People just can’t understand how insane that first Zelda was unless you were there at release. Going from Atari, intellevision and collecovision to a game that was big enough that you needed to save progress. Blew my 7 year old mind. It’s why to this day I explore every corner of the map because I burned every bush, bombed every wall and pushed every grave 10xs over.
😂 yeah right, the “you don’t get it unless you were there” rhetoric. We get it. We love it. We respect what it represents. So shut the fuck up with this elitism
The reason Link is my favorite VG protagonist is for the fact that besides getting new items , link is just raw strength. No super form, no power ups , no goddess summons... Just a Dude has a sword, a shield, and a mission.
Aside from the mispronunciation of Gerudo (hard G, Urbosa says it multiple times in BotW), this is a fantastic recap of my favorite video game series. Masterfully done!
I'm just happy he got the release date of the first game correct! I've heard plenty of others say it was released in 1987, but that is the North American release, not its FIRST release
I've been a fan of the Zelda games since I first played A Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo. Each game feels like I'm being reintroduced to the franchise. Breath of the Wild was a breath of fresh air in my opinion.
Awesome vid. I'm actually hurt finding out about Majora's Mask "failure". No doubt Ocarina is Top 1, but Majora is easily my Top 2, being young link and being able to ride Epona was my dream as a kid. As well as turning into a Rockstar Fish with the Zora Mask and finally converting into powerful adult Link thanks to Fierce Deity's Mask. Awesome. But at the end, Majora's lack of sales was because it came to close to the release of Ocarina. Players where still trapped in the Water Temple from Ocarina and had no time to go and buy Majora's Mask.
The best part of that game was the layered story. It speaks to trauma and recovering from intense experiences on your own. Link's only identity at the time was to aid others, so to deal with his own distress (and then losing his friend Navi), he goes to help others in Termina (which some Zelda Theorists argue is a metaphorical world for Link, versus a physical one) until he has the space and skills to face his own new reality. Such a sad and dark story, but phenomenal and creative way to discuss themes of grief, loss and trauma!
Skyward Sword is an amazing game. Link and Zelda have the best relationship, the Master swords creation, gaining the qualities to possess the triforce and just the beginning of the cycle between Demise,Link and Zelda. Also the introduction of goddess Hylia.
An impressive thing about Link to the Past is that it stayed on Nintendo's "Top Games" list every month for literal years after it released, even after the N64 and Ocarina of Time had come out. It stayed relevant throughout the entirety of the SNES' life cycle and a few years into the next console generation. It had incredible staying power.
First video game I ever played was OOT. Since then I have played and beat every game in the series (excluding the cdi games), and it holds a special place in my heart. I will introduce my kids to these games someday.
People don't like the cartoon but you have to imagine being 8 years old and seeing your favorite video game character for the first time on TV. In context it wasn't that bad, I loved it at the time.
Cartoons back then all were kinda cheezy and had bad voice acting. I mean, if you compare them to today's voice acting, they all sucked. lol However, it was the 80s and many television commentators stated, "Situational television comedy is dead." So tons of networks and shows were brazenly attempting to reignite comedy. Almost every cartoon in the 80s was based on this attempt, so comedy became the center focus of the plots.
How can anyone deny the greatness of this game? You are talking about almost 30 years of adventures like no others. Like or not, this game changed everything.
I didn’t know that Link was inspired by Peter Pan this is why I love reading behind the scene stuff because it helps me create new ideas and find ways underrated characters can come back.
When you said, how do you think Zelda felt waiting for 100 years for Link to wake up? That’s a good point. Also, the stakes were a lot higher, considering if Gannon fully reawakened and link had not woken up as Zelda put it “when the beast regains it’s true power, this world will face its end.” (Zelda breath of the wild)
Once you collect the dragons tears this statement becomes totally obsolete How do you think Zelda felt waiting at least 10-20,000 years for Link to turn her back into a Hylian?
Fun fact. Oracle of seasons and oracle of ages were so interwoven and intricate, there are different play through experiences depending on which game you started first, finished and then it unlocked a third ending
A common pattern I noticed is After Link defeats Ganon and saves Hyrule, he goes on a “side quest” on sequel games. Legend of Zelda (NES): Defeats Ganon Adventure of Link: Has to wake up Zelda Link to the Past: Defeats Ganon Link’s Awakening: Saves Kolohint Ocarina of Time: Defeats Ganon Majora’s Mask: saves Termina Wind Waker: Defeats Ganon Phantom Hourglass: Goes out to sea
39:45 I don’t get this, I mean I am not saying it’s not possible but skyward sword is showing the beginning of the series chronologically, so if a game that chronologically happens before skyward sword were to be made, it had to be without link since skyward link is the first link unless they pull some time travel stuff on us
Hero's shade is the Hero of Time, which was in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Link actually dies in Majora's Mask, looking for navi, and Hero's Shade is his body.
I CANT BELIEVE YOU DIDNT TALK ABOUT the Chris houlihan room in Zelda a link to the past, Besides that, I will forever enjoy your videos and evolutions. PERIOD. Also thanks for talking about my boy. (Toon Link) I Love wind waker to death and I hope it gets a switch port
When you are confident enough to title your game "The Legend of..." You're not playing games. P.S. The Robin Williams part about him naming his daughter Zelda was absolutely heartwarming. ❤❤❤
Nice video, but a lot of quite silly mistakes. 4:40 That's Super Mario Bros (1985), not Mario Bros (1983) as stated... 7:37 Frodo was the hero of LOTR, not Bilbo... 17:37 Koji, not Keji Kondo.. You said his name correctly earlier? There are many more after this but I won't list. You even state the PS2 Slim came out in 2014 in another video... How does nobody pick up on errors like this? It's a shame as it makes it quite clear the narrator is just reading a script, and the people who should be checking and catching mistakes don't know their stuff... It really breaks the immersion and becomes a distraction.
The title theme is a slowed down version of the overworld theme that already existed in the game. The way most videos put it it sounds like kondo came up with one of the best video game tunes over night and from scratch
First of all thank you so much for telling all the history of The Legend Of Zelda because the truth I did know what this game was but after some many years I have finally know the history. And it is turely a bueatiful game that it came to be and even if I did play it when the first game came out this would have been one of the bestest game in the world. And there is one more thing that I have to say is that thanks beacuse of Flatlife I know the history of one of the most bueatiful game that was created and I this channel for spend so much time and dedication to make this vedio come true and thank you for listening to this comment.
I really hope they release Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on the Switch. I never had the right consoles to play them and I would love the chance to experience them myself someday.
Tears of the Kingdom does everything that Breath of the Wild did while making all of the previous game's faults a thing of the past. We have actual dungeons/Temples. We have amazing, fun and huge boss fights. We have a better overall story. The fuse mechanic is unbelievable and it's unreal how well the engine works. Everything in the game just works. It's almost like magic how well the game operates. It's way better than BotW, which I didn't even have in my top 5 Zelda games, let alone best games ever. This game... It's probably at 4 behind A Link to the Past/Between Worlds, Wind Waker and Link's Awakening. It might go up to 3. I really enjoyed it and this is the first Zelda game ever (besides triforce heroes) that I have not had any hype for. I seen it as glorified BotW DLC and I've never been so happy to be wrong. I wanted to give it a standing ovation at the end credits
I like all of the research and the animations within this video! 16:34 - 16:42 ---> Yup... 41:00 - 41:08 ---> Nah, Zelda fans raised their swords Skywards! There's a literal one-to-one with Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke; The scene with the infected boar...
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People just can’t understand how insane that first Zelda was unless you were there at release. Going from Atari, intellevision and collecovision to a game that was big enough that you needed to save progress. Blew my 7 year old mind. It’s why to this day I explore every corner of the map because I burned every bush, bombed every wall and pushed every grave 10xs over.
Exactly man... same for me! Im just finishing it again with the HD pack and man that game was definitely a gargantuan step forward at that time...
And the gold cartridge! Icing on that 8 bit cake.
The gold cartridge and the map was so cool in 86...dungeons were cool
😂 yeah right, the “you don’t get it unless you were there” rhetoric. We get it. We love it. We respect what it represents. So shut the fuck up with this elitism
I needed a guide for know the locations of the Moblin brothers (The Moblins that give you rupees and say "IT’S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY") 😭
I’m forever grateful there’s a channel like yours I love it! Good job flatlife!
The reason Link is my favorite VG protagonist is for the fact that besides getting new items , link is just raw strength. No super form, no power ups , no goddess summons... Just a Dude has a sword, a shield, and a mission.
He is a High Elf, the classic kind with blonde or red hair with green or blue eyes
I love hearing about the inspirations for some of these games. I was 8 years old when first shown NES Zelda and it was mind blowing.
Universal, illumination, and nintendo need to make the legend of zelda movie.
I don't think it's fair that mario and sonic got movies, when link hasn't got his own movies yet.
@@dragonquest6881 Mario even got two. We don’t talk about the first.
I absolutely love the depth you go into and how I can just let these videos of things I love roll for hours!! Great job guys
1:00:03 I SWEAR I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THIS WAS A 1 HR VIDEO!!! I thought this was a 22-24 or maybe even 30 min video X)
But he’s got a point!
Flatlife should have millions of subscribers! So much effort was put in, and it deserves to be seen!
It's called Flatlife not Flatlife
@@gulzarzeb Lol, my fault. That was a typo. I’ll fix it. Thank you!
Aside from the mispronunciation of Gerudo (hard G, Urbosa says it multiple times in BotW), this is a fantastic recap of my favorite video game series. Masterfully done!
Was waiting for someone to say it
I'm just happy he got the release date of the first game correct! I've heard plenty of others say it was released in 1987, but that is the North American release, not its FIRST release
He also got KOJI Kondo’s name wrong.
@@masonschwalm2010 probably just a typo in the script, since he got Kondos name right the first time.
@@k.o.h3599 thx, I didn’t catch that the first time, you’re probably right then.
16:33 I love the change in your voice between the 2 timelines, it made me laugh more as it probably should xD Also spitting facts
I've been a fan of the Zelda games since I first played A Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo. Each game feels like I'm being reintroduced to the franchise. Breath of the Wild was a breath of fresh air in my opinion.
Awesome vid. I'm actually hurt finding out about Majora's Mask "failure". No doubt Ocarina is Top 1, but Majora is easily my Top 2, being young link and being able to ride Epona was my dream as a kid. As well as turning into a Rockstar Fish with the Zora Mask and finally converting into powerful adult Link thanks to Fierce Deity's Mask. Awesome. But at the end, Majora's lack of sales was because it came to close to the release of Ocarina. Players where still trapped in the Water Temple from Ocarina and had no time to go and buy Majora's Mask.
The best part of that game was the layered story. It speaks to trauma and recovering from intense experiences on your own. Link's only identity at the time was to aid others, so to deal with his own distress (and then losing his friend Navi), he goes to help others in Termina (which some Zelda Theorists argue is a metaphorical world for Link, versus a physical one) until he has the space and skills to face his own new reality. Such a sad and dark story, but phenomenal and creative way to discuss themes of grief, loss and trauma!
I remember when I had just discovered your channel when you had around 30k subscribers! Your channel still slaps to this day.
When I was 6 years old, I wanted to be Link for Halloween. My mom said she didn't want me dressing up like Peter pan.
“Ganon dorf, king of the jerudo tribe”
skyward sword is my favorite many people hate it, but for me able to role playing as link and swing a sword is what make this game so special
Skyward Sword is an amazing game. Link and Zelda have the best relationship, the Master swords creation, gaining the qualities to possess the triforce and just the beginning of the cycle between Demise,Link and Zelda. Also the introduction of goddess Hylia.
That was a fantastic video! Great job!!
An impressive thing about Link to the Past is that it stayed on Nintendo's "Top Games" list every month for literal years after it released, even after the N64 and Ocarina of Time had come out. It stayed relevant throughout the entirety of the SNES' life cycle and a few years into the next console generation. It had incredible staying power.
You always make me smile when you release another video! Goed gedaan! 😉
Great job from the most underrated channel .. love to all fo you 💖
Zelda is love, Zelda is life. ❤
True
What a wonderful video. I really enjoyed it. Cheers!
When I first saw your first Zelda video I fell in love with the franchise
so funny bc the cartoonlikeness of windwaker is what made me play and get into zelda when i was a kid
That music just brings back so many memories.
First video game I ever played was OOT. Since then I have played and beat every game in the series (excluding the cdi games), and it holds a special place in my heart. I will introduce my kids to these games someday.
35:22 it also has the best companion
The hero's shade is not most likely oot link. He was flat out confirmed to be oot link in the Hyrule historia.
Another banger video! great work flatlife
Amazing documentary. A very professional media product.
Thanks!!!!
Nice video. Can you do Kingdom Hearts next, please? Please, we need an evolution on Kingdom Hearts next!
I’m mad this man deserves AT LEAST 3.5 million subs. Like these videos are quality
People don't like the cartoon but you have to imagine being 8 years old and seeing your favorite video game character for the first time on TV. In context it wasn't that bad, I loved it at the time.
Cartoons back then all were kinda cheezy and had bad voice acting. I mean, if you compare them to today's voice acting, they all sucked. lol However, it was the 80s and many television commentators stated, "Situational television comedy is dead." So tons of networks and shows were brazenly attempting to reignite comedy. Almost every cartoon in the 80s was based on this attempt, so comedy became the center focus of the plots.
I love the person that invented Zelda. It's been my favourite gaming series all my life.
Fun Fact.. Ember Labs went on to make Kena: Bridge of spirits for ps5/ Pc and has alot of charm and elements from the zelda series.
How can anyone deny the greatness of this game? You are talking about almost 30 years of adventures like no others. Like or not, this game changed everything.
I didn’t know that Link was inspired by Peter Pan this is why I love reading behind the scene stuff because it helps me create new ideas and find ways underrated characters can come back.
My favorite Zelda game is Twilight Princess; it was the first Zelda game I played when I had the Wii.
When you said, how do you think Zelda felt waiting for 100 years for Link to wake up? That’s a good point. Also, the stakes were a lot higher, considering if Gannon fully reawakened and link had not woken up as Zelda put it “when the beast regains it’s true power, this world will face its end.” (Zelda breath of the wild)
Once you collect the dragons tears this statement becomes totally obsolete
How do you think Zelda felt waiting at least 10-20,000 years for Link to turn her back into a Hylian?
@@MrMoasn oh yeah🤔 you’ve got a point
16:27 literally never heard anyone pronounce Gerudo with a J sound
52:27 and Ghibli actually *is* pronounced with a J sound
Very cool video - came across this since your video thumbnail was lifted from artwork I made 10+ years ago!
The legend of zelda games are so cool and great video man :]
Fun fact. Oracle of seasons and oracle of ages were so interwoven and intricate, there are different play through experiences depending on which game you started first, finished and then it unlocked a third ending
It was so hard to beat these games lol so many non sleeping nights ❤
A common pattern I noticed is After Link defeats Ganon and saves Hyrule, he goes on a “side quest” on sequel games.
Legend of Zelda (NES): Defeats Ganon
Adventure of Link: Has to wake up Zelda
Link to the Past: Defeats Ganon
Link’s Awakening: Saves Kolohint
Ocarina of Time: Defeats Ganon
Majora’s Mask: saves Termina
Wind Waker: Defeats Ganon
Phantom Hourglass: Goes out to sea
God I wish the legend of Zelda would return to that sword and sorcery aesthetic.
My man did an absolutely amazing job explaining this beautiful game franchise
47:52 what is this master piece im watching
I’ve been a Zelda fan my whole life, played just about every game in the series. But I am ashamed that I never noticed 17:22!! OMG
I can’t get over the fact that when he was talking about ocarina of time, he said gerudo like jeruda😂
39:45 I don’t get this, I mean I am not saying it’s not possible but skyward sword is showing the beginning of the series chronologically, so if a game that chronologically happens before skyward sword were to be made, it had to be without link since skyward link is the first link unless they pull some time travel stuff on us
A game before Skyward Sword would probably be the orgin, with the goddess Hylia and the original Link
@@k.o.h3599 soooo the war against demise then?
Great evo vid flatlife
Hero's shade is the Hero of Time, which was in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Link actually dies in Majora's Mask, looking for navi, and Hero's Shade is his body.
What a LEGENDARY video!
amazing storytelling, hope to get one for pokemon games... amazing work!
I CANT BELIEVE YOU DIDNT TALK ABOUT the Chris houlihan room in Zelda a link to the past,
Besides that, I will forever enjoy your videos and evolutions. PERIOD.
Also thanks for talking about my boy.
(Toon Link)
I Love wind waker to death and I hope it gets a switch port
But it got a Wii U port but thats not the best the only game that ported to the switch was Skyward Sword
@@ness963 links awakening was brought to the switch (kind of)
Fun fact 4 days ago was the 37 anniversary when Zelda was first released In Japan ❤️❤️❤️
Love your profile picture. I love Rainbow Dash.👍😃
Interesting…
the legend of Zelda is number 3 for my video games also, flatlife is an amazing youtuber
When you are confident enough to title your game "The Legend of..." You're not playing games.
P.S. The Robin Williams part about him naming his daughter Zelda was absolutely heartwarming. ❤❤❤
Zelda is so incredible along with Mario🤩👍
Cool
5:28 ah yes, ASS the hero of Hyrule.
links crossbow training: am I a joke to you. btw great video
When the mario movie comes out you should do the impossible Evolution of Mario!
that would be amazing
Video of Classic Game. Nice video ❤.
I’m on my first Zelda game right now (yeah I’m late to the party lol) but Zelda is soo much fun so far
1986 version?
@@abhijiths5259 breath of the wild, but I’m making a goal to play every single title
I’ve never played any . Is it like elder scrolls at all?
Man you did your thing on this video, the puns were 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂😂. Man we all cannot wait till may 12th
5:29 OK, those save files are hilarious!
I love the info and facts you use
Nice video, but a lot of quite silly mistakes.
4:40 That's Super Mario Bros (1985), not Mario Bros (1983) as stated...
7:37 Frodo was the hero of LOTR, not Bilbo...
17:37 Koji, not Keji Kondo.. You said his name correctly earlier?
There are many more after this but I won't list.
You even state the PS2 Slim came out in 2014 in another video... How does nobody pick up on errors like this?
It's a shame as it makes it quite clear the narrator is just reading a script, and the people who should be checking and catching mistakes don't know their stuff... It really breaks the immersion and becomes a distraction.
amazing video
That metacritic notes... Insane. Well designed video by the way.
wow u make great vids. ty
When are you going to do a evolution of mario? Ide really love one
my favorite evolution channel
"and you will receive golden shit!" ya that took me a minute to relize what it was! lol
He bashed real life so hard he it’s brutal honesty and facts
The title theme is a slowed down version of the overworld theme that already existed in the game. The way most videos put it it sounds like kondo came up with one of the best video game tunes over night and from scratch
nice vid
nintendo when developing tears of the kindoms : "did you place the 9000 koroks?" "yes, I just need to place the 100 new moroks"
You guys mentioned every title even the CD-i titles but forgot Link's crossbow training 😢
Fantastic game. I recently bought a new copy of it from Amazon. They definitely need to make an HD co-op version of it for the switch.
First of all thank you so much for telling all the history of The Legend Of Zelda because the truth I did know what this game was but after some many years I have finally know the history. And it is turely a bueatiful game that it came to be and even if I did play it when the first game came out this would have been one of the bestest game in the world. And there is one more thing that I have to say is that thanks beacuse of Flatlife I know the history of one of the most bueatiful game that was created and I this channel for spend so much time and dedication to make this vedio come true and thank you for listening to this comment.
I really hope they release Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on the Switch. I never had the right consoles to play them and I would love the chance to experience them myself someday.
OoT and majora are both available on switch as N64 emulators if you pay an annual subscription fee.
@@cguillot05 woahh i learned about OoT being on there a bit ago but i never knew majora was on there too!! thank you!
Past Me: Heck yeah Islands in the sky
Current Me: They.... they didn't say a whole lot about the depths
Gerudo has a hard G
I am 55 yo now and i still play loz oot. That game will always be my favorite.
My top favorite Legend of Zelda will aways be Ocarina of Time ❤
Great with your video, I really enjoyed your video all the way through 😊
I didnt think it was possible for an hour to go by so fast.
good video ❤
I grew up with Alttp and Oot. Both of best worlds imo.
I _love_ the Jerudo Valley theme… Kiji Kondo is the best 👌
another video just to listen too i love these type's of videos
Wonderful documentary
Zaddy good vid
Love your evolution videos I wonder of you can do Wolfenstein next
This game is really rad
Tears of the Kingdom does everything that Breath of the Wild did while making all of the previous game's faults a thing of the past. We have actual dungeons/Temples. We have amazing, fun and huge boss fights. We have a better overall story. The fuse mechanic is unbelievable and it's unreal how well the engine works. Everything in the game just works. It's almost like magic how well the game operates. It's way better than BotW, which I didn't even have in my top 5 Zelda games, let alone best games ever. This game... It's probably at 4 behind A Link to the Past/Between Worlds, Wind Waker and Link's Awakening. It might go up to 3. I really enjoyed it and this is the first Zelda game ever (besides triforce heroes) that I have not had any hype for. I seen it as glorified BotW DLC and I've never been so happy to be wrong. I wanted to give it a standing ovation at the end credits
Thanks for the video but question will there be an updated video when the legend of zelda tears of the kingdom comes out ?
I like all of the research and the animations within this video!
16:34 - 16:42 ---> Yup...
41:00 - 41:08 ---> Nah, Zelda fans raised their swords Skywards!
There's a literal one-to-one with Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke; The scene with the infected boar...
This video is great
so excited for tears of the kingdom
You deserve 2m+ subs
55:22 just the way he says it 😂