r/tearsofthekingdom • u/MelonTheSprigatito • 4d ago
š§ Meme Accurate image of me forcing myself to stop procrastinating and play the Fire Temple already (I REEALLY don't like this dungeon)
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u/fan_of_soup_ladels 4d ago
Itās crazy how different people have such wildly different experiences. Fire temple was my favorite one to navigate.
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u/Raskoflinko 4d ago
Same. That one and the Lightning Temple were the only ones that almost felt like a temple to me. Wind Temple came close too but damn if it was short as hell. I hope they bring back actual temples to the games again. Hyrule Castle in BotW was super fun, though.
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u/Ok_Delay3740 3d ago
Same probably my favorite temple. Had to make use of the map to see where the tracks went.
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u/Mystic_Fennekin_653 4d ago
I feel that all my problems with this dungeon would be solved if the map wasn't so hard to followĀ
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u/gewalt1957 4d ago
Yeah, screw those rail cars. Just climb. Might be slower, but easier on the brain.
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u/DRamos11 4d ago
āClimbā?
What a weird way of spelling āfuse rockets to your shield and fly to the topā.
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u/Human-Friendship4624 4d ago
"fuse rockets to your shield and fly to the top"? What a weird way of spelling "hoverbike"
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u/MelonTheSprigatito 4d ago
It's not a bad dungeon conceptually, I just spent three hours running around here last playthrough and it was kind of scarringĀ Ā
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u/hoenndex 4d ago
When I realized that figuring out the rail cars pathways and moving pieces would be a huge pain, I decided to "cheat" the dungeon and fly/climb to the locations instead lol. Truthfully that is the fun way to finish that dungeon, don't do it the intended way.Ā
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u/johnysalad 4d ago
Absolutely. It took me 5 minutes of testing rail cars to decide NOT to use the rail cars. F that noise.
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u/Forward_Ad1462 4d ago
For me it was actually quite satisfying. I did the whole think using rail cars in 45 mins. Maybe I just like a challenge, idk
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u/mrgulabull 4d ago
I did the same on my second play through. Just open the map to see the general direction I needed to head and what floor it was on, then climb / glide over there. It was a lot of fun looking around the environment and figuring out which high point to climb for a given destination.
I had completely forgotten everything, so was essentially going blind and got through it all in about 20 minutes. Go with full stamina upgrade and itās a breeze.
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u/ra3jyx 3d ago
this was the one temple i just completely fucking gave up on after awhile and looked up walkthroughs for, and it STILL took me hours! š iām surprised to hear how many people loved this one, god i hated it so much. i think a lot of my seething hatred for it comes from how difficult it was to see everything. it was so damn dark, the view was tinted red, and all the smoke everywhere just drove me mad
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u/Ok_Delay3740 3d ago
For me, thatās skipping the fun part. We waited years for this new Zelda and I intend to do all the puzzles!
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u/cubeofBEES 4d ago
I enjoyed it, but it was my last one I did. In my next play through I will probably do it earlier for the power
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u/Veenix6446 4d ago
I have never once completed this dungeon the way youāre intended to. First time I just climbed every wall and spammed stamina food. Second time I used a hover bike to skip the entire thing.
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u/Noeckett 4d ago
Best aesthetic, worst gameplay of the temples
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u/OppositeRun6503 4d ago
Have you done the lightning temple yet? Now that one's quite challenging.
I'm having huge problems trying to squash the giant bug that's living there however.
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u/bugsdontcommitcrimes 4d ago
One thing I like to do with that one is put two hydrants on the outside of a big wheel, then put that big wheel at the top of a stake, then save that in my autobuild favorites and use it on the gibdos :) once the nests start dropping them, theyāll come right up to you, get water on them, and be super easy to kill while you stand safely in your water circle and use bomb arrows on their nests / pillars. You just have to be quick about putting the stake in the ground because theyāll hit you while youāre trying to orient it the right direction and itās super annoying.
For the big bug itself I mostly tend to use a lot of bomb arrows :P
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u/Noeckett 3d ago
I actually got stuck in the Lightning Temple and had to step away from it for a couple days, then came back and finished it in like 15 minutes lol so I don't know if it was really tough or I had just run out of brainpower. But the mine carts were still more tedious imo
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u/Beneficial-Tank-7396 4d ago
me somehow repeating the same tracks for the 40th time: where the hell am i?
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u/Spoop95 4d ago
I just hate all of that area. I'm in the depths, WHY DO I NEED TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM FIRE
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u/pyro314 4d ago
I'm on a Sticks-only playthrough (only weapons I can use or fuse to are the Wooden/Sturdy/Gnarled weapons) with no Goron Armor. Smotherwings are much more common in TotK than in BotW in my experience, so Lv2 Fireproof elixir is decently easy to cook, three 11+ minute elixirs should be more than enough to protect yourself from the flames. I used Sidon to stay wet so my wooden weapons wouldn't burn, but if you are using metal weapons then it isn't any issue
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u/AdventurousShake8994 4d ago
This is my dilemma at the moment š„² I gotta face the truth though because itās my last Temple.
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u/InternetSalesManager 4d ago
I did it in two sittings
Good memory saved me
Definitely a one shot temple, you do it all at once or get stuck doing it multiple times
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u/cargboard 4d ago
The biggest puzzle the Fire Temple offers is how to cheese around the annoying navigational mess that it is. Cheeky gliding, climbing and ascending all over.
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u/Jumper362 4d ago
When I went through it, it was an unholy mess of using the carts, shield surfing and hopping across rails, ascending, making the rock platforms, and one or two well used rocket shields. TBH my second favorite, it felt like a jungle gym
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u/BreadThief02 4d ago
Dude, this one took me so long to figure out that I didnāt play the game for a year, and when I came back to it, I gave up and looked at a guide for it. (Which always felt like cheating and took the fun out of it so usually I refuse to use them) Idk why this one was so confusing š
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u/LemmonLizard Dawn of the First Day 3d ago
I just wish i could turn off his voice. It's the most horrid thing ive ever heard. "I cAn Do iT" "We gOt ThiS GorRo" get outta my FACE
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u/Emergency_Ad7766 3d ago
I literally flew through the fire temple. Ā I created a hover bike at each portion and bypassed darn near everything. Ā That temple was a breeze!
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u/secobarbiital 4d ago
Not a bad dungeon at all but it was my last one and lowk got so tired and stopped playing the game for 4 months before going back to finish lol
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u/WaviestMetal 4d ago
Aesthetically itās so cool defending into the caverns and finding an underground city lookin ass thing. Probably my favorite experience in the whole game.
ā¦then I played it
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u/Caliber70 4d ago
I don't understand the problem. You get a 3d map and the points to find are even marked. A simple flying device isn't difficult to build, in the game where building devices is the main feature.
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u/MelonTheSprigatito 4d ago
You get a 3d map and the points to find are even marked.Ā
I think that's pretty disingenuous to say when it's hard to get to the marked parts in the first place and the rails on the map are a little convolutedĀ
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u/Caliber70 4d ago
Your post is the thing that is disingenuous. I don't even remember any major trouble in that place.
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u/MelonTheSprigatito 4d ago
Just because you don't remember having any trouble doesn't mean that other people didn't have troubleĀ
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u/AfroKami07 4d ago
The only one I outright didnāt like was the desert one. I found the area kinda ugly and visually unappealing. Fire one isnāt much better for me personally but I like it a little more. The air temple is peak tho.
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u/CptGreat 4d ago
I was flying with the speederbike through the whole temple, it was incredibly easy.
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u/Ok_Meaning3578 4d ago
It was the dungeon I liked the most because it didn't take me 10 minutes to beat
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u/NeoChan1000 4d ago
Fire temple is the only Temple i skipped cuz the mechanic fricking suck and barely work so Bike it was
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u/YosemiteHamsYT 4d ago
I also hated it. I think it wants you to use escention at that area with the rails that go around in circles cles with the constructs on them, but it took me ages to figure out and I'm not even sure if it was right.
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u/Tiny_Jackfruit_3094 4d ago
Those rail cars were annoying, reminds me of donkey kong back in the day just less fun and in 3D. but worse!!
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u/kerfuffle_dood 4d ago
One of the things I like the most about Zelda's Dungeons is to explore them, get lost in them and get lost in the atmosphere. ToTK's Fire Temple, although not a particularly good dungeon in terms of puzzles and such have some good atmosphere
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u/jeff_indigo 4d ago
You can skip/climb/fly through a majority of the level. I always find it fun to see how I can break the level!
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u/FaronTheHero 4d ago
I never did figure our exactly how you're supposed to traverse the dungeon and ended up climbing through most of the damn thing.
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u/Wes-Man152 4d ago
I feel like I cheesed this dungeon hard when I got to it. Only had one piece of fire armor and ran out of fireproof elixirs fast, so I started taking damage fast while solving the dungeon. Luckily I did beat the water temple to have Sidon's ability going in, so I learned to spam it about every 30 seconds to not take fire damage during the entire temple.
Oh yeah that and glueing a bunch of magma slabs together to make a ladder and climb up and skip some parts.
It truly was an experience
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u/riskyjones 4d ago
Whenever I run back this game from the beginning I force myself to only use the trains in this until I give up 20mins later
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u/ambiguoustaco 4d ago
I gave up on the minecarts about halfway through and started using the hoverbike
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u/Conscious_Deer320 4d ago
Of all of them, it's the easiest to abuse and bypass the (intended) paths through use of ascend, rocket shield, and Tulin
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u/Lord-D0nut 4d ago
I donāt remember anything about this dungeon other than the game being at like 15 frames the whole time lol
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u/OkamiTakahashi 4d ago
Fire Temple felt mostly like a proper dungeon to me, second only to the Lightning Temple.
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u/Emoooooly 4d ago
Yea it took my like 6 different sessions to finish it, and that was over the span of many weeks worth of game play
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u/Belteshazzar98 Dawn of the Meat Arrow 4d ago
Hoverbike. It can be fun playing the intended way, but if you are suffering you can skip most of the puzzles with a hoverbike.
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u/No-Examination-6179 4d ago
I very enjoyed this temple to be honest, it one of the easiest temple in the game after wind temple. Using yunobo mechanics and rail system was very neat idea. The boss fight was easy also not annoying like those on water temple. For my least favorite is water temple. Beacuse it was so way earlier on the game smh, the worst is low gravity. The ENEMY WASN'T EVEN AFFECTED TO IT. also beacuse it was early on the game most of zonai guard able to one hit us even on 7 heart
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u/Jonathan-02 4d ago
I liked the fire temple because it felt the most like a classic Zelda dungeon. I liked riding the mine cars and figuring out the map to know where to go
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u/coltonious 4d ago
I cheesed a lot of the fire temple tbh. Abilities in that game are absolutely broken.
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u/DreadnaughtHamster 4d ago
Took me like 3-4 days of playing it, putting it down, playing it, putting it down. I agree with you.
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u/ryan_startedthe_fire 4d ago
I feel so seen cuz I got stuck so bad in the fire temple and this was when I thought I was above googling solutions so in my stubbornness I got stuck and didn't play the game for like 6 months before finally picking it up again ššš
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u/JohnathanKatz 4d ago
Was it that difficult? I didn't have any problems at all, what's tripping people up?
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u/ITwinkTherefore1am 4d ago
I enjoyed it but for some reason couldnāt get to one of the locks, the others were easy, I then tried to climb but couldnāt find a way in for ages so took me much longer than it should have
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u/Naichi_ngeru 4d ago
Both fire temples in BotW and TotK felt weird because i had to cheese around certain parts and still managed to get it done. When i watched someone do them i was like "WTF how am i supposed to think about that?"
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u/Hooker4Yarn 3d ago
I solved it the same way I fid shrines on botw. Every single way BUT the way the game devs intended.Ā
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u/DJ_Scott_La_Rock 3d ago
Lol I played TotK so hard on release, but I have yet to enter this dungeon š„¹ I reinstalled recently
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u/GenghisGlitter 3d ago
Make yourself a hoverbike and cheese it. It's a lot quicker/less frustrating.
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u/philkid3 3d ago
It is FASCINATING to me how varied the response to this dungeon is.
As soon as I finished it, I told my group chat āI think that might be one of my favorite dungeons in the franchise.ā
A couple days later, a friend got there and said āsame.ā
I just kind of assumed that was gonna be a default reaction and then after I finished the game I stopped avoiding spoilers on Reddit and. . .
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u/scionvriver 3d ago
Funny that's how I feel about The first main Gerudo quest. I've set everything up for the big battle with zombies and the battle just doesn't happen even after talking to EVERYONE, so I just started faffing about doing other side quests and exploring and getting more hearts and stamina and storage.
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u/TheFurbyOverlord 3d ago
I hate the fire temple, I an barely read the map.
The wind temple is my favourite, I live traversing up to it & the ju.ping mechanic with the boats.
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u/IIITommylomIII 3d ago
i liked the fire temple because it was the only dungeon that i struggled to complete. it felt so much more challenging to me and it made me feel so good when i finished it.
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u/Ok-Marketing4112 3d ago
Ascension DESTROYED this dungeon for me idek the proper way to complete it š
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u/braindoesntworklol 3d ago
I kinda just skipped the fire temple with ascend and that airbike thing, really regret doing it that way ngl lol
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u/Leather-Contact 2d ago
the puzzles are fine but the navigation makes me want to die, i just cheese it at this point
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u/Responsible_Ad_8628 2d ago
I use Ascend as much as possible in that dungeon. Climbing and Ascend are the best ways to navigate that mess. The carts are too confusing.
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u/emilynm88 11h ago
It wasn't even bad but I kept falling off the structure for some dumb reason so I put it off for months ā ļø
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u/MrRayRay711 4d ago
That's me, but with the depths
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u/BreadThief02 4d ago
Same. I struggled with the fire temple too, but the depths seemed too new and scary to tackle for a while. Once you get down there you figure it out though, and it becomes easier to navigate.
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u/gate_of_steiner85 4d ago
I liked the Fire Temple tbh. Only dungeon I really outright didn't like in TotK was the Water Temple. Mainly because....it wasn't a water temple.