Breath of the Wild's Gerudo Desert -- Designing For Adaptability
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2023
- Designing For is a series which looks at one specific level, character, or idea in gaming and breaks down the central theme to that element to figure out what it's, well, designing for! In this episode, we look over the history of Zelda's most contentious tribe, the Gerudo. Forged of hardship, deceit, and mistrust, long have their deserts haunted players, and their king, Ganondorf, used that backing to rally his people toward conquest... yet Breath of the Wild shows us a different approach. Not only have the Gerudo adapted to their environment, the desert itself adapts with the times, providing a challenge that no longer is based on frustration and mistrust, but tackling challenge from a different angle and thriving in it, just as the Gerudo have.
Special thank you to @Gamescapes for allowing us to utilize their gorgeous Breath of the Wild landscapes: / gamescapes
To Arkham for his tremendous performance as the King of Evil, Ganondorf:
www.castingcall.club/arkham
And to vandam365 for providing and animating the Ganondorf model during the narration sequences: www.fiverr.com/vandam365
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Outro - Gerudo Interlude by djpretzel: • OC ReMix #368: Legend ... 
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I hope Tears touches more on Ganondorf’s relationship with his race.
Well it's pretty much out now so you'll see soon enough
Like I always saw him as the Random bad guy who did bad because yes like bowser, but him being petty not just from his own reasons but from what happened to his people really makes me see him as a tragic villian.
someone so Caught up in Venegace and Envy he's blind to his own Race's success despite their harsh land.
That he finnally sees his own envy isn't making Anything, its just getting in the way of his people's development, so he has a choice: keep making the same mistake and be beaten by the same Elf boy over and over, pushing his people away even more each time.
Or choice to let go of a grudge that just hurts many, and adapt like they did, Become just as strong as they are and grow with them.
Maybe even use his own minions to expand the Gerudos into an even higher plain of positive domanition.
I hope after Years of doing the same thing over and over Ganon finally chooses to change and give up a petty squable, that he can rest and new villian can appear to mix things up.
Or Legend Zelda ends with it since it feels like a worthwhile ending, The villian you've been fighting for decades Comes to overcome their own flaws in how they saw their world.
I guess well see what decision Nintendo chooses.
I hope that they don’t make the Gerudo people his blind followers once more
Bro they literally did nothing with his character in that game
I’m glad that the Gerudos home deserts like all deserts have life no matter how barren they look sometimes I believe Twinrova was just the final nail that made Ganondorf evil aside from Demise’s curse.
Honestly, the whole game is about adaptability. Even with a near apocalypse 100 years ago, Hyrule and it's people still manage to cling to life and thrive. As one girl in the Dueling Peaks stable says "Peaceful places like this make you almost forget that the world ended years ago." Unrelated, but I think I play this game too much.
"We can only hope that [the silent princess] will be strong enough to survive on its own"
Deserts get a bad rep in video games. They can be bland worlds but so many of them are amazing and beautiful locations.
Gritzy Desert, Originull Wasteland, and especially especially Torna. All amazing locations that use its setting really well.
I am fighting the urge not to mention oregano deser-
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
@@somuchtocook9159 Hearing New Vegas memes almost makes you wish people would stop worshipping the worst mainline Fallout game.
From Shem down to Mourn, then down to Catun... Hire some mercs for the Beak Things if you can.
In OoT Ganon fights like his grandmas and he’s dressed like a Hylian. His default state is a weeb witch, but in WW he dual wields scimitars like a Gerudo.
I think he’s just depressed that every time he wins some magic bs steals it away.
Oh would you look at that, the best part of Zelda's worldbuilding!
Sure there are plenty of other great legends and cultures in the series, but the franchise as a whole rarely lets them stick around long enough to develop into anything meaningful, and those that do have their themes too heavily focused upon to really *build* something meaningful. These are the fish people with an aquatic society, here are the rock people adapted to living in volcanic regions, their cultures are too often just "Ok, so what is their Pokemon type?", any deeper explorations like "Ok Gorons do sumo now!" getting scrapped for whatever the secondary theme will be in the next installment.
The Gerudo though? They're just humans, so some legwork was actually put in to make them distinct as this video so eloquently states. Their lore and history HAS to matter, because that's what makes them special. And they could've stopped there, but they went the extra mile and made some neat parallels historical inspirations, everything from taking traditional Amazonian myths to paralleling the Arabia vs. Europe conflicts with Gerudo vs. Hyrule to that kickass flamenco remix of Gerudo Valley in Smash Bros. Every one of those real world homages brings so much weight with it, making the Gerudo culture feel so much meatier thanks to those parallels making it effortless to extrapolate more from them. More than any other society in Hyrule they feel active and ALIVE in the world, including the Hylians themselves!
Would love to see some more of that creativity injected into the other peoples of Hyrule someday, I'd love to be invested in them as much as I am the Gerudo.
Funny, when I think of the Gerudo, literally all I think of is "desert hylians." The Rito and Zora are infinitely more interesting to me.
Deep in the desert they bloom,
Flowers on the dunes.
You're making a solid argument and highlighting why we need a Zelda game to have a Gerudo protagonist.
The Same game can be experienced so vastly differently from different settings.
As a huge fan of the gerudo in OOT, it was thrilling to see what BotW did with them.
Every time I hear that intro I feel happy! It’s been a while Designing For but welcome back :]. I think Gerudo are adorable! Just imagining these super tough women going around Hyrule looking for love and romance gives me dorky Bowser vibes. :D
People love tall women.
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The editing and animations in this are absolutely lovely. My compliments to the team on this one!
Living in a desert eternally is much easier when you have non stop looping spanish guitar.
FACT.
Sometime tomorrow, I begin Tears of the Kingdom. It's the first Zelda I've ever preordered. Seeing you do this video was a nice treat. The Gerudo Desert was actually my favorite area in Breath of the Wild, so much I kept looking for more to do there cause I didn't want to leave.
I wanted to let you know that the amount of love, care and passion that you put into your craft is always awesome to me. You never fail to always bring your best and i adore that so much. Ik its not exactly the same field but your efforts and passion inspire the ever living s@#$ out of me to keep chasing my creative goal of becoming a concept artist. I always love when you can feel how genuine someone is when they make something and youre definitely one of those examples. Anyway im lingering on, I just wanted to let you know that I thank you for making these things for us and lighting that creative fire in me everytime I drop by for a new video. ALSO TEARS OF THE KINGDOM TOMORROW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH😆😆😆
Lovin every time RUclipsrs use Necrodancer (Cadence if Hyrule) tracks!
Tali (Afro Gerudo): *Exists
Designing For: 😳
I understand she stole my heart too
Interesting. I also have never played BOTW but with Tears of the Kingdom coming out it has me interested in giving it a go - probably because I didn't get my Switch until late 2019. When I got to be an adult and replayed OoT, my thoughts were that the tribe had mostly been colonized by the Hylians and that lead to Ganon becoming evil. Really good video, I love your perspectives. ❤
Wear a Desert voe hat, warm shirt, sand boots, and ice sword. It covers all your bases.
You did a great job of capturing how charming the Gerudo of BOTW are, just a bunch of huge dorks.
This is video is brilliant, well done man!
BOTW and TOTk are all about adaptability.
It would be cool to se the Gerudo and DC Comics Amazons interact. It seems like they take different elements from the mythological Amazons and I'd like to see if that would cause tension or broker a better understanding between them. Also, Link using the Lasso of Truth like a hook shot.
Ah! A great video to watch, to de-destress to! :D
This reminds me of dune in the way you discribe the desert
Pls do a video where you react and breakdown "DKC: return to krokodile isle". You're gonna love it
I'm trying to parse out what part Author was reveling in when talking about this during the Banjo-Kazooie run, but a great video all-around! (:
Tali fancam
hope everyone has fun playing tears of the kingdom!
and great video its pretty fun to watch
Gerudo Desert is such a special place in BOTW, no wonder I refuse to save it for last
Yeah, it's got a lot of... uh... nothing going on. Nothing is definitely a thing it has. Wait, no, I lie, it has pausing at sunrise/sunset in order to swap out your gear. Oh, and sand seals are kind of cool... can't use them anywhere else though... can't use my favourite horse either...
...Yeah sorry I don't get it.
Great!
Do this again but with the Rito
After watching this, I have to think that, perhaps, the Fallen Timeline isn't quite so bad, all things considered.
Just got the game for my birthday and I am having a blast. Can't wait for ToTK (Bad Piggies 2 will be better tho).
Wait... so if the Gerudo only ever leave the desert to settle down and only come back to visit
Doesn't that mean they're no longer going to exist as an independent tribe within a few generations?
If the Gerudo only ever visit their home, that means there are no native Gerudo being born
14:20 KID ICARUS REFERENCE
I wanted to find Gerudo's Fortress from Ocarina of Time in the BotW's and TotK's Gerudo Canyon.
I have Windows 10 and it sometimes crashes like that 9:09. this never happened on older Windows computers.
For being a fan since nearly the beginning I just now noticed is that mother-freakimg Kaiba at 0:08 ?!??!!!
Edit: you better use "The Hot Wind Blowing" at some point or I'll ratio the heck out of your video.
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I don't remember Darunia saying I hate Gerudo.
He only does so if you wear the Gerudo Mask and show it to him.
... which you'd only get after receiving all three Spiritual Stones so you could give the Bunny Hood to the Running Man, so it's REAL unlikely to ever be seen. But it is there, I assure you!
That camouflage joke was so dry, it almost made me wish the video was “dune”
Question, can ya make a waddle dee video?
It's waddle dee
Bandana or Regular?
@@DesigningFor
Waddle dee
Parasol dee
Spear dee
Waddle doo
The Crystal collector
All who eat with no mouth
The rook* to the pawns
And their relation to the king
ALL OF DEE(s)
Pretty please
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Im one of the 2 people that are most likely going to play totk before botw
What's your deal with the Gorons in this video?
The gorons are nice!
@@DesigningFor You didn't seem to be interested in them.
Okay to give a serious response, I think the Gorons are incredibly underutilized as a race. Most of their appearances center around them being dopey little dudes just wandering through life caring mostly about food, bombs, and sometimes mining. The other aspect they lean into is mostly on masculine strength and bonds of brotherhood, seen in stuff like Darunia or the sumo wrestling of Twilight Princess. And that stuff is cool, but they don't really seem to develop that much of a society alongside it. The Gorons seen in BotW obviously have their mining colony and whatnot, but that's mostly separate from the silly man being like "hey don't tell anyone that you can just cook food if you put it on the floor" or the ideas of strength and bravery that Daruk tries to embody. Gorons are just kinda "goofy big guys" when they have the potential for a lot more (that the other tribes tend to more fully explore), and while that's absolutely fine and I'm content with them, and certain ones more than have their moments... I AM going to make fun of them, they're funny.
@@DesigningForBut you can't keep treating them like this, they're more than just "big goofy guys" you know.
Great video, sincerely, but PLEASE make a Pizza Tower video next. Who’s with me?
Maybe not next video but keep your eyes peeled for sometime this summer ;)
@@AuthorMx what’s your fav level in Pizza Tower?
@@joshuaheins4018 WAR for the comedy aspect, Pizzascape for OST, and any thus far for gameplay, I haven't finished it yet but I'm in love with it. Peppino is one of my comfort characters.
Hmmm yes yummy rocks
Comment for algorithm reasons though I still haven't played BOTW
You should. It’s great.
Bruh how did you deadbutt make me care about Zelda lore in a video that isn't even about Zelda lore
Oh my god, is the same guy that made that top 10 hottest sonic female characters video? 😭
No
My goodness, I forgot how incredibly soulless and boring the Gerudo are in BotW.
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