@Pokefreak911

That might not be the game, but rather we being CODDLED for YEARS with other games. No Navi? Good luck!

@Pokefreak911

You talking pre-dark world? I never noticed a difficulty hike. What happened for you?

Yeah, what happened? I always thought the Tower of Hera was a cake walk compared to the perils of the Desert Dungeon.

The only flaw I think is that it's technically possible to beat the dungeon without obtaining the Moon Pearl, possibly leaving the player in the dark as to why they are a bunny in the Dark World if they're not paying attention.

...I kinda wanna play LttP again.

@Mr_Mustache
Excuse me? I've beaten Zelda 2 so excuse me but I do not think I have been coddled and Navi never coddled you anyway.

The 3rd Dark World Dungeon is a massive difficulty increase compared to the second Dark World Dungeon. And not just in the Dungeon layouts, the boss is a massive jump in difficulty. The previous boss had 2 attacks, 1 for each phase while this boss has 3 attacks/obstacles happening at the same time in the same phase with barely any lead up to it at all.

@TheOldManFromZelda
Tower of Hera is possibly the worst dungeon in the history of Zelda. Short, no good puzzles and the boss is just annoying, not difficult.

@Pokefreak911

OOOOH you meant the dark world! I can't remember the 3rd dark world dungeon. Is that the swamp? Refresh my memory...

@TheOldManFromZelda
Forest of something or other. I swear I typed Dark World earlier.

@Pokefreak911

OOOOH the Dark World Lost Woods dungeon. Yeah, that's a rough one. Lots of tough enemies, and the boss was a pain.

I think I usually do the Thieves' Den first. By the time I usually get to the 3rd dungeon I think I tend to have a couple more hearts than I'm supposed to.

@TheOldManFromZelda
If you put that boss up against the previous one, you can see the massive difficulty jump really clearly.

Please don't think of me as bragging - but I never noticed a real jump in difficulty - yeah it was tougher then the 2nd but not as tough as you make it sound - and the boss was freaking easy with the fire rod - the dungeon treasure right? - Much easier (boss) then most...

It's there, you may not notice it but it exists on a design level. Moving floors and moving spikes had only just been introduced and the player had little time to not only get used to them but also the boss attacking at the same time.

@PogueSquadron Yeah me too, lvl 3 is a tough one and plus I can get the tempered sword before going into lvl 3.

Been playing Triforce of the Gods (i.e. Japanese ALttP) on my recently pegs removed SNES and well it is ALttP but in Japanese.

One weird thing I did notice though are the title screen and file select screen. Mostly just black screens. Honestly feels kind of like they couldn't finish those two screens before release.

Woah I was an insufferable ass 2 years ago.

@Pokefreak911

Yeah :-/

Ah well..

(Go read some of Zero's posts from like 4 years ago. Totally different dude!)

@Pokefreak911 Most teenagers are, so I don't hold it against them once they grow up.

There is one episode of the Dark World, too. Not for everyone, but pretty awesome. I was "LOL"ing.

The Water Temple in Ocarina of Time is not hard. Yes, there are a couple rooms you can miss and forget about, but if you're using your map, you'll see where all the chests are, can figure out where you need to backtrack to, and can then reverse engineer how to set the water level to access them. It's a phenomenal 3D spatial puzzle, is one of the best dungeons in the series, and is only in the 80th percentile of dungeon difficulty. Toggling the iron boots isn't any more tedious than switching items in any of the 2D games.

Skull Woods, on the other hand, is the hardest dungeon in the series, and stumps me for hours every time I play this game.