Picked my playthrough of Minish Cap back up again recently, planning on 100% completing it. Currently, gone through Deepwood Shrine, Cave of Flames, and The Fortress of Winds. Figuring out my way towards Lake Hylia now. Put in about 14 hours so far.
I'm really enjoying all the side exploration and kinstone quests you can do as you make your way through the plot, whenever I got stuck temporarily, just shifted my focus over on completing kinstones and going back to older areas to find things I missed like the Great Mayfly Fairy over at Mt. Crenel. Eventually just by doing that I stumbled on what I needed to do to continue the main quest. (Which in my case, was exploring the houses in castle town and accidentally stumbling on the way I would obtain the Pegasus Boots.)
rescued a whole bunch of cuccos...then she asked for 3 in 55 seconds and I was like, hell nahhh
one of em's literally across the water and it takes over half of the time limit to run over there and then slowly walk with this bird above my head all the way back to the center part of town
I'll get it eventually
Ezlo has a lot of character, really love him for it.