Man, this game just keeps on giving. I keep finding new things about it.
My favorite outfit so far is the stealth outfit you get from Kakariko Village. I love using this outfit for hunting and scavenging. You can sneak up on animals, insects, reptiles, moblins, and almost anything. Best hunting combo is the stealth outfit and bombs. I just sneak up on the animals, throw bombs, and booooooom, meat for dinner. In extreme conditions like the volcano areas and ice cold plains, just equip a weapon that has the opposite weather attribute, one piece of clothing to ward off the elements, and two pieces of the stealth outfit to be able to hunt animals again. Pure genius.
Last night I also discovered a good way to use some of the heavier weapons like hammers and axes more effectively against enemies. I was fighting one of the guardian scouts in one of the major tests of strengths and I was hacking away with my axe. Usually, I can get about 3-4 hits in when I have them parazlyed with statsis. Then I was thinking about how I usually charge up my weapon to unleash Urbosa's fury, but this is not allowed during the test. I reflexively started charging on one occasion and I saw Link start to swing the axe in a circle. That's when I had the idea of using statis and charging the weapon to use the circular motion to hit the Guardian Scout. It freaking works!! And after the charge up I used the big swing to deal additional damage. So awesome.
And this morning, I was playing on the bus and I was in the Thunder Plateau area. There was a lot of lightning coming down and I thought, I wonder if the thunder helm works. So I wear it, save the game, and then walk around to get the lightning to strike me. I survive a lightning strike. I am like, cool. Then I get the bright idea of using the lightning helm during a storm to fight enemies. Unfortunately, there were no enemies in the area. There was a fox though. So I walked around for a while waiting for the electricity to charge up and then walked up to the fox. The lightning struck me and electrified the fox. I laughed out loud for a bit there. That was a resilient fox though as it did not die. I am guessing the lightning will only paralyze enemies so I will have to keep that in mind. I can't wait to fight in a lightning storm against enemies and seeing the results.
I feel like I have put in about 50+ hours and I am still finding lots of new things. This game is incredible.