Why Breaking into Zelda's Castle at Night is a Bad Idea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2022
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's world has lots of things we overlooked when we first played it years ago. But there was something I noticed in the castle at night time that was pretty interesting. Today we're breaking down Hyrule Castle's exterior, courtyard, and interior garden and all the odd things they contain.
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Music credits:
Songs from various Zelda titles
"Hyrule Field" - Twilight Princess
"Castle Courtyard" - Ocarina of Time
"Zelda's Lullaby" - Skyward Sword - เกม
Gerudo Guards running and arresting you with spears > Hyrule guards yelling at you like an exhausted parent who is too tired to move
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Awesome video
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Would like to see more with majoras mask, like places you can’t get to ect
So ganondorf never kneeled before the king in that shot. He was kneeling to the void. Much more sinister
King Void Bosphoramus Hyrule
@@kacperwoch4368 *NO WAY!* I thought he was santa! XD
Theres no king of hyrule
-Tighten/Titan
(Before someones wooosh me or something, yes, this is a Megamind reference)
@@Nombrenooriginal "There is no tooth fairy. There is no easter bunny. And there is no [King of Hyrule]"
This is the best comment thread ever😄
"As a kid, I used to call this 'my house' " DUDE, I thought I was the only one! It was just so cozy there.
Right!? I found "homes" all the time in games when I was a kid!
I always enjoyed exploring and wondering about how characters would actually go about there day to day activities living in 'there homes' in game worlds.
I did the same thing!!!! That's so crazy
My house was the hidden room in the tower at lon lon ranch
@@keiyakins That's a nice one! You even have the cows as roomates
"There's a stream, or river, that flows around the castle, like a moat."
Not just like a moat, it *is* a moat.
Shh, it’s funnier if he doesn’t get it.
Thank goodness someone said it already! Thought exactly that when he said it. 😹 Like come on dude!
@@secoTheSonicFan How long does it take to Google "moat" and read the definition?
If you don't know if you're using a word right, look it up, or don't use it. Especially if you are going to put that word in a video on the internet.
Ngl, i always thought Zelda’s castle was inside a bigger castle so ive always wondered why there is two moats
If it doesn't have crocodiles or alligators it's not a moat I want around MY castle.
Dang, who knew that Hyrule Castle could have such a weird security system?
Hmm
When in doubt, delete it out!
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Oh hi Team Blue Toad
@@SwankyBox classic Hylian magic
Fun Fact: The "Animated Sky" that you see when you are in hyrule field is just a giant cube rotating horizontally. It's probably not apparent in the console versions or the HD remakes, but when playing using an emulator with higher graphics, you can faintly see the lines of the four corner edges of a cube.
There aren't hd remakes.
@@renatoramos8834 There are remakes on 3DS (OoT3D & MM3D), but they probably meant a remaster of some kind (which I don't think exists)
@@Adriethyl And those remakes are farther from being HD than the originals.
@@renatoramos8834 technically, they are better, but also they're on 360p screens.
The N64 games are kinda the same when you factor crappy composite cables from the 90s and the blurry nature of CRT displays.
@@Adriethyl they're on 240p screens.
This is a question I've legitimately had since I was 8 years old. THANK YOU for finally answering it haha!!
Hi drg big fan.
Brooo i love your content
I literally just watched two of your videos and will watch more. Nice.
Dave, it truly shows that you and Swanky are good friends
@@PokemonRebornFan true friendship
Glad to see “this is my house now” is universal. I also used to pretend that i was a guard apprentice and have to find the blind spots for the guards
Lol I can imagine. What I often used to say, when I saw a room with no purpose (usually in games like Diablo, where maps can be random) was "yeah! The most important room in the whole game!". Kinda became a meme to me and a friend of mine.
@Florian Klink speaking of, Diablo 4 coming soon
That's pretty clever how they stacked bits of the castle so that it looks right in the one angle you normally see it, but saved memory space by not fleshing out the parts you don't see. I never saw before that Zelda's garden area basically had a ceiling.
@@AlphaCarinae So, I guess you saw the 60 likes from 2 weeks ago and decided "This won't do. I've got to rain on this guy's parade."
@@AlphaCarinae miserable
Most 3D games are like this
Kinda like how in most first person shooters you're just a floating gun
Seeing you walk around on that blue carpet was so fulfilling lol. I've always wanted to enter the child version of the castle just to be there-in an uncorrupted monument to the resplendent but naive monarchy of Hyrule. Now I've seen someone venture there, and I am happy.
You can experience it in real life. We're doing one right now. Resplendent but naive describes our current economy
The thing that always frustrated me about OoT Hyrule Castle, is that you could never really explore the inside of the castle besides the garden areas and exterior! Mind you as a kid, I'd imagine there was more to the castle when in reality its just a few interior pieces seen through the windows that give the illusion it is a huge castle! I'm also guessing that the reason I felt that way was due to how massive the interior of PEACH's CASTLE in SM64 was!
By the way, the proper term for the flag-like things on the walls in the 3DS version is tapestries! Also Swanky didn't talk about the guard near the window who pops up if you hit the west window with the Fairy Slingshot and throws a bomb! Hopefully he'll talk about it in another video (presumably one where he figures out how to load in the rest of the garden at night)!
You just made me have a massive flashback from when I was 6 years old right when OoT came out on n64. There was a part near the courtyard where you could see inside a hallway lol
Story-wise, the guards being more competent at night makes perfect sense to me.
At night it's easier for a thief or an assassin to sneak, so the guards are more alerted.
It’s very possible that you originally had to sneak through Hyrule Castle inside to get into the courtyard. Either that or Hyrule Castle was a child mini dungeon at one point.
There’s so much cut content from Ocarina, it’ll feed myths for decades to come
I believe you were originally supposed to enter the castle from the well in Kakariko Village.
@@ianfinrir8724 Ooh nice theory it’s actually quite possible. Though just imagine seeing THAT place so early in the game.
@@RondoOfBloodX It was supposed to be the sewers under the castle like in Link To The Past.
Is there any evidence for this?
Honestly stuff like this makes me wish there was just like, a version of Ocarina of Time's map that was fully explorable. Like a fan demo in Unreal or something that just like, literally makes the map, but fills in all the space that the developers originally left out, like the castle, and you can just like, walk around and explore the whole thing. It'd be so cool
Hyrule Simulator lol
I've seen some Minecraft maps that attempt this, but I've never found a complete one.
I'm trying one myself, and am currently building the interior of Hyrule Castle.
Their is a gmod model of the 3ds version
I've been curious if you could beat the child dungeons as an adult and vice versa. I'll let you decide the items.
The speedruns almost always do Dodongo’s Cavern as an adult, Deku Tree can be done so long as you do the long setup to get inside, and Jabu Jabu is fine up until you fight Barinade as it needs to have the Boomerang to beat it…. But you can equip swap the Boomerang to then beat Barinade.
As for adult dungeons as child, I have no clue I’m afraid
@@potago6695 there's a category in speedrunning called max% child, and they've found that there are a handful of adult dungeons you can beat as a child, though it's pretty hard to pull off.
@@garomastervideos - This. And the sheer amount of sketchy jumps and tiny geometry needed to get onto the Shadow Temple’s boat as child link is hilarious to watch, because of course you can’t use hookshot as child (it softlocks if you try).
Fun fact: Ghoma takes more hits to die when using the master sword. I posted a video of it in 2016 or 2017, unlisted now.
@@NintendoSunnyDee that's actually interesting, that means it's weaker than the stick?
Actually, it would make more sense that Zelda would be peaking in the window at night.
Sure the scene would look weird in the dark, but storywise it's perfect
I dont see the logic that ganondorf would be meeting the king at night time. Usually politics happen during the day
@@XxSolsacexX Unless he had just arrived from Gerudo Valley. To simply stay the night in the castle without meeting the king and paying respects would be absurd.
I find shit like this super interesting mainly because it makes you realize how far they had to go to cut corners when making the game just to make it work with the hardware limitations at the time.
You call it "cut corners", but back in the day we called it "optimization."
This was a sign of GOOD work. "Cut corners" implies sloppy.
@@DarkonFullPower Didn't mean the negative implication, but basically what I meant. Like, those cartridges had insane memory limitations compared to what we have today, so the devs had to save space wherever possible, and vids like this just highlight how far they had to go sometimes to do that.
I seriously appreciate the OOT content recently as I just finished my first blind playthrough of the game with the 3DS version and I'm so keen on it right now . I'm sad I never grew up with it but even at an older age I still felt the total wonder it holds and these videos help with making me feel like I've got a kid's curiousity again
3DS version is best version. You’re lucky
Glad you enjoyed it! Man, I would do anything to experience this game firsthand again.
@@wolfetteplays8894 Oh yeah, from seeing the comparisons I'm happy to play the version with the HD graphics and quality of life mechanics such as the bottom touch screen, making areas like the Water Temple less tedious. Although I'd love to play the classic 64 version someday just to get the original feel
@@shi117 Thanks! And absolutely, the first exposure to a game can never be beat, would love to experience multiple games for the first time again
Be glad your first playthrough was on the 3DS. The original N64 controller was harder. The joystick and weird placement of the yellow buttons made it a lot more awkward for using items and fighting enemies.
You're breaking into a castle at night, of course it's a bad idea
Ok, no joke. I used to love finding the secret spaces in video games and saying the same thing! My favorite place in OoT was the secret little back room in the windmill of Lon Lon Ranch. The one you move the boxes to find. Once I discovered you could actually pull the box closed behind you, and still enter the crawl space, it was over. Lol.
So much of my childhood I spent hiding in my room exploring every inch of this game and I never questioned how weird the castle layout is. Great video I loved it
idk i feel like breaking into someone's house when they have an entire army and a really scary dungeon for people who they dislike is a bad idea no matter when you do it
I loved these type of videos! Please bring them back!
Love that you're doing niche stuff you're into, its nice seeing contentent creators doing what they like rather than whats 'good for the algorithm'
Regarding the warps, OOT's warp system has failsafes and will use the default warp if the one requested does not exist for a map.
When I was a kid I used to think hyrule was my home town and the castle was my home, because I was the princess but at the same time I was Link. Also, the market town felt so… safe and welcoming and cozy. To this day I remember how great it felt to play this game. Forever my favorite!
Them ReDeads though…
Jokes aside, I was actually, genuinely scared of them. They triggered my fear response lol
1:19 I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that spent an unhealthy amount of time in this just because it felt cozy there.
The last time I was this early, Link was getting arrested by a random Gerudo woman when he was trying to save the world. I'm loving these little tidbits on Ocarina of Time. Reminds me of Majora's Mask's Cirquet.
I wanted to see what would happen if you spawned a Gerudo guard next to a castle guard. Which one would take priority in throwing Link out?
Loved the out of bounds tool to move the camera out of place, I thought you were just going to start walking blindly and hitting walls💀👏🏼 nice video man!
Watching these broken maps creeps me out more than I would like to admit..
Videos like this were the reason I subscribed, glad to see you back to what I consider, “normal Swankybox videos”
Please continue these explorative out-of-bounds videos, Swanky! It's really fun watching you explore areas of Ocarina Of Time that can't be done normally! :)
Glad you came back to this format
So much work goes into these videos. I can't believe you still haven't reached a million. You more than deserve it. Keep it up. I love your videos.
I did the same thing calling that guard room "my house" as well as the silo in Lon Lon Ranch.
Basically, it's like the virtual version of a movie set. Wander away from the camera location, and the illusion falls apart.
Great stuff as always. Never thought I'd see someone get to some of these areas, awesome content brotha.
Outside of playable space is always weird. I used to play Perfect Dark, and during multiplayer, us the Fly by wire missiles to fly outside of the levels. Everything would turn to static but I would fly it blind until I felt I had travelled enough, and then dive bombs the missile into my friends out of nowhere. Always pissed them off good😂
I always found boundary break stuff like this interesting. Great video SB.
All this time, my question from the late 90's has been answered. Thank You Swankybox. Absolutely enjoy your Resident Evil IV videos, some of my favorites to watch on your channel.
"There is a stream or a river around the castle, like a moat".
You know what they say. If it looks like a moat, smells like a moat, and talks like a moat, it's probably a moat.
Really enjoyed this one, thanks! I would love to see more like this one!
Really enjoyed this! Would love to see more OoT content.
Damn, this is as nostalgic as it is fascinating.
Cool vid mate!
The reason you can go behind the window in Zelda’s area is because the three actors there (both guards and gannondorf) would fall through the floor if there was no collision, at least, I think that’s why
No wonder Ganondorf couldnt find Zelda. Nighttime security was activated.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a room or courtyard that simulated daytime at all times?!
Also do you think they made it possible to walk in the back room only for Ganondorph so that his body doesn’t just fall through the floor when he walks into view? 😂
I've always loved the music that plays during that sequence.
Love this!
That image of Zelda's face, wondering why Link has come in through the back entrance
That's what she said?
I'm so sorry.
@@shadowleviathan don't be sorry. I was phishing for something like that anyway 😋
glad you're returning to the old style of videos I missed them as an old fan.
Thank you for the video. It was really nostalgic for me to watch.
I also support the idea of this format, it is really entertaining!
Best wishes for you in the future! Keep it up SwankyBox! :)
I'm a developer and a long time zelda fan and I love videos like this. Please keep doing them.
I remember trying to sneak at night, didn't know about the flame. I never played the 3DS version, I never had the 3DS
This is a series that I am willing to accept back into this weird reality that we call life
I recently finished Links awakening. I've got depression.
Gerudo with 2 massive swords < Hyrule Guard < Gerudo with spear < Immaculate Gerudo in white blessed by the 3 goddesses to resist all harm and hardships
"The Camelot!"
"Ehh, It's just a model"
We learn the basics and the fundamentals only to move on and expand upon them but when we realize that we have lost our selves along the way it was the fundamentals that we had lost along with it. This format is neat, i enjoyed this video dearly. Im going through a custody battle over my step daughter (raised her for 6 years and is about to turn 7) her mom also abandoned her 2 years ago and didnt bother contacting her. But now that we're weeks away from court shes trying to cover her ass for receiving foodstamps with fraudulent info, claiming she had her daughter with her the past few years.. ughh sorry to rant but i dont really have anyone to lend an ear sometime, im a single dad of 2 so youtube and books are what i entertain myself with.. Nostalgia is a blessing and these videos help distract myself from the world.
Stay strong, my dude. Both for yourself and for your daughter.
You got a reason to stay alive atleast. I got into a domestic dispute with the mother Infront of our daughter and was in jail for it. She was later found abusing our daughter in a store beating her with a belt over the prices of crap I guess and they got her on camera and shoppers noticed and phoned the police. I'm getting my charges greatly reduced and she's now in prison while my cousins adopt my daughter and I get back on my feet. I'm not saying I deserve any sympathy I was bottling things in from a toxic relationship and finally snapped on her when she started the fight over an 11$ attempted Pokemon transaction that didn't go through because she slept with her phone on and was accusing me. 11$ dollars that never went through ruined everything she just yelled at me blaming me and I choked her and eventually stopped myself. I surrendered to the cops I didn't run I plead guilty I wanted to be punished. Video games are the only escape I have from this horrible reality and you aren't the only one who uses it as an escape.
Try to get detailed info that your daughter has lived with you. Take people who knows she stays with you. Make sure you trust them and don't talk to your crazy ex. Try to keep any receipts to prove she's been with you on tiny items like toys and combs and diapers and so on.
@Villanious Mustache Already on top of that brother I appreciate the suggestion and the advice I have all of the text messages asking my baby's mother when she was going to return I have all of the proof that I need as far as records wise, I needed to cross my T's and dot my I's before I even decided to file. Im just glad i had legal counsel provided to me for free by my friend. If i hadnt spoke to her about it i wouldve gotten my daughter put into the system where i wouldnt have been able to visit her. That little girl is my daughter regardless of blood, and im gonna do everything in my power to fight for her to live with me again. Her brother and her havent been apart for more than 2 days at a time, last night he ended up falling asleep on her bed with her plushies. I broke down when i seen where he was asleep.
@Villanious Mustache my ex is pregnant again too so that was a heart string tug for sure.
This is the amount of depth I wish Boundary Break would do when they cover games. Thanks for exploring such a mysterious area from my childhood in such a fun way!
I need to play OOT I'm missing out.
Emulate it
Zelda: sometimes I hear a bunch of yelling on the roof, wonder what's going on up there?
On the roof: 3 2 1, GO!
Love me some out of bounds exploring! I did what you did, except with my gameshark. Link had that weird moon jump ability if you held down L or R, I forget, and I would pretty much fly around hyrule and look at thing from angles I wasn't supped to. Just so much fun!
I didn't have an Action Replay or anything, but I used to use seam walking to get up onto the hills around the castle all the time when I was younger. With a well timed roll you could get "into" the castle itself, though a lot of the time you'd just fall back in bounds or out of bounds entirely.
11:24 I am honored to tell you that I love this stuff. I will always be thrilled to watch more.
"It would be very weird for Gannondorf to be talking to the king during night" Idk man. He is the Prince of Darkness.
I remember playing on an emulator once, back when it's texturing abilities weren't great, that guard's vision is actually them emitting a couple of invisible objects forward. Still, that might be a hitbox with the night guards.
That's actually really clever.
Great video as always. I for one loved it.
Please do more videos like this in OoT! They're super fun!
I'd also be cool with similar content for Mario or Pokemon but I feel like Zelda is best suited to it.
There's so many possibilities with Majora's Mask too, since there are so many ways the 3 days' events can play out
Considering the limitations of games back then, I wouldn't be surprised if they all had to do a lot of "smoke and mirrors" to give the illusion that the world is alive (ie, the castle).
Yep, that was pretty common back then. Even today it is common
11:00 That is an adorable POV ♡
It's like a play: Anything that you don't directly interact with is just prop and set dressing. Going out of bounds breaks the fourth wall.
"this is my house now"
The stanley parable has so many "houses" when I glitch out the level and go into random offices. I imagine I'm actually trapped in an office living there
Thanks for this brings back good memories of breaking the game with the GameShark:)
The camera break helps visualize that it was empty. I thought as a kid that if just did the inputs correct you could get to Zelda.
Ah, holding L to "Moon Jump" with your game sticking out of a Gameshark cart. Good times. For a long time it was the easiest known way to get at the Ice Key in Banjo-Kazooie. Blew my mind when I finally got back there and found it was actually grabbable, with dialogue and all. Anyway, love this kind of stuff, and am again reminded of Any_Austin's "Odd and Unremarkable Places" series
I like that series. It’s so chill
What happens if you summon the different types of guards that arrest you at different times of the game? Like the Gerudo video you did but with the castle guards, the guards outside the castle that throw you out by the first gate? I can't remember if any of them move to your position to arrest you or not but I bet some whacky scenes can happen if you do the same thing you did with the Gerudo guards.
The room inside looks very far away and dark (as in had to see) yet looking from the inside to out of the window Zelda seems very visible thanks to how bright is out side.
No wonder Ganondorf spotted them instantly.
Thanks for going into detail as to the workings of the most mystifying places! I also appreciated the little clips of how the 3DS version tried to make the castle feel more alive. I generally feel the 3DS version lost a lot of the medieval charm, but Hyrule Castle was an exception.
You can actually do that in actual game though, like without modding, and at the bit where it's like you know, Metal Gear Style like the camera changes and fixedand where the music changes too, you will need to wait outside that bit until it's day because those guards are like standing where you can't get past them.
Interesting. I enjoyed it. Keep them coming 😊😊
Near the fairy fountain, right where the path divides leading to it, there is an angle you can walk up. It's where the walls meet, the corner they make is an angle that link can actually walk up. It's like pixel perfect and hard to walk all the way up. You'll end up falling off a lot. If you make it all the way up you can run around on the mountains just like in the video. Not much up there, but you can fall off the map and at the bottom there is endless water. You're stuck once you're there and have to reset.
It's a legit way to get out of the map and blew my mind when I was a kid.
This was really neat. I can also relate with the guard house being Link's house in Hyrule. I didn't know about the flame torch though
"This is hyrule castles ultimate defense, it just displays half of itself at night" idk why but that joke made my day
The guards know that the drain hole is a security gap but instead of installing a metal grate or just having guards there all the time, they only post them at night to annoy anyone that wants to sneak in after curfew. Logic is clearly second to forcing Link to only visit in the day. Then, after some incident that doesn't even involve this breach happens, they finally guard it all the time so that no one will sneak in and see that Zelda isn't constantly hanging out in the garden anymore. Clearly, the king is too busy thinking about dinner to care about logic in his patrol patterns.
I (unsuccessfully) studied 3-d graphics. It reminds me of some of the advice they gave, "if it LOOKS good it IS good"
Saw the title to this and was like "tf were just now realizing it's a bad idea to do that at night?" But was pleasantly surprised and thoroughly enjoyed the content
Definitely need more vids like this
9:53 Do not try to find the king, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. There is no King. Then you'll see that it's not the king that is missing, it is only yourself.
me having an existential crisis in the hyrule castle backrooms
I love vids like this, hope we get more
I love when people break boundaries in games lol
All that, "It's not really a castle" stuff broke my inner child's heart 🤣
I just lost brain cells. I LOVE OoT. I'll play it over and over and over again, but this 12min video was a waste of 12min I'll never get back
actually it would have been really cool to see the cutscene at night, Zelda is suspicious of Ganon so of course she'd spy on him during his private meeting with the king at night.
Also It'd be really neat to see the triggered cutscene in zeldas room from the window view to see if ganons model is complete or not
Love these! More pls 🤘
Boundary break stuff like this is my favorite. Especially in Zelda games
This was really interesting and I would love to see more
It's so fascinating that you are able to make the game do all that.
I never played any Zelda game but I might one day
you gotta think, the reason for stuff getting "deleted" in the castle would be to save space and memory
I've tried a lot of this too. Thanks for sharing with us the castle after dark tho.