#depths king gleeok

[hyrule-heroes]

Wandered into the Gleeok den!

Oh crap crap! I haven't fought one yet. And I decided I'd creep past him , then to my horror Tulin fires an arrow. The encounter started!

Damnit it Tulin!!!

[gloryseized]

@puxrlunae || [ cont. ]

Shion's smile became toothy, an overall wolfish appearance that did not have any mirth but rather excitement as his eyes flicked from the other to study the monster in the distance. From the look of the thing, Shion had bided his time before attacking such a creature, knowing he needed more weapons and stamina to weather such a fight, but still the challenge gnawed at him, daring him. Now with Amaron fighting with him he knew he stood a chance.

Fisted hand bobbed in a nod. << Yes. >>

[nyxire]

i got back into totk and although i firmly stand by my 'it could've been better' thta most definitely doesn't make it a boring game

[ohmytiredheart]

Wait until you find out about the depths

oh boy!!! a second part of the map in totk!!!! and it only took me **checks watch i do not have** 5 hours

[emicat1159]

your ocs have to give an hour lecture with no preparation or breaks. what do they talk about

OH BOY okay lemme activate the brain cell

Vaie would talk about the importance of music throughout Hyrule's history. Like the warp songs and Zelda's lullaby in the era of the hero of time, the ballad of the goddess used to unlock the final trial for the hero of the sky, and all the others. She'd give a practical demonstration of the Song of Storms probably. When the Zora gets brought up she'd probably go on a tangent about them too, they're her favourite tribe in hyrule.

Trari would, obviously, talk about history. I think specifically Gerudo history, because I think that it would have been quite overlooked by historians up to this point due to... The past conflicts between them and the royal family, a lot of things were covered up. I think the records would only go back to the era of King Rauru, but Trari has her suspicions about just how old the world is (she'd lose her mind if she learned of the Depths, I genuinely headcanon they are the remains of old hyrule before the flood. Timelines be damned) Halfway though she'd go on a tangent about why she should be allowed to spend all her monarchy-given funds on Gerudo jewellery because "it has historical importance".

Teo would use his hour to talking about monsters, so many monsters. Bokos, moblins, lizalfos, lynels... and wizzrobes, oh my god so much about wizzrobes, he'd bore everyone to tears with talk about wizzrobes. Anyway monsters are his second favourite interest besides magic, and they tend to go hand in hand sometimes. The main part of his speech would be about elemental monsters and "where did they come from?" what caused them to take on fire or ice or electric energy?" There's so many questions and he wants answers. Sprinkle in some complaints about his wife questioning his life choices and I think that's everything really.

(He'd lose his shit if he lived long enough to see a gleeok, just saying, but sadly for him I don't think in the original timeline that would ever happen)

I didn't know what to put for Reina but I can come up with something if people want me to TwT

[ganymedesclock]

What are your thoughts on TotK so far?

[spoiler alert obviously don't keep reading if you don't want this]

-Gloom hands are the absolute best I love them so much never stop being horrible

-Gleeoks are nice. good to see them again. like the new look.

-Admittedly not completely wild about the fuse system but Kohga attacks you with a car and it's fun to watch people build all the looney tunes contraptions people make

-Can't believe they finally dropped Zelda's fursona only to make it a dimension of torment for her. I love the light dragon but can't Zelda have a dragon break rather than a dragon breakdown.

-In seriousness with the fake Zelda running around it could be an interesting twist if everyone believes the light dragon is hostile because it keeps randomly dive-bombing people while a Zelda who is lucid but unable to communicate is trying to chase people away from her impostor.

-Related to a prior point I like to think the Koroks kind of enjoy being yeeted. they're prankster forest spirits. this has to be at least a little bit fun.

-I'm not keen on Kilton in the first place and I don't think we needed Kilton 2: Worse Kilton. I don't like how every NPC in TLOZ that doesn't look completely conventionally attractive is increasingly signaled as either an evil overlord or a funny idiot you shouldn't respect or take seriously. I do not want to watch these clowns dance for me as a reminder to not take any sort of interest in monsters seriously. This is a vibes based thing and is not limited to the designs. I feel like you could keep those designs as-is and salvage the vibes but I'm not quite sure how.

-Narratively, Tears of the Kingdom feels suffused with a specific kind of old man sadness that he is No Longer Hip With The Kids (and this is not gender-specific but the predominant gender of the mouthpieces it is given ingame must be noted) without making any concessions to what The Kids actually care about so Rauru is here because they heard you didn't like Rhoam so now there's a super cool hip with-it dad who never yells at Zelda but also just like Rhoam his actions amount to failing her at a critical moment, leaving her alone to suffer, and then coming back as a ghost to implicitly give Link Daddy's Blessing to marry Zelda.

I want to like Rauru way more than I do because the Zonai's designs are fantastic, but I feel like the depiction of these "Sky Gods" and their role in history ends up patronizing the hell out of both the Zonai and everybody else, but especially the non-hyrulean vassal states where the Zonai are made out to be needless fairy godmothers when they have all the hallmarks of a dying people 10,000 years ago, we can only imagine Rauru's legacy was whitewashed to hell and back considering how central Hyrule positions its non-Hylian allies, But Then Also the Zonai are so beautiful and smart they created everything with their inherent superiority and if the gerudo, zora, gorons, or rito have any meaningful cultural legacy no they didn't the Zonai did this for/with them.

Also can we please not physically put the arm of the king with its power to command things and space on Link's body. This feels like a twofer desecrating Rauru even further by disembodying him down to only the useful part of him and also literally making Link just a bodily platform for the King's Authority. no we're not gonna empower YOUR hand we're gonna hack it off while you're unresponsive to make room for the real kingly authority. We've been doing this since Wind Waker and the quiet part feels like it's getting louder.

-I love Gloom I love the Depths. on the one hand yes they could afford to be a little more Actual Cave Like but as it is it kind of sends the vibe of like, a prior surface that sunk downward into the earth. The idea of moving up as well as down, this sort of heaven-and-hell motifs, are kinda great.

-As afraid as I was of this version of Ganondorf being made out to be a puppet/pawn/disciple of Demise I was actually very, very pleased to see the man just straight up eat Demise's lunch in every conceivable way. Even his demon king form which feels the closest to aping Demise replaces the primal pyroclast vibes with that saturated blood color. Demise feels like a primal titan- Ganondorf feels like a Persephone stained with the fruits of the underworld. I love his designs I love his vibes I love what they did with him. This is SUCH a good return to 'letting Ganondorf be a person rather than a screaming rage cloud'.

Literally the only thing I don't like is I think his tiny dinky oni horns are silly and he didn't need them. that's it.

-I mentioned Kohga but I'm so glad Kohga just decided that since he fell down a hole he Lives There Now.

-the like likes are excellent. If you are sensing a pattern here it's that I'm very fond of the creature design. You begin to see why I'm frustrated with Kilton and Kilton 2: Worse Kilton. Just let me hang out with the horriblins. have you seen them.

-Ok I don't really like that they had a "here, idiot, this is how you make a functional weapon" angle to giving Conspicuously Weapon Shaped horns on all the main monsters so you can just harvest them to make spears or hammers or such. This is part of the part of Fuse I'm not keen on.

-did we really need zonai device gachapons. they were not being at all subtle about how toyetic this new mechanic was, to the point of it feeling kinda immersion breaking. how seriously are we supposed to take this. Zelda is over there doing the anime fisheye stare. This is the last surviving legacy of a dead people. We are capable of recreating the Guardian Massacre from BOTW onto random blins now. But whee. Car go brrrr.

-TLOZ Please Stop Adding Gimmick Robot Characters That Obviously Have Feelings But Are Also Slavishly Bound To A Purpose Long After It's Useful To Anyone And Were Made That Way By Heroic Guys We Are Supposed To Root For And This Isn't Framed As A Problem, and other songs by Fall Out Boy,

-Yona is a good character and I like her, Sidon is allowed to be bisexual

-this isn't unique to TOTK or originating there but I have a little petty rage in my heart that goron rock food is just... comedy cartoon meat but made of rocks. I hate it. expose us to an entirely alien concept of cuisine. Make me yearn to eat bismuth knowing my human limitations would fail me. I was thinking about this the entire Marbled Rock Roast plot.

WHAT IS THERE TO ROAST

IT'S ROCKS

HEAT CANNOT ALTER THE PROPERTIES OF ROCKS WITHOUT EITHER MELTING THEM OR TURNING THEM INTO A WHOLE DIFFERENT ROCK

-I think Evermeans are good and we should live in fear of resource-useful setpieces more often. there should be hostile jar mimics next. Wind Waker had enemies popping out of jars but also you could get the drop on them by breaking the jar like normal, and that fails the mimic test of "am I now afraid to perform Ordinary Actions in places I'm not sure are safe"

[lunian]

I wonder, did you do the floating coliseum yet? :o

...floating coliseum? I know only floating mazes :0

I only visited coliseum in the Depths and died, trying to fight King Gleeok there akdhdjdj

[gleefully-macabre]

A bit disappointed in the Ancient Hero’s Aspect. 84 defense is nice, but increasing the power of the Master Sword Beam doesn’t help if the player sucks at maintaining full health.

I got the Champion’s Leathers, Diamond Circlet, and Zonite Shin Guards at the earliest opportunity and upgrading them was my #1 priority. This combination gives Link 88 defense, +1 Attack, and +1 towards improved battery efficiency.

I recently finish killing all 14 Gleeoks for the Monster Hunter Medal (3 down, 3 to go!) and switched to the Fierce Diety set when I realized I was able to take down a Gleeok without getting hit (at least one 5-shot Savage Lynel Bow, two or three Gerudo Scimitars fused with Silver Lynel Saber Horn, plus at least 2 Rocket Shields, and a +3 Attack buff). I was able to get the last 3 King Gleeoks, including the one in the Depths, without taking damage.

This is also the ONLY monster I have ever taken no damage with. Even Frox would get me once in a while, even if it’s just being too close and getting smacked by a flailing foot. With Ganon, that just ain’t gonna happen.

I don’t consider the Phantom Ganons to be decent practice runs for the real thing. They are weaksauce, especially with the Master Sword in hand.

*sigh* I’m just putting off the inevitable. I should just go face the final boss, die until I figure it out, then continue doing side quests at my leisure. Pretty sure I accidentally made it down to the final area (put a Travel Medallion down so I won’t have to make THAT trek again).

[loquaciousquark]

BotW & TotK Stream Archive

As I'm wrapping up Tears of the Kingdom, I wanted to again collect the streams & descriptions here as a resource for myself. The Breath of the Wild streams do not yet have summaries either on Twitch or here, but will soon. Probably. Eventually.

Breath of the Wild: Link to Master Playlist

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

Part 14

Part 15

Part 16

Part 17

Part 18 - Story Finale

Part 19 - 900th Korok Seed, remaining side quests

Tears of the Kingdom: Link to Master Playlist

Part 1 - landing in Hyrule, leaving Hyrule, exploring the skylands, acquiring Ultrahand, Fuse, and Ascend abilities.

Part 2 - finishing the fourth prologue shrine, returning to Hyrule, some minor exploration, meeting Purah, seeing Zelda briefly, unlocking the first tower, receiving the glider, and fighting the first block construct.

Part 3 - exploring Hyrule, killing baby's first Battle Talus, clearing the Popla Tower, exploring the jungle, clearing the Sahasro Tower, clearing a handful of shrines, meeting Naydra (again), and visiting Hateno Village & Link's house.

Part 4 - exploring Hateno Village, reaching the depths for the first time, more shrines, Bringing Peace to Hyrule, STRUGGLING with a pinball shrine, opening more towers, the first geoglyph, meeting Sonia, meeting Hestu, exploring Rito caves, beginning Tulin's quest.

Part 5 - completing the Rito/Tulin questline, tower exploration, opening the first fairy fountain, shrines, more tower openings.

Part 6 - Direct continuation of previous part (lost connection briefly). Shrines & towers.

Part 7 - Features tower completion, a bunch of shrines, reaching Kakariko.

Part 8 - Features exploring Kakariko Village & completing various side quests, both in Kakariko and beyond.

Part 9 - Features koroks, a handful of shrines, the second Stable Trotters quest, a little Depths exploration, more shrines, resoliving the Hateno Village mayoral question, the Lanayru Penn quest, the Lanayru Hinox Brothers quest, and more shrines. Ends with reaching the Zora Domain.

Part 10 - Features shrines, reaching Hebra's fossil, baby's second geoglyph, Kilton, finally finding Hestu, reuniting with Sidon, the Zora/Sidon quest & temple resolution, more shrines, discovering the Dark Statue & the Soldier's Armor, discovering and pursuing the Light Dragon, recovering the item held by the Light Dragon, the Johsa Depths quest, first Frox fight, touching the Desert Oasis, and acquiring the final Purah Pad upgrade/Robbie's lab.

Part 11 - Features shrines, the last Purah Pad upgrades, all geoglyphs in a terribly wrong order, the Oasis/Riju fight, more shrines (including making Moose very sad around 2:30), more Penn stable quests, gliding dive challenges, the final Dragon's Tear (5:20), the third fairy quest (7:08), the first Gleeok fight, exploring Hyrule castle a little, reaching the Korok grove & the Deku tree, and a battery upgrade.

Part 12 - Features ancient Hyrulean stone slabs, some shrine quests, school with Link, more shrines, meeting Rhondson and Hudson again at Tarrey Town, a beautiful sendoff for Mattison at 2:45, beginning to build a house, more school with Link, the Hebra colossal fossil, more shrines, the Yiga at Rhoam's house, more shrines, and destroying the monsters at Lurelin Village.

Part 13 - Features restoring Lurelin Village, more exploration of the Great Plateau, some chasm exploration. Power dipped out at end of video; directly continued in the next.

Part 14 - Features more chasm exploration, shrines, the sanctuary at Gerudo Town, and the Lightning Temple.

Part 15 - Features shrines, the first labyrinth, more Hyrulean stone plinths, more Yiga clan infiltration, the last fairy quest, and the first pumpkin harvest from Hateno.

Part 16 - Features the King Gleeok fight, shrines, the Yiga chasms quest events, the lynel gauntlet coliseum, a few more Lurelin quests, the Tarrey town race, more shrines, Gerudo desert exploration, more shrines. Power again interrupted at the end.

Part 17 - Features the Zonaite Forge Island, showing off the completed house, meeting Koltin again, completing the last Yiga clan missions, shrines, the horse trailer race, catching the big white horse, the Kilton diorama, more labyrinths, more shrines, the Goddess statue of courage, completing the Gerudo Town ball quest & Eighth Heroine questlines.

Part 18 - Features shrine quests, visiting Hestu, completing the quests surrounding the Deku Tree (including the two shrine quests), the Temple of Time glider fabric quest, Sayge's dyes, some Goron City sidequests including the marbled rock roast fetch and Simmerstone Spring, and the leadup to the Fire Temple and Death Mountain. Power again goes out at the end.

Part 19 - Very brief part thanks to power outages, but includes the reveal and fight of the first Death Mountain miniboss.

Part 20 - Immediate pickup after the internet outage of the previous part. Features the Fire Temple, some armor collection quests, some shrines, house show-off again, return to Lookout Landing, and storming Hyrule Castle.

Part 21 - Features shrines, picking up a few Goron City quests, investigating the Ring Ruins, the follow-up river quest with Tauro, exploring the Thunderhead Isles, completing the Construct Factory quest sequence, regrouping with Purah, the final shrines of the game, a few sidequests in Lurelin Village, and a few sidequests in Goron City.

Part 22 - Features a handful of side adventures (including Hateno's Sun Pumpkin defense and the Bring Peace! series of quests), endgame, and about an hour of thoughts/final discussion afterwards.

Part 23 - 900th Korok Seed, final Bubbulgem, final Addison, final glider fabrics. 100% completion.

[vioshortforviolence]

Hero of Twilight Outfit Locations

For anyone looking for the Twilight Princess set:

The Cap of Twilight is in the Depths at the Gleeok Den, directly underneath Thyphlo Ruins. You'll have to fight a King Gleeok before you can open the chest. Yay have fun :)

Coordinates: 0264, 3123, -0623

The Trousers of Twilight are in the Depths at the Ancient Underground Fortress, west of the Abandoned Tarrey Mine and directly underneath the Akkala Citadel Ruins.

Coordinates: 3318, 1507, -0856

The Tunic of Twilight is in the Depths at the Rist Mine, underneath the very tip of Rist Peninsula.

Coordinates: 4517, 2169, -0454

[bruceandmary]

In less than a week, I went from being scared shitless of Gleeoks to taking out three regular ones and the King in the Depths.

All I needed was some confidence, a Demon King's Bow, and lots and lots of Keese eyeballs.

[tklpilled]

Should i go after the king gleeok in the depths?

have you been to that one area where there are like 5 stone armour lynels i think yiu'd enjoy that

[alelelesimz]

totk 100% progress ramble :D a bit long

oki so for context i finished totk last july. by then i wasn't using any guides (other than some help in certain puzzles here and there :p) and by the time i beat ganondorf i was at 66.97%! sadly i didn't take any screenshots of how many koroks i had by then but what i know is that i had already maxed out my inventory so it was around 450 or something, not too bad i think.

after this i stopped playing for a few months and this month i got back to it. i started roaming around but then decided it was time to tackle the interactive map. of course i had already finished a big chunk of the game and i didn't really want to go korok by korok checking stuff on the map, so mind you it is not very accurate lol.

here's what i have right now

completion: 84.14%

main quests: 23/23 ✔

side adventures: 60/60 ✔

shrine quests: 31/31 ✔

side quests: 128/139

memories: 18/18 ✔

hyrule compedium: 449/509

recipes: 87/228 (i haven't even started with this, it's just what i randomly have lol)

energy cells: 8/8 batteries ✔

paraglider fabrics: 24/29

koroks: 717 (including the ones i've used for inventory)

wells: 56/58

locations, armor, other stuff like that i'll add later i can't be bothered rn. here's how my interactive map is going (not the one in-game, this is stuff that i have yet to check)

NOW LISTEN

the sky is basically done, i need to check a couple of islands bc i'm not entirely sure i have those chests or not, i still have to do the hebra labyrinth and i havent fought any of the three king gleeoks bc im a coward

the surface is where i'm going the hardest. like i said, there is actually much more stuff that i have already done but i haven't checked yet bc i have to go in game and see if i've done it or not, so keep that in mind.

as you can see i already tackled the entire east of the map. i need to go back to check on a couple of hinox and talus, some gleeok that i havent been brave enough to fight (even tho i literally know how to, they're not that bad really) and yes. i'm not fucking touching lynels or gloom hands unless i absolutely have to lmao.

i'm kinda going region by region, i started at akkala and went all the way down to faron. i'm thinking of going to hebra next since that's the area i've been ignoring the most for some reason, and the few shrines i have left are all in there! so yeah.

and as for the depths, lets just say i have barely touched this map, i have explored a lot but it is still the area i have done the least. idk i just dont like being completely lost and always scared lol. but i do have to go there cause im running low on zonaite from building hover bikes to help koroks lol. i'd also like some good weapons too that'd be nice

anyways that's it thanks for reading my rant 👍 here's a funny pic

[sylvanfreckles]

All right. I found all the shrines, all the armor (except that one cap being protected by the king gleeok in the depths), every Bubbul gem, and now every Korok.

I guess I'll try to fight the demon king and save Hyrule. If I have to.

[metfell]

its literally so fucked up that the cap of twilight is locked behind a gloom king gleeok in the depths. most evil thing they could have ever done

[airplanned]

What’s wrong with the cap of twilight? I haven’t finished finding all the hero outfit pieces yet so I’m out of the loop

TLDR: it’s a ridiculously small reward for the amount of effort it takes to get it.

Big Spoilers for what that effort is:

You have to defeat a Gloom King Gleeok in the Depths. The hat is in a gloom chest, so you have to defeat the fucker before it opens.

All for a hat with a max defense of 20, which I already had in my inventory from an amibo.