Ocarina of Time Beating the Shadow Temple Without the Eye of Truth...

[Poe_Salesman]

I feel silly now for using my arrows against Bongo Bongo... without the eye of truth. I just kind of guessed for the middle and shot, then used the goron sword. It took me three tries to kill him though because I lost my fairies in the room before that trying to find the platforms... Even after finding them once, I could never get them the first try the next time I'm going to attempt the Desert without it and see how far that gets me. @OotLord1003: Did it. So there. You and your friend should've tried harder.
@insanity 76: I agree the moving platform was much less difficult then I thought it'd be. I spent the most time in the room with the spikes and the silver rupees, trying to remember/guess where the invisible hookshot targets are

 

[insanity76]

Oh yeah I forgot about that room lol, but I pretty much know roughly where the targets are, so I usually don't use the lens in there. And a little tip (for anyone who doesn't know) about the room & the spikes .. wear the hover boots and if you walk over the spikes you'll hover over them opposed to getting hurt.

 

[Poe_Salesman]

The invisible hookshot target over the door didn't take me very long because I used that so many times in my other game that I had that one down. It was the one in the corner that took me so long. For the life of me I couldn't remember where it was! The room where you fight the invisible hand thing, that strangles you and what not, it was about a million times more intense without the eye of truth. For kicks, I also did everything without a shield. A Likelike took mine in the water temple, and once I got it back, I decided Link looked cooler without it. Fun Fact: Without his shield equipped he compulsively grabs things with two hands briefly

 

[Kybyrian]

On one of my various playthroughs of the Shadow Temple I actually did do this. It was a long time ago, and took a few playthroughs to remember everything. I wanted to do it just by memorization and the like. There is a lot of luck involved in it, but you feel pretty good about yourself when you do something like that.

 

[illmatic]

I remember when the game first came out and everyone was playing it. One of my friends said the Shadow Temple was the most difficult dungeon in the game and I thought it was the easiest. I later realized he had never gotten the Lens of Truth! I've got to give it a shot one day

 

[Poe_Salesman]

There is definitely a sense of achievement, after doing something like that. Plus, the confirmation of an extreme obsession for Zelda!
@ illmatic: You're friend did on accident what I was so happy about doing deliberately... Geeze...

 

[legnase]

I really didn't want to take the time to get the lens of the truth. So I went to the Shadow Temple and got the hover boots, and then i decided to go get the lens of truth.

 

[Da Bunni Hood]

Haha I got to the boss before my friend told me that you're supposed to go into the well