Tag: BOTW

Over the past few days, I’ve picked up Breath of the Wild for the first time since beating Calamity Ganon in October. I started out by cutting down some trees, since I still needed more wood for Tarrey Town. When I had enough, I headed there and spoke to Hudson. He informed me that he got engaged…to Rhondson the Gerudo!

Before they could get married, he asked me to find someone priest-like to officiate the wedding. He suggested that maybe one of the Zoras would be willing to help.

After making a stop at the Great Fairy Fountain to upgrade some clothes, I made my way to Zora’s Domain. There, I found Kapson, who is a retired priest. He was actually looking to marry a couple before he dies, so he was clearly the right guy for the job.

He set off for Tarrey Town, while I went to go take a picture of a Lynel for a side quest. Once I finished, I returned to Tarrey Town. Hudson thanked me for finding Kapson, but now he needed me to invite Bolson and Karson to the wedding. So I went back to Hateno Village, and told them about the wedding in Tarrey Town.

Before long, Kapson began the wedding. Congrats to the new couple! Although, Rhondson didn’t seem very happy about a part of the wedding vows that said they had to name their kids names that end in -son. 😛

I spoke with Hudson, and he gave me three diamonds that he found inside the boulders in town. This completed the side quest, and Tarrey Town is officially done.

Next, I headed for the desert, where I recovered one of Link’s memories and then defeated a Molduga in the Toruma Dunes for a side quest.

After the fight, I unlocked a shrine at the same location. I went off exploring after completing it, and I saw some statues of swordswomen pointing their swords. As I followed in the direction they were pointing, a sandstorm rendered my radar and map unusable.

But the pointing swords led me to a shrine; completing it restored my radar and map.

The next day, I teleported to the Tabantha area to recover another memory in the Ancient Columns area. I have now recovered six of the 12 photo memories.

After browsing through my list of open side quests, I returned to the desert to trade 55 rushrooms to Pirou, for a diamond. I explored further, and soon arrived in the East Gerudo Ruins, where seven huge statues stood in a circle. Solving a puzzle here opened up another shrine.

I completed it, and then found another shrine nearby. But I couldn’t get into this one just yet. A sick Gerudo was collapsed on the activation portal. I’ll have to heal her before I can get inside. But at this point, I ended my game for now.

Just to provide an update on my status, I’ve completed 77 shrines and my overall game completion percentage now sits at 23.49%. If I counted right, my Hyrule Compendium completion is now 292/385. I still have much to do in Hyrule.

Here is my latest Breath of the Wild video, Messing Around #2. It shows me playing with fire, zapping some sleeping enemies, sneaking around in a barrel, and more. Hope you enjoy!

With Super Mario Odyssey coming out tomorrow, I wanted to try to beat Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild first. While looking at my quest progress screen last night, I realized I never returned to Impa after defeating all four divine beasts. So I went to speak with her, and that marked a quest complete. But unfortunately, she didn’t give me anything. I was hoping for some goodies. 😛

In Rito Village, I spoke with Fyson about starting up a shop in Tarrey Town. He was up to the challenge and headed there right away. Later, I caught up with him in his new shop. He mostly sells arrows, although he has some ancient gears for sale as well.

Hudson wanted to build more houses in Tarrey Town, but he needed 50 more bundles of wood. I didn’t have that many on me, so it’ll have to wait for another time.

I explored a bit, finding one shrine up in the mountains. Then I returned to Zora’s Domain and completed a shrine quest in that area as well.

I had four spirit orbs, so I traded them in for another heart container. Knowing that I was soon heading for danger, I prepared for battle. I bought some ancient greaves at the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab, upgraded my armor at the Great Fairy Fountain, added another weapon slot, and cooked up a bunch of meals to replenish my health.

When I was ready, I headed off towards Hyrule Castle. The path there has a lot of guardians along the way, so I stopped to defeat some of them. I hadn’t explored much in this area before, so I actually found a couple of new shrines–one of which was right out in the open.

I also found my share of Korok seeds. I’ve missed out on many of them throughout the game though, because until recently, I didn’t know what to do when I saw rock formations like this. Oh well. 😛

As I crept closer and closer to the castle, I stopped to admire the scenery at sunrise. This game can be so beautiful.

Once I got to Hyrule Castle, I noticed that it has its own map…much like the ones inside the Divine Beasts. And I quickly found out that the castle has a lot of guardians. It’s a bit unsettling when you have three guardians locked onto you at once.

I defeated some of them, and just ran from the others as I made my way up. There seems to be multiple ways to ascend the castle, so some routes could be better than others. But I was not a happy camper when I dropped into a gatehouse with a blue-maned Lynel. These Lynel creatures are tough! Tougher than a lot of of the bosses in the game, to be honest.

After defeating him, I carried on past more guardians and climbed my way up to the sanctum. There, I met up with Calamity Ganon himself. The beams from the four Divine Beasts blasted in and wiped out half of Ganon’s health.

I began the fight, and I soon wish that I have arrived here with more than a couple of shields. I did find a new shield in the sanctum, although it didn’t last me very long. 😛 Slowly but surely, I wore down Ganon’s health meter. Eventually, I defeated him. There may be some slight spoilers coming up (even though I won’t show pictures of Ganon or the ending), so you may want to skip the rest of this entry if you don’t want to know.

But like many end-game bosses, Ganon takes another form. This second form is huge and looks more menacing, but this part is actually much easier than the first fight. I started out on horseback, but sadly, Ganon trampled my horse to death. Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I guess he’s not so Amazing any more.

After delivering the final blow, I watched the credits and ending sequence. The ending was honestly pretty disappointing, and there weren’t any rewards as far as I can tell. Well, a star appears next to your file to indicate you beat the game, and it does list your completion percentage on the map. But that’s about it. By the way, my completion percentage is a paltry 21.91%.

But with that said, I’m not done playing Breath of the Wild. I still plan on beating all of the shrines and recovering all of the memories. I will have more blog entries, and videos, in the future. But it may not be super soon, as Super Mario Odyssey is likely to take up much of my gaming time in the next few weeks or more. See you next time!

While exploring, I made my way to Lakeside Stable and completed a nearby shrine. A bit later, I ran into Kass. His song told me that I should call lightning down from a giant mound. So I did just that, and the lightning strike exposed a new shrine.

I completed it and continued on my journey. I ran into a banana salesman that was so pushy, I literally had to fight him off. Sorry, but I don’t want your grubby ‘nanas, dude.

Soon, I came across a pretty heart-shaped lake.

I made a love connection here for a side quest, and then moved along to a nearby shrine. I completed it and then explored the town I was in–Lurelin Village. It’s a small fishing town, and it’s beautiful.

Here, I ran into a Gerudo named Flavi. She pointed me in the direction of Eventide Island. I decided to make my way over there, to see what it was all about.

Once I got to shore, I received an on-screen message telling me that this island is a trial that I must complete without my normal equipment. So all of my weapons, clothes, armor, and food were taken from me! I was told I had to offer three orbs to three altars on this island to get my equipment back.

While I could pick up items I found here on the island, there weren’t exactly powerful weapons lying around. At first, I had to use tree branches and boat oars to defeat enemies!

Some enemies such as Bokoblins dropped their weapons after being defeated, but they were still weaker and less durable than the weapons I’m accustomed to. At least I could still use my rune abilities (stasis, bombs, etc.).

I explored and found two orbs in (or near) enemy camps. It wasn’t quick or easy, but I was able to defeat (or sneak past) the enemies and put the orbs into their altars. The third and final orb, however, was going to be considerably tougher. That’s because a giant Hinox was wearing it around his neck!

Defeating a Hinox giant isn’t an easy task even when you’re at full strength. So imagine trying to beat one with very little food on hand, and using weapons like tree branches!

Straight combat wasn’t getting me very far. After he butt-stomped me down a hill, I ran. I ran so far away. He followed me for a while, but eventually he gave up on me and went back to sleep. That gave me a breather, sure, but at a cost. When I returned for round two, I saw that his health had reset! What little damage I had done to him was all gone!

Clearly, I needed a new strategy. Eventually, I found a spot up a hill where he couldn’t quite reach me. He could throw rocks at me, sure. But I was able to avoid them for the most part. And I started dropping bombs on him. Sure, each one did very little damage to him. But I kept at it, and I gradually whittled down his health bar.

Once his health was getting low, I remembered something else I could use: Urbosa’s Fury. That’s the electric attack I learned after defeating Vah Naboris. I used it, and it finished off the Hinox. Whew!

I took the Hinox’s orb to the final altar, which was just a bit off-shore. After placing it in the slot, a shrine popped up and I got my stuff back! Finally! I went inside the shrine, grabbed the treasure (a gold rupee), and collected my spirit orb. While Eventide Island was an interesting challenge, I was glad to get it over and done with.

The next time I played, I visited a fairy to upgrade some armor, and then expanded my stamina wheel twice. Next, I went to work on Tarrey Town some more. I chopped down some trees for wood to give to Hudson. Once I did that, he suggested that I find a good tailor for this town.

So I headed off for Kara Kara Bazaar in the desert, where I met up with Rhondson. She’s the tailor that makes all my women’s clothing for me. 😛 She agreed to move to Tarrey Town, and she set up her own clothing shop.

I gathered another batch of wood for Hudson, and he then suggested that we needed a general store in town. I’ll have to go to Rito Village to find the right bird person, but I’ll do that in a future entry. Anyway, I defeated a couple of guardians nearby for a side quest (and a disappointing reward).

Back in Kakariko Village, I completed a side quest where I collected a man’s Cuccos (chickens). I know a lot of people probably did this side quest about six months ago, but I just got to it now. 😛 Much like an angry Cucco, time flies.

After exploring, I saw a large, tall maze off-shore. I paraglided over to it, and it’s called Lomei Labyrinth Island. I think this may have been the “apartment building” I saw before, although it certainly doesn’t look like an apartment building from this angle.

As you might expect, it consists of a very large maze. Checking the map frequently helped me out a lot, although some passageways don’t show up there. But I made my through and completed the shrine–it was one of those “you’ve already proven your worth by getting here” shrines.

After I came out of the shrine, I found a passageway that heads down underneath the maze. There was a huge room full of guardians down here! Fortunately, they don’t all activate at once. But I killed several of them for some ancient gear, shafts, springs, and screws. These should help me upgrade my armor–I’ll be sure to do that before I take on Calamity Ganon.

While walking down the coastline, I spotted a monument that told me to take an orb to Rist Peninsula. So I made the trek, put the orb in the altar, and opened up another shrine.

After completing it, I figured it was time for a status update. I’ve completed 70 shrines so far.

As for my Hyrule Compendium, I have 266 out of 385 objects filled in. I haven’t bought any of them either; they’re all pictures I’ve taken myself.