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Alright I've finished the first two Dark World dungeons and now I've taken some time to upgrade a bunch of stuff, particularly by finding some heart pieces and upgrading my magic, bomb, and arrow capacity. I've also found two of the three magic medallions, which I remember needing to enter some later dungeons.

I've really noticed how much better balanced the sword beam is compared to Zelda 1. It's a nice boost, but not the absolutely essential ability it was back in the original game.

My only criticism is how the game seems to mislead you at times to score a cheap "gotcha" moment to inconvenience you. The worst one I've seen yet was in the second Dark World dungeon, where the game seems to reward you with a shortcut if you have the blue pillars switched to down, only to find out several rooms later that blue pillars needed to be up, forcing you to backtrack. Not cool, Nintendo.

Overall, ALttP is holding up as being as good as ever. I've played through this probably over a dozen times before so this really isn't a big surprise to me.

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