Damn those toitles

OK I’m back, and I just spent the last hour of my life trying to beat the Palace of Darkness. I’m positive that once I can get to the Helmasaur, I can beat him, but that room full of stupid turtles always drains me so much that I can’t get there.

It’s always the room full of something that is my biggest challenge. “Glide and stab” needs to be my motto again. That’s how I got through the Darknuts of Zeldas of yore, and that’s how I will beat these damn turtles.

For now I am going to take a break, walk the dog, down a root beer, and buckle down and kick some turtle ass!

respect for the fallen enemy

Never mind, I beat the sandworms. And composed this poem about their graceful undulations:

Sandworms.
You have graceful undulations.
But now I have the pendant
And you are dead…
Except on Arrakis
Where you continue to annoy me.

weird sandworm synchronicity

I’m stuck (sorta) in A Link to the Past. I’m in the second dungeon and having trouble beating those worms that shoot up out of the sand. Not that they attack me or anything, but I keep dying from the debris they kick up.

Also, I’m reading Dune, and the prominence of two types of sandworms in my life at the moment is weirding me out a little bit. Maybe I’ll go ahead and watch Beetlejuice and make it complete.

Remember the animated series in which Beetlejuice was a lovable trickster? Bizarre.

oh man

Was I right or was I right?

A Link to the Past is totally fun! I’ve already gotten farther in one hour than I did in Zelda II in a month, and now, finally, I’m back to little old men saying random things by the side of the road. I get to slash bushes, bomb walls, it’s the old Zelda all over again!

I’m confident about stuff. This game wants me to beat it.