The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Censorship - Censored Gaming Ft. TheBlackLink
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2015
- Did you know The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time has been censored in many ways? Come and see how!
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As for Skull Face, I always thought the black face was to represent shadow. He's a mysterious creature, a lost Kokiri transforms into a skull kid. Makes total sense in the world of Ocarina of Time.
TBrizzle01 I thought this too at the time. I thought of him as Orco from He-Man.
i think it does, but you know how paranoid nintendo is about their image, they probably just didn't want to risk it.
I know this is a whole 4 years old, but people are more sensitive to that sort of stuff in the West, just take a look at Twitter nowadays, it really doesn't take much to set them off so it's completely understandable.
@@inglcaraballo No one can understand what that says, learn to type please.
@@reitairue2073 hahahahahahaha
"Willst thou soar?"
"Or Willst thou suck?"
I freaking love that.
***** I also love your profile pic.
***** It's almost...you know what material.But, I wouldn't do that.
***** Oh my. That...that's really flipping attractive. I think...I gotta go.
Still, that's a nice picture.
I love the previous one a whole lot more.
"Wilst thou get the girl, or play like one?" Classic! Nothing sexist about it though. Don't let the SJW Feminazis fool you.
Yeah, I wouldn't really want to buy something that was being advertised with "Willst thou get the girl? Or play like one?". Maybe it could've been funny 30 years ago, but today it would just be confusing and stupid. Unless it was being deliberately sexist for some Duke Nukem type of game, but that wasn't the case.
Yes the Great King of Evil, who's been casting Death Curses on innocent beings, kidnapping, attempting genocide, gets justifiably slashed by a sacred sword and bleeds. That's way out of line, so offensive and scary. Make it bright Nickelodeon green, please.
Idk I just assumed he was vomiting xD
Yes it sounds and looks dumb
It was red the first time I beat the game. Then every time after was green unless it was the first encounter
in my opinion this isn't supposed be rated m for mature this is supposed to be a little kid's video game and this are one my favorite children's video of all time so I can rest my mind because it has no violence with blood and gore!!!!!!!
@PLEASENINTENDONT as well as the huge ketchup stain on the floor in the bottom of the well and shadow temple. they like to eat allot of ketchup
@PLEASENINTENDONT woa woa I was just giving you a compliment about how much I love nintendo because I love the zelda franchise also I love breath of the wild all because it has GREAT CHARACTER MODELS AND GREAT ART DESIGN AND GREAT CHARACTER DESIGNS believe me I LOVE NINTENDO!!!!!!!
how to fight racism: Paint everything blue and yellow
fuckin assholes
Popo Smurf in DB Kai. ;p
Curious Cat I don't see how the skull kid is racist. He was black because he is supposed to be made of nothing, not because he is black. That's why you only see his eyes and mouth because the rest of his body is darkness.
Dark Shadow he may have been created without racist intentions but some ppl can still have certain feelings of it so they were right to change it
It’s only racist if you take it as Racist
Blue popo Fucking kidding me !?
Dad why has my lovable character turned blue face ??
Very possibly the best voice on TH-cam joins us for episode 3! Great to have you on the show TheBlackLink!
I never picked up his nane before. I think I remember him doing other voice overs for this channel.
Censored Gaming the deku skin color is ridiculous if MF is black let him be Black shit I don’t see as racist
Censored Gaming why just single out oot for Islamic chant's when other games do it too that wasn't right if one had to be edited they all should have been
huh, thats strange.... im black, love the skull kidd, and i never thought he was offensive.
Same here. I never thought of Skull Kid, Jinx, or Mr. Popo as offensive. XD
Lowell Lucas Jr. Same here.
If you guys want to learn more about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
VirusPF I can't speak for the others, but I know about blackface. I don't know any black Americans who don't know about Blackface. What we were saying was that it didn't come to mind to us when playing and I was in my late teens when playing OoT. I viewed the characters as having shadowed over faces because of their hats or hair. With the way Jynx looked when defeated in Stadium, she loses her hair. I thought of them in the same way I did Orco from He-Man.
I think the only way I would've associated them with Blackface, was if they were acting moronic or stupid. Neither character did.
+VirusPF People know about blackface, they just don't care enough to take offense from something innocent. Skull Kidd was never intended to be a racist symbol so why should he be seen as one?
First of all, good lord, I could listen to TheBlackLink read a phone book and still be happy. Your voice is like honey. Second of all, everyone thought I was crazy when I said Ganons blood was red!
I know right? I had a version 1.0 of this game way back and always had to tell people about the Fire Temple chanting and Ganon's blood (as well as some of the regular enemies) being red!
The 3ds version also censored the shadow temple. The wall and floor patterns in most rooms are mostly skull and bones in the original 64 version but are now just dirt. They also removed the blood in the shadow temple in the later versions of the original 64 game.
I always loved the Islamic chants in the fire temple. I thought it really matched the theme of the dungeon. that and I thought it sounded beautiful. one of the main reasons why I always play the n64 version.
I am Muslim. And I am a fan of the legend of Zelda series. The chants in the fire temple are actually calls to prayer and it's not allowed to play music during it.
I like the chants too, it feels like a hellish environment which fits the theme of the temple and music.
hazam ahmed they are also calls to kill christians. at least our prayers werent used to "lawfully" execute people for believing something different.
HAZEM AHMED
That's stupid.
keife1991
1. You can look up the call to prayer's translation anywhere. Nowhere does it mention anything like that.
2. Look up the Spanish Inquisition?
3. It's not strictly forbidden, but it's considered disrespectful to have music over it. They were just trying to show respect and avoid controversy by having religious content in the game.
You forgot that the Forest Medallion was changed in OOT3D due to its slight resemblance to a Swastika.
Wait, what??
@@pj209juarez8 your kinda mistaken you see it's based of the Japanese symbol manji which means good fortune and the layout is a reference to manji symbol
Also not really the forest medallion was supposed to be the wind medallion because the forest temple was originally going to be a wind Temple so I don't agree on the whole swastika thing
He didn't say it was based on a swastika, he just said it resembles one
I personally think it looks better on the 3ds
Censorship. Because someone, somewhere, somehow might be offended.
So true
***** i was being sarcastic.
i hate censorship.
***** cool mate :)
i think censorship in video games is stupid. it doesn't need to exist. i had to buy south park: stick of truth from america because the Australian version (although rated 18+) had some stuff cut out.
video games need to be released as the designer intended. uncut in all it's glory.
have you seen nobullshit debate? what an idiot that one.
Honestly thought Skullkid's face was shrouded in shadow similiar to Black Mages from Final Fantasy. No matter how hard you try though some people will go out of their way to be offended just so they can complain.
Holy shit, that skull kid change is just sad. Who can even get offended by that?
Windwalker88 a lot of people
name here but why? Is every creature with a dark face offensive?
Skull kid was changed because nintendo thought it was blackface. Not every character with a black face is offensive
unfortunately, Japanese game companies and SJWs don't understand that.
While I think the need for censorship with characters that are colored black is ridiculous, I like what they changed it to. Those eyes and mouth on just a pure black face looks weird.
You forgot about the blood in the bottom of the well and the shadow temple and the change to dead hand.
The symbol on the blocks are a nice touch regardless of what version you are playing. You see the symbol is actually Ganon's emblem. Namely the one associated with the Gerudo. It's similar to how the blocks in Majora's Mask have the Majora symbol on it. The symbol on the blocks in both games represent the main antagonist of the respective game.
I remeber when my dad bought the n64 game as a present and neither of us knew that different versions existed on the same system, but by pure luck the copy he found was the original.
accidentally stumbled upon this video, and first thing i noticed: What an amazing narrator voice xD subscribed!
i liked the moon and star on the mirror shield.
Me too
And it makes sense anyway as it Reflects things 😣☪️
Why did they think it was offensive?
Superstar5 I don't think it was offensive per se. Rather it's part of a religion so it got removed? Like you don't see the cross or any other religious things from real life in the game do you?
@@Superstar5_ my friend as a Muslim i feel like the game was offensive somehow like imagine if you heard your religion prayers in a fire temple which is considered to be like hell or if you have to step on buttons that has your religion symbol how will you feel ?! Ofc you'll be offended
But i like the fact that they put the islamic symbol on the mirror shield other than that no
And don't get me wrong oot is one of my favorite Zelda games
I have the original chanting and red blood from ganon. feels good.
The whole black face thing is completely ridiculous. im surprised it never happened with vivi from final fantasy 9.
and really...i think skull kid and vivi/black mage are really going for more of a Jawa thing than a blackface thing, what with the yellow eyes peeking out from a hidden/featureless face
I'm really glad I still have my Gold Cartrage. Damn the changes! I love the original Fire Temple and Mirror Shield!
Same i have a gray cardtridge but its a 1.0 but for better quality i am downloading a wad for that version of ocarina on the wii
It's also possible that the Skull Kid change was done for consistency reasons with Majora's Mask, as English copies of the game also change his face to have a wooden texture. Japanese copies might have too, but I'm 99.9% sure it was on all copies of Majora's Mask 3D.
I have the original version (1.0)
You had me at pronouncing it "Jerudo", lol
2:50 Now I get why it looked like Ganondorf was puking when I beat him.
2:15 This sound was also used on the game Persona 2 Eternal Punishment, in the "illusion" track
The shadow of Bongo Bongo escaping from the Well, it’s colour was changed a few times over the different versions and ports.
I can’t remember what it was in the original, it’s been a long time. But in the gamecube/wii shop port and the 3DS versions it was purple and black or dark grey.
There was also a blood change from red to green.
Ah, the memories of the gold cartridge. The sample is what really makes the Fire Temple music pop, though. The Gamecube version just loops the music before hitting that point while the 3DS music awkwardly replaces it with Shadow Temple wailing.
why can't people just accept the artist's original view of their art without getting triggered as fuck?
but...nobody complained about most of this, its just nintendo being paranoid...
If Satanic symbols or chanting were included in OOT, do you think Nintendo would censor the game?
Censorship sucks big time.
the wierd thing is that i have the original non censured LoZ OoT, it even has no letters on the back, but still, ganons blood in the boss fight is green...
but i remember one time being red...
I think it’s only red the first time you fight him and then it’s green afterwards. (It’s been a while for me...)
I miss the old gerudo logo, but luckily my sister plays on emulator so at least there is that + the chanting, which really adds to the environment, like link is gonna fight a djinn or smthing
I never thought as a kid that skull kid's face to be back. I always thought it was always in shadows and that we never saw how he really looked like
In the Switch Virtual console, the moon crest is still slightly visible in the Gerudo pass or token when you receive it
Awesome vid as usual. I love this channel. Keep up the good work.
First time I ever heard of these sensors
Not that I agree with the changes.. but I do want to point out that people tend to mis-use censorship. This is not censorship, censorship is the governing authority of the land forcing changes to fit their agenda.
While it's questionable if any of these changes should have been made, it's really no different than an editor making edits to a book before publishing.
explain just because skull kid was black in the original people wanted it removed wow people need to learn its not offensive and to man up about it
It's because he resembles blackface instead of an actual black person, pitch black skin with a lightly coloured, overdrawn mouth.
Cauldros It looks more like a beak than a mouth tbh.
I always looked like a black duck face to me.
4:21 this is still the n64 version, the sword button is red on the gamecube one
I've heard people saying things about how the horror elements in places like The Shadow Temple and the Forest Temple, along with the redeads, all come off as less scary. Know of anything specific?
(Also, would've been nice to see that floral pattern mentioned in the video.)
I think it is worth mentioning that Skull Kid's had there face designes changed several years prior in Twilight Princess. You encounter a single skull kid in the games Lost Woods area before retrieving the Master Sword. This Skull Kid had a Woodan face. Censorship or designe changes? Both are possible reasons.
I have the uncut and uncensored N64 cartridge. Scary version of the Fire Temple with the vocals, Ganon coughing red slime instead of green, crescent moon Gerudo symbol. Needless to say uncut Fire Temple theme is very disturbing. Even more so then the Shadow Temple.
Oh so that's why I became Muslim after playing thought death mountain
Hahaha
What about the fact that in the 3DS version they altered Ruto's design a bit.
Yeah, this should have been mentioned. Got a few things ready now for a Part 2 one day.
Wait, I'm in a PAL region ( Australia ), but on the back top right, the punch code doesn't have a letter, just 41. It's a gold cart some what version would I have?
+Lumpy Mango That would be version 1.1 which dosnt have any of the censors on it.
drakionclawers I went back and checked, apparently it does have the censors, like the Fire Temple music and the green blood. I guess all PAL carts are really 1.3
The fire temple ost gets edited, but then Majora's mask still has the dark/catastrophic themes in the remake. Rating is E for everyone.
I have the version where the fire temple song has the chanting. (1.1)
Can anyone please tell me the name of the song that starts at 3:26? I forgot how beautiful the OST to this game is.
I own the very first preordered version with the blurry textures and the punch code of 01 and the swordless link glitch
Does the ROM exist online?
+JimmyCougar probably
What about the blood and torture devices at the bottom of t he well? and I'm not sure but weren't there changes to the Shadow Temple too?
I have the uncensored 1.0 release. Unfortunately, the Game Pak was destroyed by a hurricane shortly after it was dumped. I have two copies of the rom now: one as-is and one with the redux patch.
I couldn’t believe it when they took the blood off of the floor in the Bottom Of The Well and the Shadow Temple in the 3DS version! I was just like: “Whyyyy?!”
The 3DS version was further censored in the well and shadow temple. Now there's no blood to be found anywhere on the torture devices. Makes both locations way less creepy..
There's still blood. It's just darker, seemingly dry blood to indicate that it's a very ancient temple
Also in some rooms in the shadow temple they replaced the skull and bones wall floor pattern with dirt.
I had one of the original cardrages because in that game, Ganon's blood was red. Too bad I don't have it anymore.
is there any way to know before getting to fire temple if the rom is 1.0 on the emulator?
Project64 tells you what version the rom is when you select the file.
This video proves it: I'm not senile!
I have the og version of the game with no letter, it just says 41.
I never saw Skull Kid as that at all. His beak and eyes do not really resemble them to me, unlike Popo and Jynx that is. He looked way more unique and I have seen many black figures with eyes like that where I honestly did not pick up the reference at all and had to wait until I found out why it was censored.
I have the rare 1.0 grey cart with 00 on the back
Just beat it tonight
So ...
Have any Muslims actually complained about the chanting or the crescent moon?
Or was it just to play it safe?
I think it was to play it safe. I am a muslim and I am glad that they censored this. The reason I say this is because in our religion music should not be played during prayer. To put things in perspective playing music with our chants is like showing a muslim eating pork. I personally am not offended. But I don't want other muslims to go through this.
I am exactly the same, while I'm more open minded to similar situations I completely understand why it was censored and it is for the best, Nintendo played it right there, I think it would be reasonable that when companies use chants from different languages in the future to try and do some research of what they actually are saying so nothing like this would occur again.
AG I actually don't mind. Think of it this way, some parts of my religion is in one of the greatest games of all time. Besides, OOT kicks so much ass that it doesn't matter anyway.
Son Goku As a Muslim myself, I feel the same way.
AG just shut up.
Hearing that sound clip in Cruisin World is so weird.
My Ocarina Of Time game cartridge is from Australia, it's golden, and has 07A embossed onto the back of it...I'd have to find my old Nintendo 64 to check to see if Ganondorf's blood is red or green, but is there anyway for me to tell which version I've got without doing that? I checked a few websites but it seemed to only be for America and Canada... =/
GameGirl Advance I had the same catridge (not sure about the codes - sold it) and the blood was green. No chanting but it had the crescent moon symbol
tfw gold cart 1.0 master race
I own it too!
Unfortunately, I own version 1.2.
so my grey cart punchcode is '00A'...Whats that mean??
The ReDead design in the 3DS version is different from the original. Would that be censorship or just an update?
+GGalemb You mean the difference between these? zeldawiki.org/images/d/da/ReDead.png zeldawiki.org/images/d/d8/RedeadOoT3D.png I don't see any censorship related changes.
Makes sense. I read somewhere that they were changed to look less scary, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
+GGalemb The OOT one looks like it has pants and the 3DS one looks like it is completely naked...nooot sure that the humping by the 3DS version is less scary in that case! XD
The original fire temple theme is absolutely TERRIFYING.
the sound is the racing game is just right, that's exactly what's you'll here going around Egypt, it's just odd in the lava place
They also got rid of the blood in the well, and the great fairy is now covered in vines
The changed blood color could be also taken as Ganondorf just having a different type of blood, like seen in several different types of Sci-Fi series.
The Popo change was only by 4Kids.
wasnt there something about Malon that was changed in the u.s. version?
3:43 They also censor that in Sonic X episode 19
I got an A version and a B version. So the A version still has the original blood?
3:50 Tbh the censored one fits more
I'm very lucky where I live. The Game Over nearby always seems to have an OoT Collector's Edition on sell. They sell like funnel cakes XD
I’m so glad I own the version without any censorship.
I'm from Germany and i have the pal version with the number 22 without a letter is that the version 1.0? (Its a grey cartridge and have a black label)
Pflanzenritter29 Play it and find out. But if it's PAL, then it's not the original.
I sadly have a PAL version, but I wanted a NTSC 1.0 version.
Let me get this straight: all these old games from decades ago get censored shortly after release, and then people decide that because of OLD changes, the world is too sensitive now?
Brogan Yup, that's the sort of twisted logic people like to use.
Didn't know that Nintendo used a sampling program for that chant. I guess they're not directly responsible for it being made, it just sounds like the perfect atmospheric sound though for the fire temple. Kinda sucks we live in an age where feelings are too fragile to make sense. Give the people a true experience, not a softened version.
4 years late, but I've actually heard that they removed it because nintendo did not want to put anything religious in their games. I would fact check that though
Is it possible to play the original game on an emulator?
I always thought it was funny that all 3 versions were dumped before the release day.
What region do you think has more censorship? NTSC-J, PAL, or the US?
There is enemies in Contra 4 that look kinda like the uncensored skull kid, i'm surprised they didn't avoid this .
Oh yeah and the part where the player finds the eye 👁️ of truth , that level also felt different in someway.
I argue that censoring the commercial improved it; the juxtaposition's a pretty funny punchline, and asking if we'll get the girl kinda misses the point of the game. ^^;
Funny how they censored all these things but not the ability to hookshot on the Goddess Statue's nipples in the Spirit Temple. Not even in the 3DS version.
Ocarina of Time 3D also censored Princess Ruto. Btw, I'm sure the Skull Kid edit was made because of the design change in Majora's Mask. The Japanese version of Majora's Mask DID have a black Skull Kid, though...
3DS also removed the blood spots in the well, which toned it down a lot.
"The Nintendo 64 version saw three revisions which changed many parts of the game significantly."
>proceeds to list three minor aesthetic changes (one of which doesn't even relate to the game) with literally no impact on gameplay or plot
+Cid L Dearpine The fire temple music being different gave the dungeon a different feel entirly
My copy has green blood and no chanting but still has the original symbol on the shield.
original skullkid is really cute though!
I like Skull kid having a wood face more honestly
Maybe because I never really pay attention but never noticed the whole black thing with those three....
Still got my v1.1 cartridge
They left one and still have it in the game on the switch if you look at the gerudo card there is a moon there
I know I got thrown out of whack at this censorship , because I played the original when I was a kid but somehow I got rid of my copy, i don’t remember if I lost it or trade it at GameStop, but later I replayed the game in the GameCube and somehow it felt different, specially getting at the part in the fire temple, it didn’t had that eeerie feeling, idk it just vibed different. I started to think 🤔, maybe because I’m older now. Then I found out it went trough different revisions. I didn’t had internet 🛜 when I was a kid, but I remember playing the Demo at a kiosk at Walmart, played the Deku Tree demo and Milo’s guarding the passage way. That hooked me into getting the game. This game friendzoned link 🔗 tough. Well … 😅
I hope people realize that gamergate was in the works way back then, too.
And it also really pisses me off, because the skull kid should not have been censored. He is not even supposed to really have a face. Maybe they changed him to wood to match him from Majora's Mask? He is supposed to be a child who is lost to the woods forever. The game even says that children may become lost to the woods forever, I remember at some point.
He is now known as the mysterious "skull kid," his body becoming a shadowy visage being the effects of succumbing to the will of the Lost Woods. He just hides around in the Lost Woods, and plays his flute, a familiar tune like Saria's Song. He would always disappear if you shot him, and if you were an adult he would shoot at you, because the 'kids' of the forest hate the taller 'adults.' You earned his respect by playing his tune with him, he shares the piece of heart and departs. The mysterious skull kid. Why is he named skull kid? Why does he wear the skull mask?
version 1.2 is the best version of the original N64 release of Ocarina of Time
“For reasons unknown”
Judging by the dates in the builds, it’s likely they didn’t catch the Islamic chant thing until they already produced and shipped copies of the game, hence why later revisions don’t have it.