Silly Zelda peevage
May. 3rd, 2007 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst731. What do you mean, I can't use warp points when I'm in human form? I can *see* the warp point over Kakariko Village. Why doesn't Midna let me use the things now?
2. Oh, 'cos I have my horsie back. Now I get to find out about horseback battles, which are, asorichalcum pointed out, sorta weird.
3. G-D boss thing on horseback:
3a. After much trying - including driving the riderlesswargs warthogs off a cliff - finally determined that it is NOT possible to utterly kill the flunkies that harass you to the north of Kakariko Village. Boss thing just calls 'em back when you get too close to him, steeds and all.
EDIT with later insight: I'm used to the Final Fantasy style of boss. If boss appears with little flunkies, the strategy is pretty much always to kill the flunkies first so they can't whack you while you're trying to kill the big guy. Almost never does the boss then regenerate the flunkies. That's rare enough that, if it does happen, you immediately switch gears to concentrate on the boss.
3b. Having consumed all healing stuff, finally whacked the boss creature enough times to end the fight. Except that now it moves on to a new part. I'm on a bridge. And he's rushing at me. And there's hints at the bottom of the screen except ----- woops, I seem to have fallen off the bridge before I had time to see what the instructions said!
I hope that, having saved (in a new slot) at the beginning of the bridge part of the fight, the game brings me *back* to the bridge part of the fight when I restore later. If not... well, I have an earlier save before the whole fight sequence begins. With healing stuff not yet consumed.
EDIT: Nope. Brings me back to before the whole sequence begins. Rrrrr.
EDIT again (5/3 evening): Got 'im. Funnily enough, the field part took *much* less time this time around. And with a few falls of my own (and some handy-dandy healing stuff), did the bridge part.
This now brings me back to re-gripe of #1. If I'd been able to use the warp points, I could have gotten into Ordon Village to get me more milk *before* nighttime when everyone goes to bed and the shop's closed, and I wouldn't have had to run around Hyrule Field for what seemed like for evah before going into town, getting milk, etc.
But I think I'm now well equipped to face the Gorons.
2. Oh, 'cos I have my horsie back. Now I get to find out about horseback battles, which are, as
orichalcum pointed out, sorta weird. 3. G-D boss thing on horseback:
3a. After much trying - including driving the riderless
EDIT with later insight: I'm used to the Final Fantasy style of boss. If boss appears with little flunkies, the strategy is pretty much always to kill the flunkies first so they can't whack you while you're trying to kill the big guy. Almost never does the boss then regenerate the flunkies. That's rare enough that, if it does happen, you immediately switch gears to concentrate on the boss.
3b. Having consumed all healing stuff, finally whacked the boss creature enough times to end the fight. Except that now it moves on to a new part. I'm on a bridge. And he's rushing at me. And there's hints at the bottom of the screen except ----- woops, I seem to have fallen off the bridge before I had time to see what the instructions said!
I hope that, having saved (in a new slot) at the beginning of the bridge part of the fight, the game brings me *back* to the bridge part of the fight when I restore later. If not... well, I have an earlier save before the whole fight sequence begins. With healing stuff not yet consumed.
EDIT: Nope. Brings me back to before the whole sequence begins. Rrrrr.
EDIT again (5/3 evening): Got 'im. Funnily enough, the field part took *much* less time this time around. And with a few falls of my own (and some handy-dandy healing stuff), did the bridge part.
This now brings me back to re-gripe of #1. If I'd been able to use the warp points, I could have gotten into Ordon Village to get me more milk *before* nighttime when everyone goes to bed and the shop's closed, and I wouldn't have had to run around Hyrule Field for what seemed like for evah before going into town, getting milk, etc.
But I think I'm now well equipped to face the Gorons.
I think next time I spend serious Wii time, I might do Rayman instead. Just for a change.
