First of all, Thank You CastChaos for another fantastic offering. It's been a while since your last one. I have always enjoyed your complex, but highly playable quests. Valami has proven to be technically sound, has beautiful graphics/design, and the music is nice and appropriate.
Learning to navigate with the roc's feather gave me a slow start, but soon got the hang of it. I have a love and hate feelings about the freedom to explore - so far have done extensive exploration, know the locations of most dungeons, collected 12 hearts and acquired a lot of items, yet oddly enough I am missing a couple of desireable items. I am finding myself needing other items to complete randomly entered dungeons. There are clues on items needed upon entering some dungeons, but others don't. While it is encouraged not to do dungeons in order, it becomes more frustrating when you get in one and unable to complete it because of missing items. It is probably designed this way, after all "It Means Something" in the end.
Anyways... Is the ladder on this quest? Also, where is the level 3 gloves and level 2 boomerang? Thanks.