#We've got a memory and a book to restore and 3 more dungeons to finish yahoo

[smartzelda]

Finished the Temple of Time recently and let me tell you.

Me watching the transform count continue to tick up after getting the master sword:

Two required transforms after each of the 4 of 6 dungeons post master sword

Because of course Arbiter's Grounds/Gerudo desert, Sacred Grove, and Snowpeak ruins are land locked 🙂

I also severely underestimated just how many times you're forced to transform in these dungeons. I think I had what...11? Eleven transforms for Arbiter's Grounds alone (including leaving the mirror chamber). With just getting all the Poes I was only able to limit the number of transforms down to 5. Essentially 2 each for my first 2 poes and then the last transformation to wolf there covered the last two. My 2 major thwarters of reducing my transforms in that temple were ghost rats (can't get rid of as human), Stalfos (can't get rid of as wolf). My 3rd minor one that is required but still annoys me is 2 required tranforms for Death Sword, and my 4th minor one is that you can't pull boxes into place as wolf Link. And finally, honorable mention...

That time I was in the round room with the moving floor (you turn the stone slab thing to move it up and down) as a wolf, and the game force transformed me so I could get my required small key from a chest😔

Anywho, past me had a question:

The answer? Bad. Or well, it depends on how you look at it

Allow me to elaborate 🙂

So as per challenge rules, I've been wearing the Zora armor since I received it. This means fire and ice attacks do double damage. And yes if you were wondering, on a 3 heart challenge. 1

ONE attack which carries ice or fire damge will kill you. You can game over by ice keese. Due to one hit. This means playing through this temple is a no damage game most of the time, and with the one bottle limit, only one fairy can save you for an extra hit.

Good News: I'd saved a fairy all the way from the Forest Temple because I didn't have a single death up to Snowpeak.

Bad News: I was delivered my first game over of the game because I hit a mini freezard in that first tiny room of 3 mini freezards, it ricochet back and hit me, and I died nearly instantly. After my fairy was gone it happened again (as you must clear all 3 mini freezards to continue). I couldn't just leave and get another fairy due to low tranform rules, so I didn't have a fairy almost from the beginning of Snowpeak Ruins till just before Temple of Time's Argohma fight.

Now I should mention, usually when I play through Snowpeak (even on a usual 3 heart run) and I encounter situations such as Freezards that you can't hit from a distance or while it's spitting freeze breath in a different direction, I allow myself to get hit once before attacking (relying on the fact that I can take at least one hit). Which is very much not possible here. I have taken an embarrassing amount of deaths by Freezard and mini Freezard.

So if we're just looking overall from this angle, the dungeon was not fun and not great, but I faired okay overall. I cleared Blizzeta first try without any deaths or needing to heal.

The reason I labeled it earlier as bad though is because I've been doing a separate tally for funsies in addition to my transform tally. I was curious how I'd fair during this challenge, so I'd started a detailed death tally so I could see my skills

Which...looked amazing for a while, clocked in at zero deaths/game overs up until that mini freezard in Snowpeak ruins. And then...proceeded to die 17 more times (15 more due to ice damage) 😀

But anyways I digress, frustrating as it is, this run has been very fun and interesting so far. I've learned a surprising amount of things that I normally wouldn't freely transforming all over the place

Okay okay I'm gonna play Twilight Princess again soon (I can't stay away from it for long) but I need a bit of help

When I play it again I kind of want to challenge myself to do something. Preferably a challenge throughout playing, but one to do during the run is fine as well.

Here's the issue. I've already beat Twilight Princess on every console it came out on. I've beat the cave of ordeals multiple times. I've done a 3 heart run where I beat the cave of ordeals. I've obtained every golden bug multiple times. I've gotten all the poe souls. I've gotten every item in the game and upgrade. I've collected all the stamps in the wii u version. I've collected all the heart containers/pieces of heart, and I beat the cave of shadows and set things up so I could have a full set of heart containers for wolf link if I scan my amiibo into breath of the wild. I even performed multiple glitches on both the wii u and gamecube versions of the game, including following my favorite speedrun for Twilight Princess from beginning to end.

So...does anyone have any other challenge ideas?😅