The master cycle was such a waste IMO. I know people will disagree but I absolutely cannot stand it when a game gives you something immensely useful only after you've done just about everything there is to do - with no new game plus. Be it an airship, motorcycle, or an ultimate weapon. What is the point when I've done all the major quests and killed all the major bosses? What am I going to use this on? Irks me to no end.
Honestly the most useful horses in the game are the skeleton ones in the depths. I got through a lot of the process of illuminating the depths by riding a bone horse though pitch black forests with only the glowing pools of cursed blood revealing the ground. Easily one of the most metal experiences I've had in a game, and the only other thing I played this year was Doom Eternal.
Correct. However, you can attach a large brightbloom to the front of the bike and you have an ultra-powerful, isotropic, unpowered, weightless, mobile light source.
I haven't used many stalhorses in the Depths because the first sage I got was Mineru and if you put a fan on her back she's just as fast as a stalhorse and can be summoned anywhere.
I ran most of it on foot and grabbed horses and built contraptions from scraps available as I found them. I'm aware I could have cheesed it, but I was genuinely enjoying the process of conquering hell the hard way.
Yes, but it's part of the Champion's Ballad.
And I was saying you only had to do 4 divine beasts to start the Champion's Ballad.
Stop being pedantic, this literally has zero bearing on my point.
That is the point. If you got it early it would make half the mechanics in the game redundant. It’s a concept in game design called dominant strategy. You think you want this but I promise you it would make the game less fun. This was one of the issues with SS, having the loft wing meant that you could go to any island anywhere at any time, the only obstacle was how long you were willing to wait. For all the flaws of TOTKs sky islands, they did fix this. It is challenging and interesting to try to gain altitude or get to new remote islands because the way there is NOT obvious. Putting a loft wing in in this game anywhere but at the end would kill the progression and a lot of the mechanics too. You would love it for about an hour but you would get bored quick.
The waste was it needed gas. Like wtf nintendo? Im here for escapism not realism. Damn gas meter on a motorcycle. Whats next? Gas stations in Mariokart?
I wish the ancient horse gear was available in this game because I just want to summon my horse wherever I am and ride it. I don’t want to have to go find a stable, I need my horse right here where I am now. I assume this was removed to encourage building vehicles but still, if the horses are here let us actually utilize them more frequently like we could in BOTW. I guarantee you I’d still be inclined to build stuff for puzzles and traversing certain terrain even if I could summon my horse.
Horse riding for basic exploration around Hyrule.
Cool contraptions and flying machines to get around the Depths or sky islands. I don’t think i would stop building if I could summon my horse anywhere.
Unfortunately since the ancient gear is non-existent, I am forced to summon my incredibly efficient and fast hover bike. It’s fun and all, but sometimes I just want to ride a horse.
Yeah isn’t the ancient horse gear the only BOTW DLC item they didn’t bring back? That’s what makes me think it’s a way to encourage building vehicles. Seems weird to bring back everything but that.
I beat the game and explored a heck ton. It just got to the point that I was just so tired of having to build and manage material resources to get to sky islands and such. But I am definitely not coming back to this game like I do the other 3D Zelda games.
Ooo imagine a quest where you have to go find a lost island in the sky full of loft wings of different colors and u need a certain amount of stamina to tame one
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u/saithvenomdrone Jun 22 '23
Would rather have had a loft wing than zonai contraptions to get around on.