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In totk and botw this is a Ganondorf not connected to the others and the timeline. Totk and botw is set in essentially a reboot timeline, skyward likely still happened but rest do not. This is not any disrespect nor debunking your view, totk makes it pretty clear that it is a reboot. Of course this is my look into totk and botw and where they fit, to me it is Aonuma and miyamoto saying fuck timeline let us reboot it
But I do agree this boss battle of Ganondorf is epic! And like his we incarnation and Tp incarnation he dies and stays dead. His katana like weapon is cool so is his guan Yu looking spear and his club and bow all which have Asian inspiration. The spear is modeled after a guan dao a Chinese weapon, gloom sword is modeled after a katana, gloom club is modeled after a kanabo a club, demon king bow is modeled after a yumi bow. This is by far my fave Ganondorf mainly cause Matthew Mercer voices him lol
WHY ARE YOU ALL MAKING THIS MISTAKE of thinking "Oh they said founding this must mean right after skyward sword but that doesn't make sense so make it convoluted and declare a 4th timeline" INSTEAD OF JUsT THINKING "man hyrule must have ceased between the classic games and botw and totk and then refounded
Ganon is one of the greatest villains in nintendo, don't get me wrong, but: "no other villain in nintendo tops the level of raw evil this man has unleashed" *Porky from Mother 3 says hello.*
I love this final boss version of ganondork especially his second form where he fully awakens his full demon king powers, with that flowing blood red hair and those horns... ehm, anyway i love how the epic skills which made link such an epic royal knight, i.e. flurry rushing, are now somthing you as the player have to fight against and then on top of that certain moves inflict PERMANETE unrecoverable damage! SO FU(K!NG COOL! A+ Boss Battle! However i wish they would have gone 1 step further then i could have given it an S or maybe even S+ score! [ V 5 Phase final battle idea!] I would have had the "Gloom Spit" coming from the Demon Dragon (after link damages the 1st "eye") land on (D) Zelda, mentioning that the willpower of the demon king being so strong that even after draconification his conciousness refuses to be supressed (or somthing to that effect), and... Phase 1 spawn (on D zelda's back) a mix of blue & silver bokos and blue moblins Phase 2 (2nd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, and black lizalfos Phase 3 (3rd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, silver lazalfos, and a silver boko boss phase 4 (all 4 eyes destroyed, before link attackes sacred stone)spawn (10 hands) gloom spawn all attacking (D) Zeldas face A. when link approaches (5) hands split off and come after link! B. (link defeats gloom spawn [5]) spawn phantom ganon (1/2 health bar W/ G-spear) C. (link reduces PG health bar 50%) (2 hands) part of 2nd half of gloom spawn moves from zelda's face to (Main) PG's side become 2x PGs w/ G-spears (M) PG, w/ full health bar, and w/ G-sword) spear PG's will agressively assault link, (M) PG may attempt to attack link while he is busy with spear PG's (if link perfect dodge on (M) PG and attempts to flurry rush spear PG will rush link canceling FR) link defeats (2x spear PG's then reduces (M) PG's health bar by 50%) D. (M) PG stumbles back and summons remaining (3x hands) gloom spawn (2x G-spear + 1x G-sword) to his side, (M) PG's health bar is now 150%, (i.e. 2nd form ganon) is weilding G-club, and is capable of flurry rushing link. Link defeat (2x spear PG & 1x Sword PGs) then defeat (M) PG (full bar) Phase 5 destroy sacred stone!
I like the fact that Ganondorf breaks established rules that monsters follow. He does it by playing the game like Link. He swaps weapons, uses some BS to increase his health bar too high, uses flurry rush.
I thought it was super menacing when his healthbar went across the screen. He also proves that flurry rush is a real thing in universe. Moments of blending game mechanics with story like this really show off video game’s untapped storytelling potential as an interactive medium.
I like to imagine that everything in hyrule slows down whenever someone does a flurry rush. Imagine just living your life and every 5 minutes time just slows down for 7 seconds and there's nothing you can do about it. It's especially bad in bullet time...
@@kirby_says_poyo Imagine it it happened during something painful. Somewhere out there there’s a Hylian woman in labor, and she suffers for 10x longer than she has to because Link is out hunting Lynels.
The flurry rush got me 'OH FUCK HE'S GONNA KILL ME AAAJXJSGAHSGAKAGS'. Man, it's such a good fight! And the healthbar? Holyshit. Don't get me wrong, the fight isn't THAT difficult (I personally think it doesn't even have to be), but the tension is just so good.
Alot of people are talking about the fight and the final boss, but not enough people are giving due credit to the lead up to Ganondorf, it was perfect, I haven't felt the same anticipation for a boss since I was a kid, the descent into darkness, the eerie music building up, the fact that the environment changes entirely to gloom roots, the black fog on the ground, there was something very final about approaching his lair, we all know link was going to succeed but they made you feel like link was walking to his death.
I just wish we could have fought dehydrated ganondorf, like, maybe he doesn't even bother standing up to fight you because he still considers you weak by comparison to his greatness and you have to climb that throne pillar he made himself repeatedly to get hits before he blasts you back. When you finally draw blood he goes into the phase 1 we got. It'd also make the dragon fight even more shocking, because like, Nintendo does three phases, and demon king form feels final form as all heck
Ι had the same. And then I realized that I had, like, 50 instant pots and 30 sundelions, so I started cooking right outside of the boss room, and TA-DAH!
@@danifaragoi3709 I 1000% agree. I prefer dehydrated ganondorf way more than rehydrated. though 4 playthroughs of the finale plus Matt Mercers killer voice acting has me softening to rehydrated
The health bar in the second stage started to go back and I was like “oh, he gets a second life, big deal?” And then it just. Kept. Going. My jaw completely dropped because it implied Ganondorf was so powerful it literally broke the game’s enemy health bar system
Ganondorf paused the game after you beat him to low health (hence his monologue about the thrill of battle) and ate Hearty Food (activated his secret stone) to gain extra hearts (second health bar).
"Do not look away. . . *Draws out and looks at the frightening katana* you witness a kings revival" might be one of the greatest lines in villain history
I just listened to ganons voice in 5 different languages. Russian made him sound like an evil sorcerer, German was terrifying for obvious reasons, but his Spanish voice had me feeling kinda weird and tingly in ways i don’t quite understand
i unfortunately only speak german and english, but i would love to see how over translations handled the subtext and so on… german ganondorf, for example, says about the sword „this is supposed to be the sacred sword of sealing… and my miasma makes it shatter just like that. A truly useless blade“ (a little more formally). i love how it sounds like the miasma/gloom is a genuine weapon he spent millennia refining. he sounds much more calculated than in english, but also crueller, i‘d say. so i‘d say it‘s not just the voice acting, but also the translations play a huge part in how the characters are perceived differently.
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I just realized that TotK turns the "Save Princess from Dragon"-Trope on it's head... You have to save the Dragon (Zelda) from the Princess (Fake Zelda causing trouble)
As someone who forgot to make food that heals gloom effected hearts, I thought the Ganondorf fight was incredibly difficult, mostly because I was too stubborn to load a previous save to cook some food. I literally went in with 5 hearts, no fairies, and no food that could heal me. Took me a good hour to get the timing right and beat him.
I think what makes Ganondorf so compelling despite him being literal embodiment of all evil in the world, is that you can see how much passion stands behind this character. He finds so much joy in being an evil, so you ending up being blown away by his energy
My theory/headcanon is that is actually what causes Ganondorf (and by extension the Links and Zeldas) at his peak to surpass Demise as the supreme power of evil. Hatred and malice and destruction are one thing and that made Demise powerful as their embodiment. But taking all of that and putting it into a mortal being, a human with the potential for cunning and the drive and will to enact it? Demise is a loaded gun - scary and definitely dangerous. But taking that gun and putting it into a man like Ganondorf's hands and it's now a weapon of targeted and precise carnage, destruction, fear, and dominion. It's the natural next step in unlocking the full potential of Demise's strength.
Ganondorf was the first enemy I used my Hylian shield on, and he broke it near the very end of his demon king phase. That pit actually chills up my spine and helped me realize how much that shield was protecting me from the damage he could do
That shield can literally last you over 200 hours of playtime against anything else, Ganondorf can destroy it in his first phase if he hits it hard 6 times. And if one of the heart depleting attacks hits it, no matter how new the shield is, it is instantly reduced to badly damaged.
I remember the first time I defeated the grabby hands and a phantom Gannon spawned I was both terrified and excited. Gannon had much more of a role to play in this game and Matt Mercers performance as Gannon was phenomenal.
I shit my pants the first time, lol. I only had 6 hearts, and had died to a few gloom spawns at this point. Then i found them in a random cave. At this point i had started to just flee, so ran away and climbed up a ledge. When i saw they couldn't follow me, I was like, time for revenge and thinking i was being clever, I rained death down on them in the form of bombs... big mistake that was, because PG does not give a flying fuck about ledges, lol. I was so thrown off by the random boss fight out of no where that he easily whipped my ass, even though they are pretty easy once you're expecting it. I love how the gloom spawns are a double troll though. First time they pop up out of nowhere in all their horrifing glory, and again when you best em for the first time, just to get a mini boss thrown in your face. Cheer to Nintendo for that one.
What role? Unlike chasing Kohga around the Depths, he never left his cave underground. This couldn’t have been the origin of the Calamity that needed robotic Sheikah tech to down him
Same. I remember I was exploring when he randomly found me. This time I was armed to the teeth and ready for a fight. Finally beat the hands...just for phantom ganon to pop up, it was awesome and terrifying.
I discovered the hands in a cave less than 5 hours into the game and when phantom ganon spawned in after I was floored. THEN after 10 attempts I literally had to leave and get better gear.. literally never happened to me and I’ve 100 percent every 3d Zelda. Besides botw. I was SO fuckin hyped to get 1 shotted by fuckin phantom ganon.
He waits below the castle doing nothing while you are building wooden airplanes and collecting cheese, then when you finally confront him it turns out that he could have gone full power at any time. He just be messing with our heads like that. Incredible storytelling.
Honestly, giving him Gilgamesh's levels of ego was a sound move. And an interesting take of the blood knight trope: He didn't want a worthy opponent. He wanted a opponent strong enough to allow him to flaunt his power. And his act of draconification: He didn't do it to save his life, but his pride. Paying his very being was fair for him
@@owenbyrne9850 I think he was using the network of Gloom roots in the Depths to spread his influence around the world, and craft a world sufficiently harsh to turn people against each other and start the wars he thought should never have stopped. Like you said, he thought he'd already beaten you, a weakling unworthy of the title of Hero, and moved on to the next phase of his plan.
@@thatminer7174who cares? People are sick of the stupid villains we keep getting pawned on to us with deep backstories and crap that try to make us “understand him” or feel for him. This Ganondorf is a great return to the simplicity of “he’s an evil piece of shit, the reason why is irrelevant, he’s a problem and needs to die.” A classic hero vs pure evil story is the kind of era of gaming Zelda encapsulates and I’m glad they honored it in the modern day.
It’s terrifying that Ganon is so powerful in this game that Calamity Ganon is just a manifestation of his spiteful will to dominate and destroy. Imagine being so evil that even locked away the sheer power of your soul takes life to enact your will throughout the ages.
To the surprise of many, Nintendo has never been shy to creating difficult bosses. Raven Beak from Metroid Dread, Volo from Pokémon Legends Arceus and nearly all post-game secret bosses of the Kirby series pose an equal if not greater challenge compared to the Demon King. But regardless, you gotta admit that Ganondorf still reigns supreme as the meanest greenest bean of the roster 😎
whats really terrifying about that ganondorf fight is the health bar breaking limitations to really deliver the feeling of facing something so powerful beyond normally possible and then theres the thing that his energy attacks actually straight break entire heart containers which even more so makes him seem quite scary and threatening despite those energy attacks effectively dealing only little damage and their only effect being punishing people who solely rely on food but losing the containers the player worked so hard to get over the whole playtime just like that very much delivers a feeeling of danger also i like the addition of that german cutscene in the beginning the german voice acting in this game is amazing especially for ganondorf
Apparently if you eat anything that gives temporary hearts, it gives you back the heart containers he broke. I was actually a bit disappointed to find this out.
I literally laughed but also was a little scared when his healthbar crept across the screen. The whole encounter, from the descent into the Hyrule castle depths, to the dragon fight was perfect. I've never felt such intense emotion from a Nintendo game. I give a ton of credit to the soundtrack, they really nailed it. I bought TOTK saying I would be happy if it was a quarter as good as BOTW, but holy crap I loved this game
He's not the Ganondorf we need; he's the Ganondorf we deserve. Not only that, but this guy's voice actor is on point! Actually, all the voices in this game are on point!
Admittedly, TOTK appears to close a long-standing chapter with the Zelda series. Practically all previous iterations of Ganondorf required him to be 'defeated', even in BOTW, which ultimately left the door open for him to somehow reincarnate and show up in a future game. In TOTK, the quest was clear...'destroy' Ganondorf; so it certainly appears that we have finally seen the last of him, and it was done so in epic fashion. It will be interesting to see where this takes future Zelda games.
I love this new Ganon. The absolute DISRESPECT he gives Link in the intro cutscene is so good. But you don't realize just how low he thinks of Link until you see him again during the final fight. I thought he was in the depths building back his lost strength in case I returned. But he had no idea Link even survived, let alone COULD even come back through the minefield of Gloom and Monsters he left all over the depths and bursting from the various chasms. He wasn't waiting For Link, he wasn't gaining strength to attack Hyrule again either. HE ALREADY WON and knew it. Raru lied about this Link and his Sword that can seal the Darkness (I mean he didn't even attack Link directly...he took Link out while basically stretching his power after a long nap) so instead of aiming his actual attack at Link to kill him, he attacks Hyrule Directly leaving Gloom and enhanced monsters to finish things off. There aren't any Generals at his side or Evil Mages controlling minions for him when you find him either. Just the Demon King and Victory....shit he is still in his mummy form he's so unimpressed with things 😂
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Technically there are Nintendo villains who have more raw evilness. These villains include Demise, Hades, Ridley, King Boo, Zanza, Porky Minch, Fecto Elfilis, and Volo to name a few. However, Ganondorf is still my favorite since he’s an absolute badass.🎉
In TOTK, Ganondorf wasn’t TOO far from the being on the same league as them. But yeah, I agree that the others are worse. And Ganondorf is also one of my favorite fictional villains of all time
Ganondorf is surprisingly charismatic, which makes it hard to completely hate him despite how unapologetically evil he can be. There's a reason so many people clamor for him to have some sort of redemption arc.
Totk Ganondorf is literally just evil for the sake of being evil, just like Jack Horner without the comedy and it truly is a great feeling where I don’t have to feel sympathy for the villain or have them giving a philosophy on why they should be allowed to do the evil things they’re doing. Pure evil incarnate and that’s just how I like it not saying that we need to only have villains like this it’s just a nice break from the other archetypes.
EXACTLY. People keep mentioning how Ganondorf has “no backstory” and I’m just like “yeah. GOOD. It doesn’t matter, I just wanna kill him cause he’s evil” I miss that in gaming. I’ve certainly had a lot of great “tragic villain” stories, they can be done right, but it became so over saturated with terrible shallow attempts at it that it left a bad taste, TOTK just cleansed that taste away with Ganondorf’s classic Hero Vs Villain character.
Bowser - A knobhead with an almost charming personality and an idiotic goal. At his best when he fights a greater evil, only to prove he is the one king koopa King Dedede - A man who used to do evil, stopped by and saved by Kirby multiple times. His rivalry peaked with a score to settle, and now he acts as one of Kirby's greatest allies Ganondorf - A man with sinister or dark goals, becoming so lost in the struggle for power that he loses himself. A man made to show the dangers of pursuing power. I dunno man, I can't pick a favorite or a "greatest".
The Reason the Master Sword damages Ganondorf still is not because it is made to face Evil that owns the Triforce, it is made to face ANY evil, no matter how powerful, even if it is a Dark God. And even then you can Damage this Ganondorf in any form still with any other weapon while the Master Sword is just the most effective one in the final phase by dealimg more damage than it ACTUALLY should. This Ganondorf is Mere Powerwise on a whole different level than most others, but unlike Twilight Princess Ganondorf he doesnt have infinite defense and can still be harmed with anything like OoT Ganondorf or Yuganon from A Link between Worlds
They finally did Ganondorf some honor, my god what a story, what a depiction of Ganondorf. This was THE Ganondorf for me. Knocked Twilight Princess' Ganondorf right back to number 2.
Ok this is a well put together Video. WHY ONLY 1.4K VIEWS? You did a great job man. Ganondorf Has always been my favorite Villain and TOTK Is just icing on the cake of Evil. I hope this vid dose well and props to you man.
Once you get the pattern down and if you bring enough food this fight isn’t that hard but man it’s so FUN! And the cutscenes are amazing. In botw I never really wanted to go back to fight Ganon but multiple times now I want to re-fight Demon King Ganondorf.
Yep. I had a hard time fighting him the first round because I am a flurry rush bitch, which is unfortunate when the boss not only has natural random delays in his attack animations specifically for throwing you off on the timing, but then also forces you to time it well twice in a row while reading his attack angle in a split second the second time to be able to hit him at all. To say the least I did not fair well. But that ending is so good I just keep opening the game on that save and instead of taking started save file and going to do more side missions and crap, I just keep jumping back down to fight him again. Now that I’ve learned a lot of the strats and the legacy tennis ball strat, the one sided fight is back on my side, but he still always gets some hits in, and I have yet to make it out without having a heart container smashed.
i love to see that even english speakers use german synchronisation… all the voice acting there is great, i personally prefer it a lot over most english voice (matt mercer is a legend, but german ganondorf rules)
My theory was: That the Totk Ganondorf was the first reicarnation of Demise. Once he got sealed, he used his Malice/Gloom to "create" the other Ganondorfs. Hence they're all Gerudo aswell as him and clearly not as powerfull as him. It would make sense in my opinion, just the entire Zonai part fricks the entire timeline.
Your explanation doesn't make sense. Tears of the kingdom comes after every zelda game including the time far in the past. We are talking 10000 years after an unpronounced amount of time beyond the end of all timelines. Gannondorf cannot create the others if his very birth came long after the events of all timeline endings
@@leargamma4912 But you see, Rauru and Sonia were the "First" king and queen of hyrule. The land they were in was the "first" Hyrule. Zonais went extinct thousands of years ago. So, it would make sense that this all happened kinda early in the timeline, would explain that the Zonai never appeared since well, they went extinct with the death of Mineru. So, either it all started at the beginning of the timeline, or at a point a new Hyrule was created. Or perhaps a new 4th time-split.
@@JakeTheStakeNowIn3D5024 that's just as silly a thing to happen too. Especially with it retaining all the names. When things go under, usually something new arises.
I can confirm that this is a hard boss fight, I even had max hearts and all the shrines before I fought him and I lost 3 times before I finally beat him, Nintendo really outdid themselves with this one 🙌
This man is my favorite antagonist in fiction and it's not hard to see why, and the new game just made it all so much better. Ganondorf is the Sauron of gaming, and I'm glad to see more people putting some respect on that name.
My favorite version of Ganondorf. The best design, the best boss fight, the most menacing he's ever felt. The moment where he "rehydrates" himself and his leitmotif plays with the "Menace Unleashed" title...perfection. I've seen a lot of criticisms saying that he's too stereotypically evil. And while I understand there may have been some context lost in the translation to English, I don't think he needs to be complex or nuanced in the same way Wind Waker Ganondorf was. He's like Alexander the Great or Napoleon: a conqueror who thinks it's his right to rule because he's the strongest.
Agreed. He enjoys the process of overcoming strong opponents in his quest to become the strongest, and this defines his relationships with people like Rauru and Link in a way very reminiscent of Demise. This to me is more than enough to make him interesting, and although I'd probably have to say Wind Waker Ganondorf's writing is a bit better, Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf's presentation is the best of the 4 by a landslide, and it earns him the spot as my favorite version of the character.
Hot take, Ganondorf fight was too easy. At first I thought I just came in overprepared but I realized the entrance to the fight provided me with the lynel horn I fused to the master sword which made the fight too easy
The triforce in this game is actually still exsistant, but totally different. I might be getting this wrong, but apparently the triforce is a symbol of three rulers, the ruler of boars, owls, and dragons. I have practically no information past that.
I have never enjoyed a final boss as much as I did Ganondorf in TotK. Down right prefect and so much respect for whom he is by the devs. TotK Ganondorf is proof that sometimes all you truly need is pure and simple Evil. No sad backstory or semi relatable traits. Just a man of pure, raw ambition and desire to rule all he can see.
I affectionately refer to the demon dragon as Dragondorf. He stands alongside greenendorf and purpldorf in super smash brothers. For real though this final boss fight was one of my favorite boss fights in quite a long time. I enjoy fromsoft games, but none of those bosses made me take over twenty minutes to beat. Demon king Ganondorf did make me take over twenty minutes to beat. Thats not to say he is more difficult than a fromsoft boss, but it does speak to the kind of fight it is. It's long methodical and oh so satisfying. great video!
For people who don't overprepare with health, stamina, and armor upgrades, this dude can be as hard as a Fromsoft boss. He is easily one of the most difficult boss fights in the Zelda franchise only tied by Master mode Maz Koshia and Thunderblight Ganon.
I loved fighting him i just wish fighting him in his non dragon form was longer and bit more difficult. It was so cool to flurry rush him only for him to do it back to me. Shit was so cool lol. Overall enjoyed that part of fight way more than the dragon part lol
I'm surprised that no one is talking about how totk ganandorf did the same thing oot ganandorf. Got the kings favor despite everyone knowing that he is evil and getting exactly what he wanted and destroying Hyrule then being beaten by that iteration of the chosen hero.
Well, this time he was racist and blamed the zonai for everything. (Except in the English dub & subtitles where he just uses vague evil sounding threats in place of those lines for some reason)
@@Paradox1012 this doesn't even make sense, the world he creates when he could had nothing strong in it and certainly nothing that could rival him. Like his hordes camp out 99.999% of their existence and he doesn't power up his enemies for a good fight either.
When you said "you know Ghirahim?" it should have cut to him lashing his tongue over Link's shoulder or a fast montage of his character arc. Also should have used Link's yells for cursing covers since its his game
Ganondorf feels like a very personal villain to Link, at least in my headcanon. Link lost everything. He lost his home, his family, his friends, even an unrequited love. And if that wasn't enough, Ganon/Ganondorf took his life. Granted, he got it back, but only after a hundred years of being placed in a tomb with a spa plan. And with that, he also lost his memories. The person he was tasked with protecting went to hold off the apocalypse herself and he couldn't even remember why he protected her in the first place. He had to pull the whole world together and himself to beat... a byproduct. Calamity Ganon ruined Link's life, and it wasn't even the main threat. Six years later (I believe this is the time gap because Hudson now has a daughter who looks to be Kindergarten age), and Link and Zelda continue to rebuild and, once again this is my headcanon, developed deep feelings for each other. But as they investigate beneath Hyrule Castle, the thieving Demon King comes to pilfer from Link once again. He steals his sword, his arm and the person he loves vanishes from sight and the next time he sees her physically, she is a dragon, completely robbed of her humanity, only guided by a single goal and nothing else. Ganondorf also attempts to undo all Link and Zelda has done and sends plagues upon the people of Hyrule and the surrounding regions. He has the audacity to make a puppet of Zelda just taunt and play with Link. "I'll be taking more than your arm this time." Ganondorf says. But the truth is, he has robbed Link time and time again, so much so that at this point, I wouldn't be surprised that the pure of heart hero would do this even if Hyrule wasn't in danger. Because Ganondorf made this PERSONAL.
Definitely a very memorable boss fight for sure. However, even Ganon becomes easy if you go into the fight with enough armor upgrades, food and the master sword. He can only deal one (broken) heart of damage with each and every attack he does. Most people I saw struggled a bit but never lost because of it. XD
Yeah I think it'd be more fun to be less prepared. I went in with fully upgraded champion's tunic and Hylian pants. Had no idea what I was doing, but with 50+ armor and 20 hearts, Ganondorf's katana was giving Link little paper cuts. Still a great fight, but it's better when you're actually in danger of losing
I do think that Ganon taking Gloom hearts away was a nice challenge. Even if you don't take as much damage sooner or later you won't be able to properly heal if you don't defeat him fast enough
@@Eli-sg5to Canonically though, Link freed the 4 regions, awakened all the sages, pulled the Master Sword, activated all 152 shrines, activated all the lightroots and got the ancient hero's aspect. The whole point of being maxed out is everyone in the past tells Ganondorf he's fucked come wakey-wakey time and when you return after regaining your strength, it causes him to realise he misjudged you - his own hubris in dismissing you at the start mirroring Rauru's hubris in thinking he could thwart anything Ganondorf tried while seemingly a loyal subject.
@@Eli-sg5toit hurts real bad when you depend on flurry rushing, cause I went in with everything you could imagine, and because I suck at combat outside of flurry rushing, I suffered. He erased all but 8 of my hearts from existence and wasted all but 2 of my shields, the Hylian shield with durability ++ being 1 and being badly damaged at the end. The developers knew exactly which combat strategies are cheap and easy and which take skill, and forced me to learn how to rely more frequently on harder timing counters like parry’s
The only other Nintendo villain that could match Ganondorf for sheer evil might be Ridley from Metroid. Dude is a complete psycho, who destroys entire planetary systems, and is responsible for the death of Samus' parents. Ganondorf is evil because he desires power, whereas Ridley is evil for evil's sake.
To further add to Ridley being a better villain (imo) than Ganon, Ridley is actually genuinely intelligent in how he handles things. Ridley doesn't just sit around on a throne (well, command center) and let his henchmen do all the work for him. He's actively doing the bulk of his army's work, with most of his crew being researchers (remember, even though all space pirates are heavily armed, most of them are scientists and engineers) that do stuff that would be too time consuming for him. Ridley doesn't sit around; he's usually the one doing the major jobs (kidnapping the baby Metroid, fighting Samus as soon as he gets the chance). Ridley knows he's the strongest member of his army, and plays accordingly, and even reflects in-game with Ridley almost always being the hardest boss in whatever game he's in. Fittingly, with one exception, he's never the final boss, because again, he's not a king piece that just sits on a throne
@@anthonyk3952 Wow man that was pretty awesome explanation. I can see why Ridley is more of an active force who propels action throughout the story, whereas Ganondorf spends most of the time in the shadows letting his henchmen do things for him. Ridley straddles a unique position of being both a secondary and main antagonist in the Metroid games.
I proceeded to heavily panic and stress out during my first time fighting Ganondorf this game, and held onto that panic attack for the rest of the week. Even after I finally killed him, he still was trying to kill me 😂 Really hope that doesnt happen again when I eventually redo his battle, because that was a miserable week... That fight was amazing though, I just kinda wish he was a little more fluid his last stage of the boss fight, because he kinda just sat there... and I understand why, the dragons do tend to sort of just hang around and meander, unless you hurt them, which is exactly what he was doing, and I understand that he was no longer "himself" anymore, but it was still really fun, regardless!
One of my favorite parts of this Ganondorf is that after losing three fights against the guy he spent the whole game taunting and refusing to acknowledge as a peer to his own power, he throws a fit and pulls a trump card that costs him literally EVERYTHING. He doesn't even care about ruling the world anymore or creating any sort of hierarchy of power. He's so butthurt that he destroys himself entirely for a shot at killing Link, even if he isnt conscious to revel in it. Also, i don't know if I'm misunderstanding that part, but Calamity Ganon isn't stronger than any version of Ganondorf by any measure.
When it comes to the villains of Nintendo no one can beat Ganondorf it’s a well known fact! As a kid the first Legend of Zelda I have ever played was Wind Waker and as a kid you never know the lore heck I had a a Nintendo 64 but never got my hands of Ocarina of Time until I got it for the GameCube! Speaking of Ocarina of Time, the developers who created Tears of the Kingdom really did bring huge callbacks to Ganondorf’s past reincarnations from the previous games. From his Demon King Form looking similar to Demise, him backstabbing,(no pun intended!), the Hyrulian Royal Family, his manipulation of the Gerudo Tribe, and the ye olde plan to conquer the world! Nothing can stop this man of pure Chaos and Malice!
I will say, I am still just a tiny bit disappointed that it wasn't a 4 stage fight with stage 1 being agaimst zombie ganondorf. Or maybe we fight zombie-dorf first, then his army, then his revival. Or even fight him sometime between, like at hyrule castle. Don't get me wrong, the ending was amazing and I got over it real quick, but I definitely wanted to fight that thing. Tbf, its very possible a zombiedorf fight would have messed with the flow, in fact it is likely. Like, if we beat zombiedorf first then he revives, it probably would have made his revived form less menacing in some way. So begrudgingly I admit this was probably the best way to do it.
Yeah I did wanna fight the mummy cause I thought he looked way cooler, plus it was the mummy that trashed me at the start of the game, so I had the image of power in that. But after he reformed, and you hear the weight of his steps and the presence of his voice, you realize the mummy ain’t shit. Plus I would argue we were fighting the mummy all game with the phantoms, especially the Zelda puppet phantom.
There's a common misconception that I've seen regarding BotW/TotK. The Ganondorf we see in TotK is the first in the timeline, probably born soon after SS. It's also stated that there have been *multiple* Calamity Ganons, with 1 happening every 10,000 years. The legend we see was just the most recent where the Sheikah decided they would win a lot quicker if the hero had back up. So I would assume that between BotW and everything else is at least 30,000 years. Edit: I just did the school quest in TotK and Symin also said it happened multiple times
@@leargamma4912 no, if you go back to BotW it Impa says that Calamity Ganon is "a timeless evil that has occured countless times over the ages" And if not those exact words, then something similar.
Despite what Nintendo says it’s very unlikely that there’s any actual placement for BoTW/ToTK. Every Zelda game ever talks about things that have happened since before time existed or whatever but you never see these concepts in other games. The only definitive game placements are SS first, and wind waker/TP after OoT. Basically Nintendo prioritizing gameplay first means story takes a huge backseat and continuity is almost nonexistent, even in direct sequels like BoTW and ToTK
@@maddoxwilton4134I don’t know why the hell they tried to make all the games connected, like how hard would it simply be to admit the truth, that you moved on from one iteration to another without relating them, which isn’t a crime, it’s normal, companies reboot stories all the time. Like just declare them only canon to their related sequels and spin-offs. But no matter how you try now the lore is fucked because the games simply aren’t related in a lot of cases.
Personally, I feel like TOTK's Ganondorf was a fantastic incarnation that was meant for a different, linear game. Much of his storytelling in the open world of TOTK did not make much sense and too much was left open. I feel like he should have been reserved for a Zelda that explored his whereabouts a lot more.
I agree this ending fight was the best. But Ganondorf in TotK was not a great villian. His writing and entire character is basically "Im bad cause I'm evil". There is no motiviation.
He does have a motivation in TOTK, but they butchered it in the English version. From what I recall other people explaining it, in other languages his motivation is that he sees the world losing its courage and strength due to the Zonai coming down and creating the kingdom to establish peace and prosperity. He hates the Zonai for this, which is one scrap we get in the English version in the false fealty memory. This explains why he stops paying any attention to Link and Zelda at the start of the game: Rauru had said that Link would destroy him with the Master Sword in the far future, but when the time came, Ganondorf just shattered the sword and saw that Link was no threat, so he wasn't worth Ganondorf's time, which is something he repeats at the start of the boss fight, that Link isn't a worthy opponent, and he also says there that everyone is a "peace-loving coward", another scrap of his motivation that was butchered.
He actually does have a reason just they hate the English version but in the Japanese he actually does have a motivation just look at the reply above me
Hard agree. Ganondorf is so badly written it ruins most of the games narrative for me. Sonia exists solely as a MacGuffin for Ganondorf to kill to lazily obtain power.
Bowser is a stage villain, he's a heel. Miyamoto himself has said words to that effect. He can run the gamut from genuine threat to Saturday morning cartoon. Ganondorf is different. He's the bad guy who shows up when the fun is over. In terms of characterization, he is never goofy, never flappable, always intimidating; and Tears of the Kingdom is Ganondorf at his peak. They did an amazing job with him.
My only gripe is that I wish we knew more of his backstory and why he wanted to conquer Hyrule, beyond ‘evil mofo doing evil mofo things.’ Besides that I loved how menacing the demon king was this time.
Based on what I have read, the english localization doesn't really do the best job at portraying his character. In the Japanese translation, he apparently doesn't like how the world lost its original courage and he wants to bring it back to its original glory. Likely before the Zonai came since it is shown the cutscene where he swears loyalty that he hates their race and their arrogance, since they descend from the gods.
But they do show why he wants to conquer Hyrule. He believes Raru's kingdom of peace will make Hyrule weak and as someone who values power he refuses to let that happen.
@@Leee275 He also seems to both envy the power Rauru commands through the Secret Stones and resents that he elects to use it defensively and to preserve peace, rather than to dominate the people of Hyrule. To waste power like that is unconscionable to Ganondorf, for whom power must be exerted with aggression to be true.
a really cool villain but I genuinely do not understand why people say he's a hard boss. I went in the fight with just one row of hearts and barely knowing how to flurry rush and I beat him almost instantly
You'd be surprised to learn Ganon/Ganondorf only had one main title in the entire series (aside from Four Swords Adventures' "King of Darkness") being 大魔 Dai Maō "Great Demon King" and the variants found in the english localizations are different adaptations of the original term into english words. He has been called so ever since Zelda on the NES.
The boss sadly was easy for me i had the master sword fused with a fire gleok thing and i was wearing the fierce deity armor only hard thing was that my health was low and i didnt have food and my armor wasnt upgraded
Yeah you can definitely overprepare, but he is undeniably one of the most well designed boss fights in gaming. I can only hope to see how Master Mode inevitably makes nerfs to Link and how much harder it makes Ganondorf.
The prequel to this should be Kotake and Koume performing dark rites to give baby Gannondorf immortality. In doing this they summon the curse of Demise which transforms a golden skinned, red haired baby into a greenish skinned, yellow eyed one… In that one they aren’t comic relief like OoT/ MM but some of the darkest characters of the Zelda series…
I don’t consider myself a hardcore gamer, im not historically great at bossfights… But I really don’t understand people saying this was the hardest boss fight in years. I beat him on attempt #3 (no guide). I lost way more to the mud guy is Zora’s domain. The hardest Nintendo boss in recent memory has to be the bird guy at the end of Metroid Dread. Lmk why I’m right
tbh i regret fusing a white lynel horn to my master sword the first time i fought him. it cut through him like butterrrr and made the fight a lot easier than i think it should’ve been
The first time I saw Ganondorf's second phase healthbar on the internet I tought it was edited, then I fought him for the first time and saw that it WASN'T EDITED, I was a bit scared but I found it really funny to just watch the healthbar start from a normal point and then just continue almost 'till the screen border. Btw that's also cool how he can flurry rush us too, but without being a sure hit, you can flurry rush his flurry rush right away, even if the timing is a bit tough. Best final boss fight I ever did (also like 40x the Botw one)
I know totk ganon will live on in my memory forever between triple flurry rushes, super health bars, and draconification, but I still get shivers watching that TP fight when he charges at you and you leap into his blade to duel strength against each other.
While Ganondorf was super menacing and was certain a step up from botw, I still wish he was harder than he was. I found the floating coliseum harder than the final boss of the entire game which just doesn’t really feel right. It irks me when, if I want a challenge, I have to limit what weapons I use or food I eat. I wish that at some point in a Zelda game, there will be a boss that, despite how prepared I am, it’s still ridiculously hard. Or maybe that’s just me and I play the game too much lmao
The gameplay problem with that idea is that players who don’t want to spend 200 hours in game getting all the shrines and armor upgrades will be at a massive disadvantage for playing the story. It’s one of those compromises this open-world story mix had to make, cause it would be against the open world design to force the player to be a completionist logging hundred or more hours just to stand a chance.
Truly the best Ganondorf fight. And truly a good video. He had good melee but died too quickly. I made a challenge video with rules that make the difficulty what some of us were expecting.
Illumination feels like one of the worst options for an animation studio to do a Zelda movie. Them doing the Mario movie was fine, but a Zelda movie is completely different
Theres so much just fundamentally incorrect information in this video 1) Ganon and Demise *are not* the same thing. Ganon is the demon form of Ganondorf, Demise is just the initial Demon King. Demise's spirit is completely eradicated by the time Skyward Sword ends 2) The Gerudo *always* give birth to a male every 100 years. Its not a curse, its just their biology. The only exceprion to this is the Wild era Ganondorf, because he never died under Rauru's seal so a new male was never born 3) The Stones are not called "Dragon Stones", they're officially referred to as Secret Stones 4) The TriForce in this duology is portrayed through Zelda's Light piwer, which is also what powers up the Master Sword. We literally see her materialize the TriForce *twice* in BotW, and once in TotK in the cutscene whete shes actively healing it. Ganondorf cant obtain the TriForce in this game because it doesnt have a physical form to take, its part of the royal bloodline 5) Colgera and Molgera are not related, they just happen to share a similar name. Its like how every single Gohma is their own thing
Most of Ganondorf's titles are only known internationally, and in fact are the result of inaccurate translation, whether accidental, intentional, or some odd combination of the two. In Japan, Ganondorf has _always_ been called the Demon King.
It is true, the final boss is difficult if you come in with half the possible hearts, weak to mid armor, and no gloom food. That being said, I took my time, I did all the shrines, I upgraded some armor and assumed I would need gloom food since the phantom Ganon enemies used gloom. I am not a skilled gamer, more of a button masher when it comes to fighting games, and even still I had no trouble beating the final boss. I don't mean that as a knock on the game. I think that is a great way to make difficult bosses accessible. Still make the bosses difficult, but if you take the time to build up strength they become much easier.
Another thing. It is the only boss in all zelda history that can give you PERMANENT DAMAGE if it hits you with the “dark flame” attack and you cannot get that heart ever again doring the battle
I’d argue that what they called Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild, is more like an Omen, than actually Ganon. Judging by what we saw in the beginning of Tears of the Kingdom, Ganon was locked under Hyrule Castle and the Malice (or Gloom) seeping out of Ganon manifested itself.
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In totk and botw this is a Ganondorf not connected to the others and the timeline.
Totk and botw is set in essentially a reboot timeline, skyward likely still happened but rest do not.
This is not any disrespect nor debunking your view, totk makes it pretty clear that it is a reboot.
Of course this is my look into totk and botw and where they fit, to me it is Aonuma and miyamoto saying fuck timeline let us reboot it
But I do agree this boss battle of Ganondorf is epic! And like his we incarnation and Tp incarnation he dies and stays dead.
His katana like weapon is cool so is his guan Yu looking spear and his club and bow all which have Asian inspiration.
The spear is modeled after a guan dao a Chinese weapon, gloom sword is modeled after a katana, gloom club is modeled after a kanabo a club, demon king bow is modeled after a yumi bow.
This is by far my fave Ganondorf mainly cause Matthew Mercer voices him lol
WHY ARE YOU ALL MAKING THIS MISTAKE of thinking "Oh they said founding this must mean right after skyward sword but that doesn't make sense so make it convoluted and declare a 4th timeline" INSTEAD OF JUsT THINKING "man hyrule must have ceased between the classic games and botw and totk and then refounded
Ganon is one of the greatest villains in nintendo, don't get me wrong, but:
"no other villain in nintendo tops the level of raw evil this man has unleashed"
*Porky from Mother 3 says hello.*
I love this final boss version of ganondork especially his second form where he fully awakens his full demon king powers, with that flowing blood red hair and those horns... ehm, anyway i love how the epic skills which made link such an epic royal knight, i.e. flurry rushing, are now somthing you as the player have to fight against and then on top of that certain moves inflict PERMANETE unrecoverable damage! SO FU(K!NG COOL! A+ Boss Battle!
However i wish they would have gone 1 step further then i could have given it an S or maybe even S+ score! [ V 5 Phase final battle idea!]
I would have had the "Gloom Spit" coming from the Demon Dragon (after link damages the 1st "eye") land on (D) Zelda, mentioning that the willpower of the demon king being so strong that even after draconification his conciousness refuses to be supressed (or somthing to that effect), and...
Phase 1 spawn (on D zelda's back) a mix of blue & silver bokos and blue moblins
Phase 2 (2nd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, and black lizalfos
Phase 3 (3rd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, silver lazalfos, and a silver boko boss
phase 4 (all 4 eyes destroyed, before link attackes sacred stone)spawn (10 hands) gloom spawn all attacking (D) Zeldas face
A. when link approaches (5) hands split off and come after link!
B. (link defeats gloom spawn [5]) spawn phantom ganon (1/2 health bar W/ G-spear)
C. (link reduces PG health bar 50%) (2 hands) part of 2nd half of gloom spawn moves from zelda's face to (Main) PG's side become 2x PGs w/ G-spears
(M) PG, w/ full health bar, and w/ G-sword) spear PG's will agressively assault link, (M) PG may attempt to attack link while he is busy with spear PG's
(if link perfect dodge on (M) PG and attempts to flurry rush spear PG will rush link canceling FR) link defeats (2x spear PG's then reduces (M) PG's health bar by 50%)
D. (M) PG stumbles back and summons remaining (3x hands) gloom spawn (2x G-spear + 1x G-sword) to his side, (M) PG's health bar is now 150%, (i.e. 2nd form ganon) is weilding G-club, and is capable of flurry rushing link. Link defeat (2x spear PG & 1x Sword PGs) then defeat (M) PG (full bar)
Phase 5 destroy sacred stone!
I like the fact that Ganondorf breaks established rules that monsters follow. He does it by playing the game like Link. He swaps weapons, uses some BS to increase his health bar too high, uses flurry rush.
yes i beat the game and my brain was thinking during the battle "this is how monsters feel"
@@floppa_gamer1111I apologize to any monsters that I have tormented in the last 6 years
@@joegardner851i don't, that boss fight was awesome
@@floppa_gamer1111nah silger enemies 3 shot me its fair
I thought it was super menacing when his healthbar went across the screen. He also proves that flurry rush is a real thing in universe. Moments of blending game mechanics with story like this really show off video game’s untapped storytelling potential as an interactive medium.
To be fair Urbosa was shown to be able to use flurry rush on the Champion’s ballad DLC.
I like to imagine that everything in hyrule slows down whenever someone does a flurry rush. Imagine just living your life and every 5 minutes time just slows down for 7 seconds and there's nothing you can do about it. It's especially bad in bullet time...
@@kirby_says_poyo Imagine it it happened during something painful. Somewhere out there there’s a Hylian woman in labor, and she suffers for 10x longer than she has to because Link is out hunting Lynels.
@@joaorazuk6305she didn’t flurry rush, she did a perfect parry with a shield
The flurry rush got me 'OH FUCK HE'S GONNA KILL ME AAAJXJSGAHSGAKAGS'.
Man, it's such a good fight! And the healthbar? Holyshit. Don't get me wrong, the fight isn't THAT difficult (I personally think it doesn't even have to be), but the tension is just so good.
Alot of people are talking about the fight and the final boss, but not enough people are giving due credit to the lead up to Ganondorf, it was perfect, I haven't felt the same anticipation for a boss since I was a kid, the descent into darkness, the eerie music building up, the fact that the environment changes entirely to gloom roots, the black fog on the ground, there was something very final about approaching his lair, we all know link was going to succeed but they made you feel like link was walking to his death.
I just wish we could have fought dehydrated ganondorf, like, maybe he doesn't even bother standing up to fight you because he still considers you weak by comparison to his greatness and you have to climb that throne pillar he made himself repeatedly to get hits before he blasts you back. When you finally draw blood he goes into the phase 1 we got. It'd also make the dragon fight even more shocking, because like, Nintendo does three phases, and demon king form feels final form as all heck
The path to meet Ganondorf was one of the scariest thing I had to endure in this game😭
Ι had the same. And then I realized that I had, like, 50 instant pots and 30 sundelions, so I started cooking right outside of the boss room, and TA-DAH!
And Zelda's torch at the bottom of the pit.
@@danifaragoi3709 I 1000% agree. I prefer dehydrated ganondorf way more than rehydrated. though 4 playthroughs of the finale plus Matt Mercers killer voice acting has me softening to rehydrated
The health bar in the second stage started to go back and I was like “oh, he gets a second life, big deal?” And then it just. Kept. Going. My jaw completely dropped because it implied Ganondorf was so powerful it literally broke the game’s enemy health bar system
Not to mention he flurry rushed my flurry rush.
I thought it was going to straight up go off screen and he’d be unbeatable until he beat the shit out of me to a certain period.
Ganondorf paused the game after you beat him to low health (hence his monologue about the thrill of battle) and ate Hearty Food (activated his secret stone) to gain extra hearts (second health bar).
"Do not look away. . . *Draws out and looks at the frightening katana* you witness a kings revival" might be one of the greatest lines in villain history
"Do not look away. You witness a king....MID SUAVEMENTE!" (I can't resist)
If you look away ganondorf breaks down crying on the ground
@@not_umbre lol 😂 that's a good one
Not just the line, the delivery, all at once I want to run and or fight for my life and it's exciting
"... And the birth of his new world!"
I just listened to ganons voice in 5 different languages. Russian made him sound like an evil sorcerer, German was terrifying for obvious reasons, but his Spanish voice had me feeling kinda weird and tingly in ways i don’t quite understand
Suavemente moment
i unfortunately only speak german and english, but i would love to see how over translations handled the subtext and so on… german ganondorf, for example, says about the sword „this is supposed to be the sacred sword of sealing… and my miasma makes it shatter just like that. A truly useless blade“ (a little more formally).
i love how it sounds like the miasma/gloom is a genuine weapon he spent millennia refining. he sounds much more calculated than in english, but also crueller, i‘d say.
so i‘d say it‘s not just the voice acting, but also the translations play a huge part in how the characters are perceived differently.
Russian Ganondorf feels like it gives me Rasputin Vibes 😅
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@@Chris-gx1ei he’s similar enough too lmao. They just can’t kill Ganon for good no matter what timeline their in, it seems
I just realized that TotK turns the "Save Princess from Dragon"-Trope on it's head... You have to save the Dragon (Zelda) from the Princess (Fake Zelda causing trouble)
And then the princess (in dragon form) saves you from the dragon
I'm sensing a theme here...
Genius
With Zelda now being a dragon, Link doesn't need to feel guilty about Purah lol. She's one hell of an upgrade :P
Wrong zelda was saved by link in the end. Who caught her falling down
As someone who forgot to make food that heals gloom effected hearts, I thought the Ganondorf fight was incredibly difficult, mostly because I was too stubborn to load a previous save to cook some food. I literally went in with 5 hearts, no fairies, and no food that could heal me. Took me a good hour to get the timing right and beat him.
GGs
Sameeee, gonna he honest. I didn't know there were food to heal those hearts from the gloom😂I loaded a previous save and got tons of hearty tonics
I had 7 hearts and one fairy.
BRO ME TOO!!
So you spent $70 just to skip the entire game and go to the boss?
I think what makes Ganondorf so compelling despite him being literal embodiment of all evil in the world, is that you can see how much passion stands behind this character. He finds so much joy in being an evil, so you ending up being blown away by his energy
He’s really a Massive Action Taker
My theory/headcanon is that is actually what causes Ganondorf (and by extension the Links and Zeldas) at his peak to surpass Demise as the supreme power of evil.
Hatred and malice and destruction are one thing and that made Demise powerful as their embodiment. But taking all of that and putting it into a mortal being, a human with the potential for cunning and the drive and will to enact it? Demise is a loaded gun - scary and definitely dangerous. But taking that gun and putting it into a man like Ganondorf's hands and it's now a weapon of targeted and precise carnage, destruction, fear, and dominion. It's the natural next step in unlocking the full potential of Demise's strength.
Ganondorf was the first enemy I used my Hylian shield on, and he broke it near the very end of his demon king phase. That pit actually chills up my spine and helped me realize how much that shield was protecting me from the damage he could do
That shield can literally last you over 200 hours of playtime against anything else, Ganondorf can destroy it in his first phase if he hits it hard 6 times. And if one of the heart depleting attacks hits it, no matter how new the shield is, it is instantly reduced to badly damaged.
Same lol
I remember the first time I defeated the grabby hands and a phantom Gannon spawned I was both terrified and excited. Gannon had much more of a role to play in this game and Matt Mercers performance as Gannon was phenomenal.
I shit my pants the first time, lol. I only had 6 hearts, and had died to a few gloom spawns at this point. Then i found them in a random cave. At this point i had started to just flee, so ran away and climbed up a ledge. When i saw they couldn't follow me, I was like, time for revenge and thinking i was being clever, I rained death down on them in the form of bombs... big mistake that was, because PG does not give a flying fuck about ledges, lol. I was so thrown off by the random boss fight out of no where that he easily whipped my ass, even though they are pretty easy once you're expecting it.
I love how the gloom spawns are a double troll though. First time they pop up out of nowhere in all their horrifing glory, and again when you best em for the first time, just to get a mini boss thrown in your face. Cheer to Nintendo for that one.
What role? Unlike chasing Kohga around the Depths, he never left his cave underground. This couldn’t have been the origin of the Calamity that needed robotic Sheikah tech to down him
Same. I remember I was exploring when he randomly found me. This time I was armed to the teeth and ready for a fight. Finally beat the hands...just for phantom ganon to pop up, it was awesome and terrifying.
I discovered the hands in a cave less than 5 hours into the game and when phantom ganon spawned in after I was floored. THEN after 10 attempts I literally had to leave and get better gear.. literally never happened to me and I’ve 100 percent every 3d Zelda. Besides botw. I was SO fuckin hyped to get 1 shotted by fuckin phantom ganon.
He waits below the castle doing nothing while you are building wooden airplanes and collecting cheese, then when you finally confront him it turns out that he could have gone full power at any time. He just be messing with our heads like that. Incredible storytelling.
he was utterly unmotivated to act quickly because of his supposed killer being easily incapacitated. that is his mistake
@@owenbyrne9850his motivations also were shallow af tho, imho worst ganondorf for motovation
Honestly, giving him Gilgamesh's levels of ego was a sound move.
And an interesting take of the blood knight trope:
He didn't want a worthy opponent. He wanted a opponent strong enough to allow him to flaunt his power.
And his act of draconification:
He didn't do it to save his life, but his pride. Paying his very being was fair for him
@@owenbyrne9850 I think he was using the network of Gloom roots in the Depths to spread his influence around the world, and craft a world sufficiently harsh to turn people against each other and start the wars he thought should never have stopped. Like you said, he thought he'd already beaten you, a weakling unworthy of the title of Hero, and moved on to the next phase of his plan.
@@thatminer7174who cares? People are sick of the stupid villains we keep getting pawned on to us with deep backstories and crap that try to make us “understand him” or feel for him. This Ganondorf is a great return to the simplicity of “he’s an evil piece of shit, the reason why is irrelevant, he’s a problem and needs to die.” A classic hero vs pure evil story is the kind of era of gaming Zelda encapsulates and I’m glad they honored it in the modern day.
After beating Ganondorf I went to Lurelin Village. I finally rest and watch the sun rise on a greatfull kingdom☺️
Okay thanos 🤣
'I understood that reference'
"That is destiny fulfilled."
I like to treat Calamity Ganon as a version of Phantom Ganon who just grew immensely in power overtime.
that actually would be pretty damn cool
It’s terrifying that Ganon is so powerful in this game that Calamity Ganon is just a manifestation of his spiteful will to dominate and destroy. Imagine being so evil that even locked away the sheer power of your soul takes life to enact your will throughout the ages.
I believe that it’s a fragment of Ganondorf’s soul
I believe it's Ganondorf... 's fart. That's were the Depths brass came from in TOTK, right?
Loved this ganondorf as he felt like a actual threat coming after you with his shadows and being a general menace in cutscenes
To the surprise of many, Nintendo has never been shy to creating difficult bosses. Raven Beak from Metroid Dread, Volo from Pokémon Legends Arceus and nearly all post-game secret bosses of the Kirby series pose an equal if not greater challenge compared to the Demon King. But regardless, you gotta admit that Ganondorf still reigns supreme as the meanest greenest bean of the roster 😎
Raven Beak was great, but you’re also forgetting Cynthia imo
He isn't called the king of evil for nothing.
Volo was the hardest battle since red on hgss
The difference there is that the difficult bosses usually wherent the final ones.
Inner agent 3 and NILS statue from octo expansion as well
whats really terrifying about that ganondorf fight is the health bar breaking limitations to really deliver the feeling of facing something so powerful beyond normally possible and then theres the thing that his energy attacks actually straight break entire heart containers which even more so makes him seem quite scary and threatening despite those energy attacks effectively dealing only little damage and their only effect being punishing people who solely rely on food but losing the containers the player worked so hard to get over the whole playtime just like that very much delivers a feeeling of danger
also i like the addition of that german cutscene in the beginning the german voice acting in this game is amazing especially for ganondorf
ngl when i faced him my jaw dropped from every moves and surprise he made. even the sages joining means a lot. it feels really immersive
Apparently if you eat anything that gives temporary hearts, it gives you back the heart containers he broke. I was actually a bit disappointed to find this out.
Spin attack, friends. Thought of all the games where you knock his attacks back at him....and it works
I was blown away when he took away my hearts completely. Completely bad ass way of portraying him
It even makes sense as he does that at the very start of the game, reducing your hearts to only 3
I literally laughed but also was a little scared when his healthbar crept across the screen. The whole encounter, from the descent into the Hyrule castle depths, to the dragon fight was perfect. I've never felt such intense emotion from a Nintendo game. I give a ton of credit to the soundtrack, they really nailed it. I bought TOTK saying I would be happy if it was a quarter as good as BOTW, but holy crap I loved this game
He's not the Ganondorf we need; he's the Ganondorf we deserve. Not only that, but this guy's voice actor is on point! Actually, all the voices in this game are on point!
Admittedly, TOTK appears to close a long-standing chapter with the Zelda series. Practically all previous iterations of Ganondorf required him to be 'defeated', even in BOTW, which ultimately left the door open for him to somehow reincarnate and show up in a future game. In TOTK, the quest was clear...'destroy' Ganondorf; so it certainly appears that we have finally seen the last of him, and it was done so in epic fashion. It will be interesting to see where this takes future Zelda games.
You don’t know that Demise’s curse is eternal therefore Ganondorf ALWAYS comes back one way or another.
Reboot occurs and Ganon is the big bad again. That’s how it goes now.
@@Mario87456 not maybe demise stops having to use ganondorf maybe now that he is gone demise can once again return to the land of hyrule
@@trolledfordrip Demise is never coming back, he's deader than dead
@@crisprat7117 at this point can you really say that
I love this new Ganon. The absolute DISRESPECT he gives Link in the intro cutscene is so good. But you don't realize just how low he thinks of Link until you see him again during the final fight. I thought he was in the depths building back his lost strength in case I returned. But he had no idea Link even survived, let alone COULD even come back through the minefield of Gloom and Monsters he left all over the depths and bursting from the various chasms. He wasn't waiting For Link, he wasn't gaining strength to attack Hyrule again either. HE ALREADY WON and knew it. Raru lied about this Link and his Sword that can seal the Darkness (I mean he didn't even attack Link directly...he took Link out while basically stretching his power after a long nap) so instead of aiming his actual attack at Link to kill him, he attacks Hyrule Directly leaving Gloom and enhanced monsters to finish things off. There aren't any Generals at his side or Evil Mages controlling minions for him when you find him either.
Just the Demon King and Victory....shit he is still in his mummy form he's so unimpressed with things 😂
Great analysis. He’s arrogant, as Rauru pointed out
Anyone else notice Twinrova behind him in the palace fealty swearing scene?? Now, anyone else CHOKED we didn't get a Twinrova encounter??
yep
How can you be sure that was them?
@@jjane222 not only is there a video in it but they have their names on their clothing
I see them being important in DLC or something to come
@@nathanstevens259 I see it too, which means nintendo wont do it xD
such an honor to be featured in this amazing analysis video among so many other amazing creators! thank you so much, wonderful video :) agree wholeheartedly!
Your reactions are so genuine!
Technically there are Nintendo villains who have more raw evilness. These villains include Demise, Hades, Ridley, King Boo, Zanza, Porky Minch, Fecto Elfilis, and Volo to name a few. However, Ganondorf is still my favorite since he’s an absolute badass.🎉
In TOTK, Ganondorf wasn’t TOO far from the being on the same league as them. But yeah, I agree that the others are worse. And Ganondorf is also one of my favorite fictional villains of all time
Ganondorf is surprisingly charismatic, which makes it hard to completely hate him despite how unapologetically evil he can be. There's a reason so many people clamor for him to have some sort of redemption arc.
Don’t forget Louie
One thing I enjoy most about the dragon fight part, you can hear a version of Zelda’s lullaby in the melody
Totk Ganondorf is literally just evil for the sake of being evil, just like Jack Horner without the comedy and it truly is a great feeling where I don’t have to feel sympathy for the villain or have them giving a philosophy on why they should be allowed to do the evil things they’re doing. Pure evil incarnate and that’s just how I like it not saying that we need to only have villains like this it’s just a nice break from the other archetypes.
EXACTLY. People keep mentioning how Ganondorf has “no backstory” and I’m just like “yeah. GOOD. It doesn’t matter, I just wanna kill him cause he’s evil” I miss that in gaming. I’ve certainly had a lot of great “tragic villain” stories, they can be done right, but it became so over saturated with terrible shallow attempts at it that it left a bad taste, TOTK just cleansed that taste away with Ganondorf’s classic Hero Vs Villain character.
Actually, Ganondorf is reincarnation of Demise’s hatred. He’s a feeling that was given mind and body
Bowser - A knobhead with an almost charming personality and an idiotic goal. At his best when he fights a greater evil, only to prove he is the one king koopa
King Dedede - A man who used to do evil, stopped by and saved by Kirby multiple times. His rivalry peaked with a score to settle, and now he acts as one of Kirby's greatest allies
Ganondorf - A man with sinister or dark goals, becoming so lost in the struggle for power that he loses himself. A man made to show the dangers of pursuing power.
I dunno man, I can't pick a favorite or a "greatest".
The Reason the Master Sword damages Ganondorf still is not because it is made to face Evil that owns the Triforce, it is made to face ANY evil, no matter how powerful, even if it is a Dark God.
And even then you can Damage this Ganondorf in any form still with any other weapon while the Master Sword is just the most effective one in the final phase by dealimg more damage than it ACTUALLY should.
This Ganondorf is Mere Powerwise on a whole different level than most others, but unlike Twilight Princess Ganondorf he doesnt have infinite defense and can still be harmed with anything like OoT Ganondorf or Yuganon from A Link between Worlds
They finally did Ganondorf some honor, my god what a story, what a depiction of Ganondorf. This was THE Ganondorf for me. Knocked Twilight Princess' Ganondorf right back to number 2.
Ok this is a well put together Video. WHY ONLY 1.4K VIEWS? You did a great job man. Ganondorf Has always been my favorite Villain and TOTK Is just icing on the cake of Evil. I hope this vid dose well and props to you man.
Once you get the pattern down and if you bring enough food this fight isn’t that hard but man it’s so FUN! And the cutscenes are amazing. In botw I never really wanted to go back to fight Ganon but multiple times now I want to re-fight Demon King Ganondorf.
Yep. I had a hard time fighting him the first round because I am a flurry rush bitch, which is unfortunate when the boss not only has natural random delays in his attack animations specifically for throwing you off on the timing, but then also forces you to time it well twice in a row while reading his attack angle in a split second the second time to be able to hit him at all. To say the least I did not fair well. But that ending is so good I just keep opening the game on that save and instead of taking started save file and going to do more side missions and crap, I just keep jumping back down to fight him again. Now that I’ve learned a lot of the strats and the legacy tennis ball strat, the one sided fight is back on my side, but he still always gets some hits in, and I have yet to make it out without having a heart container smashed.
Even without the tear cutscenes ganondorf manages to imprint so much personality in such a short time.
i love to see that even english speakers use german synchronisation… all the voice acting there is great, i personally prefer it a lot over most english voice (matt mercer is a legend, but german ganondorf rules)
PointCrow’s reaction was awesome, it really mirrors how I felt during this ending. It was so epic, unexpected, and beautiful at times.
This man singlehandedly caused the most cataclysmic mass extinction event in a quarter billion years.
My theory was:
That the Totk Ganondorf was the first reicarnation of Demise.
Once he got sealed, he used his Malice/Gloom to "create" the other Ganondorfs.
Hence they're all Gerudo aswell as him and clearly not as powerfull as him.
It would make sense in my opinion, just the entire Zonai part fricks the entire timeline.
Zonai timeline is the result of a triforce wish I'm telling you now.
Your explanation doesn't make sense. Tears of the kingdom comes after every zelda game including the time far in the past. We are talking 10000 years after an unpronounced amount of time beyond the end of all timelines. Gannondorf cannot create the others if his very birth came long after the events of all timeline endings
@@leargamma4912 But you see, Rauru and Sonia were the "First" king and queen of hyrule.
The land they were in was the "first" Hyrule.
Zonais went extinct thousands of years ago.
So, it would make sense that this all happened kinda early in the timeline, would explain that the Zonai never appeared since well, they went extinct with the death of Mineru.
So, either it all started at the beginning of the timeline, or at a point a new Hyrule was created. Or perhaps a new 4th time-split.
I think Totk is so far into the future that Hyruke May have collapsed and been refounded. That’s my theory anyway.
@@JakeTheStakeNowIn3D5024 that's just as silly a thing to happen too. Especially with it retaining all the names. When things go under, usually something new arises.
how the hell does this only have 300 views its really high quality great job on the video
It takes time, but usually the videos tend to pick up, thanks for the nice words
From 300 - 2,000 in 1 hour? Dang
I can confirm that this is a hard boss fight, I even had max hearts and all the shrines before I fought him and I lost 3 times before I finally beat him, Nintendo really outdid themselves with this one 🙌
What if... Everytime Calamity Ganon is awakened it's because a Ganondorf is reaking havoc on a timeline?
This man is my favorite antagonist in fiction and it's not hard to see why, and the new game just made it all so much better.
Ganondorf is the Sauron of gaming, and I'm glad to see more people putting some respect on that name.
My favorite version of Ganondorf. The best design, the best boss fight, the most menacing he's ever felt. The moment where he "rehydrates" himself and his leitmotif plays with the "Menace Unleashed" title...perfection.
I've seen a lot of criticisms saying that he's too stereotypically evil. And while I understand there may have been some context lost in the translation to English, I don't think he needs to be complex or nuanced in the same way Wind Waker Ganondorf was. He's like Alexander the Great or Napoleon: a conqueror who thinks it's his right to rule because he's the strongest.
Agreed. He enjoys the process of overcoming strong opponents in his quest to become the strongest, and this defines his relationships with people like Rauru and Link in a way very reminiscent of Demise. This to me is more than enough to make him interesting, and although I'd probably have to say Wind Waker Ganondorf's writing is a bit better, Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf's presentation is the best of the 4 by a landslide, and it earns him the spot as my favorite version of the character.
Hot take, Ganondorf fight was too easy. At first I thought I just came in overprepared but I realized the entrance to the fight provided me with the lynel horn I fused to the master sword which made the fight too easy
The triforce in this game is actually still exsistant, but totally different. I might be getting this wrong, but apparently the triforce is a symbol of three rulers, the ruler of boars, owls, and dragons. I have practically no information past that.
I have never enjoyed a final boss as much as I did Ganondorf in TotK.
Down right prefect and so much respect for whom he is by the devs.
TotK Ganondorf is proof that sometimes all you truly need is pure and simple Evil.
No sad backstory or semi relatable traits.
Just a man of pure, raw ambition and desire to rule all he can see.
I affectionately refer to the demon dragon as Dragondorf. He stands alongside greenendorf and purpldorf in super smash brothers. For real though this final boss fight was one of my favorite boss fights in quite a long time. I enjoy fromsoft games, but none of those bosses made me take over twenty minutes to beat. Demon king Ganondorf did make me take over twenty minutes to beat. Thats not to say he is more difficult than a fromsoft boss, but it does speak to the kind of fight it is. It's long methodical and oh so satisfying. great video!
His last name is Dragmire so thats what i call it
Affectionately? What is he, your pet?
For people who don't overprepare with health, stamina, and armor upgrades, this dude can be as hard as a Fromsoft boss. He is easily one of the most difficult boss fights in the Zelda franchise only tied by Master mode Maz Koshia and Thunderblight Ganon.
@@masonstewart6232 Some random runebear in the consecrated snowfield is harder than ganon
I loved fighting him i just wish fighting him in his non dragon form was longer and bit more difficult. It was so cool to flurry rush him only for him to do it back to me. Shit was so cool lol. Overall enjoyed that part of fight way more than the dragon part lol
I'm surprised that no one is talking about how totk ganandorf did the same thing oot ganandorf. Got the kings favor despite everyone knowing that he is evil and getting exactly what he wanted and destroying Hyrule then being beaten by that iteration of the chosen hero.
Well, this time he was racist and blamed the zonai for everything. (Except in the English dub & subtitles where he just uses vague evil sounding threats in place of those lines for some reason)
@@Paradox1012wasnt he saying the world was pussywhipped from peace brought by the zonai or something?
@@cato3277 basically yeah. he wanted strong people to fight and roam but the zonai just made everything convenient for everyone.
In oot, only zelda knew he was evil, he had magically charmed everyone else.
Rauru not just lasering him from the start was an issue though
@@Paradox1012 this doesn't even make sense, the world he creates when he could had nothing strong in it and certainly nothing that could rival him.
Like his hordes camp out 99.999% of their existence and he doesn't power up his enemies for a good fight either.
When you said "you know Ghirahim?" it should have cut to him lashing his tongue over Link's shoulder or a fast montage of his character arc. Also should have used Link's yells for cursing covers since its his game
Ghirahim just sitting there being the best Zelda villain
Ganondorf feels like a very personal villain to Link, at least in my headcanon.
Link lost everything. He lost his home, his family, his friends, even an unrequited love. And if that wasn't enough, Ganon/Ganondorf took his life. Granted, he got it back, but only after a hundred years of being placed in a tomb with a spa plan. And with that, he also lost his memories. The person he was tasked with protecting went to hold off the apocalypse herself and he couldn't even remember why he protected her in the first place. He had to pull the whole world together and himself to beat... a byproduct.
Calamity Ganon ruined Link's life, and it wasn't even the main threat.
Six years later (I believe this is the time gap because Hudson now has a daughter who looks to be Kindergarten age), and Link and Zelda continue to rebuild and, once again this is my headcanon, developed deep feelings for each other. But as they investigate beneath Hyrule Castle, the thieving Demon King comes to pilfer from Link once again. He steals his sword, his arm and the person he loves vanishes from sight and the next time he sees her physically, she is a dragon, completely robbed of her humanity, only guided by a single goal and nothing else. Ganondorf also attempts to undo all Link and Zelda has done and sends plagues upon the people of Hyrule and the surrounding regions. He has the audacity to make a puppet of Zelda just taunt and play with Link.
"I'll be taking more than your arm this time." Ganondorf says. But the truth is, he has robbed Link time and time again, so much so that at this point, I wouldn't be surprised that the pure of heart hero would do this even if Hyrule wasn't in danger. Because Ganondorf made this PERSONAL.
Definitely a very memorable boss fight for sure. However, even Ganon becomes easy if you go into the fight with enough armor upgrades, food and the master sword. He can only deal one (broken) heart of damage with each and every attack he does. Most people I saw struggled a bit but never lost because of it. XD
Yeah I think it'd be more fun to be less prepared. I went in with fully upgraded champion's tunic and Hylian pants. Had no idea what I was doing, but with 50+ armor and 20 hearts, Ganondorf's katana was giving Link little paper cuts. Still a great fight, but it's better when you're actually in danger of losing
I do think that Ganon taking Gloom hearts away was a nice challenge. Even if you don't take as much damage sooner or later you won't be able to properly heal if you don't defeat him fast enough
@@Eli-sg5to Canonically though, Link freed the 4 regions, awakened all the sages, pulled the Master Sword, activated all 152 shrines, activated all the lightroots and got the ancient hero's aspect. The whole point of being maxed out is everyone in the past tells Ganondorf he's fucked come wakey-wakey time and when you return after regaining your strength, it causes him to realise he misjudged you - his own hubris in dismissing you at the start mirroring Rauru's hubris in thinking he could thwart anything Ganondorf tried while seemingly a loyal subject.
@@Eli-sg5toit hurts real bad when you depend on flurry rushing, cause I went in with everything you could imagine, and because I suck at combat outside of flurry rushing, I suffered. He erased all but 8 of my hearts from existence and wasted all but 2 of my shields, the Hylian shield with durability ++ being 1 and being badly damaged at the end. The developers knew exactly which combat strategies are cheap and easy and which take skill, and forced me to learn how to rely more frequently on harder timing counters like parry’s
This is one ganondorf that should've had more background explored
I always notice myself screaming “hands… hands… HANDS… HAAAAAANDS!!” Whenever I encounter the gloom hands
The only other Nintendo villain that could match Ganondorf for sheer evil might be Ridley from Metroid. Dude is a complete psycho, who destroys entire planetary systems, and is responsible for the death of Samus' parents. Ganondorf is evil because he desires power, whereas Ridley is evil for evil's sake.
To further add to Ridley being a better villain (imo) than Ganon, Ridley is actually genuinely intelligent in how he handles things. Ridley doesn't just sit around on a throne (well, command center) and let his henchmen do all the work for him. He's actively doing the bulk of his army's work, with most of his crew being researchers (remember, even though all space pirates are heavily armed, most of them are scientists and engineers) that do stuff that would be too time consuming for him. Ridley doesn't sit around; he's usually the one doing the major jobs (kidnapping the baby Metroid, fighting Samus as soon as he gets the chance). Ridley knows he's the strongest member of his army, and plays accordingly, and even reflects in-game with Ridley almost always being the hardest boss in whatever game he's in. Fittingly, with one exception, he's never the final boss, because again, he's not a king piece that just sits on a throne
@@anthonyk3952 Wow man that was pretty awesome explanation. I can see why Ridley is more of an active force who propels action throughout the story, whereas Ganondorf spends most of the time in the shadows letting his henchmen do things for him. Ridley straddles a unique position of being both a secondary and main antagonist in the Metroid games.
Not to mention Ganaondorf has the excuse of well being unable to be truly good due to being the eternal incarnation of Demsie’s hatred.
I proceeded to heavily panic and stress out during my first time fighting Ganondorf this game, and held onto that panic attack for the rest of the week.
Even after I finally killed him, he still was trying to kill me 😂 Really hope that doesnt happen again when I eventually redo his battle, because that was a miserable week... That fight was amazing though, I just kinda wish he was a little more fluid his last stage of the boss fight, because he kinda just sat there... and I understand why, the dragons do tend to sort of just hang around and meander, unless you hurt them, which is exactly what he was doing, and I understand that he was no longer "himself" anymore, but it was still really fun, regardless!
He has promoted the entire game from being optional to being mandatory.
One of my favorite parts of this Ganondorf is that after losing three fights against the guy he spent the whole game taunting and refusing to acknowledge as a peer to his own power, he throws a fit and pulls a trump card that costs him literally EVERYTHING. He doesn't even care about ruling the world anymore or creating any sort of hierarchy of power. He's so butthurt that he destroys himself entirely for a shot at killing Link, even if he isnt conscious to revel in it. Also, i don't know if I'm misunderstanding that part, but Calamity Ganon isn't stronger than any version of Ganondorf by any measure.
When it comes to the villains of Nintendo no one can beat Ganondorf it’s a well known fact! As a kid the first Legend of Zelda I have ever played was Wind Waker and as a kid you never know the lore heck I had a a Nintendo 64 but never got my hands of Ocarina of Time until I got it for the GameCube!
Speaking of Ocarina of Time, the developers who created Tears of the Kingdom really did bring huge callbacks to Ganondorf’s past reincarnations from the previous games. From his Demon King Form looking similar to Demise, him backstabbing,(no pun intended!), the Hyrulian Royal Family, his manipulation of the Gerudo Tribe, and the ye olde plan to conquer the world! Nothing can stop this man of pure Chaos and Malice!
I will say, I am still just a tiny bit disappointed that it wasn't a 4 stage fight with stage 1 being agaimst zombie ganondorf. Or maybe we fight zombie-dorf first, then his army, then his revival. Or even fight him sometime between, like at hyrule castle. Don't get me wrong, the ending was amazing and I got over it real quick, but I definitely wanted to fight that thing. Tbf, its very possible a zombiedorf fight would have messed with the flow, in fact it is likely. Like, if we beat zombiedorf first then he revives, it probably would have made his revived form less menacing in some way. So begrudgingly I admit this was probably the best way to do it.
Yeah I did wanna fight the mummy cause I thought he looked way cooler, plus it was the mummy that trashed me at the start of the game, so I had the image of power in that. But after he reformed, and you hear the weight of his steps and the presence of his voice, you realize the mummy ain’t shit. Plus I would argue we were fighting the mummy all game with the phantoms, especially the Zelda puppet phantom.
There's a common misconception that I've seen regarding BotW/TotK. The Ganondorf we see in TotK is the first in the timeline, probably born soon after SS. It's also stated that there have been *multiple* Calamity Ganons, with 1 happening every 10,000 years. The legend we see was just the most recent where the Sheikah decided they would win a lot quicker if the hero had back up. So I would assume that between BotW and everything else is at least 30,000 years.
Edit: I just did the school quest in TotK and Symin also said it happened multiple times
Wrong.
@@leargamma4912 no, if you go back to BotW it Impa says that Calamity Ganon is "a timeless evil that has occured countless times over the ages" And if not those exact words, then something similar.
Despite what Nintendo says it’s very unlikely that there’s any actual placement for BoTW/ToTK. Every Zelda game ever talks about things that have happened since before time existed or whatever but you never see these concepts in other games. The only definitive game placements are SS first, and wind waker/TP after OoT.
Basically Nintendo prioritizing gameplay first means story takes a huge backseat and continuity is almost nonexistent, even in direct sequels like BoTW and ToTK
@@maddoxwilton4134 true. But I also love lore and trying to figure out where TotK stands is super fun for me
@@maddoxwilton4134I don’t know why the hell they tried to make all the games connected, like how hard would it simply be to admit the truth, that you moved on from one iteration to another without relating them, which isn’t a crime, it’s normal, companies reboot stories all the time. Like just declare them only canon to their related sequels and spin-offs. But no matter how you try now the lore is fucked because the games simply aren’t related in a lot of cases.
I find him the scariest Ganondorf in the series. The shot of his grinning face as his eyes get Draconified is pure nightmare fuel
Personally, I feel like TOTK's Ganondorf was a fantastic incarnation that was meant for a different, linear game. Much of his storytelling in the open world of TOTK did not make much sense and too much was left open. I feel like he should have been reserved for a Zelda that explored his whereabouts a lot more.
You forgot to mention that phantom ganon can just randomly sprout in the overworld and wreck your shit which is probably the most genius idea ever
I agree this ending fight was the best. But Ganondorf in TotK was not a great villian. His writing and entire character is basically "Im bad cause I'm evil". There is no motiviation.
He does have a motivation in TOTK, but they butchered it in the English version. From what I recall other people explaining it, in other languages his motivation is that he sees the world losing its courage and strength due to the Zonai coming down and creating the kingdom to establish peace and prosperity. He hates the Zonai for this, which is one scrap we get in the English version in the false fealty memory. This explains why he stops paying any attention to Link and Zelda at the start of the game: Rauru had said that Link would destroy him with the Master Sword in the far future, but when the time came, Ganondorf just shattered the sword and saw that Link was no threat, so he wasn't worth Ganondorf's time, which is something he repeats at the start of the boss fight, that Link isn't a worthy opponent, and he also says there that everyone is a "peace-loving coward", another scrap of his motivation that was butchered.
He actually does have a reason just they hate the English version but in the Japanese he actually does have a motivation just look at the reply above me
Hard agree. Ganondorf is so badly written it ruins most of the games narrative for me.
Sonia exists solely as a MacGuffin for Ganondorf to kill to lazily obtain power.
Bowser is a stage villain, he's a heel. Miyamoto himself has said words to that effect. He can run the gamut from genuine threat to Saturday morning cartoon. Ganondorf is different. He's the bad guy who shows up when the fun is over. In terms of characterization, he is never goofy, never flappable, always intimidating; and Tears of the Kingdom is Ganondorf at his peak. They did an amazing job with him.
When I first saw those hands I instantly went to the map and teleported, NOPE not gonna fight that one without good weapons and armor.
“Ganondorf is Nintendo’s best villain”
Yeah he is also the sexiest one
My only gripe is that I wish we knew more of his backstory and why he wanted to conquer Hyrule, beyond ‘evil mofo doing evil mofo things.’
Besides that I loved how menacing the demon king was this time.
The entire point of his character was that he was evil for the sake of being evil.
Based on what I have read, the english localization doesn't really do the best job at portraying his character.
In the Japanese translation, he apparently doesn't like how the world lost its original courage and he wants to bring it back to its original glory. Likely before the Zonai came since it is shown the cutscene where he swears loyalty that he hates their race and their arrogance, since they descend from the gods.
But they do show why he wants to conquer Hyrule. He believes Raru's kingdom of peace will make Hyrule weak and as someone who values power he refuses to let that happen.
@@Leee275 He also seems to both envy the power Rauru commands through the Secret Stones and resents that he elects to use it defensively and to preserve peace, rather than to dominate the people of Hyrule. To waste power like that is unconscionable to Ganondorf, for whom power must be exerted with aggression to be true.
I would love to one day see a ganondorf that learns of his past incarnations and rejects his evil legacy, trying to defy what he is meant to be.
a really cool villain but I genuinely do not understand why people say he's a hard boss. I went in the fight with just one row of hearts and barely knowing how to flurry rush and I beat him almost instantly
can we all agree that the German version of Ganondorf’s first monologue goes so hard, and is very intimidating?
You'd be surprised to learn Ganon/Ganondorf only had one main title in the entire series (aside from Four Swords Adventures' "King of Darkness") being 大魔 Dai Maō "Great Demon King" and the variants found in the english localizations are different adaptations of the original term into english words.
He has been called so ever since Zelda on the NES.
Phase 1 Ganondorf will switch his gear on the fly as well. This final fight was seriously so superbly done, AAA DEVS TAKE NOTES!
The boss sadly was easy for me i had the master sword fused with a fire gleok thing and i was wearing the fierce deity armor only hard thing was that my health was low and i didnt have food and my armor wasnt upgraded
Yeah you can definitely overprepare, but he is undeniably one of the most well designed boss fights in gaming. I can only hope to see how Master Mode inevitably makes nerfs to Link and how much harder it makes Ganondorf.
Yeah the master sword fusion is fine but the fierce deity set is just easy mode that’s why I hate using it
The prequel to this should be Kotake and Koume performing dark rites to give baby Gannondorf immortality. In doing this they summon the curse of Demise which transforms a golden skinned, red haired baby into a greenish skinned, yellow eyed one…
In that one they aren’t comic relief like OoT/ MM but some of the darkest characters of the Zelda series…
I don’t consider myself a hardcore gamer, im not historically great at bossfights…
But I really don’t understand people saying this was the hardest boss fight in years. I beat him on attempt #3 (no guide).
I lost way more to the mud guy is Zora’s domain.
The hardest Nintendo boss in recent memory has to be the bird guy at the end of Metroid Dread.
Lmk why I’m right
tbh i regret fusing a white lynel horn to my master sword the first time i fought him. it cut through him like butterrrr and made the fight a lot easier than i think it should’ve been
Considering that you never lose durability on the master sword in the evil king gannon fight, it is implied for you to just use the full master sword
The first time I saw Ganondorf's second phase healthbar on the internet I tought it was edited, then I fought him for the first time and saw that it WASN'T EDITED, I was a bit scared but I found it really funny to just watch the healthbar start from a normal point and then just continue almost 'till the screen border. Btw that's also cool how he can flurry rush us too, but without being a sure hit, you can flurry rush his flurry rush right away, even if the timing is a bit tough. Best final boss fight I ever did (also like 40x the Botw one)
That Demon King transformation was sick! It revitalized the hype for many people during the 3rd trailer after the reveal!
I know totk ganon will live on in my memory forever between triple flurry rushes, super health bars, and draconification, but I still get shivers watching that TP fight when he charges at you and you leap into his blade to duel strength against each other.
I love the fact that you showed streamers' reactions to him. Their reactions were gold.
That healthbar was such a joke.I loved it
While Ganondorf was super menacing and was certain a step up from botw, I still wish he was harder than he was. I found the floating coliseum harder than the final boss of the entire game which just doesn’t really feel right. It irks me when, if I want a challenge, I have to limit what weapons I use or food I eat. I wish that at some point in a Zelda game, there will be a boss that, despite how prepared I am, it’s still ridiculously hard. Or maybe that’s just me and I play the game too much lmao
The gameplay problem with that idea is that players who don’t want to spend 200 hours in game getting all the shrines and armor upgrades will be at a massive disadvantage for playing the story. It’s one of those compromises this open-world story mix had to make, cause it would be against the open world design to force the player to be a completionist logging hundred or more hours just to stand a chance.
Truly the best Ganondorf fight. And truly a good video. He had good melee but died too quickly. I made a challenge video with rules that make the difficulty what some of us were expecting.
Illumination feels like one of the worst options for an animation studio to do a Zelda movie. Them doing the Mario movie was fine, but a Zelda movie is completely different
Imagine if we get a zelda movie made by Marvel they would smash that out of the park with thier action scenes.
@@CrazyGmer915 I'm not all for it, but it sounds.. interesting, I guess
Right up there with Raven Beak from Metroid Dread.
Majora will still be the most terrifying and sadistic antagonist in the zelda franchise, there is no debate about that.
Theres so much just fundamentally incorrect information in this video
1) Ganon and Demise *are not* the same thing. Ganon is the demon form of Ganondorf, Demise is just the initial Demon King. Demise's spirit is completely eradicated by the time Skyward Sword ends
2) The Gerudo *always* give birth to a male every 100 years. Its not a curse, its just their biology. The only exceprion to this is the Wild era Ganondorf, because he never died under Rauru's seal so a new male was never born
3) The Stones are not called "Dragon Stones", they're officially referred to as Secret Stones
4) The TriForce in this duology is portrayed through Zelda's Light piwer, which is also what powers up the Master Sword. We literally see her materialize the TriForce *twice* in BotW, and once in TotK in the cutscene whete shes actively healing it. Ganondorf cant obtain the TriForce in this game because it doesnt have a physical form to take, its part of the royal bloodline
5) Colgera and Molgera are not related, they just happen to share a similar name. Its like how every single Gohma is their own thing
Most of Ganondorf's titles are only known internationally, and in fact are the result of inaccurate translation, whether accidental, intentional, or some odd combination of the two. In Japan, Ganondorf has _always_ been called the Demon King.
It is true, the final boss is difficult if you come in with half the possible hearts, weak to mid armor, and no gloom food. That being said, I took my time, I did all the shrines, I upgraded some armor and assumed I would need gloom food since the phantom Ganon enemies used gloom. I am not a skilled gamer, more of a button masher when it comes to fighting games, and even still I had no trouble beating the final boss.
I don't mean that as a knock on the game. I think that is a great way to make difficult bosses accessible. Still make the bosses difficult, but if you take the time to build up strength they become much easier.
Another thing. It is the only boss in all zelda history that can give you PERMANENT DAMAGE if it hits you with the “dark flame” attack and you cannot get that heart ever again doring the battle
When Ganondorf takes on his Pig form he actually transforms into Ganonmon.
Too much love for a villain that doesn't even bother getting out of his lair to see the daylight.
I honestly thought that this final boss fight was kinda easy still but maybe I was just over prepared
I best it with 20 hearts and a lot of armor upgrades. I had no food but yeah
I’d argue that what they called Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild, is more like an Omen, than actually Ganon. Judging by what we saw in the beginning of Tears of the Kingdom, Ganon was locked under Hyrule Castle and the Malice (or Gloom) seeping out of Ganon manifested itself.
Yeah…..I thought everyone already knew that? Lol
Calamity Ganon was just a Phantom Ganon on crack
Ganon: ‘I used the stones to destroy the stones… Hold on, no. I used the stones to destroy the Hylians.’
The most iconic ganondorf is probably the one in Tp cause he’s just the best ever!
The canon version is that ganondorf in this parallel universe is this universe’s demise