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What’s hilarious is that the developers knew they wouldn’t be able to catch every glitch you people would throw at the game, so in the case that the undroppable Master Sword somehow dropped, there would be a catch-all handler, the sword goes to its default spot and this text shows up. Very good stuff on the devs
While fail-safes are a good idea in programming, apparently there is a glitch that can be used to drop the master sword and it doesn't trigger this. Furthermore, such a failsafe shouldn't be so reliant on the games current state as to FAIL like in this case where the sword was never actually returned to the forest but remained in the inventory. The animation is certainly from a removed game mechanic where the master sword would return to the forest after being over used rather than 'losing its charge'. Had it really been a failsafe for someone losing the master sword, activation would immediately search and destroy any remaining instances of the sword in the game and put another one in your inventory, rather than making the player go all the way back to the forest to pick it up. Nobody would ever make the player do work because of an unexpected exception (error).
I believe someone already covered this about the master sword, when it loses all energy it was suppose to teleport back to the forest and recharge. But due to the inconvenience of that, they removed the feature to something easier for players. (Lore-wise it makes sense for it to teleport back, but gameplay-wise it's annoying)
yeah, imagime losing the sword every 3 minutes and haveing to go back to the forest just to get a mediocree sword with 30 damage that last only 10 slashes, the breakable weapns is one of the most stupid annoying shit i have seen on any game, breakable weapons already sucks and having to go back for the dumb sword, no thanks
@@verguco6051 The breakable weapons aren't that bad in all honesty, though I guess that's because I often switched out my used weapons with new ones I find, and the fact I used the remote bombs a lot
@@daimao5184 it's really stupid, the game is an interminable quest of finding weapons because all of them break easily, you don't want to use the best ones because you could need it later, is very stressful that you can't fight on peace because the fear of losing weapons
@@verguco6051 yeah that's true, it's why I constantly use the remote bombs. It can kill weak enemies like the red Bokoblins and can stun or knock back enemies like Moblins or Lizalfos
yes, it like in DS1, there is a chest at firelink shrine, thats already open. If for what ever reason, you drop an important item that you otherwise shouldn't be able to drop, or end up loosing said important item for what ever reason, that chest in firelink shrine will close, and have the lost Item for you to re-obtain. always love when gamedevs code stuff like that, just in case you break the game byond completion.
I hope to be able to code something like this into the small game I'm working on... Sure will be much easier than trying to code in the ability for the item to be undroppable. When it comes to artwork and layouts, I can be pretty good at all that, but when it gets to CODING, however, it's Syntax errors all around because I have no idea what the carp I'm doing, even with the help of code blocks.
0:21 Anyone else gonna talk about how right before the Master Sword yeets itself out of existence, Link's model on the menu is nothing but a bald head and a belt?
Could also have been a failsafe. If a player *somehow* manages to drop the Master sword he could run away and despawn it. Isn't the Master sword a regular item with some special code bolted on? Things like that can easily go wrong. It is easier to add this "useless" feature than to check every possible interaction that might have been overlooked.
This could have been a failsafe, but there actually is a glitch to drop the master sword on the ground. Someone made a video of a bokoblin picking it up. When link drops it it doesn’t do the animation, in fact it acts like a normal item you can pick up.
@@josh8106 If you manage to drag/lure/whatever an enemy into the forest they'll pull the sword out of the stone like it's a normal item pickup, and then you can kill them and pick up the sword for yourself like a normal dropped item, it's wild
Apparently people reported on this glitch as far back as 2017, but I personally never knew of it until now. That's pretty crazy, definitely something that was thought of early in development but was left in, perhaps accidentally, perhaps they never thought anyone would _actually_ trigger it (the internet ALWAYS finds a way). It's still crazy that, it not only has animations and particles tied to it but also a text box, they must've already tested this a few times during development if the idea was so completed before they scrapped it.
I think generally taking out chunks of code poses a threat to more bugs. And none in testing just sate there phaffing about with items in this specific manor so it was found.
I bet it was originally supposed to return to the forest after breaking instead of recharging in your inventory, but partway through the development they realized "that would be annoying to have to go and fetch it every time it breaks", so they changed it
The sword is supposed to be unable to drop. This was probably coded in case something goes wrong. I wouldnt be suprised of they toyed around with an enemy capable of taking your inventory
@@zeroa69 nah, it’s like op said, they once showed a demo version of the game and the master sword (once depleted of energy) would do this and “recharge” at the deku tree. Lorewise it would make perfect sense, gameplay wise however, that would just straight up be annoying.
@@KE-yq2eg also in every other game the master sword was indestructible. When I play botw I like to think the master sword losing power is just a gameplay feature, and lore wise it never runs out of it. Of course in totk it will break but that’s another story
Mean could just teleport back to link when recharged and could be just nice detail to see that its actually recovering its energy in the forest idk. @@typh2630
Time to see this in the next top 25 things you ACTUALLY Didn't know about BOTW! ..... That's interesting though, I guess the Master Sword was originally supposed to go back after it's depletion, but the game dev's saw it was a tedious job :P
@@Avg_nightwalker yeah, or it could be when thunderstorm u could channel the lightning, to skyward strike, just let the normal sword beam on the master sword when it's just sunny.
@@sethmcbay5501 it’s not a skyward strike, it’s just Fi’s power I think, the Skyward Strike is the divine power of the goddess, the only way of getting the power of the skyward strike it obviously hold your sword skyward, and if u don’t know who Fi is as some don’t. Fi is the spirit that resides in the master sword and was referenced I think 3 times in botw. The easiest reference to spot is when link dies, Fi’s farewell theme plays and and master sword makes the noise that Fi makes when she appears, and literally spoke to Zelda 2nd reference is in I think the first memory, Zelda states “How proficient are you carrying that sword on your back, legend says there’s *an ancient voice that resides within it*. Can you hear it yet, hero? And the hardest to spot yet I managed to is after you complete the trail of the sword, the master sword makes a Fi noise and plays 7 or 8 notes of Fi’s farewell theme, (I bet every time Fi makes a noise she is saying “master your wiimotes are low on battery” I bet yall can agree)
it might have been an idea the developers had that when the master sword broke it went back to the forest then they scraped it but never got rid of the feature
I already knew this glitch personally I think it's an abandoned project of the developers when the sword lost its strength and they didn't remove it from the game.
i think it's because they knew that someone would find a way to drop the sword so they just deicided to do this to make it impossible to drop it even if a glitch was found
But imagine if everytime the sword "breaks" you have to get it back in the forest. That would really suck. I'm with the other guy here they probably added that because they knew people are gonna find ways to drop the sword. Similar to how they added a line from the first shrines of you reach the monk before getting the runes
Originally, the idea was that the sword would go to the forest to recharge. The developers realized that with a system that has weapon durability, people would become frustrated travelling back and forth from the forest. It was decided to remove the "feature," from gameplay. That's why you have to purposely bug out the system to make stuff like this happen. I think it was a tech demo that showed this. Kind of like how toon Link was originally another Ocarina of Time style Link.
@@jovyrivera7055 You can drop the actual Master Sword through other means and this isn't triggered. It's just an unused and incomplete feature that didn't have all of it's triggers deactivated. The more obscure methods of triggering this would obviously go unnoticed, only the most basic ones like being triggered by dropping the actual Master Sword would get turned off if you somehow managed that. Copying the Master Swords stats onto a weapon without the Master Swords cooldown parameters is what triggered it, which tells you that the Master Sword once had a normal durability level and that this animation was tied to it.
The devs originally planned it where when the master sword runs out of energy it goes back to the forest to recharge but then they realize it was way too annoying to go back to the forest and grab it
Apparently this was guna be what happens to the sword after depleting its power. They cut it out i assume because no one would want to run all the way back to the forest to get it lol could be wrong tho. They coulda cut it for some other reason
Imagine having to go back to Korok forest each time you break the sword... Knew it myself, but maybe that was something abandoned by the devs when working of this game, for these aforementioned reasons.
This has been known for quite some time, Probably at least 2 years. It still fascinates me that Nintendo decided to have this all coded in instead of just making a Master Sword item on the ground, or even just the same master sword entity you find in the Forest and Trial of the Sword.
I mean kinda like how at the end of oot you automatically get master sword even if you don't have it somehow so ending doesn't softlock. They are thorough in this stuff.
Imagine this was what was going to happen if you didn't complete the master swords trials, and had to go back and forth to the forest everytime it depleted
@@PlynkieTheTabbyCat The DLCs sre usually mapped out long before the games official release on major titles from major companies. When a company is new to the DLC scene its often cut content that they didn't have time to fully develop at first
The master sword just thinked: "he is throwing everything on the ground, I'm not going to be thrown on the ground, I'm better than that, I'm going back to my forest, bye"
That had to have been programmed into the game for a reason. Maybe their first idea before deciding on giving it durability instead cause having to go back and get it would suck? I could kinda see if they initially didn't want it to permanently take up a weapon slot that you could temporarily get rid of it
@Bigotilyou this was actually going to be an intended feature because link was going to be able to drop the master sword. It never came full together because the devs couldn’t get the sword to come back so they abandoned it. They forgot to remove the code lol
This was the original idea for the master sword. Before they reworked it to have "energy" It was supposed to return to the forest with the text and animation displayed here. The coolest thing about this video though, is they've managed to recreate the whole thing without manipulating game code from an external source. Very impressive
i knew it AND i can explain it.. They planed to make the sword regenerate in the forest instead in your inventory. turned out to be anoying and they changed it. the files are still there tho. this is why we can still see this little animation
This may have been the original idea rather than it breaking and having a recharge timer. You may have had to go back and pick it up every time it ran out of uses. That's very interesting.
yeah, its been known for a bit, and suggests that there was a different plan for the master sword during development. What exactly triggered it is up for debate, but the most common explanation was that it was what durability penalty the master sword would have had. Instead of recharging, it would return to the forest where you would need to pull it again. Assuming the theory correct, i can see why it was changed. First problem comes from forcing the player to back track, and depending on player dependence on the sword and the durability it had at the point in development it was made, it could very well have grown annoying quickly. Second problem is the balancing. You can warp at any time, even while airborne or in combat. As annoying as it returning would be, it would not stop the player from using the weapon religiously. The player would just warp back, heal/rest at the inn if it required the same 13 heart pulling restriction to be done again, and reclaim the sword without recharge time. The final strike is how it doesnt make any mechanical sense compared to what we got. Mostly only a meta problem that stacks atop the other points, the only real exclusive factor comes from the idea that even by removing it from the inventory, it is still a permanent item. If it is permanent, it has no reason to leave the inventory. The only problem with the system we got comes from the logic of "it may be out of evil repelling magic, but the blade itself hasnt dulled, so why doesnt link treat it as a normal sword while recharging?" countered by "it cant recharge effectively whilst in combat, and it would be difficult to plan around the timer if it only affects a few extra perks. (waste energy on the enemy that is being fought as the energy recharges to full? noticing the cracks between forms as the toggle shows its true colors could also happen.)
Personally I don’t enjoy the breaking of weapons and stuff, it happens far too quickly, but I guess the only pet peeve I have with it is the master sword, like it’s not even the strongest sword in the game, at least it shouldn’t lose “power” if your smacking a regular dude around. I get if your fighting the calamity and Guardians, when it’s glowing and stuff, but man I just wanna use the dang sword lol 😂. I find all the cool stuff and then I don’t wanna use it cause I don’t think I’ll find another one. Like those katanas from the shrines, I only found like 2 ever.
but thats why this game is literally one of my favourite games ever made, in every other rpg you find that one OP weapon and literally finish the game with it, in botw the constant management of weapons before every fight and calculating what weapon is worth to lose and which one is nott is the best game mechanic ever made imo
@@dantesk8 I only dealt with weapon management problems in hardcore mode. In the base game I would mark the best lynol spots on the map and after a blood moon, farm weapons from lynols and hyrule castle.
@@betelgoose9712 i finished master mode 2 times one time had over 600 koroks and all shrines, and in master mode its even more better, farming lynels was an everyday thing
If I had to guess, in the original plan when the master sword broke from overuse it would spawn back at the forest. They probably found in testing it was too tedious to keep returning there so they kept the animation but removed the mechanic.
My personal bet for why this exists is that originaly the master sword when it ran out of energy would return to the forest. But then the devs realized that the whole process was a pain so they switched over to this system while never entirely deleting this system.
Yeah it's a left in asset, originally the master sword could "break" like every other weapon but it just returns to the forest as you see in this video 😄
Amazing It seems they coded the sword to go back to the forest in case anyone found a bug to drop it (which someone prolly did during testing) And either the sword doesn't ever leaves your inventory or they changed it to go back in afterwards and left the text.
I am surprised that even has its own animation with text that you both wouldn’t see if you play the game normally. Just, wow How does one even discover this?
8 years later when people are playing BOTW 3, we'll still be discovering things in the first BOTW. Fun fact: Hinox have a swimming animation that can only be seen when you use cheats to spawn one in deep water
I love waiting a year to buy and play a game. I get all the inside knowledge, reviews, tips and tricks, bug fixes, cheaper dlc and game. Can't wait till a year after BOTW2 release to play it.
Oh yeah, so apparently recovering the Master Sword each time you broke it was supposed to be a mechanic. I think we all know how obnoxious that would have gotten, so that's why they coded over it.
I’m surprised the Master Sword didn’t leave Link sooner. It’s meant to be used on Guardians, but everyone just uses it all up fighting Moblins and Lizalfos. Or is that just me?
@@KyleHamilton14 I mean, I can only assume the devs dont want you to ditch every other weapon for hte master sword, but as some other weapons look awesome but you bring up a good point and its something that needs a lengthy side quest to make it not break.
i think i remember an interview or something were its mentioned after using it for a bit the master sword was originally suppose to lose power or break and return to the forest were you would have to go get it this proved annoying (probably because weapons break wayyy to fast so you were always going back to get it) so they removed it
It was probably originally going to be a feature or something, being able to return the master sword, but then they scrapped it. Now people can glitch it and that’s probably why the text shows up
Seen this many a time. Not sure if they confirmed why this happens, but I think in some of the mid to late stage builds of the game had it to where Link could drop the Master Sword if knocked down and the Master Sword would return to the forest instead of being picked up by an enemy. That or this could have been an alternative to the durability to where the Master Sword would return to the pedestal to regain power
this was probably what was suppose to be the broken animation or dropped animation for the master sword. before they made it so you cant drop it, and the fact it actually has unlimited durability it just has to recharge.
This was found like a year or two ago by Kleric, the master sword isn't actually removed from the player inventory. This seems to just be an unused event that wasn't removed from the final game before release... Still though, I love to see remnants of different ideas that the devs were working on implementing to some degree or another. Really shows the love and effort they put into the game, like how the game won't let you complete any of the rune shrines without the runes you obtain in them. Sorry for the long comment and hope y'all have a day just as amazing as each of you are! 😉
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i already knew this
I saw this and thought it was a mod
@@mrditkovich1587 lol
@@mrditkovich1587 it isn't a mod. It's just menu overload glitch with the master sword desync
Me two
What’s hilarious is that the developers knew they wouldn’t be able to catch every glitch you people would throw at the game, so in the case that the undroppable Master Sword somehow dropped, there would be a catch-all handler, the sword goes to its default spot and this text shows up. Very good stuff on the devs
It's because they originally intended the Master Sword to "break." As in go back to the forest to recharge, and then be retrieved
Yeah, they also made it so you can’t have more than one master sword in inventory no matter what(Shown by patched TOTS glitch)
Its a good programming because otherwise that would make your save file unplayable..
@@chrisofstars yeah good devs usually anticipate possible bad values etc
While fail-safes are a good idea in programming, apparently there is a glitch that can be used to drop the master sword and it doesn't trigger this. Furthermore, such a failsafe shouldn't be so reliant on the games current state as to FAIL like in this case where the sword was never actually returned to the forest but remained in the inventory.
The animation is certainly from a removed game mechanic where the master sword would return to the forest after being over used rather than 'losing its charge'.
Had it really been a failsafe for someone losing the master sword, activation would immediately search and destroy any remaining instances of the sword in the game and put another one in your inventory, rather than making the player go all the way back to the forest to pick it up. Nobody would ever make the player do work because of an unexpected exception (error).
I believe someone already covered this about the master sword, when it loses all energy it was suppose to teleport back to the forest and recharge. But due to the inconvenience of that, they removed the feature to something easier for players. (Lore-wise it makes sense for it to teleport back, but gameplay-wise it's annoying)
yeah, imagime losing the sword every 3 minutes and haveing to go back to the forest just to get a mediocree sword with 30 damage that last only 10 slashes, the breakable weapns is one of the most stupid annoying shit i have seen on any game, breakable weapons already sucks and having to go back for the dumb sword, no thanks
@@verguco6051 The breakable weapons aren't that bad in all honesty, though I guess that's because I often switched out my used weapons with new ones I find, and the fact I used the remote bombs a lot
@@daimao5184 it's really stupid, the game is an interminable quest of finding weapons because all of them break easily, you don't want to use the best ones because you could need it later, is very stressful that you can't fight on peace because the fear of losing weapons
@@verguco6051 yeah that's true, it's why I constantly use the remote bombs. It can kill weak enemies like the red Bokoblins and can stun or knock back enemies like Moblins or Lizalfos
@Darkstar how you play? please you seem to know much, pleaase tell me what i did wrong? why my weapons breake so easily and are shit?
The craziest thing is that the devs coded this in to have text and everything
I think that text might just be for if you drop the Master Sword and leave it for too long or get too far away or something.
@@Irisverse well you can't drop the master sword
@@Irisverse keyword: drop
Probably been a scrapped idea for what later became "The Master sword has run out of energy."
@@leolopez3088 could you imagine if you had to go back to the forest and get the master sword every time it ran out of energy.
yes, it like in DS1, there is a chest at firelink shrine, thats already open. If for what ever reason, you drop an important item that you otherwise shouldn't be able to drop, or end up loosing said important item for what ever reason, that chest in firelink shrine will close, and have the lost Item for you to re-obtain. always love when gamedevs code stuff like that, just in case you break the game byond completion.
I hope to be able to code something like this into the small game I'm working on... Sure will be much easier than trying to code in the ability for the item to be undroppable. When it comes to artwork and layouts, I can be pretty good at all that, but when it gets to CODING, however, it's Syntax errors all around because I have no idea what the carp I'm doing, even with the help of code blocks.
Dead Space 1?
Hopefully Zelda can hold off Ganon for another 100 years.
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Going by what all Zelda BotW Players do all day ingame, rather add one or two zeros to that number
Thankfully there's Paya
@@Justforvisit TRUE
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0:21 Anyone else gonna talk about how right before the Master Sword yeets itself out of existence, Link's model on the menu is nothing but a bald head and a belt?
yes that's how you know you have successfully done menu overloading
its called menu overloading and you can do it to duplicate stuff like shields and weapons, or transfer durability onto a different weapon
That’s normal to people who normally do glitches, it’s how you know you’ve successfully overloaded your menu
Could also have been a failsafe. If a player *somehow* manages to drop the Master sword he could run away and despawn it. Isn't the Master sword a regular item with some special code bolted on? Things like that can easily go wrong. It is easier to add this "useless" feature than to check every possible interaction that might have been overlooked.
This could have been a failsafe, but there actually is a glitch to drop the master sword on the ground. Someone made a video of a bokoblin picking it up. When link drops it it doesn’t do the animation, in fact it acts like a normal item you can pick up.
@@josh8106 ha, then my theory is wrong! :) Does it despawn and get lost if you drop it and run? Fascinating!
@@josh8106 and theres a glitch that if you lead 1 of those big yiga clan members to the forest, they will confiscate the sword from the pedestal
Or simply a failsafe against weird stuff players may do...Like in this video xD
@@josh8106 If you manage to drag/lure/whatever an enemy into the forest they'll pull the sword out of the stone like it's a normal item pickup, and then you can kill them and pick up the sword for yourself like a normal dropped item, it's wild
Apparently people reported on this glitch as far back as 2017, but I personally never knew of it until now. That's pretty crazy, definitely something that was thought of early in development but was left in, perhaps accidentally, perhaps they never thought anyone would _actually_ trigger it (the internet ALWAYS finds a way). It's still crazy that, it not only has animations and particles tied to it but also a text box, they must've already tested this a few times during development if the idea was so completed before they scrapped it.
some were found even before the game was out lmao, they discovered some on switch showcases in 2016
I think generally taking out chunks of code poses a threat to more bugs. And none in testing just sate there phaffing about with items in this specific manor so it was found.
Fi's all: "If you're just going to fuck around with your menu, I'm outta here. See ya, scrub."
it s glitch to duplicate swords but since you cannot have 2 masterswords the second disaspears with this animation
@@naegling9184 “there can be only one!”
I bet it was originally supposed to return to the forest after breaking instead of recharging in your inventory, but partway through the development they realized "that would be annoying to have to go and fetch it every time it breaks", so they changed it
The sword is supposed to be unable to drop. This was probably coded in case something goes wrong. I wouldnt be suprised of they toyed around with an enemy capable of taking your inventory
@@zeroa69 nah, it’s like op said, they once showed a demo version of the game and the master sword (once depleted of energy) would do this and “recharge” at the deku tree. Lorewise it would make perfect sense, gameplay wise however, that would just straight up be annoying.
The sword that seals away darkness shouldn't break or lose power anyway. That would be lame.
@@KE-yq2eg also in every other game the master sword was indestructible. When I play botw I like to think the master sword losing power is just a gameplay feature, and lore wise it never runs out of it. Of course in totk it will break but that’s another story
Mean could just teleport back to link when recharged and could be just nice detail to see that its actually recovering its energy in the forest idk. @@typh2630
Link: *shaves his head*
Fi: Nope, I'm out
you just made my day
That's because the sword belongs to Link, not Bobby Hill.
I don’t get it?
@@MCB741 look at the guy’s Link in the video.
@@apocalypticblox2346 I know but why would him “shaving his head” cause her to go away?
0:47 yeah it didn't go to the forest it went to skyloft
Time to see this in the next top 25 things you ACTUALLY Didn't know about BOTW! .....
That's interesting though, I guess the Master Sword was originally supposed to go back after it's depletion, but the game dev's saw it was a tedious job :P
I think its already been on there actually
It's prob a failsafe as others said so in case you lose it you can go get it.
Maybe i can exploit this to recharge my master sword? Ill try this out maybe
@@shadowraith10 you cant drop/throw the master sword, you can only shoot a disk of blue fire with full hearts
That was kind of my assumption. Part of their "weapons break" thing.
Sorry, but your Master Sword is in another forest!
Which forest
@@WolfWriterL.P God damn it peach, where are you!
Hopefully when BOTW 2 comes out we get to see Skyward strike again.
Bigoltiyou I saw this somewhere also and ngl I thought it was fake
Yeah and the charge should be like the one when u fight demise
@@Avg_nightwalker yeah, or it could be when thunderstorm u could channel the lightning, to skyward strike, just let the normal sword beam on the master sword when it's just sunny.
I know you don't point the sword skyward in botw, but it does unleash the skyward strike when your hearts are full
@@sethmcbay5501 it’s not a skyward strike, it’s just Fi’s power I think, the Skyward Strike is the divine power of the goddess, the only way of getting the power of the skyward strike it obviously hold your sword skyward, and if u don’t know who Fi is as some don’t.
Fi is the spirit that resides in the master sword and was referenced I think 3 times in botw.
The easiest reference to spot is when link dies, Fi’s farewell theme plays and and master sword makes the noise that Fi makes when she appears, and literally spoke to Zelda
2nd reference is in I think the first memory, Zelda states “How proficient are you carrying that sword on your back, legend says there’s *an ancient voice that resides within it*. Can you hear it yet, hero?
And the hardest to spot yet I managed to is after you complete the trail of the sword, the master sword makes a Fi noise and plays 7 or 8 notes of Fi’s farewell theme,
(I bet every time Fi makes a noise she is saying “master your wiimotes are low on battery” I bet yall can agree)
it might have been an idea the developers had that when the master sword broke it went back to the forest then they scraped it but never got rid of the feature
I already knew this glitch personally I think it's an abandoned project of the developers when the sword lost its strength and they didn't remove it from the game.
i think it's because they knew that someone would find a way to drop the sword so they just deicided to do this to make it impossible to drop it even if a glitch was found
But imagine if everytime the sword "breaks" you have to get it back in the forest. That would really suck. I'm with the other guy here they probably added that because they knew people are gonna find ways to drop the sword. Similar to how they added a line from the first shrines of you reach the monk before getting the runes
You sure it's not just in case someone drops it?
Originally, the idea was that the sword would go to the forest to recharge. The developers realized that with a system that has weapon durability, people would become frustrated travelling back and forth from the forest. It was decided to remove the "feature," from gameplay. That's why you have to purposely bug out the system to make stuff like this happen. I think it was a tech demo that showed this. Kind of like how toon Link was originally another Ocarina of Time style Link.
@@jovyrivera7055 You can drop the actual Master Sword through other means and this isn't triggered. It's just an unused and incomplete feature that didn't have all of it's triggers deactivated. The more obscure methods of triggering this would obviously go unnoticed, only the most basic ones like being triggered by dropping the actual Master Sword would get turned off if you somehow managed that. Copying the Master Swords stats onto a weapon without the Master Swords cooldown parameters is what triggered it, which tells you that the Master Sword once had a normal durability level and that this animation was tied to it.
Fi: "I must go! My people need me!"
The devs originally planned it where when the master sword runs out of energy it goes back to the forest to recharge but then they realize it was way too annoying to go back to the forest and grab it
Apparently this was guna be what happens to the sword after depleting its power. They cut it out i assume because no one would want to run all the way back to the forest to get it lol could be wrong tho. They coulda cut it for some other reason
Thank God because the depowering was annoying enough
There is a shrine in the forest so you could just activate it and teleport there
@@realnintendonoah yea but like. Do you really wana keep teleporting there too grab the sword constantly?? Even thatd get tedious i think 😅
@@SaikaDeWinter fair point
@@SaikaDeWinter Madara you like Zelda?
Master Sword fr said : "Aight, you aint worthy, imma head out"
Imagine having to go back to Korok forest each time you break the sword...
Knew it myself, but maybe that was something abandoned by the devs when working of this game, for these aforementioned reasons.
It’s a failsafe. If you drop a weapon and run away from it, it eventually vanishes. This prevents that circumstance from happening.
This has been known for quite some time, Probably at least 2 years. It still fascinates me that Nintendo decided to have this all coded in instead of just making a Master Sword item on the ground, or even just the same master sword entity you find in the Forest and Trial of the Sword.
I mean kinda like how at the end of oot you automatically get master sword even if you don't have it somehow so ending doesn't softlock. They are thorough in this stuff.
Imagine this was what was going to happen if you didn't complete the master swords trials, and had to go back and forth to the forest everytime it depleted
its imposible
it was discover befor the dlc
@@PlynkieTheTabbyCat The DLCs sre usually mapped out long before the games official release on major titles from major companies.
When a company is new to the DLC scene its often cut content that they didn't have time to fully develop at first
I love how people are still discovering stuff about this game nearly 10 years later
I think it might have been a old idea that once the mastersword "Broke" it went back to the forest and once it had recharged you could grab it again.
I would’ve never used the master sword if they went with that 😭
This game has THE most content I’ve ever seen. The amount of little things like this just blows my mind. Thanks for sharing!
Skyrim. Just one word. Skyrim.
@@ultimatewolfgaming4171 Everquest.
What's crazy is that they made an entire animation for this thing that is never supposed to happen in normal gameplay.
Link: "oh shit I dropped a quest item."
devs: "yes, but actually no."
I think originally they intended the player to go back to the forest if the master sword “breaks” but now it runs out of energy and regenerates
I swear I was playing Skyward Sword HD today and then this videos appears on my recommended
The master sword just thinked: "he is throwing everything on the ground, I'm not going to be thrown on the ground, I'm better than that, I'm going back to my forest, bye"
the master sword: "nah i'm out" 🚶🏼♂️
That had to have been programmed into the game for a reason. Maybe their first idea before deciding on giving it durability instead cause having to go back and get it would suck? I could kinda see if they initially didn't want it to permanently take up a weapon slot that you could temporarily get rid of it
@Bigotilyou this was actually going to be an intended feature because link was going to be able to drop the master sword. It never came full together because the devs couldn’t get the sword to come back so they abandoned it. They forgot to remove the code lol
Yeah it’s really interesting, we first found it in the games code but now we can preform it almost anywhere
It would be cool to let it go back to the forest to recharge and just fly back at you where ever you are, just like Thor's hammer.
This was the original idea for the master sword. Before they reworked it to have "energy"
It was supposed to return to the forest with the text and animation displayed here. The coolest thing about this video though, is they've managed to recreate the whole thing without manipulating game code from an external source. Very impressive
The only bad part is that when you drop any item or weapon or shield ect. it just despawns so whatever weapon you drop will be gone :)
i knew it AND i can explain it.. They planed to make the sword regenerate in the forest instead in your inventory. turned out to be anoying and they changed it. the files are still there tho. this is why we can still see this little animation
The legend of the Skyward Sword
May the goddes smile upon the levitating sword
Yes I do, accidently discovered it while trying to dupe the master sword
Same
Me too
@DarkDzn I was... naive
You wanted to have more master swords?
A bow that shoots master swords
Ganon: oh shit
Master Sword: I must go my planet needs me...
They must have originally had the sword return after it runs out of energy and that's still coded in the game
Bro was like "im outta here"
And yet somehow, the craziest thing about all of this to me is how Link can turn himself into the Wizard of Oz just by messing with his menu.
This may have been the original idea rather than it breaking and having a recharge timer. You may have had to go back and pick it up every time it ran out of uses. That's very interesting.
yeah, its been known for a bit, and suggests that there was a different plan for the master sword during development. What exactly triggered it is up for debate, but the most common explanation was that it was what durability penalty the master sword would have had. Instead of recharging, it would return to the forest where you would need to pull it again. Assuming the theory correct, i can see why it was changed. First problem comes from forcing the player to back track, and depending on player dependence on the sword and the durability it had at the point in development it was made, it could very well have grown annoying quickly. Second problem is the balancing. You can warp at any time, even while airborne or in combat. As annoying as it returning would be, it would not stop the player from using the weapon religiously. The player would just warp back, heal/rest at the inn if it required the same 13 heart pulling restriction to be done again, and reclaim the sword without recharge time. The final strike is how it doesnt make any mechanical sense compared to what we got. Mostly only a meta problem that stacks atop the other points, the only real exclusive factor comes from the idea that even by removing it from the inventory, it is still a permanent item. If it is permanent, it has no reason to leave the inventory. The only problem with the system we got comes from the logic of "it may be out of evil repelling magic, but the blade itself hasnt dulled, so why doesnt link treat it as a normal sword while recharging?" countered by "it cant recharge effectively whilst in combat, and it would be difficult to plan around the timer if it only affects a few extra perks. (waste energy on the enemy that is being fought as the energy recharges to full? noticing the cracks between forms as the toggle shows its true colors could also happen.)
Why yes I think a lot of people have known this because it was quite a popular piece of cut content after release.
great, now even the master sword will leave me :(
Yup. First my girl, then my dog. Then thr cat, and NOW THE MASTER SWORD
@@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq Sorry man 😔
Are we writing break up songs in here?
I want the Master Sword to do this so I can get a good compendium picture of it
Everyone knows the master sword flies home to recharge before setting off to find Link again
"Here, shake hands with the Blade of Evil's Bane!"
*link dies*
"Handle first, handle first..."
Returned to the forest? more like, returned to freaking Skyloft
Personally I don’t enjoy the breaking of weapons and stuff, it happens far too quickly, but I guess the only pet peeve I have with it is the master sword, like it’s not even the strongest sword in the game, at least it shouldn’t lose “power” if your smacking a regular dude around. I get if your fighting the calamity and Guardians, when it’s glowing and stuff, but man I just wanna use the dang sword lol 😂. I find all the cool stuff and then I don’t wanna use it cause I don’t think I’ll find another one. Like those katanas from the shrines, I only found like 2 ever.
but thats why this game is literally one of my favourite games ever made, in every other rpg you find that one OP weapon and literally finish the game with it, in botw the constant management of weapons before every fight and calculating what weapon is worth to lose and which one is nott is the best game mechanic ever made imo
Master sword wasn't the strongest sword in the game in OoT either. :)
@@dantesk8 You should try Vagrant Story.
@@dantesk8 I only dealt with weapon management problems in hardcore mode. In the base game I would mark the best lynol spots on the map and after a blood moon, farm weapons from lynols and hyrule castle.
@@betelgoose9712 i finished master mode 2 times one time had over 600 koroks and all shrines, and in master mode its even more better, farming lynels was an everyday thing
If I had to guess, in the original plan when the master sword broke from overuse it would spawn back at the forest. They probably found in testing it was too tedious to keep returning there so they kept the animation but removed the mechanic.
My personal bet for why this exists is that originaly the master sword when it ran out of energy would return to the forest. But then the devs realized that the whole process was a pain so they switched over to this system while never entirely deleting this system.
Yeah it's a left in asset, originally the master sword could "break" like every other weapon but it just returns to the forest as you see in this video 😄
The legend of Zelda Skyward sword!
Wow... Master Sword really just pulled a "I must go, my planet needs me" on Link.
This was actually intended to be what happened instead of the master sword running out of energy. It would return to korok forest every time it broke.
Now it is truly the "Skyward Sword".
I remember trying to dupe the master sword I tried so many different ways but to this day it's impossible unless you do new game+ glitch
Thought I was getting baited so hard and was so pleasently surprised
This is such a weird glitch lol
Amazing
It seems they coded the sword to go back to the forest in case anyone found a bug to drop it (which someone prolly did during testing)
And either the sword doesn't ever leaves your inventory or they changed it to go back in afterwards and left the text.
I am surprised that even has its own animation with text that you both wouldn’t see if you play the game normally. Just, wow
How does one even discover this?
8 years later when people are playing BOTW 3, we'll still be discovering things in the first BOTW. Fun fact: Hinox have a swimming animation that can only be seen when you use cheats to spawn one in deep water
I've been playing for 2 years already and I've just found out I can start a charged spin from the other side xD
wait what i knew that you could drop the master sword but THIS
I love waiting a year to buy and play a game. I get all the inside knowledge, reviews, tips and tricks, bug fixes, cheaper dlc and game. Can't wait till a year after BOTW2 release to play it.
I do now 😳
They should have made link muscular in this game knowing he's gonna be picking up heavy a** swords and climbing allot
I actually knew this, and I'm surprised i did, botw is a game that never stops being surprising
Oh yeah, so apparently recovering the Master Sword each time you broke it was supposed to be a mechanic.
I think we all know how obnoxious that would have gotten, so that's why they coded over it.
I remember when people first found this out n everyone was losin their shit over it lol. Aah, such a wonderful game.
This is actually an old glitch. I saw it like 1-2 years after it came out. It was originally shown off in the “arbiters grounds” ruins.
I’m surprised the Master Sword didn’t leave Link sooner. It’s meant to be used on Guardians, but everyone just uses it all up fighting Moblins and Lizalfos. Or is that just me?
"I have to go now. My planet needs me" - Master Sword
The master sword is a fun weapon but it feels a tad disappointing.
yeah the energy thing is dumb why would a goddess created weapon run out of energy 🤣
@@KyleHamilton14 I mean, I can only assume the devs dont want you to ditch every other weapon for hte master sword, but as some other weapons look awesome but you bring up a good point and its something that needs a lengthy side quest to make it not break.
Master sword: leaves
Links hair and body: I'm outta here!
Nobody gonna talk about 1:07?
@@diooverheaven1017 no
i think i remember an interview or something were its mentioned after using it for a bit the master sword was originally suppose to lose power or break and return to the forest were you would have to go get it this proved annoying (probably because weapons break wayyy to fast so you were always going back to get it) so they removed it
I can't believe people still funny secrets.
Only goes to show you, even developers make mistakes.
Some of this cold breaking is amazing.
It was probably originally going to be a feature or something, being able to return the master sword, but then they scrapped it. Now people can glitch it and that’s probably why the text shows up
I’ve known this for abt a year maybe 2
Edit: I still can’t believe people are figuring this out because I haven’t seen anyone talk about it for years
The Master Sword Saw link as only a head and a belt and was like "fuck this shit, I'm out of here"
As to quote tubbo
'The blade has ascended'
and WE'RE supposed to believe that this thing BROKE because ganon SNEEZED on it????
You made the sword go skyward. I see what you did there😂
Seen this many a time. Not sure if they confirmed why this happens, but I think in some of the mid to late stage builds of the game had it to where Link could drop the Master Sword if knocked down and the Master Sword would return to the forest instead of being picked up by an enemy. That or this could have been an alternative to the durability to where the Master Sword would return to the pedestal to regain power
Gives a whole new meaning to “skyward sword”
I think that i saw this when menu overload was first discovered, it's still really interesting seeing the people's theories about this
Just dropping by to say that your subtitles look sick. Matches the game lol
Thanks :)
I did know this, but you definitely have the best footage of it!
Thanks :)
this was probably what was suppose to be the broken animation or dropped animation for the master sword.
before they made it so you cant drop it, and the fact it actually has unlimited durability it just has to recharge.
This was found like a year or two ago by Kleric, the master sword isn't actually removed from the player inventory. This seems to just be an unused event that wasn't removed from the final game before release...
Still though, I love to see remnants of different ideas that the devs were working on implementing to some degree or another. Really shows the love and effort they put into the game, like how the game won't let you complete any of the rune shrines without the runes you obtain in them.
Sorry for the long comment and hope y'all have a day just as amazing as each of you are! 😉
Ok the Master Sword simply "F this sh... im Out...." 😂 and flys away, it seems like Fi don't like Link anymore
Bro was not having it 💀
🤣
"my forest needs me" - the master sword has returned to the forest-
wow imagine having to pull the ,aster sword twice XD