Up until the Nintendo 64, the company’s games had faced the technical limitations of the Super Nintendo systems.
Thanks, Reddit! I’m going to go play the somehow-less-fucked-up Majora’s Mask.New technology always presents new questions for Nintendo. I can’t pinpoint the exact point when the boss started popping up on r/Zelda, and that just makes its revolting resurgence all the more mysterious (read: terrifying). Not only does Dead Hand reappear in the subsequent dungeon, he’s also been appearing on the Zelda subreddit, where users are making both 3D printed models and clay figurines of the creature. The Ocarina parallels are not lost on me.) (I asked my brother, who is seven years my senior, to beat Dead Hand for me. He’s a complete 180º from the mostly cartoonish bosses up to this point, and he stopped 7-year-old me dead in my tracks. He not only looks like a naked, half-melted Mouth of Sauron, he’s also accompanied by a series of gangly arms that sprout from the floor to face-hug you into submission. Yay!īut it’s Dead Hand, the boss guarding the mini-dungeon’s treasured Lens of Truth, that truly takes things too far.
There is also a litany of invisible (for now) holes in the floor through which you can drop into a combination torture chamber/pool of putrid filth. The Bottom of the Well is replete with monstrosities like soul-sucking zombies, transparent giant hands, and bats. It’s here where things go from Haruki Murakami to Junji Ito. By revisiting Kakariko Village as the younger Link and completing a brilliant effect-and-cause side quest, your child-sized protagonist can squeeze through a small hole at the bottom of the town’s well, where a malignant entity is poisoning the water supply. But after you’ve gotten through the infamous Water Temple and returned to a Kakariko Village in flames, Ocarina strongly suggests that you to return to the Temple of Time (the site of the temporal leap) to become a child again. Before this point, Ocarina’s time-travel system is framed as a one-time act of transformation: Link was a child in a Swiftian Hyrule, and suddenly, he was an adult, seven years later, in a darkening world. Join us on our journey through The Legend of Zelda series, from the original 1986 game to the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and beyond.įor those who haven’t played Ocarina of Time, protagonist Link’s journey into the Bottom of the Well comes about 4/5 of the way into his journey, and it is, in my opinion, the game’s masterstroke.
In 2023, Polygon is embarking on a Zeldathon.
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