My very first encounter was getting croaked by the one on the Great Plateu pretty much instantly, when I’d ventured there in the early game and still only had like five hearts. I was not 100% sure you could actually fight these damn things at first. I thought they were something you were supposed to run away from or just avoid, like the Gloom itself. Then I realized that they have eyes, and you know what anything with prominent eyeballs on it means in a Zelda game: You stick an arrow through it.
The second time I had quite a few bomb flowers on me. Things went a little differently…
The, uh, latter half of the battle gave me no trouble. I’m not even sure the mofo managed to touch me once.
My stubborn ass was off-script-b-lining for anywhere I thought the master sword might be. I went straight to the deku tree then the clouds got involved. I back pedaled to under the deku tree and then back up and then back down that root shoot and stayed there. For hooours. Finally beat this handsy nightmare I’m feeling like I improvised my way through the forest temple with 4 hearts and a lot of heart. Talk to the Great Deku and get no help to find the sword. Hat in hand (more accurately a random chest somewhere) I leave the Lost Woods. Wondering around there’s shot of cold fear when I heard that music again. In the wild, wide open field no platforms no rocket shield, and not during the scheduled boss fight almost ruined the game for me. I still hate them, scorched earth with a Lionel bow on sight.
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(I’m going to try and be vague in the interest of not being spoilery for those that haven’t played.) So, I did a lot of TotK “out of order,” being not very good at following directions and much more likely to follow whatever just caught my attention. Which meant that I found myself trying to skydive into the Lost Woods when I realized that I was above it. And then being determined to get in when I kept voiding out. All with 5 hearts and maybe two geoglyphs. So my first “hands-on” experience was during that quest with jack-all for maneuverability room. I died several times before going back with a ton of sundelion snacks. The encounter on the plateau still startled the hell out of me lol.
(Not too much later I finished that quest and got the sword glyph (I forget in what order)… and then I finally decided to follow Impa to the temple like she had suggested many game hours ago. And I could have saved myself some grief (and spoilers) if I had just followed instructions rather than rampage across the countryside willy nilly. >_> )
Your best bet to get into the woods from above is to land on one of the shrines and tap it quick. The cutscene interrupted the fog.
Source: I also went out of order, remembered it was a pain to get through the woods, and came from above. I had the glide set though, and was not afraid to hit the ground hard.
My very first encounter was getting croaked by the one on the Great Plateu pretty much instantly, when I’d ventured there in the early game and still only had like five hearts. I was not 100% sure you could actually fight these damn things at first. I thought they were something you were supposed to run away from or just avoid, like the Gloom itself. Then I realized that they have eyes, and you know what anything with prominent eyeballs on it means in a Zelda game: You stick an arrow through it.
The second time I had quite a few bomb flowers on me. Things went a little differently…
The, uh, latter half of the battle gave me no trouble. I’m not even sure the mofo managed to touch me once.
My stubborn ass was off-script-b-lining for anywhere I thought the master sword might be. I went straight to the deku tree then the clouds got involved. I back pedaled to under the deku tree and then back up and then back down that root shoot and stayed there. For hooours. Finally beat this handsy nightmare I’m feeling like I improvised my way through the forest temple with 4 hearts and a lot of heart. Talk to the Great Deku and get no help to find the sword. Hat in hand (more accurately a random chest somewhere) I leave the Lost Woods. Wondering around there’s shot of cold fear when I heard that music again. In the wild, wide open field no platforms no rocket shield, and not during the scheduled boss fight almost ruined the game for me. I still hate them, scorched earth with a Lionel bow on sight.
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(I’m going to try and be vague in the interest of not being spoilery for those that haven’t played.) So, I did a lot of TotK “out of order,” being not very good at following directions and much more likely to follow whatever just caught my attention. Which meant that I found myself trying to skydive into the Lost Woods when I realized that I was above it. And then being determined to get in when I kept voiding out. All with 5 hearts and maybe two geoglyphs. So my first “hands-on” experience was during that quest with jack-all for maneuverability room. I died several times before going back with a ton of sundelion snacks. The encounter on the plateau still startled the hell out of me lol.
(Not too much later I finished that quest and got the sword glyph (I forget in what order)… and then I finally decided to follow Impa to the temple like she had suggested many game hours ago. And I could have saved myself some grief (and spoilers) if I had just followed instructions rather than rampage across the countryside willy nilly. >_> )
Your best bet to get into the woods from above is to land on one of the shrines and tap it quick. The cutscene interrupted the fog.
Source: I also went out of order, remembered it was a pain to get through the woods, and came from above. I had the glide set though, and was not afraid to hit the ground hard.