Chatterbox Monday

Poor old Cobblers. He had a good innings.

Glad you caught a bit of that stream, it was fun.

BOTW also has horses, but isn't as equine-heavy as RDR2. Although you can bring your horse back from the dead after confessing your carelessness in front of the Horse God! Just say it was an accident (but he will listen to your horse's side of the story as well and tell you off). We had particular fun later in the stream when they caught, tamed and registered five horses (the maximum amount one can board at the stables) so that they could give them the names donors had suggested.

My horse was supposed to be "Wally" as a little joke (Where's Wally?) alluding to Andrew's complaints about horses having only a limited distance from which they can be called and then running towards the player in a realistic fashion instead of just appearing next to them as if they'd been stalking them all the time from the tree lines. It's the same mechanic that has now been implemented in RDR 2, which is quite interesting. I had completely forgotten that for some unfathomable reason Wally had been renamed Waldo in the US. So I gave permission on stream to change the name to Waldo for a domestic audience.

I had expected that they would just catch a random horse, but they'd put great thought into what colour of horse to acquire. In the game there is only one white horse that's associated with a side quest, but it requires more stamina to tame it. So they prepared by cooking up stamina-enhancing food, found and tamed the white horse and took it to a stable that offers horse customisation (which also takes effort because you've got to demonstrate a strong bond with the horse) to have its mane dyed red. Voilà! Waldo/Wally.

And it turned out that Andrew's complaints about horses was quite unjustified. The loyal steed he called even ran after him up a mountain in true Skyrim fashion.