142 pokémon picross - 9 picrite pay packet

Dear Readers,

Well, it's not much but it's somethin'. I finished today's grind in 5 and a half minutes and it's nice to be guaranteed this much at least. I made a little mistake here and there but I was able to pick it up without too much delay.

Again, I feel encouraged to unlock areas as quickly as possible so I can get higher and higher raises on my pay packet.

141 pokémon picross - s09-06 talonflame

Dear Readers,

With this one I set Zygarde complete and Umbreon in order to get the reveal and time missions. I'll have to come back later for the 2 fire Pokémon mission.

It was a bigger puzzle made easier with all the reveals I did. I had to do Umbreon's first as that had to be done at the start. After that it was time consuming but very manageable to do within the time needed.

140 pokémon picross - s09-07 manectric

Dear Readers,

Completing all the missions for this required Luxray, but I didn't have it yet. I used Snorlax for its rising reveal and Fletchling to grind for hyper scans. It wasn't too difficult and I managed to get the time mission goal too.

139 pokémon picross - m01 second row, eighth column

Dear Readers,

This tile only had a little bit of line in the top left corner and bottom right corner. It was divided by two columns of X-es in the centre. It was slow but satisfying puzzle to solve, with more clues coming in like dominoes as single squares got solved.

138 pokémon picross - jumping back on the grind after midnight

Dear Readers,

Well it's after midnight, so the daily grind lit up again. I did it now to get it out of the way so I wouldn't be rushing tomorrow. It's good to stay on top of these things. I finished it in 4 and a half minutes so I was quite leisurely about it.

137 pokémon picross - racing to get the grind done before midnight

Dear Readers,

I was racing to finish the daily grind before midnight. I didn't care about the grind itself, as long as I could do it before midnight. If I missed that, then I wouldn't get a chance to do it anymore. I'd have to do the next day's training and miss out on Picrites. I couldn't be bothered changing the clock.

136 pokémon picross - s09-05 meowstic (male)

Dear Readers,

This one seems tricky to get that 1 minute mission. I had to only set dark types and I can only use scatter reveal once. I revealed 30 squares with Umbreon and I still couldn't make it. Maybe there'll be a stronger dark type somewhere down the road. This won't be solved with extra slots this time.

After this, there was a rare Pokémon sighting in the area but I couldn't reach it due to having low energy. I'll be back to catch it in a few days or whenever it'll be spotted again.

135 pokémon picross - s09-04 leafeon

Dear Readers,

For this I had to set Glaceon and use auto fix 3 or fewer times. I had five minutes too.

Leafeon was easy enough to do thanks to Glaceon's blue force move. I had 2 uses of 120 seconds each and that's all I needed.

134 pokémon picross - s09-03 chespin

Dear Readers,

This was a nice easy puzzle to do. I had to set fire Pokémon.

But yeah, not difficult at all and Chespin has a cute round face. I was well able to complete all the missions as I had 5 minutes to do it.

133 pokémon picross - s09-02 fletchling

Dear Readers,

Fletchling has a nice circular shape with a beak and eye. It was fairly challenging too with slow but sure fills that came in like a nice domino effect. It was a pretty satisfying puzzle to do. 

It was time consuming though and I couldn't reach the 1 minute goal for the mission. I had to set only electric Pokémon, so I reckon I'll have to come back after unlocking several Pokémon slots.

132 pokémon picross - s09-01 swirlix

Dear Readers,

Back to catching! Swirlix is a big weird cloud thing with a face and it was hard to tell what it was even in the completed puzzle. I had to set a fairy type and use cross reveal for missions. I have to finish the puzzle within a minute and I don't think I'll get all the missions done until I unlock a third slot. The puzzle itself is speedy enough to do, but I don't really want to rush it.

131 pokémon picross - new area, new raise on the pay packet

Dear Readers,

Making the big bucks now. I went on the daily grind with my new 1 Picrite raise. I didn't meet the target time, but I feel good about earning that extra 1 Picrite every day on top of my regular pay packet.

I find that I normally finish these puzzles in about 4 minutes. 5 puzzles in 4 minutes. Trying to get it in 2 really does feel like a stretch.

Anyway, I feel encouraged to unlock more areas as much as possible.

130 pokémon picross - saved up enough on the grind to unlock area 9

Dear Readers,

I had to grind more today to have enough to unlock the next area. I didn't have to meet the target time so I went leisurely enough.

When I unlocked the next area, the professor gave me a 1 Picrite raise on my pay packet! Hooray!

283 zelda breath of the wild - mingling in goron city

Dear Readers,

On the way to Goron City, I heard a shriek from the divine beast in the area. It's a big lizard-shaped mechanical thing that crawls along the sides of Death Mountain.

The Gorons have big smiles and big personalities. I small talked with several of them and checked out their shops. I bought some Goron Spice because I remembered an old man back at Rito Stable wanted some. I'll give it to him later. I looked at the rest of the fireproof armour set. I've got some saving up to do. I stayed at the inn and got a Goron massage.

I like the lore about them thinking precious gemstones are weird food and they only mine them for tourists and other races that pay crazy amounts of money for them. That's pretty amusing.

I met the village elder/boss who was having back problems. Just like with the Rito and Zoras, there was this divine beast, the champion from 100 years ago perished, and now there was a local heroic guy who was gonna help me. I have to go look for him somewhere though.

282 zelda breath of the wild - fireproofing on the path to goron city

Dear Readers,

I took to the road with Spotty and rode all the way to Eldin. When I got to the Foothill Stable, I cooked up some fireproof elixirs and set my radar to fireproof lizards just in case. This area is crawling with them.

I also came across a guardian stalker that turned just as I was passing so it wasn't at all alerted to my presence. I thought about attacking but decided to just move on.

I continued on the path until we got to a checkpoint. Similar to the Zora path, I wasn't able to bring Spotty any further. I continued on foot and climbed over the rocks to continue on the path.

Things got hot. I had to change equipment that was gonna catch fire and start drinking fireproof elixirs.

I came across new enemies like the igneo talus that looked really cool. I also passed by some Lizalfos with my mask, which came in very handy, and dashed past some rock octoroks. I passed by the Sheikah Tower as well. I took a more difficult way the last time I was here. It was much easier now with my current preparations.

I passed more checkpoints and eventually met some Gorons and a Hylian that was looking for 10 fireproof lizards as a souvenir. Thankfully I had enough for him and he gave me some fireproof gear! I don't have to use elixirs anymore and I can finally relax in this volcanic area!

When I say relax, I mean I won't catch fire. There were plenty of other hazards along the way, including eruptions that made it rain balls of fire on top of me.

I kept pressing on until I finally made it to Goron City! Hooray! 

281 zelda breath of the wild - back home, picking apples, bought lizalfos mask

Dear Readers,

On the ride home I picked tons of apples. I was back to the peaceful life and running my little simmered fruit business. I returned to Hateno Village and spent all day and night picking and cooking apples.

While I was picking during the night I noticed the monster shop was out by the field so I went to visit. Kilton had a new mask! A Lizalfos mask! I traded him a bunch of Lizalfos parts so I could gain enough of his mon currency to buy it. I had way more than enough so it was no problem.

I'm delighted with my Lizalfos Mask! Putting it on makes me do this Lizalfos stance and mannerisms like tilting and twitching my head. I'm looking forward to using it, especially in Lizalfos heavy areas like the path to Zora's Domain!

After all this business, I went back to my house and hung Revali's bow on one of the weapon mounts.

129 pokémon picross - quiet quitting on the daily grind

Dear Readers,

I'm continuing the daily grind for my Picrites and continuing to finish the tasks without worrying about the target time. I got today's pay in 4 minutes. Had a nice relaxing time.

280 zelda breath of the wild - beating up windblight ganon

Dear Readers,

At the end of Vah Medoh was Windblight Ganon. It was a floating torso and it had some kind of arm cannon thing. Revali made a comment about how he was winging it when he died while fighting it, which was pretty funny. I guess he's developed a sense of humour over the past 100 years while he was dead up here.

Windblight Ganon moved around a bit, shot lasers and tornadoes for a bit, nothing too difficult. I was well able for it with the Master Sword. Halfway through the battle it brought out some drone laser thingies and started making laser webbing, doing some weird stuff like that.

At one point I got knocked off the side but I got back into it quickly. A few more arrows and whacks with the Master Sword and I defeated it handily.

In the scenes that followed, Revali was full of praise for me, even though it was in his usual haughty way. He gave me his ability to cause an updraft and gain some instant height, which should come in handy.

Everyone in Rito Village was very thankful and some had sidequests to do. I'll take part in them later.

The village elder had a chat with me too. I got a special bow that Revali used long ago. I'm gonna display it in my house later on.

On the way home I stopped by apple trees to pick them.

279 zelda breath of the wild - raiding and controlling vah medoh

Dear Readers,

When I landed on Vah Medoh, I heard a familiar voice. It was Revali's spirit. He was glad I was there and gently chastised me for leaving him wait for 100 years. Like with Mipha and Vah Ruta, he told me about getting a map and about activating the 5 terminals. It's very much a formula for another mini dungeon, except this time it's a giant mechanical bird whose wings I can control by either holding them level or tilting them. I set the radar to treasure chests and went exploring.

The treasure chests were simple enough to find. I had to shoot eyeballs again and many of them were on places just out of reach. I was able to barely climb onto their platforms, though it often felt like I shouldn't have been able to. There was even one on the beak of the bird's head. I grabbed them all as quick as I can.

As for the terminals, they were on the wings and in the various chambers inside its body. Navigating floors wasn't too difficult as there were handy propellers to help me gain height. One of the wings had a sliding cable car thingy I was able to manipulate with the tilting. The other wing didn't have one so I just tilted that point down and glided to it. One puzzle had a big metal ball and various stages that were all satisfying to do. Another puzzle had a hammer that needed momentum to hit a switch with enough force. That was an interesting one to think out and plan as well. I had to use Magnesis to hold a fan in place. It was mostly Magnesis I had to use for any of the slate related puzzles. Eventually I got all the terminals activated. Next up is the boss of the place!

278 zelda breath of the wild - breaking into vah medoh with teba

Dear Readers,

Teba flew us high above the clouds and above Vah Medoh. What a view it was up here.

By the way, before we came up, he asked me why I wanted to help him and I said I wanted to save Zelda. I wonder how different it would be if I chose another response?

Anyway, Teba told me about the cannons I had to shoot with my bomb arrows. There were four of them and they were very easy to take out, thankfully. To gain back some height I had to use my paraglider. It was more or less what it was like back at the flight range.

In no time at all I shot all the cannons out and the barrier surrounding Vah Medoh had disappeared. Teba congratulated me before telling me to go on without him. He got some other kind of injury and wanted to head back. I carried on ahead and landed on Vah Medoh.

277 zelda breath of the wild - rito gear upgraded, onward to vah medoh

Dear Readers,

I rode to the great fairy in Akkala as that was the closest and finally upgraded my Rito gear. After that, I rode all the way back to Rito Village, stopping to pick apples along the way.

At one point I also made a diversion to the Korok Forest because in the past I got an icy weapon from a wizzrobe and someone there wanted to see it. I opted to warp in and out of there. I didn't want to do the Lost Woods navigation puzzle again.

Back at Rito Village I got some rest and made my way to the flight range. I chatted with Teba, told him I was ready, got on his back, and away we flew to Vah Medoh in the sky. It'll be nice to finally go on board that thing. For ages it's been a constant shadow looming over me while I was saving up for the Rito gear.

276 zelda breath of the wild - searching for 24 fire keese wings

Dear Readers,

I just needed to hunt Fire Keese for their wings now. I slept at Foothill Stable and woke up at night to begin my search, presuming they came out at night. 

I was worried I was going into extreme heat, but it turned out okay. The path to Eldin had lots and lots of Fire Keese around. I just had to set the radar to them.

Along the way I picked up any fireproof lizards I could find, just in case I needed them.

I met some Stalmoblins of course but they don't scare me anymore. They drop lots of useful monster parts of course.

I even met a Guardian Stalker on the path! I wasn't expecting to see it. I went straight for it and chopped it to bits.

I had plenty getting in my way while I was hunting Fire Keese. Fire Chuchus were often with them and I had to deal with them also.

Thankfully, many of the Fire Keese I met dropped two wings, so I reached the 24 I needed sooner than I thought I would.

Some lovely hot springs around here too. I was able to replenish health easily.

275 zelda breath of the wild - searching for 15 sunshrooms

Dear Readers,

For the next upgrade I needed 15 Sunshrooms and 24 fire Keese wings. I didn't have enough so I checked the Compendium, which told me they were in Eldin. I had a bit of a journey to go on.

I decided to ride through the Hebra region to get there, now that I was able to go into cold places easily. I swapped Spotty for Snowbus, just for fun, and rode all the way through to the other side.

The next thing I did was ride through the area north of Hyrule Castle. It was like a weird mountainous region but I was just about able to get through. There was no road. I kept going until I reached Woodland Stable. I swapped Snowbus for Spotty again, just for fun, and rode to the path northeast of the stable that came to an end. From here I continued on foot across the mountainous Eldin Canyon with my Sunshroom radar on.

I came across many Bokoblin camps and got good use out of my mask as many of the mushrooms were growing near the camps. Eventually I got my 15! My search ended at Foothill Stable, which had some sunshrooms growing around. Maybe I should've begun my search here.

Along the way I found some Koroks. I'm not going to be specific about them anymore.

274 zelda breath of the wild - red chuchu jelly hack and picking warm safflinas

Dear Readers,

I forget where I learned it, but you can change the element of a chuchu jelly by exposing it to the element. I dropped some regular jellies on the ground, set fire to them and they turned into red jellies! Hooray! I changed a bunch of them so that was easy!

What wasn't so easy was getting the warm safflinas. I explored Hyrule Ridge but found very few of them with the radar. I pretty much had to head to the Gerudo Desert where they were far between, but they were plentiful. While I was there I came across some cool ruins I'll explore later.

After obtaining enough I brought them all back to the great fairy in Tabantha and she enhanced my Rito gear! Yay!

However, that wasn't all. She was able to enhance my gear again! This time I had to give her fire Keese wings and sunshrooms. Looks like I'll have to go back scavenging!

273 zelda breath of the wild - upgrading my rito equipment once

Dear Readers,

I went to see the Great Fairy here in Tabantha. I usually warp to the tower, but I wanted to ride there. I had to climb some rocks but it wasn't too bad.

I wanted to upgrade my new Rito equipment. I was able to upgrade them all once each, but I needed more materials. I needed 5 red chuchu jellies and 3 warm safflinas for each one, so that was gonna be 15 jellies and 9 warm safflinas altogether. I set out to find them.

272 zelda breath of the wild - buying all of the rito warm gear!

Dear Readers,

After all my collecting and fighting, cooking and selling, I finally saved up enough rupees to buy all of the Rito equipment! They were very pleased with me when I bought it all!

The headdress is pretty nifty, making me look like some kind of distinguished bird of prey.

So now I'll be able to explore the Hebra region in deep detail without fear of freezing. It seems like there's a lot there. I'll be able to go up to Vah Medoh as well. I'm guessing I'll be able to explore the desert at night too? I hope so!

271 zelda breath of the wild - picking a fight with the lizalfos camp near rito stable

Dear Readers,

I wanted some monster parts for potions to sell, so I decided to invade the Lizalfos camp up the hill from Rito Stable.

There were quite a few of them there and one of them was a Bokoblin that was on top alerting the others.

A bit too many of them ganged up on me at once. Thankfully, some of them were archers and stayed put. I lost a lot of health and had to eat quite a bit of food.

My fight with these guys was much clumsier than usual. Sometimes I crouched by accident and it was a bit messy. I did manage to beat them all up though, one by one. I threw their spears at the archers and completed my invasion of the camp by sneakstriking the Bokoblin on top. There was a sword in the chest, along with lots of other weapons and arrows dropped by the others. I grabbed what I could.

I cut some of the grass around here too, all while Vah Medoh flew above my head. I wonder if it's following me around the area.

128 pokémon picross - saving up to get to area 9

Dear Readers,

I did the daily grind in over 4 minutes. I realised I wasn't getting the target after a couple of puzzles.

A rare Pokémon was spotted in area 9, so I'm gonna aim for that. I have 106 Picrites and I need to have 120, so it'll take a few days to get there. By that time, the Pokémon will have run away and be spotted again. I'll be ready.

127 pokémon picross - getting faster at the level 10 training (relaxed)

Dear Readers,

I took the easy-going approach again and this time I got the training finished in 3 minutes or so, so it's better than yesterday.

126 pokémon picross - m02 sixth row, second column

Dear Readers,

This puzzle was quite complex and time consuming. Not too difficult though because I never got stuck. I ended up with what looked like a network of rivers or streams. It wasn't actual water of course but it just looks that way because this mural is blue!