The Fire Temple, An Action Packed Gauntlet - Dungeon Design In Zelda (Ocarina Of Time)
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- This dungeon is HOT. Unlike the brain teasing Forest Temple, the Fire Temple opts for a straight forward, but action packed approach. Let's take a closer look.
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Getting to The Dungeon
2:43 - Progression
13:53 - The Dungeon Boss - Розваги
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Fun Fact: Volvagia first appeared in “Zelda II: The Adventure of Link,” however it was mistranslated as “Barba” in the original NES manual. It wasn’t until the 2003 GameCube port that the mistranslation was corrected.
I love that you brought attention to the updating of the Fire Temple song - I'm pretty certain I had the original cartridge when I was younger and when I played the game on the 3DS much later, I knew the song sounded different! Now I know why :) Loving this series so much!!
The original N64 cartidge Fire Temple song was nuch better and more ambient.
Yooo another great video!!! I somehow forgot about the whole Mass genocide plan for the Gorons... Pretty dark stuff, tbh 😝 I again love the music in this temple, so thanks for bringing attention to it. I didn't realize there were 2 different versions of it! Lol I love all of the bombs in this dungeon... So fun blowing things up 😜 Your analysis skills are still on point, and I can't wait to see the next one! 😊👍🏼
Volvagia blew my mind as a kid. OoT in general was a cut above just about every other N64 game visually, but I remember the serpentine way he moved being so cool compared to the robotic way bosses moved in just about every other game, N64 or PS1. And he's such a cool fight too.
Can’t wait to play through this dungeon again! I finally got Oot on the Wii U so now I’m playing through the game again.
11:48 You can also use the Hookshot to take the heart/head (idk what it is) while it's spinning. Also I noticed that in your version of the game even tho the music was removed and I'm guessing the red blood too, the blocks still have that sorta moon simbol, but was changed in later versions cause they thought it resembled islamism. I am loving this series
Yes, I believe the symbol was not changed until the GameCube release and later actually. My version does have the green blood and changed music.
That’s actually how I beat the mini bosses too
Ocarina of Time’s hookshot is quite versatile.
You are amazing at explaining things
I wish I was so good at explaining things as ha is.
No wonder that Volga in Hyrule Warriors is the best playable character, seeing as he turns into Volvagia
I still own the original N64 cartridge. Every now and then I replay it just for listening that original Fire Temple chant. The redone version isn't bad, but it isn't remotely in the same league.
I think my favorite use of the Megaton Hammer is stunning an entire Grotto's worth of Business Scrubs at once. Very useful in randomizers.
Such a great dungeon, it feels so menacing!
This is my favorite temple by far. I love this one. This is the best game then followed by Majoras Mask then Link To The Past
Just played through this dungeon for the first time. I LOVED the Forest Temple when I played through it...easily one of my favourites of all time. BUT I think this dungeon gets a lot of undeserved flack....I enjoyed it a fair amount
These videos are so good
Thanks!
In the OoT manga adaptation Volvogia isn't a revived dragon, its a transformed animal that Link and I think Maron befriended as children before the 7 year time skip
Yes, but the manga is its own separate canon from the games
also neat little touch that you partially pointed out
yeah the two mounds in death mountain crater are the two towers of the fire temple
but they are also spectacle rock
a location that has appeared multiple times across the series
3:19
I specifically say "Spectacle Rock"
@@CaptBurgerson you did?
you did.
i was so caught up thinking about commenting on spectacle rock that i didnt realize you said spectacle rock
my bad
The Water temple is the hardest one of using the boots and back tracking
I’ll just add volvagia to the list of things I’ve been mispronouncing my whole life.
Who knows if I’m even pronouncing it correctly 😂
Cool vid yo even on 2x playback speed.
Edit: I usually don’t comment on the way people say words but you say lava weird. lol
Lava? Oh. How do you say it?
I say it like La-va.
Okay, okay, okay.
So there’s some theories about the Fire Temple and Volvagia that are pretty cool to think about. I think either Zeltik or Hyrule Gamer or some other Zelda theorist came up with this idea but hear me out.
So, I do believe that the Gorons use the Fire Temple as a place of worship but they didn’t build it!
Looking at Goron City and Dodongo’s cavern we can see that their architecture and building techniques is much more tribal and nomadic which stands in stark contrast to the elaborate stone masonry and intricate iconography found within the Fire Temple.
This theory also proposes that Volvagia was once the guardian deity of fire, like how the Great Deku Tree was for forest and Jabu-Jabu was for water. They were just so volatile that the ancient Gorons who first settled on Death Mountain thought of him as an evil beast not a guardian of a temple deep within the mountain they started mining into.
My own belief is that the Flare Dancers or a race related to them, fire beings of sorts, were the ones who built the temple in service to Volvagia, as the faces that are carved into the totems, walls and blocks look nothing like Gorons.
Hmmm
I have the chanting on my n64 cartridge!
I bought the original 1.1 Gold cartridge just for the Fire Temple music and red blood Ganadorf blood. I'm a bit of a nerd.
Daruk & Yunobo would be proud
Goron Link is READY TO ROLL
i never knew you could use bombs to ground the fire dancer, i always used the hookshot
I first played this game on the 3DS and it blows my mind that I hardly recognize this dungeon in its N64 version
the fire temple is probably the most underappreciated temple in oot while the water temple is the most divisive.
I agree, very underrated.
The Muslim prayer exists in 1.1 copies of the game as well and was only removed in 1.2 along with the blood color changed to green. I have a 1.1 copy of oot where there is an animation for putting away items before climbing but also includes the Muslim chant and red blood
Ah. Makes total sense! I’m not an expert on the subject but from the little stuff I had researched I was sure my copy was 1.2, since it had the updated music and the green blood.
wait, you can _bomb_ the flare dancers? i always used the hookshot.
Still have my original cart with the red blood, fire temple song, and crescent moon symbols for gerudo. Had no idea I got the original as a kid though and only found out in this past year 🤷♀️ love the chanting here actually, pretty creepy. The new version is just too much reusing of forest and shadow temple for my taste. Not sure if you’ve seen them but there’s an analysis video on UA-cam of the music in ocarina that goes over the new version’s similarities to them: ua-cam.com/play/PL4rx7GrY_xH9QJiP7K4MwI3upgVkYkMuS.html
That’s awesome!
Gave it a watch, and this guy has some good videos. He definitely knows more about music than I do! 😂
@@CaptBurgerson lol same. I also love about the fire temple that it’s inside spectacle rock (when looking at the map you can see the two “eyes”) and plus when you enter the temple you sort of go down the ladder then turn around to go inside so it’s basically under the two volcanic mounds inside death mountain. Always made me wonder about other connections with Zelda games, since it seems to be a prison-type place in ocarina of time.
Huh, never seen anyone beat the fire dancer like that. I just used the hookshot
I've always used the hookshot on that midboss. Didn't even know bombs worked
I never tried the hookshot, so I didn’t know that worked. I always have used bombs since that’s the hint the gorons give you. Either way works I guess haha.
@@CaptBurgerson love the detailed look into these dungeons. It's like a speed walkthrough. Very entertaining and nostalgic
If I recall correctly, I think in the premiere version of the game, there was an extra key, or i just might be crazy
I couldn't say, truth be told I never played version 1.0 of OOT.
That is correct. I play on 1.0 for OoT Randomizer, and my tracker says 8 keys max for Fire Temple. :)
How do I properly spell that word you keep using to refer to what's usually the first room of each Temple?
Foyer?
@@CaptBurgerson Yep that's it, Thank You.
This temple seemed more like a temple when you enter into the room after you climb down from that long ladder. The one thing that absolutely fazed me in this temple was in the room where the fire chases you, the locked door to the side requires 'a double-jump' in the N64 Version (was this resolved in later versions?) so you would have to press the 'A' button twice, I never knew this as I always seemed to fall into the lava. Did anyone else have this problem?
Bombs for the flare dancer?? I always used the hookshot. I never even considered bombs
It is the hint that a Goron gives you upon being freed, so that's always how I've done it! I didn't learn until YEARS later that the hook shot was even an option lol
Hey lol don’t blame him the game with the hints tell him to do it
Try using the hook shot instead of the bombs against the mini boss.
Never thought to try it!
The gorons always hint at using the bombs so that’s what I’ve always done. Flare Dancer isn’t really that hard either way though.
I just randomly tried the Hookshot lol for the heck of it and it makes timing faser the bombs are good but the thing moves so the bomb could miss it. I love the girl dragon.
Wait, that young Goron is the son of Darunia? I always assumed he was the son of the Goron that was rolling around that same part of Goron City during child Link's time
He explicitly says Darunia is his dad when you first speak to him. I assume that’s why he is able to open the door to Darunia’s room. Unfortunately the big rolling goron during child-Link’s time is nowhere to be seen when you’re adult Link.
@@CaptBurgerson Wow, I've totally missed that each time I've played the game
@@thejokingbatmanalso at 1:55 in this video! Haha. No biggy. There’s still things I’m learning about this game even now. That’s half the magic.
If you ever get the chance to play the randomizer for Ocarina of Time, this dungeon will straight up troll you with three potential scenarios:
1. Placing a small key on Volvagia that you need when you have already made it to, say, the 3rd or 4th floor, requiring you to backtrack to defeat Volvagia, re-enter the dungeon, and climb back up again (hope you have Farore's Wind and a magic meter)
2. Placing the Boss Key on the Compass chest, the highest Goron chest, or the Megaton Hammer chests (Ew!)
3. Placing the Boss Key on the first floor and a major item on checks further up the dungeon (i.e. making you think you can skip having to check the entire dungeon when you really can't).
That is why I consider the Fire Temple to be my least favorite dungeon for randomizer. For a first playthrough on the vanilla game, it's great for its atmosphere, length, and challenging boss fight. :)
Volvagia story in the manga is more heartbreaking and makes ganondorf even more of a dick
The change to the music really ruined what was otherwise an amazing dungeon. “Ruined” might be a strong word, but it did diminish my enjoyment of it.
Loving the series by the way! Dungeons are definitely my favorite part of Zelda along with the lore that goes with everything.
lahvah
Yes
Oh boy, the Fire Temple! Looks like things are really starting to heat up now!
...
Anyone? No? Okay, I'm sorry. Moving on.
I always liked this dungeon since it feels like it conveys a real sense of progression in how you gradually free each of the imprisoned Gorons in order to obtain the next key. This dungeon is a perfect example of intertwining story-telling with gameplay. Only one other dungeon in this game comes close to doing that, but I'll get to that later. Now that you mention it, I never realised how late into this dungeon you acquire all of its key items. At least the Megaton Hammer is one of the cooler and more useful dungeon items in the game, so the wait is worth it if you ask me.
Also, I just have to talk about this temple's music. The original Fire Temple theme gives me a feeling that no other song in this, or any game for that matter, does. I put it down to the use of real Islamic prayers in the song. I'm not a Muslim either, and I don't mean to offend any by saying this, but the chanting only adds to this song, in my opinion. The updated version with the Shadow Temple-esque moans is passable, but I'm partial towards the original version, as it's by far the more unique of the two. It really hammers in (no pun intended) the idea that this place is, or at least was, used as a place of worship, and it is now inhabited by a destructive monster that knows no mercy. Prayers will not save you from the wrath of the beast.
And now we come to the boss itself, Volvagia. I don't really have much to add here, honestly. It's a flying, fire-breathing dragon. Pretty standard for a boss in a fantasy adventure game. The only noteworthy thing about the fight is that instead of being the world's most dangerous game of tennis, it's the world's most dangerous game of whack-a-mole. I'll admit that Volvagia's death animation goes hard though, and Ganondorf's plan of feeding the Gorons to it as well as the idea of it escaping Death Mountain and devastating the rest of Hyrule are grim thoughts indeed.
Besides that though, wouldn't it be convenient if you walked into the boss chamber only to find that Darunia had already slain Volvagia? Instead, he's nowhere to be found. I actually think that this is the biggest piece of evidence in support of the whole "The sages are dead" theory, but there's also evidence to debunk that theory so I won't delve into it here. I'm also kinda frustrated that Darunia doesn't acknowledge the fact that he has a son even once upon meeting up with him again. Did the writers just forget about that fact, or was Link the Goron a last minute addition? It would have made for some emotional dialogue, but they wasted that opportunity. Oh well.
On a final note: wow, I wish I knew about that solution to the puzzle at 9:34 when playing through this temple before.
I have a question, why did you slow down the original track's chanting?
I didn’t.
wait you fight flare dancer with bombs?
hookshot bro
Bombs is always how I've done it since that is the hint one of the Gorons give when you free them. I know about the hook shot *now* thanks to the many many comments on this video pointing that out, but at the time I had always gone for bombs.
@@CaptBurgerson now what i didnt know was that you could knock flare dancer down with the hammer
i knew you could kill all walltulas with a nearby hammer smack
but not about flare dancer
Oh my gosh give him a break lol 😂
@@adamdavis5383 i thumbs upped him
give ME a break lol
What’s funny is the temple is harder then the actual bosses they are all easy
before i even play the video
the original fire temple song sucked
the new one is great
and its not because it was censored
its because those original samples just sound like crap