The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

[[File:INJlv_5225.png|frame|It '''laughs.''']]

 

* The Ancient Cistern. What seems to be a relatively peaceful, Oriental-inspired water temple, is gradually revealed to be sitting on top of a cavern which immediately brings [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time's]] Shadow Temple to mind. Zombified Bokoblins, with exposed bone and rotting flesh, rise from the floor, and behave unnervingly like Redeads, right down to jumping on Link and taking WAY too long to die. Even worse, the dungeon's boss key LIES IN AN ENORMOUS PIT OF BONES. The worst bit of the dungeon is having to climb a rope up to the upper level, when an army of zombies rises from the floor, and follows Link up the rope faster than he can climb. Coupled with the ''disturbing'' boss fight, and the Ancient Cistern is the creepiest temple since the Shadow Temple, and one of the biggest sources of [[Fridge Horror]] that the Zelda series has ever seen.

** When you're walking in the bone pits, there's a crunching sound underfoot. It's a minor detail, but it makes walking through them ''so much worse''.

*** Maybe it's glad that its opponent is strong enough to free it from Ghirahim's dark magic?

** Then there's [http://tonygonz.blogspot.com/2006/05/spiders-thread-akutagawa-ryunosuke.html the story the dungeon was based on,] The Spider's Thread by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The [[Shout-Out|parallels]] are undeniable, but also they bring up much darker implications. For example, the story follows one of the Buddhas, who saves a criminal from [[Hell]] for the sole good deed of saving a spider, and uses a spider's thread as a rope to escape. Of course, the criminals attempt to use it to escape Hell. Guess how you escape the lower level of the Ancient Cistern. [[Fridge Horror|Yes, it's quite possibly Hylian Hell,]] and every mook you've killed ends up there [[And I Must Scream|in eternal agony.]] [[Asshole Victim|Not that we're particularly sorry for them,]] but still. And maybe there are other inhabitants beyond the creatures you've slain...

*** Oh, the land-based Guardian is more immediately scary, since they're faster, but the thing about the flying Guardians is that they will ''never stop hunting you''. The land Guardians only chase you if you get close; the flying ones all slowly but steadily converge until they eventually surround you.

*** The floating Gaurdian can pass [[Oh Crap|through]] [[It Gets Worse|walls]]. Try hiding ''anywhere'', and they ''WILL'' find you.

** He's not ''connected'' to it- {{spoiler|he ''[[It Got Worse|is]]'' it. That's Demise's form, stripped of most of his powers.}}

** [[It Gets Worse|And there's a very good reason his blade looks like that]]. {{spoiler|Because it's ''the same kind'', [[Empathic Weapon|soul and all]]. You know what the name of the soul is? Ghirahim.}}

* For anyone who doesn't like creepy-crawlies: One of the game's later dungeons has a narrow hallway ''filled with scorpions''. The floor, walls, and ceiling are covered with them.

 

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