Killed my first Lynel this weekend. That guy was kicking my ass, but I started to learn the tricks. My food was depleted, and I lost some gear. But man, did it feel good to win that fight! I was eager to fight another one until I pressed on the path I was going and found another one! I realized very quickly that I didn't want to go through that again, especially since I'm low on shields after practicing deflecting the Guardian lasers.
But that led to a really fun discovery: I found a giant, freaking horse. At first I thought it was one regular sized horse and a bunch of tiny horses, but I got close to it and it was huge! I took a picture for the compendium and tried to tame it. It was hard approaching it, even in my ninja suit, but I climbed a thing and got to it by gliding. I was surprised to be able to tame it, and more surprised to be able to register it. I was disappointed that I could only register so many horses and needed to let one go to keep my giant horse. I ended up naming him Garganto.
Having done all the dungeons, I'm tempted to go to the end. But I really wanna do more shrines. At least 100. I feel like I've explored so much of the map, but I'm still in the 80s. I also wanna give that one island people were talking about a shot. I think I'll aim to do that and see the ending this weekend. I'll spend the week doing sidequests and trying to upgrade my armor then see where I'm at. I also want to complete the memories. SO MUCH TO DO!
Funny enough I just took down my first Lynel yesterday also. I finally went off to Zora's Domain and took care of that whole mission. Walking the path, reading the history, exploring the land around the Zora Domain. Met the Zora people. It was kind of weird to encounter a people that had a lot who remembered Link and were affected by his failure in the past. Changed my mind. Zora Domain is now the weakest village in the game. It's beautiful in the sunshine but it's a smaller community and there are no real homes. I guess it's kind of neat that being a different species they do things a bit differently
and everyone just sleeps in a communal pool area but the lack of homes and places just makes it feel empty and ornamental. It doesn't help that there aren't a lot of people to follow doing different things throughout the day. While there, I followed through with getting to the Divine Beast and beating it leaving 2 more Divine Beasts to rescue. Of course, doing so put me on a path to meet a Lynel but Stratos and others had already made this clear so I was expecting it. It would seem that the game may intend for this to be your first Lynel encounter since there is a cutscene for it.
However, you don't have to actually fight the Lynel if you don't want to. You can accomplish your objective sneaking around it which I did. Then I saved and decided to take another run at defeating him. I got my armor and weapons ready and decided on a strategy to use which involved trying to stun him with
Urbosa's Fury that I've also got from my first Divine Beast completion. Overall, it was a really easy fight. When he did hit me, I only had like a heart or half a heart damage at times. I kept expecting to go down further in health but every time I checked after a hit the damage was low. So, I think this might be the weakest Lynel in the game. Shortly after finishing the Divine Beast mission, there was a Blood Moon so I'm thinking of going to face this Lynel again to see if it stays this easy. I never had to use a fairy to save me and I only had to eat one meal of food to replenish myself.
Maybe there is a difference between the color of Lynel manes. The first one I was fought was a white haired Lynel and its power and attacks were far greater. This red maned Lynel was hardly in the same league as the first one I tried to fight. The weapons he dropped after the battle were pretty much all weaker than stuff I was already carrying. One thing that was the same was that it would charge at me from a distance. I kept locking on to him and trying to jump out of the way at the right time to initiate a fury strike but I never got the timing right and he always seemed to hit me before I could jump out of the way. While it was good to take down a Lynel, I have to test and see whether I'm competent against other red maned Lynels or if this is just a starter Lynel.
Should have done Zora's Domain sooner. With all the wildlife and plant life along the way, I was able to get many things I needed to do some more armor upgrading and went nuts after saving the Zora with upgrading all the armor I have so far to get stronger for the journeys still yet to come. Just need another 2000 rupees to complete my current 10000 rupee quest. Also, maybe it's just me but I like getting a full set of armor and then matching weapons to blend in with the denizens and take on their culture. So, I was
Gerudo Link with the complete outfit and Arabian/Gerudo weaponry to match. Now I was Zora Link with the complete Zora outfit and Zora weaponry to go with it. Curious to see what other Link transformations I can make up. Getting ready for some Tri-Force Heroes and costumes!At this point, I think I should also take care of finding Hatsu in Korok Forest which might be somewhere in Hyrule Forest. Once again, I'm finding myself wanting more equipment space and would like to start using up more of these Korok seeds I've got. Will probably start playing through a bunch of the shrines I've got on my map as warp points and take care of some sidequests. I've got 2 memories to find but when looking at my memory list, there are still going to be a couple unaccounted for. I'm wondering where those come in. The Journey continues. I'll get to you sometime next month Zelda. You've been doing well with Ganon this long. I'm sure you can last a few more weeks before I get around to you.