Demon Dragon (Final Boss Battle) - The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom OST

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  • The Legend Of Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom OST - Demon Dragon (Final Boss Battle)
    I do not own the Zelda franchise or any of the soundtrack. All copyright goes to Nintendo

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  • @ZorotheGallade
    @ZorotheGallade Год назад +5287

    BOTW: Despite being sealed away for a century and losing his memory and identity, Link rushes to Zelda's side for the final battle.
    TOTK: Despite being sealed away for millennia and losing her memory and identity, Zelda rushes to Link's side for the final battle.

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +401

      Oh god....this entire thing keeps getting better

    • @SwarajNibandhe
      @SwarajNibandhe Год назад +121

      A beautiful detail!

    • @briangreen5424
      @briangreen5424 Год назад +69

      ah! I never thought of it that way!

    • @megasean3000
      @megasean3000 Год назад +118

      It’s like poetry. It…It rhymes.

    • @venomb1274
      @venomb1274 Год назад +149

      In the third/final game: Despite being both being sealed away for a century losing their memory and identities, Link and Zelda rush to protect Hyrule one last time

  • @daosxion776
    @daosxion776 Год назад +4462

    I love that Zelda's willpower and devotion to link allowed her to assist him despite having no sense of self anymore

    • @outzymes3636
      @outzymes3636 Год назад +433

      nintendo yet again hinting at the fact that zelink is canon 🗣🗣🗣‼️‼️‼️

    • @hatti...
      @hatti... Год назад +116

      ​@Outzymes How is working together to not witness the end of the world any indication of- nvm its no use arguing these people

    • @smiley6425
      @smiley6425 Год назад +443

      ​@hatti... Dragons dont have a councious or a sense of self, they are not aware of the world around them. When you become a dragon, you lose your mind, you lose what makes you you, hence why there was no mention of Ganon at all when the demon dragon appeared. The only thing driving the demon dragon was a malicious will to kill link. Now, it can be assumed that the light dragon had a similar will, that was to repair the master sword, return it to the hero, and defeat the demon king. The light dragon was compelled to help link because Zelda left behind an intense will to help link defeat ganondorf, and from that it can be assumed zelda feels quite strongly towards link

    • @hatti...
      @hatti... Год назад +30

      @Smi ley That doesn't mean Zelda feels for Link in that kind of way as a dragon

    • @outzymes3636
      @outzymes3636 Год назад +111

      @@hatti... in case you didn't notice, the wacky emojis at the end of my statement hinted at it being a joke 💀

  • @Dank-lk2mk
    @Dank-lk2mk Год назад +1794

    When 3:08 starts while the red moon appears, the sky turns crimson red and the last weak point appears, that was just perfection

    • @giovannibattistalorenzi3378
      @giovannibattistalorenzi3378 Год назад +59

      FOR REAL

    • @gymggang46
      @gymggang46 Год назад +45

      Eargasm on steroids fr! Had my headphone in the entire time fully immersed in this masterpiece!

    • @superaleksibros2
      @superaleksibros2 Год назад +61

      It's extra epic when you skydive while dodging Ganon's gloom fire.

    • @gio9255
      @gio9255 Год назад +36

      Thank you. Just beat the game and was looking for this time stamp. I literally forgoed doing the final hit for 5 minutes just to let this banger play on.

    • @Excuseme_what
      @Excuseme_what Год назад +28

      Fun fact: During the fight, the in game clock stops at 2:45am to make way for the blood moon.
      When nightfall hit, I thought that the final cutscene would be set at nighttime. I didn't want that so I decided to wait on zelda until dawn. I didn't realise the clock had stopped and that it was because a blood moon was going to appear haha.

  • @A6by
    @A6by Год назад +1427

    I'm so glad the guy absolutely wailing on his saxophone gets to be included in the final battle.

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +14

      Its a eruh

    • @ArceusDX
      @ArceusDX Год назад +143

      @@ZeroJump There's both a Saxaphone AND an Erhu

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +5

      @@ArceusDX Just noticed to but still thanks

    • @wrymiedealie
      @wrymiedealie Год назад +12

      The sax is definitely Link

    • @petermoore900
      @petermoore900 Год назад +5

      I think it's clarinets no? (And oboes later). Beautiful either way though.

  • @sangyub838
    @sangyub838 Год назад +2072

    Link, Zelda vs Ganon... It's been 17 years since Twilight Princess to see these three fight together.

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +83

      Yep! Gosh it’s been so long since we’ve had a 2 v 1 fight! Ganon was OUTNUMBERED during TP and he’s OUTNUMBERED during this battle as well! #TearsoftheKingdom

    • @tophisto
      @tophisto Год назад +67

      Well, they also fight together in Wind Waker...

    • @hydroklowricacid3476
      @hydroklowricacid3476 Год назад +187

      @@tophisto The Wind Waker was before Twilight Princess, so yeah it’s still 17 years

    • @plakataplakata
      @plakataplakata Год назад +54

      There’s no fucking way I was 7 when I played twilight princess 😭

    • @dice5709
      @dice5709 Год назад +32

      I mean there was also Spirit Tracks vs Malladus which was even better than the TP tag team.

  • @sirz9985
    @sirz9985 Год назад +3428

    I couldn't wipe the grin off my face this entire fight
    HOW DID THEY GO THIS HARD?

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +82

      I can’t wait until I get to boss fight so many gamers cried during the end

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +72

      The last time we had a 2 vs 1 was in twilight princess where Zelda and Link worked together to defeat Ganondorf

    • @gdashfan13gd30
      @gdashfan13gd30 Год назад +52

      ​@@ThunderClanFan22 don't forget about Wind Waker and Spirit Tracks too!

    • @sealyseal3462
      @sealyseal3462 Год назад +16

      @@gdashfan13gd30 Wind waker came put before twilight princess.
      Spirit tracks didn’t have them fight Ganondorf.

    • @gdashfan13gd30
      @gdashfan13gd30 Год назад +8

      @@sealyseal3462 Yeah my bad but yes, still Link and Zelda still fight together against Malladus in Spirit Tracks. Disregard Ganondorf. Also I do know that WW came before TP but Wind Waker still had Link and Zelda fighting alongside each other in the Ganondorf battle.

  • @woytahr8463
    @woytahr8463 Год назад +3030

    The fight in the depths was the difficulty of a boss. This part was the spectacle of it. Absolutely top notch.

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад +291

      Oh man, I wasn't prepared to the flurry rush to my flurry rush! If I didn't finish every shrine in the game I would've lost for sure

    • @greensabr200
      @greensabr200 Год назад +75

      @@kikosawa I maxed out stamina and only had like 10 hearts so it was a rough fight but I managed to do it first try

    • @BalDraakNL
      @BalDraakNL Год назад +40

      ​@@kikosawa I came prepared with some filthy strong miasma weapons, but all the food I brought was for offense, defense and stamina. Poorly planned but I pulled trough with the Mastersword, arrows and a ton of monsterparts I'd been saving for special occasions.

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад +22

      @@BalDraakNL yeah, I had only one sundelion dish, and I chugged right before the main fight. mighty wise of me

    • @BalDraakNL
      @BalDraakNL Год назад +3

      @@kikosawa a win's a win xD

  • @gatr2897
    @gatr2897 Год назад +2347

    The way the dragons were built up across the 2 games leading up to this battle is so amazing, what a masterpiece of a send-off boss

    • @theganondorky7238
      @theganondorky7238 Год назад +103

      I love how they had this huge mystery with them in the first game and then they explain what it takes to become a dragon, and we see two people become dragons, with some questions answered now previous questions become EVEN bigger lmao

    • @dermotmacflann
      @dermotmacflann Год назад +70

      @@theganondorky7238 Like, who *were* Naydra, Dinraal and Farosh before they draconified?

    • @pietroalessandrini
      @pietroalessandrini Год назад +47

      @@dermotmacflann probably zonai people judging by the hair

    • @ShadowSkyX
      @ShadowSkyX Год назад +39

      They went way further than that.
      Depictions of twin dragons/dragon have been in the series since ocarina of time in most of the games; notably it was in oot's Water temple, Skyward sword had it in its earth temple, lanayru's spring in twilight princess, and the traveler's shield in botw. Wind might have had it too somewhere but I honestly don't remember at all.
      Also every dragon we fought before has represented power aka are red/fire (mainly both) and infused/revived using malice.
      They took the depictions and decided to make the twin dragons real. Nayru's corruption became a symbolic foreshadowing event.

    • @ninkiminjaj1754
      @ninkiminjaj1754 Год назад +20

      @@dermotmacflann the three goddesses Farore, Din and Nayru, they even have similar names

  • @ItsHayden
    @ItsHayden Год назад +1127

    When Ganondorf swallows the tear, the first form he takes being a slightly different version of calamity ganon is so cool

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад +25

      Why do people call the secret stones tears?

    • @ttmfndng201
      @ttmfndng201 Год назад +144

      @@kikosawa they're tear shaped

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад +34

      @@ttmfndng201 are they? Well, I guess it's a better name than just plain "Secret Stones", but it isn't supported by the game at all.

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад +3

      @@Valendaris that's better

    • @needlesscorn2252
      @needlesscorn2252 Год назад +46

      @@Valendaris Well, I think these stones looks more like Magatamas, curved stone beads from prehistoric Japan (the whole aesthetic of new dilogy actually inspired by prehistoric Japan's archeological findings)

  • @retth9818
    @retth9818 Год назад +793

    I loved how both final fights for BOTW and TOTK had the sole purpose of making you feel like a badass.

    • @coldgravy8056
      @coldgravy8056 Год назад +9

      Real

    • @BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712
      @BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 Год назад +27

      Yeah, I like how both games have you fight truly imposing kaiju Ganons as final bosses.

    • @dioscelto
      @dioscelto Год назад +39

      And I love how this one actually succeeds! 😂

    • @aswangmonkey361
      @aswangmonkey361 Год назад +36

      Dark Beast Ganon didn’t make me feel badass, it felt like I was strolling around shooting literal targets on a giant purple blob.

    • @doomslayer8985
      @doomslayer8985 Год назад

      Is that you LTG

  • @sharkgam3z592
    @sharkgam3z592 Год назад +282

    Love how the final boss was depicted in the logo of the game.

    • @feenickstv4209
      @feenickstv4209 Год назад +36

      Ah yes. Ganon and Zelda going at eachother on the title screen.

    • @CarlNiemi
      @CarlNiemi Год назад +19

      You just blew my mind, how did I not make that connection immediately

    • @fallenghouls
      @fallenghouls 11 месяцев назад +13

      And that’s why I love to read the comment section. You find beautiful information to read 🤗

    • @banksnakes
      @banksnakes 11 месяцев назад +24

      double meaning, the ouroboros depicting a cycle which is basically what totk is, and then dragondorf and dragon zelda duking it out 😭

    • @ShadowSkyX
      @ShadowSkyX 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@banksnakes their backs are also tire treads, tying in the zonai technology.

  • @HoldenDude123
    @HoldenDude123 Год назад +3973

    The tradition of fighting Ganon alongside Zelda continues...

    • @OriginalUnjustifier
      @OriginalUnjustifier Год назад +824

      "Oh, the hero's looking a little roughed up...and what's this? It's ZELDA FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH A -STEEL CHAIR- SECRET STONE!"

    • @jadenwilliams8803
      @jadenwilliams8803 Год назад +28

      @@OriginalUnjustifier This is perfect😂

    • @onimatonimat_14mc16
      @onimatonimat_14mc16 Год назад +79

      @@OriginalUnjustifier zelda rkoing ganondorf is a sight to behold

    • @Pablo_Martin_aa
      @Pablo_Martin_aa Год назад +8

      @@OriginalUnjustifier top tier comment

    • @MrQuinnzard
      @MrQuinnzard Год назад +77

      And splitting his head open with the Master Sword, too!

  • @TheDragon928
    @TheDragon928 Год назад +2298

    I love how this boss's name and title make no mention of the name "Ganon" or any permutation thereof.
    As Mineru once said, "To become an Immortal Dragon is to lose oneself."
    Ganondorf is gone. All that's left is his ever hungry ambition. _That's_ what the Demon Dragon is: Not an individual, just a manifestation of dark desire. Who it came from no longer has any meaning.

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +96

      It parallels Zeldas Whish to

    • @caiwilloughby868
      @caiwilloughby868 Год назад +55

      If he somehow survived that blast and reincarnates, he might be just a beast and not as much as a threat to the kingdom

    • @Kuroi_Karasu
      @Kuroi_Karasu Год назад +165

      @@caiwilloughby868 a version of Ganondorf will always exist as long as Demise’s curse stays intact. So who knows

    • @misterzia01
      @misterzia01 Год назад +108

      @@Kuroi_Karasuwe don’t know that for sure. Ganondorf was able to reincarnate because he inherited the anger of demise.
      As much as I want him back, as stated by mineru, eating a secret stone means losing yourself. If yourself is defined by anger and hatred, then you lose that as well. The demon dragon was easy, not because Link was super strong, but because it was an out of control dragon incapable of cohesive thought. Because it lacked intelligence, it couldn’t defeat link. Lastly to feel such complex emotions such as hatred or anger, you need some kind of intelligence. Perhaps the demon dragon had some since it did try to fight back but it was very limited, like an animal.
      There is no more ganondorf. After the secret stone was destroyed by link, the demon dragon didn’t revert back to ganondorf, it just dissolved. If ganondorf somehow comes back after that, he’ll probably never be the same.
      I can see demise’s hatred incarnating as another individual. I simply don’t see ganondorf himself returning. The reason why is that from my understanding of how the secret stone transformation works is that since dragons are spirits (that’s how naydra, farosh, and dinraal are referred to as), and the fact that mineru as the sage of spirit was able to control her spirit (her soul), the body of a dragon is their soul. If the body is destroyed then the soul is also destroyed.
      So what I’m getting at is the ganondorf’s soul took the shape of a dragon since dragons are spirits and when that dragon was destroyed, so was the soul.

    • @Kuroi_Karasu
      @Kuroi_Karasu Год назад +111

      @@misterzia01 maybe I should’ve been more clear. This Ganondorf is most definitely gone, he quite literally exploded with the power of a nuke. However as long as Nintendo will be making Zelda games that need a Ganon or Ganondorf, they will keep the curse and he will come back in a new form.

  • @ennchampment
    @ennchampment Год назад +1094

    more games really need to have final-final bosses that aren’t difficult but are mainly cinematic and make you feel awesome because it’s just such a good way to end the game with a bang imo

    • @lammchops5253
      @lammchops5253 Год назад +28

      THIS

    • @jasoninkurai5463
      @jasoninkurai5463 Год назад +200

      This game and P5R convinced me that to do a perfect final fight:
      Phase 1: Difficult, but acts as a warm up
      Phase 2: Much harder and shows the struggle between the protagonist and antagonist
      Phase 3: Cinematic finale, much easier than the last two, but made up by being so stunning in both it's atmosphere and music.

    • @Pablo_Martin_aa
      @Pablo_Martin_aa Год назад +21

      I disagree, having the final part of a game being played like a tutorial sucks

    • @MarkHogan994
      @MarkHogan994 Год назад +84

      @@Pablo_Martin_aa But you get the difficult boss right at the end too. It's just that you get the spectacle victory lap between the real fight and the credits. What's the problem with that? Many games do the same, even something like Sekiro, which is a super hard game, the final boss basically has a phase 1 where it's a warmup, phase 2 which is very difficult and is the main part of the fight, and then phase 3 which is an easy victory lap.

    • @Pablo_Martin_aa
      @Pablo_Martin_aa Год назад +8

      @@MarkHogan994 you can make the final fight cool and difficult at the sane time, making a 'victory lap' is just lazy game design

  • @BadKarma444
    @BadKarma444 Год назад +3257

    I dont know why but, during the fight, the fact that Zelda will always catch Link when he falls is just incredibly touching to me.
    Even if you try to plunge Link to his doom, she will be there to catch him in the end without fail.

    • @brianwishon7322
      @brianwishon7322 Год назад +517

      They’ve had each other’s back since the first game. I genuinely loved how Zelda saved Link as much as he saved her in both BotW and TotK. It wasn’t one sided, they mutually need each other to defeat what plagues them. Also the fact that despite not remembering being in that form, they just have a bond that deep is what makes it so touching

    • @chakellherbert8827
      @chakellherbert8827 Год назад +160

      It seriously got me right in the feels. They have such a pure love for each other.

    • @Brandolor1
      @Brandolor1 Год назад +203

      Not to mention the act is reciprocated when Link catches her after the fight

    • @BadKarma444
      @BadKarma444 Год назад +269

      @@chakellherbert8827 It hits harder when you consider Zelda isn’t even conscious for any of this but STILL fights Ganondorf and saves Link.
      I think it speaks volumes that despite losing herself in becoming a dragon, her dedication to her kingdom and to Link survive.

    • @_piranha
      @_piranha Год назад +60

      ​​@@Brandolor1 And it parallels the intro where Link couldn't catch her before she travelled to the past, which is a cool touch

  • @miscellaneouschaos6693
    @miscellaneouschaos6693 Год назад +719

    WE MAKIN IT OUT THE DEPTHS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥

    • @sikey4533
      @sikey4533 Год назад +31

      WE MAKIN IT TO THE SKY ISLANDS 🔥🔥

    • @sleepyhead8192
      @sleepyhead8192 Год назад +5

      Dog no fr this comment underrated lmfaoooo

    • @LAP-bd7oi
      @LAP-bd7oi Год назад +3

      Literally

    • @dgouin99
      @dgouin99 Год назад +6

      leaving a reply just so I can like twice

    • @ALEXLAD94
      @ALEXLAD94 Год назад +6

      🗣️🗣️🗣️ This is a certified Hyrule Classic

  • @ScourgeIsBestVillain
    @ScourgeIsBestVillain 7 месяцев назад +92

    Ugh, i want to forget this game! 😠
    ...So I could replay it all over again, to experience it like it was my first time...Truly a masterpiece of a game.

    • @hankpeterschmidt8626
      @hankpeterschmidt8626 5 месяцев назад +4

      That’s the thing, they make it so amazing it’s impossible to forget!

    • @Zealko
      @Zealko Месяц назад +2

      after i finished it, i literally asked myself “why can’t i have hardcore memory loss so i can play this game for the first time again?”

  • @wobbegong4366
    @wobbegong4366 Год назад +676

    Let’s take a moment to appreciate that, despite having lost her sense of self for eons, Zelda’s love for Link was so strong that even as a Dragon she instinctively rushed to Link’s defence.

    • @diegofranco103
      @diegofranco103 Год назад +66

      Just not for link, it was for each and every people who lives in Hyrule, even though she was not aware of that, she loves Link, and she loves Hyrule.

    • @acgearsandarms1343
      @acgearsandarms1343 Год назад +37

      Instinct I think is the right word for it. You don’t need body or mind to act on instinct. Applies for both the Light Dragon and Demon Dragon. And Zelda’s last words before her change was for Link to protect them all. Her desire was so strong the dragon acted upon it.

    • @FiendishFatty
      @FiendishFatty Год назад +2

      Wait if she became a dragon for eons, and she’s (kinda) in breath of the wild, does that mean the timeline branches off AGAIN?

    • @elevate07
      @elevate07 Год назад +21

      ​@@FiendishFattynot really. It's a closed loop. Zelda has always been up there. Meaning during the events of BotW there were technically 2 Zeldas present along with 2 master swords. The present day Zelda who was born, lived, fought the calamity and disappeared in time and the Light Dragon Zelda who'd been flying for eons high in the sky

    • @FiendishFatty
      @FiendishFatty Год назад

      @@elevate07 oh I guess that kinda makes sense

  • @jedgamesguy
    @jedgamesguy Год назад +439

    The number of leitmotifs and instrument symbolisms in this song is crazy. The song’s backing melody is the main theme, with reference to the main theme of Breath of the Wild. Ganon’s theme is there too. As for instruments, the sax represents the sky, the erhu represents the dragons, and the piano represents Hyrule itself. It’s like a best hits medley for the entire Breath of the Wild saga

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +5

      Im think tge eruh and sax are meant to be Zelda and Link

    • @jedgamesguy
      @jedgamesguy Год назад +3

      @@ZeroJump I doubt it for many reasons. The erhu was used in BOTW only to represent the dragons. The sax is used in TOTK only when in the sky (Temple of Time, Sky shrine theme etc). That melody at the start of trailer 3 feels like some kind of “dragon transformation theme” on the sax, but I digress.

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +10

      @@jedgamesguy Fair point but the eruh can symbolize Zelda because you know....

    • @creepser1140
      @creepser1140 Год назад +1

      i thought some of the instruments meant the towns in this map like rito

    • @noble_rosethorn
      @noble_rosethorn Год назад +12

      Let's not forget that starting at 3:09 we get the TotK theme on the violins while the trombones play the BotW theme (representing Link) and the french horns play Zelda's theme. This is the most spectacular final battle I have ever seen.

  • @HolderofSalvation
    @HolderofSalvation Год назад +1793

    Absolutely breathtaking soundtrack for the final boss! Completely eclipses Ganon’s final form in BoTW

    • @SRWOtaku
      @SRWOtaku Год назад +127

      Well, yeah. Dark Beast Ganon was just a Puppet. Demon Dragon Ganondorf is the Puppetmaster

    • @g3bab
      @g3bab Год назад +94

      I think the music for Dark Beast Ganon was slightly better, just because of the crazy piano

    • @badasstoad9419
      @badasstoad9419 Год назад +61

      Tbh TOTK eclipses everything from BOTW so far. BOTW was so empty, lacking music, good boss fight design as well as level design, story cutscenes, direction, the list goes on.
      BOTW is one of my least liked Zelda games of all time, probs way at the bottom of the list with OOT and Wind Waker at the top.
      So it really says something when TOTK, for an old fan like me, almost certainly manages to be THE BEST Zelda game ever! They definitely learnt from their mistakes in BOTW, and delivered a true Zelda masterpiece. ❤
      It took BOTW’s Open world gameplay and engine, but also the feel and great story/boss/level design and progression of the real Zelda games, which BOTW was badly lacking. Making TOTK one of the best Zelda games ever made by far. ❤

    • @Sergioshi_
      @Sergioshi_ Год назад +35

      TotK surpasses in every aspect and makes BotW final boss look pathetic in comparison, both in concept and gameplay

    • @hylianro
      @hylianro Год назад +8

      The two replies above me are objectively correct

  • @BoxCarBoy12
    @BoxCarBoy12 Год назад +217

    Didn't think Colgera's theme could be topped in this game, but by golly this one did and then some. The overall triumphant atmosphere of this song fit perfectly with the cinematic intention of this phase of the fight.

    • @magnabueno5360
      @magnabueno5360 Год назад +27

      I guess long floating creatures will always have banger themes lol.

    • @hankpeterschmidt8626
      @hankpeterschmidt8626 Год назад +6

      @@magnabueno5360if you count Gleeok this would still be correct.

    • @cloudshines812
      @cloudshines812 10 месяцев назад +1

      Colgera is overrated. At least this fight lasts long enough to hear the full track

    • @hankpeterschmidt8626
      @hankpeterschmidt8626 10 месяцев назад

      Gleeok tops Colgera too imo

    • @Chroma10008
      @Chroma10008 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@cloudshines812 I wouldn’t say it’s overrated, just that this theme is underrated.

  • @dudeguy1894
    @dudeguy1894 Год назад +212

    Zelda sat in Hyrule Castle holding back Calamity Ganon for a hundred years straight so that Link would be ready for the final battle.
    Then only a couple years later she turned herself into a dragon, losing her sense of self in the process, with nothing in her mind but the HOPE that one day it'll be worth it for Link. When she woke up at the end she was genuinely surprised to be back to herself. She really believed she'd be gone forever.
    This is objectively the best version of Princess Zelda in the entire franchise.

    • @ChoneseMann
      @ChoneseMann 10 месяцев назад +6

      Ganondorf was sealed for 10 thousand years. Insane

  • @JoboVT
    @JoboVT Год назад +748

    I definitely enjoyed the final boss more in this than botw. Ganondorf using the three weapon classes and even being able to permanently take away max health like the start was so cool. And the demon dragon form was definitely more fun than dark beast dragon. Diving down from above to hit his weak points was so exhilarating

    • @IcyEclipse
      @IcyEclipse Год назад +111

      and the fact that he can do the perfect timed slow mo dodge against you!

    • @OriginalUnjustifier
      @OriginalUnjustifier Год назад +64

      ​@@IcyEclipse Retaliating with a perfect parry when he does that feels so badass.

    • @marcusxave8253
      @marcusxave8253 Год назад +1

      Can u play game after beat ganon? Or is the same as BOTW?

    • @TyrantOfVirtue
      @TyrantOfVirtue Год назад +13

      ​@@marcusxave8253 same as botw

    • @IcyEclipse
      @IcyEclipse Год назад +5

      @@marcusxave8253 its the same as botw where i places you before you go fight him

  • @theyhate._angel6484
    @theyhate._angel6484 Год назад +269

    i absolutely LOVE how every part of the song somehow captures the essence of our heroes and villain in one instrument/tune, first is ganondorf at 1:39 with a sort of fear inducing and malicious tune, next is zelda at 1:53 with the erhu being the melody, as she is a dragon, next is link at 2:13 with the saxophone, and then both the erhu and the saxophone have a duet at 2:27 to represent how they (zelda and link)fight alongside eachother once again to defeat the demon king, and, finally, the confrontation between the 3 at 2:40 . What a masterpiece of a game this was

    • @WinterBoiWoF
      @WinterBoiWoF Год назад +3

      How did you find this out??!! Thats amazing

    • @lukiia9854
      @lukiia9854 Год назад +3

      I don't get why people think the saxophone is Link's instrument, it never represents him in anything? The saxophones represent the sky. Link's part of the piece is the botw segments

    • @B-ot2xx
      @B-ot2xx 3 месяца назад

      @@lukiia9854 If you don’t think the sax represents Link, pay attention to the melody it’s playing. It’s playing the sax bridge from the main theme. This is LINKS journey through the Sky Islands. But if you still refuse to accept this, perhaps the piano can also represent Link, since it’s playing the “dragon backing” motif on top of some other twinkle while the sax is playing. (Istg, the pianist in BotW and TotK have so many seizures in those keyboards, that I genuinely think they should get checked)

    • @lukiia9854
      @lukiia9854 3 месяца назад

      @@B-ot2xx I'm just saying that the saxophone never actually plays in any track that is to do with Link besides the main theme (which doesn't play in the game), it only ever plays in the pieces of music that are to do with the sky, which is why it appears here. I'm not just being cynical for no reason lol. I do get what you're saying but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it REPRESENTS Link in the sky. I personally just see it as the sky's motif. I wouldn't say that anything here represents a character (besides the Erhu of course but it more represents Dragons as a concept rather than them as characters) but rather the different places you explore, since that whole final sequence takes Link from ground level, all the way to the Depths of the underground, then all the way to the sky. I think the Piano represents the overworld and the big brass fanfare represents the Depths. That makes more sense to me in the case of what the piece is trying to achieve. What represents the characters tends to be leitmotifs rather than instrumental motifs, which is why the botw main theme plays there, THAT is what represents Link I think

  • @stars_and_lattes3078
    @stars_and_lattes3078 Год назад +989

    This final boss was 100 times better than botw's! I was pleasantky surprised at the difficulty increase in Ganondorf's fight, and having this breathtaking fight with phenomenonal music after such an intense battle makes it even better ❤

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +68

      Even this battle was INTENSE, we fight in the freakin' sky instead of on the ground like we normally do in Zelda games that’s what makes it so amazing and beautiful!

    • @JcrafterGames
      @JcrafterGames Год назад +48

      I love how this boss was actually hard even after nearly maxing out everything in the game. I didn’t bring any food cause i thought 30 hearts would be enough, boy was i wrong

    • @cardboardking577
      @cardboardking577 Год назад +8

      ​@@JcrafterGames in both of my two attempts I won the ganondorf fight with only 1 heart remaining

    • @badasstoad9419
      @badasstoad9419 Год назад +23

      TOTK tops BOTW in many ways for me, tbh.
      Level design, Boss fight design, Music (BOTW had so little music, and too many tracks were overused), an *actual story* with cutscenes and progression, lots of content to make it worth replaying (not counting speedrunning in BOTW).
      Even Kohga, the ONLY boss from BOTW with cutscenes, dialogue, and unique music, got love this game. 5 times the amount he got on BOTW.
      Generally people praise BOTW, but not gonna lie, for me it feels like one of the weakest entries in the series. Actually, scratch that. It *is* the weakest.
      The only defining aspect it had was that it’s openworld, but it felt too empty, aimless, and also rushed in some ways.
      TOTK is the Zelda game which did that right. ❤ (While still feeling like a real Zelda game would, unlike BOTW most times.)
      BOTW felt more like an experimentation, or a small demo to me. But TOTK was totally worth the money.

    • @CavemanNo.12
      @CavemanNo.12 Год назад +15

      ​@@JcrafterGames I didn't do any of the dungeons or many shrines at all. I had 4 hearts, the master sword, and the hylian shield. I had to fight every boss in the boss rush. Been doing it on and off for 5 days now, and I finally beat it last night. You were NOT meant to go straight to ganondorf in this game

  • @diseasedwombat5611
    @diseasedwombat5611 Год назад +235

    Nintendo doesn’t have permission to be THIS good at making music. TotK is a 10/10 in gameplay and music for me.

    • @ultimatedumbass4640
      @ultimatedumbass4640 Год назад +21

      Tbf, Nintendo have been making 10/10 musical bangers for awhile. Just look at the Xenoblade series for example. The AoC OST slaps too. And also many other dope franchises.

    • @naetsu3
      @naetsu3 Год назад +14

      ​@@ultimatedumbass4640I think music is the best part of Nintendo's games (Zelda, Mario, Splatoon are all bangers)

    • @KingdaToro
      @KingdaToro Год назад +7

      They always have been... Gerudo Valley. Dragon Roost Island. Gusty Garden Galaxy. EVERY DAMN SONG IN MARIO KART 8!

    • @jordank4889
      @jordank4889 Год назад +8

      They've been making classics since 1981.

    • @Bigboizeldafan
      @Bigboizeldafan Год назад

      Yes yes yes yes yes

  • @dannyhsr_
    @dannyhsr_ Год назад +333

    During this boss fight, memories flashed through my head, memories of my entire journey through Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, it felt like everything was leading up to this moment. What a game.

    • @mythicmars
      @mythicmars Год назад +17

      I totally agree ralsei with a boof

    • @thomaspereira1545
      @thomaspereira1545 Год назад +4

      Especially the last dive at 3:07

    • @danielz-v4083
      @danielz-v4083 Год назад +5

      This same thing happened to me during the credits with all the region themes and images.
      I have a very personal experience with these past two games. Both of them came in different parts of my life that were very different but impactful and I took my sweet time with BoTW(about 6-7 months because of studies) and ToTK(4 months, simply cause I loved exploring it while mixing just the right amount of story. Literally spend like 1 week in the gerudo desert storm and surroundings )
      I finished BoTW twice (one in master mode) and it capped off around 260 hours and ToTK once at 280 hours.
      This should be enough context to explain the absolute surge of memories that played at the end and it even made me cry a bit, which I rarely do and I had never experienced on a game.
      These games have its small flaws , especially BoTW, but they are my favorite games of all time

    • @cloudshines812
      @cloudshines812 10 месяцев назад +2

      It hits even harder when you 100% BOTH these games.
      *I can officially say… I AM THE HERO OF HYRULE*

  • @dashman8499
    @dashman8499 Год назад +118

    This boss felt like tears of the kingdom's victory lap. It already did everything it needed to, but decided to pop off at the last moment. Just wow.

  • @michaelkaduck1915
    @michaelkaduck1915 Год назад +102

    The symbolism of this fight is genius. Zelda's light Dragon form was a noble sacrifice that forced her to suffer alone for 10,000 years to save her people, like the River Dragons in China, or Kulkulkan and Quetzalcoatl in Central America.
    Ganondorf's Demon Dragon form was a last-ditch effort to assert his domination of a world he feels didn't deserve prosperity. He embodies the European depictions of Dragons, like Fafnir or Beowulf's Dragon symbolizing the greed and sins of humanity.

    • @Nodrasta
      @Nodrasta 8 месяцев назад +5

      You missed a few years there. 10.000 years ago was the age of the Sheika tech. Even back then the time of the Zonai had already faded into legend.
      The rise of the Demon king was at least 30.000 years ago.

  • @xxFatalxSins
    @xxFatalxSins Год назад +38

    I love how impactful Zelda's presence is across both BotW and TotK. In BotW, she's that little voice in the back of Link's head, guiding him along. In TotK, she's the Light Dragon, watching over Hyrule from the skies.
    Never once did she leave your side.

    • @ShadowSkyX
      @ShadowSkyX Год назад +2

      In oot all the sages represented something: saria for friendship, darunia for family and so on. It took a couple extra years before I understood what zelda and impa represented. Impa was loyalty. Zelda is faith, or rather Hope. In botw/totk she still represents that.

  • @davidbryanrdz5955
    @davidbryanrdz5955 4 месяца назад +17

    Never played a Zelda game before, this was my first Zelda game... And everything was perfect

  • @the_veemonator
    @the_veemonator Год назад +79

    0:55 when the melody kicks in its just beautiful
    Our last line of defence was link
    And he didnt disappoint

    • @Anjhulu
      @Anjhulu 11 месяцев назад +1

      Fr fr (just a comment so you remember to go back listening to this absolute banger)

    • @JoshTheWoz
      @JoshTheWoz 6 месяцев назад +1

      @the_veemonator GO BACK TO LISTENING TO THIS BANGER

  • @mastahastro8628
    @mastahastro8628 4 месяца назад +12

    In my room I have LED lights around my tv , and when i got to this part for the first time 3:04 where the blood moon rises and the sky turns red , my lights where the same color as the scenery and I was completely immersed and just blown away by the music, the fight , and the atmosphere . This to me, is on the best final bosses in a zelda game.

  • @vavo6909
    @vavo6909 Год назад +140

    The notes at 3:36 legit bring tears to my eyes. Too beautiful

    • @yozora2274
      @yozora2274 Год назад +10

      It’s so melancholy. It has that “this is it” feeling

    • @khaosO
      @khaosO Год назад

      I wish someone made a loop of it 😭

    • @agomezss
      @agomezss 11 месяцев назад +1

      It's also same notes from ocarina of time file selection theme / fairy fountain theme

    • @cubinel
      @cubinel 10 месяцев назад

      @@khaosO I can do that.

    • @cubinel
      @cubinel 10 месяцев назад

      @@khaosO Should it be 3:36 - 3:50 or 3:36 - 4:15?

  • @thomaspereira1545
    @thomaspereira1545 Год назад +89

    3:07
    The peak, the epic finale, the culmination of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
    You take one last dive off of dragon Zelda's head as Dragondorf desperately tries to blast you with gloom.
    Everything you went through in both of these games, it all comes down to this one final moment.

  • @l1quidbeatz46
    @l1quidbeatz46 Год назад +60

    This dragon was only somewhat easy to kill because someone who eats a Tear loses their mind, meaning this thing doesn't have Ganondorf's mind anymore, it's just something that is only fueled by the desire to kill Link. Had it retained Ganondorf's intelligence and cunning, I don't know if this fight would be winnable with the sheer power playing against Link here.

    • @bitz3225
      @bitz3225 Год назад +10

      Honestly! I’m happy with the final boss but I was wondering what a dark beast Ganon fight would be like in this Game since Ganon would not have lost his mind. A 3rd or 4th phase fighting Ganon before fighting the dragon would have been cool. Regardless, I loved the final boss and if there’s DLC, I can only see them improving.

  • @chaudspieler
    @chaudspieler 10 месяцев назад +38

    Most unexpected and epic final battle in ZELDA HISTORY!!! Truly a masterpiece of a game and what an epic finale!!!

  • @DoesRocksFloat
    @DoesRocksFloat Год назад +60

    My favorite part of this fight is when you dive towards a weak point sometimes Zelda appears just at the edge of your screen and dives past you at high speed.
    So cinematic.

  • @Geistbrot
    @Geistbrot 5 месяцев назад +14

    3:03 The peak starts here

  • @liamcallahan8561
    @liamcallahan8561 9 месяцев назад +19

    Actually one of the most insane moments in any game ever. I couldn’t wipe the huge grin off my face the entire time like how did humans come up with this

  • @Gaming_S0ul536
    @Gaming_S0ul536 4 месяца назад +9

    Everyone talks about the main music when you’re striking the final blow. But I really love the strings right BEFORE that happens at 3:44

  • @clementine9.
    @clementine9. Год назад +112

    The mix of the crimson moon and flying through the skys the first time is unmatched. i'd kill to experience this for the first time truly uplifting and phenomenal game.

  • @rapsterzeber7747
    @rapsterzeber7747 9 месяцев назад +12

    This game only came out slightly more than half a year ago and yet this song is already feeling nostalgic. That's how you know a game was made right.

    • @Maxippo
      @Maxippo 8 месяцев назад +3

      Indeed

  • @level5650
    @level5650 Год назад +41

    I like to think the reason the Light Dragon isn’t just Zelda’s subconscious driving her to, but because Dragons in the world of Hyrule aren’t just powerful flying serpents, they’re the physical embodiment of the elements
    that make up the world.
    Just like Naydra is the concept of ice given life , the Light Dragon, a being born from an unimaginable sacrifice to save the kingdom Zelda loves, is the desire to protect and defend given physical form.

    • @ZeroJump
      @ZeroJump Год назад +2

      The Dragon is Zeldas emotions in some way. The thing that people think it had nothing of Zelda left is just wrong. In her first moments as a Dragon she crys and when Link finds all of her memorys she also crys

    • @ShadowSkyX
      @ShadowSkyX Год назад +2

      ​@@ZeroJumpwhat is interesting is at the very start of the game (underneath hyrule castle) her theme tries to play early in the music. It never completes but its inclusion implies a lot. That her actions in the past still effect the present. Maybe as a dragon, she is trying to warn you, or rather her current self. Its cool to think about.

  • @Burni
    @Burni Год назад +36

    God at 3:06 is when this theme hits for me. One of the best final boss themes ever!

    • @frederickglass1583
      @frederickglass1583 8 дней назад

      That feeling of "THIS is for Hyrule, but mostly, THIS. IS. FOR. _ZELDA._ "

  • @nintandao64
    @nintandao64 3 месяца назад +6

    I was fighting Ganon when we were boarding a flight home, and the plane lifted off as Zelda came soaring out of nowhere to catch me. Most immersive video game experience I've ever had to date

  • @slambro7923
    @slambro7923 Год назад +36

    I'll never forget fighting this boss
    I did it without getting hit until near the end where one of the giant fireballs was basically 5 feet from my face, *and then as the music crecscendos, zelda swoops in and blocks it.*
    I'll never forget the feeling that gave me after finding all the memories, doing all the dungeons, digging for every piece of story... It was perfect. Tingles down my spine perfect.

    • @regiboi7709
      @regiboi7709 Год назад +4

      The "not today" to end all "not today"s.

  • @thepianoplayingturtle8449
    @thepianoplayingturtle8449 5 месяцев назад +7

    The amount of ingenuity in this with all of the hidden themes is insane. It is like the saxophone (Link) and Erhu (Zelda) are talking to each other because they are working together! In the final blow, you hear the motif from the erhu, then saxophone, then orchestra representing that everyone is working together to seal the calamity. Throughout the battle, you can hear Link's theme, Zelda's theme, Zelda (as a dragon)'s theme, the Main theme, Dark Beast Ganon, Calamity Ganon, the list goes on!

  • @nolanschotanus2769
    @nolanschotanus2769 Год назад +50

    The best final battles are always the ones where Zelda fights by your side. This is no different.

  • @ShinsHandle
    @ShinsHandle Год назад +67

    Bro the final blow prompt made this entire boss fight a 10/10 for me. This game as a whole managed to make it into my top 5 favorite games of all time.

    • @ethosarris4064
      @ethosarris4064 Год назад +4

      I know, right? Link raising the master sword up, it's glow shining against the blood moon, before he slammed it down, finishing that foe

    • @Rascalli
      @Rascalli Год назад +4

      Imagine this was the last Zelda game and the prompt instead of “final attack” it would say “End the curse” that would’ve been fucking awesome on top how amazing the entire ganon fight sequence was. Although with demise semantics to stop that from ever happening

    • @ShadowSkyX
      @ShadowSkyX Год назад +1

      Could've used significantly more force to stab. Looked more like a poke to see if he was alive in there. Kinda disappointed.

    • @frederickglass1583
      @frederickglass1583 8 дней назад

      ​@ShadowSkyX pretty sure Link slams the MS into Dragondorf's forehead at full force

  • @pyronei
    @pyronei 10 месяцев назад +10

    the layers of this song are insane... the fact that you can just *barely* hear the little high-note piano motif that plays as you skydive in the background of all this triumphant majesty.

  • @christopherjones7196
    @christopherjones7196 Год назад +227

    THANK YOU
    3:07 was what I was looking for this whole time. That sense of FINALITY.

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +9

      IKR! That sense of Finality is beautiful! This game 10/10 rating but I think Breath of the Wild is better mainly because there’s no Demon Hands, No Creepy time travel stuff and no Zelda being controlled by Ganon and no light dragon aka Zelda

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +12

      3:07 is when the 3rd phase starts right?

    • @Civilized-Joke
      @Civilized-Joke Год назад +9

      _Personally I think __2:12__ is just as chilling, with that brief heroic reprieve as Link flying on Zelda overlooks Draconified Ganondorf before the Ultimate Finale._

    • @dice5709
      @dice5709 Год назад +22

      ​@@ThunderClanFan22 Thats what made it good. Bro you tweakin tbh

    • @gioyt1530
      @gioyt1530 Год назад

      Based

  • @Lightacre.
    @Lightacre. Год назад +18

    Hylians watching two great dragons duel on the sky while a 5 foot man with a sword flies like a madman between them: 👁️👄👁️

    • @magicchocolate9120
      @magicchocolate9120 Год назад +2

      uhm akshually, the hylians cant see the dragons since in botw it was said that no one could see the dragons but only the children and those with a pure heart. Thats why link can see him since... you know. But the children must have had a blast watching it. I imagine them running to their parents "mommy, mommy! Look! dragons" but then the adults cant see em like "are all the children of our village high rn?"
      Another thing that is terrifying is that if the demon dragon won and would have proceeded to wreck hyrule, the people would not have even seen him. "WHY IS RED FIRE RAINING OUT OF NOWHERE??"

  • @itsyeetorbeyeeted936
    @itsyeetorbeyeeted936 5 месяцев назад +10

    This...oh my god.
    This was the most beautiful final boss I've ever fought. It was definitely easy, much like Dark Beast Ganon in BotW, but it being so much more of a spectacle than its predecessor made up for it by a longshot. Finally getting to see Link, Zelda, and Ganon all side-by-side once more was easily the best part.

  • @yosht6110
    @yosht6110 Год назад +29

    I love how this theme (similar to Ganon's final battle in BOTW) starts off with 2 melodies clashing with each other in absolute chaotic fashion, and drops every instrument except the piano at 3:36, playing a melody that is timid yet full of conviction. And as more and more instruments come into the picture, the Hylian Champion gathers more and more courage and ultimately deals the final blow that brings peace to the entirety of Hyrule.
    The Legend of Zelda in its entirety is a work of art, and I'm so grateful to be able to play such a beautiful game.

  • @miguelreal4459
    @miguelreal4459 11 месяцев назад +15

    I love that this song makes you feel that, with Zelda by your side, the battle’s already won.

  • @BonkyBoko9
    @BonkyBoko9 Год назад +167

    I love the part when link jumped onto demon dragons head and said “it’s linking time” and then this epic music started to play. I got literal chills!

    • @Fuzunga
      @Fuzunga Год назад +29

      Linked all over those guys.

    • @scruber64_
      @scruber64_ Год назад +14

      It's definitely one of the moments in the Zelda series

    • @StandUpConorDy
      @StandUpConorDy Год назад +5

      I love the parallelfor ganondorf when he said: it’s “dragonin’ time” and dragoned all over Hyrule.

    • @thatoneguy5343
      @thatoneguy5343 Год назад +2

      Will this year old joke ever f***ing die and stay dead for the benefit of humanity? 😃

    • @scruber64_
      @scruber64_ Год назад

      @@thatoneguy5343 i'm sorry

  • @greatspaceadventure
    @greatspaceadventure Год назад +25

    The transition from the main theme to the Ganondorf motif is ingenious. This whole song is a rollercoaster of emotions, and brings the main instrumentation of the game to its rightfully earned climax. The combination of the piano, the sax, the erhu, and the brass ensemble... it's just fantastic!

  • @destinyhero
    @destinyhero Год назад +34

    This soundtrack will live rent free in my head for the rest of my life. What an amazing finale to an amazing game, extremely memorable and rewarding. Truly one of the most satisfying sequences in gaming.

  • @Nocturne232
    @Nocturne232 Год назад +39

    my jaw dropped for the whole fight. absolutely stunning visuals!

  • @sharmilakrishnakumar2499
    @sharmilakrishnakumar2499 Год назад +23

    3:08 gave me all the satisfaction I needed for that painful 6 yrs!
    Thank you Aonuma and team for creating yet another masterpiece!

  • @Centyme
    @Centyme Год назад +330

    Literally the best boss fight I've ever faced, in the best game I've ever played
    Guys when I say this I mean the entirety of the Ganondorf fight, not just Demon dragon

    • @Banananut007
      @Banananut007 Год назад +9

      I agree

    • @ultimatedumbass4640
      @ultimatedumbass4640 Год назад +4

      It's a pretty good one, though I wouldn't say it's one of my favourite boss fights or games tbh.

    • @anonanonymous9670
      @anonanonymous9670 Год назад

      Demon Dragon is your favorite boss fight?
      Judging from that pfp I guess you're just memeing

    • @edgarlopez1195
      @edgarlopez1195 Год назад +2

      My guy, come on this can’t SERIOUSLY be the Best for anyone...

    • @artlover4444
      @artlover4444 Год назад

      I mean I love this game and the ending was really great for the Story, but damn was he easy to beat, it was perma flurry rush against his attacks (not even hard timings) and the drake fight basically played itself

  • @RealCFZ
    @RealCFZ Год назад +8

    In my head canon, I feel like Link would say, “DEMON KING! REMEMBER MY NAME!” the moment he give a final attack on the secret stone.

  • @_D1886
    @_D1886 Год назад +12

    Theres no way you can't have an enormous grin on your face when 3:08 drops. Its so good.

  • @XerxesTexasToast
    @XerxesTexasToast 3 месяца назад +6

    The opening goes so hard. The string arpeggio is the basis of the dragons' themes, and then the brass rolls in with Zelda's Fucking Lullaby THIS GAME'S SOUNDTRACK RULES

  • @peterscott6857
    @peterscott6857 Год назад +31

    I didn't think it was possible to top botw when I played it 6 years ago. Well done Zelda team. This game was an absolute masterpiece and a joy to experience.

  • @waynek.8049
    @waynek.8049 Год назад +199

    One of the best final boss themes ever composed.

  • @TheGoldenSmeagol
    @TheGoldenSmeagol 10 месяцев назад +9

    Despite Ganondorf swallowing the sacred stone and becoming a being of pure chaos, the music is uplifting and triumphant. Why?
    Because everyone knew the fate of this battle when Zelda rescued Link. With them fighting side by side, there could only be victory. Destiny cannot stop two souls endlessly reaching for one another. An incredible moment.

  • @super_dude00
    @super_dude00 Год назад +21

    I actually got stunned multiple times at the sheer SPECTACLE this is, when 3:07 kicked in and the blood moon rose and engulfed the sky, i had the biggest smile on my face.

  • @gljdds4164
    @gljdds4164 Год назад +24

    this theme is so good. i love how at the start you can hear zelda's lullaby. the duet part between the saxophone and erhu which i think represents link and zelda is also great.

  • @emmanicholas2720
    @emmanicholas2720 Год назад +69

    The theme at 0:58 always gets me. It's just too good

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад +10

      I like a lot of games, and I don't categorize any of them to be the best, but THIS is for sure the best piece of music in any game I've ever played

  • @tonibazza3052
    @tonibazza3052 7 месяцев назад +5

    The fact that this game's best music score didn't win for best music score and arrangement in The game awards last year is unforgivable

    • @JuiceBoi1
      @JuiceBoi1 7 месяцев назад

      if ff 16 didn't come out last year totk would have won best ost 100%

    • @kostasspirou1010
      @kostasspirou1010 6 месяцев назад +1

      FF16's soundtrack is absolutely amazing, listen to "Away" and you'll understand why it won. (TotK's soundtrack is amazing as well)

    • @CookieTwoStep
      @CookieTwoStep 5 месяцев назад

      @@kostasspirou1010just listened to it and wow it is amazing

  • @freybear8457
    @freybear8457 Месяц назад +2

    I just realised something. Raru stopped the demon king eons ago, so he’s the first iteration of link, he also married Sonia (who was given recall powers like Zelda in that cutscene) so zelink was canon before hyrule was even established, it was just raronia

    • @dallor09
      @dallor09 Месяц назад +1

      wait you are on to something

  • @megasean3000
    @megasean3000 Год назад +21

    This final battle was perfection. The music, the setting, the moment Zelda rushes in to save Link and the giant dragon that was the Demon Dragon. And saving Zelda at the end was the cherry on top of an already perfect cake. This may be my favourite Zelda final boss fight, right beside Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time.

  • @gussieawesome2763
    @gussieawesome2763 18 дней назад +2

    Totk is the perfect example of something about games
    Games are never perfect, they can be VERY flawed, but even with their flaws they can still be absolutely incredible

  • @vonzul
    @vonzul Год назад +50

    Riding dragons and stabbing my sword into one’s head was not what I thought I was getting in the final boss but god damn I’m happy I did

    • @kikosawa
      @kikosawa Год назад

      Witcher 2 has this :) Not to this extent of course

  • @agentla66
    @agentla66 Год назад +328

    So much like BoTW’s final boss theme, this is also a combination of a couple songs from TotK:
    The opening is a call back to the gliding theme.
    The theme of dragons is present in the form of the piano underlying the main focus at different parts, and the usage of the erhu, the original main instrument in “Dragons of Hyrule,” is used to reinforce the concept that the dragons are ever present in this fight.
    Also the major reinforcement and usage of the saxophone is incredible as they showcased it heavily in the main theme for tears of the kingdom.
    Unlike the calamity ganon fight from the previous game, this is a 2v1, and the thematic of the dragons is playing alongside or straight up plays the BotW theme in the fight against the one opposing force.
    The opposing force of which, comes back in at times as ganondorf’s theme to remind the listener that there is an evil that the other Melodies are racing against. This also acts as a reset to allow the song to loop if needed.
    I’m just really glad they don’t have the extremely repetitive notes playing when you’re aiming the final attack like they did in BoTW, and actually made an incredibly uplifting and proper sounding ending.

    • @joshuahart153
      @joshuahart153 Год назад +9

      Zelda's theme is in the intro as well with the horns

    • @spamtong.spamton8416
      @spamtong.spamton8416 Год назад +6

      It also has a bit of The Grand Divine Beast from BotW at 1:29.

    • @withnosensetv
      @withnosensetv Год назад +6

      I agree, Breath of the Wilds simplicity in music makes sense but it could also be a bit jarring at times. This is a masterpiece, perfectly fitting the theme and gameplay of the fight, and a phenomenal conclusion that BotW and TotK absolutely deserved

    • @davidjimenez3822
      @davidjimenez3822 Год назад +1

      my man downplaying the horse link rides during the Dark Beast Ganon fight like bruh😢

    • @Rascalli
      @Rascalli Год назад

      ⁠​⁠@@davidjimenez3822 *downplaying sheikah motorbike

  • @NalakittyAMVs
    @NalakittyAMVs Год назад +19

    This fight was so good 😭 I was terrified to start it and then I had so much fun! I’m so glad they included the aerial mechanics in the last battle 😲

  • @Beebeebeeboo
    @Beebeebeeboo Год назад +7

    3:07 Distinctly remember this hitting as I was free falling toward the face of the Demon Dragon, so closely it was like I was diving directly into a wall of negative energy blasts desperately trying to stop me, but being so focused and driven to destroy Ganon that they meant nothing.
    I have never been so invested in the story of a Zelda game, or any game in general.
    Some people feel like it was too happy or convenient of an ending, but for the first time in a Zelda game, I was heading to the end of it legitimately doubting whether I was going to be able to save Zelda even if I did manage to defeat Ganon.
    Saving her this time mattered more than any other time.

  • @TheAdventGamer
    @TheAdventGamer Год назад +19

    This had to have been a sight for the people of Hyrule.

  • @novasZK
    @novasZK Год назад +13

    I couldn't help but tear up during this awesome climax to one of the best games ever. THIS GAME IS AMAZING

  • @JT-qw1cn
    @JT-qw1cn Год назад +6

    Truly a once in a lifetime experience

  • @tahatahiri3124
    @tahatahiri3124 Год назад +6

    This part felt more like a reward to all the stuff we've been through rather than a boss fight, the music, the scenery and the fun of just diving onto ganon.
    Truly one of the games of all time

  • @albdu4346
    @albdu4346 6 месяцев назад +6

    Finished the game the 16th march, didn't do any sage and used a duplication glitch for lynels bows and blades, was so happy to finally beat Ganondorf and seeing him become a dragon after that was very incredible, the end of the cutscene with his introduction and his name on the screen when he stops moving then start again with the fight starting, i tough he would start moving during the cutscene but the fact that he starts when the fight start make this much more spectacular (for me) i remember at the end, standing beside the stone then thinking about all botw, aoc and totk, time to finish it, finally saving Hyrule that's right under us, Ganondorf who continues moving just before getting killed as if he was mindless, kinda accurate as people who turns into a dragon loose their mind, the dragon that seemed filled of hate and trying to fight untill the end no matter what it costs is now looking in the void like other dragons, not even reacting to his stone being broken then dying in an intense cutscene telling us "it's finished" will always keep good memories of this fight and these three games.

  • @WinterBoiWoF
    @WinterBoiWoF Год назад +4

    I love how botw and totk are alike. In botw, Link wakes up and is stuck on the great plateu and needs to get 4 shrines in order to get off. In totk, link wakes up stuck on the great sky island and needs to get to 4 shrines to get off. In botw, Link goes to talk to Impa. In totk, Link goes to talk to Purah. In botw, It takes 13 hearts to pull the master sword. In totk, it takes 2 rings of stamina to pull the master sword. In botw Link goes to Riju, Yunobo, Sidon, and Teba to beat the blights that were in the divine beasts. Link now rushes to Riju, Yunobo, Sidon, and Tulin (Teba's son) and beats the monsters in the temples. Now Link rushes to Calamity ganon in hyrule castle to beat him in botw. In totk, Link rushes to under hyrule castle to beat Ganondorf. Once Link finishes calamity ganon, calamity ganon tranforms into Dark beast ganon and link rides his horse to beat him. In totk, Link finishes off ganondorf, and then ganondrof transformed into Demon Dragon, and Link rides the dragon to beat the demon dragon. In botw, Zelda thanks Link for saving her. In totk, Zelda thanks Link again for saving her.
    Mike drop lol. Please like my comment this took awhile to type. 😫😭😅

  • @EdgeHeadFUHaters
    @EdgeHeadFUHaters Год назад +131

    If I could just get a loop of 3:07 onwards that would be great. My favorite part of this amazing track.

  • @Malquee
    @Malquee 7 месяцев назад +7

    Ganon hated Link so much that his main point was to kill him. Even when he lost himself.
    Zelda loved Link so much that her main point was to assist him. Even when she lost herself.

  • @brendanallard9258
    @brendanallard9258 Год назад +32

    What strikes me the most here is that this score is a sweeping bit of love and hope. What little darkness there is here is quickly and powefully overcome by the light. Themes draconic, hylian, martial and mystical weave in and out of each other as the lullaby of the princess builds at the heart of everything.
    Really something.

  • @thecjgameworld4013
    @thecjgameworld4013 Год назад +18

    It's kinda beautiful when you think about it.
    You started this journey within the same peaceful skies where the godlike Zonia were told to originate from, a peaceful embracing hug of life & beauty. But over the course of your journey, you'll need to conquer your fears and enter the depths, the place where the Gloom/Malice reaches its peak, a place of fear and dispair, a place of sorrow & hatred, and the lower you went into the depths, the stronger the gloom got, and the farther you got from your warming embrace of the surface's light. You were charging so deep that you eventually found a evil heart from within the fears that engulfed these depths, and once you conquered the heart of evil, your thrown back up into the light's embrace as the 2 sides clash. Beauty & Despair colliding with one another as destiny have fortold.
    You go from the heavens to hell only to return to the heaven's light and use said light to permanently destroy the darkness of the depths.
    This game is just....perfect.

    • @venomb1274
      @venomb1274 Год назад +3

      Well said. Pretty symbolic

  • @Cadialvaro
    @Cadialvaro 3 месяца назад +4

    I finished this breathtaking experience this week. What a spectacle and a trigger of mixed emotions. You know an ending is beautiful when you find yourself with tears in your eyes without barely noticing 0:57 💛

  • @easyegg9760
    @easyegg9760 Год назад +10

    I’m usually one that says a fight needs to be somewhat challenging to be great, but man the pure scale and spectacle of this was amazing. Throw in the music and this is probably one of my favorite bosses in the franchise

  • @curllum
    @curllum Год назад +11

    At the end of the fight when Demon dragon Ganondorf explodes in a pillar of light, the smoke left behind seems to signal that he exploded directly above Korok forest and more than likely killed anything in there. Even Ganondorf hated the Koroks, and I can respect that.

    • @frederickglass1583
      @frederickglass1583 8 дней назад

      Dragondorf pulled a Hiroshima over Korok Forest...
      _Great Deku Tree/Hestu's gonna be _*_PISSED_*

  • @guineveredawn
    @guineveredawn Месяц назад +2

    Just listening to this again gives me goosebumps! The final dragon fight in the air was so perfect ❤

  • @jossuuuuu
    @jossuuuuu Год назад +7

    i was genuinely tearing a little bit when fighting the demon dragon when zelda catches you and the music starts playing, it was so good and such a beautiful ending to the game, to what breath of the wild had started (which i believe is an implicit reboot of the saga)

  • @LarryDeskPlant
    @LarryDeskPlant 5 месяцев назад +4

    This is when a big company with a lot of resources chooses to make an actual good game, it's a shame it has to be on the Switch because other platforms would allow the game to be a lot better without having to worry about the technical limitations of the Switch, the fact they even got it running in my opinion is a technical feat of it's own.

  • @witt5913
    @witt5913 Год назад +65

    This was the perfect theme for the final encounter

    • @ThunderClanFan22
      @ThunderClanFan22 Год назад +3

      Absolutely!! ❤ this is a stunning theme song for a final battle! Demon dragon vs Link and Zelda (Light Dragon)

  • @puedenllamarmeDarkStar
    @puedenllamarmeDarkStar Год назад +12

    there's simply no other choice: The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom GAME OF THE YEAR 2023!

  • @thecreatorofpc7929
    @thecreatorofpc7929 Год назад +5

    I think TOTK did the cinematic Ganon battle a lot better than BOTW. Mainly cause of one reason
    1. The actual Ganon fight was just really cool, the fact that he has the ability to do a flurry rush was honestly amazing.
    And the fight was actually challenging, it wasn’t so hard that it felt impossible to beat, but it was enough to give me a challenge,
    though i’m sure if you brought every Lynel weapon with Gleeok parts fused to it, Ganon would be a cakewalk.
    Side note, there was something i found funny in the fight. When Ganon is filling his healthbar up at the start of the fight, he doesn’t even center it, that is truly demon king behavior right there.

  • @AndrewJimmyG
    @AndrewJimmyG Год назад +5

    my first reaction to this moment was "aww after hundreds of years she still remembers me!" and then a few moments later " I hope she`s not mad about all the dragon part farming I did lol"

  • @YUXKE
    @YUXKE Год назад +4

    Just completed the final battle tonight.
    I am over the moon with the feels of this theme. Was a spectacular finale that’ll go down in memory!
    Playing this on loop for days to come!