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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2023
- Have you ever thought to yourself, is it possible to get stuck in a Zelda dungeon? Well then you're in luck, because in this video I'm going to answer that very question. I'm going to look at 4 Legend of Zelda dungeons and see if its possible to get permanently stuck in them. They are Ocarina of Time's Shadow Temple, Skyward Swords Lanayru Mining Facility, Links Awakening's Eagle Tower and Links Awakening's Angler's Tunnel.
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It's hard to appreciate it in the moment, but when you think about it, creating a puzzle system with so many keys and doors and avoiding softlocks is an extremely meticulous task. Props to Nintendo devs, because they seem to be very conscious of this.
Meanwhile, (older) Pokémon games have a bunch of softlocks 😆
There's a whole series by Pikasprey documenting how to perform them, and how to break free.
A lot of those required deliberate effort though, such that you'd only see it if someone wanted that.
The most amusing to me were the ones you can technically escape, but the expected time it will take is longer than beating the game many times over.
I think I'm just a weirdo but I think about that all the time
In oracle of seasons, I mean it is possible to skip a couple of sections in certain dungeons by saving and quitting. Like once you go to a few rooms, you can save and quit, and skip some keys and stuff that way.
@@qunt100 One of the dungeons in BS Ancient Stone Tablets has a novel design where the Boss room is right beside the entrance, but you have to jump down a deep hole to get the boss key and then make your way back up. The game doesn't have saving so you can't save and quit, but, from what I remember, it seems it completely went over their heads that you can just die to return to the entrance immediately.
The link's awakening Eagle's Tower soft lock happened to me, it's especially devastating because at that point you're so close to the end of the game, but then have to start all over from scratch.
Same! I was so sad when this happened. I don't think I ever actually finished the game because of this.
Can you not reset the game without saving (turn the GB off and on) to make the ball work again? Sure, you'll have to solve the puzzles again but you can hope it doesn't soft lock that time!
@Tomsonic41 probably could've but at the time I didn't realize it was a soft lock cuz the ball usually resets under other conditions so I just continued thru the dungeon and then saved, not knowing the ball was permanently stuck
@@Tomsonic41 No because when you quit the game in LA you get given 3 options: Save & Continue, Save & Quit or Continue (without saving). So you can't actually quit the game without saving it. Mind you, I don't know what happens if you simply switch the power off and back on, I assume it doesn't save in that case and you can continue from the last save point.
The original Links Awakening has so many glitches it’s actually very easy to soft lock. Specifically the non-DX version has a warp glitch where if you press select right as you transitions screen you and certain other elements will warp to the opposite end of the next screen. This can get you all sorts of places you’re not supposed to be yet… including one particular hole near the Eagle’s Tower that is filled with deep water and will put you into a death loop soft lock if you enter it without the flippers. One of my first ever runs was killed entirely by this soft lock because resetting just spawns you back into the cave… where you immediately start drowning again.
So this actually DID happen to my dad on Master Quest on GameCube back in the day...due to a glitch. It was the spirit temple, the young Link section. My dad had the small key you're supposed to use to get to the room with the Iron Knuckle, to finish the child portion of the dungeon. He ended having trouble advancing to that room, went to the beginning of the dungeon, and repeatedly rolled into the jets of water. He ended up no-clipping past the jets of water into the adult section of the dungeon, using his only key, then was unable to complete the child portion of the dungeon, and absolutely boned his Master Quest playthrough. Granted it was a glitch, but damn, he got STUCK stuck. This was back before the days of TH-cam video walkthroughs, so we had to scrub written walkthroughs on old forums...this was easily in 2004/2005 lol.
I almost got trapped the same way but thankfully I didnt save ^^
The same thing happened to me back in the day
I knew about this softlock. Once, when I was mad at my little brother, which I couldn't remember why, I went into his save file when he was away from home and did this softlock, completely ruining his save file to get even. But I just couldn't bring myself to save. It just seemed too mean. So I turned the game off without saving and aborted my attempt at revenge.
I found that glitch in my first playthrough, but chose not to take advantage of it since I wanted to finish the dungeon fairly. Good to know the dangers all these years later.
99% sure there's a similar wall-clip related scenario in the Fire Temple, also in Master Quest on the GameCube. Don't ask me which key, it's been 20 years 🤣
to be clear, it's _not_ possible to get stuck keyless in that dungeon without sequence breaking to end up like that in the first place, I tried for a few hours (emulator, ripped GameCube Master Quest ROM, not 3DS) after I saw the first Water Temple video last year
If it’s so easy to jump that gap, you could have included some footage of the jump.
That’s what I was thinking
funny thing is, all you need is the pegasus boots and the feather to be used in tandem.
since jumping with the feather, keeps your pegasus boot speed
Lmao for real 8:14 "And I did test this, it is super easy to jump over this gap" >doesn't show any footage, bruh
Makes me wonder if they plagiarized the script from somewhere.
Bad footage that doesn't match the script is super common among plagiarists.
Zero footage of anyone actually jumping the gap in the angler's tunnel. WHY?
You can't jump that gap in link's awakening dx. Only in the original gameboy version.
They had to change two shallow water blocks into full water blocks, because you could jump from the 2nd lowest shallow block over using the boots, while being on the edge and steering to the left while jumping. Afaik we can jump 3 blocks with the boots - just enough to get over.
@@Sypaka Yah. Someone told me that you can do it in dx version to. You just need to do a bomb damage boost also. not sure if this works.
@@qunt100 mh, I could try this one. Unless the savegame was deleted due to an empty battery, ofc.
My thoughts exactly! No footage was actually shown.
it's actually pretty impressive that for so many games, they have been so well constructed to have so few ways to softlock even with glitches
Is incredibly how a franchise with 35+ years of dozens of puzzles and dungeons, these are the only four partially easy to encounter softblocks
Ocarina of Time: Master Quest. In the Spirit Temple you can use the small key on the wrong door by making a couple precise jumps and be softlocked forever.
Funny thing about that Angler's Tunnel key, in the GB and GBC version of the game, it's possible to grab that key with your sword as it falls down the hole the first time you enter the room. I'm not sure if it's possible to leave the dungeon or reset the game to trigger the key to fall again, allowing you to grab it with your sword or not, however. If it is, this is no longer a permanently softlock situation. If not though, then yeah, you're SOL there.
I'm really confused, because I'm not seeing you do the jump in this video for that final example? At 7:41 I just see you walking on the floor?
the jump is a bit tricky but it is very much doable, pegasus boots and the feather combined gives you a long jump. with good timing you can pegasus boots run up, and use the feather before you fall into the water
In Ocarina of Time's Fire Temple, it's possible to collect the first key, then perform a relatively easy jumpslash clip to pass through the hammer-locked barrier and use the key on the lower door in the entrance room instead of the upper door without having gotten the hammer, locking you out of being able to get the hammer without using significantly more complex and difficult glitches. This is probably the closest to a key-lock you'll get in Ocarina of Time.
This does require that you know about the fact you can clip through there. Which is either something you do on purpose since you know about it. And less likely you do it by accident
@@ghoulchan7525 Of course, but that clip is much easier than any known method of collecting the hammer without unlocking the upper door in the first room (void warping, hovering from the left room, using SRM to unlock the door or get the hammer, or *arguably* putting it on B with BA). This kind of key-lock by necessity requires you to get to a state where you have at maximum one key but two potential doors to use it on, and in vanilla OoT, I think this is the closest you'll be able to get to that kind of scenario.
Pretty sure Ocarina of Time: Master Quest it was notorious for softlocking you out of the game in certain dungeons. Could be wrong though
@@UnclePhil1112 You're not, for me it was the Fire Temple in particular, and there's another comment mentioning a wall clip that can get you softlocked in the Spirit Temple. Pretty sure I originally got stuck _only_ after clipping, I tried it recently and couldn't get stuck playing "normally"
@@sheik124 okay glad to know it wasn’t just me, I got soft locked out of the Fire Temple once, and I never played the game again, until the 3DS version
After all these years of zelda it’s crazy that there are less than a handful of these situations
It's actually possible to become softlocked in Spirit Track's Spirit Tower on a specific floor by using the small keys in the wrong way. The floor this can happen in is the floor you go to after getting the whip. I know this because I've done this before myself.
Just like all the people who "know" they got permanently stuck in the Water Temple...
@@CaptainFalcoyd But there are only a specific set of keys that should be found on that floor. Once you use a key the wrong way, there is no way to get any of the other keys, since the other keys are locked beside the other locked door on the floor. I had to reset from a save I made very early on to continue playing.
@@cario0236shame now adays we have load sequence glitch years later
I don’t think it was so much that people were permanently stuck as much as they got stuck for an extended period of time and gave up. I distinctly remember spending two irl weeks trying to find a key in the water temple. I did eventually find it though, and I’m sure plenty of other people would’ve given up on it way sooner.
Yeah most people got stuck for a while in the Water Temple. That key was so sneaky!
That was the main problem in the original. It wasn't clear at all where you were supposed to go for that key lmao.
Eagle Tower can be softlocked with the iron ball and then completed using the map scroll to navigate between floors. Requires some out-of-bounds navigation, but the boss room is accessible from that dungeon as well as a few other dungeons and cave areas.
that was fixed in the DX version :(
I definitely got stuck in the water temple when I was a kid lol. I know now where the key is, under some platform and the only clue is a split second showing of the gap during a cutscene, but as a kid before the internet I simply couldn't find it so I ended up just starting again.
Pretty sure everyone knows, but it was a big enough problem that they redid that cutscene for future rereleases of OoT, where it shows the hole you're meant to go down for a good couple seconds and makes it obvious you should go check that spot out lol. In the original it looks more like a camera glitch than a direction lol
Believe it or not I didn't get stuck there. What ended up kicking my ass in the water temple is that one area you have to bomb and I couldn't get the water levels right
@@adventureoflinkmk2 The middle water level, above where you meet Ruto?
@@hainsay that's right
Yup I got stuck there too. I was so mad when I finally found it, but relieved at the same time.
Everyone who got stuck in the Water Temple either couldn't find that key, forgot about the bombable wall on 2F above where you meet Ruto, or never found the fifth key because they didn't notice the Time Block in the Longshot room. That one was apparently as problematic as the one you mentioned, because it was the other part of the dungeon where the way forward was made _super_ obvious in the remake.
Okay, decent video here, but it makes me unnaturally-upset that you talked about the Angler's Tunnel jump skip but never actually SHOWED it. The footage always just walks by the jump...and doesn't actually do it.
Given it was the crux and conclusion of your video, I'm flabberghasted why we weren't shown the trick. :p (I'm personally aware it works as I've seen it before, but c'mon man - verify your data.)
I know it really bothered me as well but unfortunately do not have a way to capture GB footage and couldn’t find the skip anywhere online. Sorry if it ruined your enjoyment of the video, trust me it bothered me a lot.
@@pressaTD Suggestion: use an emulator and a screen capture program
@@pressaTD Oh, thanks for the reply! No, it didn't ruin the whole video for me since I knew what you were talking about was possible, but I'm sure some people would've really liked the verification.
That's fair; I assume you prefer not using emulation under any circumstances, so that would mean needing quite a bit of a setup to capture off of an actual Game Boy. Capturing handhelds is rather tricky, so I understand.
I think if I was in your shoes, I would have sought out somebody who has recorded the trick on TH-cam and reached out to them to see if they were alright with me using their footage of it. Then you could just credit them on-screen during the clip. I've seen other TH-camrs take this approach when needing footage they cannot personally record. (oddheader actually did this with a section of one of my videos once.)
Obviously a bit late to do this now, but maybe something to consider for future projects if this comes up again. ^^
@TD I will say im a little shocked that not only is this not a pinned comment or in the description, but it's in a reply of an unpinned comment instead of where it really should be: in the video itself
I'm actually more shocked that you called it "irrefutable" without ever showing the action, which just makes the whole thing even more ironic
There's another way to softlock Eagle's Tower that I triggered as a kid. The original GB release of Link's Awakening had a glitch where if you brought up the map with SELECT during a screen transition it would warp you to the other side of the screen. This enabled a bunch of sequence breaks and made it possible to get stuck in non-existant rooms with no doors.
Another effect that I ran into is that it caused the iron ball in Eagle's tower to get trapped in one of those non-existent rooms. I must have wandered around for hours trying to find it, no dice. Had to restart the game.
Fun little glitch you could pull off with the warp was getting multiple followers at once, which would either turn Marin into a chicken or a ghost based on the other follower.
you can be permanent stucked in twighlight princess at two different locations. one was if you saved after the bridge was destroyed. you started on the wrong side of the destroyed brigdge. the second had something to do with the canon if i remember correctly.
If you save in the cannon room before you talked to the guy that teleports it.
The dialogue option will never show up, and a reload will not fix the issue.
@@brock2443 only on wii and it can be fixed with a patch
Note to self.
Never save at any of these dungeons. Play in one shot.
Or do research first before you save each time. Like should I save now. IS this going to softlock me. Did I just softlock myself after I opened that door lol.
Cool video! The Eagle's Tower one is pretty common knowledge, but I had no idea about the Angler's Tunnel one.
I don’t remember exactly how, but in Twilight Princess I got myself stuck in the sky temple or whatever it was. At some point I completed half a puzzle, which moved or changed the layout of some room. Got busy, saved and quit, and when I started again and it puts you at the beginning of the dungeon, you no longer can access the thing you need to re-change the position to get you back where you need to be to progress.
The solution for that is that you need to leave the dungeon completely, go somewhere else, then come back to the dungeon and re-enter
Yeah there's no permanent stuck there, just a tedious trek through the dungeon the long way 'round.
@@hyruleansoldier3157 you can however quite easily glitch into never having access to that dungeon
There is another spot in OoT where you can get stuck: in Gannon's tower there is a section where you HAVE to use a bombchu to get to the next room, so if you've used the bottle glitch to replace bombchus with a bottle, since bombchus don't drop in OoT, they only come from chests or bombchu bowling, you can never get bombchus back and you will be stuck
Such a good video! Perfect length always entertaining :D
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The old version of Skyward Sword had a rare glitch were during the first Ghirahim fight, he could throw your sword just out bounds and lock himself in an infinite animation of walking towards the sword. Since there's no other way to damage him the game just stays like that.
The shadow temple softlock is so easy to get because a quick kill of Bongo Bongo involves dropping a bomb from the top to damage it, jumpslashing then crouch stabbing until it dies, so if you drop down too early, you can easily softlock yourself
I know it's not permanent in the way you're looking for in this video, but I watched my older brother experience a painful softlock in Majora's Mask's Stone Tower Temple. On his way to the boss chamber, he tried to backflip over the rolling spikes, got hit, and pulled out his shield to reduce the damage. This ended up pushing him backward against the wall and he was permanently stuck to the rolling spikes, getting dragged back and forth with them while the shield sound and flash played rapidly. None of the buttons could do anything. You could pause the game to equip items, but none of them could actually be used since you were stuck in the shielding position.
Anybody who's played Majora's Mask knows just how painful a softlock like this is in that game. It's not permanent, but you do have to start the entire dungeon over from the beginning, as well as redoing anything you did in that cycle, as there's no way to save and quit without playing the Song of Time or visiting an Owl Statue. And he was on his way to the boss, so you can imagine how upsetting it was having to redo the entire dungeon again.
I liked the part where you showed us the jump, DF.
Oh my god! I remember watching the original video MONTHS ago and thinking you did a very good job with it! HOW AM I NOT SUBSCRIBED!!!
notifications ON and making sure I don't lose you to the algorithm again! Great video!
in TP, in the MC Escher looking dungeon, there's a room where a bridge falls down after you enter, and if you save and exit in it, you will spawn back in outside the room with the bridge still gone.
Can't say I've been stuck in a dungeon on a Zelda game however for Ocarina Of Time I did miss out on 2 Heart Pieces permanently!! The first one was a 10lbs fish at the fishing pond!! I glitched it so I could get the Golden Scale instead!! I left then went back in and caught a 12lbs only to recieve 20 rupees!! Later on I found out the fish has to be at least 8 or 9lbs for this to work and to still get the Heart Piece!! I guess after 10lbs the prize is flagged!?
2nd time was digging with Dampe!! I was so impatient I kept going under the grave and coming back out hoping he'd dig up the Heart Piece!! Finally he did dig it up but I once again fell into the grave!! I tried again many hours after and several times after I said fuck it and just went on to finish the game!! Turns out once that Heart Piece is dug up it's flagged so it can't be dug up no more!!
These were on separate files both files I ended it with 19 and 3 pieces!! While still grabbing everything else!! If it's a game I love I'll 100% it everytime I revisit it and I love Ocarina Of Time!!
I would like to state: in OOT 3D, I personally got soft locked by shimmying to the edge of a ledge and using the hookshot to get over to an area that SHOULD’VE been only accessible with the longshot. I then used a key on the door there and voilà, stuck in the water temple.
In Wind Waker GC, if you die during the fight against the 2 Darknuts in Hyrule Castle right before you head to Ganon's Tower, you respawn RIGHT at the start of the fight - with 3 hearts. The fight starts immediately as soon as you load, there is no way to escape it, and you don't have a chance to gather more hearts, potions, arrows etc. Even if you save/reset/load, the checkpoint remains at the start of the fight.
Keep in mind these are the strongest enemies in the game, their standard attack does 1 heart, their charged attack does 2 hearts, and the arena you fight in is VERY small, and the outside perimeter is flames that damages you if you touch it. Granted it is still possible to beat them, but it was exceedingly difficult for my younger self. I had to literally replay the entire game because I couldn't pull it off. Which really sucks because it's right at the end.
I have no idea if this was fixed in the remake but I have to imagine this was an oversight.
why not reset the game to the last save?
@@LetsPlayNintendoITA2023 When you get a game over, the game prompts you to save. That checkpoint is right at the very start of the fight, so you will always start there.
that fight was one of the reasons i loved wind waker over any other zelda. the parry and dodge mechanics in it let me beat that fight without a single hit. was fucking HARD, and i loved it.
@@pulsefel9210 about time the game got some difficulty on it besides the pit of 100 trials
This week I discovered it is actually possible to get permanently stuck in the water temple if you get the hover OOT’s first and use them to get the boss key right away. You can get one more key from there, but if you use it on the first floating platform locked door you can not progress at all. Unless you glitch of course.
The angler tunnel only soft locks you if yoy don't know about any of the glitches in Links Awakening. If you hit the select button as you're transitioning from one room to another room, and then unpause you'll screen wrap and warp to the other side. You can use this glitch to free yourself and ever further use it to beat the game without collecting any of the dungeon item and without fighting most of the bosses
i could have sworn it was possible to softlock in the windwaker hd wind temple by being taken by the hand at the same time as makar
I'm not sure about that one, but the earth temple has a glitch that can get medli stuck in a side room, completely softlocking you... Cause usually you put her on the switch to open the door and leave her there so the door stays open , you go in with the mirror shield and do what you need and move on, but somehow she can just decide to follow you in there, locking her in forever
I remember the rumour where if you try to get the triforce charts, the one chart that drops from those pirate ship guys. The mini ones you have to bomb. But basically if you bomb them and don't get their treasures they leave behind and leave the screen. One of them will disappear, and never give you the treasure again after that. And the treasure giving you the triforce chart will be gone.
I don't think it is true though.
There is also the infamous softlock in skyward sword on wii. Where you basically do the thunderdragon's song first, talk to that one goron. And then try to get the other 2 songs. And the game will be stuck in that state. And now, if you have skyward sword on wii, and you don't have the skyward sword update channel, you can't even download that anymore to fix it. So you are basically stuck in the game now.
So if you are like me playing skyward sword on wii. You have to avoid that bug at all costs.
Not entirely true. Aside from the downloadable Skyward Sword update channel Nintendo back in the day also allowed users with crappy or no internet access the options to mail in your Wii (and they'd patch it for you and they'd mail the Wii back) or you could mail in the bugged physical disc itself in exchange for a reprint/replacement physical disc in the mail where the glitch was patched on disc. Subsequent restocks in stores after the initial release were also the new patched physical disc. If you can track down and purchase one of those later printed discs where the glitch was patched you can salvage your save that way.
@@josephjones7828 Yah I didn't know that. My copy is the collector's copy. So I know mine has the bug. And I am not trading that for anything.
But it can be very difficult to get out of either way. I mean, you only have that option of finding someone with a patched version now. Doubt nintendo is taking mail ins for wiis and wii games anymore lol.
Nice vid bro, keep up the good work
Great video as always. I always thought I got softlocked in oots water temple before. Guess I just missed a key.
It's actually possible to get stuck outside of the Angler entrance in Links awakening also. Using a glitch in the first dungeon you can travel to the inside if Anglers dungeon. If you enter any of the dungeons staircases it will fix the glitch. Then exit out if the dungeon. Since we never got anglers key. The waterfall is still there and you can't enter back into the dungeon to get the flippers. If you save at this point you are stuck.
I might be creating memories, but I vividly remember being stuck in the Water Temple in OoT...
In a link to the past you can teleport out of a dungeon using the mirror I think before picking up the medallion after killing the boss. You can continue the game, but once you reach Gannon’s castle it won’t open.I found that out the hard way when I as a kid.
My first thought is Twilight Pricess's Hyrule Castle. There is an extra key on the map for a secret room, but I believe I remember you can waste that key to screw with the key order.
Really interesting stuff. It's cool to see people figure this stuff out!
Yes! Absolutely fascinating man!!!
I would guess Zelda 2 probably have such scenarios as you can take keys from one dungeon to another one.
yep. one dungeon doesnt contain enough keys as youre suppose to bring them from another. but if you complete a dungeon you cant go back in, and if you didnt get all the keys youre sol
@pulsefel9210 I seem to recall dungeons ONLY turn to stone once they're full cleared?
@@CybeastID full clear for the game is boss defeated. all rooms explored and all keys gathered is not.
snowpeak ruins you can get a freeze if you open a door from the wrong side. skull woods you can get a soft lock but you can save/quit and there is a freeze bug when exiting with the somaria block on a weighted floor switch.
Theres also a way to get softlocked i the swamp palace in a link between worlds.
Link can get stuck, infinitely trying to go up a set of stairs if you try to do a boss skip glitch wrong.
I’ve actually thought about this. Thank you for creating this video.
Dungeons in Zelda are usually more linear than they appear, presumably for this very reason. It will appear at first that there are many ways to go, but then upon closer inspection you will find you are unable to go many of the ways you thought you could until you first do something you hadn't done yet. Personally, I would like to see universal keys sold in shops, akin to Zelda 1, made a comeback
You can still manage to escape the softlock by just using Bomb Triggers to destroy the pillars instead. You can also still cross that gap in Angler's by using a technique called a Jesus Jump.
I got stuck in Zelda 2 before. Couldn't find my way through the first dungeon and wandered out and into the 2nd dungeon. I ran through what I could but ran out of keys and needed the item from the first dungeon to progress. Pretty sure I was screwed from then on.
I also got stuck in that first dungeon. There really is a softlock there because of keys misuse
In OOT I went to Gerudo before Shadow Temple. A bit in the Gerudo training I think there is a place where you need the hover boots. I didnt have them so tried to go back but there was no way to get up to the door I came through some rooms before. At least it was very difficult to understand how to get out of there so I consider it that I got stuck.
With that you can just save and quit though, if you save with no way to progress due to using keys in the wrong way, you’re soft locked and can’t continue the game with glitches or cheats.
You do not need the Hover Boots for anything at all in the Gerudo area. In fact the Shadow Temple is meant to be done after the Spirit Temple if we go by the order of the medallions.
@@CaptainFalcoyd there isn't really an intended order between shadow/spirit. plus, the game kind of guides you to do shadow first since you need the lens to know the path to get to spirit.
@@CaptainFalcoyd That's true, but I think the design of the Quest Status Screen is an artifact from when Mido was the Sage of Darkness. Navi directs you to the Shadow Temple before the Spirit Temple. If you complete the first four temples without having gotten the Gerudo Token, Navi's advice will be to investigate the desert for clues about Ganondorf.
That's an actual softlock: you're locked but quitting lets you continue. Many people now use softlock to mean a hardlock, which is when only file deletion works.
always wondered this, thanks for making a vid about it!
I remember that in my second play through of the Link’s Awakening remake, while I was playing through Turtle Rock, I got the key that you are supposed to use on the door that needs you to jump across the 1 tile lava river, but instead I went down and used it on the door that leads into a series of dark rooms. After that, I couldn’t find a way to progress and I couldn’t find any small keys I could get and eventually just reset. I know it was probably just me being dumb, but I thought it was funny
i was thinking turtle rock too that also made me hard stuck and had to reset
If you use Minish Cap's Ocarina glitch to access Palace of Winds before clearing Cloud Tops you can get stuck in the dungeon (and the area right outside). However this is only in the EU version of the game as you can use the Ocarina to warp away in other versions.
The eagle Tower glitch happened to me as a kid and I remember being so upset
I feel like I might have accidentally did the anglers tunnel one because I remember being mega stuck in there unable to access the mini boss...
Eagle's Tower soft lock happened to me on a non-DX I was borrowing, so I didn't finish it until I got my own DX copy later.
I did however bork my OoT save in the Water Temple on my first playthrough because I learned the bottle swap trick from a magazine, turned my hookshot into a bottle... and saved. Would have been trivial to fix with a Gameshark Pro v3.2+, but those weren't even out yet.
Lol that's incredible haha
Here is a trick I use for Water temple. When you enter the Water Temple it will at the high level. Use iron boots lower water level get the one key. Now save and end game. Come back in and go to the edge of platform, right to the edge. Jump to second level of the tower, run to where two torches are. Use Dins Fire and go in. Get key in basement, water you will have two keys. Go through door and go back to where you meet the Zora float to second level and use bomb to get 3rd key. Now there is one more key that is easy to find. The statue with the crystal in it mouth. Now you have four key. You now only need the key after the long shot is found. You can finish dungeon now after that key!
Yup happened to me in the water temple as a kid. If you go through the path on the right then say, go to bed while you have 1 key, then forget you didn't finish the right path and go left instead... softlock.
The water temple key is after you drain all the water and go around the rooms at the bottom you raise the water lvl by one but you have to go back down to the bottom room and swim up and bomb a wall. At least thats the one i always forget. Or if its your first time its probably the block that floats up in the middle thing
Death Mountain, _The Legend of Zelda._ If you're not willing to buy keys and you never found the Magic Key, _and_ you incessantly open _every_ locked door you come across, you can get permanently "stuck".
I've hardlocked myself in Link's Awakening in the dungeon with the iron boots. I didn't collect the iron boots, and wasted my keys on doors that I weren't supposed to. I made use of the speed boots and the feather to cross water that wasn't intended to be crossed (I think). That was as far as I got in Link's Awakening, cuz the only way I'd be able to continue was starting a new save.
The original Link's awakening has his third dungeon (the key cavern) infamous for the potential softlock you can have to a lack of keys (this issue has been patch in the DX and Switch versions)
If you open the door where is the boss key instead of opening the central pillar in the water temple of ocarina of time, you get permanently stuck unless you cheat. You can find more keys, but the last one to open the door to Dark Link is after Dark Link, and theres no way to get to that chest without cheats. (Ocarina of time v1.0 N64)
There is another, Zelda 2. Get keys from another dungeon, use them in a different dungeon without picking up keys, beat the dungeon, and then it turns to stone with unobtainable keys. Game over, the return of Ganon.
Funny, I never got to the Anglers Temple on the original Game Boy version, but I just played all the way through it on Switch a few months ago, and I remember this spot very well. I even tried to make that jump a couple of times without any clue about this.
You can get stuck in the first Dark World dungeon in A Link to the Past if you save and quit at the wrong point
I remember getting stuck in Link's Awakening, but it was not at the dungeons mentioned. It was Bottle Grotto. I had somehow spent all my keys before getting the Power Bracelet, which trapped me. I want to say the DX version fixed an oversight from the original, but I never wanted to find out after that experience.
Twilight Princess early master sword can lock you out of Goron Mines. I know it’s not getting stuck “in” the dungeon but kinda close?
You can get stuck in Dungeon 5 of the original Legend of Zelda by taking the underground passage without any keys and when you emerge, push the block to the right to cut off the way back.
6:20 and potentially solved with a glitch. Theoretically you could get around it with the Doghouse Glitch... unsure how well that's mapped out. I mostly just know it since you can walk to the end of the game.
in the wind ruins of minish cap theres a point where you gotta use your one key on either a path to the left or the path to the right. one of the paths results in you not having enough keys to open the other path. i just dont remember which one it is.
I got stuck with the key in water dungeon and what I did was backtrack through the old dungeons till found a key and warped out and the keys from old dungeons carry over to water dungeon
Original link's awakening gave a secret seashell as one of the rewards for collecting secret seashells. Collect too many, and you skip it.
That chest still contains 20 rupees. You just have to make a mental note to go to that staircase with all the holes while you still have the flying rooster available to you. If you already have 20 shells. You can just go there with the rooster and get the 20 rupees instead. This is what I do because I am a completionist.
The Link's Awakening glitches are probably not permanent, at least in the original Gameboy edition, because the original edition and ONLY the original edition has the Screen Warp glitch which allows you to instantly warp to the opposite side of the next screen scroll. This allows for door and wall bypasses, among other amusing glitches such as transforming all enemy sprites into Marin which will then try to murder you.
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While it did use a bunch of glitches I accidentally managed to get softlocked in the spirit temple in oot 3d master quest while doing the adult and child dungeons with the other form of Link. There is a giant block you can push into a hole and inside that hole is a switch you would shoot for a key so I managed to block it off early and ended up keyless just before finishing the dungeon.
You can get stuck in the water temple. I’ve done it personally also in links awakening. When I was about 10 years old. I got stuck on what look like Eagle tower but it’s when you enter the tower, the ladder disappears, and then I exited the dungeon right away, and I just got stuck because the door shut behind me and the ladder was gone so I was stuck on the edge.
To scape in links awakening whit a bug called Screen warping:
Go to the very edge of a screen that you can walk to another screen from.
Move towards the edge of the screen and just before it begins to scroll press "Select".
Press "Select" again to get rid of the map and you should now be on the new screen but in the same place you were on the old one.
i was hoping this video would validate me seemingly getting softlocked out of reaching the clawshot in lakebed temple but i may just be stupid
I swear there's a way you can get soft locked in level eight, Turtle Rock, of the original Game Boy release of Link's Awakening if you use the keys in the wrong order. It happened in one of my games, but that was over two decades ago, and it's possible that I just missed a key.
Btw there is a way in the original wii version of Skyward Sword to softlock the game and it'd not even in a dungeon. Apparently if you talk to Gondo the Goron found in Lanayru Mine, this actually has to be at a certain Pont in the game where he is found out near the cliffside near the start of Lanayru Desert. Talking to him before getting a single part of the song of the hero will not allow you to activate the Eldon Volcano Eruption scene. Therefore permenatly shutting you out of beating the game.
And yes before people comment and say it, there is a channel that fixes the glitch. But if you don't download it before attempting to play all the way through the game, you'll encounter the glitch.
Wasnt there a glitch/bug in the original skyward sword where doing some things in a specific order made the game progress messed up? You needed a special channel installed on the wii to fix the savegame
i got stuck in one of the dungeons in the first legend of zelda on NES. there is a trap room where the door closes behind you and the only way to get out is to bomb through the wall, if you have bombs. without bombs you can use the candle and run into the flame until your health runs out, or use the 2nd player control to force the save/retry screen.
Okay, I honestly would like to know if this was just a 'me' thing, but in Master Quest on the Gamecube, not once, not twice, but 5 times I ended up running into a permalock in Bottom of the Well. Since there are 3 different paths to the 3 dead hands which all require keys, one is the map, another the compass, and one the lens of truth which is why you are there in the first place. My problem was in MQ that only some of the keys you could 'get' without serious trial and error. (One of them was on top of a series of invisible platforms that from what I could tell had no way to 'cheat' to actually make them visible, and if you fell you ended up in the basement and had to make a several minute long loop to get back up). And inevitably I would get enough keys to unlock one of the paths, and fought one of the dead hands, but every single time it was either the map or the compass (usually the compass). I never could find a feasible way to get every key without the eye of truth :/
I actually got stuck in Angler’s Tunnel on the original Link’s Awakening. I was probably around 10 and once I realized that something was off, I immediately saved and quit like an idiot. Had to start a new file after spending about an hour going over every possible location I could access.
I once permanently soft locked my save file on the Wii version of Twilight Princess by saving the game and quitting after watching the reveal of the Sky Canon from Oocoo, but not talking to him to use it (and save-quit for the night).
I think that was it. Got the game in a state where the text options didnt allow progression.
Man I only heard of this one. But I had the gamecube version.
@@qunt100 its not version exclusive.
ALttP has an inversion - in the Swamp you can miss out on some rooms, because there are some treasure rooms.
I remember I once softlocked myself in Lakebed in Twilight Princess. I somehow managed to fall to a spot that you normally need the clawshot for and use a key, but there was no key in there so I couldn't progress after that. Luckily, I didn't save so I managed to just reload.
I remember a rumor that in the original JP release of Links' Awakening in the OG Gameboy, you can get softlocked in the 3rd Dungeon: Key Cavern if you use the keys out of order and that it was fixed when the game was localized by adding an extra key which is why you always end up having a spare key in that level.
Never went back to check if it was true but it does sound believable at least.
This is partly true. The western release did add a new key to Key Cavern, but only so that you can always access all the side paths. In the Japanese release you can get permanently locked out of some of these side paths, but not the main path to the boss.
In actuality skipping those side paths and going straight to the boss is the most efficient way to approach the dungeon.
I remember getting Ocarina of Time towards the launch maybe the July after. I was able to softlock the water temple. My memory is a little fuzzy on how I actually ended up doing it but I believe it involves doing the block puzzle that's on the bottom level incorrectly. I blocked off a small key and ended up having to restart the entire game over again.
@@7gjkreeydtyd Oh this was with the walkthrough. I also managed to get my hands on a pretty thick paper walkthrough for it. Places around here loved selling them for cheap.
funny, there is a earlyer way in links awakening to get stuck, just by using keys in the wrong order in the swamp dungeon, where you need the chain chomp to enter. no wierd stuff needed, just opening the wrong door at the wrong time and your out of keys but have locked doors.
the dx version of angler’s dungeon 5th key block can still be accessed without the flippers but requires a damage boosted roc’s feather jump… i’ve done this many times… however it’s NOT a permanent stuck since the dx version has the hidden “Doghouse World” glitch and as long as certain chests are unopened the player can obtain the flippers a different way…
That damn rumor about soft locking the water temple made me reset the game 3 times. Turns out it was just that hidden room in the middle of the temple where the platform rises revealing a room. I strongly suspect that was the cause for most when it wasn't talked about much in the 3DS version and they had a cutscene showing where it is.
I very nearly got the iron ball softlock once, it was resting on the very edge of a pit that I would fall in if I tried to pick it up. I eventually managed to pick it up tho
a zelda fan worst nightmare is a like like eating the hylian shield...
And that stupid bird in Majora's Mask that steals your bottle
Impressive how well thought out these dungeons are that you have to really try to get soft locked.
Ugh, I remember jumping the water puddle without the flippers in Angler's Tunnel, and the despair that crept over me after I realized that my key to the flippers fell into the water that I couldn't swim in to get. Needless to say, I NEVER made that mistake again...
In the second quest of Zelda 1, it is possible to get stuck behind locked doors in one dungeon. Doing this requires actively avoiding keys, and it is not permanent because you can still Game Over or Up+A.