Love how right at the begining, you mention Death Mountain is Zelda but then the graphic changes to Elder Scrolls Two. Who does your editing? They need to be fired.
For me, the worst dungeon in Tears of the Kingdom is the Water Temple. The anti-gravity made no sense, and it just didn't feel like a dungeon. It was just a couple of puzzles in the sky. Finally, the boss was just annoying to deal with.
I agree with everything you said (although the anti-gravity is fun to me). Attaching a hydrant to a weapon, using splash fruit/chu jelly with a Savage Lynel bow, or building a floating water sprayer all help to make it less tedious. If you save the build in your autobuild catalogue, ofc. I made one using a hover stone, a big wheel on the bottom, and sticking hydrants on the outer portion of the wheel so they spray everywhere.
not to mention that the only way you CAN defeat that disgusting squid is essentially IN low-G. in the depths, however, you better be lucky enough to have some pre-built zonai devices to use to gain enough air and hose it down.
Being hard is not the same as being bad. TOTK water temple is easily the worst because it takes like 10 minutes to beat and is just a series of disconnected easy puzzles.
@@athorem It depends why they are difficult. If they are difficult because they involve a lot of backtracking, then it is poor design. If they are difficult because they have challenging puzzles that are hard but not so hard that a majority of people will give up, and that they have a boss that is reasonably hard but there is a coherent strategy for beating.
@ Backtracking isn't bad design. It can result in more complex/interesting puzzles and traversal than Echoes of Wisdom dungeons that allow you to warp to different sections freely.
I’m one of probably 5% of players to love the TOTK fire temple. Figuring out how to manipulate the mine cart tracks to get where I needed to go was so much fun, I still do it the intended way when I replay the game. The water temple is just awful though, took me 10-15 minutes first try doing things the intended way, and is just so uninspired.
Jabu-Jabu is a solid pick for OoT. (Water Temple is not nearly as bad as its reputation.) Rito is annoying, the half of the dungeon amounts to "walk in room, walk back out of room," the sequence is arbitrary without much signposting, and the enemies are troll-ish. Plus the "music," while very thematic, is probably the least interesting track in the game.
Divine Beast Vah Narboris is not a bad dungeon as you think. But the Thunderblight Ganon is the toughest boss in Breath of the Wild. Even if you came fully prepared, he is unpredictable as he can move everywhere and he can electrified you that’ll forced Link to drop his weapons. Beating him requires a lot of dodging, relying on your wits and come up strategies to strike him at the right moment. He literally gives me a run for my rupees!
Just good timing and he’s not bad at all. Flurry rush those quick movements, just jump back almost immediately after you see him start to move fast. The second phase was tricky on a first play through though
I'm terrible at the combat, but Thunderblight wasn't a problem. Just wait for him to come up, use your Daruk's protection, whack him with the Master Sword, then pummel him with bomb arrows! Second phase is a little trickier, but not that bad!
Thunderblight isn’t unpredictable, you just have to get the timing right for when to parry… Wait nevermind actually, nobody parry’s in Breath of the Wild because it’s a high risk low reward move.
I'm going to agree also. Water temple was ok. But the spirit temple is the worst. My favorite temple in Ocarina of time was a version of the spirit temple. But just to get the body parts for the construct was annoying. I thought the fire was the best dungeon in the game. Not only was it fun and gave that sense of a adventure also. Even commonwealth realm stated it was best temple in the game.
Yes the Water Temple was just awful. As for the Spirit Temple, I think it should be viewed together with the Construct Factory as that's where the dungeon puzzle solving took place
No the Spirit Temple is not a dungeon, it’s a boss arena. The actual dungeon to which that arena belongs to is the Construct Factory. Which on its own might be the 2nd best dungeon of that game, that is if you don’t include the mineru robot section, I don’t though.
One of my lesser experiences in a Zelda dungeon took place in skyward sword’s fire sanctuary. I was stuck there for years as a child because someone on the dev team put an important interaction BEHIND A SAVE STATUE. While that’s more kids being stupid than an actual issue, I will be forever miffed at the puzzle at the second layer of phantom hourglass’ temple of the ocean king. Ignoring the issue of returning multiple times to a dungeon that saps your health if you don’t retrace your steps fast enough, here’s the riddle in question; Your ocean map is on the bottom screen. A mirror image with an important marker on it is on the top screen. The solution? Close and reopen your Nintendo ds to stamp the sigil on your map. The issue? Every time I did that, my damn handheld kept entering sleep mode, which is what that action usually does! So that game will be forever unbeatable until I can be bothered to delve into the console settings of discontinued hardware…
19. I thought you were going with Death Mountain. An arduous trek all for a hammer. 15. Even the 3DS Remake worsened the Gyorg fight by making the solution to defeat it a waiting game. In Majora's Mask. A game where you can ill-afford to have to wait. 9. I'd disagree with the Zant battle. It's actually a clever deconstruction of Zant's character. Zant is the "Usurper King," it was not his right to rule, and all throughout the fight, he fights like a guy with unearned power. The entire fight is just living proof that he's throwing half-baked strategies at you and hoping something will stick. In the Goron Mines, he shakes the magnetic platform like he's trying to bully you off a swingset. In the Frozen Bedroom, he grows giant and tries to stomp you, only to start hopping around like an idiot when you hit his ankles and shrink SMALLER than his original size. And in the Ook phase, he's literally just monkeying around. And it all comes full circle at the final phase when you're transported to Hyrule Castle and Zant is done messing around. All that cool, cold demeanor is gone, there is only frustration and animosity. He pulls out double swords and goes absolutely nuts. If the fight is telling us anything, it's that Zant is at his best when he stops masquerading as some brilliant mastermind and fights like himself. His hyperactive, caffeine and crack-fueled self. 6. I think the Sky Keep is worse. I've never been a fan of sliding tile puzzles. And the rooms in the dungeon are rearranged via a sliding tile puzzle. 3. I think the Yiga Clan Hideout is worse. In a game that did a lot of things right, stealth was NOT one of them.
Hard disagree on the Dark Palace being the worst in Link Between Worlds. You know what sucks worse than darkness? ICE PHYSICS. And there's AN ENTIRE DUNGEON FULL OF IT. Not only that, but the few times when the floors aren't threatening to throw you off from being slippery, they're pencil thin and moving! And the whole dungeon is a maze where you're struggling to find the next switch, the next key, to move the massive ice block in the middle and be able to explore more of the ever-changing environment. Doesn't matter that you can ride the elevator blocks down and grab the boss key immediately, you'll be carrying it for a ridiculous amount of time while you try to find your way through the ice maze! And when you finally get to the boss, guess what, not only does the boss arena still have ice physics, BUT SO DOES THE BOSS! I'll take the Dark Palace over the Ice Ruins ANY DAY.
I remember the Ice Ruins being pretty good actually. The pit at the bottom showing the base of a volcano was pretty atmospheric, and I liked that it was more of a confusing maze. After all, the dungeons in Zelda 1 were also called Labyrinths. I’ll be going back to Link Between Worlds later this year though, as I’m on a mission to 100% every single Zelda game.
Make sure to get farores wind , whenever youre at the top floor where the symbol to change de water level , cast it , you can warp back to it at any time to avoid going the long way around. Ive been using this to make it less tedious
Don't let anyone make you feel bad if you use a walkthrough to figure out the water levels (which I recommend). It's the most obnoxious thing (and not fun at all) when you think you've solved it, change the water level, then find out you were wrong and have to go back and change the level yet again. Most Zelda dungeons make it fun even if you're exploring to try and figure out the path. This one does not.
Actually, the eagle's tower is my favorite in Link's Awakening. Can't disagree with Majora's Mask, but only because of Gyorg. The time limit is no issue if you show it down. I personally think that BotW doesn't have any temples... Vah Naboris comes closest to it, or rather, it's a real challenge, so I enjoyed it the most.
I'm wracking my brain to try to think of worse dungeons than these, but I think you nailed it. The only one I think may be worse than your pick is A Link Between Worlds' Ice Ruins instead of the Dark Palace, which I found to be a clever take on the idea.
For The Temple of the Ocean King, I perfectly understand it's really annoying to go back to it everytime. But you can't say the same thing for the Tower of Spirits. Just because it's similar to it's predecessor doesn't mean it's terrible. There are some elements that makes it amazing.
Dishonorable Mentions: *City in the Sky - The Legend of Zelda: Twilght Princess -There's a section where you have to use the double clawshot to rappel down and hit a hanging switch. But who made the mistake of just jumping down that hole and had to trek through the whole dungeon just to reach that switch? I would know, because it happened to me. *Yiga Clan Hideout - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -In a game that did a lot of things right, stealth was NOT one of them.
I HATE TotK's fire temple and never do it as intended. Honestly breaking the temple to do it your own way without the stupid minecarts is far more fun because of how creative it forces you to be, especially with how useless the map is. It would have helped SO MUCH if Nintendo had just put a little arrow going up or down on the map to show if the tracks were going up or down a floor. They put those signs over the doors in LttP for stairs!
The other thing that makes Jabu-Jabu's Belly in Oracle of Ages a pain in the ass is how you swim with the mermaid tail item. You can't swim by just moving in a direction. You essentially kick by mashing the A button. This means that 1. If you have your sword to that button usually, your muscle memory goes haywire and 2. You're essentially only working with one item in the underwater sections, compounding to 3. If you want to use more than one item at a time, you're constantly going into the inventory to swap items back and forth, ala the iron boots back in OG OoT.
Eh, can't say I agree with some of these picks. The Eagle Tower was a cool dungeon where you had to bring down an entire floor to open up the rest of the level. The puzzle of having to bring the iron ball to all the pillars was pretty nice. In comparison, the key cavern was just a key shaped cavern where you collected keys. No gimmick, just "find four keys" and that's it. As far as bosses go, I was quite disappointed with the face shrine's boss, which is literally just a face you beat with items you didn't even get in the dungeon. And no use of the shield in Eagle's fight? Only if you got good RNG and the eagle didn't try to blow you off. Though to be fair, not sure if you could use the normal shield for that as well. Link between worlds, again, the darkness gimmick was cool. I found the turtle rock much more tedious. Keeping track of where each warp was going, having to, again, collect a crapton of keys just to progress and the weird diagonal angle in many rooms that oftentimes didn't agree with the ice rod wasn't a lot of fun. Not to mention the overall gimmick was mostly just "freeze magma a lot."
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Jabu Jabu's Belly is the worst dungeon in Ocarina of Time instead of Water Temple, which is my guilty pleasure. However, in my opinion, the worst dungeons in The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are Wind Temple and The City in the Sky, respectively.
11:17 what i am about to say may seem blastphomous but i would rather go through the temple of the ocean king 50 times in a row then play one song on that damed spirit flute.
All the dungeons in BOTW were good, but Vah Naboris just needs extra prep due to the final boss. I had to come back & beat Thunderblight Ganon later once I had more hearts.
Zelda 1: Level 6 (All dungeons are a breeze on repeated playthroughs, but 6 was the most annoying not hardest though) Zelda 2: Death Mountain (Not really a dungeon, but it's objectively worse than any dungeon. None of them are that hard save Great Palace. But that's my favorite) ALttP: Ice Palace (My childhood favorite; but I remember Ice Palace is indeed must nerve racking) LA: Eagle's Tower (Was the most annoying for sure) OoT: Water Temple (Overrated in terms of difficulty, but easily the most repetitive, boring and tedious) MM: Clock Town (All of the dungeons are amazing here, can't pick. But going with Clock Town prologue for joke purposes) OoA: Jabu Jabu's Belly (In video reasoning) OoS: Sword and Shield Maze (In video reasoning WW: Forsaken Fortress (Yeah it's repetative) FSA: Cave of No Return (Self explanatory) MC: Fortress of Winds (Self explanatory) TP: City in the Sky (Really frustrating and hard to navigate) PH: Temple of the Ocean King ST: Water Temple (What kind of Water Temple has no water) SS: Earth Temple (All dungeons are amazing, but process of elimination puts this here) ALBW: Dark Palace (Process of Elimination) TH: Hinox Mines BotW: All save Hyrule Castle (They're barely even dungeons) TotK: Water Temple (Fire Temple tried making it a real dungeon. But Water Temple here was just too easy. TOTK truly was the best one yet, but dungeons are still the one thing missing) EoW: Null's Body (Process of elimination; this game had no bad dungeons and were all awesome)
It’s been a while since I played most of these games, but there’s no way the elephant diving beast in botw was the worst. Also the fire temple in totk is my favorite temple. Worst temple in that game is the water temple in my opinion
i recently played twilight princess for the first time and had always heard about how it was "the biggest zelda game" and had "the most dungeons" so it was rlly disappointing when the last 2 of the game were both so half baked i barely even registered them as dungeons.
Death Mountain of the first quest in Zelda 1 Eagle’s Tower Great Bay Temple Sword and Shield Maze And Vah Naboris are actually my favorite dungeons of those respective games.
I think most dungeons in this list are the best ones, because of their difficulty (ice palace, eagles tower, oracle games,…) So the sentence in the intro is just not true. It is absolutely like a video of the hardest dungeons, not the worst ones..
I was fully prepared to hate on this video until I saw the stealth sequence from Wind Waker. I quit then and there and will never play that game again.
The Water Temple is the worst one in the OOT imo for a few reasons: 1. That 1 small key I couldn't find for years. 2. The constant switching of items . 3. The constant switching of using the regular boots & the Iron Boots. Thankfully, the 3DS remake fixed that by added that extra item slot.
>jabujabu's belly worst oot dungeon >most difficult mid-boss???? idk that smells like a major skill issue to me. water temple still continues to hold worst (on n64 version) if ONLY because of the constant pausing/unpausing to put on and take off iron boots and messing around with the water levels. im glad that emulators added d-pad support for quick switching.
I was about to argue with oracle of seasons pick, but then again the snowshoe ring which makes walking across the the icy floors easier is a linked game only ring I believe. City in the Sky ties with the palace of twilight to me, if only because it's annoying in length where as the palace of twilight is annoying due to the those orbs... also, I hate how the switch remake of link's awakening, nerfed the boomerang's ability to bypass the puzzle block walls, it made clearing it harder.
worst one in botw is vah rudania, the boss battle was way too easy after naboris and there wasnt anything that memorable at all. Ruto was great introduction, madoh had fun flying elements and I dont think anyone can forget naboris, but I could barely remember the name of vah rudania, you should thank darunia for helping me
nobody, I MEAN NOBODY, likes doing Vah Naboris' puzzles in BotW. and as much as i like the soundtrack that goes with the Fire Temple in TotK, yeah, it's kinda difficult to navigate using the mine-carts (hence why the hoverbike is a game-changer, literally), but i personally disliked the Lightning Temple... i was surprised that the giant lizard robot in BotW wasn't on this list; i've heard from others that it was a tricky-dicky dungeon.
8:07 i dissagree with that, for the second time at least. The second time you at least fight your way throught it. The first time all your complaints are valid.
Great bay temple is by far my favourite temple in that game, Snowhead is the worst its so boring and annoying, also i would say Lakebed Temple is the worst in Twilight Princess, the creepy vibe and atmosphere and music in Palace of Twilight is top tier it always feels awesome to be there
"when players find it easier to..." Did we ever consider that it wasn't meant to be easy? Taking the easy route because the intended route is too hard for you doesn't speak about the dungeon, it speaks about the player.
Gotta admit, this statement is true for both positive and negative aspects. Negative first: Means players will (possibly) cheat the system to beat the dungeon or (if possible) skip it entirely. Positive now: Most referencing ToTK for this, it makes the players THINK about how to make it easier, which brings their ingenuity out, to be able to craft flying, rolling, floating or just steamrolling setups with the in-game mechanics and make the Dev team look like they're the lolipop guild from the Wizard of Oz in the grand scheme of things.
Nah the only reason the water temple should be on here is the swapping of the iron boots which was fixed in the remake other than that jabu jabu is one of the worst temples In zelda
My list: Level 6 (Zelda 1 1st Quest) Level 9 (Zelda 1 2nd Quest) Great Palace (Zelda 2) Turtle Rock (Alttp) Key Cavern (La) Jabu Jabu’s Belly (Oot) The Moon (Mm) Oos I don’t have one really, I can only think of Onox’s Castle but that barely counts Jabu Jabu’s Belly (Ooa) Forsaken Fortress (Ww) Fortress of Winds (Mc) Goron Mines (Tp) Least “worst” dungeon btw Temple of the Ocean King (Ph) Forest Temple (St) Earth Temple (Ss) Turtle Rock (Lbw) Final Trial (Botw DLC) Water Temple (Totk) Null’s Body (Eow)
I never did feel the Great Bay Temple was bad. I actually liked it over the OoT Water Temple, and I played the N64 version alot. Id say Woodfall Temple was worse. I always got confused with those stairways.
Zelda 1 I feel it's a cheap shot to use Death Mountain as its the final one. So instead, I'll pick Level 6, as both it and Death Mountain have 1 huge problem. Those flipping Wizzrobes. Easily the worst enemy in the whole game and only your Sword works on them. So if you get damaged by them, good luck fighting them in close quarters. Zelda 2 can't say, haven't played it past the first dungeon. A Link to the Past I'd agree. Ice Palace was awful. Turtle Rock and Skull Palace weren't much better, but Ice Palace was the worst by far. Link's Awakening - Eagle's Tower is definitely the worst if we're talking the original. I'd actually say the Color Dungeon is the worst in the remake since it has you fight 3 annoying sub bosses that can be incredibly annoying. OoT - Well it had to be one of the two water ones. I'd actually take either of them over Dodongo's Cavern, especially in Master Quest. At least the boss in Jabu Jabu is fun and the Longshot is a breath of fresh air compared to your short Hookshot. Majora's Mask - I'm bout to be crucified for this, but I can't stand Stone Tower Temple. The idea is incredible, but the challenge is mixed. And having to flip the temple 4 times to get all the stray fairies (believe me, I checked), is overkill. The Great Fairy's Sword isn't even worth it unless you're not going for the Fierce Deity (which if you aren't then the effort required to get this sword is stupid). Oracle of Ages - Yeah, Jabu Jabu definitely. F*** that dungeon. Worst 2D dungeon in the series, bar none. Oracle of Seasons - I don't really have a negative reaction to any of the Season dungeons. Probably need to go back and play it. Wind Waker - Can't really argue with the first Forsaken Fortress visit. The second time is actually not that much of a pace breaker since you're armed to the teeth this time. FSA - I'd argue Return to Hyrule Castle is the worst. A forced stealth mission combined with meh Lanturn puzzles. The boss is annoying too. Minish Cap - Either Fortress of Winds or Temple of Droplets. Ice Palace didn't get a pass, Temple of Droplets shouldn't either. Twilight Princess - It's Temple of Time. Kinda just boring all around. At least Palace of Twilight has proper buildup. Temple of Time is just a fetch quest. The miniboss is the only thing saving it and it isn't even unique since you have to fight it multiple times later on. Phantom Hourglass - It's the Goron Temple. Most of PHs temples kinda suck, but the Goron Temple requires you to have to fight with Gongoron and his controls are very wack. You also get the Bombchu with very janky Stylus controls. Spirit Tracks - Tower of Spirits is definitely in contention, but that feels like cheating, so I'll pick the Ocean Temple. It's a hassle just getting to the dungeon between the pirate attacks and the introduction to the new Armored Trains. The dungeon itself is fine but requires a lot of backtracking in the case you mess up the sword statue puzzles. And overall the constant waiting on the propellers to carry you places is a bit of a patience game. The boss is also not great either. Very taxing. Skyward Sword - I'd argue the Lanayru Mining Facility is worse. The Gust Bellows are used constantly in the Present version and the enemies are more annoying in the Past version (ahem Technoblins). The boss is kinda a letdown too. The Earth Temple I feel like gets the most flack from having a really uninspired boss. All this draconic design and you give use a meatball with sticky hands? ALBW - Dark Palace isn't great. The Palace of Winds is pretty lackluster too. ALBW probably had the best quality 2D dungeons. Not too much bad here. BotW - All of them. They all sucked. Except for Vah Medoh. That one was tolerable. TotK - The Water Temple. Pure mediocrity from start to finish. The boss was single handedly the worst 3D one in the series. And it has to contend with The Imprisoned Phase 2.
Sounds like someone needs a waah-mbulance. A lot of these “worst dungeons” are simply “challenging”. I’ll admit that Adventure of Link is just overall an unpleasant experience because they deliberately ramped the difficulty up to something the game testers found challenging; and I’ve only played two of the “mobile” Zelda titles (Link’s Awakening and Phantom Hourglass), but I liked the mechanic of unlocking the temple in Phantom Hourglass in stages to be fun, looking for a more efficient solution to maximize time and found the Eagle’s Tower to be a fun, if sometimes frustrating, challenge when I played it on the OG GameBoy. Most of the other ones that I’ve played are just a matter of paying attention and possibly taking notes.
What would be your picks then? Given that its a bit of a trite preposition to rate Zelda's dungeons and especially pick the "worst" of any of them; though it's an interesting experiment.
@@ilikezelda64 LoZ: Level 6. Lagging rooms full of wizrobes; One-shot Ghoma boss. Magic Rod is cool, though. ALttP: Tower of Hera because of the constant going up and down through holes in the floor. The boss fight is as much luck as skill if not more, and it resets every time it knocks you off the platform. OOT: Bottom of the Well until you find the Eye of Truth. Deadhands is still nightmare fuel to this day. MM: I find the Dekus annoying in general. WW: the missing sage temples followed by the triforce fetch quest from hell. TP: probably Cave off Ordeals; tedious
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VAH rudania is words the van naboris
Love how right at the begining, you mention Death Mountain is Zelda but then the graphic changes to Elder Scrolls Two. Who does your editing? They need to be fired.
You forget OG Four Swords’ worst dungeon/level.
The worst dungeon in echoes of wisdom: Lanayru Temple
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0:45 Ah yes. My favorite Zelda game. (Solid editing job on the bottom left)
For me, the worst dungeon in Tears of the Kingdom is the Water Temple. The anti-gravity made no sense, and it just didn't feel like a dungeon. It was just a couple of puzzles in the sky. Finally, the boss was just annoying to deal with.
I agree with everything you said (although the anti-gravity is fun to me). Attaching a hydrant to a weapon, using splash fruit/chu jelly with a Savage Lynel bow, or building a floating water sprayer all help to make it less tedious. If you save the build in your autobuild catalogue, ofc.
I made one using a hover stone, a big wheel on the bottom, and sticking hydrants on the outer portion of the wheel so they spray everywhere.
not to mention that the only way you CAN defeat that disgusting squid is essentially IN low-G. in the depths, however, you better be lucky enough to have some pre-built zonai devices to use to gain enough air and hose it down.
I kinda liked the anti-gravity in _Tears Of The Kingdom's_ Water Temple.
Being hard is not the same as being bad. TOTK water temple is easily the worst because it takes like 10 minutes to beat and is just a series of disconnected easy puzzles.
Agreed
Not me over here completely brain farting on the spinning cube by forgetting bullet time is a thing. Nope.😅
Difficult dungeons are good. That's what we want out of dungeons, difficulty + complexity
@@athorem It depends why they are difficult. If they are difficult because they involve a lot of backtracking, then it is poor design. If they are difficult because they have challenging puzzles that are hard but not so hard that a majority of people will give up, and that they have a boss that is reasonably hard but there is a coherent strategy for beating.
@ Backtracking isn't bad design. It can result in more complex/interesting puzzles and traversal than Echoes of Wisdom dungeons that allow you to warp to different sections freely.
I’m one of probably 5% of players to love the TOTK fire temple. Figuring out how to manipulate the mine cart tracks to get where I needed to go was so much fun, I still do it the intended way when I replay the game. The water temple is just awful though, took me 10-15 minutes first try doing things the intended way, and is just so uninspired.
i was so lost in there lmao i totally didn't do a single thing as intended in there XD
I found it fun except for marbled ghoma
Mojo: "Null's body offers something new by having Link fight alongside Zelda."
Spirit Tracks: "Am I a joke to you?"
Jabu-Jabu is a solid pick for OoT. (Water Temple is not nearly as bad as its reputation.) Rito is annoying, the half of the dungeon amounts to "walk in room, walk back out of room," the sequence is arbitrary without much signposting, and the enemies are troll-ish. Plus the "music," while very thematic, is probably the least interesting track in the game.
Divine Beast Vah Narboris is not a bad dungeon as you think. But the Thunderblight Ganon is the toughest boss in Breath of the Wild.
Even if you came fully prepared, he is unpredictable as he can move everywhere and he can electrified you that’ll forced Link to drop his weapons.
Beating him requires a lot of dodging, relying on your wits and come up strategies to strike him at the right moment.
He literally gives me a run for my rupees!
Just good timing and he’s not bad at all. Flurry rush those quick movements, just jump back almost immediately after you see him start to move fast. The second phase was tricky on a first play through though
I'm terrible at the combat, but Thunderblight wasn't a problem. Just wait for him to come up, use your Daruk's protection, whack him with the Master Sword, then pummel him with bomb arrows! Second phase is a little trickier, but not that bad!
Thunderblight isn’t unpredictable, you just have to get the timing right for when to parry… Wait nevermind actually, nobody parry’s in Breath of the Wild because it’s a high risk low reward move.
Monk Maz Koshia is arguably the hardest boss in BotW, imo. And hella fun, too.
Water temple in totk is the worst one
Worst TOTK temple is Water Temple by far. Spirit one is worse too if you count that.
I agree on the water from totk and terrible boss
I'm going to agree also. Water temple was ok. But the spirit temple is the worst. My favorite temple in Ocarina of time was a version of the spirit temple. But just to get the body parts for the construct was annoying.
I thought the fire was the best dungeon in the game. Not only was it fun and gave that sense of a adventure also. Even commonwealth realm stated it was best temple in the game.
Yes the Water Temple was just awful. As for the Spirit Temple, I think it should be viewed together with the Construct Factory as that's where the dungeon puzzle solving took place
No the Spirit Temple is not a dungeon, it’s a boss arena. The actual dungeon to which that arena belongs to is the Construct Factory. Which on its own might be the 2nd best dungeon of that game, that is if you don’t include the mineru robot section, I don’t though.
@@Kanders190 who else thinks lightning temple is the best hands down
Fire temple was literally the second best temple in totk. Spirit temple was the worst. We can all agree the wind temple was the best
One of my lesser experiences in a Zelda dungeon took place in skyward sword’s fire sanctuary. I was stuck there for years as a child because someone on the dev team put an important interaction BEHIND A SAVE STATUE. While that’s more kids being stupid than an actual issue, I will be forever miffed at the puzzle at the second layer of phantom hourglass’ temple of the ocean king. Ignoring the issue of returning multiple times to a dungeon that saps your health if you don’t retrace your steps fast enough, here’s the riddle in question; Your ocean map is on the bottom screen. A mirror image with an important marker on it is on the top screen. The solution? Close and reopen your Nintendo ds to stamp the sigil on your map. The issue? Every time I did that, my damn handheld kept entering sleep mode, which is what that action usually does! So that game will be forever unbeatable until I can be bothered to delve into the console settings of discontinued hardware…
19. I thought you were going with Death Mountain. An arduous trek all for a hammer.
15. Even the 3DS Remake worsened the Gyorg fight by making the solution to defeat it a waiting game. In Majora's Mask. A game where you can ill-afford to have to wait.
9. I'd disagree with the Zant battle. It's actually a clever deconstruction of Zant's character. Zant is the "Usurper King," it was not his right to rule, and all throughout the fight, he fights like a guy with unearned power. The entire fight is just living proof that he's throwing half-baked strategies at you and hoping something will stick. In the Goron Mines, he shakes the magnetic platform like he's trying to bully you off a swingset. In the Frozen Bedroom, he grows giant and tries to stomp you, only to start hopping around like an idiot when you hit his ankles and shrink SMALLER than his original size. And in the Ook phase, he's literally just monkeying around. And it all comes full circle at the final phase when you're transported to Hyrule Castle and Zant is done messing around. All that cool, cold demeanor is gone, there is only frustration and animosity. He pulls out double swords and goes absolutely nuts. If the fight is telling us anything, it's that Zant is at his best when he stops masquerading as some brilliant mastermind and fights like himself. His hyperactive, caffeine and crack-fueled self.
6. I think the Sky Keep is worse. I've never been a fan of sliding tile puzzles. And the rooms in the dungeon are rearranged via a sliding tile puzzle.
3. I think the Yiga Clan Hideout is worse. In a game that did a lot of things right, stealth was NOT one of them.
The Yiga Clan Hideout is more of a mini dungeon, so I don’t think it would be eligible for this list.
Hard disagree on the Dark Palace being the worst in Link Between Worlds. You know what sucks worse than darkness? ICE PHYSICS. And there's AN ENTIRE DUNGEON FULL OF IT. Not only that, but the few times when the floors aren't threatening to throw you off from being slippery, they're pencil thin and moving! And the whole dungeon is a maze where you're struggling to find the next switch, the next key, to move the massive ice block in the middle and be able to explore more of the ever-changing environment. Doesn't matter that you can ride the elevator blocks down and grab the boss key immediately, you'll be carrying it for a ridiculous amount of time while you try to find your way through the ice maze! And when you finally get to the boss, guess what, not only does the boss arena still have ice physics, BUT SO DOES THE BOSS! I'll take the Dark Palace over the Ice Ruins ANY DAY.
I remember the Ice Ruins being pretty good actually. The pit at the bottom showing the base of a volcano was pretty atmospheric, and I liked that it was more of a confusing maze. After all, the dungeons in Zelda 1 were also called Labyrinths. I’ll be going back to Link Between Worlds later this year though, as I’m on a mission to 100% every single Zelda game.
Not sure if it says something about me or the list-makers, but I enjoyed a lot of these…
Same lol 😭
The great bay temple was easy and straightforward. Stone tower temple was way harder
i'm currently on an oot playthrough on my switch and i don't want to be at the water temple dawg
Make sure to get farores wind , whenever youre at the top floor where the symbol to change de water level , cast it , you can warp back to it at any time to avoid going the long way around. Ive been using this to make it less tedious
Don't let anyone make you feel bad if you use a walkthrough to figure out the water levels (which I recommend). It's the most obnoxious thing (and not fun at all) when you think you've solved it, change the water level, then find out you were wrong and have to go back and change the level yet again. Most Zelda dungeons make it fun even if you're exploring to try and figure out the path. This one does not.
Actually, the eagle's tower is my favorite in Link's Awakening.
Can't disagree with Majora's Mask, but only because of Gyorg. The time limit is no issue if you show it down.
I personally think that BotW doesn't have any temples... Vah Naboris comes closest to it, or rather, it's a real challenge, so I enjoyed it the most.
I can’t be the only one who actually likes Vah Naboris, right?
Nah, I liked it too!
Nah it’s rlly cool
Thunderblight is actually really fun if you have good weapons
No it’s the best dungeon of the game. I’d give the worst spot to the DLC dungeon or Vah Ruta.
I liked the meme that came out of it!!
I’m fine with Vah Naboris.
I'm wracking my brain to try to think of worse dungeons than these, but I think you nailed it. The only one I think may be worse than your pick is A Link Between Worlds' Ice Ruins instead of the Dark Palace, which I found to be a clever take on the idea.
For The Temple of the Ocean King, I perfectly understand it's really annoying to go back to it everytime. But you can't say the same thing for the Tower of Spirits. Just because it's similar to it's predecessor doesn't mean it's terrible. There are some elements that makes it amazing.
I didn't absolutely HATE the divine beasts, but I will forever be a fan of the traditional style of dungeon
The fire temple in tears was awesome
nah I really didnt like it...traversal was a pain
Dishonorable Mentions:
*City in the Sky - The Legend of Zelda: Twilght Princess
-There's a section where you have to use the double clawshot to rappel down and hit a hanging switch. But who made the mistake of just jumping down that hole and had to trek through the whole dungeon just to reach that switch? I would know, because it happened to me.
*Yiga Clan Hideout - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
-In a game that did a lot of things right, stealth was NOT one of them.
Did you know you can bait the Yiga with bananas and 1-shot Sneak Strike them to take them out?
What’s the bad part of stealth in BotW again?
I HATE TotK's fire temple and never do it as intended. Honestly breaking the temple to do it your own way without the stupid minecarts is far more fun because of how creative it forces you to be, especially with how useless the map is. It would have helped SO MUCH if Nintendo had just put a little arrow going up or down on the map to show if the tracks were going up or down a floor. They put those signs over the doors in LttP for stairs!
The other thing that makes Jabu-Jabu's Belly in Oracle of Ages a pain in the ass is how you swim with the mermaid tail item. You can't swim by just moving in a direction. You essentially kick by mashing the A button. This means that 1. If you have your sword to that button usually, your muscle memory goes haywire and 2. You're essentially only working with one item in the underwater sections, compounding to 3. If you want to use more than one item at a time, you're constantly going into the inventory to swap items back and forth, ala the iron boots back in OG OoT.
Minish Cap: Not the worst dungeon
Title of the video: worst dungeons
Worst dungeon in Minish Cap, but not the worst in the series.
Top best overworld themes of the legend of Zelda series
Thunderblight was the bane of my existence when i played BotW
Technically Skyward Sword was correct when naming the Earth Temple, magma is molten rock which is different from fire.
LOL at "YOUR A ZORA! WHY CAN'T YOU SWIM!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eh, can't say I agree with some of these picks.
The Eagle Tower was a cool dungeon where you had to bring down an entire floor to open up the rest of the level. The puzzle of having to bring the iron ball to all the pillars was pretty nice. In comparison, the key cavern was just a key shaped cavern where you collected keys. No gimmick, just "find four keys" and that's it. As far as bosses go, I was quite disappointed with the face shrine's boss, which is literally just a face you beat with items you didn't even get in the dungeon. And no use of the shield in Eagle's fight? Only if you got good RNG and the eagle didn't try to blow you off. Though to be fair, not sure if you could use the normal shield for that as well.
Link between worlds, again, the darkness gimmick was cool. I found the turtle rock much more tedious. Keeping track of where each warp was going, having to, again, collect a crapton of keys just to progress and the weird diagonal angle in many rooms that oftentimes didn't agree with the ice rod wasn't a lot of fun. Not to mention the overall gimmick was mostly just "freeze magma a lot."
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Jabu Jabu's Belly is the worst dungeon in Ocarina of Time instead of Water Temple, which is my guilty pleasure. However, in my opinion, the worst dungeons in The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are Wind Temple and The City in the Sky, respectively.
11:17 what i am about to say may seem blastphomous but i would rather go through the temple of the ocean king 50 times in a row then play one song on that damed spirit flute.
Jabu Jabu, explain yourself!
All the dungeons in BOTW were good, but Vah Naboris just needs extra prep due to the final boss. I had to come back & beat Thunderblight Ganon later once I had more hearts.
This is why I don't take you seriously.
THESE GAMES NEED REMAKES SERIOUSLY
Zelda 1: Level 6 (All dungeons are a breeze on repeated playthroughs, but 6 was the most annoying not hardest though)
Zelda 2: Death Mountain (Not really a dungeon, but it's objectively worse than any dungeon. None of them are that hard save Great Palace. But that's my favorite)
ALttP: Ice Palace (My childhood favorite; but I remember Ice Palace is indeed must nerve racking)
LA: Eagle's Tower (Was the most annoying for sure)
OoT: Water Temple (Overrated in terms of difficulty, but easily the most repetitive, boring and tedious)
MM: Clock Town (All of the dungeons are amazing here, can't pick. But going with Clock Town prologue for joke purposes)
OoA: Jabu Jabu's Belly (In video reasoning)
OoS: Sword and Shield Maze (In video reasoning
WW: Forsaken Fortress (Yeah it's repetative)
FSA: Cave of No Return (Self explanatory)
MC: Fortress of Winds (Self explanatory)
TP: City in the Sky (Really frustrating and hard to navigate)
PH: Temple of the Ocean King
ST: Water Temple (What kind of Water Temple has no water)
SS: Earth Temple (All dungeons are amazing, but process of elimination puts this here)
ALBW: Dark Palace (Process of Elimination)
TH: Hinox Mines
BotW: All save Hyrule Castle (They're barely even dungeons)
TotK: Water Temple (Fire Temple tried making it a real dungeon. But Water Temple here was just too easy. TOTK truly was the best one yet, but dungeons are still the one thing missing)
EoW: Null's Body (Process of elimination; this game had no bad dungeons and were all awesome)
It’s been a while since I played most of these games, but there’s no way the elephant diving beast in botw was the worst. Also the fire temple in totk is my favorite temple. Worst temple in that game is the water temple in my opinion
Vah Naboris is one of the more enjoyable dungeons in Botw
You put my favourite Temple as the worst = Eagle's Tower. Damn you Mojoplays!!! 👿👿👿
i recently played twilight princess for the first time and had always heard about how it was "the biggest zelda game" and had "the most dungeons" so it was rlly disappointing when the last 2 of the game were both so half baked i barely even registered them as dungeons.
also whys everyone always say jabu jabus belly is more annoying than water temple? water temple is worse and its not close
Water... Next.
You know what else you should binge that has Tom Kenny voicing in it?
*Dan Vs.*
Death Mountain of the first quest in Zelda 1
Eagle’s Tower
Great Bay Temple
Sword and Shield Maze
And Vah Naboris are actually my favorite dungeons of those respective games.
I think most dungeons in this list are the best ones, because of their difficulty (ice palace, eagles tower, oracle games,…)
So the sentence in the intro is just not true. It is absolutely like a video of the hardest dungeons, not the worst ones..
Difficult dungeons are good. Echoes of Wisdom definitely needed some more difficulty with its dungeons.
Agreed! In Echoes of Wisdom I only liked the Faron and Lanayru temples pretty much.
Honestly the worst dungeon for me in Echoes of Wisdom was probably the Faron Wetlands dungeon
I was fully prepared to hate on this video until I saw the stealth sequence from Wind Waker. I quit then and there and will never play that game again.
Fire Temple from TOTK is one I agree with for sure. It’s not easy to traverse.
Dark Palace from ALBW was incredible.
The Water Temple is the worst one in the OOT imo for a few reasons:
1. That 1 small key I couldn't find for years.
2. The constant switching of items .
3. The constant switching of using the regular boots & the Iron Boots. Thankfully, the 3DS remake fixed that by added that extra item slot.
There was a point in the Temple of the Ocean King where I rage quitted and never played the game again lol
>jabujabu's belly worst oot dungeon
>most difficult mid-boss????
idk that smells like a major skill issue to me.
water temple still continues to hold worst (on n64 version) if ONLY because of the constant pausing/unpausing to put on and take off iron boots and messing around with the water levels. im glad that emulators added d-pad support for quick switching.
Sorry but great bay temple is the best temple for puzzle lovers like myself. ^^ MM doesnt have any bad dungeons in it.
I agree I don't really know which temple I would pick because they are all super fun in majoras mask
@@panthro976 ikr even now I still enjoy playing the game, and even own it on multiple consoles.
I was about to argue with oracle of seasons pick, but then again the snowshoe ring which makes walking across the the icy floors easier is a linked game only ring I believe.
City in the Sky ties with the palace of twilight to me, if only because it's annoying in length where as the palace of twilight is annoying due to the those orbs...
also, I hate how the switch remake of link's awakening, nerfed the boomerang's ability to bypass the puzzle block walls, it made clearing it harder.
I love all dungeons in link between worlds
Jabujabu in oot wasn't a problem had more problems with oot water temple
Ahhh yes, Wind Waker’s Forsaken Fortress, when its boss was the Helmaroc King!! 😊😊
I actually liked the Earth Temple. That theme music is just 🔥
Yeah... I definitely disagree with the Eagle Tower choice.
worst one in botw is vah rudania, the boss battle was way too easy after naboris and there wasnt anything that memorable at all. Ruto was great introduction, madoh had fun flying elements and I dont think anyone can forget naboris, but I could barely remember the name of vah rudania, you should thank darunia for helping me
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Sorry WHAT?! Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall???
😁😂🤣
Basically the same game.
Do a list of Nintendos head and hands bosses whether it be a specific series or try to do them all
nobody, I MEAN NOBODY, likes doing Vah Naboris' puzzles in BotW. and as much as i like the soundtrack that goes with the Fire Temple in TotK, yeah, it's kinda difficult to navigate using the mine-carts (hence why the hoverbike is a game-changer, literally), but i personally disliked the Lightning Temple...
i was surprised that the giant lizard robot in BotW wasn't on this list; i've heard from others that it was a tricky-dicky dungeon.
OoT, Inside Jabu-Jabu's belly is easy.
8:07 i dissagree with that, for the second time at least. The second time you at least fight your way throught it. The first time all your complaints are valid.
Great bay temple is by far my favourite temple in that game, Snowhead is the worst its so boring and annoying, also i would say Lakebed Temple is the worst in Twilight Princess, the creepy vibe and atmosphere and music in Palace of Twilight is top tier it always feels awesome to be there
You forget OG Four Swords’ worst dungeon/level.
Did anyone else notice that daggerfall came up as the game for death mountain lol
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Didn't know Metaphor had a Crossover with Zelda. XD
"when players find it easier to..."
Did we ever consider that it wasn't meant to be easy? Taking the easy route because the intended route is too hard for you doesn't speak about the dungeon, it speaks about the player.
Gotta admit, this statement is true for both positive and negative aspects. Negative first: Means players will (possibly) cheat the system to beat the dungeon or (if possible) skip it entirely. Positive now: Most referencing ToTK for this, it makes the players THINK about how to make it easier, which brings their ingenuity out, to be able to craft flying, rolling, floating or just steamrolling setups with the in-game mechanics and make the Dev team look like they're the lolipop guild from the Wizard of Oz in the grand scheme of things.
I found this video AND youtuber on the same day. You are absolutely incredible!
Face Shrine is worse than Eagles Tower
This list is made of the dungeons THEY don't like. For example Jabu Jabu belly IS NOT worse than water temple
I reject vah naboris and substitute yiga hideout instead
Yeah I never enjoy Inside Jabu Jabu anymore I just go through it as fast as possible on repeated playthroughs
bruh so much bots this early
What bots?
I totally forgot about being inside the belly. I blocked it out 🤦♀️
Water Temple was way worse than Jabu Jabu's Belly. I've got the mental scars to prove it.
99% of people consider the water temple to be FAR worse than jabu jabu's belly
Nah the only reason the water temple should be on here is the swapping of the iron boots which was fixed in the remake other than that jabu jabu is one of the worst temples In zelda
You guys are crazy if you thought jabu jabus belly in OOT was a bad dungeon, I loved it 😭
My list:
Level 6 (Zelda 1 1st Quest)
Level 9 (Zelda 1 2nd Quest)
Great Palace (Zelda 2)
Turtle Rock (Alttp)
Key Cavern (La)
Jabu Jabu’s Belly (Oot)
The Moon (Mm)
Oos I don’t have one really, I can only think of Onox’s Castle but that barely counts
Jabu Jabu’s Belly (Ooa)
Forsaken Fortress (Ww)
Fortress of Winds (Mc)
Goron Mines (Tp)
Least “worst” dungeon btw
Temple of the Ocean King (Ph)
Forest Temple (St)
Earth Temple (Ss)
Turtle Rock (Lbw)
Final Trial (Botw DLC)
Water Temple (Totk)
Null’s Body (Eow)
Tears of the Kingdom just seems like one long complicated temple.
JABU JABUS BELLY IS NOT BAD
jabus jabus belly is the only reason im reconsidering replaying ocarina of time
Worst temple in oot is jabu jabu with the ruto escort
Kasey, let's hear your Vader voice
bruhhh how can you say great bay temple!
Didn't you pick Death Mountain as the best dungeon of the first Zelda in your "The Best Temple From Every Zelda Game" video?
while i do love this video it kinda seems like you got hard and bad confused
Seeing you dressed as samus looks weird, is there something idk?
I never did feel the Great Bay Temple was bad. I actually liked it over the OoT Water Temple, and I played the N64 version alot. Id say Woodfall Temple was worse. I always got confused with those stairways.
Zelda 1 I feel it's a cheap shot to use Death Mountain as its the final one. So instead, I'll pick Level 6, as both it and Death Mountain have 1 huge problem. Those flipping Wizzrobes. Easily the worst enemy in the whole game and only your Sword works on them. So if you get damaged by them, good luck fighting them in close quarters.
Zelda 2 can't say, haven't played it past the first dungeon.
A Link to the Past I'd agree. Ice Palace was awful. Turtle Rock and Skull Palace weren't much better, but Ice Palace was the worst by far.
Link's Awakening - Eagle's Tower is definitely the worst if we're talking the original. I'd actually say the Color Dungeon is the worst in the remake since it has you fight 3 annoying sub bosses that can be incredibly annoying.
OoT - Well it had to be one of the two water ones. I'd actually take either of them over Dodongo's Cavern, especially in Master Quest. At least the boss in Jabu Jabu is fun and the Longshot is a breath of fresh air compared to your short Hookshot.
Majora's Mask - I'm bout to be crucified for this, but I can't stand Stone Tower Temple. The idea is incredible, but the challenge is mixed. And having to flip the temple 4 times to get all the stray fairies (believe me, I checked), is overkill. The Great Fairy's Sword isn't even worth it unless you're not going for the Fierce Deity (which if you aren't then the effort required to get this sword is stupid).
Oracle of Ages - Yeah, Jabu Jabu definitely. F*** that dungeon. Worst 2D dungeon in the series, bar none.
Oracle of Seasons - I don't really have a negative reaction to any of the Season dungeons. Probably need to go back and play it.
Wind Waker - Can't really argue with the first Forsaken Fortress visit. The second time is actually not that much of a pace breaker since you're armed to the teeth this time.
FSA - I'd argue Return to Hyrule Castle is the worst. A forced stealth mission combined with meh Lanturn puzzles. The boss is annoying too.
Minish Cap - Either Fortress of Winds or Temple of Droplets. Ice Palace didn't get a pass, Temple of Droplets shouldn't either.
Twilight Princess - It's Temple of Time. Kinda just boring all around. At least Palace of Twilight has proper buildup. Temple of Time is just a fetch quest. The miniboss is the only thing saving it and it isn't even unique since you have to fight it multiple times later on.
Phantom Hourglass - It's the Goron Temple. Most of PHs temples kinda suck, but the Goron Temple requires you to have to fight with Gongoron and his controls are very wack. You also get the Bombchu with very janky Stylus controls.
Spirit Tracks - Tower of Spirits is definitely in contention, but that feels like cheating, so I'll pick the Ocean Temple. It's a hassle just getting to the dungeon between the pirate attacks and the introduction to the new Armored Trains. The dungeon itself is fine but requires a lot of backtracking in the case you mess up the sword statue puzzles. And overall the constant waiting on the propellers to carry you places is a bit of a patience game. The boss is also not great either. Very taxing.
Skyward Sword - I'd argue the Lanayru Mining Facility is worse. The Gust Bellows are used constantly in the Present version and the enemies are more annoying in the Past version (ahem Technoblins). The boss is kinda a letdown too. The Earth Temple I feel like gets the most flack from having a really uninspired boss. All this draconic design and you give use a meatball with sticky hands?
ALBW - Dark Palace isn't great. The Palace of Winds is pretty lackluster too.
ALBW probably had the best quality 2D dungeons. Not too much bad here.
BotW - All of them. They all sucked. Except for Vah Medoh. That one was tolerable.
TotK - The Water Temple. Pure mediocrity from start to finish. The boss was single handedly the worst 3D one in the series. And it has to contend with The Imprisoned Phase 2.
Unpopular opinion maybe but my least favourite ss dungeon was lanayru mining facility. Liked absolutely nothing about the dungeon for some reason
I swear they’ve already posted this video.
Sounds like someone needs a waah-mbulance. A lot of these “worst dungeons” are simply “challenging”. I’ll admit that Adventure of Link is just overall an unpleasant experience because they deliberately ramped the difficulty up to something the game testers found challenging; and I’ve only played two of the “mobile” Zelda titles (Link’s Awakening and Phantom Hourglass), but I liked the mechanic of unlocking the temple in Phantom Hourglass in stages to be fun, looking for a more efficient solution to maximize time and found the Eagle’s Tower to be a fun, if sometimes frustrating, challenge when I played it on the OG GameBoy. Most of the other ones that I’ve played are just a matter of paying attention and possibly taking notes.
What would be your picks then? Given that its a bit of a trite preposition to rate Zelda's dungeons and especially pick the "worst" of any of them; though it's an interesting experiment.
@@ilikezelda64
LoZ: Level 6. Lagging rooms full of wizrobes; One-shot Ghoma boss. Magic Rod is cool, though.
ALttP: Tower of Hera because of the constant going up and down through holes in the floor. The boss fight is as much luck as skill if not more, and it resets every time it knocks you off the platform.
OOT: Bottom of the Well until you find the Eye of Truth. Deadhands is still nightmare fuel to this day.
MM: I find the Dekus annoying in general.
WW: the missing sage temples followed by the triforce fetch quest from hell.
TP: probably Cave off Ordeals; tedious
I feel like you guys re do this particular list a lotttt
I actually enjoy the Palace of Twilight. Lakebed Temple is way worse to me
In BotW/TotK? Most of them