BIGOCTO HAHAHAHAOMG that guy gave me so much trouble! It took me almost ages to finally destroy him, and my hand hurt all the time so I had to take rests (I was playing 3DS version)... I have this on-and-off problem with minibosses, though! Sometimes it's manageable, like Dark Link since I had the Biggoron Sword; but usually I do terribly, like the Lizalfos in SS. Bosses are a different matter, so yeah.
I'm not really playing Zelda right now! xD I'm stuck at the Shadow Temple in OoT because the Wallmaster pulled me back to the beginning of the dungeon, and I rage-quitted rofl