Vinny trying to build a hoverbike on the back of the final boss and it just clipping into the boss and later exploding into a billion parts is the purest example of vinePassive
2:16:20 The fact that the Demon Dragon nukes right on top of Lost Woods makes me believe all the Korok went flying lmao, nice excuse to search for them again.
I feel like it would've been somehow more appropriate if he nuked right on top of Hyrule Castle, destroying it utterly. End of a cycle, new beginnings and all that, you know ?
I like the ending as it is, I like a purely happy ending. The only thing I'd have changed is that Link doesn't get his arm back, but we see in the after credits scene that Purah has built Link a new robot arm. Also, during the scene where Zelda woke up I couldn't shake the feeling of "would you two hug or something?"
I just finished and that is one of my complaints from the previous game. Why can't we have the Twilight Princess Link that shows actual emotion? I was definitely expecting Link to at least do SOMETHING after his amazing rescue of Zelda, whom up until that point he never knew if he would see again. Just a simple smile and a hug would've added so much to this. Oh well!
Putting the laser on the head backwards and then nearly killing himself with it when he tried to fix it is going down as an all time Vinesauce moment for me
classic Vinny talking about feet while the sickest cinematic known to man is going on behind him as he said, "you chose to be here" so we can't really complain 🙂
TotK was a really interesting experience for me. I played for ~50 hours before the Spirit Temple and felt kinda burnt out, then did the final boss, then did the rest of the shrines and wished the game had more large milestones (eg: an extra 6th dungeon after all the shrines) I think Vinny had the right idea to do all the shrines first, but it definitely makes you way overpowered for the end of the game.
@@BryceDixonDevHere's a great way to avoid burnout if you wanna try a second run: save your blessings and limit your upgrades. If you use only ten hearts, two stamina wheels, and level 2 armor upgrades than the game's combat and movement keep that early-game minty freshness the whole way through you could also limit your tool slots (I've got 15 weapons and 10 bows/shields), or use shrines and lightroots as hard warp points (fast travel only allowed on blue circle lights)
@@smcb9979tbh that was my first playthrough. I didn't find Hestu until after beating Gannondorf, so I had min slots the whole time and I never upgraded any gear because it felt like a waste of time to go out and get all the items for them, anyway. The thing is the game isn't really all that different under those "hard mode" rules for me since most of the really hard fights (hard in this context meaning "high damage") I ended up just doing hitless, anyway, because it honestly took less time to do that than grinding more health and better armor since you basically always respawn right before said fight. It's not that I want the game to be *harder* anyway, I kinda just want more validation for actually doing stuff. Even if there was an explicit "final" shrine that you had to do last, it would have been cool for there to be some kind of special challenge as a reward for doing them all outside of armor I'll basically never use.
@@KitsuneDzelda At this point I don't care about the "not healing" thing anymore. I just thought that it was cool and intimidating that this Ganon is so strong that he can actually break those hearts you worked so hard to get. Something other final bosses cannot do if I recall correctly.
The hearts getting eaten was one of my fave parts of the end fight, granted I only fought ganon with 10 hearts so it was a lot more intimidating but, I was looking forward to his (and other ppls) reactions too. No reaction tho was not what I expect 😂😂
Somehow I suspected the ending this game got. It seemed inevitable that Ganon would try the same trick. Puts me in mind of when Jafar wished to be an all powerful genie, without looking at the consequences of said actions.
It's arguably the core of his character! He can't be reasoned with, only fought, because he'll ruin everything he can out of spite rather than taste humility. Modern-life Ganondorf would be a psycho billionaire
For some reason my first thought when I got to the memory with draconification mentioned was that ganon was the one who would do it and not zelda, but when I got to the end of the memories I just threw that idea out the window, I guess cause 'why would it happen twice?', literally managed to gaslight myself into being surprised at both of the dragons ☠️
Yeah, though in this case he was aware of the consequences. He was just too blinded by his own hatred to stop himself. Ganondorf is both the kind of person who's way too proud to compromise himself by turning into a dragon, and the kind of person whose rage runs so deep that he's likely to do it anyway in a moment of unfettered insanity. It kinda just makes sense in the end.
@@silverhand9965 Ganondorf really went and said "I don't care if I'm a Dragon, I just REALLY want you dead right about now" Love that guy, an absolute goober fr
I didn't have "Ganon turns into Calamity Ganon 2.0" in my bingo card This is an amazing game, one of the best games that came out so far in the decade It shows that you don't need Ray Tracing or 4k resolution to make an enthralling experience
I knew they never would, but I was really hoping Link stayed one armed. Such a cool fuckin design. Ah well lol What an amazing game though. Felt that childlike wonder at least 3 separate times in my playthrough. The arrival at the wind temple/Colgera fight and the final boss were both major standouts. Do I wish the bossfights were more difficult? Absolutely. But for the most part they all still managed to be pretty fuckin cool in spite of being easy. Also, thinkin about how Zelda is literally tens of thousands of years old by now. Jesus christ lol. Between BotW and Totk, girl needs fuckin rest
It could be as many as 30,000 or even 50,000, since they leave it vague where the original Divine Beast Calamity is in comparison to Rauru's era The masks for the Sages and Champions being supposedly the same ones, but vastly different in style, is an interesting wrinkle
Don’t know why, but I somehow convinced myself they’d pull an Adventure Time and have the main hero just permanently lose an arm. Same side too, funny enough.
Only Vinny could turn the "epicness" of the final boss encounter into such a hilarious mess by trying to build a hoverbike on its back which immediately clips into the boss! And that's exactly why I love watching his streams! LMAO
Been waiting for this since like one week after the game released, since I only play one story game at a time, usually. Glad someone else found such humor in Ganondorf's phase two healthbar. I was laughing my ass off at it. Anyways it's been good glad I got to watch all this as it came out. Cheers for the DLC now
@@ethanawaao1291Not centering it is crucial to the mindgame fakeout. If it started farther left then usual it would immediately give up the ghost and ruin the surprise
So much of the story is held back because it has to jump through hoops and bend over backwards to accommodate the open world, any-order-you-want format. Early on In Wind Waker there were times when the open sea was restricted and you were forced into story beats, but I think the story was better for it. I guess that reinforces Vinny’s point about 3 different Zelda formats.
Sad to see it end. The BotW playthrough is what brought me to Vinesauce. The TH-cam algorithm was serving me up BotW content in that era and I remember clicking on a video, and it was Vinny in the Gerudo desert. I ended up going back and watching the whole playthrough and started watching live.
For a sort of size reference for how enormous this game is (to have an idea of how much you haven't gotten to), I've reached 100% in it. I've gotten everything, even all the korok seeds. The hero's path records up to 256 hours of gameplay, and I've gotten close to filling that up completely. (My Switch says I've played the game for "415 hours or more". The difference in time between those would be time spent in menus, cutscenes, and conversations.)
Ganondorfs 3rd phase when your shield gets hit by his magic orbs it does a colossal amount of damage to shields for some reason. They two shot every shield in the game
I need to keep testing this but I'm pretty sure it almost immediately breaks every piece of gear that isn't the Master Sword He's outputting a concentrated version of gloom that shatters weapons instead of rotting them, I think, which is why it was so crucial for Zelda to juice the sword
@@smcb9979 I think they're the same blasts that outright completely removes one (or more of your hearts) only way you can counter that is with the Master Sword, in a nice little reference to past Ganondorf encounters (more specifically OOT Ganondorf fight)
@@diegomedina9637Ohhh I'm thinking of the dragon phase as "phase three", do you mean the Demon King fight? Yeah, it's the return of the Fisherman's Gambit, I was so excited to see it
Vinny when hes fighting the hardest enemy in the game: doesn't heal at all or change his armor. Vinny fighting the literal last victory lap boss: healing, changing armor and nearly dying.
What Vinny is describing is an ambivert, someone who recharges from solitude and being social in varying intervals. I think most people would fall closer to that than strictly introvert or extrovert.
@@codybrady6940 Eh I have adhd and he is sometimes relatable to those experiences as well. But I don't think we have any way of knowing truly if vinny is neurodivergent. Ambivert is the next best explanation for him being drained by social interactions.
@@Hikarixhikarixhikari You ain't wrong, though the two do end up pairing together a lot. I'm one such lucky case lol You're right though, and it does border on the parasocial aspect of things to even talk about tbh. Just an observation I've made before
I liked this ending, it was symbolic to what Link failed to catch her at the beginning. The action of catching her at the end feels a lot more powerful to me.
Having Zelda stay as a dragon doesn't work because we've only seen her being captured or as a dragon throughout the entirety of these 2 games. The only freedom she had in the present day of the story was between the two games, and that was several years but we saw none of it, so it may as well not have happened. For that reason, keeping her as a dragon would have just felt cruel. In a different story, the sacrifice and the bittersweetness would be appreciated more, but in this one, she deserves to live her life free.
YES she deserves to be happy. It really feels like her whole journey in TOTK was a way for her to get closure in regards to her lineage and her vision for Hyrule. Sonia and Rauru really gave her that love she needed. Now she can go forward her own way. To take that away for the sake of making a story tragic would be a massive disservice to how far she's grown.
@@diegomedina9637 There's 20 minutes of music spread across 6 different phases(no damage, one section broken and two sections broken, both for the first and second halves of the fight) for Colgera. It's a LOT of excellent music for a fight that lasts 2 minutes unless you actively force yourself to fight it very slow🙁
Also represents the ouroboros, representing things of a cyclical nature. History repeats itself in-game and if you wanna get into fan theories, TOTK being at the end of every timeline with sky islands and skyward sword being at the beginning of the timeline with sky islands, the ouroboros could also represent the cycle of the whole Zelda mythos coming to a close, only to start again back in skyloft generations later
@@jonathanwilson7949unfortunately/fortunately they said they wouldn't be doing linear/2d anymore, they believe it's too restrictive. However, they could do remakes, such as Links Awakening, that was pretty good.
I don't have the chat replay extension and didn't see this live, but I am almost certain that 1:39:25 was flooded with, "I WAS HERE!" This final segment of the game seriously gives me mad chills
So this is it, the final stream. I will miss the Teats of the King streams. I didn't know you could take a picture of Ganondorf and then have Hudson make a model of him because i didn't think the picture would save after the credits and load the file again. Also they seem rather disinterested over "The Demon King" being depicted in their display, i was hoping for some new dialogue from that reveal.
I was able to watch all of his BOTW streams when they came out but guess i'm more smooth brained now since I couldn't for this. So I can't wait for the mega edit that's like a couple hours long and chip away on it.
When I got to the cutscene where Zelda transforms into a dragon, I HAD to look up if she stayed that way XD I kinda spoiled myself on one of the ending bits but I would have been pretty upset if she did actually stay a dragon haha. I respect your thoughts though Vinny, definitely would have been interesting to see that kind of ending but I don't think I personally could handle that heartbreak.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 All the people who died OFFSCREEN, as opposed to Zelda literally transforming into a monster on camera while clearly terrified and in pain? Yeah
@@rr53213rrMajora's Mask literally ends with Link setting everything right again and averting the apocalypse, tho, so none of the emotional burden actually happens to anyone... you're only remembering the middle, not the end...
@@rr53213rrSo if you didn't follow the story, what makes you think you have the ability to declare on its quality? It's not their fault you chose not to pay attention to the nuance. The Deku Butler's son is the MM equivalent of the dead soldiers in TOTK - an offscreen death. If Zelda didn't turn back, they would literally be making kids watch her die painfully. It would be bad, dude.
Vinny clearly doesn't know that if you take out a boat oar Ganondorf stops attacking you, same as the fishing rod in TP and the bug catching net with Demise in SS
@@theophany4935 if you're asking about the fishing rod and bug net for the other games then yes, but sadly no there's nothing like that in totk it was just a silly joke LOL sorry to disappoint :"
I'll miss Purah, I'll miss Riju, I'll miss the rat outfit, I'll miss Link's five stands (yes this is a Jojo reference), I'll miss Vinny saying "vomit now", I'll miss the king gleeocks, I'll miss the glider outfit, I'll miss chat telling Vinny that he gets to the Izuku Midoriya tree, otherwise known as the Deku tree, by telling him minecraft steve. And wouldn't there be four Ganondorf figurines?
Botw was in my top five best games of all time with the position varying depending on the day. Totk I'd have a really hard time not calling my favorite game of all time.
@@silverhand9965I guess that's kind of what I mean, tho. BOTW turned every other Zelda game into something I'd wanna play mostly to see the story and lore and art over the gameplay, and then TOTK did that same thing to BOTW for me. Tears is now probably always gonna be the one I grab by default unless I have a specific hankering for the MOOD of another one
I was half hoping Vinny would just keep going "When's the final Zeld...? Uh I don't know chat" for months then randomly in November stream the final episode
I agree and disagree with Vinny about Zelda staying a dragon in the sense that I wished the game had a good and “bad” ending. Personally, I would have liked Link to really dig deep and figure out a way to fix the whole dragon thing, but if you didn’t you would get a bitter sweet ending. The story is definitely the weakest part which is a little weird when I really like how the side quests are written, they felt like Yakuza sub stories which is one of the highest complements I can give. I could go on with a handful of problems but its still a 10/10 game for me because god I love playing it.
What an amazing ride, even got goosebumps again during the boss-fights and the ending sequences. Definitely my goty of 2023. Gonna be very hard for the next Zelda title to live up to TotK with a bar set that high, especially if its not open world. Pretty sure there is gonna be a lot of backlash if they go for another linear Zelda adventure a la Skyward Sword for their next main entry.
I think the problem with Zelda remaining the dragon is that it means there will never be another Zelda again (person, not game lol). All Zeldas have the blood of the Hylia in their veins. They're descended from the original Zelda, who was Hylia reincarnated as a human. If the last Zelda is stuck as a dragon, then there isn't anyone to pass on the Hylia bloodline. The royal guard's bloodline is still around, so there can still be future Heroes, but no Zeldas. But maybe it would've been best for Tears of the Kingdom to be the very end of the series (timeline-wise). Game is so far in the future that I guess they could just make a new Zelda line. Either Hylia reincarnates, or her sealing power comes from elsewhere. I am a bit confused on how Hylia's bloodline was passed down with Sonia's death though. Maybe they had a child we never saw or something? Zelda has both Sonia and Rauru's powers so she has to be a descendent of them.
Sidons power is fantastic. It lets you get wet anywhere (lol) which activates the attack doubling power of zora weapons. So if youve got a good Zora fusion, you can get fucking bonkers powerful weapons this way.
feel like this game has a lot of themes of sacrifice. aside from the obvious, you also have mineru, the zora king was ready to sacrifice himself, and theres many examples in sidequests amongst the sparse story. I hope the next game has a zant or vaati-like sub villain beneath ganon that you can follow throughout the story
@silverhand9965 nope. It's a demon. Someone akin to Ganon, Mad Batter or Ghirahim. (Remember there's an entire dimension of them that has yet to be explored) The barganers are akin to angels or valkyries, who bring souls to the afterlife, Heaven/Hell or Valhalla/Hel, etc. Demons are nothing to sneeze at in Zelda, we've only met a few, but each of them demonstrate tremendous power. Demise. Perhaps the strongest character we've seen on screen, went toe to toe with Hylia and won, and this guy has an army of near equivalents just waiting to be released.
Sacrifice is definitely one of this game's themes. Rauru sacrifices his life for the people of Hyrule, Zelda sacrifices her sense of self to protect Hyrule and especially Link, while Ganondorf sacrifices his sense of self in a selfish gambit for more power.
@@silverhand9965 The dealer statue is an aspect of the horned god, just as the goddess statues are an aspect of Hylia. They aren't the gods THEMSELVES, they're separate spirit entities that act as emissaries for their deities. All the dialogue from the goddess statues and poe collectors in this game would suggest so, as they perceive themselves seperately from one another.
guessing him switching from hang gliding to normal dropping (not diving) caused Zelda to have an issue pacing to where he was. which I didnt think was possible. I thought the camera push was to sync her forehead position to link in a way you wouldn't easily notice.
@@Medicalguy Oh I started from the beginning - it went from "I don't need any like-like stones and shields" to "that's a lot of horriblins" and then " yeah I think i'm supposed to run"
Its actually bonkers how he misses such a huge moment where Ganondorf has thr ability to deplete a max heart from you. The game makes a huge deal about it by moving the hearts to the middle of the screen XD
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Vinny trying to build a hoverbike on the back of the final boss and it just clipping into the boss and later exploding into a billion parts is the purest example of vinePassive
I wouldn’t expect anything less from the finale of Vinny’s playthrough lmao
when does it explode
Dude that shit had me in tears with laughter (no pun intended) 🤣🤣🤣
@@paul-nj1ig right as he gets off, you can see it break and a few bits fly randomly off screen
Timestamp?
2:13:44 "I'm trying to build a hoverbike on Ganon's back"
I wish I could travel back in time and show this sentence to someone playing Ocarina in 1998
The pure defeat in Bingos voice when he says "I screwed up Zeld you gotta help me again." I'm fuckin dying
Imagine going back in time to meet Vinny when he was a kid, just finishing OoT, and showing him this clip like "This will be you in 24 years."
“A second Link has hit the Ganon” got the dumbest laugh out of me
Oh dang hi, I didn't expect to see you on a Vinesauce video. I love your voice acting.
@@darrelsam419 Thanks dude, yeah I’ve been a Vinny fan since like 2017
Woah. It’s genuinely surprising how many people I watch either a lot or occasionally are also fans of vinny.
@AMTRAX I heard it but I don't get the reference. I've only been watching since Covid, and miss many mainstream meme's as well...
@@keithcroshaw A second plane has hit the tower
2:16:20 The fact that the Demon Dragon nukes right on top of Lost Woods makes me believe all the Korok went flying lmao, nice excuse to search for them again.
lmao what if he killed the Deku Tree
@@smcb9979 Deku Tree is now the Deku Crater
@@silverhand9965The Dekhasm
It’s like that Star Wars theory about the state of Endor after the death star’s explosion
I feel like it would've been somehow more appropriate if he nuked right on top of Hyrule Castle, destroying it utterly. End of a cycle, new beginnings and all that, you know ?
2:16:17 i love how he gets mad at the oppenheimer joke only to seconds later go "ok yeah nvm"
Only Vinny could turn the final fight into as much of a clusterfuck as he did.
God bless you, Binyot.
Disappointed that Vinny didn’t experience Ganondorf flurry rushing his flurry rush
a devastating thing to miss seeing
I don’t think I experienced that, but I did experience him dodging mine
Surprisingly he was able to get the parries instead
I did and lemme tell ya I think the neighbors probably thought I got stabbed
Streamer bad at videogaems
I’m glad the thumbnail is formatted just like the original story finale’s thumbnail for the BOTW stream
I like the ending as it is, I like a purely happy ending. The only thing I'd have changed is that Link doesn't get his arm back, but we see in the after credits scene that Purah has built Link a new robot arm. Also, during the scene where Zelda woke up I couldn't shake the feeling of "would you two hug or something?"
I just finished and that is one of my complaints from the previous game. Why can't we have the Twilight Princess Link that shows actual emotion? I was definitely expecting Link to at least do SOMETHING after his amazing rescue of Zelda, whom up until that point he never knew if he would see again. Just a simple smile and a hug would've added so much to this. Oh well!
The final “handshake” is definitely going down as an iconic moment for the series. Such a great final boss too.
Putting the laser on the head backwards and then nearly killing himself with it when he tried to fix it is going down as an all time Vinesauce moment for me
CLEEP
@@drantigon CLEEPUSSI
I still keep coming back just for that part alone 🤣🤣🤣
Watching Vinny through the ending felt so much like when you want to show a friend something cool and they’re not paying attention haha
classic Vinny talking about feet while the sickest cinematic known to man is going on behind him
as he said, "you chose to be here" so we can't really complain 🙂
@@entryplugged2068 I don't blame him, there were THREE Ganon feet shots in 1 cutscene
@@drantigon Not enough, we need more
I try to distract myself as much as I can from the voice acting, maybe thats what he's doing
@@firelinksunlight9692 But Ganondorf has the only good voice acting in the game.
2:01:18 LMAO i’m the one who said “i can fix him” in chat. I’m so happy Vin saw and scolded me
He had to save you
@@Redeadhunter Oh it is *far* too late for me, my friend. I’ve been digging this hole since Hyrule Warriors came out
ganon massage
Vinny: “yeah feet!”
Ganondorf: “Do NOT look away.”
LMAO
Sad that his playthrough finally ended, but glad to see that Vinny got so much out of the game and really enjoyed it.
Same
@@jonathanwilson7949 now we await the DLC
TotK was a really interesting experience for me.
I played for ~50 hours before the Spirit Temple and felt kinda burnt out, then did the final boss, then did the rest of the shrines and wished the game had more large milestones (eg: an extra 6th dungeon after all the shrines)
I think Vinny had the right idea to do all the shrines first, but it definitely makes you way overpowered for the end of the game.
@@BryceDixonDevHere's a great way to avoid burnout if you wanna try a second run: save your blessings and limit your upgrades. If you use only ten hearts, two stamina wheels, and level 2 armor upgrades than the game's combat and movement keep that early-game minty freshness the whole way through
you could also limit your tool slots (I've got 15 weapons and 10 bows/shields), or use shrines and lightroots as hard warp points (fast travel only allowed on blue circle lights)
@@smcb9979tbh that was my first playthrough. I didn't find Hestu until after beating Gannondorf, so I had min slots the whole time and I never upgraded any gear because it felt like a waste of time to go out and get all the items for them, anyway.
The thing is the game isn't really all that different under those "hard mode" rules for me since most of the really hard fights (hard in this context meaning "high damage") I ended up just doing hitless, anyway, because it honestly took less time to do that than grinding more health and better armor since you basically always respawn right before said fight.
It's not that I want the game to be *harder* anyway, I kinda just want more validation for actually doing stuff. Even if there was an explicit "final" shrine that you had to do last, it would have been cool for there to be some kind of special challenge as a reward for doing them all outside of armor I'll basically never use.
I love how Vin didn't notice that his hearts were literally stolen.
was a little disappointed tea bee ach. ever since i saw it i was looking forward to his reaction
@@jackpumpoen Yeah, he was too busy just spamming y lol
I mean, he never heals, so were they there to ever be stolen in the first place?
@@KitsuneDzelda At this point I don't care about the "not healing" thing anymore. I just thought that it was cool and intimidating that this Ganon is so strong that he can actually break those hearts you worked so hard to get. Something other final bosses cannot do if I recall correctly.
The hearts getting eaten was one of my fave parts of the end fight, granted I only fought ganon with 10 hearts so it was a lot more intimidating but, I was looking forward to his (and other ppls) reactions too. No reaction tho was not what I expect 😂😂
Purah: You defeated the Demon King together. What did it cost you?
Zelda: Link’s shirt.
Depending on the shirt, that could be a surprisingly high cost.
It cost us the Switch T-Shirt.
And a really cool arm!
Vinny beat BoTW with 29 parts
Now he beat TotK with 28 parts
Vinny you HACK
I wonder what the total times are for both though
@@rmbadoo4831botw was about 80-88 hrs.
Totk is 120.
Thoes are just numbers that he's recorded.
You could probably add 10-20 hrs to both numbers.
botw includes DLC
Vinny, can you not post spoilers in the thumbnail? I didn't know Legend was going to fight Ganondorf at the end of this game.
True, how could he be so goddamn rude and not WARN us that ganon was the big evil guy in a Zelda game? Absolutely unacceptable.
A few minutes shy of 112 hours for the entire playlist, if anyone was wondering.
Obviously not counting all the stuff he did off screen, and by the sound of it he played a considerable amount too.
The composer put 75% of their power into every piece of music if the final act, and its glorious.
They put their whole "orchestrussy" into it
@@HD_Dabnadoshame on you
Somehow I suspected the ending this game got. It seemed inevitable that Ganon would try the same trick. Puts me in mind of when Jafar wished to be an all powerful genie, without looking at the consequences of said actions.
It's arguably the core of his character! He can't be reasoned with, only fought, because he'll ruin everything he can out of spite rather than taste humility. Modern-life Ganondorf would be a psycho billionaire
For some reason my first thought when I got to the memory with draconification mentioned was that ganon was the one who would do it and not zelda, but when I got to the end of the memories I just threw that idea out the window, I guess cause 'why would it happen twice?', literally managed to gaslight myself into being surprised at both of the dragons ☠️
Yeah, though in this case he was aware of the consequences. He was just too blinded by his own hatred to stop himself. Ganondorf is both the kind of person who's way too proud to compromise himself by turning into a dragon, and the kind of person whose rage runs so deep that he's likely to do it anyway in a moment of unfettered insanity.
It kinda just makes sense in the end.
@@silverhand9965 Ganondorf really went and said "I don't care if I'm a Dragon, I just REALLY want you dead right about now"
Love that guy, an absolute goober fr
I didn't expect it at all
I didn't have "Ganon turns into Calamity Ganon 2.0" in my bingo card
This is an amazing game, one of the best games that came out so far in the decade
It shows that you don't need Ray Tracing or 4k resolution to make an enthralling experience
I knew they never would, but I was really hoping Link stayed one armed. Such a cool fuckin design. Ah well lol
What an amazing game though. Felt that childlike wonder at least 3 separate times in my playthrough. The arrival at the wind temple/Colgera fight and the final boss were both major standouts. Do I wish the bossfights were more difficult? Absolutely. But for the most part they all still managed to be pretty fuckin cool in spite of being easy.
Also, thinkin about how Zelda is literally tens of thousands of years old by now. Jesus christ lol. Between BotW and Totk, girl needs fuckin rest
It could be as many as 30,000 or even 50,000, since they leave it vague where the original Divine Beast Calamity is in comparison to Rauru's era
The masks for the Sages and Champions being supposedly the same ones, but vastly different in style, is an interesting wrinkle
@@smcb9979plus 125 years
Don’t know why, but I somehow convinced myself they’d pull an Adventure Time and have the main hero just permanently lose an arm. Same side too, funny enough.
Only Vinny could turn the "epicness" of the final boss encounter into such a hilarious mess by trying to build a hoverbike on its back which immediately clips into the boss!
And that's exactly why I love watching his streams! LMAO
Vinny: I don’t need food
Lynel: are you sure about that
Vinny: we need to cook
Been waiting for this since like one week after the game released, since I only play one story game at a time, usually. Glad someone else found such humor in Ganondorf's phase two healthbar. I was laughing my ass off at it. Anyways it's been good glad I got to watch all this as it came out. Cheers for the DLC now
I was having a laughing fit at the fact that it wasn’t centered properly
@@ethanawaao1291 If it was centered it would have look like shit, either starting off from the middle or the side would look terrible
@@ethanawaao1291Not centering it is crucial to the mindgame fakeout. If it started farther left then usual it would immediately give up the ghost and ruin the surprise
@@smcb9979 I was more expecting it to start from the middle and start growing from both the left and right.
@@ethanawaao1291 But that's a different way of loading the bar than every other boss, which would ALSO ruin the surprise?
Same thumbnail as the Breath of the Wild Finale, let's go!
Seeing the thumbnail brought me some much needed nostalgia
I can't believe Zelda swallowed the master sword
whose master sword?
I can’t believe she would swallow Link’s master sword like that
So much of the story is held back because it has to jump through hoops and bend over backwards to accommodate the open world, any-order-you-want format.
Early on In Wind Waker there were times when the open sea was restricted and you were forced into story beats, but I think the story was better for it. I guess that reinforces Vinny’s point about 3 different Zelda formats.
Vinny really does have an uncanny ability to accidentally ruin cool moments. How does this keep happening 😂
Cause he's old now
If he does end up finishing FFXVI, he's gonna accidentally phaseskip the final phase of the final boss like several other streamers. I can feel it.
This entire stream was just vinny talking about how much he fears his community and dislikes interacting with it then messing up the entire final act.
Sad to see it end. The BotW playthrough is what brought me to Vinesauce. The TH-cam algorithm was serving me up BotW content in that era and I remember clicking on a video, and it was Vinny in the Gerudo desert. I ended up going back and watching the whole playthrough and started watching live.
"Don't creeng because it happened." ~ Binkely Binesauce985
For a sort of size reference for how enormous this game is (to have an idea of how much you haven't gotten to), I've reached 100% in it. I've gotten everything, even all the korok seeds. The hero's path records up to 256 hours of gameplay, and I've gotten close to filling that up completely. (My Switch says I've played the game for "415 hours or more". The difference in time between those would be time spent in menus, cutscenes, and conversations.)
Cant wait for the $30 dlc with another 100 hrs of content.
Ganondorfs 3rd phase when your shield gets hit by his magic orbs it does a colossal amount of damage to shields for some reason. They two shot every shield in the game
it breaks the Hylian shield faster than Guardians ever did.
I need to keep testing this but I'm pretty sure it almost immediately breaks every piece of gear that isn't the Master Sword
He's outputting a concentrated version of gloom that shatters weapons instead of rotting them, I think, which is why it was so crucial for Zelda to juice the sword
@@smcb9979 I think they're the same blasts that outright completely removes one (or more of your hearts) only way you can counter that is with the Master Sword, in a nice little reference to past Ganondorf encounters (more specifically OOT Ganondorf fight)
@@diegomedina9637Ohhh I'm thinking of the dragon phase as "phase three", do you mean the Demon King fight? Yeah, it's the return of the Fisherman's Gambit, I was so excited to see it
If your shield gets hit by the gloom attacks, its durability is immediately reduced to 1. Happens for every shield.
Vinny when hes fighting the hardest enemy in the game: doesn't heal at all or change his armor.
Vinny fighting the literal last victory lap boss: healing, changing armor and nearly dying.
Nearly dying on the one boss that literally cannot kill you in most cases. Real Vinny hours🤔
When Vinny missed the head I actually burst out laughing while saying "you fucking jackass". God that was amazing.
Only Vinny could somehow manage to miss Zelda several times and then also miss the head in that fight 😹
Same, but I kinda just shook my head like a disappointed parent.
Fr, I've never seen anyone actually miss landing on Zelda until now
1:25:00
I like how theres a mini arsenal down there, as if any gaurds stationed would be able to do anything to Ganondorf barreling up that hallway.
1:55:10 Demon King just pulled a Little Mac fight Macho Man.
"Photo op- ARRGH!"
What Vinny is describing is an ambivert, someone who recharges from solitude and being social in varying intervals. I think most people would fall closer to that than strictly introvert or extrovert.
As an autist, it really just sounds a lot like the 'tism lol
@@codybrady6940fellow autist, wouldn’t be surprised if it was revealed but he also doesn’t immediately strike my radar
@@codybrady6940 Eh I have adhd and he is sometimes relatable to those experiences as well. But I don't think we have any way of knowing truly if vinny is neurodivergent. Ambivert is the next best explanation for him being drained by social interactions.
@@Hikarixhikarixhikari You ain't wrong, though the two do end up pairing together a lot. I'm one such lucky case lol You're right though, and it does border on the parasocial aspect of things to even talk about tbh. Just an observation I've made before
I liked this ending, it was symbolic to what Link failed to catch her at the beginning. The action of catching her at the end feels a lot more powerful to me.
Having Zelda stay as a dragon doesn't work because we've only seen her being captured or as a dragon throughout the entirety of these 2 games. The only freedom she had in the present day of the story was between the two games, and that was several years but we saw none of it, so it may as well not have happened. For that reason, keeping her as a dragon would have just felt cruel. In a different story, the sacrifice and the bittersweetness would be appreciated more, but in this one, she deserves to live her life free.
you are so real for that i feel like i'm going insane seeing everyone root for zelda suffering all the time everytime
YES she deserves to be happy. It really feels like her whole journey in TOTK was a way for her to get closure in regards to her lineage and her vision for Hyrule. Sonia and Rauru really gave her that love she needed. Now she can go forward her own way. To take that away for the sake of making a story tragic would be a massive disservice to how far she's grown.
Too many things have non-happy endings these days.
1:43:50
"I got this. I got this. I know what to do"
*completely, utterly fails numberous times*
dry crenando finally becomes nice and moist
And so have our pants.
Rehydrated Crenando
Johnny plz, I just finished the VOD because I couldn't wait... and here you are with the upload
Johnny the GOAT. Was halfway through the VOD and now switched to this :D
@@k1ng0fqu33n5The legend never sleeps
2:04:40 remember, only innocent/worthy people see the dragons, so all they would see is link flying around
32:30 HE WILL NEVER HEAR THE FULL PHASE 3 COLGERA THEME. He ALWAYS kills it too fast :(
there's a phase 3?
@@diegomedina9637 Well, two phases but destroying each of the three sections has its own music
@@Gryphon1269 Does it? I don't remember a difference in music like at all.
@@diegomedina9637 There's 20 minutes of music spread across 6 different phases(no damage, one section broken and two sections broken, both for the first and second halves of the fight) for Colgera. It's a LOT of excellent music for a fight that lasts 2 minutes unless you actively force yourself to fight it very slow🙁
@@diegomedina9637 th-cam.com/video/25piF-xT3sI/w-d-xo.html This video has the three sections from both phases
Oh my god when he said he’s gonna play the Zelda CDI based game I audibly cheered and did a little clap.
I am such a damn loser.
2:01:18 “no chat you can’t fix him,” this cracked me up so hard
Most people don’t know that the logo of the game is the final boss
Also represents the ouroboros, representing things of a cyclical nature. History repeats itself in-game and if you wanna get into fan theories, TOTK being at the end of every timeline with sky islands and skyward sword being at the beginning of the timeline with sky islands, the ouroboros could also represent the cycle of the whole Zelda mythos coming to a close, only to start again back in skyloft generations later
It's been a pleasure watching and playing along, Vinny.
The Giant Brightbloom kept your hover bike alive due to Brightbloom having a really high despawn distance.
The end huh? I had a great many hours watching this with you all! May we Zeld again soon!
Dlc hopefully
Or a 2D game!
@@jonathanwilson7949unfortunately/fortunately they said they wouldn't be doing linear/2d anymore, they believe it's too restrictive.
However, they could do remakes, such as Links Awakening, that was pretty good.
He could really use a cookbook down there.
been watching since day 1, didn't get to see EVERY stream live but the rides been fun :)
I don't have the chat replay extension and didn't see this live, but I am almost certain that 1:39:25 was flooded with, "I WAS HERE!"
This final segment of the game seriously gives me mad chills
fantastic playthrough Vinny.
So this is it, the final stream.
I will miss the Teats of the King streams.
I didn't know you could take a picture of Ganondorf and then have Hudson make a model of him because i didn't think the picture would save after the credits and load the file again.
Also they seem rather disinterested over "The Demon King" being depicted in their display, i was hoping for some new dialogue from that reveal.
I have my problems with the story, but god that final boss is so good I love it.
I fucking love how the first thing vinny does the _moment_ the ganon battle starts is take a selfie lmao
that audio pop precisely when zelda blinks at 2:35:25
I was able to watch all of his BOTW streams when they came out but guess i'm more smooth brained now since I couldn't for this. So I can't wait for the mega edit that's like a couple hours long and chip away on it.
1:41:53
Same. Music in games is so underrated/overlooked oftentimes!
When I got to the cutscene where Zelda transforms into a dragon, I HAD to look up if she stayed that way XD I kinda spoiled myself on one of the ending bits but I would have been pretty upset if she did actually stay a dragon haha. I respect your thoughts though Vinny, definitely would have been interesting to see that kind of ending but I don't think I personally could handle that heartbreak.
It would also be a ridiculously heavy, existential weight to emotionally burden the eight year olds with
@@smcb9979 Much more then all the people who died sealing Gannon?
@@Buglin_Burger7878 All the people who died OFFSCREEN, as opposed to Zelda literally transforming into a monster on camera while clearly terrified and in pain?
Yeah
@@rr53213rrMajora's Mask literally ends with Link setting everything right again and averting the apocalypse, tho, so none of the emotional burden actually happens to anyone...
you're only remembering the middle, not the end...
@@rr53213rrSo if you didn't follow the story, what makes you think you have the ability to declare on its quality? It's not their fault you chose not to pay attention to the nuance.
The Deku Butler's son is the MM equivalent of the dead soldiers in TOTK - an offscreen death. If Zelda didn't turn back, they would literally be making kids watch her die painfully. It would be bad, dude.
Vinny clearly doesn't know that if you take out a boat oar Ganondorf stops attacking you, same as the fishing rod in TP and the bug catching net with Demise in SS
Wait is that fr
@@theophany4935 if you're asking about the fishing rod and bug net for the other games then yes, but sadly no there's nothing like that in totk it was just a silly joke LOL sorry to disappoint :"
@@shiroihana4381 Oh darn I was actually going to try it lol.
I'll miss Purah, I'll miss Riju, I'll miss the rat outfit, I'll miss Link's five stands (yes this is a Jojo reference), I'll miss Vinny saying "vomit now", I'll miss the king gleeocks, I'll miss the glider outfit, I'll miss chat telling Vinny that he gets to the Izuku Midoriya tree, otherwise known as the Deku tree, by telling him minecraft steve. And wouldn't there be four Ganondorf figurines?
They'll be forever in our hearts.
Not to mention we can rewatch vinny and replay the game any time we want.
Botw was in my top five best games of all time with the position varying depending on the day. Totk I'd have a really hard time not calling my favorite game of all time.
TOTK does to BOTW what BOTW did to all of preexisting Zelda
@@smcb9979 I dunno, BOTW to previous Zelda is completely different so hard to judge it against thos games.
TOTK is just better BOTW in every way
@@silverhand9965I guess that's kind of what I mean, tho. BOTW turned every other Zelda game into something I'd wanna play mostly to see the story and lore and art over the gameplay, and then TOTK did that same thing to BOTW for me. Tears is now probably always gonna be the one I grab by default unless I have a specific hankering for the MOOD of another one
1:55:10 for the pic of a lifetime
all that kept going through my mind in the third phase was: “Link, hurry! You’re running out of rings!”
I was half hoping Vinny would just keep going "When's the final Zeld...? Uh I don't know chat" for months then randomly in November stream the final episode
Amazing streams for an amazing game. I loved every bit of TOTK, and I am glad to have seen this journey conclude for you as well!
I agree and disagree with Vinny about Zelda staying a dragon in the sense that I wished the game had a good and “bad” ending. Personally, I would have liked Link to really dig deep and figure out a way to fix the whole dragon thing, but if you didn’t you would get a bitter sweet ending. The story is definitely the weakest part which is a little weird when I really like how the side quests are written, they felt like Yakuza sub stories which is one of the highest complements I can give.
I could go on with a handful of problems but its still a 10/10 game for me because god I love playing it.
22:16 this is soooo incredibly true
my favorite zelda totk playthrough, the ending was perfectly ruined. loved it all.
i like how vinny is over here trying to fight every single enemy on the path to ganon and i ran straight past every single one of them
Hidden Vinny video (SECRET) (real)
(Gone sexual)
(meat)
What an amazing ride, even got goosebumps again during the boss-fights and the ending sequences. Definitely my goty of 2023.
Gonna be very hard for the next Zelda title to live up to TotK with a bar set that high, especially if its not open world. Pretty sure there is gonna be a lot of backlash if they go for another linear Zelda adventure a la Skyward Sword for their next main entry.
Holy fuck, the final fight was a shitshow, i knew Vinny would not disappoint :D
2:16:16 comedic timing
this game was so good, glad i got to experience both of them when i did
I think the problem with Zelda remaining the dragon is that it means there will never be another Zelda again (person, not game lol).
All Zeldas have the blood of the Hylia in their veins. They're descended from the original Zelda, who was Hylia reincarnated as a human. If the last Zelda is stuck as a dragon, then there isn't anyone to pass on the Hylia bloodline. The royal guard's bloodline is still around, so there can still be future Heroes, but no Zeldas.
But maybe it would've been best for Tears of the Kingdom to be the very end of the series (timeline-wise).
Game is so far in the future that I guess they could just make a new Zelda line. Either Hylia reincarnates, or her sealing power comes from elsewhere.
I am a bit confused on how Hylia's bloodline was passed down with Sonia's death though. Maybe they had a child we never saw or something? Zelda has both Sonia and Rauru's powers so she has to be a descendent of them.
Sidons power is fantastic. It lets you get wet anywhere (lol) which activates the attack doubling power of zora weapons. So if youve got a good Zora fusion, you can get fucking bonkers powerful weapons this way.
Even without cheesing the wet warrior buff Sidon water attack can pack quite a punch and it also shreds through Gibdos like they're a wet napkin.
@diegomedina9637 the only reason ppl don't like it is because it's not as multi-purpose like Riju or Younobo.
@@FierceDeity35 Then clearly people have never used him effectively enough. Topaz rod plus Sidon does make a great combo
feel like this game has a lot of themes of sacrifice. aside from the obvious, you also have mineru, the zora king was ready to sacrifice himself, and theres many examples in sidequests amongst the sparse story. I hope the next game has a zant or vaati-like sub villain beneath ganon that you can follow throughout the story
Already foreshadowed - talk to Jerrin, Robbie's wife in the Lookout shelter. She mentions an entity called the "horned god", Hylia's opposite
@@smcb9979 Isn't that just the bargainer statue tho?
@silverhand9965 nope.
It's a demon. Someone akin to Ganon, Mad Batter or Ghirahim. (Remember there's an entire dimension of them that has yet to be explored)
The barganers are akin to angels or valkyries, who bring souls to the afterlife, Heaven/Hell or Valhalla/Hel, etc.
Demons are nothing to sneeze at in Zelda, we've only met a few, but each of them demonstrate tremendous power.
Demise. Perhaps the strongest character we've seen on screen, went toe to toe with Hylia and won, and this guy has an army of near equivalents just waiting to be released.
Sacrifice is definitely one of this game's themes. Rauru sacrifices his life for the people of Hyrule, Zelda sacrifices her sense of self to protect Hyrule and especially Link, while Ganondorf sacrifices his sense of self in a selfish gambit for more power.
@@silverhand9965 The dealer statue is an aspect of the horned god, just as the goddess statues are an aspect of Hylia.
They aren't the gods THEMSELVES, they're separate spirit entities that act as emissaries for their deities. All the dialogue from the goddess statues and poe collectors in this game would suggest so, as they perceive themselves seperately from one another.
I didn't want the game to end
guessing him switching from hang gliding to normal dropping (not diving) caused Zelda to have an issue pacing to where he was. which I didnt think was possible. I thought the camera push was to sync her forehead position to link in a way you wouldn't easily notice.
If you get ragdolled by Ganon and don't fix it, she'll completely miss and a cutscene will play to bring you back up.
And finally, Vinny has met the hot Crenando.
What a journey it's been chat. Thanks Vincent Sauce for giving us such a fun playthrough!
I love how Vinny wants to try and fight every monster on the way to Ganon, I just ran past all of them, save your hearts and weapons 😂
I'm baffled that Vinny actually fought the enemies in the depths - i just ran past them all
Same lmfao I saw that lonely lynel and the "sage wifi disconnected" message and noped my way through.
@@Medicalguy Oh I started from the beginning - it went from "I don't need any like-like stones and shields" to "that's a lot of horriblins" and then " yeah I think i'm supposed to run"
Throat GOAT Ganondorf
I came away from this game with very mixed feelings, but it's been great checking in on Vinny's playthrough and seeing him get so much out if it.
2:43:03 That's already happened, Vinny. Some of them were like 2 weeks after release
Disappointed I wasn't able to catch this live but still nice to see this.
Throat Goat Ganondorf
Vinny tried his absolute best to avoid landing on Zelda
Damn this is kind of weird and upsetting. It's like a sign that summer is already almost near its end. Sucks.
Its actually bonkers how he misses such a huge moment where Ganondorf has thr ability to deplete a max heart from you. The game makes a huge deal about it by moving the hearts to the middle of the screen XD
Put 285 hours to the game. No idea that you could make the statue of Ganondorf.
Sad to see this end, I've loved the streams and the game so much. Thankfully we know there's definitely gonna be DLC to draw Vinny back into it