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Between the Pirate Fortress, gathering the rest of the Zora Eggs, and actually traveling to the damn place, just getting to the Great Bay Temple takes some work. By the time I manged it, I realized I was exhausted and needed to prioritize getting some sleep over any goals for the time-frame in which I finish this game.

The dungeon itself really is one of the more complex I've seen in a Zelda game, but it didn't frustrate me the way that Snowhead sometimes did - at least I never fell from a high place and had to trace my footsteps back through several rooms.

There have been a few times in my life where I have fantasized (I think that's the right word for it,) about becoming an indie game developer, and one of the concepts I was interested in was a game mostly based around swimming. I think the Zora mechanics in this game do a lot of justice to that sort of idea, actually. One thing you can do that looks very impressive is quickly break the surface and "leap" back in and out of the water, like some fish do, and you can use this motion to get back on land much faster than you would by climbing onto it as Young Link. It takes a bit of finesse, and if you mess up you'll smack your head against the wall and waste more time. I like that the movement controls award a degree of skill in that way. The technique is useful against the Great Bay boss, where you have to shoot him with arrows from on land, climb into the water to follow up, and then quickly return to shore before he bites you.

I managed to find all the temple's Stray Fairies, and once again this plus completing the dungeon itself took two full days. The reward is that all damage against me will be halved for the rest of the game. Between this and the sword upgrades, you can really make yourself overwhelmingly powerful through the sidequesting in this game. I also took the time to do the Frog Chorus sidequest. It only awards a piece of heart, and is oddly elaborate for such a small reward. In one cycle, you have to beat the frogs guarding the boss keys for both the Deku and Zora dungeons, who are possessed frogs that you can then speak to with the Don Gero Mask, and defeat the boss for the Goron dungeon, as well as finding two more frogs in Clock Town and the swamp. I wanted to do both this quest and the Zora dungeon in one go to reduce repetition, and I just barely managed it in three in-game days.

Next up: Completing the Bomber's Notebook.

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Currently Playing: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask