วีดีโอ

YEAH, BIG DEAL, YOU GOT A WIFE. I GOT A RASH. WHO CARES?

Still convinced Termina is purgatory for the hero of time that died with no purpose

I beat this game for the first time at about 10 years old and am starting to understand why I've always been a competitive gamer lol

Great video! Thanks :)

Koji Kondo changed the world of video game music with this game

Termina is to Hyrule what Oz is to Kansas

My brother and I linked Ages and Seasons respectively...cute you are playing it all these years later with your wife!

Congrats on 10 000 subs!

Amazing let's go

I just assume its a different dimension, like Lorule and Hyrule.

Something else I thought that Termina could be is that it could be limbo. When Link is chasing skull kid, he comes to a cliff that is so high up that it looks like it has no end. He stumbles and falls, and then you see the scene that gives the Alice in Wonderland vibe. So it could be possible that the fall was so high up that when Link hit the bottom he died and is now in Limbo and that is why almost everyone he meets looks so familiar to him. Just a thought I had.

Oh boy, I am happy that you learned how to mix sound in the future. The loudness of the music paired with the silence in your voice is horror for my ears. 😑 Andthats sad, because your topic is so interesting. I want to listen, but not become deaf.

So stoked for your 10k which should be coming very very soon! I was with you since 500. I called 10k back then. You do such a great job with these Paul, you are a gem in the Zelda community and a great TH-camr

I remember hating the minigames for being too tight. Especially the goron dancing game you will face later in the game. I did love the test of the game. I remember playing it in the summer holiday

I was more of a seaons guy! It was one of the first games i emulated due to the old one dying out!

OOT Title screen music is a testament to the power of music in games and shows/movies

It's funny how even though I haven't played these games in so long all I had to hear was "the trap...I mean ceremony", and then my mind suddenly recalled that mini-game in detail and how many frustrating retries it took me to finish it 😅

You’re killing it, Paul. Keep it up. This thing could go to the moon.

Weird, I always thought the music from Skull Dungeon would have been at home in an Aladdin game.

"It would be at home in seedy bar where you could get stabbed at any moment, I dig it" 😆 I totally agree 💯%! Whoever was in charge of dungeon theams in this game was on 🔥🔥

So nostalgic! I loved these games so much as a kid. Love the background information you give as you play, watching these makes me feel comfy

Really enjoy this poddcast.

Lost Woods theme is from A Link To The Past as well.

This is the dungeon route I went through in my recent run of Ocarina of Time 3D. I wonder what other routes are available?

If you like a living world with NPCs on a timer, consider Deadly Premonition.

Eiji Aonuma saying "It's almost like another dimension" instead of it IS another dimension to me suggests that it isn't another dimension, but its very similar. It would be like saying imitation crab meat is almost like crab, but it still is fish meat. He also says "we described it as being a nearby land." "It's almost like another dimension." He doesn't say it IS another dimension, but that it feels like it is. It would seem like the devs originally wanted to create the game as a alternative universe but were limited by time constraints, so what we have in MM is a parallel universe. In this case both terms describe other realities distinct from OoT's. "Parallel universe" implying coexistence with OoT's universe, possibly in a different dimensional space, while "alternate universe" typically refers to a separate reality that diverges from OoT due to different events or decisions. Semantics though. Some things to note that others have said: The skull kid saying "you have the same smell as the fairy kid..." There have also been others mentioning the triforces throughout Termina. The people in Termina acknowledge The Goddess of Time. Tatl as well as a man in the Oceanside Spider House reference her. Coincidentally the man in the Oceanside spider house resemble one of the children from the Skulltula Family in OoT. I think it gets more complicated when thinking about the Mario references made in OoT with the paintings in the castle, and the characters Talon and Ingo. In Majoras mask there is a mask resembling Mario's face. Still I personally lean toward Termina existing in a different geographical location to Hyrule, in the same universe. *shrugs*

My unsupported theory is that demise came from Termina with his "demon clan" and monster constructs. Termina is terminal because it doesnt have the triforce to halt entropy. I think Majoras mask was an attempt at an artificial triforce that was flawed and pretty much took souls to maintain its power. I also think that majora is the evil statue in BoTW and ToTK. Also, again, i think that magic cap that Vatti obtains was made using Girahim and the fused shadow were the scaled demise had on or were made from them. I also think lost woods was where the portal from termina to Hyrule opened up.

Termina definetly has a Alice in wonderland/ Narina feel to it. With a sprinkle of the wizard of oz how Dorothy sees people from Oklahoma in the new world.

Termina is a paralel world to hyrule where the “fierce deity” is analogous to link, only that he died in majoras mask

"Where is Termina?" Kirby took care of it.

I've been going through your development videos and I have to say, I really appreciate that you properly cite all your sources and give credit to your quotations. Well done.

I think Termina has to be a weird parallel world, given the ending scene after Link returns to the Woods from the beginning. If Termina wasn't real then how did the drawing of him, Skull Kid, and the 4 Giants get on that stump?

It is never overstated, only under. don't trust this guy

Yeah that boss was tougher than I expected so early in the game! But I’m not complaining - I did it for the first time recently with my copy of the game and a GBA!

2024 and this song popped in my head and I realized this is almost a decade old. lol wow time flys. This is still awesome though!

Did you develop it?

Im playing this game with my 4yo son and him getting invested in the story is very gratifying.

With the directors words I finally understand. It's not as if the character was actually turned into a child, it's that the pressure and future doubts of him becoming the man he needed to be was causing him to regress into comfort (his previous self), I think many people can understand this feeling when pushed towards uncertainty.

7:36 screw you for making me sit through his dumb sound effects and him moving again always hated this part 😂😂😂

Huh...I've never noticed that connection between the Fujibaiyashi Zelda games before. I can't say those sections were always my personal favourite moments in each game, but I can see the theory behind it, and there are worse tropes to have as your signature. I'd also completely forgotten about the animal buddies. It's almost a shame they didn't come back in other games, but I can also see why they didn't as they are kind of an oddity in this game. Great stuff. Keep up the good work ^_^

Man I genuinely forgot how solid these games were!

watching you play through this game now (as an adult), makes me realize why I never got past the second dungeon. I think even now I wouldn't have the patience to play through it without a guide. I really do love the game however, the dark themes, so it's better to just live vicariously I think :)

This dungeon makes me feel dumb. It took me to long to figure out that bombs could be thrown over green walls.

What’s up with the shield you ask? Hm….. requires more exploring. Come back when you get the mermaid suit and explore the caves along the southern edge of Crescent Island….you might not find the Wooden Shield the Tokay took…but he might have an even better one for you instead 😉

If Moosh doesn't show up in the movie, we riot.

That dungeon theam music is a banger 🔥

The monkeys are probably more of a nod at the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz.

now that you mention it, i dont like most of the dungeons music in oracle of ages. i like dungeon 3 4 and 6s music and the black tower but i barely rememebr the rest. i think the composer was too limited by the hardware since the themes are good in theory but the gb soundchip makes them sound kinda off.

Of course the kangaroo’s gloves are boxing gloves. Very cute

Termina is limbo or maybe even purgatory.