it was a good surprise the first time I saw the ghost soldiers and their face (creepy face).

Started and finished A Link to the Past (VC). I can see now better why many claims ALTTP to be best than Ocarina of Time. The overworld is probably the best on the series (Hope SS is similar).

I have played before in GBA (FS Edition), but never care for the story. This time I do, and it's to me on par with OOT and TWW one. Is amazing anything about Aghanim, the seven maidens, Light and Dark World, the Golden Power. The puzzles are very good, and even when is not as hard as the first two, is more difficul than any 3D Zelda game.

Dodongo's Cavern in the Master Quest. I did Master Quest only once, but one of the puzzles came back to me.

I lost my Deku Shield over a red-herring, a diabolically designed room with Mad Deku Scrubs (requiring use of the Deku Shield) and a Fire Keese

I also note that King Dodongo doesn't make a lot of sense. Here's a guy who can shake off an explosion in his inner organs without much trouble, but if you slash him on his upper jaw three-to-six times, oh dear

C'mon. Even a person wouldn't die if you hit them in the upper jaw six times with a small knife (as it scales against Dodongo)

I always have the Hylian shield when i tackle Dodongo cavern, the free one from the graveyard, i just reequiped the Deku shield to engage the Mad Scrubs

I will accept the rebuke about the slingshot, though, i didn't know that worked on them.

You don't even need to use the slingshot. Mad Scrubs are slow enough for you to just walk up and wack them on the head with your sword.

In addition, there are at least two Deku shields to find in the Master Quest version of that dungeon, and a Hylian shield on top of that. I guess the designers didn't expect you to run back to Hyrule Market and get one, knowing that it (more than likely) wouldn't be the player's first run through the game.

Finished the Earth Temple. Great boss.

please do if you haven't already.

Went through Jabu Jabu. Cows, cows everywhere, and i think Barinade got faster

Now for sweet adulthood and the Biggoron's sword.

Dropped back into my VC OoT playthrough, because I really needed to play some of a Zelda I thoroughly enjoy, rather than barely tolerate like both DS games have been. Was saved at the beginning of the adult portion of the Spirit Temple, so I've run through that and - like every other time I've played this game - had to circle back around because I lowered the platform before grabbing the boss key.

Once I'm done here and in Spirit Tracks I'll go for my first finished LttP playthrough. I've gotten pretty far before - once on a borrowed GBA version I hit the final dungeon, then I got my own copy and had to start over. I prefer the VC versions' controls, though, so I'll probably go with that. I think my saves are around the same place on each anyway.

OoT3DS froze on me today, right at the instant when i received the Poacher's Saw. Quite aggravating, because i had started my save at the very beginning of adulthood, so had to go back, get Epona again, get the Hookshot again, then do everything before the Poacher's Saw, and it went through the second time

Only the fourth time i've ever had freezing problems from Nintendo first-party software, the others being Brawl (online), Wii Sports (baseball for some reason), and Metroid Prime (my launch-day copy)