Since my journey through The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom led me to meet Obab in the Kolog Forest, the compass pointed in an unmistakable direction. Goron City was just around the corner.so I decided to embark on the adventure of returning to my least favorite tribe of the entire Nintendo title.
It’s hot
Yes, the sun scorches at this time throughout Spain. We are in the middle of summer and what the body asks for is to cool off, but as I have already done throughout my more than 50 hours of departure, it is to give up the most obvious. The natural thing is to go to the Zora tribe to take a dip, but I have decided to go to Goron City, a place where you will burn your entire body if you stick your big toe out in the sun.
I don’t have a good memory of this area from when I played Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but not bad either. It happened without pain or glory, since my best feelings are linked to the Gerudo and the Orni, but I cannot avoid my destiny. I need to find the Temple of FireBut the Gorons aren’t exactly in the business of bailing me out.
As it happened in the episode of The Simpsons, I spell as fast as I can, the Rocomuslos have ended up turning all the inhabitants of the town into zombies. Beyond eating some ribs that shatter your teeth and having the pupils of any after-party customer, the worst thing is that they are rude. Swindlers without equal, they have stopped working for Yunobo SG, the society that has created the hero of the tribe.
My memories of Yunobo are scant, if not zero, so I’m not surprised that he appears with a WWE wrestler mask to the purest Rey Mysterio. He proclaims that what he orders must be done and that he will bring more Rocomoslos after speaking with a young woman with blond hair; no suspicion that it is Princess Zelda. Before I go on the chase, I need to get a fireproof outfit.
Walking inside the caves is worse than going barefoot on a beach in Cádiz at three in the afternoon, so I decide to spare no expense. I go from having just over 3,100 rupees to just 25 after buying the complete set, but at least I save having to make elixirs all day long to withstand the hellish heat.
The Temple of the Achicharre
After showing Yunobo who’s boss here, it’s time to go after the evil Zelda who gave the company boss the cursed mask. The truth is that the paths that lead to the temples of Hyrule are really original and this time it’s time to resort to a epic rail climb to the top of Death Mountain. That’s where Ilvagia appears, the big boss that I defeated with a stroke of the pen, but I loved having to use a multi-turbine glide while dodging it in the air. Brilliant.
Once the abominable trio of heads succumbs, it is time to jump into the void of the crater to discover that the Temple of Fire is underground. I did not expect this location and considering that I am going to have to be among volcanic magma for a couple of hours, I am grateful to be covered with my clothing. Let there be light!, I think when I illuminate with the roots that I am running into.
Once I am at the gates of the stone structure, I begin to realize the little hell that awaits me. Having Tureli and Yunobo dancing around me may be tolerable, but One of the biggest complaints about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is becoming clear to me. The problem of resorting to the powers of the Wise is very poorly tackled, since it is not conceivable that you have to physically approach each one to resort to their help.
If they cross each other, you may inadvertently activate another’s power, and they’re not always right around you. A selection wheel, a combination of buttons, whatever as long as you don’t have to chase them every two by three; And that for now I only have two. In the absence of knowing the other two temples, I think I can say that the Fire Temple is the equivalent of the Water Temple in Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Going up and down the floors of the buildings changing the direction of the rails can be tiring, so on occasion I ended up resorting to directly climbing the facades.
What I resorted to was some epic smashes with Rocky Gohma, the ultimate guardian of the Fire Temple and who fell a somanta of slaps for the memory. He may have caused the Game Over screen to appear more times than I care to admit, but I can always blame the corruption that left me with few hearts.
What answers did I get after my visit to Goron City? Either I have not been able to interpret any line of dialogue or I am the same as at the beginning. I already knew that there is a ghostly Zelda, Yunobo’s ancestor has told us the same thing that I heard in the Temple of the Wind and the only thing that is clear is that I don’t really want to go back to Goron City. I have put the green tick on the game’s task list, but I don’t think this is one of my most remembered experiences.
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