Majora's Mask Part 4: Fun with Great Bay Temple

Your ride to the temple. 

So when last we spoke, some baby Zoras had just hatched and taught Link a song to get into the Great Bay Temple. Awesome. We take this song to their mom, Lulu, who is the singer of the Indigo-Gos. (You remember - the guitarist Zora who we turned into a mask was the guitarist.) She's lost her voice for a variety of reasons involving losing her eggs and the sea around Great Bay going all weird and cloudy lately, so if you play the song to her, she will magically get her voice back! Hooray!

Incidentally, the song also summons a giant turtle. You can hookshot onto its back and it'll take you to the temple. There's a little cutscene on the way of the lady pirates trying to approach the temple as well, but their ship gets caught up in a vortex protecting the temple and they get thrown into the sea. I guess they should have found a giant turtle, too.

The temple's layout is interesting in that it's largely mechanical - there are gears, propellers, water-wheels and spouts that are all part of the puzzles in this dungeon. It's also not my favorite. I find it a bit confusing, and while all the puzzles are well-integrated into the overall dungeon scheme, I hate having to backtrack to old rooms because I've turned a switch here or changed the direction of the water there. But hey, some people like that stuff, so whatever. You also get the ice arrows in this temple, which you use mainly to freeze jets of water in order to stop pieces of machinery from moving (allowing you to get to a new exit, usually.) There's also two fairly tricky sub-bosses and a water-based boss level, which is always an exciting time.

The boss itself is Gyorg, which is a giant fish. Not one of the more fun or creative bosses in Zelda history. Link stands on an island in the middle of a watery arena, and Gyorg occasionally rams the island which sometimes might make Link fall off of it and into the water. If you shoot Gyorg with an arrow, he is stunned and floats to the bottom. If you turn into Zora Link, you can jump in after him and zap him with your magical Zora shield, rinse and repeat. It can be a bit hairy because you're always convinced that while you're in the water he's going to eat you (which he does if you don't get out of the water fast enough,) but it's not difficult.

Once you beat Gyorg, the temple is finished! Hooray! Link gets Gyorg's remains. Back to psychedelic rainbow bubble land. Tatl gets all bitchy at this Roald Dahl giant because she's entitled like that and assumes that surely, only potato-like giants with giant green mustaches can save the world. It responds "help our friend," so we're off to the next temple.


Sorry for the briefness of this update! Next time - all the crap before we get to the Stone Tower Temple. There's a lot of it.