Tag: Legend of Zelda

When I continued in Breath of the Wild, I soon found myself at Highland Stable. Something about the woman feeding the horses caught my eye. Her shirt tail was hanging down, and…well…I thought it was her butt crack. Feeling a Draft of the Wind perhaps?

Picasso Pikango the painter was inside the stable, and he told me where I could find the location shown in one of Zelda’s photos. So I decided to head that direction, after I completed a nearby shrine first.

When I was ready, I made my way around the east end of Lake Hylia. I found several Korok seeds along the way, and I also fought this thing. And I’m not trying to be bigheaded or anything, but I really like this picture. 😛

I soon reached my destination, and a glowing spot on the ground allowed me to trigger the memory of training in this spot a long time ago. I then returned to Impa, and she gave me some new clothes, the champion’s tunic. It allows me to see the hit points of each enemy I encounter.

While I was in Kakariko Village, I also traded in four spirit orbs for another heart container. I then had the fairy upgrade my new tunic.

After that, I started exploring in a completely new direction. I headed to Gerudo Valley, where I did a lot of climbing, and I was up really high. I’m not usually scared of heights, but that almost changed here. 😉 I kept thinking “don’t fall, don’t fall, don’t fall.” 😛

Eventually, I made my way to the Wasteland Tower and activated it. I didn’t venture into the desert though, I just continued through the canyon. Eventually, I decided to teleport to Outskirt Stable to complete a side quest.

Later, I headed west. Despite the thunderstorm going on, I recognized a scene from another of Zelda’s photos. I recovered another memory there.

I then made my way to Ridgeland Tower, where I had perhaps my most frustrating moments in the game so far. After crossing the lake to get to the tower itself, I was having a lot of trouble climbing up the tower. I was under attack from lizards and wizards, and their projectiles (lizard spit and the wizards’ electric balls) kept knocking me back down.

Even when you eat food that gives you shock resistance, the zaps still knock you down. And once you get farther up, you have to deal with electric bats too.

Between deaths, I did stop to see my first rainbow, though.

It took me a number of attempts, and I used an even greater number of food items, but I eventually made it to the top. There, I found a man who was stranded with no way to get down.

When he learned I could use my paraglider to safely soar to the ground, he was excited. He wanted me to show him how I do it, and to see how far I can travel. So I did. I traveled 450 meters, and his reaction was quite surprising.

He started insulting me and saying my paltry performance doesn’t help his research at all. EXCUSE ME? You’re the guy that’s stuck up here without a way down, and you’re insulting me for only flying 450 meters? You can’t even glide at all! I wanted to hurt him sooo bad.

I explored nearby, and I met up with Kass, a bird of the Rito tribe.

He gave me a hint as to how to open up a new shrine, but I didn’t find the right spot to do it just yet. Instead, I continued exploring. My roaming led me to the coliseum ruins. But when I saw this guy inside that had 2,000 HP, I ran out of there before I was slaughtered.

After returning to Hateno Village, I decided to try visiting the Spring of Wisdom up on Mount Lanayru. So I put on my warm doublet, ate some spicy sauteed peppers, and started climbing.

I won’t give away all the details, but once I got there, I ended up fighting a dragon in mid-air! Very cool, and definitely not what I was expecting!

A new shrine opened up, and after taking the weapon in a treasure chest, I was able to walk right up and complete the shrine. The Spring of Wisdom now provides another place I can pray to exchange spirit orbs for heart containers or stamina vessels. For some reason, I was expecting there to be a fairy here.

I did a little shrine hunting after that, completing a couple and failing at a couple others. I’ll see you next time.

In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild lately, I’ve been doing more exploring and less advancing the story. I returned to the Great Plateau, beat my first Stone Talus, and then jumped off the plateau to paraglide into a new region of the map. As I was climbing a lookout tower, I saw a shooting star crash into the mountain in the distance.

I completed a shrine and then headed to the Central Tower. I started climbing up, and guardians were targeting me and shooting at me the whole time! They have an extremely long range on their lasers! But I made my way to the top and activated the tower.

I soon snagged myself a wild horse and continued exploring. I found a sleeping giant, and I hoped I could talk to him. But when I got close, he woke up, and he wasn’t in a talking mood. He wanted to fight me!

I got back on my new horse and flew out of there as fast as I could. Eventually I ended up at Outskirt Stable. I used the opportunity to register my new horse and give him a name: Brown Fox. I know he’s not a fox, but he is brown. And I was up way too late playing Zelda that night and that’s all that came to mind. 😛

The Rota Ooh Shine was nearby, so I stopped to complete it. After that, I returned to Impa in Kakariko Village. I showed her my camera, and she said this is the same camera Zelda used 100 years ago. Wow, and the battery still works?!

There are some pictures already stored on the camera, and she told me I should visit the locations in those pictures. I’m also supposed to return to her once I’ve visited at least one of them.

But for now, I decided to teleport back to Zora’s Domain and start my trek up to Ploymus Mountain. The ability to swim up waterfalls helps a lot here. But when I made my way up, this boss enemy was kicking my butt.

After a couple “game over” screens, I decided to paraglide out of there for the time being. And as I sailed away, I witnessed some hunting going on beneath me!

Some Bokoblins were on horseback, hunting a bull with fire arrows. I guess they’re trying save time by cooking the meat as they hunt it. 😛

So I dropped in, shot the bull with an arrow to finish him off, and took the meat for myself. Of course, the Bokoblins were shooting at me by now, and they were hot on my trail.

I shot back at the Bokoblin, knocking him off his horse. I then ran over and finished him off…and then stole his horse. 😛

But it wasn’t long until I ran into his buddies. They shot at me with fire arrows, killing the stolen horse! I then tracked them down and killed them, but that was quite an entertaining series of events.

After clearing a couple of shrines and exploring in other parts of the world, I paraglided down into South Akkala Stable. As I approached, a bolt of lightning nearly hit a girl named Jana who was standing by a large tree.

Inside the stable, I found the unstable Beedle once again. He said that since we keep running into each other, that must be a sign that we were once married in a previous life. o.O

I tried ascending the Akkala Citadel Ruins for a bit. There were some tough drone guardians flying around that made things tricky. But when a blood moon occurred to bring monsters back to life, I decided to get my akkala outta there. I redeemed some spirit orbs for another heart container, and then I teleported up to the plateau and paraglided off to another new area.

There, I activated Lake Tower before clearing two more shrines in the area–including one on Hylia Island. I saw a Zora fishing on a small island nearby, and that’s where I ended my game the other night. I don’t even know where I’ll go next time, but that’s what’s so fun about this game. The possibilities seem endless.

As I resumed my game in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I left Zora’s Domain to do some other things. I returned to complete a couple of previous shrines that I encountered earlier, and then I ran into this traveler, who was not very friendly.

He was an enemy in disguise! I was not expecting that. But I soon encountered something else just as creepy: A giant woman popping out of a giant flower bud for 100 rupees.

She is the Great Fairy Cotera, and she was able to help me out by enhancing my clothing with stronger defensive ratings. Now they should protect me a bit better.

I then went into Kakariko Village and prayed to a statue to exchange four spirit orbs for another heart container. I should have done all this stuff before tackling that trail to Zora’s Domain last time. Well, at least I don’t feel quite as vulnerable now, after these upgrades.

I reunited with my horse, Amazing, and headed into Fort Hateno and looked around a bit. I saw Hateno Tower was nearby, so I made sure to activate it. From there, I then paraglided down into Hateno Village, where I spotted the Myahm Agana Shrine.

It consisted of a motion-controlled puzzle, where you have to tilt the controller to roll a ball out of a maze. The last part was a bit tricky, so it took me a couple of attempts, but I got through it.

Right next to the shrine, there were some model homes available. Did the Bluth Company build these?

I then explored the village, talking to people and visiting shops. The clothing shop was a bit odd, because it seemed that no one was running the store. But as I was about to leave, I saw the shopkeeper Sophie standing in the corner, out of sight. Did she attend the Milford Academy?

I don’t know if she was playing a joke on me or if she’s just really weird, but I decided to return the favor. I whipped out a bomb to give her a scare. 😛

Then I started acting really crazy. I took my clothes off and started jumping around the store. When I returned to her, she clearly noticed that I wasn’t wearing much. And she took a nice, long look.

Back outside, a kid in town told me to follow him. He led me to an evil statue. When I prayed to it, it stole one of my heart containers!

Fortunately, it gave it back when I spoke to it again. It was basically letting me know that I can speak to it if I want to exchange heart containers for stamina vessels, or vice versa. For a fee, of course. But I was not interested in dealing with this thing any more.

I soon made my way up the hill to the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab. The director asked me to run an errand: I had to carry the Olympic flame across Hyrule.

Okay, so that’s not exactly what happened. But completing the task gained me a new ability for my Sheikah Slate: I got a camera! Now I can take Hy-rulesolution photos! It connects to something called the Hyrule Compendium, which registers pictures of monsters, bugs, materials, and more.

I can also upgrade some of my runes here. One of the upgrades allows me to use my sensor to track specific items I’ve taken pictures of, instead of just shrines. This could be very useful. I went back outside and began using my camera, just for the shear fun of it.

But not everyone was eager to see an elf snapping photos at night. I think I gave this farmer such a scare that he nearly soiled himself. He threatened me with his pitchfork!

I seem to be enjoying this game more and more. Once I start playing, it’s hard to stop. That is the sign of a great game. I’ll see you all next time!