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brightknightie) wrote2025-06-18 08:21 am
brightknightie) wrote2025-06-18 08:21 am
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EoW: I've cleared Gerudo Desert of rifts and giant sandworms
Tonight will be one week from when I got my Switch 2. I'm enjoying Echoes of Wisdom very much -- with all its exploration and puzzles, and side-character dialogue changing every time you accomplish something that affects them, so you need toI choose to run back and re-interview all of them to catch the tidbits. The folks who felt grumpy because it stars Zelda instead of Link because she's a conjurer instead of a fighter, well, they can go enjoy some combat-heavy game while I enjoy this one. I'm perfectly happy dodging and hiding and casting while my echoes fight for me; this is what mage and cleric characters naturally do, right? And it's why they team up with fighter characters when they can. (Folks who were grumpy because you play as a girl character were just sad and silly and making themselves miss out, of course.)
Last night, I pretty much finished the Gerudo Desert portion of the game*, including killing the two giant sandworms causing the sandstorms. All that remains in the desert, that I know of, is the mango mini-game, which I keep losing at the second level, and the not-yet-unlocked quest for the soldiers who are too busy practicing spear-work to talk to me (there has to be a quest there, I'm assuming). Oh, and to come back and (minor spoiler) talk to all the cats when I later unlock that ability.
That I've come this far in a week reminds me that I need to pace/ration myself. As nice as it is right now to go hide out in Hyrule, I must not let this take over all my hobby time! With the in-game map and quest log functions, you don't need paper game journals in the old way, but I'll nevertheless be starting one for time played (to keep it reasonable) and a minimum number of potential lore/fanfic observations/ideas generated per session before I will let myself play again.
Do you put time limits, or level limits, on your play-time...? What have you found works well?
* I chose to do Gerudo Desert first when the game branched into two paths. Others may take the other branch first.
Last night, I pretty much finished the Gerudo Desert portion of the game*, including killing the two giant sandworms causing the sandstorms. All that remains in the desert, that I know of, is the mango mini-game, which I keep losing at the second level, and the not-yet-unlocked quest for the soldiers who are too busy practicing spear-work to talk to me (there has to be a quest there, I'm assuming). Oh, and to come back and (minor spoiler) talk to all the cats when I later unlock that ability.
That I've come this far in a week reminds me that I need to pace/ration myself. As nice as it is right now to go hide out in Hyrule, I must not let this take over all my hobby time! With the in-game map and quest log functions, you don't need paper game journals in the old way, but I'll nevertheless be starting one for time played (to keep it reasonable) and a minimum number of potential lore/fanfic observations/ideas generated per session before I will let myself play again.
Do you put time limits, or level limits, on your play-time...? What have you found works well?
* I chose to do Gerudo Desert first when the game branched into two paths. Others may take the other branch first.