Chapter 10: The Eagle's Tower

So I remember despising this dungeon when I was a little kid.  I would constantly get the orb stuck in the wall, because the game loved to glitch like that, and I would have to start everything all over.  Not to mention this is where the dungeons begin to get extremely complicated.  While Face Shrine wasn't a picnic, Eagle's Tower proves some of the good masterminding behind the dungeoneering of these places.  While the tower itself is a nice challenge in the form of complex and layered puzzles (you need to destroy part of the tower in order to advance, and once you do you no longer have access to one floor of the tower...so you better be sure you got everything!)  the action is a little lacking...there is nothing here that under our current equipment arrangement we can't handle.  However, this is the natural progression of Zelda...the first dungeons are action-heavy because we are ill-equipped, the last ones are puzzle heavy since we can slice and dice more easily.  I do like how this game progressed with these elements and their balance.  The boss, then, is a major let-down: the only real challenge is that if he manages to knock you off the tower, you have to start the entire battle over again.  Well, a hookshot and mirror shield later, we have what we need.  This dungeon continues the trend of lacking dungeon treasures: we don't get many cool items to aid us in our quest on Koholint.  The mirror shield is no real better than our standard shield, except that it can't be consumed by Like-Likes and it reflects beams/fire (which in reality, is our key to advancing our quest).

After putting the Evil Eagle to rest atop this tower (he, too, warns us of our foolishness), we find that Marin was in the Tal Tal Mountain Range, doing what, she wouldn't tell us because Tarin comes for her and demands to know what she was doing (but she won't tell us).  Then the owl swoops down and tells us that she sang her song in front of the wind fish...obviously, she intended to awaken the fish.  How did she know our mission, and secondly, how did she know the key to doing so?