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Recap:

Okay, I'm done with the game for the night.

I went back to dungeon 1 and got the step ladder and a bomb bag increase, and went back to dungeon 2 and got another heart container (6 total now) and a bomb bag increase (so I can carry 16 now, double the original limit).

I believe that completely clears out the first two dungeons.

I think with everything I got since the last time I attempted it (stronger sword, arrows, health refills, etc.), I should be ready for dungeon 3 the next time I play.

I did go back to dungeon 3, and indeed I had all I needed to clear it out. Dungeon 4, too! There were a couple of surprises, a few of which I might not be able to remember...

I think in dungeon 3, beating the boss gives you the compass. But that's useful, since the fairy in that dungeon is hidden fairly well otherwise.

In dungeon 4, I think you have to beat an extra boss after beating the other one.

I now have the first tunic upgrade, and also the handy glove. It acts like the ring in the original -- you can't just pick up every rock in the game, like you could in A Link to the Past.

I found dungeon 5, though I kind of "misplaced" it. I already got the fairy in that dungeon. But I didn't have enough gold to purchase the bomb bag increase when I was there, and I have a lot more to do there.

The ocarina in this game works differently than the flute did in the original. In the original, the flute would just take you to the various dungeon entrances where you found the triforce pieces. In this game, each time you find a fairy, the ocarina takes you someplace new, but those locations aren't necessarily dungeons.

So far, I can go to

1 The fourth dungeon
2 A bridge in the middle of the outlands (after the raft)
3 A fairy in the south of the outlands (this would be easy to get to at the beginning of the game)
4 A place in the middle of the outlands just a few screens away from #2??? I don't get the point of this one.
5 Somewhere in the east of the outlands, in some mountains.

I found this game's manual online. The story takes place after Zelda 2; the Thunderbird is somehow still alive, and stole the triforce of Courage and took it to the outlands. Zelda went after it, and you're catching up.

FO laughed hysterically at the picture explaining why Link doesn't have all of his items from the previous games...

I got the heart in dungeon 5. One thing was a little weird. I couldn't find a key in that dungeon, so I earned enough money to buy one. Then, when I got to the dungeon ... I had two keys? Oh, well.

I don't remember if I got anything else from that dungeon. I really don't remember getting a particular treasure there. Maybe I missed one.

I haven't found dungeon 6 (or 7, 8, or 9...)

One feature that's new to this game is one way paths on the overworld. I found one repeating-room-maze on the overworld that incorporates one-ways into it. I got past it (without a clue -- that other clue might refer to another one I've missed so far?) but didn't get much out of it. I just got a clue:

"Four bombs for the four rightmost mountains"

It seems like I explored quite a bit of this world without finding anything useful. I also explored some snowy mountains to the northwest, but there wasn't anything useful there, either.

I also can't yet get the master sword or the staff of byrna (would have been the wand in the earlier game), even though I have a full row of hearts, and one on the second row.

It really makes you wonder what the hell they were thinking. I only mentioned it once myself in my original posts

Not only that, but the game is serving up more irritating, unentertaining things, so much so that it's starting to become systemic, rather than a couple of isolated annoyances. Another one was in Pandora's Rings, where you're privileged to pull a handle and slowly rotate the room around to reach the next passage.

The sad thing about God of War is that it really might be the modern version of a good game. It might have a few things that are good (the Hydra), but it's made by people who really don't know how to make games and it has a lot of things that just aren't thought out very well. And it's perfectly content to follow modern game conventions, often illogically. Like, modern games use a lot of brown, so part of God of War takes place in a desert, which is not exactly what Greece is known for.

Games like that are one reason I'm not interested in modern games. If that's as good as they're gonna get, forget it.

By the way, I don't want it to seem like I'm saying the only game convention God of War follows is related to graphics. In terms of gameplay, it follows firmly in Devil May Cry's footsteps.