Level Seven - The Demon

Underworld Entrance - Level VII

Is it really physically possible for a place like this to exist beneath a little pond?

All right, three dungeons to go and this game is through!  Hard to believe it.  For some reason or another, level seven is downright easy.  While it is huge, the path is straightforward, there is very little to find off the beaten path and on top of all that, the enemies present in this dungeon present little to no challenge.  There is only one room in this entire dungeon that irks me...where you face wallmasters and bubbles in the same room, and you must defeat the wallmasters in order to obtain a key.  Granted, wallmasters are stressful enough (no one wants to reset the dungeon to its original state and to be taken back to the origin point) but on top of that, to worry that you will be rendered weaponless and knocked into one of them by a bubble...yeah.  An irritating room, to say the least.  I think the major purpose for this room is to prepare you for the second quest, where more bubbles come into play...with worse effects.

Bless you.

I'm not digging for gold for you old man...

Second Bomb Upgrade

More explosive power?!  I can't wait!  Wait, you won't just give it to me?  Don't you know who I am and what I'm doing, old man...

In this dungeon you get another lame hint which leads you to the second bomb upgrade.  Granted, compared to latter games, the upgrades in this game aren't so great (8/12/16 as opposed to 30/60/90) but the usefulness of bombs is heightened in latter games as well...and I never needed anymore than 16, and only really needed the full sixteen in the final dungeon.  Either way, you eventually come upon this lovely creature blocking your path...

Unhappy Goriya

Why so serious?

So I don't know why this Goriya is grumbling or what he's grumbling about, but he's not letting anybody past him.  Maybe he's just having a bad day.  Then you give him the monster bait and he disappears?  Weird.  I guess Ganondorf doesn't feed his minions.  That's a bad mistake, isn't it?  Oh, well, all the better for us.T

Underworld Boss VII - Aquamentus

This has got to be a joke...

Topping off the lack of strong baddies in this dungeon and the overall lack of puzzles for us, this dungeon throws Aquamentus, the game's first boss, at us for our boss fight.  And us with twice the defensive power and three times the defensive power...and without that he was a joke.  This could barely even be called a boss fight, except that he was guarding the Triforce.  Really, this dungeon was a disappointment.  Dungeon six was difficult and then seven drops off completely, a breeze in the wind.

Triforce of Wisdom Piece #7

Sometimes I think getting this piece was just plain too easy...