@@pikmin369 how have you been enjoying the game? I think it's safe to say that all us here are jealous that you are experiencing botw for the first time ;-;
I'll always try to put spoiler warnings whenever possible, no matter how old the game is - there are still a lot of people who are a bit late to the party, but they should have a chance to enjoy said party nonetheless. :) ...and to be honest, it always makes me a bit giddy to see that someone "out there" is just starting their very own journey. It's like secondhand joy to me. @user-ln1bm3ny5e - welcome to the party ♪
Also "sealing herself away with the villain for a very long time without aging" is something that Skyward Sword Zelda did too, so that's just a thing her powers can apparently do.
I think the more likely theory as to why the divine beasts didn't advance is because the champions were also doing what Zelda did. They were basically pilots whose spirits got trapped in their ships which didn't crash. Plus the contraptions which sealed their souls looked different, but still contained malice from the blights. Zelda could possibly have slowed them down too, but 5v1 odds plus their distance means it Ganon was her primary focus.
Oooh, I didn't think of that! But it makes a lot of sense, actually. Both Zelda and the Champions were able to communicate with Link even before revealing themselves - if they were trapped inside of the Main Control Unit, the Divine Beast or eben the Blight itself, that would be a dang good reason for them not revealing themselves sooner. And it is rather unlikely that people as headstrong and fierce as Revali or Urbosa would just silently wait for someone to "rescue" them without at least attempting to break free themselves - or give the respective Blight a hard time in whatever way they can. I like it ♪
Don't they say in the game that the Divine Beasts only turned back on when Link activated the Sheikah Towers, though...? So they were presumably dormant before Link activated the towers and shrines, and maybe that's why Ganon isn't fully formed yet; the fake Shrine of Resurrection only turned on and started creating the new body *after* Link activated the rest of the Sheikah tech
@@Sarah_H That's an interesting thought, that would explain why the castle looks so normal until Link gazes at it from the first Sheika tower, when we see the Malice build and Ganon roars.
@@Sarah_H Thats not said anywhere and also, you can see Vah Medoh and Vah Rudania flying / walking from the great plateau. The Divine beasts do pretty much sit 'dormant' or on autopilot for most of the 100 years, but toward the end as zelda's power weakens, they start playing up eg. Spouting water, causing tremors on death mountain, striking down Rito, causing thunderstorms near gerudo town. None of these catastrophes were happening until very recently before link wakes up.
Learning the fact about Zelda being sealed with Ganon in his cocoon really makes me believe BotW is the one game that truly is Zelda's legend. Nothing gets more badass than ″divinely-connected princess spends whole life learning anti-evil powers, awakens them at last second to stop a apocalyptic evil at the cost of her freedom, then spends 100 years endlessly tearing him apart to stop him from making orders or gaining a physical form, boy she saved comes back to return favor, The End.″
Considering that the divine beasts started acting up and causing trouble for the different races a little while before Link's awakening, it can be deduced that Zelda's divine parasitic powers were waning and the only reason she was still able to hold back Ganon with sheer will power was to give Link enough time to train up, recover his memories, acquire better gear, free the divine beasts,reclaim the master sword and finally come to her rescue, fully prepared.
I like that this pretty much answered my question about that, they both were just trapped in it, but one must question how she was able to communicate to Link
You actually see Zelda getting eaten in one memory or at least it's implied. The one where she goes to Hyrule Castle, Calamity Ganon kind of just swoops down at her. It's actually quite amazing to think that she just activated her powers and decided to take such a drastic action to save Hyrule from guaranteed doom.
Even though I have the artbook and I've read it a couple times on and off I didn't quite have the realisation moment of "oh shit Zelda is actually INSIDE THAT COCOON" until now :_) poor girl, she deserves the world frankly And I 100% agree with you, the only reason Link is alive is because Zelda is being really annoying inside that cocoon what an absolute legend (get it?)
Zelda messing with Ganon’s ability to do anything also makes sense why he couldn’t capture the divine beasts a second time or anything like that, which is something I was wondering about during my current replay
Interesting, this might also explain why Zelda doesn't age. Since she's in a similar type of chamber to Link's "shrine of ressurection", her mind & body are likely preserved. Now that there's concrete evidence this shrine of "preservation" wasn't unique to the Great Plateau, I'm sure Sheikah and Yiga must have had shrines hidden all over Hyrule. In fact, each of the Monk shrines could be some sort of prototype to this more advanced preservation shrine as the Monk's spirits & bodies were preserved alongside their mummification process.
5:53 Eventually I will finally fight Calamity Ganon. Zelda just has to wait 5 more years. She kept him from destroying Hyrule for 100 years. I'm sure she can do it for 10 more! So far she's been waiting since april 2017!
There was a time I got curious about how long "my" Zelda waited ... and I regret it a tiny bit to have calculated it ^^° One minute of IRL time is one hour in-game, so if we're going by pure playtime, 24 minutes are a day, roughly 3 hours (2h,48m) are a week, 12 hours are a month, 146 hours are a full year. I had around 3k of hours total back then, so Zelda had been waiting for more than 20 years.... not factoring in all the times I've skipped a day or two to get different weather or the correct moon phase for Satori. "Link...I've been watching you on your journey.. your struggles, your victories, and the four weeks you spent trying to smack an apple across half of Hyrule without touching it, while being butt naked no less. What the f$%& was that about? Answer me, Link!"
I don't think I've ever commented on one of your videos, but thank you so much for making them. When you were doing your "minimalist 100%" video I was going through a tough time in my life. Your vids have been my comfort content since I started watching, thank you so much for what you do and I wish the best for you in all your future endeavors
This is how I feel too, this channel means a lot to me especially because no one else on TH-cam is studying the game with this same level of detail, and in such a peaceful and comforting way. It’s awesome
@@aliciakiedrowski8234 Agreed with both of you :) I have Sundays and Mondays off every week (customer service job). My routine every Monday morning is to sleep until after the rush hour traffic stops flying down my busy street, then cosy up at my computer with tea and my favorite blanket. The world is quiet because everybody is at work. It helps me remember to eat breakfast because I can't just throw the video on and then listen to it while I play games, I have to actually watch it, so I can eat breakfast while I do which is so important for the medication I take. And it helps me get out of bed because it's something that feels best to do in the mornings. Very happy to have found this channel :)
I had realised that Zelda was inside Ganon for the entire hundred years, but it never occurred to me that it was a sort of Shrine of Resurrection! Well caught! You can also use Moon Jumps or moon jump sliding (I'm not sure of the official name of that one) to get into the Sanctum without touching the floor (or registering as touching the floor in the latter case), which also don't set off the fight.
First time I played it I thought Zelda locked both her and Ganon in some sort of goddess-like stasis. The cocoon moves a little too much for that to be true, but maybe that's the mechanism through which she keeps his "brain" trapped deep inside... I dunno, just a thought I had a long time ago
And in Japanese when Zelda entrusts Link with the Bow of Light, she tells him even though she doesn't know how much of his power or his memories he's regained, she believes in Link, in his courage. Meaning, he was the reason she was able to hold out for those 100 years because she knew he'd come save her no matter how long it took. The localization team translated it to _"Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten."_ It's a good line but I love how personal it is in Japanese and how it reflects Zelda and Link's relationship.
This zelda was the most human princess Hyrule has ever had, and by hylia do they need to address the numb and empty ptsd of being consumed by the calamity and fighting to contain it from the inside. No way to tell the passage of time, no rest, no contact with anything but pure biological liquid demon hate. There is no way she isn't permanently messed up by this. Once she has regained her freedom, small spaces would overwhelm her. Anything that feels like the pod coming to reclaim her would set her into a mind shattering panic attack. She could never be alone without Link again.
ha i think about this every time i locate a Korok, which is why so many of them get a rock dropped on their face got a lot of similar poses with beasties in my album too (in between snarky asshats on fire)
The details in this game are so cool! Also props to you for noticing, I'm baffled every time you release a new video. And I love the wording, the sarcasm, everything.
Dunno why people act so surprised about Zelda being _inside_ Calamity Ganon... In hindsight its super obvious. In the cutscene where she goes to confront him Ganon opens his mouth like he's about to eat her. When you go to the sanctum Zelda's voice literally comes from inside the cocoon right before the flash of light that drops it. She's nowhere to be seen while fighting Calamity Ganon or his beast form, but she can be heard and gives you the bow of light. When you finally take down beast ganon, she literally pops out of his head before sealing him away...
Yes I do need to earn thousands of rupees by snowling for several days straight despite being urged to hurry by every knowledgeable character to rescue Zelda as soon as possible or else the world will collapse, after all I have to unlock the last fairy and the house before facing ganon
Oooo this is a cool detail I'd never heard about before and it totally checks out! Plus I noticed myself thinking on my last playthrough "How come the divine beasts aren't attacking if they're corrupted" so it definitely makes sense now. I do think the champs were assisting too in that regard, but I like this theory a lot!
Makes alot of sense that Zelda was preventing Ganon from being able to focus on coordinating Hyrules destruction and I never realized just how similar his cocoon is to the shrine of resurrection cool video
basically Zelda was in there with Gannon. her sacred energy was enough to hold him off indefinitely. Zelda being conscious could only send out telepathic messages. Gannon could only send out malice. Link still being alive was enough to give Zelda courage that one day she would be free, also fueling her conviction of the prophecy. What I initially thought as Zelda going through a nightmare. now I feel she knew that no matter what, as long as link was still alive, everything would be ok.
Something to know about is that some of the divine beast actually apeared "recently", rito villagers say that Va medoh apeared like some weeks before Link wakes up, and would be the same for other divine beast, i think they would be turned off too for a hundred of years, but ganon finally got enough power to only turn the beast on, not completely but enough to cause trouble in hyrule
Ruta was "there" but was "acting up recently" iirc, making it rain without end, threatening to flood the entire Zora village and beyond. I think a similar story was told about the beast on death mountain. It started to climb higher and into the crater, throwing rocks, causing the Gorons to close the bridge because it was getting too dangerous to farm rocks at death mountain
Huh, nice find! I always thought the blights to be deformed versions of the champions, kind of makes sense to have the cocoon be a corrupted version of the shrine of resurrection.
I *really* like this theory. It really ties it all in together and makes the world feel coherent.. the Divine Beasts aren't corrupted machinations of old, they're like four warships waiting for Ganon's orders to strike. The only reason the world isn't gone is because Zelda has been blocking orders from getting out and the Champions have been blocking orders from getting in. The world isn't so much peaceful but setback as it is like in the midst of a one-sided cold war, waiting for the moment where it all comes crashing down. Very precarious I think they might've been able to put a little more emphasis on exactly how in peril Zelda is (imagine how freaky it would've been to watch her glow from inside the Ganonball, suggesting an unseen, century-long divine fight!) and how much she was slowing him (like, some of those tubes being blackened and withered in places suggesting they'd been compromised by Zelda's power, while "new" thicker tubes suggest he's gaining strength fast?), as well as how much the Champions were really blocking Ganon's influence over the Beasts. God, this game's lore is so cool..
I like to think that the Any% Speedrun is Canon Link. He wakes up and immediately decides "Alright. Time to kill Ganon." And just makes a beeline for Hyrule Castle, then demolishes him with hastily scavenged equipment.
Im watching this late, i know i know, sorry. Just had to pop down to the comments to say how much i freaking love this video tho 😂😂😂 it makes sense and the funny bits are VERY FUNNY
Thanks for showing ways of getting a closer look at the Cocoon without trigger the cutscene. The fact that Ganon is trying to make himself a new body while Zelda is seal within him shows that he needs a mortal body to control the malice. If he doesn't then he basically becomes a mindless monster rampaging throughout Hyrule. But if you look closely at his makeshift body form his head looks exactly like his Twilight Princess appearance. Hell, even his malice form and Title Name (Dark Beast Ganon) is also taken from Twilight Princess.
I have a theory that when Link woke up, not only did Zelda sense it, Ganon did too. That's why she's begging him to hurry because Ganon is focused now. And depending on how long it takes you, it could take several in-game days to reach any of the divine beasts who are reacting to Ganon's renewed focus. I dont remember how long each divine beast was acting up though.
Take a big pot of raw malice, bring to a boil, prepare the Guardian Stalkers in the meantime - preferably fresh, but canned ones work in a pinch. Let it cool down a bit before adding Ancient Parts, but keep stirring. Let it simmer for a decade or two, then let it cool down again. Add just a sprinkle of Royality in the end. Best served with malicious intent. Voila!
Man I remember when I played the game, I was doing the quest where you have to take pictures of Guardians for the lady on the beach and I specifically took photos of Link posing in front of the Guardian with a laser pointed directly at his head lmao
Nintendo: Yo dawg, we heard you like supernatual beings so we put a supernatural being inside a supernatual being that you can take care of while you "take care of" the bigger one.
Now if only someone could explain exactly what Link was dying of. At worst Link might be dying of exhaustion because otherwise there don't appear to be any signs of external or physical damage. Just a theory. Your guess is as good as mine.
He was wounded fighting off the guardians. They're not going to show him drenched in his own blood, the game is rated E. But in the memory where Zelda's powers awaken, his clothes are tattered and he's barely able to stand or hold his sword and there are remains of guardians that he had just destroyed. Also, the way Robbie identifies Link is by seeing his scars. Whether or not these are scars he acquired from that battle or prior to it, it still illustrates the point that the character model we see does not show the injuries Link has sustained.
@@Kidneyjoe42 100% agreed. If they did actually show his scars and/or actual wounds from his various fights in-game, Link would likely look a lot more like Geralt from "The Witcher". He canonically has those scars in-game and was likely also a bloody mess during the cutscene, but Nintendo simply didn't want to show it.
I'd like to point out that, for most residents of Hyrule, being attacked by a guardian means _death_ if you don't have Sheikah weaponry (or a blonde Hylian twink). Link can kill these things by parrying their *death lasers* with a pot lid. The area west of Fort Hateno is filled with guardian remains. _That_ is what it took to stop Link. They're basically tanks with armored legs and magic railguns. This man fought them with a sword. From a gameplay perspective: Let's assume he had the equivalent to thirteen hearts of damage before nearly dying. Seems like a reasonable minimum, given his legacy and the fact that he had the master sword for a while before that battle. With a base champion's tunic and Hylian trousers providing 8 defense, Link could survive a direct, unblocked hit from a guardian laser by _wearing a hat._ That's not normal.
brilliant. we're told ganon has been assimilating the old sheikah tech, but it didn't occur to me he was even able to make his own shrine of resurrection.. maybe there was already one there, a prototype one, and he hooked it up before zelda sealed his ass. I wonder if the 'resurrection except you can't be dead' thing was a localization error. Might have been shrine of revival or something.
Long playthroughs: Zelda: "Where the heck is Link?!" Link: *Is at Gerudo Town, and facepalms as he realizes that he's gonna need to crossdress because peoples' culture is getting the way of him saving the world... Speedruns: Zelda: "WTF WAS THAT?! Where was all this when the world ended?!" Link: "WELL EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME, princess!"
The divine beasts didn't activate until link woke up so thats why they couldn't just destroy hyrule(i think it was said in the game that thats what happened but its been a while since i played botw)
Because of its placement and the room design beneath the SoR in Hyrule castle I believe it is for royal family use though sealing Gannon under the castle with Ultrahand holding him in stasis probably allowed him to not reincarnate and instead manifest his malice for 10,000 years to eventually posses the ancient technologies that he was definitely fighting against when they were developed. The Blights and calamity Ganons seem to be biotech and probably made from the champions genetic material (maybe a stretch), it gets weird though as the Malice Boar swallows Zelda it must then take her into the castle SoR at the same time as Link Perhaps they are connected and the Gannon in the castle was syphoning links healing juice as I doubt a chamber designed to heal a body takes 100 years. I hope its explained in the next one.
In high rule worriers age of calamity the blights are insanely strong this could be why they grew weaker over 100 years because Gannon can't infuse any more of his malace into them because he is busy trying to fight Zelda inside of his own body
I always love watching your videos, I love the sense of humor. Also the things you do in this game are witchcraft to me. I still can't beat a Lynel :p Thanks for the not-so-fun-fact! IT make things in the game make more sense.
Sword+shield Lynels are easiest. Just keep backflipping and you'll get flurry rushes. Side jump when they charge towards you. When they charge up a fireball breath shoot face, stun them, jump on back, and whail away.
You know I’ve always thought the resurrection technology was kind of disappointing… At least as a viable medical treatment. It takes like 18 years to grow a full-sized human in real life, but it takes 100 years to mend a human/hylian with a laser wound? What a waste of taxpayer’s dollars! Er… taxpayer’s rupees o,o It’s almost like this is a romanticized fantasy adventure tale meant to entertain or something! 😅 lol
My hunch is that it took an entire century because the technology was still poorly understood (It wasn't really until Zelda took a huge interest in it that it even got the attention it deserved) and, heck, the shrine is probably operating on some kind of backup power. Ever notice how all the other player-usable ancient tech stuff requires a blue-flame furnace, but the shrine of resurrection has no such furnace anywhere to be found? The blue flame seems to be a power source for ancient tech, or at the very least, a suitable replacement, but there isn't one at the shrine, probably because they didn't anticipate to have to use it (There *is* only one pod functional in there and they were awfully assured of their victory before things went south...) and nobody *dared* risk jury-rigging a blue flame furnace onto it when it could potentially risk Link's life support going out...
Huhhh, yes, he WAS building a new body! This makes more sense after we learn Ganon is once again actually Dorf and is fully intelligent. He just hadn't downloaded his brain into the thing yet so it's stupid. And ugly. So so ugly. I want to know what he intended it to look like in its final form. Given what he does in TOTK, I kind of wonder if he wouldn't kill his real body to give it more power. Hmm, food for thought
still warning for spoilers 5 years after the game came out, what a legend
Honestly I thank them because I only got the game a month ago ☠️
@@pikmin369 how have you been enjoying the game? I think it's safe to say that all us here are jealous that you are experiencing botw for the first time ;-;
I'll always try to put spoiler warnings whenever possible, no matter how old the game is - there are still a lot of people who are a bit late to the party, but they should have a chance to enjoy said party nonetheless. :)
...and to be honest, it always makes me a bit giddy to see that someone "out there" is just starting their very own journey. It's like secondhand joy to me.
@user-ln1bm3ny5e - welcome to the party ♪
@@reinlich tis fire 💯💯
@@reinlich i finished all the divine beast and ganon. I've been fighting lynels for fun lately. Really fun 10/10 game would recommend tbh
Oh that explains why Zelda isn't old like impa too, she's in a shrine of resurrection too
A very astute observation
Also "sealing herself away with the villain for a very long time without aging" is something that Skyward Sword Zelda did too, so that's just a thing her powers can apparently do.
I think the more likely theory as to why the divine beasts didn't advance is because the champions were also doing what Zelda did. They were basically pilots whose spirits got trapped in their ships which didn't crash. Plus the contraptions which sealed their souls looked different, but still contained malice from the blights. Zelda could possibly have slowed them down too, but 5v1 odds plus their distance means it Ganon was her primary focus.
Oooh, I didn't think of that! But it makes a lot of sense, actually. Both Zelda and the Champions were able to communicate with Link even before revealing themselves - if they were trapped inside of the Main Control Unit, the Divine Beast or eben the Blight itself, that would be a dang good reason for them not revealing themselves sooner. And it is rather unlikely that people as headstrong and fierce as Revali or Urbosa would just silently wait for someone to "rescue" them without at least attempting to break free themselves - or give the respective Blight a hard time in whatever way they can.
I like it ♪
Don't they say in the game that the Divine Beasts only turned back on when Link activated the Sheikah Towers, though...? So they were presumably dormant before Link activated the towers and shrines, and maybe that's why Ganon isn't fully formed yet; the fake Shrine of Resurrection only turned on and started creating the new body *after* Link activated the rest of the Sheikah tech
@@Sarah_H That's an interesting thought, that would explain why the castle looks so normal until Link gazes at it from the first Sheika tower, when we see the Malice build and Ganon roars.
@@Sarah_H Thats not said anywhere and also, you can see Vah Medoh and Vah Rudania flying / walking from the great plateau. The Divine beasts do pretty much sit 'dormant' or on autopilot for most of the 100 years, but toward the end as zelda's power weakens, they start playing up eg. Spouting water, causing tremors on death mountain, striking down Rito, causing thunderstorms near gerudo town. None of these catastrophes were happening until very recently before link wakes up.
Learning the fact about Zelda being sealed with Ganon in his cocoon really makes me believe BotW is the one game that truly is Zelda's legend. Nothing gets more badass than ″divinely-connected princess spends whole life learning anti-evil powers, awakens them at last second to stop a apocalyptic evil at the cost of her freedom, then spends 100 years endlessly tearing him apart to stop him from making orders or gaining a physical form, boy she saved comes back to return favor, The End.″
yeah.. zelda does all the really important stuff, link just runs a bunch of errands for her
Considering that the divine beasts started acting up and causing trouble for the different races a little while before Link's awakening, it can be deduced that Zelda's divine parasitic powers were waning and the only reason she was still able to hold back Ganon with sheer will power was to give Link enough time to train up, recover his memories, acquire better gear, free the divine beasts,reclaim the master sword and finally come to her rescue, fully prepared.
it being a shrine of resurrection also explains why zelda didnt age, similar to link
I like that this pretty much answered my question about that, they both were just trapped in it, but one must question how she was able to communicate to Link
@@tydshiin5783alttp zelda called out to link telepathically, maybe botw zelda tapped into that same magic?
Princess Zelda: ruler of Hyrule, heir to the Goddess Hylia's sacred power, banisher of the ancient calamity..."divine intestinal parasite" lmao
You make a good point about Link taking his time, but in his defense, he does wake up without any memory of what happened.
When I first saw the Ganon cocoon I thought it was a heart. It makes the vein theory kinda make sense in my brain
You actually see Zelda getting eaten in one memory or at least it's implied. The one where she goes to Hyrule Castle, Calamity Ganon kind of just swoops down at her. It's actually quite amazing to think that she just activated her powers and decided to take such a drastic action to save Hyrule from guaranteed doom.
Even though I have the artbook and I've read it a couple times on and off I didn't quite have the realisation moment of "oh shit Zelda is actually INSIDE THAT COCOON" until now :_) poor girl, she deserves the world frankly
And I 100% agree with you, the only reason Link is alive is because Zelda is being really annoying inside that cocoon what an absolute legend (get it?)
Suddenly I feel worse about all those times trying to do trick shots off the Master Cycle Zero. Hang in there, girl, daddy’s almost stylin
@@GymnopedieTornado I mean she's watching you so at least she's got great entertainment xDDD
Link and zelda: Ganon's inside story
Zelda messing with Ganon’s ability to do anything also makes sense why he couldn’t capture the divine beasts a second time or anything like that, which is something I was wondering about during my current replay
Interesting, this might also explain why Zelda doesn't age. Since she's in a similar type of chamber to Link's "shrine of ressurection", her mind & body are likely preserved. Now that there's concrete evidence this shrine of "preservation" wasn't unique to the Great Plateau, I'm sure Sheikah and Yiga must have had shrines hidden all over Hyrule. In fact, each of the Monk shrines could be some sort of prototype to this more advanced preservation shrine as the Monk's spirits & bodies were preserved alongside their mummification process.
This could potentially explain how in Hylia’s divine Hyrule, Kogha is still alive
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Eventually I will finally fight Calamity Ganon. Zelda just has to wait 5 more years. She kept him from destroying Hyrule for 100 years. I'm sure she can do it for 10 more! So far she's been waiting since april 2017!
There was a time I got curious about how long "my" Zelda waited ... and I regret it a tiny bit to have calculated it ^^°
One minute of IRL time is one hour in-game, so if we're going by pure playtime, 24 minutes are a day, roughly 3 hours (2h,48m) are a week, 12 hours are a month, 146 hours are a full year.
I had around 3k of hours total back then, so Zelda had been waiting for more than 20 years.... not factoring in all the times I've skipped a day or two to get different weather or the correct moon phase for Satori.
"Link...I've been watching you on your journey.. your struggles, your victories, and the four weeks you spent trying to smack an apple across half of Hyrule without touching it, while being butt naked no less. What the f$%& was that about? Answer me, Link!"
I don't think I've ever commented on one of your videos, but thank you so much for making them. When you were doing your "minimalist 100%" video I was going through a tough time in my life. Your vids have been my comfort content since I started watching, thank you so much for what you do and I wish the best for you in all your future endeavors
This is how I feel too, this channel means a lot to me especially because no one else on TH-cam is studying the game with this same level of detail, and in such a peaceful and comforting way. It’s awesome
@@aliciakiedrowski8234 Agreed with both of you :) I have Sundays and Mondays off every week (customer service job). My routine every Monday morning is to sleep until after the rush hour traffic stops flying down my busy street, then cosy up at my computer with tea and my favorite blanket. The world is quiet because everybody is at work. It helps me remember to eat breakfast because I can't just throw the video on and then listen to it while I play games, I have to actually watch it, so I can eat breakfast while I do which is so important for the medication I take. And it helps me get out of bed because it's something that feels best to do in the mornings. Very happy to have found this channel :)
This was interesting! Never knew about the "Ganonball."
I had realised that Zelda was inside Ganon for the entire hundred years, but it never occurred to me that it was a sort of Shrine of Resurrection! Well caught!
You can also use Moon Jumps or moon jump sliding (I'm not sure of the official name of that one) to get into the Sanctum without touching the floor (or registering as touching the floor in the latter case), which also don't set off the fight.
First time I played it I thought Zelda locked both her and Ganon in some sort of goddess-like stasis. The cocoon moves a little too much for that to be true, but maybe that's the mechanism through which she keeps his "brain" trapped deep inside... I dunno, just a thought I had a long time ago
well plus he has probably only recently started to be able to move again. her powers are weakening.
And in Japanese when Zelda entrusts Link with the Bow of Light, she tells him even though she doesn't know how much of his power or his memories he's regained, she believes in Link, in his courage.
Meaning, he was the reason she was able to hold out for those 100 years because she knew he'd come save her no matter how long it took.
The localization team translated it to _"Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten."_
It's a good line but I love how personal it is in Japanese and how it reflects Zelda and Link's relationship.
This zelda was the most human princess Hyrule has ever had, and by hylia do they need to address the numb and empty ptsd of being consumed by the calamity and fighting to contain it from the inside.
No way to tell the passage of time, no rest, no contact with anything but pure biological liquid demon hate.
There is no way she isn't permanently messed up by this. Once she has regained her freedom, small spaces would overwhelm her. Anything that feels like the pod coming to reclaim her would set her into a mind shattering panic attack. She could never be alone without Link again.
ha i think about this every time i locate a Korok, which is why so many of them get a rock dropped on their face
got a lot of similar poses with beasties in my album too (in between snarky asshats on fire)
yooooo this actually makes so much sense!!! i was always a bit confused about what zelda actually did to seal ganon and this explains it perfectly
"Most people never return once they left it" but I DID, many times in fact, so many that I forgot about the korok lol
if the Ganoncacoon is another SoR, It would also explain why Zelda hasn't aged at all.
The details in this game are so cool! Also props to you for noticing, I'm baffled every time you release a new video. And I love the wording, the sarcasm, everything.
Dunno why people act so surprised about Zelda being _inside_ Calamity Ganon... In hindsight its super obvious. In the cutscene where she goes to confront him Ganon opens his mouth like he's about to eat her. When you go to the sanctum Zelda's voice literally comes from inside the cocoon right before the flash of light that drops it. She's nowhere to be seen while fighting Calamity Ganon or his beast form, but she can be heard and gives you the bow of light. When you finally take down beast ganon, she literally pops out of his head before sealing him away...
Yes I do need to earn thousands of rupees by snowling for several days straight despite being urged to hurry by every knowledgeable character to rescue Zelda as soon as possible or else the world will collapse, after all I have to unlock the last fairy and the house before facing ganon
I agree this makes sense, and put that together too when I did the fight agist Ganon, and am surprised that it's not talk about more.
thats why zelda didnt age! she was in a sort of shrine of resurrection as well, and it sustaining ganon's body also sustained hers!
Oooo this is a cool detail I'd never heard about before and it totally checks out! Plus I noticed myself thinking on my last playthrough "How come the divine beasts aren't attacking if they're corrupted" so it definitely makes sense now. I do think the champs were assisting too in that regard, but I like this theory a lot!
This is an interesting insight on these two shrines, now I want to check it out! Thank you for sharing this incredible story!
This also explains why Zelda didn't age one bit during this 100 years. She was also is some sort of SoR.
I STARTED FOLLOWING FOR MINIMALIST 100% BUT ALL YOUR STUFF IS GOLDEN.
The King when Link wakes up "she's been fighting him keeping the beast at bay."
(Ganonball wiggles intensify)
Makes alot of sense that Zelda was preventing Ganon from being able to focus on coordinating Hyrules destruction and I never realized just how similar his cocoon is to the shrine of resurrection cool video
I’m glad someone else noticed the similarities. The tentacles and general shape just match.
basically Zelda was in there with Gannon. her sacred energy was enough to hold him off indefinitely. Zelda being conscious could only send out telepathic messages. Gannon could only send out malice. Link still being alive was enough to give Zelda courage that one day she would be free, also fueling her conviction of the prophecy. What I initially thought as Zelda going through a nightmare. now I feel she knew that no matter what, as long as link was still alive, everything would be ok.
Something to know about is that some of the divine beast actually apeared "recently", rito villagers say that Va medoh apeared like some weeks before Link wakes up, and would be the same for other divine beast, i think they would be turned off too for a hundred of years, but ganon finally got enough power to only turn the beast on, not completely but enough to cause trouble in hyrule
Fair point. I didn't consider that ...
Ruta was "there" but was "acting up recently" iirc, making it rain without end, threatening to flood the entire Zora village and beyond. I think a similar story was told about the beast on death mountain. It started to climb higher and into the crater, throwing rocks, causing the Gorons to close the bridge because it was getting too dangerous to farm rocks at death mountain
Ganon is transmitting malice (particularly blood moons) while Zelda is jamming his signals.
Huh, nice find! I always thought the blights to be deformed versions of the champions, kind of makes sense to have the cocoon be a corrupted version of the shrine of resurrection.
I *really* like this theory. It really ties it all in together and makes the world feel coherent.. the Divine Beasts aren't corrupted machinations of old, they're like four warships waiting for Ganon's orders to strike. The only reason the world isn't gone is because Zelda has been blocking orders from getting out and the Champions have been blocking orders from getting in. The world isn't so much peaceful but setback as it is like in the midst of a one-sided cold war, waiting for the moment where it all comes crashing down. Very precarious
I think they might've been able to put a little more emphasis on exactly how in peril Zelda is (imagine how freaky it would've been to watch her glow from inside the Ganonball, suggesting an unseen, century-long divine fight!) and how much she was slowing him (like, some of those tubes being blackened and withered in places suggesting they'd been compromised by Zelda's power, while "new" thicker tubes suggest he's gaining strength fast?), as well as how much the Champions were really blocking Ganon's influence over the Beasts.
God, this game's lore is so cool..
Can Zelda please be allowed to take a fucking nap already. In peace. Please. The girl needs a BREAK, she does not deserve all this.
I like to think that the Any% Speedrun is Canon Link. He wakes up and immediately decides "Alright. Time to kill Ganon." And just makes a beeline for Hyrule Castle, then demolishes him with hastily scavenged equipment.
Canon, minus the part where he no-clips through the doors of the Shrines, perhaps. xD
Im watching this late, i know i know, sorry. Just had to pop down to the comments to say how much i freaking love this video tho 😂😂😂 it makes sense and the funny bits are VERY FUNNY
Thanks for showing ways of getting a closer look at the Cocoon without trigger the cutscene. The fact that Ganon is trying to make himself a new body while Zelda is seal within him shows that he needs a mortal body to control the malice. If he doesn't then he basically becomes a mindless monster rampaging throughout Hyrule. But if you look closely at his makeshift body form his head looks exactly like his Twilight Princess appearance. Hell, even his malice form and Title Name (Dark Beast Ganon) is also taken from Twilight Princess.
always love your deadpan humor in these
The dread pirate Link is here for your souls
Your friend is only mostly dead. And mostly dead is slightly alive.
I have a theory that when Link woke up, not only did Zelda sense it, Ganon did too. That's why she's begging him to hurry because Ganon is focused now. And depending on how long it takes you, it could take several in-game days to reach any of the divine beasts who are reacting to Ganon's renewed focus. I dont remember how long each divine beast was acting up though.
I’m amazed you still use the record method of the Switch, must be a pain in the a** to make a single video, much appreciated buddy
Unless he has a capture card.
Another excellent video. Thank you. 🙏🫡
The word homemade makes me think of Ganon doing a random cooking video and then posting it on TH-cam lmao
Take a big pot of raw malice, bring to a boil, prepare the Guardian Stalkers in the meantime - preferably fresh, but canned ones work in a pinch. Let it cool down a bit before adding Ancient Parts, but keep stirring. Let it simmer for a decade or two, then let it cool down again. Add just a sprinkle of Royality in the end.
Best served with malicious intent. Voila!
That ending was hilarious, thank you.
Man I remember when I played the game, I was doing the quest where you have to take pictures of Guardians for the lady on the beach and I specifically took photos of Link posing in front of the Guardian with a laser pointed directly at his head lmao
So Link and Ganon are in their own Shrines of Resurrection, but inside Ganon's one is a Zelda beating him up so he can't resurrect. Kinda funny.
Nintendo: Yo dawg, we heard you like supernatual beings so we put a supernatural being inside a supernatual being that you can take care of while you "take care of" the bigger one.
Now if only someone could explain exactly what Link was dying of. At worst Link might be dying of exhaustion because otherwise there don't appear to be any signs of external or physical damage. Just a theory. Your guess is as good as mine.
He was wounded fighting off the guardians. They're not going to show him drenched in his own blood, the game is rated E. But in the memory where Zelda's powers awaken, his clothes are tattered and he's barely able to stand or hold his sword and there are remains of guardians that he had just destroyed. Also, the way Robbie identifies Link is by seeing his scars. Whether or not these are scars he acquired from that battle or prior to it, it still illustrates the point that the character model we see does not show the injuries Link has sustained.
@@Kidneyjoe42 100% agreed. If they did actually show his scars and/or actual wounds from his various fights in-game, Link would likely look a lot more like Geralt from "The Witcher". He canonically has those scars in-game and was likely also a bloody mess during the cutscene, but Nintendo simply didn't want to show it.
I'd like to point out that, for most residents of Hyrule, being attacked by a guardian means _death_ if you don't have Sheikah weaponry (or a blonde Hylian twink). Link can kill these things by parrying their *death lasers* with a pot lid.
The area west of Fort Hateno is filled with guardian remains. _That_ is what it took to stop Link. They're basically tanks with armored legs and magic railguns. This man fought them with a sword.
From a gameplay perspective:
Let's assume he had the equivalent to thirteen hearts of damage before nearly dying. Seems like a reasonable minimum, given his legacy and the fact that he had the master sword for a while before that battle. With a base champion's tunic and Hylian trousers providing 8 defense, Link could survive a direct, unblocked hit from a guardian laser by _wearing a hat._ That's not normal.
i rode into hyrule castle on my motorcycle so i completely missed this incredible sight
Awesome video and 10/10 theory!
Makes sense the castle would have a sheikah medical facility as well, but when the castle fell that option would be off the table
Still the best videos i've ever watched
brilliant. we're told ganon has been assimilating the old sheikah tech, but it didn't occur to me he was even able to make his own shrine of resurrection.. maybe there was already one there, a prototype one, and he hooked it up before zelda sealed his ass.
I wonder if the 'resurrection except you can't be dead' thing was a localization error. Might have been shrine of revival or something.
Long playthroughs:
Zelda: "Where the heck is Link?!"
Link: *Is at Gerudo Town, and facepalms as he realizes that he's gonna need to crossdress because peoples' culture is getting the way of him saving the world...
Speedruns:
Zelda: "WTF WAS THAT?! Where was all this when the world ended?!"
Link: "WELL EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME, princess!"
"LINK! WHAT TOOK SO LONG?!"
Link, with over 999 bird eggs:
"Hyahhhh"
I just find it interesting that it’s not actually Gannon that devoured her. It was a Malice-incarnate(?) version of him.
You are phenomenal, thanks for creating these videos 🥰
I agree with what you said, I think it's the most logical theory.
Damn,that last party s so mean but truthful.😂😂😂
i like this video. thanks for posting.
Also explains why Zelda was alive and well for 100 Years. She got rejuvenated by the cocoon.
3:19 Heart pattern on that tube. 🤨🤔 Makes me think of "This means something. This is important." 😂
4:28 they only have orders to attack anyone that gets close, otherwise they just vaguely threaten the nearby inhabitants
The divine beasts didn't activate until link woke up so thats why they couldn't just destroy hyrule(i think it was said in the game that thats what happened but its been a while since i played botw)
I wish... age of calamity gave us a hint at what exactly is happened here and not just giving us parallel events. To the original botw timeline
Because of its placement and the room design beneath the SoR in Hyrule castle I believe it is for royal family use though sealing Gannon under the castle with Ultrahand holding him in stasis probably allowed him to not reincarnate and instead manifest his malice for 10,000 years to eventually posses the ancient technologies that he was definitely fighting against when they were developed. The Blights and calamity Ganons seem to be biotech and probably made from the champions genetic material (maybe a stretch), it gets weird though as the Malice Boar swallows Zelda it must then take her into the castle SoR at the same time as Link
Perhaps they are connected and the Gannon in the castle was syphoning links healing juice as I doubt a chamber designed to heal a body takes 100 years.
I hope its explained in the next one.
Learn about different cultures, be baffled by the differences. Oh Wolf Link, your humor kills me.
cool video!
Link was only mostly dead, and mostly dead is slightly alive.
In high rule worriers age of calamity the blights are insanely strong this could be why they grew weaker over 100 years because Gannon can't infuse any more of his malace into them because he is busy trying to fight Zelda inside of his own body
We know the yiga clan gave ganon his weapons so it makes sense they'd create this too
What's down in that giant pit behind their hideout anyway?
@@burger_kinghorn in the champions ballad dlc we find out it's a shrine pedestal that you need to through one of the orbs into.
I always love watching your videos, I love the sense of humor. Also the things you do in this game are witchcraft to me. I still can't beat a Lynel :p Thanks for the not-so-fun-fact! IT make things in the game make more sense.
Sword+shield Lynels are easiest. Just keep backflipping and you'll get flurry rushes. Side jump when they charge towards you. When they charge up a fireball breath shoot face, stun them, jump on back, and whail away.
LOL, nice outro. 😀
No wonder why Zelda didn't age.
You know I’ve always thought the resurrection technology was kind of disappointing… At least as a viable medical treatment.
It takes like 18 years to grow a full-sized human in real life, but it takes 100 years to mend a human/hylian with a laser wound? What a waste of taxpayer’s dollars! Er… taxpayer’s rupees o,o
It’s almost like this is a romanticized fantasy adventure tale meant to entertain or something! 😅 lol
My hunch is that it took an entire century because the technology was still poorly understood (It wasn't really until Zelda took a huge interest in it that it even got the attention it deserved) and, heck, the shrine is probably operating on some kind of backup power. Ever notice how all the other player-usable ancient tech stuff requires a blue-flame furnace, but the shrine of resurrection has no such furnace anywhere to be found? The blue flame seems to be a power source for ancient tech, or at the very least, a suitable replacement, but there isn't one at the shrine, probably because they didn't anticipate to have to use it (There *is* only one pod functional in there and they were awfully assured of their victory before things went south...) and nobody *dared* risk jury-rigging a blue flame furnace onto it when it could potentially risk Link's life support going out...
@@Starfloofle I think that blue flame powering all the Sheikah magitek is a remnant of Nayru's sacred flame from SS.
Why do so many of Nintendo’s games involve villains eating the good guys alive? I think one of the higher ups might have a thing for it
Huhhh, yes, he WAS building a new body! This makes more sense after we learn Ganon is once again actually Dorf and is fully intelligent. He just hadn't downloaded his brain into the thing yet so it's stupid. And ugly. So so ugly. I want to know what he intended it to look like in its final form. Given what he does in TOTK, I kind of wonder if he wouldn't kill his real body to give it more power. Hmm, food for thought
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