Poll of the Day > Ocarina of Time lovers....which of the 5 dungeons were your favorite?

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I'll always be a fan of the Spirit Temple with the Water Temple as a close 2nd, believe it or not.

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Spirit > Forest > Shadow > Fire > Water

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Hard choice. I's probably say either Forest or Spirit with Shadow close after. I wasn't the biggest fan of the Fire temple. But I didn't hate it. Water temple felt kind of long because of constantly changing the water level. Not to mention, I'm not a big fan of water levels. I like the shadow as well, but you had to use Lens all the time, which consumed magic. Though, the secret rooms were cool.

For Forest, I really liked the twisting hallway. And how you had to change it to a straight hallway to go to a different area. And spirit was cool because I liked the Twinrova battle, the puzzles, and the Iron Knuckle battle. Plus, having to do part of it as a kid and stuff...

Probably other reasons, as well...
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I always wanted to like the Spirit Temple more, but for being the last one, it sure was way the heck too easy. It was pretty epic getting there, but then you get there and just breeze through the whole thing.

Forest has the best mix of being challenging and interesting without over-doing the element. (Fire, Water, and Shadow are maybe a little bit _too_ defined by their elements.)

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Forest. It's not as linear as the others (aside from the Water Temple), but doesn't have the Water Temple's issue of being too labyrinthian, as well as the annoying changing Iron Boots mechanic.

OoT Randomizer fixes the boot issue nicely by assigning the boots to the D pad. I'm not sure why Nintendo never did that. Even in Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, you still had to assign them to an item spot.

Sahuagin posted...

I always wanted to like the Spirit Temple more, but for being the last one, it sure was way the heck too easy. It was pretty epic getting there, but then you get there and just breeze through the whole thing.

This, too. Thematically it's the best one. But it's very easy and linear. The Anubis enemies are a challenge only if you don't have either the Fire Arrows or Dins Fire.

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faramir77 posted...

I'm not sure why Nintendo never did that.

IIRC, they fixed it in the 3DS remake...
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Spirit Temple > Forest Temple >= Shadow Temple > (Deku Tree >) Fire Temple > (Goron Mountain > Lord Jabu Jabu's stomach >) Water Temple

The Spirit Temple has a lot of cool design elements, including a memorable location for the boss's lair; it also has the advantage of being visitable in both time-lines. Plus Twinrova is possibly the game's coolest boss fight.

Forest and Shadow are a toss-up. Both are great functional, dungeons but I'm favoring Forest simply because it feels more like a traditional dungeon. Bongo Bongo is a lot cooler than Phantom Ganon, though.

Deku Tree is short, but it has a solid design and a great boss.

I've never really liked the Fire Temple's layout and the whack-a-mole fight against Volvagia has always struck me as kinda silly.

Goron Mountain was kinda bland and not terribly memorable. Its boss fight was equally unimpressive.

Jabu Jabu's stomach is just a pain in the ass. The boss fight is really cool, though.

The Water Temple, like many water dungeons, is annoying as fuck. That said, the Shadow Link scene is great, I love the dungeon's location, and it has one of the game's coolest bosses.

In fact, ranking the bosses (or, at least, the memorable ones):
Ganondorf > Twinrova > Bongo Bongo > Ganon > Barinade > Morpha > Gohma > (Iron Knuckle > Dark Link >) Phantom Ganon > Dodonga > Volvagia


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I didnt know people loved the spirit temple as much as me. Its really cool that they saved the best dungeon for last

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FrozenBananas posted...

I didnt know people loved the spirit temple as much as me. Its really cool that they saved the best dungeon for last

And you still don't know, because you have most of the board ignored!

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Water > Fire > Forest > Spirit > Shadow

None of them are stand out fantastic, though. Majora's Mask has the far better designed dungeons.

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No kid dungeons? I know theyre basically tutorials but I legit love jabu jabu on masterquest

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GenericGuy posted...

Water > Fire > Forest > Spirit > Shadow

None of them are stand out fantastic, though. Majora's Mask has the far better designed dungeons.

I don't agree with this at all. I hated every temple in Majoras Mask. And there were literally only 4 of them (compared to eight dungeons in OoT.). The only redeeming thing in MM was the side missions and side characters, imo

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My opinion has been coloured by randomizer runs. When I'm doing a randomizer:

Spirit > Water > Shadow > Fire > Forest

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