An Overview of Kakariko Well
Basically, discuss all you want here about the bottom of the well mini dungeon in The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. Here is some relatively important background information first for those that don't know about it.
The story:
The well stands in the game, according to locals, where the house of a richer man was. He supposedly had a lens that could see the truth, and his house was where the well is now.
Relation to Links' quest:
The village of Kakariko, in the future, gets burnt to the ground by an evil spirit which escaped from the well, and destroyed any that stood in it's way, fleeing to the Shadow Temple. Link has to then go and learn the song of storms from the windmill guy, and go back seven years to the past.
He then plays the song in the mill, causing it to go round super fast and drain the water out the well. He then goes down it, and into a crawlspace to enter this hidden dungeon.
After defeating the monsters, he battles through the spooky rooms to the mini boss arena, where he fights the hideous Dead Hand, and gets the lens of truth, allowing him to see through illusions.
Now, the creepy part of this well is what is actually in it. Think the horrible redeads, bubbles (floating skulls with flames around them), blood on the floor, metal objects, poison water, wall masters, gibdos, coffins and dead hand. That makes you think it isn't such a nice place.
Worse, there are rooms full of coffins, with multiple gibos and keese. There are deep pools of water, and secret rooms with man eating Deku Babas. Worse, there is a swamp hidden beyond a hidden hole in the centre of the main room, where about 4 redeads wait in a dark, creepy tomb, with acidic swamp slime and blood-stained walls.
Oh, and Dead Hand, a horrific zombified monster which bites Link's head, with multiple arms coming out each part of the room, as it slowly moves under the soil. And this is still not all. Blood lies on the floor, huge spiders drop from the ceiling and a wall master takes many who enter back to the beginning.
In Master Quest, it is scary because AS SOON as you enter, you walk right into a redead by the entrance! Plus, you have to explore more rooms, and fight Dead Hand earlier, for nothing more than a small key.
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Now that I've introduced via my bottom of the well first post in topic guide, here's what actually in each room of the bottom of the well.
The first room has a crawlspace. After going through, you will end up in an area with a skeleton, piles of blood covered dirt on the floor and a huge skulltula enemy hanging from the ceiling.
Then you end up in the main room. North takes you to an area with a large blood stained cross in the middle of the room, and prison cells with skulltulas and chests. There is blood all over the floor, and a well concealed hole in the middle of the room.
Going right from the first area takes you down a passageway. Here, skulltulas drop from the ceiling and hidden pits are everywhere. You will pass a like like soon (it's in a cage, don't worry)!
Keep going and there is a disgusting looking portrait of a strange man on the wall, and an area with a mound of dirt behind a deep pit. Further along still is a grotesque statue of a face and hands coming out the wall, and a triforce mark on the floor. Play Zelda's Lullaby to make the water drain away in the well.
Further is another alcove with a skeleton and a barred door.
Now, in the middle of the room, near the cross, if you don't move enough, a giant wall master will come crashing from the ceiling and take Link by the head to the entrance of the dungeon, so don't stand around too long!
Behind a crawl space in one area is a hidden roo, with a beamos (shoots laser beams), fire keese (bats on fire) and many pits in the floor. The door behind actually takes you into the cage you sall earlier with the like like! However, there is also a gold skulltula on the wall.
In another area, there is a massive blockade. Drop down, and go under, then climb up to enter a room filled with coffins, and a gibdo just standing in the middle, moaning. Light torches makes bats and more gibdos come out the coffins (a gibdo is a mummy that acts like a redead).
The next area is the spooky basement, entered via falling down any pit. Going down will put you here, in a giant cavern filled with poison, and many redeads, which shouldn't be approached (I cannot describe their attack method as it would make someone sick, but I can tell you that part involves a loud scream and Link being frozen in fear).
The final area is entered via a passage near the start. After going through a room with a climbing wall and a skulltula, you end up in a giant room with four skinny, white hands coming from the floor. You can also see a sinister shadow under one hand if you use the Lens of Truth...
Bombing the shadow or getting caught by a hand reveals the true horror of Dead Hand, a zombified dark beast which lives beneath the ground, and comes up to bite into it's victim's head...
And beating him with the sword gives you the Lens of Truth (I used it because of using a game enhancer device).
I will tell you one thing though, the Bottom of the Well is worse on Master Quest mode, where you have to fight away five redeads at once for the main item, and one waits just after the crawlspace...