Tag: Water Temple

In games like Ocarina of Time, designating a specific element to each dungeon made perfect sense because each corresponded to a Sage of said element. In many Zelda games a similar pattern is followed, either by having the player collect element specific items within the temples or placing them in provinces that bear the same elemental traits as the dungeon residing in it. This made receiving and using specific weapons in each temple viable, but with a new age of…

This Morpha wasn’t discovered in a real life Water Temple, thankfully. Believe it or not, this particular Giant Aquatic Amoeba is a real-life deep sea creature known as a Pyrosome, which is comprised of a tubular colony called Pyrostremma spinosum. It was discovered back in 2011 off the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania, Australia; one of the few locations in the world home to oceanic gelatinous plankton. Although similar in appearance, the Pyrosome lacks the red nucleus that is Morpha. Hit the…

It’s no secret that a great number of fans do not look back fondly on a certain Water Temple. Since the fateful day we all travelled to the bottom of Lake Hylia and felt the tedium of iron boots and water levels, we realized that Zelda could not always handle underwater segments appropriately. This fact doesn’t mean that we haven’t seen enjoyable underwater areas in Zelda since, but more than a few fans continually express their displeasure with underwater gameplay. With that said, we want to see your opinions on Zelda‘s underwater sections and to discuss the possibility of avoiding them altogether…

Welcome to the seventh installment of Piece of Heart, where we look at The Legend of Zelda series through the eyes of a literary professor and examine how its literary elements enhance the gaming experience. This week’s lesson is titled “If She Comes Up… It’s Baptism”. Basically, being submerged in water can represent a character’s rebirth. The Wind Waker in its entirety comes immediately to mind, leading into the lands that emerge to make up new Hyrule in Spirit Tracks….

A common topic for many Zelda fans across the globe is what dungeons they dislike the most. There is always that one dungeon, that one temple, that had you so frustrated and filled with rage that you despise the very mention of its name. There might have been a dungeon that even made you rage quit, furiously hitting the power button without even saving. Or, you could have pulled a Markiplier, and threw your controller so hard that it broke. Whatever the case is, we want to know your pick for the most hated dungeon in the Zelda series…

No, it’s not April Fool’s Day. I really am analyzing the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time and telling all of you why it’s a fantastic example of great level design. Don’t believe me? Well, assuming you didn’t skip right to the comments, read on, and maybe I’ll convince you.

Also, we’re doing something a little interesting this time around (and something I wished I’d thought of when I covered Ocarina of Time’s Forest Temple), and that is including notes on the Master Quest version of this dungeon and how it differs from the original. Also on that note, I got so absorbed into my Water Temple playthrough during my regular run that my only screenshots here (posted to Miiverse) are from the Master Quest version.

Yeah, I got absorbed into the Water Temple. I can’t help it, this dungeon has grown on me every time I’ve played it since it first released. Let’s dive in, shall we?

Welcome to Majora’s Memes, where we bring you memetic madness weekly! Like scouring Hyrule Field for bushes that hopefully contain Rupees or bombs or arrows, we search the Internet for Zelda-related laughs. And wow, you guys really stepped it up this week! We have a lot of memes contributed by users this week, so yellow rupees will be distributed to blue, Tito Burgess, Merv?, smallchocolatebar, RubyDragonCat, and Link. With the help of these contributions, this may very well be the…

Alright, so now we’re onto the Water Temple. I’ll be honest here: Don’t expect a lot out of this. I don’t mean that you shouldn’t expect me to review it, because I’m totally going to do that, but I wouldn’t expect… well, what everyone generally expects people to say about the Water Temple. I know last week I wrote “come back next week, as I’ll be discussing the infamous Water Temple” — and to be fair you really can’t write…

Following the tremendous critical acclaim of Flower, its developer Thatgamecompany released Journey as a PlayStation Network exclusive earlier this year. Almost immediately, Journey was met with an even greater degree of critical acclaim, with many reviewers praising the game as a must-play experience. Having played the game myself, I agree entirely with the praise. Journey‘s gameplay amounts to one thing: movement. There is no combat, there is very limited puzzle solving (and the puzzles all revolve around moving forward), and…

Axle the Beast wrote a column a few days ago about the infamy of water dungeons. Coincidentally, I conceived a similar idea to talk specifically about the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time, which has been the crux of many gamers’ frustration for fourteen years. In general, those who have played OoT tend to fear approaching this segment in the game, supposedly because of how difficult and perplexing it is. It’s time to set the record straight: the Water Temple…