My Favorite Useless TotK Sidequest

[rynling]

Photos of the Kingdom: Filling the Stable Frames
https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/13w3sz2/totk_photos_of_the_kingdom_filling_the_stable/

At each of the stables in Tears of the Kingdom, the proprietor will ask you to take a photo to fill a large frame on the wall. With one tricky exception, most of their requests make perfect sense, and it's fun to run around finding the perfect shot of each landmark. Your reward for completing the individual photo quests is a low-level type of food, and your reward for completing the entire sequence is five slices of carrot cake. This isn't an interesting or useful quest unless you play Tears of the Kingdom primarily as a wildlife photography simulator. That is what I do, and that is why I love this series of sidequests.

What this person on Reddit has done is to create a short travelogue of their adventures in stable frame photography. It probably won't make sense to anyone who hasn't played the game, but I really enjoyed reading it. Video game travelogues are the best.

Comments

[lassarina]

Honestly I love the kind of quest that tells you to go look at things and find great angles on them. That was remarkably fun in FFXV.

[rynling]

That was remarkably fun in FFXV.

There's a landscape photography quest in FFXV?? Yessssssssss

Looking forward to it 🍹

[lassarina]

It's not strictly landscape photography per se, but Prompto's hobby is photography, and every now and again at interesting scenery he yells at you to pull over and take a group photo, and I found that fun. There's also a side quest chain with some, like, tabloid reporter who sends you to take photos of various things (in the Royal edition, IIRC) and I think you *can* just run around taking photos, although there are limits to how many you can store. I guess the way around *that* is to screenshot and offload those from the PS? Or if you're playing on PC it's probably easier, lol.