Twilight Princess: The cave of ordeals just ruined my day

WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS!

I was actually liking the cave of ordeals, esspecially when I found out that the great fairy was actually in this game! I made it past like three checkpoints (you know, those fairy fountains that don't have anything helpful) and was starting to get worried as my arrow supply was running low, my heart count was about half way down, and I just used my bottle of fairy tears that I was going to use on a special occasion. After I go past the third fountain (figured it would be useless turining back at this point) I get caught in this really annoying glitch where I was stuck in an ambush of 3 deku plants who would immediatly eat me as soon as I escaped. Then I had to fight those annoying skeleton guys that make everything go in slow motion when they get too close- and I was a wolf so I couldn't change back into a human because of the slow motion nonsense. That room left me with like 1.5 hearts. Two rooms later I used all of my bombs and arrows trying to kill those stupid ice guys that throw spears at you, only to get killed trying to kill 'em with my ball and chain. I don't care what people say, twilight princess is hard!

There wasn't much point to this other than to say, the cave of ordeals gets really lame after the first hour, and that twilight princess is much more challenging than most make it out to be. Anyone agree?

Recover arrows by luring the archers on the towers to shoot at you, then running side to side to avoid getting hit. Fire arrows last long enough to be picked up and added to your inventory.

Unlock all the abilities before you enter, if I couldn't shield bash I would have lost way before the final 10 floors.

Bomb arrows are your friend. 60 bombs X 3 bags is 180 of the second most powerful attack in the game.

Finally, finish as many side quests as you can stomach. You need nearly every item to finish the dungeon.

The cave is the best challenge Zelda offered, I still can't believe I played it for 50 hours in a single week.

The only parts about the difficulty that I found to be ridiculously easy were the boss battles; I don't find the game as "pathetically easy" as most say it is.Sure,the enemies could deliver a bit more damage and be a bit smarter,but it didn't get in the way of my enjoyment of the game.And the puzzles were just fine,and mostly met a "just right" difficulty for me.VGobbsesser

Completely agree. And even though the boss battles were generally easy, they were too much fun for me to care otherwise.

Anyways, the cave can get tough. It was very enjoyable, especially replaying it with minimal equipment upgrades and three hearts(i admit to not making it through with only 3 hearts and min equpid, but you may have inspired me to go give it another shot!!). I found the cave really proved how diverse link can be. Where i would have generally attacked baddies with my sword and sheild, in order to make it through the cave succesfully i ended up developing different strategies utilising different weapons to make my way through, like using the ball and chain against redeads. A worthy challenge, and a fun one!

And I actually found the Cave to be fun :). You just have to tread carefully and plan every attack (I'd also recommend getting the largest quiver and bomb bag)Ishboy12

There are some exploits to make the Cave of Ordeals relatively easy.This gives infinite bombs and arrows until you reset the game,and this one makes it so that you can pretty much walk through the entire thing with only defeating a fraction of the amount of enemies needed.

As VG was linking to, there is a trick so you can make it to the next room without defeating the enemies. Beware that they may follow you through though... [spoiler] use your boomerang to blow out the torches before hopping down. That will open the door in the next room. [/spoiler]

To defeat the "skeleton guys" (redeads, right?) use your ball-and-chain. You don't have to be very close to them at all. Fire it so it goes through them. It will hit them once on the extension of the ball on the chain, and hit them a second time upon retraction. You'll kill them from a distance with one action. They're not as scary when you approach it like that. Use the ball-and-chain on the ice guys too. First deal with the lancers and make sure to keep your shield up! Then deal with the wind-blowers.

Make sure you have all the quiver upgrades and don't use arrows when you can use other weapons. You can refill hearts in the cave by turning into a wolf and using your special dog vision to look for sparkly dig spots in each room.

TP was the easiest (possibly 2nd behind WW) Zelda by far. Yes, The CoO did present a challenge somewhat. But a sidequest (I would call it a side challenge) that does nothing but unlock more health that one doesn't need in the first place is just a disapointment imo.

That along with the Magic Armour/unlimited rupees fiasco made the game a non-contender when it could've went down as a good Zelda game.

The only thing that saved the game somewhat imo, was the story...and that was even flawed.

^^^

Never mind. Didn't realize that if you hit that spoiler thing stuff shows up. How do you do that?

Am I the only one that thinks that it's really funny that you used the fair tears that you were saving to get through the Cave of Ordeals and then didn't make it?

Sorry. But yeah, the Cave was difficult, I'll give you that. But that was only because you had to go through somany levels. None of the levels were very hard on their own. Nobody is ever like "Oh man, level 36 was the thoughest one. I thought level 19 was bad." Nothing about TP was ever difficult.

Am I the only one that thinks that it's really funny that you used the fair tears that you were saving to get through the Cave of Ordeals and then didn't make it?

Sorry. But yeah, the Cave was difficult, I'll give you that. But that was only because you had to go through somany levels. None of the levels were very hard on their own. Nobody is ever like "Oh man, level 36 was the thoughest one. I thought level 19 was bad." Nothing about TP was ever difficult.

Arc2012

Well the only reason I was saving it is because it seemed liked something that may be of use later on- it was a rare item and I figured that I was probably supposed to trade it with someone to get something. I don't know. It is kind of funny looking back, though. Not haha funny, but whatever. Glad my huge embarrasing failiure was of amusement to you :)

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Am I the only one that thinks that it's really funny that you used the fair tears that you were saving to get through the Cave of Ordeals and then didn't make it?

Sorry. But yeah, the Cave was difficult, I'll give you that. But that was only because you had to go through somany levels. None of the levels were very hard on their own. Nobody is ever like "Oh man, level 36 was the thoughest one. I thought level 19 was bad." Nothing about TP was ever difficult.

blankshore

Well the only reason I was saving it is because it seemed liked something that may be of use later on- it was a rare item and I figured that I was probably supposed to trade it with someone to get something. I don't know. It is kind of funny looking back, though. Not haha funny, but whatever. Glad my huge embarrasing failiure was of amusement to you :)

I found TP very tough but managed to complete it :) Some people may say its easy, but I really felt like I achieved something when I finished it because I have a really hard time solving puzzles based on logic and there's quite a few of those in TP :P

Recover arrows by luring the archers on the towers to shoot at you, then running side to side to avoid getting hit. Fire arrows last long enough to be picked up and added to your inventory.

Unlock all the abilities before you enter, if I couldn't shield bash I would have lost way before the final 10 floors.

Bomb arrows are your friend. 60 bombs X 3 bags is 180 of the second most powerful attack in the game.

Finally, finish as many side quests as you can stomach. You need nearly every item to finish the dungeon.

The cave is the best challenge Zelda offered, I still can't believe I played it for 50 hours in a single week.

SirSpudly

Indeed, this helps greatly! And be sure to max out your supplies before you enter. Maybe take a few fairies along just in case.

My big problem with TP is my save game takes me back to the begining of the cave I am in (the one with the lava) and I have to go through it all to try and complete it but I rarely get enough time to such a thing in one sitting and so give up trying to play the game. The save points should be the same at least as the checkpoints!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My big problem with TP is my save game takes me back to the begining of the cave I am in (the one with the lava) and I have to go through it all to try and complete it but I rarely get enough time to such a thing in one sitting and so give up trying to play the game. The save points should be the same at least as the checkpoints!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nomad0404

If you can, try to just pause it and leave the game running. If you're playing the Wii version, you're controllers will automatically shut-off so you won't be wasting battery power. That's what I do on occation and I doubt the Wii will overheat if it's stored in a well-ventilated location.

well, if you bring all the fairies you can, and a full inventory, the cave wouldn't be a problem at all.. The 49th floor is the trickiest one, I think, with the knight guys that we all love SOOO much (-_-')

But with the Magic Armor that you bought from Malo, you shouldn't even break a sweat:D if u haven't used it before, DON'T forget to fill up on your rupees before entering the cave, and try not to use it until that very last floor^^

well, if you bring all the fairies you can, and a full inventory, the cave wouldn't be a problem at all.. The 49th floor is the trickiest one, I think, with the knight guys that we all love SOOO much (-_-') Maromii

I used to have so much trouble with the darknuts. Then I actually figured out how to do the backslash attack I had "mastered". If you do that to them and get their armour off one at a time, they're easy as pie. Give me 20 darknuts and 10 redeads over those few ice lancers and 2 blowers any day!

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well, if you bring all the fairies you can, and a full inventory, the cave wouldn't be a problem at all.. The 49th floor is the trickiest one, I think, with the knight guys that we all love SOOO much (-_-') clicketyclick

I used to have so much trouble with the darknuts. Then I actually figured out how to do the backslash attack I had "mastered". If you do that to them and get their armour off one at a time, they're easy as pie. Give me 20 darknuts and 10 redeads over those few ice lancers and 2 blowers any day!

Heh,Dark Nuts are pushovers.:wink: