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I just remember another gaming experience from last night.

I had to do some work yesterday, but it was the sort of thing that only needs sporadic, not constant, attention. My brother also wanted help with his taxes and a take-home math exam, so I picked him up, took him to work, and helped him with those in the meanwhile.

We finished with his stuff before my stuff was finished, so we just chatted for a bit. He has Link's Awakening, and has been progressing through it on his own, but he told me he was stuck, and had been stuck, perhaps for months, on the Eagle's Tower, and asked, would I be able to help him?

I thought so, since I tend to remember puzzles that stumped me. However, when he started describing it, it sounded very complex.

After a lot of set up, involving first walking through rooms with those blocks that move up and down, depending on whether you hit an orb elsewhere in the dungeon, it seemed the crux of the matter was:

He already knew to throw the balls at the pillars (to me, that by itself seemed to be the entire key to the dungeon). But one ball was at the end of a long horizontal pit. You could cross the pit by hookshoting across to a treasure chest. However, you couldn't throw the ball across the pit. If you tried, it would go almost all the way across, but would then fall in.


I told him I didn't remember that part at all, and it didn't sound like something I got stuck on.

When I dropped him off later, he wanted to know if I could at least take a look at that part, so I did.

It turns out that what you had to do was, grab the ball, walk "north" so you're above the pit, and rather toss it longways across, toss it across the skinny part.

He told me he never even thought of doing that.

So, maybe that's interesting, maybe not. I noticed his file is at 200+.


I think after Earthbound, I might want to not play another game until I can finish another review. It'd be fantastic if I could finish one game a month, and review one game a month. That might not happen, but it's good to have goals, right?

I think the next game I'd play after that might be Jackal, for the NES. I'm interested because

-It's an NES game.
-It's not a sequel, nor does it have a sequel.
-It's not a game that already has a lot of opinions out in circulation.
-An action game might be good after a long RPG.

And maybe other reasons, too.

I got through Magicant. FO said it can be one of the harder parts of the game, but it didn't seem like much to me.

After that, I went to Onett, which was emptied of its citizens by Giygas. I don't think it's possible to play that part and not think of the town of Leaf from Crystalis.

Anyway, that part seemed more difficult, but, while Paula died a few times there, I still got through it on my first try.