'K. I was afraid you would say that, but kinda reassured at the same time. Now, If I would only set aside some time to actually play...  

phantom_leo said:

Alright, someone clarify something for me 'cause I am running into the same wall I did when I played this on N64... I don't quite understand the "flow" of the game. Are you expected to be able to do "everything" within the three days? I know you can slow time and rewind time, but how do you know what you lose and what you don't? I don't get it. Do you REALLY have to do things like get the Moon Tear and the Deed and all that stuff again and again and again? I imagine you only have to finish the dungeons once, but I feel like I am missing some "point"... Advice, without spoiling anything?

No. You set goals for each and you try to accomplishing them. Forget the deeds thing until you unlock every area cause then you are just doing them over and over, save it till you can do it in one go. Same with the frogs or anything that requires you to jump around the world. When you are ready set a day to do that side quest, finish it all and get the prize and move on to the next goal.

begin a new day before you access a new area, ALWAYS slow time. Try your best to do what ever quests you have to do to get the song that unlocks the dungeon that is your save point. Once you have the song you never have to do that sections quest again, start a new day to tackle the dungeon which you now have access to with the song. Once you beat the dungeon now you have a shortcut to the boss which quickly allows you to fix the area and unlock all the quests in that area, so start a new day and do those.

Thats it, it's never about losing items or fighting a clock, you manipulate it and work with it.

Made some big progress today and yesterday with the Bomber's Notebook.  I decided to make a quick run through of Snowhead to get the flame arrows then go through later to finish.  We need a Zelda with tons of side quests like this.

Playing the game again I got to the great bay temple and I realised, I have only actually completed this game once. I have attempted to replay it many times over the years and I always quit at about this point because of this temple and generally finnicky things.

Like getting the zora eggs, I started doing the seahorse ones, only to realise I had to then get all the pirate complex ones too, all at once otherwise lose my progress. I made it down to the last 5 minutes on the final day. Phew.

I'm discovering things I missed playing before because of the rumours and the logbook like feeding fish to get a heart piece. Really glad I picked this game up again. The atmosphere too, so oppressive, melancholy. Great stuff.

I'd love to see a new franchise born with the Groundhog day concept, done by EAD.

I've come to the conclusion that I am going to have to wait until after I finish Persona Q to really dig into this game. It's not quite what I was expecting and I see I'm going to have to devote more attention to it than an ordinary Zelda game to fully grasp it. It shouldn't take too long for me to get to it, but just from the brief glimpses of posts and reactions I've been seeing throughout this topic, I clearly underestimated this game!

It is the most complex Zelda by far, which is why I love it.

Someone tell me the motherfucking music to play to Evan and Japas.

Nope.

It's a creepy pasta, a story told to scare the crap out of you.  Ben drowned took on a meme of its own and became quite well known.  It's a fake but effectively creepy story.

Yep, bought at a yard sale.