These guides are intended to be used as checklists for things you find throughout the game.
There may be implied spoilers. Consider yourself warned.
These guides will not show you how to do something, or show you a map of where to find something. For Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I do include exact coordinates for many things, but in my experience this does not diminish the challenge, since the map screen itself only shows you your current coordinates.
Usage
The intention is to use your phone, tablet, or laptop next to you while you play, so that you can quickly note the things you do as you do them. You need to continue using the same phone / tablet / laptop, but your progress will persist on that device.
Tapping any checkpoint will auto-save. The bottom of each page will tell you how long ago it was saved. There is a separate “Save” button if you are paranoid.
All progress is saved in your device’s browser storage. If you:
- change browsers
- change devices
- reinstall your browser
- clear your browser data / cache
You will very likely lose your progress!
About
I wrote a lot more about the process of building this over on my creative projects blog, but the TL;DR is:
- I was playing Zelda BotW and got tired of pen & paper checklists when trying to find upgrade materials
- I thought “it would be real nice to have a web app that I could use from my phone will I play”
- I wanted to do this without involving any kind of backend
- I wanted to do it with minimal JS.
That’s basically it!
Contributing
The whole site is built using Jekyll.
The source for this app is https://github.com/armahillo/completionist-guide. Feel free to submit a PR if there are additional games you’d like to see, re-use any of the existing games / CSS. The only hard limitation is not adding more JS – this is a CSS-first project.