Zelda games have some creepy characters sometimes, and it’s not limited to enemies. I always thought Kilton was a little weird in Breath of the Wild, but his little brother Koltin might be even stranger.
I helped him out with a side adventure, but it was clear we will meet again somewhere. Lucky me…
At Woodland Stable, I ran into some more musicians with a broken wagon. They wanted to perform for the Great Fairy. Naturally, I had to fix their wagon, but that wasn’t all. I needed a horse for them, and I hadn’t registered any horses yet! So I went out looking for one…
Eventually, I found a wild horse and cornered him. But as I was trying to hop on, I accidentally summoned Tulin’s wind power…so it looked like I was trying to tame a wild horse in the middle of a tornado. 😆
I walked him over to the stable to register him, and I named him “Cornered.” 😛 I had enough Pony Points for a towing harness, but it took me a while to figure out how to actually use it. I kept trying to use Ultrahand to attach the wagon to the horse, but the horse kept taking off every time the wagon bumped him! Eventually I realized the stable guy had to actually equip the harness onto the horse himself. I wish he had told me that when he gave me the harness!
I was then able to attach the wagon to the harness, and I pulled the musicians’ wagon up the hill. Of course, my horse was still drunk wild, so he was swerving all over the place and going off the road. 😆
It may not have been a smooth ride, but we did make it to the Great Fairy Tera’s fountain. The musicians performed to draw the fairy out, and even Penn dropped in to catch the latest news. Once the concert was over, I had the fairy enhance some of my clothing.
Next, I headed up to Death Mountain. Almost everyone in Goron City was seemingly in a trance, obsessing over food. Marbled rock roast, to be specific. That included Yunobo, the president of YunoboCo…the mining company that runs Goron City.
Some of the kids in town, who aren’t affected by the mysterious meat, asked me to check on Yunobo. So after buying some flame-resistant armor, I followed him into a cave…where I ended up fighting him! I was able to break his mask, which seemed to have been what was brainwashing him.
There is a storyline here that involves Zelda, but I’ll try to leave those story elements out of the blog so I don’t spoil too much. But I will say that Yunobo is now a good guy again, and he joined me on a trip up to the top of Death Mountain. I got to fight a mini-boss while flying a cool vehicle that was like a fully-equipped wing. 😆
After defeating the boss, we went down inside Death Mountain. We ended up in the Depths, and more importantly, I got to drive a car through lava! So cool! 😎
Before long, I drove right up to the Fire Temple!
The temple had five padlocks to unlock, and five gongs to bang. 😛 The dungeon has lots of mine cart tracks spread across five levels, with lots of switches that re-route the tracks. So it can be quite confusing at first.
But I eventually figured out my way around (for the most part). There was one section where I had to make a reeeeally long bridge out of cooled slabs of lava. It even needed supports at the far end (to raise it up) and then a ramp as well. I’m not sure if there was an easier way, but at least I got it done. 😛
There was also a moment where I was trying to rotate the bridge, and I accidentally flipped myself up in the air, causing my bridge to fall down into the lava. It was heartbreaking. 😛 But that clip will be in a future “Fails” video.
The Fire Temple boss wasn’t terribly hard, it just took a while. I seemed to be doing very little damage to it. But I beat the boss, got a new heart container, and gained Yunobo’s special power.
I completed a nearby shrine before wrapping up my game for now. But here’s a look at my current stats, if you’re interested. (I have not yet unlocked the completion percentage, but I know it’s very low at this point.) My play time is currently at 35 hours; it’s already my 8th-most played Switch game, and I’m just getting started!
When I resume, I again want to travel (by foot) back to Lookout Landing, taking my time to explore a bit along the way. See you next time!