Mastery #35: Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (6th Zelda Mastery!)
A Zelda game I've never played until now. I didn't know this is where Vaati made his debut. I always remembered him from that 4 swords adventure game for like the Gamecube or something like that. I really enjoyed this game. Can't believe it's taken me this long to finally get around to play it
This set definitely has what I would consider the single hardest achievement out of all the Zelda games I've mastered so far: Beating Vaati without getting hit. That took me hours to do. Lol But holy shit did it feel good to finally get it. I was afraid of messing up the final leg of the last phase because of my heart racing. The worst part about the achievement is the run back to Vaati after each fail. Fighting those 3 darknuts before Vaati over and over really takes the momentum out of things. Beating the Gyrog Pair was also a challenge without getting hit. Not near as hard as Vaati, though.
Rest of the set is standard Zelda set. Collect everything, do a 3 heart run. One of the harder 3 heart runs in my opinion. But it could also have been because I wasn't super familiar with the game. Definitely had resort to fairies on my first fight against Vaati.
The figurine achievement made me roll my eyes upon reading it at first. Mostly because I had done it in Wind Waker. But in this game it is far less time consuming and easier to do. So it wasn't bad.
The Vaati achievement alone, I think, makes this the hardest Zelda I've mastered so far, with the ALttP in a close second, followed by the original Zelda.
On to Zelda: The Adventure of Link!