Dear Readers,
Today I'll talk about our mountain maze climbing to the local Toad Village. It's pretty remote.
Now to climb the maze path to the local Toad Village while Toadette watched us from below. How will she get up there? For that matter, how did she get up this far even? Anyway, I gave the Heart Boots to Mario. I found some Metal Gloves but didn't equip them on anyone.
We climbed halfway up the path and came across a big puzzle. Toadette yelled up at us from below and told us that if we solved it, we'd open up the way to the village. There were some instructions on the wall regarding it. It wasn't too difficult, just move the blue crescent stone block into its slot with the drill dash. Some platforms slid out with the symbol on it, opening up some paths. One of the local Toads above was startled to see things move.
We headed back below to take the newly formed crossing and met more enemies. Those Bullies are much easier to deal with than they are in Super Mario 64! Keeping them alive to do their dodge challenge isn't easy though, as they're a hazard to themselves, just like most bullies. The Paper Sombrero Guy actually attacks too! He much prefers to run away though... We climbed up and headed back right to the previous screen.
Up here, we hit the ! block and the stone barrier between the puzzles dissipated. This red circle one wasn't too difficult either and we made more platforms appear. The Toad above was jumping about excitedly!
Two paths were now open, one to the Toad above and the other back in to the cave to the right. We went that way for now.
Man, those Buzzy Beetles take ages to defeat sometimes! Especially if there's three of them and they all withdraw to stop taking damage.
Unfortunately we fell and had to take the long way around to come back. Along the way, we saw Toadette with a quill pen, designing her latest papercraft idea. She was keeping herself busy while we were making a path to the Toad Village.
Anyway, back to the cave, where we found a Paper SPEED Bracelet, which was our reward for avoiding the buried saw blades. I didn't equip it.
At this point, the game suggested taking a break on the pause screen. In a minute! Hang on!
We made our way back and continued to where we saw the local Toad. Climbing all the way up this mountain kind of put me in a reflective mood. Zelda dungeons have that same effect on me too. Lovely accompanying music to fit the situation too.
"Hey you made it all the way up here! Nice job!" the Toad says. He adds that he's never seen the platforms slide out from the mountain wall like that before. I guess no one's done the puzzle in a long while.
So onward to Mount Brrr Toad Village!
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