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I set to unlock more areas of the map, namely Eldin and Akkala, the northeast parts of the map.

Eldin is simple enough. Climb lots of rocks, save a goron from a flame chuchu, climb more rocks, and the tower. Said tower is just a few meters away from the zone where your entire body ignites due to Death Mountain's lava, but it's fine, I don't have to go there now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/6/AAO9CbAADpc4.jpg

Now Akkala is trickier. The tower is on top of a ruined castle, surrounded by some black ganon goo who kills you, and guardians. Including what I call helicopter guardians. I'm not making that up. They fly, shine flashlights on you and start shooting if they see you.

I manage to avoid the path with the most guardians, the black goo, the bokoblins I have no idea what are doing there and summit the tower, though. Phew.

Now I thought I wasn't gonna come here again so soon but I soon find 4 shrines. Because this is one large, plain grassy area so shrines are easy to see, at least the freebie ones meant to be shortcuts. 2 to stables, one to a place called Tarrey Town I'm supposed to help build (the next money sink), and one at a skull island on a lake. I haven't done that one yet, but the first 3 put me at 37 shrines.

This place is pretty, though.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/7/AAO9CbAADpc5.jpg

Also since I just downloaded all screenshots from my Switch here's one I took earlier when looking for Garbage Shrine.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/8/AAO9CbAADpc6.jpg

I also find my 3rd memory, where zelda bathes at a holy pool in a (failed) attempt to unlock her ganon sealing powers. Link, his back turned to her, just listens, not being able to say anything to help (also because he's Link so he doesn't say things)

also get a hint her father, the king whose ghost helped me early, was kind of a dick

finally I find another ancient tech lab, where I meet Doc Brown

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/9/AAO9CbAADpc7.jpg

Doc Brown sends me on another quest to recover a blue flame, this time by fighting about 10 blue moblins on the way and almost dying like 6 times. Once that is done, I unlock a robot who sells ancient items, including a bunch of uber strong weapons and some armor that gives me resistance to guardian lasers.

Unfortunately all of those require ancient materials to produce and I sold about half of what I have to get money to buy weaker armor, and a sign with my name in front of my house. Well at least I now have a goal to work towards in my quest to get rid of those pesky guardians.

I also read Doc Brown's diary, a long tale of what he did during the last 100 years while he waited for me to wake up (sheikahs live long too it seems). It's mostly him getting bullied by the other scientist from Hateno, getting married, having a kid, spending decades building the robot that makes ancient armor, more decades giving it an AI that makes it behave like his first girlfriend, then shutting that down after it pissed off his actual wife. Good stuff.

Next I'm checking skull island