I can't decide if this is more hilarious than cool looking or the other way around. The cigar, the arena, the sheer absurdness of Kaepora with a huge humanoid body is hilarious, but the animations, the sound design, the setting, and how imposing he looks is so cool. And it's a well-designed boss all around.
When Kaepora Gaebora turned heel in the late 90s, nobody was expecting it. We all know Link should have been disqualified for pulling out the light arrows, but Vince wanted a new baby face at the time.
@@omanophil Killer Instinct did have a SNES version, but I think the version of the main theme here is from the original arcade version. It sounds so crisp!
Fr tho, usually i never use fairies for these showcases but i got sick of that phase 2 laser instantly killing me with such a short visual indicator lol.
Dude, this is the kind of stuff that the programmers had wet dreams about when ocarina of time was released! If they could see this back then, it'd blow their minds 😤
I clicked on this for the ridiculous meme of it, but holy shit, this is sick. The music, the crowd, the environment, the CUSTOM MECHANICS! The rope bouncing technique is cool as hell.
The moment I saw machoman owl, I knew this fight was gonna be unhinged. As unhinged as it is though, part of me finds this boss fight weirdly fitting, given the goofy nature of some of the Zelda games sometimes have.
This is the real reason why the Gods made time travel impossible. If i had played this in the old N64 days, my childhood self couldn't bear to experience this level of unexpected satisfaction without it making literally everything else for the rest of my life seem unfathomably less cathartic by comparison.
Man i played sc3 first on ps2! Got that olcadan nostalgia but now all my ps2 games lost in thrown out due to a renovation in 2019 :( Olcadan is a chad. Kaepora ..... Is the Ultimachad! The ultimate human life form
Everyone’s talking about how he has too much HP but that’s the point. You keep spamming A which makes the dialogue drag on forever, and likewise, the fight also goes on forever, until you’ve literally broken the NPC itself. He cannot go on spouting the same dialogue over and over, his second phase is his last. By spamming B instead of A, you defeat Kaepora Gaebora through brute force, something players could never hope to do. Truly peak characterization.
It’s a Dark Souls 3 boss down to the slow moveset, abnormal height, and HP sponginess. I think they could probably have made him faster and more-damaging but lower-HP (kind of the approach in Elden Ring).
It would make for such a phenomenal item and dungeon in a real game. Imagine poles you can wrap rope between to get across places and bounce stuff like pinballs and all sorts. Puzzles based around moving the poles to reposition, enemies you need to bounce over, making impromptu barriers. It seems like such a potentially flexible and fun mechanic.
@@Duskaria oh, apparently the gerudo mask buffs your other swords to biggoron's strength with the member card (fighter card) So that plus the rope jump attacks should make quick work of him
I've been trying to think of a comment that could meaningfully articulate how floored I am by this, but nothing really does it justice. So instead, here's a list of things I audibly yelled out loud while I was watching this, in no real order: "Wait are those smash brothers sound eff--YO WHAT THE FUCKING SUPLEX" "Oh my god why is the model animation that smooth" "Holy fuck you can go off the ropes?!" "Oh okay so you can block hi--DID HE JUST TAKE THE SHIELD" "This soundtrack goes crazy wtf" "Jesus that is so insanely clean looking" "Of course there's a fucking phase 2" "Oh my god that light arrow dodge" "Fucking hell man, you're getting worked" "Oh thank god he's got fairies" "WHY DOES THE BIRD HAVE A FUCKING STAND" "Did he just FUCKING JUGGLE YOU OFF THE ROPES" "Is this even really a fucking Zelda game anymore" "WHAT IS THAT LASER SHIT HELLO" I probably forgot some of them, idk, I'm about to go back and watch this again.
I was expecting something similar to the final boss of Banjo-Tooie, where dialogue interrupts the fight every so often and your choice dictates whether the boss attacks faster or slower. How I was imagining it would play out was that every so often Kaepora would start going on some tangent or tirade, and end with a text window similar to 'do you want to hear what I said again' but it would randomly be either 'do you want me to hold back' or 'do you want me to go all out', but there would actually be two different versions of each, one where 'yes' was above 'no', with each choice setting the boss to a either a faster or slower attack state depending on the question and the chosen answer. Or heck, to really mess with people, have a few different 'speeches' show up randomly, with each one having either 'slow' or 'fast' somewhere in them written in red and have the whole speech be skippable text, and then at the end he's ask 'do you want me to act how I said' with the choices 'yes' or 'no', with said choices corresponding appropriately to whichever word was in the speech. Mind you, all this went through my head before I saw it was an owl-headed ganon-voiced buff dude wrestling match.
Finally! We can get revenge of all the times that Kaepora had to make us tap the A button only to accidentally say yes just to make him repeat everything again. 😂
I litterly have no words for how well this romhack is made, the background moutains, the mechanics of the stage, the mechanics of the boss, THE MUSIC, Link's outfit, i would have lost it as a kid if i played this fight instead of Ganondorf! This is pure epicness!🔥
The ring mechanic is amazing. Also the fact that you control the tempo is awesome. No waiting for the boss to use a certain move, just hitting him as hard as you can whenever you think you can get away with it.
The fact this exists at all brings me great joy. What a good bit. What commitment to see it realized, what execution! This is the kinda passion proper AAA games can never capture.
I enjoyed this so damn much. Lost my shit when he asked the question and then suddenly BAH GAWD IT'S A NO HOLDS BARRED ANYTHING GOES SLOBBERKNOCKER and then halfway through when the KI music kicked in...What a ride lol.
As a big oot fan holy shit this boss is pushing the limit of the engine, I’d love to know how he gave Kaepora those animations and how they made link able to bounce off the edges of the ring
Bro got tired of having to repeat himself every time we hit yes
thats actually his secret attack. Dialog Lock
Oh my gosh i cant tell you how i just wanted to punch my own face for pressing yes just to see his dialogue all over again.
@@lastsigil7241can't even deny that i did that so many times. I played very young and HATED the reading 😅
Il en a fait des cauchemar
Same.
Kaepora could've folded ganondorf like a napkin this whole time
Nu-uh! My King of Evil has the Triforce of Power (and he's also buff 🤭) he can beat that bird brain! That owl talks too much anyway, haha
Nah uh this boi is god of.thr longest texts and undying power.
Fr sent link on that unnecessary ahh adventure. Lost his whole childhood and everything smh
@@Dreamr4life1 down horrendous
@@humayazdani554 that's why he die by Ganondorf because nobody likes his long texts 💀 such an annoying birdbrain
WHAT??? That new wrestling mechanic is madness
WWE mechanics in zelda 64 is nuts 😂
@@bradyonetv Isn't that Crocodile Cacaphony?
@@SplatterCaptainthe very one
Madness... THIS IS HYRUUUUULE!
It's amazing what people can do when it comes to modding ocarina of time
"He's just an owl, how hard can it be?"
"OH NO! HE'S HOT!"
Squidy
Except he snapped one day
Kaepora be like "you're gonna listen to what I said again or else!"
My favorite part is that if you keep listening he just never stops talking lol
... _puts on magic armor_
Or else what
Aww God no.. he's gonna bore us to death with his long never ending monologues!
@@al.mandez6721I have a thesis on Darth plaguis the wise...
@@bradyonetv profound wisdom irl
Sometimes I just wonder:
Imagine having a time machine and go back to Nintendo's HQ in 1996/1997 just to show them something like this.
They’d explode
They would Hunt you Down, Nintendo would GO MAD
They'll throw you to jail 😂😂
SUE THIS MADMAN! seriously Nintendo would just sue you. Fanmade games? You better run for your life
Their cross bows will armed.
I can't decide if this is more hilarious than cool looking or the other way around. The cigar, the arena, the sheer absurdness of Kaepora with a huge humanoid body is hilarious, but the animations, the sound design, the setting, and how imposing he looks is so cool. And it's a well-designed boss all around.
Missed opportunity to have him talk the entire fight
Listen to this again
No, this is a owl who's tired of repeating himself
He just blocks the screen with speech text during the fight. The only way to defeat him is to get Navi to talk back at him.
hahaha making the dialogue freeze link if he accidentally hits yes
or takes to long to hit no.
@@MaskedImposter Sounds like a TerminalMontage skit
When he lit the cigar I was expecting a 30 minute long Kojima cutscene - will take killer instinct music tho.
That was King K. Rool boss fight for DK2.
Thanks, I was trying to figure out where that song was from. I want to play Killer Instinct now.
...that ain't no cigar bro
@@aperkinson46 To be blunt, I'm not sure.
@@lastsigil7241 and the ring is sorta like DK64 K. Rool but this is way more dynamic. Still wondering what that musical reference in there is...
When Kaepora Gaebora turned heel in the late 90s, nobody was expecting it. We all know Link should have been disqualified for pulling out the light arrows, but Vince wanted a new baby face at the time.
Not to mention, Russo had some hairbrained ideas for him also.
@@uriahedwardsyeah I fucking hated that triforce on a pole match he booked
@uriahedwards Shitstain just wanted to see Zelda and Mallon fight in bikinis. Of course, Vince didn't care because it was drawing him money.
@@DangoUnchained 😂😂😂
The first sentence of this is epic
3:33 - Bro really hit him with the "You won't be needing this"
Not that he blocked anything anyway. 😂
I didn't know he could do that when I fought him.
i didnt see that the first time i watched it, this whole battle is fuckin hilarious
"One of us is walking out of here with the belt, and the other one's getting RAWKED!"
-Rawk Hawk
😂😂😂 Paper Mario reference, right?
@@ronaldbrooks4599 yep lol
"You want to hear what I said again?"
"Fine bro, your going down."😂😂😂
"All dreams have meaning."
My dream:
This is totally like a dream lol
When Rawk Hawk's brother pays a visit.
That's HIS MENTOR! Meanwhile, Zelda is looking for the Strength giving machine to SHUT IT DOWN! Just like Paper Mario.
Power Owl
I was gonna say that Rawk Hawk finally has a worthy opponent
😂😂
hell yeah!
I love just how polished this is for something so hilariously stupid.
I mean, when you think about it, especially in that context, it's basically a variation of doing the Majora final boss fight again.
Majora's Wrath is pure madness, this, hilarious.
What I've learned with meme hacks are they're ether poorly created or well done no in-between
0:47 DKC2- Crocodile Cacophony
4:27 Killer Instinct - Main Theme
Thank you.
SNES osts were something else
@@omanophil Killer Instinct did have a SNES version, but I think the version of the main theme here is from the original arcade version. It sounds so crisp!
It was so epic when the Killer Instinct theme came in
I've never played killer instinct but to me it just sounded so familiar at the same time too
Jesus he had more hp than kingdom hearts sephiroth.. least fairys have a purpose now i guess lol
Fr tho, usually i never use fairies for these showcases but i got sick of that phase 2 laser instantly killing me with such a short visual indicator lol.
Keep it up bro really loving ur deep dives in oot rom hack content for those of us 2 old to play good anymore lol@@bradyonetv
you think it would have taken 5 minutes with the biggoron sword?
At least with that fight you can visually see the progress you’re making… after a combo or two, that is.
Dude, this is the kind of stuff that the programmers had wet dreams about when ocarina of time was released!
If they could see this back then, it'd blow their minds 😤
I clicked on this for the ridiculous meme of it, but holy shit, this is sick. The music, the crowd, the environment, the CUSTOM MECHANICS! The rope bouncing technique is cool as hell.
I really hope to see that rope bounce mechanic used in other mods, its really an interesting element to add to zelda combat!
The moment I saw machoman owl, I knew this fight was gonna be unhinged.
As unhinged as it is though, part of me finds this boss fight weirdly fitting, given the goofy nature of some of the Zelda games sometimes have.
This would make so much more sense if it was like a goron and not Kaepora Gaebora
@@brandonbrooks779Zelda: hit him with the chair, Link!
Link: huh?
Gabora bodyslams Link causing him to lose hearts
This is the real reason why the Gods made time travel impossible. If i had played this in the old N64 days, my childhood self couldn't bear to experience this level of unexpected satisfaction without it making literally everything else for the rest of my life seem unfathomably less cathartic by comparison.
Dude went from "clippy in bird form" to "Olcadan on steroids" REAL quick
Brooo I haven't thought of Olcadan in YEARS. Great reference lmao
@@Sykroid I'm just grateful SOMEONE got it 😆
Man i played sc3 first on ps2! Got that olcadan nostalgia but now all my ps2 games lost in thrown out due to a renovation in 2019 :(
Olcadan is a chad.
Kaepora ..... Is the Ultimachad! The ultimate human life form
I wish Soulcalibur would bring Olcadan back again. Him fighting against Edge Master or Algol would be epic.
Link is in soulcalibur 2 and can make him in 3
Everyone’s talking about how he has too much HP but that’s the point. You keep spamming A which makes the dialogue drag on forever, and likewise, the fight also goes on forever, until you’ve literally broken the NPC itself. He cannot go on spouting the same dialogue over and over, his second phase is his last. By spamming B instead of A, you defeat Kaepora Gaebora through brute force, something players could never hope to do. Truly peak characterization.
It’s a Dark Souls 3 boss down to the slow moveset, abnormal height, and HP sponginess. I think they could probably have made him faster and more-damaging but lower-HP (kind of the approach in Elden Ring).
Imagine he said "do you want to listen to that again?" And then it just repeats like every zelda game when you beat the boss. Nothing changes
The rope mechanic in an ancient nintendo 64 game is sorcery
It would make for such a phenomenal item and dungeon in a real game. Imagine poles you can wrap rope between to get across places and bounce stuff like pinballs and all sorts. Puzzles based around moving the poles to reposition, enemies you need to bounce over, making impromptu barriers. It seems like such a potentially flexible and fun mechanic.
@@LolaliciousSmiley wow you're right, that sounds fun as heck
@5:49 lol that deserved a Soul Calibur RING OUT
The fact that link is in soulcalibur 2 makes it funnier
Vs...Olcadan 😅
0:49 DKC 2 final boss music?!?!? Sign me up
This is canon!!!
Just that one line, "Would you like to hear what i said again?" delivers a chill.
Yeah that was nice
I was like oh shit it’s gonna go down
lol, these Ocarina of Time modders are on another level of creativity and insanity
Dat overhead slam, Link's got reinforced heart's and ate dirt. Gg committing
Omg I love the interaction with the ropes around the ring! The way Link slingshots off of them looks like so much fun 🤩
can tell he's not really an owl with how his head doesn't turn enough @0:40
LOL
Yeah you’re right he should be able to spin it around
The music made my little SNES heart so happy
Fucking hell mans been to the best gym in Hyrule
The cigar transition is the cherry of the cake, honestly 😂 the dkc and KI music, everything is so hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Zelda 64 modding got amazing this is incredible we live in the future now. 😮
I’m Just like how is this possible
Bro has been drinking Fight Milk.
This is the price we pay for skipping the dialogue.
Showed this to grandpa and it blew his mind.
A wise owl saying "bro" ruins it for me
Buff humanoid Kaepora Gaebora makes me uncomfortable
Half his HP and it'll be a funny novelty fight, but this goes on so long the joke turns into "my god when is this over"
Well, that's what the Shadow Blade (biggoron's sword) is for
Only need 50 of 150 skulls to afford it, 125 for the final reward
I think you're also intended to get multi hit jump attacks (up to 4) from rope backflips
My thoughts exactly.
Make him hit harder but die quicker.
I was surprised his grapple only did one heart
@@Duskaria oh, apparently the gerudo mask buffs your other swords to biggoron's strength with the member card (fighter card)
So that plus the rope jump attacks should make quick work of him
Would you like to fight me again?
Yes.
No.
THIS PRISON....
TO HOLD....
ME?!?!
0:47 for an entrance is effin gold
8:43 epic jumping attack
Perfection!
Final fantasy eat your heart out
2:37 ¡SUPLEX!
My jaw dropped
Link: GULAAAAIIIAAAAHHHHH!!!
I've been trying to think of a comment that could meaningfully articulate how floored I am by this, but nothing really does it justice. So instead, here's a list of things I audibly yelled out loud while I was watching this, in no real order:
"Wait are those smash brothers sound eff--YO WHAT THE FUCKING SUPLEX"
"Oh my god why is the model animation that smooth"
"Holy fuck you can go off the ropes?!"
"Oh okay so you can block hi--DID HE JUST TAKE THE SHIELD"
"This soundtrack goes crazy wtf"
"Jesus that is so insanely clean looking"
"Of course there's a fucking phase 2"
"Oh my god that light arrow dodge"
"Fucking hell man, you're getting worked"
"Oh thank god he's got fairies"
"WHY DOES THE BIRD HAVE A FUCKING STAND"
"Did he just FUCKING JUGGLE YOU OFF THE ROPES"
"Is this even really a fucking Zelda game anymore"
"WHAT IS THAT LASER SHIT HELLO"
I probably forgot some of them, idk, I'm about to go back and watch this again.
Bringing this to the top for anyone looking.
1st Song : Crocodile Cacophany - Donkey Kong Country 2
2nd Song : Killer Instinct - Main Theme
The real final boss of OoT
Man this looks absolutely amazing and having the final boss music from DKC 2 is the icing on the cake
I was expecting something similar to the final boss of Banjo-Tooie, where dialogue interrupts the fight every so often and your choice dictates whether the boss attacks faster or slower. How I was imagining it would play out was that every so often Kaepora would start going on some tangent or tirade, and end with a text window similar to 'do you want to hear what I said again' but it would randomly be either 'do you want me to hold back' or 'do you want me to go all out', but there would actually be two different versions of each, one where 'yes' was above 'no', with each choice setting the boss to a either a faster or slower attack state depending on the question and the chosen answer. Or heck, to really mess with people, have a few different 'speeches' show up randomly, with each one having either 'slow' or 'fast' somewhere in them written in red and have the whole speech be skippable text, and then at the end he's ask 'do you want me to act how I said' with the choices 'yes' or 'no', with said choices corresponding appropriately to whichever word was in the speech.
Mind you, all this went through my head before I saw it was an owl-headed ganon-voiced buff dude wrestling match.
How Nintendo intended for the Rawk Hawk fight to feel.
What in gawds name has modding done
haha ikr i feel like even in just this past few years its been getting crazy
DeComp changed everything
give us the best we can have
Something better than Nintendo could ever do
I love the modding community.
This would have probably been a boss in Conker’s Other Bad Fur Day.
*“You thought Dragmire worked ALONE?”*
"In video games, you can be and do Anything!"... was fighting a giant humanoid owl in a boxing ring one of the possibilities?
I just LOVE the songs people come up with in these ROMhacks. They severely underrated imo. This stuff is amazing!
2nd phase was the Joe Rogan Experience.
Finally! We can get revenge of all the times that Kaepora had to make us tap the A button only to accidentally say yes just to make him repeat everything again. 😂
I can't believe a joke boss like this had so much effort put into it. Like it looks like a genuinely fun boss fight with its own custom mechanics.
That finishing move was absolutely mad 👌👌👌👌
Poetic because he's meant to be a proxy physical version in Hyrule, of the sage of Freaking LIGHT!
Amazing
I forget what the music is referencing in the first phase of the battle @2:16 - I've heard bands play it at sporting events tho
Apparently it comes from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Its the final boss of dkc 2
King K Rool
Crocodile Cacaphony from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kongs Quest
0:49 when the preworkout kicks in
Love the 2nd form transition with killer instinct music ramping up
Oh goodness. Between the ring's rope and that hulking owl that will make finally pay attention of what he say, that was crazy
I litterly have no words for how well this romhack is made, the background moutains, the mechanics of the stage, the mechanics of the boss, THE MUSIC, Link's outfit, i would have lost it as a kid if i played this fight instead of Ganondorf! This is pure epicness!🔥
Bro the backflip off the ropes into a jump attack must feel like the CLEANEST thing ever. I need to play this now.
The ring mechanic is amazing.
Also the fact that you control the tempo is awesome. No waiting for the boss to use a certain move, just hitting him as hard as you can whenever you think you can get away with it.
The fact this exists at all brings me great joy. What a good bit. What commitment to see it realized, what execution! This is the kinda passion proper AAA games can never capture.
Went from Owl to Kinnikuman real quick
I enjoyed this so damn much. Lost my shit when he asked the question and then suddenly BAH GAWD IT'S A NO HOLDS BARRED ANYTHING GOES SLOBBERKNOCKER and then halfway through when the KI music kicked in...What a ride lol.
Jeez, I can't! 🤣🤣🤣
That minute intro alone has me dying!
That Donkey Kong country 2 boss music is insane
You have a piece of the tri-force. Kaepora will TRY FORCE.
You know what, this boss has good animations. Its not stupid,jank, and slow like a lot of other ones
The cigar caught me so off guard lmao. Bro was not playin around. “YOU WILL LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY OR YOULL LISTEN TO THESE HANDS”
This is creative and well done and hilarious
2:50 Doc Ock just casually watching in the background
The Donkey Kong Country 2 final boss music fits so weirdly well for the first phase. Great choice of music
Search King K Harkinian and it will blow your mind.
This is what my dreams sometimes look like
OK, I want the Killer Instinct theme to start whenever I spark up a joint from now on.
so we have a literal gigachad owl
whats next?
Bombchu lady on the wall is a nice touch
King Rauru got tired of telling link stuff
As a big oot fan holy shit this boss is pushing the limit of the engine, I’d love to know how he gave Kaepora those animations and how they made link able to bounce off the edges of the ring
This Kapitain K Rool theme is SICK AF!! Thank you, sir, for one more incredible mod
THE KILLER INSTINCT MUSIC LMFAOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SO EPIC AND HILARIOUS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
wasn't expecting such a strong finishing move of emotional damage by the boss
bro Turok 2 hub music at the end with OOT sound font HELL YESS
this is equally hilarious as it is a masterpiece
Love the Killer Instinct OST kicking in during the second phase lmao
I won't lie, I was happy to be alive during this entire boss fight. Second phase floored me.
This is actually really impressive. I have to play these Zelda rom hacks, people must be telling some really cool stories with these resources
Just incredible! The amount of effort that went into the absurdity is absolutely incredible and worthy of acclaim!
This giving regular show vibes in Zelda form
MORDECAI! RIGBY!
DEFEAT KAEPORA GAEBORA OR YOU'RE FIRED!
Link never seen wrestling ropes a day in his life yet he utilized it to an advantageous degree.
That’s how powerful the Triforce of Courage is.
Imagine this as the TLB after beating Ganondorf
Could someone create a giant Redead/Gibdo boss fight next, please? Spawning Redead minions everywhere, of course.
Hell yes, this right here
@@bradyonetv ?
@@Venat18i was just saying i agreed and liked your idea
@@bradytwotv OK buddy