Legend of Zelda Zelda moments that legitimately scared you

[Player-1]

I was pretty scared when the gate closed in OoT and I was left in the field with the skeletons the whole night

 

[resTy]

Scariest moment for me was when I played Wind Waker for 20 hours straight and my dog came in stomping about and pulled the plug for the TV. I was afraid the Gamecube's plug came out too. Luckily it didn't. Scared me to death >.<

In game though, when you talk to the Mask Guy in Majora's Mask after you fail to recover Majora's Mask. He gets all pissed and his face/eyes go crazy and he acts crazy and it scarred me for life. I'm still scared of that scene.

 

[IYM!]

the song of Clock town in the third day is very perturbing the first time

 

[Gatlin]

Other than the redeads, the only other thing that I really didn't find too pleasant were the wallmaster hands that fell from the ceiling to grab you. Especially when I was younger... You'd have to pay me just to beat the Forest Temple in OoT just because it had the wallmasters.

 

[TimeTemporal]

On a subsequent playthrough of oot, I journeyed down the bottom of the Well. Listening to the music, I noticed that there were bongos playing. Somehow not making the connection before, vivid images flashed of Bongo Bongo playing his drums, lurking, just waiting to escape the well. Creepy, improved the atmosphere, and just goes to show how often I played on mute.
And yeah, the Forest Temple was scary my first trip too. N64 Zelda's just nailed atmosphere, didn't they?

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

That, and fighting to a big hand (those that splits into 3 when you kill it while its bit).

Other than the redeads, the only other thing that I really didn't find too pleasant were the wallmaster hands that fell from the ceiling to grab you. Especially when I was younger... You'd have to pay me just to beat the Forest Temple in OoT just because it had the wallmasters.

Right, Wallmaster, I didn't remember its name. lol
Also when I was younger though.

 

[Hitman Dread]

the screaming guy from twlight

 

[IYM!]

the sreaming guy???

can you be more specific, i dont remember a screaming guy....

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

I've never been scared once in a Zelda game.

 

[IYM!]

you havent played Oot then


and nice avatar

 

[Luigitoilet]

I've never been scared once in a Zelda game.

Your location is really annoying.

 

[Gowa]

the screaming guy from twlight

the sreaming guy???

can you be more specific, i dont remember a screaming guy....

I'm pretty sure Hitman Dread is referring to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPuiS3-TWs

or maybe someone else

 

[Luigitoilet]

clearly he means this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFqrtKnpU0&feature=related

 

[WaffleBlaster]

The NOT TAKE MIRROR in the mansion in TP and the first time you put on the deku/goron/zora masks in MM. Oh, and does creeping out count? If so, then the TP clowns.

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

you havent played Oot then


and nice avatar

Or maybe he was not a kid when he played it, as most of us were.

Spoiler

assumption

Also:

Your location is really annoying.

Yes, it is.

 

[Problem2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8lKrQ0Z88&feature=related D: I'll never ever ever steal again. Even in a video game.

 

[Luigitoilet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8lKrQ0Z88&feature=related D: I'll never ever ever steal again. Even in a video game.

Yeah, and after that everyone in the game calls you THIEF regardless of what your name was before. pretty hilarious.

I always stole the shovel, I think.

 

[Anth0ny]

all of majora's mask.

Now that I understand the themes and emotions it portrays...

 

[Gatlin]

Even some of the music in Majora's Mask was eerie

For example...

 

[mystery_dungeon]

Even some of the music in Majora's Mask was eerie

For example...

Now that you think about it, this song was depressing, and with the moon a few hundred feet away (and dropping) didn't help matters at all.

 

[IYM!]

Even some of the music in Majora's Mask was eerie

For example...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJwtj-nG6Jw&feature=related


now the song is creepy

 

[Gatlin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJwtj-nG6Jw&feature=related


now the song is creepy

Haha I saw that I am not sure, but I think the reversed sounds a lot creepier.

 

[SupaSairentoZ7℠]

In the Water Temple where you enter this large room with water. I was playing cautious and those annoying little Rays were making cherping noises that shocked me when I got close to the water.

 

[Fayte Isaac]

Moment that scared the crap outa me?
Ocarina of Time, first time i walked into Gohma's room (in the Great Deku Tree), looked up and saw the eye, then the spider dropped on teh ground (acute Arachnophobia anybody?)

 

[DJ Arcatek]

"Not take Mirror"

The Wall Masters and Redeads were scary as **** when I was younger, too.

 

[finalark]

"Not take Mirror"

I don't know, NOT TAKE MIRROR never really scared me nor got under my skin despite how it got to others. Mostly because I could see it coming due to the build up, if it happened spontaneously then it would have been scarier.

The Wall Masters and Redeads were scary as **** when I was younger, too.

I second this.

OoT was actually a pretty unnerving game when you're a kid (don't know about now, haven't played it in ages). I'll never forget the... "fun." I had exploring the Bottom of the Well.

 

[Fayte Isaac]

The Wall Masters and Redeads always scared the crap outa me XD
its stupid, but i was always (and still am) afraid of the Forest Temple just because of hte Twisted Hallway and that freakin Wall Master XD

 

[Super_Sonic8677]

The Kakariko Graveyard...the tomb where you learn the Sun's Song. I walked into the room with all the Redeads (Was 8-9 years old at the time) and as soon as I heard the moaning I was legitamately freaked out.

But then....





















YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!!

That God aweful scream...I dropped my controller and about screamed myself..then frantically grabbed it back off the floor and started mashing Everything. Trying not to cry I kept at it probably wore my control stick out a bit early lol tried and tried to break free, but to no avail.

chomp chomp crack chomp

Then Kid Link's poor lifeless body collapssed on the tomb floor... the redead standing over him.. in my head blood drooling out of it's mouth. I didn't touch the game again for the rest of the week.

The gif should be kid link, but you get the idea lol.

Years later I slaughter the B******* evertime I see em for scary the crap out of me even more than Megaman Legends back then.

 

[Gatlin]

Aside from Wallmasters and Redeads, these things scared me so much, I really have no idea hah. I would never go off the dirt path as a child, and I would always rush to get the Sun Song. Now they are fun to kill waiting for day

 

[VelociLink]

The Kakariko Graveyard...the tomb where you learn the Sun's Song. I walked into the room with all the Redeads (Was 8-9 years old at the time) and as soon as I heard the moaning I was legitamately freaked out.

That God aweful scream...I dropped my controller and about screamed myself..then frantically grabbed it back off the floor and started mashing Everything. Trying not to cry I kept at it probably wore my control stick out a bit early lol tried and tried to break free, but to no avail.

Ditto, I think I was playing the game at night, and I tried to run past the ReDead...bad idea.

The first time a skulltula swooped down from the ceiling, in the Great Deku tree, also shocked me (especially because I hate spiders); initially when I reached the boss, Gohma, I was terrified because I thought she'd be a giant spider - glad she wasn't. The Twilight Princess giant skulltulas unnerved me too, but surprisingly, I was fine with Armogohma.

 

[IYM!]

nice to see this trheat back


about armor gomha, well, i dont feel fear when i fight with her, i feel disgust, is just too disgusting

 

[Remzi]

OoT was just creepy as hell in general.

Ever try borrowing a mask from the salesman and coming back with not enough money to repay him? PETRIFYING.

That skultula house in kakriko was really freaky as well.

I remember not being able to sleep for a while because of poes and the great fairy.

Redeads, shadow temple, bottom of the well, etc also scared me ****less.

 

[Kuraudo]

Just wait. The Bottom of the Well and the Shadow Temple on the 3DS...

 

[ZERO...]

When I was five years old, my parents thought it would be completely appropriate to buy me Majora's Mask (I can't really blame them since they probably had no idea what some of the content was. However, some of the images on the back still do look like they'd be a bit unnerving for a five-year-old).

Well, at first it wasn't so bad. Oddly enough, I wasn't really scared of the moon, Skull Kid, or Happy Mask Salesman. I was, however, essentially afraid of everything else in the game. Skullutulas (I can never spell the name of these things correctly), anything that could attack you from the air, the Deku Guards surprising me by that shrill whistle when I didn't know that they would find me, Chuchus (That weird-looking face just looked really odd to me), and plenty of other things scared me. Gibdos, Pamela's half-Gibdo father, and Redeads (They danced!) didn't scare me, though

However, one thing, an NPC, scared me more than anything else ever could. I was still five years old at the time, and I was in the Stock Pot Inn at about three A.M. I walked into the restroom, and I saw that hand in the toilet. It looked kind of odd, so I rushed out. Over time, I somehow managed to develop a fear of it (don't ask why. I have no idea). I told a friend about it, and he was curious. I only said it came out at night, so he didn't know that it came out after twelve. He ended up going to the Stock Pot Inn at about 11:30 P.M. He was in the room at around 11:45 P.M. He asked where it was, and I didn't know myself (I had forgotten at the time). Then he went into first person view, looking for it. At that moment, it popped right out of the toilet. Grabbing at the TV screen with those black nails. That gigantic hand, grabbing for Link's face. I screamed and ran right out of the room.

It was pretty traumatic for me (as in, I had trouble going to the bathroom after midnight at my house until I was about eleven. I couldn't go to the bathroom in hotels at all until I was twelve). Even at fifteen, going to the bathroom passed twelve A.M. to 6 P.M. at hotels makes me really nervous. It's kind of sad really.

I swear that Majora's Mask scarred me for the rest of my life. However, it's now my favorite video game. I've done a three heart run of it, a three day run of it, and I plan to do a two day run of it eventually. However, I don't think I'll ever be able to complete a 100% run of it, considering that hand gives out a heart piece.... Hopefully I'll get over it one day.

Well, I typed quite a bit more than I intended to.

Tl;dr, My parents bought me Majora's Mask when I was five years old. I discovered the hand in toilet. When my friend went to see it, he went into first person view. It popped out and scared the crap out of my five-year-old self.

 

[tera twin]

I always thought it was funny the hand had the same voice as Mikau

 

[lanky_gunner]

Beneath the Well in OoT still gives me shivers to this day.

Something about a constant fear of turning the corner and seeing a Redead or a Wallmaster...or fighting the mini-boss for the Lens of Truth.

Ugh...

 

[Soldner Kei]

Shadow Temple and Bottom of the well were pretty scary back then when I first played the game, then Tingle... that guy scares me in the wrong way

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

then Tingle... that guy scares me in the wrong way

I thought I was the only one who disliked that guy.
xD

 

[lanky_gunner]

I think a lot of us dislike him.

But I'm sure not a whole lot are scared of him...

 

[Luigitoilet]

Tingle validates my existence, he makes life worth living. When I wake up in the morning I see the Tingle and I smile.