Tag: TOTK

Despite being about 60 hours into the game, I had never visited Kakariko Village yet…until now. An archaeologist wouldn’t let me near the largest of the Ring Ruins, the one that hovers in mid-air. But I did get to meet the new village chief, Paya.

Outside of town, I ran into Garshon, who made a good point about being alone. 😆

Nearby, I finally activated a tower that had me stumped when I was in this area previously. That’s the main reason I never found Kakariko Village sooner. The guy out front kept talking about mushrooms from a cave, so I thought I had to bring him some mushrooms before he’d open the door…but that didn’t work. But at least I finally got it activated.

After completing a shrine on a floating island, I dropped down into the Depths. I did some serious exploring and roaming down there, especially after I found an area with parts to make myself a new car.

While climbing a slanted wall underground, Link’s hair swung forward as the camera awkwardly zoomed in. As a result, it looked like Link had a beard for a moment. 😆

I activated a whopping nine new lightroots before I came upon an odd platform in the middle of an underground lake. When I used the Ascend ability, I found myself in a house with two Yiga Clan members. I was back in the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab!

After defeating them, I teleported back to Lookout Landing. I redeemed some Korok seeds for new weapon/bow slots, bought some arrows, and prayed to a goddess statue.

Because I’ve found four “Sage’s Wills,” I was able to redeem them to make my bond with a sage stronger. I chose Yunobo, since his attack comes in handy during battles.

Just outside of Kakariko Village, I ran into Beetz the drummer. He’s another member of the “Stable Trotters” musical troupe.

First I helped him out by giving him some honey, and then I helped the entire troupe cross the river.

They performed some music for the Great Fairy Cotera, and she popped out of her plant bud to enjoy the show.

I can now enhance my clothing to a second level, which should really help protect me from enemies (and those pesky one-hit kills).

Next, I made my way over to Hateno Village for the first time. It wasn’t on the map, so I had some trouble finding it initially. Half the people here idolize Cece, the famous fashion designer.

Of course, the other half of the town is sick of the town being known only for Cece’s fashions. So there’s a bunch of political drama between Cece and the current mayor, Reede. He thinks her art installations…keep the vegetables awake at night? 🤔

They’re planning on having a mayoral election, and both sides are asking me to help spy on the other. Oof. That’s one side quest I’m not interested in right now. 😛

I continued on to the research lab, but it was empty. So I couldn’t get my Sheikah Sensor thing here either. Oof. At this point, I figured it’s time to wrap up this entry. Here are my latest stats:

See you next time!

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After meeting up with King Dorephan in a secret location, his assistant Muzu called me a liar for saying I saw Zelda vanish into thin air. But then just a few seconds later, he himself said he saw Zelda disappear as well! I don’t care if he is an old geezer of a fish, I wanted to slap him upside the head with a big tuna.

The next series of events led to me a fishy island in the sky, down to a location under a lake, and then back into the sky where there was lower gravity and floating water bubbles I could use as transportation.

With Sidon at my side, I made my way up and eventually reached the Water Temple. It’s a wide open area, made up of a few floating islands, and each area has a water faucet you must turn on, to wash away the sludge.

Unlike the Fire Temple, navigation is not a problem here; it’s easy to get around. Each faucet has a puzzle, but they’re not interconnected. (They don’t flow together.) It doesn’t really seem like one cohesive temple as much as just three or four shrines combined. Some of the puzzles seemed much like ones in previous shrines too, so this was not the most challenging dungeon.

But the most disappointing part of all was the dungeon boss. After fighting huge creatures in my previous two temples, this boss was a scrawny little guy that I beat on my first try. I know not every boss can be epic, but this battle was really underwhelming for a Zelda game.

With that done, the sludge stopped falling onto Zora’s Domain, and there were some significant happenings that I won’t spoil in the blog. I also obtained Sidon’s special power that I can use at any time.

One random thing I enjoyed is that this guy Cleff kept making crab puns. 🦀

After briefly walking through the Akkala Citadel Ruins, I visited the East Akkala Stable. This guy was telling me about a “horse god,” and then he suddenly stopped talking because he remembered he had buns to sell. 😆

I found a shrine nearby, and it made me curious when I saw the shrine’s subtitle/hint was “Courage to Pluck.” 😆 But it had a puzzle that was literally a Jenga tower!

After that, I wanted to head over to the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab to get the Sheikah Sensor (or whatever it’s called this time around). But when I got to the lab, I saw the area was taken over by the Yiga Clan! After defeating the fighters, I did rescue someone inside…but it wasn’t Robbie. So I didn’t get the Sheikah Sensor yet; I was quite disappointed.

I found a Stone Talus on the North Akkala beach nearby, but it kept kicking my butt. Even with ten hearts now, I’m still getting one-hit killed by some of these enemies! It’s frustrating, and really annoying. I know I probably need to find some better armor somewhere.

I stopped here for now, but there is much more to be done next time. Here is a look at my latest stats.

My return to Lookout Landing was fairly uneventful, so I just went off exploring again. Near Wetland Stable, I found a guy named Izra, who wanted someone to accompany him on a raft ride. So we headed off on a leisurely ride down the river, down towards Floret Sandbar.

I took some photos of some ducks, and other wildlife, along the way. The ride took over seven minutes of real time (and almost seven hours of in-game time)! And once we arrived at our destination, we were greeted by none other than Magda the crazy flower lady from Breath of the Wild!

But fortunately, she chilled out a bit once Izra “volunteered” to stay and help out with her plant sanctuary. She still gets mad if you walk on flowers, though. 😛

If nothing else, Floret Sandbar was a good place to get some photos of some flowers I hadn’t encountered yet (for the Hyrule Compendium).

Not far from there, I ran into another crazy lady, this one named Juney. She has a wagon full of stuffed seals to deliver to children. But anytime you talk to her, she freaks out and screams, scaring her horse, which causes her stuffed seals to fly off into the river.

She then wants your help…and a 20-rupee deposit, which she’ll pay back if you can get all the seals back within three minutes. Even if you get most of them back, that’s not good enough for her. Why would it need such a strict 3-minute time limit anyway, when she’s just hanging out there, rehearsing her speech anyway? No idea.

If/when you fail, you have to start the entire thing over…including scaring her (again), her scaring the horse (again), and so on. It took me three tries to collect all of the seals out of the water, and I hated every second of it. I hated Jumpy Juney too. Ugh. Worst part of the game so far. 😛

After climbing Mount Lanayru and activating the tower there, I flew up to an interesting sky island. It led me back down to the surface, where I had to shield surf through some green holographic rings. Pretty cool!

At the end, a new shrine opened up…where I had to fight without any of my equipment. It reminded me of Eventide Island in Breath of the Wild, but this was much shorter and easier.

After wandering around more, I found myself at Upland Zorana Skyview Tower. I had to clear away some sludge to activate it. I could see Zora’s Domain from around here, so I floated on down. I cleared some sludge off of a statue that featured some familiar faces, and I met Yoda. Uh, Yona, mean I.

The sludge falling from the sky is a big problem at Zora’s Domain, and of course, they need my help to clean it up. (Can’t I use Mario’s F.L.U.D.D.?) I climbed up Mount Ploymus, and met up with an old friend who was very excited to see me.

After catching up with Prince Sidon, I found a certain item nearby and returned it to Zora’s Domain. It allowed me to obtain the Zora armor, so I can now swim up waterfalls! Very helpful. 🐟

I’m doing some other tasks now, which are clearly leading up to the next temple. But I didn’t dive in just yet; I’ll save that for next time. For now, here are my latest stats. My play time is currently at 45 hours.

See you all next time!

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