First of all, let me say something I forgot to mention last time. Earlier in this dungeon (Fire Sanctuary), I found a treasure chest that contained an empty bottle, which was my fourth one. This dungeon also has some fairies (which can be bottled up), so it came in handy.
Anyway, I reached the bridge of decision, where I had to make a leap of faith.
Continuing along, I came across one of these symbols on the wall where you can draw a picture with your charged-up sword. The game tells you that you can draw a heart to receive life, and I had also previously discovered that drawing arrows can get you some free arrows. But my health was full and I had plenty of arrows. My bombs were a bit low, so I tried drawing a bomb.
It worked and I got a bunch of bombs. I wonder what else it works with. Anyway, I eventually got the “Mysterious Crystals,” which function as the boss key for this dungeon. But I first checked my map and saw there was one other treasure chest I didn’t collect yet, so I backtracked to get it. Turns out it only contained 20 rupees. I saved my game and went back to the boss door. To my dismay, the boss of this level is once again Ghirahim, the demon lord.
As he did in Skyview Temple, he will grab your sword and it’s hard to break free of that, let alone land a hit on him. I was swinging my arm around so much, it almost fell off. 😛 Bosses like this are a prime example of why I’m not very fond of motion controls in games that aren’t named Wii Sports.
He killed me once and he killed me twice. On the third try, I finally beat him. I got the third and final sacred flame to go into my sword. I also got my hand stamped the third and final piece of the Triforce on my hand glove.
And Smurf-Fi told me that my sword has now become the Master Sword.
I now have to go to the sealed temple to awaken the gate of time. On that note, I saved my game and quit for the night.
If it falls onto lava, a temporary platform is formed. Many of the puzzles in this dungeon involve them. At one point, I saved this guy:
To thank me, he upgraded my digging mitts into Mogma mitts. They actually let me burrow underground in certain places. This ability is used to clear gates and reach new areas.
I eventually ran into a couple of that guy’s brothers, and I got a new piece of heart from one of them. After a while, I decided to stop and save my game. I’m quite far into the dungeon; I’ll try to finish it up next time.
She gave me permission to take her water basin that she was recovering in before. So Smurf-Fi called in the flying robot and he came in and hauled the big bucket of water away. I went back to the sky and made my way to the opening for Eldin Volcano. Usually when you go down to the surface, you are able to choose which bird statue you want to fall to. But not this time. Instead, I was forced to land at the entrance to the volcano, not the summit where I needed to be! What’s up with that?
And the robot refused to go back up and land at the correct spot!
Even worse was that I had to protect the robot. He followed behind me and wasn’t allowed to get hit by enemies. So I had to go all the way back up the volcano. I really like Skyward Sword a lot, but this is one of those parts of the game that just screams “filler.” There’s no logical reason for forcing us to land at the bottom of the volcano when we easily could have just landed at the summit. It’s just an extra task thrown in to artificially lengthen the game.
Fortunately, that happened right after I saved my game at a bird statue, so I didn’t have to start completely over. I then made it through and the robot dumped the water basin over the flames that blocked my path, allowing me access to the temple. But I didn’t have much time, so I stopped there (without going inside) and saved my game. I’m guessing it will be the sixth dungeon, but I’ll find out next time.