/vr/ - Retro Games

I did say I'd dump some of my observations, I'll start with the one the thread seems most obsessed with.

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On Volvagia, The Fire Temple & Gorons.
The Bolero of Fire is a song about Friendship.
The Fire Temple & Gorons don't just symbolize masculinity and passion, but also Community, Family and "Brotherhood".
The Fire Temple, and the rest of the game, draw parallels between Link & Ganondorf true, but the Fire Temple shows us that Link isn't just a good man, but hes a good brother & leader as well. Where Ganon would tyrannize & enslave people and their passions Link would let his Brothers free.
The ending of the Fire Temple with Darunia calling Link his "Friend" is also a twist on the ending of the Dodongo Cavern where a younger link ran away from the gorons trying to treat him as a "Brother" w/ a hug.

Genital Symbolism: Regardless if its intentional or not a lot of written, painted, & produced art can be interpreted in a lot of different ways as long as people care to draw parallel between them.
In the Fire Temple, a temple regarding the element of passion, friendship and masculine power you encounter a giant fire breathing, hot liquid spewing serpent that's so hard the only way to beat it is with a hammer.
A problem with Volvagia symbolism is its vaginal in the narrative that it will consume Goron's, engulfing things being more of a feminine trait(and can be seen in the water temple with the boss that literally engulfs you, while being a giant flaming lava penis in a boss battle.

Link conquering the Fire temple can be seen as Link learning to build instead of destroy a community with friendship and familiarity. Conquering Fire is also a conquering of his wild passions.

In the original Zelda game the top of mount doom also had twin peaks, and in LttP the top of Mount Doom you also have something that resembles two-peaks. Strangely in OoT the twin peaks of Mt. Doom.