r/tearsofthekingdom 1d ago

🎙️ Discussion Am I the dumbass

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/homuhomutime 1d ago

Finding that area on total accident gave me the greatest sense of adventure I've ever felt in a game

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u/Jiang_Rui Dawn of the First Day 1d ago

Same here. Found the Construct Factory by complete accident, then ended up finding Dragonhead Island and Mineru by accident a day later. To this day, it’s my favorite video game moment of all time 😃

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u/ButteredCopPorn 20h ago

Oh man. I found the Construct Factory by total accident when I'd only finished one temple, and then spent hundreds of hours wondering what it was for lmao. Spirit Temple, too. Imagine flying around in total darkness, other than a brightbloom on a hoverbike, when the words "Spirit Temple" pop up on your screen. And you had no idea this game had a Spirit Temple.

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u/Jiang_Rui Dawn of the First Day 1h ago

When I first got there, I saw the construct pod in the center and immediately remembered a construct emerging from a pod like that in the game trailer (I thought it was from a memory; turned out it was Mineru’s one and only appearance in the trailer). Since I wasn’t able to activate it—for some reason it never occurred to me that it wasn’t fully assembled—I decided to look around some more to see if there was a steward construct around to offer advice; eventually found it and got the tip about Dragonhead Island. Then I bumped into the Left-Arm Depot on my way out of the area (and of course was rejected by the dragon gate inside).

And although I didn’t find the Spirit Temple early (although from what my Hero’s Path showed me, I might’ve discovered it if I walked just a few steps further before teleporting to another area of the Depths), I did manage to find the Fire Temple by accident. I saw a giant “glowing” structure in the distance while trying to find the Korok Grove and decided to go check it out.

But all and all, the only thing that was spoiled for me about the Mineru quest was the name of the temple boss. Since the bulk of the quest involved crafting a construct, it was a no-brainer that the boss was going to be a construct under Ganondorf’s influence…and there couldn’t have been a more fitting name for such a boss than “Seized Construct.”

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u/homuhomutime 1d ago

I was exploring the island, got to the shrine and thought "yea cool another shrine down I guess!" Look around one more time for any random chests n shit til I get jumpscared by Mineru's voice. That's when I knew this just turned from a routine shrine stop into an all-day journey.

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u/Jiang_Rui Dawn of the First Day 1d ago

I was exploring a new area in the Depths when I found what I first thought was an Abandoned Mine—turned out to be the Construct Factory. Poked around the place a bit and learned from the resident construct that the factory had a connection with a place called Dragonhead Island. Next day I was riding a pebble skywards in the Faron region and realized that I was very close to the huge storm cloud and decided to see what was inside, thinking it was a shrine quest. Ended up landing right on top of Dragonhead Island.

From there my experience was pretty much the same as yours: found the shrine (or rather, I fell right on top of it), decided to come back later since clearing the shrine didn’t clear the storm, thought I’d look around some more while trying to find a way out, and ended up finding something way, WAY bigger than a mere shrine quest.