zelda temples

[Anonymous No.5217398]

ITT: We post and discuss our favorite zelda temples.

Starting with picrelated. Best music, and funnest puzzles in OOT. I love how immersive its atmosphere is.

[Anonymous No.5217405]

Desert temples are almost always the best

[Anonymous No.5217406]

The shadow temple is also quite good, but a little overrated I feel. I dislike having to use the hover boots a lot, and unfortunately it involves a lot of that.

To me, it gets points for the perfect creepy setting, and not much else.

[Anonymous No.5217409]

>>5217405
God yes, I fucking loved flipping that shit upside down, best MM temple

[Anonymous No.5217716]

>>5217406
I liked slipping around without traction.

[Anonymous No.5217718]

It's a great game to look at pictures of, but not to pick up and play these days. It's not deep or fun enough to hold up next to rpgs like KOTOR

[Anonymous No.5217720]

very comfy but not the best

[Anonymous No.5217747]

>>5217720
this is my favorite in oot.

[Anonymous No.5217931]

I think that while I have to ultimately give it to the Forest Temple, the Water Temple has absolutely fantastic atmosphere, music, visuals, and gameplay and I always enjoy navigating it even though I was one of those guys who got stuck in it for god knows how long back in the day. It's a great dungeon overshadowed by a few issues.

I'd like to have another dungeon in Zelda that goes for a similar ambiance and verticality.

[Anonymous No.5217990]

>>5217931
What was the point of this room? Why did it turn into a regular one after you beat Dark Link?
I love mysterious shit like this in old vidya

[Anonymous No.5217993]

>>5217718
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.5218180]

>>5217720
Kino music

[Anonymous No.5218186]

>>5218180
Tidbit on the bgm:

>The theme is based on a motif that revolves around the whole tone scale, which is notorious for sounding ethereal, dream like, or mysterious. What pushes this further is how the whole tone scale moves, and how this song "moves". The whole tone scale gets its name by the notes moving in Whole steps, whereas there are usually Whole and Half steps that give a scale its own unique sound.

>Since the whole tone scale never sounds like there is a tonic (or Root) note, it sounds jarring to the listener. On top of all this, the scale is moving up and down in whole steps, never really solidifying a real Root note, which is why this theme can sound really offputting to people.

[Anonymous No.5218192]

>>5218186
>>5218180
EH REH
EH REH

EH REH

[Anonymous No.5218290]

>>5218186
This is the one piece of music I've ever used for table top RPGs and precisely for how off putting it sounds.

[Anonymous No.5218292]

>>5218186
Nothing beats censored muslim chants to Allah though.

[Anonymous No.5218307]

>>5218292
Fire Temple and Spirit Temple have the best music of any temple in the game.

[Anonymous No.5218349]

What was the deal here

[Anonymous No.5218538]

Personal rankings of enjoyment/appreciation.

Forest>Spirit>Shadow>Swamp(MM)>Fire>Snowhead(MM)>Water=Valley(MM)>Great Bay(MM)

I never liked the great bay temple, always felt bland compared to all the awesome stuff leading up to it. Could have been way cooler and more aesthetic than just the Leaky Pipe Temple of 3 Colors.

Swamp temple was great because of how dark it feels without being spookygrimdark like Shadow (which I still like)

[Anonymous No.5218561]

Who /miserymire/ here?

[Anonymous No.5218583]

>>5218307
t. abdul

[Anonymous No.5218590]

>>5218561
Oh hell yeah, ALTTP has some cool dungeons.

[Anonymous No.5218606]

Dark Palace, A Link to the Past.

First dungeon of the Dark World and back playing it as a kid, it was a kick right in the teeth after the light world dungeons were all so easy. It was much more complicated, the enemies were hitting me twice as hard, and the creepy new dungeon music got into my head. To top it off, they throw the helmasaur king at you as the boss, who is very visually intimidating and hits like a truck.

I felt incredibly satisfied when i finally beat it, and felt like it set the stage perfectly for how the rest of the game would be. The cake walk was over and it was time for the real challenge.

Though after that everything was easier, maybe with the exception of Thieves Town and Turtle Rock.

[Anonymous No.5218624]

>>5218606
Thieves' town was a huuuuge bitch to kid me
I liked the little fakeout with the boss

[Anonymous No.5218628]

>>5218624
Yeah the fake rescue quest was a cool touch. Blind kicked my ass so many times the first time through.

[Anonymous No.5220601]

worst dungeon senpai

[Anonymous No.5220615]

>>5217931
I love the Water Temple very much so. It's overall design, aesthetic, and atmosphere really influenced my love for water-based dungeons and interesting puzzle design. My only gripe is that Morpha is a hugely flawed boss that created a very mundane fight. It gets points for being having an interesting design and concept, but it all falls flat to how easy it is to cheese the fight.

[Anonymous No.5220616]

>>5220601
I liked it a lot honestly, but I can see why people would hate it. I'd say Snowhead Temple is the worst one out of MM-- to me.

[Anonymous No.5220628]

>>5220616
Honestly majora's has some really comfy areas.

I love how much there is to discover in clock town. I remember I was always disappointed how limited hyrule castle town felt, and clock town gave me all I wanted.

[Anonymous No.5220635]

>>5220628
It really does. I remember being awestruck by Zora Hall as a kid and wishing there was more that you could do there like you could in Clock Town.

I really loved Clock Town though. I loved how you could talk to other NPCs and get a glimpse into the city and how they live in it. The laundry area was the coziest part of it.

[Anonymous No.5220847]

>>5220635
The way everything changed there each day in Majora's was very special. I don't really know of any other games that do the same thing in a small, non-overwhelming scale as well as majora does.

[Anonymous No.5220852]

>>5217398
As a child: Spirit Temple
As an adult: Shadow...or Spirit...or Forest..or Water (but not Fire).

[Anonymous No.5221215]

Face Shrine and Stone Tower are my favorites.

[Anonymous No.5221228]

>>5220615
That's not water temple homie, that's Great Bay temple in his pic, which is indeed the worst temple.

[Anonymous No.5221232]

>>5221228
Whoops, I'm high as fuck and quoted the wrong post and replied to the wrong one. Ignore the previous post

[Anonymous No.5221238]

spooky temples are best.

What other zelda game has temples with the same vibe as Shadow/Bottom of the well?

[Anonymous No.5221384]

>>5218561
To this day i'll never understand why there were so many keys there.

[Anonymous No.5221408]

Skyward Sword was not good, but that Mine dungeon impressed the hell out of me, and stands out in my mind as one of the best in the franchise

[Anonymous No.5221458]

>>5218349
crux decussata

[Anonymous No.5221465]

>>5218349
torture chamber
One of the skulls said that the Shadow Temple housed the greed and hatred that the Hylian royal family held

[Anonymous No.5221559]

>>5217720
I'd say it's both comfy and the best.

[Anonymous No.5221572]

>>5221408
>Skyward Sword was not good
Yes it was. Also, not retro.

[Anonymous No.5221678]

>>5221238
The fucking room(s?) where those spinning scythe guys are INVISIBLE are really good and does a really good job at illustrating how dark the game can be.

[Anonymous No.5221684]

>>5221238
Nothing outside of Ikana Canyon has ever gotten as dark as Shadow Temple in any other 3d Zelda.

Which is a shame. Eerie Zelda is an itch I desperately need scratched.

[Anonymous No.5221704]

>>5218349
Sheikah blood for their failed revolt against the throne.

[Anonymous No.5221841]

>>5218561
Don't go in there without the blue mail

[Anonymous No.5221972]

>>5221841
I dont think i've ever done the place after ice palace outside of randomizer

[Anonymous No.5222210]

>>5221465
I think the shadow temple is supposed to be like a haunted prison. But that X is from beneath the well, I'm not sure what that place is supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.5222220]

>>5222210
Kakariko villagers drink that water.
Also when Sheik teaches you the nocturne of shadows he implies Bongo Bongo was imprisoned in the well when you get there after obtaining the forest, fire and water medallions.

[Anonymous No.5222320]

>>5222220
Was bongo bongo once a man? Does he have anything to do with the guy who made the lens of truth?

[Anonymous No.5222343]

>>5222320
I like the theory that he was the man who could see the truth, whose house was conveniently above the well - exactly where bongo bongo was imprisoned.

[Anonymous No.5222713]

>>5221465
Fuvk yeah makes sense

[Anonymous No.5222762]

>>5220615
I know it's a meme at this point, but it really is pure tedium unless you know exactly where to go and you've played the game a few times. The first time through that temple is such a fucking slog. It's the same 6 corridors over and over and over again.

[Anonymous No.5223073]

Shadow > Forest > Spirit > Fire > Water

[Anonymous No.5223096]

>>5217718
Off-topic, but you know they have KOTOR on iOS now? Never thought I'd see the day when I could play KOTOR on my phone. Touch controls are pretty decent, too.

[Anonymous No.5223131]

>>5222762
Even after you know the way to go through the dungeon, and even if you have some mod or version that lets you equip iron boots without opening the menu, you're still spending so much time just waiting to sink/float, or waiting for some other thing to finish happening

[Anonymous No.5223149]

>>5223073
imo
Grass > Fire > Water > Shadow > Spirit

[Anonymous No.5223179]

OFFICIAL UNDISPUTED OCARINA OF TIME DUNGEON POWER RANKINGS

1. Forest Temple
2. Spirit Temple
3. Shadow Temple
POWER GAP
4. Dodongo’s Cavern
5. Water Temple
6. Fire Temple
POWER GAP
7. Great Deku Tree
8. Ice Cavern if it counts
MASSIVE FUCKING POWER GAP
9001. Jabu Jabu’s Belly

[Anonymous No.5223194]

>>5223179
it's amazing how literally nobody likes jabu jabu's belly

[Anonymous No.5223234]

Seems like fire temple is never anyone’s favorite. Why is that? Does it just not excel in any one way like the others? Atmosphere not as strong?

I dig the shadow most personally, but forest comes close. I love the atmosphere, and really like the platforming elements in shadow.

No one ever seems to have the child dungeons as their favorite either, now that I think about it. Deku Tree has low key one of the best songs in the game.

>>5218186
Very interesting. Source?

>>5222320
>>5222343
I always assumed this guy was just some weird serial killer who wanted to dabble in black magic, but now I’m wondering if he had more to do with the sheikah. I don’t think it’s clear when kakariko was made open to the public, but I think it was Impa who made that decision, so that guy probably would’ve been there when it was still a town of shiekah. This game really does have the perfect balance of telling you just enough to get you wondering.

[Anonymous No.5223236]

>>5223194
I'm quite fond of it's Master Quest version, and not just because it has cows instead of switches.

[Anonymous No.5223249]

>>5223234
I like the fire temple myself, its always been the right amount of difficulty to me, wheres other temples feel either too difficult in some areas or too simplified.

[Anonymous No.5223252]

>>5223179
>>5223194
When I go through JabuJabu it feels like Im skipping segments or beating it accidentally. The tunnels, the ridiculously long miniboss fight, and the goddamn pitfalls. Everything feels unconnected and broken

[Anonymous No.5223298]

>>5223252
I actually kinda like that, it feels like the first dungeon where you actually have to think about where you’ve been and how things connect together.

[Anonymous No.5223354]

>>5223249
Also, I quite liked the old soundtrack version with the chants more than the censored one, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.5223356]

>>5223179
Actually a pretty solid list, though i'd swap Forest and Spirit personally. Jabu-Jabu is such a terrible dungeon, you spend half of it throwing boomerangs at jellyfish and tentacles and the other half carting Ruto around. It doesn't even have good music

[Anonymous No.5223625]

>>5223179
You can't tell me you didn't enjoy having loli fish ass on your face.

[Anonymous No.5223645]

>>5223625
Ruto is fucking annoying

[Anonymous No.5224094]

>>5223252
>the ridiculously long miniboss fight
You can beat it in line 20 seconds if you time it right.

[Anonymous No.5224106]

>>5223252
>the ridiculously long miniboss fight
Jabu is shit but that fight's over with quick

>roll directly into it right when it starts moving
>it stops and turns around
>boomerang
>deku stick jump attack
>OHKO

[Anonymous No.5224174]

>>5218349
You know what's wierd? That Hyrule has not one but two death prison temples right next to each other. Did they decide that one wasn't enough to genocide gerudos fast enough so they expanded operations?

[Anonymous No.5224239]

>>5224174
The Gerudocaust is a myth. The Hylians merely put them into work camps and they were treated well, the torture devices were erected after the war as propaganda by the Gerudo so United Hyrule would grant them land ownership in the desert, kicking out te native Leevers in the process.

[Anonymous No.5224285]

I just wanna say I liked how ocarina of time had actual blood in it.
>Ganondorf pukes blood
>the shadow temple/well stains

The chanting muslim in the fire temple was a great addition too.

>those people that thing there was actual muslim outcry

Actually each revision of the oot rom on n64 has a build date before the first release of the game in oct 98, but the chant sounded like it was talking about a god so nintendo changed it due to in house policy about religion.
Too bad nintendo changed it to green in later revisions of the rom. OOT 1.0/1.1 the best.

[Anonymous No.5224289]

>>5224239
>t. ((Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule))

[Anonymous No.5224295]

>>5224285
Agree with all this. Still seems like such a silly change to me, kids see blood. They get cuts, they know what blood is, seeing some in a game wont traumatize them for life.

Not asking for M rated Zelda or anything but it’s kinda sad how ‘safe’ they keep trying to make everything. A bit of grit is good. It makes things feel like a real world.

[Anonymous No.5224318]

Speaking of jabu jabu's belly, I fucking hate that the worst dungeon has one of the coolest bossfights.

[Anonymous No.5224325]

>>5224285
The chant is actually straight-up prayers and worships to Allah. The clip is most likely what is spoken by Muslims around the Kaaba during annual performance of hajj.

t.guy who knows a lot about Islam and Muslim cultures

[Anonymous No.5224389]

>>5224318
Speaking of boss fights, Morpha. What the fuck was that? You can just get it in a corner and it's over in like 5 seconds.

[Anonymous No.5225061]

All the peasants in this thread hating on the kino dungeon jabu jabu, embarassing

[Anonymous No.5225080]

>>5224389
>>5224389
Yeah no morpha is easy as shit, felt like a waste on the hardest (IMO) adult link temple.

I really like Koume and Kotake's boss battle, it feels the most creative out of all boss fights.

[Anonymous No.5226465]

>>5225061
Lol JabuJabu was fun I guess, but it was the worst of the child dungeons.

[Anonymous No.5226483]

>>5221972
then you are a dungeon master

[Anonymous No.5226495]

>>5223179
I wished I played ocarina of time as a child instead of sitting around and finally playing it nearly 20 years later. When I first got to the forest temple I was completely sucked in, as a kid I would have been blown away.

[Anonymous No.5226910]

>>5217720
I think forest is the most impactful, honestly. Up until that point the entire game as child link had a lighthearted tone, even in dungeons. It felt like a goofy adventure. Then adult time rolls around and after finding your way to the temple in that new spooky, post-ganon setting, you step foot in there blasted with howling wolves, imposing and complex architecture, and that spooky-ass music.

10/10

[Anonymous No.5226919]

>>5217718
Kotor is a pretty bad, over rated and completely dumbed down for the xbox kids wrpg. Zelda is a action adventure game.

[Anonymous No.5226921]

>>5221465
Man, are there any other Zelda games that give the "good guys" such a dark side?

[Anonymous No.5227225]

>>5223179
pretty accurate.

[Anonymous No.5227324]

>>5218186
Chamber of the Sages also uses the whole tone scale.

[Anonymous No.5227339]

>>5223179
Why is Dodongo so high and Fire so low?

Also, Bottom of the Well should count as a dungeon if Ice Cave does.

[Anonymous No.5227349]

>>5223179
What are power gaps

[Anonymous No.5227401]

>>5227349
>not familiar with /sp/ power rankings
What happened to this board? /vr/ was probably 30% /sp/ transplants that got fed up with their board turning into /v/ and /int/

[Anonymous No.5227404]

>>5227401
It was when /vr/ was founded in 2013, I mean.

[Anonymous No.5227415]

>>5227339
Despite being the “adult” version, I find the Fire Temple far too linear. Dondongo’s is a much easier dungeon but it feels more fun to explore even if it isn’t nearly as large. Fire Temple is practically a straight line that folds up on itself via floors, though it does have a great aesthetic.

I don’t know how I forgot Bottom of the Well. Put it above Dodongo’s but still below the power gap after the top 3. It’s short but extremely fun/spooky.

>>5227349
It notes where I feel there is a significant drop off between the two items on either side of it. I.e. 1-3 are similar for me here and you could convince me to reorder them, but 3 and 4 you couldn’t. You can think of it as tiers to put it in more vidya-friendly terms.

[Anonymous No.5227418]

>>5226921
majora's mask set a very dark tone in ikana valley too but kinda ruined it by making the king and his subjects goofy floating heads and just the victims of a curse rather than their own vices

other than that i can't think of anything

[Anonymous No.5227517]

>>5221238

The desert dungeon in TP, but not the whole place iirc

[Anonymous No.5227764]

>>5224325
even to someone without a clue about islam you can clearly hear a loud ALLAHU AKBAR in there

[Anonymous No.5227958]

>>5227415
>Fire Temple is practically a straight line
This and the fact you have to run through a floor or two again if you fall granted you can Farore's Wind back up but most people forget that exists makes it such a dull place. I hate the boulder maze as well. Forest's second half is a long hallway but at least there's interesting stuff going on in it, like the twisty hallways

[Anonymous No.5228421]

>>5226910
Yep this is accurate

[Anonymous No.5228473]

>>5225080
Why was their combined form so hot and why was it moaning like that?
Also is it me or does it look a bit like the fairies?

[Anonymous No.5228978]

>>5223234
Fire Temple has always been my favorite. I had the muslim chanting version of the cart, which for me paired really well with the architecture. The temple felt desolate and abandoned for ages, but almost in an “out of time, out of place” sense. Forest Temple was good, and now that I think of it, one of the more jarring shifts in tone for a video game. Water Temple was alright, but it felt claustrophobic to me. I was 7 when I played the game so I never got to play the Shadow Temple since that shit was horrifying to me. I just used my cousin’s save file at the beginning of Ganon’s Tower to finish the game. I know I’ve missed out, but I may buy the 3DS release to play it again.

Overall, Fire Temple is one of my most profound memories with the game and is easily my number one dungeon.

[Anonymous No.5228991]

>>5228473
Because the Japanese are sex starved creepy old men.

[Anonymous No.5228995]

>>5228991
It's a game for children...

[Anonymous No.5228997]

DULLEST

[Anonymous No.5229002]

>>5226910
The designs of the wolves and poes in the forest temple were so cutesy it did not give that weird dark vibe you're speaking of, it still fit the tone of the early parts of the game. It's around water temple where things begin to change, the water temple feels very isolated.

[Anonymous No.5229273]

>>5228978
>Water Temple was alright, but it felt claustrophobic to me.
You know now that you've said it, I finally realized that that's always been why i kinda disliked the temple. Compared to the rest of them, it really is just... Too contained and limited overall.

[Anonymous No.5230320]

>>5217720
Favorite atmosphere in any video game, retro or not

[Anonymous No.5230324]

>>5222222

[Anonymous No.5230330]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz2ifKgyey4

[Anonymous No.5230552]

>>5227415
>Fire Temple far too linear
>Shadow Temple is Number 2
Hmm...

[Anonymous No.5231143]

Forest Temple numba won

[Anonymous No.5231160]

>>5217398
I liked Spirit. Felt like an old dungeon.
Water made you feel trapped.
Forest was cool.

[Anonymous No.5231421]

How many anons actually bothered to get the ice arrows? I never did.

Not sure if training grounds count as a real dungeon but whatever.

Should probably go back and do that one day, only part of the game besides gold skulltullas I never finished.

[Anonymous No.5231603]

>>5217406
I kinda prefer the bottom of the well just for its shock factor.
It's a shame it is only a pseudo dungeon, but I always feel more excited to revisit it, over the Shadow temple.

I also like the way you feel this weird disconnection, because you are at your most powerful state as a child (as long as you never turned back in time prior), yet you are so underpowered compared to your adult self.

[Anonymous No.5231617]

>>5220601
This felt very bland visually speaking.
The puzzles were kind of annoying, but at least they made sense.

>>5220616
This on the other hand, I disagree.
I love to roll over the platforms and take down the ice pillar to open more areas.
The only annoying part to me, is that teleporting mage who takes a ton of time to beat, even if you cheese it with a bunny hood.

[Anonymous No.5231637]

>>5224285
Kinda off topic, but I'm still trying to figure out which is worst from the 3D remakes.

Turning Dead Hand into a jelly monster.
Or giving every boss in MM3D a giant meme eyeball.

[Anonymous No.5231642]

>>5231421
>not thoroughly examining every single aspect of OoT, save for the skultullas
Fucking casuals.
I bet you didn't end up pulling your hair trying to make a real attempt at beating the runner guy in a race.

[Anonymous No.5231714]

>>5223194
It's just tedious. Just about everything damages you, enemies constantly respawn because the rooms are so small and you constantly move between them, too much back tracking, ruto can despawn as you clear out enemies or look around, you can't attack while carrying her, and the puzzles aren't even a little challenging to figure out, just annoying to pull off. The color scheme can get obnoxious after a while. It's not a bad dungeon, but it has a lot of minor issues that add up. I still like it and they made an effort to make it different from the rest of the game.

[Anonymous No.5231938]

>>5231637
MM3d's worse because it changes every single boss fight for the worse. The last thing I want to do is punch Twinmold for 20 minutes and be forced to have only a single way to fight every boss.

[Anonymous No.5232148]

Oot
Forest>spirit>shadow>fire>water

Mm
Stone tower>snowhead>great bay temple>woodfall

[Anonymous No.5232157]

>>5218538
Great bay temple was cool for me because of how industrial it was. It was the first temple in zelda to be so mechanical.
And I love how sickly and green the coloring is in contrast to the neon mechanical parts.

[Anonymous No.5232165]

>>5218561
Misery more really makes me wish alttp was made further into the SNES's life.
When you first enter the swamp its pouring rain and there's lightning, but the dungeon itself is exactly the same as every other dungeon, but with a green palette.
If it came out later they could have done so much more on a technical level with its design and appearance.

[Anonymous No.5232168]

>>5218606
The dark world dungeon music us boring though. Light world's is better. Plus you're not hearing it, on loop, for 6 levels

[Anonymous No.5232179]

>>5221238
Oceanside spider house

[Anonymous No.5232189]

>>5221684
They sort of attempted that with arbiter's grounds in tp. It didn't really work though.

The low polygon count, muddy textures and incredibly dark lighting were integral to the n64's zeldas getting as creepy as they were. You cant replicate that on modern hardware.

[Anonymous No.5232213]

I love Forest Temple is simultaneously an atmospheric and creepy place while also literally being a run down mansion in the woods.

It's full of ornate architecture, fancy carpets, courtyards and the boss room is an art gallery. But its creepy and surreal in spite of that.

[Anonymous No.5232527]

>>5232168
This. If lttp had different music for each dungeon, or at least variations of the same theme, it’d be way better.

[Anonymous No.5232901]

>>5223234
I think aesthetically fire temple isn't really that unique.

Forest Temple is spooky and its a large mansion hidden off in the forest.
Shadow Temple is also spooky, but way less reserved about it. Plus it implies some dark history within Hyrule.
Spirit Temple has strong Arabian themes, includes unexplained imagery like the Gerudo Symbols or the Goddess statue

Fire Temple is just kind of "temple, but in a volcano" There's really no individual part of it that really sticks with you (and its most memorable aspect was removed from the game). And unlike Water Temple it isn't a chore to play.

[Anonymous No.5232913]

>>5217409
>>5217405
All of Ikana was hands down the best part of Majora's Mask main game.

[Anonymous No.5233035]

>>5232901
I feel like Fire Temple with the chanting music makes it pretty spooky, not Shadow temple spooky but I think it adds a nice ambiance. I will agree that it isn't a memorable dungeon in terms of gameplay, but I found the temple to be aesthetically pleasing. Its linearity and it's ambiance made it super comfortable for me. Personally it's hard for me to name a favorite temple, my headcanon makes them all equally enjoyable and I really wish the darker sides of things were more explored. Like who builds a manor out in the middle of the woods and leaves it seemingly abandoned? Why is the Fire Temple like a volcanic jail instead of a Goron ground of worship/tomb for Volvagia? Imagination really does play a key part in making this game enjoyable for me.

[Anonymous No.5233296]

>>5232913
I agree.
I especially adore Ikana castle, it had some amazing music and the skele-fight was fun.

[Anonymous No.5233393]

>>5232913
>>5233296
Absolutely agree, though I do wish the king and his two guards were more serious and less comic relief.

Honestly I've always really liked Woodfall as well. It isn't my favorite dungeon in the game, hell it's probably lowest on the list, but I still like it a lot and I think it does the best job out of any zelda dungeon when it comes to setting atmosphere with lighting. The shadows in that place are spectacular.

And that one dark hallway where the enemy eyes all light up as you approach. Fucking phenomenal.

[Anonymous No.5233414]

>>5217398
Forest Temple is the best dungeon in the series. The design is largely non-linear, allowing the player freedom in how to conquer it, yet everything feels cohesive thanks to each area of the dungeon being interconnected.

There are also a lot of optional treasure chests and other attractions which make the dungeon a bit more fun to explore and add to the replay value. Most of all though, the music, aesthetics and overall atmosphere are nothing short of sublime. You feel like you're in an ancient temple over a crypt that's been forgotten and reclaimed by nature. Just awesome.

Even the path leading to the temple was awesome. Great boss fights and dungeon item too. I always try to put off FT for as long as possible when I play so I can relish it.

[Anonymous No.5233525]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6LO8Z1DkDqc

I think this video is worth watching. Though I do think the optional rewards are worth more than he credits them for, and I ESPECIALLY think it’s worth noting that you can try to explore parts of dungeons you can’t yet progress in, even when there’s only one ‘road’ to progress. If it’s your first time or you don’t have the dungeon memorized this makes things less straightforward than ‘one path to progress’ implies.

But then shadow temple is my favorite and it’s basically a series of obstacle courses. In it’s case I think the linearity helps it cause you're alsays going deeper, deeper, deeper...

Though oot probably would be better if more dungeons were less linear. I just don’t think it’s ALWAYS the right way to do things.

[Anonymous No.5234076]

I kind of liked how Spirit Temple required child link.
And Bottom Of The Well is kind of similar for Shadow Temple.

[Anonymous No.5234091]

>>5232913
>Graveyard was cool, at least being able to dig up different graves depending on the day and fighting Captain Keeta
>The canyon was pretty cool. Garos and Gibdos to fight, get pieces of lore and game hints from Garo fights.
>Sharp and his cursed song
>Pamela and Her dad was heartrending and the gibdo song cutscene was neat
>Ghost House where you can fight the poe sisters
>shortcut to the Southern Swamp for fun
>Sakon's Hideout
>Gibdo Well trading sequence. Probably on the only scary trading sequence in video games.
>Ikana Castle was rad and had great music.
>Stone Tower
>Stone Tower Temple
>Gomess and Garo Master are probably the coolest minibosses in the game
>Stone Tower Temple Inversed for extra fun
>Secret Shrine when you're done with all the games temples, where you can fight the mini-bosses who came back as "wandering spirits"

And I love how nearly everything in the area you interact with is already dead. You're just putting all the spirits and ghosts to rest

[Anonymous No.5234093]

>>5217406
Is there a way to open this door without Din's Fire?

[Anonymous No.5234162]

>>5232168
I'm the guy who posted that and i agree. i liked the light world dungeon music better and also agree the dark wold music was repetitive and stale by the time i got to thieves town, but it was definitely a little unnerving the first time a heard it as a kid, part of the 'initial effect' i described.

[Anonymous No.5234175]

>>5233525
I don't think linearity is necessarily a bad thing. OoT's dungeons seem more like a puzzle you need to solve rather than a more traditional dungeon crawling experience.

[Anonymous No.5234209]

>>5234093
You can use the Fire Arrows and normal arrows in combination, but it requires a ton of tricky shots and it's insanely hard to do without Din's

[Anonymous No.5234457]

>>5234091
>>Pamela and Her dad was heartrending and the gibdo song cutscene was neat
Underrated as fuck

[Anonymous No.5234479]

>>5234091
>shortcut to the Southern Swamp for fun

Wait what

There’s a swamp shortcut in Ikana?

[Anonymous No.5234678]

>>5234479
Follow the river

[Anonymous No.5234821]

>>5234175
Only zelda 1 and 2 are what you could call "dungeon crawlers".
Zelda has largely been puzzle based in its dungeons since alttp.

[Anonymous No.5234916]

my favorites

1. Dodongo's cavern
2. Deku Tree
3. Forest temple
4. Fire temple
5. Spirit Temple
6. Water temple
7. Whale
8. Ganon's castle
9. shadow temple
10. Ice cavern
11. well
12. Gerudo training ground

[Anonymous No.5234969]

>>5234821
The "puzzles" in alttp can barely even be called puzzles. The series should have stuck to dungeon crawling.

[Anonymous No.5235303]

>>5234969
You could say most of the combat in lttp can barely be called combat.

The series has been accessible to nongamers since lttp, it’s one of the reasons the series is popular.

Though ice cavern is more difficult to navigate than water temple by a wide margin.

[Anonymous No.5235430]

what was his fucking problem

[Anonymous No.5235436]

>>5235430
Very hungry

[Anonymous No.5235439]

I always thought it was kind of odd how prominent stalfos were in the forest temple, yet absent elsewhere.
It's like they deliberately made forest temple harder than fire and water temple.

[Anonymous No.5235661]

>>5217718
I feel like this was a reply to a different thread that accidentally got here.

[Anonymous No.5235865]

>>5235439
Stalfos aren’t really hard, just tedious if you aren’t willing to experiment how to get around their shields.

I think the dungeons must have been balanced around the player only collecting heart containers and zero heart pieces/bottles or something, because damage scaling in this game is fucked. Fire temple is mostly obstacle based and water has the clams and metal balls but is more puzzle focused. Shadow and spirit are the most dangerous before Ganon’s but only spirit really makes use of enemies, shadow is mostly obstacles and visibility tricks.

Also I think Ganons Castle is kinda underrated. It’s obviously chopped up beta content but it still feels interesting to me. Fans in the forest stand-in, light dungeon existing a little bit, going back to ice instead of water, I think that as far as ‘throwback’ end dungeons go it’s about as good as they get, though I understand why someone would want something wholly original.

[Anonymous No.5236253]

>>5218192
>>5218180
I've always love this remix in that one CD
https://youtu.be/NTEs8zxUnAo

[Anonymous No.5236260]

>>5224239
Based and redpotioned

[Anonymous No.5236537]

>>5235865
Stalfos are definitely the hardest enemies in the game though

[Anonymous No.5236957]

>>5236537
Are you forgetting the Iron Knuckles?

[Anonymous No.5237006]

>>5236957
>crouch stab while looking down and to the right while at their right side
>axe head sails right over your head
>dies in 5 seconds

[Anonymous No.5237258]

>>5237006
>anything in 3D Zelda
>hard
It's just a saying.
Iron Knuckles just happen to be slightly more dangerous than the average mob of midboss.

[Anonymous No.5237339]

>>5236957
>>5237258
>approach
>dodge axe
>slash

Iron Knuckles are fucking boring to fight. At least the game makes you fight multiple Stalfos at once, even if its the same shield->dodge->attack formula

[Anonymous No.5237502]

>>5220601
I think it's pretty good. Hated it as a kid, but I like it now. A couple of the fairies are annoying to get though.

[Anonymous No.5237543]

>>5223179

I despise the shadow temple
yeah it has good aesthetics but its just frustrating traps and its linear as fuck

water temple is my favorite

[Anonymous No.5237856]

>>5223179
I don't get the hate for Jabu Jabu. I always liked that level. If we're counting the Ice Cavern, that's easily the worst. Fucking tedious collecting blue fire to melt everything.

[Anonymous No.5238118]

>>5231421
The ice arrows are pointless, but I always get them whenever I play a new file.

[Anonymous No.5238124]

>>5235430
Has all those hands, but no dick to masturbate.

[Anonymous No.5238132]

>>5237856
>ferrying around ruto
>throwing boomerang and waiting for it to return
it's shit. At least the boss fight is okay.

[Anonymous No.5238137]

>>5238132
Eh, still less tedious than the Water Temple (which I don't mind much), the Ice Cavern, and Ganon's Castle.

[Anonymous No.5238139]

>>5238137
The water temple is tedious because of the pausing. If you have some way to do quick boot swap, it becomes a neat little puzzle of sorts where you can utilize Farore's Wind and tricky sidehops to save keys and speed things up

[Anonymous No.5238143]

>>5238139
Yeah, it's much more enjoyable in the 3DS version just because you don't have to pause to switch.

[Anonymous No.5238531]

>>5225061
based Nintendo reimagined Mario Land 2 inside whale belly level in 3D for Ocarina of Time

[Anonymous No.5238584]

>>5225061
Lmao no, enjoying a trash dungeon like jabu is embarassing. The whole concept is unrealistic and retarded, the puzzles are tedious as fuck, babysitting fishpussy gets old quick, and the aesthetics are the most banal in the entire series -- one red fish gut texturing the entirety of the dungeon, with equally boring and derivative enemy designs to boot. It isn't even hard, in fact it's actually the easiest dungeon to beat, especially if you've played it before. It's just so fucking boring, uninspired and out of place. There's nothing cool, memorable or fun about it. I dread it on every playthrough because I know the game automatically becomes unfun for 20 minutes the second I step foot in that faggot whale's mouth. Fuck you and fuck all jabu niggers.

[Anonymous No.5238824]

>>5238584
Yup, nope

[Anonymous No.5238828]

>>5238139
>needing to save keys
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.5238837]

>>5238584
>unrealistic
>attempting to use the argument of being unrealistic in a fantasy setting
This is by far the stupidest thing I've heard all day.

[Anonymous No.5238931]

>>5238837
>duuuuuurrrr game has magic so nothing can be believable or cohesive
very low IQ post. one of the main reasons Game of Thrones is so popular is because it takes a classic fantasy setting and roots it in believability. wandering around a fucking whale's intestines is a shit idea for a dungeon you should feel retarded for defending it.

[Anonymous No.5239439]

>>5238828
>not liking the idea of bypassing an intended mechanic
what's your deal?

[Anonymous No.5239870]

>>5238931
Next you'll be claiming that fish don't have spiky, floating platforms inside them.

[Anonymous No.5239947]

>>5238931
Game of Thrones is ultra low tier fantasy.

[Anonymous No.5240428]

>>5217990
I love and hate the water temple

[Anonymous No.5240610]

>>5217990
One of my favorite rooms in the series despite how simple it is.

[Anonymous No.5240905]

>>5240610
One of my favorite rooms in the series because of how simple it is.

[Anonymous No.5241858]

I think skull woods was kind of cleverly designed

[Anonymous No.5241962]

U really wish the alttp dungeons had more varied aesthetics going on.
All of them are mostly just brick and mortar basements with only a few differences between tilesets

[Anonymous No.5242304]

>>5241962
I suppose it was the limitations of the SNES

[Anonymous No.5242620]

>>5241858
That's true.
Mermaid's Cave from Oracle of Ages also had an interesting concept to it, though I wish it were more of a thing throughout the game where a lot of the dungeons would have both a Past and a Present version. Would've been neat. Perhaps a bit too much work to actually do that, but it'd have been cool to have to do more and more brain work as the game progressed, having to think about increasing amounts of things that doing stuff in the Past would affect in the Present.
I hope whatever they decide to make after Breath of the Wild has some really interesting ideas behind them, because exploring something like Skull Woods in 3D would probably be amazing. I guess they've already brought Mermaid's Cave to 3D with that dungeon(mini dungeon?) in Skyward Sword with the mine carts, which was cool. Oh, and the ship in the desert. More streamlined, but the idea is basically the same.
If anything, though, I'd just like grottos to be brought back to the overworld.

[Anonymous No.5242935]

>>5242620
That reminds me. I really loved those long lantern labyrinths in twilight princess

[Anonymous No.5243042]

>get lost in ice palace for thirty minutes because of those switches and keys
>as soon as I finish me red shield is eaten by that pikit outside
Aaaa

[Anonymous No.5243078]

>>5243042
Aaaa! Just kill the pikit!

[Anonymous No.5243105]

>>5217398
The Forest Temple is the best one in OoT, while in the original it's the third one.

[Anonymous No.5243114]

>>5217720
Forest Temple is god tier. Atmosphere is comfy but disturbing as fuck, some how. It's unique and the perfect intro into the adult Link segments.

And the music is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FLQ_h_LaqA

[Anonymous No.5243118]

>>5243078
It got a rupee off me before I could kill it.
I ended up having to buy a new shield and turn it into the red shield