I'm not entirely sure if you're being sarcastic, but they do have a short version. ^^°
The first time ever, players get the long version (about 35 seconds) and every time after that, it is only about 15 seconds with Zelda having a slightly different monologue. It was the same in BotW, and Zelda's "short" monologue even included "The blood moon rises once again" back then.
This does not yet include how long the "buildup" takes (eerie music, floating particles etc.) before the cutscene even starts to play tho, so add about 20 second to each event for that.
It still gets annoying after a while, especially since it's such a massive game with so much exploration. After the 50th time, the phenomenon just feels like a nuisance. I skip the cutscene every time nowadays but I would have loved the option to just turn it off entirely by default. Give me some floaty particles shortly before midnight and a 1 second black screen and be done with it.
According to the comments found here, it took them eleven years.
11 Jahre. Ich bin sehr langsam. Aber super glücklich :)
11 years. I'm very slow. But super happy :)
No idea about the actual number of hours of total work, but either way it is hella impressive to keep going for more than a decade. Most people I know would have given up or lost interest after a month or so.
...yes there are interactive maps now where you can look up these things easily, but a written, straight-to-the-point list is a LOT more convenient and faster to use if you just want to quickly check for info and then dive right back into the game. ;)
Also; welcome to the Fediverse, fellow ex-redditor ;) you can copy + paste your entire reddit history here if you like to. I did a similar thing when I arrived here, taking all of my top comments from reddit before nuking them and turning them into mini-guides for Lemmy.
::: spoiler I had a similar reaction when I first watched it...
It went from "lol Belos is genuinely scared of a literal child?" to "Oh holy SH*T what the HECK just happened?!" real fast. And TBH it feels all the more scary because the Collector is a child. If they were an adult you could theoretically reason with them but to the Collector it's all just fun and games with no real understanding of what consequences their actions may have for everyone else, combined with limitless power. It feels like the difference between entrusting an responsible adult with nuclear codes VS. giving them to a toddler who may or may not be tempted to push the shiny red button without thinking twice.
:::
Witches in that world have staffs with a living wooden creature on top, called "Palisman". It's basically a mix of an familliar and a tool / staff decoration. Most Palismen are shaped like regular animals like cats and birds and spend most of their time as inanimate objects sitting atop their respective staff, but there's no actual restriction for how they have to look and whether or not they have to be attached to their staff all the time.
The "giant head" creature is called The Bat Queen, and in the show it is eventually revealed that she was once a Palisman herself, albeit on a giant staff, so her owner must have been a giant too. But that was thousands of years ago and she has forgotten whom she belonged to. The human sitting on top is the main protagonist of the show and offered the Bat Queen to help her search for the truth if she ever wanted to find out who her former owner was. (It never happened because the show was brutally axed before that subplot had a chance to develop)
Titans are... well... titanic in size once they're fully grown, but that's TOO big to wield something of the size of the Bat Queen as a staff topper.
Conclusion: she was the Titan's toothpick, not a staff. And it's probably for the best that she forgot.
"Word of God" says it's canon, but it can't be in the same timeline as BotW because the story of AoC actively prevents BotW from ever happening. Then again, TotK retcons a bunch of stuff from BotW as well (like pretending the Guardians and Divine Beasts never existed or somehow "just disappeared" which still cotradicts the after-credits end scene from BotW) so personally I think that's just an alternate timeline, too.
Or maybe the devs just didn't put much thought into continuity.
You must be referencing some stuff the developer added after release
Likely, yes. I got that game relatively late on the Nintendo Switch, and IIRC by that time it it was first released for that console, it had been availiable for 5+ years on PC already. Lots of time to listen to feedback and implement QOL improvements ;)
You also get fishing XP by taking stuff out of crab pots, completing "fish pond" quests, harvesting fish pond produce, fishing up garbage items, reading the books "Bait and Bobber" or "Book of Stars". Not a single one of these requires playing the minigame with the green bar, and only the "fish up garbage" thing requires owning a rod in the first place.
Food bonuses are true but they all require ingredients caught by fishing.
Gus can randomly sell dishes that boost your fishing skill, like Fish Taco or Trout Soup. The same goes for the travelling cart. You do not need to have any fishing experience to buy those. As for cooking those yourself, you can also buy fish from Krobus or the travelling cart, or find fish in garbage cans. And Linus can send you fish per mail (and sometimes maki rolls for whatever reason). You don't need to actually use the fishing minigame for any of those.
because it requires you to still be checking the queen of sauce in mid-Summer of Year 2
The Queen of Sauce Book teaches you literally all recipes in the game. If you rush the Ginger Island questline you can get that reatively early.
Most people will have gotten too many reruns to keep checking at that stage of the game.
If you check the weather forecast each day (which I always do) you can see whether or not it's a rerun before clicking on it. No idea why anyone would not check those then.
It took me 3.5 years to catch everything even with a guide
See other fish sources above. I regularily check all of these and usually manage to complete the community center in Winter Y1 or Spring Y2 unless I get the short end of the stick when using the remixed option and/or fail to get red cabbage seeds or enough Gold Star veggies in Spring Y1. Haven't touched any guides until my third playthrough.
UPDATE: You can opt out of the data collecting thing in the full game. It's just not possible in the demo, but the full game has this option, thankfully.
I never understood that either. Patching unfair advantages in online multiplayer games, that's fine and understandable, but who cares whether or not it is possible to "cheat" in singleplayer games?
Plus, any time they patch it, someone discovers a new way anyway. It's a couple hundred Nintendo employees VS. literally millions of players of which thousands hack for fun and see it as a challenge to break the game in the most creative ways. They can not win this.
also don’t forget that placebo work even when you know it’s placebo
This right here. I've had problems with pain relief medicine simply not working since I was a child. A couple years back I started drinking caraway seed tea whenever a headache was JUST going away, and even tho I know dang well that caraway seeds do jack sh*t against pain, my body now somehow associates the taste with "ok, headache time is over" and I can drink that stuff to MAKE headaches go away.
100% placebo, 100% aware about it - still works.
PS: why caraway seeds? Because it is the least likely "tea" you can be offered in everyday context. If I had used something as common as charmomile or green tea, I think the effect wouldn't have had a lasting effect.
I'm not entirely sure if you're being sarcastic, but they do have a short version. ^^°
The first time ever, players get the long version (about 35 seconds) and every time after that, it is only about 15 seconds with Zelda having a slightly different monologue. It was the same in BotW, and Zelda's "short" monologue even included "The blood moon rises once again" back then.
This does not yet include how long the "buildup" takes (eerie music, floating particles etc.) before the cutscene even starts to play tho, so add about 20 second to each event for that.
It still gets annoying after a while, especially since it's such a massive game with so much exploration. After the 50th time, the phenomenon just feels like a nuisance. I skip the cutscene every time nowadays but I would have loved the option to just turn it off entirely by default. Give me some floaty particles shortly before midnight and a 1 second black screen and be done with it.
According to the comments found here, it took them eleven years.
No idea about the actual number of hours of total work, but either way it is hella impressive to keep going for more than a decade. Most people I know would have given up or lost interest after a month or so.
This is really nice ♪
...yes there are interactive maps now where you can look up these things easily, but a written, straight-to-the-point list is a LOT more convenient and faster to use if you just want to quickly check for info and then dive right back into the game. ;)
Also; welcome to the Fediverse, fellow ex-redditor ;) you can copy + paste your entire reddit history here if you like to. I did a similar thing when I arrived here, taking all of my top comments from reddit before nuking them and turning them into mini-guides for Lemmy.
Well, "ping the teacher hole" would work with one T less, but it sounds a little too NSFW for this community =P
Ohhhh that community fits perfectly! I wasn't aware it existed ;)
::: spoiler I had a similar reaction when I first watched it... It went from "lol Belos is genuinely scared of a literal child?" to "Oh holy SH*T what the HECK just happened?!" real fast. And TBH it feels all the more scary because the Collector is a child. If they were an adult you could theoretically reason with them but to the Collector it's all just fun and games with no real understanding of what consequences their actions may have for everyone else, combined with limitless power. It feels like the difference between entrusting an responsible adult with nuclear codes VS. giving them to a toddler who may or may not be tempted to push the shiny red button without thinking twice. :::
...you know it's a good Dad Joke if you audibly groan once you read it... your niece has a Grade A+ top tier dad humor. =P
Not the OP, but I was looking for this exact question ;) thank you so much, it worked like a charm ♥
If you haven't seen the show yet:
Witches in that world have staffs with a living wooden creature on top, called "Palisman". It's basically a mix of an familliar and a tool / staff decoration. Most Palismen are shaped like regular animals like cats and birds and spend most of their time as inanimate objects sitting atop their respective staff, but there's no actual restriction for how they have to look and whether or not they have to be attached to their staff all the time.
The "giant head" creature is called The Bat Queen, and in the show it is eventually revealed that she was once a Palisman herself, albeit on a giant staff, so her owner must have been a giant too. But that was thousands of years ago and she has forgotten whom she belonged to. The human sitting on top is the main protagonist of the show and offered the Bat Queen to help her search for the truth if she ever wanted to find out who her former owner was. (It never happened because the show was brutally axed before that subplot had a chance to develop)
Titans are... well... titanic in size once they're fully grown, but that's TOO big to wield something of the size of the Bat Queen as a staff topper.
Conclusion: she was the Titan's toothpick, not a staff. And it's probably for the best that she forgot.
I've seen this comic a couple of times elsewhere already but this is the first time I noticed the corks in Flapjack's ears lol. Poor little guy XD
"Word of God" says it's canon, but it can't be in the same timeline as BotW because the story of AoC actively prevents BotW from ever happening. Then again, TotK retcons a bunch of stuff from BotW as well (like pretending the Guardians and Divine Beasts never existed or somehow "just disappeared" which still cotradicts the after-credits end scene from BotW) so personally I think that's just an alternate timeline, too.
Or maybe the devs just didn't put much thought into continuity.
Likely, yes. I got that game relatively late on the Nintendo Switch, and IIRC by that time it it was first released for that console, it had been availiable for 5+ years on PC already. Lots of time to listen to feedback and implement QOL improvements ;)
There's regular bait, deluxe bait, targetd bait, wild bait, magic bait and challenge bait.
You also get fishing XP by taking stuff out of crab pots, completing "fish pond" quests, harvesting fish pond produce, fishing up garbage items, reading the books "Bait and Bobber" or "Book of Stars". Not a single one of these requires playing the minigame with the green bar, and only the "fish up garbage" thing requires owning a rod in the first place.
Gus can randomly sell dishes that boost your fishing skill, like Fish Taco or Trout Soup. The same goes for the travelling cart. You do not need to have any fishing experience to buy those. As for cooking those yourself, you can also buy fish from Krobus or the travelling cart, or find fish in garbage cans. And Linus can send you fish per mail (and sometimes maki rolls for whatever reason). You don't need to actually use the fishing minigame for any of those.
The Queen of Sauce Book teaches you literally all recipes in the game. If you rush the Ginger Island questline you can get that reatively early.
If you check the weather forecast each day (which I always do) you can see whether or not it's a rerun before clicking on it. No idea why anyone would not check those then.
See other fish sources above. I regularily check all of these and usually manage to complete the community center in Winter Y1 or Spring Y2 unless I get the short end of the stick when using the remixed option and/or fail to get red cabbage seeds or enough Gold Star veggies in Spring Y1. Haven't touched any guides until my third playthrough.
Ohhh dang, why didn't I see that?! Thanks for pointing that out :D
UPDATE: You can opt out of the data collecting thing in the full game. It's just not possible in the demo, but the full game has this option, thankfully.
I never understood that either. Patching unfair advantages in online multiplayer games, that's fine and understandable, but who cares whether or not it is possible to "cheat" in singleplayer games?
Plus, any time they patch it, someone discovers a new way anyway. It's a couple hundred Nintendo employees VS. literally millions of players of which thousands hack for fun and see it as a challenge to break the game in the most creative ways. They can not win this.
This right here. I've had problems with pain relief medicine simply not working since I was a child. A couple years back I started drinking caraway seed tea whenever a headache was JUST going away, and even tho I know dang well that caraway seeds do jack sh*t against pain, my body now somehow associates the taste with "ok, headache time is over" and I can drink that stuff to MAKE headaches go away.
100% placebo, 100% aware about it - still works.
PS: why caraway seeds? Because it is the least likely "tea" you can be offered in everyday context. If I had used something as common as charmomile or green tea, I think the effect wouldn't have had a lasting effect.
Marvellous ♪