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It shows you the passage too. Albeit for maybe one second, which was just not terribly smart design. But it does show you or mention it somewhere - a lot of OoT is like that.

Uhoh. Wasn't there famously a way to accidentally glitch yourself from getting the sword? Like if you do a quest part of order.

I don't think it's difficult, but I do think it's tedious because you have to go back and forth through the same area multiple times. Progressing through it feels more like a chore than an adventure.

It was the last "hard" puzzle before everyone was able to just Google it if they got stuck

It didn't stick out as hard to me, but when I went to school everyone was bitching about it. I ended up having people bring me their games so I could beat Water Temple for them so they could keep playing.

I loved it but mainly because I love swimming and diving in games, that dungeon was my favorite playground

"the only people", mentions about half the population of earth

The water temple has the problem of being too self-similar, the main body of which being a three story tall donut shaped room with doors in the four cardinal directions, so it's difficult to keep track of which series of unremarkable rooms are in which direction. The interface was kind of fucky because you had to change boots a lot in the menu, and can only use the hookshot for combat while walking underwater for some reason against those clam creatures that you have to be quite close to to get them to open, but farther away than that to hit.

There are a couple keys hidden in "why would there be a room there?" kind of places so it's a pain without the compass.

The Dark Link miniboss setpiece is very cool, but the fight itself feels too bullshit. It doesn't feel like meeting an equal in swordfighting skill and having to best him, it feels like "most normal attacks just straight up don't work, cheese it with magic and/or the hammer." Boss fight is kind of meh as well.

The core of the dungeon's puzzle aka learn how to use the water to traverse this place started off as a cool idea but...Let's face it Ocarina of Time is actually starting to age poorly and the Water Temple was the first blemish.

I miss this tyoebof game. Anyone know any good Zelda OOT like games? Mostly linear. Where there's a main story. The main quest which leads into smaller quests (you helped Ruto). Every dungeon is a small story.

We might be the only 2 in the world that like it

The best temple was the spirit temple. Water temple was, and always will be, a hassle.