In The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess you have the standby of your wolf senses, but they are significantly nerfed in the aforementioned dark caves.

This can be just a little frustrating when you run out of lantern oil or green mana in the middle of a monster-infested cavern.

A staple of the Zelda series is the dark cave or dungeon where you need to use a lantern or some similar item to see the way forward.

The entire game mechanic revolves around this. Not to be confused with Who Forgot the Lights?.

See also: Muzzle Flashlight, Interface Screw, Room Full of Zombies. The darkness may apply only to certain layers, so that the player and enemies remain visible at all times, but immobile hazards like Spikes of Doom are as invisible in the dark as the other elements of the background layer. In another variation, the lighting is fairly consistent, but dirty, old, dim, close to going out, and flickering a little every few minutes, but not really problematic. Certain variations of the former variety can result in Nintendo Hardness, seeing that changes in visibility are often arbitrary, with a special knack for happening at the worst possible times. It could be that the lights are flipping from on to off for no reason, that the player needs to perform a certain action to ensure a well-lit path through the darkness, or that a specific item is required to see the way forward. ( For the proper stroboscopic effect, open and close your eyes repeatedly as you read this.)Ī Blackout Basement is a level in a video game where the lighting is inconsistent.

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