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xaq_the_aereon) wrote2012-06-07 08:43 pm
xaq_the_aereon) wrote2012-06-07 08:43 pm
Okay, so there's one thing I forgot to mention about Skyward Sword...
As much as it offers that I absolutely adore, every last bit of that is balanced out, and on occasion completely outweighed, by one aspect of the game that I want to gut someone at Nintendo over...
The Silent Realm Trials. These 3 mini-dungeons in the game test your patience and sanity by requiring you to search a specified area of the game for 15 items, much like the Light Vessel/bug hunts you had to do in Twilight Princess.
The key thing with those, was that you were merely locked in wolf form, still full of health and armed with your fangs and claws. The Silent Realm Trials are basically this on nightmare mode. While you don't have to kill anything to get the items you need for these, you wouldn't be able to if you had to, because you have nothing to protect yourself with against the enemies...save for the fact that, each time you find one of the items you need, 2 of the 3 kinds of enemies in the area go dormant for a period of 90 seconds.
The 3rd kind of enemy, basically a search drone in the form of a Poe, will undo this if you get caught in its lantern light, at which point the other two kinds will come after you. The same occurs, infuriatingly enough, if you touch one of the oddly-colored pools of water.
The thing that drives this into absolute infuriation, however, is the fact that you get reduced to what TV Tropes refers to as a One Hit-Point Wonder for these trials; you get hit by either of these enemies even once, you fail and have to redo the whole thing.
This would be tolerable if they were optional side quests...they aren't. They are required to clear in order to get new abilities needed to continue.
I'm on the last one at the moment...the first two I'd completed with no trouble, but this one has bested me 7 times now. The 7th one while I was one item away from clearing it.
I am, to say the least, very unhappy right now. Especially considering I don't have a means of applying Wilren's Axiom of Gameplay #1 to this situation. (Which is to say "cheat.")
Anyway, think I'm gonna go sand the table some more. That has proven amazingly therapeutic and relaxing these past few days.
UPDATE: Okay, looks like I've sanded it enough to be ready to stain it tomorrow! Much better mood now...who knew woodworking could be so cathartic?
The key thing with those, was that you were merely locked in wolf form, still full of health and armed with your fangs and claws. The Silent Realm Trials are basically this on nightmare mode. While you don't have to kill anything to get the items you need for these, you wouldn't be able to if you had to, because you have nothing to protect yourself with against the enemies...save for the fact that, each time you find one of the items you need, 2 of the 3 kinds of enemies in the area go dormant for a period of 90 seconds.
The 3rd kind of enemy, basically a search drone in the form of a Poe, will undo this if you get caught in its lantern light, at which point the other two kinds will come after you. The same occurs, infuriatingly enough, if you touch one of the oddly-colored pools of water.
The thing that drives this into absolute infuriation, however, is the fact that you get reduced to what TV Tropes refers to as a One Hit-Point Wonder for these trials; you get hit by either of these enemies even once, you fail and have to redo the whole thing.
This would be tolerable if they were optional side quests...they aren't. They are required to clear in order to get new abilities needed to continue.
I'm on the last one at the moment...the first two I'd completed with no trouble, but this one has bested me 7 times now. The 7th one while I was one item away from clearing it.
I am, to say the least, very unhappy right now. Especially considering I don't have a means of applying Wilren's Axiom of Gameplay #1 to this situation. (Which is to say "cheat.")
Anyway, think I'm gonna go sand the table some more. That has proven amazingly therapeutic and relaxing these past few days.
UPDATE: Okay, looks like I've sanded it enough to be ready to stain it tomorrow! Much better mood now...who knew woodworking could be so cathartic?