In Gerudo Town of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I had a chat with an archeologist named Rotana. She told me about a temple to the east, and a new shrine quest popped up on screen. But as soon as it appeared, more text appeared saying that the shrine quest was complete. This was a shrine I already opened up in entry #18. It makes me wonder how many of these others I’ve already solved, but just haven’t spoken to the right person yet.
Up on Gerudo Summit, I saw the dragon Farosh and shot at it. I recovered Farosh’s scale for hitting the beast with an arrow. I needed one of those to offer to the Spring of Courage, so I headed there right away.
Giving the offering opened up a shrine, and I also redeemed four spirit orbs for a stamina wheel while I was there.
There’s been one side quest (Recital at Warbler’s Nest) that I’ve wanted to complete for a long time, but I couldn’t because I didn’t know the recipe for salmon meunière. They probably told me the recipe at one point, but I could never find it again. It’s not in the recipe book at the Slippery Falcon, and nobody involved would give me the details.
But I was tired of waiting, so I just tried a couple of things until I made the right dish. I took it to the hungry bird, and the recital went on as planned. A new shrine popped up out of the ground as a result. I’m glad to finally get that one done with.
The next time I visited a goddess statue, I traded in four spirit orbs for a stamina vessel. This completed my third ring of stamina, which is the maximum. This will make it easier to climb just about any obstacle I come across. All of my remaining spirit orbs will have to go towards heart containers.
Near Gerudo Canyon, I caught a horse and took it to Zyle to complete a side quest. While I was in the area, I also rescued Sesami’s four friends for another side quest.
I soon stumbled onto the “Test of Will,” which had me beating the heat and outlasting three Goron Blood Brothers. That opened up another shrine.
On the shores on Lake Kolomo, I found a spot that looked like one of Princess Zelda’s photos. And sure enough, I found a glowing spot and recovered a memory there. Finally finding that memory gave me new motivation to find the remaining memories as well.
After searching a bit, I found another memory near the royal ancient lab ruins. That left only one photo, and it appeared to be near Hyrule Castle. So I headed to the Central Square area and started searching the walls. However, I found no memory. So I figured it must be inside the Hyrule Castle gate…in other words, the final area, where the map switches to the divine beast style map instead of the standard outdoor map. By the way, it’s very annoying that we can’t use the standard map here.
Of course, the area has lots of guardians. But I generally just ran past them as I explored. I found a number of new areas where I hadn’t been before, including some secret passageways and some mine carts.
I even found a Hylian shield in the lockup, and later I found Princess Zelda’s room…and I read her diary! 😛 After that, I found it…the glowing spot where I recalled the memory I needed.
I returned to Kakariko Village and told Impa that I’ve recalled all twelve memories. She basically said “not so fast.” There is one more to recover, and she showed me a picture of what to look for. She said I could get there in half a day’s time. So after thinking about it for a minute, I had a pretty good idea where it was.
I headed there right away, and caught a wild horse to help speed up my search. It didn’t take me long, though. I recovered the final memory. Without spoiling it too much, I’ll just say that it showed the events that led to Link being put in the Shrine of Resurrection in the first place. Well, now I know how I got there. 😛 And that completed the “Captured Memories” main quest.
While exploring a suspicious-looking spot on the map, I found the eighth heroine statue. So I took a picture I needed for a side quest.
I returned to Gerudo Town to show the picture to someone, and then I completed another side quest there as well. I gained entrance into the Gerudo Secret Club, where I bought a new outfit.
In another side quest, I captured and tamed the royal family’s white horse. Toffa rewarded me with the royal family’s saddle and bridle that Zelda once used herself. On her horse, I mean. Oh, and I got to keep the horse too. Pretty good deal.
I’ve made some good progress on quests this time. Here’s my current status:
Completion percentage: 42.01%
Shrines: 111/120
Korok seeds: 239/900
Shrine quests: 36/42
Side quests: 61/77
Hyrule Compendium: 352/385
See you next time!