yea, i gota agree with everybody, i know im not much help, but def grinding, i did that for what seemed like eternity when i was takin on AoL for the first time, and i eventually even gave up, im not much for grinding, and with a short attention span, well, you know, grinding is a no for me, but later on in life i picked it back up and gave it another go. I will say this, AoL is definitely the hardest zelda game for me to play, i found myself taking ten times as long on this game than other zelda games just because it couldnt keep my attention, basically i beat it in the hope that one day i can say that ive beaten every zelda game made.