We’ve wrapped up “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Scourge of Divine Beast Vah Medoh” by USAopoly and… This one was a different experience for us.
Most of that has been because July was an extremely busy month for us, somewhat unexpectedly. I published the Next Up post for this one on June 22 but then we didn’t actually start it for quite awhile afterwards. And even once we did, Jenny had a bunch of late nights at work and spent time prepping artwork for submission to a local fair.
This left me kind of picking away at it, trying not to do the whole thing while Jenny was busy elsewhere. That hasn’t really been the case since Detroit Map back in 2021.
In addition to being wrong about this being “a fun family project” (the kid dodged this one entirely), I was wrong about how the puzzle would come together.
I’d predicted that Windblight Ganon and Link and Vah Medoh would probably be done on their own and then we’d fill in the gaps. Vah Medoh did come together early, and most of Link was shortly after that, but Windblight Ganon was the last bit completed. The entire right side of the puzzle came together before most of the left side did.
I often comment on how puzzles based on impressionist art can get difficult to match pieces to their places on the design because what looks like one solid color in a smaller image is actually two or more different colors when you see it up close. This was not impressionist artwork but that happened here, too. Specifically, spots on Windblight Ganon that looked red were actually a combination of purple and brown, which made it harder to see exactly what pieces went where based on design.
Thankfully this is a random cut puzzle, so I was able to use the shapes of the pieces to find their proper places. That’s one of the reasons we love random cut puzzles.
One thing I found odd with this puzzle was the fit of the pieces. They mostly snapped together nicely but, even when the puzzle was mostly done, I kept finding places where I had to kind of shimmy pieces into place or give them an extra little shove. The fit didn’t look loose but it acted loose, which was a little weird.
Also kind of humorous was the fact that the puzzle is advertised as coming with a poster of the design. The thing is, this is the poster:
The front of the box served as a template for most of the design; the left and right edges were cropped off. A picture on the back of the box shows the whole thing. So an insert poster wasn’t necessary by any means, I just found that kind of funny. Especially since insert posters are something we’ve focused on in our most recent offerings at So Puzzled Puzzle Company, having determined that we could do them better than we did in our initial series.
It was a fun design to put together though and I’d do another one of these again. Which is good, because we do have another one in the queue.
