June, 2023

08

6h 50m

After spending longer than I'd like to admit looking for local pyromaniacal flutist Pyper, it was off to find sunset fireflies to impress his crush. I did some other stuff to keep me busy until night came, including taming a huge stallion which I appropriately named 'B.F.P' (Big Fucking Pony). When night fell, I guided Haite, perhaps the least athletic NPC in all of Hyrule, to watch Pyper's little show. Finally content, he decided to return to his troupe, and with that I'd reunited all of the 'global trotters'.

But before going to see their last performance, I went and explored some of the emptier spots on my map. Stumbled across an apple tree hill, a.k.a 20fps hill; the shrine nearby is 'Missing Pathways'. I want to discuss this one in particular because it highlights how the abilities of TotK mesh together. You first use ultrahand to lift an object up, ascend to a higher vantage point to get on top of the block; use recall to move it to the point where it was raised, and then use ascend once more to reach the platform above. This amount of combination is much broader than BotW, and is a huge improvement.

Back to the troupe, now called the 'stable gallopers', give their final performance to the great fairy and provides me access to the maximum level of clothing enhancements. From there I spent the rest of my session helping Penn sought out the mysterious and latest news at the stables.