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* 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
** 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''.
** When you're fighting the boss, {{smallcaps| [[Boss Subtitles|Ancient Automaton: Koloktos]]}}, as the battle goes on, watch its face, it starts out neutral and as you do more and more damage to it, it slowly spreads a smile across its face until it's a full blown [[Slasher Smile]], and when you kill it? It ''giggles like a little kid'' before dying, making the face it does as one can see in the picture on the right.
*** 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...
*** Remembering how Kratos escapes from Hades in ''[[God of War (
* Speaking of the Ancient Cistern, wait until you get to {{spoiler|the Sky Keep}}. The way the landscape resembles skeletal hands clawing upwards and screaming faces ''while you're getting sniped and attack from all sides'' makes you want to go ''back'' to the Ancient Cistern.
* The opening to the game, which tells of a war between an army of [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] and the native inhabitants. Set to [[Crowning Music of Awesome|an ominous symphonic piece]], the intro depicts such things as the near-destruction of the Hylian race, monsters that "murder without hesitation", and the raising of the only safe settlements on the surface. All of this is depicted in a crude "cave painting" style, which only manages to make the intro and said abominations even more terrifying.
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