Okay, I really liked this area. The mines were fun to explore with the little pockets of time crystal time traveling stuff. I was disappointed that it would just be another lava-ish place, but it really helped it out. THOSE FREAKING HERMIT CRABS SUCK. Oh man, those things were annoying.
The robots... So freaking adorable. They're like Yeto/Yeta shrunk down, made roboticky, and given electro arms. So cool! My favorite is definitely Scrapper (Gondo's robot). Jumping ahead a little with that, but I like that he has a bad attitude, yet he's a sucker for the ladies, haha.
I was angry that I accidentally backed out of the puzzle to open up the dungeon and Fi basically told me the answer. I mean, I already knew what to do, but the fact that they straight up tell you the answer is ridiculous. I think Fi (not so much her character, but her role) is my least favorite thing about this game. She's constantly echoing things that are obvious or were just stated, or she's annoying me to death about "hey, you should heal" "hey, there's an enemy in front of you. I could tell you stuff about it." "hey, _________." It's irritating as heck, and not in the Navi kind of way.
Temple was better than I thought it would be at first. I liked the super easy scorpion enemies and the other occupants of the temple. Combat is my second least favorite thing in the game because it feels more often that I'm fighting with the controls to swing the way I'm wanting it to, rather than just fighting the enemies. Boss fight was extremely easy. Wasn't really expecting it to be as smooth as it was after the previous boss.
The cut scene of Ghiragim fighting Impa (oh, so it was Impa. I wasn't sure) felt a little too animeish for me, but it was still pretty cool seeing Link go to try and save the day. Finally got the token music item in the game! The harp is nice and all, but it's a bummer you can't really play it like some of the past instruments. Ohhh well.
Oh, and the Gust thing item is pretty rad. It makes me feel like Luigi's Mansion had a kid with a Zelda game, haha. I immediately went to clean Pipit's mom's house after the temple, since I remembered how gross it was, but later on he was yelling at her for paying someone to do it. It really hit me hard, and I actually felt really guilty about it. It caught me off guard, which may have been why it was so impactful, but geez. I dunno, it was just sad.
On that note of Pipit... YOU HORRIBLE MAN. I'LL KILL YOU FOR STEALING MY WOMAN! JUST WAIT UNTIL NIGHT PATROL, I'M GONNA MAKE YOU PAY!
er, Cawlin gave me a note to deliver to Karane. He apparently has a thing for her, but I figured I'd give her the letter anyways. It'd just help her to see how great a choice I am instead. But, no. NO. Pipit had to get in the way of things, and now they're a couple! Dang it, all those times I slept in your bed and talked to you in the school... Did it mean nothing to you, you heartless wench! I sobbed in Groose's room with Cawlin, since we had both been rejected...
Well, it's not all bad. Kina's my new squeeze now (the daughter of the Lumpy Pumpkin owner). We made beautiful music together. With the harp. It took me like six tries, but I finally got it. : (
She must be the Malon role in this game, since I doubt I'll be seeing my favorite LonLon farmgirl in the game.
Helped out a few other people and got some stuff from Batreaux... Wondering how many things he needs to be human, but I'll find out soon enough, I suppose. Slept on Beedle's ship, and he's even weirder at night. I didn't think it was possible, but yeah. He's weeeeird.
Oh yeah, and the thing where I had to find the pinwheel was super easy, since I actually noticed it earlier in my playthrough and made a note of it. I've been keeping four separate pages out while I play. I'm marking down the pieces of heart I find, the cubes I find, the gratitude people I help, and a miscellaneous page for "go back to see what this is later/keep this in mind."
OH. OH! I don't know how I forgot. The coolest(?) boss fight in any zelda game! The imprisoned fight felt like it was taking notes from Shadow of the Colossus or something. I mean, it wasn't a particularly difficult fight, but the race against the clock and the scale of it all just really felt great. My favorite part of the game so far, probably.
Poor Groose, though. He just wants to help Zelda. You can totally have her, Groose. I've got Karane Kina in my sights. Still loving the attention to his animations. When he first arrives and plummits to the ground, I was laughing. Then I started cracking up when he was freaking out at the world around him. However, after Link talks to him and the birds are all over him... I busted out laughing like crazy. Just something about the expression and the birds got me good. Fantastic stuff. I also like that, though Link is still mute, he actually has a but more active role in "yes, I'm supposed to be talking to you right now" visually.
Opened up the light house, so I guess I should go play my song and see what awaits me next.
