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Wolf Link appears to be completely useless now in City in the Sky, but that's OK because I've got double clawshots. Your clawshot becomes unequipped when you get it after a fairly interesting battle against a winged lizard-man, Aeralfos, who unfortunately uses a clawshot target for a shield. It's only after you get my favorite tool in the game that you can then get the compass it seems. I'm checking guides now and they seem to agree, so this isn't like Goron Mines where I just missed it.

I'd also like to point out that maybe the game doesn't do the best at ensuring the player knows that cuccos can be used to slow your descent. There's an optional mini-game, Falbi's Flight-by-Fowl which you technically must visit in order to leave lower Lake Hylia, but you don't have to talk to Falbi at all. So, your first mandatory cucco flight is Rusl's golden cucco (only because Midna refuses to help Wolf Link jump now and the gorge slightly changed). That was frustrating on my 1st ever playthrough. Now, I don't miss a single oocca-aided-jump in City in the Sky.

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Snowpeak Ruins and Temple of Time are done. Its funny how you learn all these hidden sword techniques from the hero's shade and absolutely none of them work at all on a lizard dude in armor with a ball & chain in a narrow corridor. Hope you like the taste of reekfish and pumpkin stew, because you're going to be drinking a lot of it for that miniboss. Blizzeta, however, is a cool boss fight. It's like if the final boss of Battle of Olympus was 3D, with the way you need to pay attention to a reflection to avoid damage. Midna also seems to have more empathy for Yeta afterwards than she did when you first met Yeto, "a beastman." As for the dungeon, I spent too long not realizing you can hit the ice block with the ball & chain to shatter the ice and get the 3rd box you need for that puzzle.

Temple of Time sort of comes out of nowhere and has even less for Wolf Link to do than any other point in the game. But, it's also more of a tower at 8 floors. Which I had to go back up 6 of when I got to the 1st floor boss door without the big key.

Hidden Village is fine. Horse call was needed waaaay earlier in the game.