Finally figured out just which person in the village I needed to speak to, and it was off to the west of the map to find some old codger. He sent me off into a dungeon to find a pendant, so off I went. Pretty standard Zelda stuff in there, although there was no mid-boss. I’m becoming slightly frustrated at the sword mechanics in this version too. Your sword reach is pretty limited, and you can’t change direction as easily …
No sooner has one Zelda game been completed, another begins. I did complete LttP when it originally came out for the SNES, but that was more than ten years ago. I remember I even got every single piece of heart too. Obviously a time when I had more game patience than I do now! Anyway. I’ve got up, after hearing Zelda cry for help, and wander off to the castle. A nasty wizard has taken over the place, and is …
Ah. It seems that as well as slapping Twinrova around with a sword, you also have to shoot him/her/it with seeds. Which was why I couldn’t kill it yesterday. Once I realised this, it was quickly dispatched, and it was on to Ganon. Who was much easier than I expected. He warped all over the place, appearing and then doing random attacks. However, I didn’t really pay much attention to dodging him, and instead just hit him with my sword …
Into the Room of Rites I go, with a simple find-the-hidden-route magic maze thingies between me and Twinrova. In his first form, he was easy. Well, easy to avoid, harder to hit. Then he morphed into a thing which swaps between ice and fire, which was much harder. And I died. I know how to kill him – he just takes ten million hits. Or so I thought, until I realised I was wearing a ring that upped my defence, …
The rest of Dungeon 8 was pretty easy, and I was soon onto the end boss (after picking up the Power Glove). He came in several forms, or rather, with several sets of hands – a bit like a boss from The Wind Waker. Sort of. The final set of hands required the newly-acquired glove to defeat too. What a shock that was. After that, and with all eight Essences of Time in Link’s Magic Invisible Bottomless Rucksack, it was …
Well, the South Seas seems the best place to go, after a clue from a Zora. After travelling round in circles in both the past and the present, I finally found the entrance, and within was a lost ship full of the Skull Pirates from Seasons. I was given the Tokey Eye, which fits a statue on the Tokey island I was at aaaaages ago in the game. Back there, and the statue opens, revealing a cave. After the cave, …
Finally, I figured out that I needed to find Jabu Jabu in the sea. Some time jumping later, to avoid rocks and things that existed in different places in different times, and I found the Zora Village under the sea. Several sub-quests needed to be performed before entering Jabu Jabu’s belly, however. Firstly, the Zora King is sick (in the past) and dead (in the present). Nipping off to find Syrup the witch, I bought some Magic Potion which brought …
Swaptastic fetchquest time! Just like Seasons, you need to take item A to person B to get item C to take to person D to get item E, etc. And, at the end, I got the Nobel Sword for my troubles. However, since I have the Secret to get the Master Sword, I inputted that and now have the most powerful sword in the game. That should make things a bit easier here on in! Also on my travels, I …
Ages/Seasons Double Team Attack Fight! Win! Or something. Decided to go back to Seasons and tell the necessary people all these Secrets I’ve been finding in Ages. That meant trying to remember how to get anywhere in Holodrum, which I found harder than I thought I would. My memory is rubbish. Anyway, I’ve sorted out most of them. On my travels I’ve picked up a larger Ring Box (so I can now carry 5 rings), gained the Mirror Shield, and …
Mostly just aimlessly wandering round today. I need to get into Jabu-Jabu’s belly, and, although I’ve found him, I don’t know how to get inside him. I can’t talk to him, and none of my items work on him or anything. Perhaps I need another item or something?
Defeated the end boss in Dungeon 6, and was then informed that Queen Ambi had left her palace, and I could try to rescue Nayru, the Oracle of Ages. So, off I went. Some minor Splinter Celling took place on the way in, but I soon found her. She was still possessed by Veran, however, so killing him wasn’t possible without hurt her – or so it seemed until use of my Mystery Seeds and Switch Hook thingie proved otherwise. …
It turns out there are two Mermaid’s Caves. Well, one, technically – in the Past and the Present. And holes you blow in walls in the past affect the cave in the present too. Sadly, I needed another key to get into the cave in the past (it’s the same lock, so why two keys?), so I had to find that first. Two caves means two maps and compasseseseses too. There are a few four dimensional puzzles to contend with …
More wandering aimlessly around Rolling Ridge finally led me to the Goron Dance Hall. Oh yes. Dancing. Winning the dancing contest thing gained me a Goron Brotherhood badge which lets me go past a Goron guard. I knew where I needed to go, but there’s a locked door. The owl next to it says something cryptic about a mermaid’s secret, and, since there is a mermaid statue in Lynna City, I went off there. Wild goose chase, it was, as …
The problem with this game, is, if you leave yourself in a dungeon and then don’t play for a day or so, you get completely lost. So, almosy half an hour’s play was simply trying to remember what I was doing and where I was going. Anyway, the end boss in Dungeon 5 was pretty simple, and completely different to every other Zelda boss I can recall. It’s more of a puzzle than a boss, in fact. He’s a cloud …
The weapon was a switch-with-things hook hoodilly. So, not really a weapon then, actually. Although you do use it on the end boss in that dungeon, as expected. With that dungeon out of the way, I was sent on a trek through time and, er, place to find bomb flowers to help a Goron elder. Of course, that required a sub-quest, which involved throwing bombs as the Great Moblin who muttered something about me defeating him in Holodrum (which I …