Zelda: Link's Awakening - Final Boss + Secret Ending 

It's real, indeed...

It’s what makes the game so goddamn interesting

It's because while the island is a dream of the windfish, it's still in the real world. They exist, and want to continue to. The island fades but the clouds and the water around it stay. It's a melancholic adventure about destroying a whole island for the greater good.

@@benvictim The greater good… of one person? This is a stranger story than even Tackyclothingrule or whatever it was called.

@@wildfire9280 the wind fish is a god. So yes, the greater good for a higher being.

For once in a Zelda game, link had somewhat of a love interest. And then *poof* it was all a dream

@@FormedGlitch To be fair, Midna did almost the same thing. And Mipha died... dude can't catch a break.

That’s honestly better than making fans of the original think he had no problem killing everyone on the island in the original game

ReikokuXTaifuu different links though, doesn’t matter which incarnation he is, he’s always getting got

Samurai Skunk In the manga, it straight up breaks him and he even gives up before Marin herself reignites his resolve.

Botw refer

LOL XD

@@rolltide9897 this makes sense just that it would be very crazy

Suena loco pero qué pasa si es cierto

To elf years that is not even a month, lol.

Like the Windfish says, eventually all dreams must end. The nightmares invaded that realm and forced it stay in place, unchanging. Link merely restores the natural order.

Links the bad guy

No because it’s just a dream

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's not real to those living in it

@Kyle Hughes The Nightmares themselves believed their existence was tied to the Wind Fish continuing to sleep. That lends me to think that whatever "invaded" meant, they were still products of the Wind Fish who wished to continue existing along with the world they loved (granted, the world they wanted to rule with evil intent, but still). They held Koholint over their own existence. When defeated by Link, they lament Koholint fate over themselves. The whole situation is far from black and white. On one hand, you have the Wind Fish who is being kept in an eternal sleep and Link who might die the longer he's stuck on Koholint but on the other hand, you have the dream beings who are clearly sapient beings with lives and hopes for the future. Only the Nightmares had that awareness of Link's adventure being the end of all their lives, but I wonder how all of Link's friends would react if they knew Link would be ending all of their existences.

Scholar57 that’s why I always loved that you could perform the ballad of the wind fish in majora’s mask, it was such a treat of an easter egg since I had played the old school game boy game of this.

Coudn't said it better myself!

Marín did get her wish granted, a sad ending ends up being not so sad in the end :') she becomes a Seagull

How dare you make me cry

I unfortunately wasn't born when the original came out (I'm 2003). BUT with the power of emulators I played the original and the DX versions. LA is one of the old Zeldas I love

Zelda Universe I’ve played this game before as a GBC title, I know what happens, I’ve seen many times, and still tears came out of me, god damn it.

How'd you know

Yes I am.

Link has send them free beautiful ending😢

im really crying!!!

I was 9 when this game originally came out on the Gameboy, so hearing the original chiptune version had me squeeing!

Sweet Holy Jesus! This game was the first Legend of Zelda game I have ever played.

That was majestic

100% the best part of the entire game lol

Right in the feels!!

😆

That would be me if I was link

"We were born of nightmares... To take over this world, we made the Wind Fish sleep endlessly! If the Wind Fish doesn't wake up, this island will never disappear! We would have been the masters of this place... Wait, were you listening? Link? Where did you go?! Ah, guess we're the masters of this island now."

"Sleep forever Windfish" -Non Canon Manga Link.

In the revised ending, Link hires the guys from Inception to enter the Wind Fish’s dream and get rid of the Nightmares, so the old fish gets to keep on sleeping peacefully and Koholint becomes an island paradise. As for Link, he joins the island folk, becomes a local hero, and he and Marin become a couple. Link, Marin and Mamu the singing frog become an ocarina/vocal music sensation, and the game displays “The End” to an upbeat version of the Ballad of the Wind Fish as all the residents of Mabe Village and Animal Village have a luau and barbecue on Toronbo Shores. Or something like that...

ikr

I headcanon the Wind Fish gave him a lift back to Hyrule.

@@firstnamelastname1991 I wishfully headcanon that Marin and Link meet again in the real world now that she's become a physical seagull and that she isn't stuck like that form forever. It must really suck finding out that you were just a figment of a whale's dream.

@@markvo250 She probably got the mentality of a seagul. Meaning she will forget about her life ... Sad. But she will be happy being a seagull

Mark Vo there are seagulls around which means he is close to land 😂

Mario & Friends me too. But at least she made it off the illusion island and into the real world 😭

As a seagull. But I guess it’s better than nothing.

Aryll... she's always playing with seagulls

The seagull means she didn’t disappear but escaped

Gay😂

She was never real anyways. I have wanted to bring people from my dreams into the real world too, but it doesn't work like that. They don't exist.

Yup. That happens if you didn't even die in the whole game. Just like in the original GBC as well, it has the same scene.

In the Real original, she was an Angel , and in the dx version she turns into a bird

Well, the original gameboy game had the same cutscenes.. if you can count those 4 fps as such..

@@KunoMochi you can't deny those lead to something good

Well excuuuuuuse me, princess!

This would have been an incredible Ghibli feature. Takahata could have made an absolutely beautiful Zelda adaptation.

Yeah, be happy you caused an apocalypse. 😅

Such pieces of wisdom should never go unnoticed and should always be remembered by everyone forever

No.

Can't you be both?? :')

AB_ Fxx He didn’t really cause anything, it was all a dream. That’s like saying you waking up from a dream kills the people you had in it.

Marin: *smiles Link: This really wasn't worth it... Marin: *becomes a seagull and flies off Link: *OH THIS REALLY WASN'T WORTH IT!*

:'(

Marin: Did you do it? Link: ... Marin: What did it cost? Link: ...

ima fucking cry man

About 1180 rupees

I didn't know that! What a great metaphor

Im pretty sure its more over a metaphor for life and what lies beyond, but yes it works in the context of clearing games too. My pokemon yellow team were some of my closest friends as a 6 year old.

What a shitty metaphor, the message of the game it’s more powerful than that trash you mentioned

Se parece a la metafora que se relata en el poema de Minecraft.

Bruh we know you copied this from the comment in the links awakening ending for the gbc

All shall succumb to the siren song of Free Stuff.

_THIEF_

Lol

Normal conversati-*INSERT "THEIF"*

Hey... THEIF. You have stolen from the shop I see. Well, THEIF, you will pay. DID YOU HEAR?!? YOU. WILL. PAY.

Yeah! Me two

How about an Anime Movie

@ALongLeggedPissedOffPuertoRican the original trailer has the exact same art...

@@Toonlink196 There is already a manga.

@Long Legs It's supposed to be like that, what with the twist. Subtle hint that the island isn't what it seems.

I was a boy when I beat this game all those years ago. This just made me really happy that they added that for us.

Oh damn yeah! I played the original thanks to my dad that had saved the game with him all of the time since he got it! (Sorry for the bad grammar-)

I mean, it would just be weird to not include the reference

Omg YES! I just finished the game and didn't expect this! I really got emotional and teary eyed, the original Links Awakening (not DX) wasy my very first Zelda game my brother gave to me as a gift!

P A I N

Sad end, some shark eats her while a fly

How do you get the normal ending? I got this one and I didn't do anything special.

David Motola you get this one if you didnt die at all during your playthrough. The “normal” one is if you die at least once.

@@joaoguimaraes543 Is that a Road to El Dorado reference? XP

@@davidmotola1723 In order to achieve this ending you have to avoid dying.

Just as good as the original!

Indeed. It nearly brought a tear to my mighty eyes. Nintendo has done this game justice.

Магжан Жаксылык We’ve got a Hyrule to burn

@@markvo250 Shouldn't it be "We got a demon to burn" or something like that?

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 I was referencing setting things on fire in BOTW

@Mark Vo “We got a Kingdom to burn” would’ve been better I feel.

@@kwagz3314 Yours is definitely better sounding than saying a Hyrule

Same

How cringe

@@theoutsiderspost4982 imagine saying cringe

this comment made my eyes water, especially with the end music playing. why’d you have to do that

That's deep man

It reminds me of Ocarina of Time. That game feels like it was specifically made to be played with nostalgia.

Considering I first played this game when I was a little kid, could never beat it, and now finally beat it on Switch as an adult without knowing the ending, that comment really hits hard. I can't unsee that.

That sounds like a really fun idea! NINTENDO PLZ NAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG yes please!

Yes please. I need to see Moosh, Ricky, and Dimitri in a beautiful style like this. 😄 The dungeons too-- they were a lot of fun.

FUCK YEAH

@Gerry ArtuJerry why not Minish Cap tho? it's a good zelda game but sadly it's only on gba

Link gets depression and refusing to complete the quest, while the entire townsfolk tell him he needs to wake up a la "the accident wasn't your fault you need to let me go"

@@adriannaranjo4397, Ah yeah, Cagiva Ataru's manga iteration, right?

but... it does dude

it has manga for many games such as A Link to the Past, Four Swords, Twilight Princess & more

@@adriannaranjo4397 Hostia, un español.

I like Cheese at least she’s alive now as a seagull

@@truearea53 eren!!

Link? OH do you mean THIEF!?

"Nostalgia... unchanged... boo hoo..."

Like revisiting your childhood town everything is as you remember it but it all has a new coat of paint. I especially liked that all of the text be it from NPCs, monsters, etc. remained the same.

The game acknowledges this, or at least the original one did

@UltimateGeek Amazing. Everything you just said was wrong.

@UltimateGeek No, because I was just being goofy and you took offense.

@UltimateGeek I have...no comeback. *hunches over and meanders away*

UltimateGeek so I guess that means that, like, half of us, are fishes.

What is this quote? I know I will feel dumb for asking. And the this comment thread is hella old. But i gotta know. Lol

​@@c.d.3892it's a speech of Metal Gear Solid V

I feel that I could imagine Levi saying this...

I DON'T WANNA GO... I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING... MR. WIND FISH, PLEASE! I DON'T WANNA GO... I DON'T WANNA GO... I'M SORRY...

And link i mean thief ;) is thaonos

MAHAHA YOU JUST GOT THONST

😆

😂😂😂

Thanos: So is that like a normal thing or...

Sorry Thanos Link beat you to it.

@@yipps1171 Me: It was only a dream.

@Chris take the L so she was one of the seagulls then? Well it's not like link hasn't been into other species before

When I found out that was the case......... NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!! THERE'S NO REASON FOR ME TO GO, WHAT.... WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Chris take the L Is that even legit?... what...

I think he was talking about crazy Tracy

drag0nsku77 if you never read the “when link was at the beach talking to a marin and you’re on your way to the eighth dungeon when the owl said that she saying her song in front of the egg and talk to her again and she said that she made her wish in front of the egg. She’s a Seagull in the real world now, she’s the only survivor who made it off the illusion island

I mean the Oracle games take place after this with the updated timeline... And Seagulls are usually found close to shore, so he's probably not too far off.

@@jakev9702 no

@@nonoctoro4933 yes

Jacob V I thought the oracle games were before links awakening ?

@@bushisback112 In the Timeline of Hyrule Historia, Shogakukan recieved this game order from Nintendo and made their interpretation based on it. Hyrulr Encyclopedia changed that, the writters from the magazine Nintendo Dream interpreted the lore differently. Who is canon ? Well ... Nintendo, neither Shogakukan nor ND magazine. And in the game, the boat ending of the Oracle games leads to Link's Awakening.

She does become real if you beat the game without dying, her wish to be a seagull was granted and is able to exist after the island disappeared.

@@samuraidragon16 so she is seagull huh?

@@samuraidragon16 I can't date a seagull. =/

Nah dawg she a seagull now

@@Sleepless_Sam says who?

Im sure Link asks Zelda to dye her hair red, wear a simple blue sundress, and swing a giant bell flower around once in a while.

She did say in the game that she wanted to be able to turn into a seagull to fly as far and as long as she wants

Why, the only person that we couldn't save in the entire Zelda's Games. I regret over this years, when I played the old version and the new one, wake up the whale. I not a Hero, i fail her.

@@megax3937 Sigh, from I learned is that you can't save everyone but just because we couldn't save her it doesn't make you less of a hero, she will always be in our hearts

;_;

Actually, Link made it back to land.

UniqueSKD Dude it’s called a joke.

@@SegaNintendoGuy64 - I know. :)

r/whooosh

@@SegaNintendoGuy64 it's the "um actually" guy xd

most likely never cause of how bad the old Zelda cartoon was

Never

LINK FINALLY SPEAKS! And not in a jackassish way.

@Sentinel King WELL excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuiuiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me princess!

Cobalt Gears well excuuuuuuuuuuuuseee me princess

So fast

*That's how mafia works*

@@thegreatchaotix *that's how prosafia works*

Game isn't new idiot

geraldine woods Nah it’s new. The game itself is pretty new, the game that the game is remaking isn’t.

Old skool games babeh least it's a step up from a misspelled 'congratulations' screen

she asked the wind fish for a wish to be a seagull so she could leave the island. Look after the image.

Matthew Fornear dude this ending hurt my heart

Yes you're right, but what a wonderful picture..

Are you kidding? The secret ending goes right for the heart strings! T~T

I'd rather give that to FFX

@@Devolgalf But Tidus came back to life.

@@Devolgalf FFX is shit compared to this.

@@FelixS. Link's Awakening (Game Boy) is the first amazing game I've ever played, so you can guess how much I love it, and yet I think FFX has the most tragically beautiful ending I've seen in a VG. Some will say RDR, MGS3, SotC...

Devolgalf Well I disagree by heart. I found FFX overrated, absolutely linear tedious (no pun intended) and cliche. Even its bittersweet ending felt presictable to me and was retconned by X-2. Even within the FF series I think titles like VI, VII and IX were much more bittersweet regarding their endings (and absolutely obliterate X in all other aspects). Lets not Start about games in General. Then we have to consider endings like Silent Hill 2, MGS3, Xenosaga 3, Bioshock Infinite (especially its add ons), Links Awakening, Nier, Drakengard 3, RDR2 etc which wipe the floor with FFXs ending. My opinion.

-spits drink- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, NICE

I GIVE MY LIFE NOT FOR HONOR BUT FOR YOUUUUUU

VoxelFusion No she’s been reincarnated as a seagull

BUT YOU'RE SO SUPREEEEEEEME!

DinoLaris Thief not Theif

@@Tomatexyz thx for the reminder :D

Lmfao

Or vaati?

@ Definitely not.

lol

Do you mean a link between worlds?

No she WAS reincarnated. Thats why its a hidden ending, and in the DX/regular version, she literally transforms to a seagull or you see her flying with wings in the ending.

@@M3TALG0DSInteresting. I still need to play the gameboy versions

Hyrule Warriors

Da Mouse that’s what I’ve been thinking 😭

Malon and talon were the real world versions of Marin and tarin. Though a different link, he ended up finding his dream girl. The gossip stone, talon's "joke" about wanting link to marry malon and malon and link's interactions and what he likely became when he got a bit older strongly imply they do get together.

Least she returns! And I am happy to see that happen

I'm fucking dying

Greybeard: Alright, we're going to teach you to use your power, we just have to teach you how to say a couple words. *Link sweats profusely.*

Todd Howard strikes again

@@BlueShellshock You have a greater power than anything I know of. *Btw I hate you*

@@mistercheese134 Let the hate flow, young Jedi!

Well there isn’t any other thumbnail to show that would get views. Like the thumbnail looks interesting-> it’s gonna get clicks. Showing the in game stuff wouldn’t be as effective in stirring interest. The game is also pretty old so there isn’t much he can spoil.

@@jrcoolcat101 I mean, yeah, we know what the final boss look and does, but we don't know how he look in the remake, so its a spoiler in that sense.

Dexuz Yeah to be fair this isn’t a NSMBU to NSMBUD type of deal. This game is pretty old, so they couldn’t exactly... up the resolution and call it a day.

No doubt the fallen hero one lol

Well excuse me princess

Mah boi

Ruby’s

@@aatroxthedarkin7613 well exCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME

@@Xavier-cv2vw hahaha only few will know

Kind of hilarious ngl...

Oracle games are next, so he can’t die.

@@jacksonpriestap3685 I think those take place chronologically before this.

@Britt no they don’t, they updated it.

@Britt no they don’t, they updated it.

just like how Mega Man Volnutt is still on the Moon.

Same bro, same...

I cried a lot but I also cried in the breath of the wild champions ballad final song

Most likely because it's too early. I'm sure he won't keep this up for long before going back to old habits.

It's a remake of a 26 year old game... The ending was "spoiled" long before this.

Mark Haynes just because it’s old doesn’t mean it can’t be spoiled. There are tons of people who have never played or even heard of this game until the remake. For many people this will even be their first Zelda game. It’s not exactly like the story of Link’s Awakening is on par with “No, I am your father” in Star Wars. It’s not a part of the Zeitgeist in the same way. Sooo... yes the game absolutely can be spoiled.

@@lrc4263 He just said it was "spoiled" a long time ago. He never said it wasn't spoiled at all. Your spiel is next to worthless since you can still figure out who the Final Boss is if you search up Link's Awakening regardless.

@@AlvinEarthworm I never played the orginal and just beat it. It would have been a spoiler to me if I watched before playing

You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.

Kono dio da!