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Gnah! How many different end of game bosses does one game need?!

Dark Hyrule Castle is annoying. Not because it’s hard, nor because it is tedious. It is annoying because it is full of those stupid knight things. You even get attacked by three at once in one bit. Grr. Anyway, I got to the end of game boss with two hearts remaining, and promptly died. Rubbish.

More Zelda’ing today. Lots more, in fact. After some more exploring for Kinstones, I went to the graveyard (via a go-in-the-right-direction identical-screens maze – every Zelda game must have one!) and spoke to some dead king. Then worked my way up into the clouds, did some puzzling up there, and then went up further. And further still, to the Palace of Winds, which was a pretty big dungeon in the sky and had one of the most annoying baddies EVER …

Yes, still playing. More Kinstone Fusions, more exploring bits of the town, finding more Rupees than you can shake a boomerang at, and opening a portal to some place not (yet) on the map where I sucked a demon off an old man. Oh yes.

Worked my way through, and completed the Temple of Droplets. Although there were several clever “let light through” and Sokoban type puzzle bits, much of the dungeon was, well, “Oh look! A thing! I bet [insert obvious thing] happens if I [insert other obvious thing]”. It was also obvious that I was going to be getting the Flame Torch in here too. Also, this dungeon almost had a SuckySuck(TM) bit going on, with no less than three previous mini-bosses to …

I worked my way through the Fortress of Winds, finding the Mole Claws on the way, and killed the boss at the end. He was rather like one of the bosses from Wind Waker, with his big floaty grabby hands, only had added Minishness required for defeating him. Sadly, there was no Element to be had at the end of the dungeon, as it had been taken away for “safe keeping”. Bah. Back to the town, and stacks more Kinstones …

Look. I was going to do something else. But I saw my GBA lying there and thought, what the heck. So I found what I was supposed to be doing, got a mushroom to get some shoes that let me run, and made it into the Castor Wilds. Found a stack load of Kinstones here, three of which were required to progress further. I have a bow now too. And a boomerang! Power up! Now I’ve just entered the dungeon …

Yes, again. It’s just like all the other Zelda games – “I’ll just get to the next bit…” and stuff. But, again like all the previous Zelda bits, I’m stuck. I can’t get to either of the remaining Elements, as a swamp is blocking me in one direction, and the lack of a certain Kinstone in the other. Wandered all over the place, including lots of bits in the town I can now reach as MiniLink(TM), and collected a load …

Made my way up the mountain again, realising I’d missed some obvious blow-open-walls bits (and hence why I was stuck). At the top, I found a Minish Mine, where a blacksmith took the broken Picori Blade and send me off to get the Fire Element from another nearby mine. Naturally, this was another dungeon. The mid-boss was a load of grey spiky wobbly things, and the weapon in this dungeon was the Cane of Pacci. How unfortunate. It flips things …

Went off to my first “dungeon”, to get the Earth Element. For some reason, it looks like three purple drops of water, so that doesn’t make sense. Anyway, the dungeon was the usual Zelda dungeoning affair, with Small Keys and chests and switches and a map and a compass and stuff. Killed the “mid-boss” and got a Gust Jar – a new weapon for Zelda games. It sucks stuff up. Nice. Finished off the main boss too, and went back …

Next in line to play is this. I bought it just after Christmas, and only opened it today. Graphics are nice, better than Link to the Past, even. So I go to the Picori Festival, and to Hyrule Castle. And shock! Something bad happens to Zelda and Link is sent off to help her. I wasn’t expecting that! Off to the Minish Woods I go, killing some stuff on the way, and saving what looks like a legless bird, but …