BOTW #25 – Horse Slide

Time for some more Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Just moments after leaving the location of my last shrine, my Sheikah sensor started going off again! I followed the (beeping) signal to the Lanno Kooh shrine under a rocky dome.

After completing it, I just roamed around and explored. I found a number of new Korok seeds and treasure chests.

There was only one side quest remaining on my list, and that was the one where I had to find ten stone monuments around Zora’s Domain. So I headed there and started exploring the surrounding areas. In a lake, I found a treasure chest that contained the Zora Helm. It allows me to use a spin attack underwater. Pretty cool, but I imagine this is something many players found much earlier in the game.

As for the stone monuments, I wasn’t having much luck in my search. I found several of them, sure. But the objective list doesn’t tell me how many I’ve found so far, or how many more I need. After a while, I got tired of looking for them and just went elsewhere.

I followed some paths leading to Akkala and the Maw of Death Mountain. Even though I’ve been to those areas before of course, I’m not sure that I took the proper pathways that lead to them. But this time, I took them and kept an eye out for goodies along the way. And indeed, I found some new Korok seeds and treasure chests. No more shrines, though.

I took a break, but came back another day to give the stone monuments another try. I decided to mark each monument I found with a star pin on the map. After a couple hours of additional searching, I had only found nine of the ten. I was a bit frustrated, so I decided to do something I try not to do: consult a guide. I looked up the general location of the monument I was missing, and that allowed me to find the monument and complete the side quest. If you’re having trouble, this picture shows the locations of each monument.

With that finally done, there were no more side quests on my to-do list. So I just went around exploring. While fighting some Bokoblins on horseback near the Digdogg Suspension Bridge, I shot one of them off his horse. I ran to the horse, and as I mounted it, it leaped towards the edge of the cliff. We were on a steep, slanted surface, facing downward.

As I tried to turn around, we slid down the cliff and into the water. I fell off the horse and Link got jittery as the horse tried to get back up. It was a glitchy situation, and somehow, I accidentally re-mounted the horse! I didn’t stay on long, though. I tried using Cryonis to lift the horse up, but that didn’t work.

With no way to save him, I ultimately put him out of his misery.

I continued on to the desert, and I made a stop at Kara Kara Bazaar. Here, I found a Guy who had a side quest for me!

I made an elixir for him, and he rewarded me with 50 rupees. But more importantly, that completed my 69th side quest. The bad news is that I still have eight more side quests to go, and I have no idea what they are or how to find them. I try to talk to everyone every time I visit a town or stable, but I have a feeling many of the remaining ones belong to people who are just out somewhere wandering randomly.

I continued exploring in the desert, and I defeated two new Moldugas before upgrading some clothing/armor at the Great Fairy Fountain. I then made a quick visit to Kakariko Village before wrapping up my game.

Here are my latest status stats:

• Completion percentage: 47.14%
• Shrines: 114/120
• Korok seeds: 294/900
• Shrine quests: 37/42
• Side quests: 69/77
• Hyrule Compendium: 355/385

If you haven’t already seen my “Messing Around #4” video, here it is:

I’m hoping to post part 5 sometime in March, so stay tuned!