History VideoGame / HiddenDuality

* NoPronunciationGuide: How the heck do you pronounce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Zj(j)arrinmar]]? The same might be said of M'kavlar and maybe Kravaar too.

!!This entire backstory is pure speculation, as Creator/DarkFlameWolf has [[ShrugOfGod not given an official backstory, even upon request]].
You live in a peaceful village on the eastern border of Galea, known as Dali. You are best friends with a very popular girl, and that has drawn the envy of many of your fellow villagers. Apparently it has drawn the envy of the monsters of the wilds as well, as they recently kidnapped her out to the west. You tracked the monsters' trail, and it led to what seemed to have been a portal. You decide to train yourself before attempting to reopen the portal, and decide to seek out the pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom in hopes of increasing your powers. Little do you know, yet, that that portal led to an alternate dimension ruled by evil which contained some of the pieces of the Triforce, as well as the fortress of the evil in whose name your friend was captured...

Whatever. If you use that sword well enough, it'll all work out, right?

* VideoGameSettings:
** AbandonedMine: Tungsten Excavation Site.
** AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Zjarrinmar Cove.
** AlienGeometries: The House of Mirrors.
** BigBoosHaunt: Deathevn Catacombs, and to a lesser extent the graveyard outside.
** BigFancyCastle: M'kavlar's Fort.
** BrutalBonusLevel: Death Mountain Fortress.
** BubblegloopSwamp: Much larger in one world than in the other. The larger one, interestingly, shares its theme with the snow area.
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kravaar Fortress.
** DeathMountain: And it lives up to the trope name, so beware.
** DenOfIniquity: Thieves' Hideout.
** DisconnectedSideArea: The Eastern Hills and a small part of Ganon's Tower.
** ElaborateUndergroundBase: The lower part of Ganon's Tower.
** FirstTown: Dali.
** IcePalace: The Ice Palace.
** ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The upper part of Ganon's Tower. [[spoiler:And I mean it.]]
** TheLostWoods: Much of ''[[OmnipresentTropes both worlds]]'' could count, but especially the North Woods and Skull Woods.
** TheMaze: Gnarled Root Dungeon.
** MonsterArena: The Savage Labyrinth.
** NoGearLevel: Manchuria Bluffs.
** OldDarkHouse: Brickwall Depths.
** SecretLevel: The Master Dome.
** ShiftingSandLand: The great desert.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: A rather small corner of one world.
---> '''Darkflamewolf:''' I regret the fact that my snowbound area is so small in this game. Something I rectified heavily in future games.
** Slippy-Slidey Ice Cavern: Sleet Stone Cave.
** TempleOfDoom: Historia Temple.
** VillainWorld: Ganon's World.

---> '''Darkflamewolf:''' You have been tricked! [[spoiler:Ganon is not here! You must go to his world to beat him!]]

Hidden Duality is the fifth VideoGame/ZeldaClassic quest by Creator/DarkFlameWolf. It was a milestone quest for her: it was her first quest that included a Magic meter, included a much better tileset than her previous quests, had a much bigger Master Dome than the one in Fragments of Power, and was by far her longest quest yet (still second longest ever, superseded only by VideoGame/LostIsle). It was also a milestone in the Zelda Classic community as a whole: two of the level bosses weren't at the end of the level, directly guarding the Triforce, there are new puzzles, e.g. finding out there's a bombable wall by visiting another part of the room on the far side and dropping to the floor below, and the [[spoiler: real final]] battle is outside. That aside, it also took place over two world maps, a Light World and a DarkWorld, [[spoiler:as well as a third, final map, Ganon's World]]. There are, as usual, eight dungeons across both worlds containing the Triforce pieces, as well as five bonus dungeons, each containing a major item. Much of the Light World is inaccessible until quite late in the game, another major accomplishment by Darkflamewolf.

[[header:This entire backstory is pure speculation, as Creator/DarkFlameWolf has [[ShrugOfGod not given an official backstory, even upon request]].]]

[[header:Speculation ends here.]]

'''[[header:Hidden Duality contains examples of the following tropes:]]'''

--> '''Darkflamewolf:''' I regret the fact that my snowbound area is so small in this game. Something I rectified heavily in future games.

** [[spoiler:VillainWorld: Ganon's World.]]

--> '''Darkflamewolf:''' You have been tricked! [[spoiler:Ganon is not here! You must go to his world to beat him!]]

->'''Darkflamewolf:''' This [[spoiler:type of final battle, which takes place outside]] was unheard of at the time for Zelda Classic.

-> '''Darkflamewolf:''' This is the ultimate gauntlet of sorts. Something I've carried over in a lot of my quests. [...] The challenge is to see if you can hold up to all the bosses and Ganon himself on two Potions alone!

-> '''Darkflamewolf:''' You have been tricked! [[spoiler:Ganon is not here! You must go to his world to beat him!]]

* LongSongShortScene: Ganon has a unique battle theme, but you barely ever get to hear any of it, as he's by no means the hardest boss in a game with already HardLevelsEasyBosses (the hardest bosses are the 40-headed Gleeok right before Ganon and the Patra 2's before him and especially at the end of [[spoiler:Death Mountain Fortress]]).

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The D-Map for one level is called Zjarrinmar Cove, and that's how Darkflamewolf refers to it in her own walkthrough, but the old man at the entrance welcomes you to "Zjjarrinmar Cove."

** DisconnectedSideArea: The Eastern Hills.

* BonusLevel: There are five of them, each guarding a major item, each with their own distinctive gimmick.

*** TheMaze: Gnarled Root Dungeon.

** EvilTowerOfOminousness: Ganon's Tower.

*** BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kravaar Fortress.

---> '''Darkflamewolf:''' I regret the fact that my snowbound area is so small in this game. Something I rectified heavily in future games.
*** Slippy-Slidey Ice Cavern: Sleet Stone Cave.
*** IcePalace: The Ice Palace.

** DenOfThieves: Thieves' Hideout.

-> '''Darkflamewolf:''' I regret the fact that my snowbound area is so small in this game. Something I rectified heavily in future games.

* DarkWorld: Dark Galea. Any warp to or from Light Galea takes you to the same position in the other world.

-> '''Darkflamewolf:''' I regret the fact that my snowbound area is so small in this game. Something I rectified heavily in future games.

->'''Darkflamewolf:''' [[spoiler:This type of final battle, which takes place outside was unheard of at the time for Zelda Classic.]]

* DarkWorld: Dark Galea.

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** You fight the dungeon boss about halfway through Zjarrinmar Cove, and again you don't get a Heart Container. But you do get the Flippers, which you must use to get the Boss Key and reach the Triforce piece.

-> ''"The next dungeon is in the desert in another world."''
-->--Wise Old Man

Hidden Duality is the fifth VideoGame/ZeldaClassic quest by Creator/DarkFlameWolf. It was a milestone quest for her: it was her first quest that included a Magic meter, included a much better tileset than her previous quests, had a much bigger Master Dome than the one in Fragments of Power, and was by far her longest quest yet (still second longest ever, superseded only by VideoGame/LostIsle). It was also a milestone in the Zelda Classic community as a whole: two of the level bosses weren't at the end of the level, directly guarding the Triforce, and the [[spoiler: real final]] battle is outside. That aside, it also took place over two world maps, a Light World and a DarkWorld, [[spoiler:as well as a third, final map, Ganon's World]]. There are, as usual, eight dungeons across both worlds containing the Triforce pieces, as well as five bonus dungeons, each containing a major item. Much of the Light World is inaccessible until quite late in the game, another major accomplishment by Darkflamewolf.

BattleInTheRain: [[spoiler:The final gauntlet.]]

DarkWorld: Dark Galea.
DualWorldGameplay: Not as involved as, say, A Link to the Past, in that you can only switch between worlds at designated points, but still involved in a lot of content.

Whatever. If you use that sword well enough, it'll all work out, right?