Author: Jeff

Now that I’ve beaten the game, I can go back and do some fun stuff that I’ve missed out on. Some of the things I still want to do include:

• Find all (or most) of the goddess cubes and get the treasures they unlock.
• Win the game on Fun Fun Island.
• Do the pumpkin soup delivery I still need to do.
• Earn more gratitude crystals and turn Batreaux into a human.
• Check out the bug island the one guy was making.
• Get the best shield from the Thunder Dragon (if it’s not insanely difficult).
• Complete any other side-quests.
• Buy out the inventory on the floating ship shop in Skyloft.
• Explore and just have fun!

Tonight, I wanted to primarily look for goddess cubes I missed. I started out in the desert. Dowsing led me to Pirate’s Stronghold first for one, and then to Skipper’s Retreat, where I found another.

I also went skydiving to reach a treasure chest which held a silver rupee (worth 100 rupees). Dowsing indicated there were no other goddess cubes in the desert. But I still explored and did some treasure hunting and bug catching for a while anyway. When I was done, I went back up to Skyloft.

I went to the floating ship shop, and the guy only had two items left: A piece of heart for 1,600 rupees and a bug medal for 1,000 rupees. I bought the bug medal; it lets you see the location of insects on the map. I didn’t have enough money for the heart piece also, but I’ll get that soon.

While in Skyloft, I saw that one of the two treasure chests unlocked by the goddess cubes was there, on an island high above Skyloft. I had to use my clawshots to reach it. I had actually been wondering if it was possible to reach that island before, and now I know it is. Nice view from up there.

I then went to Faron Woods. Dowsing led me to Lake Floria, where I found one goddess cube…

…and then to Skyview Temple, where I found another. Unfortunately, you can’t dowse inside the dungeons, so I had to search for it the hard way…by going in every room and looking around. Once I did find it, I went back outside and saved my game. There is still much to do, so stay tuned.

SPOILER WARNING: This blog entry discusses the final boss fights and the ending of the game. If you don’t want the ending to be spoiled, turn back now.

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Okay. So I went back to the Sealed Gate and went through the Gate of Time to go back into the past. Ghirahim was at the bottom of the crater with Zelda, casting a spell to revive the demon king. He put up barriers so I couldn’t just jump down to him, so I have to circle around the entire crater. And he released hordes of enemies to keep me busy on the way.

Once I reach Ghirahim, he launches Zelda into the air, where she just hovers. He then makes some floating platforms for us to battle on. I have to knock him off each platform.

Eventually, we end up back on the ground as we continue to battle. Before long, I defeat him. He actually seemed easier to beat this time than he did in our previous fights…including the first dungeon! But he then informs me that even as we fought, the spell was working its magic (so to speak) and the demon king was being revived. And then a familiar toe foe (The Imprisoned) pops out of the ground and seemingly starts to absorb Zelda’s spirit.

Zelda’s body is flung through the air, but fortunately Groose is there to catch her. The Imprisoned goes through a transformation, turning into Blanka from Street Fighter II Demise.

He seems to turn Ghirahim into a sword, effectively killing the demon lord. For a tough guy, Demise sure is nice; he lets me off the hook to come back and fight him later. This gives me a chance to return to Skyloft and refill my bottles before I go back for the final battle. So I did that and returned, ready to fight.

Throughout the course of the battle, I only used one heart potion ++ (it contains two doses) and I had defeated Demise. I am shocked at how easy that was. That’s it… no Ganon this time around, even though IGN spoiled that for me long ago…not in a preview, but on their main Wii page! Lame! Anyway, the scene shifts to the Sealed Temple. Impa, Zelda, and Groose are there, thanking Link. Then Smurf-Fi pops up and tells me that her job is done and it’s time to part ways.

She has me seal away the Master Sword (with her inside it, of course), where it (and her) will sleep forever. But right after one goodbye comes another. Impa says we must return to our time (the present) while she stays in the past. Zelda gives her a bracelet to remember her by, and Impa says they will meet again someday. We then go through the gate back to our own time. The Gate of Time disappears and the old woman there reveals a bracelet…the one Zelda gave her thousands of years ago! The old woman is Impa!

It’s a happy reunion as Impa says “See? I told you we’d meet again.” But the happiness doesn’t last; Impa immediately then disappears (apparently dying), leaving only the bracelet behind. So the ending has three sad goodbyes within a few minutes time. The doors of the temple swing open. Sunshine and peace await. The credits roll and that’s about it. One last scene shows that Zelda wishes to live her life on the surface, not up in Skyloft.

With that, I have beaten the game. But I am not done. There are still treasures I want to get and side-stories to complete. So this blog is not over yet! There will be more blog entries (and my review of the game) still to come in the next week or two. I will say this much… After being disappointed by Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword restored my faith in the series. It’s definitely not perfect, but it is a great game. Thank you all for reading my blog, and stay tuned for more.

Back in the Sky Keep, I see that there are stations where you can move around the rooms of the dungeon like a sliding block puzzle. Not every room has one of those stations, and you can never move the room that you’re currently in. Each room has door(s) on different sides of the room, so the challenge is to line them up correctly to move from room to room and recover the three pieces of the Triforce.

Each room has a different theme and resembles a different area from earlier in the game.

Even though the last room was combat-heavy with some large enemies, the dungeon didn’t have a boss battle. But I did recover the three pieces of the Triforce.

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SPOILER WARNING – Spoilers ahead, so read at your own risk. I know this blog already contains some light to medium spoilers, but these spoilers are bigger now. So turn back now if you want to be surprised when you play through the endgame yourself.

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After assembling the Triforce, Smurf-Fi told me to wish for the destruction of Demise. From what I understand, Demise is another name for The Imprisoned, the boss I had to fight three times earlier in the game (the one with the sensitive toes). And with that wish, the goddess statue island broke apart from Skyloft and fell all the way to the surface (from whence it came).

It fell into the huge crater where The Imprisoned kept rising from, filling in the gap perfectly. Smurf-Fi tells me that Zelda can now awaken from her long slumber. The game goes into pseudo-ending mode, with scenes you’d expect at the end of the game. Of course I knew it wasn’t really the end, since the Demon Lord is still at large and has yet to be dealt with. But Zelda wakes up and is reunited with Link, and Groose is so happy that he hugs the old woman in the Sealed Temple, and so on. Awww.

And then guess who… the Demon Lord himself, steps out from behind a pillar. He uses some sort of magic to knock out Zelda and knock down Link. He admits that we ruined his plans to revive the demon king (Demise?) in the present, so he grabs Zelda and goes through the Gate of Time to try to do his evil in the past. It’s up to Link to follow him through the gate. It seems as if it’s time for the last battle(s), but I decided to save that for next time.

I did however, go back up to Skyloft. I reloaded my bottles, grabbed the treasure chests from the goddess cubes I had already activated, and just prepared for what could be the last battle. The end is near.