Tears of the Kingdom - Classic Zelda Enemies Reimagined 

Didn't know you did art like that, great work! Also love the idea for the Skulltula, they would honestly make great overworld bosses.

Can we appreciate the quality of zeltik’s writing? His description for each enemy is so professional and sounds as if it could actually be in the game. Well done man :)

The Redeads were SO scary to me as a kid playing OoT and they’re still freaky! I’d love (and hate, haha) to see them in BOTW2. And the Lost Zora concept was _insanely_ good. Super creepy and mysterious!

I'd like to see Wolfos return, mostly so that snowy areas could have a more fitting humanoid enemy. More aquatic enemies and sea monsters would be nice, too. I also want to see some enemies reimagined as fantasy wildlife that function as normal parts of the ecosystem (but could still fuck you up if messed with, of course). Imagine Dodongos just hanging out in volcanic regions, giving more life to one of the most inhospitable environments.

Honestly, we need bosses like this for the sequel, along with dungeons for them to dwell in. Great concepts and art! This channel has managed to stay relevant and entertaining during the Zelda content drought-love the videos that revisit the old games.

I like the Lovecraftian look of the “Lost Zora”. It would make walking by the shores more cautious. In fact, with the ocean, why don’t we have a giant, aquatic octorock?

Amazing work! I love your content purely because you don't spin rumors as fact or anything like that, but still have such great knowledge to show ideas and theories that could legitimately be used in the future. GG well done :)

Your idea for the ReDeads is like a perfect blend of medieval torture and technological guilt tripping, i love it. Your art slaps btw

I was hoping to see a Skulltula! The idea you made for it is awesome~ Usually Gohmas are the giant arachnids, so it'd be fun to have a spider boss who's weakness isn't a big eye. Like having to get under it to slash it or tipping it over with explosives.

I love how dark is the concept of the reimagined ReDeads, I really hope they come back

I'd love to see a part two of this one. Your art is so good, I love how you modernized their concepts to fit botw, and there are so many enemies in the series that would be awesome in an open world game.

Zeltik is crushing the RU-vid game going back and retitling old videos with new info

If evil Zora return in the sequel, I would love to see interactions between their leader and Sidon.

It would be cool if Dark Nuts fought with Claymore's with durability like Link's weapons. It would give incentive to the player to defeat them quickly if they want the loot. And just like Link can deal double damage if he throws a weapon that's about to break so could the Dark Nuts before switching to a regular one handed sword to continue fighting

The closest thing we got to a helmasaur king is the frox

Zeltik, this is awesome! It's so cool to see your artwork and your imaginative insights, I loved the Redead design especially! Hope you make more videos like this.

Dude, I've been watching you for years now and I can safely say this is one of the coolest bits of content you've ever put out. I love the direction of your presentations as well as the speculation and approach. Everything here was very carefully thought out and the amount of effort that went in definitely shows. I would love to see more stuff like this on the channel!

You drew those? They're really good, man the helmasaur one. LOVE IT

Im so glad they returned the gleeok, ghoma, and gibdos!

at least we got "redeads" in totk

I truly hope the Darknuts return. They're one of my -if not the most- beloved Zelda enemy.

The artwork is really cool! All of it. And the descriptions, amazing.

This was really good artwork! I hope we see a ton of old school bosses all around the over-world!

One I’d like to see come back is the nejiron from Majora’s Mask, imagine seeing a goron traveller in the road, but as you get close, it looks a little off and starts to give chase, moving quicker than something it’s size should, and just as you finish it off, it explodes

I kind of imagined Darknuts and Redeads would be part of the "Replicant Family" alongside the Wizzrobes, other members of this family would include Shadow Troopers, Odolwa, Gibdos, and Iron Knuckle. I'd also like to see the return of Goriyas, they'd function as an in-between of Moblin's strength, and Lizalfos' agility, they would primarily inhabit mountainous zones to take advantage of boomerangs and crossbows.

I'd love to see the return of more undead enemies, like Poes or even the Dead Hand

Considering the increased attention to aerial combat in the sequel, I'd love to see the aerolfos, the peahats and/or the skytails make a return.

The fact that he can not only come up with cool little explanations for the enemies but draw them out is just amazing to me

“River” Zora aren’t inheritantly evil, though. There’s often neutral or friendly NPC versions (much like many, many “monster” enemies in Zelda), but the River Zora in particular even have their own sage in LBW It’s far more likely that they’re so hostile Because the Sea Zora drove them out (probably with the assistance of hylians), so they Fire Blast Now, Ask Questions Later Think about it-OoT/MM, WW, and TP zora are portrayed closer to sea fish instead of the more catfish-looking OG River Zora. In MM they flatout DO live in the Sea, same as the Sea Zora in Oracle of Ages (where both tribes exist and make this distinction.) And once JabuJabu Dies, Zora’s Domain freezes over in OoT…and JabuJabu is a WHALE that’s being kept in a very, very small cavern that it’s long outgrown. So if the River Zora return? Leas of a “they’re Evil Ganon Worshipers!” and more flatout territorial war with lore dropped for the player to piece together the Sea and River Zoras’ complicated history (which is painfully similar to the traditional conflicts between the Hylians and Gerudo ever since the Hylians shoved the Gerudo out into the desert following a civil war…and often “finishing the job” generations later, especially if the Gerudo retaliate. Or the divide between Sheikah and Yiga after being forced to abandon their heritage and culture after being subjegated into being the Hylian Kings’ attack dogs for much of their history.) Enemies with depth. Enemies that are incredibly *complicated* (and NOT inherently “evil.” Themes of questioning morality and everything Zelda and Link thought they knew as an Ancient Conflict stirs underground-literally.)

I love this concept art! I think you should illustrate your concepts more often, this video was really fun. You have me excited for evil zora now

as a professional artist and long-time zelda fan, this video makes me so happy !! the artwork is beyond amazing. i love the mass amounts of creativity in design and the way lighting is used to set each atmosphere. it’s great to see your artistic talents go hand in hand with your passion for the legend of zelda. so cool !!

one of the things i feel breath of the wild lacked the most was actually water enemies and combat. almost every game prior had some form of water enemies that you had to fight in their own territory, be it in the water, or just outside. but the only ones in breath of the wild are found on land aswell. as much as people say that water dungeons and regions are unfun, i think theyre especially cool, and i feel they could be a great thing to explore, just as are caves. just imagine swimming into an underwater cave, only to find a group of ancient, aggresive zora, guarding treasure you could never find above the surface. its such an underexplored idea that felt especially left out in botw. i think caves are mostly the same, the caves in the zelda series are usually restricted to dungeons, or some goron mine. they could be such scary areas filled with creatures who dont act on sight. highly claustrophobic caves filled with hard to traverse, winding paths, where combat is tough and too large a weapon will get stuck on the cave walls. In such a situation stabbing with small blades is the only option when encountering an enemy. i can just feel the pressure of a tiny cave route, when suddenly it leads into the abandoned nest of some massive ground creature.

I would love to see a part two of this at some point. Those concepts were really good!

Something to also consider is that the guardians in breath of the wild were conceived through the original intention of the Octarock enemies in the original legend of Zelda So The idea of the re-dead being designed using ancient Sheka technology really works with that in mind.

Love that you renamed the video now that we know the new game’s name

When I heard “reimagined enemy Zora” I was expecting something like malice-corrupted regular Zora made into puppets, but holy crap, that Lovecraft-looking thing will haunt my dreams! I didn’t even know you could draw, let alone so amazingly!

Videos like this really put into perspective how little TotK actually did

While I'm imagining that they'll have Ganondorf return to hils full human form by the end of BoTW2 another idea I would love to see is a Redead Ganondorf, a sort of eldritch lich sorcerer that's not only fueled by Malice, but can control it and contort it into vile spells

Wow, really quick work on the title, Zeltik! Impressive

Damn the redead got a little dark.

You're an amazing creator. Your skills with narration and storytelling really shone in this video, but adding to that, your artwork was incredible! I would love to see more videos of this type. I really think you're onto something with the giant skulls being the remains of giant Skulltulas! I had never even considered this, but something really clicked here. Your concept for the Redeads is absolutely chilling as well! If you aren't secretly a writer/designer for the Zelda series, you deserve to become one. Excellent work!

Absolutely brilliant!!! Loved every single concept. You’re a fantastic artist, I’ve been following for a while and wouldn’t have known

The artwork for these creatures is wonderful! I especially love the Redead and Skulltula concepts. I think seeing the glowing eye-like orbs on the masks of the Redeads wandering around all dark places (take Typhlo Ruins for example) would be a terrifying battle! I love it!

I'd love to see more "original" content like this from you, you seem to have a gift for concept artwork!

Zeltik, I had no idea you were such a great artist. Amazing work on these, really adds depth to the ideas and lore you explore.

I'd love to see some of these enemies!

I'm very satisfied with what Nintendo brought to the table with new creatures. I especially love the Frox. It frightened the life out of me when I saw it appear out of the darkness for the first time.

Anyone else here rewatching the video after the release of TotK and finding just how many opportunities were missed by Nintendo by not adding enemies like these? Tell me how sick it would be if poes didn't just randomly float around the depths, but had to be gained by entering crypts inside the depths, too dark and too deep down for lightroots to illuminate them, and clearing them of the endless swarming redeads within them so the bargainer statues can shepherd their souls over to the great beyond. I think poes are too easily accessible anyway, that would have been a way to make getting them feel more rewarding, give more significance to the bargainers in terms of their purpose, and add more depth (no pun intended, even I'm at least above this low level of comedy) to the underworld of Hyrule. Actually here, I have a whole concept on darknuts and how to implement them in TotK, stop reading now if you don't like endless ramblings about what could have been: In the overworld, place ancient hylian ruins, previously buried, their entrances unearthed by the upheaval, which served the creation and training of darknuts, and make crucible arenas out of them. You will have the average darknut ranks of red, blue, black and silver and subtypes using either a halberd, a sword and shield, or a warhammer (all of these being within a unique darknut weapon tree, of course, darknut initiate weapons for red, darknut warrior for blue, darknut champion for black and darknut overlord for silver. If we ever get gold enemies again, make another darknut weapon tree called darknut archon for them). As always, while in armor, they're immune to attacks unless you use blunt weapons from the front or sharp weapons from the back, as well as all elemental damage except shock, but taking enough of the right damage to the right places drops their armor, first their chest, then their gauntlets and greaves, and finally their helmet. Without a chest, they lose their immunity to other damage types, but also their vulnerability to shock. Without gauntlets and greaves, their moveset changes to become faster and more aggressive. And without a helmet, they gain the ability to counter Link's parry, using the momentum of bouncing off his shield to redirect their strike to catch Link from the side of the opening the parry has created. They also learn to parry Link's flurry rush, still allowing him to perfectly dodge their attacks without punishment, but immediately striking back and cancelling the attempt if the player decides to flurry rush after the perfect dodge. Only singular strikes executed after a lot of quick maveuvers will even hit them, other attacks will usually just be blocked by them, so they effectively cannot be damaged through any conventional means when their armor falls. Their weakness is the third eye on top of their head. They don't get knocked over from a headshot, and it is very hard to land one in the first place because of how fast they get. But if you do shoot one into their third eye, it will close for a few seconds. This enrages them even further, making their attacks faster and more reckless, but they can't counter your parries and flurry rushes during this time. You can find singular darknuts guarding chests in the depths or wandering abandoned hylian sites, but they are most common in the newly unearthed proving grounds ruins on the surface, one in each region. The overseers of the proving grounds challenge Link to a series of duels. In each of these ruins, Link is stripped of all his equipment, the soldier's armor set is the only armor given to him, and he is given only a small selection of weapons, shields and bows to start with. With this, he fights a number of darknuts of increasing rank and equipment level, one after another. After every duel, he gets ten seconds to gather and fuse any items dropped by his last victory, and is given a choice afterwards: Give up, reset all progress, keep the darknut materials he has picked up so far and be rewarded with a chest containing random rewards based in type and quality on the location and the number of survived rounds, or fight an even bigger and meaner darknut with only what he's left with, without a chance to heal up first, and risk dying and losing all progress without any rewards.

I really love your reimaginings of the enemies for TotK!! The redead lore incorporated with the sheikh tech and hyrule's dark history gave me chills 😱 really enjoyed all the stories you gave them! ^_^

Wow those concept arts sure were incredible, didn't know you drew so well! Loved the Davy Jones/cthulu/deep sea Lost Zora, didn't expect that take at all! Also your backstory of the Redeads was horrifying! Skulltulas were my favourite enemy from Ocarina of Time, loved seeyin them reimagined as huge hulking beasts that wear freaking camps on their backs, that was crazy! I Hope Nintendo watches this video and uses it as inspiration for their designs. Super cool video, great work as always! :)

I had no idea you were such a talented artist. I’m truly blown away. I love every concept so much. The Redead is my absolute favorite, though that is a close win with Darknut, Skulltula, Lost Zora, & H.King in the running. I love the macabre & chilling descriptions you’ve conjured. Reminds me so much of Bloodborne. What I would PAY to see these Redead, Darknut, Zora revivals come to life. I would pay a LOT. If you ever decide to put these designs on a t-shirt, I’ll take 20.

this DID age well.

Dude, all of this art work is fantastic! I would love to see these in the sequel. My personal hope for a returning enemy is the Redead for the sole reason of I want to see how terrifying they can look in BotW's style. I also wouldn't mind seeing Dead Hand either because I'm sadistic like that.

Really love the descriptions of the enemies adding lore into these makes this video top tier speculation!

3:20 Zeltik actually kind of predicted the Ancient Underground Fortress! And 6:50 got the return of (Gibdo) spot on.

Dude production value is insane!! You drew up all of your ideas and even made amazing blurbs tying them to the game! Awesome job!

To be honest, I think most of these ideas would be amazing to have in botw2, especially the redeads. They feel like something straight out of nintendo's drawing board.

Oh past Zeltik, you’re in for a ride

This is an absolutely amazing amount of creativity on display. The way you not only updated the designs but wove new intriguing backstories for each enemy is so amazing!

I'd love to see Gohma and Gyorgs back, even if they were just a variety of lesser enemies like the bokos. I also hope that some minibosses don't respawn like the quest related ones. Bugged me that people would give you a quest to eradicate an enemy for them to resawn after a blood moon.

Man, I'm kind of pissed these enemies weren't the game...

Zeltik, I really appreciate your massive talent and your constantly fantastic content over the past years. Keep it up! Best regards from Germany! Cheers!

Awesome video as always Zeltik these are great concepts. Would love to see more!

This is one of the best videos you’ve put out. I really dig your concept art and backstories. Well done!

Anticipating for when I get the time to watch this video! I hope BotW2 continues with reimagining and bringing back enemies from older games, I’d love to see like likes, darknuts and even the dead hands to make a return; could you imagine how they’d look in the semi-realistic style of BotW 😳

FANTASTIC VIDEO DEFINITELY DO MORE OF THIS ILL WATCH THE HECK OUT OF IT

This is probably my favorite video of yours! You’re such a great artist. I’d love more content like this.

I REALLY love the idea for the ReDeads.

You drew all this? It's amazing! My favorites are the Helmesaur king and the Redeads (the entire premise of them being tortured by their own crimes is fenomenal). I would like to see more content like this.

That was all some seriously impressive artwork man, I hope you'll be doing more of it!

What an amazing video. The art, the search, the ideas, all narrated with your calming voice, masterpiece !

Noticed you changed the title from breath of the wild 2 too tears of the kingdom

Love it! I think you’re on the right track conceptually with many of these.. Nintendo and Zelda love to repurpose/reimagine enemies from within the series. I think, along with HG, that Aeralfos will make a return as well. The Lost Zora was: *chef’s kiss*.. How cool would that be to see a wayward people tow the line between monster and personage. 💯 If the devs/Nintendo really intend to embrace the darkness, ReDeads must return 👹

This was a fantastic video! Would love to see more of your ideas!!

I'd LOVE to see more videos like this in the future. This was amazing, definitely a favorite video of yours

I’d love for Darknuts to be an over world boss similar to Lynels that act as commanders in Ganon’s army, on foot and on horseback. 6:35 Darken the surroundings even more and you could make a poster of that.

Love this, and love the emphasis on a horror aesthetic. If I had to pick just one, I'd love to see the Redead return. I really want all of these in the game though!

Your art is awesome, it' so cool to see you do it. Also your little written bio's are fantastic

This is so cool. Those concept art images look absolutely amazing. All of these would be great additions to BotW2

I would have much preferred Helmasaur king as the boss of the fire temple as opposed to Gohma, it would make just as much sense and would work the same mechanically due to the mask breaking. You could've had Yunobo roll to break his mask and do damage like that. Gohma could easily be moved to be the boss under the Deku Tree instead of another phantom Ganon, just make it an actual parasite instead of a lumb of rocks.

Wow, all these ideas are incredible! Great job on the artwork and the descriptions! I'd love to see these in the game.

This was honestly so interesting and creative ! You sold me on everything but especially on the lost Zora and the Skukktulla!!! Great job 👏

Two other enemies I would love to see again are gibdos and Dead Hand. The gibdos would fit perfectly along with redeads to expand the creepy enemies and Dead Hand is one of the most fascinating enemies in any game ever. I would love to see them finally return after Ocarina of time with updated and even creepier designs. (And before anyone comments about it, yes there are more than one dead hand. You fight one at the bottom of the well and another in the shadow temple, showing that it isn’t just a single monster)

The redead one is so cruel and unusual I very much doubt Nintendo would do it lol

I love all of these!! major kudos to the worl put into the artwork and the ideas! I'd thoroughly enjoy seeing all of these in the game!

Very cool to see the art you've made. Really adds more to the discussion, and would love to see more content like this!

redeads are back baby!

you forgot to change the discription 👀

That was such amazing art Zeltik and the concepts you put forth were all so inspirational! I think my favourite has to be your design for the Redead and the using the ancient Sheikah technology with the Mask of Repentance. I think you may have given me a few ideas for D&D group to battle with too haha!

Fantastic work Zeltik! It's super fun to imagine future Zelda enemies and their designs, and really cool to see yours envisioned. Your designs are beautiful. I'd love to see more videos like this. Keep up the awesome work. I watch every video.

hella confused until I realized you probably just changed the old title lol

redeads are confirmed now

Gave me chills seeing the art and the description of these creatures 💀

this is one of the best videos i’ve seen in a while! great work, especially with the artwork!

Dude... Did you really just change your title as soon as TotK name drop came out?

Amazing artwork! I love the inclusion of your own lore ideas, and reasons for as to why maybe some enemies weren't in the first BoTW, but are present in the second one, like with the Helmasaur King!

This video was awesome! I was looking forward to every piece of art while I watched. The descriptions of the enemies are sick, too, my favorites were the Lost Zora and the ReDead.

This video was great, some of the art was chilling, and the lore you gave them was amazing!

Duuuude your artwork is fantastic! I’d love to see you do more of this!

I really love this video! And I think some of your last entries in the video were great ideas! The redead especially!