The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: Nintendo Announces TLOZ: Echoes of Wisdom

[SvennoJ]

Still plodding on, still no water temple lol. I checked out the little secluded Depths pocket left of Hyrule castle. It just had one Frox inside. Then I decided to finish the Khoga quest first, another left over pocket in the Depths. But that led me through Rito village, thus more quests and caves along the way there lol. I'll ignore Rito village for now, they'll still be starving to death next month, no rush. Khoga final fight was a pita, just annoying with the scripted nonsense while putting you in a small boxed arena with walls that kill you and a low ceiling. But he's easy to evade so it became a long game of wearing him down a bit at a time as my weapons just don't damage bosses much at all. Yonobo was useless in the whole fight. Funny ending, worth it at least and some nice rewards.

Making my way towards the water temple again I figured I would go by the Forgotten temple which is on the way. Still the same as in BotW, however much less dangerous. Just 2 little Moblin camps inside while in BotW it was quite the difficult dangerous place to get into / through. And there's a shrine in the back now. I left it there, haven't checked yet if the giant statue is still there (should be I guess)

I wish there were more puzzle shrines, it seems the majority is either Rauru's blessing or proving grounds. I guess proving grounds are puzzles as well. Kinda lame that to make 'good game play' the game has to not only disable climbing walls and auto-build in shrines, now also has to remove all your gear lol. Shrines are a good place to replace all rockets on my shields. They spawn right back when you attach one to a shield.

I'm ignoring the sky towers as that reveals the sky islands, which aren't easy to keep track of where I've been. I want to do those by area to make sure I get all the bits, hence leaving the sky tower maps empty until I'm ready to explore the sky in that area. My memory of Hyrule is good enough anyway not to need a map of the surface, but would have been helpful when looking for the 4 ring ruins around Kakariko. I kept getting turned around by the dude calling me away from the floating one. Argh he teleported me again, where was I headed. Stop teleporting me!