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If the bird enemies in the final palace of Zelda II seen at 20:08 are called Fokkas, and the bird knights at 19:58 are called Fokka knights, then I guess that the giant bird boss seen at 20:17 is called the Mother Fokka. A big Mother Fokka at that.
If you aren't prepared and "grind" stuffs and money, plus not knowing the hidden locations for bonus ruppies and Hearts, You're fucked at the 2nd half. However, the Death Mountain in the 2nd run is a bit easier than the 1st one...
I can be a high strung/ anxious person and even I agree. I loved the time because it made the world feel real and lived in. There was always something happening at a certain time.
And the replay value is very good, you can play without slowing down time and this makes the dungeon much more difficult. Almost a different dungeon because you have to be fast
@@petitthom2886yeah kind of - of course its harder, but if you played MM 3-5times you havent any time problems especially in Great Bay - its damn short :o and of course you will reset time before going in every dungeon, just because you have more knowledge :D MM best game
The hardest part of the later dungeons in Link's Awakening is to remember which set of stairs leads where. Thank God that you can put marks on the map in the remake.
Ganon's Tower in LotP is harder than both the Ice Palace and Turtle Rock. You might think you got past the hard part on getting the red mail, but you will then have to face a brutal gauntlet of the toughest enemies with minimal hearts on the way. At least the boss is easy.
It's been getting much more attention now with its last 2 entries. I personally am glad now to see it getting the credit it deserves, or for the 1st time in a while, as there was a time where it wasnt adored as much
I feel Dark Hyrule Castle from The minish cap should be here somewhere. Its not hard at the start, but its ending is gruesome: defeat some of the hardest enemies (including 3 dark nuts) during a time limit to reach one of the hardest final bosses of the franchise, Vaati
Honestly with OoT you said it yourself. Tedious doesn’t equal hard. Therefore I’d say not the Water Temple, but either Shadow or Jabu Jabu for that frankly. The water temple isn’t hard. It’s just tedious as hell.
While I’d say I had the same frustration with the Water Temple as a kid, I’d say Forest Temple or Shadow Temple were more challenging or difficult. I believe we all just missed the platform that raised in the center of the temple with the water.
It's quite easy to miss a key on the first playthrough. When I first played the game, both me and my sister got stuck on both our save files because we were one key short. It turned out it wasn't even the same key. I found one key that she had missed and she found the key that I missed.
i agree 100%. i never understood the water temple criticism; never found changing the levels to be all that tedious, and the difficulty of the puzzles + boss weren't bad at all. shadow temple gave me a much bigger headache.
Hot take: The Water temple is one of the best Zelda dungeons. I like difficulty in Zelda games and it has that. The navigation is the hardest part and switching between Iron boots is annoying but in the 3DS version it is made easier and the pacts to switch the water level is color coded. Also if you use the Biggoron Sword or wait till it stops copying your move Dark Link is a pushover.
I beat the Water Temple on my first try in the 3DS remake, and without a guide. I also didn’t have the Biggoron Sword for the Dark Link fight, but I still got through the Water Temple very easily.
Easiest way I've defeated Dark Link is to just...not use the Z targeting. He copies you big time when Z Targeting, but when you don't, he has a hard time mimicking you
One of the greatest feelings now is when I play through again and I basically speed run these dungeons. Turtle Rock and Ganons Tower I blasted through the fastest I ever had last year when I was stoned with my friends.
I mean.. it CAN be the hardest dungeon - when you go there with 3 hearts, no weapons and no food.. otherwise.. yeah. Its a joke difficulty wise when you have unlimited heal items, all.. or almost every heart, good weapons...
Just replayed links awakening again ,and yeah those last two dungeons are a pain in the ass. Of course the great palace is #1, that thunderbird fight is brutal, even with the spell. Solid list
I hate snowhead more than stonetower in majoras mask. I know i did this dungeon legit a single time as a child back then at its release but today i cant figure out how to do the dungeon properly by raising the pillar and adjusting its height so everytime i get there i just use scarecrow hookshot and bomb hovers to just instantly climbing it without caring for anything.
@Christian.Guluarte.03 even the OoT water temple had a specific pattern which once you learned it made the dungeon pretty doable. I think the most frustrating thing was the fact that you constantly had to switch boots which you could only do in the menu
I played Oracle of ages when i was like 8-9 yrs old and it actually gave me a lot of headaches and frustrations and it felt so rewarding beating that game at that time especially when YT wasn't a thing
In my opinion, the great palace only has one boss. Link's Shadow isn't really even a fight in this game. All you do is crouch in a corner, swinging your sword, and let it run into it.
Stone Tower Temple, Great Bay Temple, Great Palace, Turtle Rock (ALttP), Ice Palace (ALttP), and Ganon's Tower (ALttP) are all ones that stumped me hardest.
I found City in the sky more frustrating and time consuming than difficult, which was a shame because otherwise it had some great ideas and one of the most fun items in the game
The thing I found most challenging in The Stone Tower Temple was finding out that it flips. It didn’t occur to me that you have to go outside of the temple to progress
Yeah, it's not like the Wind Waker is known for difficult dungeons, and the other three are often considered some of the easiest games. The hardest dungeon in Wind Waker is the very first one, mostly because you have to do most of it without your sword, and getting caught can set you back quite a bit. But once you know how to do it, it's more tedious than difficult.
I guess it’s my fault for having expectations, but this video basically boils down to: the final dungeon in each game. Which makes sense, since it’s, ya know, the final dungeon in the game.
Just recently replayed Minish Cap and one of the biggest reasons Palace of Winds is so tough is because its unbelievably stingy with hearts. Nearly every enemy just drops rupees instead.
I still find it odd that people still actively call OoT Water Temple difficult. It’s not really hard at all, it’s more or less just the necessity of constant backtracking.
* Glad you got the Ice Palace in there for Link To The Past. Good Call. The first time I played that I was stuck goin gin circles for sooo long. And the ice definitely did not help. * Also glad you got Eagle's Tower in there for Links Awakening - I went in circles and backtracked so many times trying to get the last iron ball where I needed it to take out the last pillar. Whew. * Also, Also - surprised The OoT Water Temple wasn't first! But the first choice does make sense!
I have everything about Ocarina of Time fully memorized. I've beaten that game countless times. I even do the dungeons in a alternate order... I have to say, that the Water Temple. despite the fact that you have to manage the Ocarina and the Iron Boots...the dungeon has the main hall making it very easy to navigate and clear quite easily. I don't know everyone has so much trouble with it.
Yeah personally it didn't even come close to living up the horror stories around it. Got annoyed by constantly having to menu out and change boots in the 64 version, but that's it.
in LOZ....level 6 & 9 (1st Quest), 6,7,& 8 (2nd quest). ZII AoL....Island Palace, Three-Rock Palace & the Great Palace, just getting there alone is a challenge. Moas (the flying eye balls) & lizaolfs Z LtoP....Skull Palace (i hate that palace, anything with wallmasters), Turtle Rock
Personally I love the Great Bay Temple from Majora's Mask, the most interesting and by far the easiest water level ever created in a Zelda game due to being extremely straight forward. Lakebed from Twilight Princess on the other hand... Nightmare.
Yeah, Level 6 (Dragon) in the original Legend of Zelda's 1st Quest I know is hard--especially the room with Like Likes AND Wizzrobes! Oh, how I hated that room! (As much as I hated Manhandla back in the day!)
You can cheese the Ice Palace in LttP (in the orig SNES version) by doing Misery Mire first for the Cane of Somaria, which can be used to weigh down the switch on B6. Basically try to get down to B6 as quickly as possible (need a few small keys) and you win, Kholdstare is one of the easiest bosses especially if you have Bombos and the magic meter upgrade.
I really don't think BotW's Hyrule Castle should have made the list. Sure if you want to explore every room you're going to be in for some tough fights but when you can bypass the whole thing it doesn't qualify as difficult. It's an optional challenge when things like Ganon's Tower in OoT also has a bunch of tough fights and they are required.
My main problem with Great Bay Temple is that its much to short and to easy... even without manipulate time you are through in less than 18 ingame hours.... I really like Great Bay, but its just too short
Not a single Links Awakening dungeon belongs on thus list. As for the Water Temple, I mean it's tedious but as long as you have a walk through it's not that hard. To me, Great Bay Temple and Turtle Rock ( Link to the Past) are the two most sadistic dungeons I have ever tackled.
I would also mention Zelda 2 does not phase me as long as I play on an emulator (I legally own the game). No, I don't use save states but using a keyboard instead of a controller makes the required movements easier for me.
lol "as long as you have a walk-through" thats like saying a test isn't hard as long as you have the answer sheet, it defeats the purpose of the challenge
Interesting takes however I disagree with Ocarina of time, Major a's masks and Skyward swords' placements as the water dungeon other than Dark link is not very mechanically challenging. It should be swapped with the shadow Temple as you have wind physics invisibility shenanigan's and loads of enemies and not many pots so If you're not prepared then you're going to die as in some areas there is basically nowhere to heal. For Majora's mask the only thing really hard about great bay is the boss Gyrog's arena being badly designed. Instead the Moon dungeon should take it's place As it will test you on all the challenging mechanics to prove that your worthy of the feirce deity mask. For Skyward sowrd I would put in the Ancient Cistern temple as back when I was a kid the idea of swinging a whip felt really unfamiliar which made the boss more challenging as well as the puzzles. Plus you also have your memory tested with combination locks that you have to risk your life to access through careful swimming. As for Links awaking, Phantom hourglass and spirit tracks, While the backtracking can be annoying I think it's worth mention that those games let you make notes in their own way so If your lost for hours on that part then it's a skill issue. As for Twilight princess I don't think any of it's Dungeons should have made it on the list as City in the sky isn't that bad unless you have 3d gyro motion eye issues. Other than that great video
The Water Temple from the original version of Ocarina of Time was annoying, considering that you have to pause the game multiple times to put on/take off the Iron Boots, thankfully they made the Iron Boots an equippable item in the 3DS remake
Also ich fand Hyrule Castle in BOTW echt einfach. Wenn man über die drei Wasserfälle ins Schloß ist, war man in 10-15 Minuten beim Final Fight ohne einen einzigen Zwischenboss
I still argue the the water temple isn’t as hard as everyone says. Yes it was hard at the time, but now with the advent of video walkthroughs, I’d argue that the level has gotten much more easier. It’s frustrating but it isn’t hard. I think the Spirit Temple is way harder than the Water Temple.
Skull Woods is one of the shortest dungeons in the Zelda franchise if you know what to do. Get the Big Key first, then the Fire Rod, go back to the area with the Big Key but go west this time, before you exit find a small key under one of the pots. Then when you get to the final (very linear) section, you can just go straight ahead and unlock the door and proceed on to Mothula, if you got the Cape this becomes a joke.
Water Temple isn't hard. It's tedious and annoying, especially on the n64 and GameCube versions. But it's far from one of the hardest dungeons. Honestly the Shadow or Spirit Temples are harder
I’ve personally never found the OoT Water Temple that hard at all! Tedious and annoying at times yeah. But hard, no. The first time I ever played it back in like 98 or 99 I beat by myself with not too much difficulty. It’s just annoying if anything.
I'm sorry, but I gotta take issue with including BotW Hyrule Castle. Sure it's imposing on the outside with all the sentinels roaming about. But even if you're not good at deflecting beams, you can dodge past most of them. And inside is mostly just bokoblins and other enemies. And including a Link's awakening dungeon in different versions separately and then combining versions for another? Sorry, this was a top 19 list. Not 20
Wow, okay, I'd also say that these dungeons are the most fun and rewarding. Don't know why you put in BOTW in there since you can cheese and bypass everything. All you need is waterfall scaling and updraft, and you're done. There are several reasons BOTW and TOTK dungeons are not worthy to be on this list.
I disliked skull woods in link to the past. So many exits and entrances, easy to get lost. Plus many rooms had the infamous wall masters ready to take back to the beginning! Tbh, i found most b if not all dungeons with wall masters to be a pain
Ok the BotW castle is not that hard of a dungeon you can just run away from 90% of the enemies the only time your forced to fight would be if you try and get the shield
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Has to be great palace. As a kid, I wouldn't even want to try again
I swear this channel has a requisite of being an imbecile to get a job with them.
Wáter ooc temple i searched in internet 4 times!
Mine has to be eagle tower, when I finally figured out the trick, I was so relieved!
OoT Water Temple and Twilight Princess Lakebed Temple
If the bird enemies in the final palace of Zelda II seen at 20:08 are called Fokkas, and the bird knights at 19:58 are called Fokka knights, then I guess that the giant bird boss seen at 20:17 is called the Mother Fokka. A big Mother Fokka at that.
It's called the Thunderbird
@@shyguykid7935Joke flew over your head bro
😂
Thunda Fokka 😂
If we're all being honest, Zelda 1 and 2 should take up almost the entire list.
To be serious, the original Zelda isn't all that tough when prepared. Now the Second Quest is indeed as hard as Zelda II.
@@LITTLE1994 Yeah Second Quest is evil, lol.
If you aren't prepared and "grind" stuffs and money, plus not knowing the hidden locations for bonus ruppies and Hearts, You're fucked at the 2nd half.
However, the Death Mountain in the 2nd run is a bit easier than the 1st one...
@@remytt4whoops you forgot to bring 50 rupees and walked into a leave your money or your life room!
To be fair basically all NES era games had to be hard to keep the player invested for more than an hour due to hardware limitations
I never found the time limit to be an issue in Majora’s Mask when you slow down time.
Especially when it comes to the N64 version
I can be a high strung/ anxious person and even I agree. I loved the time because it made the world feel real and lived in. There was always something happening at a certain time.
And the replay value is very good, you can play without slowing down time and this makes the dungeon much more difficult. Almost a different dungeon because you have to be fast
@@petitthom2886 absolutely agree. Some of those dungeons will always make my head spin so I will never do that in a play through lol
@@petitthom2886yeah kind of - of course its harder, but if you played MM 3-5times you havent any time problems especially in Great Bay - its damn short :o and of course you will reset time before going in every dungeon, just because you have more knowledge :D MM best game
The hardest part of the later dungeons in Link's Awakening is to remember which set of stairs leads where. Thank God that you can put marks on the map in the remake.
I do that all the time. It's handy, especially in Eagle's Tower!
Seriously, those stairs don't even make logical sense sometimes. They feel more like teleporters than stairs.
Ganon's Tower in LotP is harder than both the Ice Palace and Turtle Rock. You might think you got past the hard part on getting the red mail, but you will then have to face a brutal gauntlet of the toughest enemies with minimal hearts on the way. At least the boss is easy.
I swear the Zelda series has the most highlights on this channel. Not that I'm complaining. It's just interesting
It's been getting much more attention now with its last 2 entries. I personally am glad now to see it getting the credit it deserves, or for the 1st time in a while, as there was a time where it wasnt adored as much
if not Zelda then God of War or Assassin’s Creed 😂
I feel Dark Hyrule Castle from The minish cap should be here somewhere. Its not hard at the start, but its ending is gruesome: defeat some of the hardest enemies (including 3 dark nuts) during a time limit to reach one of the hardest final bosses of the franchise, Vaati
Honestly with OoT you said it yourself. Tedious doesn’t equal hard. Therefore I’d say not the Water Temple, but either Shadow or Jabu Jabu for that frankly. The water temple isn’t hard. It’s just tedious as hell.
Jabu jabu the third easiest dungeon if u know what u r doing
While I’d say I had the same frustration with the Water Temple as a kid, I’d say Forest Temple or Shadow Temple were more challenging or difficult. I believe we all just missed the platform that raised in the center of the temple with the water.
It's quite easy to miss a key on the first playthrough. When I first played the game, both me and my sister got stuck on both our save files because we were one key short. It turned out it wasn't even the same key. I found one key that she had missed and she found the key that I missed.
Or missing that one wall you need to bomb when the water level changes, that holds the key you need.
i agree 100%. i never understood the water temple criticism; never found changing the levels to be all that tedious, and the difficulty of the puzzles + boss weren't bad at all. shadow temple gave me a much bigger headache.
Shadow Temple was probably the easiest adult temple in the game for me. Forest I can agree with though. I mean WHO PUTS A KEY OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE?!
100%
Hot take: The Water temple is one of the best Zelda dungeons. I like difficulty in Zelda games and it has that. The navigation is the hardest part and switching between Iron boots is annoying but in the 3DS version it is made easier and the pacts to switch the water level is color coded. Also if you use the Biggoron Sword or wait till it stops copying your move Dark Link is a pushover.
I beat the Water Temple on my first try in the 3DS remake, and without a guide. I also didn’t have the Biggoron Sword for the Dark Link fight, but I still got through the Water Temple very easily.
Dark link room always amazes me with how they did that room. Honestly I love playing that dungeon just for that boss
Easiest way I've defeated Dark Link is to just...not use the Z targeting. He copies you big time when Z Targeting, but when you don't, he has a hard time mimicking you
Ice Ruins in A Link Between Worlds should be on the list, it’s probably even worse than ALTTP’s Ice Palace
absolutely not
Thanks for highlighting Turtle Rock in ALTTP. Its so brutal. Definitely makes you earn your victory
One of the greatest feelings now is when I play through again and I basically speed run these dungeons.
Turtle Rock and Ganons Tower I blasted through the fastest I ever had last year when I was stoned with my friends.
well its boss Trinexx and finnaly saving Zelda is a great reward that you can show Agahnim and Ganon whos boss
I absolutely loved ocean king temple.
Sense of accomplishment, not too hard, different ways to go down as you progress.. Awesome work
dunno about BOTW's Hyrule Castle being the hardest...it's hardly what I would call a dungeon.
I mean.. it CAN be the hardest dungeon - when you go there with 3 hearts, no weapons and no food.. otherwise.. yeah. Its a joke difficulty wise when you have unlimited heal items, all.. or almost every heart, good weapons...
Snowpeak Ruins was the hardest for me in TP. Screw those icicle spear enemies. Also ice physics.
Just replayed links awakening again ,and yeah those last two dungeons are a pain in the ass. Of course the great palace is #1, that thunderbird fight is brutal, even with the spell. Solid list
I hate snowhead more than stonetower in majoras mask. I know i did this dungeon legit a single time as a child back then at its release but today i cant figure out how to do the dungeon properly by raising the pillar and adjusting its height so everytime i get there i just use scarecrow hookshot and bomb hovers to just instantly climbing it without caring for anything.
I feel like twilight princess lakeside temple should be on this list.
Temple of the Ocean king was so awful I eventually rage quit and never beat PH lol
Surprise you didn't include Ice Ruins from A Link Between Worlds. It's just sick
I say stuff like the Savage Labyrinth and Master Trial are the real brutalities, especially in Hero/Master Mode.
What about the water temple in Twilight Princess?
That dungeon took me as long as the city in the sky in my first playthrough
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I find that dungeon to be way more obnoxious and harder than ocarina’s water temple tbh
@Christian.Guluarte.03 even the OoT water temple had a specific pattern which once you learned it made the dungeon pretty doable. I think the most frustrating thing was the fact that you constantly had to switch boots which you could only do in the menu
I played Oracle of ages when i was like 8-9 yrs old and it actually gave me a lot of headaches and frustrations and it felt so rewarding beating that game at that time especially when YT wasn't a thing
I love that temple in Phantom of the hour glass! It is my favorite part of the whole game! And I also love the water temple on OOT!
Stretching the term "dungeon" here, but I'd say Trial of the Sword on Master Mode would be the hardest thing I've ever done in a Zelda game.
The fire temple in Tears of the Kingdom was especially tricky for me. The boss of TOTK’s water Temple made me angry.
yeah, the Mucktorok isn’t that hard to beat, it’s just very annoying.
In my opinion, the great palace only has one boss. Link's Shadow isn't really even a fight in this game. All you do is crouch in a corner, swinging your sword, and let it run into it.
Stone Tower Temple, Great Bay Temple, Great Palace, Turtle Rock (ALttP), Ice Palace (ALttP), and Ganon's Tower (ALttP) are all ones that stumped me hardest.
I found City in the sky more frustrating and time consuming than difficult, which was a shame because otherwise it had some great ideas and one of the most fun items in the game
The thing I found most challenging in The Stone Tower Temple was finding out that it flips. It didn’t occur to me that you have to go outside of the temple to progress
U forgot the fire temple in tears of the kingdom
Ong! Its as tedious as water temple w the back and forward on the rails
I HATED the Fire Temple in TOTK
Not really difficult so much as just a giant pain in the ass
Surprising that Windwaker, Four Sword, Four Sword Adventures, and A Link Between Worlds weren’t on the list
The first dungeon is from twilight wtf
@ my bad
Yeah, it's not like the Wind Waker is known for difficult dungeons, and the other three are often considered some of the easiest games. The hardest dungeon in Wind Waker is the very first one, mostly because you have to do most of it without your sword, and getting caught can set you back quite a bit. But once you know how to do it, it's more tedious than difficult.
Fire temple in totk was a fkn headache
I guess it’s my fault for having expectations, but this video basically boils down to: the final dungeon in each game. Which makes sense, since it’s, ya know, the final dungeon in the game.
I must be the only person who NEVER had a hard time with Ocarina of Time's Water Temple.
You're not alone, I cleared it in an hour.
You’re so cool. I want to be just like you when I grow up
Water temple is hard if you miss two easy to miss keys ,
I’m not even a teen and I found the water temple easy but the shadow temple is the stressful one.
Just recently replayed Minish Cap and one of the biggest reasons Palace of Winds is so tough is because its unbelievably stingy with hearts. Nearly every enemy just drops rupees instead.
I still find it odd that people still actively call OoT Water Temple difficult. It’s not really hard at all, it’s more or less just the necessity of constant backtracking.
And if I remember correctly it’s also hated because you can softlock yourself in there
@ I’ve never had it happen to me after my 20+ playthroughs
@@Raz0r.0115 I think it mostly happens to new players who don’t really know how to correctly progress
I think some of the dungeons in the 2nd quest of the first Zelda were quite difficult, especially Level 7 and Level 9.
* Glad you got the Ice Palace in there for Link To The Past. Good Call. The first time I played that I was stuck goin gin circles for sooo long. And the ice definitely did not help.
* Also glad you got Eagle's Tower in there for Links Awakening - I went in circles and backtracked so many times trying to get the last iron ball where I needed it to take out the last pillar. Whew.
* Also, Also - surprised The OoT Water Temple wasn't first! But the first choice does make sense!
Calamity Gannon was surprisingly easy... besides deflecting lasers with your shield.
Zelda II still hasn't been and probably won't ever be dethroned as the hardest Zelda game.
I’ve never even set foot in the Great Palace in Zelda 2, always die on my way there
The Ocarina Water Temple Was no problem for me lol
Now we need top 10 or so favorite Zelda dungeons to explore
6:21 is my personal childhood hell lmao. I'm glad to see it here, it's just not me then 😂
I have everything about Ocarina of Time fully memorized. I've beaten that game countless times. I even do the dungeons in a alternate order... I have to say, that the Water Temple. despite the fact that you have to manage the Ocarina and the Iron Boots...the dungeon has the main hall making it very easy to navigate and clear quite easily. I don't know everyone has so much trouble with it.
Its soooooo much easier on the DS version. Stone Temple from MM and Water Temple took me forever as a kid. 😂
Yeah personally it didn't even come close to living up the horror stories around it. Got annoyed by constantly having to menu out and change boots in the 64 version, but that's it.
I actually like palace of winds from minish cap. Very heavenly but gruesome at the same time
in LOZ....level 6 & 9 (1st Quest), 6,7,& 8 (2nd quest).
ZII AoL....Island Palace, Three-Rock Palace & the Great Palace, just getting there alone is a challenge. Moas (the flying eye balls) & lizaolfs
Z LtoP....Skull Palace (i hate that palace, anything with wallmasters), Turtle Rock
I’d say for BOTW it’s Vah Naboris, Thunderblight is really fast and hard to parry. The calamity fight is definitely easier.
Personally I love the Great Bay Temple from Majora's Mask, the most interesting and by far the easiest water level ever created in a Zelda game due to being extremely straight forward.
Lakebed from Twilight Princess on the other hand... Nightmare.
Yeah, Level 6 (Dragon) in the original Legend of Zelda's 1st Quest I know is hard--especially the room with Like Likes AND Wizzrobes! Oh, how I hated that room! (As much as I hated Manhandla back in the day!)
You can cheese the Ice Palace in LttP (in the orig SNES version) by doing Misery Mire first for the Cane of Somaria, which can be used to weigh down the switch on B6. Basically try to get down to B6 as quickly as possible (need a few small keys) and you win, Kholdstare is one of the easiest bosses especially if you have Bombos and the magic meter upgrade.
This is how I do it everytime.
I really don't think BotW's Hyrule Castle should have made the list. Sure if you want to explore every room you're going to be in for some tough fights but when you can bypass the whole thing it doesn't qualify as difficult. It's an optional challenge when things like Ganon's Tower in OoT also has a bunch of tough fights and they are required.
My main problem with Great Bay Temple is that its much to short and to easy... even without manipulate time you are through in less than 18 ingame hours.... I really like Great Bay, but its just too short
Not a single Links Awakening dungeon belongs on thus list. As for the Water Temple, I mean it's tedious but as long as you have a walk through it's not that hard. To me, Great Bay Temple and Turtle Rock ( Link to the Past) are the two most sadistic dungeons I have ever tackled.
I would also mention Zelda 2 does not phase me as long as I play on an emulator (I legally own the game). No, I don't use save states but using a keyboard instead of a controller makes the required movements easier for me.
lol "as long as you have a walk-through"
thats like saying a test isn't hard as long as you have the answer sheet, it defeats the purpose of the challenge
The entire game - Zelda’s Adventure.
If u had a walkthrough or know it well the death mountain in Zelda 1 was quite easy especially the boss
Just starting, if they don’t mention the Ice Palace in LttP this would be sad lol I love that place but always makes you think
So they mention it but don’t specifically mention THAT block that you have to figure out. Better than usual by these folks, but still missed haha
Interesting takes however I disagree with Ocarina of time, Major a's masks and Skyward swords' placements as the water dungeon other than Dark link is not very mechanically challenging. It should be swapped with the shadow Temple as you have wind physics invisibility shenanigan's and loads of enemies and not many pots so If you're not prepared then you're going to die as in some areas there is basically nowhere to heal.
For Majora's mask the only thing really hard about great bay is the boss Gyrog's arena being badly designed. Instead the Moon dungeon should take it's place As it will test you on all the challenging mechanics to prove that your worthy of the feirce deity mask.
For Skyward sowrd I would put in the Ancient Cistern temple as back when I was a kid the idea of swinging a whip felt really unfamiliar which made the boss more challenging as well as the puzzles. Plus you also have your memory tested with combination locks that you have to risk your life to access through careful swimming.
As for Links awaking, Phantom hourglass and spirit tracks, While the backtracking can be annoying I think it's worth mention that those games let you make notes in their own way so If your lost for hours on that part then it's a skill issue.
As for Twilight princess I don't think any of it's Dungeons should have made it on the list as City in the sky isn't that bad unless you have 3d gyro motion eye issues.
Other than that great video
Yeah its no secret Water temple in OoT is brutal if you dont know where to go and when
The Water Temple from the original version of Ocarina of Time was annoying, considering that you have to pause the game multiple times to put on/take off the Iron Boots, thankfully they made the Iron Boots an equippable item in the 3DS remake
Jabu jabu's belly Oracle of ages should be #1
Also ich fand Hyrule Castle in BOTW echt einfach. Wenn man über die drei Wasserfälle ins Schloß ist, war man in 10-15 Minuten beim Final Fight ohne einen einzigen Zwischenboss
I still argue the the water temple isn’t as hard as everyone says. Yes it was hard at the time, but now with the advent of video walkthroughs, I’d argue that the level has gotten much more easier. It’s frustrating but it isn’t hard. I think the Spirit Temple is way harder than the Water Temple.
I actually didn’t struggle at water temple at all without any tutorials, lucky me😂
Great Bay Temple is not hard but it's easily the most annoying
I never found it annoying. In fact, I think it's one of the best dungeons in the series.
Actually jabu jabu's belly is the hardest dungeon in the entire series
I remember not being sold on links awakening remake, but now i want every game remade and its spoiled me
Skull Woods: ALTTP . . Am I wrong?
Skull Woods is one of the shortest dungeons in the Zelda franchise if you know what to do. Get the Big Key first, then the Fire Rod, go back to the area with the Big Key but go west this time, before you exit find a small key under one of the pots. Then when you get to the final (very linear) section, you can just go straight ahead and unlock the door and proceed on to Mothula, if you got the Cape this becomes a joke.
Great bay was probably the best dungeon ever made. At least it was top 5 for me
Putting stuff like the water temple above death mountain solely due to tedium is ridiculous
I love the Sky Keep
Hot take: the stigma against the water temple is unjustified
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The city in the sky reminds me of the dungeon in skyward sword
damn...im seeing lots of zelda contents lately when i just started playing botw lmao
That’s hilarious
I’m a little surprised that the water temple is not top of the list.
The Water Temple from Ocarina of Time is hard. I beat it on my first try in the 3DS remake. Without a guide.
Water Temple isn't hard. It's tedious and annoying, especially on the n64 and GameCube versions. But it's far from one of the hardest dungeons. Honestly the Shadow or Spirit Temples are harder
I’ve personally never found the OoT Water Temple that hard at all! Tedious and annoying at times yeah. But hard, no. The first time I ever played it back in like 98 or 99 I beat by myself with not too much difficulty. It’s just annoying if anything.
Tears of the Kingdom feels like Ike long complicated dungeon.
If anyone says the water temple in ocarina of time is hard they really just need to get good. It's not a hard temple
In ALttP, I think the ice caverns was harder to beat because of the god forsaken ice mechanics, and the annoying levels.
I'm sorry, but I gotta take issue with including BotW Hyrule Castle. Sure it's imposing on the outside with all the sentinels roaming about. But even if you're not good at deflecting beams, you can dodge past most of them. And inside is mostly just bokoblins and other enemies.
And including a Link's awakening dungeon in different versions separately and then combining versions for another? Sorry, this was a top 19 list. Not 20
The final fight in BOTW felt way too easy; just me ?
I remember how long it took me to beat heras tower in alttp with that stupid boss
List is kinda wrong but i get the diversity. If the list was true, top 7 would all be Zelda 2 dungeons
Wow, okay, I'd also say that these dungeons are the most fun and rewarding. Don't know why you put in BOTW in there since you can cheese and bypass everything. All you need is waterfall scaling and updraft, and you're done. There are several reasons BOTW and TOTK dungeons are not worthy to be on this list.
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I disliked skull woods in link to the past. So many exits and entrances, easy to get lost. Plus many rooms had the infamous wall masters ready to take back to the beginning!
Tbh, i found most b if not all dungeons with wall masters to be a pain
You put dark link instead of mothra poor amoeba
O,25 no that nightmares
The Water Temple isn’t even that hard… it’s just a massive slog
Hard is different from tedious - I’d say the water dungeon is tedious as you say in the video. Great bay temple is harder imo
You should unstretch the 4:3 footage and reupload the video.
stonetower and city from twilight? you never play any of this 2 games or?
Only the major console releases count tbh
ill choose water temple over great bay any day f the week
Ok the BotW castle is not that hard of a dungeon you can just run away from 90% of the enemies the only time your forced to fight would be if you try and get the shield