VikzeLink's Weekly Sunday Poll 427!

[VikzeLink]

Last week's Question: Would you like to see the return of Kaepora Gaebora or Owl in a new game?

Third Place: Yes, either of them! (14.3%)
Second Place: I wouldn't mind (28.6%)
First Place: No thanks (50.0%)

Exactly half of the voters are done with Owl-guides in Zelda! For the rest it's a mix of wanting them, or just being ok with whatever.

This week's question: In OoT, which dungeon makes the least sense to you? World wise

Inside the Great Deku Tree
Dodongo's Cavern
Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Forest Temple
Fire Temple
Water Temple
Ice Cavern/Bottom of the Well
Shadow Temple
Spirit Temple
Ganon's Castle

 

[Spirit]

Inside Jabu-Jabu's belly. I know that the idea is for it to be fantastical. Link is still young and the creatures of the world are big and scary and intimidating and fascinating and it makes sense thematically for this dungeon to exist in the way that it does...

But dammit, Jabu Jabu is not that big! They should have made him much bigger if they were going to stuff a dungeon inside of him.

There may have been hardware limitations, and if there were than I can understand and respect that, but the size disparity has always really bugged me.

 

[Cfrock]

Where does the light come from inside Jabu Jabu? There aren't any bright, glowing fleshy parts, so even if we say bioluminescence, it'd be dim and gloomy as hell in there.

Where does the light come from Jabu? Tell us.

 

[AncientPoe]

WHY IS THERE A MAP!?!?

 

[Princess Niki]

I mean it makes no logical sense anyway you look at it.

 

[twilitfalchion]

Jabu-Jabu's Belly. No way some fish god has a digestive system that large and convoluted. I'm just glad you're teleported out instead of having to use the exit.

 

[~Kilza~]

Feels weird to pick what has been overwhelmingly the only choice up to this point, but, here I am, also picking Jabu-Jabu's Belly. For the most part the other choices make sense within the world, the only ones that don't for me are Ice Cavern/Bottom of the Well and Jabu-Jabu, but Jabu-Jabu has the edge for being more unnatural (within the context of the world).

 

[MapelSerup]

No wonder Jabu-Jabu disappeared, he had some kind of biology...

 

[DJ Twitch]

Since Jabu Jabu has already been covered, I'll go with the Bottom of the Well. Why, oh why would you have an old rusty torture dungeon filled with rotting stinking corpses under your town and then fill it with your very water supply!

 

[thePlinko]

I voted for Jabu-Jabu, but I don’t want to beat a dead horse, so I’ll bring up another one.

Why is Dodongos cavern blocked off? Why did Ganondorf think that a giant boulder would work? Gorons eat rock! That brings up another question, why didn’t the gorons eat it?

 

[Vanessa28]

All other dungesneden at least can be explained onebway or the other but Jabu-Jabu makes no sense at all. And most reasons are already covered by other members. Unless Jabu-Jabu was a Tardis. Bigger on the inside

 

[VikzeLink]

Why is Dodongos cavern blocked off? Why did Ganondorf think that a giant boulder would work? Gorons eat rock! That brings up another question, why didn’t the gorons eat it?

The Gorons are very picky eaters. Only the best rock sirloin will do! Perhaps that boulder is disgusting to them?

 

[MapelSerup]

The Gorons are very picky eaters. Only the best rock sirloin will do! Perhaps that boulder is disgusting to them?

I’m pretty sure the Gorons purposely put the rock there to keep out the monsters brought by Ganon. I may be wrong, though.

 

[Killjoy262]

I'm going to have to say Lord Jabu-Jabu(or as my maw maw used to say, jubajuba). I mean, the outside to inside proportions are off. You have a baby whale and the inside looks like that of an older whale, like late adolescent/early adult.

The Deku Tree comes in at a close second but I have to cut it some slack because of the fact that you can't walk around the entire thing to get an accurate idea how big/old it is.

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

I ended up picking Jabu Jabu too, his anatomy is odd, and why is his stomach depicted as a dungeon on a map and even features a compass? Who put treasure chests and the boomerang inside him? How is it so well lit inside him? How is he even alive at the time with all those holes in what I assume is his stomach or intestines, he should be nearly dying, not simply sick. Later on they say he has returned to full health but when you go back inside him those holes are still there.

I guess they got it wrong, afterall, he isn't there 7 years later.