Saria Region and Bagu's Cabin

All right, so here we searched through the woods to find the cabin of Bagu and began to explore a new region of Hyrule.  The game really valleys in its difficulty level now despite the obnoxious difficulty of the palaces, we are now in a region of Hyrule where grinding is much easier (for example, the octorok encounters offer at least 50 exp/encounter and the goriya offer at least 40).  As leveling up has become much easier, so in effect does making Link stronger and thusly does advancing the game.  In addition, once we traverse the maze which is just ahead of us and obtain the hammer, many more doors will open for us and over-world travel will become that much easier, making starting from the hub point not that big of a deal.

Either way, around Bagu's Cabin (the guy gives you a note which seems useless, but this note proves vital in Saria Town) you find the medicine bottle, which will also prove vital a bit later in our quest.  One of the great things about Bagu is that he is one of the NPCs you are forced to interact with to advance.  While most of the required interactions seem extremely forced (they are not smooth in transition nor do they seem to flow) for the eight-bit style and the novelty of the system, they did a great job on this.  Not to mention Bagu's cabin is hidden and all that people in Saria tell you is that the man exists.  Yeah, he does...on the other side of the river, hidden in the forest around a bunch of forced encounters.

Since we visited Bagu's Cabin, drove up Link's experience a bit and got everything that we needed to in our raid across the area, it is time to visit the village of Saria.