Ocarina of Time Part 1 Zelda Game Club 

Video turned out great! Thanks for doing this! By the way, you can head directly to lake Hylia without cutting through Gerudo valley, there’s a ladder to the side that bypasses the fences

As my post for part one got missed I wanted to briefly mention a few things first. My goal this play through is to look at the games more through a hypothetical view of what Ganondorf is thinking and planning. Some what is told to us in game and some theory. We know Ganondorf cursed the Deku tree with queen Ghoma to feed on his literal roots just to obtain the Kokiri Emerald. I also theorize that the Kokiri Emerald may have been slightly sustaining the Great Deku Trees life. As soon as we obtain it the Deku tree dies only a few short moments later. Sharp (the older of the composer brothers) tells us they had learned how to control time with ocarinas. They died to keep the secret from Ganondorf. Which means he came for them. When first meet the princess she shows us Ganondorf kneeling before her father. The King of Hyrule (though we never see him I. The game). While Ganondorf may not know exactly what the kids are talking about or planning I think the same can be said for the kids. Ganondorf has been planning how to obtain the Triforce for some time. When we get to Death Mountain we discover that the Gorons are all hangry. Though the Goron at the entrance to the city tells you that they eat rocks but really only have an appetite for the rocks in Dodongos Cavern which is now blocked off. So is this selective starvation? The cavern was blocked because Darunia refused to give the Gorons Ruby to Ganondorf. The Chief has taken the Spiritual stone and lock himself up until the Royal Family sends a messenger. With the closed gate in Kakariko and having not sent anyone does that mean Ganondorf has had an influence with the king enough to not send anyone. This part always confused me growing up. I ignored Navi so I didn’t know I needed to go back to see Saria to cheer up Darunia. Fun note is that as soon as you talk to Impa in hyrule field you can got get Saria’s song. Once we play the song for Darunia he gives us the power bracelets to be able to pick up bomb flowers. We use one right outside the city to throw it down and blow up the boulder blocking the second dungeon. We stand before the entrance of Dodongos Cavern… I gathered all that I could without glitches. I attempted and succeeded the treasure chest game. I did the side hop off the tower in kakariko village to get to the man on the roof. Taking the bomb flower to throw into the spinning pot. Dampes grave digging. I am entering Dodongos cavern with 7 and a half hearts and 23 gold skulltulas. As soon as the way into Dodongos cavern is opened to us we you see the giant skull of some long dead dodongo. Looking even broader you realize that the entire main room is a spine and rib cage. If the cavern is where the Gorons get their best rocks is it because they enjoy fossilized dodongo the best? This play through I finally realized you can get the scarecrow skulltula on your first visit. You can pull one of the statues from the far end of the room over to the with the skulltula. Back flip onto the statue and jump off to barely reach the ledge. King Dodongo is an imposing boss when you first meet him. And you think that if this is his size then truly how would the even more ancient dodongos have looked. Using his open mouth to throw a bomb in was brilliant telegraphing how to beat him. It’s only sad that the fight can be over so quickly. Once beaten Darunia thanks you for helping get their food source back. He happily gives you the Gorons ruby and tells you to visit the fairy at the top of Death Mountain. You don’t actually need to and can head straight to zora’s river. But it always helps to have a bit of magic. When there she tells you to visit her sister near hyrule castle next time you’re in the area. This is the only time you are ever told to go there in the whole game. I will touch on that in the coming weeks. When we finally make it into Zoras Domain we find a king and his people distraught at the disappearance of his daughter and their princess. The Zora at the top of the falls here lets us play a diving game for the silver scale. Letting us dive deeper. We can now swim through the bottom of the domain into lake Hylia. Once here we can find 2 more Zora out here looking for the princess. One says we can find things in the water. So we dive and find a bottle. Only it isnt empty. It has a letter inside and if we try to use the bottle we pull out the letter and it tells us that Ruto is stuck inside Lord Jabu Jabu. Handing the letter to King Zora he moves aside so we can go see if the letter proves true. Now figuring out that you need a fish in a bottle at this point is left so vague. The only reason you would even know this is possible is from the shops selling fish. We drop a fish down and we get sucked in with the fish and start the third “dungeon” Jabu Jabu’s belly. To this day this place trips me out. Walking along the internal flesh of a sick whale. When we finally meet up with ruto she seems to have no knowledge of the existence of the letter you found. Did she write it? Or was this more of some ones dark plan? Princess Ruto was feeding Jabu Jabu as she always does but recently he wasn’t feeling well and sucked in the Zora Sapphire. She went in after it. We finally come to the room where the stone landed. After tossing Ruto up to it she is pulled up and a giant octoroc comes down to fight us. Many many people struggle with this fight. But it’s simple. Have your boomerang on one c slot and Deku sticks on another. Let the octoroc hit you. He will turn the other way as you stand. Throw your boomerang immediately. It will stun him. Then pull out a Deku stick and do a jump slash. Boom one hit kill. It works every time. Barranade always grossed me out. The supposed source of the sickness infecting Jabu Jabu. The rhythm of this fight is constantly moving and waiting for your moment to strike. First disconnecting it from Jabu then waiting for barranade to release the jelly fish. You can actually drop deku nuts to defeat them instantly. Then once you defeat the parasite it ruptures in a nasty green carrion. Princess Ruto gives us the Zora Sapphire and we head to the castle to meet back up with Zelda. We get to the locked up castle gate where even during the day day the drawbridge is up. The gate drops and Zelda and Impa ride hastily away. Zelda throws the Ocarina of time into the moat and there sits Ganondorf on his gerudo black stallion. He isn’t in full sprint he isn’t in a rush. With his power he knocks us down for standing up to him and rides off. We go and grab the Ocarina and are played the song of time by Zelda. I believe this is the song the composer brothers died to keep secret. We now go to the temple of time with all we need to open the door of time. The Kokiri Emerald. The Gorons Ruby. The Zora Sapphire. The Ocarina of Time. The song of Time. The final key to the sacred realm is the master sword. The sword we are told only the hero chosen by the sword can wield. If Ganondorf planned to get his hands on all the keys before this moment why wouldn’t he have planned for a hero to also arise. As soon as we pull the sword we see Ganondorf laughing. He got what he wanted. The sacred realm open. Only one sage remaining. The Triforce before him. He gets one third of it. Immense Power now his. When awake 7 years later we meet the spiritual incarnation of Raruu whom I am convinced is Gabora Kapora. Some shieka stones hint to this as well. I remember seeing this moment as a kid and thinking I was about to hit end credits honestly. Not knowing the game was only just starting for me. Meeting Shiek next was brilliant. Her telling you the land is different and ravaged by Ganondorf. Upon exiting the temple of time it is immediately realized. The atmosphere is no longer bright and chipper but dark and gloomy. Death mountain is ringed with red and ominous. Then we get into the town square. We are faced with the living dead and everything destroyed. Ganondorfs castle looms in the background. We are safe in hyrule field but we were told to go to Kakariko Village. We find many from castle town took refuge here. And that dampe has passed away in the seven years. He wants to see if we can follow him through the catacombs. If we do we get the hook shot. Now off to find our best childhood friend Saria. The whole hookshot part bothered me growing up as it is so ambiguous. I’m also conflicted here. Mostly every time I play I collect everything I can before entering the forest temple. You can actually 100% the fire temple without ever touching forest temple. You can enter water temple and clear gerudo fortress before it as well. I typically do but this time I’m resisting for the Game Club.