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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)

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Straight into the next dungeon, no shenanigans! Well except for buying magic (for the last time, I believe).

The Icemen in the walls are pretty dumb, and really just serve to make sure you got the Fire Rod. The penguins die in one hit to the Fire Rod, but there's no reason to do that because they go down to the Hookshot just as easily for some reason, and a spin slash from the level 3 sword works nicely too. There's a couple of penguin rooms right next to the beginning of the segment, so I kill them with the sword instead of just spamming Bombos.

While on the ice, dashing with the Pegasus Boots will immediately arrest your momentum and allow you to move straight in a compass direction. This is handy for getting into doorways, but much more important for getting up that one staircase in the icey room without taking a hit. If you try to simply walk up, it tends to be extremely finicky, and you will likely take a hit from the fireball while floundering around. That's actually in the next segment, but I felt I should mention it now.

I Bombos the Red floaty guys since they're tedious.

The conveyor belt room is somewhat dangerous. My tactic is generally to only walk up or down at dangerous spots, and let the conveyor belt move me left or right. Unfortunately, I have to go through the room twice, and the conveyor belt trolled me at the start here.

In the room with the spikes, the pot contains a switch underneath which spawns a key chest. I don't need this key to finish the dungeon, but I do need the pot to avoid using invincibility or taking a hit from the spikes. That's why I just ignore it.

This is a good spot to make a segment, because I'm almost at the start of the dungeon anyhow, and I skip a room this way.

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