One Unused Idea in Every Zelda Game 

Bolero was going to be used for the title screen, *not* for the overworld theme. The title screen music was so quick to compose because it was a variation on the already-composed, iconic main Zelda theme

Imagine being Link in heaven talking with your ancestors. "Yeah, I'm the Hero of Time", "I'm the Hero of Twilight". And then you say, "I'm the Hero of Trains" 😭

So you're saying that one soldier in LTTP didn't end up being... canon?

My theory of Skull Kid having a Link mask is that he wears it to impersonate Link doing all that those terrible things to cast the blame onto him. Much like Bowser Jr. impersonating Mario in his Shadow Mario form in Super Mario Sunshine.

I feel like a "Zelda's second quest" would've be the perfect edition to make Skyward Sword on switch ACTUALLY worth 60 dollars

i still am just mind blown by the fact that playable zelda was an idea for skyward sword. BLOWS MY MIND.

I've always preferred Ganondorf to Ganon, I just like the more sophisticated and intelligent concept better than the raging beast so I'm kind of gutted he wasn't used in the Oracle games.

Zelda playable in SS would be so much fun, not only because it would be Zelda, but for getting to know her side of things.

The fact that I couldn't play as Zelda in Skyward brings me so much sadness

I love how you say the words "CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED"🤣 to describe the Zelda that was on the CDI absolutely hilarious😅

I have a thought or two about TP's missing magic meter. My thought is that, especially if it was removed so late in development, it's very possible the devs simply couldn't balance it well in certain areas. Items like the Gale Boomerang and Dominion Rod are used a _lot_ in various dungeons for puzzles that don't often have a "Use item once, solve puzzle" solution, with many of the boomerang's puzzles being something you have to do multiple times or which may require multiple tries, and with many of the rod's puzzles requiring it to be in use for long periods of time. It's very possible they simply realized how draining on Link's magic all of that would actually be and chose to remove it, especially if magic was also initially used in things like spin attacks or other sword techniques. Of course, this is just a theory, but it would provide a likely reason for its removal. Another possible reason is simply that there weren't as many items _using_ magic. Sure, the boomerang and rod would have used a lot of it in certain areas, and the sword skills if using magic may have drained it, but aside from those possibilities there really aren't a lot of items which could use magic in the game. There are no fire/ice/light arrows like in previous games, no fire/ice rods, no abilities that would reasonably use a ton of magic. The only real other option is the Magic Armor, however adding a magic meter for 2 items and a set of armor doesn't really seem like a great use of the concept. It's possible it could've just been scrapped because there weren't enough items to get use from it. I mean honestly, it's possible _both_ these options are true, and the heavy cost of magic in specific areas and minimal cost in others just made it a very clunky and imbalanced mechanic.

In botw, with kakariko and lost woods being swapped, it mirrors OoT map almost perfectly. Surprised I never noticed or thought about that before now. Pretty cool. Not just kakariko being at the foot of death mountain but the lost woods being close to its proper place in relation to the castle, death mountain, and even zoras domain.

Majora having the Link face was the true birth of Ben Drowned that we never knew

2:46 If you play the ALTTP randomizer with the enemizer setting (random enemies), the cannon soldier can be in your seed

Bolero gives a much more traditional “fantasy story” vibe than the swashbuckling, mysterious forward momentum the title arrangement of the over world theme does. I’m not going to pretend nostalgia doesn’t account for a lot of my preference, but that song accounted for a LOT of the tone of the original game, and I wonder if the series would be finally very different with that small change

Been binging your videos a lot lately, I lost an incredible friend to the big c very recently. Miss him bad…He loved loz and always talked about it, your content is really comforting. Your videos are amazing, thanks

Considering that botw2 has shown images of floating islands, the idea that various landmass have been swapped even makes sense story wise, some unknown event long ago caused similar floating land masses which somehow relocated at each others spots

The Demon Train from Spirit Tracks was probably the hardest boss ever for me in a Zelda game. Its literally the most random boss in the series to be the hardest, but it gave me such a hard time and took me so long to beat, lol.

I fear no enemy But thing… * link mask * *It scares me*

Can you imagine being able to explore under the entire ocean of Windwaker? Could easily make an entire new Zelda game's worth of content.

The adventure of Link battle area is not omitted from the game. You can find it in the graveyard before entering the path to the last castle.

9:22 There was also going to be a dark sanctuary with another lokomo guardian for that realm. Concept art was shown in Hyrule Historia.

If memory serves, there was going to be a third Oracle game surrounding Farore. Maybe such a game would have given us Ganondorf.

I bet the water boots were meant to be the item in the cut water dungeon of the game. You do the fire and forest dungeons, but the water pearl is just given to you by Jabun instead. Who knows exactly how they would have worked, but the dungeon would have most likely been filled with water and you needed the boots to solve puzzles and navigate it all.

I remember when the Nintendo Giga Leak happened people found some sprites that looked like Nintendo was developing another 2D Zelda game for the SNES (or perhaps they were considering a Zelda II remake)

9:35 Not only that, but in Hyrule Historia, you can find concept art for an unused sixth Lokomo sage, labeled as the Sage of Shadow.

SS second quest would be the coolest thing ever!

That Moon Door design looks an awful lot like the Zora's Sapphire.

I remember the child Link mask in screenshots and thought it was interesting! I totally forgot about the cut adult Link mask that was in the game file too. I think people theorized you were supposed to use both masks to become adult/kid Link at some point? :? But still! With the info you gave, I almost wanted to imagine Skull Kid using that mask to turn into kid Link and cause chaos in Clock Town--trying to get the world to blame him instead of Skull Kid. X"D Woulda been interesting if that ever came to be. Amazing video! Loved hearing about things I didn't know or totally forgot about!

You’re a bit wrong about the Zelda theme’s composition. Ravel’s Bolero was only on the title screen, and the classic Zelda theme was already composed and used as the overworld music in the game. When they learned of the copyright issue, Koji Kondo did a new arrangement of the existing Zelda overworld theme in a grand and epic fashion for the title screen.

I'm 100% certain the graveyard battle area is used in the game. It's one of the areas that has those flying eyes.

A second quest as Zelda in Skyward Sword would be the coolest addition ever happening to the Zelda Franchise

I loved Spirit Tracks ever since I was a kid, so now I'm a bit sad there wasn't another dungeon at the end 😭

I wonder if that Link mask has something to do with the statue of Link that forms when he uses the the song from the Stone tower area

In Spirit tracks, Dark world had a lot planned for it, a Temple (with its platform), and a sage with her own instrument (I would have loved that)

Video idea: how each Zelda game is unfinished. I think each and every Zelda game had ideas that are missing in the final version. For example: I bet originally there was going to be an ice seal over the Ice Palace in Link to the Past that would have required the Bombos medallion to melt, similar to using Ether to blow away the storm in Misery Mire and Quake to open Turtle Rock. Ocarina of Time is confirmed to have had an Ice Temple and Wind Temple in development, which were scrapped, showing up a little bit in the Ice Cavern, a few fan-based puzzles in the Shadow temple, and in Ganon's Keep. And Breath of the Wild has the bizarrely empty Hebra region with an absolutely nothing Rito quest. Compared to the Gerudo, Zora and Goron quests, you can just...walk right into Rito Village, ask where Teba is, glide straight to the Flight range, shoot five targets in bullet time, and then you're on Vah Medoh. They slapped that together at the last minute, I just know it.

My favourite unused idea from Zelda is one that no ever seems to bring up: the primary religion of Hyrule was originally intended to be Christianity, rather than the myths of the Goddesses & the Triforce. You can see elements of this in the original, with the Book of Magic, which was called the bible in the Japanese version. And in A Link to the Past, this idea was going to be fully explored. It's not known exactly how it would've been blended into the world of Zelda, alongside elements like the Triforce, but A Link to the Past concept art exists that shows Link praying in front of Jesus Christ on a crucifix. At some point they abandoned this and went for a full on fantastical mythology instead. Which, let me just say, was definitely for the best.

what a punch in the gut finding out zelda's quest would've been playable in skyward sword. really hope nintendo finally does her justice in botw 2 :(

I want an idea where you play as a grown up Link. I’m talking about an actual proper adult Link.

The only unused idea I was really sad about was that there could have been Minish in Botw. Maybe we'll have a chance to see them in the sequel? :D

2:10 just to be clear, is this separate from the graveyard area used in the, well, graveyard areas? Where you fight moas and the like. The section with the tilted cross grave looks nearly identical.

I used to play Adventure of Link a ton as a kid, I could have sworn the graveyard background was when you hit the shadow while in the graveyard south of the dock town.

The Zelda series really likes their “mysterious old man” thing. Like why are there so many mysterious old men???

Seeing Four Swords, Four Swords Adventures and Tri Force Heroes makes me a little sad that we only ever see the multiple Links concept in multiplayer games (Minish Cap doesn't count as that was an extremely limited use of it). I really liked the formations mechanic in Four Swords Adventures and I would like to see a proper Zelda game, with an overworld and everything, use the multiple Links concept.

Thanks you so much for dedicating yourself to Zelda research! I appreciate you and your helpfulness!

The unicorn statue in OOT just seems so creepy and unsettling to me, purely because it's not actually in the game it seems so out of place and bizarre.

someone’s probably already pointed this out but in Zelda 2, the graveyard battle area is used in a small portion of a graveyard which features what looks like to me flying eyeballs. Although it’s used no where else

How about one glitch in every Zelda game?

My school did Bolero for marching band back in the day. Was interesting when I first learned this connection, as a long time Zelda fan.

so nostalgic listening to this music at 1:26, is one of my favorite songs appearing on Digimon Adventure and is weird to think it could have appeared on a Zelda game as well.

Botw shield surf up modified would have been so cool! Shame it was scrapped for some reason

thank you zeltik very entertaining video from the beginning to end, I apreciate the structures of your videos, they don't waste too much time on pointless talks or save content for his own videos

Adding onto the Bolero fact, the Bolero of Fire uses the same exact snare drum rhythm from Ravel's Bolero

I would love to see a mmo in hyrule there’s a lot of potential for it and they can go crazie with it adding tons of dungeons raids and items from all the Zelda games

Your videos are easily my favorite in terms of Zelda content on RU-vid. Very few people are as expert on the subject as you, much less as fun to watch. Thanks Zeltik

So the moving the forest now makes a lot of sense with TotK. It's no longer a stretch. Been playing and thinking about some of these locations for a while.

botw’s temple of time is really the temple of Din. in Age of Calamity, you can see and explore all 3 of the plateau temples, representing each of the goddesses

Omg, my favorite video game character of all time is Malo, and him sitting on Link's shoulder is just adorable.

I think a good innovative weapon would be an umbrella. It could be an item that you learn new techniques with. A sword like weapon, convert it to a shield, the hook handle to traverse zip wire like areas and also to shoot like a hook shot or grapple hook, used as a raft like Jiminy cricket from pinnochio, used as a glider to float, to sled down hills, used like a spinning top from twilight, could even change colours to adapt to the environment its in to hide behind in areas where stealth is needed. Nintendo, its a patented idea so hands off. 😉

@4:40 the story implications are known in the sense that if the Skull Kid were wearing Link's masks that would imply that he killed him

The giraffe people are a pretty interesting concept. They look really funky...

As soon as I heard "Sun Door" I thought "oh Sweet Robin would love the Moon Door" and then you played the clip. Good stuff

I'm not sure if the main Zelda motif is one of my favorite melodies because I _actually really_ like it, or because I never heard "Ravel's Bolero" for hours on end. Also, I think I'm hearing Final Fantasy music on a Zelda video.

I love seeing these kinds of videos, please make more, I would love to learn more about the Zelda games I've been playing since I was a kid in the 80's!

the water boots placeholder actually says "water boots" (waata buutsu). it's not in japanese, it's just written phonetically in kana instead of latin script.

Bruh How’re you gonna talk about Wind Walker’s water boots, and not mention the test room (accessible via action replay) with clear water? That’s like 60% of the reason people think you were originally supposed to swim underwater

Interesting to see what's in the prototypes of Zelda for sure, Even if you not that big on the games.

I would have loved it if they had the two cut dungeons from Wind Waker. It would have added a little bit more to the adventure in an already great game! I also would have liked to see more of Hyrule underneath. Maybe the 'water boots' could have been used to travel there?

The unicorn fountain is one of the most aesthetically pleasing, atmospheric, mysterious things ever and I love it. Where's my Disney Beastly Kingdom squad?

LOL you got me with the GOT Moon Door. Nice reference

I just found your channel recently and absolutely love all the Zelda you have covered so far 🥰 I'm getting Tears this week and been watching your tips videos and I can't wait 😆 Keep up the epic work and thank you so much for putting in this amazing effort in every video 🎉🎉💜💜

I personally like the theory that the great plateau was moved as well as korok forest. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was lore for the next game. The great plateau always looked like it was ready to just fly up and move somewhere else. Maybe the sheikah created a mechanism for important places like the shrine of resurrection and korok forest to be moved. Maybe sometime in the past korok forest was forced to move due to some sort of threat, so the plateau was moved to a random spot for korok forest to take its place. The body of water at the time would of been some form of protection to the forest. Maybe because the forest was so close, kakariko village was abandoned and rebuilt somewhere else to avoid the threat following korok forest.

On the topic of land being swapped in breath of the wild, this also follows with and reinforces the theory that Hyrule Warriors should be cannon and explains the presence of references across all 3 timelines...

Interestingly, Ravel HATED Bolero after composing it for a patron on commission, but it ended up being his most famous piece.

Bolero gets stuck in your head! I had to listen to it over and over when I helped edit a flash mob performance of Bolero.

Yes! I've been so curious about these!

O damn, got all into the map part. Need more!

2:36 This enemy is fully functional. It's only missing a shadow. It's a vampire. 4:41 Hi there :D!

Your a legend! This must take a long time 💖

@3:20 You’ll be happy to know at SGDQ 2022 they showed the Unicorn Fountain AND the Triforce are in the OOT game

great information mate, there always is something removed from video games such as Bladerunner and knights of the old republic 2 in which would have made the game better but thanks to modders the lost content is now back in the game threw modds

Love these videos you are doing most of the Zelda channels aren't doing videos as constantly as you of course because there's no new info but still

I love the Bolero! Although I would never want to miss the Zelda Main Theme.

Unused ideas in Zelda games are one of my favorite topics on this channel!

"MAKE THE BAD MAN FLYYYYYY!"

One of my favorite pieces of cut content was the Minish/Picori originally being in BOTW.

I think I've seen that screen in Zelda 2... unless that was a screen from Zelda 2 and not the hidden one. Awesome video Zeltik. See ya Dude.

Hello, Zeltik! Can’t wait to watch this!

I would've killed for that second quest in Skyward Sword, damn

the scene with the moon door came unexpected, but i liked it a lot 😂

Oddly enough, I kinda prefer the idea of swapping Kakariko with The Kokiri Forest - it seems odd that the Forest is so close to the barren wastes and heat of Death Mountain whereas it would make sense that trees would flourish by Zora's Domain, especially with the heavy rain and flooding. Fun food for thought thanks Zeltik!

I swear I've seen that graveyard background in Zelda II... Haven't played it in a few years so might be wrong, but used to play through II and Majora's Mask once a year, as they're my favourites...

The unicorn fountain is just a part of the URA Zelda, which was some sort of expansion pack for the Nintendo 64 DD.

Great job! I love your videos!!!!

I have a long running theory that the Zelda team have always wanted to make horror games, but they were held back by technology and Nintendo’s policies and the games came out a little cute

When you said controllable zelda as well as a Botw 2 trailer clip gave me an idea the game could be telling the same story whith two different perspectives kinda like if link was in both the dark world and hyrule at the same time. And an idea about the water boots it could’ve been an upgrade to swimming so you could run on water but with a longer timer it also could’ve been used in some sort of transition area from the surface down to hyrule sort of like the rifts in a link between worlds but you could actually control your movement

That bolero remix is absolutely fantastic, you MUST release it as a full version!

An unused idea for the final ganondorf boss was when after zelda and link escapes the castle qnd ganondorf burst out of the castle instead of turning into a demon bor named ganon he was going to turn into a literal giant and link needed to climb the giants back and hit its weak spot because of n64 power issue it was scarped

Great stuff!

Oracle Ganondorf is soooo neat Looking I was its was represented somewhere like in smash.