Wow, everyone's doing better than me thus far. I got to the castle, finally! defeated that bloody sorcerer, and then ended up dying to the hydra (well actually in a fight during the hydra battle), because my weapon broke at the wrong time.
What was frustrating, is I had two sharpening stones in my inventory, I didn't realize the weapon was on its last legs.
I really hope some indication when weapons are about to break will be added soon, as it keeps getting me killed which is annoying!
I also have learned to only use mushrooms on either the screen before a major battle or during the fight itself, since I used two mushrooms one step away from a fight, took the step and got to the fight and had no good effects at all which was irritating.
Oh well, time to try again, I'll get there in the end .
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)