Eagle's Tower from Zelda: Link's Awakening (Mario Paint)

Eleventh video. This is the background music for Eagle's Tower, the seventh dungeon of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

In my opinion, the Eagle's Tower is the most challenging dungeon in the game. There are a lot of crystal barriers but very few crystal switches, so it may take several trips around the dungeon before you fully know what you're doing. In addition, this dungeon is well-known for its unique orb puzzle; you have to use the orb to destroy four pillars. Upon doing this a part of the Eagle's Tower actually breaks off and falls to a lower floor; this enables you to climb your way to the top.

The enemies and boss fights aren't particularly challenging, but the dungeon itself is. I like Eagle's Tower a lot, so, as always, I hope you enjoy this theme.

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Music

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• eagle
• tower
• zelda
• link
• awakening
• mario
• paint
• flying
• rooster
• mirror
• shield
• grim
• creeper
• evil
• hinox
• koholint
• tal

[HCkev]

This level was my favorite until I discovered its flaws. 1 key out of 3 is really needed. There's a key block I never unlocked, even the first time I played the level. And the pillars are on the 2nd floor, that means that if you destroy 'em, it's the 3rd floor that is supposed to fall, not the 4th! Plus, this level is known for having serious mapping problems, making 2 rooms on the 3rd floor unaccessible because of the crystal barriers. This level was badly made.

Anyway, I can beat it in ~2:30.

[brianLED]

The part of the "4th" floor that falls is actually a 2 by 3 block area that fits into the 3rd floor, crushing 2 3rd floor blocks in the process. Looking at the map, the pillars correspond to where the 4th floor falls, so I guess you can assume that the rest of the 3rd floor is crushed as well as those two blocks.

Once the 4th floor falls you can access the parts of the 3rd floor that the crystal barriers blocked. I think that that was done on purpose to make the level seem more confusing.

[brianLED]

I never knew that about the keys though, wow. I knew you could have a spare in the Key Cavern, but I never knew you could in Eagle's Tower as well. Is that without the screen skip glitch?

[HCkev]

You don't need any glitch or cheat.

As for the pillars, they old the 3rd floor, and for some reasons it's the 4th floor that fall..

For to two unaccessible rooms, look at this image: (replace * by periods and _ by slashes)

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It's the 4 rooms on the 3rd floor that get crushed. The 1st room is unaccessible, and the top-right seems to be an old beta room.

[brianLED]

That's pretty interesting! It's neat to see what those inaccessible rooms would look like. I suppose they're there to prevent game crashes, like Missingno in pokemon R/B/Y. Every map that I've ever seen of Eagle's Tower had those rooms omitted completely.

So where would you go from that path at the top? Would it be the most upper-left room of the "new" 3rd floor? Or perhaps it would simply block you from exiting? I'd also be interested to know where those stairs were originally going to lead.

[ShadowXSnake]

I loved this level, the boss was really the miniboss but with a different species of animal friend. How cool was that?

[brianLED]

Though he was fairly simple both times, the Grim Creeper was definitely a cool miniboss, my favorite in addition to the Master Stalfos. Glad you brought that up. ^_^

[Cornbinks]

I beat this level in a hotel bathroom <3

[jamboodle]

Eagles tower was an amazing dungeon, and so is this ^^

[paddymoep]

The first time this dungeon was hard , the second time it was easy. Don't know why , maybe i just had luck or something..

[HellbladesFFXI]

Argh, I need to stop listening but I can't... I'm going to make myself get the game out again doing this XD Excellent work

[LuigiKat11]

ugh! This is the hardest dungeon for me lol. I just went ahead and skiped this dungeon! Now I have this one to finish!

[bbbbbb222222]

nice done mate

[Cornbinks]

Why did this get seventeen thumbs up?

[Nicksolo85]

Level 7: Eagle Tower is my 2nd favorite dungeon after Level 6: Face Shrine

I remember it took me a while to figure out what I was supposed to do with that green orb [with the whole throwing it at the pillars and making the 3rd and 4th floors fall]

[SuperLlama53]

Wow, I love this... I forgot how amazing this game was, how many memories there are attached, even though I only beat it like two and a half years ago

[Cornbinks]

12. :c

Still, not the point. o_O