completed Dodongo's, got the Spiritual Stone, not very difficult so far. two things you quickly realize on a 3heart run, one, you can and should just run away from certain encounters, and two, there's not much to do in #OoT, outside of rushing dungeons, if you're not collecting heart pieces. #zelda

there's so much going on in this short 10-mins of the game. a lot to unpack, as they say, in terms of "growing up," with Ganondorf as a symbol of man’s (not “boy’s”) greed / lust for power. Link actually pulls his sword on Ganondorf, who's this towering, terrible figure on nightmarish high horse, almost like a specter of adulthood itself. the whole thing feels like a sort of naive, youthful rebellion against growing up, or growing up into THAT. incredible storytelling w/ so little. #zelda #oot

completed the Forest Temple, died for the first time in a room full of Stalfos, then a few more times after that. the moment Link grows up, Hyrule becomes a much harsher place, monsters start doing a lot more damage, go figure. as an adult, you get used to the low-health alarm going off constantly, it becomes your close friend, almost. although, it would be nice if you could toggle it off. #zelda #oot

Fire Temple, done. in MQ, there's a Darknut or whatever they're called just chillin in one of the rooms, they're intimidating but easy as hell cuz their stuff is so baitable and choreographed. died like 4 times on Volvagia. a 3heart run is basically just low-health alert and fairy hunting all the time, i've learned, especially so since bosses now just one-shot Link, even simply touching them on accident is a one-shot. #Zelda #OoT

finally out of this hell hole. MQ version is neither better nor worse than the original, it just is: the Water Temple, a stain on the land of Hyrule, no matter how you cut it, but i wouldn't have it any other way, for this is Ocarina of Time, always and forever. #zelda #OoT

the peaceful village of Kakariko holds a terrible secret, a darkness quite literally bubbling underneath. in one sense, it is a physical place, a torture chamber, but in another sense, it is a metaphysical representation of the horrors of reality, of which all children ought be shielded, but young Link is not so lucky, because, for some ungodly reason, only his tiny body can fit through the narrow crawl space. this is where Link learns the Truth. #Zelda #OoT

Shadow Temple took longer than any dungeon so far, cuz i kept falling during the platforming stuff. ridiculous frictionless hover boots. MQ puzzles are comical in their absurdity, materializing lots of blocks with the Song of Time or using Din's Fire to light a torch in the very top corner of a room, as if anyone would put a torch there to begin with? starting to wonder, why do these temples even exist? what are ppl doing in these rooms? why are there keys to rooms with just more keys in them?

finished Spirit Temple. one of the things i like about this dungeon (and Shadow, but less so) is the interplay between Young Link and Adult Link, switching back and forth to complete, which is a mechanic i don't think the game utilizes as much as it should. Young Link feels underutilized, which is a shame because he's baller as hell w/ swagger readings off the charts. love playing as Young Link. #Zelda #OoT

if you fell one of the redead in Hyrule Castle Town, all the other redead will ignore Link and instead walk toward the fallen redead, stopping in front of its corpse, as if mourning a dead loved one.