Just completed the last Silent Realm after probably 4 attempts at it. That was really a really terrible forced stealth section. The 3rd trip to the volcanic realm felt particularly pointless and false, and it kind of felt like it was ripping off Chrono Trigger a bit (yeah, I know...those kind of sequences have been in other RPGs, but the way this played out felt exactly like a notable sequence in Chrono Trigger, only tremendously lamer and lazy since it was yet again Nintendo just re-using an environment they already had, just with more lava everywhere and some tunnel points). And this game doesn't deserve to be anywhere near Chrono Trigger's company on just about anything. What, Nintendo? Did you really think I lost my appreciation for the Slingshot and Bomb? That after going through entire dungeons dedicated to these items that I somehow didn't fully appreciate their usefulness?
Still, at least it wasn't as bad as the underwater music note sequence. That section was so bad, I think it replaced Atlantica from Kingdom Hearts 2 as the worst music-based mini-game in all of gaming. That takes talent, because Atlantica is an abomination in Kingdom Hearts 2 (though at least the "final boss" of it is set to a kind of neat cut song from The Little Mermaid).
EDIT: Well, it's a good thing they pointed this stupid thing out earlier in the game, or I'd never think to look there. I was wondering when I'd finally get to do something with that.
EDIT 2: Well, the dungeon I'm in right now feels like the Point of No Return with the way the various rooms are done and given what the quest here is for. That being the case, I'm going to revert to my save file before I entered this dungeon and try to do some clean-up on Heart Pieces and Goddess Cubes. I also need to do the Boss Rush mode, just for two of the prizes in particular (it just doesn't feel right finishing a Zelda game without either of them). Whether I'll finish the game in the near future depends on how incredibly annoying it is to get the rest of the heart pieces. And judging by the fact that I still need to do at least the bug castle probably multiple times as well as the roulette wheel, that's looking pretty annoying so it'll probably be a while.