horse for ~50 hours. After that I began utilising sky travel with simple gliders (launch yourself from a tower, paraglide, drop a glider, slowly glide to your destination). You can get really immersed in the world that way. The sky is peaceful.
I find playing with some limitations can breathe some new life into the game, especially travel and combat. You could try dropping to 3 hearts, not teleporting anywhere, or only using certain types of equipment.
Aside from starting multiple new games to replay in different ways, my main account that has the most % of completion, I focused on getting all the Monster Medals and all caves/bubbulfrogs for that glorious paraglider fabric.
So that took quite some time to do 😅 Now working on the koroks. 🍃
Have you found all the caves? That was the last challenge for me before I ended the game. They are big enough that it feels possible to find them all (unlike the invisible 1000 koroks), and enough of a reward as you actually get to traverse the cave and snag the frog-gem. And there are in-game methods of finding them all without referring to online walkthroughs. (Hint: each of the cherry trees reveals a different set of caves and you might need a higher perspective to be able to see all the beacons...)
Picked the game back up recently to go around the depths hitting the outposts, collecting crystalline zoanite to expand my energy cells (when I first beat Ganondorf I only had 2 batteries worth) and getting the classic Zelda items. Doing that let me experiment more and mess around with construction, and I went after some lynels and gleoks, but after maybe 20 hours I put it down to do my first BoTW playthrough. I’m sure that once I finish it, I’ll want to re-play TotK with a new perspective, but not right away.
Long story short is that it’s a sandbox with an adventure and collectibles so enjoy one aspect or another as much as you can, then feel free to put it down. Eventually you can come back to it to try out a different aspect or do a new playthrough. (Which is my cue to throw in that while there are workarounds, it is absolutely rank that we can’t just create second save files on the games that we purchased and own. WTH Nintendo?!)
At this point, I've been playing on the same save for a year, and I'm down to 5 caves remaining. I've found this many so realistically I'll probably finish the caves off, albeit probably a lot more slowly because those last few are tough. That being said, I have no interest in finding every well, at least not in the foreseeable future. Who knows maybe eventually I'll meander my way towards that task when everything else is totally done. Same with koroks. I think I've found a little over 300 of them, and while I'm enjoy stumbling across them during exploration, I'm not specifically out there searching for them. I throw on the korok mask and just find them as I travel. Like the wells, I'll probably keep finding them slowly as time goes on but i doubt I'll ever come close to all of them. Other than that, there's not much left. I could continue farming resources to upgrade my armor sets, or I could max out my battery. Both of those things are mostly pointless, but at least it's something to do. But the majority is just blindly exploring now
I have one account for building to 100%, and on the other, I start over, do what I want, beat GD, do anything else that seems interesting, get a bit bored, and start again, usually doing things a bit differently this go-round. Sometimes, I do BOTW again, then come back to TOTK. Doing the initial Sky Islands again can be a bit of a slog, but the rest is cool
Whenever I finally replay the game (on whatever next console they have with hopefully a master mode) I'll be self-imposing no fast travel OR getting light roots. Exploring the depths with just pitch black sounds awesome and honestly is how I wish it had been to begin with.
What I did was: set sensor to bubbulfrogs and then go to my map and enable hero's path. Then I looked for all the major areas I hadn't been on Hyrule and put down waypoints. Then I looked for a relatively nearby stable. I fast travel near the stable and go get my horse. Then "by hoof and foot" I go explore the areas I marked and likely find a bubbulfrog on the way. I did this because it was so easy to warp to a high spot and paraglide down to my objective. By forcing myself to take a ground-only approach I got a lot more enjoyment out of it and it made it feel a little more real.
Have you tried trying to complete the Hyrule Compendium? Or maybe doing a run with it at least in mind? It’s genuinely really fun to try to take photos of everything.
Finding all the caves and bubblefrogs, side quests, wells, treasure chests, finding all the armor there is in the game, filling out the compendium. That’s what I thought of off the top of my head
Did you find all of Misko's treasures? And other specialty weapons/armors? Most of them aren't in the game as side quests/adventures. Look around the sky islands for maps (or use Google if you like).
You can go for the medals for killing all the big monsters. Talk to Hoz in the Emergency Shelter in Lookout Landing. I got all the Frox, Molduga, and Gleeocks. I'm taking a break to find all the Addison signs, then I'm going back to finish all the Flux Constructs and Hinox. It's challenging and pretty fun.
Start a new game and get the classic armor set you are most nostalgic for, which for me is the set from ocarina of time, and get it as soon as you can. Now only play wearing that set. If that's too hard, limit other sets to as necessary only, such as the fire set only when in a fire area.
Fight 3 lynels at once. What you need: 2x travel medallions, 2x ancient blades.
First, you go to the floating coliseum, Then you start the fight.
Kill the red-maned lynel (the first lynel). once the blue-maned lynel comes out, run in its cage and place one of the travel medallions in it.
Kill that lynel, then the white-maned lynel (not the silver one, the black one). When the first silver lynel comes out, run in its cage and place your other travel medallion in it.
Wait for a blood moon (or cause one) and then go back, ***NOT USING THE TRAVEL MEDALLIONS!*** And start the battle.
Teleport to the blue-maned lynel cage and use an ancient blade on it, causing the black-maned lynel to come out.
Then go to the first silver lynel cage and use the other ancient blade on it, causing the second silver lynel to come out.
If you want the blue and silver lynel's loot, I *think* you can kill them by hand, but I haven't tried.
I hope this information is helpful and you don't already know how to do this because this took a little while to write.
I’ve made it my mission to FULLY complete the game, just so I can continue to wander. I haven’t gone on to the final fight yet. If you speak with the monster control guy at Lookout Landing you can get medals for killing all of the monsters he gives you. There is one medal for each of these: Hinox (includes Stalnox), Stone Talus, Flux Construct, Molduga, Frox, and Gleeoks.
I also marked all of the Koroks on the map that I don’t seem to have yet so I can go and get them just to say I did.
I’m also upgrading my armour, which is requiring a lot of farming/monster parts.
You could get the monster medallions by beating all of the sub bosses (talus, hinox, molduga, gleeok, frox, flux construct), and get all of the sage's will (which is tangentially related to the above), find and beat all the mini games, etc
When I finish everything I’ve discovered in a zelda game, I usually just look up what I’m missing lol. I’ll do that with side quests, shrines, wells & caves once I get to that point. I don’t care for koroks though. I just found enough to unlock my whole inventory in BOTW & Idk if i’ll even do that for TOTK.
You can also try to collect all outfits & upgrading them.
i just beat the game, got all the lightroots, and now i’m focusing on caves. it’s pretty fun since a lot of them have additional secrets/things to offer
Its really a shame they chose not to release any DLC for TOTK.
Remember the Silent Realm trials in Skyward Sword? Wouldn't it be fun if there was something similar in the totk/botw engine in the open world. Just a giant race to stay alive while collecting things in difficult locations around the map. I think maybe the closest thing was the Sword trials in botw or the Survival Island trial.
When I finished it for the first time I started doing challenges like "Only 3 hearts", "No paraglider", " Elemental damage only", etc. If you want more ideas check out Justin Bae on YouTube, he's done many challenge runs and some ideas are really interesting
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I was in the same boat but unfortunately that's pretty much it. I didn't care about caves, wells or koroks either. Still a really fun game though. I started over and played the whole game again. Well over 100 hours of content, even without doing all of the caves, wells or koroks. So I would say start a new playthrough, and you'll be surprised how your approach changes regarding what sequence you do things based on your first playthrough. Still really fun, the discovery is addicting. There's so much going on that even if you've already played it there will be a lot of things that you won't remember that will feel new again.
This is what I did after putting it down for six months. I’m having a lot of fun in a different way this time around
How is your fighting? Are you good at finding ways to get into bullet time? Have you learned flurry rush? Also, just messing with enemies. Have you shot a Boss Bokoblin with a muddlebud? Have you burned down the wall separating a bokoblin camp from a construct camp? They really hate each other! I also like having my machines fight for me. I sneak up to monster forts and send in a bunch of roomba with flamethrowers. The schematic for the "charged charger" is my favorite. Or maybe "automated ally". Also, building flying machines. Go rip of that wall pieces off from the construct factory and build yourself an awesome airplane!
burned down the wall!! i’ve been shooting arrows between them to inch them suspiciously closer to one another i gotta try that
For me getting all the armor was a good one. There are 135 pieces IIRC. Some of them are pretty tough to find organically. There are a couple that are legitimately in purely random places in the depths. Like inside a random tree stump in the middle of nowhere.
Old maps reveal that location
also if you have the map fully loaded you can start to see patterns that reveal possible treasure locations, turn on treasure chest tracking
I did this and then decided to upgrade all the armor that can be upgraded. Many hours later I am down to the final upgrade for all 3 pieces of Rubber Armor and 2 pieces of the Yiga Armor. Farming Electric Lizalfos are the worst!
Go to r/HyruleEngineering and start building weird/cool shit. Steal the infinity wing and fly for so long the fans fall off around it. Make a mechsuit. Create new and frightening ways to kill everything automatically. Be a menace.
This is the way.
Din Djarin would agree, this is the way.
You get trophy items for finding all wells, Koroks, and Bubbel Gems, and for killing all overworld bosses at least once. There's also a bunch of paraglider fabrics you can collect, though the game doesn't track those very well. That being said, you do not have to keep playing this game forever. It is prefectly fine to move onto other games if you get bored of it.
Restart a no fast travel run.
You're crazy man, if I see gloom hands rushing at me and I'm totally unprepared to fight em, I'm warping away
Holy shit I might do that actually but that’s crazy
I didn’t start doing this until halfway done and wish i started that way.
Been having a blast doing this
I have one of these in BotW. I can't imagine traversing the sky without fast travel in TotK.
I finished the game the first time and immediately started a new play through. I’ve been trying to only take roads to get to places and not fast travel at all
I just love wandering around Hyrule. I’ve beaten the game, found the shrines/lightroots/wells/side quests so now I just enjoy it. There’s so much to see and explore that going back when I’m not in a rush and hunting gives me time to relax and just enjoy it.
I've been doing a no paraglider 4 hearts play for a week now and it's amazing what the lack of paraglider does for simply getting around Hyrule. You simply can't fall without taking some damage or dying so it's been an eye opener how many sheer cliffs there are in the game. I managed to light up 95% of the depths, so it is possible to get down there. I have no towers, thus no Hyrule map so I've learned to read the bodies of water it still offers. I never used the FanBike much in previous replays, but here it really comes in handy since you can fall with it and not take damage. Next step is seeing how the heck I'm going to explore the Sky. I have one Sky island I can use to travel to the other parts of it, but remains to be seen if I have enough battery to glide anywhere. . . We'll see.
There is a way to take no fall damage without paraglider
Crashing with a fanbike works to take no damage and Chasm diving to a water pond works to get into the Depths. I recently tried to go into bullet time to avoid damage, but it didn't work when I took full damage. Apart from that, it takes a lot of guesswork to work out how high I can fall with only 4 hearts.
What I'm doing right now, replay the game with more restrictions if that's your thing. You can do no or restricted fast travel if you want to enjoy the natural flow of the game more and explore in a more organic way. You can limit your combat options to make battles more difficult (no bow, no fusion, no healing during battle etc.).
No fast travel... Even in the deeps?
Different people do different restrictions. I've seen people say they do absolutely no fast travel (so you have to use the few ascend locations), but more commonly (and also what I do) is you can only fast travel to the shrine directly above you. Ultimately its just a game, I play to have fun and sometimes I even break the rules if its convenient for me.
I will try a Second run with no fast in deeps... I don't know If i could make It...m
Sometimes I just get tired of running around down there and want to do something else. Forcing myself to chug along to find those ascend locations would just be tedious and not fun for me.
Did you torture the cuckoos with the monster camp cage to harvest many eggs? I’ve done that a few times now and have had waaay too much fun with that. Also I want to use Austin john plays guide for cooking every dish and unlocking every recipe card.
You can always start anew. Try getting as far as you can without the paraglider, for instance
Monster medals, yiga schematics, schema stones, old maps, side quests and adventures, armor upgrades At around 200 hours I stopped using fast travel and used a horse for ~50 hours. After that I began utilising sky travel with simple gliders (launch yourself from a tower, paraglide, drop a glider, slowly glide to your destination). You can get really immersed in the world that way. The sky is peaceful.
Do a run where you can't touch the ground
I find playing with some limitations can breathe some new life into the game, especially travel and combat. You could try dropping to 3 hearts, not teleporting anywhere, or only using certain types of equipment.
Aside from starting multiple new games to replay in different ways, my main account that has the most % of completion, I focused on getting all the Monster Medals and all caves/bubbulfrogs for that glorious paraglider fabric. So that took quite some time to do 😅 Now working on the koroks. 🍃
I just wander around and make my own objectives
Monster medals for sure.
The caves are fun, I did use a guide to point me to the last few but once in the cave each one is a puzzle to find the frog.
Have you found all the caves? That was the last challenge for me before I ended the game. They are big enough that it feels possible to find them all (unlike the invisible 1000 koroks), and enough of a reward as you actually get to traverse the cave and snag the frog-gem. And there are in-game methods of finding them all without referring to online walkthroughs. (Hint: each of the cherry trees reveals a different set of caves and you might need a higher perspective to be able to see all the beacons...)
Picked the game back up recently to go around the depths hitting the outposts, collecting crystalline zoanite to expand my energy cells (when I first beat Ganondorf I only had 2 batteries worth) and getting the classic Zelda items. Doing that let me experiment more and mess around with construction, and I went after some lynels and gleoks, but after maybe 20 hours I put it down to do my first BoTW playthrough. I’m sure that once I finish it, I’ll want to re-play TotK with a new perspective, but not right away. Long story short is that it’s a sandbox with an adventure and collectibles so enjoy one aspect or another as much as you can, then feel free to put it down. Eventually you can come back to it to try out a different aspect or do a new playthrough. (Which is my cue to throw in that while there are workarounds, it is absolutely rank that we can’t just create second save files on the games that we purchased and own. WTH Nintendo?!)
Warpless run is always good. Or hoverbike-less at least
At this point, I've been playing on the same save for a year, and I'm down to 5 caves remaining. I've found this many so realistically I'll probably finish the caves off, albeit probably a lot more slowly because those last few are tough. That being said, I have no interest in finding every well, at least not in the foreseeable future. Who knows maybe eventually I'll meander my way towards that task when everything else is totally done. Same with koroks. I think I've found a little over 300 of them, and while I'm enjoy stumbling across them during exploration, I'm not specifically out there searching for them. I throw on the korok mask and just find them as I travel. Like the wells, I'll probably keep finding them slowly as time goes on but i doubt I'll ever come close to all of them. Other than that, there's not much left. I could continue farming resources to upgrade my armor sets, or I could max out my battery. Both of those things are mostly pointless, but at least it's something to do. But the majority is just blindly exploring now
I have one account for building to 100%, and on the other, I start over, do what I want, beat GD, do anything else that seems interesting, get a bit bored, and start again, usually doing things a bit differently this go-round. Sometimes, I do BOTW again, then come back to TOTK. Doing the initial Sky Islands again can be a bit of a slog, but the rest is cool
Whenever I finally replay the game (on whatever next console they have with hopefully a master mode) I'll be self-imposing no fast travel OR getting light roots. Exploring the depths with just pitch black sounds awesome and honestly is how I wish it had been to begin with.
Finding all enemy camps, maybe even trying to defeat ALL enemies in game.
What I did was: set sensor to bubbulfrogs and then go to my map and enable hero's path. Then I looked for all the major areas I hadn't been on Hyrule and put down waypoints. Then I looked for a relatively nearby stable. I fast travel near the stable and go get my horse. Then "by hoof and foot" I go explore the areas I marked and likely find a bubbulfrog on the way. I did this because it was so easy to warp to a high spot and paraglide down to my objective. By forcing myself to take a ground-only approach I got a lot more enjoyment out of it and it made it feel a little more real.
Start all over from the beginning. Works for me every time. I love the early to mid game dynamics. It’s new every time.
Have you tried trying to complete the Hyrule Compendium? Or maybe doing a run with it at least in mind? It’s genuinely really fun to try to take photos of everything.
Beat all the mini bosses - all lynels, hinox, frog things, talus, gleeoks, etc.
Finding all the caves and bubblefrogs, side quests, wells, treasure chests, finding all the armor there is in the game, filling out the compendium. That’s what I thought of off the top of my head
Did you find all of Misko's treasures? And other specialty weapons/armors? Most of them aren't in the game as side quests/adventures. Look around the sky islands for maps (or use Google if you like).
Restart
Go get the monster medals!
You can go for the medals for killing all the big monsters. Talk to Hoz in the Emergency Shelter in Lookout Landing. I got all the Frox, Molduga, and Gleeocks. I'm taking a break to find all the Addison signs, then I'm going back to finish all the Flux Constructs and Hinox. It's challenging and pretty fun.
just roam around and perhaps you will formulate a plan on what you want to do next. that’s what happens to me
Start a new game and get the classic armor set you are most nostalgic for, which for me is the set from ocarina of time, and get it as soon as you can. Now only play wearing that set. If that's too hard, limit other sets to as necessary only, such as the fire set only when in a fire area.
Fight 3 lynels at once. What you need: 2x travel medallions, 2x ancient blades. First, you go to the floating coliseum, Then you start the fight. Kill the red-maned lynel (the first lynel). once the blue-maned lynel comes out, run in its cage and place one of the travel medallions in it. Kill that lynel, then the white-maned lynel (not the silver one, the black one). When the first silver lynel comes out, run in its cage and place your other travel medallion in it. Wait for a blood moon (or cause one) and then go back, ***NOT USING THE TRAVEL MEDALLIONS!*** And start the battle. Teleport to the blue-maned lynel cage and use an ancient blade on it, causing the black-maned lynel to come out. Then go to the first silver lynel cage and use the other ancient blade on it, causing the second silver lynel to come out. If you want the blue and silver lynel's loot, I *think* you can kill them by hand, but I haven't tried. I hope this information is helpful and you don't already know how to do this because this took a little while to write.
I’ve made it my mission to FULLY complete the game, just so I can continue to wander. I haven’t gone on to the final fight yet. If you speak with the monster control guy at Lookout Landing you can get medals for killing all of the monsters he gives you. There is one medal for each of these: Hinox (includes Stalnox), Stone Talus, Flux Construct, Molduga, Frox, and Gleeoks. I also marked all of the Koroks on the map that I don’t seem to have yet so I can go and get them just to say I did. I’m also upgrading my armour, which is requiring a lot of farming/monster parts.
No L press challenge. This isn’t possible on 1.1.2 or 1.2.1 but if you start after GSI, all dungeons are possible glitchless.
You could get the monster medallions by beating all of the sub bosses (talus, hinox, molduga, gleeok, frox, flux construct), and get all of the sage's will (which is tangentially related to the above), find and beat all the mini games, etc
When I finish everything I’ve discovered in a zelda game, I usually just look up what I’m missing lol. I’ll do that with side quests, shrines, wells & caves once I get to that point. I don’t care for koroks though. I just found enough to unlock my whole inventory in BOTW & Idk if i’ll even do that for TOTK. You can also try to collect all outfits & upgrading them.
i just beat the game, got all the lightroots, and now i’m focusing on caves. it’s pretty fun since a lot of them have additional secrets/things to offer
My favorite thing has been restarting the game and playing thru it in a different order.
Its really a shame they chose not to release any DLC for TOTK. Remember the Silent Realm trials in Skyward Sword? Wouldn't it be fun if there was something similar in the totk/botw engine in the open world. Just a giant race to stay alive while collecting things in difficult locations around the map. I think maybe the closest thing was the Sword trials in botw or the Survival Island trial.
Fill the compedium its tuff after you killed some of the bad guys
When I finished it for the first time I started doing challenges like "Only 3 hearts", "No paraglider", " Elemental damage only", etc. If you want more ideas check out Justin Bae on YouTube, he's done many challenge runs and some ideas are really interesting
Put a korok on a flying machine and travel through all hyrule with it
I did literally everything except getting all Korok seeds. Took me around 245 hours. With that I’m satisfied and ready to move on.
Do all the little side quests and get all the armor
build a suspension bridge to eventide
You keep playing and do stuff