I figured I should give you all my Zelda update... I think it's been a week or so, but I've been down with the flu, so I've barely played till yesterday.
Well yesterday my daughter was looking around the map and wanted to go to new places (she the open field explorer who wanders out of her comfort zone, gets into deep doo doo and throws the controller at me to fight some unknown horde of monsters if she can't handle it). SO she found the large Maze Prison Island in the upper right corner of the map. I told her it looked to far to glide to, but she was quite insistent with visiting there.... well, I'm glad I finally gave in an listened to her, because it wasn't too far to glide too.
and after taking out a single Guardian in the entrance (after dodging him for most of the time in the maze) and exploring all the routes on the floor, my daughter suggested I climb to the top.... which was helpful because there was one path on the map that I couldn't get to otherwise. that led us to the shrine.... and then this mysterious shaft of air that lifts me to... nowhere, and the grate is missing.... hmmm.
dungeon exploring it is.
"No dada!! there's a bunch of guardians!!!"
- "Naw.... their all dead, it'll be fine....."
"uh uh... they gonna kill you...."
- "don't jinx me.... I got a bunch of ancient parts to collect"
::Guardian Activates!!!:: panic ensues, shields destroyed, guardian defeated.. ancient parts collected.... all is quiet.
-"Oh look a treasure chest.... Oohh some new helmet" I'm sure you all know what happened next.....
someone tripped the alarm, lasers pointing from everywhere, warning beeps coming from more guardians than I have time to count right now.... can't dodge that many lasers at once. Gotta make a break for the wind stream. Beeping getting faster, stamina deleting, daughter yelling
"Dada I told you so, I told you there were too many guardians, I told you they were gonna kill you!!!"
I make it to the stream, link won't open the glider.... jump again, I can see guardians eyes turning white, gliders opens just as 4 or 5 laser beams just narrowly miss me as I fly quickly upwards.
such intensity after a pretty uneventful maze experience. I didn't expect so much action at the end.
and damn... it took 7 diamonds to upgrade that headpiece twice. I also could only upgrade that Barbarian helmet once since I only beat 1 Lynel.... guess I'll be headed back up to the Zora domain soon and get my Lynel sparring on for a round 2.