Watch us realize you can mount this Zelda: Breath of the Wild miniboss

My time with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (read the review) is mostly about trying to do something and then freaking out when I realize it’s possible. Like … if an enemy has the body of a horse, I could probably ride it, right?

That idea that I could mount a lynel, a creature with the head of a lion, the torso of a man and legs of a horse one, in the overworld of Breath of the Wild, didn’t occur to me until I was in the middle of fighting one. And this was one of the tougher white-maned lynels out in the freezing northern wilderness of Hyrule, so I was focusing on staying alive and knocking his health down to zero. But something clicked the second or third time I nailed a headshot on the half-lion-half-horse creature. After he collapsed down onto all four knees, I thought, “It looks like I could climb on his back.”