What, for me, was a well-designed romp with a fun gimmick and a kickass mini-boss (okay, I might be projecting some of those bigger thoughts onto my five-year-old mind), appears to have been torture for other people akin to repeatedly bashing your head against a wall.įrom my understanding, it mostly boils down to the Iron Boots and the laboriousness of putting them on via the menu (something that the 3D remake would gloriously fix with its touchscreen inventory), but that doesn't seem to have stopped the reception to the Water Temple being a dark mark on the game's otherwise pretty spotless record. It wasn't until I was a good bit older and was introduced to the big bad world of the internet and social media that I found out that I was somewhat in the minority when it came to the Water Temple.
