Chapter 4: Kanalet Castle

So on our adventure and in exploring a new area of Koholint, we find Richard, an exiled prince who is whining about how he lost his "leaves" when he fled his castle.  I can see why they kicked him out, he's nothing but a sniveling coward.  But helping Richard is vital to our cause, so we storm Kanalet Castle, which we are told is the oldest structure standing on the island.  Apparently, the land used to be ruled by a King but that King no longer holds any power though he still lives there.  An odd arrangement, to be sure.  It definitely adds to the mysticism that is Koholint.   Within the castle we find that Richard's former vanguard, who went berserk, are in possession of his leaves and one by one, they drop all six of them.  (At first, the coward tells us he only needs us to find one thing and he'll help us, and then after we agree, he mentions oh yeah, there are six of them).  One way or another, after all of that work, does he have the key to the next dungeon?  Not at all, he simply opens up a cave for us.  What a rube!  We must then search a huge field filled with potholes to find our way to the key, but this field puzzle is actually quite simple, since you have to go a certain way and so long as you move slowly so as not to reset the grass, you're golden.

Either way, this is one of the more interesting moments of the game where we start to realize that everyone on this island is going to be unique and new, so they are all given personality quirks and interesting twists to their character in order to distinguish Koholint and Hyrule, which are linked only truly by Link himself.  The two lands are very different, and the NPCs only add to this depth.