For DS - The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Walkthrough Part 18: On to the Water Temple

***written in ~2020

Ugh, I have not POSTED FOR SO LONG ... A.) I changed schools, B.) I've been TRYING to post frequently but have just been working on THIS, and C.) something weird drama happened with a certain dance at a certain school that a certain... Game Walkthroughs editor goes to (and when said girl tries to mention said drama, said girl is instructed to not "dig up dirt").
                   

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(Author's Note from... TODAY) Ayo I forgot to mention I haven't edited this blog in 2 years so like,,, im too lazy to redo it, the "DAnce" i mentioned was 2 years ago, im so old and cool, everything i ever said was cringy but im not cringy anymore yay! too lazy to redo it again, so ill randomly change styles in the middle of the post teehee)

Hyeeee, guys!!!!!
Okay so sorry.
Why? You may ask.
Because I forgot to mention you'll need... um...
Another...
Bottle...
Of...
Uh...
Well...
This.

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU, ok?
So yeah. Get the blue fire and head back to Zora's Domain. Find the shop (covered in Red ice) and melt the... red ice. Go in. Buy the Zora Tunic, because if you put on the Iron Boots you'll eventually DROWN, but with this?
You won't.
Ever.




With the Tunic on, it's time to enter the Water Temple! But where is it?, you may ask. Well, if you would just keep reading, I'm literally about to tell you that. Geez.
La la la. SO, the Water Temple is in Lake Hylia. As the ice in front of the tunnel to Lake Hylia is blocked, you'll have to get there by playing the Serenade of Water that Sheik VERY RECENTLY taught you. There's a Gold Skulltula you can get in the lab, but... For now, let's enter the temple.
The water has drained from the lake, except for in a small part (the lowest point of the lake with the gate). Go down there, sink with the iron Boots, and use the Hookshot to hit the switch above the door. Which opens it. Enter.

Once inside The Temple, walk forward a bit and you'll find yourself in a large chamber. I'll refer to it as The Room, as we'll have to visit it quite a bit and it'd be a pain to have to type out 'that one room from the beginning' every time. So.
With yo Iron Boots on muh homie, sink to da bottom of da chambah and defeat da spiky rock thangs with yo Hookshot. Then enter the door highlighted with green lights to the right.

Walk down the corridor until GASP!!!! You meet Ms. Lazy Fishface, otherwise known as Ruto, and hallelujah!, she can finally WALK BY HERSELF! Anyway, after a creepy conversation about how Ruto plans on marrying Link (or something like that), she floats to the surface. Take off yo boots to follow her up. But she's gone. omG.

Go through the door and defeat all of the spiky rock enemies (appropriately named Spikes) with your Hookshot. Once they are all defeated, a chest appears with a map in it. Gaaaasp.

So, go back to the previous room and play Zelda's Lullaby in front of the Triforce symbol on the wall. (Dang, spellcheck's MAD at me. Who knew 'lullaby' wasn't a word?) Doing so causes the water level outside (in The Room) to drop to its lowest point.

Anyway, jump down the hole and you'll see two torches. Now that there is no water, one has lit itself. It makes sense, you see. All of my... torches... at home light themselves when I'm not dumping water on them. Anyway, use Fire Arrows or Din's Fire to light the other two, which opens a DOOR! Yup, I know you expected it to open a SINKHOLE, but NO! GASP! ... My humor is deteriorating. Enter the door.

In here, you'll find some Shell Blades. These ADORABLE clams with DEADLY spikes and huge snapping MOUTHS and strange stretchy tongue organs... aren't adorable actually. Disregard. Target them with the bow, and when their mouth opens, shoot the ... tongue thing. What is it? No one someone somewhere knows! loL. Defeat them all. Open the chest containing a Small key that appears, then return to The Room.

Now enter the SOUTH door, directly to the left. It leads to a dead end - with a CRACK. Why would you place a bomb here to blow up the floor? I don't know. Psh. Definitely DON'T do that. Psh. (do. again, dumb humor). (yeah, really dumb, fr)

You'll come across a Shell Blade. Either take the time to kill it (why would you DO THAT?!) oooooorrrrrrr take off your Boots and swim above it to float up to the surface (WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO ANYWAY!!!! i'm not really mad people. Oh? You don't care? ...)

Get on the small platform and stomp on the switch to raise the water level a wee bit. Climb Up One Level Yo! Then zip over to the Hookshot target that is now revealed. Yo. Then kill de Tektites, Yo. Sorry about all of the 'Yo's. I'm just... rusty with my humor.
Yo.

Now you shall maneuver through a puzzle, yo. So it is a VERY difficult puzzle, but basically you hit the switch. Take a break. Cool off. I'll wait. I know it took s0 much out of you. 

So now enter the gate. There's a Skulltula in here and some pots filled wit da Moola Moola and some other goodies. lol this was so cringy i had to edit it today Go back to The Room. 

Enter the west entrance, where you will have to push the block forward. Wait until it, like, falls down a hole, yo.  (Any of you know a decent place for a YA meeting? Yo-aholics Anonymous.  f o r g e t i s a i d a n y t h i n g a n d i n s e r t l e n n y f a c e (Why did i think i was funny) (also what does any of this mean? going through this draft today i wanna die)

This is where im writing it today. no more cringiness, and no more trying to be funny even though Am Not. like brooooooo im cooler now *dies of too cool for you*

mk lets go bc i have nothing better to do than E D I t this post;(