Even if you don't see the whole series, you need to *at least* see Something About the Forest Temple. It's something special.

I'm so happy you're checking out this series, they're all masterpieces. Also, "Many unbearable hours later." That one key took me a week to find, even with a walkthrough.

the water temple:a purgatory where link can never drown

This definitely seems like the kind of videos Zelda fans would love lol

9:31 That Staff is the cane of Sly Cooper, a PlayStation 2 steath game franchise about a thieving raccoon, and one of my favorite games as a kid. I recommend looking into it.

8:30 "It felt like something was getting closer to me" Wallmasters: "Hello"

All of his videos have post credits scenes, so make sure to watch it until the end :)

Quick suggestion, use the CC of the video they are a freaking gold mine on this videos!

Both I and my daughter love Terminal Montage's stuff. We have shirts of some of his creations. I'm so glad you reacted to this; you'll love his other videos.

For Dark Link you can try to spam attack without locking on to him, but it's kinda 50/50. I _think_ deku nuts can stun him for a bit? I don't remember cause I barely ever used them other than to force the forest temple ghosts reappear. More effective tactics are either use the spin attack, biggoron sword or megaton hammer (if I'm not mistaken he's entirely unable to block the hammer). I personally always used the biggoron sword so that's what I went with, but the hammer is the easiest way to cheese the fight. The real pain was that Dark Link's health mirrored your own (as in, your own total number of hearts) so if you had a max of 5 hearts he would die in 5 hits. But if you had unlocked a lot of hearts... Another gimmick of the fight is that he starts out semi transparent and slowly becomes clearer. At first he only mirrors your inputs, but once he's fully visible he starts attacking on his own (on top of still mirroring you)

8:22 fun fact: OoT music was made using free samples sounds discs, the one used for the forest temple theme is from a cd called "distorted reality"

Okay if your gonna be diving into the world of TerminalMontage theres some things you should be aware of: 1. The Something About series is multiple seasons long at this point, and across nearly every entry, even the small ones, theres an ongoing narrative. If you want to truly appreciate that narrative I recommend starting at the beginning and making sure you watch the post credits scenes. The seasonal recaps can be skipped, but there are a few shorter vids that are kinda important (one of ems like 6 seconds long if i recall). 2. A a couple years ago TM dropped Something About the Subspace Emissary, covering the story mode for Super Smash Bros Brawl, and a bunch of people unfamiliar with the series did reactions for it pretty much just cause it was a cool animation that was trending. However, this version is barely anything like the actual game because it was actually meant to be this grand finale to an arc that had been building up for 3 seasons, so most people were completely lost as to whats happening. You’re lucky, as the Water Temple vid is relatively self contained to just the ongoing Ocarina of Time mini-series, and doesnt contain any massive wider series spoilers. 3. With how popular the series has gotten hes probably indifferent now, but in the past TM has been… not fond of people doing reactions to his videos. He has been known to give people permission sometimes if they ask directly though, so it might be worth doing that just a courtesy. All that being said, enjoy the madness!

seeing more reactions to these things would be great.

the Something About series has a official playlist you can use to watch, theres even some continuity in some of the videos! :>

You should watch it again, but with the subtitles, they add SO much more comedy to what you’re watching 🤣

If you watch the rest of the series, please please PLEASE turn on captions, you won't regret it. They're custom made for these videos and they are HILARIOUS. (also, the way I usually beat Dark Link is by using Din's fire and the megaton hammer. Is it cheese? Yes. Does it work? Also yes.)

I thought i had somehow missed your reactions to one of my favorite series on KZfaq! I would absolutely love to see you watch at least the OoT videos and hopefully more of his stuff too. In a lot of the videos, there's cute and funny things hidden in the captions so definitely recommend having those on if you do continue these!

really enjoyed this reaction, would love to see more like this!

yes! you should react to his other zelda vids, they’re both absolutely hilarious but also weirdly accurate to how it feels to play. (also highly recommend watching with cc turned on for fun commentary). i’d love for you to react for the channel but even if you don’t you should still watch them because they’re an amazing love letter to the franchise. i got an n64 for my 6th birthday and zelda was my first console game, first fandom, and i’ve played it ever since

I loved the "how to get to goron city" video

Wasn't expecting you to react to these kinds of videos. They're honestly really funny, and I think you'd enjoy more of them!

Terminal Montage is my favorite animation channel on KZfaq every video they put out has me laughing to tears every time

I would love to see you react to more of this stuff ❤😂it was great!

Ooooh, love these videos! I hope you do more reactions. The BotW and TotK speedrun ones are absolute masterpieces.

The Kirby ones are my favorite, along with Subspace Emissary. That one is a must watch.

Having never played the game, I loved watching you commiserate with the frustration. I've played enough Zelda in general to know that before the internet, it was a completely different experience figuring out puzzles. Thank you for such a fun watch.

It's amazing how many rooms I recognized, how much of the layout I remember, despite having not played ocarina of time for the better part of a decade. Goofy nonsense aside they did such a great job of recreating the water temple. And god...I know the pain of missing that one key so well.

You're thinking of "The real pegend of Zelda". Those were glorious.

Everyone needs to watch that vid with subtitles on. It makes it so much funnier because there's added "script" of sorts, like from the little jumpy things in the water temple, as well as a thing about stress and its effects on the body when Link is looking for the last key.

Terminal Montage is a genius and fantastic animator. I would love to see more of his stuff on the channel!

YOU NEED TO BINGE THIS MANS ENTIRE CHANNEL, TM IS A WIZARD 🙌🔥🍻 also always put Captions on cuz he puts some hilarious things in them

You should totally do gaming videos of you playing LoZ games as they come out! I would've loved to see you play ToTK. Or even re-plays of older games like Ocarina!

First time around and I already love your vibe and style! It's great to see more people find out about TerminalMontage. Definitely recommend checking more of his stuff! 🎥 A lot of his series are great, but if I had to choose one, the Pokémon Battle Royale settings are a must see!

This was so funny and cute!! I would love to watch more!

This is very well done because I've never played a Zelda game and this still was pretty funny

'Mosco runs out of the tomb as fast as she can' Redead: You can run, but I'll still be in your nightmares!

Others have probably said but the "staff" was from Sly Cooper. For Dark Link when I first played it I resorted to using Din's Fire over and over to kill him. The Megaton Hammer works nicely if you don't lock into him. And several years ago when I was practising for a Speedrun I challenged myself with a "No Hit, No Shield, Dark Link Master Sword only" Which is one of the most difficult things I have done in gaming and something I am very proud of. Glad you enjoyed this. I thought it was really funny too and perfectly encapsulated the experience of this Temple.

Yes you have to do more I want to see you reaction to Ganondorf

Love that the boots menu thing is from the N64 Where on the 3ds had you just pressing a button to switch it out

I always use Din’s Fire for Dark Link. But it does require at least two bottles’ worth of green potion. Megaton hammer also works

That was a nice lil video ah nostalgia

It does not matter either to how many times you've played through the game and gone through the WT, you will ALWAYS forget at least one key somewhere in a room you have likely already been.

I think my favorite jokes are the item change in the pause menu every time it's brought up, like at 4:20(original video time) when the blue tunic is changed to Alice dress in Alalice Madness Returns. Also, for Dark Link, apparently he would also copy your life bar when you enter the fight, so you could enter low life and make the fight easy. Never got to test it tho.

The main reason so many, including myself in the 90's developed anxiety from water levels. Ocarnia of Time's Water Temples are up there with Sonic and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Terminal Montage is a lot of fun. All videos have one (sometimes two) post-credit scenes (which you missed for this video) that tend to link together and form arcing narratives. One big arc culminated with the Subspace Emissary episode. If you want to get the most out of those narratives, you may want to watch them in order and don’t miss the post-credit scenes. And note, the characters are his versions of the characters. Have fun!

I played Ocarina religiously as a kid, to the point I had the shadow link fight down to a science. You use the hammer, and you smack him with it, he'd fall off the map and appear behind you, so if you got the timing right, you could turn and swing and hit him again before he could get ready to block or attack him. Rinse and repeat

More of this please and thank you

My childhood strategy for the Dark Link fight was to use Din's fire and bring a bunch of green potions to refil my magic meter.

I really hope that you react to the series and videos that this channel has, you are going to have a lot of fun with its parodies or as they also call it "something about".

I think I know the flash animation you're talking about! It was called "The Real legend of Zelda". I think it only got as far as the water temple, unless I just missed the rest of it.

There's a trick to the shadow link fight: don't lock on and it suddenly becomes much easier (still not easy but he doesn't perfectly copy or counter literally all your moves). He hard counters both lock on and most items.

The art style reminds me of Starcrafts (Starcraft parody video series). Those make jokes of common multiplayer interactions though, like zerglings zipping around and bullying other units, which in Starcrafts is depicted as zerglings being puppies that play very rough with their friends

Yes, I am interested. Please react to some more if these. Unlike the other shows where you are trying to figure out what's going to happen next, this was just you relating and enjoying someone else relating to everything you went through in the game in a fun way. I would love to see more of you enjoying this in a been there and hated that sort of way.

There are a LOT of good videos on that channel. I'd love to see you react to some more of them.

For Dark Link, the method I used was Din's Fire. Bring a magic potion and the fight becomes entirely trivial.

The staff is from Sly Cooper, the animator loves to slip in other nostalgic game items to the backgrounds, or even full characters some times

All Terminalmontage animations are solid gold

TerminalMontage has done the fire temple, forest, water, 3 spiritual stones which is basically the first video they did if I remember, tears of kingdom, and breath of the wild.

If you'll do more TerminalMontage reactions, always turn captions on; he hides some references (and sometimes some facts) in them.

I would definitely recommend watching the whole channel's Something About series from the beginning. Not only will it add content to your channel, but then you'd get references like the animator's love for Geno from Super Mario RPG, especially Geno's costume in 9:32.

With TerminalMontage videos always active the captions

So hyped to see someone watching Terminal Montage's stuff. I'd highly suggest the Pokemon ones, even if you're not a Pokemon fan.

In the menu it kept making references to other games like slycooper assassins creed and many other

He has so many Zelda kids I'm sure you will love them!

I'm someone who knows terminal montage and he usually hades stuff at the very end in videos and the captions (the captions make its so much funnier)

Now I suggest this knowing full well how few people react to it, but various videos by JelloApocalypse would be amazing and even if you don’t do a video on them I think you’d love them. And Jello deserves so much more recognition than just for his “This is Basically…” series. Specifically his “Pokémon Dogs in Love” parts 1 & 2, “Sky Pirate Girlfriends”, and “Are You Ready To Buy?” videos are comedy gold.

The 3DS remake of Ocarine of Time made the Water Temple a lot more bearable. The biggest quality of life change was that the Iron Boots (and Hover Boots) were changed to basic equippable items, so you can put them on and off at the press of a button! The other things they did were color code the symbols that change the water level, and add a cutscene showing the secret path here (8:48).

First time I ever beat dark link I got a load of stamina potions and just spammed dins fire over and over

I know what it feels to open the menu and set the boots. The 3DS remake made a huge quality of life improvement by making the boots an equipable item.

I remember for Shadow Link I just kept clashing swords against him til I could get hits in.. That and Din's flame was my savior!

10:46 I just used Din's Fire. It's so interesting seeing no one SPAM Din's Fire but its a sure fire way to win against Dark Link and even the Iron Knuckles.

Yeah the parody animation where in the end credits link pulldance is from "The Real Legend of Zelda". I believe that one currently reached the water temple too. But Terminal Montage do crazy random animations with speedrun aspects and chaotically well made of lots of games. So you should see his videos, they are a bless that eradicates boredom XDc

How I beat Shadow Link was after 20 minutes of me dancing around with him. I had so little health left and I gotten so dejected that I stopped using my sword. I brought out the megaton hammer and just kept swinging. I won but just barely. I had like a sliver of health left, I found hearts shortly after but still. My memories of that are still very clear. I never did beat this temple but I know I beat Shadow Link.

you have to react to this again with the subtitles on because they put hidden messages in there. Also at 10:50 shadow Link was easy just don't lock on and then spam attacks and spin attacks and shadow won't block.

In order to beat shadow Link, I always do the side quest to get the Big Goron sword. I have never tried to beat shadow Link without it....

If you're interested in reacting to more TM stuff I recommend turning on subtitles. It was less common in the older videos, but the newer ones always have tons of little jokes in there (the Water Temple one is full of them). Also, if you ever go beyond Zelda stuff (like the Mario speedruns, Smash Bros or Pokemon) I recommend going in chronological order as there is actually an overarching story going on between the vidoes (and a lot of it is in post-credit scenes, so make sure not to miss them). It's a really great and hilarious journey, I fully recommend.

I just remembered the Flash series you’re talking about! It was called The Real Legend of Zelda.

10:47 First time I beat him by spamming Din's Fire, 2nd playthrough I found out he really can't handle the Megaton Hammer and Biggoron Sword.

If you react to the other parts, which I really hope you will, I suggest putting the subtitles because they are hilarious.

I loaded up all my bottles with green potions and cheesed the hell out of the Dark Link battle with Din's Fire. I have no shame.

You should turn on closed captions for their videos if you do more in the future. There's lots of 'hidden' dialog. :P There's also usually stuff after their credits.

Beside the Zelda-series the animator also does Kirby animations with the running gag that Kirby is an extreme christian.

If you have not seen it yet, "the legend of lunk" is an absolute Zelda parody animation classic. It would make a great related reaction video

If you thought the redeads in Oot are frightening wait till you see the Windwaker redeads.

youll like pretty much everything from terminal mantage, something about sonic, kirby, star fox, megaman, metroid theres tons and its all gold

6:50 I think the animation you are refering to is "The Real Legend of Zelda", uploaded to KZfaq by a channel called TineTinTi. I also used to watch it way back when.

Yeah most of the videos have a post credits. My personal favourite TerminalMontage videos are Something About Super Metroid Animated Speedrun (If you ever watch it there's a multiple choice ending where you choose which one from the ending thumbnails) and the recent Donkey Kong Country 2 video. Extremely nostalgic.

Yep, totally used the Biggoron sword against Dark Link.

I beat the fight by backing up than moving forward immediately into a biggorons sword stab. It was super easy.

Their Kirby and Yoishi Island videos are great as well

13:45 You know that they say once you go black you're gonna need a wheelchair

Don't forget to turn on Closed captions. He likes to hide funny messages in them.

I’m most partial to his Pokémon Battle Royale videos that take the Pokédex entries literally, but Terminal Montage makes great stuff overall.

For Dark link I spammed the hammer and din's fire spell!

I was 16 when OoT first came out.

I spent days in the water temple.

Regarding your question 10:46 into the video, I'm sure most people would just say Din's Fire or the Megaton Hammer, but I myself found a completely different way to beat Dark Link. And, while I can't say for certain, I do believe this method was the intended method to defeat him: Don't Z-Target him. Yeah. Seriously. That's all you have to do. Don't Focus in on him like you do other enemies, and just ... attack whenever he gets near you. Really simple, yeah? But also ... if this was the intended way to fight him, it's kind of brilliant. Think about it. What does Dark Link represent, at least in this game? Well, he's a shadowy reflection of Link. He's Link's negative side, or his negative attributes. And if we, as people, tend to focus in on our negative attributes ... we get overwhelmed. Our negativity, our fears, our insecurities, our doubts, if we give them too much attention, they end up dissecting and scrutinizing our actions until we're basically incapable of defending ourselves. By contrast, if you minimize the amount of time you spend focusing on your problems, and instead allow for a much broader, much more open field of view, our options for dealing with these negative aspects greatly increases. But, I do admit I could just be reading too deep into what is essentially a mid-boss.

I beat Dark Link by using the Big Goron Sword, it pierces all his defenses and he can't jump on top when you forward thrust, therefore making it easier to beat him by using Z-Targeting.

There's more to this series!

Something About are always fun