Reliving my favourite Zelda-esque game

[lestatdark]

RolStoppable said:

lestatdark said:

RolStoppable said:
I've heard of the game and I've played it. So much that people were calling me nuts for having a save file at the final boss that clocked in at nine hours.

How in the hell can you do that in 9 hours? o.O 

I'm at the 14th hour mark, and i'm still at the entrance of the Lake Shrine (final dungeon). You must have skipped pretty much everything optional in the game then. And i'm being reasonably fast, since my first playthrough took me over 20 hours. Did you also used a guide for the toughest puzzles? Since some of the ice pillar puzzles can literally take over half an hour each to figure out (that's considered to be amongst the best times) for the first time.

Simple. By knowing what you have to do in the game. I think I've never found all the life upgrades and golden falcons, so I guess I had something like 48 life and 44 falcons on that file. So no, I didn't skip much of the optional things in this game.

At that time I had no internet, so I had to figure out everything by myself. The nine hours file is of course not a first time playthrough.

Ahh I see, then that explains a lot. 

On another matter, I think I found a bug on the Lake Shrine. After opening all chests possible (I've spent the last hour trecking back and forth in the dungeon), I was supposed to have 2 keys with me (opened two chests with keys and didn't use any), the game only recognized one key. So now I'm stuck at a wall that was supposed to be opened with two keys... 

I think I might have to reset the game

Edit - FUUUUU, found the last key at last, there was a switch puzzle hiding behind a wall >_>. Still i'm boggled why getting two previous keys only counted as one, must have opened something in the room with one of the keys that didn't give out the characteristic sound.