I remember reserving this game at toys r us and getting it launch day April 13, 1992 and just being memorized by the depth of this game. Few weeks after launch Nintendo put out the official player's guide. This game is easily in my top 3 of all time favorite Zelda's
Part had me wanting to quit as I didnt know ethos lights the path. I spent a good hour trying to aim a fireball cane shot diagonally at the torch. Then I just kept falling off and mapping in my head where I fell after 2 hours of that i said screw it TH-cam time
I wanted that secret room to the fairy fountain badly, but couldn't figure out how to leap across the gap. I realized from watching you that I needed to start running towards the right and then turn up to hit the blocks. Thanks so much!
Very helpful, dude! I haven't played LthP in a few years and just wanted a quick run-through for the sake of nostalgia and your guides have been great at helping me navigate some of the dungeons I've had trouble remembering. Thanks for all of the time and effort you put into these!
Thanks so much for this guide. As a kid playing this game in the 90s, I always got stuck on the first floor part, and even Nintendo's Player's Guide wouldn't explain much on getting around. I just gave up there and then. Now I'm going to have to replay this game and finish it properly!
I have to take a look at the player's guide from back then. I had an unofficial, black and white Prima guide for this game, but I never beat it as a kid, either. I have to imagine the guide wasn't that great haha. Either way, I'm glad I could be helpful to you!
@@SweetJohnnyCage It was a good guide actually (with some fabulous artwork from legendary artist Katsuya Terada), but not perfect. It's a little non-linear and there were bits and pieces that could have used better explanations. One of the best things was that they had all the maps of the dungeons/castles/towers laid out for you and the locations of items pointed out. Although they didn't provide much guidance of where to go and what to do. 😅
I have stood in the room with the whack a mole type characters, wondering what to do for about 10 minutes, and finally just assumed that that door on the left was a one way door that you would exit from later in the stage. Didn't realize you had to hit just the left and right one till now, haha! Thanks!
5:51 it’s like the developers are telling you that this is totally legal to do in this game, because you can do it in other places like the entrance to Misery Mire
I had been through the Ocarina of Time Ganon's Tower in 2004 and the Wind Waker version in 2005. I was amazed at how expansive this version of the tower was when I played this game on an emulator in 2013
I would like to thank you so much for making this tutorial series. I just started doing super Metroid a Link to the past randomizer and all of your videos helped me out so much. It was a pain to find everything since it's randomized but the information was well useful 👌
The room with the four torches 70 zillion miles apart is kicking my ass. Also is on MY LAST NERVE GRRRRR!!! Sweet Johnny Cage can you come over and get me through it? 😂
A common strategy is to light the one on the right, then the one on top, and then deliberately fall into the pit to get back to the entrance. You'll then need to light the torch on the left, use the pegasus boots to get all the way down, then light the bottom one. You should have plenty of time to get into the next room.
I didn't know you could bounce off the bricks there to get over gaps. I always thought that Link would have fallen in the pit if I did that. I am still learning about this game to this day.
I've been playing this for the first time over the last week or so and just got to Ganon's tower today; I'm glad you knew to use the cane for the first few color switches because I was throwing the upgraded boomerangs and then moving so it curved and hit the switches as it came back to me
I wish I could go back in time and replace both of my older brothers with you. It's like watching a video of a cool friend who knows a thousand helpful tricks. Thanks!
Oh yes, the best puzzle ever: There is a Very specific Room with a Very specific spot with a Very specific block wich you need to push in a Very specific direction tô make a chest apear out of nowhere
@@cachorrodekatana117 I was one of them, it was awesome and for the time this came out, so were the graphics. No speed runs, it kept us occupied for weeks LOL. The dark forest dungeon was the 2nd most challenging besides the final one, just because of that stupid hand that picks you up and takes you back to the beginning, ugh! So much frustration and choice of colorful words back then. But I still fondly remember this game as one of my favorites, frustration and all. It is probably the 2nd most tedious game after Dragon Warrior 7 that I have played. Requires lots of patience. I'm still playing it to this day on the SNES. No emulator here.
I agree I actually had to learn how to bonk for this 😅 & that this is one of the best dungeons I have seen. This is definitely top 3 Best versions of zelda
So thanks to guides and videos like this, i FINALLY beat this classic. I gotta say, the game is deserving of the reverance it gets, BUT it does suffer from being a product of its time so to speak. The solutions to puzzles isnt always intuitive(using bombs to cross a gap to get to a heal room?!?!) and things are just straight up unfair and inconsiderate of the player and his experience. This final Castle and some of the mid game dungeons like the ice palace and the water dungeon were more frustrating than anything, and having to completely restart the final boss if you fall in the hole is so lame... Restarting a dungoen after you die sucks too since you come back with half life and all your potions depleted... I think the best way to play this game is with save states nowadays. Especially when it comes to trying to get rupees from the rupee game, or savestating right before a boss room, etc...
Thank you sir...now I know how to "bonk"🤣🤣 damn I miss my turbo grafix 16 "bonks adventure' was amazing but I digress.... thank you sir for this valuable knowledge 💯
In the first room where the two red moblins are I used the statue to drive em to the top row , clean arrow shot , the next room was a little bit of hassle.
I get very cautious about wasting magic in the higher floors of the tower, since I don't want to have to restock before going to Ganon. The best way to kill them is to use the Cane of Somaria and place a brick immediately to the right of the bottom-left wizrobe, then immediately fire it once they become active. The beams from the brick will kill 3 of them at once, leaving you with just the upper right most wizrobe to kill with a sword slash.
4:49 - Have you seen that there is a invisible spot/path to the right? Some times when I throw a block to the right, it lands ond a invisible spot. Though for DECADES that it was part of an invisible path, but could be a red herring, maybe? Thank you for the explanation!
@@SweetJohnnyCage no doubt about! This dungeon is easily my favorite final dungeon in any Zelda game! I played it tonight on my stream, and had to give you a shout out, because I would have been straight up lost without your guide. Cheers my friend!
So you don’t warp back to the beginning, so it doesn’t pull a Wind Waker ghost hand thing. The floor masters pull a ghost hand though. I’ve never played WW, I have seen people play though.
My dumbass totally forgot the big key is up after you beat the knoghts. Lol. I made it through the entire game recently without looking jack up, until now. Lol
It's not exactly missing, it's optional. You can choose to go through the lower part of the dungeon in 1 of 2 ways. One that focuses more on combat, which is that path you're referring to, or one that's focused on puzzles, which is the one I chose. The puzzle one is faster.
OK at Last i know how can we get to that secret room with boom!!!!! I should think about the secret of running fast into solid thing and bounce over the layer! Thx dude 💗🤗👍
@@Siggy4844 you just hook the fairies you don’t need to have a wall or a spot for the hook shot to pull you through. At least that’s how it was working for me playing on the online version on the switch
There is a warp point on death mountain in the light world underneath a black rock. It's across the broken bridge. I think the caves there in the dark world will take you up the mountain.
Nope. The right side is all combat challenges, either kill all enemies or light all torches, though. At least as far as I remember. I haven't taken that route in over 20 years.
As long as there is no enemy in the room, I take the pinwheel. Anyway, if you have din’s pearl and keep your form, how do the floor things override the pearl?
After the hole on top of ganon's tower was made I went down and filled my jars before the fight. Now I cannot find my way back to the location. Could you tell me what I need to do?
It's just an issue with the recording. Something about the refresh rate of the game and the refresh rate of the recording not matching. I'm not actually invisible.
If you fall off the platform, you'll go 1 floor down. There's a staircase in the upper right corner, which leads back up to the doorway you're asking about.
hmm, Mr, I want to know, if we fight the mini boss in ganon tower and we die (game over) Repeat against the mini boss again I mean What happens, if we fight a mini boss and we lose/die
hey man, i appreciate your quick instructiona as opposed to other channels that drag it out but for the love of god, slow it down man, just a little. i can barely follow you.
I am SO IRRITATED. I left the game overnight to sleep (of all things) before I beat Ganons Tower. Now I go back and its closed and I can't get the staircase to come down again? Anyone know of a way? @SweetJohnnyCage
I have all crystal (6) except middle one. I got the Tower to open last night. But no, I didn't save. Should I redo Turtle Rock? *smacking my head against wall* @sweetjohnnycage
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Shoot the fire rod at the torch in the invisible floor room and the floor will light up... took me 12 years to figure that out
Dang I remember that from 1993 lol
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I remember reserving this game at toys r us and getting it launch day April 13, 1992 and just being memorized by the depth of this game. Few weeks after launch Nintendo put out the official player's guide. This game is easily in my top 3 of all time favorite Zelda's
So many ways to complete puzzles! On the invisible path, I used the cane to create blocks and pushed them until they fell lol. Take me a while
That's a unique solution!
Lmao 🤣
I did that too lol it works!
I fucking hated that eith a burning passion. Almost kinda took the fun out of completing the game -.- like why
Part had me wanting to quit as I didnt know ethos lights the path. I spent a good hour trying to aim a fireball cane shot diagonally at the torch. Then I just kept falling off and mapping in my head where I fell after 2 hours of that i said screw it TH-cam time
I wanted that secret room to the fairy fountain badly, but couldn't figure out how to leap across the gap. I realized from watching you that I needed to start running towards the right and then turn up to hit the blocks. Thanks so much!
Very helpful, dude! I haven't played LthP in a few years and just wanted a quick run-through for the sake of nostalgia and your guides have been great at helping me navigate some of the dungeons I've had trouble remembering. Thanks for all of the time and effort you put into these!
Thanks so much for this guide. As a kid playing this game in the 90s, I always got stuck on the first floor part, and even Nintendo's Player's Guide wouldn't explain much on getting around. I just gave up there and then. Now I'm going to have to replay this game and finish it properly!
I have to take a look at the player's guide from back then. I had an unofficial, black and white Prima guide for this game, but I never beat it as a kid, either. I have to imagine the guide wasn't that great haha. Either way, I'm glad I could be helpful to you!
@@SweetJohnnyCage It was a good guide actually (with some fabulous artwork from legendary artist Katsuya Terada), but not perfect. It's a little non-linear and there were bits and pieces that could have used better explanations.
One of the best things was that they had all the maps of the dungeons/castles/towers laid out for you and the locations of items pointed out. Although they didn't provide much guidance of where to go and what to do. 😅
I have stood in the room with the whack a mole type characters, wondering what to do for about 10 minutes, and finally just assumed that that door on the left was a one way door that you would exit from later in the stage. Didn't realize you had to hit just the left and right one till now, haha! Thanks!
I pkayed thisngame so many times and thought I knew all the tricks.
Crazy how much I still learn from these videos. 💪
5:51 it’s like the developers are telling you that this is totally legal to do in this game, because you can do it in other places like the entrance to Misery Mire
This dungeon really beat the crap out of me. Thank you, you make it look so easy
This dungeon is insane. Thx for the walk-through! 🤙🏼
I had been through the Ocarina of Time Ganon's Tower in 2004 and the Wind Waker version in 2005. I was amazed at how expansive this version of the tower was when I played this game on an emulator in 2013
This Is A Link to the Past Ocarina of Time is for the GameCube
Thank you so much I've been stuck on this tower a day and a half and it's been driving me crazy this was so helpful
I would like to thank you so much for making this tutorial series. I just started doing super Metroid a Link to the past randomizer and all of your videos helped me out so much. It was a pain to find everything since it's randomized but the information was well useful 👌
2:10 thats no fair, these damn devs
The room with the four torches 70 zillion miles apart is kicking my ass. Also is on MY LAST NERVE GRRRRR!!! Sweet Johnny Cage can you come over and get me through it? 😂
A common strategy is to light the one on the right, then the one on top, and then deliberately fall into the pit to get back to the entrance. You'll then need to light the torch on the left, use the pegasus boots to get all the way down, then light the bottom one. You should have plenty of time to get into the next room.
@@SweetJohnnyCage still working on it in between playing Minish Cap. But I managed to do it years ago so I am gonna do it now! Thanks for your help!
Right combat, left puzzles. Like ages and seasons? One is heavily focused on puzzles, the other on combat.
When it comes to The challenge rooms I just use the bombos medallion and just walk to the next room rinse and repeat
Very nice! I have beaten this game on every platform without help but you had a lot of tricks i didnt know about
I didn't know you could bounce off the bricks there to get over gaps. I always thought that Link would have fallen in the pit if I did that. I am still learning about this game to this day.
I've been playing this for the first time over the last week or so and just got to Ganon's tower today; I'm glad you knew to use the cane for the first few color switches because I was throwing the upgraded boomerangs and then moving so it curved and hit the switches as it came back to me
That's a perfectly valid strategy! I do it in speed runs but felt it might confuse folks in a walkthrough :D
Thanks for sharing, this last dungeon is just sick !
It's very easy, even more than the way he used to finish it😁
I wish I could go back in time and replace both of my older brothers with you. It's like watching a video of a cool friend who knows a thousand helpful tricks. Thanks!
I hope your brothers grew up to be cool people, but that's such a nice thing to say haha!
Oh yes, the best puzzle ever:
There is a Very specific Room with a Very specific spot with a Very specific block wich you need to push in a Very specific direction tô make a chest apear out of nowhere
Try this 30 years ago with no internet videos or guides to help you! 😈
@@thatguy6638 i feel bad for the people that played this game back then
@@cachorrodekatana117 I was one of them, it was awesome and for the time this came out, so were the graphics. No speed runs, it kept us occupied for weeks LOL. The dark forest dungeon was the 2nd most challenging besides the final one, just because of that stupid hand that picks you up and takes you back to the beginning, ugh! So much frustration and choice of colorful words back then. But I still fondly remember this game as one of my favorites, frustration and all. It is probably the 2nd most tedious game after Dragon Warrior 7 that I have played. Requires lots of patience.
I'm still playing it to this day on the SNES. No emulator here.
0:11 dont forget if youre missing crystals somehow, zelda will let you know what you still need to do
The bumper killed the tiny helmeted bokoblin thing for me.
You’re the best!!! I was so stock in that dungeon REGARDS
Happy to be helpful!
It’s gonna take me a month to get through the tower
Finally I know how to enter to the secret room in the castle. BTW I believed it can be reacheable by normal ways.
Missing the ice rod on last one made me take a breather lol
I can remember why 12 year old me never 100%
I agree I actually had to learn how to bonk for this 😅 & that this is one of the best dungeons I have seen. This is definitely top 3 Best versions of zelda
So thanks to guides and videos like this, i FINALLY beat this classic. I gotta say, the game is deserving of the reverance it gets, BUT it does suffer from being a product of its time so to speak. The solutions to puzzles isnt always intuitive(using bombs to cross a gap to get to a heal room?!?!) and things are just straight up unfair and inconsiderate of the player and his experience.
This final Castle and some of the mid game dungeons like the ice palace and the water dungeon were more frustrating than anything, and having to completely restart the final boss if you fall in the hole is so lame... Restarting a dungoen after you die sucks too since you come back with half life and all your potions depleted...
I think the best way to play this game is with save states nowadays. Especially when it comes to trying to get rupees from the rupee game, or savestating right before a boss room, etc...
Thank you sir...now I know how to "bonk"🤣🤣 damn I miss my turbo grafix 16 "bonks adventure' was amazing but I digress.... thank you sir for this valuable knowledge 💯
you’re the only reason i’ve beat this game LOL
I'm happy to help :)
In the first room where the two red moblins are I used the statue to drive em to the top row , clean arrow shot , the next room was a little bit of hassle.
8:22 total missed opportunity for that ether medallion, which you conveniently had equipped
I get very cautious about wasting magic in the higher floors of the tower, since I don't want to have to restock before going to Ganon. The best way to kill them is to use the Cane of Somaria and place a brick immediately to the right of the bottom-left wizrobe, then immediately fire it once they become active. The beams from the brick will kill 3 of them at once, leaving you with just the upper right most wizrobe to kill with a sword slash.
Actually going right first at the beginning lands you an extra key if you do it right.
I just used the Bombos medallion to kill the wizzarobes instead of the cane of Somaria.
I don't think I've ever gone to the left in the first room!
4:49 - Have you seen that there is a invisible spot/path to the right?
Some times when I throw a block to the right, it lands ond a invisible spot.
Though for DECADES that it was part of an invisible path, but could be a red herring, maybe?
Thank you for the explanation!
Another awesome walk through! Thanks again for the great video!
Glad you enjoyed it! This is my favorite dungeon in the entire game.
@@SweetJohnnyCage no doubt about! This dungeon is easily my favorite final dungeon in any Zelda game! I played it tonight on my stream, and had to give you a shout out, because I would have been straight up lost without your guide. Cheers my friend!
So you don’t warp back to the beginning, so it doesn’t pull a Wind Waker ghost hand thing. The floor masters pull a ghost hand though. I’ve never played WW, I have seen people play though.
I am stuck here, the game is way harder than new Zeldas. Thanks for sharing.
PD: You don´t even need all the medallions !
My dumbass totally forgot the big key is up after you beat the knoghts. Lol. I made it through the entire game recently without looking jack up, until now. Lol
You just completed what took me months as a kid, in 13min.
To be fair, I used to speed run this game haha.
Dude! You smoked it! Me... dead lots , then i finally beat it LMAO!!
thanks for the help!
I can't see the invisible paths the Ether supposedly reveals, but I got past it anyway
Looks like they confused Ganon with Dracula
It's an issue w/ refresh rate. Flashing transparency effects from old games don't always appear on modern screens :(
There’s a room missing from this. The one with the hand of fate and mummies and you have to light tortures.
It's not exactly missing, it's optional. You can choose to go through the lower part of the dungeon in 1 of 2 ways. One that focuses more on combat, which is that path you're referring to, or one that's focused on puzzles, which is the one I chose. The puzzle one is faster.
@@SweetJohnnyCage figures I gave up because I couldn’t get the torches lit in time.
Great job!!
OK at Last i know how can we get to that secret room with boom!!!!!
I should think about the secret of running fast into solid thing and bounce over the layer! Thx dude 💗🤗👍
you can also grab those fairies over the pit with the hookshot
No you can't, there is nothing for the hook-shot to grab on to.
@@Siggy4844 you just hook the fairies you don’t need to have a wall or a spot for the hook shot to pull you through. At least that’s how it was working for me playing on the online version on the switch
You can also grab the fairies with your boomerang. But you have to use the net if you want to keep them in a bottle
LOL he said the butter sword 😂😂😂
Very good video thx
11:44
That was *RIGHT* at the Real Agahnim!!! How did he *Not* take damage?!?!?
It has to be bounced off your sword. Weird when it happens like that, but that's why haha
Thanks
No problem!
Does anyone know how to get to Ganon's castle from the dark world but not from Turtle rock? I'm playing via save states on a computer.
There is a warp point on death mountain in the light world underneath a black rock. It's across the broken bridge. I think the caves there in the dark world will take you up the mountain.
@@SweetJohnnyCage Thanks for the response.
Did you do a walkthrough for going through the right side instead of the left?
Nope. The right side is all combat challenges, either kill all enemies or light all torches, though. At least as far as I remember. I haven't taken that route in over 20 years.
Darn, I started right, maybe I should start over?
Thanks!
As long as there is no enemy in the room, I take the pinwheel. Anyway, if you have din’s pearl and keep your form, how do the floor things override the pearl?
i dunno game design
also its moon pearl
@@m3m3nt0m0r1_ I thought it said Don’s pearl, but I looked it up and I guess it was moon pearl. I hadn’t played the game in over a month or two.
How in the heck were you using the capes power while having your bow equipped at the same time??
Can you give me a timestamp? It could've just been a recording issue. The refresh rate is kinda weird.
After the hole on top of ganon's tower was made I went down and filled my jars before the fight. Now I cannot find my way back to the location. Could you tell me what I need to do?
It's the top of the pyramid that spawn at when you load the game. It's in the center of the map.
@@SweetJohnnyCage thank you so much.
how are you able to become invisible without having selected? is that a cheat or a normal part of the game?
It's just an issue with the recording. Something about the refresh rate of the game and the refresh rate of the recording not matching. I'm not actually invisible.
I dont get it. You use the medallion and say that you can see the floor now but its still invisible?????
It's a problem with the refresh rate using an emulator. Trust me, there is a floor there.
A link to the past
Wait, where did he get the big key to open the red mail chest?
In a chest after the Armos Knight rematch.
my blocks don't explode when I use the cane of Somaria...
WAIT do you just shoot the block again with the cane?! omg
@@diaramorrisbowen4018 Hahah yea, just press Y again.
Where did you get the big key
3:35
At 11:17 there's no key. Why do you think that happened
What do you mean? That's a boss fight.
The ether medallion doest reveal a path...
It's a side effect of modern TVs and emulation. You can see it in this image, Room 18 - mikesrpgcenter.com/zelda3/maps/ganonstower-1f.gif
@@SweetJohnnyCage Sounds good! Thank you also for that slight shortcut!
@@SweetJohnnyCage played it earlier and decided to take a break.
what do i do?
agahim is not here
6:39
Bookmark @4:06
Does anyone know how to get in the other elevated door in the Milford fight? On the 6th floor
If you fall off the platform, you'll go 1 floor down. There's a staircase in the upper right corner, which leads back up to the doorway you're asking about.
hmm, Mr, I want to know, if we fight the mini boss in ganon tower and we die (game over)
Repeat against the mini boss again
I mean
What happens, if we fight a mini boss and we lose/die
Nothing, you go back to the dungeon entrance and the mini boss stays dead.
Que pro
hey man, i appreciate your quick instructiona as opposed to other channels that drag it out but for the love of god, slow it down man, just a little. i can barely follow you.
Your missing a ton of items
Yep, that's deliberate. I made the guides with minimal completion to show people it's possible to do without a ton of health or extra items.
@@SweetJohnnyCage I played Legend of Zelda Link to the Past today to walk through didn't have the ice wand or anything in his inventory
fuck this level
I am SO IRRITATED. I left the game overnight to sleep (of all things) before I beat Ganons Tower. Now I go back and its closed and I can't get the staircase to come down again? Anyone know of a way? @SweetJohnnyCage
Sounds like you might be missing a crystal. Perhaps you didn't save after turtle rock?
I have all crystal (6) except middle one. I got the Tower to open last night. But no, I didn't save. Should I redo Turtle Rock? *smacking my head against wall* @sweetjohnnycage
The middle one is Turtle Rock.
I redid Turtle Rock and...drum roll...SAVED. Now off to best Ganons Tower. Learned my dumbass lesson. Your walkthroughs are bomb BTW. Thanks!
Happy to be helpful!