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24. Shrine Quest: Test of Wood



This is the challenge in the korok forest, where you have to fight your way through an outdoor combat gauntlet, using a wooden sword shield and bow, and you're not allowed to break any of them, which actually adds surprisingly interesting pressure.

You're tempted to skip past enemies to save durability, especially because it starts off so easy, just bats and chu chus on an open path... But all of a sudden it gets much harder, there are skeleton archers perched on rocks, some with ice arrows, and then a series of big swamps that you must improvise a way across--really hard if you didn't take out any archers--also while you're figuring this all out there are constantly annoying little enemies spawning to distract you as well.

So, it's not terribly hard, but it takes some quick thinking and tactics! Good Legit Gameplay here, I'd put it in the top 5 combat sequences in the game, maybe even 2nd or 3rd.

And the environment adds a lot as well, with all the mist and spookiness and swamps and trees obscuring your vision--you feel like you're stumbling through, having trouble making decisions, not knowing how long is left. And also it just looks cool as hell (Beauty points).

Also this part totally held up on my subsequent playthroughs, and deserves bonus points for how they let you re-do the challenge with a timer for extra pressure, and earn some rupees for doing so. Rad!

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