boy am i pissed (zelda, nes)
so im 1 hr and 3 minutes into zelda. im in lvl 9, and i havent died yet. im pretty sure im on pace to break some sort of world records here. anyway, since i didnt bother to get the magic key in 8, i ran out of keys in lvl 9 which was royally fucking up my time budget. but heres where it gets shitty. i had just got the light arrow, and needed just one key to get to ganon and rescue the princess. im running around like a madman looking for a goddamn key and enter a room where the door closes behind me, the only other door requires a key, and there are no secret stones to push or ways to bomb out. i had already killed everyone in the room. so what the fuck can i do? theres virtually no way out, i cant even kill myself if i wanted to. and because zelda has a fucked up save system (you have to die to save) im royally screwed.
wtf. i guess the lesson learned is that its worth taking the extra 2 minutes to get the key in 8, but i feel like this should never happen. im wondering what kind of retribution i can get from nintendo, robbing me of all my glory.