Friday, January 29, 2010

It Actually Exists! I'm Not Crazy!

Well, I guess I wouldn't go that far...

But look:



Like six or seven years ago, back when I possessed the strategy guide to Ocarina of Time (before it had been dropped in the bathtub/run over/torn to shreds/probably burned in the end), I read something I'd never heard before. A tiny note in one section mentioned something called a "Deku Theater" near Zora's Domain. This intrigued me, since there were few things in Zelda that, even then, I didn't know about, so I sought it out.

There was no Deku Theater. This bothered me to no end. I did everything to look for it. Played the Song of Storms, the Megaton Hammer, plain ol' bombs, nothing. Nada. Zilch. See, I was under the impression that it was on that little ledge at Zora's River, right outside both Zora's Domain and the Lost Woods. I'd been told to go there and look for butterflies. I did, and I found them, but not the theater. Puzzled, I looked it up online.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I had never been faced with such an annoying mystery. I forgot about it eventually but every time I played through Ocarina of Time (around once a year every year since then) my curiosity was renewed. Finally I accepted that the Deku Theater wasn't real and A. Nintendo was mean and lied to me or B. I had just dreamed up the stupid place and was out of my mind.

Then, just today, I was on a Zelda website for an entirely unrelated reason and came across something mentioning a "Forest Stage", near some butterflies, but not in Zora's River...in the Lost Woods. Curious, I went there...

AND I FOUND THE DEKU THEATER. That was my problem. It existed, but the guidebook was wrong. It wasn't called the Deku Theater, it was called the Forest Stage, and the minute I googled that instead I came up with all kinds of results.

So here I am, bemused, triumphant, and a little annoyed, having finally found my Deku Theater.


Also, I just discovered this weird little bleeding poke on my leg that feels like a burn. Hm.