3 TERRIBLE Heart Pieces in The Legend of Zelda 

Not having the knowledge that you could simply strafe along the left side of hyrule field in twilight princess while carrying the hot spring water wasted hours of my life.

it's kinda funny how the most recent era of zelda has zero heart pieces.. yet it's the first time they would actually be really useful beginning to end, because no matter how many hearts you get, there are enemies that'll make you wish you had more. whereas most zeldas, you get 10 hearts, you're immortal.

For me, the piece of heart that didn't feel worth it was the Secret Shrine in Majora's Mask. Mainly because one thing, you can't go into some of the rooms until you already have enough hearts. To rematch the Garo Master, you need 16 hearts. To go through all of that to get enough hearts just for the final reward to be another piece of heart just felt like a ripoff to me.

I'd bet the reason the Magic Armor isn't the final reward of the trading quest in Wind Waker is because the devs realized late into development how mundane and tedious the quest was. As well as downright stupidly confusing with trading items BACK TO THE SAME GUY... so potentially it was a somewhat last-minute decision to switch the rewards so that players weren't missing out on something somewhat important for failing this quest.

"Just because I'm bad at something, doesn't make the thing itself bad" Except for the Harp minigame, that one can sick a duck. I will defend Skyward Sword's motion controls to the high heavens (and god knows they get a lot of hate), but that f&%$ing harp is the absolute worst.

Id like to give a special shoutout to the Beedle Heart Container in ST, mostly because you have to spend several IRL days to get it. For one, you get it by spending 5,000 Rupees at the shop, and until near the end of the game whrn you start accumulating Alchemy Stones and Regal Rings to sell to Linebeck for 2,500 apiece, you just don't have the funds to buy a Rare Treasure for 1,000 Rupees every time you see him, so you can only start accumulating points until near the end of the game. To make it worse, though, you can only buy one Rare Treasure for every real-life day, so that means the Heart Container will take probably at least three real days of opening the game just to buy a Rare Treasure at Beedle's Shop Ship. And just to make things that bit more annoying, once you spend 2000 Rupees, every item in the shop is sold for 10% off. Considering ST is a relatively short Zelda, I just dont understand why you need a time commitment to 100% it.

This is very technical, but I'd argue that getting the Don Gero mask and getting the heart piece with the Don Gero mask are two separate quests, considering the mask has utility outside of the frog quest (trading it for the Fierce Deity Mask). I always just get the mask and don't bother with the heart piece. Technically speaking, you also need the Bow, Lens of Truth, Goron Mask and dozens of other items to finish the frog quest, but in other instances you wouldn't consider gathering pre-requisite items to be part of the sidequest itself.

I played Twilight Princess for the first time recently (GC version), and I couldn't help but burst into laughter hearing you go on about the rupee donations. Ever since the very early parts of the game, I had been constantly full on rupees, to the point that it became a constant annoyance for me to find chests, only for there to be rupees in them, and have to put them back. This remained a trend until the very end of the game, where thankfully at the later points, I could just put the Magic Armor on just to empty the chests. There was not a single point in the game where I needed to grind rupees. There's simply way too many the game throws at you just playing normally. So about the donation part, first, I did the Castle Town donation as soon as I got there (my friend told me to just give him rupees, and I just want to dump them so I did), gave the bugs I had up to that point to Agitha, got the 600 rupee wallet and got that heart piece straight away, then later on the 1k donation followed by the 2k donation in Kakariko (I was trying to figure out how to bring spring water to the Gorons and thought that was the way before realising the barrel delivery thing was right there), and I even deliberately stopped giving bugs to Agitha until near the end of the game when I had them all, AND went out of my way to give hundreds of rupees at a time to the bird in the forest during the duration of the playthrough just to try to keep my wallet empty, and I STILL had too many rupees to where those donations were no issue.

Honestly? Mentally, I never factored in acquiring Don Gero's Mask as part of the frog heart quest. I considered the masks their own rewards. Although, I think you're correct to put them in sequence as you did.

For Clock Town archery, were you playing Majora on N64? If not, the aiming is borked because no one properly maps the analog zones for the Z64 games. The main result is that you lose fine control because the zone between deadzone and full tilt is miniscule. Even Nintendo's own rereleases of MM and OoT are guilty of this. It's a known phenomenon in their speedrunning communities and some guy even sells adapters to combat this. Yeah, even with the trivial route to the goron, that part of the quest is a giant snoozefest. "What disqualifies the Savage Labrynth from this is the fact you're ACTIVELY engaged the whole time." *shows footage of a redead taking control away from you Funny. Rock Sirloin is always in the same pot. The "randomness" comes from losing track of which pot is which after they start spinning. EDIT: Just remembered, Dampé's is the worst because 1) he's so slow 2) reloading the area to speed up the dig rate nullifies the 15-dig guarantee and MOST IMPORTANTLY 3) you can actually permanently miss it if you dig it up and leave the area without grabbing it.

Yo what a great surprise today. The Minish Cap heart piece video is one of my favorites so I'm hyped for this.

Having to remember where the frogs were and realizing that they were important for the first time was a great feeling. That piece is way easier than any rupee quest, and I look forward to the song every playthrough. Plus, fighting Goht is always a treat so there's no problem getting Summer back.

Delivering water to a Goron Trading with Gorons Using a Mask that requires the Goron form to obtain And, I guess a Goron figurine is required for the Minish Cap heart piece, sure, that counts Rolling bois out here handing out a full Heart Container of pain

I feel Don Gero's quest would have been appropriate for a mask that actually does something cool. On another note, I think it's disappointing how many masks in Majora's Mask have no purpose but to get you a single Piece of Heart. Admittedly they are also collectables to get the FD Mask but I would have liked if more of them had an actual function like the Bunny Hood or the Stone Mask.

The rock sirloin actually isn't random. It's just that without an indication, you won't know which one it's in once the whole thing is spinning, but there's an easy way to narrow it down. First, before you start the chandelier spinning, Goron roll up and hit the one piece that you can reach; that's your marker. The rock sirloin is always next to that piece you just broke. I keep forgetting whether it's the one on the right or left, but it's the same one every time. :3

I know you said skill based ones shouldn't count (for a valid reason), but Octoball genuinely sucks so much and feels completely random at times

In my opinion the single worst heart piece in the entire series (which is technically a heart container but same thing) is the Masked Ship heart container from Phantom Hourglass purely due to the absolutely absurdly cryptic way to get it to appear. You have to play the game during very specific real life time periods. Between 10am to noon on weekends and 10pm to midnight on weekdays, according to the DS clock, Beedle's ship will be replaced by a masked ship where you can buy a heart container for 1500 rupees. The problem is that the game never tells you this or even that the masked ship is something that exists so if you never play the game during these real life time periods then you will never be able to get this heart container. Sure it's not hard to get once you know how to make it appear, and getting 1500 rupees is completely trivial in Phantom Hourglass. But if you don't know then it's basically impossible to find without a guide and even then certain guides don't even explain it properly and just say that the masked ship shows up randomly adding even more confusion to the whole thing. To give some personal experience, it took me several years to get this heart container even after 100%ing the rest of the game numerous times just because I never played the game during these specific times.

I really hope the next Zelda game is a return to roots with actually fun collectables. Looking at you Korok seeds...

The heart pieces that are always time consuming regardless of skill are the ones that usually annoy me the most (like the one in your previous video). Putting 5,000 rupees in the bank in Majora's Mask is definitely up there on the annoying list.

Hard disagree on the frog one. 1) Goht is like top 5 bosses in Zelda history, so fighting him again is always a treat. 2) Running back and forth to do shit is basically MM's whole schtick, and between goron rolling and song of soaring, navigation is pretty smooth. 3) You see the first frog when getting the stray fairy on your first cycle, two are (technically) mandatory minibosses that clearly cut to them turning back into frogs, only possibly tricky one is the Swamp, but you'd likely see it on the boat tour or when water skipping around. 4) The bow / ice arrows basically act as a "warp" as well, letting you bypass most of the dungeon and go straight back to the minibosses. 5) Frogs Like, literally was replaying it a few weeks ago, and spent about 5 minutes doing it on the side while waiting for my Sword to get upgraded (although I got the mask in a separate cycle, but I also fought both minibosses without a sword, so I feel like those cancel out :P)

the most infuriating thing about this video is that we can't even get a full heart container; it only covers 3 heart pieces

The worst part of the twilight princess one is that you need 5 pieces of heart for another heart container so it’s “worth” less than others in the series

Dunno, never really thought of the don Gero quest as that bad, it might feel as a small reward but unlike WW's trading sequence this one has more variety in its steps, getting the mask is a unique puzzle using goron link's power and the frogs themselves are pretty easy to find, 2 of them being minibosses makes them literally unskippable, the one in the swamp you also HAVE to pass by and at least hear it during the mandatory boat tour when heading to the deku palace and the final one is the only one you are not required to meet during the story, but it being in clock town pretty much guarantees you will find it while you run about The only issue is the fact that the 2nd miniboss frog requires you to be halfway into the 3rd temple making it pretty unlikely you find it on the same cycle as your first Goht fight, forcing you to defeat him again, but even then that fight is considered pretty fun and quick

I was thinking “the frog quest wasn’t _that_ bad” but then the explanation of how to even get don gero’s mask to begin with started and i was like.. oh, yeah

I totally called Don Gero's heart piece being on the list. Such a pain. Putting aside how long and tedious it is, I've always hated having to revisit dungeons you've already completed.

I could listen to you explain every heart piece in Zelda

I didn't have any troubles with delivering the water in Twilight Princess, and I didn't think spending all those rupees was bad. I'm always glad to have a reason to spend money in a Zelda game. I didn't even bother with the trading sequence in Wind Waker though. As for Don Gero, it wasn't too bad. I did it just to 100% the game, and I had already beaten Majora. I think I found the rock food in the first pot (before even considering the Don Gero quest), so that might be one reason I didn't dislike it.

About time he finally came back to upload the second 2024 video!

Getting all the heart pieces in Twilight Princess is what eventually caused me to stop getting all the pieces of heart in these games. I've beaten every game, but I'll never get all the hearts again.

I was wondering what had happened to you! Great new video and hoping things are well. Always good when new content drops on this criminally underrated channel.

5000 rupees in majora's mask for a piece of heart is so overly ridiculous. What's even the point of grinding for it.

I'm glad you mentioned the Clock Town archery game, since that was by far the Zelda minigame that gave me the most trouble. Though being slightly colorblind has never been an issue for me in any other game, I found it really hard to distinguish the 2 colors of Octorocks fast enough.

So true with the Don Gero piece of heart. I remember last time I played, the exact scenario played out that you mentioned. I got 4 of the frogs gathered, before realizing I couldn't get to the Great Bay Temple frog in time. Needless to say I never got the piece of heart, lol.

Oh god, that baseball mini game heart piece was awful. I hated every hour of it.

This is why whenever I revisit a Zelda game I do a 3-heart run. I will collect everything EXCEPT the heart pieces, and I feel that makes the game a lot more enjoyable because you get to skip so many dumb minigames and tedious sidequests, while also making combat and resource management more engaging.

hard disagree on your top pick here. Finding frogs is child's played compared to 1000 sword strokes without getting hit 3 times. One is just knowing where everything is and going and doing it, the other is a war of attrition that isn't remotely challenging, but can and will just decide to force you to restart regardless if you so much as position badly at the wrong moment. A successful run is about 15-20 minutes, but it can easily boil over into hours of time wasted tapping B and back flipping and hoping you don't slip in your attack cycles. And no I really don't think Orca's sparring heart piece should count as a "skill-based" heart piece because even if you do it flawlessly your first try, it's still 15-20 minutes of eroding your right thumb's nerves on the B button and there's not a thing interesting about doing it in the first place. My thoughts go out to anyone foolish enough to try Orca sparring with L-targeting set to Hold.

thanks for reminding me of the hot spring water barrel... i completely forgot it existed but now i have memories and flashbacks

All of them are fun challenges, not all heart pieces should be easy to obtain by just climbing a tree

Straight up, I'm so glad to see the mini games be an honorable mention. I turn off the mini game locations when I do randomizers, I hate them so much.

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I remember absolutely hating the postman's hat heart piece in MM just because you have to do the kafei quest again just to get a almost useless mask for a single heart piece

Ngl those Twilight heart pieces you have to pay Rupees for are some of the few things that actually make collecting high numbers of Rupees feel worth it for most of the game. It's only at the end of a 100% playthrough (I've done at least 4) that I feel like "what's the point?", and the only reason it doesn't happen way sooner is because of these 2 heart pieces using up my Rupees before I hit my wallet max. Though to be fair, I almost never use the invincibility armor except when I want to collect the Rupees from a quest to get 100% but have max wallet. If I used it while fighting enemies, maybe I would value Rupees more.

Nice! What do you think about the best/fun heart pieces??

"im sure many love and crush at the clock down shooting gallary" that be me. For some reason , i find it soothing and just sweeping left to right i like in it.

The worst Piece of Heart is still better than the best Shrine. I don't mind the skill mini-games or pieces. None of them have ever been too hard, and I enjoy getting just good enough to perfect them before moving on. Completely fine work/reward that serve as a great way to practice with a new item, and they also add a bit of flavor and life to the games. While I agree that a Piece of Heart isn't an appropriate reward for a trading quest (the mask or Magic Armor make a lot more sense), I still like the trading sequences, and that one letting you decorate the town with whatever you want is a nice addition. Honestly though, with all of these and every Piece of Heart I've collected, I don't see how more varied and interesting game content can possibly be a bad thing.

If they just offered a full heart container for these quests they would feel a bit more justified but to do all that work for 1/4th of a heart feels like a waste of time

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The piece of heart that gave me the most trouble was the one in that baseball mini game in A Link Between Worlds. I was stuck on that one for 3 weeks and that was the last heart piece I needed to get max hearts.

Thank god the that windwaker STRATEGY GUIDE back in the day

"unless something horrible happens in the next entry in the series" glances over at all 120 "heart pieces" in botw and all 152 "heart pieces" in totk yeeeaaaahhhh sure would suck if something horrible happened with the next zelda game

Yay, was looking forward to new content from you :) Nice! personally i have to say, the heart piece in wind waker you mention here never really bothered me, since i enjoy sailing so much in that game. But that's just me. And one question, have you ever played (and enjoyed?) Link's Awakening? For me it's probably my favorite or 2nd favorite in the whole franchise but i think you have never mentioned it on your channel... or am i wrong? :D Have a good one!

Oracle of Ages/Seasons had horrible mini game heart pieces and the RNG ones inside nuts

The guro mask heart piece is why I only got all the hearts in Majora's Mask once. Getting all the masks in the game to get Deity's mask is far more rewarding even if it takes a whole lot more effort, but I guess one big plus to that one is every mask in itself feels rewarding on its own even if it is cosmetic.

The Shooting Gallery in Majora’s Mask even as a mention? I don’t know man, when you see it also gives easy 200s afterwards, that doubles as some good progress towards getting the bank piece, even if you don’t immediately get the perfect score since even the 50s help to some degree. The pumpkin one wasn’t too bad, though that might be because I had the motion controls down good *enough* to do it. The Spring Water delivery I remember taking quite some time. All the small little movements and the bit of luck to stay away long enough…all after donating rupees in a game where donating them seems to be the entire theme for other pieces *in a game where it requires five pieces to make a heart.* I really felt some of the more annoying pieces could’ve either been reworked or removed. One thankful note now is that being hit by an enemy yourself causes you to only drop the barrel, meaning there’s a chance you can get some quick distance, slay the nearby enemies swiftly, and return to the delivery for the next wave. Like I said, luck can be crucial. The Wind Waker Trade Quest is another rupee waster in order to fully complete it with all designs. The one plus is that at least we know Gorons are at least very much alive even now. …oh. *That.* I’m only going to count what happens after acquiring the mask since getting it is honestly just a case of slightly slowing yourself down on your way to the temple after playing a basic timing and luck game that honestly shouldn’t take too long given you can mid-speed roll to maintain speed and magic fairly easily, doubly saving on time. The Great Bay Temple Frog is just…too much. If the other one was found in another area, like Termina Field in that one little pool, or just in Great Bay itself, it would be a lot more tolerable. Personally I think it’s a side effect of a general reduction in temples, and therefore fewer containers with more pieces to make up for it-think Twilight Princess’s issue but at least *somewhat* justified and it didn’t feel as unnecessarily extra.

To make the Don Gero heart piece even worse, it doesn't really unlock any cool or nifty feature when completed. At least with the Goron on the bridge, it's a means to an end to get the Magic Armor (and a super cheap shop), and the sale trading quest gives you the option to bling out Windfall Island and the Cabana if you so choose to waste your rupees on gold statues. But all the Don Gero quest completion does is let you hear the frog chorus when you get close to the pond... until you reset time.

you could argue that delivering the water safely is a skill based challenge just like your honorable mentions. the skill being finding a safe rout.

To be fair, I'd argue the frog choir isn't that bad. Granted it is a lot for a heart piece, but if you know where to go and are prepared, you can easily get it done in about a one in-game day. So if you make good use of your time, it is a decent way to kill time and collect other heart pieces that cycle, such as the graveyard pieces in Ikana Graveyard, The Scarecrow Heart Pieces, the Deku Scrub heart piece or a few things here and there. That being said, my personal worst Heart Piece in Majora Mask probably has to be the Moon Zora Heart Piece, where if you miss it, you have to reset the entire 3 day cycle to try again. I haven't done a full replay of Majoras Mask from start to finish, but I remember that one being the one that was the biggest inconvenience. Though I do race to complete Majora 3d on occasion, so there's that.

The cucco minigame piece of heart from The Minish Cap is the worst one in the series

I didn't play all Zelda games, so I'm gonna say Dampé's piece of heart is the one that I remember as the worst. I think there is a trick that speedrunners use to get that piece of heart much easier, but when I was a kid it just seemed like this hunchback of Notredame rip-off was scamming me out of my money. Went broke a few times trying to get that heart piece. It felt really infuriating.

That homerun durby thing in A Link Between World drove me insane. Took me way too long to get it.

3. Hey, at least you can give the Goron as many Rupees as you want, have, or need to all at once. That man in Castle Town slows your donation to a crawl, as you have to give in quantities of 50, or 30 if you make the mistake of not choosing 50. YMMV on whether or not the donation interface makes getting that Piece of Heart worse than the fact you have to carry hot water across a field somewhat populated by enemies under an invisible time limit. 2. I guess about the only interesting thing about them is that they're the only Gorons you'll see in the game. I think all my worse ones than the three you covered fall under the Honorable Mention umbrella, and one was specifically cited. You mentioned the race with Yeta, but the same game also had the block-pushing in the rocky area in the north of the section of Hyrule Field north of Hyrule Castle.

I was never a big fan of A Link to the Past, but I will always hate the heart piece that requires you to go through most of Turtle Rock and use the magic mirror on a specific tile outside of the dungeon. I can't remember how long I spent looking for that damn heart piece.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Goron one in Majora's Mask, where you roll around on the Moon and have to try to get the Heart Piece. I never made it to get that Heart Piece when attempting a 100% challenge

The two that come to my mind as big pains to get are from that music minigame in Skyward Sword in that pumpkin inn, and the baseball minigame in A Link Between Worlds. Both were very finicky minigames that took many tries to finally beat.

Baseball minigame in Link Between Worlds is BY FAR, without ANY competition the absolute worst they ever added!

I liked the trading sequence xD The "acupuncture" quest with the fish was hard for me, but I didn't hate it and felt proud upon completing it ^^

The water delivery in TP was never too bad for me. I don’t stop to fight enemies and just kinda keep running and it amuses me watching the bird enemies flap their wings as they try to lock on to me and I’m just ignoring them. For me, the absolute worst heart piece in TP is the “talk to cats” one. I can never finish it in less than an hour of searching for the aggravating furballs.

Saying the Don Gero heart is bad is a huge understatement. All the frogs can be found through normal game progression, except maybe the swamp one needing a tiny bit of exploring, and the mechanic of going through multiple days is part of the game itself. I don't think it deserves to be on this list. If anything, the level of randomness of chest game in OoT is more annoying up until you have access to the lens of truth. Then there is the dog race in MM that needs the Mask of Truth to even have a CHANCE at winning the race for a heart.

As annoying as these are, I'd definitely give a mention to the Maple and Gasha Seed heart pieces in the Oracle games. Both are not only completely luck-based, but getting the circumstances in which they're obtainable can be extremely grindy and tedious if you don't get lucky early on. And let's not forget the agony of either seeing Maple snatch her heart piece away from you or watching it disappear into a pit or some water.

I find the Wind Waker trade quest one funny for one big reason: even if you go out of your way to add steps for the sake of getting all the items for Zunari, you only ever need to go to Bomb Island once in the entire sequence.

one of the worst ones possible is in the minish cap, which involves those damn figurines and secret shells! you have to COMPLETE the collection to even earn this effing heart piece

I see your gripe with mini-games and trades but if you've observed after getting all item rewards a heartpiece is usually the reward that signifies you've finished the npc's questline for possible items; play enough Zelda games you realize this and it makes you sure there's nothing else new to get after that.

A way to recontextualize the piece of heart as a reward, is that it makes the quest that rewards it into a required part of a "100% playthru".

Bruh, the don gero side quest was probably my favorite, it is a lot of work, but you said that for savage labarynth too and this one also brings exciting gameplay. Fine if you don't like backtracking, but i think it's a really cool way to make you look at things you did in the past in a different way. btw i had no idea it was rng, i got the rock serloin on my first try, i can imagine that's a bit frustrating. Other than that I also think it made such an interesting story. A delicassy for gorons, a backstory for an otherwise weird miniboss, there being a whole choire made of frogs... oh, and frogs are cute.

Okay, I thought the game glitched because I never got that pieces of heart from the trading sequence, because I thought you got it from the Windfall island marchant, not the Gorons! So I ended the game with 19¾ hearts xD (But I remember finishing the game 100%, so I only forgot this)

While they aren't heart pieces (or rather, spirit orbs/light of blessing), whoever designed the Highland Stable challenges in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom can go eat a rock. In Botw, you have to beat a stupid race track time just to get a saddle that isn't exactly bad, but feels like way too little for all the annoyance you have to go through. Likewise, in TotK, it's a sort of obstacle course where you can't let some cargo slip off or you have to restart, and the reward is just some points for the new Stable rewards system. And what makes it so annoying in both cases isn't just the amount of money you stand to lose, but the fact that you have to REPEAT. THE. DIALOGUE. BIT. BY. BIT. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. For the love of God, Nintendo, just give us a freaking RESTART option or something like that. Unless I'm unaware and it requires a chicken being sacrificed, I seriously cannot understand why they don't let us have such a simple solution; choose to restart a failed challenge. Thinking of just how much time would be saved actually agitates me more than thinking of all the rupees I've lost repeating the dang dialogue.

Delivering the hotspring water was very easy for me because I discovered the safe route after failing the first time, so for a long time I thought that I did it the wrong w the first time and the safe route was the correct way of doing it

Twilight Princess was always my favorite Zelda game growing up, and bc of the 'strafe around the edge' trick, I never had trouble with the barrel minigame. The sledding one on the other hand...guh. No. Just. No. Worst. Awful. Bleh.

Entirely forgot about that last one but yeah that's a great runner-up for being one of the worst. The one that sticks out to me recently is from Breath & Tears. It's not a difficult system but it's so frustratingly repetitive and tedious the more progress you make, odds are you're going to spend more time looking for the last shrine than it took to go through all the previous ones, it just doesn't respect your time. If you can find all of them easily and keep track which you've completed, they still don't even have interesting or satisfying puzzles that make it feel worthwhile, because there's food that's outright healthier.

@14:04- Something similar was used in Ocarina of Time when in Goron City you did have that huge spinning statue and all you had to do was throw a bomb into it and get the right face to get the Heart Piece.

I was actually waiting for you to pull a "just kidding" sort of thing with the majoras mask one. The one you did for twilight princess is far worse than this one.

The clocktown shooting gallery is a lot easier on actual console. It's tricky in general but I only really struggled with it when I first beat it on Gamecube. I had it for N64, but my controllers were so worn out that just wearing the bunny hood I could run at normal speed, while destroying my thumb. As for the frogs, I honestly really enjoy it. I love the backtracking.

The Deku saplings in WW were worse for me, the combination of a time limit with the water, and having to visit 8 different islands (which you might not have found yet) is worse than the repetition of the trading sequence

For #3, I naturally went the least enemies route, I think I got it in one go, and I didn't have all that difficulty getting the funds for the bridge by the time I got to that heart piece I already had nothing I really wanted up for purchase except for the Magic Armor (I did a 100% Normal Mode Run, which meant all 3 armors all PoH), and since this was in furthering my desires to get that armor anyway, and it nets you a SECOND Goron who also needs Hot Spring Water, which is a small price comparatively, and nets you two entrances to South Castle town and East Castle Town, which just felt better, it wasn't like I WANT the piece of heart, so much as, in the process of getting the way to Castle town open from the Kak side, and then repeating it with a very easily purchased hot spring water to give to the Southern Goron which just makes more on-foot/hoot/paw travel that much better... In all of TP I'd say it's either one in City in the Sky. Main Reason being that one is located, weirdly out of the way, like even when you think you're going out of the way the one that is even further out of the way, and the one indoors in that dungeon, similar issue, it's primarily the routes you have to take to back there if you only PARTIALLY fail in acquiring them... that's why I'd say Castle Town Goron is "meh" as I wanted an easily traversed bridge anyway, and yeah, it's honestly, it doesn't feel that bad unless you're making very repetitive choices at stores, which I rarely partook in as I preferred Fairies to full HP (or larger amounts of HP gain, which the best for "essentially free" is the Pumpkin soup from the 5th dungeon... yeah you always have to do the Snowboard minigame each time, but, outside of just snowboarding down there, you literally just can get as many 8-heart heals for free as you can carry in bottles each visit), so with Pumpkin Soup and Fairies, I just get free heals, I rarely need to restock up on other items, and I rarely use bomb arrows as well, I don't want to risk it unless it deals a substantial higher amount of damage than it normally would if the enemy in question is exceptionally weak to it.... so, yeah, I actually usually DO have the cash for the bridge once it's available.

I've never failed the water delivery, and I've played it a bunch. That's not a flex, it's me agreeing with you that what's hard for one person isn't for another.

Swamp shooting gallery in MM is no much worse than the clock town one. With those controls it's nearly impossible to get that piece of heart.

I find the Thirsty Goron Quest funny since... I never actually had any Rupee issues at all throughout. Like I had enough to pay off the Kakariko Malo Mart after collecting the bugs necessary. If anything, there are *too many* Rupees. They really overcompensated for the Magic Armor. Really, none of the Heart Pieces of Twilight Princess were that bad to get. Probably one of the easiest games I've 100%ed. "Reuniting Maggie with her father"... Don't pretend like you had any part of that. Trying to steal the credit away from those hardworking pirates. If anything, Maggie's Father turns into an absolute jerk who cares *only* for money. It's actually not random getting the Rock Sirloin. It's in the same pot every time. As an aside, a lot of this stuff mostly progression stuff anyway, which can be done in a single Three Day Cycle if you're skilled enough. At most you'd just have to beat Goht a second time, but after that, beat a couple of frogs, talk to the choir and that's it. At most takes... half an in-game day? I dunno, this does sound more like a patience problem to me. The Number 2 seems genuinely awful, since even as a Wind Waker fan, I can't defend it.

Great video, I enjoyed it. At least, donating 2.000 rupees in TP over the course of the game for rewards is a way to spend money. It gives more value to rupees, which I appreciate. About the trading-sidequest in WW: Yeah, it's as confusing as you describe it. I remember trying and starting it blind, only to get stuck, so I had to turn to a guide. The process of hitting a training-partner a certain amount of times without getting hit yourself is more annoying for me, though. And it appears in WW and PH! At least the Goron-trading isn't stressful, and you can tackle it at your own pace. In MM, I personally find the Swamp Shooting Gallery Minigame the most obnoxious and annoying. I could never do it without save-states on an emulator! And even with that, it's just soooo frustrating!

I actually like the Don Gero quest. Mind you, I don't consider the piece of heart given there to be that important and consider the true reward to be able get the frog to do their little choral while seeing Link conducting it.

The absolute best heart pieces are the ones you find randomly whilst fishing. Also the best bottles.

I feel like the problems with the Lumpy Pumpkin harp minigame in Skyward Sword go beyond just "difficulty". I'm one of those seemingly rare people who had no issues with the motion controls in that game...with the exception being this. The wiimote just isn't up to the task here. It's incredibly frustrating knowing that you could easily follow the music if you controlled it with a joystick or something, but the game just doesn't keep up with your motions.

The town shooting gallery in MM was completely broken on Wii, as they messed with the stick calibration, making it borderline impossible to aim fast with precision. The fact that I spent hours on it there, but did it first try on 3DS with gyro controls attest to that.

hmmmm, the other 2 are worse than the frog heart piece, so I would not call it firmly number 2.

Ok octoball is genuinely awful.

I am one of those people who missed the goron with the water barrel the same size as him. It definitely took a few tries to get there in the first place too. As soon as I saw Malo’s baby face on the barrel on this video, I felt it in my bones.

Its not for a hearpeoce but the 999 second endless cucco score in Link Between Worlds has beem driving me insane.

I will say that when playing majoras mask without guides and things like that it feels less task oriented and more like exploration and a call to memory in comparison to like the trade quest from windwaker.. except for the 3 day cycle.. that fucks it all up.

5000 rupee heart in majoras mask always seemed tedious to me, of course you could just keep putting rupees in the bank whenever you have max but if you're midway through another quest or a dungeon and you're already maxed your first thought isn't "lets put these rupees in the bank then come back" no it would be finish the dungeon then go to the bank later, leaving you with a lot of rupees you could've picked up. 5000 is no small number especially for majoras mask rupees and considering first playthroughs you may not even find out there's a reward for cashing in 5000 because from memory theres no reward for 1000 so unless without a guide not many people will bother putting that many rupees in the bank. Also just... weird and randomly placed

I miss the Hunt of Heart ❤ pieces. I hate how you get them easily in BOTW and TOTK Back then you had to earn your health.

Did anyone else have problems with the Dampe heart piece in OoT? For me, it never appeared!