The 10 DARKEST Moments In Zelda Games

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  • "The Legend of Zelda" is mostly happy and family-friendly, but it's not without some dark moments. For this list, we’ll be looking at moments in the otherwise whimsical franchise that disturbed or depressed us. We’ll be doing our best to stay away from solely creepy moments as we’ve already made a list for that. As we’re dealing with story elements, a spoiler warning is in effect. Our list includes The Hero’s Shade from “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” (2006), The Ending of “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” (1993), The Loss of Hyrule from “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” (1998), and more! Which of these dark moments caught you off guard? Share your memories with us in the comments!
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  • @mojoplays
    @mojoplays  ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Which of these dark moments caught you off guard? Share your memories with us in the comments!
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  • @temporalnix2936
    @temporalnix2936 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    The Hero's Shade feels more depressing when you realise that in that timeline, Link returned to live as a child after OoT, so no one knows that he saved them, and in MJ he breaks the timeloop and, presumably, restarts the 3 days with no one knowing he saved them as well. In the eyes of history, he was a failure of a Link, but to the actual events, he was one of the greatest heroes.

    • @arfinjalal4563
      @arfinjalal4563 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah Link sacrifices Zelda and hyrule was a whole

  • @thundertheloveable8841
    @thundertheloveable8841 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    We honestly need another zelda game with more dark elements like how they had from twilight princess and majora's mask

    • @craptastraphy7805
      @craptastraphy7805 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Mayors mask, yes the mayor was elected because of his awesome mask

    • @rafaynoman1180
      @rafaynoman1180 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ah yes The Mayors Mask.

    • @thundertheloveable8841
      @thundertheloveable8841 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@rafaynoman1180 it auto corrected the spelling but ty for the laughs loooool

    • @pere1913
      @pere1913 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes we do!!!!

    • @jarlwhiterun7478
      @jarlwhiterun7478 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay edgy tweens like games like that. Go play D&D.

  • @phillyphil201
    @phillyphil201 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I love when Mojo plays talks about Legend of Zelda. The best franchise

    • @Vic_714
      @Vic_714 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They dont know sht about Zelda lol Just highlighting what's already been posted for more than a decade.

    • @Savage--
      @Savage-- ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There are so many better Zelda centric channels if you want good Zelda material.
      Try Zeltic or Monster Maze

    • @phillyphil201
      @phillyphil201 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Savage-- zeltic is 👍, I like more Zelda master

  • @phantomhurricane666
    @phantomhurricane666 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    ghirahim was hilarious. "i went easy on you last time, but now i'm going to give you a ruddy good thrashing!"

    • @LunaP1
      @LunaP1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why do I feel like getting a restraining order against him?😆

    • @phantomhurricane666
      @phantomhurricane666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LunaP1 why? Link's the one following HIM.

  • @KennyOspreay
    @KennyOspreay ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I’d love for Majora or Ghirahim/Demise to make a come back in another game. The Ganon stuff gets repetitive

  • @gerry40404
    @gerry40404 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The number one spot is so well deserved - I played trough this as a child and had nightmares for years about this Majoras Mask final hours... the earthquake getting stronger, darkness, the creepy looking moon, the disturbing music, the countdown... I honestly never dared to let the time run out completely as a child... but I love that game.

    • @patrickdabson3650
      @patrickdabson3650 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You're braver than me. As a kid, I turned off the game after playing it for a week, terrified of the clock running out. Couple of years later, I finally went back and beat it.

    • @gerry40404
      @gerry40404 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@patrickdabson3650 I don't know about that. I dared to watch the footage of time running out completely in Majoras Mask a couple years ago on TH-cam to see it for the first time as an adult, but never in the game. My friends were a lot braver back then :D

  • @ResidentWiseacre
    @ResidentWiseacre ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember coming out of the Temple of Time as adult Link and being absolutely stunned by the desolation. The heck of it was, I was a grown man by that time.
    Good job, Nintendo.

    • @nancyhoffman4784
      @nancyhoffman4784 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you talking about the legend of Zelda ocarina of time because he does got locked 🔒 out for 7 years wich time passes by and link is grown up over 7 years locked in the temple of time at least until he restored the first temple🤔🙏

  • @a.jthomas6132
    @a.jthomas6132 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    OoT Link is the most tragic version of Link. Even though Adult Zelda have her good intentions to send him back to regain his childhood. But the events of Ocarina of Time not only have consequently split into two separate timelines. Thus, Link is never get praised as the hero after two established victories and sacrifices he has made for Hyrule. We need a Zelda game on how he became the Hero's Shade.

  • @legomaster2538
    @legomaster2538 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I’m surprised those two Age of Calamity scenes weren’t included. The scene where Astor absorbs the souls of the Yiga as well as Astor’s death.

    • @tessafa
      @tessafa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it is because age of calamity isn’t Canon

    • @legomaster2538
      @legomaster2538 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tessafa, I’m still mixed on that.

  • @andrewbegay1261
    @andrewbegay1261 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I always felt for the postman in those last few hours, he has such a visceral reaction. He was just a dedicated man who prized duty above himself. Even in those last few hours you can see how much he is committed to a job that the mayors wife easily forgets. Seeing him all around clock town working hard and then realizing how much he was helping Kafei you realize how important the writers wanted to make him. You can get two heart pieces and a mask from him.

    • @koolandblue
      @koolandblue ปีที่แล้ว

      All the public employees seem to be forgotten during the last hours. The guards clearly want to leave town but have to stay to uphold their duty. The postman wallows in fear in his house, lamenting the fact that leaving town isn't on the schedule. The mayor of Clock Town is wishy washy and indecisive, and his lack of leadership indirectly causes the deaths of his staff, who are clearly more dedicated to their duties than their boss. Really sad when you think about it.

  • @jamiewalsh3349
    @jamiewalsh3349 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I literally did the Deku Butlers side-quest yesterday.

  • @LadyPsycheDevimon
    @LadyPsycheDevimon ปีที่แล้ว +8

    the dead Deku butler's son hit me the most...poor little boy at the wrong time, at the wrong place. 😔 the ending of Link's Awakening, gave me mixed feelings - i mean, you wake up and get back, but the whole island + inhabitants just disappear... in Majora's Mask, there are many dark/sad/creepy moments... One of the saddest for me, is when Anju and Kafei finally meet again and build the Lovers Mask.. But after that, they decide to welcome the morning, which means they stay together, while the moon is going to devour everything, including them 😢

  • @Justin-yv9nv
    @Justin-yv9nv ปีที่แล้ว +8

    the sages in wind waker explaining to link how Ganondorf murdered them to disable the master sword's true power is super dark in a pretty light game

    • @krishnamckay3247
      @krishnamckay3247 ปีที่แล้ว

      Along with finding that Greatfish Isle was destroyed...

  • @ilDSttaro
    @ilDSttaro ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Someone has been naughty in that Link's Awakening playtrough 🤣

    • @Crimson_Tyranus_6720
      @Crimson_Tyranus_6720 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah lol

    • @LunaP1
      @LunaP1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've done that too.😈

    • @ilDSttaro
      @ilDSttaro ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LunaP1 me too in DX just for the picture 🤣

  • @ktwenter77
    @ktwenter77 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Twilight Princess is the best game ever made.

  • @Fictionboy16
    @Fictionboy16 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When Nintendo's biggest franchise, Mario, is a bit scared of going dark, leave it to the next-biggest one, Zelda, to get the job done!

  • @icefire2104
    @icefire2104 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Can you do the 10 Darkest moments in Sonic Games?

  • @jeromeheramis2932
    @jeromeheramis2932 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That thumbnail! Oh my! That reminds me of that jumpscare before that boss fight, it caught me off guard the first time I watched it, made me jump to my seat.

    • @samyb4566
      @samyb4566 ปีที่แล้ว

      In my case, I was really traumatized. Even if I defeated her, I couldn't sleep at night for 2 weeks and I was afraid of looking at a mirror because I though Blizzeta's reflection was going to appear instead of my own.

  • @lucideirune1635
    @lucideirune1635 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Link’s Awakening’s ending is like waking from an awesome dream. Link is mutual dreaming with the wind fish and in order to escape from his comatose dream (the lightning could have easily put Link into a coma), he has to get help from the wind fish. When he realizes he is in a dream rather than an actual island, it hits him hard knowing once he awakens the wind fish, he will also wake up. It is always hard waking from an awesome dream. Marin was actually a seagull also mutual dreaming with the 2. In some games, seagulls are guides for Link.
    If you play the remake, they make it very obvious with which is the real world and which is the dream world. The real world is anime which the dream world is toy like.

  • @trillioncrowns
    @trillioncrowns ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the number 1 spot always scared me straight! With the popular movies at the time like Armagedón and deep impact

  • @LegoReader12345hello
    @LegoReader12345hello ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've played thourgh Ocarina of time and Majoras mask and there were indeed dark elements in them, I'm already in Twilight Princess and I can tell it's already darker

  • @fatalwaffle1715
    @fatalwaffle1715 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cool Dark Video!

  • @ob1474
    @ob1474 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Johnny: Number 2, Yeta’s sickness.
    Yeta: sorry…I have sickness.

  • @jarlwhiterun7478
    @jarlwhiterun7478 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These aren't even dark, I can see them just fine!

  • @primeGman64
    @primeGman64 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What about ganondorfs literal execution in TP?

  • @95mudshovel
    @95mudshovel ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Twilight Princess was literally the darkest. had to adjust the contrast on my TV to see everything 😅

  • @GreyDuck54
    @GreyDuck54 ปีที่แล้ว

    #1 Darkest Zelda moments...
    Back then having to return the game to the rental store before completing the game... I'm looking at you Blockbuster and Hollywood Video!

  • @lincolnexaron864
    @lincolnexaron864 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeta reminded me of Bilbo in that one scene from Fellowship of the Ring

  • @ktwenter77
    @ktwenter77 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Upside down Links in TP takes the win for sure!

  • @patrickmurphy9470
    @patrickmurphy9470 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The kid that plays the flute in “Link to the Past” turning into wood in the Dark World made me sad as a kid.

  • @ChibiProwl
    @ChibiProwl ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeta becoming Blizzeta. That jump scare when she says no take mirror, turns around with those hellish red eyes, and creepy smile. Yikes!

  • @IrishBrotato
    @IrishBrotato ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Twilight princess has always been my fav game since 2006 on the gcn not just my fav zelda game but fav game of all time and it always will be
    Oracle of ages is my 2nd lol
    And ever since the HD version came out skyward sword is my 3rd...hd remake was so much better than the original

  • @freddiemolinajr.8397
    @freddiemolinajr.8397 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video

  • @snas7954
    @snas7954 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    tbh I thought that on number one spot will by "all majoras mask events"

  • @Bangbaby84
    @Bangbaby84 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For me one of the darkest moments was Kakariko Village in Twilight Princess
    Just
    Getting there and listening to Barnes talk and realizing you were too late to save the village
    Like damn that’s dark
    Also the whole thing with the zora queen being executed in front of her people as “an example”

    • @hunbi1875
      @hunbi1875 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also Ganondorf straight up murders a man on screen

  • @Dek331
    @Dek331 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hi nice vid

  • @MissSirenita
    @MissSirenita ปีที่แล้ว

    The Deku Butler gets me every time. It’s just a sting you know.

  • @_ultimata_
    @_ultimata_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had nightmares about the wall masters coming down from the ceiling as a kid.

    • @JayJay-nr2gk
      @JayJay-nr2gk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God finding them in the forest temple and shadow temple u have no idea just where they are that certain noise u hear through when they drop for Any one who's played these games like me your know exactly what i mean even some in the spirit temple

  • @jaynine454
    @jaynine454 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s one terrifying thumbnail you have right there.

  • @ThisGuy7263
    @ThisGuy7263 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can't believe that the korok forest was in ocarina of time. Im still trying to find it tho

  • @tomoirbans4289
    @tomoirbans4289 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You forgot spirit tracks, because the soul of Zelda was brutally extracted from her body.

    • @samyb4566
      @samyb4566 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would mostly say the ressurection of Malladus. The way he opened his eyes from Zelda's body was a bit creepy.

  • @wardjabara8750
    @wardjabara8750 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In links awakening, Marin makes it out as a seagull if you beat the game without dying

  • @TheRicardobtc
    @TheRicardobtc ปีที่แล้ว

    While not the only "kids game" that pulls a jumpscare out of nowhere, I found Blizzeta to be a bit too much. As an adult, the jumpscare was somewhat expected due to the camera close-up, the darkening, and the music stoping, but even then I got caught by surprise. Now imagine children who are not expecting it at all and usualy get scared by "soft" jumpscares.

  • @StopMotionspecialist
    @StopMotionspecialist ปีที่แล้ว

    If you go to one of the bridges in botw you go on the edge and if a traveler sees you about to jump in the water he’ll tell you “stop you have so much to live for “

  • @meta527II
    @meta527II ปีที่แล้ว

    I also did a darkest Zelda moments list years ago

  • @jakubklemenski7380
    @jakubklemenski7380 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is Breath of The Wild with the Blood Moon, mainly the first encounter with it

  • @WhiteFangofWar
    @WhiteFangofWar ปีที่แล้ว

    'So many pathetic creatures, scattered across a handful of islands, drifting on this sea like fallen leaves on a forgotten pool... What they can possibly hope to achieve? Don't you see? All of you... YOUR GODS DESTROYED YOU!' -Ganondorf, Wind Waker

  • @flembot92
    @flembot92 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about in Ocarina the guard at Hyrule castle who dies in the alley the day after Ganon's attack

  • @jonrobertson7801
    @jonrobertson7801 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching Zelda giving her powers to Midna then seeing her just disappear. Then both Link and Midna just stare at the direction where Zelda once stand.

  • @JunaidWolf3
    @JunaidWolf3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pokémon and legend of Zelda would always have one of the scariest jump scares

  • @gameplayboy5686
    @gameplayboy5686 ปีที่แล้ว

    Romani ranch is such a depressing place to be at the final hours.

  • @tysondennis1016
    @tysondennis1016 ปีที่แล้ว

    10 creepiest Zelda enemies plz?

  • @GrayMoe
    @GrayMoe ปีที่แล้ว

    I am playing through the Ocarina of Time for the first time right now.

  • @Krookodile_King
    @Krookodile_King ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you forget about the Great Calamity from Breath of the Wild!?

  • @darkstarmoonshadow8892
    @darkstarmoonshadow8892 ปีที่แล้ว

    Romani Ranch Invaders
    King Zora and Mido loosing Ruto and Saria
    Kefaes appearance

  • @nancyhoffman4784
    @nancyhoffman4784 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting but the only part not explained in ocarina of time(the legend of Zelda)is what happened to his real father🤔

  • @MegaMikeStrike
    @MegaMikeStrike ปีที่แล้ว

    1) Cremia and the aliens, 2) girl with her mummy father (Majoras Mask)

    • @annel4547
      @annel4547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just watch the video with the creepiest moments ;)

  • @sophieamandaleitontoomey9343
    @sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Guys why did you have to pick THAT thumbnail? It’s already traumatizing enough. 😂😂😂😂

    • @samyb4566
      @samyb4566 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was traumatizing for me when I was younger, but now I got used to it.

    • @sophieamandaleitontoomey9343
      @sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@samyb4566 Lucky. It still terrifies me.

  • @TheRealVincentValentine
    @TheRealVincentValentine ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The twilight mirror 🪞 is cursed

  • @TKnHappyNess
    @TKnHappyNess ปีที่แล้ว

    End of the World - Majora's Mask
    The Great Flood

  • @sonicadventure3130
    @sonicadventure3130 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    9:29 - Kokiri, not korok forest. Wrong game

  • @timwoods2852
    @timwoods2852 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this the narrator's first video, could really tell he was reading the whole time.

  • @betinzamora3306
    @betinzamora3306 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought Majoras Mask little girl caring for her Zombie dad would be here.

  • @AkiraKurusu-hm4vs
    @AkiraKurusu-hm4vs ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like someone wasnt rich in Link's awakening 😂

  • @mr.mystere4999
    @mr.mystere4999 ปีที่แล้ว

    One thing about Yeta is the fact that her arms are nowhere.

  • @knux5796
    @knux5796 ปีที่แล้ว

    well.... this was depressing :(

  • @phantomhurricane666
    @phantomhurricane666 ปีที่แล้ว

    maybe romani was given alcohol so she passes out into peaceful oblivion in complete ignorance of the literal face of the apocalypse.

  • @robbozeman4334
    @robbozeman4334 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeta jumpscare nightmare Freddy evil link jumpscare from Twilight princess golden Freddy jumpscare

  • @justinevilofficial
    @justinevilofficial ปีที่แล้ว

    Ocarina of time remains the creepiest zelda game

  • @freddiemolinajr.8397
    @freddiemolinajr.8397 ปีที่แล้ว

    MOJO plays is a good channel

  • @richardmahn7589
    @richardmahn7589 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:10 Zelda should definitely file for sexual harassment. Dark!

  • @patrickstovall2262
    @patrickstovall2262 ปีที่แล้ว

    We all know that Hilda is best princess

  • @kingactonsim
    @kingactonsim ปีที่แล้ว

    Kokiri not korok 🤔

  • @DeathSentence1991
    @DeathSentence1991 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m here cause of the creepy thumbnail

  • @ZackeryGee
    @ZackeryGee ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet Sassy Mo-lassey!

  • @mohammedsabha1985
    @mohammedsabha1985 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3rd!

  • @masterchief7497
    @masterchief7497 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the thumbail dude 👎

  • @trillioncrowns
    @trillioncrowns ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Im sorry people.... Im sorry... But there are only two zelda games! Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask

    • @ktwenter77
      @ktwenter77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣 hell no, TP is king! Followed by SS and WW.

    • @ilovetosing2008
      @ilovetosing2008 ปีที่แล้ว

      BOTW literally makes those games fall