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We got hints in the original games, but these cutscenes truly capture just how much the Blights were purposefully designed by Ganon to take out each Champion: - Waterblight could freeze the water in the room, limiting Mipha's movements (and perhaps prevent her from healing) - Fireblight had sheer power to overwhelm Daruk's protection - Windblight controlled the air rendering Revali's arrows useless - Thunderblight's sneaky and evasive tactics perfectly countered Urbosa's warrior fighting style It's no wonder each of them fell in the original timeline.
The Kohga bit where he cries at Rhoam reuniting with Zelda is played for laughs, but then you realize he just lost his best friend Sooga to the calamity.
I don’t care that this is in a different timeline. We got to see grown up Sidon with his sister. It warmed my heart, made me cry, and was totally worth 60 bucks.
Mhm it’s really heartwarming to see no one died in the battle and it’s a really happy ending. And grown up Sidon got to see Mipha is really good because 100 year later him has been missing her (Mipha)
True but while I was beating the game I hoped at least ONE main character would die or at least be badly wounded, cuz I HATE completely happy endings, there's no "feeling" of victory coming at a cost.
Did anyone else notice, that the SECOND Astor tried to tell Ganon what to do and give Ganon a command, is when Ganon cut the line right then and there. Ganon was NOT havin it
the way sidon looks sad in every scene with mipha because he knows when it's over he's gonna get sent back to the timeline where she's gone :((((( bro i'm so upset for him
@@Merc_507 i think we pulled sidon and the others from the bad timeline (original botw) so they got sent back when it was over. she's alive and well in the good timeline (age of calamity) and so is good timeline's tiny sidon (aoc), but the one we play as gets sent back to the bad one we pulled him from (original botw timeline).
@@antonioidek8614 well that might be true, this timeline is before the events of botw, with all of the original efforts to stop the calamity. This may alter the og botw timeline due to events prior of link's sealing of ganon In botw
So there are basically two timelines now, a "future" timeline where link slept 100 Years and lives with zelda and the champion's descendants, and a "present/happy ending " one where they won?
@@racki4097 Don't forget the third where Link actually died 100 years ago, and Zelda is inevitably defeated by the Calamity. Seeing as they pulled that shit with OoT.
Wait, when the egg guardian sung Zelda’s Lullaby, it was also singing the Song of Time, so it was calling for help through time after seeing Zelda in such despair.
I love this! In the original timeline, Zelda was always in doubt. She kept trying but she lost nearly everything. She tried hard, but her power's wouldn't activate. The calamity happened and her powers didn't activate. The guilt and doubt -- she was the one chosen to stop this from happening, and she couldn't do anything. Then the king died, and she couldn't do anything. Then the champions, and she still couldn't. It was only when link was about to die that she came to her powers. And she fought and held back Gannon for a hundred years without any support. Yeah, that was Zelda at her weakest and she still kicked ass. But here? The calamity happened, and she couldn't do much, sure. But they saved the champions! The King turned out to live, thanks to her at that! She came to her powers while saving link, and this time she had the support of all her friends, and all of hyrule behind her! This was Zelda at her strongest and most confident and I just, love, this!
@@maheepsingh3612 i straight up think that this was the original timeline tbh, cause from the trailer the King says that he's going to tell you what really happened, you know which implies that botw is the alternate history scenario.
Dude age of calamity is the most wholesome and emotional zelda game or game in general. Also to get this straight link parried a chunk of hyrule castle and split calamity ganon in half. If link isn't the most feared man in hyrule i dont know who is.
at 44:20 crow says "scrambled or sunny side up" so he said SUNNY SIDE UP referencing crows joke also there are so many other egg jokes in the chat so that one guy wasn't the only one
When I saw this the first time I had to wipe my eyes when Riju showed up. When you spend so long with these characters being dead, seeing them live again, saved by the ancestors who mourn them... it just hits right in the feels.
@@shadows-sweet-embrace But I can’t understand what happens to them… cuz link stayed in the good timeline, so what happens to the divine beasts and how come they never talk about it? Weird and confusing to me lol.
@@hannahgabriel9460 Link in this game was already from the good timeline, so it makes sense he wouldn't have to "go back". It's a pretty stupid story in general, but it's not canon so It's alright to me.
@@shadows-sweet-embrace why do you think the game not Canon? i mean i know both this and botw is 2 different game but different timeline has always been a thing for Zelda game right? all we need is literally a reference to this story' on botw 2 and i could be a Canon story
I think that the Nintendo creators just kind of make a game, and let the fans go Batcrap crazy trying to fit it into the timeline, and the ppl who made the game sit back, sip their coffee, and giggle
I don't know why, but I get so emotional when I hear" I will not let you take her again" every time I see that part, it just knows how to hit in the feels
despite how anyone may feel about the story, the timeline, the gameplay.....there is no argument that AoC straight up FIXED the blights. the updated designs are exactly what they were missing in BoTW (also all of the other elemental enemies, but that's another conversation).
@@Gabriel_Blair 😂😂 honestly, it’s partly because when I see AOC, I think of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and partly because my phone autocorrects to BOTW in all caps. But I definitely understand why it’s annoying. Let me change it haha.
I literally cried when the egg played Zelda's lullaby Edit: this is literally months later and I heard a song that was sort of similar to Zelda's Lullaby and I got really sad and I didn't know why. Curse you egg.
I had never seen any of the Age of Calamity cutscenes or story. It was all super compelling and I was totally immersed in it until someone in chat said "Sooga got the McDonald's haircut"
18:39 ritos have horrible vision when it is dark he was basically fighting an opponent he could not see except for when it decided to shoot at him. If you have tried to fight this boss with your brightness modded to be as far down as it can be you know how this is
more like: well yes, but actually no, I'll show you how Hyrule was 100 years ago and a more clear description of how the champions died and the story that the botw fans needed to heal the fact that the champions won't come back. Just knowing there's a story, another timeline where things went as it should, the champions survived, Zelda could reconcile with his father, and Hyrule didn't suffer 100 years of fear and ruin.
If it truly were 100 years before BotW, the only story missions that happened would be the first bit of 1-1 (until Terrako shows up). That’s hardly a game, is it?
My theory: I think the time travel stuff supports my theory about how Egg went to a alternative dimension, egg came from a universe that was doomd by the time he left and he travelled to a different universe that was before it, and altered it (so basically a playthrough of age of calamity involves two universes) and i think this cause Sidon and Yunobu don't come back in time in Botw, unless botw 2 is a alternative universe and they travel to age of calamity's universe (or botw 2 is just ahead of botw and they travel to age of calamity's universe)
No thats wrong, it showed the events up until egg time traveled them all to now i think and all of the people who helped you into the divine beast battles for them
It didn't really rejoin them tho. And it shouldn't. It's convoluted, but they made their bed, they must sleep in it. No turning back. The timeline splits exist, and any attempt to "join" them would be an @$$pull. Though I do refuse to acknowledge the Downfall timeline. That one can go because it comes about through no real actual means
@@brolytriplethreat actually, technically, the child timeline link travels back to is different to his original timeline, meaning that theres both the adult timeline, child timeline, and the original timeline, which now has no hero. he wasnt defeated by ganon, there was just one timeline that was abandoned.
@@nobleskywalker4639 theres a lot of stuff from each timeline, rock salt from the great sea, lynels which only appear in the fallen hero timeline, and mention of twilight from the child timeline, but honestly? with the botw 2 trailer, we see ganondorf sealed in exactly the same way as he was in twilight princess. a huge wound in his chest. and i think the rest is vague enough to have happened at some point in the past regardless, lynels dont HAVE to be just in the fallen hero timeline, hyrule could have flooded naturally for a period of time but that specific appearance of ganondorf feels too conclusive to me. i think its in the child timeline, but all nintendo would say is its "at the end".
this was probably one of the best video game stories I’ve ever seen. I wasn’t even the one playing, but it made me feel so many things I never would’ve expected to feel while watching this. Thank you, Point Crow and Zelda
@@jelly-wolf7416 that's actually an interesting way to look at it, explains how link beats them in botw (albeit them clearly being weaker than in this game)
@@jelly-wolf7416 Even then Link could've probably soloed them all, Link fights on par with Ganon, fighting all 4 Blights at once really isn't much of a problem for him
I love how the Electric Lynel in Urbosa's area kept me from progressing this whole time I've had the game while it was such a minor battle for Eric that he didn't even go over it
@DS Gamer only if she was a little child like Sidon is at the beginning of AoC :D but she's an adult when she gets recruited, though we don't know how old she was at the time
10:46, this is where i think the 3 hit limit hit for daruks protection comes from, when he lost to fireblight and his protection broke after the 3rd hit
OMG THE PART AT THE END WHEN TERRIKO DIED, I SAW A TWICH CHAT THAT SAID "SANTA YOUR SUPPOSED TO GIVE TOYSNOT TAKE THEM," I STOPPED CRYING AND BURST INTO LAUGHTER
Why did they kill him twice? I'm sorry but I just can't take it seriously. He dies only to come back because of BS and then immediately dies AGAIN! What was the point? In the words of Saxton Hale: "THIS WATCH WAS DESIGNED AT MANN CO, SPECIFICALLY TO KILL YOU TWICE!"
It's not time travel. Sidon is from BotW dimension like the other 3. AoC is not the same dimension that BotW. Think about it, in BotW we are told that Link have had the Master Sword since he was a child but in AoC he is a soldier and he still doesn't have it. So the 3 timelines fused and splitted in two different ones: BotW and AoC. Now the question is: How the hell can Terrako time and dimension travel?! Edit: Link having the Master Sword when he was child is not canon anymore. So it is time travel after all.
@@adrielalonso1026 well we can't take EVERYTHING in Master Works as canon, so lots of people think the part where it was said Link got the sword at a much younger age may have just been something thrown in there
Agreed. I prefer the many worlds theory. Sidon, Yunobo, and the others return to their doomed timeline, similar to Trunks in the DragonBall universe. Terrako always existed, but he went into a different timeline to save Zelda instead of saving this one. I think it makes sense
The game literally says so, but in a loading screen tip that only appears post-credits: "Splintered Worlds - When Terrako--pursued by Ganon's Malice--arrived from the future, a new world was born."
@PointCrow is there any way you can do a part three of this? There are some really awesome finds at the end if you keep going, like new characters, cut scenes, and rewards. It would be a really wholesome finish, and I think it would be fitting. If this is a tad late, totally fine, and love the video. Thanks so much!
@@echo_uk6265 define "funny". The term is usually meant to describe something surprising in a lighthearted manner, or clever enough while being less lighthearted to still illicit laughter. Grimdark "it's all a dream" theories are neither.
I love chat when Terrako is running, they're all supportive and like Yea go Terrako, Go EGG, then he dies and they're all like NO EGG!, or Don't DO IT!
spoilers don’t look cuz spoilers ok trust me ok IM SERIOUS BEEG SPOILERS ok but actually spoiler for real.... T H E T R U E G O D 69.0 CALAMITY GANON AAAAAAND yes you can get him I said spoilers too bad b u d d y
I'd really like Link to start talking. I wouldn't want him to be fully-voiced--he should remain quiet--but hearing him actually say yes/no, be careful, etc would be dope.
@@booshbush1487 Yes, like that! It's always been a point that Link is a quieter person, so Nintendo should stay true to Link's character, but still toss us a bone here and there.
I loved playing this way more than I thought I would. It was so cool seeing Hyrule post-calamity and seeing more of Zora's domain was everything I needed
The “time travel” is actually the guardian creating a new universe, as confirmed by in game hints. That’s how the time loop can be avoided, how the champions can go back to an alternate future, and why the guardian will not be present in botw2 and botw. Sorry Eggboi Terrako :(
@@dazealea This is how time travel would likely work if it is possible in real life, known as the Many-Worlds Interpretation. This is a world where these shown events happen. There is another world out there where the exact same events happened, just perhaps an electron somewhere in time and space moved ever so slightly differently to how it did here. This would be true for all possible outcomes. There's a universe where Link gets struck down by the first moblin in Hyrule Field. There's another where Link accidentally kills an essential ally. There's the universe we see in BotW, and then a near or actual infinity of others. These two specific universes had the calamity be defeated, one when it was awakened (AoC) and the other 100 years later (BotW). Also to make a tiny correction to the original comment - Terrako didn't create a new universe, they opened a way to cross universes. It's a common misunderstanding that the 'second' universe is created at the moment events diverge, but that's simply the moment the universes stop being identical. This isn't even that - the BotW universe is just over 100 years ahead of the AoC universe, and always has been. All of this is a vast oversimplification of course, but there you are! It is of course just a theory, but by far the most likely one that involves multiple universes (and therefore time travel). EDIT: Just came back because I realised something I really should have before - there are three universes involved here. One where Terrako originates from, which is a short time ahead of AoC's universe; A second where the champions' descendants come from, which is a little over 100 years ahead of AoC's; Finally, AoC's universe itself.
Me: I’m not gonna cry Sidon: sister, we can do this. *mipha and Sidon continue to have a deep and meaningful conversation that is heart warming knowing what happens in botw* Me: GOD DAMNIT!
Something that’s always bothered me is that Revali could have ran. Mipha was trapped in the room with Waterblight, and there’s no way Urbosa was escaping Thunderblight. Daruk and Fireblight were out in the open like Revali and Windblight were, but Revali can fly. If Revali wasn’t so arrogant he could maybe have escaped Windblight.
I think you also forgot the part where windblight manipulates wind. So I don't think he could've actually escaped not to mention during night rito have terrible eyesight
Windblight would have made it impossible for him to fly and there's another big thing that could have prevented him from escaping: Vah Medoh's barrier. When Vah Medoh activates the barrier, it's completely encased in it. You can't destroy it, you can't enter Vah Medoh - and you can't leave Vah Medoh. Turning it off by force can only be done if you destroy the defense system, which is outside of the indestructible barrier. Hacked Medoh probably activated the barrier and Revali didn't have time to deactivate it as he was fighting for his life. And even if he got to the control unit, who's to say that he would've been able to turn it off.
what I love about PointCrow is he always feels free to show his emotion, unlike other ytubers/streamers, but when need be Crow just goes all or nothin'
It's why he's one of my favorite content creators. He shamelessly shows his emotions and knows that emotion isn't weakness. I screamed with Joy throughout most of Age of Calamity, and shed quite a few tears. I love this game.
Now, I'd like everyone to remember you can play most of the game as Hestu, including saving the champions. That's right, Hestu is powerful enough to kill FOUR+ LYNELS, ALL FOUR BLIGHTS, AND MASTER KOHGA. He is the ultimate korok
I love how they made Daruk say (this doesn’t make any sense!) in a exited manner just like us (Also can we just talk about how tall Sidon is like dang)
when the king said "it is all thanks to this," I thought he was gonna show us his totem of undying and be like "I pulled this out in my off-hand slot right when they lasered me, kinda clutch ngl"