Legend of Zelda Fan Fiction Recommendations

(UPDATE 9/30/13: This post is very old. I wasn't as experienced in fanfiction back then, and my tastes have changed. If you want a far larger and better list of recommendations, please check out the new and improved one here!)

Hey, look! Another fan fiction post from me. However, this time, I'm going to post some links to the stories. I will no longer include the Sacred Realm ones, however - to look at my previous recommendations, click here. Otherwise, read on. The orders have changed for a lot of those anyway. Some aren't even included anymore.

First off, before I start praising other authors... let's look at myself. My username (or penname, as I believe they call it) is TwilightWakerofTime. By clicking that link, you can go to my profile. And - oh, lookie! "Author has written 1 story for Legend of Zelda."

Yep. That's true. And I forgot to post about it on here when I did it. Silly me!

So instead of copying and pasting the whole thing from my word document, I'm going to let you read it on the site. It's called Musings. I wouldn't actually suggest it, though, if it wasn't my own story, lol. It's a Zelink fic that's... pretty stupid, honestly... it has no plot, as I do not hesitate to explain in my author's notes at the beginning there... Oh, well. You can go ahead and read it anyway. The only thing I ask for is that you review. Even if you hate it.

Now! For the recommendations...

1. The Legend of Zelda: The Return and Reconciliation by Rose Zemlya. I suggested these last time, right? Right? I think they were my second pick. Well, now they're first, no doubt about it. I've recently reread them - actually, I'm in the process of rereading Reconciliation - and they just never cease to amaze me. They make me laugh, and yet the plot is just... incredible. So if you're looking for a good read, check out these two stories. Reconciliation is a sequel to The Return, though, so it makes more sense to read that one first. I can honestly say that they're my favorite fan fictions, if not my favorite pieces of literature ever.

2. A VERY hard choice... but... Free as the Wind by S.R.H. Fade. It combines Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and Wind Waker into one amazing adventure with very unique personalities for each Link. In other words... OoT Link and TP Link get transported to TWW Link's world and try to help him along on his quest. I read it longer ago than The Return and Reconciliation, but I still know I enjoyed it. They gave OoT and TP Link nicknames - Reoh and Emit. I understood where Emit came from, considering it's Ocarina of TIME Link (spell it backwards if you don't get it) but Reoh took me a while... until I read TP Link's reaction to it. ...It's Hero, if you don't get it... XD Anyway, they made TP Link the reluctant Hero and OoT the serious, dutiful one. It's very entertaining. :P And it has a great plot, too.

3. Hit List by zestycrouton, I guess. It's one of those weird high school fics where they put every character into a... high school... XD I usually don't like these - at least now I don't... but back then I was still pretty new to the site and I just decided to try it out. And OMG I WAS AMAZED. It starts off a bit slow, but it picks up quickly. It only gets better when legends and the Triforce becomes involved in a modern Hyrule. Just... wow. And it doesn't only focus on Link and Zelda and Ganondorf, either - there's all sorts of characters, from all sorts of different Zelda games in there. Every single character in the story is based off of a Legend of Zelda character. That's just another part of what makes it so awesome.

4. Why You Should Never Travel With Foreigners by LittleBlueNayru. THIS. STORY. IS. SO. FUNNY! ...Sadly, I think it's discontinued. Oh, and there's a lot of swearing, just to warn you, but it's so hilarious, I can ignore it... Basically, it plays on the idea of Midna's crazy voiceovers and how nonsensical they are. Yep.

5. Hero of Wolves and Shadow Kingdom by The Wolfess. I mentioned this one last time, too. It was the first story I read on that site and was totally, completely, utterly stunned by. And I still love it. Now Hero of Wolves has its sequel: Shadow Kingdom.

6. Rend and Avilux Ignis and other stories by fleets. Fleets is epic. :D I don't know him/her very well... look, I didn't even know if they're a he or a she! But they're still epic. Because they write epic stories. XD Their story Rend is the second story I ever left a review on (if I'm remembering correctly) and their stories are still the only ones I actually bothering reviewing constantly. Most of the time, I'll just leave a long paragraph review and say "YOU'RE SOOOO COOL I LOVE YOU" and then just keep reading silently, but no. This story... I keep clicking that review button at the bottom. Even when I'm using a stupid, impossible-to-type-on DSi. They really like Vaati - all their stories have him as a main character. All his/her stories are amazing, so go ahead and read them. The only one you shouldn't read is... Recollections. SERIOUSLY! DON'T READ IT! IT'S SO FREAKING SAD!!!! Unless you WANT to cry... don't read it...

7. Bright as Night by Allendra. It's only got five chapters at the moment and already it's on my top ten list. That's GOT to mean something...

8. Zelda: A Fairytale and The Mystical Ocarina by Sakurelle. I mentioned Zelda: A Fairytale last time - it was my number one then. Not anymore. But it was still pretty good. I still love fairytales. :) This time I'm going to add The Mystical Ocarina to the list. It's based on Aladdin and it was really good, too.

9. Sacred Reliquary by Sharper Than the Sword. Similar to Hit List, every character in this story is from a Zelda game, though their personalities are VERY different. No, really. Just look at Zelda in this story. She's... insane... at best. :P

10. Seven Swords Saga, its sequel, and other various oneshots by Royazali. These stories are so funny! Royazali is the awesome person who helped me find the eighth dungeon on Legend of Zelda when I reviewed. You have to know a LOT about the Zelda series to understand some of the jokes. I wish it had more reviews. The only problem with it (thus putting it at the bottom of this list) is that it had quite a few grammar mistakes. He/She (still not sure which) tends to not put apostrophes in his/her contractions! *gasp*

And... that's my top ten list! There's plenty of other epic fan fictions out there - you can view some other great stories on my favorites list. But for now, that's all I'll put.

...I really need some adjectives besides "epic", "amazing", and "awesome"...

IGN Zelda Game Tournament - Round Four!

Well, I missed round two completely and didn't post here about round three (which ended yesterday) even though I did vote on it, but it's time for round four!

If you don't remember from an earlier post of mine, IGN is hosting a "Greatest Zelda Game Tournament" here. Go and vote! The final pairing:

OCARINA OF TIME vs. MAJORA'S MASK!

Wow. I'm soooo happy Twilight Princess didn't beat Majora's Mask. In fact, in the pairing of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask... I voted for Majora's Mask. :D I'm a little weird that way. I also voted for Wind Waker against Ocarina of Time, lol, but I guess my vote didn't make much of a difference. It still lost by a LOT. Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess' battle was much closer.

In fact, Majora's Mask had a hard time getting to round four! Just LOOK at the competition between A Link to the Past and Majora's Mask! 14375 votes vs. 14934. That's CLOSE. Poor LttP.

I'm also surprised that Link's Awakening beat Minish Cap, and... Phantom Hourglass totally PWNED poor Spirit Tracks. Really? What do they have against trains? XD Lol, well, whatever. I mean, poor Adventure of Link barely got ANY votes. Look! Even Four Swords Adventures beat it! That's pretty sad... O_o I don't mind AoL, despite how impossible it is and the fact that I haven't even completed the first dungeon (I blame that stupid horse boss thing).

In other news, I got a third bottle on Minish Cap, and discovered the game is impossible to play without the R button (I'll probably write a post on this later if I remember), and I played Wind Waker, but our GameCube and game disk are SO old, it froze seven times before I made it to the top of the Forsaken Fortress - seven, I swear, I counted - and then I got hit back down again by a Moblin. Oh, and THEN a Floormaster got me, and as if that wasn't bad enough... the game froze again when it put me in jail. I. Was. SO. Mad...

Again, I'll probably write a post on that because in hindsight, it IS a funny story, though it annoyed me to no end while I was experiencing it...

Anyway. That's all I've got to say... for now. I have a lot going on tonight - my second harp lesson, my sister's ceremony thingy (can't explain much more than that), and studying for stupid final exams (ugggggh!). Yep.

Have a good day! (Because I can't say goodnight... it's not night yet...)

I know I should post some updates.

But I do not have time at the moment. As you may (or may not) have noticed, I have been banned from computer the last week or so. That meant no blogging, no Central/Wizard101, and no checking on Zelda info. I hope I didn't miss anything important, lol.

Anyway, I don't have time at the moment, because I'm about to watch a movie with my family. They're waiting for me.

Just a brief summary of what I'll cover in later posts more thoroughly:

I took my first harp lesson! So excited! Ohl, I'm still stuck on the original Legend of Zelda. And... YES! Twenty followers! Thanks guys!

Hmm. I KNOW there was more. There HAS to have been.

Oh, whatever. Goodnight. :)

LoZ Update - So... now what?

I have another large "thank you" to make. I've thanked many friends before - Seth, Deku, Sydney... but this is a person I actually DON'T know in real life. Or very well at all. He's just a person on fan fiction.net who wrote an AMAZING story that truly deserves more reviews. So I'm here to say....

Thank you, Royazali. He wrote The Legend of Zelda: Seven Swords Saga which makes me lol, literally... click the link above to check it out. Anyway, after a while of reading his/her (you know, I just realized I don't know which... I assumed he, but now Idk... XD) story, I FINALLY decided to review. Finally. And I mentioned in my review that I couldn't find the eighth dungeon on Legend of Zelda... and he was super nice and helped me!

...He didn't help me MUCH, to be honest... but he kinda did! And I GREATLY appreciate the thought. :D

Basically, he told me the dungeon was in the south-eastern corner in the forest somewhere, so I went there. Of course, the EXACT south-eastern corner is just a useless area with a stupid Zola/Zora and perhaps a few Octrocks. So that didn't help much.

But then I started EXPLORING!

I got to this one place that's bordering a fairy fountain, where there's a few Octorocks wandering around. After slaying them, I noticed an odd bush off to the side. It was standing alone, by itself... almost like a block in a dungeon...

So, like blocks in dungeons, I walked over and pushed it. And guess what? There was a secret tunnel beneathe! O: There were three different stairs and an old man telling me to choose any one I felt like. Each of them led to different regions of Hyrule. ...No, they didn't go to the eighth dungeon. But they did give me an idea.

I recalled this one area that was conveniently in the forest, AND happened to be near the south-eastern corner. It had this one mysterious bush off by itself, just like the one I'd just discovered. I found it again (after spending a LONG time being lost) and pushed the bush to reveal...

A staircase! (Da-na-na-naaaah!)

...No, it didn't make that noise. But it should have. :( It did the puzzle-solved theme instead. XD

And I went down the staircase... AND FOUND THE EIGHTH DUNGEON! WOOT!

I completed it - only died once, too! I think I'm getting better at this game, considering I died almost ten times in the sixth dungeon. Well, I'm already doing better than A Link to the Past - I died exactly 99 times by the time I completed that game, remember? And I did most of that on a walkthrough... and now, on LoZ, I've got exactly 50 deaths, and I'm going to find Ganon. Yayz!

Actually, beating the eighth dungeon surprised me quite a bit. I was walking around, then suddenly opened a locked door and led into this room with that one boss... Gleeok, right? I think. XD So I fought it, and died - that was where my one death came from. But then I tried again, this time with potions - and won!

And I walked in the room to find the last Triforce of Wisdom piece!

...I didn't think that it was the actual BOSS. I thought it was a mini-boss. So finding the Triforce piece surprised me a lot. XD

Of course, I went back afterward to TRULY complete the dungeon. There were a lot of rooms I didn't explore, and I hadn't gotten the map yet. I found that... and the magic key. Yay!

So now, with the full Triforce of Wisdom and (as far as I can tell) every item in the game, it's off to pwn Ganon!

...So where exactly is he?

*sigh*

Idk what to do now. I know he's in Death Mountain SOMEWHERE... but Idk where. I think it might have something to do with that one area that looks like an arrow. It just... there's nothing there, so... I think it's hiding something! CURSE YOU, EVIL ARROW!!!

...I'm so weird. -.-

Well... enjoy your weekend. If anyone knows the more SPECIFIC location of Ganon, it'd be nice if you would tell me... so... tell me! :P

...Please?

OMG! NO WAY! This is amazing. XD

LISTEN TO THE SKYWARD SWORD TRAILER BACKWARD!!!



Recognize it?

If you've played, um, pretty much ANY Zelda game save for a few... but most specifically, Ocarina of Time... then you SHOULD!

ZELDA'S LULLABY!!!!

I. Was. Amazed. :D

...And there's also a new Ocarina of Time 3DS Trailer.



BUT I STILL LOVE THE MUSIC THING!!!! XD

I mean, it's so clever, so ingenious... but at the same time, pretty cheap. Lol, they can't come up with something new? BUT I STILL LOVE IT. :P

Nintendo's probably face-palming about now. "Seriously? They didn't notice until NOW?" xD

Btw: Nintendo's E3 presentation is June 7th!

...And if anyone knows where Ganon is in the original LoZ, it'd be nice to know... but I'll write a post on that later.

The only thing I can think of posting: The Tale of Fishies

Okay. I'm bored. So I'm gonna talk about how Link and Picori died, and then Zelda ate them. And then she died too. XD

...They were FISH, okay?

...Yes, I named my fish Link, Zelda, and Picori...

It was for a school project. We were taking care of fish. Obviously. We put them in bottles and prayed that they would live. We were supposed to get two. While we pondered over what to name them, my friend (knowing what a huge Zelda freak I am) said, "I would laugh if you named them Link and Zelda." And I'm like, "OMG! WE SHOULD!" To my partner: "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLE-"

"Okay, FINE."

"YAY!"

So as we were getting our fishies... our teacher made a mistake... and gave us THREE! O: One of them was REALLY tiny, too. So I called it my Minish fish. And then I'm like, "LET'S NAME IT PICORI!" But... it was almost dead already. It didn't move much. Poor Picori... QQ

Zelda was orange with white spots (and really pretty... she looked like a Zelda fish XD). Link was a brown, silver-ish color (you could almost call it green if you looked at it in the light...). Picori was orange with black spots. But... Picori was pretty much dead from the start... XD

We came back to school the next day to check on our fishies and... Picori was dead as we expected. But...

LINK DIED TOO! O:

I was SOOOO sad. I almost cried. XD Poor, poor, poor Link...

But Zelda lived! :D And she ate Picori and Link's dead bodies. O_o It was REALLY gross. But... she lived the next day! And she also lived the next day! And the next! And the next!

A week passed, and Zelda still lived on (and Link and Picori's bodies disappeared... gods, Zelda, that's disgusting!). I was hopeful. Very hopeful. Other people's fish died - the only other group in the class with three had all of theirs die. But Zelda lived!

Then it was the last day of the experiment. We could take them home that day! I was going to take my fish named Zelda HOME!

She was alive in the morning.

And guess what happened when I came in after school to pick my fishy up?

*sob* ZELDA WAS DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's JUST my luck. My fish dies JUST when I'm going to take it home. Figures. :(

...Well. That wasn't very Zelda related. I'm weird, aren't I?

...Too bad it's Sierra's Story that has the FISH label, and not this one...

Greatest Zelda Game Tournament!

Now THIS sounds interesting...

IGN is hosting a tournament here to determine the best Zelda game ever. I love the idea. But it's VERY hard to decide. XD

I still find it hilariously unfair that they put Ocarina of Time against Zelda's Adventure, and A Link to the Past against Wand of Gamelon. Honestly... who would choose those games over two of the best in the series? Who played Zelda's Adventure or Wand of Gamelon and actually LIKED them? To tell you the truth, I'm guessing most people don't even know what they are yet.

Poor, poor Faces of Evil got left out of the contest, though... aww...

They should have put it against Four Swords, which they didn't add in.

...You know, looking at it now... they've kind of set it up so that certain games will obviously fail. So, like, if you put Wind Waker vs. Twilight Princess... THAT competition might be close. But Four Swords Adventures vs. Majora's Mask? Poor FSA.

Now, since this is MY blog, I'm going to talk about MY opinions. You can skip this part if you feel like it. :P

I'll skip the OoT and ALttP ones, because it's obvious what any sane person's choices would be there, and go to the next one. Phantom Hourglass vs. Spirit Tracks. I chose Spirit Tracks. Totally. I loved Spirit Tracks sooo much, and don't view Phantom Hourglass very highly (though that's interesting, because it was my second or third Zelda game... you'd think I'd like it more, as I do Wind Waker, but no...).

After that, Majora's Mask vs. Four Swords Adventures. ...Ugh. I didn't like making that decision! I voted for Majora's Mask, since it's one of my absolute favorite games... but I feel bad for Four Swords Adventures! I liked that game too. O_o Very few people will choose it, though, probably...

Next: Oracle of Seasons vs. Oracle of Ages. Um... I haven't played either of these games. XD But I've read the manga, so my decision of Oracle of Ages was based off of that. I like the time traveling idea of it. And Nayru is cooler than Din. So HAH.

Link's Awakening vs. Minish Cap. I haven't played Link's Awakening, so I voted for Minish Cap. Although I think I might actually like Link's Awakening better. XD I DID do the VBA version for a while, remember? I got to the third dungeon. And I liked what I played that far. But... still... Minish Cap is pretty epic.

Aaaand... the last two. *sigh* Wind Waker vs. The Legend of Zelda, and Twilight Princess vs. Adventure of Link.

I HATE THEM FOR MAKING ME CHOOSE!

I can't decide. I still haven't decided yet. I think... I think I'll go choose Twilight Princess over Adventure of Link, because I'm not far enough into the game to decide... but Wind Waker and Legend of Zelda... Idk. If this had been a year ago, the choice would have been Wind Waker without any doubts or second thoughts, but lately, I've decided Wind Waker... might not be the BEST. I liked Majora's Mask better, honestly. O_o Still, it's INSANELY awesome. It might be number two. THAT'S possible.

But then you put it against Legend of Zelda... a game I've already fallen in love with even though I still can't find Dungeon Eight...

UGH!! I CAN'T DECIDE!

I love them both!

I think I'm stressing over this too much.

BUT IT'S SO HARD!

...Um... maybe I just WON'T vote. Or maybe... I'll ask my sister what she thinks. Yeah.

...Idk. XD

Well, enjoy your weekend, people. And please don't take this contest as seriously as I am. ;)

OoT 3DS Intro

My friend on Central found this somehow. It's awesome!

Sorry, I'm in a hurry, I can't post much else. XD

Enjoy!

There's more Ocarina of Time 3D information than there was Spirit Tracks... (New screenshots and info!)

Please remember to read and comment on the post beneathe this one - I don't usually do two posts per day, but I had to today.

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Ocarina of Time 3D, so far, seems to be even more popular than Spirit Tracks was. The release is still over a month away, and yet more and more information is released about it seemingly everyday (or at least every time I log on to the computer!). Of course, there's ALSO the fact that I wasn't THAT involved with the Zelda community when Spirit Tracks came out... but still. Here's just a quick update on what Zelda Dungeon has to say:

There will be a "boss challenge" mode added to the game! In Spirit Tracks, there was the whole "Take 'Em All On" game in Castle Town where previous bosses could be re-fought to gain treasure. Apparently they will somehow integrate this into Ocarina of Time 3D. I'm super excited! I love that game in Spirit Tracks - whenever I'm bored I'll just go and play it for fun. XD This sounds great!

Also... apparently there will be a hint system? Well, I guess that's nice for new players, but still... people made it through the games just fine without them before. Whatever.

And here's some other new details they've heard:

• The blurry pre-rendered bitmap Castletown is now a rendered environment. With several new remodeled building exteriors, but still maintains the old camera angle.



• The water effects of Lake Hylia have been improved.



• The fishing pond has been changed with more textures adding a more rocky appearance and a waterfall has been added.



• The tree wall has been replaced by three dimensional trees.



• All 2D backgrounds have been replaced by rendered 3D backdrops with greater detail.



• When viewed from Hyrule Field, Death Mountain is no longer a 2D cardboard cutout but a 3D model.



• Temple of Time interior has been remodeled including a visible ceiling.



• The inventory is now kept on the touchscreen and items may be equipped by the X and Y buttons.



• The ocarina is now permanently placed in an area on the lower left corner of the touchscreen.



• Due to a lack of rumble feature the Stone of Agony now emits a sound instead of the old “rumble” of the N64 controller.



• In game text and music have not changed from the original.



• Master Quest is confirmed as a second quest that requires the player to complete the game first to unlock.

I'm glad to hear about Stone of Agony. Since I play OoT on the Wii, I've never been able to use that item. But - aww - you have to COMPLETE the game before playing Master Quest? Darn it! XD Oh, well.

Also - I just found this a few minutes ago - but more OoT 3DS screeshots! And, OMG, they are AMAZING. Check out Zelda's Courtyard! And Castle Town - wow. The Happy Mask Shop certainly changed. I'm only taking the ones I thought were the most dramatically different from N64, so check out the link at the bottom of the post for the rest of them. They're all pretty amazing.

(Why do I think that one picture of Link sitting on the ground is just sooooooo cute? :D It's my fan girl side shining through...)

Sources: Boss Challenge and Hint System, Details, Screenshots

Zelda Ocarina of Time 3DS to Nintendo 64 Screenshot Comparison

I really wanted to see the differences between the original Ocarina of Time for N64 and the new one for 3DS with improved graphics. I searched on YouTube and only found one or two videos, so I decided to go hunting for screenshots and make my own. No, not a video... I don't have time for that... but I DID find pictures.

I stole the screenshots from various websites. You can see the logos in the corner of some, and others I cut off to make the sizes fit. I put a LOT of work into this... despite how easy it may sound, finding matching screenshots is hard.

Here's the first one. You'll probably need to click to view the thing full size.





This is of Link and Saria... obviously. Ugh. When you compare them side-by-side... I don't like original Link. XD It's just... OoT 3DS Link is soooooooo cute! Or as my sis would say... kawaii! :P And the fairies - they're sort of cut off in the 3DS picture, but you can still tell from both this and in later pictures that they're a little different. Again, 3DS graphics pwn N64 ones. I love Navi's appearance now. Just too awesome. One thing I'm curious about, though: will Navi still say "Hey, Listen!" in the 3DS version? I wonder... I mean, on one side, I'd be SO annoyed by that, but then again, I just don't think Ocarina of Time will be the same without it!



Now for the next picture.








This one... Link and Ganondorf. They're slightly different... but it's HARD to find matching pictures online, okay!? If I could figure out how to take my own screenshots, this would be a LOT closer... XD Anyway. With this one... again, I'm marveling at how much the graphics have changed. Perhaps it's just the picture quality, but the 3DS graphics look a LOT more cheerfully bright. I suppose it's not supposed to look that way, considering it's an encounter with the villain of the game, but whatever. Frankly, I like it that way.

Next...


This depicts Link pulling out the Master Sword. For some reason, the walls of the Temple of Time look a lot more detailed in the Nintendo 64 version, but Link is definitely much better in the 3DS. Why is that?

Well, good news is that I heard in the 3DS, the Temple of Time will actually have a CEILING now! Can you believe it? ;) Of course, that's just what I read somewhere - a comment on Zelda Dungeon. It's not exactly a reputable source, but I figured I'd let you know anyway.

WOW. HUGE difference here! Just LOOK at the backgrounds! Now, I'm sure that they're in different positions, and that's why the backgrounds are so dramatically different, but still - that's incredible! The trees ACTUALLY look like TREES on the 3DS version! Plus, it gives us a great view of Link: the perfect chance to see just how much he's changed. But... geez. I STILL can't get over how beautiful that 3DS background is.

I also apologize for the poor quality of the N64 picture. O_o
This one is when Link obtains the Kokiri Sword! Yes, now after viewing so many screenshots, I'm thoroughly convinced that the 3DS will be brighter than the N64 version. And Link's expression - it reminds me of Twilight Princess Link. TP Link always reacted to the items he received (a fact I really liked - I never get over the look on his face when he picks up Ooccoo XD). It looks like they're carrying on this idea to OoT 3DS. When reading the comments on Zelda Dungeon, however, most people disliked Link's hands. And now that I look at them? They are a little weird...
Here! Zelda, fleeing Castle Town on a white horse with Impa. Sorry for the TERRIBLE quality of the first picture, but I could not find a better one. Even though the positions of Zelda in both pictures are different, you can still kind of see the difference - or lack thereof. Honestly, Zelda didn't change much. Perhaps she looks a bit less polygonal, but sitll. I think she deserved more than that, considering the HUGE changes they made to Link.

Oh, well. I'm still INSANELY excited for Ocarina of Time 3D. Even though I still don't have a 3DS system yet. XD

Hope you enjoyed this post! I certainly sounded more professional this time, didn't I? I wasn't my crazy, outgoing self at all...




Have a great Easter weekend! Even if you don't celebrate Easter. ;)

More Ocarina of Time 3D Information!

And pictures. I personally didn't care much about the pictures - I mean, they're just updated graphics of things we've already seen. Therefore I won't post them all here. You can click this link to view the pictures at Zelda Dungeon.

However, I will post the box art.



It's SO much more epic than the original Ocarina of Time box art, wouldn't you agree? I personally didn't like any of the box arts for Zelda games until the two Oracles came out. Now THOSE were pretty awesome-looking. I don't like Wind Waker's and Twilight Princess's much, either... nor ST and PH... the Japanese, however, would be another story. They always get the cool ones!

The release date has also changed a bit. Previously I said it was the 17th, right? Well, unfortunately, that's not the case. June 17th is only for the release in Europe - over here, we have to way for June 19th. Two days later... it's not much, but still.

Oh, and the best part of all?

Ocarina of Time 3D will also include... Master Quest!

For those of you who don't know, Ocarina of Time Master Quest is a harder version of the game for GameCube that was available if you preordered Wind Waker (I think... of course, I don't have it XD). I really wish I could play it - I almost bought it a while back - and now I'm jealous of my friends getting OoT 3DS. It only makes me more desperate to raise the money for the system before June... although that will likely never happen.

No new Skyward Sword news, sadly. I doubt we'll hear anything until E3.

Important Dates

I only have a few short things to say.
First off, the Pokemon global link is in two days! I really know nothing about it, sorry. I do not have Black or White - that money is going toward Skyward Sword (although I have MORE than enough for it right now) and 3DS (which I TOTALLY don't have enough for).
The other thing is that there's a rumor for Skyward Sword's release date: September 25th, 2011. Wouldn't that be awesome? From what I've been reading online, it's actually a good possibility - but don't get your hopes up just yet. I'm certainly not going to let my excitement get the better of me, even though that is right after my own birthday (the 16th) and... well, it would just be plain epic.
That's pretty much all I have right now! Hopefully we can look forward to some more stuff at E3 this year, which will be June 7th through the 9th. I'm not sure when Nintendo will announce its stuff during those dates, though... ...OH MY GODS BLOGGER IS ANNOYING ME.
It keeps taking out my paragraphs! :( I had to put them in manually for this post...
Ugh...

Yes, I just bought the hardest game in Zelda history.

After many unsuccessful explorations of the Legend of Zelda overworld in an attempt to find the eighth dungeon, I got very bored. And boredom plus extra Wii points equals...

Adventure of Link.

Gods, I'm scared.

The controls even confuzzle me! I spent a whole half hour with Taryn trying to find out how to pick up an item. I read the intructions and it told me to press 1, but... it didn't work! It just kept using my sword! And then Taryn started yelling out random combinations like "Jump and press it! Go to the left! Go right! Press 2!" Finally we discovered you have to DUCK and then press 1. They couldn't have just said that in the manual? O_o I suppose it's because sometimes the item is higher off the ground and in that case you don't have to duck.

It took forever to find the first dungeon. In fact, yet again, my sister was the one to find it. Remember? I didn't find the first dungeon on my own in Legend of Zelda, haha. She did. She just has a talent for that. She got on the game with the intention of playing it for the first time but...

Um. It was still on my file.

Sadly, I couldn't figure out how to save, and I still don't know how, besides dying. So I just pressed "Wii Menu" or whatever, and apparently that saves it from there, starting back up in the same spot when you come back. My sister had to give me my first death to save and start her own file which, due to a typo, she called "Pwnageer." *sigh* She ALWAYS loved random names. She had Doggy on OoT and MM, and randomly Seth on TP, and Bubbles on ST... and most other games I've taken over all the files, lolz. Actually, I think I deleted Bubbles too...

Anyway. She found the first dungeon! I was stuck going back and forth between two towns (Ruto and Rauru) but she was brave enough to venture into a dark cave. I doubted it was the right way since I figured you'd need a candle to go through any of those areas, but she went through anyway. And she got out to the other side where the first dungeon (or "palace" in this game) magically waited for us.

She fought some Stalfos and possibly Darknuts among many other enemies I couldn't name (time to look at Zelda Wiki again!). Then she reached the boss... or guardian... or whatever they're called. And she got pwned. More times than once. XD

At least she found the candle...

I gtg now. I'm going to Pokemon League, just like every Saturday. :)

Enjoy your weekend!

Some important stuffs

First:
New buddy blog! In other words... The Goron Times, owned by Umbreon on Wizard101 Central, will now be collaborating with Medli's Messages. I have an affiliate! Hehehe... my blog must be getting at least SOMEWHAT popular if I can use epic words like "affiliate". XD
Also:
Thanks to Umbreon (yet again), I now know the release date for Ocarina of Time 3DS. June 17th!
...And Kid Icarus: Uprising comes out May 6. Just saying.
But... yep! I don't have a 3DS yet, but I now have a lot of friends with it - three I can think of. One of them let me try it. It was... fun. :D I got to play Phantom Hourglass on it (although it sadly wasn't in 3D, because old DS games don't work with it). But... there's these card things you can put on the table and... it pops up on the screen and... yeah. It's epic.
I probably won't get OoT 3DS the day it's released, however. Unless I randomly come up with $150 more for the system. Plus, I need most of my money for Skyward Sword still. There's NOTHING that will keep me away from getting THAT the first day it comes out! (Unless GameStop doesn't get it in in time. Ugh. ST flashback...)
Speaking of which: OoT was rated E. OoT 3DS is rated E 10+. Why? Fantasy violence, animated blood (there's a lot of that... try throwing a bomb at a ReDead!)... and... suggestive themes.
I lol'd at that.
My first thought? Thanks, Ruto.
And the LAST thing:
Should I post a Zelda fan fiction here? I still need a title for it. Unlike The Blade of Evil's Bane, my previous epic fail attempt at creating a Zelda fic, this story will be an adventure-comedy. I'll TRY to be funny... it probably won't be, but at least it will be lighthearted. I think I might post it here for an idea on a title. So? Would anyone read it?
Btw - I'm STILL stuck on dungeon eight!

I KEEP MAKING POSTS WITHOUT PUBLISHING THEM

I just wrote a big Dragon Quest IX post... but then decided not to publish it. Should I? I don't think anyone wants to read about it. Do you? Huh?

:(

Well, um... this is my post, then. Instead of a big giant wall of text, you get...

OH! You can get this insanely epic fan art! How about that? XD

...I'm guessing you'll have to click on it. And then zoom in. And then squint really, really hard.

I found this a while ago - it was for Zelda's 25th anniversary, I think. ...Maybe. XD I just found it on some Zelda fan site. And I thought it was so awesome, so I saved it to my computer... and my phone.

The only person I didn't recognize on there was the guy in the middle, at the top. At the VERY top, just under the Goddesses, in between the rest of the Sages. WHO. THE HECK. IS HE?

Any ideas? Go ahead and comment and tell me. My only guess was Santa Clause. ...Or Sahasrahla from A Link to the Past. But Santa would be so much cooler. :P

LoZ Updates - I did NOT see that coming. (SPECIAL THANKS TO SETH AND DEKU :D)

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!

*sigh*

...I'm sad. I have a D in Language Arts now. And I just found an incredibly epic fanfic! I can't read the fanfic until I do homework - I've self-banned myself from ff.net until I complete at least ONE of those vocab thingies. ...Make that two, since Vocab 12 is almost done... but then there's still 11... and paragraphs...

-.-

At least I got a new cell phone yesterday. It has Wi-Fi too, and it can see italics! My DSi can't, so sometimes the fanfics can end up extremely confusing. Like, the author puts in a random flashback in italics in the middle of a paragraph, but I can't see the italics so it looks like... um... well, just random.

Why did I just put that on a Zelda blog? No, wait... why did I post ANY of this on a Zelda blog? It has NOTHING to do with Legend of Zelda! Aside from the fan fiction part... but that's not the point!

I'm so weird. So I guess this post is just to let you know I'm alive?

Yep...

(Speaking of which - I just remembered I promised a fanfic post a while ago? Umm... I won't be able to tell you which fanfics I like bestest, but at least you can view my favorites if you go to my ff.net profile here. At least, I'm GUESSING that's my profile... I really can't check 'cuz my computer won't let me on that site, remember?)

NEW SKYWARD SWORD TRAILER!

(This WAS a LoZ update... but I thought I'd take all that stuff out to devote this post entirely to the Skyward Sword video. :D)

I just went on Zelda Wiki - mostly to look up the name of the third LoZ boss... (I think it begins with an M... Mandhandla?) BUT THEN I SAW NEWS ABOUT SKYWARD SWORD!!! THERE'S A NEW TRAILER THAT WAS REVEALED TODAY!!! O:





Well, all the comments are in German, sadly, lolz. There was another upload of it in English, but I thought this one had better quality. ;) Whatever. Pause it at... 0:54 or 0:55... NEW GUY! Or at least a PERSON! I really can't tell if it's a guy or a girl. XD My sis thought it was a girl... or a gay guy... O_o

I think it looks like Vaati, minus the red eyes and wishing cap and purple outfit. But somehow I doubt it would be Vaati. They wouldn't do that to us, would they...? I wanted this to come BEFORE Minish Cap! XD

OH. And then, near the end of the video, there's that weird... thing... that teleports away! O: It's around 1:01. My sis said it looked like a Zora. I thought... TWILI! At least the way it teleported away. Unfortunately, it's probably NOT a Twili, because they came from the Dark Interlopers that... came from... Ocarina of Time... right? Maybe?

You know, now I'm not sure. I can't really remember. -.-

But now that I look at it, it DOES look like a Zora. XD

...Or maybe it's just that Vaati-lookalike again? O_o

I just noticed I'm putting a lot of smilies. It's 'cuz I'm happy. :D

Anyway. I could go on FOREVER commenting on this video. :P There's that weird... puzzle thingy? It's around 0:47. The second I saw it, I'm like, "Ooh! That looks like fun!" My sis suggested that it was the boss key! Despite how annoying that might become, I would like that. :D

OH! I JUST WATCHED IT AGAIN! And I noticed, in some of the pictures, if you look at the Wii controller on the side? On the down button... there's a picture of that E3 2009 girl's face! *gasp* It's like Midna! Except... on the down button, instead of up! Hmm. We still don't know her name. The rumor was Zordiana or something, but Idk anymore.

Now that I'm looking at stuff that isn't the graphics, I see that bar at the top of the screen with the shield next to it. Magic power? Or something else...! For instance, my sis suggested "shield power", since it has a shield next to it, but how would THAT work?

(EDIT: Ooh! And at one point in the video - also on the Wii controller part - on the up button, there's this HARP thingy! O: Sorry, can't give you the times it's at, because I'm not actually watching the video right now.)

And at 1:00 - THAT LOOKS LIKE A NEW BOSS! I bet it is! :D It looks fun, too! OMG. I can't wait for this game...

...So much for an LoZ update. XD I'm in the sixth dungeon - that's really the only important part.

Well! Still have homework! LOTS. Ugh. I have a C in one of my classes. I was going to start harp lessons this month (like Medli :D) but unfortunately, because of my grades, I'm not going to. *sob* STUPID LANGUAGE ARTS. You'd think I'd be good at it, considering I've wrote a 250 page story, but NO. I just have a terrible teacher. >.<

So...

Goodnight! Enjoy the trailer - I know I did. :P

(Random: Apparently, the first time I ever posted about Skyward Sword - when it was only titled "Zelda Wii" - was EXACTLY one year and one day ago. March 1st, 2010. XD)

LoZ Update - Getting random swords without doing some big long sidequest or having an epic cutscene? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GAME?

Item upgrades are a LOT easier to get in the first Zelda game.

...Not that I'm complaining, of course. But you know. Thought I'd point it out.

I now have a white tunic (what special powers it might give me, though, I'm not ENTIRELY sure), an upgraded sword (no clue what it's called, but suddenly old foes are easier), an upgraded shield (it doesn't look very different, but it blocks Zola fireballs now), and I FOUND another sword - just can't use it (stupid old man). Either I'm just lucky, or this is EASY.

White tunic - I was so confused at first. I just went in to this shop with the maximum rupees - speaking of which, is only 255! What the heck? Why'd they stop there? Is there ANY significance to that number or are they just like, "Oh, I like the number 255 - let's do that!" 99 makes sense... but 255? ...Okay, um, anyway, with 255 rupees, and the shopkeeper dude says "Boy, this is expensive!" And there's a Blue Ring in the center there for 250 rupees. I know that's what it's called because I somewhat paid attention when I left the title screen on and all the treasures possible in the game were revealed. So I'm like, "Okay... Idk what it does, but I'm gonna buy it! :D" So I did... and Link randomly changed into a white tunic.

At first I was freaking out, because I had NO clue what this meant... but then I noticed that suddenly, when the Leevers ran into me, it didn't steal any health right away! That's because my defense has been doubled! (I'm assuming, since no one tells you these things in this game. XD) SO HAH! TAKE THAT LEEVERS!!!!

THEN, in the second or third dungeon - which I probably should have mentioned I found at the beginning of this post, but whatev - an old man said something like, "Have you talked to the man at the top of the waterfall?" And I immediately remembered that as the cave Rowan took me to in our expeditions to find the first dungeon. I went there and got a new, epic sword! I THINK it doubled my attack, but then again, I have no idea. I ALSO went into the graveyard after paying this old woman to tell me how to get through the, as she called them, "Woods of Maze" (maybe that's a mistranslation though - I'm calling them Lost Woods XD), and when I pushed aside one of the graves, I found ANOTHER old man with a sword! O: ...But he wouldn't give it to me. *sob* Good news is that I kill Leevers - at least the red ones - in one hit now. Again: HAH! Plus, the Zolas aren't invincible anymore! If I hit them with sword beams or they're dumb enough to come close enough to land for me to slash at them, they die! DOUBLE HAH!

FINALLY, my last amazing upgrade, is... some shield that looks bigger. I bought it in the shop after saving up for a while. I was a little afraid, since I know I've made a mistake with buying identical shields to the current one in shops on other games- usually they're just there if a Like-Like or something takes them, and you end up wasting your money. But I took a chance and bought it, and apparently it's bigger. Now it blocks the Zolas' fireballs. HAHAH!

Yeah. I hate Zolas and Leevers.

They're more evil than Ganon, I swear...

Anyway.

I'm on Level 5! It's kinda hard, though... ugh. There's these soldier thingies that are REALLY hard to beat. I think they're Darknuts, but I'm not sure.... hmm...

*looks up on Zelda Wiki, the most amazing website ever created besides Wizard101 and Wizard101 Central*

OMG! I WAS RIGHT! THEY ARE DARKNUTS! It's amazing how I know all these Zelda enemies, even though I'd never played this game before! XD OOH! I'M GONNA GO LOOK UP THAT CENTAUR THING NOW!

*check*

LYNEL! It's called a LYNEL! I will remember that. What else don't I know? Goriyas? Ooh. So those things with the boomerangs WEREN'T Moblins. Vire? What is THAT? ...Oh! I remember seeing those in one of the dungeons. They were EXTREMELY annoying. They turn into Keese when you attack them...

Wait? No Zolas on the list? They're ZORAS? I'm going to call them Zolas instead, since I KNOW I saw it spelled that way somewhere. After all, 'r' and 'l' are almost the same thing in Japanese - so I've heard. "Zelda" in Japanese is "Zeruda," anyway. Thanks to my amazing Korean-speaking friend who knows a lot about foreign languages, she pronounced it for me and it DOES sound like Zelda... Ooh. And Link is Rinku, in case you were wondering. :P But you don't really pronounce the 'u' much, and the 'r' sounds like an 'l', remember? XD

...WHY AM I TALKING ABOUT JAPANESE? This isn't exactly explaining what happened in Level 5 with the Darknuts and all...

You know, I'm gonna give up this post for tonight. Enough off-topicness. XD I'm tired, and... I have a LOT of homework to do... dang...

Yeah, that's SO not getting done tonight.

'Night!

LoZ Update - OMGIjustboughtthefirstZeldagameandI'mtooexcitedtoputspacesinbetweenthesewordsandYAY!

...Read the post title. If it's decipherable.

Here we are - my eleventh Zelda game: the famous Legend of Zelda. Amazingly, although it's old, it's just as fun as all the others, if not BETTER. I'm REALLY enjoying the whole "run around Hyrule without a map or any clue what to do" thing. It gives me an excuse to do nothing...

But now I can't find the second dungeon - or ANY dungeon for that matter. I didn't even find the first - my sister did. Dang it. >.< She also found the fifth for us. I found the third while I was searching for the second, but that's pretty much it. When I finally saw a dungeon after looking for FOREVER, I was like, "OMG!!!! YES! DUNGEON!" And then I went in and see "Level 3". I was pretty upset. Like... let's throw the GameCube controller across the room and switch to Wii, then throw that too.

That's another nice part... Wii controllers work with this game, too. And our GameCube controllers are stupid - one has the little rubber covering over the control stick coming off and it ANNOYS me when I play, and the other has a tendency that when you press the control stick in one way, the game thinks you're pressing that indefinitely. It happened a lot in Brawl, Ocarina of Time, and Wind Waker. It's kind of funny - characters randomly start running to the side. And then one of our other controllers (the wireless ones) decides to not turn on sometimes. So we only have ONE working GC controller. XD So Wii controllers are MUCH better.

Now... I could write a detailed description in my normal way of writing posts... or I could do it in this somewhat fun idea that I came up with. Every time we died and started over, something interesting would happen...

And I've died twenty times, even though I'm only on level one. XD Srsly. The game counts.

Luckily, I don't remember all twenty times... so let's just write about the ones that might make you laugh, 'kay?

START

Me: YAYS! NEW ZELDA GAME! Okay, let's see... start here... ooh! I know this! I played it on the Brawl demo. I'm gonna - GO IN THE CAVE! Yeah! Sword... uh-huh... now what?

Rowan (my sis): Oh! I think I know! Remember that speed run we watched on YouTube? I think I remember where the guy went for the first dungeon.

Me: Really? Where?

Rowan: Let me show you...

Me: Um, no.... *We fight over controller for a while. Since technically it's my file and I'm the one who bought the game in the first place, I win.* Just tell me where to go.

Rowan: FINE. ...Um, up. I think. Now right... up...

Me: *gets hit on screen and gasps* WHOA! LEEVERS! I HATE LEEVERS!!!! *runs around trying to kill the stupid monsters... and then a Zola pops up and hits Link, killing him*

Rowan: ...Did you just die?

Me: ...Um... yeah... maybe. I officially hate Zolas.

DEATH TWO (or something like that)

*gets sword from old man in cave*

Rowan: Remember... up... right... up... AVOID THE LEEVERS!

Me: I'm TRYING! They're kind of HARD to avoid! They pop up out of NOWHERE! As if I didn't hate them on Twilight Princess in that stupid "fix the bridge for the Goron dude" sidequest... Or outside the Spirit Temple on Ocarina of Time... Or-

Rowan: You're a little scary sometimes when you talk about LoZ. Did you know that?

Me: Yes. Yes I did.

Rowan: Oh. Good.

*Link gets killed by ANOTHER LEEVER on screen*

DEATH THREE

Me: Are you sure we're going the right way? And HOW THE HECK DO I KILL THESE PEAHATS? OR THE ZOLAS? THEY'RE INVINCIBLE!!!

Rowan: Idk. But just ignore them. Umm... go up that way, and dodge the boulders.

Me: This game would be easier if there was a shield button.

Rowan: Um... you're holding a shield, aren't you? On the game?

Me: ...OMG. Link is. What the heck? Can't he use it?

*We go up a few screens until we reach a ton of Tektites*

Me: Wow! This is farther than we've gotten before! Now, let's kill the Tektites...

*waits*

Me: ...Um, why isn't my sword working?

Rowan: SIERRA!!!! YOU FORGOT TO GET THE SWORD FROM THE OLD MAN!!!!

Me: Oh. Shoot.

*dies*

DEATH FOUR

Me: Wow. I HAVE a sword this time, we're past the Tektites... now do we go up this ladder thing?

Rowan: Um... maybe...

Me: Okay. *enters an area with a cave on the other side* IS THAT THE DUNGEON?! I hope so. Wait... *sees this blue creature thing* Woah. What is THAT? Is it a Moblin? No... it doesn't look like one...

*tries to run up and hit it... it pwns Link. With half a heart left, tries to run around it... and it throws a sword at me. Link dies*

Me: ...I was THAT. CLOSE. And I died.

SINCE WHEN DO MONSTERS HAVE SWORD BEAMS??????

DEATH FIVE

Me: You know, it's REALLY annoying how my sword is on the A button. I keep pressing B. The sword is on B in EVERY game except this one. Even in Minish Cap, where you could unequip the sword, I couldn't STAND having it on A...

Rowan: No one cares, Sierra. Now go up the stairs again and look out for that blue Centaur thingy. ...NO! DON'T START HITTING IT!!!

Me: Why not? *gets down to half a heart again* DANG! *runs past it and into cave* YEEESSSS! WE MADE IT!!! ...Wait, what is this?

*enters room with old man in center and a sword in front of him.*

Old Man: You can have this when you master it.

Me: *glares at Rowan*

Rowan: Hehe... um... I guess this isn't a dungeon after all...

Me: *face-palm*

DEATH SIX

Me: Since we really don't have any other ideas on where to go, let's get back past that area with the boulders and go by the Tektites again, and then try that little path that led away from it to the side, all right?

Rowan: Sure, go ahead.

*does so - finds an empty area with four pathways leading off*

Me: Uh... where should we go?

Rowan: Just let ME have it. *she takes the controller and goes up over and over*

Me: ...Nothing's happening... OOH!

*magic Zelda puzzle-solved theme!*

Rowan: HAH! IT'S A DUNGEON! YES! *goes inside, reads top*

Me: ...Level five? Well, that's wonderful, Rowan, but we kinda need to start at level ONE.

Rowan: Oh... oops...

Interlude - Rowan's file! XD

Me: *just coming out of shower* ...WAIT! Where the heck are you?

Rowan: SIERRA! GUESS. WHAT. I FOUND THE FIRST DUNGEON!!!

Me: ...REALLY? Hey! But I want to do it!

Rowan: I know. That's why I made my own file. It's called Pwnage. :D

Me: THIS IS MY GAME! WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO DO THIS? ...Oh, whatever. Give me a turn and-

*Rowan gets pwned by Wallmaster and taken back to start*

Rowan: NO!!!! I HAVE TO get back to that room now! PLEASE? Just a few more minutes?

Me: ...Fine.

*she gets back to room, and goes into next one by avoiding the Wallmasters*

Me: *looks up from reading fanfiction on DSi* ...IS THAT THE BOSS?

Rowan: Oh. Hey. I guess it is! Now, what do I do with this boss...?

Me: OH!!! I READ A FAN FICTION ABOUT THIS! (P.S. - It's called Voiceless if you wanted to look it up, lol. It's based on the first two games and it's pretty good. :D) The author said you can just stand in this one spot and shoot sword beams at the boss, and he can't hit you but you can hit him. It's supposed to be easy... except... your hearts aren't full. How can you get sword beams?

*she dies*

Me: HAH! MY TURN!

(And yet... she goes back for sword beams and pwns the boss.)

Rowan: TRIFORCE PIECE!!!! YAY!

Me: ...I hate you.

DEATH SEVEN

Me: Okay. BOSS TIME! Aquamentus... YEAH! ...That is the first boss's name, right?

Rowan: Don't ask me. You're the Zelda expert.

Me: Haha... right... *goes into boss room* ...Um, I just noticed something!

Rowan: What?

Me: ...I don't have sword beams.

Rowan: Then just go up and hit him with your sword or something...

*I try*

Me: ...IT'S NOT WORKING!!!! LOOK! *tries stabbing Aquamentus or whatever its name is with the sword - and NOTHING HAPPENS!* I'M STUCK IN HERE WITH AN INVINCIBLE BOSS! WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I- Oh, hey. Is that door open? *goes out the door I came IN through*

Rowan: LOL. What was the point of all that?

Me: Well, every OTHER Zelda game I played, the door LOCKS when you fight the boss! How was I supposed to know? *goes a few rooms back in the dungeon, and sees a door I did not enter* Hey, Rowan? What's in there?

Rowan: Oh, Idk... I didn't go in there. Can't be important if I already defeated the boss.

Me: Well, maybe I'll get some hearts for sword beams in there. *explores a bit, does a block puzzle, and then...*

Me: ROWAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FOUND THE BOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rowan: WHAT? ...Drat. Now I need to get that.

Me: OOH! I bet that's why you can't hit him with your sword! You're supposed to use this as a projectile! Hehe, I'm smart.

Rowan: Yeah, sure, whatever.

*I go to the equipment screen... except I can't figure out how to equip the bow*

Me: Um... HOW DO I GET TO THAT? LOOK! I'm pressing EVERY button! Z! X! Y! A! B! NOTHING WORKS! *switches to Wii controller, tries again* ...STILL NOT WORKING!

Rowan: Haha, well, I don't have the bow. Can't help you there!

(I'm running out of time, so I'll just summarize this next part. I failed epically, absolutely convinced there's something wrong with our game, even reading the instructions fifty times over... and then I realize maybe I can't use the bow because... I had no arrows?)

(Gods. Why is this so DIFFICULT for me?)

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I'm going to stop it there. XD I went and beat the boss with sword beams, since I didn't have enough rupees to buy arrows. And now... I need the second dungeon, wherever it might be. As you can see, the majority of my deaths come from AFTER I beat the first dugeon, while I'm exploring the Leever and Zola infiltrated Hyrule. ...OMG. I want to kill all Zolas and Leevers in EXISTENCE! I HATE THEM! They're worse than the Wallmasters! Worse, I still haven't discovered a way to kill Zolas; I spent a full fifteen minutes shooting sword beams at one when it popped out of the water, and it wouldn't die. And the Leevers just seem to keep coming BACK.

...Well, whatever. Thanks for letting me write this super epic post! Good night, awesome readers!

Happy Birthday Legend of Zelda!

Hey, would you look at that? Two birthday posts in a row! Who knew Sydney's birthday was so near LoZ's? ;)

Yesterday - February 21st, 2011 - The Legend of Zelda had its 25th anniversary! EPIC! :D Isn't it weird how, here in the States, that was also President's Day? That's why when I saw it on Yahoo, I at first didn't believe it... but then I saw it on Zelda Wiki too, and two sources reporting that combined with the fact that I already knew LoZ would be turning 25 at some point this year made me believe it.

Lolz, what brought it to my attention was Yahoo, actually... When I went to check my e-mail yesterday, I went to the front page of the website as always. I occasionally look at the "Trending Now" box up there just to see if I recognize any of the stuff (usually I don't) and then I was like... "Whoa! Legend of Zelda is trending now! It's number six on the list!" So I clicked on it, and the first thing was a news post about its anniversary. Yep!

To celebrate its anniversary... well, I kinda want to post a chapter of my fanfic but I still hate the first chapter, lol. If I could skip that first chapter... then I'd be happy to post it! But otherwise... um, no. I just gotta figure out how to get Navi back into the story, since she's missing in Majora's Mask... and I want Link to have someone to talk to... either that, or I could just make Link silent like he is in the games, I guess. XD

SO, since I can't do that (technically I can, and if anyone comments and says they want to read it, I MIGHT... might... because I need feedback to make it better - I'm out of ideas) I decided on a better way.

Why not buy the game that started it all?

That's right: Legend of Zelda!

...Although my friend, Noob/Cloud/Deku thinks that would be Ocarina of Time. I was laughing so hard when he didn't know what the first Zelda game was. He listed off pretty much every game in the series - including Zelda II - and didn't get it... XD (Sorry, I shouldn't be making fun of him. He only has TP and ST.)

I keep getting off-topic. >.<

YES. I'm going to - or I WANT to - buy The Legend of Zelda. Idk if I can yet. If my sister doesn't stop playing Animal Crossing: City Folk, I can't get on the Wii Shop Channel to buy it. -.-

...Now that I think of it... can you only upload $10 or more at a time? That would be so stupid. LoZ is only $5. The rest of that money should go to Skyward Sword, not some other random game. I guess I'll buy AoL if I have to, but...

...Oh, another random fact about me? I've at least PLAYED every game in the series except Adventure of Link. XD I know virtually nothing about it beyond what I've seen on YouTube.

Well, that's it! 'Night people! :D

(Another random fact: OMG! I have no label for Legend of Zelda or Adventure of Link on this blog! There's every Zelda game except those two! That's sad. XD)

Happy Birthday Sydney!

Very suddenly... I feel extremely sick tonight. :( So this might not be as... random. On the other hand, I've said that before, and it ends up being as random as always, just because you don't require too much energy to type, no matter what it is. ;)

This post is about Sydney's birthday party! :D Idk when her real birthday is, but her PARTY was last Saturday and Sunday. It was SUPER fun - a sleepover, with a ton of girls I didn't know. Yeah, I know most people reading this are guys, and don't really care... but this does PARTIALLY relate to Zelda. For instance, we stayed up until 4:30 in the morning. This one other girl and I... we were kinda trying to sleep, but it was waaaaay too loud. The other girls were playing the board game Life, and UGH, they wouldn't stop talking! :P So we watched the movie Aladdin and the King of Thieves (we were GOING to watch Percy Jackson on that girl's iPod, but then it ran out of power and she didn't have a charger -.-) and then got bored. Finally, I BEGGED (literally) Sydney to let me play her Twilight Princess game. She has it, but she's still in the first dungeon. Luckily, she allowed me to make my own file on her Wii, and it pwns her. 7 hours and I'm in the Lakebed Temple. Hers is 14 hours and still in Forest Temple. :P

Anyway, my begging didn't succeed... at first. Sydney thinks Twilight Princess is a VERY scary game for some reason - which I can see at SOME parts, but she's in the first dungeon. Really? What's scary there - the monkey? Poor monkies...

However, finally, at 2 AM, SYDNEY LET ME PLAY IT!

...And the funny thing? She was worried about it being scary... and I JUST so happened to get to the scariest cutscene in the whole game that night. :P

It's the one after freeing Lanayru province from the Twilight, before you go into Lakebed Temple. The light spirit shows you... some really creepy cutscene. It involves Dark Interlopers and Ilias falling from the sky. XD But the girls at the sleepover TOTALLY ruined its scaryness. They kept asking me random questions: "Oookay. What's going on? This doesn't make sense! Why'd she attack him? Why'd he turn to dust? Why'd he kill himself? Who are those people? Why is this happening?" :P

Earlier in the night, we played mafia. OMG, that's the BEST game ever. :D HOWEVER... for some STUPID reason, MAFIAS HATE ME. If you don't know how to play the game, people are assigned roles - there's of course the mafias, who select one person to kill, a sheriff that seems to serve no purpose whatsoever, a nurse who can save the targeted person if they guess correctly who it is, a narrator that describes in a hilarious way how the person died or was saved (at least in the way we play it), and the normal townspeople that also serve no purpose. The mafia kill someone each turn while the others are "asleep" and then the next "day" the townspeople, sherrif, and nurse accuse to people of being the mafia and they have a trial together, and the person who loses the trial dies. The point is to kill the mafia before they kill all the townspeople. So me? I was targeted to die first every round of the game we played except one! WHAT THE HECK? I barely even knew those girls! Why were they killing me! :P

...Could have been because I said, "Okay, watch, I'm totally going to die this turn," and I kept interrupting Sydney when she tried to teach us how to play...

Fortunately, one round when I was targeted, I was the nurse. So I tried to save myself. XD And apparently I was right! I saved myself from "falling off the Grand Canyon" (so the narrator said) with my super epic ninja nurse powers! :D And then ANOTHER round I was the nurse AGAIN, and the very people I tried to save accused me of being the mafia! O: Then they killed me! WHEN I TRIED TO SAVE THEM! >.< One of them was Sydney, btw... she was SO sure I was the mafia, and she felt bad when she discovered I wasn't... :P


...Um...

Yep.

That's all I got.

My goshness, that was SO much longer than I expected it to be. I want to go on Wizard101 now, but I don't know if I have time. :(

In any case... good night!

I GUESS this is my TP post.

Really, though, I have a LOT better news than my Twilight Princess completion in three days thing. I barely remember it anymore. But just last night, I did something awesome:

I COMPLETED MINISH CAP!

Yaaaaayyyy! :D

But let's see here: I just have ONE story to tell about the TP run, okay? And also, a schedual that I came up with forever ago. It's mostly for MY future reference, since you people probably don't care about it (if you care about any of my stuff, lol - but I hope I'm somewhat entertaining, considering that I now have FIFTEEN FOLLOWERS! Thank you!).

So, here... I wrote this down based on the "Wii Play Data" that gives exact times on how long I spent on TP and OoT over the three days, as well as exact dates. Yeah.

It started on Wednesday, 12/22, playing OoT for 7 hours, 4 minutes.

Thursday, 12/23, played OoT for, *sigh*, 17 hours, 6 minutes. (DANG WATER TEMPLE!)

Friday, 12/24, played OoT for 5 hours, 47 minutes. Completed it. Yayz!

Saturday, 12/25 - BREAK DAY! I didn't do anything on my Wii that day! lol.

Sunday, 12/26, played TP for 2 hours, 17 minutes. (and My Pokemon Ranch for one minute :P)

Monday, 12/27, played TP for 6 hours and 32 minutes. But the total Wii play time is 7 hours and 1 minute, because I was watching Nintendo Channel for a while. You know that Majora's Mask isn't on there, but LoZ, AoL, OoT, TP, ST, and PH are? What happened to MM?! O:

Tuesday, 12/28. Oh, geez... *gets out calculator* Okay, so if I subtract the 27 min. of OoT and the 25 min. of MM, then add up the, like, ten times I turned on and off the Wii for TP, I get... 4 hours, 48 minutes? Maybe? >.<

Wednesday, 12/29, played TP for 3 hours, 13 minutes. KIND OF completed TP... read below for more info. XD

Thursday, 12/30. All around Wii day. Played TP for some time over an hour (not checking again), then Sydney came over. She brought Dragon Quest Swords, then we played Brawl, then Nintendo Channel... yeah. Uh-huh. Why did I even post this part? O_o Probably just to prove I don't play ONLY Zelda games. XD

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...So I said I "kind of" completed TP. Here's that story.

I finally reached Zant! Yay! Second-to-last boss in the game! Sweetness! However, I didn't save AFTER completing Zant. I do that on most of my Twilight Princess files, since I love him so much... as a boss! I mean, as a boss. Yes. XD So I was considering making this file the one-before-Zant file and finally saving on my first one after it beats Zant. The reason is that my first file has all the Heart Containers - except one. That one is what you get from defeating Zant. >.< Um... so I didn't save. That's all you really needed to know.

After Zant, I hurried back to Hyrule Castle. Just for the record, I skipped every cutscene I possibly could in the game. Yep. That means I literally had no storyline. If I'd been playing this for the first time... I would know NOTHING. I skipped the intro scene. I skipped children getting kidnapped. I skipped turning into a wolf. I skipped meeting Midna, meeting Zelda, saving the light spirits, fighting King Bulbin, saving Colin, creepy cutscene (really, the one after you save Lanayru is scary), finding Ilia, meeting Zant, Midna almost dying and Zelda saving her, meeting the sages, Blizzetta screaming "NOT TAKE MIRROR!" (which is sad, 'cuz I like that part), pwning Zant, meeting Ganondorf, pwning Ganondorf. Yep. :)

The oddest cutscenes I discovered I couldn't skip? ...Well, I only remember two, although there were a TON. But the strangest one was that you can't skip where Ilia gets her memory back. So I had to waste a full minute of my life just watching Ilia and Link stare at each other with stupid smiles on their faces and Epona neighing in the background. Seriously? O_o The second was the Master Sword cutscene. Yeah, that's why it's not listed above. I. COULDN'T. SKIP. IT. ...I can't believe I tried, either. XD So, they'll let you skip Zelda, but not the sword. Weird.

...I was talking about Zant, right?

I went in to Hyrule Castle. Gosh, I know that dungeon SO well. For instance, there's one part where you're supposed to turn into a wolf and use your senses to view these ghost guys that point in the direction to go across a path of blocks. If you run on the wrong block, it will fall. But I've done this so many times, I don't need to turn into a wolf. I just run on through on the exact path. As long as those invisible rats don't get me...

Then it's GANONDORF! O: I skipped everything before him, of course. XD Ganon's Puppet was easy (and fun! I had an obsession with the TP ending for a while, since I love it so much, and that's why I know Hyrule Castle so well), then on to Beast Ganon, then the horse-battle phase, and, finally, sword combat with the evil king!

That's where everything went wrong.

It's the final phase of Ganondorf. I was super excited, especially since it was so late - ten or something at night. Eventually, Link and Ganondorf lock swords, just like they're supposed to. Since I'd hit him a LOT (I have a pretty good strategy - if you're standing too close to him, he can't really hit you! :P) I figured this would be my last time pushing him to the ground. So I shifted the position of my fingers so I could use another finger besides my slow thumb to press the A button, which pushes him back. Then... I pressed a button...

...but it wasn't the A button... it was the POWER button on the controller...

So the Wii turned off.

And there you have it, folks! That's why I technically never completed TP in three... or four... days. Strangely, this didn't make me angry, like not saving normally does - no, I was struggling not to laugh at, like, 10 at night when everyone else was asleep in my house. But I found it so funny. So it's all right. You can laugh at my expense, at my epic fail. Go ahead.

NOW... MINISH CAP! I completed it last night, in some pizza restaurant. Really. It was good! ...The pizza, I mean. It was some kind of garlic chicken thing. XD No, but the ending of MC was good, too. But it caused the OoT ending song to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day - they play a section of it (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what that song was). I had headphones on, in case you were wondering how I could hear the music in a crowded restaurant. I'll have to go into detail later since, remember... this is my TP post! Plus, some fan fics just got updated... one of them is the last chapter... O:

Okay. Hope this entertains my wonderfulistical 15 followers. :)

...Ooh! A new word! DON'T STEAL!

Ocarina of Time - Majora's Mask style!

I FINISHED OCARINA OF TIME AND TWILIGHT PRINCESS IN THREE DAYS!!!

No, not BOTH of them. I mean, each of them. Like, Ocarina of Time took three days, then Twilight Princess took three... well, actually, it was technically FOUR, but the first one didn't really count. We had relatives over when I was trying to do TP, so I couldn't focus on it completely.

I've been contemplating and forming this post in my head ever since I beat them both. I actually tried to post something on here about the Ocarina of Time three-day run while I was on the second day of it, in the Water Temple. That temple was just frustrating me so dang much, I took a break (actually, a LOT of breaks - I'll explain later in this post), and grabbed my DS. At first it was fan fiction catching-up that I did... but eventually I ran out of new chapters to read. So THEN I went on blogger on my DSi... and... of COURSE...

It deleted the post after I finished writing it.

*sigh* When will I learn my lesson?

Anyway, SINCE I've been thinking about this for FOREVER, it will probably be LONG. Just thought I'd warn ya. ;)

So. As I discovered after writing this entire thing, it's LONGER than long. It's GINORMOUS. So Twilight Princess will be on a separate post, 'kay? I ALSO added little dashes in between each dungeon so it's not one big, long wall of text. Now, here's my three-day run of Ocarina of Time!

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I hadn't played that game in a long while - I could barely remember most of the cutscenes and so on. I don't know exactly WHY I did it - probably just out of boredom? But one morning during the Winter Break, I decided to delete my third Ocarina of Time file and start a new one. It was a difficult decision - I had all four bottles on that file! And finding those stupid Big Poes for the last bottle is HARD! ...But I did it anyway.

So, I started the game. The first dungeon, Inside the Great Deku Tree, went well... except all my nightmares of Navi started coming back. I really gotta play OoT more often. I'd forgotten how annoying that stupid fairy is. Like, when I was in that dungeon? At one point, there's this spiderweb thingy that you have to jump down on top of to break it, but when I did, it didn't break. Navi says "HEY!" when you approach the thing, so when I landed it, it bounced up and down. So every time it bounced, Navi would scream "HEY!" It ended up something like "Heyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyhey!!!" before the thing stopped bouncing...

However, this is where the really epic part comes in - after defeating Ghoma, the first boss, I didn't get the Heart Container! O: So, yeah! I completed this game in three days with three hearts and dying only three times! XD

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Then it was to Hyrule Castle! Zelda was fun to mess with. I probably wasted the most time there. After all, it wasn't me trying to hurry through the game until I got through five dungeons in one day, impressing myself. Anyway, she doesn't even turn to look at you when you come in. Like, if Link was an assassin or something, she would be dead. XD I tried slashing at her a few times, lol. Then I shot my slingshot and the windows. One gives you a lecture and a lit bomb. The other (with Mario characters in it) gives you rupees. I think I like rupees better. My sister got annoyed by all this time I was wasting, since she was watching me and all. I talked to her at my sister's urging... but I managed to annoy her more by selecting "no" to everything Zelda said, making her repeat the same thing over and over until you choose "yes."

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After that - second dungeon. Dodongo's Cavern. Um, Taryn watched me for part of this... but besides that, I can't remember much of it. It wasn't very exciting.

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Third dungeon - Inside Lord Jabu-Jabu! Ummm... wasn't much in here to talk about, either. Oh, well, there was ONE thing, lol. The boss. Um, after I defeated it, I was standing a liiitttllle too close to it... so when the Heart Container appeared, it appeared ON TOP OF me! So I got it. And then I had four hearts, not three... >.<

So I turned off the game and started over. I WANTED THREE HEARTS. I wouldn't even let myself get a Heart Piece - when I did, I'd also turn it off. :P

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After that it was... MASTER SWORD TIME! (Da-na-na-naaah!) But fiiiiirrsst... I had to do a few things as a little kid. After all, I wouldn't be able to go back until I beat Forest Temple. So, first I went and got all the bottles I could. I'd forgotten the one in Lon Lon Ranch... so I found that. And then I got Anju's Cucco's or whatever, and that ALSO gets you a bottle. Yay! Three bottles! Perfect for fairies, which are totally useful when you only have three hearts. :D

Then I wasted MORE time by going to the Happy Mask Shop. I sold the Keaton Mask. Then I got the Skull Mask, but... the Skull Kid won't talk to you to buy it unless you play Saria's Song. And I can't do THAT! That gets me a HEART PIECE!

...So that didn't work out either.

Then I watched the cutscene-type-thing where that guard is dying! I'd heard of it before, but every time I played this game, I always forget to see it! You go into the back alleys in Castle Town RIGHT before getting the Master Sword, and you'll see a guard there. Yeah. Did that...

THEN it was Master Sword time.

And the VERY first thing I did when I turned older? Did that glitch at the Temple of Time altar that temporarily ditches Navi. :P You can't do it when you're little.

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Next dungeon - Forest Temple! You know that the Poes are named after the girls in the book Little Women? I actually OWN that book... like, permanently... but I've never read it. O_o I got lost in the Forest Temple for a while - I've always had a weakness for that place!

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Then on to Fire Temple. This went by pretty quickly. Well, it DID, until I fell down to the first floor while trying to get the Megaton Hammer from a timed-treasure chest. IT FRUSTRATED ME! I wanted to throw something! XD

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And that was the end of the first day! As for the second day? That's where it gets interesting. According to my Wii, I spent... about...

17 hours on it?

And you want to know why? The most annoying Zelda dungeon in HISTORY.

WATER TEMPLE!!!!

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In reality, however, it wasn't totally 17 hours. I left the Wii running for a while, because I was so annoyed by it, while the game was paused. Second time I replayed this game, I actually thought the Water Temple wasn't too bad! And first time - I think I used a walkthrough or something. Idk. Why was it so hard THIS TIME? WHHHY?!

...Well, I KNOW why. Because I lost a stupid key. I needed one to get into the room before Dark Link - yeah, I even KNEW what room it was! - but I couldn't find the key. It took me FOREVER and a LOT a wandering to get it. And a lot of Farore's Wind usage.

This was actually the point that I wrote my post that got deleted on my DSi at. When I lost the key and couldn't find the stupid thing. I was musing on that post about Dark Link - I remembered hearing somewhere that his life depending on how many hearts you had? I have only three hearts, so...

He was REALLY easy. Comically easy. XD Even easier than the second time I played this game, and I thought he was easy then.

Well, first off, he WOULDN'T SHOW UP! I didn't know what to do in the room! It's all empty and whatever except the water and tree in the middle, right? So you're supposed to go to the other side of the room, turn around, and he's standing by the tree.

SO WHERE WAS HE WHEN I DID THAT?

I walked the length of that room like ten times before Dark Link showed up! Srsly! >.<

But from then on, it was Din's Fire, he disappears. Din's Fire, disapppear. Din's Fire, disappear. And he dies. :D Just three times. Thank you, few Heart Containers of mine.

After Dark Link, the Water Temple wasn't as bad anymore. Aside from the putting on and taking off Iron Boots that EVERYONE hates.

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THEN it was Shadow Temple. Possibly my favorite Zelda dungeon. ...Or it WAS, until I got stuck in it, and my sister started pointing out how scary it was.

IF OoT HAD TP GRAPHICS, IT WOULD BE RATED T. And it would deserve it more than TP. IT'S SCARY! The walls in parts of the Shadow Temple are made of BONES!! Eeeek! And there's blood on the walls! And that Dead Hand... OMG... I NEVER want to see another one again...

And ReDeads...

Oh dear god, goddess, or whatever deity is up there... I hate them...

*shudder*

The only Zelda enemy to give me nightmares. And they were Wind Waker ReDeads. WIND WAKER!!!! That game that everyone thinks isn't mature enough!

Yeeahh... well... back to Shadow Temple. I got lost in the Bottom of the Well, that mini-dungeon you do when you're younger to get the Lens of Truth. The funny part? Well... I didn't know where to go, right? So I found this one room where there were holes in the ground you couldn't see. You'd need the Lens of Truth to see them. However, I didn't have that yet. I figured that by getting through the room, I'd GET the Lens of Truth. So I kept falling. And falling. And again. Again. Every time into a room with creepy green... something that I don't even WANT to know what it was... and a ReDead.

I HATE REDEADS! THEY DON'T EVEN BLOW UP! I threw, like, twenty bombs at him! And this creepy green blood come out, but he's not hurt. Nooooo. ReDeads are too GOOD to get hurt when blood squirts out.

...Like I said. Should be rated T.

Oh, and that room with the invisible holes? I got through it - WITHOUT the Lens of Truth. I used Bombchus to see if they would fall or not, and when I ran out, my Boomerang. Best I could think of. And when I finally get through it? There's no Lens of Truth. Nooo - that room was supposed to be done AFTER getting the Lens of Truth. Instead, I get... a Skulltula token.

WHAT THE HECK? I DON'T NEED SKULLTULAS! I ALREADY HAD THE GIANT'S WALLET! I don't even KNOW what you get after that... I never bothered trying to get anymore than what I needed for it.

*ahem* So. Enough of that. Shadow Temple went by pretty quickly - I DO love the eerie feeling of it. Just not the ReDeads. Or the Dead Hand. Or the blood. Or the skulls. Or the music. Or the Floormasters and Wallmasters (luckily, no wallmasters got me, but I think a Floormaster killed me once...). Yep. Besides that, though, it's awesome.

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...That was the end of day two. Uh-huh. Finished five dungeons in, what, seven hours? And two... in sevenTEEN.

On to day three... and the Spirit Temple!

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I think I spent too long in the Gerudo Fortress. I was having too much fun in there. OOH! And I learned where the colors of the Gerudo came from in the fan fiction, The Return! I thought the author made it up! ...Yeah. :P Didn't help, though, when I found the second-to-last captenter dude and saved him, and then accidentally got a Heart Piece. I turned it off and hadn't saved since saving the first dude. Had to find those two again.

So, Spirit Temple... did it as a little kid... umm... the conversation with Nabooru was pretty fun. Just because it gives you options as answers. I found it funny when she asks if you're one of Ganondorf's followers. The only thing is when you say, "What if I am?" (which I always do - I'm just that kind of person XD) she says something like, "No, you're too young to be one of his followers. Just kidding!"

Ugh. Why did she even ASK me in the first place, then? Hmph.

Then I went to fight an Iron Knuckle mini-boss. And guess what?

They hit exactly three hearts out of you if their sword connects...

And I only had three hearts...

EEK! IT KILLED ME IN ONE HIT!

Thank the Goddesses for fairies. :D And Young Link's tiny size! I ducked under it by holding the shield button and just started slamming B! Its sword swept right over my head because it was two stupid to try a vertical slice. So I killed it pretty quickly. :P And finally, I headed back to the Temple of Time for the Master Sword so I could complete the REST of the Spirit Temple. And another Iron Knuckle. It killed me three times, so that, with all four bottles, I only had one fairy left. And the boss fight? It's an Iron Knuckle too, or at least part of it is. And that killed me the first time, even with four fairies. >.< I tried again, but this time with my sister's BRILLIANT plan - USE NAYRU'S LOVE! That way, it won't kill me in one hit! :D

After that?

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FINAL BOSS TIME!!!! YAAAAYYY!!!

I didn't like the cutscenes though. I wanted to hurry and complete it before the day was over. It was already really, really late at night... so I was going as fast as I could so I could say I completed it in three days. I dispelled the barrier things, and hurried through Ganondorf's Tower (and fought a few more Iron Knuckles), and theeeeennnn...

BOSS! Ganon! Yay! Almost dying... but then, I won! And I didn't die! WOOOOOOOT!

And that's my Ocarina of Time in three days over Winter Break story!

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As I said, this wasn't a speed run, and I guarantee I could complete it in ONE day if I tried. I did a lot of unnecessary sidequests - part of the Happy Mask Shop, getting ALL FOUR BOTTLES, getting Biggoron Sword (that one took FOREVER), and all the Fairy Fountains. So I could have been quicker. :P

But that was pretty good, right? ;)

And in case you didn't get the post title, it was three days, so it was the same time as Majora's Mask... yeah... XD

Um, like I mentioned at the top, I really don't have room to describe Twilight Princess. This will be one heck of a long post if I did that. I'll put it in a SEPARATE POST! And since I have nothing better to do right now, I might as well start writing it...

So... yep! That's the new longest post ever on Medli's Messages. And boy, was it fun to write. Even if no one reads it. :) It's the result of boredom on a day off - I was sick at home today. Uh-huh.

Now... I gotta close this up...

GOOD NIGHT! :)