Wow. I haven't posted in a while! I had a post on the 13th that I never published, but... it was a rant about a guy in my history class. XD Somehow I doubt you guys would care about it. It DID have to do with Legend of Zelda (he thinks he knows stuff about it, but he really doesn't, and always manages to make me sound stupid - I mean, Hylian is NOT backwards Japanese. I won't believe him unless Skyward Sword comes out with spoken language). Anyway, then I started a post on the 20th - THIS post - but I didn't finish it. So here. :D
Now, Idk what dungeon I left off at... so I'm gonna skip to dungeon seven. XD Dungeon five took me a while but became fun when I had friends over (guess you're going to miss hearing about the bet I made with Paige, Taryn's sister), dungeon six was impossible (TOO MANY FREAKING WIZZROBES!!!!) and dungeon seven SEEMED easy at first, but then... well... I needed some HELP...
So far in The Legend of Zelda, everything's been pretty straightforward. Everything that I needed to do was pretty obvious: Find the next dungeon. Kill all the enemies in this room. Push all the blocks to find one with a secret passage. Defeat the boss. Get the epic shiny triangle. Yeah.
But dungeon seven... just wow...
Like I said, at first, dungeon seven seemed EASY. Considering I just died, like, ten times in dungeon six ALONE, this was just... awesome! I never lost more than three hearts. Most of the time I stayed in a corner and just shot sword beams at the enemies. If I got hit, then I'd switch to my magic wand. And best of all: NO WIZZROBES! (I think they're going up in ranks next to Leevers and Zolas/Zoras...)
Buuuut then...
*sigh*
I discovered that this dungeon used BOMBS as its main item. I mean, the item I FOUND there was the Red Candle, but... it doesn't seem any different than the Blue Candle, except you can use it multiple times per room (and what's the point? Why would you need it more than once?). But I found out about the bomb usage before I even found the Red Candle. I found three old men - or rather, three rooms that old men should be in. One says, "There's a secret in the tip of the nose" or something (which didn't make ANY sense until I found the dungeon map). Another says, "I bet you want more bombs." At one point I ran out, so I bought them from him... and now I can carry 12 bombs! Sweetness! And to think I would have passed up that opportunity if I hadn't run out... I didn't realize he meant he'd raise your maximum...
And the third... well, it didn't have an old man in it. It had an enemy that I found out in a few posts ago (when I started looking at Zelda Wiki randomly in the middle of a post) was a Goriya. It just said, uh... "Grr grrr!" or something along those lines. XD Maybe it grumbled instead of growled. Idk! But I was stuck for a while... UNTIL...
ZELDA WIKI SAVES THE DAY! YAAAAY!
I remembered Zelda Wiki mentioning this when I read the entry for Goriya! Apparently... you buy food from the shop and then it moves. :D
...No, Zelda Wiki doesn't count as a walkthrough. I said I'd make it through this game on my own (or did I?) and I meant it. No walkthroughs! The only outside help I ever got was from friends, Zelda Wiki (just once), and briefly an Overworld map (dungeon 2 was hard to find - but I found all the others on my own. And I didn't follow it - just found the relative area of dungeon two and then never looked at it again! I PROMISE!).
Okay. So got past that room... into the next one that was dark and had the dungeon map... into the next one with more Goriyas I pwned with sword beams from afar... into the NEXT one with more Goriyas... into the NEXT one with fireballs and extremely laggy Goriyas. (Wow. I still remember the whole layout of the dungeon. I went through these rooms SO many times. XD) Annnnd then...
...a dead end.
Dang. -.-
I tried using bombs on every corner of that room. Then, using my dungeon map, I tried using bombs in every possible way to go into rooms I hadn't been in yet.
OMG!!!! IT WASN'T WORKING!!! It. Was. Impossible. I tried EVERYTHING. I struggled to find the meaning of this, but... no...
Then Seth GoldenBlood came over. He has the first Zelda game (as well as AoL, OoT, WW, TP, MM, MC, and PH - none of which he's completed, except PH; srsly, why have so many games if you're not going to play them?) so I BEGGED him to help me. Unfortunately, this was the first time I discovered he never PLAYS any of his Zelda games, so he was only in the second dungeon and didn't know anything. O_o Worse - he owns the LoZ walkthrough guide book thing, apparently, and he didn't bring it!!! *sob*
I let him play through the dungeon for a bit, but nothing was working. He started going through the steps I did - use every item on a wall that probably should be bombable - and when he got to the Blue Candle, somehow I mentioned I'd bought mine in a shop. He says, "Really? Why didn't you just get it for free?"
Me: "...You can get it for FREE?"
"Yep."
So THEN we left the dungeon and he showed me where to get it. Near the first dungeon, there's an area that seems empty except for the Zola/Zora, but when he used his Blue Candle on a tree, it revealed a staircase!!! O: Inside was an old man giving you the choice of Heart Container or Potion. Hmm, let me think... HEART CONTAINER! DUH! THEN I thought, "OOH! Maybe I have enough Heart Containers for that epic sword in the graveyard!" So we went that way, and got that sword! Thus I must thank Seth profusely.
...But I still didn't get through the dungeon.
That's when Deku/Cloud/Noob comes in!
He was over at my house like he is every Wednesday (it used to be Tuesday, but now it's Wednesday) and I BEGGED him (like I begged Taryn the day before - but she didn't help AT ALL -.-) to help me with dungeon seven. He, of course, almost died. And remember? This was the EASY dungeon.
So I stole the controller from him and started walking through the rooms again. Then, in the room that the dungeon map used to be in, I said, "You know what? I randomly feel like using a bomb on that wall up there. I mean, it kinda looks like you should be able to bomb it, even though the map says there's nothing..."
BOOM!
"OMG!!!! A SECRET ROOM FILLED WITH RUPEES! THIS IS EPIC! 8D"
Yep. And I used another bomb on the left side of the room, and it worked there too. That's what gave me the idea of using bombs everywhere possible.
And use bombs I did. Most of them didn't work, of course... but when I bombed one certain area...
SECRET PASSAGE! YYYEEEESSSSS!
...So wait. My map was LYING TO ME? In the one game - ONE. GAME. - that I actually use a map... IT LIES! O:
*sob* WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED ME! I'll never trust my map again...!
As for Deku, he was convinced it was his prescense that made me find it. I might as well agree with him. So thank you, Deku. :D
The rest of the dungeon was smooth sailing - I only had one brief problem with Wallmasters (gods, those things are frustrating) but then I found the boss... which really wasn't worthy of being a boss. I walked in the room, shot three swords beams, and it died. What kind of boss dies in three hits? Plus, I'd fought him already! Aquamentus was the FIRST boss! O_o
Oh well. ONWARD TO DUNGEON EIGHT! And the complete Triforce... and then Ganon... And then Adventure of Link! ...Hmm. Somehow I'm suddenly less excited. AoL sounds hard. XD
Whatever. At this point, I might not even FIND dungeon eight. Unlike with dungeon seven, where I had a clue ("Go to where the fairies don't live" or something) there's no convenient little hint at where dungeon eight might be. Plus, I'm still confused - is there another dungeon after it? For Ganon? Or is Ganon IN dungeon eight? Oh, but that wouldn't make sense... there'd be a Triforce piece there, and you'd think Ganon would steal that if he could... XD
Anyway... hope you enjoyed another gianormous post! They're longer every time...
Windlilly... out!
