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joewintergreen
@joewintergreen

instead of the DLC giving you access to quite a slow motorcycle, which sort of undermines horses and climbing and ends up not being very fun, it should have given you a bicycle

the bicycle uses your stamina wheel. if you pedal real good you can go up hills faster than running. but going downhill, you can go super fast and your stamina recharges. you can maybe hold onto it with your feet while you paraglide, it's not that heavy. paraglide across the map and land, still on your bicycle, going extra fast. you can do a little bunny hop. you can lean around. you can tie those helium balloons to it.

horses are still worth it because they do better with certain terrain and you don't fuck your own stamina up going up a hill. climbing is still worth it because unlike the motorbike the bicycle doesn't do a bonkers climb. also, a bicycle is still pretty high end tech for botw. plus, imagine, you're holding A or whatever to go fast, link is pedaling his little heart out, he's got those sweat droplets coming off his face. so cute! classic botw


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in reply to @joewintergreen's post:

it's kind of deliberately rudimentary in various ways (iirc it's referred to as the "boneshaker" at some point?) but i liked using the bicycle in Eastshade. it saved the devs from implementing fast travel in a game that definitely would've suffered from it.