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With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom coming out in just a couple of weeks, there’s never been a better time to play (or replay) Breath of the Wild. And while there are those who prefer to mainline the story and finish the game quickly, there are benefits to taking your time to unravel all of the small details hiding in Hyrule.

That being said, you don’t need to spend all of your time searching for collectibles and secrets. Not without help at least. Whether you’re trying to nab every Korok seed or just discover some hidden areas, we have a handy Breath of the Wild Wiki guide to help you on your journey. Below are some of the most pertinent guide to finding everything in the game before you play Tears of the Kingdom. You can also take advantage of our interactive Breath of the Wild map that features every location in the game.

All Korok Seed Locations

There are a total of 900 Korok seeds in Zelda: Breath of the Wild for you to find. And while you certainly don’t need to find them all to complete the game, you do end up getting a special (and quite ridiculous) prize for doing so. You can watch the video above to find out what prize you get for collecting them all, or you can just find out yourself!

To help you gather every seed, we have a handy guide that details all of the Korok seed locations in Breath of the Wild. You can also drill down to each region and get help with any complicated Korok seed puzzles you may run into.

All Memory Locations

Recovering links memories in Breath of the Wild isn’t necessary to finish the game, but it’s a great way to explore Hyrule while also unraveling the secrets of Link’s past. In addition to the 12 memories you need to find to complete the Captured Memories quest, there are also 6 more memories you uncover as the main story progresses.

If you’re hoping to get the full story experience from the game, it’s worth uncovering all of the memories as you play. You can do so by using our guide to all memory locations in Breath of the Wild. You can also watch the video above to see all of the cutscenes without having to collect those memories.

All Side Quests

If you’re looking for more than just a walkthrough of the main story, then you’re going to want to complete some of the many side quests in Breath of the Wild. Each of these quests offer a reward as well additional depth to the surrounding characters and storyline. There’s even a side quest that allows you to have your own home!

To help you find every one of these lateral journeys in the game, you can check out our guide to every side quest in BotW. It includes locations, rewards, and walkthroughs that will make navigation easy.

All Shrine Locations

There are a total of 120 Shrines in the game, each with their own unique puzzle or challenge you’ll need to complete. And although you don’t need to complete all of the shrines to defeat Ganon, you do need to complete enough to be able to obtain the Master Sword.

To help you find every Shrine you might have missed, you can take a look at our comprehensive guide to all Shrine locations in Breath of the Wild. If you need help completing any of them, you can also check out our Shrine quest walkthroughs for assistance.

All Great Fairy Fountain Locations

There are a total of 4 Great Fairy Fountains across Hyrule, each of which will allow you to upgrade your armor for a price and certain materials. You’ll need quite a few Rupees to upgrade your armor all the way, but if you just need to find the fountains first, we’ve got you covered.

You can either check out the video above or dive into our guide to all Great Fairy Fountain locations in Breath of the Wild.

All Weapons and Armor Locations

The right armor and weapons in Breath of the Wild can make all of the difference. Some weapons may not last long, but if used correctly, they can help you power through some of the most difficult fights with ease. And some of the best armor in breath of the wild can even provide power-ups you may want.

To help you find the right gear for you, you can check out our comprehensive guides to armor and weapons in Breath of the Wild — including how to get the Master Sword and Green Tunic.

Find the Special Horses

One of the most exciting aspects of Breath of the Wild is that you can find and tame your own horses. Not only that, you can even mount some of the other wildlife and ride them around Hyrule if you’re daring enough — though you won’t be able to register them at the stables.

Although there are plenty of wild horses you can find, there are also some special ones out there you may want to collect. One of the best horses in the game is Epona, which requires the use of a special Link Amiibo. You can also find the majestic White Horse, which is a descendent of Princess Zelda’s horse from 100 years ago. If you’re looking for a bit more power, there’s also the Giant Horse — a descendent from Gananondorf’s horse.

Build a Town

One of the best sidequests in Breath of the Wild is one that lets you work with NPCs to build an entire town called Tarrey Town. This starts after you complete the Hylian Homeowner side quest and move on to the From the Ground Up quest.

Tarrey Town is an entirely optional part of Breath of the Wild, but going through with everything results in some nice benefits such as merchants that can provide rare armor.

Find All of the Easter Eggs and References

Considering the Legend of Zelda timeline is quite vast and there have been quite a few games in the series, it’s no surprise that there are quite a few references to the older games hidden throughout Hyrule. You’ll find everything from specific locations from other games to musical references from years ago.

If you want to discover all of these little things on your own, you can check out our guide to all of the easter eggs and references in Breath of the Wild.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom arrives on May 12. You can already preorder the game ahead of time to make sure you can play it on day 1. Check out our hands-on preview of teh game below:

Back in 1993, an unassuming game about the American Revolution called We the People launched a revolution in historical board games. By adding a deck of cards that mimicked historical events and putting political control on par with military occupation it merged politics and warfare into one neat package. Its more recent predecessors have eschewed the war board game aspect to focus on the politics, and the latest in this line is Votes for Women, in which you’ll refight the struggle for women’s suffrage in America with cards and dice.

What’s in the Box

Votes for Women packs a lot into its slim bookcase box. There’s a sturdy board featuring a map of America with the states picked out using two-letter codes, which may confuse non-US players. There are also several thick decks of cards, one for the suffrage player, one for the opposition and one for solo play, along with some smaller decks. All are illustrated with photos and political cartoons from the era which do a great job of setting the tone.

There’s also half a tree’s worth of wood in the form of dozens of little wooden cubes in purple, yellow and red along with some male and female campaigner figurines in matching colors. Unusually, Votes for Women gives you plenty of spares in this regard, including offering a choice of figure poses so you can use which ones you like best. There are also wooden checkmarks and crosses to indicate states which have passed or rejected the suffrage amendment, a lovely touch which looks awesome on the board. A few wooden cylinders, variously-shaped dice and cardboard chits round out the play components.

As is common for historically-oriented games there’s a booklet of designer’s notes alongside the rules, explaining how the designer, Tory Brown, feels the mechanics of her game tie into the history. What’s far less common but potentially far more interesting is a sheaf of facsimile historical documents, from a replica of a New York Times front page to a sample ballot from Chicago. If you’re interested in the history of this era, they’re a delight.

Rules and How It Plays

As card-driven games go, Votes for Women is pretty straightforward. You get a hand of event cards and can bid “buttons” – an abstract resource approximating campaign funding and momentum – to get a bonus strategy card from a face-up selection. Then the suffrage player and the opposition take turns playing cards from their hands. After six of these, the round is over and after six rounds the game ends in a sudden-death victory where players roll off to see which side wins any undecided states.

Most cards will be played for their events and most events allow you to add or remove cubes from states on the map. If you don’t want to play a card for its event then you can use it to campaign, which involves rolling a die for each campaigner on the map and allocating that many cubes to their surrounding area, or you can move them to a new one by paying a button. You can also play cards to get more buttons or to influence Congress to allow Americans a vote on suffrage: if Congress hasn’t done this by the time the game ends, the opposition player wins automatically.

Once Congress has passed that amendment then getting four of your cubes in a state “wins” it for you with a cross or a tick. The opposition player has fewer campaigners and cubes but only needs 13 states to reject suffrage in order to win. The suffrage player, meanwhile, is hampered by having to use two cube colors, reflecting the reality of racist factionalism within the movement. Prior to that, getting four cubes in certain critical states can win you an extra card associated with that state which you can play to advance your campaign.

If you assess Votes for Women purely from a mechanical standpoint, it uses a shocking amount of dice for a modern board game. Many event cards give you random amounts of cubes, as does campaigning. Committing cards to influence Congress, which is often what swings it over the line, requires rolling a six. The roll-off is particularly problematic: you get to add the number of cubes you have in the state but it’s still very prone to huge swings of fate and can often determine the winner on a single die roll. You might imagine that would make the game feel like a glorified crapshoot, yet it rarely does.

There are manifold reasons for this. A key one is the sheer amount of dice you roll over the course of the game, so your luck evens out. The fact the whole thing wraps in about 90 minutes helps, too. Another important aspect is the fact you can spend buttons to reroll, which makes fishing for sixes a bit less of a blunt instrument and gives you some control over other risk-against-reward decisions. It’s often so exciting to shake, with so much riding on the outcome, that you forget to worry about whether you’re making meaningful choices and roll with the drama as well as the dice.

This immersion is thanks largely to the game’s theme. While we happily play military simulations that slaughter thousands with a single card play, Votes for Women has such an astonishingly personal feel about it that it features excellent solo and cooperative versions for those who don’t want to play the opposition to suffrage. And it’s true: an opposition win feels thoroughly icky, whether you’re on the giving or receiving end. The root cause of this is that the game models systemic oppression rather than individual violence, and that the lingering effects of that systemic oppression are still being felt today.

For those who want to marshal their resources against that oppression, the game has plenty of tools to aid you. While there aren’t as many effects that link together as there perhaps might be, there are enough that experience with the deck will improve your game. Learning when to shepherd your buttons and when to spend them is critical, especially in the thrill of bidding for those powerful strategy cards. Knowing when to push the track for Congress over the tipping point proves a surprising double-edged sword for both sides and demands good judgement, as does when and where to campaign.

Votes for Women is based loosely on an older card-driven strategy board game called 1960: The Making of the President. This used the same state-wide board on which players added or removed cubes to each state but there was no geographical strategy, cubes just came and went like a tally and it felt like a missed opportunity. Votes for Women improves on its predecessor in almost every way but, despite the brief early importance of capturing particular states for special cards, it still has this nagging lack of spatial meaning and it still feels like a missed opportunity.

Where to Buy

• Get it at Amazon
• Get it at Atomic Empire
• Get it at Fort Circle

If your childhood was in anyway similar to mine then the phrase “saberrealisticcombat” has permanent residency in your brain. For those not in the know, this is the cheat code that activates dismemberment in 2002’s Star Wars Jedi Knight 2, the long-reigning king of simulated lightsaber combat. Type that string of characters into the command console and suddenly every swing of Kyle Katarn’s humming blade produces a recreation of the cantina scene from A New Hope. But even without the detachable limbs, Jedi Knight 2’s lightsaber – and those in its sequel, Jedi Academy – felt like an unmatched force, until now.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has the best lightsabers in any Star Wars video game I’ve ever played. Their pitch-perfect hum, crackle, and hiss are matched by swift and smooth fight manoeuvres that truly convey this elegant weapon’s prowess. And so, after two decades, we finally have a worthy heir to Jedi Knight’s clashes.

To be clear, I mean that in the spiritual sense. Respawn Entertainment’s Jedi games are very different to Raven Software’s Jedi Knight series; rather than shooter/hack-and-slash hybrids, they are rooted in the melee combat rhythms of FromSoftware. If you loved Jedi Knight, there’s no guarantee that Jedi: Survivor is going to ignite your inner kyber crystal. But if you’re looking to once again feel the energetic rush that Raven imbued its lightsaber combat with, then Jedi: Survivor has a Corellian freighter’s worth.

That initial rush comes via the massive improvement that Respawn has made to its fencing fundamentals. While I’m aware that Jedi: Fallen Order was largely admired, I personally found its Dark Soulsian combat quite rough around the edges. It felt slow and clumsy, with protagonist Cal Kestis wielding his saber like a blunt baseball bat rather than a deadly plasma blade. Battles often felt like traded defensive blows rather than the samurai-inspired dances we see in the movies. And so the fact that Jedi: Survivor’s combat is more akin to Sekiro – FromSoftware’s own Sengoku-era Japan swordplay game – means that it’s off to a substantially better start.

There’s a stronger emphasis here on parrying blows rather than holding up a static defence, in part thanks to Survivor’s much larger array of blade-wielding enemies. Weapons intercept and push each other away in a form that looks and feels like genuine swordplay. Moves stitch together to create an impressively elaborate spectacle of your own making. To become good at Jedi: Survivor’s swordplay is to choreograph your own Star Wars duel, something I’ve not seen since the days of Jedi Knight.

While Survivor’s parry-based combat is a very different beast to Jedi Knight’s approach (which, in comparison, does now feel quite wild and uncalculated), there’s some significant shared DNA in their approaches to how a lightsaber is wielded. As we’ve seen in the films, a Jedi’s approach to swinging a lightsaber radically changes the tactics and rhythm of a fight. In the Jedi Knight games this is represented through three fighting styles; fast, medium, and strong. The former utilises speed to mount an overwhelming offence, while the latter uses slower and riskier – but more devastating – blows to cleave through an enemy’s defence. Medium, meanwhile, channels the classic fight styles that are iconic to Star Wars’ warrior monks.

Jedi: Survivor has an answer to all of these fighting styles through its new stance system, each of which uses a unique lightsaber. The classic single-bladed saber is equivalent to Jedi Knight’s medium stance; a balanced approach that unlocks your inner Obi-Wan Kenobi. Disciplined, flexible, universal. Snap your saber’s hilt in half, though, and you can dual wield blades to unleash a flurry of strikes at lightning speed. That’s your fast style, naturally. As for strong style, that comes via a Kylo Ren-like crossguard saber that’s swung in heavy, violent arcs akin to a two-handed claymore.

There’s more, too; the quarterstaff-like double-bladed lightsaber is perfect for decimating the gangs of battle droids that so often try to surround you in a mechanical pile-on, while the blaster stance pays homage to FromSoftware’s Bloodborne by putting a gun in your off-hand for shots between rapier-like lunges. Combined, these stances provide the sense of a Jedi being an incredibly skilled and multi-talented fighter; the very same sense upon which Jedi Knight thrived.

Of course, Jedi Knight was as famed for its array of Force powers as it was its lightsabers. 2008’s The Force Unleashed famously tried to one-up it in that department, with protagonist Starkiller being able to pull Star Destroyers out of the sky and crumple TIE Fighters like tinfoil. But that OTT approach, alongside its PS2-era God of War-like combat, meant it felt too much of a departure from the power levels of the Jedi we long to emulate. Respawn goes back to tried and true powers for Jedi: Survivor and it works beautifully. There’s a simple thrill in blasting a battle droid off a cliff, or hoisting a squad of hapless Stormtroopers into the air before slamming them back down to earth. The glue that holds all this together is discovering the links between your Force powers and your lightsaber; there’s nothing quite like pulling an enemy towards you and impaling them on your blade in one smooth motion.

But if you have those same Jedi Knight memories as me, perhaps the thing that makes Respawn’s latest such a clear heir to Raven’s games is the way Cal’s lightsaber lops off limbs. There’s nothing quite like rampaging through a group of buckethead Imperials with a white-hot blade, especially when the end result is a pile of cauterised body parts. That thought may sound gnarly, but the absolute absence of detached limbs in Fallen Order is what contributed to its lightsaber feeling much more like a club than a sword. Our very first introduction to the power of the Jedi’s signature weapon was Obi-Wan slicing off Ponda Baba’s arm in the Mos Eisley cantina, and from that moment onwards it has been permanently linked to dismemberment. Luke’s hand, Darth Maul’s lower half, Jango Fett’s head, Anakin’s… well, almost everything. Jedi: Survivor has “saberrealisticcombat” from the moment Cal ignites his weapon for the first time, without the need for a cheat code. And from the moment a Stormtrooper’s right arm went spiralling off into the distance, it was like I was back in 2002 all over again.

Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Features Editor.