The Mystery of Mekar Island (Breath of the Wild)
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2019
- Mekar Island is one of the strangest places in Breath of the Wild. What's up with it?
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What do you think Mekar Island is? A reference to an older Zelda, or nothing important?
Can u finish the the day link died video
nah, they just misspelled Makar
Zeltik Do you think you can explore more into the Gerudo ruins?
I like the reference, but the name doesnt seem to fit. But hey Zeltik, were we ever gonna get the Tower of the Gods video from Wind Waker? It never came out.
Both name and odd wind is a reference to wind waker and I think your right about the lvl 1 reference too good catch there
The game devs: Crap, did I forget to put a korok seed under that rock?
I know this is a joke but if you were serious that would only make sense if there was nothing under the rock it should be Crap did I put stuff in the wrong place again?
more like:
Game Devs: did I forgot to program a korok to spawn after you beat the stal horde?
Should have made the bone piles able to be blown away to reveal korok seeds
Let's hope the game director and producers don't watch this video then.
When they made the game and the map layout they might have had an idea or concept for it and then got scraped but decided to leave the island in the game anyway cause it’d be too much work to take it out and or didn’t matter if it was still in, unfinished. Or maybe wanted to use it for some DLC that never got made.
I always thought that perhaps Makar died here, becoming a tree that would call the wind like back in Wind Waker.
I really like that idea, it makes sense and still serves as a reference to an older game.
My thoughts exactly!!!
This theory Makes actually sense
Maybe someone shot him and he died and painful death so he's angry after death...
This theory Makar sense
amber is hardened tree sap, and opal can form from petrified wood. on an island where everything's dead, are you sure there's no korok under that rock?
Not The Author Hell nah man🤣🤣🤣
@@nirgunawish lolwut
imagine hiding under a rock on a remote island, then getting murdered by 9 stal enemies the night of the day you begin hiding.
so you bascially pick up a petrified korok as an item lol
Oh wow, I never thought about that... creepy...
Personnaly, I believe the tree *_IS_* Makar. After his death, his body became the tree.
Would it be weird to hope that's what it is? Seems kinda beautiful in a way because even after all the Calamity bs and so far into the future, Makar's legacy still exists
That's not how the Kokiri works though. They're spirits that can change form, but don't actually become that form. Like Saria. She was in human form, but not actually human, hence she did not age. If anything, i'd say it could be a tree touched by his spirit
OR, you're right and Kokiri spirits become seeds for new life. Ooooh... I never thought about that, I love that
I was thinking the same thing. I thought that the koroks eventually became trees and that's how places like Kokiri Forest came to be? There was something the Great Deku Tree said in either OoT or WW that made me think this. However, I could also be completely wrong. Haha
But why would the tree be dead then? Do Koroks actually die? And if they do as a tree/ die of age?
"Surely this can't be a cruel joke by the developers..." Did you get Hestu's Gift?
@Parry Otter yes i havent gotten it yet but im not going to get it im just going to max the bow stash,wepon stash,and sheid stash and then im done i am not getting hestus gift i mean why out of everything why a big lump of golden poop?
wolfie 100% completion
in japan big lumps of poo is good luck .-.
SO
hestu is giving u a BIG LUMP of good luck!
"The tree that calls the wind, the army of the dead"
That's really poetic for some reason...
Yo no joke just read this comment the moment he said it 😳 gave me the creeps
The way I see it, Makar Island represents Mekar's last stand. In a forgotten area, it took 9 formidable, heavily equipped enemies to bring him down. And maybe they weren't even able to. He is the tree, after all. Still summoning wind. That is what the single rock hints at - a Korok missing.
He probably defeated them but since it's an isolated island, he died of his wounds resting by the fire.
Damn, that's a whole lot darker.
I was thinking that the tree WAS Makar, that he and possibly other people(the ones that would start a campfire) had taken shelter and were cornered by enemies. With Makar's death, he became a tree, possibly like the Great Deku Tree, and his spirit lives on in the wind, constantly blowing and even harder when you are on top of him.
Stop stepping on his head
Perhaps the wind is blowing to try and keep people away to protect them
I’m still surprised that you can make a 12 minute video about one small island...
To this day, I’m still impressed with your stuff
😂
Gotta get that bullshit ad money somehow
Not just make a 12 minute video, but make a 12 minute video that was interesting all the way through. 👌🏼 Zeltic is the best LoZ youtuber imo
Vsauce Puppet Gamexplain be like “pff amateurs”
Vsauce Puppet just by doing constant repetition it’s quite easy... it really drops his quality sadly
It would be even more emotional if you got to the top of the tree, and faint violin notes started playing....
That would be amazing! The Wind Waker was the first Zelda game I ever played! I love it!
Too obvious ?
@@viviv6774 Maybe,it would take away most of the mystery for sure,but it would still be cool!
@@glitchville i like how faint the reference are in this game. Some are abvious and others you must really go through the all game to see it.
@@viviv6774 Agreed!
In reality, at Nintendo:
Let's allow the intern to do this random irrelevant island just to get him acquainted with the system.
Intern: overdoes it to make a good impression.
lmao theory accepted
Some dev: hey, intern, pitch me an idea for some minor scenery
Intern: explains reference
Dev: awesome, let's do that
Probably how a lot of easter eggs n neat little stuff like this ends up in games, especially big open ones like this and Elder Scrolls, honestly. Less "no one cares" and more "give me a cool idea to add flavor to this otherwise boring bit of scenery".
Can you imagine being this extra that an enormous world is filled to the brim with references, secrets, history, puzzles, etc. No wonder they delayed it's release.
And I will wait however it will take so that botw 2 will be just as rich and interesting.
Can confirm I was the intern
I think that is how many modern cartoon remakes are done.
Perhaps this island is where Makar was ambushed and killed by the undead. His body sprouted a tree, which was inhabited by his spirit. I think that he is using the winds to guide Link away from the island, and protect him from succumbing to a similar fate - like the hero saved him eons ago.
This is why I love botw, I haven't even heard of this island, and yet it's so unique.
69 likes.
nice.
Then you didnt explore!
Adder K. Maybe they explored somewhere else bud
@@adderkay woah, relax buddy
@@WasItSky 420 likes
In Tears of the Kingdom, this island now has a guaranteed Gloom Hand spawn. Fun.
Highly recommend going there in TOTK there’s actually someone there now but he’s kind of… handsy…
I remember stumbling on this island looking for korok seeds. Once I landed and found none I saw the bones and figured that some Stalfos would appear at night. Was totally caught off guard by the platoon of high level monsters
same
Same, I had a thunderstorm as well.
Note also how some of the enemies wield *dragon* bone weapons, and the first boss of Zelda 1 was a dragon
They planned so much around that island.
The Edgy-unedgy
Oh my god you genius
Genius just genius
Though I have to say that those weapons are only called that in the English version. At least in the German version they're called only "Bone weapons"
@@AliceMeder I dont know how they're called in other languages, but in spanish they are called dragon too.
Well, in spanish Revali's gale it's called "Furia de Revali", that translated would mean "revali's fury" so I dont know whats ok and what not haha
Island: has strong winds preventing you getting there
Island: named after wind sage
'this is nothing to do with wind sage'
TRYING to prevent you to get there but the wind doesnt effect swimming
*H M M M M M M*
Certainly has nothing to do with Dungeons, that's for sure!
Breath of the Empty simply has an allergy to anything exciting and secretive. Only tired, withered cryptic markings. Jeez - the developers forgot, this is a _game_ - I know there was a mass apocalypse of Malice but _Live_ a little devs!!
@@netweed09 1: breath of the empty is hilarious
2: the fact that EVERYTHING in the game isn’t just a gimmick for a dungeon or a korok seed is the appeal otherwise things like the guardian in the Zora domain is just there for history and how the stalnox on satori mountain ALSO didn’t give you a seed or a dungeon it’s just another aspect of how satori prevents a stal from spawning including the stalnox. Not everything has to be protagonists fuel sometimes SOMEONE ELSE IS IMPORTANT
Oh yea... We had one of those over here in Iowa near Pella and lake Red Rock.
Was a giant tree used as a meet up/landmark. Now it's dead.
Know how? The river rose.
We also got giant river cats under the dam. Great monstrous things.
So Mekar Island in TOTK is now a Gloom Spawn location
I feel like it could also be a slight nod to the dying saplings in Wind Waker, which were planted by koroks
100%
A lonely little island where the winds ominously push everything away from it, almost as if warning you to turn back. You arrive there to find piles of bones scattered about, and a dead tree. You lift the single rock expecting to find a happy little Korok, especially given the name of the island, but instead find a piece of either fossilized tree resin or opal, which decaying wood often plays a roll in forming. Night falls, and an onslaught of stal-enemies with notably powerful weapons rises and attacks. You survive the ambush only to come up empty-handed after all of your efforts. Nothing to show at all for having been here. Finally, you climb the tree, and a strong wind begins to blow directly away from the home of the Koroks.
This place always gave me chills, and I can't help but think there's an implication that something tragic befell Makar here.
I didn’t even know this existed and I’ve played this game over a thousand hours, this game is big
I hope they do something with this place in the sequel!
0:48 "Who were the Zonai, who decorated the land with their intricate stone structures?"
Me watching this after the release of Tears of the Kingdom: "Huh, well I definitely don't know!"
This game never stops giving huh. Feel like in 10 years we'll still be finding stuff lol. Not to mention BotW 2 on the horizon.
On the horizon is a bit of a stretch... Considering how long we had to wait for the original, I doubt we'll get the sequel before 2022
We're not "finding stuff," we're learning stuff that was already found. Plus it's only been 2 years* and a half, it's not like those decades-old games where we find some kind of secret message in a hidden room no one knew about for all that time because some developer finally told us how to find it.
@@namenamename390 The engine is already there which saves a lot of time. I don't think they'd wanna make the same mistake with teasing a game that's years and years off again. They purposefully teased BotW2 to get conversations going.
@@Falkuzrules it's been 2 and a half years. The game came out in early 2017, now it's mid 2019.
Oh yeah, I get the Switch/game's release date confused a lot.
I prefer think that it's a warning for the Lost wood's dangers, but can be a reference of the first Zelda. Great video and theory!!!
I found this island at night by mistake and was treated with one hit from the dragon bone club and 2 bomb arrows which resulted in my immediate death
Jovaney Bernard Rest In Peace my fellow Zeltik watcher
They have bomb arrows too? Oh hell naw. I'm not visiting this island until late game when I'm more prepared to fight them
I tried to be stealthy when fighting the lynel and after the second times I died I said "fuck it!" And just attacked it brutally until it died.
You could've utilized your remote bombs.. They get knocked down and disarmed with them
That same thing happened to me when I started my Botw gameplay and I had low hearts & bad armor. I got shooted by icearrow and got hit by good weapons. Also game needed automatically save when I came to this island 🙄 and same enemies killed about 10 times.
I feel that’d be a good place for a dungeon in the BotW sequel, another callback to the first Zelda dungeon
Majestic Hotwings that’d be a pretty cool reference
I’d like that too. Another one would be if Vah Naboris moved and Spectacle Rock was the same way.
I love the Legend of Zelda, like REALLY love it.
But Zeltik can somehow make me appreciate it even more.
the fact there was fairy fountain music near the end while referencing level 1 is great.
Bro why is this so heartwarming though
250+ hours in and this is the first time I'm hearing of this island. BotW is truly an enigma.
Siddharth Gupta same, I checked my hero’s path and I have NEVER been to it, let alone knew it existed.
When I played last month I got destroyed on this island, and i was surprised there was nothing on the island during the day. Not even any chests in the water near and around it. So weird! 2 years playing and I'd never gone to it.
Siddharth Gupta Same! When I get back home and get on my Switch, I am going to it! I think it’s the last place I need to explore.
Don't feel bad I have the same amount of hours and missed that village full of people right off the shore with a shrine and I stumbled on it by accident exploring.
@@jesciapatterson244 Lurelin village? If that's where your talking about,I think I found it by accident as well. And if you're talking about a different village,then I guess I need to go exploring again.....
So cool to imagine that the very first dungeon is hidden away forever right beneath Link's feet.
Only thing missing is the wooden bridge to the island, not surprising that it wouldn't be there anymore after tens of thousands of years.
I just had a realisation that this could be evidence to breath of the wilds timeline placement
It would be cool if you could see remnants of the bridge in the water
@@outdater9302 Isn't BotW the current end point of all timelines?
@@outdater9302 Not really, it's just more of an easter egg. The main, canonical story directly references Twilight Princess, so that confirms the child timeline for me, although I know there's some debate.
@@gungaloscrungalo8925 If you're referring to one of the memory cutscenes, the game that gets referenced actually changes depending on the translation. If memory serves, the line "or steeped in the glow of twilight" is either replaced or added to by the line "crossing the ocean and making a link to the past" in European translations. So that one cutscene references games from every branch of the timeline. Just some food for thought.
I think the high level weapons the stals carry ARE the reward. Much like how the coliseum has most elemental weapons there, Makar Island maybe has most dragonbone weapons.
When you revealed the Zelda one comparison, I could not stop smiling. It felt so good to know that it could be a reference to the very beginning of one of my favorite game franchises ever.
It's really amazing how many references there are in Breath of the Wild. Great Video!
While watching the video, I've gotten a much darker idea. Know how in wind waker, Koroks would scatter across the sea planting korok seeds to grow great trees? Remember how those trees were the spots that koroks lived and died to give birth to great trees?
What if it was Maker's tree? What if it was his grave?
What if the fact that there le no korok under the rock was because there is no korok under the rock anymore?
Huh. I’d never thought about that. It makes so much sense!
Well the game is set in the child timeline.
Well the game is set in the child timeline.
Zeltik should see this
I remember watching this video years ago and being intrigued. Now I'm finally playing BotW myself and even while still fighting the Stalphos, I was remembering this video
“You programed in that korok on mekar island right?”
“I thought you did!”
-a couple of developers, probably
If Breath of the Wild 2 is really reusing this Hyrule, then maybe that tree is an entrance to a DUNGEON
I suspect that lone statue of the eighth hero seemingly "guarding an entrance" of the gerudo highlands might house a dungeon behind it. And wouldn't be surprised if it was lava-ice mechanic based dungeon. Like there was a ice dungeon with a pool of magma far below (I think it's in Link Between Worlds). I mention magma because of all the air currents and in the hebra region, the hot springs.
@@ShadowSkyX BIG BRAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
Vetriphus I hope they plan on doing something like this.
There was a temple-like building in the same canyon where you find the descendant of Ganondorph's horse that you cannot enter, yet its noted on the map: thats probably going to be another dungeon too!
@@Mellion555 there was? Huh, weird, i remember exploring that area quite a lot
Bull shit, we just put it there. And gave it a name we forgot about.
😂
I love this comment.
Thank you Shigeru Miyamoto
thanks shiggy
Shigeru Miyamoto thanks dad
5:49 "Rewarded with... Nothing..." Except high end gear and the fact that you survived a challenge and a bit of a trap by the devs.
I just love to think that when I’m on that island, I’m in fact standing on the entrance to an extremely old and gigantic dungeon
You should REALLY make a video about the mini Vah Medoh in the Hateno Ancient Lab.
@@michellemanly1365 I don't think so. There isn't just a model of it hanging from the ceiling, there are also some propelers around the lab (made to make it actually fly). And if it was just a model why would they only study Vah Medoh? Probably to find out how to make a similar smaller Vah Medoh, but it would make more sence to me that Sheikah were planning on making mini Vah Medoh for faster travelling service. It would be a really fun video, but you are by far the only person that I know who acknowledges the mini Vah Medoh.
What there is a mini vah medoh?! I have spent 300h in game but still discover new things, thanks for pointing out! Gotta check out
"Mekar" in the Indonesian language means, "Bloom" 🤔
But it wont bloom the tree is gone and there is no flowers to live and now im at the part with first dungeon
Well Makar defiantly failed on making that tree bloom
Ironic.
Holy shit I got chills when the picture of the first dungeon came up
YEEESS!! I finally found this video again! I searched for "Botw lonely tree on island", "botw little tree on island", "botw lost deku tree" and sooo many more. I finally found it on a video from "Masked Nintendo Bandit". :D
Well, if Mekar Island is a reference to Zelda 1. What if in BotW 2, this is one of the dungeons? 🤔
i like the idea that places of interest (which may arguably be the whole map) in BotW might become dungeons in BotW2
@@ZainKaneko , this is exactly how I feel about the Zonai ruins near the Spring of Courage. It's an excellent way to reuse elements of the first game, but still create new challenges and content
Love that idea, to all 3 of you
I really hope BOTW has a new world, personally
it would be dope if they just remade the zelda 1 dungeon in 3d
Makar: "haha, Link will never find me lol."
*Ends up being hidden for so long, he ends up growing into a great tree*
Hide & Seek Champion
aaaaaaaaaand he dies
the wind to makar island also references the fact in the windwaker that no one is supposed to enter the forbidden forest, maybe the tree could be the remains of it and the wind is trying to prevent the player from easily getting to the island?
I love this theory and the word play “armed to the decaying teeth” “night of the living stal attack”
What if the developers meant it _literally_ when they said BoTW takes place in all 3 timelines.
What if all 3 timelines collided in the great catastrophe 10k years ago, and there wasn't one Ganon, but potentially 3!
The wierd mixed landscape is because the odd slightly different timelines literally collided and the great plateau is a chunk of a different timeline that landed there, and they built the wall around it to protect the landscape.
What if the Deku forest is another chunk of a different timeline?
What if they are actual _physical_ chunks of alternate timelines and universes brought crashing together, nearly destroying all 3!
It would explain why certain landmarks have moved or are slightly different, why certain characters or races from different universes are all present. It would explain a lot!
It's my current headcanon.
Hyrule Warriors in a nutshell
Holy
Shit
Game Theory covered this topic in a recent video, and it really does sound plausible. Except Hyrule Warriors iSn'T cAnOn
I'd actually like that
So the Zelda equivalent to DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths from 1985?
Zelda devs: "Sir, what should we do if they want us to make a sequel? We're already running low on ideas."
Fujibayashi: "Stick some random shit in there and have Zeltik make up stories for us later."
Running low on ideas huh? It sure turned out different.
i found that island completely by accident and spent forever fighting the horde at 3 hearts, so glad its likely a dungeon1 reference
I've never dug in, but I think I will visit it shortly. Thanks for sharing some history.
I honestly didn't know the island existed until now.
Connor McKinnon I’ve been there and I thought something was off
Me too
This.
although I have it in Spanish
95% didn’t. I found it before though because I was bored and I started to explore around and yeah. I found it.
Same.
Mekar Island is the physical embodiment of "Mom/Dad, what is [something] for?" "To make you ask questions." Well-played, Nintendo.
Jokes aside, this is absolutely amazing.
What?
I like the idea this place is somehow ikana graveyard. The stals are stronger because they're trained ikana troops, it's the only major location in Zelda history I can think of with a noteworthy tree and campfire, and it's close to the woods because Termina is discovered deep within the lost woods.
I personally don’t think the tree itself is Makar since he was a sage, however if anyone remembers the side quest in Wind Waker, Koroks would normally fly around to different islands to plant seeds after their Korok Ceremony to create new forests. However we see that the trees planted were withered which required Link to bring their special forest water to revive them. This could be a tree that was once planted by a Korok many years ago, but eventually withered outside the care of the hub forest.
I swear to god if you let a random four year old scribble some shit on a random mountain in this game, Zeltik will find the meaning behind it
honestly
I once saw a video which was a in-depth Analysis of a dinosaur drawing on the side of links house in oot so that’s not that far fetched
This shouldn't have made me laugh so hard.
I think he did well in English o_O sometimes purple drapes are just purple drapes!
@@Mandude4200 I always figured it was not terribly in-depth. That's King Dodongo. Link scribbled it on there in a fit of prophecy, delivered by his mother who is the tree across the road, IIRC.
Lol as soon as you said stal enemies while talking about the first dungeon it thundered IRL
My mom and I started playing this game together a couple years ago, with big stretches where we didn't touch it. I've done almost all the side quests, the dlc, upgraded all the armor, and I still am shocked by how much I haven't found. The sequel has a lot to live up to
That was... surprisingly wholesome.
It'd have been more perfect if there was an octo instead of the chuchus.
This island has always confused me. I 100%ed this game twice, I KNOW what a suspicious place looks like. I KNOW how to find Koroks. When I saw this Island I was DEAD CERTAIN something was there. But... nothing.
Then The first DLC was announced, and I thought I finally figured it out: Mekar Island, Of course! This place was made in advance, to hide a DLC item there! Surely, this must be where the Korok Mask will be hidden, it's too perfect! But then... nothing. Again. 2nd DLC comes and goes, and still... nothing. No korok, no treasure, no shrine no item, absolutely nothing that would give this island any right to exist in the game.
I am extatic that you finally covered this. I never thought this was a mystery anyone could or would solve. But this just blew my mind. Yes, the evidence is somewhat flimsy, but it's more than ANYTHING we ever got out of this island in these past 2 years. And you managed to once again blow my mind.
One question though, if this IS somehow a reference to the same island, looking at the size of the trees.... wouldnt you think there's an implication BotW somehow takes place _before_ the original TLoZ? Surely that can't be possible, right?. Whatever it means, I'm so happy you made a video about one of the few things even a veteran like me still could not figure out.
Nintendo has said that BotW takes places thousands of years after the timeline.
perhaps this is the same island, but after thousands of years, a few generations of trees have grown and died on this island, and we are seeing the reseeding of a new cycle of just a few trees. the dungeon could be under there, somewhere, buried beneath the earth, lost after 10000 years.
you...you collected 900 seeds twice?
ABSOLUTE MADLAD
@@09-caokhanhduy89 The second time would be a bit easier, as you would know where they are, although they could have just gotten hestu's gift twice.
Geo man. Nintendo has also said that botws location in the timeline is kind of dependent on the fans interpretation. Who knows?
I feel like it’s another Easter egg to wind waker, if you remember after helping the Deku tree and Makar, you can help the Koroks make trees on islands, I believe this is one after many generations, in a way forgotten by koroks because of some dark past dealing with death per say?
that is an awesome point of view. i like the level 1 theory...its beautiful.
It's the little locations like these In Breath of the Wild that are my favorite and what I think make the exploration so much more fun. Something mysterious that feels like neither you nor anyone else was ever supposed to be (Which is why I actually grew tired of shrines being your reward for finding the weird out of the way places. They kinda made the experience a bit too artificial for me).
Personally, I do wish there was a bit more to this strange island, perhaps more clues as to what this place could have been, even if they didn't want any kind of solid reward. Of course, since there really is no explanation for it, my preferred narrative is that the tree may have been Makar, however, the land around him (or perhaps what remained of him by the time of the game) had somehow become cursed and killed everything around him. In response, he used his power of the wind as a means of trying to deter any would-be explorers from visiting his lonely island where nothing but death would await them. Explains the weird wind anomaly around the island and the fact that you are hit with wind when on top of the tree, as well as the stalfos army. The fire could be some poor slob ending up there before you did.
Yea, it's a bit of a stretch, and tragic, but hey, I liked Majora's Mask allot XD. Honestly, the evidence really does seem to point to it just being an obscure reference to Zelda 1. Hope to see allot more weird locations like this in Breath of the Wild 2 though!
I personally think the tree is Makar... My theory is after wind waker and when spirit tracks begin. Makar maybe went to that island and decided to rest there for the day and when he slept there the army of skeletons appeared at night and attacked him... he may have been able to survive the night but when day came he was to weak to fly away so he was forced to die on the island alone... being the wind sage, he was the one who made the winds to have other go away from the island so they dont end up like him... once the tree grew he made a guest of wind that can help others escape if they did come on the island...even away from the forest so they dont get lost so the add to the army....but that's just my theory😅😋
Or you know. He went there for the retirement. He didn't have to go through some big ass anime story you know.
Mattomo lol
I love that this game came out 2 years ago and people are still figuring stuff out.
Hmmmm....those are some familiar looking gold leaves....
I remember finding this island and being so confused as to its point. It’s like the only conspicuous location in the game with no real point to it
I spent a good 30 minutes on this island wondering what the point of it all was. What kind of test was it being swarmed by the stalfos. Literally till this day it always annoyed me that nothing was there. I knew there had to be some reference. And I think this is by far my favorite. I absolutely love Zeltiks theory & it shall give me peace.
Could you do a theory about those stone pillars/towers found across Hyrule? Not the Sheikah towers, but the ones that often have chests on top. The book: “Creating a champion” mentions that they were built by the Zonai but their purpose is a mystery.
it's possible it could be like making a tall pillar on top of your house in minecraft: to allow a sense of direction
Someone may have thought their treasure chests were safe up there. I mean we have Misko, hiding treasure all around Hyrule...
Timothy Vande Brake since they have chests maybe they are meant for the legendary hero
Nintendo Black Crisis did a video on it
I've never theorize about Botw cause everything in the map were the developers trying to fill such a huge map with things that has no mention in-game even, but this ... does put a smile on my face
i always assumed it was just a reference to the first dungeon in the NES zelda game, and was just named after Makar
In the Wind Waker, Koroks would go out to islands and plant a single tree.
Undefind this is what I tend to think
Gotta hate autocorrect right? I'm sure you typed Wind Waker.
@@red_lonk4051 did it use to say wanker? I hope so lol
Yas
@@cronaman3196 Lol, if it did, the R34 artists are gonna have good titles for their art.
Maybe the tree is Makar. Maybe Koroks become trees when they grow older. Just a thought
EpicLS
Hestu.
Not when they grow older, but when they die
That makes sense, there's a korok That gives you a shrine mission near the deku tree, it seems very old and if you look him close it's like is becoming a tree
Thats literly what i thought
But this tree, unlike those in the Lost woods, do not possess a face and is still alive with leaves.
The Stahl enemies seem like a nod to the fight between the hobbits and the nazgul at Weathertop in Fellowship of the Ring.
there is a location in Hyrule field in BotW called Ancient tree stump in the middle of a lake and a wooden bridge to get to it, just like the first dungeon in zelda nes.
man that actually fits perfectly, I very much remember traveling along the side of the lake and seeing the island, making my way over and being super confused; super obscure or subtle references are the best.
Gotta say, I've genuinely had a lot of fun playing archaeologist in the ruins, trying to imagine what the buildings used to look like, guesing at what they were used for, that kind of thing. In Faron especially, that kind of thing has actually helped find hidden loot on more than one occasion.
I think that the tree on Mekar island is the korok Makar but grown big after all the years.
Can’t wait to revisit this island
Spectacle Rock which is the entrance to another dungeon in Zelda 1 is also in the game right?
How about this for a conjecture: All of the dungeon entrances in Legend of Zelda 1 exists in Breath of the Wild in some kind of reference, such as the Spectacle Rock and Mekar Island.
That, or there are only Mekar Island and Spectacle Rock to reference the first and last dungoen in LoZ1 respectively.
If there were landmarks that referenced the all of the original game's dungeons, it would be neat if the sequel did something with that.
Interesting theory. Someone should work on proving it
I can't even think of any defining traits of the other dungeons. Level 4 or 5 needs a raft and is on an island. 3 is in a moblin filled forest. One is under a bush... And another is under a lake that's revealed with a flute (level 6?)
Best I can think of, is the Raft leading to Eventide Island, the Moblin Forest one happening in Faron Woods, and the one under the lake as the one below ground in the middle of Lake Hylia. I'm sure there's several mountain dungeons to pick from. And maybe that place where that one statue's eyes light up is the dungeon next to the graveyard..?
Some might be a stretch, but I went with it as best I could.
I guess the biggest problem is that these places were added as a reference as on mekar island the four smaller trees wouldn't have been planted until after Link went to sleep cause they're way younger than 100 years.
I love how locations in breath of the wild seem suspicious but arent. I love the mysterious quality to places in an already conquered land
This is like another level of tribute
Dude this was SOOOO GOOD!!!
Greatest Zelda channel by far. The level of detail and quality of speculation is incredible.
"What's the point of the rock with no korok?"
Ikr🤣
Such a gem of an easter egg.
I guess I never noticed that island before! OMG
I don’t know why but watching this got me really hyped for botw 2
Probably because the sequal will have just as many cool secrets or even more as this game.
Nintendo: "idk just put some dead assets on that island IDC"
Zeltik: "Coincidence? ... I THINK NOT!"
@Marissa Chamberlain so do I! Lol
Marissa Chamberlain Of course it’s not a coincidence, this game took many many years with hundreds of people, there’s no way they just stuck random assets everywhere
It's not an obscure reference to those of us who grew up with the NES. It took me a few minutes, but I caught the reference. It made me roll my eyes and smile, remembering childhood adventures. It wasn't a super massive flood of nostalgia, but it's nice. I like it. 👍
As you discussed, the lack of anything like a treasure chest or shrine made me think they were simply referencing something; making a call back. After all, the game has things like Satori Mountain, with the Lord of the Mountain, Koroks, Death Mountain, and so many other references. After looking at the large tree and the four smaller ones for a few minutes the image of Level 1 popped into my head. Suddenly, I was back in our house in Guam and could smell Mom and Grandma cooking Chicken Adobo and hear Dad walking through the door as he got home from work.
The NES in that memory wasn't ours; it belonged to an uncle who had left the island on a construction project for a couple of weeks. Zelda, SMB, and Duck Hunt. My VIC-20 was my poison because I was learning from it. But I did play with the NES when over at my uncle's house, and spent a small, but not insignificant, amount of time on that and the Super Nintendo with my cousin and BFF when we moved back to Stateside.
Years later, and this game is STILL surprising me.
This game has so many cool references and mysteries and I love it.
I though I knew a lot about Zelda...
Your videos continue to prove me wrong
finally got around to watching your backlog and one thing i noticed is that at the top of the tree winds blows east and the only way to leave the level one island in zelda 1 was the bridge to the east of the screen. thought that was an interesting similarity