one of the best details that you get if you've seen the story or played this game before is right when you first enter the sealed temple, you can go to the door and look through the crack in it to see zelda encased in the crystal. it's so cool to see that! and just keep groose's sapling idea in the back of your mind. it's along the main story path, so you won't miss it even if you're not doing any sidequests. anyway it's my personal headcanon that thunderheads like that pop up a lot in skyloft, so the appearance of that one wasn't too unusual, but it's the nature of it that is. and I genuinely cannot wait to see your reaction when the song of the hero is put together. it is a fitting choice to be the song of the hero, let's just say. there aren't any dungeons in the song of the hero section of the game, more... overworld challenges, I'll call them, which is obvious padding, although I kinda think that they're fun sections despite that, and then the final dungeon is really cool too. but now you've beaten bilocyte, go back to the island you struggle to get the goddess cube on that you said looks a bit like a castle, and then go speak to beedle. I think that's how you trigger that quest. so you're nearly there at getting that heart piece!!

@squidplushy

16 күн бұрын

Speaking honestly, even though the between-dungeon sequences have that fillery feel, only two off the top of my head stand out as gratuitous (getting the water from the first dungeon + the dead end looking for the sea chart); the others have been quite fun, I'm looking forward to the next bits knowing what to expect now :D I'm really excited to get to the Beedle quest too, we will start that up immediately next time!

@Redboots

16 күн бұрын

@@squidplushy the upcoming filler bits are a lot more involved and I can see you getting frustrated on them, especially the faron one (because you can do them in any order, which resulted in an infamous glitch that ruined save files in the wii version), but they can be quite fun nonetheless! especially since it's either a new area altogether or makes an area you've previously been to change drastically if only temporarily

@squidplushy

16 күн бұрын

Oh no, I'm glad that didn't happen to me way back in the day xD I can't imagine how I'd go about losing an entire save like that, my heart goes out to those who had that happen to them! I do appreciate the heads up for what's ahead too, I'm thinking having that foresight will offer me a more realistic pretense going in, so maybe the filler feel won't be toooooo bad xD Added note, I am weirdly rigid with my save files and prefer to keep only one per playthrough, soooo losing saves is a subtle but constant fear /cry

@Redboots

15 күн бұрын

@@squidplushy oh yeah losing saves is a terrifying prospect, and also really frustrating when it does happen. I lost part of my oot save and not knowing exactly what I lost is super annoying. do I have to do dampe's gravedigging minigame again? I don't know!

@squidplushy

15 күн бұрын

Omg Dampe's minigames, those have to be among the worst points around which to lose progress ;w; OoT and MM have a ton of long quest chains too, I could see that being incredibly disheartening (it reminds me of losing the footage for the Hyrule Castle/Lynel gauntlet in TotK xD)