Oh yeah SPOILER ALERT!

As I was bouncing and gliding from one flying ship to the other, ascending so that I was above the storm clouds. It occurred to me this part is a bloody platformer! Why hadn’t that fact clicked earlier?

Since accepting the mission to catch up with Tulin I have been playing a massive platform game. It only really becomes that once you catch up with Tulin and then start ascending towards the mountain top and then onto the storm cloud. Gliding from one chunk of sky island to the other.

Unlike a regular platformer falling off the platform doesn’t mean you are dead. Well as long as you remember to use your paraglider just before you hit the ground you aren’t (I love that you can free fall and at the last moment pop your paraglider and land safely without a scratch. The sound effect used as you pull off this maneuver is so Batman, it instantly made me think of Batman). It’s just a major bloody inconvenience. Or not so major if you activated the shrines on your way up that you passed.

I know I should have taken the time out and completed the shrines. But I wanted to move on. I can always come back to the shrines to do them. Which I plan to do. Sooner than later. I want those extra heart containers.

I jump off the flying ship dropping into the eye of the storm clouds descending like Mary Poppins with my paraglider towards the rather large boat in the middle of the storm.

Does Mary Poppins have a stamina timer when she uses her umbrella to fly? I think not. She’s Mary bloomin Poppins!

However I do as Link. So I have to use it sparingly to get me safely onto the decking of this large flying ship.

Welcome to the temple…

We’ve got fun and games. (A very bad G ‘N R misquote)

Yes this flying hulk of a ship is my first temple in the game.

I think temples are the new dungeons. Or more specifically the return of dungeons to the Zelda series with a twist. The temples seem more task orientated than puzzle. Although some of the tasks seem a bit puzzle like, or the obstacles in the way do. Often requiring the use of one of Links cyborg powers! The tasks can be attempted in any order. Or it appears that way in my first temple. I like this non-linear approach.

I swear my first instinct is not to jump off of a perfectly good, safe, solid place like this wind temple.

But that’s what I’m having to do.

As I write this I’ve not finished the first temple. Board gaming and a car repair has taken priority the last couple of days on my free time. But as soon as I’ve finished this post I’m back in Hyrule and the Wind Temple.