Can You Beat Shadow Temple First?

To get to the Shadow Temple, you need to complete the Forest, Fire, and Water Temples first. This is how to beat the Shadow Temple as your first adult dungeon.

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[DennisComella]

Fun fact: Bongo Bongo is the only boss that you cannot defeat with the Megaton Hammer. (Dead Hand is also immune.)

[askylibrarianoftheoceans]

And _that's_ how you can use the hoverslide trick in the water temple

[col.choros]

My favorite part of OOC is the rules that let you progress. All the Spiritual Stones? Go to Temple of Time. Forest, Fire, Water Temple? GO to Shadow. Just did Forest and Water? Go to Spirit (idr if the hammer is required once inside).

The Game only checks if the Spirit and Shadow Medallions have been acquired before the bridge to Ganon's castle appear, therefore with glitches you can skip the first 3 temples. Of course with glitches you can just bomb hover to Ganon's without any Temples complete.

[mario]

I sadly learned more from this video about Ocarina than most shitty google news articles on gaming that repost the same basic shit we've known for years I never knew you could just enter early like that and wall clip at the block puzzle section or even jump up onto the wheel of the boat.

[catspeakrightmeow]

No Bongo quick kill strats? Other than that awesome videos man, been loving them. I like how you actually explain each glitch and don't just say the name of it and move on. Even for simple stuff like ground jump, it's extremely helpful for newbies. I think it's very cool you are compiling all the tech in single videos and making OoT speedrunning more accessible!

[notmyname]

This is a great guide for OOT rando! Great work!
I see ZFG and other rando runners doing these tricks, so it's so cool to see an explanation and guide for how they work!

[lkjkhfggd]

You can go down the well early right? There's nothing stopping you other than learning song of storms. So you can get lens of truth and save a lot of the headache from not having it.

This makes me kinda wish they had made all five dungeons non-linear. Story-wise, there's not really any reason you need to complete any one of them before the others. It would probably have been enough for the game to encourage a play order but not enforce it. Though since completing later dungeons requires prior items, the dungeons would need alternative solutions to those puzzles (kind of like bombing the pillar at the end of shadow temple), or they'd have to make those puzzles optional to complete the dungeon.

[SuperM]

Last time I was this early I was young link

[TheSegacampGamerandWerecamp]

I figured it was still possible just as long as you get the Hover Boots since you get the Hover Boots in the Temple and if you know were the Invisible Platforms/Spikes are you don't need the Lens of Truth either!

[TheBeauSinclair]

Bro, I’m impressed and scared for how people find these kind of tricks o ur.

[Yes_lawl]

I just saw this video today. I just was playing on my 3DS OOT save and I did Shadow Temple first too for the hover boots because they’re OP

[DreamEaterMusic]

Now I gotta replay oot just to do this 😮‍💨

[theafronaut]

Currently playing through oot 3d and now I need to get a new oot n64 cart to try this out

[michaeldineen]

How did you become adult link without getting the light medallion?

[leahd]

I believe with the bomb flowers next to the tower you can just use arrows and shoot the top of it too.

[spyrochrisgaming]

If OoT was remade today, they would probably allow you to complete the dungeons in any order and this is what it'd probably be designed like, except you wouldn't need glitches. Neat?

[izayajones]

For the boss key room, I don't even jump slash. I just hold forward at the spike wall and eventually get pulled through. Does jump slashing there save time or make you take less damage?

[TheSegacampGamerandWerecamp]

ok show us how it's done for the Spirit Complete Spirit Temple before doing the other Temples 1st!

[Hooplh]

Can you still get the song that warps you to the shadow temple?

[SomethinglnTheDark]

Quick question, do any of these glitches work on the 3ds version? I am asking since that version uses the same source code so I'm assuming at least some things from the N64 version carried over