I think that after having played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and with the more than 35 hours that I have spent between chest and back to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I can assure you that The best thing about Hyrule is knowing all its secrets. It is not that I have discovered gunpowder, but I want to start from this very interesting premise to show the two sides of the coin.
It’s great to find a small town like Hatelia, so friendly and welcoming, which only has a warm welcome for tourists. I approve of this Hylian policy, although my heart is not willing to go through more heart attacks. If it wasn’t enough to make my skin crawl with evil hands, what I found in the Colosseum has left me frozen.
From here to there
What have I done since my first visit to Hatelia? The truth is that I have not finished with Ganondorf nor have I run into Princess Zelda and I have not even been to any prominent enclave on the map; even so, there is cloth to cut. In the first place, I have already come across the blessed lord of the drum, who was camped in a detour from the road that leads to Kakariko.
Despite the fact that I have completed the mission that he has entrusted to me, the guy is not able to go to the nearest post, but goes to one located to the northeast. That is, you are 500 meters from the nearest fairy and you decide to go find your musical friends. I had nothing against drumming, but from now on it has become personal. At least the little trip back to Kakariko has served me to show the kids at Hatelia’s school that the cataclysm really happened.
Once the barrier of disbelief is broken down, I find that I must cook a monster spiced rice. Due to my lack of culinary skills, I leave the town and walk… aimlessly, until I spot one of the many sanctuaries that populate the plains. However, I didn’t know where I was really putting myself, in the lion’s den of these challenging scenarios.
The legend is not true
Yes, the sanctuary of Lu Quorum is in the middle of nowhere, on a small peak with nothing else of interest around it. Lonely and with the sole purpose of providing the corresponding orb of light, I go inside it. The first glance makes the dynamic clear to me, because here the rails will be the obstacles to overcome, but not using wheels or an enabled device. Not much less.
Eiji Aonuma’s team found it very funny that huge boards are used as a platform, without any kind of grip and that’s where the festival begins. Lu Quorum has become very famous among the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom community. for two reasons: its enormous difficulty and the imaginative ways of the players to overcome it. For further example, this person who airs it out in just 20 seconds with more tricks than Tony Hawk in his best times.
It’s not that I can’t have fun that way, but rather that I prefer to adjust to what Nintendo asks of me, although in the end each one follows the method that seems to them. Let’s be honest, the conflicting point is not the first section of rails, nor the second, it is the third. That is where the problem lies due to a jump into the void shortly after starting and a very pronounced curve to the right.
I’ve done? Well, what seemed most obvious to me is to create a square cylinder with the available pieces so that there is no way for the structure to fall off the rails. A few turbines in between and herding, which is a gerund. I admit that I have wasted more time in placing all the parts correctly than in the attempts themselves, since I have only failed twice. There is a lot of black legend around Lu Quorum and the truth is that it is not so difficult to solve your proposal. Maia’tinou is rather more complex; It was my first temple on the ground and the only one I’ve been on the verge of abandoning out of frustration.
I need new underpants
One when you open the map of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom check out the Gerudo desert, the castle and the most outstanding locations; nobody gives a damn about Dalite Forest, Ruddil Lagoon and Mount Satoly. That apparently there is nothing there, is reason enough for me to come sniff.
Not before making a foreseeable stop at the nearby post with another prick who hides a fairy and this is officially when I find out that I have to recruit the hyrule philharmonic orchestra. I resign myself, I get on an SUV with huge wheels that is right next to it and I go to the objective where, surprise, there is absolutely nothing.
I couldn’t expect too much, apart from some very beautiful views and lots of flora and fauna, but it was worth the walk to find a chest with an ancient leaf inside. On the other hand, the spirit of Mount Satoly -Satoly himself- reveals to me with lightning bolts the points where I have not gotten ghosts. It’s appreciated, especially if you knew where to use the reward they give. Yes, it is true that I have been left with the fly behind my ear with the Sanidin Park, because it cannot be that this structure is so well built and nothing can be done there.
Where I can’t do anything is in the Colosseum, but I didn’t know that until I got there, even though the game warned me beforehand. I had to cross the Griock Bridge and for that reason I didn’t even notice the signs. This is like when you are driving with your headlights on in the middle of the day and you only know how to smile when the drivers next to you give you warnings. I face the Colosseum, that cursed place in Breath of the Wild, as a Centaleon waited inside to challenge Link. Now I miss that Centaleon.
A creature from hell, a mythological being, a bloody three-headed dragon is inside ready to fry me, but with electric sparks. The electric Griock is scary just by looking at it, but it’s so big that he leaves the Hinox in a joke. However, I am the hero Hyrule needs and I can’t back down. I find that it is relatively easy to knock him out to punish the heads harshly, although I barely tickle him. And of course, when one makes up 90% of his arsenal in weapons created in the iron age, well he has a very serious problem against these bugs.
I can say that the Griock did not kill me, since it already occurred to me to flee as soon as possible so as not to end up being cooked. I think that the tactic of going where I really want is very good, but I need a little direction and to know the steps to follow. Surely the Orni can help me.
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