Lanayru Temple is probably my favorite. Faron Temple and Gerudo Sanctum are up there also. Jabul Ruins would be included if it wasn't so short for no reason.
That ice ball puzzle at the end of lanayru totally stumped me. Then I figured it out and was like wow I’m a genius. Maybe not the best idea in terms of design but man was it funny
The thing this game did so well was the variety of quests and secrets I. The overworld. More than the wild games, EOWs overworld really feels like it’s packed with so many interesting details. Looking for secrets in totk you pretty much new what you are gonna find, korok puzzle, some kind of escort mission etc. I’m eow of wisdom you never know what you’ll stumble on be it a simple fetch quest, mini boss, mini dungeon. It also helps that (in my opinion at least) the npcs were much more well written and doing the little quests really lends to the feeling that you are part of their little npc lives
Disagree with this to an extent. Both games had really great side quest and story lines but both games suffer the same issue of getting meaningless rewards if its not a armor set, heart piece/spirit orb, new power up, weapon, etc. hell the rifts are really just shrines with the similar problem as shrines just with a different coat of paint.
Are you serious? 990/1000 chests are completely pointless. Have 5 monster horns! Here's 20 rupees! Super dumb. The map could have been 50% smaller and contained the same amount of useless exploration Edit: OH, GRAPES!!! I FORGOT ABOUT THE 254 GRAPES THEY HIDE!
@@chrislevack405 if you’re talking about the monster camps those are infinitely respawning. Not sure if you are trolling every comment on here to spread pointless negativity or just mine?
Funny enough, in the water temple where I fell through the floor, I just teleported back to the entrance right away and then used a flying tile to skip the gap. (I also did this temple third) After finishing the dungeon, I realized I think you can skip most of the dungeon if you have the wall crawling spider. You just need to do the wing where you get the big key, then you can skip the elevator to go straight to the boss...
Ngl that one ice ball puzzle thing at the end of ice temple was seriously messing with my brain. Loved the outside the box solution though and I felt so smart figuring it out
I'm so glad I wasnt the only person that missed that bit in the ice temple, spent literally 20 minutes brute forcing my way past the fire spouts cause I didn't wanna look it up
The jungle dungeon gave me the worst headache lol. It’s interesting to because I was able to figure out most of the puzzles pretty easily besides the ones that made you use those stone guys. But the navigation made my head hurt so bad
The only parts of the dungeons I actually had to seek a guide for was one you have to step on the buttons at the same time in Farore’s temple and two apparently a massive pimple on a blob means you have to freeze him.
It’s interesting hearing your opinions because my play style was COMPLETELY different. It really shows the beauty of this game. Your favourite dungeon was my least 😂
You can also use your long range summon ability to just block the ice jet with a rock or boulder straight through the bars. But that’s the great thing about a game like this. There are a different ways you can tackle these puzzles and it’s nice just doing your own thing. Plus it’s fun to see what others find as well.
My top 3 dungeons are: 3) Gerudo Temple 2) Eldin Temple 1) Lanayru Temple. I found them really enjoyable to traverse through and reslly enjoyed solving the puzzle with Lanayru Temple having my favourite set of puzzles to solve. Also Volvagia and Skorchill were some of my favourite bosses of the game. Overall I found the game to have a good set of dungeons and an improvement over TOTK and the divine beasts. I really liked the Fire Temple in TOTK but the Water Temple was way too simple and felt more like a mini dungeon and the wind temple could've been better too
Omg don’t spoil it. Even if you see a lot of negativity about this game online please just play it and form your own opinion. It’s so wonderful I hope you have as great of an experience as I did
@@joelsytairo6338 I haven’t really seen anything negative about it, but even if, there is no way I’m not playing a new 2d Zelda. I’ve even been able to largely avoid spoilers.
@@RULERZREACHF4N6146 there’s definitely a lot and it reviewed quite poorly with critics for a Zelda game. Most of the response I have seen to the game has been very negative
It's interesting how many different ways you can do puzzles Faron's 6 torches I took a wind blower and did a circle putting them all out in time. Though I'd say my favorite dungeon is probably Hyrule Castle, but the stealth parts didn't bother me and enjoyed Ganon fight that early in. I hated the darkness of Faron so wasn't my favorite.
The dungeons of 2D Zeldas are really short for real. At least, the last dungeons are more complicated and can take longer but otherwise, as a rule, they will quickly do so as long as you don’t get lost in them.
Considering this game is smaller and more compact such as the old games with almost the same level of freedom as BotW I've found the dungeons a really big step forward from the latest games Also the consistency in quality of them were really nice Even the ones that I found the most underwhelming like Eldin Temple or Jabul Ruins were decent overall and definetly better than any dungeon from TotK/BotW Just beat the game today with roughly 70 hours and really had a fun time with it Also this is the first Zelda game that I was able to 100% Blind! Gotta brag about it 😂
The way the world is layed out is so genius. The fact that it’s relatively compact and tiny but designed in a way to make it feel huge and sprawling with biomes naturally blending into eachother (mostly) was so neat
You can use any flying enemy to glide, some even have different qualities, the wind blowing version of that flying bomb spitting enemy will blow wind to make you move faster and the mothula echo seemingly doesn't get tired when used to glide unlike keese or peahats which get tired and drop after a while
I had the same bottom 4 in a completely different order, but looks like we have the exact same opinions on the top 3. I’ve played several of the Zelda games in the last year and Echoes might be one of my favorites now, the Lanayru and Faron temples are some of my favs in the series. I do agree that some of the dungeons felt a little underbaked and short, but there were also quite a few really strong dungeons in the game. Still sad about the Eldin Temple tho, the Eldin region has always been my favorite ever since playing Twilight Princess as a kid and its temple left a lot to be desired compared to the other two temples.
At least they did such a great job with the eldin overworld and the side quests leading up to the dungeon. Maybe a little bit copying botw homework but I still thought it was great
Yes I was trying so hard with the platforms and accidentally realized you could literally move link. Tried a little bit longer with platforms but his ai was so annoying that I gave up lol
i ended up hating lanayru for that one specific puzzle 😭 i spent so much time and effort trying to get past the fire geysers that the solution just ended up disappointing me since i also had to use a guide (which makes sense... i assume most people would never try putting the fire charge in thru the ice geyser, given how fragile the fire charge is) Faron temple was definitely my favorite, i made a beeline for the region as soon as i had the water block, and enjoyed the regions unique mechanics so much. also stumbled on the lv3 lizalfos MUCH earlier than intended, that was easily my go-to guy for almost all combat encounters the rest of the game
I'd compare the difficulty of the dungeons with Phantom Hourglass. Not very hard, but fun with some clever puzzles, but also some rather repetitive ones. The bosses are lots of fun too.
I didn't like how absurdly linear most of the dungeons were (even by traditional standards), so to me the Faron Temple was miles above the rest. I think the terminal style of dungeon is better than people give it credit for, so I would honestly say that I preferred BotW/TotK's dungeons over most dungeons in this game. Although, the one terminal style dungeon in this game (the Water Temple) was really dumb since you could just skip the terminals if you knew where the boss key was.
How do you think Echoes of wisdom dungeons compare to totk actually? Like some surpassed the lightning temple or unsure(Since that is like the only good dungeon in totk)
I think the jabul ruins really suffers from its placement It is a small improvement from suthorn ruins but because it is far away I feel like most did the sand temple first which is a far bigger and mroe classic style dungeon feel than jabul Still a good dungeon but it got shot in the foot by distance
Yes, the temple of Jabul is supposed to be done second but as it is far away, we tend to make the Gerudo temple first which is much more complicated and we come disappointed from the temple of Jabul. So when I think back, as a second dungeon, its level of difficulty seems actually correct.
@@Duplucky5why do u think it’s supposed to be done second? Also I was just too excited to see the cool desert ladies and ran straight there. Love the overworld and design of the Zora villages though. So cute to see the contrasting cultures
@@joelsytairo6338 Because the Gerudo dungeon is much harder than that of Jabul and then because later, we can make a boss rush that shows us the "official" order of the bosses and you will see that Jabul’s boss appears in second place: )
@@Duplucky5 oh yeah I didn’t think of the boss rush like that. Interesting because it really does seem like the game is kind of nudging you toward gerudo
I wouldn’t count Null’s body as a dungeon at all. Just part of the final stretch to the boss. If anything, this game could have used an actual final dungeon.
I loved the game but I felt that all puzzles were just too easy, the most time I had in a puzzle was 5~8 minutes, but I have been playing Zelda since child and in my area of work Good Logic is a obligation so I may be suspect to say
Yeah and tbf I was impressed by a lot of the puzzles I don’t think good puzzles are required for a dungeon to be super enjoyable and so far I have found them very enjoyable A lot more enjoyable than Botw/totk ones for sure
@@doolenny9458 The quality of them is incredible, they are easy but definitely fun to do, in my opinion the puzzles makes the biggest part of the dungeon, definitely agree, they are way better than BOTW and TOTK
@@LuisFelipe-pq9lr yeah and I still had a few ok that’s a really cool puzzle moments Like in the gerudo temple I was trying to find my entrance into a room and I realised if I use the mole to dig down into it I could get there felt really good
I have to disagree immediately. Many dungeons were open and took me about the same time as Turtle Rock. I would have to replay every game with a timer but I would rather do these then light torches while riding on a big red block on a track. Heck many LTTP dungeons are very quick. These were just the right amount of things to do.
Imma be fr I absolutely hated Lanayru temple. By the time I got to the third part I was just ready for it to be over. It was either stupidly easy not even requiring the player to actually interact with most of the puzzles since the orb will also react to echoes. For instance that climbing segment you brought up, I just let it get frozen since I could just place a torch at the end to turn it back anyways. Sure I could do the puzzle but why wouldn’t I just choose to just press the easy win button? Then the other half of the orb puzzles were just “you need to turn it back afterwards” which while neat the first time, it ultimately felt like a waste of time when it came to the final snow ball puzzle. On top of all that there were those stupid 2d freezing air puzzles. It never clicked for me that I could even grab the ice sickles as there wasn’t really any indication I could or simple puzzle to learn that trick. I just kept trying various tall items hoping it would be enough but the cold air would either just slightly get past it or break the item. Ultimately I just had to brute force it with platbooms since I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do. Speaking of which, the puzzle where you need to press the two buttons at the same time. I had to look that one up cause its tutorial is in Faron which I saved for last. They just dropped this new mechanic on me without any clear indication that I was just supposed to press them at the same time. Instead I spent like 30 minutes trying to figure out if I was supposed to place a certain item on them like in gerudo sanctum or if I needed to have the fan be on in a certain way as the symbol on the button looked like a fan. Boss was at least fun but you really need to grab both wizrobes first cause elemental keese barely do any damage to it. Luckily I at least had the fire wizrobe cause I think I would have actually leave to do a different temple first which shouldn’t ever happen in a Zelda game if you can reach the boss. Thank god for conde though. I absolutely loved him
The desert temple is what made me realise what I missed from totk
I don’t need the most complex puzzles ever just fun to explore and some aha moments
Listening to this at work. I love being a physicist with my own office.
... humble brag much?
Lanayru Temple is probably my favorite. Faron Temple and Gerudo Sanctum are up there also. Jabul Ruins would be included if it wasn't so short for no reason.
That ice ball puzzle at the end of lanayru totally stumped me. Then I figured it out and was like wow I’m a genius. Maybe not the best idea in terms of design but man was it funny
The thing this game did so well was the variety of quests and secrets I. The overworld. More than the wild games, EOWs overworld really feels like it’s packed with so many interesting details. Looking for secrets in totk you pretty much new what you are gonna find, korok puzzle, some kind of escort mission etc. I’m eow of wisdom you never know what you’ll stumble on be it a simple fetch quest, mini boss, mini dungeon. It also helps that (in my opinion at least) the npcs were much more well written and doing the little quests really lends to the feeling that you are part of their little npc lives
Disagree with this to an extent. Both games had really great side quest and story lines but both games suffer the same issue of getting meaningless rewards if its not a armor set, heart piece/spirit orb, new power up, weapon, etc. hell the rifts are really just shrines with the similar problem as shrines just with a different coat of paint.
@@R.A.M_Games the journey is the reward not the destination!
Are you serious? 990/1000 chests are completely pointless. Have 5 monster horns! Here's 20 rupees!
Super dumb. The map could have been 50% smaller and contained the same amount of useless exploration
Edit: OH, GRAPES!!! I FORGOT ABOUT THE 254 GRAPES THEY HIDE!
@@chrislevack405 if you’re talking about the monster camps those are infinitely respawning. Not sure if you are trolling every comment on here to spread pointless negativity or just mine?
Funny enough, in the water temple where I fell through the floor, I just teleported back to the entrance right away and then used a flying tile to skip the gap. (I also did this temple third)
After finishing the dungeon, I realized I think you can skip most of the dungeon if you have the wall crawling spider. You just need to do the wing where you get the big key, then you can skip the elevator to go straight to the boss...
Ngl that one ice ball puzzle thing at the end of ice temple was seriously messing with my brain. Loved the outside the box solution though and I felt so smart figuring it out
I'm so glad I wasnt the only person that missed that bit in the ice temple, spent literally 20 minutes brute forcing my way past the fire spouts cause I didn't wanna look it up
The jungle dungeon gave me the worst headache lol. It’s interesting to because I was able to figure out most of the puzzles pretty easily besides the ones that made you use those stone guys. But the navigation made my head hurt so bad
Omg that was one of my favorites with how nonlinear it was
The only parts of the dungeons I actually had to seek a guide for was one you have to step on the buttons at the same time in Farore’s temple and two apparently a massive pimple on a blob means you have to freeze him.
I pretty much agree with this list. Lanayru Temple & Faron Temple would easy be in my top 5 favorite 2D LoZ dungeons.
I LOVE the Faron temple popping in and out to find your path forward. Really cool design.
It’s interesting hearing your opinions because my play style was COMPLETELY different. It really shows the beauty of this game. Your favourite dungeon was my least 😂
17:55 Strange, I found the Elephant & Bird and figured those were the ones I needed since they were near or at the end of the 2 available paths.
I wasn’t paying attention to the signs so I low key just guessed and got it first try somehow
20:44 So that's the solution!
Kinda proud I managed to force my way through with a gerudo statue and water blocks.
You can also use your long range summon ability to just block the ice jet with a rock or boulder straight through the bars.
But that’s the great thing about a game like this. There are a different ways you can tackle these puzzles and it’s nice just doing your own thing. Plus it’s fun to see what others find as well.
20:41 for that room I also defrosted everything, and after awhile I used a platboom echo to get past. Platbooms are one of my favorites
My top 3 dungeons are: 3) Gerudo Temple 2) Eldin Temple 1) Lanayru Temple. I found them really enjoyable to traverse through and reslly enjoyed solving the puzzle with Lanayru Temple having my favourite set of puzzles to solve. Also Volvagia and Skorchill were some of my favourite bosses of the game. Overall I found the game to have a good set of dungeons and an improvement over TOTK and the divine beasts. I really liked the Fire Temple in TOTK but the Water Temple was way too simple and felt more like a mini dungeon and the wind temple could've been better too
You can cheese your way to the boss door so easy in water temple haha
Jabuls ruins is even more broken and simple than the water temple. And that’s from a water temple hater myself
Yeah, i never knew you could do that with keese. I always cheesed it with flying tiles
Eldin Temple is a straight line from start to finish, which I thought was a bit disappointing
Honestly sometimes I enjoy the more linear dungeons. The minnish cap has a lot of those and I weirdly find them fun. That’s not a popular opinion tho
Can’t wait to watch this, once I’ve actually played the game
Omg don’t spoil it. Even if you see a lot of negativity about this game online please just play it and form your own opinion. It’s so wonderful I hope you have as great of an experience as I did
@@joelsytairo6338 I haven’t really seen anything negative about it, but even if, there is no way I’m not playing a new 2d Zelda. I’ve even been able to largely avoid spoilers.
@@RULERZREACHF4N6146 there’s definitely a lot and it reviewed quite poorly with critics for a Zelda game. Most of the response I have seen to the game has been very negative
It's interesting how many different ways you can do puzzles Faron's 6 torches I took a wind blower and did a circle putting them all out in time. Though I'd say my favorite dungeon is probably Hyrule Castle, but the stealth parts didn't bother me and enjoyed Ganon fight that early in. I hated the darkness of Faron so wasn't my favorite.
Minnish cap had the worst hyrule castle (to me) so anything was a step up from that
Am I crazy? I recently replayed links awakening and every dungeon was done in 30 mins. All of them! These dungeons took much longer on average.
The dungeons of 2D Zeldas are really short for real. At least, the last dungeons are more complicated and can take longer but otherwise, as a rule, they will quickly do so as long as you don’t get lost in them.
Ngl I’m not a fan of la dungeons I think they are severely overhyped
@joelsytairo6338 you also had trouble with a baby's game... so your opinion is taken with many grains of salt.
@@chrislevack405 random troll comment. Also had trouble ? Where tf these bots get this stuff
Considering this game is smaller and more compact such as the old games with almost the same level of freedom as BotW
I've found the dungeons a really big step forward from the latest games
Also the consistency in quality of them were really nice
Even the ones that I found the most underwhelming like Eldin Temple or Jabul Ruins were decent overall and definetly better than any dungeon from TotK/BotW
Just beat the game today with roughly 70 hours and really had a fun time with it
Also this is the first Zelda game that I was able to 100% Blind!
Gotta brag about it 😂
The way the world is layed out is so genius. The fact that it’s relatively compact and tiny but designed in a way to make it feel huge and sprawling with biomes naturally blending into eachother (mostly) was so neat
So far jsut reached third dungeon and loving this game so much
The world really opens up after the 3rd! Such a cool moment after the 3rd dungeon sort of flips the tone of the game
You can use any flying enemy to glide, some even have different qualities, the wind blowing version of that flying bomb spitting enemy will blow wind to make you move faster and the mothula echo seemingly doesn't get tired when used to glide unlike keese or peahats which get tired and drop after a while
I didn’t build Link a staircase to reach the switch. Instead I just bound him directly and dragged him up.
I had the same bottom 4 in a completely different order, but looks like we have the exact same opinions on the top 3. I’ve played several of the Zelda games in the last year and Echoes might be one of my favorites now, the Lanayru and Faron temples are some of my favs in the series. I do agree that some of the dungeons felt a little underbaked and short, but there were also quite a few really strong dungeons in the game. Still sad about the Eldin Temple tho, the Eldin region has always been my favorite ever since playing Twilight Princess as a kid and its temple left a lot to be desired compared to the other two temples.
At least they did such a great job with the eldin overworld and the side quests leading up to the dungeon. Maybe a little bit copying botw homework but I still thought it was great
Watching this i realise my playthrough was completely different
Fun fact: 90% of the water dungeon can be skipped when using the crawltula
Faron was my least favorite because of the plant boss. My echoes would not attack the weak spots
Yeah...I didn't really use stealth with imposter Link
I used bind to rip his shield away and then summoned an echo to damage him...
Did anyone else just carry link up in that part of nulls body instead of making him platforms?
Yup
Yes I was trying so hard with the platforms and accidentally realized you could literally move link. Tried a little bit longer with platforms but his ai was so annoying that I gave up lol
@@joelsytairo6338it didn’t even occur to me to make platforms 😅 I immediately grabbed him.
I didn’t even think of making platforms, I just grabbed him
i ended up hating lanayru for that one specific puzzle 😭 i spent so much time and effort trying to get past the fire geysers that the solution just ended up disappointing me since i also had to use a guide (which makes sense... i assume most people would never try putting the fire charge in thru the ice geyser, given how fragile the fire charge is)
Faron temple was definitely my favorite, i made a beeline for the region as soon as i had the water block, and enjoyed the regions unique mechanics so much. also stumbled on the lv3 lizalfos MUCH earlier than intended, that was easily my go-to guy for almost all combat encounters the rest of the game
I'd compare the difficulty of the dungeons with Phantom Hourglass. Not very hard, but fun with some clever puzzles, but also some rather repetitive ones. The bosses are lots of fun too.
I didn't like how absurdly linear most of the dungeons were (even by traditional standards), so to me the Faron Temple was miles above the rest. I think the terminal style of dungeon is better than people give it credit for, so I would honestly say that I preferred BotW/TotK's dungeons over most dungeons in this game. Although, the one terminal style dungeon in this game (the Water Temple) was really dumb since you could just skip the terminals if you knew where the boss key was.
How do you think Echoes of wisdom dungeons compare to totk actually?
Like some surpassed the lightning temple or unsure(Since that is like the only good dungeon in totk)
I think the jabul ruins really suffers from its placement
It is a small improvement from suthorn ruins but because it is far away I feel like most did the sand temple first which is a far bigger and mroe classic style dungeon feel than jabul
Still a good dungeon but it got shot in the foot by distance
Yes, the temple of Jabul is supposed to be done second but as it is far away, we tend to make the Gerudo temple first which is much more complicated and we come disappointed from the temple of Jabul. So when I think back, as a second dungeon, its level of difficulty seems actually correct.
@@Duplucky5 yeah agreed def will prob recommend to friends to go to it second since I think that will just make the overall experience better
@@Duplucky5why do u think it’s supposed to be done second? Also I was just too excited to see the cool desert ladies and ran straight there. Love the overworld and design of the Zora villages though. So cute to see the contrasting cultures
@@joelsytairo6338 Because the Gerudo dungeon is much harder than that of Jabul and then because later, we can make a boss rush that shows us the "official" order of the bosses and you will see that Jabul’s boss appears in second place: )
@@Duplucky5 oh yeah I didn’t think of the boss rush like that. Interesting because it really does seem like the game is kind of nudging you toward gerudo
I wouldn’t count Null’s body as a dungeon at all. Just part of the final stretch to the boss.
If anything, this game could have used an actual final dungeon.
I loved the game but I felt that all puzzles were just too easy, the most time I had in a puzzle was 5~8 minutes, but I have been playing Zelda since child and in my area of work Good Logic is a obligation so I may be suspect to say
Yeah and tbf I was impressed by a lot of the puzzles
I don’t think good puzzles are required for a dungeon to be super enjoyable and so far I have found them very enjoyable
A lot more enjoyable than Botw/totk ones for sure
@@doolenny9458 The quality of them is incredible, they are easy but definitely fun to do, in my opinion the puzzles makes the biggest part of the dungeon, definitely agree, they are way better than BOTW and TOTK
@@LuisFelipe-pq9lr yeah and I still had a few ok that’s a really cool puzzle moments
Like in the gerudo temple I was trying to find my entrance into a room and I realised if I use the mole to dig down into it I could get there felt really good
*gasp!* Billy...!!! You didnt play on Hero mode?!
I have to disagree immediately. Many dungeons were open and took me about the same time as Turtle Rock. I would have to replay every game with a timer but I would rather do these then light torches while riding on a big red block on a track. Heck many LTTP dungeons are very quick. These were just the right amount of things to do.
Lanayru no contest.
Deku and gerudo tie for second
22:21 😭😭😭
Now Rank the Echoes
Child's play! a 4 year old could do them I'm sure 🥴
Can you do a list of the top ten souls series quest lines? That would be a great video
Imma be fr I absolutely hated Lanayru temple. By the time I got to the third part I was just ready for it to be over. It was either stupidly easy not even requiring the player to actually interact with most of the puzzles since the orb will also react to echoes.
For instance that climbing segment you brought up, I just let it get frozen since I could just place a torch at the end to turn it back anyways. Sure I could do the puzzle but why wouldn’t I just choose to just press the easy win button?
Then the other half of the orb puzzles were just “you need to turn it back afterwards” which while neat the first time, it ultimately felt like a waste of time when it came to the final snow ball puzzle.
On top of all that there were those stupid 2d freezing air puzzles. It never clicked for me that I could even grab the ice sickles as there wasn’t really any indication I could or simple puzzle to learn that trick. I just kept trying various tall items hoping it would be enough but the cold air would either just slightly get past it or break the item. Ultimately I just had to brute force it with platbooms since I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do.
Speaking of which, the puzzle where you need to press the two buttons at the same time. I had to look that one up cause its tutorial is in Faron which I saved for last. They just dropped this new mechanic on me without any clear indication that I was just supposed to press them at the same time. Instead I spent like 30 minutes trying to figure out if I was supposed to place a certain item on them like in gerudo sanctum or if I needed to have the fan be on in a certain way as the symbol on the button looked like a fan.
Boss was at least fun but you really need to grab both wizrobes first cause elemental keese barely do any damage to it. Luckily I at least had the fire wizrobe cause I think I would have actually leave to do a different temple first which shouldn’t ever happen in a Zelda game if you can reach the boss.
Thank god for conde though. I absolutely loved him
It doesn’t lock you in the room for the two buttons thing?
1:13 u brought me down I stopped listening. Quit editorializing and get to what u promised in your headline smh
First
not the worst dungeon being at number 1