When I was playing through the game, I wanted to do all the shrines before going to Hyrule Castle because I thought that, like in BoTW, that would be the end of the game. Unfortunately, that included this shrine; I had to do the Thunderhead Isles shrine before it clears up, meaning extremely limited visibility. I wandered around a lot in that area, and it took forever for me to actually get it. At some point afterwards, I was told that Hyrule Castle was not the end of the game and dealing with the 5th sage means clearing the Thunderhead Isles up. I was not very happy about that, but eh.
I have to say getting the fifth sage is one of my favorite things about Tears of the Kingdom. The entire aspect about getting it is more involved and it feels like the sky islands to the depths in itself is the entirety of the dungeon. And the boss fight requires you to 100% rely on the sage, where as the other boss fights you didn't really need the other sages for their boss fights.
To be honest, I don't blame them. I feel like Riju's and Sidon's powers are easy to overlook, since they're almost entirely combat focused, and you have to find the right spirit to activate them
1:07 Meanwhile, neither of them notice that the Blood Moon cutscene was different; it's not a big difference, but it's still neat to notice the first time. (For stream reference, they still haven't noticed that it's changed) 2:42 Pointing it out since the grandparents likely haven't fully realized; these sky islands were always here, but they were covered on the map by a perpetual thundercloud. Like, the cloud itself was on the map obscuring visibility. (Stephen may have glanced at the cloud on the map before but not thought much of it) 7:53 ~ 11:16 (Stormy Weather Attack means your attack power goes up when in stormy weather; it is not lightning immunity) 10:55 Pot Shields? Does Dan mean Pot Lids? (In their defense though, pot lids can be used all the same to parry Guardian Lasers in BotW--Pot Lid 4 lyfe) 18:28 (Zonai tech looks like it could be made of some sort of Jade--that's not lore, that's just personal interpretation) 23:01 Stephen forgets that he's almost completely forsaken photography in this game
FYI, you don't actually have to do the Charged Armor set puzzle before going to the Thunderhead Islands. Heck you don't even have to go to the Thunderhead Islands to actually start Mineru's quest. Just head to the lowest of the sky islands and work your way to the center and you can get it going. I should know; Mineru was actually the first Sage I "recruited".
I went to the Thunderhead Isles looooong before the game actually wanted me to, purely because I was curious what was in the big cloud on the map. I flew in, happened to land on the head island, and then it all went from there.
