Zelda’s Trading Quests 

It's not really a trading sequence, but the Tarrytown quest has you going across all of hyrule. The reward at the end could be considered the secret shop.

Call them weird all you want, Link's Awakening's trading sequence taught me very early on that things have different values to different people, and I think that's a very valuable lesson.

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Funfact: in the original and first European version of the Gameboy game you get a bikini top instead of the necklace. And some other minor things have been changed. Maybe a Video idea?

Ah, yes, Oracle of Ages, where you get traded a bag of shit by a toilet ghost 😂

As I recall for OoT, you weren't allowed to teleport for the timed parts of the trading quest. Imagine having that limitation on a world as big as BotW. That could get annoying, especially if you had to travel like from Tarry Town to Gerudo Town. Most people would lose interest and give up the trading quest.

honestly the trading quest in links awakening was so cool and the boomerang is a perfect reward for it

I thought the most memorable trading sequence in majora's mask was the wedding mask sequence... You must do things in the right order and avoid things that can cause sequence breaks... And can get a couple of other masks or choose to help the mayor's wife learn what happened to Kafei. It helps you learn about other characters, their motivations and how doing one thing can affect another (Butterfly Effect). The boomerang in Links Awakening will always be the best reward but the weapon is so OP. Don't get me wrong, you have to do some work but half of it is done for story progression anyway so it's not too difficult considering the outcome. I completely missed the boomerang when I played it on GameBoy but found out on the DX version by accident. It was a good sequence.

“Eggs are too feminine. Here, I’ll give you this doll instead. That’s way more masculine.” 😆

7:15 The fastest way that I found to deliver the eye drops gets it to him with well over a minute to spare and takes almost no effort: go from Lake Hylia to Kokiri Forest by riding Epona through Hyrule Field, go to Goron City via the Lost Woods, then go to the top of Death Mountain via Death Mountain Crater.

If I remember correctly the "mermaid's necklace" is a bit of censorship originally.

I never figured out or saw the trading quests through to the end in either of the Oracles games, and didn't find any other sword upgrades so I effectively beat both of the games, including the Linked Game ending versus the Evil King Ganon, with a 2 x 4

Ocarina of Time has two trading quests, with the mask trading sequence on top of the Biggoron sword one.

“Theres a lot of character development in this quest, talon wakes up!”

There's also "Hans in Luck" by Brothers Grimm. But Hans trades a large piece of gold to less and less valuable things and animals until he loses his last items and ends up with nothing, still happy that he's rid of his troubles. Imagine that as a reward of a trading quest in a game. 😅

I love the ones that reward you with knowledge like Oracle of Seasons. That means the next playthroughs you don’t have to do it rewarding good memory.

I always loved the trade quests in Zelda. I hadn't heard the story about the Straw Millionaire before, but I do know a story with a similar mechanic, which has been made into a picture book called "An Apple Pie for Dinner," though it might be an old story like that one. It's about an old woman who wants to bake an apple pie, but all she has are plums. She trades the plums to a family with chickens for some feathers. She trades the feathers to some people wanting to stuff a pillow for some flowers. She trades the flowers to a nobleman who forgot to bring a gift when going to visit his girlfriend for a gold coin. She gives the gold coin to a family too poor to buy food, and they give her a puppy. She gives the puppy to a lonely old man who happens to have an apple tree, who gives her apples in exchange, and then she's able to make her pie.

Loved your video. I think the carpenter and the potion lady are actually married and gave the saw to their son. The carpenter’s “old lady” is an American expression for wife (I don’t know why people say it but they do). So unfortunately their son may have become a Stalfos, and his mother tried to save him with the medicine.

Personally when you recounted that story from Japan it came across as a story about how if you do enough good things for other people then Karma will reward you in the end. In the story the poor man helping the rich man’s daughter even though he knew nothing about her except that she needed help is what brought him out of poverty.

This is literally just a video describing trading quests I know in and out, and yet I was eager to listen till the end just because of how engaging Zeltik’s commentary always is hehe

The first Zelda game has a trade sequence. The letter to the old woman... Ya that doesn't count. Good video. Take care Zeltik.

The straw millionaire is like the RuneScape quest “One Small Favor” but in reverse.

The magnifying lens in Link's Awakening also allows you to converse with an invisible River Zora in a house in the Animal Village (where you can get a picture with it in the original and DX games, or get a secret shell from it in the Switch remake).

one thing i never understood from OoT's sequence: Biggoron's Sword's description-text says "it was forged by a master, and will NEVER BREAK"... ...so then, how did the Carpenter Boss break his 'tool'? what the hell was HE using it for, that would break the Biggoron's Sword?? i mean, MAYBE he was just using a Medigoron-made Giant's Knife instead, and Link simply takes it to Biggoron to get it repaired/upgraded, but then why cant you fix/improve YOUR Giant's Knife after breaking it?

They should’ve brought them back. They were cool Edit: forgot about some of these and did i not really know the Phantom Hourglass one?

Can you do a video about which side quests have most unworthy rewards based on how much effort you have to get them? (if there are any, bc I can't think of any off the top of my head)

Thank you for another amazing video. I do hope there is something akin to a fleshed out trading sequence in the BOTW sequel. The "From The Ground Up" side quest was one of my favorite NPC centered parts of BOTW and it was as close to a trading sequence as we got. (It felt more like a fetch quest, which is fine and fit the context organically, but maybe there could have been more.)

The insanity of LA's trade quest perfectly fits the story of the game

This was fun! I'm going to say I was glad the Oracles games' sequences made it; sometimes I feel there are Zelda games content creators just don't think about when they make stuff, especially if it's before Ocarina, so it's not a jab at your content. These are also some of my favorite little things in their games, and I remember doing them in Ocarina, MM, Wind Waker, and the Oracles games fondly. I did sort of wish that Twilight Princess had had one, instead of the building money quest for the magic rupee armor, that then eats your rupees. Would've preferred this sort of chain to get the Hylian Shield in SS, as opposed to the Thunder Dragon's Lughtning Round, but I liked so little of Skyward Sword that I guess it is okay they didn't have a trading sequence I wish I had done. Here's hoping BotW 2 has something, though I'm still scared of the game, what with not knowing how much of whatvLink did will carry over, what will be lost, and how much of it will just be a Skyward Sword sequel with a Breath of the Wild skin on it, as it looks today. Will just have to wait and see!

Yeah BotW2 needs a trading quest like that too. Let's start with a stick ending with the Triforce of Courage.

It's worth mentioning that in the original Japanese and some European versions of LA, the Necklace wasn't a necklace, but her bra. It's why she hides in the water up to her neck and flees if link dives near her. Also in the Oracle games, in a linked game if you use the sword upgrade secret before completing the trading quest, you'll find the Master Sword in the Noble Sword's place

i like how the hand that wants paper is a reapperaing thing in the zelda series.

This is why when people complain about "fetch quests" and "backtracking" in Skyward like it's unique in the series I'm like "What other Zelda games have you been playing? Do you know how much I had to run back and forth to get some dude some frozen eyeballs?"

lookup the video on youtube, "how I traded a paperclip for a house" That video is literally a real-life version of the Zelda trade quests

i always thought of the couples mask questline being the trading quest in Majora's mask. much longer and a lot more character development.

Mate, your use of music, and the music you pick out of all Zelda songs. Glorious.

I honestly LOVED the Mask trading sequence from OOT. Meeting all of those characters helped me feel immersed just as much as the Biggoron Sword quest AND with the added bonus of no time limit.

Trade quests are always amazing. I remember doing the Biggorons sword quest right before Gannon. I couldn’t have beat him without it.

I enjoyed the trading sequence in Link's Awakening. Despite the final item not being strictly required, it still feels like an important part of the game.

Ive played OoT upwards of 15 times and i always do the biggoron sword fetch quest, its surprisingly fun and the reward is incredibly useful, especially if you get it before the dark Link fight in the water temple

Awesome job with the graphics on this video! It made the trading sequences easy to understand.

Fantastic videos. Love this channel.

The RuneScape music and old school Zelda is just a throwback to my childhood

Big big fan. I feel like it turns single-sequence quests into grand stories. I love both quests MADE for trading, as well as one-off quests that BECOME trading (like Talon's part in Ocarina of Time.)

Starting with A Link to the Past I loved the trading quests as you go to help characters and ended up with your reward in the end. Always thought it rewarded you for being a good character.

Fun video! Thanks for uploading!

Another great video, Zeltik!!

Oracle of Seasons always stood out to me. Ages had a fine enough sequence with Patch fixing the broken sword and all, but there was something very special about finding the sword in the woods that first time in Seasons. It was tricky, and it took 12 year old me a few tries, but when you find the sword at the end of the line, it's almost like a rite of passage. It feels like a real accomplishment.

In a way, the anyu and Kafei sequence could be considered the main trading sequence in Majora's mask. Though some moments are more about actions and less about trading. It even has 2 endings, depending to who you trade the final item, the postman or Kafei's mother. I'd love to see you highlight this side quest :)

I very much love the trading sequences of the Zelda series, and I never tire of it. I am sad that it hasn't made much of an appearance in more recent Zelda games, but I hope it will return again, because I feel at this point it's a strong part of the Zelda experience.

The greatest Zelda channel out there. Love these vids

I know this video is from 11 months ago. But I just gotta say I appreciate you putting that RuneScape Classic “Darkness” track on some of your vids. Keep it up with the great content!

That Oracle sequence with the repair of the sword was pretty dope

Minor correction - the metal pot in the Oracle of Ages trade sequence isn't to put the lava soup in. It's added to the lava soup to add "seasoning", a pun on the process of adding a layer of burnt and polymerized fat to a wrought iron cooking vessel to make food stick less and provide a protective layer to the cooking surface. A pan or pot that has this is said to be "seasoned."

I might be biased since it was my first Zelda game, but I love Seasons' sequence best. If feels very satisfying to me, helping all those folks in bizarre ways (fear chills to beat the heat? That's nifty!). And the final reward, the scrub's information...taking that hint and following it just felt magical. The Tarm Ruins is an amazing locations in and of itself (that music! My god!), but taking that short journey through the seasons to arrive in that beautiful grove with a mystical sword embedded in a pedestal...now THAT'S a great experience to have on an adventure! And as a bonus, if you don't care about completion you can easily just follow those directions on a subsequent playthrough without bothering with the rest of the trading sequence and skip straight to the sword.

There is a Trading Sequence in Majoras mask that involves a lot of characters, a lot of points, all of the 3 days from start to finish, you can deviate from the quest and get other rewards and if you fail in one of the steps you may get stuck and get to start all over again from the first day, the Couple's Mask quest, even if that mask only gets you a piece of heart when you use it in the majors office when the workers are arguing with the soldiers, it is a mask needed to complete the challenge request from the 4 kids playing in the moon and get the Fierce Deity Mask. I think that one is my favorite trading quest, because is stressful, it is really rewarding like BigGorons Sword because you get to trade all the masks for the Fierce Deity, and it's wholesome like TarryTown in BOTW because you reunite Kafei and Anju, and Kafei's mother gets to know some history of what happened to her son. It has a lot of turning points, you get to enter the thief hideout, and play as Kafei, and get a bunch of masks in the process of the quest and get a lot of interesting points in the bombers books. I think Couple's Mask trading sequence is a masterpiece.

There's nothing I like more in zelda than a nice long trading quest. My favorites so far being the biggoron sword and the anju/kaife quest in MM.

I’m glad you included phantom hourglass. Very underrated game

Hey Zeltik! I just wanted to say that you really are the best Zelda youtuber on the internet. I am a long time subscriber and I'm glad. Also, I was wondering your views about the new Switch Online Expansion.

I really thoroughly enjoyed this video for some reason.. Like smol little stories.

The game-long trading quests are my favorites in the series, and I'd like every game to have one. It's really neat to see where it all will lead near the end of the game.

great vid zeltik!

Phoenotopia Awakening has one of these, and it's brilliant. Begins when you fish a turtle out of a cave pond. Completely random, so good

Just saw your "new 2D remake" vids, and I love the idea of a remake of minish cap... I played this game dozens of times in my childhood and if this will get a remake, I will be the happiest human on this planet

Great video, but are we not gonna talk about how Grog tried to kill himself in kokiri forest?

If I remember correctly, the second time I ever played Seasons I completely skipped the trading quest because the directions to get through the forest to the Noble Sword was the same, so as long as a player remembered what to do there, they could just get it without even touching the trading quest.

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Thank you man I love your videos they all always very interesting thanks your awesome

If you really wanna think about it, the fierce deity mask is a trade quest you work on throughout the game as you collect several masks to trade away at the end.

This video acts not only as a fun and enjoyable topic, but also as a guide. I can see many people watching this as an easy go to, to figure out trading quests 👍

Great content!

They aren't trading quests, but I feel like Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild sidequests are good exampes. Repairing the bridge to Castle Town and helping to create Malo Mart in Twilight Princess and TerryTown in Breath of the Wild. Each of them brings people together in a fun way and celebrates that togetherness with a wedding and a catchy dance.

Not sure if Zeltik's already done it, but a "my fav side quests in each Zelda" would be a great vid

The trading quest in OoT also ties in that Link getting lost in the Lost Woods at the beginning of Majora's Mask is how he turned into the Stalfos of the Hero's Shade in Twilight Princess.

They had a very short trading quest in the game Diablo 2. You come across a randomly dropped jade figurine. As part of the quest it is tied into you take it to a couple people in town and trade with the ship captain and ends with trade with the alchemist who gives you a potion that permanent adds 10 HP. It's not needed to complete the act. But does help add some story to the expansive world of D2.

Another great video! One detail though: Link doesnt BUY the Pocket Egg. The Cucco Lady gives it to Link because she's breeding a new type of Cucco that bypasses her allergy. She thinks Link is good with Cuccos....somehow...and entrusts him with the egg's care. Perhaps she's given her own Pocket Cucco's recent eggs to others in a bid to encourage them in Kakariko....who knows? But she merely gives Link the egg.

Reminds me of the story here in the USA about a man who started trading with a paperclip.

Man, I love your video opening

I would love to see a video where you compare (maybe rank?) all of the versions of Princess Zelda. Some are extremely brave, some are very wise, some are just a damsel in distress. That would be really interesting to see!

I love your videos❗️

Best Zelda videos on RU-vid.

The trading games within the Zelda classics are part of what made them so fun to play. You could stick to the main storyline quest or you could do these minigames which were fun in themselves.

You forgot to mention how FRUSTRATING they can get sometimes lol

Wasn't exactly a trading sequence but the very beginning of Twilight Princess you have to call the eagle down to attack a monkey, to rescue the baby basket, to give to the pregnant lady to get a fishing rod to catch a fish to feed at cat to be able to buy your first weapon, the slingshot...

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Im glad you started with links awakening I been having it in my backlog and just finished botw main quests but will go back to do all the side quests gonna have to start awakening now tho

Ya more Oracle content. We need more of this from ZTubers

This is going to be a great video

I remember doing the Link’s Awakening trade sequence on the remake and I really liked it! I’m one of those players that will just talk to everyone regardless of what happens (it gave me a fair bit of trouble in Breath of the Wild, encountering all the Yiga Clansmen and all in the early game) so finishing this side quest was extremely satisfying. When I got the boomerang, I basically relied on it (and the hookshot.. still my favourite classic Zelda item to date) for the rest of the game.

You don't need the magnifying lens to read the book in the library telling you how to navigate the egg--at least not in the Game Boy version of the game. You can read it straight from the very beginning.

Majora's mask's trading sequence more takes a back seat for the true lovers mask quest

its funny how almost every time that i hear about that story its always in reference to how you can get rich off a simple start and never about how doing good deeds without worry about the reward can lead to fortune.

That RuneScape soundtrack at the start. Man, how I farmed those Chaos Druids for Herbs in that Edgeville Wilderness Dungeon while listening to that one.

0:12 Never expected to hear some good 'ol OSRS music in a Zelda video

I loved the trading side quest in ages.

I don't know if the intro music is an original tune but I love it.

I really enjoyed the video, I have never played OoT, so when I do i have a good tutorial for the trading sequence XD

I'd classify the the Kafei and Anju quest as MM's true training Quest. While not quite like the others, as you don't fully trade items to get the next in sequence, it is the big side quest of the game. You even have to do it twice with the letter to Kafei's mother getting different rewards depending on if you give her the letter or have the mail man do it.

I just had a blast from the past about the trading quest of oracle of seasons/time

Interesting, I never knew about that trading story. The more you know.