95 pokémon picross - zygarde 50% forme time mission and blue force medal

Dear Readers,

I set Greninja and Zygarde 10% Forme for this one. I square revealed the middle squares and used blue force as much as I could, allowing me to finish the puzzle in very good time.

I also got my blue force medal! Yay! 

261 zelda breath of the wild - displaying mipha's spear at home

Dear Readers,

I went home to Hateno with Spotty, gathering apples along the way. When we got there I got Bolson to build another weapon display case and used it to display the spear that Mipha used. I'm gonna keep there to remember her by.

260 zelda breath of the wild - climbing to vah ruta's new place

Dear Readers,

Vah Ruta was now on top of a mountain I couldn't reach before because it was too wet. It was dry now and it looked so cool up there that I couldn't resist the urge to go visit it.

I went all around the mountain looking for the best part to climb. Nowhere seemed like I could do it without having to replenish stamina, so I just went climbing anyway. 

It was a long hard climb, but the weather was nice at least. When I got to the top, a message popped up that said I couldn't go near it as it was too dangerous while it was zapping a beam towards Hyrule Castle. I already knew I couldn't go inside but not being able to go near it at all was pretty disappointing.

After this, I decided to just glide towards my horse, which was still waiting at the start of the area. I sneakstruck the Lizalfos nearby when I landed and trotted away.

259 zelda breath of the wild - buying the moblin mask!

Dear Readers,

I left Zora's Domain, but before I did I wanted to do a few things. I chatted with some of the Zoras about side quests. For example there was the stone tablet text one and the little girl singing about a shrine. Then I noticed the monster guy salesman was on the cliff, so I visited him and traded in some monster parts so I could buy a Moblin mask! Yay!

I passed by two Moblins without any trouble. They're not as plentiful as Bokoblins but it's still fun to run around them without fear of them attacking.

It is so different in the entire region without the constant rain. Ordinary Hylians were visiting here too.

258 zelda breath of the wild - getting a hero's welcome from the zoras

Dear Readers,

After Vah Ruta zapped a beam towards Hyurle Castle, I warped to Zora's Domain. I went to the king and got a hero's welcome. Everyone thanked me warmly, the elders liked me now, Sidon praised me to no end with shaking my hand, Kind Dorephan had all praise for me too. I told him and Mipha and I were united when that choice came up. He knew full well how much Mipha was in love with me. I also got Mipha's spear. I might just keep that in my house. Is it something that can be only used until it breaks like any other weapon? I'm thinking maybe I ought to cherish it.

I chatted with the elder Zora who wanted to compile the texts of the stone tablets into a book and I was now finally able to do that quest. I might do it later. For now, I wanna go back horse-riding.

257 zelda breath of the wild - mipha and link

Dear Readers,

What a sad story Mipha had. She was in love with me and died along with the other champions in the fight against Calamity Ganon. It's very much akin to the story of the Little Mermaid, who was in love with a human and it led to a very sad ending and her own death. She's such a sweet and gentle caring character as well.

After everything in Vah Ruta was done, her spirit took the gigantic mechanical elephant and brought it to a nearby mountain, aiming squarely at Calamity Ganon in Hyrule Castle. Mipha reflected on a few things and was sorry for making her father worry. She sounded so sad...

I suppose this is the stuff of fanfiction, but is there anything Link can be to her? I mean other than being united in the fight against Ganon. She's going to continue helping me with her healing ability. In peaceful times, can they be close companions? Sounds like it would be a nice thing. Maybe she'd end up being heartbroken, but maybe they can somehow be happy too. It would've been nice if she could at least have a happy healthy life, but I guess this is the way it is because of the drama of the story.

256 zelda breath of the wild - fighting waterblight ganon

Dear Readers,

I was expecting something big to come from activating all the terminals, and sure enough, out popped Waterblight Ganon. Mipha guided me through the fight.

I had a very clumsy time with him! I was very bad at dodging the ice blocks and ended up shooting them out with arrows. I had to switch between normal arrows for this and then shock arrows for Waterblight Ganon himself.

Even though I was clumsy and took a lot of damage, the fight was very slight and easy, kind of like Zelda 1 bosses are if you know what you're doing. He did flood the room at one point, which made it a bit trickier, but I was still well able and equipped to beat him. Dozens of shock arrows and hundreds of regular arrows! Messing around and acquiring stuff is worth it!

After the fight, Mipha's spirit talked more to me and gave me an ability that restores my hearts if I ever run out, which will be very handy in this game.

The game told me I wouldn't be able to come back inside to Vah Ruta, so I was glad to have all the treasure chests found.

255 zelda breath of the wild - activating the terminals in vah ruta

Dear Readers,

I explored Vah Ruta. It was just a big huge mechanical elephant skeleton. There were these evil eyeballs that sprouted dead minion heads. I added them all to the Hyrule Compendium, the Lizalfos, Bokoblin and Moblin heads. There was the odd mini Guardian to fight as well.

What was interesting was the trunk of this elephant. I was able to move it using the Sheikah Slate. The water it was spouting I was able to make it aim onto the big wheel to make it move.

There were terminal points in the big wheel, small wheel, on the trunk itself, other little areas too, including one surrounded by fire. I had to aim the trunk water at different points at different times. I had to climb onto the trunk itself to get to its terminal point and to find treasure. I had to aim the water at the fire as well.

I managed to activate all the terminals without too much trouble, but funnily enough I did get stuck on the terminal that was in the small wheel. It turns out all I had to do was use cryonis on the part where the water was coming out on top of it while getting the terminal into a reachable position.

Mipha's nice voice and guidance were good company during all this.

This is like a very small dungeon. I like this idea! I heard that some people didn't like this as a dungeon idea but I think it's fine.

254 zelda breath of the wild - swimming with sidon to disarm vah ruta

Dear Readers,

I finally decided to talk to Sidon and team up with him to take on Vah Ruta. I had to ride on his back while he swam through the water, knocking back the blocks of ice that were being thrown at us.

Then I had to swim upward with the Zora armour and use the shock arrows to shoot out the glowing orb thingies on its back. I had to do a few rounds of this. The blocks were getting spiky as well. I had to shoot some with arrows and knock back some with a sword. Eventually we succeeded. Vah Ruta was no longer flooding the entire area.

Sidon brought me to a platform where I could continue on my own and go inside Vah Ruta in order to free it from Ganon. He wished me luck and swam away.

On entering, I could hear Mipha's voice saying she was delighted this day had finally come and advised me to obtain map data so I wouldn't get lost.

94 pokémon picross - celebi time mission

Dear Readers,

I went in to the Celebi puzzle with Greninja and Zygarde 50% Forme. I got a good amount of squares revealed with the square reveals and I used all of Greninjas blue force moves to help get the puzzle solved quickly while also grinding for that blue force medal. I got the time mission achieved and that was the best I could do for now.

93 pokémon picross - focusing on accuracy in daily training

Dear Readers,

I missed the target in the daily grind again. This time I made a focus on accuracy. I got through them speedily enough but was still over by half a minute. I'm hoping that doing accuracy will eventually bring me speed.

92 pokémon picross - mew time and freeze time missions complete

Dear Readers,

I took on Mew again, this time with Mew and with Zygarde Complete Forme.

I used square reveal in the top left and bottom right. I cleared the rest of the puzzle using freeze times.

Afterwards I was left with this awkward pocket in the top right I was struggling with. Lots of ones and twos. I managed to find a four clue solution and that set off solutions for the rest of the ones and twos. I got the puzzle done in time.

91 pokémon picross - running blind in the training

Dear Readers,

I took on the training again, got delayed again and missed the target again.

It's like, I can handle the sixes and sevens, but then there are ones, twos, threes, fours, fives that delay me. This time I actually ran blind for a moment to try and speed up. Not a great idea!

90 pokémon picross - greninja mission success!

Dear Readers,

I had another go at the Greninja missions, this time using Mew and Zygarde complete forme.

I got on much better this time! Two huge square reveals and lots of freeze times. I completed the time and freeze time missions.

89 pokémon picross - greninja mission fail

Dear Readers,

I boldly equipped Manaphy and Celebi and jumped into Greninja with the aim of clearing the time and freeze time missions.

I would've cleared both of them easily, but I learned at the end that I had made a few mistakes. I couldn't imagine where I went wrong so I just quit.

It'll take a while to do this again, since these Pokémon take 24 hours to rest, but I know that I can do it!

88 pokémon picross - training closer to record

Dear Readers,

I earned my daily 7 Picrites pay packet and I solved the puzzles as fast as I could. I was over the time limit but this time it was only by about ten seconds, so that was progress.

87 pokémon picross - time and scatter reveal missions in piplup

Dear Readers,

I went in to get these missions done, using Poochyena and Glalie. Poochyena for the scatter reveal and Glalie for the blue force grinding medal. The blue force also helped with solving the puzzle in good time. I got them both! Woo!

86 pokémon picross - hyper scan achieved in glaceon level

Dear Readers,

I set Glalie and Pancham as my Pokémon and went into this level again, for the purpose of using Hyper Scan for a mission and using blue force many times for the medal.

I got on ok! I already had the time mission achieved so I could take my time. Hyper Scan ended up being useful in fixing one square, so that was nice. Things went very smoothly.

85 pokémon picross - diamond reveal achieved in vaporeon level

Dear Readers,

I went back into the Vaporeon level and used the diamond reveal move for the mission. I also used Greninja's blue force as much as I could as I'm working on that master medal. Made some good progress.

84 pokémon picross - got the auto fix medal

Dear Readers,

I set out to use the auto fix move as much as possible. I used Treecko because it doesn't have any cooldown period. When I eventually got the medal, I exited the level I was on (I completed it before) and it still kept the medal. I'm going to do this as much as I can with the other moves too.

83 pokémon picross - zygarde complete forme all missions

Dear Readers,

I took on the missions for this again, using Zygarde Complete Forme. I wasn't allowed to use any other forme of Zygarde at the same time for some weird reason, so I used Goomy, since I needed to have another dragon type. I got the missions done in time and earned all the Picrite prizes.

82 pokémon picross - more daily training grind

Dear Readers,

Trained a bit more, again missing the goal time and earning 7 Picrites. Wish I could make the time. I'm not sure if I can earn more at this stage, but it would be nice.

81 pokémon picross - m01 first row, seventh column

Dear Readers,

This puzzle was gently challenging. It had a clump of lines in the bottom red corner and another single curved line above the middle going across. Not too difficult or easy.

80 pokémon picross - glalie all missions

Dear Readers,

I set Piplup and this time I remembered to use the blue force, while also using the auto fix as much as I could. I finished with five minutes and got all missions done. Yay!

79 pokémon picross - squirtle all missions

Dear Readers,

I replayed the Squirtle puzzle with Treecko and Goomy. I did the little square reveal and used as much auto fix as I could. I cleared it within five minutes this time and got all the mission prizes. Woo!

78 pokémon picross - m02 fifth column, eighth row

Dear Readers,

It's funny how easy this one was. The entire top half of this puzzle was all 0 hints. I had a lot of X-es to put in for fun. Just the few rows at the bottom then with very easy clues left.

This tile resulted in a little non-straight line going across at the bottom.

77 pokémon picross - s06-06 glaceon

Dear Readers,

Glaceon has simple facial features and some slightly more complex hair-like features. It kind of looks like it has bangs. I used auto-fix as much as I could so I can get the medal someday. I beat it within five minutes too so I got another mural tile.

76 pokémon picross - m02 seventh row, fifth column

Dear Readers,

This was an easy enough puzzle, which made a triangular shape pointing to the right. The lower line is significantly thicker than the upper line. It was very easy to put in the X-es as there were many of them.

75 pokémon picross - s06-05 lapras

Dear Readers,

Lapras was very easy and minimalist. One distinct line for the outline of its head, ears and horn, and another for its eye, nose and mouth. Then again, sometimes that's all you need really.

I didn't have Slowbro, but I did have Cross Reveal for the missions.

74 pokémon picross - s06-03 glalie

Dear Readers,

Glalie was another nice little puzzle with very distinct lines for a tidy-ish puzzle. If the view was head on, it would've nearly been symmetrical I'd say.

I had to use Piplup for missions, but I forgot to use blue force. Whoops! 

73 pokémon picross - s06-02 cubchoo

Dear Readers,

Cubchoo was a nice little puzzle, and I can see that it has a blue face with an eye, but I can't make out anything else about it from the solution. I had to look it up online and it looks like a teddy bear with a snot nose? Still, it's cute!

The puzzle itself was quite doable and easy.