i think my favorite secret is how the zonai based their technology in the frox and the smaller ones that eat brightbloom seeds, they aren't mosnters made by ganon and they drop zonaite so they are "normal" animals and they also have the 3 eyelashes exaclty like the zonai and sheikha logo, this is why all the enemies in the depths drop zonaite since there aren't any other animal to eat (stall monsters also drop zonaite but i think its just because of gameplay reasons)
I think that the reason that the dark clumps pulsate is because the dark clumps are actually the pieces of flesh that ganondorf used to create the phantom ganons
5:08 fun fact, those are stylized Kanji. On each secret stone they say the Kanji of their element. Sage of Water: Water (水) Sage of Fire: Fire (火) Sage of Lightning: Lightning (雷) Sage of Wind: Wind (風) Mineru: Spirit (気) Rauru: Light (光) Zelda and Sonia: Time (時) Ganondorf: Darkness (闇)
@@a.jthomas6132 no, as stated in game, a secret stone only amplifies the prominent power. Zelda's secret stone amplifies her time power, and at the beginning of the game when we get recall, in the background, the Kanji for time is the only one that appears. This was because she is the sage of time, it also explains why it was so difficult for her to unlock her sealing powers (aka her light powers) in botw.
@@Ashley_Graves_1 Her sealing powers is unlocked by her stronger motive such as protecting the ones Zelda holds dear. In her case, her love to Link. Not a friendship love like her late Champions of Hyrule. But rather a romantic love.
@@a.jthomas6132@a.jthomas6132 At the secret ending in BOTW after unlocking all memories, she states that her sacred power has dwindled due to fighting ganon for the past 100 years. So apparently Zelda just has less light than time?
Fi's theme is even more apparent in the extended version of the cutscene that you get as the final geoplyph. It's funny because it also plays in the final memory of BOTW at Fort Hateno when Link is defeated and Fi tells Zelda that he can be saved.
I wonder if the koroks are programmed to react that way to anything that can be construed as an enemy? Just a guess, but maybe since blupees can take damage, they are classified as an enemy.
A fun-fact about the Plains Bargainer Statue, spoilers ahead: It’s partially buried underground, and while it does not correspond to a Goddess Statue on the surface, it corresponds to the statue found in the Great Sky Island Temple of Time - when it was raised into the sky, perhaps it messed the aforementioned Bargainer Statue.
I'm nice little detail I found but I haven't confirmed if it is true for all of them yet is that if the goddess statue on the surface looks one direction, bargainer statue underground looks in the near opposite direction. I've found that for the great plateau while the goddess statue looks northeast, the bargainer statue looks southwest. The Forgotten Temple Goddess looks south, while its Bargainer looks north. The Spring of Courage Goddess looks to the south while the Wellspring of Courage Bargainer looks north. The Spring of Wisdom Goddess looks to the east while the Wellspring of Wisdom Bargainer looks to the west. I have not confirmed if this is true for every pair of statues, but it is a very strange coincidence.
Neat! You basically got 'em all already! I think the only pair unmentioned would be the Hylia statue on the Great Sky Island and the mini bargainer at Lookout Landing.
The dark clumps reminds me of Jason Goes to Hell. Jason gets blown up early in the movie, but his heart is left intact. Later on, when studying Jason's remains, his heart starts beating. The scientist can't resist getting closer and gives into biting into the heart, thus becoming possessed by Jason. Pretty creepy scene.
What about Ganondorf’s surrogate mothers Kotake and Koume? I had that suspicions of their whereabouts since I first the two Golden Masked Gerudos in the brief moments in the memories and the names are written in every Gloom Weapons. It’s a shame that we will never get to have this version of Twinrova for DLC due to the cancellation. Thus, explore more of Ganondorf’s origin of how he rose to become the Gerudo King, his aunts taught him the arts of dark magic and military strategies, what drove him to conquering Hyrule, and Nabooru defects her power-hungry tyrant in becoming the Ancient Sage of Lightning. So many wasted opportunities Nintendo could’ve considered doing in the Zelda franchise.
Pivot to AoC getting DLC of the Sealing War instead; alts for the champions, playable Mineru and Rauru, Gleeok and Frox as Bosses, a few new maps. Of course also giving us more on the events of that time with also having Twinrova and Demon King Ganondorf as Bosses, maybe playable along with Astor (he was faithful but also betrayed, Astor reveals the path to Ganondorf kicking off the events)
@@Ahourowe don’t know if there’s no naboris, as we don’t know the names of the ancient sages that adorn the divine beast helms. although we originally thought the beasts were named after previous sages like nabooru, many are now theorising that they were actually named after the ancient sages from totk, assuming the share names! but of course, nothings confirmed 🙃
Makes me curious why Fi talks to Zelda but not Link, Fi did in Skyward Sword but not BotW and TotK I realized she may of been asleep the entire time through each timeline before converging into the single point of all three when it came to BotW, and I think it has something to do with the Triforce. Link in BotW after being badly wounded couldn't move and Fi having woken up had just gathered the information when Zelda touched the blade, perhaps being a Servant of the Goddess and recognizing the Triforce that had been in Zelda may of woken her up and soon told Zelda what to do, and you only get to see this again in TotK when Link sends the Master Sword back in time to Zelda and Fi could have told her that "Link is finally awaken, even though weakened he will come for me so now it's your turn." Hinting at there is something Special about this Zelda than any other. I say this cause only one Link and/or Spirit of the Hero has ever spoken to Fi while in the sword form, so the end of the chaotic three split timeline Fi finally wakes up again unsure what all has transpired, and feeling the Time/Light magic within Zelda's possession (Perhaps even the Triforce helped play a part in it.) Fi knew that Zelda is the only one who could fix her and did just that. Could Fi have been stretched thin due to the three timeline's? Where each Master Sword of that time had been given power but with how stretched through time Fi is she never did wake up for each Hero and once those timeline's converge she had all her power back she only spoke to Zelda due to the similar power they both possess? Fi aka the Master Sword is a ship or an anchor in time that expels Darkness through the light of the blade, as TotK Zelda possesses Time/Light Magic? Is there something more or is it just they have the same power? Hmm makes you wonder doesn't it?
2:06 what I caught was the triumphant theme that plays after link gets the master sword in several games, sped up and toned down. It’s most present at the beginning, but slightly present throughout.
Adding on to the fi reference, if you listen closely in most master-sword related cutscenes you can hear a version of her broken down theme, similar to how u can hear it in the scene you mentioned
There are other questions like ‘What is the Gerudo’s way of life is like in the distant past’, ‘Who this version of Ganondorf is before he becomes the Gerudo King’, ‘Why isn’t Twinrova in the game if Kotake and Koume is briefly shown/their names written in the gloom weapons’, ‘Was the Sheikah have been established after the Imprisoning War, then use the eye tear drop as their symbol in honoring King Rauru’, ‘were there other regions outside of Hyrule’, 'were the Divine Beast are build in honoring the Ancient Sages', and ‘are there other zonai race besides Rauru and Mineru’ that could of been added to this video.
The sheikah was established before the imprisoning war, the Sheikah eye predates Skyward sword and the meaning of the Sheikah eye is said to be "The eye is open wide to seek the truth, while the teardrop represents the willingness of the tribe to go to any lengths to achieve a goal".
The Fi thing was good. The music was interesting. But they definitely wanted to draw attention to Fi with the sword sound effect and glowing. Glad they did. Nice bit of continuity.
Some details I noticed are: - the belt buckle on the zonaite set has 3 different faces, maybe an owl 🦉 a pig 🐖 & a dragon 🐉 to symbolize wisdom power & courage - all 3 dragons 🐉 are female, as we learn in certain side quests - under 1 captain in thyphlo ruins is a pedestal like what the sages have. But it doesnt seem to open
The Deadman's Volley in Tears of the Kingdom also only works with the Master Sword, every other weapon gets so much decayed by Gloom that they break inmediately
They should have also made it work with joke weapons ( farm equipments) to call back to the Dead Man Volley of A Link To The Past where you could use the Catching Net to reflect the ball or the empty bottles in OoT.
@@Hyrule-Postman Wouldnt be very Lore Acurate though since this is no Energy Ball like in every other game, this is high concentrated acid that tears through Flesh, Wood, Rock, Metal and so on, even the Bones and Bodyparts of Ganondorfs own Minor Demons break easily against it and they are actually able to be fueled by Gloom, the only thing that can resist it is the Purified Master Sword Why should a Mop make an exception?
This is the second Zelda to use time manipulation and era knowledge to help present (current) Link fight against the major evil. The first being SS Zelda who was the reincarnation of Hylia and her past self creating the original Master Sword. All the planning that the two different Zeldas did shows how inquisitive and clever they are when they want to fight against evil in their own ways. I forgot to mention, just like when there was a short reference to SS, TP and OoT in BotW, there were subtle references to OoT and SS in the cutscenes (three of them: the throne room scene and the Master Sword through time scenes).
All the Sages' seals resemble the Sheikah eye. Obviously this Hyrule isn't the first (as seen by Ganondorf's Gerudo having post-OoT characteristics), so the Sheikah predate the Zonai, but you have to wonder just how involved the Sheikah were with the Zonai and the Secret Stones they descended with.
@@krishnamckay3247 I believe post-Oot characteristics of Gerudo refers to their ear-shape. In OoT, all Gerudo have round ears. In BotW and TotK, they have pointed ears like Hylians. In the Creating a Champion book, Nintendo claims this is due to the Gerudo bloodline being mixed with more and more Hylian blood. This explaination is either retconned by TotK or implies that Rauru's Hyrule is after OoT since the Ancient Gerudo have pointed ears already. You could speculate a couple more options, but these are the two options that fit the currently known evidence. Of the two possibilities, it seems much more likely that Nintendo just forgot that detail when designing the Ancient Gerudo since it was never explicitly in-game only in a book. (Since the canonical nature of the books always being in flux and Nintendo has rewritten book info before, makes this the simpler explanation.)
See, considering that Hylia was considered a goddess and she was able to raise Skyloft... I started to wonder if the implication is that Hylia was Zonai. Demise mentions preferring the look of her divine form, which suggests Hylia looked significantly different from SS Zelda. We never really got an explanation of what kind of goddess Hylia was. Like where she came from and how she differed from the Golden Goddesses. TotK suggests the possibility like with the Zonai that she wasn't really a goddess but instead a Zonai or at the least in possession of a Zonai Secret Stone (since it appears that maybe like Ganondorf's transformation to Demon Lord, it may be possible to transform into an augmented form). We also have stories of a Zonai falling to land and being mistaken for a god by the Rito which suggests that maybe the same thing happened to Hylia. Finally, the Shiekah have used the teared eye symbol since the time of the goddess. And part of it's symbolism is said in OoT to be the tears the Shiekah shed doing the necessary evils to protect the royal family. Knowing that this symbol predates the royal family, we know that the Shiekah are really serving the bloodline of the goddess. So the eye symbol has some connection to Hylia. If she were Zonai then the eye symbol was the symbol of her people (and their literal third eyes) and the Shiekah adopted it and added the tear to symbolize their devotion to the goddess. It would fit a lot of the details while answering a few questions.
@@krishnamckay3247 yes, as mentioned, Gerudo in and before Ocarina of Time had yellow eyes and round ears. This slowly changed over the generations of Hylian fathers to become green eyes and pointed ears, and all Gerudo except Ganondorf himself had these during the Zonai era.
6:43 So about that... Ocarina of Time, you say? He may have done it, but there's someone who came in a game before him that did it first. Differently, but first nevertheless...Agahnim from A Link to the Past. There was no repeated back and forth, you simply had to smack the right shot back at him. BUT!! You could, in hilarious fashion, use the net to smack the shots back at him if you wanted to.
Dead man's volley also shows up when fighting any Phantom Ganon outside of TotK. In WW for example. In fact, this is one of the reasons I think that Agahnim is a Phantom Ganon.
1. Fi’s theme being “broken down” in that cutscene is pretty fitting. I mean, the blade is literally broken, so… 3. Maybe the bluepees have their own warp abilities. And they auto-warp back to Bluepee Burrow when they’re done with their missions.
Blupees are definitely from the underground. Look at their horns, they match the aesthetic of many plants and creatures found in the depths. They glow because it helps them see, but they’re vulnerable to predators in the dark, so Satori led his kind in an escape to the over world, where they could live tranquil and undisturbed for eternity.
I don't know if this counts, but every point in the depths you can use to ascend to the surface is important to either the story, side quests, or the map. There are ascend points at each corner of the map, one slightly askew, a few tied to certain side quests/stories, and others are within viewing distance of some geoglyphs. Three of the corners also overlap with side quests, with them involving the giant skeletons, freeing a village from monsters, and being part of a multi-step quest for an armor set.
If the burrow is where the blupees pop away to, then that could lead to an infernal connection. Many depictions of infernal creatures return to their underground or underworld “home/spawning ground” like areas. This could also imply that the bubbulfrogs could actually be a different type of infernal creature under the same demon. That would mean that the “Lord of The Mountain” isn’t actually a benevolent spirit but more of a malicious one.
I cant wait to look for the pulsating clumps, man the detail in this game is mind blowing. I found something today i haven't heard about anywhere in the zelda community. You can take photo's of your sages weapons and use in your compendium. I also saw a double rainbow, and i think that is a first over the 2 games
The tennis is also in Twilight Princess. Granted, it’s while fighting Puppet Zelda and not Ganondorf proper, but still there. Though I do wish there was a way to use a bottle in TotK. Fighting Ganondorf with ridiculous items is just a part of Zelda.
Y’know how you cant get as much hearts from the start of the game than the actual gameplay? I think the reason to that is because of: 1, at the start of the game, ganon infects link with gloom, and 2, you can unlock hearts by doing quests, so even if you might have done every dungeon and done every shrine for hearts, you could still obtain hearts from quests, for example: the quest where you have to find every single eye of the colossal gloom statue (or whatever it’s called, idk)
Well with all shrines done and that quest the max hearts with max stamina is 38, though the maximum if you take away from stamina is 40, in the start of the game you have max life according to BotW which is 30, so after all the shrines you actually have more hearts, it is just displayed differently.
Breath of the Wild also has that blue master sword effect when Zelda saved Link from guardians. Zelda then brought the Master Sword to Lost Woods to recover guarded by the Deku Tree.
Ganondorf actually gets his own symbol when he steals a stone. That's more clear in the final battle. His actually means "darkness," so it's as if he became the sage of darkness I did notice that dark clumps pulsate. I was wondering why. I noticed now tho that some paper is tied around them. It's similar to the papers that appear when yiga teleport. & the design on them is the same as what's on depths set
I noticed the "sage's symbols" immediately. They first appeared on the pins from the collectors' edition. Tulin's looks like the kanji for "wind", Yunbo's like the kanji for "fire", Sidon's like the kanji for "water", Rijus' looks like "lightning", Mineru's like "spirit", and the one on Zelda's stone like "time". These symbols also appear on Link's arm whenever he obtaints the sages' power. :)
1:11 perhaps not true, Nintendo announced that the entire game, including the past to which Zelda traveled to, happens way in the future of all the other Zelda games. Basically that Hyrule could have been founded twice.
..... the Fi sfx is all you need to know, the theme remix is great, that I didn't notice. But her SFX is the main give away she's always been there, in every adventure, in some cases being used to just break pots.....
1:11 No and no. We haven’t explored anything between the First Calamity and BotW, and Zelda is in the era right AFTER Hyrule’s founding. Plus the other games are in an alternate timeline
HG, love your content first off. Second the symbols for the sages on their respective stones and in those cutscenes are actually stylized kanji. Water (Sidon) Fire (Yunobo) Wind (Tulin) Lightening (Riju) and Spirit (Mineru) Also I just saw another comment saying the same thing, oops. But at least you know it's the truth and that more than one person knows.
@@HyruleGamer You're welcome. I spent much of Junior high studying Japanese history, culture and yes their letter system from the books that I could find in the school library. I'm surprised any of it really stuck.
In basically every stream I saw of the Demon King fight, I never saw anyone even try to reflect the shots with the sword. Me personally, my instant reaction to seeing the attack was to try to hit them back. ESPECIALLY after the attack where they surround you in a circle. It just made sense.
That would've been rad to stumble upon one of those abominations in the Depths... a giant ball of fur bound up in chains with multiple tentacles coming off of it akin to the guardians, and several of these gloom/malice eyes all around its body, coming towards you in the dark while screeching. Remember one of the Twilight Princess trailers that saw a giant one-eyed Spider coming after Link in a tunnel? Yeah, I want that kind of nightmare in a future Zelda game. *muahahaha
The shred of fabric on the Dark Clumps looks pretty much exactly like that on the front of the Depths clothes set... which resembles the Poe Dealers...
Your first secret, about Fi's musical motif, is off. Fi's motif isn't present at all in the Master Sword sequence. Yes, the sound she makes is there, but not her musical motif. It doesn't just sound different, it completely _is_ different. If two songs are completely different, they're not the same.
The first time I got those sage cutscenes. I was like "woah why tf is they a Shiekah eye symbol in the fog?" Then over time you realize the Shiekah obviously got their eye symbol FROM the Zonai. Dope.
What if... and hear me out. What if Botw and Totk are precursors to the ENTIRE timeline? What made me think of this was the thought that the Secret Stones, and/or the Bargainer Statues kinda made me think of Gossip Stones. I haven't delved much into this, though.😅
I hate non-music people claiming they have found musical secrets while in fact they are wrong. Though Fi's theme did appear a few times in Master Sword-related cutscenes in this game, the sword "going back in time" song has nothing to do with it. It's essentially two neighboring major seventh chords that appear frequently in the Zonai shrine music. Come on man, get it right.
SPOILERS I'm not sure if it was simply a flourish of character display but I was a bit curios.about Purah's comments regarding the sky islands in the post-credit scene at end of TOTK. Some of the information I'm about to share with you lead me to a.question IS THERE A CONTROL MECHANISM FOR A SKY ISLAND PRESENT ON THE SURFACE WORLD? Has anyone done the Lanayru Promenade shine crystal fetch? In the cave 'system' where you find the crystal you see 3 (and then 6 once you've blasted the obstructing blue rocks) pokey gray metal?/stone? columns about link's size. These being present on the land was kind of a.surprise for me. You see several throughout shrine-crystal fetch quests but ONLY ON SKY ISLANDS. And from what i remember you only ever see 3 of these 'pokeys'. Presumably there are 3 others present but they are somehow obscured by rock (I'm going to put that in my 'Hypothesiss to Test' rolodex as it is possible that only 3 are required PER unit of maximal anti-gravitation force) You'll notice a small circular platform in front of each pokey. It seem to be the EXACT SIZE AS A BASIC ZONAI SHIELD. ALL of us have noticed the upside-down antennae(hereby tennae-a) looking thing at the bottom of the major sky island for that region. (SW fans might associate this with a one-armed Luke Skywalker) I'm only guessing that this tennae-a IS or IS CONNECTED TO a control mechanism for that anti-gravity for the major island and its still-suppprted detritus. Just by looking at the circular platforms in front of the pokeys you can tell they're not in-game intractable BUT JUST IMAGINE IF THERE WAS SOME TRICK INVOLVING FUSE, ZONAI SHIELD, and a ZONAI CONTROL STICK to manipulate the anti-gravity force used to suspend the islands? I'd love to summon all 5 sages, get out. A stick and watch all five other sages grab the remai ing stick and be awarded a surprise.cut-scene ofthe Promenade raising out of the ground like Hyrule.Castle. And what if there was a Temple of Time shaped hole in the ground? What is the mystery as to why pokeyz are present behind the Lanayru Promenade Waterfall? Oh and I've never played BOTW. I know it's a contrivance of convenience (for aleviating climbing burdens by making a surface to use Ascend) but is there an ACTUAL in-lore explanation as to why you always see these rocks sorta growing outta the side of mountains and HIGH above the ground? Does it have anything to do with anti-gravitational properties (akin to ferric magnetism)? And a further observation about the Lanayru Promenade: it is the only place you see the squiggly rock under water. It is perhaps the only squiggly rock whose surface tangent is NOT ORTHOGONAL TO THE FORCE OF GRAVITY(well except for the tippy tops and some juts and cleaves but you understand the description). Oh! By 'squiggly rock' I mean those with straight lines that in them that branch off in right angle sometimes connected together like a node structure. I guess that Dickensian description will make my comment inclusive to blind gamers.
Good vid geeza, on your next play through remember the best weapon against the darkness is the master sword all Gannon's are piss weak + savage x5 lynel bow + Gibson bones or dragon shards don't go astray 😉 .....mad lad
If Fi could come out of the Master Sword again, I wonder if she would have a different outfit since the Master Sword is re-designed at the end of TotK.
I didnt hear fis theme at all. But i heard it when link is about to draw the sword a few moments earlier. Like its in the same scene but just a bit earlier. Btw i like your dialect, where is the dialect from?
Only the master sword can turn back Ganondorf's magic, I've tried every weapon and only the master sword works. Also any magic attack of his can be reversed, just not the demon dragons, it's to powerful.
@@HyruleGamer they are connected (Ganons secret stone power is darkness), just probably not the exact same thing. It's possible Malice/Gloom is the power of darkness strengthened and combined with extreme hatred. It's also possible that not all of the gloom in the depths are is Ganons, some may be from the poes
