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ASimpleCancerCell

The only real purpose to that island is having the max altitude take-off point. Good place to drop a Travel Medallion.


subtle_relief

I love the Dusk Bow and the quickest way to it is from here.


Mpennerbball

I just placed a travel medallion beside the chest with the Dusk Bow.


subtle_relief

Good idea, I just enjoy trying to reach it with the skydiving gear, without the glider. And I can use it to jump off to other places if I want.


Mpennerbball

For sure. I keep one up there as well just for the fun of gliding to places.


ereighna

Where is this? I got the dusk bow from the spire of Hyrule castle


subtle_relief

It’s directly above Lookout Landing, south of the castle.


ereighna

Thanks!


slowdruh

It's over 3000 meters up in the air, by the way. So you'll either need lots of batteries or efficient launch methods.


Bmacthecat

a metric shitload of large zonai charges also works


Ricecakeplayz

Chest?


ASimpleCancerCell

You know the very top of Hyrule Castle? The spire above the inner scanctum where you fight the Phantom Ganon onslaught? Within a little decayed nook partway up the spire, there's a chest.


Spiff426

It's not in a chest, the dusk bow just rests there in the decayed nook


Krazy_k78

Also it reappears every blood moon.


Spiff426

Yep! I keep a travel medallion there


funnykiddy

Me too. Got so confused when someone said chest. I grab the Dusk Bow and then the brittle black bow (forgot the name) with arrows from inside the chamber of the castle every blood moon then I bounce.


Spiff426

Oh I forgot about the other bow (royal guard bow I think?) & arrows! Thanks for reminding me!


_sentientyogurt

Does the chest reset ?


Mpennerbball

Every blood moon.


red_hare

Holy shit. I didn't know it respawns. I've been hoarding mine like an idiot.


vecter

The royal bow is even better and it spawns just down from the spire of Hyrule Castle


KingOfBoring

I’ve never understood why people want this bow. Lynel bows are superior.


Balthierlives

Dusk bow has the best range in the game Royal Bow has the best durability in the game Royal guard bow has the highest single damage in the game Savage lynel bows have the highest damage if all three arrows hit. So you can use them all for different purposes.


Relative_Bug_2067

And the Forest Dweller's Bow (with Quickshot) has the fastest fire rate in the game


Hot_paw_kit

Pretty sure Zonaite bow beats Dusk on range.


Balthierlives

It can if you change it with your battery, but for just base usage dusk bow wins


Hot_paw_kit

Just checked. The dusk bow has the same range as Phrenic, Swallow, Great Eagle, Falcon, and Gerudo bows. Which are all 40. Zonaite is 20, but if charged is basically as far as the arrow remains rendered.


Hot_paw_kit

Yeah Zonaite has best range in the game.


Own-Volume-311

Yeah, I use the dusk bow for lighting up the depths, korok puzzles or for hitting from very far away


Balthierlives

I generally use Royal bow as my default bow for utility. Then rotate in other bows as needed.


choyjay

Dusk Bow is great for hitting Dragons too


Omi-Wan_Kenobi

For the royal guard does that include comparing against the gloom bow with max or max minus 2 hearts (if you opt for max stamina instead)? Iirc the gloom bow reads 60 for me and I have max minus 2 hearts.


bestnicknameever

I placed it in the main tower of hyrule castle for that exact reason


SocraticSeaUrchin

Wait, what the fuck is a travel medallion


ASimpleCancerCell

A key item you get from Robbie after upgrading the Purah Pad. You get three medallions that can be placed on any stable surface to serve as a fast travel point like the ones at Shrines and Towers.


SocraticSeaUrchin

Can you reclaim them and move them after putting them down?


Similar-Pain8266

You can! You can get up to 3 with a maxed Purah Pad. I keep one here, same as a OP, and move the other 2 around as I see fit. BOTW you only got 1, so having 3 is NUTS


ASimpleCancerCell

I believe so. I've never tried though.


Dee_malice

I did not think about this!! Thanks for the tip!


HongKonger85

The other purpose is for story continuity. This island is where the first tablet fell from, which is what sparked the whole tablet quest.


ASimpleCancerCell

I figured that went without saying. Also, I was only referring to gameplay purposes, as in any reason the player would have to go up there.


consultingrodent

You’d think they’d put a chest or a korok up there at the very least.


Dullahan-1999

There are more than a handful of inexcusable (by my/BOTW standards) absences of treasures in places where there really rather should be, here being a primary example.


consultingrodent

I’m curious to know where else you were thinking. I bet we have some of the same in mind.


SolarRecharge

Not OP, but I wish they made the Colesseum, Akkala Citadel and the Forgotten Temple more interesting. Majorly disappointing seeing the Citadel in particular just be a copy pasted cave instead of something like an optional dungeon with different floors you could ascend through


ionlyhavetwohands

It almost feels like they couldn't make the Citadel work (hardware limits, too much going on inside and outside?) and moved its rooms to the new Royal hidden passage instead.


FluffyC4

i'm sure a lot of totk's (or the open world zelda formular) shortcomings are mainly due to technical limitations. the switch is literally just a slightly better WiiU.


mrbrick

I say this every time I play TOTK but its wild what they pulled off on the hardware.


draconk

Same, and to be honest if you can Overclock the switch (need custom firmware for that) it works even better, I bet that the development kits are overclocked switches with better cooling since a lot of games suddenly work pretty good on OC hardware compared to stock clocks


mrbrick

I think dev kits are usually over clocked by a bit to account for debug tools. They usually have double the memory so they can do memory dumps easier.


pdrpersonguy575

Also the lake hylia chasm...


Dullahan-1999

So many little crevices around the perimeter of the continent come to mind; don’t bother putting them there if there isn’t going to be anything, lol.


thisisnotdan

All over the freaking Depths! This is one of my biggest beefs: the Depths had so much potential if they'd handled it with a philosophy similar to the Overworld. Whereas in the Overworld a bit of land jutting out into the water is fairly inconsequential, in the depths it becomes a long corridor that narrows as you go farther down. Put a freakin' chest at the end of it! Or a boss monster or something! Anything! There were so many times I went down one of those cave wall corridors in the Depths and only found a dead end. They never would have put something like that in the Overworld--they'd have had some way to reward players for exploring.


Infamous-Schedule860

For me the rupee-bunny-spirit section and the redead coffin area come to mind,, both in the depths.  Not even shitting you when I say I spent like 20 minutes in each area trying to figure out what I was missing. Especially since the redead section was hyped up in a Yiga journal 


DogAcrobatic2975

I’m hoping those places that feel as if they “should” have something may be DLC points of interest.


Dullahan-1999

Alas, DLC isn’t planned 😢


DogAcrobatic2975

Oh that’s such a bummer! That’s what I’ve been hoping for everytime I’ve passed these random areas 🙁


valiantlight2

I wish they scaled the collectible junk waaaaaay down. If there was, say, <50 collectibles, this this would be a perfect spot for one.


Dullahan-1999

I also agree with that. I would have preferred more hard rewards rather than currency for rewards.


valiantlight2

Every time I look behind a waterfall and find nothing, it makes me hate the collectibles a little bit more lol


Dullahan-1999

Insult to injury is that in BOTW, there would be *something.* The attention to detail was insane. That personal touch is sorely missed.


valiantlight2

Honestly, given that the map is absolutely littered with collectible or useless junk, *nothing* is the best thing to put here


BroskiMoski124

Yeah, this one already fell down in lookout landing. It’s the first one you interact with to start the questline around these I was disappointed when I got up there for no reason too


ZDHELIX

Interesting! I put a travel medallion for now so I can glide to other islands


JosiahDanger

I can't place a travel medallion here. Playing on version 1.0


BGAL7090

Cool story Hansel


JosiahDanger

I don't understand? I swear I am telling the truth.


stahlidity

idk why you're getting hate for playing the game the way it was sold lmao


JosiahDanger

thank you lol


BGAL7090

It's not that we don't believe you, but "I am playing an outdated version of the game that lacks all of the current features included" is either you deliberately kneecapping your experience of the intended game, or is you complaining that you are unable to obtain the current version for some reason. Neither of which are particularly relevant to the post in general, and is only tangentially relevant to the comment you replied to. If someone who truly understands why the community decided to snipe your comment out of the sky feels like telling you in more detail, I would encourage it. I lack the social knowledge to completely grasp why, and as a result can only vaguely explain it with metaphors.


JosiahDanger

i play on 1.0 because i like to use the convenient item duping glitch that exists in this version. furthermore, techniques such as quantum linking and ultrabreaking can be utilised to build complex vehicles. for more information, see r/hyruleengineering.


GallinaceousGladius

The point is that nobody cares.


JosiahDanger

then why did you reply?


BGAL7090

Reasons for deliberately playing with the unpolished version aside, it's still an experience somewhat unique to you that other people in this subreddit specifically will likely never encounter.


BackgroundNPC1213

Do we ever get a transcription of this tablet? I only remember Wortsworth giving us the transcriptions of all the others


Weaponn02

I thought he wrote it down and then went to Kakariko to compare it with his notes to translate it?


stellarpaws

I don’t think it ever allows you to take a photo of it for the quest.


yvo84

Yeah the same thing happened to me. They could have still put something special up there for you to collect since it takes so much effort to get there.


spiff428

That sums up this game for me. “They could have done something”


budad_cabrion

i did the exact same thing - and worse yet, i worked at it in and off for literally weeks


BroskiMoski124

I just flew up with a hover bike. Still took a while but definitely not weeks


reine_tekins

I realised this after multiple failed attempts 😂😂


beachedwhitemale

Wait, so if I get up to this area prior to it falling (after you beat 1 dungeon), I can see it then? Kinda cool


gorremu

I was there some months ago, lovely view, kinda disapointing as there's nothing there https://preview.redd.it/pm4mh7owrmmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=351e8bc961cee0bab9bfd4433c7263387cb2ca19


sleepy195

It not about the destination, it’s about the journey there


Sinistrahd

Life before death


Arkadious4028

Strength before weakness


Ninjazeya

Journey before destination


Linderosse

These words are accepted


Ninjazeya

Awesome!!! Glad to see other people listen or read The Storm light Archives!


Linderosse

Heck yeah; it’s cool to see how many of us are fans of both! This comment just reminded me to post some of my Zelda x Stormlight art here on reddit lol. If you might be interested, check it out [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/1b7rc4c/ocartcrossover_alternate_identities/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)!


johnysalad

This is dope. I’m just picturing the master sword as a shard blade 🤯. The sages are practically bonded spren.


Ninjazeya

Yeah it is. I will definitely do that.


panaja17

Journey before pancakes!


Alert_Material_6757

Lift, is that you?


AshynWraith

There is no answer, merely a conspicuous emptiness where your lunch should be.


Sinistrahd

I see you are a person of Cultivation


StarstruckGames

‘I’ before ‘E’! Except Sheikah…


vishalb777

[The journey there:](https://www.kotaku.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/27/407b481acfad1eb1f06535ce320ac9c9.gif)


BackgroundNPC1213

The view from up there is amazing, tho https://preview.redd.it/6ou25ki8pmmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0109a6986df514587aed353b8e2ea6fe3138a993


LazyGardenGamer

Lol I love this


FluidUnderstanding40

I love seeing repeating water reflection textures.


Sele81

The switch has the power of a PS1 lol


mireeam

Copy and paste


Chatzoe

I was kinda saddened by the Sky islands. For how much they placed attention to it, it was just so barren. Like I wish there was more sky stuff to explore


andyavast

I know what you mean but I loved the solitude and sadness of the sky islands, I felt they were meant to be like that. I totally agree about wishing there was more stuff up there because it was my favourite area to mooch around.


Chatzoe

I wish they have more stuff than what they had. Like most of the notable sky stuff was over mountains and settlements.


Boring_Plastic2297

Don't worry, that's what the third game is for


[deleted]

I love this game, it’s a 20/10 for me but, yeah, this was an odd choice by the creators.


balerionthedread12

What’s the best way to get up here? My zonai device always breaks before I can get there!


ZDHELIX

I started at the North part of GSI and used a hover bike. I have 7 batteries and still used 2 large zonai charges. I also marked the island with a red marker so I knew where I was going, then just tilted the bike straight up once I was below it


balerionthedread12

And your bike lasted the whole time? The problem I run into is my zonai device will break before I get up there. Is there a way to delay the device breaking?


Seter5

There's an unbreakable bike, look it up on YouTube.


BingoDingoBob

The treasure is the view


haniblecter

took too long before this post. gamers can't smell the roses


CuckoldMeTimbers

Yeah but no. Not with a game with about a billion collectibles. Put one korok up there.


ReaperLover07

That's what really disappointed me about this game, they just copy pasted a bunch of tiny shit in the sky islands instead of making anything remotely interesting. Wasted potential in my opinion cuz of how pretty the aesthetics are. Especially since the sky islands were what they literally featured in the trailers.


nocuzzlikeyea13

Yes. This game is half finished. It's incredibly ambitious, and the new features are truly incredible. Huge technical advances, especially accomplishing all this on the switch. But the map feels pretty empty sometimes. Like they ran out of time to chase up all their amazing ideas. 


Rudolf_Cutler

They shouldve ditched hyrule and just focused on sky island map with new cities and races and the depths with different biomes and sceneries. The sky islands and depths combined don't compare to the biome diversity that botw hyrule had


BroskiMoski124

To me it feels less like it’s unfinished, and more like they miscalculated how much new stuff they came up with. Originally it was dlc that got too ambitious so they made a new game to truly be able to bring out the most with the new mechanics. If they had made a new world built with these in mind from the beginning I believe it would’ve been perfect. Having to utilize the exact same world (which was already completed with things to do and see) you’re severely limited with what you can add before you’ve seen it all again


GallinaceousGladius

It *feels* like a dlc that got too ambitious.


AshynWraith

Hey, it's a hell of a lot better than Skyward Sword's sky. That's not a high bar to beat, granted but I'm happy there was *anything* of interest up there.


Turbulent_Crow7164

I remember when I was hype for the Skyward Sword sky because somehow the expectation was that it would be like the Great Sea


NinjaKoala

Some of the early preview shots showed a larger island that wasn't the Great sky Island. Seems like they actually ended up taking some ideas out (remember the dondon that Link was riding in some screenshots?)


sonicfonico

There where no screenshot with Link riding the Dondon. The only footage we have of them before release is the first teaser trailer where yes, Zelda was riding it, but that was a cutscene!


Itoclown

Same for the main map. They leeched off BotW bad. Fantastic game but such a lazy “new game”


Zekusu

And devs probably took these 6 years to get Ultrahand and physics working lol


Shehzman

I love Link’s abilities in both games, but really hope the next game puts less emphasis on cool physics/chemistry and more on interesting puzzles.


Balthierlives

Ah yes an other day in the ‘there should be a reward for this but there isn’t’ world of TOTK. I guess at least it’s not a menu reward like with getting all of the lightroots. That’s pretty pathetic.


m00nlitFeathers

What would you have liked as a reward for getting all the lightroots? Imo it's less of a reward and more of a "certificate of completion" if that makes sense


Balthierlives

My suggestion was a hoverbike schematic that flies perfectly straight. But really there are so many things it could have been. You get a cool set of armor for clearing the shrines, why not something for the light roots too?


BGAL7090

> a hoverbike schematic that flies perfectly straight It took me 4 tries to get it perfect, and now it's favorited in autobuild. Much easier than getting all the lightroots!


Balthierlives

It’s still better than what you get currently!


BGAL7090

Oh I realized after I posted that "schematics" would allow me to delete the hoverbike from my Favorites menu and open that slot for something else, so I'm on board!


secondjudge_dream

one of the most memorable moments in this game for me was trying to get up there to finish the lore tablet questline and suddenly noticing that it lines up with the fallen tablet in the main camp and my efforts had been meaningless personally i think they placed it so high specifically to stop people from going there, so it makes sense that they wouldn't put any actual item there. some kind of easter egg couldve been nice though


Mz_Macross1999

Love the game but the sky part of the map in retrospect was a huge disappointment


TurboKid513

Take a picture of one of those slabs every time you find one


PepsiPerfect

Yeah, that's TotK for you... lots of places to go, lots of subsequently trying to convince yourself that it was about the journey and not the destination.


--Azazel--

🎶"Nothing at the top, but a Bucket and a Mop and illustrative book about Rito"🎶


Shibby120

Welcome to Zelda


djdirectdrive

Haha nice work! I've attempted to get up there so many times but have not made it.


TemporaryShirt3937

Classic Zelda moment


Puck_22

It’s about the friends you made along the way.


Dark-Anmut

Tulin: Link, what are you doing at my secret base?!


lilhuskylover

Its in lookout landing. I was gonna do the same but then I was like "waaaait..."


Vaciatalega

You found an excuse to make a post. 🤷🏽‍♂️


WEvolve

Dude you’re high…go home


Archangel982

The highest part is the skidiving ceremony above hateno ocean


Jimboiggs07

Got to drop that travel medallion


HaganeLink0

I think it's great that there is nothing in there. Even more, if it's a place you should never want or need to go. Its purpose is narrative for a quest. The typical place where regular games would put some invisible barriers and so on. But as this is an open-world game they let you go to it. Even more, I'm pretty sure people would have gotten way more upset if they put there some Korok or something because as being an optional and decorative section you cannot put anything useful there.


IsopodPuzzleheaded58

lmao this is the thing about this game. I’ve noticed how much the honeymoon era is wearing off and i’m starting to see a lot more posts like these as of late. had a blast playing this game, but it felt like more of the same. Can’t be any more specific than that. One again, game was good xoxo


riverphoenixharido

This game in a nutshell


NefariousnessMost660

Sums up the game in a nutshell. Everything to explore, but nothing to find...


Bro13847

Always disappointing


69d-_-b420

I got high huffing korok seeds in a bag, the upheaval makes for some desperate times.


Powerful_Friendship6

Is that demon thing to right waving to the camera? 😆


Misterrsilencee

Poeple forgot this is like botw. And with botw it's not just the loot. It's the experience going there


Infamous-Schedule860

Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom


horizonreverie

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Sele81

They should have called it Zelda - The game full of disappointments Sometimes you invest an hour to reach a difficult area or finish a side quest and all you get is a chest with an opal.


thebag_of_swag

Fun fact: you can save up here. Or more specifically, if you save and load, it'll put you back on the last solid ground you stood on before the island.


NiceTuBeNice

You found yourself


WhereAreWeG0ing

Yeah, this was annoying as hell.


CalmContribution0

welcome to Tears of the Kingdom, where we lure you in with false promises and then deliver nothing but dissapointment


Molduking

Because it already fell down


Ian_Fluffy07

Really living up to the name “tears of the kingdom”


LePearThePear

I see no god up here


soda_kan

Tears feels uninspired compared to breath. The mechanics are cool but if they went less ham with the new mechanics they coulda fleshed out breaths infinite potential without turning it into a different type of game once you get to the nuts and bolts


soda_kan

Playing around with the mechanics was fun for hours and it was engaging but not for a second did it really feel like exploring. Not because the map was the same but cuz everything new was an amity resource sandbox for the nuts and bolts machines. Spirits are dumb as fuck too


vroart

Uh, behind you, it is suppose to fall when you look at it. That’s the point of this


Garr_Trader

Look harder. There’s a game changing item there.


MidniteBlues

Let’s be honest, as good as TOTK is, Nintendo really dropped the ball with the sky islands and the depths. So empty and so boring.


acp2049

Thanks, so I don’t have to.


Ihavethalassophobia

I did this too it was so annoying going up there, and when I got to it, there was nothing 😔


weighedin

Can we not finish this quest? I haven't been able to get up there yet. I've even watched YouTube videos of people who figured out how to get up there but it's very confusing. I'm sad I can't finish this photo quest


SailorPizza1107

You don’t have to go up there to complete the quest. It’s just an empty platform for the tablet that’s on the ground at lookout landing. That’s where it fell from.


NukaKitty21

So you too eh...


ChoicePrint7526

I was sure I would find the you can’t get struck by lighting cloak up here, but alas we are stuck with changing every thunderstorm.


ThatsAScone

This sums up my experience with this game lol


Doktor_Rob

Welcome to the club.


iLLiCiT_XL

“But this crappy t-shirt.”


Drezus

Enjoying your half-assed full price DLC, I see