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| There was a lot of this. |
I had played this through at least once before on the Game Boy Advance back in the mid 2000's. It was a great experience and a game I wanted to play again sometime. Around 20 years later I finally sat down and played it again, this time on an emulator with an Xbox controller. Big change from a GBA.
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| The Dark World. The music slaps |
I cleared it on the 14th of June 2025. It took about 2 sessions to finish - the first one on the 2nd of June I started it and got all the way to the Master Sword/Dark World, the second one I cleared all the Temples and beat the game.
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| Definitely an emulator. Save states are so handy |
Not much to say, I've been enjoying playing emulators here and there over the last few months.
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| Bombos is very handy. |
I started following a guide at various points, all of them show how to cut corners and skip optional stuff like maps and compasses in dungeons so I was all over that. I usually skip them on replays of Ocarina of Time now for example.
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| This fucking secret. Anything for a few fairies. |
There was also extensive tips on how to find all the heart containers and such but you get like 10 full ones from playing the game normally so I just picked up whatever I could as I went along and had 17 by the end.
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| Yes! |
Still a great game I'd recommend to anyone. Was a bit fiddly with an Xbox stick for movement but I eventually got better at it, just in time to beat Ganon et al.
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I went back to playing Outer Worlds [1] again after this. I cleared it recently on Hard by using a speedrun, will now try to finish it on Supernova. Then, go back and do it on Normal and play the DLC. Lack of saves is a bit scary, not as bad as Survival Fallout 4 but awkward for sure. Also, am trying to keep companions alive for experience kills so have to reload if they die. Ugh.
After that will probably give DayZ a run during the summer at some point and maybe play some new games, the backlog is shorter but needs to be cleared.
