Thanks for watching! I have to apologise, Part 3 will not be ready for another week. So stay tuned for the final episode on the 29th! (Also just pretend I didn't say "Queen Gohma" at 55:35 😂)
I think Zelda passing on her recall ability is her adding her Sage's power to Link. It shares the same environment as the other sages, and it would make sense that her temple is the one of Time.
it took me until my second playthrough to notice this detail, even the place where link receives recall is the exact same as where he meets the spirits of the ancient sages :)
@@Echo_the_half_glitch Exactly. He's such a chatterbox - as we all know - so for him to be moved to stunned silence must denote extreme confusion. :D ...okay, non-sarcastically, considering he's pretty much a total mute otherwise, him expressing a ? mark verbally could very well denote extreme confusion non-ironically.
When the sages parry Ganondorf’s gloom in the castle, I got so emotional I had to stop playing for a bit. It made me think of how lonely Link really was in Breath of the Wild. Hyrule was so empty, he had no memories of his life before the Calamity, and only a handful of people knew him. He was alone. Now, in Tears of the Kingdom, he has a life with Zelda, and friends, and the world is not as empty. He can count on helping hands.
That's what they went for in Twilight Princess, too. That moment in Hyrule castle where Link is about to mob deeped and all of sudden his friends show up. That was the first time we knew that Link was not alone in his struggles.
Now we need is to have a playable Princess Zelda in and extended story to see more of the Imprisoning War for DLC. And hopefully, Link and Zelda can stay together like they always do.
@@a.jthomas6132 More than likely, anything about the Imprisoning War will be a Warriors spinoff that the marketing claims will show the Imprisoning War, but it will actually be about how a celery-shaped Zonai construct built by Zelda travels back in time and prevents the Imprisoning War from ever happening.
Notice that at the beginning of the game when Link first dives down to the sky islands, Zelda in her dragon form is always right nearby. Looking back at these small details makes me tear up man...a beautiful game, truly.
For any circumstances, she will always be his side. Maybe she still have little conscious or her her trapped inside a body of a dragon. Nintendo wont confirmed this but Link and Zelda are in a relationship
I ironically joked that the dragon we saw in the beginning was zelda. I was just being goofy but then after I found all the tears I was like "accidental physic"
Yep! She circles the islands until Link sends the master sword into the past and the clouds clear, and from then on she flies in a loose hourglass shape passing by every single Skyview Tower one by one - unaware of Link but willed to make herself as easy for him to reach as possible.
Am curious to know, for anyone who has maybe done so, if recruiting the fifth Sage before going to the castle to meet Puppet "Zelda" changes the cutscene of the Sages coming to Link's rescue. I'm under the impression that this can be done fairly early on, so it should be possible to do so before the events at the castle.
I still like how when you look at how Ganondorf punishes the races of Hyrule it sort of mimics OOT. With the Zora, Rito, and Gerudo he all but starves them. With the brutal sandstorm the Gerudo can't really get supplies, especially with Gibdo lurking. The snowstorm in lower Hebra is intense it threatens the Rito with lack of food or eventually travel since they'd all just freeze to death, and the Zoro have their health threaten directly. They can't swim in the sludge, it poisons them, and their food supply. But the Goron? They're industrucble rock men who are all incredibly powerful and already live in a place there's nearly unhabitable and that very land supplies them with food that can't be poisoned, destroyed, or seperated from them. So what does Ganondorf do? He gives them rocks so tasty they lose the will to do anything.
A small theory. Zeltik's video about "The Terrifying Powers of the Master Sword" mentions about, of course, how the Master Sword can harness different powers and elements. The shrines of TotK often say the line, "This shrine imprisons and purifies ancient evil." In the final battle against the Demon King, the revitalize Master Sword is able to reflect the waves of gloom sent out by Gandondorf, causing them to become blue and home onto Ganondorf, inflicting damage. Its imprisoning and purifying an ancient evil.
It's interesting what we instinctively do in this game. Some, like me, never dove through Colgera (i used arrows only). I immediately thought OoT's "laser tennis" battle when I saw the gloom waves Ganondorf launched and I swung away.
They really weren’t fucking around with Ganondorfs power. Man breaks the master sword, screws with the hero for a good majority of the game, and is never scared of him until the end of the game where he’s loosing, and even then, he seems so excited to finally fight someone that’s actually a match for him. Not just the sages hanging up on him, one guy is actually putting up a fight against him. He even says during the battle he had almost forgotten the thrills of battle, the blood rushing through his body. And he’s confused when he loses. Not mad, not angry. Just confused. This hero couldn’t even survive his Gloom, now he’s able to fight him. Game devs really just said: “yeah but what if he was much stronger?”
Yeah he's op as fuck. I wish he played a more active role in the game though. I spent a slow 125 hours in the world, and Ganondorf was just chilling underground. Yeah there's the phantoms, but they are rare and I stopped being scared after slaying two of them.
@@ihatehandles69420well I mean recovering all your power from thousands of years of sealing in 125h is pretty damn nice from ganondorf (even if technically it's almost an in-game year)
One thing I find scary about this game's version of Phantom Ganon is that, even though it is completely loyal to its master as if it were a puppet, it clearly has a will of its own: it talks to people, it acknowledges Link as a potential threat even though Ganondorf is dismissive of him, and it sabotaging the different regions to give Ganondorf an advantage goes against Ganondorf's desire to win through overwhelming might. It clearly has a will of its own, even if that will is simply to carry out Ganondorf's will, and it has all of Ganondorf's cunning with _none_ of his hubris. That is scary.
The zelda (ganon) one right? I thought the same because in villages like with the sheikah village they say how zelda told them to avoid the ruins to not get hurt etc. Like besides the fact that Ganon doesn't want people interference or anything why give warning instead of just out right controlling or something.
@@YumiFireFox For all we know, all the Phantom Ganons in the game could be the same one, but yes; I am referring to the one that pretends to be Zelda; the one that has existed since before Ganondorf obtained the secret stone.
That's an interesting interpretation, i always assumed the phantom Ganons were direct extensions of Ganondorf, just like how in BOTW every malice eye and guardian is basically THE Calamity Ganon, this is supported by the fact that puppet Zelda is clearly controlled by Ganondorf, i also find the idea cool since it's like Ganondorf is able to be present in the surface even though he never actually leaves his cave. It would also be kinda odd if all the sage events were just made by his pets shaped after his image, that would mean that he spent the whole game doing literally nothing while his monsters do all the work on their own, which i don't think is the case, it's also implied by the name "puppet" they are controlled by him, they don't work on their own.
The Wind Temple was by far the standout part of the game. Tulin's both adorable and useful, the trip up to the ark is fun and impressive, and Colgera is the most fun of all the bosses.
Also the coolest, the Zora's is creepy as well, we never see if any Zora died because of the sludge, they said it blocked their gills, so they could die to it if it wasn't cleaned quickly enough Going back to Gerudo, I loved seeing the Gibdo shrooms all over the desert with the sandstorm, it looked like something from a nightmare
Yea it almost scared me more than the hands, seeing gerudo town all empty with that creepy music playing and suddenly corpse like insects standing up and seemingly being hard to destroy
I think that 5th race might've been something we haven't seen since Skyward Sword. the mogma, who were known for digging tunnels underground, and possibly the ones who made those statues. But that's just a theory I'm willing to put on the table.
@@a5c0 My only complaint about Ganondorf is that he doesn't have much or a background nor what motivates the formal king of the Gerudo in conquering Hyrule. Only thing I did notice are his surrogate mothers Koume and Kotake made brief appearances. We really need a dlc to explore his backstory.
Count me among the folks who wish they had made the Zora Waterworks the site of the Water Temple, instead of something in the sky. An underground cave system for one of the dungeons would have been amazing.
I just wanted to mention something so Zelda is cannonicly in love with link this is confirmed via kass in btow “the princess love for her fallen knight awakens her power” and before this she “only had eyes for her own knight attendant” when she rejected a dude so she is in love with link romantically and especially in totk when she talks about link to raru and Sonya it sounds like she is describing her partner tbh but I digress. When this is put into context her sacrifice is absolutely heartbreaking i cryed my eyes out for at least a good 5 minutes after the cutscene Zelda was not only willing to sacrifice herself for link but also not know if she will ever see her love again. Totk is truly one of the most deeply romantic Zelda games in my opinion. And Zelda’s sacrifice for link is a proof of her faith and love for link and by extension her kingdom
People puzzle about the fact that Hyrule’s citizens do not recognize Link immediatly, and my theory is that they won’t recognize him without Zelda. They went everywhere together, never staying very long in one spot, and it’s difficult to place Link without her. Zelda is the most outgoing of the two, and Link is his silent and supporting boyfriend.
@@ccccc1332 I think that theory makes sense to an extent (although the sheer lack of people who recognize Link, especially in Hateno Village, is still overkill in my opinion and hard to justify). To be honest though, I think the more likely reason is that developers just wanted to make the game approachable to newcomers. Letting too many NPCs acknowledge a backstory with Link likely would have complicated things. Not to mention it probably would have gotten tedious for every NPC Link walked up to to ask where he's been and what happened to Zelda.
A neat little detail I've noticed throughout my playthrough is that whenever a bloodmoon happends, you will hear a super depressed zelda talk about the bloodmoon. And when you defeat the puppet of ganondorf, this whole line is gone whenever a bloodmoon happends. It sends out a eerie chill but its a very nice detail.
It's cool to learn about the founding of this version of Hyrule in this game, but I would've loved to see even more about the Zonai, as the Zonai were already almost gone by the time of Hyrule's founding. I remember finding the glide trial islands and finding it cool that they were originally coming-of-age trials for young Zonai, and I would've loved to see more of the sky islands have history behind them.
I never noticed the Phantom Ganons are like the Sage's avatars. It makes so much sense. Your narration is incredibly fun to listen to, I look forward to the next part!
A small theory I have about the ancient Sages that fought with Rauru. I’m not sure if this has been mentioned yet (and maybe this was obvious to everyone but me), but I think the Divine Beasts are named after the ancient sages. Their names are never mentioned, and they’re always referred to as a “distant relative” or “ancestor” to the current Sages. On top of that, the masks match the faces of each of the Divine Beasts. So to me, the names of the sages are: Wind Sage- “Medoh” Fire Sage- “Rudania” Water Sage- “Ruta” Lightning Sage- “Naboris” Just a thought. Excellent video as always Zeltik!
My thoughts exactly. If I remember correctly, if you beat thunderblight ganon in botw and urbosa speaks to vah naboris, she mentioned that the divine beast was named after somebody, though I don‘t completely remember what that name exactly was.
I'm pretty sure they're named after characters from previous games (at least a few of them are). And if the Calamity was a reoccurring event every 10,000 years, and the divine beasts were only made approximately 10,100 years ago, it's unlikely that they would have remembered the names of the ancient sages from tens of thousands of years before that... especially since there is no written accounts of their names, unlike Rauru and Sonia.
i can't watch this in full at the moment, but the sheer love and passion zeltik puts into every video is genuinely moving!! like, they're made with such attention to detail, such care, balancing humor and gravitas and earnestness - they're captivating, and heartrendingly authentic. i love them all so much!!
Could those statues in the Depths possibly be referring to the Mogma from Skyward Sword? While they did have tails, the resemblance is uncanny; and a race slightly changing in its appearance wouldn't be a first. It would also make sense for them to aid the Zonai with the mining
probably but the fact that the depths are full of frog enemies and the fact that the yiga and the sheekah(?) love frogs supports more the theory that these are frog man statues
i get why you didnt deep dive into all the regional phenomena stories, because this vid would have to be 5 hrs long and they’re not all super related to the overall story, but sidon’s quest is particularly beautiful. you literally end up helping him resolve childhood trauma from when mipha died that is actively affecting his current relationship with yona. it’s a short quest but there actually is a lot of depth there if you look for it and have some understanding of how trauma works or even just mental health generally
Yes, I absolutely love Sidon and Yona seems to have a kindred spirit to Mipha. I'm sure he loves that about her but also terrified of losing another beautiful soul he loves so much.
Sidon was the one who actually felt like a sage to me. He had personal growth and reflection and an actual character arc. Tulin at least learns how to accept help, I guess, and it's hard to have a long term character development in such a short lived species as the Rito, but...yunobo is just cursed and link fixes it, and Riju has no character development to speak of, the quest is all about saving the town. I loved reading the stones on the way up to Zora's domain. I did Zora first and was a little disappointed with the other three, they just felt like powerful individuals, champions maybe, but not actually *sages*. The fifth sage is an entirely different situation and doesn't count for this discussion.
@dirtywhitellama I would argue that Riju’s character arc is working to learn how to control her powers and protect her people. Sort of trying to fill Urbosa’s shoes in a way.
Technically, the Lightning Temple is in design not a pyramid, but a ziggurat like the ones from the cities of Ur and Eridu. They are also found in Mesoamerica, mostly built by the Mayans and Aztecs. But ziggurats did not serve as tombs, more like personal temples for the city's patron god/goddess. This Temple seems to be a hybrid style of a pyramid and a ziggurat. The room that houses the secret stone proves the connection further. It is fairly disconnected from the rest of the Lightning Temple, located on the top floor, far more ornate than the any other room. This is very similar to ziggurats, where only priests and others highly respected by society were allowed in the structure on top, said to house the gods. (P.S These are just my interpretations anyway.)
This tops the story of Breath of The Wild by a landslide, this game's story is so incredibly well thought out. And the fact that Zelda herself effectively causes a bit of a Time Paradox by traveling back to the founding of Hyrule, becoming the Light Dragon with the Master Sword embedded in her head, while at the same time thousands of years later with the events of Breath of the Wild, 2 copies of both Zelda and the Master sword exist at the same time, completely without anyone knowing? It's all mind boggling!
It's called a closed time loop; essentially, her going into the past didn't change anything because she was always supposed to be there. For a similar but smaller example, in Ocarina of Time, in order to gain access to the bottom of the well as kid-Link, adult-Link must speak with the man in the windmill, who teaches adult-Link the Song of Storms that a kid used seven years ago to disrupt the windmill and drain the well, then Link goes back in time 7 years and, as kid-Link, plays the Song of Storms to disrupt the windmill and drain the well. What Link did as a result of going back to the past already happened.
I agree the narrative is cooler and such, but the story and how well built up it was, original elements of it, and how emotionally connected it was to the characters in botw makes its story much better. This game while still having original story reused a lot of the same elements while completely disregarding botw same elements jsut slightly changed
I absolutely adore how you've recreated each trailer in the intro using in-game shots - just goes to show how much has changed since early development! Excited to see part 3 with (hopefully) the most recent trailer
When I first played through the story of Tears of the Kingdom, one thing that struck me was how I could see parallels to the events that had occurred throughout the time of the pandemic. Rito -- Severe weather causing *shortages of basic necessities* Gorons -- A successful businessman with an ego like a *crypto-bro* propping up an ultimately *damaging drug-like product* Zora -- Sludge raining from the sky and severely harming the populace, almost *like the area was diseased* Gerudo -- Dangers outside, which means the people need to *shelter in place* I think a lot of this nuance will be lost over time, because the game is excellent regardless of the added context, but if the context remains, I think Tears of the Kingdom has the potential to be "timelessly of its time".
Zelda never got the chance to present Link with the new Champion's tunic. She notes that it was worn down over time and weathered from use. The one we see in the beginning of the game is the same one he wore 100 years ago when he fell during the calamity, mended by Impa, and presented to him during his fight against the calamity. Zelda notes in her diary that she was going to present Link with the new tunic after they finished exploring the tunnels beneath Hyrule Castle, so the one in the beginning of the game was the one worn during Breath of the Wild, the Champion's Leathers is the one that Zelda made after being freed from the Calamity.
Yeah that’s the kicker for me link is cannonicly in love with Zelda and it’s strongly implied link replicated those feelings between the games link lived with Zelda since she had to hide the tunic in the castle since he would find it and she built a well since she needed to be alone because someone else lived there so its cute that she makes gifts for him like a couple would
@@wiskerfall4519 I saw someone point out recently that there is precedent in this version of Hyrule for princesses to propose marriage by presenting a tunic as a gift.
@@MeTheOneth well I’m not so shure about that possibly basically what people pointed out is that mipha was in love with link but he never repacated like he did with zelda she made armor for link that was basically a wedding ring for Zora but was never able to give it to him. The same thing with zelda
A lot of people have noticed that zonai symbols were on the fused shadow, i think thats because in twilight princess, it says the spirits if light decended from the heavens and banished an evil, or the twili. So its possible that the zonai were the ones who banished the twilight and created the fused shadow. You may be thinking of the actual spirits of light in twilight princess, i think these are the spirtits of the zonai in animal form, which is actually not the first, kaepira gaebora from oot which is raurus spirit in the form of an animal,
My headcanon for Link getting Recall is that the specter Zelda in the Temple of Time was put there by Zelda herself moments before her transformation. She was confident in her time powers and left a "mini memory" like the dragon tears but less powerful. But the memory Zelda left was her promise to help Link in whatever way he needed. And much like the 5 other cutscenes with the other sages, Zelda brings link to the spiritual plane (foggy zen garden world) and promises herself to Link and the cause. I imagine she didn't say anything because her 'memory' ability wasn't perfected yet.
this series absolutely SLAPS, ever since TOTK I've been stuck in a rabbit hole of LoZ lore theory and explanation videos so thank you for feeding my hyperfixation
I always thought the extra statues in the depths resembled Mogmas. It made sense to me cuz their whole thing is to tunnel underground so why not be tied to the depths. Also TOTK seems to have a lot of connections to Skyward Sword.
Very neat that from Link's point of view, the Master Sword goes from hovering above the altar, right to the Light Dragon as it parts the cloud barrier.
In BotW you can see the Dragons crossing the sky barrier and underground barrier whenever you chip pieces off them. Which is pretty neat now that the barrier is more easily traversable in TotK, we actually know where they were going when they floated away.
i love how nintendo didn’t hide zelda’s story behind ganon as much because i really loved the separate timelines and the reveal of zelda being the light dragon was so cool and absolutely heartbreaking as well. i love this game series
i would love a retrospective of all the noteworthy theories you and other zeldatubers like nbc did about the zonai throughout the last 6 years and how accurate they were! the zonai being such a huge part of this game was an incredible thing to predict when all we knew in botw was the ruins
My theory is that the other Zora Domain is where all the Zora with the ray-heads come from. So like Muzu and Yona. And I hope that, IF we get a third (and final) instalment in this series, we'll get to see that domain.
I feel that the zonai came in many shapes and sizes like the hylians. The ancient hero was probably a rare type of zonai, and the ones below were probably the same. The miners gear looks like it would be a perfect fit for the ancient hero, especially the pants.
I’ve watched both videos in their entirety. You do a brilliant job of covering the games events. One thing that I noticed and am hoping for is that there will be a 3rd game. The game insists that there is land beyond Hyrule, like where Siddons wife comes from and also how Master Kogha defeats himself but like in BOTW we didn’t see him die, only vanish. Obviously we just got this master piece of a game and I’m sure we won’t get anything new for years to come, but if there is hope, that will make my days. Also side note, this is easily game of the year for me. 2+ weeks of playing I got my moneys worth of content and then some.
I can already tell this is going to be a great video! If you see this, I have a theory based on the timeline placement of these games, which will be below I have a theory that the Zelda timelines converges into some point, which causes the Zonai to eventually reform Hyrule, hundreds of thousands of years later. This would allow for the Rito and Zora to be in the same timeline. I believe that when the timelines converged, Hyrule was basically destroyed in some way, slowly being rebuilt by the different races until the Zonai descended from the Sky, explaining why Ganondorf disliked Rauru’s new rule. The reason the Triforce isn’t mentioned a whole lot is because it’s practically forgotten about after the timelines converge into one point. It is only really referred to as “Sacred Power” which only seems to imply that they know it’s from the Goddess. Another note about the Triforce, it appears on all of the Elemental attack power armour and also the rest of the Zonai clothes seen throughout the game. Another point I would like to make is the Forgotten Temple. In the Forgotten Temple, it is confirmed that the mother statue there is the one from Skyward Sword, because you gain the White Sword of the Sky after restoring the Goddess Statue. This also backs up the theory that the timelines converged and it was just hidden there up until Hyrule’s founding, because that’s where Rauru kept the secret stones. And here comes to the main part of my theory. I believe that the Zelda timeline is a reoccurring set of timelines expanding and converging. We can already see the timeline split in Age of Calamity, which could lead to future branches. The main icon of the game is a dragon eating another dragon, in a loop. Although this was likely referring to Zelda’s time travel shenanigans, I believe it also refers to the constant repetition of timeline expansion and convergence. Just a cycle that repeats over and over again. Overall, this is my main theory on how TOTK’s story fits into the timeline, as it doesn’t affect the other games and doesn’t start a completely new timeline. Another key point is Fi. Fi couldn’t possibly be in the Master Sword if the games lore took place before Skyward Sword. It is important to note that Fi reacts with Sacred Power, as you mentioned, which means it must have already been blessed by Hylia. Thanks for reading, and if you have any other thoughts or points to support or oppose this theory, leave them in the replies, I would love to hear what you have to say!
I actually love this theory, i think after botw people generally assumed it was at the end of the timeline, but with the zonai lore about the re-creation of hyrule as it were, it really gives legs to the idea of all the timelines being smashed together.
This theory is the only possible explanation that also covers the amiibo weapons/tunics, since those are now canon. The Goddess Sword still would not make sense though since it never existed outside of the Unified part of the timeline, and yknow, its the baby Master Sword. But I guess if two Master Swords exist at the same time...idk, this whole thing is hard to make sense of. I love the game's plot but the ambiguitiy makes it really hard to follow timeline-wise
@@Saben.C-Spoon It's possible that they could be forming additional Master Sword base forms as entire possible backups for if something completely destroyed the Master Sword beyond repair or it was somehow lost or occupied, since it would likely take a lot less power to recreate than an entire Master Sword replica and they could simply have the Dragons give sacred energy to evolve it into the Next Master Sword or use the Sacred Springs if that would ever be required, ancient backup plan possibly. If time travel wasn't an available option for a hero and somehow the Master Sword broke, or if previous Ganondorf incarnations who had the Master Sword plunged into them and it was left in place (WW for example) they'd need some alternative option while their previous Master Sword needed to recover in secret or stay to seal the last Ganondorf, it's possible that the Sheikah help with that to help explain it away as well, possibilities at least.
A reason why I knew early that the Zonai islands were over the sky barrier from SS is the light dragon. After getting the 4 shrines from the Great Sky Island, the light dragon opens a barrier in the clouds. If you compare that opening to the openings found in Skyward sword after placing a tablet, you'll see that they are very similar.
People in Hyrule can already see the sky islands before Link gets transported to the sky (cutscene of Ganon sending the castle skyward). There's no SS sky barrier in this game.
Quick head canon: Ganondorf's whole puppet zelda thing was supposed to really mentally screw with link and make him just give up with despair, but instead it just pissed him off that Ganon would dare sully Zelda's name/image and more him driven to fulfill his duty.
Gosh watching this feels like I'm playing the game again, your narration is always just an absolute treasure! I anxiously await for par 3 to come out when we get to see minoru and ganondorf be mentioned, I can't wait for this conclusion to unfold, everything you do zeltik is just an absolute thrill! ^^
It's interesting to notice how the story arch of their relationship involves holding each other hands. How link failed to grab her hand and she teleported, how she gave him the recall by holding his hand, how he saves her at the end by finally grabbing her hand and protecting her
Great video as always! I don’t know why but the statues with the frog-like heads from the depths remind me of the Mogma from Skyward Sword, primarily by the shape of the head and torso. Edit: The Mogma were miners in Skyward Sword. The only thing is that they are not mentioned in TotK and we have never seen them actually standing, the were always sitting in their holes in the ground.
I think that the first apparition of Zelda is not the doppelganger, but the light dragon making sure they don't search for her in the chastle ruins forever.
I cannot wait until part three where we get into truly some of the most awesome and beautiful parts of the story- I always love how Zeltik narrates it and I can’t wait to see how he puts it into words!!
1:00:46 Ganondorf shows the world as it was when he became the demon king during the king of lights rule, not before it, he had destroyed almost everything. It is why the king imparts the secret stones in the forgotten temple (far away from the great plateau) to then lure the demon king into a final fight in the area that would soon become hyrule castle.
This is so cool! Very well written (besides the couple of corrections for misspeech, but I understand you were pressured for time). I'm very much looking forward to part 3. But I still haven't finished the game due to external things. I'm not one to care about spoilers, so I might just watch it anyway. You're so good at what you do (as are a large handful of other creators) that I couldn't care less about spoilers. I just look forward to a good telling of a good story.
Not sure how you can make videos of such high quality so soon after the game's release, but we're very grateful. These last two videos finally convinced me to subscribe. Would love to hear your thoughts on the timeline placement! (I know, everyone is probably asking for this 😅)
What are your thoughts of the final boss level? Do you think Zelda's love for Link is what drove her Light Dragon's instinct to aid him in defeating Ganondorf? and do you notice a his boss theme that is similar to the one from Ocarina of Time?
The Statue of the fifth tribe reminds me of the Mogma from Skyward Sword - they have the pointed face and large upper body and arms for digging, they are connected to the underground because they hunt treasure in SW so technically what if they were there the entire time?
I think the sky islands' appearance is actually directly related to zelda going back in time, not to the castle being raised or the seal being broken; in the scene the moment ganondorf raises the castle, the sky is entirely empty. Then, Zelda falls and goes back in time, and the next immediate shot of the sky shows the sky islands suddenly there and bricks falling. I think Zelda's time travel created weird paradoxes and timey-wimey stuff
I need amnesia so I can play this again. After waiting so much time after BOtW, this was easily the most magical experience I’ve ever had playing a game. I was hypnotized. Can’t wait for the next one. :’)
I always love your videos! Though one thing, Link finds the diary that explained where his new armor was in Zelda's secret underground spot in the well, not in her house in Hateno. I know the well is next to her house, but I thought it was neat how she specifically made a secret place to go be alone and put her new diary.
This video was beyond excellent! I am so excited for PART III. I wonder if Rauru knew then that the dragon flying around the Great Sky Island was indeed Zelda.. 14:30
Thank you so much for these Videos! Your Storytelling is simply on another level and the fact that you explain every single little detail of the Story is just crazy and must be apprechiated. Thank you so much and keep up the insanely good work. Can‘t wait for part 3 to come out!
45:20 @Zeltik, I wish you mentioned the part of Tulin’s story when Teba passes the Great Eagle Bow onto his son. Speaking of Revali’s bow, when Link and Teba craft new replicas of the weapon, the new Great Eagle Bows lack the blue sash that the bow Tulin possesses.
To me, the Kingdom of hyrule seems to be a Tell, a mound that is made over many generations, building on top of already existing ruins, eventually making archeological layers.
I always look forward to your videos when they come out and when they go they always brighten up my day. Hey an idea for a video! A comparison video of everything that was added to TotK from previous games but wasn't in BotW. Like Gleeoks, Gibdos, Like Likes, etc. Also comparing them to what they were like before to how they are in TotK.
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Thanks for watching! I have to apologise, Part 3 will not be ready for another week. So stay tuned for the final episode on the 29th!
(Also just pretend I didn't say "Queen Gohma" at 55:35 😂)
I didn’t even noticed 😂
Just pretend that is its “lore accurate” name
(Also pretend that he didn't pronounce Colgera wrong)
Marbled gibdo moment
i also didnt notice i was too into playing totk while watching
I think Zelda passing on her recall ability is her adding her Sage's power to Link. It shares the same environment as the other sages, and it would make sense that her temple is the one of Time.
Yeah when she passed it to him it even left a “signature” like the others did on the hand
Actually the whole thing was like when the sages passed on their powers
I think the game confirms this upon completion too, when her sage symbol is added to the others on the loading screen.
Huh, nice catch!
it took me until my second playthrough to notice this detail, even the place where link receives recall is the exact same as where he meets the spirits of the ancient sages :)
I love how Zeltik talks about how extremely confused Link is after the Master Sword vanished while the quote used is "...?"
For Link that is extremely confused
@@Echo_the_half_glitch Exactly. He's such a chatterbox - as we all know - so for him to be moved to stunned silence must denote extreme confusion. :D
...okay, non-sarcastically, considering he's pretty much a total mute otherwise, him expressing a ? mark verbally could very well denote extreme confusion non-ironically.
When the sages parry Ganondorf’s gloom in the castle, I got so emotional I had to stop playing for a bit. It made me think of how lonely Link really was in Breath of the Wild. Hyrule was so empty, he had no memories of his life before the Calamity, and only a handful of people knew him. He was alone. Now, in Tears of the Kingdom, he has a life with Zelda, and friends, and the world is not as empty. He can count on helping hands.
That's what they went for in Twilight Princess, too. That moment in Hyrule castle where Link is about to mob deeped and all of sudden his friends show up. That was the first time we knew that Link was not alone in his struggles.
Link is the terminator. He doesn’t need friends. And he’ll be back.
Regardless of how strong you are, a helping hand should always be welcomed
You need help
@@ohnah6261 ok i’ll seek it out thank you for caring!
It’s pretty cool that both Zelda and link got their own story in this game.
Now we need is to have a playable Princess Zelda in and extended story to see more of the Imprisoning War for DLC.
And hopefully, Link and Zelda can stay together like they always do.
Their*
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It’s because you edited the comment. Editing a comment unpins it and removes a heart from it.
@@NotThatUser ye I’m sad now
@@a.jthomas6132 More than likely, anything about the Imprisoning War will be a Warriors spinoff that the marketing claims will show the Imprisoning War, but it will actually be about how a celery-shaped Zonai construct built by Zelda travels back in time and prevents the Imprisoning War from ever happening.
Notice that at the beginning of the game when Link first dives down to the sky islands, Zelda in her dragon form is always right nearby. Looking back at these small details makes me tear up man...a beautiful game, truly.
For any circumstances, she will always be his side. Maybe she still have little conscious or her her trapped inside a body of a dragon. Nintendo wont confirmed this but Link and Zelda are in a relationship
I ironically joked that the dragon we saw in the beginning was zelda. I was just being goofy but then after I found all the tears I was like "accidental physic"
Yep! She circles the islands until Link sends the master sword into the past and the clouds clear, and from then on she flies in a loose hourglass shape passing by every single Skyview Tower one by one - unaware of Link but willed to make herself as easy for him to reach as possible.
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Once you were done processing the trauma these poor babies have been put through, obviously
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Perhaps not fully aware of her hero, but certainly aware of the purpose she gave herself.
Zeltik ages like a fine wine, 8 years later and got better overtime
Just like meth
No, he ages like incredibly angry champagne.
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@@rohangardiner good one, Zapp.
Am curious to know, for anyone who has maybe done so, if recruiting the fifth Sage before going to the castle to meet Puppet "Zelda" changes the cutscene of the Sages coming to Link's rescue. I'm under the impression that this can be done fairly early on, so it should be possible to do so before the events at the castle.
I still like how when you look at how Ganondorf punishes the races of Hyrule it sort of mimics OOT. With the Zora, Rito, and Gerudo he all but starves them. With the brutal sandstorm the Gerudo can't really get supplies, especially with Gibdo lurking. The snowstorm in lower Hebra is intense it threatens the Rito with lack of food or eventually travel since they'd all just freeze to death, and the Zoro have their health threaten directly. They can't swim in the sludge, it poisons them, and their food supply.
But the Goron? They're industrucble rock men who are all incredibly powerful and already live in a place there's nearly unhabitable and that very land supplies them with food that can't be poisoned, destroyed, or seperated from them. So what does Ganondorf do? He gives them rocks so tasty they lose the will to do anything.
A small theory. Zeltik's video about "The Terrifying Powers of the Master Sword" mentions about, of course, how the Master Sword can harness different powers and elements. The shrines of TotK often say the line, "This shrine imprisons and purifies ancient evil." In the final battle against the Demon King, the revitalize Master Sword is able to reflect the waves of gloom sent out by Gandondorf, causing them to become blue and home onto Ganondorf, inflicting damage. Its imprisoning and purifying an ancient evil.
Wait I never saw the gloom get transformed in that fight, so you just slash at it? It never even occurred to me that that could work
Lol, you can actually slash them back? Nice. Never realized. And I fought Ganondorf 5 times by now, cause the fight is so cool.
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Also watching ppl reacting to it is.. interesting to say the least
It's interesting what we instinctively do in this game. Some, like me, never dove through Colgera (i used arrows only). I immediately thought OoT's "laser tennis" battle when I saw the gloom waves Ganondorf launched and I swung away.
How did I never think to volley them... They've been able to be swiped in every other game... Why didn't I think about that. Dammit! Lol
They really weren’t fucking around with Ganondorfs power. Man breaks the master sword, screws with the hero for a good majority of the game, and is never scared of him until the end of the game where he’s loosing, and even then, he seems so excited to finally fight someone that’s actually a match for him. Not just the sages hanging up on him, one guy is actually putting up a fight against him. He even says during the battle he had almost forgotten the thrills of battle, the blood rushing through his body. And he’s confused when he loses. Not mad, not angry. Just confused. This hero couldn’t even survive his Gloom, now he’s able to fight him.
Game devs really just said: “yeah but what if he was much stronger?”
I think this might be the strongest Ganon in the series, and the competition for that title is already pretty damn fierce-
Yeah he's op as fuck. I wish he played a more active role in the game though. I spent a slow 125 hours in the world, and Ganondorf was just chilling underground. Yeah there's the phantoms, but they are rare and I stopped being scared after slaying two of them.
@@ihatehandles69420well I mean recovering all your power from thousands of years of sealing in 125h is pretty damn nice from ganondorf (even if technically it's almost an in-game year)
@ihatehandles69420 me while casually torturing random Koroks: "hmm I wonder what Ganon is doing right now"
You forgot to mention that when he did break the master sword he was SEVERELY dehydrated and a fraction of the power he was endgame
I love how they gave kohagas music some spunk with a eletric guitar while he hurls at you with a monster truck
Shamisen player shredded so hard it turned into an electric guitar
One thing I find scary about this game's version of Phantom Ganon is that, even though it is completely loyal to its master as if it were a puppet, it clearly has a will of its own: it talks to people, it acknowledges Link as a potential threat even though Ganondorf is dismissive of him, and it sabotaging the different regions to give Ganondorf an advantage goes against Ganondorf's desire to win through overwhelming might.
It clearly has a will of its own, even if that will is simply to carry out Ganondorf's will, and it has all of Ganondorf's cunning with _none_ of his hubris. That is scary.
His own Chat GPT
The zelda (ganon) one right? I thought the same because in villages like with the sheikah village they say how zelda told them to avoid the ruins to not get hurt etc. Like besides the fact that Ganon doesn't want people interference or anything why give warning instead of just out right controlling or something.
@@YumiFireFox For all we know, all the Phantom Ganons in the game could be the same one, but yes; I am referring to the one that pretends to be Zelda; the one that has existed since before Ganondorf obtained the secret stone.
That's an interesting interpretation, i always assumed the phantom Ganons were direct extensions of Ganondorf, just like how in BOTW every malice eye and guardian is basically THE Calamity Ganon, this is supported by the fact that puppet Zelda is clearly controlled by Ganondorf, i also find the idea cool since it's like Ganondorf is able to be present in the surface even though he never actually leaves his cave. It would also be kinda odd if all the sage events were just made by his pets shaped after his image, that would mean that he spent the whole game doing literally nothing while his monsters do all the work on their own, which i don't think is the case, it's also implied by the name "puppet" they are controlled by him, they don't work on their own.
The Wind Temple was by far the standout part of the game. Tulin's both adorable and useful, the trip up to the ark is fun and impressive, and Colgera is the most fun of all the bosses.
The Gerudo section was by far the creepiest, most disturbing part of the main story for me.
Also the coolest, the Zora's is creepy as well, we never see if any Zora died because of the sludge, they said it blocked their gills, so they could die to it if it wasn't cleaned quickly enough
Going back to Gerudo, I loved seeing the Gibdo shrooms all over the desert with the sandstorm, it looked like something from a nightmare
Yea it almost scared me more than the hands, seeing gerudo town all empty with that creepy music playing and suddenly corpse like insects standing up and seemingly being hard to destroy
I find it funny that Yunobo became a drug lord for a couple of minutes in Goron City under the influence of marbled rock roast.
17:19 the fact that was Zelda’s sage room, but even though it all, Zelda’s heart reaches out to help Link, even as she sleeps
😮
43:40 Colgera's theme slaps so incredibly hard Link is lucky Ganondorf didn't persue a career in music.
I think that 5th race might've been something we haven't seen since Skyward Sword. the mogma, who were known for digging tunnels underground, and possibly the ones who made those statues. But that's just a theory I'm willing to put on the table.
I agree, that was the first thing that came to mind for me as well when I saw those status!
Oh my gosh that makes soooo much sense. Why did I not think of that?
I was thinking Mogma or whatever half-breed species shown by the Hero's Aspect
On my first playthrough I thought they were horriblins 😅
Yeah I thought mogma also.
I love that Zelda gives Link the power of Recall in the same way that the other sages give Link access to their Sage abilities. 16:50
The way Link reaches and holds her hand in this scene fills my Zelink heart.
This man has put every last ounce of lore into theses videos, wow
Master Khoga is such a funny antagonist. The whole time I was just waiting for the moment he defeated himself 😂
The Yiga Clan are clowns, and Kohga is the whole circus.
What is he more established than Ganondorf?
@@a.jthomas6132 not sure what you mean
@@a5c0 My only complaint about Ganondorf is that he doesn't have much or a background nor what motivates the formal king of the Gerudo in conquering Hyrule. Only thing I did notice are his surrogate mothers Koume and Kotake made brief appearances. We really need a dlc to explore his backstory.
I kinda want there to be another game just so we get to see him again.
Count me among the folks who wish they had made the Zora Waterworks the site of the Water Temple, instead of something in the sky. An underground cave system for one of the dungeons would have been amazing.
Fire Temple was underground.
@@anitamihholap5926it was technically in the depths, but I see your point
@@anitamihholap5926 Fire temple was in the depths, which isn't the same as an underground cave system on the surface.
I just wanted to mention something so Zelda is cannonicly in love with link this is confirmed via kass in btow “the princess love for her fallen knight awakens her power” and before this she “only had eyes for her own knight attendant” when she rejected a dude so she is in love with link romantically and especially in totk when she talks about link to raru and Sonya it sounds like she is describing her partner tbh but I digress. When this is put into context her sacrifice is absolutely heartbreaking i cryed my eyes out for at least a good 5 minutes after the cutscene Zelda was not only willing to sacrifice herself for link but also not know if she will ever see her love again. Totk is truly one of the most deeply romantic Zelda games in my opinion. And Zelda’s sacrifice for link is a proof of her faith and love for link and by extension her kingdom
People puzzle about the fact that Hyrule’s citizens do not recognize Link immediatly, and my theory is that they won’t recognize him without Zelda. They went everywhere together, never staying very long in one spot, and it’s difficult to place Link without her. Zelda is the most outgoing of the two, and Link is his silent and supporting boyfriend.
@@ccccc1332 I think that theory makes sense to an extent (although the sheer lack of people who recognize Link, especially in Hateno Village, is still overkill in my opinion and hard to justify).
To be honest though, I think the more likely reason is that developers just wanted to make the game approachable to newcomers. Letting too many NPCs acknowledge a backstory with Link likely would have complicated things. Not to mention it probably would have gotten tedious for every NPC Link walked up to to ask where he's been and what happened to Zelda.
A neat little detail I've noticed throughout my playthrough is that whenever a bloodmoon happends, you will hear a super depressed zelda talk about the bloodmoon. And when you defeat the puppet of ganondorf, this whole line is gone whenever a bloodmoon happends. It sends out a eerie chill but its a very nice detail.
It's cool to learn about the founding of this version of Hyrule in this game, but I would've loved to see even more about the Zonai, as the Zonai were already almost gone by the time of Hyrule's founding. I remember finding the glide trial islands and finding it cool that they were originally coming-of-age trials for young Zonai, and I would've loved to see more of the sky islands have history behind them.
It's the same hyrule
Will we ever learn why did they vanish in the first place?
I never noticed the Phantom Ganons are like the Sage's avatars. It makes so much sense. Your narration is incredibly fun to listen to, I look forward to the next part!
If one person has studied Zelda TotK, it's Zeltik😂
Can't imagine how long it's taken to create these amazing vids. Keep it up Zeltik!
"The legend of Zelda isn't a class!"
Zeltik: Studies it anyway
Other People: “It’s just a silly little game”
Zeltik: “Observe”
A small theory I have about the ancient Sages that fought with Rauru. I’m not sure if this has been mentioned yet (and maybe this was obvious to everyone but me), but I think the Divine Beasts are named after the ancient sages. Their names are never mentioned, and they’re always referred to as a “distant relative” or “ancestor” to the current Sages. On top of that, the masks match the faces of each of the Divine Beasts. So to me, the names of the sages are:
Wind Sage- “Medoh”
Fire Sage- “Rudania”
Water Sage- “Ruta”
Lightning Sage- “Naboris”
Just a thought. Excellent video as always Zeltik!
My thoughts exactly. If I remember correctly, if you beat thunderblight ganon in botw and urbosa speaks to vah naboris, she mentioned that the divine beast was named after somebody, though I don‘t completely remember what that name exactly was.
I'm pretty sure they're named after characters from previous games (at least a few of them are). And if the Calamity was a reoccurring event every 10,000 years, and the divine beasts were only made approximately 10,100 years ago, it's unlikely that they would have remembered the names of the ancient sages from tens of thousands of years before that... especially since there is no written accounts of their names, unlike Rauru and Sonia.
i can't watch this in full at the moment, but the sheer love and passion zeltik puts into every video is genuinely moving!! like, they're made with such attention to detail, such care, balancing humor and gravitas and earnestness - they're captivating, and heartrendingly authentic. i love them all so much!!
I just noticed that the Light Dragon is present at Link's first jump. She is in the sky near the Temple of Time. A neat little touch.
She stays around the temple of time, waiting for Link to be ready to descent 😭
Could those statues in the Depths possibly be referring to the Mogma from Skyward Sword? While they did have tails, the resemblance is uncanny; and a race slightly changing in its appearance wouldn't be a first. It would also make sense for them to aid the Zonai with the mining
probably but the fact that the depths are full of frog enemies and the fact that the yiga and the sheekah(?) love frogs supports more the theory that these are frog man statues
i get why you didnt deep dive into all the regional phenomena stories, because this vid would have to be 5 hrs long and they’re not all super related to the overall story, but sidon’s quest is particularly beautiful. you literally end up helping him resolve childhood trauma from when mipha died that is actively affecting his current relationship with yona. it’s a short quest but there actually is a lot of depth there if you look for it and have some understanding of how trauma works or even just mental health generally
I'm already looking forward to the special videos Zeltik will make about these side stories!
Yes, I absolutely love Sidon and Yona seems to have a kindred spirit to Mipha. I'm sure he loves that about her but also terrified of losing another beautiful soul he loves so much.
Sidon was the one who actually felt like a sage to me. He had personal growth and reflection and an actual character arc. Tulin at least learns how to accept help, I guess, and it's hard to have a long term character development in such a short lived species as the Rito, but...yunobo is just cursed and link fixes it, and Riju has no character development to speak of, the quest is all about saving the town. I loved reading the stones on the way up to Zora's domain. I did Zora first and was a little disappointed with the other three, they just felt like powerful individuals, champions maybe, but not actually *sages*.
The fifth sage is an entirely different situation and doesn't count for this discussion.
@dirtywhitellama I would argue that Riju’s character arc is working to learn how to control her powers and protect her people. Sort of trying to fill Urbosa’s shoes in a way.
Also, Sidon's musical theme is a straight up bop
Technically, the Lightning Temple is in design not a pyramid, but a ziggurat like the ones from the cities of Ur and Eridu. They are also found in Mesoamerica, mostly built by the Mayans and Aztecs. But ziggurats did not serve as tombs, more like personal temples for the city's patron god/goddess. This Temple seems to be a hybrid style of a pyramid and a ziggurat. The room that houses the secret stone proves the connection further. It is fairly disconnected from the rest of the Lightning Temple, located on the top floor, far more ornate than the any other room. This is very similar to ziggurats, where only priests and others highly respected by society were allowed in the structure on top, said to house the gods.
(P.S These are just my interpretations anyway.)
I legit didn't know all those details about ziggurats, and ya I can definitely see the connection.
This tops the story of Breath of The Wild by a landslide, this game's story is so incredibly well thought out. And the fact that Zelda herself effectively causes a bit of a Time Paradox by traveling back to the founding of Hyrule, becoming the Light Dragon with the Master Sword embedded in her head, while at the same time thousands of years later with the events of Breath of the Wild, 2 copies of both Zelda and the Master sword exist at the same time, completely without anyone knowing? It's all mind boggling!
It's called a closed time loop; essentially, her going into the past didn't change anything because she was always supposed to be there.
For a similar but smaller example, in Ocarina of Time, in order to gain access to the bottom of the well as kid-Link, adult-Link must speak with the man in the windmill, who teaches adult-Link the Song of Storms that a kid used seven years ago to disrupt the windmill and drain the well, then Link goes back in time 7 years and, as kid-Link, plays the Song of Storms to disrupt the windmill and drain the well. What Link did as a result of going back to the past already happened.
I agree the narrative is cooler and such, but the story and how well built up it was, original elements of it, and how emotionally connected it was to the characters in botw makes its story much better. This game while still having original story reused a lot of the same elements while completely disregarding botw same elements jsut slightly changed
I absolutely adore how you've recreated each trailer in the intro using in-game shots - just goes to show how much has changed since early development! Excited to see part 3 with (hopefully) the most recent trailer
Such an amazing story from both Link and Zelda’s perspective’s.
One of the best game’s I’ve ever played.
When I first played through the story of Tears of the Kingdom, one thing that struck me was how I could see parallels to the events that had occurred throughout the time of the pandemic.
Rito -- Severe weather causing *shortages of basic necessities*
Gorons -- A successful businessman with an ego like a *crypto-bro* propping up an ultimately *damaging drug-like product*
Zora -- Sludge raining from the sky and severely harming the populace, almost *like the area was diseased*
Gerudo -- Dangers outside, which means the people need to *shelter in place*
I think a lot of this nuance will be lost over time, because the game is excellent regardless of the added context, but if the context remains, I think Tears of the Kingdom has the potential to be "timelessly of its time".
Zelda never got the chance to present Link with the new Champion's tunic. She notes that it was worn down over time and weathered from use. The one we see in the beginning of the game is the same one he wore 100 years ago when he fell during the calamity, mended by Impa, and presented to him during his fight against the calamity. Zelda notes in her diary that she was going to present Link with the new tunic after they finished exploring the tunnels beneath Hyrule Castle, so the one in the beginning of the game was the one worn during Breath of the Wild, the Champion's Leathers is the one that Zelda made after being freed from the Calamity.
Yeah that’s the kicker for me link is cannonicly in love with Zelda and it’s strongly implied link replicated those feelings between the games link lived with Zelda since she had to hide the tunic in the castle since he would find it and she built a well since she needed to be alone because someone else lived there so its cute that she makes gifts for him like a couple would
@@wiskerfall4519 I saw someone point out recently that there is precedent in this version of Hyrule for princesses to propose marriage by presenting a tunic as a gift.
@@MeTheOneth well I’m not so shure about that possibly basically what people pointed out is that mipha was in love with link but he never repacated like he did with zelda she made armor for link that was basically a wedding ring for Zora but was never able to give it to him. The same thing with zelda
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She kept his damn hair tie in her personal space. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is
@@twilitlloyd7167 lamo true
A lot of people have noticed that zonai symbols were on the fused shadow, i think thats because in twilight princess, it says the spirits if light decended from the heavens and banished an evil, or the twili. So its possible that the zonai were the ones who banished the twilight and created the fused shadow. You may be thinking of the actual spirits of light in twilight princess, i think these are the spirtits of the zonai in animal form, which is actually not the first, kaepira gaebora from oot which is raurus spirit in the form of an animal,
My headcanon for Link getting Recall is that the specter Zelda in the Temple of Time was put there by Zelda herself moments before her transformation. She was confident in her time powers and left a "mini memory" like the dragon tears but less powerful. But the memory Zelda left was her promise to help Link in whatever way he needed. And much like the 5 other cutscenes with the other sages, Zelda brings link to the spiritual plane (foggy zen garden world) and promises herself to Link and the cause. I imagine she didn't say anything because her 'memory' ability wasn't perfected yet.
Can we agree that the whole wind temple segment was one of the top 3 moments in the entire game?
Now THESE are the kind of videos I strive to match one day. Documentary style videos are my absolute jam. Incredible stuff!
One of my favourite pieces of totk content to come out. The editing is amazing!
this series absolutely SLAPS, ever since TOTK I've been stuck in a rabbit hole of LoZ lore theory and explanation videos so thank you for feeding my hyperfixation
It’s crazy how soon Link sees the light dragon, without knowing anything. Beautiful.
I always thought the extra statues in the depths resembled Mogmas. It made sense to me cuz their whole thing is to tunnel underground so why not be tied to the depths. Also TOTK seems to have a lot of connections to Skyward Sword.
Very neat that from Link's point of view, the Master Sword goes from hovering above the altar, right to the Light Dragon as it parts the cloud barrier.
In BotW you can see the Dragons crossing the sky barrier and underground barrier whenever you chip pieces off them. Which is pretty neat now that the barrier is more easily traversable in TotK, we actually know where they were going when they floated away.
You did NOT need to go that hard with the E3 2021 trailer recreation at the start. Absolutely goated.
i love how nintendo didn’t hide zelda’s story behind ganon as much because i really loved the separate timelines and the reveal of zelda being the light dragon was so cool and absolutely heartbreaking as well. i love this game series
Zeltik never disappoints with his videos 👍
Whenever he uploads I just binge watch them until it ends and then I rewatch it
Your musical editing is so good. Great choices in tracks and timing. Thank you!
I think I'm ready to admit that this is my new favorite Zelda game, and possibly my favorite game of all time.
i would love a retrospective of all the noteworthy theories you and other zeldatubers like nbc did about the zonai throughout the last 6 years and how accurate they were! the zonai being such a huge part of this game was an incredible thing to predict when all we knew in botw was the ruins
My theory is that the other Zora Domain is where all the Zora with the ray-heads come from. So like Muzu and Yona. And I hope that, IF we get a third (and final) instalment in this series, we'll get to see that domain.
I feel that the zonai came in many shapes and sizes like the hylians. The ancient hero was probably a rare type of zonai, and the ones below were probably the same. The miners gear looks like it would be a perfect fit for the ancient hero, especially the pants.
I absolutely love how half of the Hateno quest is political drama and the other half is The Legend of Zoolander
I’ve watched both videos in their entirety. You do a brilliant job of covering the games events. One thing that I noticed and am hoping for is that there will be a 3rd game. The game insists that there is land beyond Hyrule, like where Siddons wife comes from and also how Master Kogha defeats himself but like in BOTW we didn’t see him die, only vanish. Obviously we just got this master piece of a game and I’m sure we won’t get anything new for years to come, but if there is hope, that will make my days. Also side note, this is easily game of the year for me. 2+ weeks of playing I got my moneys worth of content and then some.
Ahhh Colgera has such an amazing theme for the fight- love hearing it
“I’ve been looking forward to this.” -Count Dooku
OMG IT'S HERE I've been literally been looking forward to this for the past week! Super stoked to see it's finally here
I can already tell this is going to be a great video! If you see this, I have a theory based on the timeline placement of these games, which will be below
I have a theory that the Zelda timelines converges into some point, which causes the Zonai to eventually reform Hyrule, hundreds of thousands of years later. This would allow for the Rito and Zora to be in the same timeline. I believe that when the timelines converged, Hyrule was basically destroyed in some way, slowly being rebuilt by the different races until the Zonai descended from the Sky, explaining why Ganondorf disliked Rauru’s new rule.
The reason the Triforce isn’t mentioned a whole lot is because it’s practically forgotten about after the timelines converge into one point. It is only really referred to as “Sacred Power” which only seems to imply that they know it’s from the Goddess. Another note about the Triforce, it appears on all of the Elemental attack power armour and also the rest of the Zonai clothes seen throughout the game.
Another point I would like to make is the Forgotten Temple. In the Forgotten Temple, it is confirmed that the mother statue there is the one from Skyward Sword, because you gain the White Sword of the Sky after restoring the Goddess Statue. This also backs up the theory that the timelines converged and it was just hidden there up until Hyrule’s founding, because that’s where Rauru kept the secret stones.
And here comes to the main part of my theory. I believe that the Zelda timeline is a reoccurring set of timelines expanding and converging. We can already see the timeline split in Age of Calamity, which could lead to future branches.
The main icon of the game is a dragon eating another dragon, in a loop. Although this was likely referring to Zelda’s time travel shenanigans, I believe it also refers to the constant repetition of timeline expansion and convergence. Just a cycle that repeats over and over again.
Overall, this is my main theory on how TOTK’s story fits into the timeline, as it doesn’t affect the other games and doesn’t start a completely new timeline.
Another key point is Fi. Fi couldn’t possibly be in the Master Sword if the games lore took place before Skyward Sword. It is important to note that Fi reacts with Sacred Power, as you mentioned, which means it must have already been blessed by Hylia.
Thanks for reading, and if you have any other thoughts or points to support or oppose this theory, leave them in the replies, I would love to hear what you have to say!
I just think it's a reboot.
I don’t think this is a prequel to Skyward sword- those are just theories
I actually love this theory, i think after botw people generally assumed it was at the end of the timeline, but with the zonai lore about the re-creation of hyrule as it were, it really gives legs to the idea of all the timelines being smashed together.
This theory is the only possible explanation that also covers the amiibo weapons/tunics, since those are now canon. The Goddess Sword still would not make sense though since it never existed outside of the Unified part of the timeline, and yknow, its the baby Master Sword. But I guess if two Master Swords exist at the same time...idk, this whole thing is hard to make sense of. I love the game's plot but the ambiguitiy makes it really hard to follow timeline-wise
@@Saben.C-Spoon It's possible that they could be forming additional Master Sword base forms as entire possible backups for if something completely destroyed the Master Sword beyond repair or it was somehow lost or occupied, since it would likely take a lot less power to recreate than an entire Master Sword replica and they could simply have the Dragons give sacred energy to evolve it into the Next Master Sword or use the Sacred Springs if that would ever be required, ancient backup plan possibly.
If time travel wasn't an available option for a hero and somehow the Master Sword broke, or if previous Ganondorf incarnations who had the Master Sword plunged into them and it was left in place (WW for example) they'd need some alternative option while their previous Master Sword needed to recover in secret or stay to seal the last Ganondorf, it's possible that the Sheikah help with that to help explain it away as well, possibilities at least.
Zeltik, top quality as always. I love how you connect so many dots that are understated in the game. Thanks for all you do!
dude props good sir for recreating one of the trailers with actual gameplay and cutscenes well done 👍👏
Listening to these videos have made me realize how much information I missed while I played.
A reason why I knew early that the Zonai islands were over the sky barrier from SS is the light dragon. After getting the 4 shrines from the Great Sky Island, the light dragon opens a barrier in the clouds. If you compare that opening to the openings found in Skyward sword after placing a tablet, you'll see that they are very similar.
People in Hyrule can already see the sky islands before Link gets transported to the sky (cutscene of Ganon sending the castle skyward). There's no SS sky barrier in this game.
Quick head canon: Ganondorf's whole puppet zelda thing was supposed to really mentally screw with link and make him just give up with despair, but instead it just pissed him off that Ganon would dare sully Zelda's name/image and more him driven to fulfill his duty.
Gosh watching this feels like I'm playing the game again, your narration is always just an absolute treasure!
I anxiously await for par 3 to come out when we get to see minoru and ganondorf be mentioned, I can't wait for this conclusion to unfold, everything you do zeltik is just an absolute thrill! ^^
I really love that you recreated the sequel to BOTW trailer from e3 2021, but final product addition.
It's interesting to notice how the story arch of their relationship involves holding each other hands. How link failed to grab her hand and she teleported, how she gave him the recall by holding his hand, how he saves her at the end by finally grabbing her hand and protecting her
Tears Of The Kingdom was a blessing. This game made me wanting more.
Great video as always!
I don’t know why but the statues with the frog-like heads from the depths remind me of the Mogma from Skyward Sword, primarily by the shape of the head and torso.
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The Mogma were miners in Skyward Sword. The only thing is that they are not mentioned in TotK and we have never seen them actually standing, the were always sitting in their holes in the ground.
Cheers for another incredibly well put video. The production quality on these is insanely unmatched
I think that the first apparition of Zelda is not the doppelganger, but the light dragon making sure they don't search for her in the chastle ruins forever.
I love the way you story tell and I love how you put these together. Great job, I appreciate your hard work :)
Looking forward to part 3, thank you Zeltik!
you can tell the video is gonna be good when it starts like a movie
I cannot wait until part three where we get into truly some of the most awesome and beautiful parts of the story- I always love how Zeltik narrates it and I can’t wait to see how he puts it into words!!
1:00:46 Ganondorf shows the world as it was when he became the demon king during the king of lights rule, not before it, he had destroyed almost everything. It is why the king imparts the secret stones in the forgotten temple (far away from the great plateau) to then lure the demon king into a final fight in the area that would soon become hyrule castle.
These videos really have been a blessing since I never got the hang of Ultrahand. Thank you.
This is so cool! Very well written (besides the couple of corrections for misspeech, but I understand you were pressured for time). I'm very much looking forward to part 3. But I still haven't finished the game due to external things. I'm not one to care about spoilers, so I might just watch it anyway. You're so good at what you do (as are a large handful of other creators) that I couldn't care less about spoilers. I just look forward to a good telling of a good story.
Great video. I’m a little surprised that there’s going to be another part to this.
Not sure how you can make videos of such high quality so soon after the game's release, but we're very grateful. These last two videos finally convinced me to subscribe. Would love to hear your thoughts on the timeline placement! (I know, everyone is probably asking for this 😅)
8:46 has the Light Dragon, what an opening shot!
He's delayed it once again to August 2nd due to his sickness we have to wait even longer
i just saw pt 1 randomly in my timeline and luckily pt2 just came out like 4 hrs earlier. great work
Man, I can’t believe this story is going to be adapted into a THREE PART series!
It’s just magical how much content Zeltik is finding in this story.
I just finished tears of the kingdom so now I can watch your videos again.
What are your thoughts of the final boss level? Do you think Zelda's love for Link is what drove her Light Dragon's instinct to aid him in defeating Ganondorf? and do you notice a his boss theme that is similar to the one from Ocarina of Time?
The Statue of the fifth tribe reminds me of the Mogma from Skyward Sword - they have the pointed face and large upper body and arms for digging, they are connected to the underground because they hunt treasure in SW so technically what if they were there the entire time?
I think the sky islands' appearance is actually directly related to zelda going back in time, not to the castle being raised or the seal being broken; in the scene the moment ganondorf raises the castle, the sky is entirely empty. Then, Zelda falls and goes back in time, and the next immediate shot of the sky shows the sky islands suddenly there and bricks falling. I think Zelda's time travel created weird paradoxes and timey-wimey stuff
I need amnesia so I can play this again. After waiting so much time after BOtW, this was easily the most magical experience I’ve ever had playing a game. I was hypnotized. Can’t wait for the next one. :’)
I always love your videos! Though one thing, Link finds the diary that explained where his new armor was in Zelda's secret underground spot in the well, not in her house in Hateno. I know the well is next to her house, but I thought it was neat how she specifically made a secret place to go be alone and put her new diary.
This video was beyond excellent! I am so excited for PART III.
I wonder if Rauru knew then that the dragon flying around the Great Sky Island was indeed Zelda.. 14:30
55:36 Queen Gibdo** great video love the work
Whoops! You know what I meant 😅
Your 3 parter represents the triforce part 1 is wisdom part 2 is courage and part 3 will be power
Thank you so much for these Videos! Your Storytelling is simply on another level and the fact that you explain every single little detail of the Story is just crazy and must be apprechiated. Thank you so much and keep up the insanely good work. Can‘t wait for part 3 to come out!
45:20 @Zeltik, I wish you mentioned the part of Tulin’s story when Teba passes the Great Eagle Bow onto his son.
Speaking of Revali’s bow, when Link and Teba craft new replicas of the weapon, the new Great Eagle Bows lack the blue sash that the bow Tulin possesses.
To me, the Kingdom of hyrule seems to be a Tell, a mound that is made over many generations, building on top of already existing ruins, eventually making archeological layers.
I always look forward to your videos when they come out and when they go they always brighten up my day.
Hey an idea for a video! A comparison video of everything that was added to TotK from previous games but wasn't in BotW. Like Gleeoks, Gibdos, Like Likes, etc. Also comparing them to what they were like before to how they are in TotK.