Update time!

I've decided that my lack of skill is my greatest enemy in Zelda II. I seem to like blocking punches with Link's face instead of the shield and I have a hard time getting the timing right for aerial assaults which makes the bosses a real tough fight. Rather cruel of the game to not only make the healing spell the third spell you obtain in the game but also one of the more costly abilities, still I'm grateful to have it. I really wish the game didn't start me back at Zelda's Palace when I need to continue. If there was ever a game that needed save points, it was this one. Hell, the game could do me a favor by just copying its predecessor and simply let me continue from the start of the dungeon. This one will be a slow grind it seems.

I've also come to my first major gripe with Majora's Mask. It's actually the same gripe I have with Skyward Sword: There is no simple way to do anything in this game. Pretty much double screwed myself, I finished the first dungeon and collected all of the fairy parts but I didn't know where the fairy shrine was, so I figured I would finish up the Missing Deku Princess story while I still had time (I was on the Third Day) before checking the restored swamp for that fairy shrine. Game is like, hey Mr. Butler wants to award you with an item. Cool, go to meet him, he makes me chase him through a stupid maze where getting hit with traps forces me to redo the whole maze from the beginning. I really hated doing this thing in OoT but whatever, it's probably not that long... turns out I am wrong. I screw up so much I have to reset the timeline with an hour left on the clock because I did not want to redo the whole dungeon again from scratch. Come back to find out that resetting time, also resets the fairies in the dungeon, so I basically have to redo the dungeon again anyway just to get the fairies again and open up the stupid maze race with the Butler. I just saved his smurfing kingdom, don't make me work for your damn prize (which was frankly not quite worth the aggravation) but its a bit annoying how bomb bags and masks cycle with you but some things don't... With that said, the story line is cute and I look forward to the rest of the game now that I have a better idea that getting every item in this game is likely going to require a fetch quest and probably some asinine puzzle or test of skill. Whatever, it's Zelda and I love it all the same.