Today’s game is some Twilight Princess. I went and got the Master Sword today. I have to say it’s probably one of my favorite Master Sword pulls. It’s still no Ocarina of Time (the soundtrack and ambience leading up to it just sells it for me) but it’s close. I didn’t really care for the little mini boss before it though. It was a lot less exciting.
After that I made my way over to the Arbiter’s grounds. It’s a very chill trip up there surprisingly. I was expecting something a little more action heavy but outside that desert part it was chill. I didn’t really care for that temple though leading up to it. I’m not sure what it was but it just felt like it was there to gate the Arbiter’s Grounds.
Also: fuck this puzzle in particular. Absolutely miserable. I hated it. Maybe I’m just tired but it felt like floundering about until I got the right combo.
Anyways, after this I’ll start the Arbiter’s Grounds puzzle. I’m hoping I’ll make quick work of this one and won’t put it off a bunch like the last one. We’ll see though.
Budgets and lack of time can unfortunately harm quality a fair bit. It makes me think of the anime movie Your Name, which would have had a way better ending if his studio wasn’t strapped, Makoto Shinkai said; it wasn’t what he had wanted.
Well, at least it made a reappearance of need in Ganondorf’s castle, I suppose…
TP’s last third or so definitely feels a bit rushed.The more you progress, the shorter the inter-dungeon quests are, to the point the first time I went through the game I didn’t even realize I had already entered the last dungeon before getting through a few rooms.
That said, TP has a general item problem because the first dungeon item is also barely used through the game. But it’s just a rather basic boomerang with a wind gimmick, so I didn’t care much about that one.
Now that you point it out I notice what you mean. I can’t think of another time really I used the boomerang. It’s disappointing a little even if it’s forgettable