The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (PART 1)

I've never played any games from this franchise before but its latest release, Tears of the Kingdom, has this Elden Ring vibe to it (open world!) that I thought 'd give it a look-in. Also how can I resist Minecraft but with better/ superb graphics and possibly an interesting storyline.

So I am one week into TotK and I've been making steady process. But first, a confession: I read the game was patched to mend a "duplication" glitch so I am still playing the very glitched 1.0.0. version. And there is a reason for that.

Just like Elden Ring, the game lets players take whatever approach (mostly) however they want. So on top of the usual real time combat, the gameplay mechanism also offers a powerful new feature of crafting (which is more versatile than the system in Breath of the Wild). Here you can craft machines for combat... and as anyone can imagine, they can be extremely OP. And, as you know, I like being OP. 

From the word go (very long tutorial) I knew I was only interested in this new feature and the story itself was gonna take the back seat. However, also a bit like the alchemist/potion build in The Witcher 3, this takes some time to set up and hence the need of the duplication glitch. 

Since machines run on battery power, Link (the mute protagonist) only has one miserly battery in early game, and to increase that it involves A LOT of grinding and with tough(er) enemies. But there is a way around it, which is to get hold of the main material, something called the Large Zonaite that is need to create more batteries, and duplicate as many as possible. I think to get max power I'd need to dupe 675 Large Zonaite, which is a bit crazy (since the duping process doesn't always work and it also break the shield that you need) so, for now, I've only duplicated half that amount. Hopefully with that I will be able to grind for the material properly from now (since I imagine I will be semi-OP even with half of the max capacity, esp in early game).

I actually haven't done anything else in the game other than doing the shrines (really for puzzles) to increase Link's health and, possibly, stamina. 

But first I'd need to take out one boss to open the "forge" to actually start making those battery cells, which is my next major mission. 

Then the setup is (finally, after a week) in place. And it's annihilation time 💣💣💣💥💥💥