dungeon
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Nintendo has made some big changes, not least to the Water Temple - a dungeon about two thirds into the game.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
"The Forest Temple has always been my favourite Zelda dungeon: a mysterious, haunted mansion in the deep woods, a lost work of man slowly being reclaimed by nature," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
“To the grimy dark dungeon of the decrepit palace.”
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
To those images, he adds still lifes he has made of colonial art collections or the architecture of old slave dungeons in Ghana, where the imprisoned were held before transport to the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
In the book, Dr. Oxnam described how the personalities inhabited a vivid internal world — a castle with rooms, dungeons, walkways and a library behind iron-locked doors.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
I am sure you don’t want to languish in the dungeons of Limerick jail far from friends and family.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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