#and i finished getting the vow of mineru

[10pm-cafe-lattes]

my thoughts after tears of the kingdom

i finished it two days ago and this is when i have the time to actually make a post and this game deserves a post.

spoilers below! you have been Warned.

my thoughts, in no particular order:

the post-credit end scene made me cry... very badly... mineru sounds so proud but also so sweet and oh my goodness. and then tHE SAGES JUST BEING FRIENDS AND REHEARSING THEIR VOW TO ZELDA???

i'd like to think they didn't clue link in. just kinda whispered 'get back when we do' and link was just as surprised as his girlfriend (i am a zelink truther.)

i'm here for the sages being friends

the final boss battle was Brutal and you have no idea how relieved i was when the sages joined the party. i was like 'oh my god YES thank you so much' (side note: sapphire scepter MVP for the monster army phase)

GIANT DRAGON FIGHT. EPIC. MY HEART WHEN THE LIGHT DRAGON DASHED IN TO SAVE LINK OH MY GOODNESS ZELDA STILL REMEMBERS HIM IN SOME CAPACITY. AND THEN YOU HELP GUIDE?? ZELDA??? i might write something about it.

i love my mini spirit army aka the sages. riju's little lightning dance is so pretty, sidon is. sidon (and i love how they explored what losing mipha really meant with the water temple), tulin's an excitable talented baby who must be PROTECTED and it's nice to see yunobo taking charge

zelda... my beloved... light dragon... i did the final fight with a shard of her horn attached to the master sword because i wanted her to be there in spirit for the fight too... i kept apologising and going 'sorry zel, just a shard of your horn, okay? i'll clear the shards of your spikes away for you'

dragon's tears quest Destroyed me. it's tears of the kingdom because zelda represents hyrule because she's the blood of the goddess and therefore the tears of the kingdom-

hear me out. link should have cried too so then the tears of the kingdom are the tears of the hero and the princess

THE HAIR TIE. AND THE CHAMPION'S LEATHERS.

i haven't even done all the side adventures... i have to do those...

my hoarding tendencies versus 'sharp thing with many power stick it on the sword.'

100/10 game i love it...

FIERCE DEITY SET GOD DAMN i have the fierce deity set + sword and also the dusk claymore and link is in his Past Lives era

using autobuild to harvest apples >>>>

i never thought i would miss the guardians... and then i met gloom hands... and i was like 'give me BACK the laser spiders

also why did you complain about calamity ganon being too easy... it took me three tries to get through ganondorf...

#feel free to rb with your own experiences o(>ω<)o #this game has emotionally wrecked me but it was beautiful #i was on call with my s/o while i was playing the ending and then i cried #also LINK AND ZELDA SHARE THE HOUSE. THEY DO. #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #legend of zelda #zelink #totk link #totk zelda #totk zelink #totk #loz botw #loz totk #loz

[phoenixcatch7]

Totk end game/post credit spoilers

Me during the final blow and final cutscenes:

^ Link finally getting to beat up the guy that (caused the last century of problems, nearly killed hyrule, wiped out his friends and family, poisoned his friends homes,) took zelda.

^ me. The final dungeon (?) and battle was so so so good and I got to plunge my sword into ganons human body which I will admit I have missed. He tried to flurry rush me!! Failed but still. Rude. I styled on his soon-to-be corpse to show how it was done.

^ girls when the credits roll

^ girls when the credits finish and they see their favourite sage dying after showing her successors her favourite view and passing on the torch to the next generation ten thousand years late but assured a bright future free of suffering, oblivious to the curse of demise trapping hyrule in an eternal loop and link having to stand there and know better and then it cuts to the collapsed construct outside the temple.

^ girls internally when the door knocks and they've got to act normal about it for two minutes.

Notes about the fights:

The gloom shroud/Phantom ganon waiting outside was a pussy as always. Dropped his bow which I appreciated. The white moblin on the other side got shoved off onto his remains. Good build up to the main event.

The demon army was straight out of skyward sword, less satisfying given the lack of physical progress and implied time limit but it was still a fun treat. Didn't get to use any of my fun things though, and the sages made up for their lack of tactical usefulness and REFUSING TO LET ME USE THEIR ABILITIES and BLOCKING MY VIEW and INTERRUPTING MY ATTACKS by their sheer damage output, they deal with several monsters while I was busy. Then they immediately got pulled away by the temple bosses, which kind of dampened the mood. Bye, I guess.

Ganon was literally sitting in a malice hot tub. Straight up marinating in that hot tub like he was a washed up celebrity taking a fake candid photo at a blow out party he hosted at his oversized Beverly hills mansion months before he had to sell it.

Getting to fight rehydrated ganon was so cool! I will admit the way he built up the fight did something for me, the animators did a phenomenal job giving him a weight and power. I wanted to smash his smug face in so bad.

He was strong! Every hit from him knocked link over! But with his shield up it didn't do any damage, so I drew first blood! I always find that very important when fighting bosses XD. I actually had the biggest trouble with his sword, that thing was almost hilariously small on him and blended into the... Everything around link. When he switched to his club it went from worryingly hard to hilariously easy, I flurried literally every attack and didn't get a scratch! I was wary when he got his spear out but I'd gotten into a rhythm and took him out!

The demon king transformation was incredible! When that health bar just kept going I was so excited XD!! It's a fantastic trope/gimmick, love it every time! And the sages came back! And were somehow EVEN MORE HINDERING. He duplicated and everyone split up to fight one, which meant they were running all over the place. Unlike their vows these guys are fully opaque, and when three out of five are many times bigger than link it blocked out a significant portion of the battlefield, when I needed maximum vision to see and dodge the many shadowy ganons flitting in and out of view. I had a plan, I should have been able to pull it off beautifully - yunobo was closest so ram him into the nearest ganon to create distance to reach sidon and water blast through the forming line of ganons, climb mineru for a bullet time and fill everything with explosives.

What did not happen was all of that. I ended up taking the most damage by far in that portion of the fight. Instead of being a cool fight, a useful set of abilities or even an annoying but ignorable gimmick, the sages were active hindrances that blocked me at every turn, side rammed me with attacks aimed at the enemy, hid attacks aimed at me, and escaped my every attempt to reach them like their au was trained for that instead. The only success was reaching mineru to bullet time back flip from her, and by that point I was frustrated enough to use a significant portion of my ancient arrows. If I'd been using the vows I would have deactivated them barely a minute in and taken my chances with the phantoms! It was ridiculous! It was a relief when they got blasted away and it shouldn't have been!

But OH that TRANSFORMATION. I'd heard rumours of the dragon ganon, my own lack of blocking the totk spoiler tag being entirely my own fault, but it was still a shock to see him do what zelda had done, this time laughing manically, gladly willing to throw away even his mind and soul in pursuit of an ever foggy idea of power. (I can only assume he'd never actually seen a dragon before, and had only heard the myths surrounding then, because those guys are NOT designed for combat lol.) The fact that he went laughing as zelda went in pain and tears really cemented how far both were willing to go but how differently they saw it.

That evil dragon aesthetic was IMPECCABLE. 10/10 off the charts. The horns!! The eyes! The explosion! Forcing his way up through the castle with link trapped helplessly in a tooth! The giant claw emerging! The messed up dragon theme!!

And then ZELDA, my beautiful darling!!! I love her so much, even blind and empty, even gone and sleeping her dragon knew what to do against the thing she had been turned into to fight against. Oh she was BEAUTIFUL and so gentle with link, catching him on her fluffy head, she was so small in comparison! And link was absolutely tiny!!! Tiny boy!! She might not have known what to do herself, but she was pressed as close as she could get the whole time, darting about like a minnow in a pond compared to ganons barracuda thrashing. The sunset in the sky just made the whole thing look phenomenal.

The use of like like - esque stones instead of the calamitys eyes was inspired! The eyes would have been too much the same, and the introduction of likes trained us instinctively to hit the rock orb things as weak points. Unfortunately being that high up in the air and being so small comparatively meant judging distance was very hard, I wasted a lot of ancient and bomb arrows trying to hit them. It was only until the stone opened up (sir... Why did you put that BACK on your head?! Hide it in your body like the rest of the sane dragons!) that I realised you could land on him. In my defence he looked entirely comprised of gloom, which has spent the past month sucking my life out on contact so...

I was SO lucky to have my hero outfit on, ie the dyed travellers tunic and cap of the wild, it made every cutscene so cinematic! Sure felt like a zelda game! I took so many screenshots XD.

The final cutscenes though... I've been so worried about getting zelda back to human since I got the master sword glyph in eldin. I've been so, so determined to get her back. I would have done so side quests to do so - since she was a separate quest to defeating ganon I thought impa would give me the instructions! I was fully prepared to have to put in another ten hours or so and then fight ganon again to get the true ending!

And then Sonia and Rauru showed up again like 'that's our DAUGHTER' and gave link the power to rewind time over ten THOUSAND YEARS and turn her dragon soul back to a human ToT. And then they took links arm!! I was so mad! Give him his arm back?! Where did the flesh one even come from it got turned into a blackened lump on a pg screen! They can't even show blood! That arm was fully gone! You said yourself it was beyond - ohhhh they reversed time on his arm too. What is with Rauru and non consensual arm replacement?? I was a part zonai hybrid! The last piece of an extinct species! I could levitate and reverse time! Give me!! my arm back!!!

But Sonia finally got to meet link like she'd wanted and they got their closure after millenia and they said goodbye ToT.

And then link CAUGHT zelda. They landed in the pond he had all that time ago at the beginning, and he swam them to shore, and zelda woke UP and came HOME and SURVIVED after she'd lost all hope for herself and she got to come HOME 😭 (see pictures above for reference). And they SHOULD HAVE HUGGED NINTENDO, THEY SHOULD HAVE HUGGED.

I was crying so hard I literally couldn't see the screen ToT. I had to keep blinking and sniffling and I just SOBBED when the credits rolled. Wailing into the tissues. And then mineru and the sages! Dangit, not my favourite sage! Dangit, let me keep ONE zonai thing?? Thankfully I didn't burst into tears again but it got CLOSE.

All in all? 10/10 incredible showstopping unbelievable never been done before perfect amazing. Everything down to the camera angles were perfection made physical (or virtual). Just NEVER make me have to fight with the sages again.

#totk spoilers #END GAME TOTK SPOILERS #INCLUDING THE FINAL BOSS AND POST CREDITS. #loz #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk #loz totk #loz tears of the kingdom #the legend of zelda #long post #very long post #Like colour of the sky vibes long #Hands together for the best video game finale I've possibly ever seen #Nothing has had me in floods like this since the liushen wrecking ball animatic #I'm going to be going through those 100 screenshots when I'm more mentally stable XD #But omg the tied threads the performance of it all the parallels the dragon dog fight the CINEMA of it all #PERFECTION #10/10 for matt mercer for carrying that off stunningly evocative monologuing. Zeldas va has vastly improved her accent. #Whoever did the music we marry at sundown. #TEARS👏 OF👏 THE👏 KINGDOM #If this game doesn't get game of the year I'm rioting

[fuck-edfrugs]

It’s kinda funny how every website says you need to finish all the temples in TOTK and get the fifth sage quest to get access to the spirit temple. I’ve done two of the temples and just kinda. Flew into the storm, fucked around for a bit while following my shrine sensor and then fell into the room I needed to get to. Like. It doesn’t block access to it. I got minerus vow before I did either the water or lightning temple. Like it’s not hard. You just have to run around blind for a bit and fall into that room.

#TOTK spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers

[quaelgeist333]

Okay so I've finished getting all sage vows, just about to finish dragon tears so here's my plan

> get champions leather and upgrade all armor i think is helpful to full

> faroh scale for the diety armor as i can later duplicate it

> full battery (huge maybe)

> get more fans for flying machines

> gather lots of food

> get mineru's vow upgraded (another huge maybe)

> upgrade inventory

> find good material to fuse with the Master shield (rn it's attached to a wing)

> get more strong weapons and fusions (aka throw out bad weapons, fuse more and such, my plan is to use both the master sword and my silver lynel horn spear mainly as they're huge damage dealers)

> kill gleeoks (maybe) and do the colloseum at least once for that savage lynel bow incase my other one fails

> naturally comes with some others but doing lots of duplications (shoutout to me for not closing the switch since update 1.1 came out)

> do shrines for upgrades, aka a third stamina ring and more hearts

> get myself useful zonai blueprints by taking some builds others online have done and because of that, fans and batteries farming zonaite

Then i'm gonna fight matt mercer ganon

#totk spoilers #totk liveblog

[skyloftsword]

Tears of the Kingdom Story Summarized (Part 2)

Alright, have to make this multiple parts because character limit, here we go with the second part which should be MUCH shorter.

After Link goes to Tobio's Hollow, he then goes down into the Depths and is told to construct a new body for Mineru. Once the body was finished, they went to the Spirit Temple only to be greeted by a corrupted Construct. They defeat it and Mineru tells Link the complete story. After this, Link then sets off to the Great Hyrule Forest and Korok Forest to meet with the Deku Tree, but cannot with the normal way. So he then goes in there from the Depths. The Great Deku Tree was heavily harmed by a Phantom Ganon. Link saves him and is told where the Master Sword is. The Light Dragon lowers herself to make things easier for Link. Once Link finds the Light Dragon and retrieves the Master Sword, he finally makes his descent into the Depths below Hyrule Castle. Once he makes his way through where he and Zelda were in the intro of the game he makes two more dives (finding Zelda's torch at the bottom of the abyss even) and then ends up needing to fight the Demon King's Army. With the assistance of the Sages, it goes down easily. The scourages of each Temple then attack, the Sages tell Link to go face Ganondorf as they'll hold the bosses back. The final battle between Ganondorf and Link finally starts. They fight and fight, the Sages eventually help for a short bit but get knocked away by a powerful blast, but in the end Link slays Ganondorf... But Ganondorf then eats the Secret Stone he stole from Sonia and becomes a dragon intending on sending the entire world into darkness. He brings Link into the sky in his mouth, but Zelda saves him by having the Demon Dragon roar and catching him. The true final battle happens, Link falls down popping all of the Demon Dragon's pimple things and finally destroys the Demon Dragon with one of the most insane final blows in any game I've ever seen. Link then is sent into some weird realm with Zelda, Rauru and Sonia. He holds out his hand, with Rauru and Sonia holding out theirs as well to amplify Link's recall. This allows Link to revert Zelda back to being a human, Link's arm back to pre-Ganondorf burn and Rauru is given his arm back. Rauru and Sonia give their final farewells to Link and head off to the afterlife. Link then wakes up to both him and Zelda falling down to Hyrule. He catches her and hugs her tight. Once they land in the water he carries her to shore. She wakes up and talks about everything she experienced and is genuinely really happy to be back to be with him and her Hyrule. Some time later, Mineru takes the new Sages, Link, Zelda and Purah up to the Great Sky Island at the pedestal where Zelda became a dragon. The new Sages give a goofy Vow promising to help keep Hyrule at peace, similar to how the Sages back then did to Rauru. Mineru then gives her final goodbyes to Link and Zelda and heads off to the afterlife to be with Rauru and Sonia. With that, Zelda asks everyone to help keep Hyrule safe.

With that, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is finished. This is genuinely one of my favorite stories in any game ever even if its very controversial. This is one of the three games to even get me to shed a tear I love it so much. Thank you all for reading this.

#totk spoilers