One of the many kinds of collectibles you can find in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is Gratitude Crystals. These crystalized bits of happiness can be traded in for some valuable rewards, and while there are some that you can simply pick up in certain places around the world, you’ll typically earn them by helping out the many denizens of Skyloft, including fellow knight Pipit and his mother Mallara.
Below, we detail everything you need to know to help Pipit’s mother out and earn her Gratitude Crystals. For more Zelda: Skyward Sword HD guides, be sure to check out our guide roundup. Otherwise, read our Zelda: Skyward Sword HD review.
Pipit’s Dusty House
Location: Pipit’s House at the lower right corner of Skyloft
Prerequisites: Must complete Lanaryu Mining Facility
After you’ve completed Skyward Sword’s third dungeon, the Lanayru Mining Facility, and obtained the Gust Bellows, return to Skyloft and pay a visit to Pipit’s house. Pipit himself is seldom here, since he can typically be found either at the Knight Academy or out on patrol, but his mother, Mallara, is usually at home. However, as you’ll see as soon as you step into the building, she has been neglecting her housework, and the entire home is covered in a thick layer of dust as a result.
Mallara asks for your help in tidying up the place, so take out your Gust Bellows and go to town blowing away all the dust. Don’t worry about knocking over any pottery, either; Mallara will just be happy that the house is finally clean. Once you’ve finished clearing all the dust from the home, Mallara will be so grateful that you’ll receive five Gratitude Crystals for this little task. On top of that, she’ll also give you 20 Rupees as a reward for your help.
For details on the rest, be sure to read our Gratitude Crystal quest roundup, including walkthroughs for each one, locations for individual Gratitude Crystals, and the rewards you can get from exchanging them.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is rife with collectibles to find, but some of the most valuable are Gratitude Crystals. These gems are crystalized bits of happiness, and you can trade them in for some rare rewards. While some Gratitude Crystals can be found out in the open, you’ll typically receive them after helping one of the many residents of Skylot with their problems, including the item check girl Peatrice.
Below, we’ve detailed how to complete Peatrice’s side quest and earn her Gratitude Crystals. For more on the game, check out our Skyward Sword HD guide roundup, which features some essential beginner’s tips along with guides on where to find every Piece of Heart and Goddess Cube. Be sure to also read our Zelda: Skyward Sword HD review for our full thoughts on the new remaster.
Item Check Admirer
Location: Item Check shop at the Skyloft Bazaar (After talking with Batreux for the first time)
Prerequisites: Must complete Finding Kukiel
Peatrice is the rather bored-looking girl who runs the item check stand in the Bazaar. If you consistently speak to her, she will begin to fall in love with Link. Continue to flatter her every chance you get until she starts to call you “Darling,” even if that means repeating a process of talking to her and sleeping until morning over and over again. Sleep in a bed and go to her house at night. You’ll run into Peater, her father. He is none the wiser and openly criticizes his daughter’s infatuation with an unknown suitor. He asks you to see what you can find out for him.
Return to the Bazaar in the morning, and speak to Peatrice. She will ask you to meet her at night. Find a bed and head to her house at night, for the second time. You can choose to flatter her, and she will bestow Gratitude Crystals to you as a sign of her love and devotion. On the contrary, you can opt to tell her that she isn’t anything special to you and instead return the following night to receive the crystals from Peater, along with his thanks.
For details on the rest, be sure to read our Gratitude Crystal quest roundup, including walkthroughs for each one, locations for individual Gratitude Crystals, and the rewards you can get from exchanging them.
There are many collectibles to find in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, but some of the most coveted are Gratitude Crystals. These can typically be earned by helping the various residents of Skyloft, and you can trade them in for some helpful rewards, making them valuable commodities. One such side quest involves Parrow, whose sister has seemingly gone missing.
Below, we’ve detailed what you need to do to help Parrow find his sister and receive his Gratitude Crystals. Be sure to also check out our Skyward Sword HD guide roundup for more tips to help you on your adventure, as well as our Zelda: Skyward Sword HD review for our full thoughts on the new remaster.
Parrow’s Missing Sister
Location: Plaza in South Skyloft (After talking with Batreux for the first time)
Prerequisites: Must complete Finding Kukiel
Parrow seems concerned about his sister. She headed out towards Fun Fun Island and has yet to return. Scout out the area near the colorful island, and you’ll find her tending to her wounded Loftwing. Per her instructions, fly back to her brother to retrieve the medicine required to mend her Loftwing. When you return to the island, she will let you keep the bottle, as well as pass on five Gratitude Crystals. And when you return to Parrow, he’ll give you another five Gratitude Crystals.
For details on the rest, be sure to read our Gratitude Crystal quest roundup, including walkthroughs for each one, locations for individual Gratitude Crystals, and the rewards you can get from exchanging them.
In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, there’s a special collectible called Gratitude Crystals that you can trade in for valuable rewards. One way to earn a handful is by completing a side quest where you’re tasked to find a missing child named Kukiel.
Below, we detail everything you need to know to start the side quest and return Kukiel to her mother. For more Zelda: Skyward Sword HD guides, be sure to check out our guide roundup. Otherwise, read our Zelda: Skyward Sword HD review.
Finding Kukiel
Location: Outside the Statue of the Goddess
Prerequisites: Must complete the Skyview Temple
As you exit the Goddess Statue, post-Skyview Temple, Kukiel’s mom will ask for your help. She’s lost her daughter and doesn’t know where to look. Rest in a bed and wake up at night. Head to the graveyard in Skyloft and push the statue in the back row, on the far left. This will open the shed and serve as your introduction to Batreaux. It turns out he’s not so bad after all and has become close friends with Kukiel. The little girl gets the fact that her mother is worried and promises to return in the morning. Go back to sleep, and head to Kukiel’s house in the morning to receive your first batch of five crystals.
For details on the rest, be sure to read our Gratitude Crystal quest roundup, including walkthroughs for each one, locations for individual Gratitude Crystals, and the rewards you can get from exchanging them.
Our IGN First game for July isn’t a game at all – it’s the Steam Deck, Valve’s just-announced handheld gaming PC. We went to Valve to see it, hold it, talk to Valve about it, and play a bunch of games on it.
Keep checking back on IGN (and/or bookmark this page) as we post new coverage on Steam Deck all July long. Here’s everything we’ve done so far!
An argument over the design of a tank in War Thunder lead to the leaking of classified military documents.
As reported by Kotaku, the argument stems from a forum user named Fear_Naught who believes the developers of War Thunder, Gaijin Entertainment, missed the mark when designing the game’s Challenger 2 tank.
They then used classified documents from the official Army Equipment Support Publication to “support their claim.”
“As I’ve stated a fair few times now, the complexity of the construction is sometimes difficult to see/show with pictures,” Fear_Naught said on a War Thunder forum, according to Kotaku. “It is so complex in [the Challenger 2’s] case that I don’t completely blame Gaijin from getting it incorrect. All I try to do is point out the areas where they are incorrect.”
Fear_Naught, who Kotaku says is believed to be a “commander in the Royal Tank Regiment of the United Kingdom,” uploaded altered screenshots of official Army Equipment Support Publication (AESP) documents for the Challenger 2 tank.
Fear_Naught was using these images to provide evidence of where Gaijin Entertainment went wrong in War Thunder’s Challenger 2 design, but these images were eventually removed by Gaijin Entertainment due to their classified nature.
“We have written confirmation from [the Ministry of Defence] that this document remains classified,” a Gaijin Entertainment senior technical moderator named Templar said on the forum. “By continuing to disseminate it, you are in violation of the Official Secrets Act as stated by the warning on the cover of the document, an offence which can carry up to a 14-year prison sentence if prosecuted.”
“Of this you are already aware, as a service person you have signed a declaration that you understand the act and what actions it compels you to take,” Templar continues. “Every time you post this, you place us (international representatives of Gaijin), especially any UK citizens, in hot water as the warning so helpfully states that unauthorized retention of a protected document is an offense.”
Gaijin Entertainment community manager, Scott “Smin1080p” Maynard also said the studio will not make any changes to the Challenger 2 tank in War Thunder, as the studio doesn’t base development off “invalid source material.”
“Before any discussion, handling, or bug reports are even made, proof of a document’s declassification will be required as well as where it was sourced from,” Maynard said. “We make it very clear that we will not handle any source material unless it is publicly available and fully declassified with the rights to prove that.”
Fear_Naught received a warning, according to Kotaku, and the thread with classified documents has been closed.
Valve’s Steam Deck is expected to launch in December, but even if you were one of the lucky ones that reserved a unit, you may not get your portable PC gaming machine this year.
Checking the landing page for the Steam Deck, below the prompt button, a message displays when the Steam Deck model you ordered is expected to have “availability.” Multiple employees at IGN noted that it says their Steam Deck is expected to arrive sometime in “Q1 2022,” a few people said their’s wouldn’t arrive until Q2 of next year. One IGN editor, who managed to secure their unit as preorders opened up, said they did not see any of the following messages, which may imply their Steam Deck could arrive this year.
“We are making them as quickly as we are able, and the different ship times you reference are based on region and model being reserved,” a Valve spokesperson told IGN when asked about clarification on the shipping release windows for the Steam Deck.
The possibility that Steam Decks may not ship to some until 2022 would not be entirely surprising due to the ongoing global semiconductor shortage which has impacted many industries, including gaming. New gaming hardware such as graphics cards and ninth-generation gaming consoles have proven challenging to purchase due to the shortage, in addition to other factors such as high demand.
If you want to know more information about the Steam Deck, we have an exclusive hands-on preview plus an FAQ with the developers. For new information on the Steam Deck, be sure to check back at IGN all month long.
Black Widow actor Florence Pugh, who plays Natasha Romanoff’s sister Yelena, has revealed that the best joke in the movie was improvised.
More specifically, it stemmed from a conversation Pugh had with stunt performers about what her character’s superhero pose in Black Widow could be. After mentioning Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow pose, the stunt performers told Pugh that Johansson’s pose would actually break every bone in her character’s body if it was done in real life.
“The whole, ‘me taking the piss out of Scarlett’s pose’ was becasue on set, in the stunt rehearsal, the stuntees were like, ‘We gotta figure out your pose,’ and I was like, ‘oh cripes, I have to have a pose,'” Pugh said in an interview with MTV News.
Pugh asked the stuntees what would be realistic and they told her that none of the superhero poses “are correct for landing,” including Black Widow’s. Realistically, her landing pose would leave her with “so many broken bones.” Pugh, shocked to learn of this, asked if Johansson knew that and it was there that she began to “take the piss out of her.”
Black Widow writer Eric Pearson was one set and, after hearing this discussion, wrote the joke into the movie — the one that probably made you laugh a lot if you’ve seen it.
“He was like, ‘I’m sorry…I’ve been listening to this and I love it,'” Johansson said. “And I was like, ‘here we go, ten years of work, flush it down the toilet.'”
Johansson joked that when “these kids come in,” alluding to Pugh’s new placement in the MCU compared to her own 10-plus years in it, things like that joke in Black Widow happen.
“Ten seconds of me prodding you the wrong way and we get juicy material,” Pugh said. “I mean, obviously I’d love to have a pose. I think that’d be a nice wink-wink, but I don’t know. Honestly, I think I’ve been now so terrified of it being posey after I’ve made such a joke about Natasha being posey that now I’m like, ‘oh maybe I should just walk into rooms.'”
It’s safe to say that most everyone is probably thankful Yelena doesn’t have a superhero pose in Black Widow because it gave the world an excellent joke. Now, tell us about the vest with pockets, Pugh.
Japan has a rich tradition of horror that goes back many centuries, so it’s little surprise that the nation has produced some great horror anime over the years. With writers and animators able to put anything–no matter how weird or disturbing–on screen, and very little in the way of restriction on content, horror anime has truly pushed the boundaries of the genre, and consequently found many appreciative fans in the West.
Of course, as with live-action horror, there are many different types of scary anime. Some take influence from Japan’s traditional legends of ghosts and curses, while others deliver disturbing body horror and over-the-top gore. There’s horror anthologies, multi-part ensemble shows with complicated plots, and series and movies that mix horror with other genres, such as sci-fi and high school drama. Some are scary, some funny, and some just plain weird.
We’ve rounded up some of the best, scariest, and most memorable horror anime released over the past couple of decades. Most of these are available on streaming services such as Funimation, Crunchyroll, Netflix, and Hulu, and while not every show will work for every horror fan, this list should provide a comprehensive overview of all the outstanding horror anime available right now.
Nintendo might not have announced the rumored Nintendo Switch Pro earlier this month, but you could make the argument that Valve came in to save the day with its own portable gaming device, the Steam Deck. Like the Nintendo Switch, this is a gaming-first device that can be played on the go or docked to a larger display. Unlike the Nintendo Switch, however, this is an open PC platform, making the two devices rather different to use.
Still, it’s hard not to compare the two, especially when both seem like fantastic platforms for the wide range of games supported on each, from small indie titles to large AAA blockbusters. But just how different are they from a hardware perspective? And just what can you expect when booting them up next to one another?
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Display
When playing portably, the differences between the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck are small. The original Nintendo Switch comes with a 6.2-inch display, while the new OLED model bumps that up to a 7-inch display. That includes a new OLED panel, which will be a huge improvement in terms of color reproduction and contrast levels when compared to the LCD panel of the original model.
The Steam Deck comes somewhere in the middle, then. It’s also a 7-inch display, but the same type of LCD panel as the older Switch model. All three models top out at 60Hz but offer slightly different resolutions. Both Switch models are 1280×720 displays, with a traditional 16:9 aspect ratio, while the Steam Deck offers a slightly taller display with a 1280×800 resolution, which gives it a 16:10 aspect ratio. That might cause some incompatibility with games that don’t cater to different aspect ratios, but it’s not likely to be a big issue.
GPU and CPU
Perhaps the biggest difference between the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck rests with their respective internals, with Nintendo opting for a GPU from Nvidia while Valve is going with AMD. Both the original Nintendo Switch and new OLED model have the same internal processing units, which is all bundled into a single custom Tegra APU from Nvidia. Nintendo doesn’t offer many details beyond that on its official specifications sheet.
The Steam Deck is a little more forthcoming. It features an AMD APU that contains a Zen 2, quad-core processor that operates between 2.4 and 3.5GHz. More importantly, it also contains a new RDNA 2 GPU (the same architecture present in the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) with eight compute units and around 1.6 teraflops of processing power. There’s no question that the Steam Deck is a more powerful device on paper, but how that all translates to gaming performance across a range of PC titles has yet to be determined.
Internal and Expandable Storage
The Nintendo Switch was criticized for its lack of internal storage at launch, with the new OLED model only slightly rectifying the matter. The original model features only 32GB of storage, while the OLED model bumps that up to 64GB. This is somewhat offset by the generally smaller game sizes considering they have been optimized specifically for the console, while this won’t be the case for the majority of PC games available for the Steam Deck (at least in the short term.)
The Steam Deck features a lot more storage, especially if you’re willing to pay more. The base model comes with 64GB of eMMC storage, which might not be the best option for games, but the two more expensive options increase this to 256GB and 512GB NVMe SSDs respectively. This will certainly come in handy for the size of modern PC titles which often break triple digits.
Both the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck can have their storage expanded using microSD cards, with the same SDXC and SDHC formats supported across both. The Steam Deck additional supports the standard SD format.
Controls and Input
Perhaps the most exciting thing about both the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck is the ability to rely on good controller support for portable play. This has been one of the biggest draws for the Nintendo Switch, with the OLED model not changing anything up in that regard. You still get the segmented D-Pad on the left Joy-Con, four face buttons on the right, and asymmetrically placed thumbsticks across both. The Switch features two triggers and two shoulder buttons, both of which are digital.
The Steam Deck has a similar layout, albeit with thumbsticks that are positioned higher up the device and symmetrical. The D-Pad isn’t segmented, either, but the device features the same four face buttons on the right. Things differ when it comes to the triggers, both of which are analogue to allow for more control (the shoulder buttons are still digital.) The back of the device also features four additionally buttons that will be familiar to users of controllers like the Xbox Elite Controller. On the front, Valve has also included two touchpads that the company says are an improvement over the company’s attempts with the Steam Controller. This is meant to make games that are traditionally played with a mouse easier to control. Valve says both can be used for dual-thumb typing, too, if that’s your thing.
Connectivity
Both being portable devices, the differences between the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck in terms of connectivity mostly come down to the availability of more modern components. For example, the Nintendo Switch features a Bluetooth 4.2 chip, while the Steam Deck offers Bluetooth 5.0, which will come in handy for Bluetooth headphones and lower latency codecs. The Steam Deck also offers wider support for Bluetooth controllers, although that’s mostly down to its operating system.
Both consoles feature a 3.5mm auxiliary port for output audio, USB-C for charging and docking, and a slot for microSD card expansion. Both feature Wi-Fi connectivity, too, but only the Steam Deck will connect to 5GHz bands if you use them.
Battery Life
Battery life on both the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck will depend on the games you’re playing, with estimates varying wildly between the two. The Nintendo Switch features a 4310mAh battery, with Nintendo saying it should last anywhere between four and a half to nine hours on a single charge. The Steam Deck battery is rated at 40Whr, which is impossible to compare to the Switch’s mAh rating without knowing the exact operating voltage, but Valve says it’ll last between two and eight hours. So it’s likely both won’t last a long flight.
Dock and TV Output
Just like the Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck offers a dock that can be used to output the console to a larger display. The Switch Dock is slightly different depending on whether you go for the original or new OLED one. The original comes with three USB-A 2.0 ports (two on the side and one of the back), as well as HDMI out and USB-C for power. The OLED model is virtually identical, albeit with one fewer USB 2.0 port and an included Ethernet port instead. The output of the Switch dock tops out at 1080p, and that hasn’t been changed with the new dock that comes with the OLED model.
Unsurprisingly, the Steam Deck dock is far more versatile. It features two outputs, namely HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4. There are also three USB-A ports in total, with two 2.0 ports and a single 3.1 port. As expected for a PC, there’s an Ethernet port, too, as well as USB-C for power. It should be noted that the Steam Deck doesn’t require the dock in order to output to a larger display, with the USB-C port on the Steam Deck itself allowing for a signal to be output directly. Additionally, you will be able to use any USB-C docks that are widely available for laptops, too. This allows for up to 8K, 60fps video output, or 4K at 120fps. The Switch cannot output to another display without its dock.
It should be clear that the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck are fundamentally different devices despite sharing a common design philosophy, and that’s without even going into the differences between Nintendo’s closed-down Switch operating system and Valve’s open approach to allowing customers to install whatever OS they want. You’re going to have to consider a lot more than raw technical specifications to decide which one will work with your particular gaming use case, but both have their own advantages over one another depending on what you’re looking for. The Nintendo Switch OLED launches on October 8, while the Steam Deck is expected to start shipping in December.
