MrPing1000
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How anyone liked OoT - Water Temple is beyond me
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The best Zelda dungeon according to GAF
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TheGreenGiant
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Sriram said:
SantaCruzer wrote an excellent impressions thread. Should be 1-4 pages back
Sriram said:
I said 6, althought I think I am forgetting 1(maybe 2 small ones). The main udungeons are huge. The game is shorter than OAS, manly due to less mindbusting puzzles (AOS had some hard puzzles). Minish Cap does however have more sidequests than OAS, nothing as deep as the childnaming. You can get upgrades to weapons that you normal do not need,
mirror sheild, light arrows
Ok I admit it, the damn key underneath the floor screwed me in the Water Temple. Crazy Nintendo.Anyway there's a ton of dungeons I really like, but I'm going to say
Forest Temple: OOT
just to keep the fight interesting. I really liked the atmosphere there. The Twisted Hallways were a stroke of genius.
Other mentions. Tower of the Gods, Swamp dungeon, Ice dungeon (dungeons 5/6 from LttP).
Best scene in a Zelda game has to go to the Shadow Link room in Ocarina though. Damn, the actual design of the room itself is wierd to the max, completely empty except for a few islands in the middle and a compltely bare tree, completely reflective water and just the right amount of fog to make it look like the room is endless, especially when the two doors at the ends are hidden. You walk into the room and are disoriented right away, run over the tree island to get to the other end, feel something is odd when you get close to the other door, realize YOUR REFLECTION IS MISSING, turn around and there's Shadow Link, waiting for you under the tree.
Actually when I think about it, I bet this was the first time Aonuma made his mark on a Zelda game. All the games he's headed have been full of cool/wierd things like this... the castle frozen in time in Wind Waker, the moon in Majora's Mask.
...The Water Temple in OoT confused the hell out of me when i first played it, but now its quite straight-forward.
Anyhow, i think MM had the craziest dungeons, so i'm gonna go with popular opinion and go with that stone one from MM, i really liked how it went upside down and all.
That said, if only MM was more pick-up'n'play friendly, there's simply too many tasks to get done, i've never been able to play through it a second time, though i wish i could just go through its dungeons again.
Other nice dungeons of note, IMO, would be Eagle Tower from LA, and i also liked the one in the Forest in Link to the Past with multiple entrances and stuff. The later dungeons in Wind Waker were fun too.
EDIT: yeah, the Shadow Link room in OoT rocked, i loved how they disguised the room in an illusion that you were in an endless swamp.
Anyhow, i think MM had the craziest dungeons, so i'm gonna go with popular opinion and go with that stone one from MM, i really liked how it went upside down and all.
That said, if only MM was more pick-up'n'play friendly, there's simply too many tasks to get done, i've never been able to play through it a second time, though i wish i could just go through its dungeons again.
Other nice dungeons of note, IMO, would be Eagle Tower from LA, and i also liked the one in the Forest in Link to the Past with multiple entrances and stuff. The later dungeons in Wind Waker were fun too.
EDIT: yeah, the Shadow Link room in OoT rocked, i loved how they disguised the room in an illusion that you were in an endless swamp.
Naked Snake
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Forest Temple! I just love it.
I didn't play Majora's Mask, but I intend to play it on GC someday.
I didn't play Majora's Mask, but I intend to play it on GC someday.
I don't know a single person (in the real world) who didn't stop playing OoT for MONTHS at the Water Temple. That's how bad that dungeon was. Amusingly the rest of the game after the Water Temple is WAAAAAAY better than the game was prior to the Water Temple.
My roommate my freshman year of college went a year and a half before he finally picked it up again and beat the game. I personally went 6 months. Another one of my friends never played the game again.
Oh yeah, I'm giving my vote to Turtle Rock from ALttP.
My roommate my freshman year of college went a year and a half before he finally picked it up again and beat the game. I personally went 6 months. Another one of my friends never played the game again.
Oh yeah, I'm giving my vote to Turtle Rock from ALttP.
Good lord, I played through OoT at least a dozen times since it came out. Everytime I pick it back up, I cannot put it down.
Water Temple was tough, yes, the first two or three times, but it never took me more than 2 or 3 hours to beat, initially. The remixed Water Temple in Master Quest through me for a loop a few times, however.
Water Temple was tough, yes, the first two or three times, but it never took me more than 2 or 3 hours to beat, initially. The remixed Water Temple in Master Quest through me for a loop a few times, however.
Do The Mario
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Tunnel Rock and the Swamp Place from ALTTP
I have no argument there. And in the end, those last areas and segments of OoT were awesome, so I'm not knocking the whole game or anything. Though I do love the aesthetic, feel, and atmosphere of Wind Waker much, much, much more than OoT. If it were even remotely challenging at all, then I would consider Wind Waker to be VASTLY superior. Unfortunately, however, I probably could have beaten the game one-handed, which certainly does drop it down a peg or two.SantaCruZer said:
Naked Snake
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Prince of Space
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Gotta go with the Forest Temple here.
Naked Snake
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WhippinSean
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Definatly OOT - SPIRIT TEMPLE! I remember playing that game and the Spirit Temple was the one thing that stuck out about the game to me the most... for some reason!
Naked Snake
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Yeah Spirit Temple was awesome, probably my second favorite dungeon in OoT, the kid/adult twist in it was genius and touching. Not to mention all the light and mirrors.
Greenpanda
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Eagle Tower for me, too. I remember the first time I played it I spent days wandering around, trying to figure out a way up to the fourth floor, until I realized
As a runner-up, I'd have to pick the Shadow Temple from OoT. I guess that's kind of an unusual choice, but I really liked that one! I loved
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that big ball could actually be used for something! And even on subsequent playthroughs, it's still a decent challenge to figure how to get the ball through all the different floors to hit each pillar.
As a runner-up, I'd have to pick the Shadow Temple from OoT. I guess that's kind of an unusual choice, but I really liked that one! I loved
the boat ride
hehe, i have 2 of those, 1 is still sealed ^_^Society said:I missed out on the Bonus disc for GCN.
Stone Tower - Outside BGM
Stone Tower - Inside BGM
the music was kick ass as well, i wanna go play these games over again hehe
Zelda OSTsBeezy said:
there you go ^__^
and yes Koji Kondo is a genious, no doubts there. i'm really excited for the new Zelda, it looks more like OOT and MM and not as lighthearted as WW. i expect some kick ass temples. i hope nintendo doesnt skimp on the number of temples either. i want atleast 6 main temples along with atleast 6 dungeons of deku tree/dodongo's cavern size. and how about a huge temple where you need to take epona inside as well. nyaaaaaaaaa, cant wait!!
btw, a friend of mine who is a scaredy cat; when he played the shadow temple, the muslim chants scared the hell outta him and he had nightmares of it and those shadow hands dropping from the ceiling. he couldnt finish OOT. :lol
Chrono said:
The music was modified in later versions. I believe there were three versions of the game on the N64.
Original gold cart was 1.0.
Early gray cart was 1.1 and had some minor bug fixes.
Later (PC?) gray cart was 1.2 and fixed more bugs, removed the Arabic chant from the Fire Temple song, and changed the color of the blood that Ganondorf coughs when he's defeated (in the tower) from red to green.
Something like that.
I've got an early gray US cart with red blood, and later wound up picking up gold US cart, also with red blood, obviously.
I also own OoT on the GCN. I guess you can call that version 1.3, as it is based off 1.2 (green blood, modified song) but includes some tweaks to make it more GCN friendly (L Targetting, redone button icons, etc.)
I also own OoT on the GCN. I guess you can call that version 1.3, as it is based off 1.2 (green blood, modified song) but includes some tweaks to make it more GCN friendly (L Targetting, redone button icons, etc.)
En-ou said:
Thanks man. I expect some great temples from the new Zelda too, especially since they're not rushing for any reason like the did with Wind Waker. They should 3 small dungeons at first and then 6 main dungeons like in LttP and OoT. BTW, having an Epona dungeon would be crazy.
Greenpanda
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SantaCruZer said:
Nah, you don't need to - my Diebold voting machine says that the Eagle Tower won.
Greenpanda
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Dark Dragon said:
Ganon's tower was at the top of Death Mountain. But after you beat that, Ganon turned into a bat and escaped to the pyramid in the center of the map (where you first come into the Dark World). He crashes through the top of the pyramid and makes a hole. The last battle you reached just by dropping down through that hole - there was no dungeon, just the last fight. The tower was the last actual dungeon.
Mejilan said:
Yes, Europe got version 1.2 from the get-go, no chants in the Forest Temple, and Ganondorf always coughed up green blood. That said, every single PAL copy came on a gold cart, including the Player's Choice version, so there was nothing special about buying it early here.
All the GC versions are based on the N64 version 1.2...
hirokazu said:
Yeah, I know. Beating Master Quest on the Cube was the first time I even learned about the modified music, and the first time I saw the green blood. A BIG "wtf" moment, those were. I actually hooked up my N64 (dug out from my closet) and rebeat OoT 64 just to chech that I wasn't crazy for expecting red blood.