Twilight Princess - Minor Spoilers

I had been playing the Legend of Zelda for an hour and a half. All in all, it was a disappointing attempt. Before I went up to Waterloo to hang with Binkle and Andrew on Thursday, I had gone to the outside of the Cave of Ordeals to prepare for a long and dangerous trek into the depths of the Earth.

And I did. With reasonable success. I got to a floor with three heavily armoured guys (Dark Nuts) that have amazing defense, and you have to wait for them to attack before you can attack. So, I fought them and fought them. I got all of their armour off. But then…just as I was about to achieve victory…I didn’t. I thought I had one more fairy left (I came in with two fairies, blue potion, and great fairies tears), but alas, I had used them all.

ASIDE: This is one thing I dislike about Twilight Princess. While I like that it doesn’t slow down the battle with a death sequence that is immediately reversed, since the fairy is used automatically and it isn’t obvious in the heat of battle, you have no way of knowing when one has been used up. :P

Anyway, I was killed, despite still having the Great Fairies Tears. I looked the Cave of Ordeals up on GameFAQs just now to find out how far I got…

And it was the very last room. I would have been done had I just finished them off.

But it all turned out to be irrelevant anyway. After I got out of the Cave of Ordeals, I went to Lake Hylia to meet the other gay clown man who runs the Cucco Glider challenge. I flew down to the Isle of Riches, as he calls it, to get a Poe and investigate the whereabouts of a Heart Piece. I landed on the top platform (the spinning one) and opened it to receive 100 rupees. I then dropped down onto the platform lower, and landed on the chest. I stepped off of it (safely onto the actual platform) and turned to open the chest.

And the Wii froze. Apparently, the Heart Piece contained within that chest (as I found out later) was the King of All Heart Pieces, and it was capable of tearing time and space with its ravenous crystalline claws. And with that, my hour and a half of gaming went out the window. While I was not overly disappointed, since it meant I could retry the Cave of Ordeals and get it perfect on the first playthrough, I was bummed out about losing the Heart Pieces that I had found.

I had losing your file after you’ve found key items, because it is so hard to remember where they are again without playing through the game more than once.

So, I’ve dedicated myself to hunting down the bugs to get a bigger wallet, so that I can get a shitload of money from the Cave of Ordeals, and invest that money in buying a Heart Piece from that “donation guy” at the Hyrule Castle Gate. I’ve contemplated simply killing him and taking his heart and feasting upon it to improve my own resolve. However, it doesn’t seem like the actions of a hero.

I’ve only got a few more bugs left to find. I need to find the second Phasmid, and Dayfly. And then I think I have one more pair of bugs to find after that, since I discovered the pair of Stag Beetles shortly after. The problem I have with the Dayfly is that it was found in the Gerudo Desert…which is fuckin’ huge.

I’m tempted to just kill Agitha and take whatever she has to give me. I thought it might just be a bottle, since she has three on a shelf in the upper floor of her house, but since I have all four, I’ve started to doubt that.