The most memorable and painful death I can think of was caused by an awful glitch in MC. Note that, before I found this glitch, I had spent about four or five hours collecting heart pieces, upgrades, sword techniques, and fusing kinstones.
Anyway, there is this room in the Palace of Winds where there is a moving platform underneath a grate going towards a different room, with an abyss below it. There are holes in the grate and obstacles above and below the grate, which you have to weave under and over using Roc's Cape. At this point, I am underneath the grate, and the screen has recently scrolled to the right into a new screen because of the moving platform. About halfway through the ride on the platform, there appears to be an area to the north within jumping distance that I haven't been to yet. Still underneath the grate, I try to jump over there, instead Link hits the bottom of the grate and doesn't move, floating there for a few seconds as the cape deploys, and the platform moves on without me.
Now, here's the glitch; I fall down into the abyss, and instead of respawning all the way back where you get on the platform, Link respawns in the corner of the screen
underneath the grate. Link, after respawning, falls into the abyss and respawns in the same place, falling again and again into the abyss. Of course, the platform is nowhere to be seen. While Link's health gradually dwindles away, I try pausing by pushing start; nothing happens. I try select; nothing happens. A, B, L, R -- all nothing. Even after Link's health is all gone, he keeps falling and respawning in the abyss, not prompting the "game over" screen. After about a minute of Link falling repeatedly with no hearts, I realize I have to reset the game.
I get back to the character select screen and load that character. The game loads with Link having about 3 fewer heart containers, a smaller bomb bag, quiver, 3 fewer sword techniques, and several side quests I had finished before were now uncompleted. Being the cautious and intelligent person I am, I apparently hadn't saved in
at least 5 hours.
Many a profanity was uttered.