Well, I indeed got Zelda: Minish Cap, and I picked up Kirby and the Amazing Mirror for good measure.

I bought Zelda on the 11th, and was done with it late on the 12th. Epic this game is not. Fun, yes, but it's just miserably short. Full blown rant coming up. Raul got a piece of it and I mentioned it on a thread in GFAQs, so, I'll let it brew tonight.

Final Count:
16 hearts, 3 bottles

Running Tally:
18 hearts, 3 bottles

It final boss game me some trouble until I realized that I didn't need to use arrows on the first form. Then he went down pretty easliy. Ah well. Somehow I get the feeling that Kirby will take me longer to beat. Let's not let Metroid Prime 2 gather any dust though, apparently, I'll be back to it sooner than I thought.

(by the way, the Oracle games on the inferior Game Boy Color were both had deeper puzzles and a longer adventure with larger land area than this game... hmm....)