Head over here if you missed out on Mario content > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-42HWoFq2dv8.html A Couple Corrections: -Nintendo R&D1 was led by Gunpei Yokoi but was separate from Miyamoto’s R&D4 team -Nintendo Mini Classics were released in 1998
I guess Zelda G&W follows a Link, who attempts to rescue Zelda who somewhat echoes or reboots the sleeping one from Zelda 2. He fails, but Zelda is resurrected as Sonia and goes back in time to resurrect Link as King Rauru. This is then further rebooted as Sonia and Rauru representing the old era of Zelda in TotK, almost like Zelda meeting herself in old age. The same way there was a Young Zelda adn Old Zelda in Link's Adventure. I guess. Guess.
That Does Got Me Thinking: What If Taran (From Black Cauldron) Was Link's Elder Brother And Princess Eilonwy (Black Cauldron) Was The 2nd Zelda's Elder Sister When Link Was 3 Years Old He Was Always Being Watched By Taran And Never Played With The Other Kids Due To Demise's Curse Thats Plagued His Family Since Skyward Sword And Eilonwy Was Born Before Zelda
12:20 AAAAAAAAANND Skyward Sword's Ending Threw This "Tale" OUT The Window Thus Revealing Demise's Everlasting Curse Which There Were Multiple Zeldas BEFORE The Sleeping Zelda 1
I always thought the franchise was partly based on Arthurian legend Link being a substitute for Arthur The king/old man being a substitute for Merlin The master sword being a substitute for Excalibur Etc Didn’t expect LOTR
It's both LotR and Arthur. Keiji Terui was inspired by the battles of medieval Europe (Arthur and the Holy Grail) and the Master Sword was called Excalibur in french localization.
@@TheMentok 6:08: This is just speculation, but while the Peter Pan thing may be true, in terms of Dark Link's origins, Regular Link's Personality, Tunic, and Weaponry, may be inspired by other Fantasy stories as well; such as "Robin Hood", with the titular character specializing in Sword Fights and Archery, fighting to save a kingdom from a corrupt ruler, while having a romance with a beautiful woman, and "the Chronicles of Prydain" with a farmboy named Taran (that shares a similar design as Link in "Disney's the Black Cauldron"), who wields a Magic Sword that's said to be dangerous to those deemed unworthy of it's power.
Zelda 2 is grossly underrated. As a 6 year old I couldn't understand the scope of it and was just mad it wasn't top down. But some years ago I revisited it as an adult and man is it a great game. The difficulty people groan about is drastically reduced if you get the heal spell from I think the 3rd town.
I loved zelda 2 when i was a kid just as much as the first one. When i got stuck in one of them I'd switch to the other one until i got stuck then go back to the first one. The Zelda 2 redux romhack makes the game so much more enjoyable. It's still hard but it fixes all the little problems that make it tedious. It just shows how great the game could have been if they'd fixed just a few little things. I recommend trying it if you enjoyed the vanilla game.
@@yoshimasterleader Agree. It always bothered me that the series has games sets centuries between each other, but Hyrule remains medieval with some random tech sprinklet in it. I want a fantasy sci-fi world from times to times too xD
9:22 When that manual arrived, looking like elements from an unseen anime (making you imagine more of a back story, as well as non-pixel graphics) it was truly a gaming high point of the era! The gold cartridge, it might as well have been made of real gold.
You always upload right when I feel I have nothing interesting to watch atm lol. It's technically not this video's focus,but I always liked Zelda's firsr design. In a sea of long haired blonde iterations that come later, a brunette with a shorter cut stands out more and more. Plus the old school artstyle stands out of course. A little early Akira Toriyama-esque is the vibe I get when looking at her for some reason.
I might go more into this when I eventually do a Zelda video. It’s interesting how different her pre-LttP designs are. I kinda dig it. Would be nice to see a future Zelda take on this look again at some point
The original Zelda was what got me hooked on games as a 3/4 year old. I used to watch my uncle and cousins playing it absolutely enthralled by the level of freedom and mystery, even taking my silly little kid input into account when burning bushes and the like. When I finally got my own NES when I was 5 I didn't even own a copy but would rent both the first and second games probably every three months, eventually finishing the first game with help from my neighborhood friends. Eventually I did get my own copy, complete in box, from a local rummage sale when I was about 12 or so. Honestly I didn't even come to appreciate the second game til during the year I took off after high school. I was working at a pizza place with a bunch of friends and the game came up in discussion. I mentioned I wasn't very fond of it and one of the older employees (like 22 instead of 18/19) immediately said I had to fix that. We all went over to the house him and some of the other employees rented together and watched him go through it on original hardware, was even using the old Nintendo Power NES guide for the tricky parts. Ever since I've come to really get a much better idea of what the dev team was going for.
To be honest, botw talks about his existence as if it were a legend In a sense, I think it's because he completely erased Ganon's existence and brought him closer to being a mere grudge. Certainly, the man named Ganondorf repeats reincarnation. It is true that the boar-like incarnation of Ganon was indeed defeated by Link, and that he acted as nothing but a grudge.
@@jchud13 I think he may be thinking about the way the game talks about the hero that fought Ganon alongside the Divine Beasts and Guardians 10,000 years before the events of Breath of the Wild.
I feel like people don’t talk about the original games like this enough, safe to say that I am enjoying this video and I will probably end up binge watching half of your channel.
I think Nintendo themselves don’t acknowledge games before A Link to the Past. But seeing the amount of inspiration they took from the first two games to make the series what it is, I had to do a deep dive. Thanks for watching! Hope my content keeps you around 🙏🏽
Great work man! I'm not too familiar at all with this franchise and it was great learning about it. I always thought Link was a Elf not a human due to the ears but the references to Peter Pan make sense haha
Yeah, I see a lot of reviewers complaining how about the game is too cryptic while saying stuff like "how would I know to do this thing?" and the thing in question is in the manual lol
There was another series that incorporated Nintendo characters. Captain N the Game Master, it also had Princess Zelda and Link in a few episodes of season 2 of Captain N
I’m so excited for your upcoming Zelda videos! I discovered you through your Mario lore videos and now I’m ON BOARD for the Zelda videos coming up! Keep up the good work! Thanks for all that you do!
The OG Zelda Game came out 10yrs before I was born but I grew up playing it on the gba and to this day it's tied with Majora's mask as my 3rd fav game of all time
I think the only games so far that have taken advantage of link being the link to something was a link to the past, between worlds, oracle of ages, and oracle of seasons and if im not mistaken the later 2 used maps from zelda 2. The oracle games also made use of the link cable.
I wonder if the lore from the Japanese version of Zelda 2 is different, because sometimes NOA localization teams went ham and rewrote the story for the North American game manuals. I remember the manual with the convoluted story of the extra sleeping zelda, but other people when they describe the game act like it's the zelda from the first game put to sleep.
Ganondorf does not have the triforce of power in tears of the kingdom. He only has one of the stones. The triforce of power, along with the triforce of courage and wisdom are won by Zelda on her travels to the springs. The triforce pieces awaken within her when she defends Link, and she protects them sealed within a barrier within calamity Ganon, until such a time that Ganons’ blight forms are defeated. With them gone, Ganon is reduced to calamity Ganon once more, allowing Zelda to use the triforce to defeat the calamity once and for all, destroying the calamity and dispelling the triforce once more…and then It turns out that calamity Ganon was but a precursor to the revival of Ganondorf, meaning Link and Zelda have to defeat him without the triforce, which they do but they need time travel and dragon magic to make it work.
Won by Zelda? Idk if that's at all what happens. Pretty far fetched stretch. I assumed she just had it.. as in her sealing power... which she always had, just didn't know how to use the power.
There's no actual evidence that Zelda in BotW possesses anything to do with the Triforce besides the weird tease with her unlocking her sealing powers 😩 Also Calamity Ganon wasn't confirmed to be defeated "once and for all", in fact, evidence supports quite the opposite, as there have been multiple Calamity Ganons that have been sealed multiple times, and it's suggested in BotW that the sealing of Calamity Ganon at the end of the game wouldn't be the end of Calamity Ganon himself as it always has been.
@@BenjaminSteber We only see the iconography of the triforce being linked to Zelda"s sealing power. Everything else beyond that is purely theoretical since Nintendo is intentionally being vague with it.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was 12 when LOZ came out and it was the first game that I was addicted to. Zelda II was a bit of a let down, not a bad game but not the sequel we hoped for. And the cartoon was dope. Can’t believe it got cancelled so quickly.
Man, I was about 6 when the first game came out. My friend’s older brother had the game. We tried playing and we were so lost, we went back to Mario and straightforward games. lol I didn’t get into Legend of Zelda until I was slightly older when A Link to the Past came out. I also used to like the cartoon. On Friday, they’d show Zelda in place of the Mario cartoon, and I would rush home from school to watch it. All week, they would promote it and show clips with Mario and Luigi (Captain Lou and Danny Wells) doing so during the live action portion. Oh, something else about difficulty…a lot of game developers were programming the games like you would for an arcade title. Arcade games ate your quarters. lol Seems they still had that mindset since that was the norm.
so link in zelda 2 completed the full triforce and imbued the real royal zelda with a wish, canonizing themselves across the multiverse in infinite timelines. i wonder what similar event and magical artifact (or just magic) canonized mario and peach? peach and zelda both seem to be basically demigods being pursued by an evil demigod that gets saved by a randomly chosen human who becomes empowered with "courage".
46 yr old gamer here. Zelda 2 was so frustrating back in the day. I've come to appreciate it in the years since it's release. However it sits pretty low on my Zelda list. A Link to the Past is the true sequel IMO. Still a very innovative game.
The first time I played LoZ Twilight Princess. For some reason, I thought when I named Link Minda. I would go through the game playing as Minda instead of Link. 🤦🏾♀️ I’m really looking forward to your videos on this series. Can’t wait for my baby Ganondorf
Ingame text was written by Nintendo of Japan, it was English even in the Japanese version, which could explain why it's badly written, with things like "Prince Darkness Gannon" and "Triforce with Power" in it xD
The same Link and Zelda was in Captain N series and were more of a couple at this point. The same voice actors returned and other than Link, Zelda does have similar designs to the zelda show.
Having a mix of scifi and fantasy would be an interesting choice, maybe a bit too avant-garde for the time, but I guess this has been recovered in recent gamees
That would have certainly not been avant garde for the time; The Dying Earth is a thing even before the time in question. A fantasy world that turns out to be living in the ashes of a scifi one was a pretty common trope even then just as it is today.
Someone doing a theory video about...you guessed it...the timeline pointed out the soft reset nature of BotW and TotK...yes many a LoZ fan knew this was a soft reset, especially when the latest official book says that all the old games took place in an 'Era of Myth" that was so long ago it's not even funny...like long enough ago that the events that take place before BotW...that so many thousand years ago mentioned...and even the events of the past we see in TotK happened so far before that that it's an age of myth and legend. Anyway, got a little sidetracked...he pointed out just as mentioned in this video how similar BotW and TotK are to the first two games in the series from the NES...that's because it was on purpose. Breath of the Wild is a retelling of the original Legend of Zelda from the NES while Tears of the Kingdom is Legend of Zelda 2: Adventures of Link. Are they 1 to 1? No but they share the same story beats in enough ways that they are modern retellings of the original 2 games in the franchise.
When I was a kid and there were only three Zelda games (four with Link's Awakening not long after) one of the coolest parts of the series was how well it all tied together. Link to the Past being the very back story told in Zelda II, essentially. Especially before Nintendo censored itself last minute and decided to bring characters back to life in the ending sequence. Then from OOT onward it started getting real convoluted and we older fans just accepted that the original trilogy (and Link's Awakening) were their own thing separate from the rest of the series.
the trick was sorting out the order of events. Once it became obvious there was a time split everyone was scrambling to figure out whether a given game happened on child or adult no one even once considered the failure timeline, which ironically would lead to some of the best games in the series I don't know how you would have concluded that LttP told the legend of Princess Zelda I though. The presence of a dark magician aside the events don't match at all
@@ChibiKami The dark magician - Agahnim, who literally puts Zelda to sleep in front of Link when you confront him. The story of the corrupted prince was like an allusion to the way Ganon became what he became. Sure it's not one to one but back then we liked speculating on it and talking about what puzzle pieces could have meant what between games. People today are so literal minded.
the manual drawings of link show him as small elf boy, but in the first game , he is short and squat, so if they make a live action movie of that game, maybe they should use a little person, like the actor who plays Willow
they showed a waterfall on the title screen of the first game and there was a waterfall, even though we didn't really get to see it at the top of a cliff like in the title screen, we just went up the stairs to where it originates, and the stairs aren't right next to the water fall. and the second games title screen shows a cliff with a sword in it, i don't think there is a scene in the game like that.
If you think about it they got their futuristic Zelda after all with the breath of the Wild on tears of the Kingdom. Look at the ancient armor and arrows! Cool eh?
5:44 woah woah woah, hold your horses there. So BotW was actually the original idea? A mix between classic fantasy and a futuristic world? Nice. I recently saw a video positing that Nintendo is rebooting the entire Zelda saga, and that BotW was pretty much the original LoZ. Made sense to me, and now it does even more. The artwork shown tho is definitely not from LoZ 1, so if someone has a source for this info, I'd love to see it. edit: 12:22 aaand there we go, more proof of the aforementioned video. I think it was literally called "Nintendo is low-key rebooting Zelda", for those interested.
The title and video content are incongruent. This is more of a story breakdown about the 2 main games and (kinda) the show. Very little character analysis which is what the title suggests. I think if you get to a “who is Zelda” video, you’ll realize what you’re actually asking since you can’t cover the same ground. And yes, I realize that there’s not a lot to go on in terms of story or characterization esp in the first 2 games. Doubly so since there’s not many people in Zelda 1 and Link is silent. It’s tough, I get it. I think that means you should’ve really expanded your scope with the amount of games you were going to talk about. It would be speculative but what else can you do with a question like that? Either way, this is well edited and all but either this topic needs to be revisited or the title needs to be changed. Best of luck
