Well, I guess it's time for a Zelda update.
I finally took out one of those bouncing ghost things... used a Bomb arrow to get it done quickly. Still working on making quick arrow shots. But I got a lighting rod.
Also finished the house in Hateno village... well except for the last shield rack. Haven't hung a single shield yet still since I'm perfecting that attack reflection for guardians... I need all the shields I can get.
Also got through Goron area. Defeated the Divine Beast and got Daruks protection.
I left the area afterwards and ran into a giant Rock monster. and it was here that I discovered something that made defeating them so much easier....if I blow up both his hands, I can climb up on his back and go apeshit all over that ORE on his back.
So after defeating 2 rock monsters in literal minutes from the start of that fight... I saved up some money and went back to Goron town to purchase that Fire helmet (then go get it upgraded twice) so I could face that Taleo Ignus or whatever it was called. Little did I know that the bonus was being fireproof.. but that made sense. Made quick work of that monster once I took advantage of both being fireproof and realizing that I can hop on his back and charge the hammer into a spinning attack to chip that mole off poor rockies back.
After I knocked that out, I let my daughter play, knowing that she would try to leave the Goron City through the entrance area, where I left the original Fire Rock Monster... and she would need my help. Made even quicker work of this one with more space to work with.
Also been taking out the Tall cyclops' whenever i see them. easy peezy. Just need to work on my quick arrow aim to start knocking him out in an efficient matter of time.
So in the time after letting my daughter play, I had teleported back to Larelin(?) to gamble for more money, but it got late, and I shut it down. wake up in the morning and my daughter wants to play, so I let her. Not thinking she would venture anywhere I hadn't been, since there would be too many monsters.... she wanders into a whole new area I hadn't been and got pretty damn deep in there. Next thing I know she's taking a picture of Farosh the Dragon spirit!!? (WHERE THE **** ARE YOU!!!) I also realize she misplaced the horse we had been running around with for half of yesterday that she wanted me to take to a stable... but there wasn't one nearby, that I was aware of. My daughter had found a new stable right next to the dragon, but since she can't read, she didn't know how to register it. We had already picked out a name for it too... all black with a white hair. We were gonna call her Silver Mane.
I took the controls and immediately went horse hunting... but a stupid shrine detector would not STFU!!! so I got side tracked looking for the damn shrine. instead fought my way up the nearest tower, guarded by a bouncing ghost with lightning storm powers, in a region where everytime I decide to climb anything, it starts pouring, making my bomb arrows totally ineffective.
I managed to avoid the ghost, and climb the tower, but the damn shrine detector was driving us both crazy... still haven't found the shrine BTW, but after a thorough search and sniping a scale off of Farosh, i bounced from the area to do all the things at the beginning of this post.
So.... my daughter keeps destroying all my special weaponry and attempting to cook dishes with random items in the inventory. results vary, but she is always proud of every single dish (meat skewers, mushroom skewers or simmered fruit),. I had to coach her not to use things with low number counts or weapons that weren't taken from enemies. This prompted me to get back to the Hyrule area, specifically that lost forest where I suspect Korok Forest is hidden...
OMG... if we didn't spend an hour getting sent back to the start or those 2 torches lit in the middle of the woods.... I tried it, my daughter kept trying to tell me the trick, kept telling me to use the torch... she is so anal about that damn torch. Finally, after burning up my wooden weapon, which opened a spot up for the torch (and so many attempts with no fire at all), I let her try it again. Several tries later I noticed that the wind kept changing on the torch embers.
HALL AH FUCKING LOU YA!!!! We finally found the Korok Forest.
My daughter is calling for the controller back, since I took control once I noticed the torch thing. But I was in a frantic search for the grown ass Korok so I could cash in this 102 korok seeds I've saved up since our last meeting. I needed more weapon and shield slots STAT.
Long story shortened (just a lil bit) I finished all the Korok trials except the riddle one (and the side mission asking for the ice wand). The riddle is asking for a Hoof I think.... Now there is only one creature I've run across several times that I've run away from. that Centaur thing with the Ice Wand. I'm thinking both things are related.....
Now I've never attempted to kill a horse (my daughter wanted to try several times... should I be worried!?) but I now that it's kinda come up... is that possible? do they just give you meat? or would you also get a hoof? I figure that Centaur guy probably gives you the hoof... and since he also has the ice wand, they want to push me in the right direction with a hint of where to look for one thing that will give me the answer to the other thing.
and that's where I'm at right now. Contemplating confronting 1 of the 3 Centaurs I've seen, the one at the base of that snowy area at the end of the stone bridge just outside Kakariko village
the other 2 I never got close to, but they were in the fields by that one shrine that's waaaaay up high on the bone tower. I think you're supposed to climb that tower, but I glided down from Death mountain, so I wouldn't really know. It did say you already passed the test to get this orb when I got inside, so I assume climbing that high was supposed to be the challenge.