u/Snifflyjewel

Pretty good set I think. Grateful it went easy on the 1-up collecting. Those are always my least favorite in any Mario set for some reason. Lol There was one 1-up achievement that was a little wonky on the Tower in world 5. I just went back to it once I had an inventory full with those P-wings after beating the game.

Hardest part was maybe beating some of the worlds in their entirety with small Mario. Thought World 8 would've been the hardest in that regard, but it turned out to be World 7 that I struggled with the most as small Mario. Lol

Some of the individual challenges that gave me a hard time was beating an Airship with the Frog Suit and beating an Airship with the Hammerbros Suit. On both instances I'd collect the suit, attempt the Airship, lose the power up, reset. Until I eventually got frustrated, grinded out the suits only to beat the Airship on the first attempt after taking the time to collect those suits. Lol

Another hard one was beating 5-3 in 15 jumps or less. It ended up being harder than the alternate version of the achievement where you had to complete the 3rd Airship in World 8 in 20 jumps or less.

Having mastered the original trilogy and never played this game, I thought this would be an easy master. Damn, I was wrong, and it feels good to get this one mastered. Game itself isn't that hard. But those Gold Medals for the Time Trials were PAINFUL. Lol Some of them were stupid easy that I got on my first few attempts. Sometimes I'd spend hours just on one level trying to get that damn gold medal. Golden Temple was one that ate up a bunch of time. There was one level in the Forest that was just abysmal to get a gold in.

These were the levels that absolutely wrecked me in TT:

2-1 2-4 2-7

3-1

5-4 (Probably the worst one for me)

6-1 6-4

7-6 7-B

8-7 8-B

9-1

These listed time trials I just had to treat like a boss in souls game. In a souls game, you challenge a boss over and over and over because they have a set a moves and patterns in which you just have to get the muscle memory to dodge. Same applies to some of these levels. Just attempting it over and over again until you get the muscle memory to jump/roll at the right time to get the optimal speed and to dodge/bounce off enemies.

Some of the bosses in Mirror Mode (Which is basically this games equivalent to a no hit run) were rough, like the final boss. Some of these bosses in the Time Trials were entirely RNG if you wanted to get a Gold Medal. This mostly applies to the last two bosses.

Finally got this classic done! I like this set for the most part (Fuck them butterflies. Lol) I think it serves well as a beginner entry for what to expect for the 3D Mario platforming sets for the site. I've done Mario Sunshine and Galaxy and I think this one is the easiest of the 3 that I have done. There are some challenging ones. Like getting the start from "Blast to the Stone Pillar" without the cannon was pretty tough. Getting the red coins while the Submarine is still there in Dire, Dire Docks was also a hard one.

I don't think it was the hardest, but the one that made me the mad most was collecting the red coins in Tick Tock Clock while it was in the fastest speed. That got me tilted pretty quickly. Lol

And, if you decide to to for any achievement in this set that involves butterflies, you're gonna have a bad time. Lol

Took a break from doing Zelda masteries to play the one Spyro game out of the original trilogy I never played. Lol I liked it a lot! Of course, I like the other two more. Though that may just be nostalgia talking.

Set wasn't anything too hard. I've gotten so used to doing Zelda no damage challenges that these bosses were pretty easy to no hit. There were some janky controls for the final boss no damage challenge. But nothing compared to the BS that was the no damage Gruntilda from Banjo Kazooie. Lol

If I had to pick the hardest achievement, it would be the no damage on the final boss because of the janky controls on the UFO.

Very gratifying to torch Moneybag's ass at the end though. Lol

I honestly thought I would never beat this game. I was finally able to beat this game for the first time!

Phew, this one was intimidating at first. I played this game as a kid but I was never good at it. I had only made it to like the 2nd palace. But I couldn't get further than that. The hardest part about this set is just getting past the learning curve of the game. The no damage achievements weren't bad. There's almost always a way to cheese the bosses in this game. Even the Thunderbird, as long as you use Reflect, it's not hard.

I think the hardest achievement will vary from person to person. But to me, the hardest one was the achievement, "Work Harder, not Smarter" Where you had to beat the game with no Shield, Spell, Fire, and Life. The plus side, is after doing that, made my "No Game Over" run soooo much easier. I got that one on my first try with a few stupid deaths like getting knocked into the lava by a random flying enemy.

The "No Candle/Cross" Achievement is also hard. But you don't have to beat the game. That realization came to me after I beat the 3rd dungeon. You just have to make it to the Great Palace. So you can literally grab the necessary items from the remaining dungeons and move on. I completely skipped the 6th dungeon. My stats were 5/5/5 and I made it during the final stretch with 6 lives. I died 3 times maybe? I used "Spell" during random encounters to turn the flying enemies into blobs. Then for the designated caves, I just used Fairy. If I ran out of mp, I just died to refill.

Probably the hardest Zelda game there is out there. But I think I'd do this set over beating Vaati without getting hit though.

So I still think The Minish Cap is the hardest Zelda set, followed by this one with ALttP after that.