Dungeon 9 has a bunch of useless rooms. I just collect the compass, map, red ring, silver arrow which is a must and go on my way to beat Ganon which is another easy boss in the game.
Along the way I take a lot of hits and end up using more health. I however don't use the 2nd dose as it wasn't needed.
As I stated before. Ganon is easy. I allow him to hit me as he does very little damage to me. In turn it allows me to beat him faster.
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