It Looks Like Cooking Recipes Are A Thing In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom

man, just 2 more weeks

So far TotK really is BotW but better. And I'm loving it.

I've pretty much completed BotW just shy of collecting all of the Korok seeds and completing the final DLC beast mission thing. I don't know if I'll be bothered to go for the magical 100%, but it's not a tall order considering how far I've come. Oh, and I haven't yet completed the final Master Sword trial either, which sounds absolutely torturous (I've half-heartedly attempted it a couple of times and didn't get very far). I'll probably need to take advantage of some kind of exploit if I am to ever conquer it.

I also started playing a little bit of Master Mode, but I don't know if I will ever get around to completing that to any real length. I really suck at defending myself against Lynels.

Either way, I think I've completed enough of the game to confidently jump into Tears of the Kingdom. It's funny because I have virtually no excitement about the game at all (and have hardly watched any of the previews/trailers), but if it's anything like BotW, I know I'll absolutely love my time with it. It's so weird that what is poised to be another all-time classic alongside Ocarina of Time and BotW arouses so little excitement while I was WAYYYYY more excited about the Link's Awakening remake, while still a great game, is far from reaching the heights of BotW/TotK by an insurmountable margin.

I guess my relationship with the Zelda franchise is a little weird like that. I've pre-ordered the game though thanks to a great deal that includes a bonus controller for almost nothing (the bundle costs as much as the standard retail price for the game itself), as well as the new amiibo. I'll probably ignore all spoilers again as figuring out BotW for myself was one of the things that made the experience so magical (at least early on).

@RupeeClock Absolutely agree with this. Pretty much every recipe in BotW was inferior to a single steamed radish, which was a shame given how engrossing and fleshed out the cooking options were.

Even if the same system is kept in TotK, having an actual log (‘Dishdéx’?) would provide a some impetus for experimenting with different recipes and branching out beyond… radishes.

It’s not the most modern game to reference, but I really enjoyed the way that recipes were handled in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Some recipes were clearly superior to others, but having a proper log to work through made culinary exploration still feel fun and rewarding!

I generally don't bother with cooking in games like this, unless I'm forced to. I just don't find it that fun or useful.

This is great news!

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Just go for banana avalanche

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@timp29 If you see a banana avalanche, you'd better split.

YES

Hopefully something similar exists with Fuse combinations

Nice! I think I'll be more inclined to do more cooking this time around.

Recipes existed before. Posters in the taverns and books and word of mouth and you could look at any food you cooked and see what was in it.

@Ryu_Niiyama Sure, but whenever you wanted to cook something again you would have to either remember the ingredient combo or look up the recipe. Hopefully this just adds the recipe once you’ve made it and you just click the recipe you want to make when you’ve got the ingredients. At the very least you’ll be able to just find the recipe in game quickly which is better than having to look it up online or remember it exactly

Can listen to the players on that but not the dumb arse weapon durability that has NO place in a Zelda game huh?

I'm not sure it works this way, but it would be nice to just pick the recipe and it automatically gathers the ingredients for you to cook in the pot, instead of still having to gather ingredients individually in your inventory.

I hadn't seen the previews that showed off this, but this is a nice little addition, especially for some of the more unique recipes.

I am so damn excited for this game

I'm hoping you can cook on an open fire this time/ have a travel pot you can use anywhere. It would add to the sense of adventure being able to rustle up some food in the middle of nowhere.

Capcom would have made this an update 4 years ago.

I like that the recipes have numbers as well. Seems all really nice for cooking collection as well. I might try to.

But yeah, it's a QoL improvement for everyone, whether you want to collect all the recipes or not. Honestly great that it's much easier to cook and know what ingredients you need to cook something. At least once you've got the recipe once.

Has anyone else ordered the collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom from Curry's? I happened to look at the Curry's website a few hours ago, and noticed that the collector's edition was available to order. So, I took a chance and placed an order. However, being the natural pessimist I am, I fully expect that Curry's will be unable to fulfil my order, and that they will cancel my order in the next two weeks.

Looking forward to CookingMemo% speed runs

Wonder if cooking will have any more of a point in TotK. In BotW nearly all utility it has is in the early game and you can pretty much just brute-force everything with hearty items.

I think I'm going to have to take a break from this site until the game comes out. Even the headlines are spoilers.

The most useless non-mechanic in Breath of the Wild. Unfortunately.
Really hoping they're doing something more interesting with it in Tears of the Kingdom.

What happened to Nintendolife's policy of not putting spoilers for TOTK in the headlines? I'd say giving explicit details of what's included in the game as a spoiler.

A great QoL feature. Just two weeks away now.

@Pod It supported the openness of the game. You could only have 3 hearts but give yourself at least 13 hearts (I forget the exact numbers) with some food. You could at least double your damage (particularly useful when each attack takes you very quickly towards the weapon breaking), or dramatically reduce incoming damage. You need never upgrade your stamina if you could be bothered to keep eating stamina restoration food or boost the max. Not to mention the environmental element resistance effects. It let you do things you "shouldn't" do yet and added a reason to explore beyond shrines and seeds.

I like how one can make it premade after you make it.

Can I just have blue and red potions again, please? I don't want to cook, that's already a chore in real life.

@Sisilly_G whoa where can I get that bundle?

@Matroska
It's true that you could do all those with cooking, but none of it really had to do with recipes. :x

I mean, I feel like most people already expected something like this to exist in Tears of The Kingdom. It is a much appreciated feature, but also very expected.

I literally have screenshots of BOTW recipes saved on my phone, so this will be a huge help for TOTK. Great quality of life improvement. One that probably should've been there since the start, but better late than never.

Funny how much press and articles were dedicated to this game having a $70 or £60 price tag........ but now in the U.K at least it already been reduced to £51 on the biggest site Amazon U.K, and not a single article or update on this.

Call me skeptical but one could be lead to think this site loves to produce outrage articles for clicks.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legend-Zelda-Breath-Wild-Sequel/dp/B07SNRGQC4/ref=sr_1_3?brr=1&content-id=amzn1.sym.3642feb9-f459-485e-b5f9-8e67b609eacd&pd_rd_r=f1332b90-439e-4bb9-9061-0b42c2ce9442&pd_rd_w=mfizr&pd_rd_wg=SXb4M&pf_rd_p

It was very strange that they weren't in BOTW as a UI element. I saw some posters, but I couldn't steal them.

@Pod Cooking different recipes to get different buffs has nothing to do with recipes? What?

@JohnnyMind Awesome! Travel pots are a nice addition!

@Matroska
It unfortunately doesn't.
Cooking five Mighty Carps together for their buffs is not a recipe. Cooking four of them AND a hearty truffle together for buffs AND full health +3 extra hearts is also not a recipe.
It's just a choice of ingredients with specific effects.
And it's much more efficient than following any of the game's recipes.

Cooking five Gourmet Meat together multiple times over isn't really a recipe either.
But it's the fastest way of making money off of your ingredients, as selling the resultings dishes will net you quite a few rupees, even if these dishes carry no special names or effects.

Really hoping that selecting recipes from the cookbook with auto-pick the required ingredients from your inventory.

That would be a huge load off, as your ingredients get jumbled around everytime you've been picking up stuff in the wilderness, and you have no means of sorting it. :x