The line that just hits me the hardest is her final one. "Link.... Protect them all". Always thinking about others first, the people of her land. This broke me.
You know.... I felt bad for her when she was fighting ganon, basically trapped for 100 years in the first game. To think that AT THE SAME TIME she was also out there as a dragon for so long that 100 years feel like a blink of an eye.... That hits hard.
I pieced together the surpise twist early when I was filling out the compendium and took a photo of a dragon I thought was Farosh from a distance and immediately my mind started spinning when I read the description. The memory with Mineru talking about draconification solidified it for me. Didn't make the final memory any easier to swallow though.
Yeah, that's one of my very few complaints, I think the draconification convo was too early in the memories. Or else I wish they didn't have the 4th dragon flying around. But whatever, it worked out well for Eric.
Watching Eric tear up made me cry all over again😭 Probably the most emotional “getting the master sword” quest in TLoZ. I was so proud of Zelda and so heartbroken; maybe a glimmer of what our hero Link could be feeling.
I was unspoiled and cried so hard after watching the last memory, and then even harder when Link was surrounded by the Silent Princesses 😭 I’m almost done with the game. I’m coming for you Zelda!
"I'm gonna kill Ganondorf so hard" was exactly my reaction to this story. Can't wait for your showdown with the big man, but definitely take your time with the game! I spent 250 hrs before the final fight and did almost all the quests. I wouldn't have it any other way. This game is incredible.
1:26:08 That's for effect. You actually see her when you first dive from the place you woke up, she's the dragon flying around the islands. Only the Light Dragon flies that high. Also, props to the Zelda writers doing a closed timeloop story and having the balls to stick to their guns unlike almost every other time loop story
This is the best princess zelda sacrifice and storyline. This hits so hard once I learned the truth of everything. One of the most epic and emotional scene in the entire zelda saga
If Zelda is the light dragon, it falls to reason that Dinrall, Farosh, and Naydra are the three goddesses that flew into the sky after creating Hyrule, Din, Faroa and Nayru.
So there are a lot of questions about where this fits in the timeline, but one potential explanation is the goddesses were Zonai or the ancestors of the Zonai. The Zonai being related to the deities of legend is suggested multiple times.
@@Nuvendil I hope if there's DLC, they give us a little more back story into the three dragons, given that Mineru's explained the process of draconification, and that three of the new Zonai armor sets - ember, frostbite and charged - resemble them too.
I think the prevaling theory, based on Mineru's knowledge of draconification, how the three dragons' horns look like the headpieces of the three zonai ritual sets, the way their manes have a colored underglow like Rauru, and their long floppy goat ears, that the three were Zonai.
@@joelwatkinsi dont think something that important would be in a dlc. I personally think this will be a trilogy, the ending of TOTK is obviously setting up a sequel.
1:49:14 "I'm gonna kill Ganondorf so hard" It's just what I thought, that happened when I was 160 hours, now I'm 270 all this time I've been laying waste to every possible enemy, I only have one temple left and once I'm done with it, I'm going to comb every inch of Hyrule killing every enemy, the blood moon will never be so sweet, since I can do the same thing over and over again in honor of Zelda. This was personal Nintendo.
52:45 Not sure on what the names of these sages are. But given they all wear the zonai helms of the Divine Beast I think it's safe that we can call them... Naboris, Sage of Lighnting Medoh, Sage of Wind Rudania, Sage of Fire Ruta, Sage of Water
Zelda sacrificing herself to eternal solitude in the sky. This game hit me so much harder than I anticipated. This game made me cry so much! I love it! 🥹
1:22:28 The face: Initiating the memory 1:24:51 by the end... This is something only Zelda can do. Extra:The same reaction from both is priceless 1:25:00 😁 thanks Nintendo
I've played Zelda since I was a kid and we got our first console. They've all helped shape my tastes in stories, in games, and in what I enjoy. Hell, I chose my career path seeing the credits roll on Twilight Princess at a young age. And somehow this game took everything that made the games I played growing up, and just said "Let's do all of that, but better, and have it hit much harder"
The game broke me. I had to set it down and couldn’t pick it back up for a couple of months. I grew up on LoZ so this was not only a shockers but so dark and depressing.
I get so upset at the people who bash this story. I had your same reaction. This is one of the best stories in the franchise. This is the best Zelda we’ve had. I loved and appreciated your reaction. Thank you for allowing us to take this journey with you!
If it makes you feel any better, I don't look at the "farming" from the dragons as hurting them. More like grooming little claw trim, loose scale removal, loose fang removal ( they're probably like sharks and their teeth regenerate) although pulling out the Master Sword does seem pretty much like it is quite painful, but even that can be seen as like extracting a thorn or a splinter yes they hurt to get out but once it is out they feel much better than before.
TOTK's story is probably the best one we've had since Majora's Mask tbh. Probably the best in general if we're not counting side-quests and NPC's adding to it.
you're not the only one who cried ugly over those memories. nice to see 15 yr old Eric react. the wonder in your face was that of a child totally lost in the sauce.
Due to how long Zelda infused the master sword with power, we can safely say that canonically, this version of the master sword is THE MOST powerful one in the entire timeline. Zelda has been consecrating it for thousands of years, without rest.
Something that ive seen a lot of people do, she didn't go to 10,000 years ago she went FURTHER BACK IN TIME. 10,000 years ago was the first calamity, when the sheika created the devine beasts (that are inspire by the masks of the sages) and created the shrines, guardians and the towers that we used in BOTW. Even the painting has Hyrule castle already built. Zelda went further back, we are talking millennia probably. The calamity is Ganondorf hatred incarnated pouring out of his mummy sealed beneath the castle.
I’ve watched a handful of blind let’s plays and your reaction was EVERYTHING I needed. It bought me back to my initial feelings. This game is EPIC. Can’t wait to see your reaction when you battle the DK.
Zelda actually would have been holding onto the sword for closer to Thirty to forty Thousand Years since we know the Calamity Ganon returned every 10,000 and there were at least two prior calamities before breath of the Wild. Calamity Ganon first appearance followed by the second appearance in which he was defeated by the ancient sheikah. Finally the time we defeated him. Tubing they were always 10,000 years apart Mandela would have had to hold the sword at least Thirty to forty Thousand Years. Unfortunately we still do not know how far back the founding of this current iteration of Hyrule was. It's theorized that this timeline takes place in the timeline in which link defeated demise in the past and the original timelines we are familiar with branched off from the timeline where the Triforce was used to destroy demise with the sacred Temple which was the timeline that the first link and Zelda were from. That would also explain the different story revolving the founding of Hyrule while also explaining the fact that similar events that happened in the past for all of these monuments and names to come into being. This could very well be a branch timeline in which the founding of Hyrule happened at a different time and place but all of the events we know from the previous games or at least something similar still occurred over the Millennia.
...awww, and of course you had the right clothes on. When I got the sword I was so excited that I forgot about to dress properly 😅 And I'm with you, also played Zelda from the beginning to now and yes, these moments were the most emotional ones.
Eric, totally feel you. I love and breathe Zelda as well and this whole game just made me feel all of the original emotions of awe and wonder I felt from my first Zelda only amplified!
Too late for this advice to benefit you at all, Eric, but dazzlefruit does work against gloom hands! It's the best way to stun them so that you can get far enough away to bomb arrow them.
I wish I would have recorded my reaction to the final two dragon's tears. When the final one was over and the camera pans to her flying in the sky, I just sat there for like 5 minutes sobbing. I was devastated. I loved that Nintendo had the balls to do something like this but I was so devastated and I thought that Zelda as herself is forever gone. Eventually I flew up to her and we flew around the Hyrule together for a good amount of time. It was bittersweet. It hit me especially hard since I had already acquired the Master Sword, but I had no idea the Light Dragon was her, although in hindsight there were some obvious clues. Maybe it also hit me especially hard is because I've been a massive Zelda fan since the early 90's so the games are very special to me. Zelda herselves are special to me. Heck I even cried a bit to the end of BotW although the story was rather weak. The story telling in Tears of the Kingdom is brilliant!
Also hello? After you've acquired the master sword and then go to the Korok forest it just straight up tells you how to get in and robs the player the pleasure to figure it out themselves? Damn
So since Sonia is a descendant to SS Zelda, and she is supposedly the first queen of Hyrule, that means throughout the LoZ games there has always been two Zeldas and two Master Swords.
the gloom hands are easy. dazzle fruit to stun them. bomb arrow bomb arrow. dazzle fruit again. bomb again and again. rinse and repeat until they are gone.
Can't wait to watch Eric reach the final beat of the game. If what happened to Zelda wreck him then he will lose his shit just as I did. And I agree, this is one of the coolest Zelda stories nintendo has ever done.
