History VideoGame / LinksQuestForTheHookshot2Quest

* BonusBoss: The Seven, Genocide Heart, Thwomp, [[spoiler:the flying birdphone]], and [[spoiler:Autimecia]].

** Everything about the final BonusBoss fight is a reference to [[spoiler:Sans]] from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. [[spoiler:Seemingly harmless character you meet early on who gets dangerous over you killing someone close to them? Check. Calling you out for soullessness and thinking save files preclude consequences for your actions? Check. Interrupting her intro speech at various points for a brutal Alpha Strike? Check. Physically interacting with your menu as a means of attack? Check. Counting how many times she's killed you? Check. ''Same theme music?'' Check... sort of (she uses ''Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans''). When she's given up counting your deaths, she even starts '''directly quoting''' the "bad time" misquote meme!]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Doing the above is required to reach [[spoiler:Autimecia]], but [[spoiler:she]] [[BonusBoss isn't exactly]] [[MediumAwareness impressed]] [[PointOfNoReturn by your]] [[OhCrap actions]].

* WallMaster: The original, as well as a faster version with more HP that damages ''and'' grabs you in Level 8.

* NintendoHard: The original version, which has been preserved as Legacy Mode. In both versions, there's also Anarchy difficulty, which is a joke difficulty in which most enemy projectiles and lasers[[note]]the only exceptions being ice, Hookrobe hooks, floating tiles/statues, giant fireballs, [=TeamUDF=]'s fire stream attack, most of Genocide Heart's attacks, and [[spoiler:Autimecia]]'s boomerangs[[/note]] are replaced with wind. The latter was only partially tested, but it's recently been proven that everything can still be completed on it (in Standard Mode, at least).

** Everything about the BonusBoss fight is a reference to [[spoiler:Sans]] from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. [[spoiler:Seemingly harmless character you meet early on who gets dangerous over you killing someone close to them? Check. Calling you out for soullessness and thinking save files preclude consequences for your actions? Check. Interrupting her intro speech at various points for a brutal Alpha Strike? Check. Physically interacting with your menu as a means of attack? Check. Counting how many times she's killed you? Check. ''Same theme music?'' Check... sort of (she uses ''Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans''). When she's given up counting your deaths, she even starts '''directly quoting''' the "bad time" misquote meme!]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Poek]] is trapped in the same sort of cycle as [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] in the original franchise, but remembers everything between iterations and has been driven mad as a result.

* NintendoHard: The original version, which has been preserved as Legacy Mode. In both versions, there's also Anarchy difficulty, which is a joke difficulty in which most enemy projectiles and lasers[[note]]the only exceptions being ice, Hookrobe hooks, floating tiles/statues, giant fireballs, TeamUDF's fire stream attack, most of Genocide Heart's attacks, and [[spoiler:Autimecia]]'s boomerangs[[/note]] are replaced with wind. The latter was only partially tested, but it's recently been proven that everything can still be completed on it (in Standard Mode, at least).

** Satan can give you a certain piece of information in exchange for '''''your soul'''''. [[spoiler:He's joking, though.]]

* BonusBoss: The Seven, Genocide Heart, Thwomp, [[spoiler:the super birdphone]], and [[spoiler:Autimecia]].

** The so-called "[=LPer=] weapons," which are only available at the end of a chain of three difficult bonus dungeons.[[note]]WordOfSaintPaul ([[VideoGame/IsleOfRebirth Evan]][[VideoGame/UmbralCloud 20000]]) is that the final boss of this chain, the super birdphone, was originally going to be the quest's "superboss" before Autimecia was created "at the last minute."[[/note]]

** The so-called "[=LPer=] weapons," which are only available at the end of a chain of three difficult bonus dungeons.[[note:WordOfSaintPaul ([[VideoGame/IsleOfRebirth Evan]][[VideoGame/UmbralCloud 20000]]) is that the final boss of this chain, the super birdphone, was originally going to be the quest's "superboss" before Autimecia was created "at the last minute."]]

* NintendoHard: The original version, which has been preserved as Legacy Mode. In both versions, there's also Anarchy difficulty, which is a joke difficulty in which most enemy projectiles and lasers[[note:the only exceptions being ice, Hookrobe hooks, floating tiles/statues, giant fireballs, TeamUDF's fire stream attack, most of Genocide Heart's attacks, and [[spoiler:Autimecia]]'s boomerangs]] are replaced with wind. The latter was only partially tested, but it's recently been proven that everything can still be completed on it (in Standard Mode, at least).

* CastFromMoney: One of the LPer weapons.

** The so-called "LPer weapons," which are only available at the end of a chain of three difficult bonus dungeons.[[note:WordOfSaintPaul ([[VideoGame/IsleOfRebirth Evan]][[VideoGame/UmbralCloud 20000]]) is that the final boss of this chain, the super birdphone, was originally going to be the quest's "superboss" before Autimecia was created "at the last minute."]]

* LethalJokeWeapon: Dimentio's LPer weapon [[spoiler:gains power for every Moral Compass you ''don't'' have. You're very likely to have them all by the time you reach it, which turns it into a useless rubber duck, but it's the second-most powerful weapon in the game at full strength, and you don't actually have to collect the Compasses for any reason (see Minimalist Run below)]].

* MinimalistRun: [[spoiler:A variation of this (no Moral Compasses) is required in order to maximize the potential of Dimentio's LPer weapon. Bringing said weapon to the Chaospire at full power allows you to enter Level 8 without the Compasses, so the full run is doable.]]

** Dimentio's LPer weapon is one to ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s Nemesis gun, and NewJourneysFire's is one to ''[[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts]]''.

* BossRush: Subverted. There ''is'' a Boss Rush location, but it only pits you against previously fought bosses one at a time (for an amount of Rupees dependent on the boss).

** Everything about Sin. At first, he resembles the skin and organs of a human torso, with a bone-like face near the bottom, but his final form [[spoiler:is all of the Deadly Sins fused into one massive ball of flesh, a la ''Romancing SaGa 2'']].