Twilight princess will always hold a special place in my heart. The gritty art style and risky mature theme was a great route. I wish I could play it for the first time again and there will never be another sidekick like Midna 😭🙏
Probably my favorite in the series but I do think the graphics are the weak point. Would love to see what they could do with that style at todays resolutions
@@peridusk6128 i disagree but aestethics are subjective. Nintendo always does a great job of overcoming tech limitations through art design, I don't think the game looks "bad" per se but the level of detail and the arity of the image doesnt hold up as well as windwaker, skyward sword or BotW. I actually like the darker gritty look I just would love to see it get an actual remake as I think it would look incredible with todays resolutions and texture quality
i love the stal guys. from the stalfos from skyward sword and oot, stalmaster from skyward sword, stal horse and others from botw, and my personal favorite: stalchampion from triforce heroes. expect stal children, hate them. they're kinda bland too, but im biased cuz i just dont like them.
I’d like to imagine that when Ganondorf said “whatever you desire I shall desire too” he allowed Zant to basically operate as an extension of his will, but with his own sentience. So when Ganondorf tried to save himself at the end of TP, Zant’s spirit, feeling betrayed by the person he put so much trust in and who also realized that the powers he was gifted still dwell within him, desired Ganondorf’s death. All it took was the snap motion to gain what he desired
@@MeepChangelinghis body is dead, not his spirit as it's still attached to Ganondorf. Plus the zelda series has poes which are the spirits of the dead. Ghosts and poes can still interact with the physical world. Numerous Zelda games even show the ghost interact with the world, Ocarina of time is a great example of this because in the forest temple you must defeat four poes in order to light the four tourches in the main room. In the Spirit temple the boss is literally an exeucted prisoner.
I love the 'Stallord as executioner that Ganondorf killed' theory! That makes so much sense! Maybe when the mirror-gate to the Twilight Realm was first opened to send interlopers through, Stallord came through first and they decided to trap him there to exploit? Just a random thought that came to me...
Well there was definitely a Roman inspiration to the game, along with LOTR fantasy of course. If you go to the Darknut boss room in the past Temple of Time and look at the ceiling, it is 100% the Pantheon's ceiling. And of course the Arbiter's Grounds has a literal Coliseum.
@@BlueThunder1988 Think of the Twilight Realm as the literal Dark World, ala Link to the Past. When you get into the weeds of messy translations/localizations - the "Twilight Realm" is just another way of saying "The Dark World". Each Zelda game that features a Dark World has its own unique interpretation of what that world actually looks like, but they all remain the same concept. LttP dark world is full of evil and has an animal transformation. TP dark world is twisted and Link turns into a Wolf.
The theory I liked about Stalord is that he is the same species as Volvalgia. Also his battle theme is a remix of Volvagia's theme from Ocarina of Time
i love the stal guys. from the stalfos from skyward sword and oot, stalmaster from skyward sword, stal horse and others from botw, and my personal favorite: stalchampion from triforce heroes. expect stal children, hate them. they're kinda bland too, but im biased cuz i just dont like them.
Its because they serve the same function; a large imposing enemy that only engages when you get too close/pose a threat. Should the being in Tears it would be neat to see some just living, maybe near the random cooking fires and heading to them at night.
@@aaronolson6736, maybe in Tears the Darknuts can be the minibosses you meet in enclosed spaces like in the castle or in ruins, while Lynels remain the ones you meet in the open fields of Hyrule.
I'm still surprised no one mentions how, since LOTR had finished airing at the start of Twilight Princess' development, a boss like Fyrus was VERY CLEARLY inspired by the Balrog. Even Metroid did this in 2007 with Prime 3's Meta-Ridley fight. Where Samus and Ridley do battle falling down a massive hole, and Ridley occasionally grabs Samus mid-fall just like the Balrog does to Gandalf.
i love the stal guys. from the stalfos from skyward sword and oot, stalmaster from skyward sword, stal horse and others from botw, and my personal favorite: stalchampion from triforce heroes. expect stal children, hate them. they're kinda bland too, but im biased cuz i just dont like them.
The underwater descent into Morpheel's boos room scared me as a kid, cause you couldn't see the bottom. From the boss door you were already at the bottom of the lakebed temple which itself was submerged under later Hylia. It was like you were going to the absolute lowest point in Hyrule.
YES. And did you notice that the exact opposite is true of Argorok? Obviously nothing is higher than a city in the sky and then you climb up the tallest tower of that highest place and fight the dragon-- then have to climb even higher for the second half and hang by those Peahats... Terrifying in a very different but sublimely symmetrical way! Also, the BGM for Part 2 of each those two boss fights shares the main motif! And let's not forget that each boss fight respectively completes the last piece of each of the game's creepy quest items. All in all, it's pretty clear to me that the parallels were fully intentional... and awesome. It helps me realize that this game can and does go "beyond the surface" (pun slightly intended) even with those bosses that have no essential story elements. Just so much art to it.
TP needs to be brought back with each generation of console. Zelda games have always had a great story with some cool moments in them, but TP has a great story with some truly EPIC moments. The mounted battles with King Bulblin (and raiding the bulbin HQ in Gerudo desert), the wagon escort, and fighting Stallord are up there for my single favorite moments in the entire series.
theres a theme of stalfo enemies occupying arena areas. my personal favorite stal boss is stal champion, followed by stalmaster. the whole concept of stalfos are so cool, even if its just a cool name for skeleton. even the name is badass. but the only thing more badass than dying and having your skeleton re-animate, and probably be more badass than you were alive. is dying and getting the honor to become a phantom, a soul of little renown, with respectable battle prowess, housed in a suit of nigh indestructable armor. also the design of phantom armor and engravings make me hard. i really need them to come back, i really want to see them again in better resolution. dlc armor satisfied me for a little, but i need that 7ft armor monster fix.
The Stallord being an execution makes such sense and Ganon killing him would makes sense as to why the sages tried to kill him with a sword. Such a good idea. Keep it up bro
The weird thing about this game, is that even though I have completed it, I was so immersed in the game… that I’ve forgotten most of it. As seems to happen to all the Zelda games… even more reason to play it once more! ❤️ Thanks for the video.
The Darkhammer's "skin" bears quite the resemblance to "The Imprisoned" and Demise, but that's a tale for another day. (I suppose that could be scale mail as well, but I suppose that depends on the type of creature inside. And the Darknuts have chainmail underneath their armor and it does not bear too much resemblance to the Darkhammer.)
Honestly I just beat Twilight Princess HD very recently, and I was amazed at how much variety in terms of design and combat/item approach these bosses had. They knocked it out of the park!
There was so much discussed about the Arbiter's Grounds in this video that I haven't thought about before! It's so interesting how the Arbiter's Grounds and The Shadow Temple showcase the dark underbelly of Hyrule - specifically the Hylians and the Hyrule Royal Family. _Especially_ considering this wasn't some dark, forgotten history. That shit was happening rather recently!
I absolutely *love* everything you theorized about Stallord! And mate you can BET that Ganondorf was the one who killed it xD Everything you said about Stallord and the Arbiters Grounds are now headcanon for me. I'm very thankful for that. This video was awesome!
When I first watched my parents play through this game when I was a kid, Stallord absolutely terrified me. I had nightmares about him for forever afterwards and it’s not like I was a baby, I was almost 10. But even with how much he scared me, I still declared it my favorite game ever before I even got to play it. It’s still my favorite game, and Stallord still terrifies me.
Fun fact, getting to see her head spin around exorcist style was not the intention of the scene. We were originally meant to see her normal face in the mirror, and her monster face only once she turned around, but the animator got the timing wrong. They liked the spinning head better and kept it that way.
Some people will never get how horrifying Armogohma Was in the original Gamecube and Wii versions of TP, See when the HD version game out they brightened up the game alot…but back in the day bro caves were PITCH BLACK if you didn’t have lantern oil you almost could not see where you were going at all! So imagine that darkness with a massive monster spider chasing you around a room and swarming you with tiny spiders…That gave me nightmares as A kid I swear xD
Thank you for that. Yet another reason why I'm all about the Wii version. The main reason is the Wii-mote, though. Just so fun getting into it and hacking away (without the annoying and glitchy precision required by Skyward Sword). Finally hooking into Morpheel or Argorok and then stabbing the %$*@ out of its weak point (see my comment to Nilly Nush, above) with my actual fist... oh, yeah, that's the stuff...
This is my favorite game in the series it's a literal gem for it's time, it was the second zelda game I had ever played, and I have very fond memories of me and my dad beating it together when I was younger it's some of the only fond memories I have left of him before my family split ways so this game is very special to me! I always get overly excited hearing people come up with lore or just talk about their experiences playing it!
Since several years have passed between Link warning Zelda and Ganondorf's execution, I always assumed Ganondorf openly betrayed the king and declared war, which went on for those very years. That's why the Gerudo are nowhere to be found in Hyrule. Supporting Ganondorf, they had to retreat eventually or were forcefully driven from the kingdom. It's still possible that Ganondorf was held prisoner and for him to be the one to slay the Stallord (which is such a cool theory!). It would also add a component of 'poetic justice' to chose the Arbiter's Ground to hold and execute Hyrule's enemies.
14:24 Funny enough there have been documented cases of sharks and fish living in underwater volcanos and their respective magma chambers, even sea slugs who could traverse the molten rock.
These videos are great and you're theories really fit. I hope to see all of or at least most of the Zelda games bosses done by you. I'll definitely be waiting for hopefully more.
Thank you very much for making this one, it gave me such joy seeing you talk more of my favorite enemies, from my favorite game, from my favorite game franchise. : )
Always called King Bulblin King Bob or just Bob. He seems like a weirdly honorable dude. Also, your entire theory around the Arbiter's Ground is awesome, my new headcanon
Holy shit, was NOT expecting the epoch that is the Life and Death of Stallord! I loved getting all these new ideas on one of my favorite bosses of all time!!
Your comment about Zant getting into the Door of Time got me thinking and I came up with a mini theory. Most people theorize that the 'Temple of Time' is actually the Realm of Light from Ocarina of Time. So what if Zant simply sent the mirror shard to that realm using his magic, but since the entrance to the realm is destroyed in Twilight Princess' time Link has to use the door of time to access it but Zant never needed to because he never physically entered the realm? Zant would think nobody could ever get the shard but of course Link proves it wrong by time traveling. Of course there are a lot of holes. Like time would maybe need to be fluid in the realm and such, but I've never heard a theory on this before so it was a fun idea.
I LOVE your theory about Stallord, it gives us cool lore and adds a darker layer to the royal family Nintendo wouldn't have the balls to make canon. I especially like the idea of Ganon being the only one bad assed enough to kill Stallord, which makes sense cause Ganon's a magic user and wouldn't bother with the crappy weapons or armor the Arbiters would give him. 10 out of 10, it's my own personal head canon now.
I think it's save to assume Midna's people are ruled by a monarchy, she's called a princess after all. The reason Zant thought he would rule is because he wanted to marry her, but he got rejected. That's why he asks her to join him later. When he still gets rejected, he tries to kill her.
damn i remember being in like 5th grade playing TP and when skyward dropped this kid on the bus always talked about it on the way home (i lived in the middle of nowhere so it was 2 hours of me and this other elementary kid talking about how we enjoy zelda as a series). good ol times.
The idea that Ganon was the one who finally killed Stalord is really cool, but doesn’t really make as much sense with the point you made earlier about the grounds appearing to have been in shambles for more than centuries.
Ngl I did notice you didn’t get stallord and when you said “what you notice I haven’t gotten to stallord yet?” I was like ok he got me lmao, one of my favorite dungeons in the game next to snowpoint ruins
I think that stallord is a Gleeok! He's got the dragon body, floating detached head... idk makes sense to me. But I think you're idea about the coliseum and Ganondorf being the one to defeat it is spot on! Well done as usual Bandit, looking forward to some more boss lore episodes :)
7:08 I'm pretty sure Skull kid says something like 'I recognide that scent' or something like that the second time we have to traverse the sacred groove, that was the detail that made me think this was skull kid from Ocarina of Time and Majora' Mask.
I always thought Zelda gave Midna the triforce of wisdom because she knew when she needed it and two she was about to be captured by Ganon so she wanted to prevent him from getting another piece.
I never comment on youtube but when I saw the ocarina of time boss video I was exited to see more of that style with different zelda games and I always thought Twilight princess had the most interesting bosses I hope to see more soon
And this is why Twilight Princess will always be my favorite Zelda game, this game means a whole lot to me, essentially making it my entire reason as to why I love the LOZ Series as a whole
I really liked the Arbiter's ground theory you gave in this video. Twilight princess is an incredible game but lacks detail about quite a few things, something we never hear about are the gerudos and hearing your explanation actually makes sense for lots of the parts
I feel like the arbiters grounds was a coliseum in which the worst convicts were forced to fight eachother, and stallord is the combined bones of all of the combatants merged together malice and all
That theory about the Arbiter's Grounds is my favorite theory from any bit of Zelda lore I've heard in YEARS!! And BotW's coliseum shows that Hylians don't shy away from blood sports, so why wouldn't they pit the worst of the worst against a giant monster? This IS the same royal family that needed something as gruesome as the Shadow Temple after all.
I honestly dig the idea that Ganondorf might have been the one to take out the great big Desert Boss. It just enforces this timeline version of Ganondorf all the more XD
Stalsoldier: *Looks almost identical to the hyrule guard, with the few differences easily explained by different timeperiods and the wear of time.* BG: "Not at all like the armour of the soldiers of hyrule!" You serious...?
Quick clarification: Auru's description of the Arbiter's Grounds as a prison for the most treacherous criminals is sort of a mistranslation. In the original Japanese, Aura describes the Arbiter's Grounds as a prison that once held the most treacherous of criminals, that being Ganondorf, of course. This also implies that Deathsword may be a manifestation of Ganondorf's malice building while he was held there, one which had to be sealed with ofuda by the Sages. Given the age of the structure, the age of Hahra Gigant (Stallord's Japanese name), and the colosseum structure he is held under, I personally find it likely that the Gerudo, long ago, may have forced those they captured to battle each other and even Stallord prior to the Hylian takeover of it and its conversion into a prison for Ganondorf.
I can admit that I've never even thought about the reason for Stallord's skeleton to be chillin' inside the Arbiter's Grounds, OR the colosseum shape of it despite playing the game back and forth since 2007. I absolutely love the theories you have about it, and will now make them my own head canon because I have no brains to think up my own~
It's always nice to learn new things about my fav Zelda game. And I like the idea that Stallord is a, frankly cruel, form of public execution and that the skeletons he brings up in battle were past victims. Though I don't think Ganondorf killed him, but it is totally possible.
Part of me has long felt that, more that simply corrupting a single creature, the fused shadows and mirror shards actually bestowed other attributes onto said creatures that were derived from other creatures inhabiting the temples. Fyrus for example was Darbus with aspects of a torch slug and maybe a bit of dodongo. Morpheel makes me think of a hylian loach in some ways, its mouth reminds me of bombfish (which it notably spawns), and seems to have some Bari properties as well.
I’ve notice since Wiiu makes the game look clearer, the Darknut last light gear when he’s using the sword only, you can see from the T visor that it got a human face since the nose sticks out a bit but the face is vantablack so they are a probably human Ganon worshiper
The Mokoblins are probably the "barbarian" goblins, that wander the outskirts of hyrule, rarely seen in the games because of their nomadic behavior. Though since TP has multiple areas of Hyrule field, it could be that we just ran into a small horde of them, and there could be multiple Mokoblin clans, and this King is only one of many.
You know these comments are gonna fill up with nothing but “twilight princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated I can’t believe nobody plays it”
@@accidentalgenius8252 I know, right? It’s crazy how underrated it is. Twilight Princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated I can’t believe nobody plays it
There is one extra foot note I would like to add , if you would care to listen. The sages said that they underestimated their own power , as if they made him Ganon. Meaning that it is not Ganon , but an imposter made by Twinrova that was forgotten. Zant and Twinrova had the same type of relationship with Ganon after all. She needed Ganon in order to command the Gerudo. Explaining why the Master Sword was moved , Twinrova pulled it to no effect. Zelda sealed Ganon's fate in more than one way by splitting the timeline in two. She did this sending Link to a dimension where Ganon wasn't a factor somehow. But that's something else , and there are too few details to dive into. And if you'll recall , there are 2 bosses that had yet to be defeated in the past. Twinrova , of coarse , and Phantom Ganon. Phantom Ganon gains power as the physical embodiment of how people fear him. What would happen if was executed as the real Ganon for crimes in another time? And by seven sages , armed with a magic sword no less.
Love the theories in this video! I think it'd be pretty ballsy for the Sages to take Ganondorf, captured before he turned into Ganon (but still in possession of the Triforce of Power), and say "hey yknow what'd be fun, let's have him fight the dragon in the Arbiter's Grounds, that'll make an example of this traitor". But maybe they didn't know he had a piece of the Triforce, and hadn't seen him as Ganon, and underestimated him?
Bandit twilight princess is also one of my favorite Zelda games but my favorite legend of Zelda twilight princess boss is stallord I could beat stallord every time love that boss!
Which Twilight Princess boss is your favorite? Mine is Zelda Shrek
Favorite Boss: Argorok
My's the darknut mini bosses
I’ve gotta say it’s the big bone dude, or zant lol
Stallord. He's such a fun boss to fight.
Stallord for me!
Twilight princess will always hold a special place in my heart. The gritty art style and risky mature theme was a great route. I wish I could play it for the first time again and there will never be another sidekick like Midna 😭🙏
Probably my favorite in the series but I do think the graphics are the weak point. Would love to see what they could do with that style at todays resolutions
@@feircy what are you talking about? The graphics are more impressive than breath of the wild
@@peridusk6128 i disagree but aestethics are subjective. Nintendo always does a great job of overcoming tech limitations through art design, I don't think the game looks "bad" per se but the level of detail and the arity of the image doesnt hold up as well as windwaker, skyward sword or BotW.
I actually like the darker gritty look I just would love to see it get an actual remake as I think it would look incredible with todays resolutions and texture quality
Absolutely, TP will always be my favorite and I really hope they come out with similar one / sequel in the future
@@feircy maybe you mean graphics, but I think the art style of the game is absolute dog shit
Ganondorf after killing Stallord: “Are you not entertained?”
I am accepting that as canon
i love the stal guys. from the stalfos from skyward sword and oot, stalmaster from skyward sword, stal horse and others from botw, and my personal favorite: stalchampion from triforce heroes.
expect stal children, hate them. they're kinda bland too, but im biased cuz i just dont like them.
@@TK-7193 Stal.. guys...
@@brandonnguyen6718 also stal by c418
"NO! We didn't think you were actually going to kill him!!!!"
I’d like to imagine that when Ganondorf said “whatever you desire I shall desire too” he allowed Zant to basically operate as an extension of his will, but with his own sentience. So when Ganondorf tried to save himself at the end of TP, Zant’s spirit, feeling betrayed by the person he put so much trust in and who also realized that the powers he was gifted still dwell within him, desired Ganondorf’s death. All it took was the snap motion to gain what he desired
Cannot possibly name a more spiteful move than that holy hell
Litteraly impossible. Zant is DEAD. We blew his ass up. Along with every other part of his body. The neck snap makes no sense because dead is DEAD.
@@MeepChangeling as if Zelda doesn't have spirits
@@MeepChangelinghis body is dead, not his spirit as it's still attached to Ganondorf. Plus the zelda series has poes which are the spirits of the dead. Ghosts and poes can still interact with the physical world. Numerous Zelda games even show the ghost interact with the world, Ocarina of time is a great example of this because in the forest temple you must defeat four poes in order to light the four tourches in the main room. In the Spirit temple the boss is literally an exeucted prisoner.
@@MeepChangelingNOT IN VIDEO GAME
I love the 'Stallord as executioner that Ganondorf killed' theory! That makes so much sense!
Maybe when the mirror-gate to the Twilight Realm was first opened to send interlopers through, Stallord came through first and they decided to trap him there to exploit? Just a random thought that came to me...
@@shadenox8164 did they create the realm or just the mirror? I can't remember if this was specified 😅
Well there was definitely a Roman inspiration to the game, along with LOTR fantasy of course. If you go to the Darknut boss room in the past Temple of Time and look at the ceiling, it is 100% the Pantheon's ceiling. And of course the Arbiter's Grounds has a literal Coliseum.
@@BlueThunder1988 Think of the Twilight Realm as the literal Dark World, ala Link to the Past. When you get into the weeds of messy translations/localizations - the "Twilight Realm" is just another way of saying "The Dark World". Each Zelda game that features a Dark World has its own unique interpretation of what that world actually looks like, but they all remain the same concept.
LttP dark world is full of evil and has an animal transformation. TP dark world is twisted and Link turns into a Wolf.
The theory I liked about Stalord is that he is the same species as Volvalgia. Also his battle theme is a remix of Volvagia's theme from Ocarina of Time
i love the stal guys. from the stalfos from skyward sword and oot, stalmaster from skyward sword, stal horse and others from botw, and my personal favorite: stalchampion from triforce heroes.
expect stal children, hate them. they're kinda bland too, but im biased cuz i just dont like them.
I also want to point out that Stallord has multiple weapons inside his skull, so that also implies him being a colloseum beast
My favourite? The Darknut. They legitimately scare me in the game as much as Lynels. Oh I hope I get to fight a Darknut in BOTW2.
That's something I also hope happens
I feel like it was a bit of a missed opportunity when they weren't present in Hyrule castle in botw
same bro
It's actually called Tears Of The Kingdom. Weird name right? I feel like they could have come up with something a little better 🤔
Its because they serve the same function; a large imposing enemy that only engages when you get too close/pose a threat. Should the being in Tears it would be neat to see some just living, maybe near the random cooking fires and heading to them at night.
@@aaronolson6736, maybe in Tears the Darknuts can be the minibosses you meet in enclosed spaces like in the castle or in ruins, while Lynels remain the ones you meet in the open fields of Hyrule.
The idea of Ganondorf being the original slayer of Stallord is so cool.
All your theories about the Arbiter's Grounds are some of the best I've heard in years.
They're now apart of my headcanon lol
I'm still surprised no one mentions how, since LOTR had finished airing at the start of Twilight Princess' development, a boss like Fyrus was VERY CLEARLY inspired by the Balrog. Even Metroid did this in 2007 with Prime 3's Meta-Ridley fight. Where Samus and Ridley do battle falling down a massive hole, and Ridley occasionally grabs Samus mid-fall just like the Balrog does to Gandalf.
i love the stal guys. from the stalfos from skyward sword and oot, stalmaster from skyward sword, stal horse and others from botw, and my personal favorite: stalchampion from triforce heroes.
expect stal children, hate them. they're kinda bland too, but im biased cuz i just dont like them.
The underwater descent into Morpheel's boos room scared me as a kid, cause you couldn't see the bottom. From the boss door you were already at the bottom of the lakebed temple which itself was submerged under later Hylia. It was like you were going to the absolute lowest point in Hyrule.
Morphius?!?!
holy shit get down he's gonna morb!
GET DOWN HE'S MORBIN!!!
*gets morbed and dies*
YES. And did you notice that the exact opposite is true of Argorok? Obviously nothing is higher than a city in the sky and then you climb up the tallest tower of that highest place and fight the dragon-- then have to climb even higher for the second half and hang by those Peahats... Terrifying in a very different but sublimely symmetrical way!
Also, the BGM for Part 2 of each those two boss fights shares the main motif! And let's not forget that each boss fight respectively completes the last piece of each of the game's creepy quest items. All in all, it's pretty clear to me that the parallels were fully intentional... and awesome.
It helps me realize that this game can and does go "beyond the surface" (pun slightly intended) even with those bosses that have no essential story elements. Just so much art to it.
Twilight Princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated I can’t believe nobody plays it
I can't play it since I lose my original gc copy and Nintendo won't re release it on switch
TP needs to be brought back with each generation of console. Zelda games have always had a great story with some cool moments in them, but TP has a great story with some truly EPIC moments. The mounted battles with King Bulblin (and raiding the bulbin HQ in Gerudo desert), the wagon escort, and fighting Stallord are up there for my single favorite moments in the entire series.
The theories surrounding Arbiter’s Grounds came together so well and in a way that makes it much more creepy, messed up, and so so fascinating.
theres a theme of stalfo enemies occupying arena areas. my personal favorite stal boss is stal champion, followed by stalmaster.
the whole concept of stalfos are so cool, even if its just a cool name for skeleton. even the name is badass.
but the only thing more badass than dying and having your skeleton re-animate, and probably be more badass than you were alive. is dying and getting the honor to become a phantom, a soul of little renown, with respectable battle prowess, housed in a suit of nigh indestructable armor.
also the design of phantom armor and engravings make me hard. i really need them to come back, i really want to see them again in better resolution. dlc armor satisfied me for a little, but i need that 7ft armor monster fix.
The Stallord being an execution makes such sense and Ganon killing him would makes sense as to why the sages tried to kill him with a sword. Such a good idea. Keep it up bro
They might tried everything to kill him on the arbiter grounds lol
The weird thing about this game, is that even though I have completed it, I was so immersed in the game… that I’ve forgotten most of it.
As seems to happen to all the Zelda games… even more reason to play it once more! ❤️
Thanks for the video.
The Darkhammer's "skin" bears quite the resemblance to "The Imprisoned" and Demise, but that's a tale for another day.
(I suppose that could be scale mail as well, but I suppose that depends on the type of creature inside. And the Darknuts have chainmail underneath their armor and it does not bear too much resemblance to the Darkhammer.)
yea my guess is scale mail.
Seeing King Bulblin speak for the first time was amazing. I wasn't expecting it to happen at all.
Honestly I just beat Twilight Princess HD very recently, and I was amazed at how much variety in terms of design and combat/item approach these bosses had. They knocked it out of the park!
There was so much discussed about the Arbiter's Grounds in this video that I haven't thought about before! It's so interesting how the Arbiter's Grounds and The Shadow Temple showcase the dark underbelly of Hyrule - specifically the Hylians and the Hyrule Royal Family. _Especially_ considering this wasn't some dark, forgotten history. That shit was happening rather recently!
I absolutely *love* everything you theorized about Stallord! And mate you can BET that Ganondorf was the one who killed it xD Everything you said about Stallord and the Arbiters Grounds are now headcanon for me. I'm very thankful for that. This video was awesome!
"Beat the evil out of him." 🤣🤣🤣
In the words of Bob Ross" Just beat the devil out of it."
When I first watched my parents play through this game when I was a kid, Stallord absolutely terrified me. I had nightmares about him for forever afterwards and it’s not like I was a baby, I was almost 10. But even with how much he scared me, I still declared it my favorite game ever before I even got to play it. It’s still my favorite game, and Stallord still terrifies me.
Perhaps he triggers some phobia you aren't aware of?
Or maybe it's just that 50 foot tall undead dragon things are terrifying.
I wonder if yeto knows his wife can spin her head to reveal a second head. Like is that a yeti thing? Is he only married to one head?
If it's a yeti thing it is a female thing. We see the back of yeto's head.
I think that was just a result of the mirror fragment’s corruption.
Fun fact, getting to see her head spin around exorcist style was not the intention of the scene. We were originally meant to see her normal face in the mirror, and her monster face only once she turned around, but the animator got the timing wrong. They liked the spinning head better and kept it that way.
@@baconator_x4098yeto has a hat tho
@@StonedtotheBones13 While his fashion is immaculate, he takes it off inside. We've seen the back of his head.
Some people will never get how horrifying Armogohma Was in the original Gamecube and Wii versions of TP, See when the HD version game out they brightened up the game alot…but back in the day bro caves were PITCH BLACK if you didn’t have lantern oil you almost could not see where you were going at all! So imagine that darkness with a massive monster spider chasing you around a room and swarming you with tiny spiders…That gave me nightmares as A kid I swear xD
Thank you for that. Yet another reason why I'm all about the Wii version. The main reason is the Wii-mote, though. Just so fun getting into it and hacking away (without the annoying and glitchy precision required by Skyward Sword). Finally hooking into Morpheel or Argorok and then stabbing the %$*@ out of its weak point (see my comment to Nilly Nush, above) with my actual fist... oh, yeah, that's the stuff...
This is my favorite game in the series it's a literal gem for it's time, it was the second zelda game I had ever played, and I have very fond memories of me and my dad beating it together when I was younger it's some of the only fond memories I have left of him before my family split ways so this game is very special to me!
I always get overly excited hearing people come up with lore or just talk about their experiences playing it!
Leave it to Bandit to fit multiple story related theories into what could have been a super basic video if he wanted to. Major props
Twilight princess is my favorite game, great to see more content on it!
Since several years have passed between Link warning Zelda and Ganondorf's execution, I always assumed Ganondorf openly betrayed the king and declared war, which went on for those very years. That's why the Gerudo are nowhere to be found in Hyrule. Supporting Ganondorf, they had to retreat eventually or were forcefully driven from the kingdom. It's still possible that Ganondorf was held prisoner and for him to be the one to slay the Stallord (which is such a cool theory!). It would also add a component of 'poetic justice' to chose the Arbiter's Ground to hold and execute Hyrule's enemies.
I love that you hit us with “You can tell it’s an eel because of the way it is”
YES! I had asked in the last video if you could do a Twilight princess version and you did thanks for making my day!
Bandit, you and Lon Lon did such a job on this video!
Very nice mood setting for Autumn and very soon, spooky season.
Now that I think about it, why was Ganondorf in fancy armor rather than whatever the Hyrulian equivalent of an orange jumpsuit would be.
Right? Even executed royals would typically leave their fine outer garments off/with somebody
Continue explaining the bosses in the Zelda games. SKYWARD SWORD NEXT! PLEASE 🙏
14:24 Funny enough there have been documented cases of sharks and fish living in underwater volcanos and their respective magma chambers, even sea slugs who could traverse the molten rock.
These videos are great and you're theories really fit. I hope to see all of or at least most of the Zelda games bosses done by you. I'll definitely be waiting for hopefully more.
Thank you very much for making this one, it gave me such joy seeing you talk more of my favorite enemies, from my favorite game, from my favorite game franchise. : )
Blizzeta is probably my favorite, mostly cause of the after battle cutscene
It's absolutely the best Heart container we get in all zelda games hahahah
Oh I definitely agree, I can’t remember another heart container like that lol
Always called King Bulblin King Bob or just Bob. He seems like a weirdly honorable dude. Also, your entire theory around the Arbiter's Ground is awesome, my new headcanon
Really awesome video and cool theories regarding Stallord and the Arbiter’s Ground!
Holy shit, was NOT expecting the epoch that is the Life and Death of Stallord! I loved getting all these new ideas on one of my favorite bosses of all time!!
I'd love to see a complete boss EXPLAINED with all the titles together in one video!
11:20 if they are monsters it’s pretty special considering they can speak and communicate with Hylians and other races
Your comment about Zant getting into the Door of Time got me thinking and I came up with a mini theory.
Most people theorize that the 'Temple of Time' is actually the Realm of Light from Ocarina of Time. So what if Zant simply sent the mirror shard to that realm using his magic, but since the entrance to the realm is destroyed in Twilight Princess' time Link has to use the door of time to access it but Zant never needed to because he never physically entered the realm? Zant would think nobody could ever get the shard but of course Link proves it wrong by time traveling. Of course there are a lot of holes. Like time would maybe need to be fluid in the realm and such, but I've never heard a theory on this before so it was a fun idea.
I LOVE your theory about Stallord, it gives us cool lore and adds a darker layer to the royal family Nintendo wouldn't have the balls to make canon. I especially like the idea of Ganon being the only one bad assed enough to kill Stallord, which makes sense cause Ganon's a magic user and wouldn't bother with the crappy weapons or armor the Arbiters would give him. 10 out of 10, it's my own personal head canon now.
I didn’t think that I could love Stallord any more than I do but you’ve proven me wrong. Thank you :)
Ohhh bandit! Was this the project!? Great job! 🎮🫠
I think it's save to assume Midna's people are ruled by a monarchy, she's called a princess after all. The reason Zant thought he would rule is because he wanted to marry her, but he got rejected. That's why he asks her to join him later. When he still gets rejected, he tries to kill her.
You should definitely do this for all the Zelda games!!
The Arbiter's Grounds is just such a cool area in general. Twilight Princess lore gotta be one of my favorites.
I am so glad that I am not the only one with the same theory of Death Sword having involvement with the prisoners execution.
You should do skyward sword next the bosses have so much mystery and I'd love to here your theories on them.
yes.
damn i remember being in like 5th grade playing TP and when skyward dropped this kid on the bus always talked about it on the way home (i lived in the middle of nowhere so it was 2 hours of me and this other elementary kid talking about how we enjoy zelda as a series). good ol times.
I was rewatching the Ocarina of Time bosses video about an hour ago and then reopened the app for this to be first on my home screen 🙌🏽
Behold, Ganondolf the Bodiness!
The idea that Ganon was the one who finally killed Stalord is really cool, but doesn’t really make as much sense with the point you made earlier about the grounds appearing to have been in shambles for more than centuries.
Ngl I did notice you didn’t get stallord and when you said “what you notice I haven’t gotten to stallord yet?” I was like ok he got me lmao, one of my favorite dungeons in the game next to snowpoint ruins
That was epic... and then you got to Stallord and it got more epic. Great theory Bandit. See ya Dude.
I think that stallord is a Gleeok! He's got the dragon body, floating detached head... idk makes sense to me. But I think you're idea about the coliseum and Ganondorf being the one to defeat it is spot on! Well done as usual Bandit, looking forward to some more boss lore episodes :)
he does seem like the lord of glee gawk gawk with that detatchable head of his.
im not sorry.
@@TK-7193 bok bok ba-gleeok?
7:08 I'm pretty sure Skull kid says something like 'I recognide that scent' or something like that the second time we have to traverse the sacred groove, that was the detail that made me think this was skull kid from Ocarina of Time and Majora' Mask.
Your theory about Stallord is so fricken cool and makes so much sense honestly
I always thought Zelda gave Midna the triforce of wisdom because she knew when she needed it and two she was about to be captured by Ganon so she wanted to prevent him from getting another piece.
How have I never heard this theory before, that's GREAT
I thought everyone knew this fact
You make high quality content that I enjoy very much, well done! 👏🏻
I can't get enough of your Lord videos. Keep them up!
Argorok is like, two letters away from being an anagram for Ragnarok.
I never comment on youtube but when I saw the ocarina of time boss video I was exited to see more of that style with different zelda games and I always thought Twilight princess had the most interesting bosses
I hope to see more soon
"He knew where Stallord's corpse was because *he was the one who made him a corpse*!" is such a good line actually.
And this is why Twilight Princess will always be my favorite Zelda game, this game means a whole lot to me, essentially making it my entire reason as to why I love the LOZ Series as a whole
I really liked the Arbiter's ground theory you gave in this video. Twilight princess is an incredible game but lacks detail about quite a few things, something we never hear about are the gerudos and hearing your explanation actually makes sense for lots of the parts
I feel like the arbiters grounds was a coliseum in which the worst convicts were forced to fight eachother, and stallord is the combined bones of all of the combatants merged together malice and all
Man, I forgot this game had a big monkey controlled by an insectoid neural parasite whom you have to defeat by continuously spanking.
if the Darkhammer didn't have a tail, I'd think it was just a regular orangutan or something they gave a suit of armor.
That theory about the Arbiter's Grounds is my favorite theory from any bit of Zelda lore I've heard in YEARS!! And BotW's coliseum shows that Hylians don't shy away from blood sports, so why wouldn't they pit the worst of the worst against a giant monster?
This IS the same royal family that needed something as gruesome as the Shadow Temple after all.
I honestly dig the idea that Ganondorf might have been the one to take out the great big Desert Boss. It just enforces this timeline version of Ganondorf all the more XD
I absolutely love this theory. This is my personal favorite Zelda game and the whole theory at the end makes so much sense!!
All i can think about after watching this is the *Bark* subtitle i saw XD
Stalsoldier: *Looks almost identical to the hyrule guard, with the few differences easily explained by different timeperiods and the wear of time.*
BG: "Not at all like the armour of the soldiers of hyrule!"
You serious...?
I love the dynamic music track in the Zant fight best feature of the game
Maaaan. I love Twilight Princess.
Excellent and eerie explanation on Stalord. This is now my head canon.
Quick clarification: Auru's description of the Arbiter's Grounds as a prison for the most treacherous criminals is sort of a mistranslation. In the original Japanese, Aura describes the Arbiter's Grounds as a prison that once held the most treacherous of criminals, that being Ganondorf, of course. This also implies that Deathsword may be a manifestation of Ganondorf's malice building while he was held there, one which had to be sealed with ofuda by the Sages. Given the age of the structure, the age of Hahra Gigant (Stallord's Japanese name), and the colosseum structure he is held under, I personally find it likely that the Gerudo, long ago, may have forced those they captured to battle each other and even Stallord prior to the Hylian takeover of it and its conversion into a prison for Ganondorf.
I can admit that I've never even thought about the reason for Stallord's skeleton to be chillin' inside the Arbiter's Grounds, OR the colosseum shape of it despite playing the game back and forth since 2007. I absolutely love the theories you have about it, and will now make them my own head canon because I have no brains to think up my own~
It's always nice to learn new things about my fav Zelda game. And I like the idea that Stallord is a, frankly cruel, form of public execution and that the skeletons he brings up in battle were past victims. Though I don't think Ganondorf killed him, but it is totally possible.
Part of me has long felt that, more that simply corrupting a single creature, the fused shadows and mirror shards actually bestowed other attributes onto said creatures that were derived from other creatures inhabiting the temples. Fyrus for example was Darbus with aspects of a torch slug and maybe a bit of dodongo. Morpheel makes me think of a hylian loach in some ways, its mouth reminds me of bombfish (which it notably spawns), and seems to have some Bari properties as well.
I’ve notice since Wiiu makes the game look clearer, the Darknut last light gear when he’s using the sword only, you can see from the T visor that it got a human face since the nose sticks out a bit but the face is vantablack so they are a probably human Ganon worshiper
i love you, best thing to see before bedtime ❤️
The Mokoblins are probably the "barbarian" goblins, that wander the outskirts of hyrule, rarely seen in the games because of their nomadic behavior. Though since TP has multiple areas of Hyrule field, it could be that we just ran into a small horde of them, and there could be multiple Mokoblin clans, and this King is only one of many.
I really learn alot from this video as a person who played Twilight Princess as my first ever Zelda game.
You know these comments are gonna fill up with nothing but “twilight princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated I can’t believe nobody plays it”
Or you know, regular mixed comments about loving the game/series, personal theories, takes on the video, etc
Well, Twilight Princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated I can’t believe nobody plays it
@@accidentalgenius8252 I know, right? It’s crazy how underrated it is. Twilight Princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated I can’t believe nobody plays it
@@Diamond_Aura you are sooo right!! Its super underrated and it's kinda perfect. I'm honestly shocked that not more people are playing this game.
Twilight Princess is the perfect game and it’s super underrated
There is one extra foot note I would like to add , if you would care to listen.
The sages said that they underestimated their own power , as if they made him Ganon.
Meaning that it is not Ganon , but an imposter made by Twinrova that was forgotten.
Zant and Twinrova had the same type of relationship with Ganon after all.
She needed Ganon in order to command the Gerudo.
Explaining why the Master Sword was moved , Twinrova pulled it to no effect.
Zelda sealed Ganon's fate in more than one way by splitting the timeline in two.
She did this sending Link to a dimension where Ganon wasn't a factor somehow.
But that's something else , and there are too few details to dive into.
And if you'll recall , there are 2 bosses that had yet to be defeated in the past.
Twinrova , of coarse , and Phantom Ganon.
Phantom Ganon gains power as the physical embodiment of how people fear him.
What would happen if was executed as the real Ganon for crimes in another time?
And by seven sages , armed with a magic sword no less.
Love the theories in this video! I think it'd be pretty ballsy for the Sages to take Ganondorf, captured before he turned into Ganon (but still in possession of the Triforce of Power), and say "hey yknow what'd be fun, let's have him fight the dragon in the Arbiter's Grounds, that'll make an example of this traitor". But maybe they didn't know he had a piece of the Triforce, and hadn't seen him as Ganon, and underestimated him?
BanditGames: What Zelda games should I cover?
Me: Yes
I genuinely love Ook. He's my favorite miniboss in the series and has one of my favorite OSTs of any game. funy monky man
Bandit twilight princess is also one of my favorite Zelda games but my favorite legend of Zelda twilight princess boss is stallord I could beat stallord every time love that boss!
Stallord was INSANE, thanks a lot for this vid
Aaarfsz the stallord lore part gave me chills. Its so coool
Nice theory about the Colosseum. I like it.
Bandit: ...colosseum...
Me: NO WAY
I might write an Imprisoned Ganondorf fanfic now
Love these videos. The stallord theory is great, I just imagined him reverse falcon punching him to death. Looking forward to more
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Nice Easter egg there. Love it.
Your wish was granted.
So far I’ve heard 2 plausible theories about Death Sword: the one from this video, and that it was Ganondorf’s original sword.
4:02 don’t forget the after boss battle where the Goma eyeball sheds the tarantula body and runs around.
That bug on Ook’s head reminds me of the dream crabs from Doctor Who. Or the facehuggers from Alien.
I think the Twili do have a Royal Family. When Zant is venting, he mentions a "do-nothing" Royal Family.
Midna was one of them