Yes, I really messed up on this video, contributing to the fantastic compression rate - I hit Load instead of Save and had to replicate a lot of progress again.

It's an odd feeling to be so free after being stuck in a small section of the game for a very long time - you start to forget how big the game is until you get the Ice Beam. And a few shortcuts are provided, but I think it would definitely benefit from a couple of teleporters here and there to transport you quickly from one remote place to another. Without those, I'm going to be doing a lot of retracing my steps remembering where those grapple-beam hooks were... you can sort of be stuck by openness as well as by being physically stuck.

I'm beginning to understand more of the game's language, but not... how to interpret it, sadly - I had the pieces of the puzzle (the destroyable blocks to create a runway, the abundance of super bombs to do so, and the space in which to run and the ramp to launch from) but failed to put them all together and got creative instead.

And penetrate... with the wave beam... intriguing! I will attempt to apply that cryptic hint somewhere when I record the next video.