Tag: Grappling Hook

Although the Forsaken Fortress is first visited before Dragon Roost Cavern, I’m starting this series off with this dungeon and reviewing all the Forsaken Fortress portions at the same time during its revisit. Dragon Roost Cavern is the first full-on dungeon of The Wind Waker, with its predecessor being essentially only half of a dungeon, and one that deviates from the format of the rest of the dungeons in the game at that. As a result, while it falls prey…

Last week I talked about the Hookshot and its many variations, and I brought up having variety in the item selection from game to game by including classic items in new forms. It’s happened many times in the Zelda series already. It can come in the form of the classic item having a strange new power, like the Gale Boomerang from Twilight Princess, or they could simply have additional functionality that previous incarnations didn’t have, even if, in-world, they are…

The Hookshot has been a mainstay of Link’s arsenal ever since it first appeared in A Link to the Past, where, like the Longshot upgrade in Ocarina of Time, it was the main item of a water-themed dungeon: The Swamp Palace. Same story when it reappeared in the aquatic Catfish’s Maw in Link’s Awakening. In fact the only version of the regular Hookshot that wasn’t somehow tied to a water area was the one in The Wind Waker, and although…

The Grappling Hook was probably the most inspiring new item in The Wind Waker. It was a twist on the hookshot that allowed Link to interact more dynamically with his environment and a great addition to the fast-paced action The Wind Waker offered. Its alternate uses–digging up treasure from the sea and acquiring items from enemies without killing them–were also solid, and it remained consistently useful throughout the game. Like any good item in any good Zelda game, the point…

One of our resident forum members Zeypherlink, former webmaster over at Zelda Adventures, sent me an interesting article discussing some of the most useless items in the Legend of Zelda series. It’s been a common topic of discussion over the years and this article tosses a few items that are not often considered to be useless. The items said to be useless are listed below. Grappling Hook from The Wind Waker. Step Ladder from The Legend of Zelda. Slingshot and…