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aubergionI've officially surpassed my previous liveblog of Breath of the Wild. I'm not even halfway through this game.
I went to Popla Foothils with an eye to heading towards Highland Stable and Faron. Pyper, the flautist is there, I heard him, but I lost track of the sound. The pirates turned out to be just a literal boatload of bokoblins, led by a black boss bokoblin. Riju's abilities came in quite useful - even if I got hit a few times chasing after her, she deals so much damage with her lightning that it was a worthwhile risk. Also, carrying that many bomb barrels on a boat is kind of stupid. I actually lost track of the black boss bokoblin and panicked before I saw a black boss bokoblin horn floating off the side of the boat. So I guess that answers that question. There's also a Skyview tower... somewhere. I haven't actually seen it yet.
Once more, rice is proven to be the rarest and most valuable resource in Hyrule, as Bolson (hello again!) wants to use rice straw to thatch the roofs of the huts. I don't have twenty goddamn rice, so I'm off again. I grabbed the penultimate memory, this time of a fake Zelda working for Ganon? Oh shit. Tera did mention that Zelda wasn't acting like herself. And the Yiga have a penchant for impersonating people. I wonder....
Now, I'm only one tear short, and my east half of the map is tragically uncovered. I'm going to go pick that memory up, and see if it explains anything. The Rabella Skyview isn't broken, but it is covered in thorns and pouring rain. One sacrificial Flame-Emitter is enough to brute-force my way in however, and access the terminal. I'm glad Purah fireproofs these things.
Observations from the sky: I'm getting better at spotting those little star dudes, but not at accessing them - they can be VERY high up. The Lanayru Skyview is on Mt. Lanayru, which feels like a pretty inconvenient place to build things. And based on the map I still have, the last tear is a spiral geoglyph shape just on the other side. Let's go! Here, after Sonia's death, the four regional sages gain their power. The Goron sage wears his on the belt, and the Zora sage wears his on his left hand, mirroring Rauru on the right. I don't love the masks - I really wish I could see their expressions, so they'd feel like people, not just mooks. But it's cool that they were all willing to fight.
And then - I see the dragon. Blue-spined. Yellow-maned. And crying.
I knew. I've known since I saw the memory of the Sheikah Slate. I think I just wanted to hope otherwise. It wasn't Naydra that pierced the clouds, at the Great Sky Plateau, was it? The Purah Pad names it - her? A? The? Light Dragon.
The final tear falls at the heart of the spiral peninsula. What am I supposed to do, except chase after her?
The twelfth tear is like the Master Sword geoglyph again. I see memories I haven't seen. I've seen more of them now, but I'm still missing what I assume is the first. The Great Deku Tree - that must precede the Awakening cutscene from the beginning of the game, since that is the second memory, not the first. Sonia, in the gazebo, just before her death. Mineru's counsel, and possibly, based on what I know of poes, her The other sages, now/uncountable thousands of years ago, watching her go. Somehow, somewhere, the Light Dragon (it's so hard for me to think of her as Zelda. Not even the eyes are the same.) has the Master Sword. Incubating in her grasp, absorbing millennia of light, so that when I finally confront Ganondorf, it will be stronger than ever.
And that means... and that means every Zelda sighting at the stables is a Yiga, doesn't it? The one who spoke to Tera, who spooked the golden horse, scattered the goats. But what of the others? When she was on top of the castle, when she appeared before each temple? It feels like there has to be something real there - the Zelda who appears and disappears in sparks of light cannot be a Yiga as well. That's not their style. Does that mean there's still a way to fix this? To restore her from the dragon to herself?
Or is this just the type of hero the Hero of Hyrule is? I can save everyone else. I can defeat whatever monsters come my way. But I can't protect her.
There's so much I still don't know. After all that, I'm still missing five memories, and they're not locked behind allying with the sages. Look, I'm sure the Goron and the Zora have something going on, but I'm a royal knight. Zelda's my priority. I need to find answers about the dragons. I need to go to the star monoliths, and the sacred springs.
I went to Popla Foothils with an eye to heading towards Highland Stable and Faron. Pyper, the flautist is there, I heard him, but I lost track of the sound. The pirates turned out to be just a literal boatload of bokoblins, led by a black boss bokoblin. Riju's abilities came in quite useful - even if I got hit a few times chasing after her, she deals so much damage with her lightning that it was a worthwhile risk. Also, carrying that many bomb barrels on a boat is kind of stupid. I actually lost track of the black boss bokoblin and panicked before I saw a black boss bokoblin horn floating off the side of the boat. So I guess that answers that question. There's also a Skyview tower... somewhere. I haven't actually seen it yet.
Once more, rice is proven to be the rarest and most valuable resource in Hyrule, as Bolson (hello again!) wants to use rice straw to thatch the roofs of the huts. I don't have twenty goddamn rice, so I'm off again. I grabbed the penultimate memory, this time of a fake Zelda working for Ganon? Oh shit. Tera did mention that Zelda wasn't acting like herself. And the Yiga have a penchant for impersonating people. I wonder....
Now, I'm only one tear short, and my east half of the map is tragically uncovered. I'm going to go pick that memory up, and see if it explains anything. The Rabella Skyview isn't broken, but it is covered in thorns and pouring rain. One sacrificial Flame-Emitter is enough to brute-force my way in however, and access the terminal. I'm glad Purah fireproofs these things.
Observations from the sky: I'm getting better at spotting those little star dudes, but not at accessing them - they can be VERY high up. The Lanayru Skyview is on Mt. Lanayru, which feels like a pretty inconvenient place to build things. And based on the map I still have, the last tear is a spiral geoglyph shape just on the other side. Let's go! Here, after Sonia's death, the four regional sages gain their power. The Goron sage wears his on the belt, and the Zora sage wears his on his left hand, mirroring Rauru on the right. I don't love the masks - I really wish I could see their expressions, so they'd feel like people, not just mooks. But it's cool that they were all willing to fight.
And then - I see the dragon. Blue-spined. Yellow-maned. And crying.
I knew. I've known since I saw the memory of the Sheikah Slate. I think I just wanted to hope otherwise. It wasn't Naydra that pierced the clouds, at the Great Sky Plateau, was it? The Purah Pad names it - her? A? The? Light Dragon.
The final tear falls at the heart of the spiral peninsula. What am I supposed to do, except chase after her?
The twelfth tear is like the Master Sword geoglyph again. I see memories I haven't seen. I've seen more of them now, but I'm still missing what I assume is the first. The Great Deku Tree - that must precede the Awakening cutscene from the beginning of the game, since that is the second memory, not the first. Sonia, in the gazebo, just before her death. Mineru's counsel, and possibly, based on what I know of poes, her The other sages, now/uncountable thousands of years ago, watching her go. Somehow, somewhere, the Light Dragon (it's so hard for me to think of her as Zelda. Not even the eyes are the same.) has the Master Sword. Incubating in her grasp, absorbing millennia of light, so that when I finally confront Ganondorf, it will be stronger than ever.
And that means... and that means every Zelda sighting at the stables is a Yiga, doesn't it? The one who spoke to Tera, who spooked the golden horse, scattered the goats. But what of the others? When she was on top of the castle, when she appeared before each temple? It feels like there has to be something real there - the Zelda who appears and disappears in sparks of light cannot be a Yiga as well. That's not their style. Does that mean there's still a way to fix this? To restore her from the dragon to herself?
Or is this just the type of hero the Hero of Hyrule is? I can save everyone else. I can defeat whatever monsters come my way. But I can't protect her.
There's so much I still don't know. After all that, I'm still missing five memories, and they're not locked behind allying with the sages. Look, I'm sure the Goron and the Zora have something going on, but I'm a royal knight. Zelda's my priority. I need to find answers about the dragons. I need to go to the star monoliths, and the sacred springs.
