You have no idea how godly it felt to play the final mission as Zelda, Nintendo please make that a feature in a mainline game already, we want Zelda mode
This used the trailer theme, the main theme / Link’s theme, AND calamity ganon’s theme all throughout it An absolutely masterful portrayal of the ways in which soundtracks can use leitmotifs
My sister and I were playing this last night. All four of our characters were down to one heart, so we decided to just cycle endlessly through them all while attacking. Poor Ganon didn't know who to target, it was beautiful (and yes we won haha)
Something similar happened to me: Link, Zelda and Hestu got beaten to within an inch of their lives by Ganon, so Sooga ended up carrying the team for most of the final boss fight. I like to think the royal family would’ve made him an honorary champion for squaring up to Ganon like that, if he wasn’t canonically dead of course.
I have to say, this is probably one of the most inspiring tracks in the game. As a matter of fact the story and cutscenes are handled so masterfully that I honestly was brought to tears for the first time in years by a game's story. The way they handled it as an alternative reality was a genius move and honestly led to one of the most climactic, empowering, emotional, heroic and cathartic endings in the entire series. I love this game
Age of Calamity goes to show the great potential that Zelda games, especially Breath of the Wild 2, can have in storytelling. I previously gave credit to Skyward Sword, but Age of Calamity is the one game that has topped it off for me. Powerful story, real connections to characters who we only knew little from Breath of the Wild, and emotional, dramatic music that amplifies what Breath of the Wild had. Age of Calamity will forever be one of my most favourite Zelda games to this day.
I agree. I still hope it is just that. An alternate reality to make a very fun game exploring "what if". The Ganon fight with this soundtrack ... even though I don't like the time travel, I friggin' loved every second of the ending. Also seeing Zelda regaining her confidence and leading her soldiers like a true Queen was awesome.
When the part at 1:27 kicks in at the final battle while I was fighting along with the other champions!!!Damn! it gave me the chills!!!! An awesome track!! And an awesome game!!!
Easily one of my favorite moments from Zelda and it's just a side game. The cut scenes were so good and I just loved how they dealt with the alternate reality. It's nice to have a "what if" happy ending
A paralel of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japanese Myth. Terrako the Magatama, Link the Kusanagi Sword, and Zelda the Mirror to seal the Demon Orochi.
@@DylanIsChillin08 mmmm omg idk😭😱 Colgera Boss, the entire Ganondorf boss, Queen Gibdo boss, the sky diving theme, omg the demon dragon boss and more of all those theme are great, i have to listen more. 🎻
gotta say, reminds me so much of spirit tracks' final battle theme, with the main melody being mixed with a powerful percussion that gives a sense of hope along with needed revenge
@@toschiworlds7212 the adult timeline games are my favorites in the zelda series so having age of calamity be similar to spirit tracks with its final battle made me so happy
No joke I literally had my party decimated to the point to where if any of them got hit again they'd die and I'd have to start the boss fight all over again. I somehow with only a quarter of a heart left as Master Kogha managed to defeat Calamity Ganon
It's funny how Kohgs was one of the few characters to get fleshed in this game. Turning him from one of least favorite characters to my favorite character
This boss was actually goddamn amazing. This is how raid bosses in games SHOULD be. Playing this on splitscreen in hero mode was the challenge of a lifetime, but it was amazing. Even though calamity ganon here was massive, he didn't suffer from the issues that most massive bosses do. It just felt natural. And the MUSIC, my god! Beautiful. 11/10 boss, i wish i could fight it again for the first time
I love it too but I prefer the final boss of TOTK even more Ganondorf was badass he looked dead on like Demuse acted like him and transformed into a dragon
I really like the redesigns of the blights and ganon before they all looked the same but now each of the blights has its own color scheme to differentiate them and ganon himself looks great unlike the grotesque spider for from botw he looks more humanoid like ganondorf and actually also looks a lot like demise could this mean demise will be in botw 2 Idk but I still really like these designs way more than botw
with everyone alive the stake is higher but also our capacity to act. the blend of epicness muddle with bits of desperation and hope. yes I will fight for that future now that we have a chance to make things right. its great
Makes me think of Ganondorf in all his appearances-Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Hyrule Warriors...and finally Breath of the Wild 2. Hopefully, BOTW2 will give us a glimpse into Ganondorf acknowledging himself as the reincarnation of Demise's hatred.
I’d have to disagree there, brother. Sure, this is fantastic, but imo there’s bosses and final bosses who have better themes (Colgera, literally every Sonic Frontiers boss, I could go on)
Yknow, just when Ganondorf is raising his hand saying "Enjoy this final moments" i legit thought he was pointing at Link just like Demise before him, i swear if that actually happened i was going to scream, so, hard.
I played this with my brother, and all the game I used Hestu, probably see a gret tree with feets isn't the most epic thing for a final battle, but was fun
Probably not, because (*minor spoilers*) his return in TOTK is not connected to Calamity Ganon, so it is perfectly reasonable that Ganondorf is still chillin' underneath the castle in the AoC timeline. With that said, I would love to see a sequel to AoC that involves Ganondorf's return & traveling between the past/Zonai and present timelines...
@@m.a.pedowitz6364Nuh, you're wrong, here's that Ganondorf's character profile says after you beat him: "An evil man who lived long ago in the era of Hyrule's founding. His legend claims that this Gerudo man fed his botomless ambition with great power and became king of demons. He was imprisoned beneath Hyrule Castle for ages, but the magic holding him weakened when the castle was damaged during the Calamity a century ago, and his power has steadily been growing since. Now he has revived as a threat beyond the knowledge of any." So Ganondorf's revival is connected to Calamity, but other than that, agree with everything else you said.
@@mopsik56 forgot about that detail! Interesting. I wonder if stopping the Calamity in AOC would indeed keep Ganondorf sealed away, or if the damage was already done by Calamity returning in the first place. Nintendo really needs to give us another game to answer that! 😂
@@javiervasquez625 Yeah, I know it isn't canon to the BOTW/TOTK timeline (which may have actually split into two timelines according to some theories), but I would love to see another game in the separate AOC timeline
I first played this with my friend on hard difficulty... I was forced to play the character i was worst at,impa as my main at the time revali was pretty much dead and so i had to sit in the corner as impa spamming stasis for damage as my friend made sure i didnt get hit
Why is this SoundTrack base is used in so many Video games OST, i've heard it in Bayonetta 3 xD (Im talking about the back track, not the Melody/Leitmotive)
@B-ot2xx Yeah, I agree. I think the boss theme we got fits way better. Looking back this on something like this wouldn't fit vide and really wouldn't go with flow.
Honestly, for anyone else who follows it, this song symbolizes the battle of Life steal, as players were slaughtered by not just the legions of Withers that awaited each terrified soul at every bend, but by themselves. Clownpierce himself, of course, was in the thick of the fight(in my imagination) strangling Roshambo in one hand, and swinging his blade wildly, and his jester's make shattered, revealing the true nightmare within
I can imagine Link doing THIS before he uses the Master Sword to slash Calamity Ganon: "I'll Go Plus Ultra: " FULL POWER SACRED HOLY LIGHT ENERGY SLASH"!!!!!!!!!🗡️👍
Now if only the story was better to justify this awesome battle. Like a proper tragic story where everyone still dies, but Zelda still has to go and face Ganon alone, where she almost wrecks shop but can't finish the job, instead locking Ganon and herself in an eternal deadlock. Something like... the actual prequel to BotW we see in the memory cutscenes. Oh well, story rarely matters to me, and while Astor and Terrako are the new worst Zelda characters, the gameplay is excellent and this battle in particular feels like an apology for the Ganon fight in BotW, so it all balances out. 8/10, please don't forget the modified enemies in BotW 2 Nintendo.
Just cuz there was a bait and switch def does not mean this story was bad. There were serious emotional stakes and amazing payoff. I like how the theme starts with what it was probably like during the original timeline, before it shifts to hopefulness to remind you that things are different this time around.
@@burgermeister8261 I think the bait and switch was what made the story so good. We thought we knew what was going to happen but then we suddenly didn't, so the suspense got heightened for if they would actually win or not now that things had changed
Minion: Sire, they’re heading towards the castle! What should we do?!
Ganon: *GET THE PIPE ORGAN*
Ganondorf: I'm about to go Mozart on these fools!
Ganon: FETCH ME MY PIPE ORGAN & ANGRY TROUSERS!!!
“YOU CAN DO IT, LITTLE GUY!”
“Don’t screw this up!”
@@pianocovers5226 HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@pianocovers5226 Don't ya just LOVE how he took that ONE LAST opportunity to be an ass
@@jamietipton375 He’s an asshole
But he’s my asshole
@@CX7thetherapist So basically he’s something that can only shit
You know youre in for a god tier final boss if it resuses the game's main theme
You have no idea how godly it felt to play the final mission as Zelda, Nintendo please make that a feature in a mainline game already, we want Zelda mode
Your wish has been fullfilled. Echoes of Wisdom.
This aged like fine wine 🍷🗿
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Guess what happened
This used the trailer theme, the main theme / Link’s theme, AND calamity ganon’s theme all throughout it
An absolutely masterful portrayal of the ways in which soundtracks can use leitmotifs
And miphas, 1:56
And terrako
@@Juusiii ya, I heard it too. You can tell because the bells or percussion had that tone to it. You can also tell because it has that flute in it.
And the champions themes
What is Link’s theme
My sister and I were playing this last night. All four of our characters were down to one heart, so we decided to just cycle endlessly through them all while attacking. Poor Ganon didn't know who to target, it was beautiful
(and yes we won haha)
I remember doing the same thing in my first playthrough!
Something similar happened to me: Link, Zelda and Hestu got beaten to within an inch of their lives by Ganon, so Sooga ended up carrying the team for most of the final boss fight. I like to think the royal family would’ve made him an honorary champion for squaring up to Ganon like that, if he wasn’t canonically dead of course.
@@bodabodapasta1500Sooga is the goat, he should have been the champion of the yiga
I have to say, this is probably one of the most inspiring tracks in the game.
As a matter of fact the story and cutscenes are handled so masterfully that I honestly was brought to tears for the first time in years by a game's story. The way they handled it as an alternative reality was a genius move and honestly led to one of the most climactic, empowering, emotional, heroic and cathartic endings in the entire series. I love this game
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Age of Calamity goes to show the great potential that Zelda games, especially Breath of the Wild 2, can have in storytelling. I previously gave credit to Skyward Sword, but Age of Calamity is the one game that has topped it off for me. Powerful story, real connections to characters who we only knew little from Breath of the Wild, and emotional, dramatic music that amplifies what Breath of the Wild had. Age of Calamity will forever be one of my most favourite Zelda games to this day.
If this game made you cry then you need to play red dead redemption 2
@@bogymanthedark no you'll kill him lol
I agree. I still hope it is just that. An alternate reality to make a very fun game exploring "what if".
The Ganon fight with this soundtrack ... even though I don't like the time travel, I friggin' loved every second of the ending. Also seeing Zelda regaining her confidence and leading her soldiers like a true Queen was awesome.
This is everything I want in a final boss theme.
POV: It's the last minute of 2020
just timed this song to 2021!!!!!!
It is the first minutes of 2021
@@ghiobus4933 You are a legend.
When the part at 1:27 kicks in at the final battle while I was fighting along with the other champions!!!Damn! it gave me the chills!!!! An awesome track!! And an awesome game!!!
I wish I could relive that for the first time again! It caused to be so in tune with the game and finished it first try, it was so tense!
Easily one of my favorite moments from Zelda and it's just a side game. The cut scenes were so good and I just loved how they dealt with the alternate reality. It's nice to have a "what if" happy ending
you can tell when the trombones start blaring along with percussion and trumpets
I loved this game
I think this Calamity Ganon is the closes thing we will get to a full resurrection of Demise.
More of a ganon resurrection.
@@Scaradookenjoyer ya
i mean, considering the botw 2 stuff it's looking like we'll get even closer
Demise: Hold my reincarnation
This is aging well
At 3:58 they remixed Calamity Ganons intro theme from BOTW, I love it!
Its the same! ruclips.net/video/tukA3xIKpcA/видео.html
Zelda may have been the shield, and Link the spear, but Terrako was the key
What?
Why do you do this to my childhood, just why
@@randomman.5 Childhood? The game came out 2 years ago!
A paralel of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japanese Myth. Terrako the Magatama, Link the Kusanagi Sword, and Zelda the Mirror to seal the Demon Orochi.
"I thought the sword was the key"
This is one of my favorite track in the entire SAGA... I'm Zelda fan since my 9 years old and now am so close my 30. 💙
When a spin-off is this good at being a Zelda game, you know that means there's potentially more to come.
Now that totk is and the “trilogy” of sorts is out, has your opinion changed?
@@DylanIsChillin08 mmmm omg idk😭😱 Colgera Boss, the entire Ganondorf boss, Queen Gibdo boss, the sky diving theme, omg the demon dragon boss and more of all those theme are great, i have to listen more. 🎻
gahhh damn
Same for me. Fan since my 8 years... Now I'm 36 old. ❤
gotta say, reminds me so much of spirit tracks' final battle theme, with the main melody being mixed with a powerful percussion that gives a sense of hope along with needed revenge
That's what it was. I was despereatly trying to figure out what the song reminded me of. Thank you!
@@toschiworlds7212 the adult timeline games are my favorites in the zelda series so having age of calamity be similar to spirit tracks with its final battle made me so happy
And even the boss resembles Malladus, as Ganon absorbed Astor when he felt corneed like Malladus did with the Count
@@kristophesiem5336 yep, though i feel like cole was a bit of a better villain as his personality and motives were a bit more fleshed out than astor's
No joke I literally had my party decimated to the point to where if any of them got hit again they'd die and I'd have to start the boss fight all over again. I somehow with only a quarter of a heart left as Master Kogha managed to defeat Calamity Ganon
There's something hilarious about Ganon being defeated by Master Kogha of all people.
Ironic
It's funny how Kohgs was one of the few characters to get fleshed in this game. Turning him from one of least favorite characters to my favorite character
@@evanbao93kohga kinda op. that laser... **M U R D E R S**
FOR SOOGA!!
This boss was actually goddamn amazing. This is how raid bosses in games SHOULD be. Playing this on splitscreen in hero mode was the challenge of a lifetime, but it was amazing. Even though calamity ganon here was massive, he didn't suffer from the issues that most massive bosses do. It just felt natural. And the MUSIC, my god! Beautiful. 11/10 boss, i wish i could fight it again for the first time
I love it too but I prefer the final boss of TOTK even more Ganondorf was badass he looked dead on like Demuse acted like him and transformed into a dragon
3:39 gives me chills
It's, it's INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!
This game ost is one of the best of the whole franchise
And the best part is that it isn’t even a mainline game.
I really like the redesigns of the blights and ganon before they all looked the same but now each of the blights has its own color scheme to differentiate them and ganon himself looks great unlike the grotesque spider for from botw he looks more humanoid like ganondorf and actually also looks a lot like demise could this mean demise will be in botw 2 Idk but I still really like these designs way more than botw
I play this game all the time. It's like I'm addicted to it
3:07 pure gold
1:15 When the gym teacher joins your team
Ganon: How about we just talk this out like adults?
That might be in character for him. Just think about it, every action he took was in self defence, he might be open to negotiation
1:54 fish
This is my FAV music in the entire game. I listen to it all the time
with everyone alive the stake is higher but also our capacity to act. the blend of epicness muddle with bits of desperation and hope. yes I will fight for that future now that we have a chance to make things right. its great
This sended chills down my spine my first playthrough. Is there anyone else?,especially beating it on the hardest difficulty.
Was kinda expecting this to be a remix of Dark Beast Ganon's theme but I guess this fits the context better.
when i saw the king of hyrule figthing ganon really hyped me up .
A masterpiece of a track
In botw Link and Zelda was alone fighting Ganon. In aoc, litteraly *everyone are fighting alongside Link and Zelda*
"It is time... to end this!"
Masterpiece of a game & soundtrack.
2:23 is the best part
It all is the best part
@@TadpoleNight it always has been
It will always be~
Really one of the Best Game OSTs ever
Such a great workout song
This track fucking slaps
WHEN they make a Zelda movie, I want this to play in the final Endgame-like battle between the two armies…
So… have you heard?
DON’T SCREW THIS UP!!!
@@user-ob9qe3vk4f 😁
3:55 Zelda's most badass moment in history
"It ends now"
1:11 Phase 2
2:23 Phase 3
3:24 Phase 4
all these phases are my favorite pieces of music 😆
Breath of the Wild 2 has a lot to look up to. This theme REALLY sets the bar high. Very high.
Wait till you hear the music from HW DE, Eclipse Of The Moon is a BANGER and this one pales in comparison.
@@groudonor12 It's a different style of music
Well, I’d say totk has a pretty fire ost
I come from the feature and I'd say Ganon's theme in TotK delivered
Makes me think of Ganondorf in all his appearances-Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Hyrule Warriors...and finally Breath of the Wild 2. Hopefully, BOTW2 will give us a glimpse into Ganondorf acknowledging himself as the reincarnation of Demise's hatred.
Mom
Well we had Ganondorf in TOTK, that’s all i can say without getting my windows smashed in
This is amazing and exciting I love this
This is by far, the best boss music to ever exist
I'd say Xenoblade 1 and 2's final boss music are the best personally
@@ultimatedumbass4640 What about Future Redeemed?
@@ultimatedumbass4640
I’ll one up you on that- Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed and Persona 5 Royal
I’d have to disagree there, brother. Sure, this is fantastic, but imo there’s bosses and final bosses who have better themes (Colgera, literally every Sonic Frontiers boss, I could go on)
"THIS IS FOR MY WAIFU!"
Don’t screw this up!
1:57!
My favorite part 1:28
3:38 ❤
2:30 was my favorite part.
Hand down
I pray we fight Demise in BOTW2, it’s just too fitting
EDIT: Well, close enough for me.
Yknow, just when Ganondorf is raising his hand saying "Enjoy this final moments" i legit thought he was pointing at Link just like Demise before him, i swear if that actually happened i was going to scream, so, hard.
Tbh, Zelda became number 1 in Nintendo at this point.
bruh Ravalli so stubborn he said this at the end you better not mess it up
When I heard him say that, I had to resist the urge to say “ok well then, why don’t you do it then, mr confident”
1:11 I don't like how it just cuts out into the other part of the song suddenly, it's very unclean tbh. The rest of it is banger tho.
it doesn't do that in the game itself. It does it here because the two songs are separated by their own cutscene
I played this with my brother, and all the game I used Hestu, probably see a gret tree with feets isn't the most epic thing for a final battle, but was fun
3:41
3:58 Tell me it doesn't sound like Yuga's theme from Link between worlds trying to break into the song.
I wonder if sealing the Calamity away in this timeline prevented Ganondorf's return in this timeline as well
Probably not, because (*minor spoilers*) his return in TOTK is not connected to Calamity Ganon, so it is perfectly reasonable that Ganondorf is still chillin' underneath the castle in the AoC timeline. With that said, I would love to see a sequel to AoC that involves Ganondorf's return & traveling between the past/Zonai and present timelines...
@@m.a.pedowitz6364Nuh, you're wrong, here's that Ganondorf's character profile says after you beat him: "An evil man who lived long ago in the era of Hyrule's founding. His legend claims that this Gerudo man fed his botomless ambition with great power and became king of demons.
He was imprisoned beneath Hyrule Castle for ages, but the magic holding him weakened when the castle was damaged during the Calamity a century ago, and his power has steadily been growing since. Now he has revived as a threat beyond the knowledge of any."
So Ganondorf's revival is connected to Calamity, but other than that, agree with everything else you said.
@@mopsik56 forgot about that detail! Interesting. I wonder if stopping the Calamity in AOC would indeed keep Ganondorf sealed away, or if the damage was already done by Calamity returning in the first place. Nintendo really needs to give us another game to answer that! 😂
@@m.a.pedowitz6364 Confirmed non canon in the official _japanese_ page for The Legend of Zelda so nope.
@@javiervasquez625 Yeah, I know it isn't canon to the BOTW/TOTK timeline (which may have actually split into two timelines according to some theories), but I would love to see another game in the separate AOC timeline
I first played this with my friend on hard difficulty... I was forced to play the character i was worst at,impa as my main at the time revali was pretty much dead and so i had to sit in the corner as impa spamming stasis for damage as my friend made sure i didnt get hit
Why is this SoundTrack base is used in so many Video games OST, i've heard it in Bayonetta 3 xD (Im talking about the back track, not the Melody/Leitmotive)
DON'T MESS THIS UP
I need hyrule warriors 2
Europe fighting against ottoman empire: 0:01-1:10
Spain joins: 1:12
3:25
Finish him!
I wish a theme similar to this one was what Nintendo used for tears of kingdom final boss theme. Instead of the one we got
I mean, they all use a similar structure in terms of progression, and this theme wouldn’t fit Tears of the Kingdom at all.
@B-ot2xx Yeah, I agree. I think the boss theme we got fits way better. Looking back this on something like this wouldn't fit vide and really wouldn't go with flow.
Yoshi,does Mario always sacrifice u to get the flag?
1:11
Of course Nintendo took down the other video
Still annoyed about that..:
DUDE 2:24 MY FAV PART
Is this on spotify
Awesome game and song spoiler alert
I unlocked calamity canon and fought canon with ganon
Reverse this and it sounds so different
Honestly, for anyone else who follows it, this song symbolizes the battle of Life steal, as players were slaughtered by not just the legions of Withers that awaited each terrified soul at every bend, but by themselves. Clownpierce himself, of course, was in the thick of the fight(in my imagination) strangling Roshambo in one hand, and swinging his blade wildly, and his jester's make shattered, revealing the true nightmare within
What
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 minecraft
@@blizzard_84 that’s awful
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 Nah, if you watch the content, it's actually kinda alright
@@thatguyyoumightfindatthest9807 Nah,
I can imagine Link doing THIS before he uses the Master Sword to slash Calamity Ganon: "I'll Go Plus Ultra: " FULL POWER SACRED HOLY LIGHT ENERGY SLASH"!!!!!!!!!🗡️👍
Now if only the story was better to justify this awesome battle. Like a proper tragic story where everyone still dies, but Zelda still has to go and face Ganon alone, where she almost wrecks shop but can't finish the job, instead locking Ganon and herself in an eternal deadlock. Something like... the actual prequel to BotW we see in the memory cutscenes.
Oh well, story rarely matters to me, and while Astor and Terrako are the new worst Zelda characters, the gameplay is excellent and this battle in particular feels like an apology for the Ganon fight in BotW, so it all balances out. 8/10, please don't forget the modified enemies in BotW 2 Nintendo.
Don't you worry. Nintendo designed these enemies themselves, so they are bound to reappear in Tears of the Kingdom.
Just cuz there was a bait and switch def does not mean this story was bad. There were serious emotional stakes and amazing payoff. I like how the theme starts with what it was probably like during the original timeline, before it shifts to hopefulness to remind you that things are different this time around.
The story was good for what it was
@@burgermeister8261 I think the bait and switch was what made the story so good. We thought we knew what was going to happen but then we suddenly didn't, so the suspense got heightened for if they would actually win or not now that things had changed
Haha egg robot go boom
This sounds like something outta Mario Part 10 lol
I liked the original better
Clownpierce fans?
Spoilers egg dies
But don't worry, we can repair him after beat Calamity Ganon
@@Mr.F2005 That's the beauty of robotics
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! CALAMITY GANNON WILL SUFFER
Literally the most satisfying part of the game.
@@macnamaryb7773 stop right there criminal scum, pay the court the fine or spend the time in jail, your living rights are now forfeit
I truly hate this game but the music is great
I personally think max koshia in Breath of the Wild was the best boss
you say that while totk is out
surely some of the bosses in that game change your mind
1:27
2:21
1:11
1:57