Zelda TOTK: 7 Incredibly Sneaky Easter Eggs They Didn't Think We'd Notice 

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OoT reference?

ohhhhhh!!! I get it because in OoT there was a boss battle that had that wasnt it?

@@josephjennings3146 Yes, the boss in Forest Temple is Phantom Ganon that leaps out of a painting during the first phase

I'm so happy you all get it! It's such a small detail, and I can't imagine many players have seen it, but it's such a neat little Easter Egg.

Yea, it's also in the memory where Link falls to the guardians, and also after you finish all 3 trials of the sword. Zelda mentioned in BOTW that supposedly the Link was supposed to be able to hear the voice in the sword, or something like that, and when Link falls, the sword, ahem Fi, tells her that its not too late and that he can be saved.

yeah i'm sure its supposed to be noticeable those times in botw and again when it happens in this game, its not a "subtle" one like the others in the list

It makes me sad that at the end of botw (spoilers if you aren't there yet) Zelda says she can no longer hear the voice inside the sword...

Also, much more importantly, Fi's theme us in TotK. In one cutscene with Zelda, you hear Fi's Themesong for a short bit. It touched me so deeply ^-^

Yes 🌸

WE WILL END THEM🌸🌹🌷💐🌺🪻🌻

You dare mock the son of a Shepard!?

Always

Who tf is Gannon? I only know Ganon😂

They thought about all these little details, so why the hell can't I tell anyone that I know exactly what happened to Zelda after seeing all the memories? Why Nintendo?!

​@@kisukoev Because saying "she's in the past" (or other spoilers) would likely cause mass panic. Better to just have everyone believe she's _merely_ missing.

@@kisukoev You can tell Impa at least

I love that.

@@SuperiorPosterior Not really, I'm wondering why you can't inform Paya as soon as you complete the Dragon's Tears Quest. It is stupid to lock Gear behind Progression.

Came here to say this. Link remembers!

Haha, I was so mad when all NPCs refered to it as Zelda's house. It is mine... I mean Link's! 😅😂

Yeah they totally missed that "Easter egg" is actually there to help you out with the News Coverage, and also there for you to be sure it was actually Zelda herself that helped those people

It’s not technically stolen, it’s just Link’s house. Link and Zelda are canonically in a relationship in ToTK, the voice actress for Zelda said so

That makes sense as the stable quests are to explore Zelda's life. Traysi wanted the lucky clover 🍀 gazette to investigate 🔎 "potential princess sightings" That's 1 of my fave parts of the game 🎮 especially w/ that reward, froggy 🐸 armor

@@spyderdyl5274 and as I recall Nintendo made her take that statement back.

I just about screamed when I heard her tbh I loved it

I won’t ruin it, but the moment in the last cutscene before the credits got me really good. I loved SS. 😊

I completely agree!! It was awesome! Kinda makes you tear up

Ok so I loved Skyward Sword but Fi was worse than Navi for interrupting shenanigans... I liked her character and quirks but they overused her and she popped up WAY WAY tooo often. Still it was sad to see her go and it's nice to hear the jingle once in a while. Though if I had to pick one I'd say Midna's notification sounds and chatter were best in class. Idk why but it still gives me chills. I miss Midna so much.

I like to believe since they were both 100 years old they just lived together like a retirement home. especially since she felt the need to make a secret bachelorette cave XD

​​@@joegamergamingwhat bothers me about this theory is that, the girl sweeping the floor inside the house says it's Zelda's house and he (Link) is welcome to stay. I mean, if he lived there with her, the girl sweeping would recognize it's the person who's been living there with Zelda, wouldn't she?

​@BennyBoyC6 Not necessarily, this is Link we're talking about. Usually he's out exploring and causing chaos.

So let's contrast Eggman's "parenting" vs Bowser's...

a question we can only assume the way Disney makes their heroes.

Proof that being a good parent is on a different tangent from being a villian. both can be true at the same time.

“Ganny, where are you going?” “I’m just going out with some friends to torment Hyrule.” “Not dressed like that you aren’t!”

Because a terrible parent isn't a fun villain, they're just a disappointment

It honestly humanizes him a bit, which is nice. Yeah he's all evil and stuff but he still has people he cares/cared about

I mean, in Wind Waker he mentions he wants to take over Hyrule because he wants his people to live in a less hostile environment. Though he gets VERY carried away with this

@@NeotheHero They could have just moved/j

yep now he's a dictator!!! sigmund freud would have a field day!!!

Makes me wonder how they were able to slip the Song of the Storms Easter Egg in Pikmin 4 upon collecting a treasure that looks like an old-fashioned music box innards.

And the one in Ocarina of Time uses a different form of Hylian that says "Ronron Miruku", which is "Lon Lon Milk" in Japanese.

and that was in BotW too

Excuse me what-

I'ma go check right now 😤

Crying omg that's so adorable 😭💞

This was my FAVORITE detail and I am glad someone else pointed it out and noticed. (WW was my first, don’t judge)

Btw, so close to a million subscribers! Happy to see you reach this milestone. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the week we will be there!

God I can't believe it took me a good 30 seconds to double take at the torch to realize it was Zelda's 😭💔

Yup, that Koholint one I recognized IMMEDIATELY. Not to be a snowflake, but as a kid that very scene and music fucked me up mentally. That tune that plays in the "Eastern" Shrine (we all know it's the south of the two) brings back some reeeeeeeeeeally bad juju for me. I also have had that moment burned in my head of the quote vanishing like a bubble on a needle. Called it out immediately on stream, too. Man, MM was the darkest game, but LA was pretty fucked up too in the background.

@@karanoelle4819 There's elements of cosmic horror in the idea of an entire island, packed full of people living their own lives, being nothing more than the figment of a deity's imagination -- the island _feels_ real, so if it's nothing but a dream, how can you ever be sure that _anything_ is real? Maybe Link himself is just the figment of _another_ being's imagination, and if he awakens his own dreamer, he'll vanish too; maybe we're _all_ the dreams of something beyond our understanding, destined to disappear without a trace when the cosmic alarm clock goes off. It's freaky stuff like that that kept young me awake at night.

@Nitrinoxus That's pretty much what the nightmares were telling him too. "If you wake the Wind Fish, everything will disappear. You, too, are part of his dream." Something like that. It leads to the whole "we live in a simulation" kinda thing. He'll, what if you were the only real person and this is a simulation? You are the only real person, and everyone is programmed so advanced that they are "human". They think they're alive and all that. But then, what makes you know you are real? What if you were programmed to think that? That game, I'm telling you. That game fucked me up as a kid. It's so heavy

@@karanoelle4819 And it only gets heavier when you revisit it years later, after having written a thesis paper on the inherent realness (or lack thereof) of simulated realities. Not a fun topic to mix with severe depression, I tell ya what. The only thing keeping it from spiraling into existential dread is that, fundamentally, it's a distinction without a difference. A simulated reality within another reality is still _real,_ by virtue of the fact that it _exists_ within the uppermost reality in the form of a simulation; even if you nested simulation inside simulation again and again, so long as at least _one_ reality exists to contain that stack of simulated realities, then the entire pile is as real as the reality hosting the first simulation in the group. Whether any given reality is the _true_ reality ultimately doesn't _matter._

Oh, I didn't notice that!

😮 I KNEW IT SOUNDED FAMILIAR BUT I COULDNT PLACE IT! THANK YOU

I also keep hearing the "Press A" beep from early Pokemon whenever I hear the Zonai robots speak.

i thought it sounded like the yugioh health points loss noise

thats so cool!!

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Not just those four, either -- I think there's actually _several_ chasms located where Shrines used to be. I'd have to go back and forth between the games to determine if there's any connection linking them all.

Mabe Village from Link's Awakening is in ruins too. Got super sad when stumbling upon that.

Those Guardians, they took everything from us…

(Though we subsequently concluded in the comments that the tune _they_ identify as either the Song of Storms or Windfish - which isn't the same one Luke plays here; that actually is Windfish - is actually Epona's Song.)

I heard him hum Kass' theme and had to record the Clio on my switch it was so cute.

I always hear Link's Awakening's dungeon/boss music in the jingle that plays every time Link pulls out the Purah Pad.

I love hearing him hum

I noticed that yesterday and was really delighted.

Nintendo's lawyers are clearly more powerful than theirs

Yup, can confirm.

That's no easter-egg at all. An easter-egg refers to something.

@@sidnew2739 From Wikipedia "An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another - usually electronic - medium." That definition doesn't say that it has to refer to something, only that it has to be hidden...you know, like an actual Easter egg.

Other than the fact that it forces you to go through a specialist just to put a hood down, I guess?

…I've been dreading going into that well (which I thankfully haven't found anyway yet) because of that…

@@CindyHelms there’s no gloom hands (which makes me a little sad tbh, i was hoping for a deadhand reference) but yeah there’s blood splattered on the walls, making totk (with ganondorf bleeding twice and… this) the first zelda game with blood since mm3d (unless you count link’s open wound in the mipha cutscene in botw)

Well, it is a _bit_ meta. Most of the other ones (though not all of them) are tunes that exist in-world, particularly the ones from Ocarina. It makes sense those are things Link would hum. But, the theme song that only ever plays during the intro sequence to _the game we're currently playing..._ that raises some questions! Does it mean that Link is somehow AWARE that he's in a video game? Has he _always_ known? Is he cognizant of all of the different versions of him that have existed over the franchise's lifespan?

@@ferd617 Except, as I said, the song appears in the games in lore itself thanks to Kass playing it for Link. As the game assumes all shrines were completed in Breath of the Wild (including Champion's Ballad if the game detects it on your save file), that means Link heard Kass play the melody in the Song of the Hero. While I can see your argument for it being "a _bit_ meta," but as the tune has shown up in music that the characters can hear as opposed to solely being in the games' soundtracks, the theory you posit is built on a false premise, as each and every tune he hums was as you put it "in-world" in one of the games prior. Really, if any of the melodies Link hums were to serve as the basis of your theory regarding memories from other bearers of the Soul of a Hero, I'd think it'd be the Ballad of the Wind Fish or maybe Saria's Song. The former was sung by a maiden a Link encountered in a sleeping deity's dream-realm while the latter was a song only known to friends of Saria herself and Darunia; the only connection we have to Saria is the Koroks and Grandpa Deku Tree, while Darunia probably didn't pass that song down through the Goron people (though we can't say for sure). ...What we need now is for some RU-vidr to do a song-by-song analysis of the lore to see which songs most likely could have been passed down through the ages from previous games. Here's hoping 8-Bit Music Theory is making another Zelda video! XD

Maybe, but I think he just gave her the house if anything. If he's still the owner, then he would still be able to sleep there right? Also, certain side quests wouldn't mean anything if that was still his house.

@@densuomega he can still sleep there...

@@PinkTuskedMammoth Oh you're right, didn't know that. My point still stands I think, I'm pretty sure he gave the house to her.

Supporting this is the fact that the table is set for two people and Zelda apparently saw the need to have her study created as a separate part for the house (down the well) including a journal she writes stuff she wants to keep secret from Link in (the new Champions Tunic).

You forget that Link is Z's personal knight bodyguard. He is with her nearly at all times, so he has to be using it as much as she does.

it’s the king’s tomb, too!

Always

There was one of those Ultra Hands hidden in Majora's Mask 3D, behind the counter of the Bomb Shop.

Here’s one for the Asstootiest of the LoZ fans: Rauru, Saria, Ruto, and Mido in OoT are actually named after the towns in Zelda II.

I'm convinced that Rauru IS the Sage of Light from Ocarina of Time, in a more Hylian form.

What’s underneath them? I don’t have the game, so i can’t check myself.

Turns out a lot more people in this series seem to reincarnate than just Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf.

Beedle, for example. Clearly he's just as important as any legendary figure.

Tingle too

@@wesnohathas1993 Beadle, Tingle, and Impa are also good examples.

Dlc?

I know, it's almost like the games were made with the same engine and assets. 🤔

they weren't "cold proof trousers", it was a shirt called "warm doublet" (it did give cold resistance though) King Rhoam's grave was also in BotW, atop Mount Hylia (the mountain that you're referring to) i can believe them deciding to add the royal claymore for the reason you stated

@@megamegatron99 You're right, it was the doublet. I don't know why I remembered it being trousers. Weird. Guess it's just been quite a while since I played BOTW.

IIRC, that rock is also exactly the same as the ones in the graveyard in Kakariko Village. Though that may only be in BOTW, it occurs to me I haven't checked to see if the Kakariko graveyard survived the ring ruins falling in TOTK.

@@mattjones5455 They did. There is even a minor event where the father who was blackmailed by the Yiga in BotW can't visit his wife's grave with their children due to the floating ruins being off limits and blocking the way. Once access to the floating ruins are restored he now visits the grave with the children.

I haven't found it yet… (thankfully) so I don't know if it's in the same location or not … And I. Am. DREADING. It…!

i know for certain that in BotW, Link only hums 1 tune, and it's just kinda generic humming and not a discernable song

​@@megamegatron99apparently that whistle in botw is a part of epona's song.

Oh, 100% and I love it

Wonder if Kingdoms Of Amular will make a return to the channel to celebrate 🎉 Poor Luke if so and he’s dragged along 😅

Take it you decided to try and attack her enough times to find out he does hit her occasionally 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Hmm have you watched mety999 video where zelda completely ingnores him getting killed

Poor Luke 😅 think Ellen happily would since she loves the original seemingly about as much as she loves adorable animals: Especially cats 🐈 😊 to the point she actually cried at points playing through Stray 😅

I think it's a result of ragdoll physics. That's not exactly an uncommon death pose, if memory serves.

@@Chaos89P Like I said, it could be. But the reason I've mentioned it here because sometimes I've seen him go from fully splayed out and then shift into that pose. It caught my eye and I just thought it was interesting.