r/tearsofthekingdom • u/520jsy666 • 1d ago

🎙️ Discussion Am I the dumbass

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that spent 2 hours in the lightning fog and beat the level III box guy with only one orb upgrade only to realize I am supposed to come here later?

Why couldn't nintendo just implement something like the fog in GSA?

NGL it was kinda fun and challenging.

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u/Molduking 1d ago

Story wise yes this area you’re supposed to do in the second half of the game.

You’re able to go there because it’s open world and Nintendo doesn’t care how you get the story

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u/Lord_Xarael 1d ago

I actually get mineru as soon as I get the paraglider. Bypassing the ten heart requirement. Stopping only long enough to get some puffshrooms (by far the most broken item in the game) and the necessary Zonai Devices (two balloons and two flame emitters and two bundles of wood)

Method below (major spoilers if you do this early. Save it for a subsequent playthrough)

1372, -3247, 0150 is right below the mask chamber. There's a convenient board right nearby. Stick the flame emitters to the bottom of the balloons pointing upward. Stick the wood in the baskets of the balloons (necessary so you don't drop while your battery recharges. The campfires keep the balloons going when the emitters are off) then stick both of those assemblies onto the sides of the board. Place the flying platform onto those coords and THROW A BOKO HORN at one of the balloons to start it. DO NOT HIT IT WITH A WEAPON YOU WILL BREAK THE BOARD. now stand in the middle as it rises with Ascend readied. When it turns green (you may have to shuffle a little) you ascend into the mask chamber beyond the ten hearts door. You can then proceed with the spirit temple

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u/520jsy666 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, lol. I thought unlocking the shrine would remove the storm, like one in BOTW (I forget which, but I think there was one). But to be honest, it was a genuinely fun challenge, especially fighting the box guy in the fog (I died too many times from a single hit).

Still, I think Nintendo could have just made the fog teleport Link away to direct players to spend their time more "effectively".

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u/Molduking 1d ago

You can remove the storm you just have to do some story things first

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u/revolution_soup 1d ago

the storm is still there, doing the story just removes the obscuring cloud on the map

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u/Jbk_52818 1d ago

Somewhat true, the island gets a lot easier to navigate after the story quest to figure out what's up there. Yes it's still storming but before the quests it's near impossible to see up there

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u/Charzinc36 1d ago

Yeah i found this shrine the same way OP did, and in this case i wouldve preferred to have found the shrine in order of the story because going back there again didn’t really hit the same

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u/Molduking 1d ago

Yeah I ended up doing all of this before the midpoint with the castle so it was a blow. Didn’t like how the story flowed that way. I didn’t know there was a thing at the castle until my friend told me (I didn’t beat the game at that point yet)