A Link to the Past: Part 3 ft. The Most Annoying Dungeon (I Hope)

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Over the weekend, I beat Dungeon 4. I call it Dungeon 4 here for the sake of keeping the blog family-friendly, but trust me, I don't call it Dungeon 4 at home. It has a quite a few colorful names there.

I found the dungeon (do these things have real names, or they actually referred to by their numbers?) fairly easily. Logan thought I would have trouble tracking it down, but since I've gotten into the weird habit of pulling on stuff while I'm thinking because I think the animation is hilarious, I found it almost as soon as I walked into town. Of course, the completely inconspicuous statue helped.

I mean, this doesn't look suspicious at all. Image from zeldawiki.org.

I even managed to get through the dungeon fairly well. If there had been any more rooms, the similarity between all of them would have gotten me very confused, but after a little while of trial and error, I got used to the set-up.

Then I found the maiden.

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As per her request, I tried to take her outside, only to have her run away when we got to the entrance. I immediately thought that she wasn't a maiden after all, but was actually the boss. I went all the way back through the dungeon, got her again, then led her into the room that the compass told me would house the boss fight.

Nothing happened.

I knew it had to be something to do with the light outside that made her run away the first time, so I figured I could beat her with some bright light. While exploring the dungeon earlier, I found an upstairs area that was brightly lit. I led her up there, smug with my intelligence, and she ran away again.

Frustrated by getting beat by the puzzle and by Logan's obvious desire to help me, I ran around in circles upstairs while I thought. That's when I noticed I could bomb the floor right underneath a beam of light. Lo and behold, the "you did something right" noise went off, and I went to fetch the maiden for the third time.

The third time was the charm because when I led her into the boss fight room, she transformed into Blind -- the master thief who hates light.

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I'm extremely proud to say that -- despite being confronted with two invincible, fireball spewing heads in addition to Blind himself -- I beat him on my FIRST TRY! Huge success!

The fact that I used two potions is irrelevant.