Why Ocarina of Time is a Masterpiece
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2021
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00:00 - Intro
01:33 - Legacy
03:49 - A Legend of Consistency
16:16 - A Story as Old as Time
24:57 - Outro/Credits
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While majority of the footage used in this video was captured by me, some cutscenes were provided by JHNingGamer, so please give the that video a like as well! / jhningamer
ALL MUSIC belongs to Nintendo, as well as the original game footage, however by providing my own editing and commentary, I am using those scenes as a form of trasnformative media to create an oringinal video
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definitely worth the first place in best games of all time
Video would be SO much better if you could pronounce ocarina properly. It's barely watchable.
Absolutely amazing from start to finish. #nostalgiaoverload
Replaying this as a 32 year old guy is one of the best experiences in my life feeling 8 years old again.
Same here!!!! But as a 33 yr old female!! 😂
Yeah. I'm doing it right now though I always watched my brother play it. I remember how I felt how the cutscenes felt incredibly long. Now they are quite short.
SAME HERE 😩 😍 and I'm 30
i’ve had so many repeat play-throughs of this masterpiece, i’m only 20 but i absolutely adore the Zelda Series 🤩
Quite possibly the most influential/important game ever made. For it’s time it’s absolutely awe inspiring how they were able to pull off a title like this. The people at Nintendo are so damn talented
their first 3D Zelda game too
and also Mario 64 was also
@@stevejeffrey11agreed Mario 64 was absolutely ground breaking. But ocarina felt like it took Mario 64’s foundation and absolutely ran with it
@@mookiestewart3776 yeppers Ocarina of Time is and will be the best game of all time, ever
Ocarina of Time introduced z-targeting, an industry standard to this day. Nuff said.
When people complain about the Z targeting I'm like "what are you talking about literally every game pretty much uses some version of it"
@@belikereepicheepyeah - many games. Shigeru & his team are all geniuses. This was & is my favourite game of all time. I haven’t played the new Zelda yet though. I can’t wait though 😊
Even GTA lol
“Nuff said”…?? It sounds like you weren’t even in diapers when this game came out. This game changed everything.
@@logicaldude3611 People probably said "nuff said" before you were born, dude.
Okay I literally teared up at the end. 😢
OoT really is a gateway to simpler, happier times gone by.
The EPIC 90's 🥹🤧❤️
I literally never comment on TH-cam videos, but I can't believe how this video doesn't have millions of views. You put into words feelings I could never quite explain. Amazing work sir keep it up
I am in the exact same mindset as you! How does it NOT have more views!?
@Josh Hurst probably because this is nothing new? Great video though
I've seen your comments on dozens, nay, hundreds of videos.
Because there are dozens of videos covering the exact same topic
Probably cos all of us miss our old glasses
Bro said "what is there to say about oot that hasn't been said before" and proceeded to say things that have never been said more beautifully, and I've watched easily over 20 oot retrospectives. Compelled to comment, such a good video. U don't just explain the game, u explain the feeling of the game.
Dang, you didn't bring up how much impact it adds to the end fight when Zelda screams when Link gets hit. Of all of the details that make the end so cinematic, I always felt the most from that one.
I’m 43 and just playing through it for the first time on my Nintendo Switch lol loving it!!
Well done man 😍👌🏻 this game is timeless
If you ever get a 3ds, you should try OOT 3D as well! ❤️
Nintendo is crazy not to make a remake of Ocarina of time with next generation graphics.
I'm really glad that you mentioned the cinematography. OoT's cinematography is absolutely one of the most overlooked aspect of the game, and it adds so much to the scope of the story. It was one of the things I noticed was lacking from the 3DS version, although I can understand given the smaller screen.
But playing the 3ds version on citra u can get just that. Played 3ds version in 4k.
@@WeirdEdz There's actually a significant difference with how the the scenes are shot in the 3DS version versus the N64 version as well. The camera movement seems a little "tight", if that makes any sense, in the 3DS version, which makes the cinematography appear less grand in scope. You can also notice that certain camera angles during cutscenes that were achieved in the N64 version that are not quite the same in the 3DS version. One example of this is in the scene right after child Zelda tells her version of the Triforce origin story, and the camera zooms back in on Zelda and Link. The N64 version zooms in to have the tulip flowers frame around both Zelda and Link, where the 3DS version shows the flowers in the bottom left of the frame, and has only Zelda in frame between flowers but not Link. Another example is when Ganondorf starts talking to Link at the top of his tower, and mentions the Triforce resonating. The scene in the N64 version then turns to show a side profile of Ganondorf, Zelda, and Link, standing almost on the opposite ends of a triangle from one another. The 3DS version however does not have the same side profile shot, it instead shows the three while the camera is further behind Link; Ganondorf is now standing slightly higher in the shot, and the triangle motif is not nearly as present. It might not be a major difference, but it is noticeable.
Also, if you compare the scene where Link and Ganondorf first meet after Zelda and Impa flee, the scene is almost entirely shot differently in the 3DS, including a different sequence of dialogue to action.
Edit: Relating to the scene where Zelda and Link first meet, I forgot to mention that the N64 version pulls off a dolly zoom (or vertigo effect) when Zelda notices that Link has a fairy and the camera focuses in on Link's face. The 3DS version does not do this, it just slowly zooms in on Link instead. This is another example of the cinematic feel that the N64 version had over the 3DS version.
There is only one way of playing oot and that is on an original n64 on a crt screen. Everyone else can Pack their stuff and go home.
@@WeirdEdz better emulate the n64 oot and customize it however you want using the patcher64 tool
If it was nostalgia, it wouldn’t be universal and doesn’t explain why almost everyone in every generation of gamers agrees that Ocarina of Time is the GOAT.
Ocarina of time is Nintendo’s magnum opus.
You can’t change my mind.
*Videogamings magnum opus
I've being playing games since the mid 80's.
To this day, Ocarina of Time is the greatest game i've ever played.
You put it higher then botw?
@@aizenor3063 defijitelyb
For me? Even Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are better. BOTW is a tecnical and gameplay masterpiece. But not the best Zelda game.
@@rodrigomelo6249 I’d say majoras mask is the best Zelda game
Oot truly is the Zelda game of all time
When will this meme fucking die already?
@@DarkGhostPepper my bad, bro it was 9 months ago
@@samuelsweeney Its not you. I'm just fucking tired of seeing those comments everywhere. Breaking Bad video comment sections are riddled with that horseshit.
@@DarkGhostPepper but if legitimately is the most Zelda game of all time. Zelda has been going downhill since OoT and none have ever been able to reach the same quality, expansion, content, dungeons, personality etc than OoT.
I'd also argue that you haven't seen any developer try to mimic OoT. No AAA company has attempted it and no indie dev has. It's honestly the only one of its kind and it not only intimidates, but also creates awe and wonder.
It really is the Zelda game of all time. Wind Waker is 2nd best, but Wind Waker felt like it had something missing to it.
Ill never forget playing this game through for the first time as a child and now I'm an adult and I still enjoy it just as much. The best way to know its not just loved for nostalgia is that I can still replay it today and enjoy every second of it. Some old games, you think back and think about how great it was, then you play it in todays age and it isn't quite the same. Not with OOT.
Very glad you used visuals from the original, not the 3ds remake. So much nostalgia!! I would always end with the Shadow Temple as the purple medallion was the last one to complete the circle but you make a convincing arguement that the Spirit Temple is a great one to end on.
This is the game that laid the groundwork for other action games. I can’t believe a TH-camr had this game ranked 11th of all Zelda games. Should be one or two either way you look at it. A true masterpiece
Great video! One of the best retrospective's on Ocarina of Time I've seen!
Bro said "what is there to say about oot that hasn't been said before" and proceeded to say things that have never been said more beautifully, and I've watched easily over 20 oot retrospectives. Compelled to comment, such a good video. U don't just explain the game, u explain the feeling of the game.
Okay tbh this was great. Your narration was so soothing and relaxing yet informative
thank you for using footage from the original (1.0) N64 version. It just feels right.
I appreciate how you emphasized the importance of the sword and shield hunt before deku tree. A lot of people talk about the deku tree being a great tutorial dungeon but I don’t hear a lot of people taliking about the intro. It really did teach a lot about the 3D space for new players.
That’s the beauty and sadness of Ocarina of Time. It’s all about growing up and leaving certain things behind but like Sheik says,
“A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days...”
🙏🙏
seriously you're soo fricking underrated
I remember my mother, who hated LoZ because of the 'evil magic' present in it, (she is a strict, protestant, ethnic, Christian woman) sitting down and watching me try to figure out how to get to Gerudo Valley. She never liked it when I played. Yet she spoke up and said "Why don't you try and jump your horse over the bridge?" I was 5 years old and I'm 30 now and still remember it.
And another thing that I think is so powerful:
The game allows Link to travel between his childhood and adulthood with music.
Just like how we use the OST to travel to our childhoods when we played this.
Really interesting and amazing retrospective video. Looking forward to the next ones !
First game I ever played on my older brother’s 64. Till this day I could 100% it and I wouldn’t get tired of it. Beautiful game
wow the video is amazing! I loved the narrative and the images are great! congratulations :D
Something BOTW and TOTK can never do. I still go back to these older Zelda games. Omggg those were the days it gives me goosebumps 😭 great video man! 💯
Wonderful toughts and video editing skills. You gained a follower! I tattooed child Link on my calf, love this game from the bottom of my heart, it changed my personality and "modus operandi", since I was 11. I owe too much to this timeless game.
A lead rockstar dev : “if anyone that makes 3d games says they haven’t been influenced by ocarina they are lying to you” it’s an amazing work of art
Well done, dude. You could feel your passion for the series in this one. Hope you do more of these
Thanks!! Yeah, I feel like there are absolutely more stories to be told when it comes to TLOZ. And hopefully I can do more in the future.
As a child, I played The Legend of Zelda and fell in love with it. Having bought this game when it was released (the N64 being the first console I paid for myself) I loved every minute of it! I played through it with a similar and newfound sense of wonder. I agree with every point you share in the video, but due to your unique perspective I also see it in a new light as well. I have to say, the thought put into this video makes it a masterpiece in its own right. Bravo!
Fantastic video, fantastic analysis! You articulated why this is my favorite Zelda game better than I could have.
Just amazing my man! It makes me want to play OoT again!!
Wow! This was so well done and beautiful. Metaphorical and poetic! Thank you for this. I love this game so much!
Awesome fantastic video! Thank you so much for this brilliant analysis!
Yeah I thoroughly enjoyed this. A video essay's audio is key to whether or not I stay for the whole thing and you nailed it and everything else. 👌
Thank you for that!! This was my first time using "Openshot" as a video editing software so getting the audio right was something that stressed me out a lot. So hearing that it wasn't the worst puts my mind at ease.
Great video dude watched the whole thing
And just how impressed every player is at all this ten year old boy went through and overcame through sheer badassery.
OOT is amazing. A true feat at the time and is still fun as hell to play. It will always hold a place in video game history.
Beautiful stuff sir this just takes me back to my childhood. My no1 all time game. Gr8 work
Amazing video!!! Beautifully thought out and curated. ❤
Wow ive got to say ive seen almost all Zelda Ocrina of time Retrospectives, Reviews and overviews this is the best one.
That really means a lot, thank you!!
why does this video only have 500~ views?? its made really well and i would have expected it to be from a youtuber who gets round about 100K - 200K views. Like, the quality aint bad and its entertaining as well as reflecting perfectly what the game means to me and many others.
Also its even more for me since it is my whole childhood. When i was too young to play/understand or just have my own console i just watched my brother play it. as well as wind waker. always fascinated about the story and how it does things no game i know does with its story. Splitting and playing around with the timeline, even in between games. giving it a whole other level of depth in its story since its really deeply connected to all those other zelda games.
so that fascinated me as a kid. as well as the setting the game plays in. Then i grew into it and played it myself later. now looking back, and realising it means so much to others. the game that made my childhood. I still have the same disc laying around here. occasionally playing it again. Its everything i love, combined in a game. fantasy setting, mistery, mind fuck, fucking around with complicated things like time and much more. making a small game into a whole universe living in it self.
Thank you for the kind words and you pretty much sumarized my feelings on Wind Waker/The overall series as well! I'm working on more Zelda videos like this to upload in the future, but life/work can be a lot, lol. I do however stream/talk about Zelda a lot over on my Twitch channel, so if you ever want to talk about the series with other amazing Zelda fans, we'd love to have you!
@@TheMilkyFinishers damn i did not expect an answere to a comment under a video 7 month old. i will actually take a look at your twitch channel
@@RenSako well what about the video "OCARINA OF TIME - A Masterclass In Subtext" then? 2.6 million views. by a very unknown youtuber with 200K subs. uploaded only 2 years earlier. what you are saying, has no relevance. maybe for the game industry and the casual gamer. but if you really argue about those, you've completely missed the point. this video is not for them. neither was the "masterclass in subtext" video. its a niche, but its a big one. its just hidden. many people would like this video if they would get it recommended.
It’s not nostalgia. I can confirm from my own experience. I played it when I was 25 first time and I think it’s amazing. Not overrated at all.
Honestly I feel breath of the wild is
You want to know how good this video is?
I sat back and took notes on your video formatting. Bravo, good sir.
First of all
Amazing video!
I'll be waiting probably for quite a long time to see an OoT remake using the newest technologies as it once did
I still have this game and my original n64 and I STILL haven't reached even HALF of these levels yet! It's been 2 decades already!!!! I can't get past Jabu-Jabu's belly!!!! 😭
This is one of my favorite games of all time and is masterpiece on the same level as super mario 64
Dude, this is a GREAT video!! I can't wait to hear your thoughts on TotK
I enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for creating this masterpiece of a masterpiece. I'm a early 90s baby and this game played a major role in my life. There is just no way I can express in words the power this game had on me as a child. Even now in my early 30s this game is held high in my heart. Also made the Zelda series my favorite. Nothing make me feel like a kid again than Zelda. Every time I play OoT I get such a nostalgic feeling, I start remembering all the thing I forgot as a child. Thank you so much.
This was beautiful, thanks for sharing your thoughts and input
This is an excellent video and take on The Ocarina of Time!
Great review,. Ocarina of Time is timeless!
Subbed! Please make more of these!
Amazing video. Thank you!
This is what videogames are all about it may be only one videogame but it certainly ends all other videogames
Great video bro, this is the only game that caused me to tear up at the end. Masterpiece is an understatement!
on of the most satisfying moments to me was after you have been thrown in that cell from the Gerudos, and got up to the window high above using the grappling hook . From this position you can oversee almost the whole outdoor area and shoot down some guards unseen with your bow (of course without killing them). And when you have timed it right, the sun rose right in this moment and the music changed into a very motivating one....
Brilliant video during my breakfast today!
Ocarina of time just sets the tone for every other Zelda game to come based of the experience you had with it. For me this game being my first 3d Zelda game, it did just what it needed to do. If you never played you’re missing out, even if you hate other zeldas.
The algorithm sure took a long time to get this video to me, but I’m so happy it finally did 😍
I loved the gerudo Valley and spirit temple too.
After I got the forest temple out of the way I would head over and get the lens of truth from the well do the bighead sword quest and head over to gerudo valley before I did any other temples, I also loved the mirror shield better than the hylian too.
Wow what an incredible review!
Thanks man. Awesome video !!!
this is exaclty how i explain to my freinds why i love this game thank you for such a great video
Just when I thought I've heard every opinion and thought on this game I take a chance and watch this vid and am given several more to think about. Beautifully edited and passionately spoken about. I like to finish this game every 2/3 years. I hope they do a remake but in some ways I don't as it won't capture the magic. Anyway you got yourself another sub
I learned so much!
Hey there. Amazing video. You explained everything so well and gave a great feeling of love for the game, even though I never actually played it myself. Myth was right when she said you did a great job.
Thank you so much! It means a lot.
I love OoT, but the music brings everything together
This is a awesome video of my favorite game
I've seen this video topic a hundred times yet I will still always watch it if it's from a channel I've never seen yet 😅
When I first played this and even entering the Deku Tree for the first time. I just felt something special that I'm about to play. This was the first Zelda game I've played despite growing up with Super Mario and the original NES. When I finished it off and defeated Ganon I felt a sense of accomplishment that not many video games give. Still get giddy playing it today than when I first did in early 1999. The 3DS version of the game just makes it even better. It's going to take a lot to surplant this as one of the best video games ever.
I think when I first played Ocarina, it was the first time I ever actually loved a video game. I played many games before it and always liked games and thought they were fun. But Ocarina changed the way I saw the medium itself. I had never considered before OoT that games could be more than fun entertainment, that they could actually be art that moved you on a deep level. That will always be its enduring legacy for me personally. It want just an amazing game, it literally changed the way I saw games forever
LEGENDARY game, still one of the best games in HISTORY, there's a reason why this game series is called the LEGEND of Zelda 😎
What a great video!!
Funny.... when I played this game as a 10 year old I did not understand why Zelda wanted to send Link back n the end. I was like "are you kidding? Why should Link want that, he is the Hero of that time!" Now as an adult I totally understand what kind of gift and sacrifice this was from Zeldas side
i think you did a great job with this video, tone and atmosphere is one of the strongest characteristics of ocarina of time. i think the only part of the game which felt off which i also felt back when i played this in 1999 was ganondorfs castle i remember visiting it early and a few times through out the game wondering how to get in and my imagination went wild with what would be lurking inside,especially after being terrifed of the zombies in the plaza and the cool visual of outside the castle. When the end of the game neared and i got inside i was pretty disappointed with the small very basic mini puzzles that were all themed the same as other parts of the game and were done fast. I was hoping to see a grand final dungeon, but at least after you lower the barrier the game did not disappoint starting with that iconic scene of walking up the staircase to face ganondorf playing the organ.
some of my most memorable moments/imagery from the game was the cursed skulltilla kid, camera changing when getting face hugged by the zombies, almost everything in the shadow temple (had no clue about the lens of truth went through the whole thing to get to the boss and realize i couldnt kill him, took me so long to figure out i had to change to a kid again to go down the well) amazing music with imagery when first entering the spirit temple, going the wrong way in the ice arrow mini dungeon and running out of keys locking myself out of the ice arrows. the organ stair case which i previsouly mentioned with gannondorf, the sound effects and animation when hitting ganndorf with light arrow, and like you said the final fight after an epic tower collaspe, everything about that fight was so immersive and powerful.
I’ve played/best this game I think 6-8 times over the years. It’ll always be the reason I fell in love with games beyond Mario as a kid.
16:30 - "For a narrative that contains no voice-acted dial--"
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underrrated channel and video
The fact that you opened with the first temple song 🌟 real recognize real
The water temple was beautiful. I can’t fault it. 😂❤
Ocarina of time was the first episode of a great series: dark souls.
First time I ever played OOT was in early 99... on vacation in the Florida keys... and I couldn't put the game down lol
It's amazing how they managed to get this game on 1 n64 cartridge
That was amazing
This game is so diverse from start to finish
The greatest Nintendo game of all time
Awesome, thanks.
I love this Ocarina of time. I have the golden N64 game version in my collection, it's my favorite Zelda game ever! In second place is Wind Waker, both are master pieces in my opinion. Great vídeo about Ocarina of time, congratulations and thank you!
the WaterTempel really gave me a hard time as an as a 10 year old. In every playthruh. but still every time I "faught my way through" because I really had the urge to complete this journey and save Hyrule, because it's the right thing to be done . i think that is also something special bout Zelda : In the most other RPGs you have to decide if you gonna help other charachters, or even trie to betray them somehow to complete quests. In Zelda the only possible way to act is altruisticly, because thats Link's nature. In all his reincarnations
You've described perfectly why this is my favorite Zelda game. I get flack for that, I hear people say the game is "overrated" but to me it's anything but. The Zelda franchise I would argue even struggled to escape the shadow that the game left because it had been so impactful that following games were...well...just not Ocarina of Time. That's not to say I didn't like the Zelda games that followed, far from it I still enjoyed them. They just haven't impacted me the way this game did.
My personal 5 greatest games list (32 year old male) 5) Gears of War One 4) Halo One 3) Pokemon Red/Blue 2) Zelda Ocarina of Time/Majoras Mask 1) World of Warcraft Classic
Ugh I miss this game
I just hooked up my Gamecube and fired up this game. I'll try the Master Quest one day but for now the original will do.
I always wanted a spinoff game following sheik
Same!!
Ocarina of Time is still a wonderful game to play no matter what!
The best ❤
The best game of all time