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The underground part of the ancient cistern in skyward sword was spooky, especially with the zombie bokos

The nighttime raid by the aliens on Romani Ranch in Majora's Mask was probably even more unsettling to me as a child than the Shadow Temple. The music that plays during that event still gives me chills.

The lost woods in the wilds era is like a more realistic version of the idea of the earlier ones with how the lore is really kinda unnerving. Doesn’t sugar coat the getting lost with ”cheery music”


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16:44 the cabana basement in wind waker is my childhood fear for sure

Is it weird that as a kid, i never found the shadow temple remotely creepy, but was actively scared of the bottom of the well haha

Fun fact: shadow temple music theme has bongos playing as you are going through the temple. You hear it the moment you walk in.

The bongos stop playing when you defeat the boss. At least in the n64 version I played back then. I went back for heart peice searching during time that internet and game guides were hard to come by.

I would've put The Depths from Tears of the Kingdom as an honorable mention at least. Even with all the Light roots active, it's still fairly dark and eerie down there. Not to mention the terror of your first Frox encounter.

The strange laughter you hear when you take a wrong turn in the lost woods. Might be the sound of one of the Koroks.

This video was fantastic. The one honorable mention I think that deserved a shout out was the bottom half of the Ancient Cistern. The zombie bokoblins swarming as you climb the rope gets me every time.

To me, the forest temple is one of the eeriest places. But pretty much every place that felt "too far" from any store in-game feels like doom. Especially the stone tower when thinking of it's real size when looking down. Or above

12:25 Even worse when u consider the redeads are PROBABLY THE DEAD CITIZENS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE CASTLE TOWN ATTACK. Then due to Ganondorf's magic instead of being given bliss in death reunifying with the goddess Hylia (In my HC Skyloft from Skyward sword is like "Heaven" from Christianity/Judaism and after the people in Hyrule die they go to Skyloft and are able to communicate with Hylia if they so wish) they're forced to serve Ganondorf as redeads.

I've never been this early before! I just beat ToTK for the first time the other day so I'm only now getting back into watching lore videos. Very excited!!!

Admittedly I haven't played and/or completed every mainline LoZ game (I'm working on that), but Castle Town after Ganondorf's takeover always shook me. The Redeads already made me nervous whenever I encountered them but encountering them plus seeing CT in ruins along with the howl of the wind always scared me. This is coming from someone who played the Resident Evil remake, which looked pretty realistic for the time, first on GameCube before playing the less realistic looking OoT on GameCube.

One that is surprisingly creepy because it’s so serene in an uncomfortable, misplaced way is the moon in Majora’s Mask and the kids playing around the tree. It’s not creepy in a traditional sense, but to me there’s such an undercurrent of pending evil despite what appears to be a peaceful setting.

I have a really good theory for Arbiters Grounds. Supposedly it was built on top of the Spirit temple. So the desert colossus was probably unstable. Thus making the sinkholes. Which eventually becomes its appearance in Breath of the wild. Then when the Molduga moves in, it probably made the ground even more unstable, thus making its appearance in Tears of the kingdom, a giant quicksand patch. And I just go with the thought that the desert coliseum is the original building. And then the Underground graveyard right underneath as well.

Bottom of the Well and Wind Waker's Earth Temple. Also the Phantom Ganon's maze in Ganon's Tower (Wind Waker) and the Forest Temple.

obviously it’s not quite on the level as the hyrulian war crimes temple or anything in terms of like implication and atmosphere but i would like to offer an honourable mention to breath of the wild’s thyphlo ruins for making me anxious because i’m already bad at video games and then they had to take my visibility away

I would've put the Earth Temple from WW as at least an honorable mention. You can't tell me that the scream from the Redead of that game isn't bone-chilling on some level.