The WORST Heart Piece in Zelda History

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  @BennyBunford · 3 years ago

  This sidequest is a grim, yet educational reminder that Gachapon, lootboxes and "surprise mechanics" are a blight upon game design.

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  @christophersmith8848 · 3 years ago

  This explains why, after my brother 100% ran Minish Cap for the first time, I found him in the corner muttering "mysterious shells" over and over

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  @dialaskisel5929 · 3 years ago

  I knew it was going to be this one.  The scariest part:  My late mother was a crazy completionist and loved all of the Zelda games.  She completed Minish cap multiple times - and fully completed this crazy side quest each and every time she played.

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  @davoohm2779 · 2 years ago

  fun fact: When I first played, I grinded every single figurine except for number 22. Every time I entered carlov's shop, he said he doesn't have any more figurines. It wasn't until a freak accident when I noticed the area just south of the goron merchant in hyrule town and how it made a dusty patting noise under link's feet. I used my gust jar to finding beetle and sure enough, he was the last figurine I needed. I basically did the entire quest without picolyte because I mainly resorted to the coucoo minigame.

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  @CassidyDylyn · 3 years ago

  The worst part is, Librari gives you a full heart container for basically doing nothing. This should be the full heart container.

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  @J0J0Jetz · 3 years ago

  I remember grinding this in the back of my parents car on a 7 hour trip. Didn’t even finish it

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  @AbruptAvalanche · 3 years ago

  Out of curiosity, I looked up a 100% speedrun of this game to see how they handle this side quest.They do some kind of RNG manipulation to seemingly get new figurines with every pull, and they complete the whole collection in around 35 minutes. Crazy!

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  @linksbro1 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The heart piece? 100% not worth it. The jukebox that could play any song in the game as a kid who didn&apos;t have an ipod or mp3 player yet? <i><b>THAT</b></i><b></b> was the true reward of kings.

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• CA

  @CaesuraBreak · 3 years ago

  I remember this quest. As a kid, i didnt mind the grindset. As an adult, i cant believe i spent so much time grinding shells for a single heart piece

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  @AdeptRougeOfHorus · 3 years ago

  As someone who has gotten this heart piece, TWICE, I agree; NOT. WORTH. IT!

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  @mothersbasement · 3 years ago (edited)

  Actually, the way the math works out, it’s essentially never worth it to spend more than one shell on the gacha. Sub 50% is still a coin flip essentially, so spending 2 or more shells to get the odds over 50% is less efficient than just flipping. When you get down to 30%, you can spend 20 shells to raise your rate, or keep rolling 1s and get a new figurine 1/3 times. In the 20s it’s 1 of every 5 shells spent vs 30 just to get back to 50/50 odds. That works out all the way down to 2%, you’re almost guaranteed to hit a new figure in less shells than you’d spend on a sure thing. obviously that’s insanely time consuming, but even as low as 5% you should be rolling one every 20 tries, roughly. Which is still less time than you’re likely to spend going out and grinding for shells. The best strategy is to just grind it while watching TV or something and save your shells to make the last few 1% figures a sure thing, because that’s the only point where you’re spending as much on rolls as the odds boost.<br><br>The rewind feature on the new switch port also helps quite a bit

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  @GerudoKing_ · 3 years ago

  This heart piece: a completionist’s nightmare <br><br>The 1000 Koroks in TotK: “Finally, a worthy opponent. &nbsp;Our battle will be legendary!”

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