Which Temple Was the Best?

[Durion]

As the title says, Which Temple do you think is the best?

The Forest Temple: The Forest Temple, all though very easy, was an awesome first temple in my opinion. It was well thought out and I liked the design of the whole place, It looked great compared to other Zelda's first temples. The enemies where very easy, The only one that caught me out were the Enemies that hid under tiles on the paths and rushed up when you stepped on them. It did have a creative Item but I didn't like the Mini-boss or the final boss much, Although unique, I didn't like them.

The Goron Mines: I really liked the Goron Mines, It was a great Idea and I liked that it was very different than any other Temple when it came to collecting the Big Key, It was unique seeing as you had to meet the awesome Goron Elders to get each Section. This temple also give's you one of the most used Items in the game, I still somehow lose hearts to that mini-boss....-.-. I liked the design of this temple as well, I like any temple that is filled with fire and lava and this supplied a lot of both.

The Lakebed Temple: This temple is probably 3rd hardest temple in the game behind The Arbiter's Grounds and Snowpeak Ruins. One my first run through I kept getting lost of trying to go down a path which I couldn't use yet, I wish though that this temple was designed differently, The current design is good but I didn't really like it, I didn't get why they're gears scatterered through one section. It did have an awesome boss, It is the best Water Temple boss I have fought. Overall I think that this temple is neutral, I don't really like or dislike it. This temple also has the Clawshot, My favourite item in the game.

The Arbiter's Grounds: This is an awesome temple and in my opinion is the best in the game. I loved the design of the place, Although I would have liked it even more if it were even darker I still think its an epic temple. It has great Bosses and the best final boss out of the first 7 temples. It had the harder enemies of the game (e.g. ReDeads and Big Poes). This was kind of like The Goron Mines with having to collect the blue flames back from the 4 Big Poes.

The Snowpeak Ruins: I liked the overall design of this Temple, It looked great and suited what it was meant to be. It has the hardest of the mini-bosses in TP and also the hardest enemies behind The Arbiter's Grounds. It was a hard temple, It also had a very cool boss at the end. Althought strange she was cool. This although a temple I used to dread I now love it. It does contain 2 of the hardest enemies in the game but other than there isn't really much threat.

The Temple of Time This temple had a great design and it had 8-10 floors. I just found it to be straight forward for nearly every room, There was hardly any backtracking so it was a 'Get from point A to point B' temple, This made it very easy, It did get slightly harder on the way back in some rooms with the Statue but it got easier in other rooms. I did like the item a bit but it wasn't used enough outside of the temple like many other Items in the game. The temple is let down by its awful final boss though, He was easier than Ghoma from OoT, It disappointed me.

The City in the Sky: I did find this temple hard at first but after you first get going from the main room the temple gets easier, I didn't really like this temple though, It had an decent design but I just didn't like. I also didn't really like the final battle, As I have said in another thread I was expecting variation but that never happened. It did however have a cool mini-boss (and they only dungeon in which you have to fight that mini-boss again later) and it gave my joint first favourite item, The second clawshot (my other being the first clawshot :D). I suppose it was a pretty good Temple but I just didn't like it.

What is you opinion and please explain why it is....

[ShellShocker]

My favorite temple was the Arbiter's Grounds. It was really fun and interesting. It was cool how you were exploring an Egyptian-like place and was fun fighting the enemies. I remember in the room with a trap when all the mini skeletons went to attack when you activated the trap. I would purposefully activate the trap and then smash them all down with the Master Sword.

It also had a fun and cool boss. I liked how the Spinner was like a skateboard, and it was fun it the massive room with lots of Spinner Tracks, I would just play around there all the time.

[Evenstevenp]

Definitely Arbiter's Grounds, it was great. the boss was awesome, the overall feel of the dungeon was sweet, and the item was cool (although I wish they used it more). It was great.

[El Bagu]

The City in the Sky is probably my favorite. The item you get, the boss, the bossfight. I never seem to remember the tunes but I guess they were quite decent too. My head is always in the clouds so that´s probably my main reason :P

But in fact the temples were really good all of them in this game.

[Master Kokiri 9]

Personally i chose the twilight palace because it's challenging but not rediculously annoying or hard. and also i find it cool how it was that it was in the twilight sky (or there were bottomless pits surrounding it but i prefer to think it's in the twilight sky) not to mention the boss battle with zant was like a flash from the past of four other boss battles which was really cool (and zant gives you a HEART CONTAINER!!!!!!!!!! SO UNEXPECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) the last phase was so cool what with it being right outside hyrule castle with twilight barriers confining you.

[DarkToonLink]

I liked the city in the sky because it gave me a good challenge and the boss was awesome

[knowlee]

My favorite would be the Temple of Time. :)

My reason(s) why would be, first, how you found the dungeon. I've always been fascinated by time travel or anything to do with time. The way you found the ToT to me was awesome how you had to open the door and travel back in time to when the ToT was still intact.

Second, I loved how vast the dungeon was. It wasn't a short dungeon, but a long one that took a while to explore. Another thing that I've always been fascinated by would be big places. The ToT to me would qualify as a big place.

Third, I loved how you fought the boss there. Unlike other bosses in TP, this boss still lived even when Link killed him the first time. The look on Link's face was priceless! :xd: You'd then have to spend your time running around after the little guy trying to kill him. :D

Those are the reasons why I love the ToT temple the best in TP. It possessed all those little things that interest me and had a boss that I liked in it. :) Even now I still go back into the temple and just go through it even though I've beaten it already. :xd:

[Josh]

I don't know if I could ever really pick just one. It seemed that each Temple tried to have it's own quality to it, something to bring to the table. Although....if I had to pick one....it would probably be Arbiter's Grounds. This one was easily the one that I thought you had to really think through things, where everything was, what was freaking on you when you could see nothing, and it really taught you to use your senses, and that there's always a trap around the corner. And I love temples like that.

[Zarom]

My favorite dungeon was Snowpeak Ruins, altough The Arbiter's Ground comes very close. I just like the overall of the dungeon. It was unique, it happens in a house and there were Yeto & Yeta in there that made it fun. There was also some cool riddles and I liked the Mini-Boss & the Boss. :)

[Nepolink]

The Arbiters Grounds was absolutely my favorite. I really like the dark design, it feels like you're walking in a old ancient tomb. The undead enemies and bosses where epic. The temples sound was on of the best ever, i liked the sound from City in the Sky the most.
In The Arbiters Grounds there was a dark place where so many frightening skeletons comes out of the sands. o.O

In general the City in the Sky was an harder challenge, and the place i got stuck for a long time. I love it's boss, i have something with Dragon. Well Stallord in the Arbiters Grounds was also something like a Dragon. Stallords second half was harder to do.

Anyway, i love the spinner parts. Finally a orginal item for Link. :3

[fiercedeity619]

my favorite was the goron mines because of how you had to piece togethern the boss key.

[Axle the Beast]

I voted for: Forest Temple, Lakebed Temple, Arbiter's Grounds, and Temple of Time.

I felt the very best was the Forest Temple. In terms of design and difficulty and regarding the fact that it was the first dungeon of the game, I feel it was perfect.

Second would be the Lakebed Temple. I felt that it's difficulty and design surpassed most of the other dungeons. My favorite water dungeon in the whole series, except the Temple of Droplets in MC.

I also thought Arbiter's Grounds and the Temple of Time were great. Temple of Time was good mainly because of it's good design, but more so it's unique design. It had a great new item with a cool function, and the linear structure of the dungeon was weird, but a cool idea overall. As for Arbiter's Grounds, it was very cool in theme and music, and it also was well designed, with some of the toughest fights against normal enemies. Especially the ReDead Knights.



And remember, it's "dungeons" not "temples" people! >.<

[Spreeze]

1. My favorite dungeon would have to be Snowpeak Ruins. I liked the place it was set in, and I enjoyed the music that played at Snowpeak. I also liked the characters of Yeta and Yeto. :D Very fun. And getting to the dungeon was cool - you had to snowboard down the mountain. And once in the dungeon, I liked getting the pumpkin and the cheese to make soup. Everytime I was low on hearts I would take a drink from my bottle of soup! Plus, when I went to fight Ganondorf and Zant, I had 2 bottles filled with soup from Snowpeak. Hehe. :D

2. My second favorite is City in the Sky. I didn't like this temple at first, but once I started playing I started to like it more. I guess I just liked the location. I thought a City in the sky was pretty neat. :) And the boss battle, the dragon Argorak, was AMAZING. To fight him made going through the whole dungeon worth it. The only thing I didn't like about this dungeon was the music (it was ...creepy) and the Ooccoos. I have never seen a creature so ugly! I thought things in the sky were supposed to be cute and cuddly.

Also.. did anyone else get reminded of the Studio Ghibli film 'Castle in the Sky' whilst playing through this dungeon? Here's a picture of Laputa, the castle in the sky: http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp235/XHeavenRoseX/laputa.jpg

3. Next would be the Temple of Time. It was AWESOME going through the door in the Sacred Grove, then coming out in the Temple of Time. The feeling of the dungeon was cool, and the Dominion Rod was a pretty sweet item. The statue thing was a creative idea. I also thought the temple was shorter than the others, which was good, because if it were any longer I wouldn't like it as much.

4. My fourth pick would be the Goron Mines. It was an okay dungeon. Using the iron boots to walk on walls or the ceiling was pretty cool, but other than that it was... 'normal.' The boss wasn't very challenging, in my opinion, but how you had to defeat him was pretty cool. And learning to sumo before fighting the mini boss was a neat idea as well.

5. Arbiter's Grounds is number 5. I liked the setting of the dungeon... but I got a creepy feeling while playing through it, and I began going through the dungeon as quick as possible so I could get out! Seriously. The music is was creeped me out the most. Eerie is the correct word for it. Another thing that I didn't like were those little beetles that would come crawling out if nowhere and wiegh down Link's body. *shudder* :(

6. My number 6 is Lakebed Temple. I'm not one for... water levels, but luckily this dungeon wasn't a lot underwater. Most was on land. The main room was cool, making the water flow in through the different doors, but other than that... that's all I really liked about the temple. Not much to say about it, really.

7. Seven would be the Forest Temple. it wasn't a bad temple, just not my cup of tea. I didn't like rescuing the mokeys... I thought that was sorta dumb. I did like the Gale Boomerang though, and fighting Ook. Diababa was alright too, I guess. This dungeon actually caused me the most confusion out of all of them. And it was the first one. Go figure.

8. last is the Twilight Palace. Ack. I hated getting the Sol, and that creepy hand that would follow you and play suspenceful music *cue 'Jaws' theme*. I just didn't like that the dungeon was dark. it was too hard for me to see in there. I did, however, like fighting Zant. It was sooo cool because he would teleport to the previous dungeons you'd been in, and you'd have to use a different item each time.

And that, my friends, is my overly-long opinion to a simple question.

[Megamannt125]

Personally, I didn't like many of these dungeons enough to have a favorite, they seemed boring to me, but i'd have to say Goron Mines, I do think that was the best one, even if it's boss is the easiest one in the game.

[Twilight Prince]

I liked the Temple of Time most, because everything was different then it appears different then it was. And I liked the length of that level. It was not one you could do in 15 minutes. The use of the Domain Rod was sweet. Being able to control that statue to destroy everything in your way! I loved that, it was a great stress reliever. And all that puzzling games in that level made it by far my favorite dungeon.

[Pwamimdorf]

I personally liked Snowpeak Ruins, but was disappointed that the last dungeon, Hyrule Castle wasn't on the poll. That dungeon was great! Especially the emphasis on combat.

[dumb180]

The Temple of Time, probably. Mostly for it's design and throwback music. I found walking the statue down to be pretty enjoyable as well.

A close second would be the Snowpeak Ruins, if only because of it's nice boss theme.

[Dungeon killer]

It had to be City in the sky the boss battle awed me more than most, fighting a huge black dragon clad in armour made me feel as if I were a medival knight in those old stories and when you swung from peahat to peahat it made me feel like Spider Mano.o!

[SuperSilly]

The Snowpeak Ruins was my favorite dungeon in this game, and probably somewhere in my top ten Zelda dungeons as well.

--Puzzles--
The puzzles in the Snowpeak Ruins were easy to moderate in terms of difficulty for me. They were interesting enough to keep me from getting board. I liked moving cannon balls everywhere, it made for some entertaining puzzles. I also liked how you had to sometimes jump from swinging chandeliers to get across gaps, and using the ball and chain to make them swing in the first place was unique. Then there were the timeless block-pushing puzzles which fit nicely in the icy atmosphere.

--Music--
To be honest, I didn't pay that much attention to the dungeon music in the Snowpeak Ruins, however I did listen to and enjoy the boss music greatly. The dungeon music fits the dungeon nicely, and the boss music is excellent. In fact the boss music is one of my favorite songs in TP.

--Enemies--
The ice-based enemies in the Snowpeak Ruins were some of the hardest in the game for me to defeat. I remember having some trouble with the freezards, and the chilfos. They were fun to fight for the most part.

--Boss & Mini-boss--
Blizzeta was an excellent boss, I thought this boss fight was done extremely well. Not only is the music great, but the gameplay for this boss is great as well. The only complaint I have about this boss, and most of the bosses in TP, is that they could have been more difficult.

As for the Mini-boss, this was the only Mini-boss in TP which presented a moderate challenge. I was quite shocked, because I didn't have any trouble with previous mini-bosses in TP. It took me a couple tries before I decided to use the extra soup I had been carrying around, and then I beat the mini-boss. It also reminded me somewhat of the ball and chain guys in ALttP.

--Atmosphere--
I really loved the atmosphere and design of the Snowpeak Ruins. I found it to be a very weird dungeon, with a mysterious atmosphere. I was constantly trying to piece together the history of the ruins, the dungeon fascinated me.

The design of the dungeon made me think 'castle' more than 'mansion' simply because it was so huge. The fact that it also has things like cannons and ammunition lying around made me think it was once meant to be a fortress. Perhaps an old military base, given the large kitchen. There also seems to be a stock of armor and weapons in the room you fight the mini-boss in. I still don't know what it's purpose was (and probably won't ever know) but that was the overall impression I got from the dungeon.

Overall, the Snowpeak Ruins were my favorite dungeon in TP. I really enjoyed this dungeon. It was especially nice to have NPCs in the dungeon, it added to the story greatly.

[Link Master]

This is clear to me the Snowpeak temple was the best. I liked it because it was a mansion turned into a dungeon and it was unique because it was ice based.

[Waker of winds]

Hmmm... for me is the Arbiter's Grounds.

The Big Poe flame collecting was interesting, and it made me remember the Forest Temple, wich is my favorite OoT Temple.

The boss was so hard...but also very fun. The Redeads in this Temple were just like mummies in an egipcian pyramid. The very first moment I saw them I was pretty sure they were the new Redead/Gibdo version.

[jetter]

My favorite was the Lakebed temple because of how the water flowed through the temple.

[Kazumi]

Forest Temple

I really have to say that I did not enjoy this Temple to much. It felt way to much like a lame opening Temple, which is supposed to get you used to it. I suppose that is what it was designed to be though. I also did not like how long it took you from the beginning of the game to get to the temple. Basically the whole part from the very start of the game to after you beat this Temple felt long and boring, which is never a good start to a game. I also hated collecting the monkeys.

Goron Mines

I really liked this Temple, actually. It probably places second or third on my list of the greatest temples ever. It had a very unique design, which was quite nice. And meeting all of the Goron Elders was a great idea. Plus the Bow is an excellent weapon for this temple. But as I never really liked fire temples to much, this cannot be my favourite. Though I do say this is where the game really starts to pick up. During and right after this temple.

Lakebed Temple

This Temple felt like a milestone. Which it was really. It gave you a very useful item, and set you forth for the next, more plot pushed half of the game. It does the job well, but annoys on the way. The boss is pretty cool though. The Temple really gave you the feel that you where deep underwater where no human should be. No human or Zora, because the place felt kind of non-templey. But yeah. It was still a good temple, through and through. I can't say I liked the design much though.

Arbiter's Grounds

This place is as hard and scary as hell. I really did not like this place the first time I played through the game. The layout is quite confusing and annoying, with no real pattern, and overall the Temple felt pretty short, but I still liked it. Kind of. The boss was pretty fun, but I can't say that I approve of the item. It does fit the Temple, though. And the introduction to the Mirror and the backstory about Ganondorf and the sages is pretty good.

Snowpeak Ruins

Now this is my favourite Temple. It's really a place I can get behind. It feels comfortable, whilst still giving you the edge of danger and exploration. The idea of going out through little mini journeys to get the items was pretty awesome. And the soup was funny, and a nice little boost. The idea of the canons was pretty good, and the mini-boss and item were awesome. The layout was excellent as well. It really felt like a beautifully constructed Royal retreat. The on thing I did not like was the boss, however.

Temple of Time

This temple felt way to linear for it's own good. Though it was cool how you felt like you were climbing a great tower, with all of the floors it had. Controlling the statues was very fun, and the mini-boss was a great introduction to Dark Nuts. The item of course is fun. I mean. Come on. But the way you just went down the path to get the Statue, and then came back felt kind of boring. And the boss was unfitting for the Temple. A great, ancient Hylian Knight Guardian would have done the job much better.

City in the Sky

I can't say that I remember to much of the temple. I just have to say that it was generally a not so fun experience. And it had an awful layout. While the item was useful, it felt sort of tacky and not so well thought out. They could have done something much more innovative and interesting like with the last few temples. The mini-boss was lame as well. I think they could have thought of something better. The boss however, was the best in the game. It was pretty epic.

Palace of Twilight

Now this is what not to do with a Temple. Don't give you an item, make it short and rather easy. Do not use any interesting ideas, make the boss very lame, make it a huge let down to finally getting to go to a fabled place, and finally make it not make sense. There you have Palace of Twilight.

So, overall here is my final list.

Snowpeak Ruins
Goron Mines
Arbiter's Grounds
Lakebed Temple
Temple of Time
City in the Sky
Forest Temple
Palace of Twilight.

And that is in order from favourite to least favourite.

[Notorious NATE]

I haven't finished the game yet, so I do not want to put in a premature vote, but so far the Goron mines have taken an early lead.