Kakariko Village: Behind the scenes

Source article: Scary Moments in Zelda

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If one calls themselves a gamer and was born during the early 1990’s, and hasn’t played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, then shame on you. It’s easily one of the most memorable games to be launched on the Nintendo 64; one can even go as far as to say it’s one of the greatest games of all time. For those that don’t have the slightest clue of what this game entails, it follows a young boy and his trusted fairy companion through a cartoony, fantasy based land, called Hyrule. Being a kid’s game, Ocarina of Time is pretty bright and upbeat, that is until you get a sword that throws you seven years into the future, where a town of people you once shared laughs and memorable moments with, are turned into withering ghouls out to suck the very existence from your body and that’s not even the worst of it.

For those that have played long enough to have cleaned their soiled underwear, after getting into that fire engulfed tango with a volcano dragon in the fire temple, must be familiar with a cute little town called ‘Kakariko Village’. Remember that well in the center of the village? Neither do I, my brains still trying to recover from the horror it inflicted on my innocent soul. The game turns from throwing chickens, to plummeting you into floors constructed of fallacies into a stream of poisonous liquid that has protruding zombie hands, skeletal remains and a creature that only M. Night Shyamalan could imagine.

Scared yet? If not think back to that dungeon, there’s a room with a massive wooden X in the middle with a giant pool of blood at its base and prison cells surrounding it. Any child would most likely be too young to know that the massive X is actually called St. Andrew’s cross, named after the man that was brutally crucified on it. The dungeon is an ancient torture chamber, filled with the souls of the departed, all placed underneath a cute village with people that are none the wiser.

How on earth the game is rated E for everyone, is probably one of the greatest mysterious on the planet. Reanimated dead, apparitions, torture devices and blood, all they were missing were a couple F bombs from Navi then they would have had their next ‘Conker’s Bad Fur Day’.