Category: Lockup Library Video Games

How many damn posts will this be?!

Posted on by Shawshank

Just a short post today. We just got over to my parents place, and Crystal has asked if we could bring over the Switch. Of course!

So when we got there, I unplugged the Chromecast, and plugged in the Switch. Boom! She’s somewhere in Necluda, looking for caves.

Over the course of the last couple of weeks, I managed to beat the Wind Temple, and about a week back, I beat the Lightning Temple. According to all the guides I look at, they say to do the Lightning Temple last. I didn’t do that I beat it second. Lemme tell you, the boss was a challenge.

But I did it, and returned Gerudo town to its former glory. Then I worked on some quests in town. They’re always cute, and relatively quick and easy.

This afternoon, I became a Yiga blademaster. I’m a full fledged member now. The Yiga aren’t the smartest in the land of Hyrule.

Tears of the Kingdom… again?!

Posted on by Shawshank

Yep here we are again, talk talk talkin about Tears of the Kingdom. We’ve still been playing most evenings for at least a couple of hours for me. And I think a couple days a week for a few hours for Crystal. She’s almost mapped out the entire depths, which is freakin awesome.

Me, I haven’t done too much in the depths. It’s dark, and there’s Gloom everywhere. And with the gloom you can only travel certain ways to get to where you want to go. I don’t really like that, but I know eventually, I’m going to have to get over myself and get the heck underground.

Don’t even get me started on the skylands either. There’s so much I need to do still. But lately, I’ve been on a side adventure, and mini quest kick. They’re fun.

  • Yiga baby!
  • Play Freebird!

I did do one think of note. I managed to figure out the wind shrine over Rito Village. I couldn’t figure out how to start the turbines, but I quickly googled it, and soon as I read how to do it, I closed the tab.

After I had read that, the first part of the shrine was a cake walk. The boss wasn’t even too terribly difficult. I used the wrong type of weapon on them, when after the fact I read to use a totally different fused part. Oh well, all finished. I guess three Devine beasts/SAGES to go.

So yeah, I saved the village, and they’re totes happy, and like in Lurelin Village – I’m revered as a god. I get everything for free when I travel to Hyrule’s vacation resort. Except the Rito‘s are cheap bastards. Not even a discount or anything there. That’s ok. I’m sure they have a few side quests for me.

I also was on a mission from god – to put the band back together. I wouldn’t call the Stable Trotters the next Blues Brothers, as I think they only know one song – the stable theme. It’s cool though, they’re like a shitty garage band. When they come out with the next single, Link can totally go hipster on everyone.

Last night I quickly finished off another side quest, and got the final piece of Yiga armour. It looks pretty awesome, and I don’t have to worry about the random Yiga bastards wandering around all over the place.

Photo from Crystal – flying higher than an eagle ©️ 2023 Poptartapocolypse

More Zelda musings

Posted on by Shawshank

Here we are again, me talking about Tears of the Kingdom. Just when I think I know what I’m doing, shit will enviably go sideways! But I’m slowly getting the handle in things. I’m currently ignoring all the main quests – I’m doing side quests, exploring, and just general fuckery.

Crystal is currently playing. For the last couple of weeks, I think, she’s been deep under Hyrule, exploring the Depths. I’ve been down a few times, but she has a huge chunk of it mapped, where I have just a small smattering. On the other hand, I have just about the whole top side map opened up. So we’re doing the same thing, but in completely different areas.

I’m doing all the “useless” side quests, like taking pictures for Sayge in Hateno, which gives me new paraglider skins. I also travelled up to Death Mountain, to get some Goron spice so I can start to grow my own food stuff. That’s pretty neat.

I also did a handful of quests in Tarrey Town – and subsequently I own a plot of land, and have a quant two room “dream home”. I’ll be able to build on that. I can have ip to 15 rooms, so it’ll be a build over time, to be a Barbie dream house.

You can’t tell me how to play the game!

Tears of the kingdom – 4 days in

Posted on by Shawshank

So, I took Friday off so I could play the game. Holy shiznit, it’s freakin huge! It’s overwhelming all over again. I don’t know what to do first. Well, of course I did the tutorial first, you kinda have to. That was an exercise in patience. No paraglider for the first 4 or 5 hours that I bumbled around the starting sky-land.

Once I got to the ground, that’s where it got HUGE. Lots of familiar places, and people, but everything felt so very new at the same time. I have to say it was really cool that people actually remember you.

In the first game, people had no idea who you were, and the Koroks simply called you Mr. Hero. Now, you’re called by your name, or in the case of one person, you’re just called The Swordsman. However, some of the people that you interacted with in BotW, don’t remember you – like your bestie, Beedle. That made me a little sad.

One thing that did surprise me, and made me smile was that the stables remembered you, AND you have all your horses from BotW! That’s awesome! I didn’t know this until I had tamed a horse and brought him to the stable.

Now I have two horses named Tampoon.

The blood moons are back. I should really record how many I’ve gone through to figure out how many hours I’ve played. As of this writing, I believe I’ve gone through 3 of them so far.

Pretty much the regular areas that you visited in the last game are here, but majorly changed. I think there’s about a 5 year difference from the end of the last game to this one. So kids have grown up a bit, and some things have changed, but it’s still just the same Hyrule, but also completely different.

I’m really enjoying myself. I still have to really get used to all the new abilities. I don’t think I’ve really fixed anything, unless I needed to for a shrine, or helping an NPC stand a sign up a few times. I’ll get the hang of this stuff before too long.

So, I think right now, if I were to label this game with a number out of 10, I’d have to say 9.5/10. Everything is breathtaking for sure.

Who knows, I could be wrong, and it’s just a piece of flavour for the game! Only time will tell!!!