I came across the final boss Ganondorf completely by accident.

I just set a goal for myself: Reach every lightroot to completely unlock the map of Depths.

After transferred to the central lightroot, I founded the place is surrounded by mountains and no way to take off my little plane. The only way is a tunnel that goes down to the deeper underground.

Half way through, I already felt something unusual. The background music became spooky. More and more monsters appeared. I had missed my goal. I decided to go deeper.

If it really is the Demon King, let's just finish it and end the game.

Not as joyful as I thought at the beginning

Setting a goal in a game is not something I usually do. But in Tears of the Kingdom, I need the mechanism to prevent myself from getting lost and bored.

Where did the feeling come from? Well, I guess that is because I was laid off not long ago.

Every time I turn on the game, I feel a little complicated. On the one hand, I haven't figure out my next job. That weight is always on my shoulders.

Another reason is that I had high expectations for this game. I expected it to bring me great joy, like The Breath of The Wild did.

But the truth is, even though there're many new categories of items, the surprised feeling I had with The Breath of The wild never came back.

First of all, I didn't use Zonite devices much. Before you got a bigger battery and the AutoBuild ability, build a device can be painful. Therefore, I just used devices that don't require composing.

My most frequently used device is springs. I use them to bounce myself to a high place for saving climbing time. Fuse a spring to a shield also has a bouncing effect to purse the attack from monsters. The skill saved me many hearts.

I also accidentally entered Depths when I had no idea where it was. I spent at least 2 hours there trying to build a plane to fly me back to the surface. But in no doubt, I failed.

When I was on the surface, Visit shrines also isn't funny. You have to solve the puzzle to collect the sprint orbs.

The Skyview towers? I already known what it is!

And finding the sages is the most boring part. Although the boss of every temple is different, but the plot, the damn plot is just awful.

After I beat the first boss of the four temples, I already known what next plot will be. But I still had to experience the similar story of every ancient sage again and again!

Things start becoming joyful again

After finish all quests of sages, I started to feel bored again and found myself picking mushrooms without any anticipation. My lovely horse inherited from The Breath of the Wild also rushed down a cliff and died. Before that, I didn't even know a horse can die!

Anyway, why do I still play a game when I have been bored? But I can't just give up the game and put my money in vain. This is where I started setting goal for myself.

My first goal is getting 12 hearts. This goal was hasty and just from a whim. But turned out it made the game more joyful.

In order to find the shrines, I needed to go to Skyview towers to bounce to the sky. Because from the sky, I could easily find shrines. But later I found that I actually can transferred to the shrines that locate on the sky islands!

The discover completely changed the way I explored Hyrule. Before that, every time I tried to get to a sky island, I bounced to the sky and glided to one. Oh, I was so stupid!

And then, I found that the dragons can be ride! You can't control the dragon, but you can land and travel on its back. There're even those little spikes that can be fused with weapons. After riding the light dragon from Surface to Depths and back to Surface again, I felt Depths was not that scary! It means I also wanted to explore Depths as well.

Then, following the main quest, I went to the floating Hyrule Castle. There were so many monsters. More importantly, there were so many powerful weapon. I never seen a bow with a lethality of 50.

Anyway, I started loving the game again!

After exploring Depths became easy

Then I spent more time on the underground world.

At first, I followed the quest of the Yiga Clan and discoverd getting Zonaites is easy and funny.

To improve my battery capacity, I conquered the monster traits without mercy!

And more surprisingly, the Autobuild ability makes composing my little plane so easy!

The plane receipt is on the Autobuild menu automatically. All I need to do is just collecting the needed units.

Considering there are always some units near lightloots, traveling by planes is almost free.

Let's end the game

As I mentioned on the beginning of this post, I accidentally went to where Ganondorf is.

The reason I decided to just end the game is, at the moment all the discoveries mentioned above happened, I had spent almost 100 hours on the game. That's lots of time!

Besides, the spooky music makes the exploring solemn and exciting.

I still failed many times before I got used to the battle with Ganondorf.

Ganondorf can learn and use the furry rush as Link did. Ganondorf dodge the attack during a furry rush and then immediately perform his own furry rush. Therefore, you have to perform a second furry rush! This made the battle even more interesting.

At the end, the battle became ugly. Due to the nervous, I didn't manage to come out a furry rush again.

What I did was gambling the hearts the exiles I had could survive Link the attacks from Ganondorf. Without dodging, I rushed to Ganondorf and attacked as fast as I could. And I won!

The End

Now I can put down my Switch and shift my focus to the other things. There are still many things in Hyrule are unknown to me. But I won't pick the game at least before I settle my next job.

I definitely would open it again in the future.

The beautiful sunset with a dragon flying on the sky The moment I got the master sword Destroying the secret stone of Ganondorf When Zelda woke up