Lizzard has only been a fan of video games that were either racing (like MarioKart) or something like the other Mario games (Mario 64, the Super Mario games, etc). When a Game Cube took up residence in her house (left by a friend who is often out of state), she discovered that Zelda games are quite entertaining. The player has to solve a bunch of puzzles to move from level to level basically. The fact that the controller rumbles helped her enjoy it as well since she was able to use that to get more out of the game (compensate for the ears that don't work so well).

Lizzard first beat Ganondorf on Labor Day 2006. Since then, she's played it through a few more times, just for the fun of it. In reading some helpful hints online, she learned there are "figurines" that can be obtained. Deciding to take on the challenge, she started playing once more, with the goal to get all the figurines possible and thus find out what happens when that goal has been achieved. This is something that Manto never did, which is partially why Lizzard thinks it's so cool. She hardly ever gets to do something in a video game that Manto hasn't done first.

So, what happens you ask? Carlos, the nice character who sculpts each figurine as you bring pictures to him, finally carves this one - the main characters. The green-clothed main character is included to prove a point. At first, Lizzard thought that it was impossible to get all the figurines in one play-through of the game. However, not only is it possible but she did it! When a game is played the second time, the main character wears different clothes. Hence, capturing the image of the green-clothed hero with the figurine shows that it was done in a new game and only one time through. Neat, huh?

A close-up of the figurine that Lizzard worked so hard to get. :-)

Observe - the complete map from the game. Originally, this map starts out almost entirely black. It has now been filled in by talking to the fish-man at each island and getting all of the treasures (see the "49" next to the map and treasure chest pictures).

This picture shows that Lizzard got all the heart pieces which are available, as well as maxing out her money (5000) and magic meter. Note the change of clothes here. This was done on a second play-through.

Screen shots that show Lizzard got all of the available items and learned all of the songs with the wind waker.

Since then, Lizzard has discovered that she loves DDR (Dance Dance Revolution). She'll have to add some pictures here showing this fun pasttime.

This page was last updated on 11-Jan-2011 11:05