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aubergionI've been trying to figure out why the inside of Vah Rudania is so dark.
Because it's not a mechanic that has appeared before, and it's not a mechanic that is used in the rest of the Beast once you get to the guidance stone, and it makes getting there a pain in the ASS. But what it does do, very effectively, is force you to pay attention to the blue flames which will be a key mechanic in the rest of the dungeon, because they're the only thing you can see. I don't know if it's necessary, and I feel like the initial flames were spaced WAY too far apart, but I can see the logic.
Anyways, once I got through the impenetrable darkness, the rest of the beast went fairly smoothly. It took me way too long to realize I needed to throw bombs at Fireblight Ganon because he was doing the Rock Octorok (Rocktorok?) mechanic of sucking things in and spitting them out because I don't normally fight Rock Octorocks with bombs - I fight them with boomerangs, and I was fresh out of boomerang. But eventually, I hucked a couple bombs at Ganon and hit him with an Ancient Battleaxe ++, and with that, Daruk was free once more.
Freeing Daruk felt much more uplifting than helping Mipha. Seeing him celebrate the survival of the Gorons and wave at Yunobo was such a sharp contrast to Mipha alone on her mountaintop wishing she could see her father and brother again. On my first playthrough, despite all the NPCs talking about how the Champions fell against Calamity Ganon, I don't think I believed it at first. Link was alive, after all, thanks to a hundred-year-old tub of Mysterious Sheikah Liquids. Why couldn't they be alive too? And the Link/Mipha flashback was oddly compelling. It wasn't until Mipha herself told me that Ganon killed her that it sank in. She was really dead. Even if I killed all of the Ganons and saved Hyrule, she wouldn't come back.
Of all the people Link knew in the memories... only Zelda is left. At least that's what the ghosts keep telling me. And honestly, the memories do nothing to convince me that they were close. Like, protecting Zelda is Link's job, sure, that's fine. But I don't get the impression that she entirely... likes him? Like, Zelda spends every flashback I've seen her in struggling to live up to a destiny that is forced on her by her name and bloodline and, critically, being unable to do it. She never activates her magical princess powers even when Calamity Ganon attacks and her friends need her most. And all the while, she has to travel with Link, who got told he had to wield the sword that seals the darkness and just... does it, by all accounts. No doubt. No hesitation. Fighting is what his dad did, and it's what he has to do, and he just... does it, effortlessly, while Zelda roams all across Hyrule struggling to do the same.
Yeah, if I were Zelda, I wouldn't be a huge fan of this guy either.
I don't know what she'll think of me when I finally get around to rescuing her. For all I know, the ghosts are wrong and she's not even alive at all, and she's given her life for Hyrule just like the rest. But for now, Death Mountain is quiet, Daruk is free, and his legacy lives on. So I've done something worthwhile.
Also, my man deflects Guardian eyebeams for me to OHKO those suckers in their tracks. Hell yeah!
Because it's not a mechanic that has appeared before, and it's not a mechanic that is used in the rest of the Beast once you get to the guidance stone, and it makes getting there a pain in the ASS. But what it does do, very effectively, is force you to pay attention to the blue flames which will be a key mechanic in the rest of the dungeon, because they're the only thing you can see. I don't know if it's necessary, and I feel like the initial flames were spaced WAY too far apart, but I can see the logic.
Anyways, once I got through the impenetrable darkness, the rest of the beast went fairly smoothly. It took me way too long to realize I needed to throw bombs at Fireblight Ganon because he was doing the Rock Octorok (Rocktorok?) mechanic of sucking things in and spitting them out because I don't normally fight Rock Octorocks with bombs - I fight them with boomerangs, and I was fresh out of boomerang. But eventually, I hucked a couple bombs at Ganon and hit him with an Ancient Battleaxe ++, and with that, Daruk was free once more.
Freeing Daruk felt much more uplifting than helping Mipha. Seeing him celebrate the survival of the Gorons and wave at Yunobo was such a sharp contrast to Mipha alone on her mountaintop wishing she could see her father and brother again. On my first playthrough, despite all the NPCs talking about how the Champions fell against Calamity Ganon, I don't think I believed it at first. Link was alive, after all, thanks to a hundred-year-old tub of Mysterious Sheikah Liquids. Why couldn't they be alive too? And the Link/Mipha flashback was oddly compelling. It wasn't until Mipha herself told me that Ganon killed her that it sank in. She was really dead. Even if I killed all of the Ganons and saved Hyrule, she wouldn't come back.
Of all the people Link knew in the memories... only Zelda is left. At least that's what the ghosts keep telling me. And honestly, the memories do nothing to convince me that they were close. Like, protecting Zelda is Link's job, sure, that's fine. But I don't get the impression that she entirely... likes him? Like, Zelda spends every flashback I've seen her in struggling to live up to a destiny that is forced on her by her name and bloodline and, critically, being unable to do it. She never activates her magical princess powers even when Calamity Ganon attacks and her friends need her most. And all the while, she has to travel with Link, who got told he had to wield the sword that seals the darkness and just... does it, by all accounts. No doubt. No hesitation. Fighting is what his dad did, and it's what he has to do, and he just... does it, effortlessly, while Zelda roams all across Hyrule struggling to do the same.
Yeah, if I were Zelda, I wouldn't be a huge fan of this guy either.
I don't know what she'll think of me when I finally get around to rescuing her. For all I know, the ghosts are wrong and she's not even alive at all, and she's given her life for Hyrule just like the rest. But for now, Death Mountain is quiet, Daruk is free, and his legacy lives on. So I've done something worthwhile.
Also, my man deflects Guardian eyebeams for me to OHKO those suckers in their tracks. Hell yeah!
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Date: 2022-08-16 15:46 (UTC)And yeah, Mipha's scene is so sad :(