Jeff's Skyward Sword Blog

Now with plenty of space in my wallet, I set out on my bird for the islands that have glowing spots marked on my map. One of them contained a silver rupee, which is worth 100 rupees. I went to the other island and I had to use a bomb to blow up rocks that were in the way. A treasure chest was revealed, but there was a problem. It wouldn’t let me open it.  I tried the front and the back and no “open” option appeared. Perhaps I need something else before I can open it.

Also, while flying around, I saw another bird. I’m not sure what that’s all about…if it was just someone else from my town or if it’s something else.

Anyway, I proceeded to the new opening in the clouds. It took me down to Lanayru Mine. The area is all dark and dingy. I eventually got to a huge blue gem. I hit it with my sword and big changes occurred.

Everything turned into a brighter color. Mine carts started hovering above their track. Creatures that had appeared dead or petrified came to life. Smurf-Fi had some news for me:Apparently, a time shift had occurred in this area. When I hit the blue stone, I essentially traveled back in time to when the area was active with mining activity. Quite interesting.

With the help of the now active mine carts, I proceeded through the mine. This area has some new hazards such as quicksand and enemies that shoot out electricity.

I ended up getting stuck quite on one area, all because I forgot a certain move. I went back and forth several times looking for something I missed, and I was about to give up for the night. And right before I did, then it hit me. I had completely forgotten that I could roll (or “bowl”) bombs! So I rolled one over a long quicksand area and a new blue stone appeared that let me get out of the area. Once out of the mine, I was now at Lanayru Desert. I saved my game there.

Back in the Earth Temple, I solved a puzzle that let me proceed. I’m actually liking this dungeon a lot better than the first one. It’s cool…or hot, as the case may be.

While making my way through the dungeon, I filled up my wallet (600 rupees) and couldn’t hold any more. At least until I upgrade my wallet again. I got the boss key and again met up with the Demon Lord dude. But he wasn’t the boss this time, he had this creature fight me.

I defeated it and got my heart container. Is it just me, or does anyone else think the heart containers are ugly in this game?

I proceeded and saw Zelda and that mysterious woman from before. Zelda wanted to run to me, but that woman wouldn’t let her!

And then, she continued to lay on the insults. Said I was too slow getting there, and said I was the wrong choice to be the hero. I wanted to fight the witch, but then she teleported away with Zelda. I returned to the sky. My map had a couple glowing places, so I went to one of them, hoping to get more heart container pieces. But the one I went to contained this:

A gold rupee worth 300 rupees. Normally that would be a nice reward, but my wallet was still full! So I got absolutely nothing! I felt stuuuuupid! I then decided not to bother with the other things on my map, in case they were more rupees. I went back to town and bought some upgrades for my equipment, including my wallet. I should be able to hold 900 rupees now. I then saved my game and quit for the night.

I unlocked the door to the temple, and it is indeed the second dungeon. It’s called the Earth Temple, although “Fire Temple” would have been more appropriate. Fire and lava abound. I soon found myself rolling on a giant stone ball through lava. There’s no way this would work in real life. Even if the ball didn’t melt, the surface would be far too hot to stand on. 😛

I ran into this guy, Ledd, and he asked me to find his bomb bag for him. I had to bowl some bomb flowers to break open a wall to do it. I’m not enjoying the bomb-rolling controls. It doesn’t always seem to work right and a good portion of the time, the bomb goes off before Link will roll the bomb. Anyway, I get his bomb bag and bring it back to him. I ask him if I can borrow it, but instead, he gives it to me. Thanks, Ledd!

I can now put bomb flowers into the bag. You wouldn’t think putting a bomb with a lit fuse into a bag full of bombs would be a good thing to do, but in this game, it’s perfectly safe. 😛

Moving along, I find the dungeon map. One thing I’ve noticed so far is that dungeons in this game (at least so far) don’t have multiple floors. Some rooms do have areas of different heights, but everything is represented as a single floor on the map. In other words, you can’t be directly above or below another part of the dungeon. But I am only on the 2nd dungeon after all, and that could possibly change in later levels.

Another thing I’ve noticed where Skyward Sword is different from other Zelda games, is that there isn’t a compass to find in the dungeons. Usually the compass would show you which way you’re facing and show you the location of treasure chests, but in Skyward Sword, the dungeon map does both of those things.

It was getting late, so I stopped about half-way through the dungeon and saved my game.

Note: For those who wish to view my video of the first dungeon (Skyview Temple), here they are. The video is in two parts: