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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|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''.
** When you're fighting the boss, {{
*** 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...
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