Ocarina of Time Part 2 Zelda Game Club 

The forest temple has always been to me the epitome of Zelda temples. Even to this day. The atmosphere and theme is excellent. An abandoned haunted fortress. Why is this structure out here basically being over grown by a huge over whelming forest that is easy to get lost in. I remember as a kid getting so lost in this temple. Missing small keys. Not realizing you can climb past the skulltulas. Now I whip through this temple. Once before I did what I call an Uber quest. Must remain at 3 hearts. Get the giants knife and break it. No hylian shield. Only Ruto’s bottle. The fight against the two stalfos that you must kill both before they get back up was easily the hardest part of the whole run for me. When facing the sisters you can throw down a Deku nut to force them to reveal themselves. As we defeat Phantom Ganon, we hear Ganondorf speak to us. He appears unfazed that we are back and that we have defeated the first of his spawn. In fact he says specifically that when we fight him it won’t be as easy. He expects to fight us. Almost as if he planned this too. When we get to death mountain there are only 2 Gorons to be found. Medi Goron and Link the son of Darunia rolling around when we stop his rolling he tells of the resurrection of Volvagia by Ganondorf. An ancient Dragon that supposedly ate Gorons. It was defeated in the past by a Goron wielding the megaton hammer. I keep trying to find a way to convince my self that in the past perhaps Volvagia was in fact the Gorons guardian deity. But other than Valoo in wind waker I can’t seem to find basis for it. We are also told that all the Gorons were gathered up to be fed to Volvagia for standing against Ganondorf. Notice though how they haven’t yet been. Is Ganondorf holding them just to lure link? The fire Temple is again super iconic. Freeing captured Gorons. I’ve heard the theory that this was once a place to keep prisoners of war with all the cells. As for music even though it was religious in nature I far prefer the Islamic chants of the 1.0 version of the game. Sadly all subsequent releases have all had the music changed. I get why but still love the original. A couple of things. You can 100 percent the fire temple without the fairy bow. Also it is totally possible to beat the fire temple without ever switching to the fire tunic. Most people throw on the tunic and never take it off through the entire temple. However there are many rooms that are not scalding hot. These are rooms where the timer isn’t displayed. When we return to the zoras domain we find ice everywhere. Everything is frozen over. We see king Zora behind red ice. Beyond in the fountain Lord Jabu Jabu is no where to be seen. Though we can jump from ice burg to ice burg to reach a ledge that has actually always been there. The ice cavern to me has always been too short. I loved the thoughts and concepts. Here we get the iron boots and blue fire to free king Zora who tells of Ruto going to find out what is going wrong in the water temple. I have another theory I will start here and finish in the next part. The theory is that Jabu Jabu passed away in the 7 years due to the sickness caused by Barinade. And what do we actually know? That Zoras fountain is the source of water that flow down Zoras river into hyrule field. Acts as a moat for castle town. Flows into Gerudo valley and finally lake Hylia.

God, I wish I would have remembered I wanted to do this. I ain’t missing the next one, that’s for sure. (I want to fanboy over the music in the forest temple)

Neat trivia here 😎

Is it to late to post for part 3. I will have it ready in a few hours