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TheFourthBottle · #12 [ ] 05-19-2007, 12:25 PM

Note: I have NOT beaten AoL. I suck at it, horribly. But I LOVE the dungeons, and I know that if I could beat the game then half of this list would be AoL dungeons. With that said, here's my current top 10.

10. Hyrule Temple (The Wind Waker) - I saw this on Glooma's top 10 and remembered that it existed. It's a great dungeon for all the above reasons.

9. Turtle Rock (Link's Awakening) - The final fronteer in the game, and you could tell it wasn't letting up. Chances are you never even beat the first enemy of the dungeon the first time you saw him.

8. Mermaid's Cave (Oracle of Ages) - I really like the dungeons where you have to warp through time, change your size, or flip gravity upside down to complete another part of it (the Spirit Temple being the exception). I'm kicking myself for not remembering more of OoA/OoS, but I DO remember this dungeon - it gave that lasting of an impression.

7. Fire Temple (Ocarina of Time) - Primative worships, creepy music, archaic wall designs...this dungeon more than any other gave me an "Indiana Jones" vibe.

6. Unicorn's Cave (Oracle of Seasons) - You're like Spider-Man, except the webbing is invisible! Long live the magnetic gloves.

5. Stone Tower Temple (Majora's Mask) - It flips upside down, it's so massive that you need to grow 20x your size to fight the boss, and you need to be all 4 races to complete it? Sounds like a dungeon!

4. Arbiter's Grounds (Twilight Princess) - The item in this dungeon is a LOT of fun. The boss fight is crazy. But (IMO) the coolest part of the dungeon was the plot advancement at the top of this isolate trap-bucket. The top is a really cool (if not almost cliche) end-of-the-dungeon scenario. D&D-esque.

3. Ancient Tomb (Oracle of Ages) - Yes, it was on Gameboy...but I remember this dungeon creeping the hell out of me. And that says something. Have your hairs ever stood on end for hours?

2. Forest Temple (Ocarina of Time) - The first Zelda game in 3D, and you mess it up by becoming an adult and letting Ganondorf take over! Now there's zombies all over, and you have to delve into a REALLY dark dungeon that is haunted with ghosts, teeming with Stalfos to fight, and backed by primal jungle music. It's the kind of darkness that I was looking for in Twilight Princess.

1. Eagle's Tower (Link's Awakening) - This dungeon is epic in every sense of the word. The dungeon is a four-story tower that you reach with a legendary bird. Part of the tower collapses while you're in it. There were plenty of falling-pit traps tricky blocks that surrounded the Mirror shield. And don't forget the battle on TOP of the tower, against a guy who rode a giant EAGLE! It was an incredible dungeon, and the most fun of all the dungeons I've played through.