I remember playing Ocarina of Time when it came out, I was 9 years old at the time. Becoming adult Link felt huge to me, I remember daydreaming about what it would be like to just become an adult and finally do all the things I wanted. When I was 16 however, I still felt like a kid, although I don't think it dawned on me at the time that it had been 7 years since I played OoT. I'm 34 now and I'm for all intents and purposes an adult..... but I still feel like "me", not exactly the same individual that played OoT initially, but not as dissimilar as I initially imagined. I had an idea in my head that, one day I would just "feel" like an adult, but that never really happened. Ostensibly I drink alcohol, go to work, do my taxes, for all intents and purposes, I am an adult, but in some ways still feel like the same kid that spent hours upon hours saving Hyrule. OoT meant so much to me, it was a perfect encapsulation of who I was at the time and who I wanted to be in the future. That being said, when I look back on the game now, it still perfectly represents who I was, but I still am that person in a lot of ways and I appreciate that a lot more than the vague idea of an "adult" I earnestly wanted to be. Thank you for the video, it gave me a lot to ponder and unlocked some warm memories aswell.
Bruh. I’m 34 also and played oot as a kid. I feel like the developers knew we would come back to it as an adult and put these nostalgic themes in the game’s subtext.
I'll be 34 in 2 months and feel the same... The flow of time is always cruel... It's speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days...
I was on my lunch break and just looking for something to watch and I saw this and thought “Another ocarina of time retrospective wouldn’t hurt” and I ended up sobbing. You so easily conveyed into words just how much this game still means to me, what I think and what I feel every time I remember it, this video essay is amazingggg
I’ve seen nearly every video essay of this game and just when I thought there was nothing left to say or hear about Ocarina of Time…this is one of the best video essays I’ve seen on this seminal game. Fantastic work. I hope this reaches far and wide
I'll sit by the fire and share my nostalgic story with you *sips his beer* As a kid born in 93 I was a little young and not really good enough to beat OoT. That being said, I still rented it from the local movie gallery nearly every week. My brother who is 10yrs older used to get mad for always renting the same 2 games. OoT and smash. I played the heck out of that game. I watched my brother beat 1st 2 dungeons and I did all the exploring in-between. He never could figure out Lord jabu-jabu's puzzle with where to put princess rito. At some point, I stopped renting the game because he wanted to explore other games. We never beat it. Years later my mom was at Jake's flea market, and she saw the game and picked it up for me for like $5. I believe I was now about 12 or 13 old and so excited to be reconnected to the game after a handful of years. Let me tell you that I beat lors jabu jabu. My mind was absolutely blown to the maximum when I realized there was master sword and pulling it made you an adult. I have never experienced something like that again. That has been a quest at this point in my life. Trying to discover something so mind blowing. Nothing has and nothing will. OoT is untouchable in that way to me. Of course I proceeded to beat the game. What an absolute pleasure. I've played some fantastic games that I really love but OoT hands down takes the cake, and that's probably all thanks to my mom being an avid flea market goer. What a steal she got that day. Thanks mom!
As a fellow '93 baby I can totally relate. Insanely cool that you only later learnt there was more game to play! I can only imagine the thrill of discovery when you got to pull the master sword and find out you're barely half way through. Thanks for sitting by my fire, I'll raise a beer to thank my parents with you too. Without them, we wouldn't be who we are today.
If you are an adult and you have never played OoT, don't bother testing it because it's too late for you (unless you understand what it's about after watching this video), give it to your children, your nephews or your friends kids, they will benefit much more from it than you! Thanks to this video I see why a lot of people have trouble understanding why this game is one of the best games ever created (in the top 3 without hesitation), how lucky I was to play it when I was a child!
Truly inspiring and wonderful. I can connect with all you said. 34 years old now. And I think you described it perfectly. Nostalgia, looking back, passing of time & changes. Wow!
Fantastic video. I didn't play Ocarina of Time until after Twilight Princess and yet somehow it still gives me so much nostalgia. When I first played it, I loved it, but not more than other Zelda games, but as time goes on I keep coming back to it more than any other game.
Just had a thought I'm not sure if I've seen mentioned anywhere before but... The master sword is a metaphor for the OoT N64 cartridge, when young Link takes the sword out of the pedestal he becomes an adult. When adult Link puts the sword back into the pedestal, he is putting the cartridge back into the console to become a kid again. There was one day we took the cartridge out to put away our childish things and grew up, but we can still put the cartridge back in and become a kid again, if only briefly and still with our adult baggage, but it's always still there... Crap I just finished the video!
I was gonna say! Stick around chief, because your mind is about to get blown 😂 In all seriousness though, thanks for watching, we’re clearly operating on a similar wavelength.
I had to get off my bike and shed a tear at this. Thank you for such a beautifully written and heartfelt eulogy of ocarina, and your optimistic yet fair analysis of nostalgia. I will carry it with me for the next 7 years, and then some I hope :)
This is hands down the greatest Ocarina of Time video I’ve ever watched . Thank you so much for putting the work in to creating this masterpiece. I’m 33 now, I beat this game as an 8 year old and it’s always been my favourite game due to how it made me feel as a young boy, thank you for putting such an intricate perspective on the nostalgia this game gives so many. Once again best Ocarina of Time video on RUclips, thank you .
Not to denegrate this video and its original content but have you seen emceeprophit's analysis? His went through a lot of the symbolism stuff mentioned here 11 years ago. Well worth watching.
Great video. This hit the feels a bit. Hehe To me there is a little meaning of "we all must grow up and see the darker side of the world" when playing this game. I played this game when I was 14 years old. It definitely a VERY important time of my life and this game really put a lot of things into perspective. It's not just easily one of the GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIMES, but like you said, the nostalgia of it really hits. I will never stop playing this game. I do put it away for sometime but every now and then I start new file and go back at it again! Hehe. Once again, thanks for your video.
I wasn’t alive when oot came out, my brother had gotten the collectors edition for GameCube and that was my first experience with the game. Around then I put myself in the shoes of young link because I was close in age and Mat pats canonical height of link. Now I look back after school, after my childhood, watching this while clicking away working at my computer. Your words cut deep almost reading my subconscious on how I feel with this game. I always wish I could go back and play this game with my brother for the first time, time flies
Brilliant video, thank you. I’m so grateful to have been a child when this game came out and to grow up with the endless, treasured memories it gave me. I don’t think I have ever seen anyone discuss the meaning games have to us in such an eloquent way. And as someone who has spent a huge part of their professional career as a creative fighting to prove nostalgia has a deeper, more important place in our lives than just wanting to go back- thank you for exploring the many angles of this sort of dreamlike topic. I have been a gamer all my life but Ocarina of Time is the only game I regularly make time to replay, probably at least once a year and now that I’m in my thirties, I can’t imagine any game that will ever mean as much to me.
This was such an interesting, well put together, and beautiful video. If you keep up this kind of content, I have no doubt you will have 50,000 subscribers by the end of the year. Kudos
Very well written and edited video. You really capture the essence and messages of Ocarina of Time by eloquently explaining the themes and plot. That is no easy feat and I applaud you good sir!
I had to like grow up a little bit to finally understand Ocarina of time. I got it Christmas of 2000. It had already been out for a while by that point. I was in second grade. My mom randomly bought it, she had no idea what type of games to buy me she just bought one that looked cool I guess. I didn't start playing it till fall 2001 because I got stuck in the first room of the Deku tree. I would just walk around the Lost Woods assuming that somewhere in there I can find another way out of the forest. I was also afraid of spiders so I couldn't go through the Deku tree. So I left the game go for about 10 months which in childhood time is forever. Then in fall 2001 I realized I could jump through the central web in the Deku Tree. Then it was pretty straightforward until I got stuck at the water temple for a year. I gave up. I always do look back to playing the game right after I got it though where I was afraid to go into the Deku tree. For like 2 weeks I would just explore the Lost Woods randomly thinking that eventually I can find a way out. You would find those areas that led to Goron City or Zora's domain but you couldn't get by the obstacle. The game seemed so vast. I assumed that once you got out of the forest you could go right into the castle and just start talking to the king of Hyrule. Now the game seems so small but I remember that feeling of wonder
Nice vid, you gave some uniqueness to the topic of everyone praising this game and just calling it the perfect experience and the perfect videogame etc.
I rememeber when OoT released, it was magical. But I did have some issues! Being the prequel to ALttP, we all knew Ganondorf would get the Triforce. But the plot twist that Link pulling out the Master Sword was what caused this to happen was amazing. Likewise, the second Triforce plot-twist was timeless: The Triforce split when Ganondorf touched it. This was different than what ALttP suggested, where Ganon wanted to break free, while holding the entire Triforce. The problem was, you beat OoT and Ganon is sealed away with just one piece of the Triforce. He cursed the descendants of the Sages and Zelda, clearly directed at the story of ALttP. But one piece of Triforce is not the same as all 3 pieces when breaking the seal in ALttP. This was hair pulling madness for fans at the time. Until Wind Waker became the new the sequel to OoT, and the Downfall defeat Timeline reversed the effects of that one plot-twist, and restore the original Zelda continuity.
From the visuals to the music to everything else, you perfectly captured the liminal comfort of this game that I’ve tried to put into words so many times. Wonderful essay ❤
Wow, thank you for saying! Committing my thoughts about Ocarina to words was one of the most challenging things I’ve had to do - really glad it resonated with you,
This video popped up at incredible timing for me. I’ve been ruminating on nostalgia and zelda whilst trying to come to terms with not enjoying totk as much as I expected to. Thank you for creating this incredibly beautiful take on oot. It gave me a new perspective on myself as well as the game!
So glad the video arrived at the right time for you! Writing this script got me going down a deep rabbit hole of understanding nostalgia on a emotional and personal level. I chatted with my parents about it a lot and got in touch with old friends I hadn't spoken to in a decade to try and get a better grasp of why this game has such a mythical quality. TotK didn't chime with me as much as I expected it to either, but I like to think in 25 years time it might develop a passionate audience who see it with the same rose-tinted glasses that we do for OoT.
Oot is probably the most important game to me. My and my only girlfriend broke up and after 7 years we got back together and have been for 3 years now Oot 7 years skip was the only thing I could think off. I feel like we are the same. She's no different to me as when we were teenagers. Now we are almost both 30 and still as nerdy together as ever.
Greatly written (so much so that this is the first time in probably a *long* time that I've commented, lol). Now I wanna talk about my own nostalgia for the game (in a video), because I know I've got quite the story to tell. It allows me to hold onto the memories of someone who I would otherwise love to completely forget about, as well as practically help save me from a toxic friendship (all the credit can't go to OoT there, but it certainly helped with forming the cracks). It's amazing what the game has done for me in the past 25 years, so much so that I can't even properly comprehend it all. One thing I will say is that I imagine Link is rather lonely to a degree on his journey, given MM and his adventures and such (especially since, from an in-game perspective, practically all of his accomplishments are erased), and maybe I'm just spitballing the idea, but I feel a somewhat connect to that as two of my favourite characters in gaming ever are Navi and Kaepora Gaebora. *Maybe* it's just the child-like naivety in me talking, but I've never truly been able to see them the same way as most others seem to see them - and to me, they seem like friends watching out for you.
I feel extremely lucky that you felt compelled to leave a comment on my video and that it got you thinking about your own nostalgia for the game. I agree with your idea that Link is a lonely character. Despite living amidst a bunch of children that share his age, Link is fundamentally an outcast in his own home. Even when he's called to adventure it's a quest he has to bear by himself (minus a few who follow you like Navi and Kaepora Gaebora like you mentioned). I guess this is a pragmatic approach to designing his character as you can easily slip into Link's shoes - he has no ties, nor any emotional bonds the game has to convince the player about. As a result, all the emotions we feel about the game arise organically, his memories are our memories and vice versa. I just subscribed to you so if you do get around to gathering your thoughts in a video I'll be sure to watch.
@@eyebrowowl9292 I pretty much agree, the only outlier there I feel is maybe Saria, although maybe she's that good-hearted a character that we as the player sort of "impose" such a friendship there (or at least she's a tie-in to Kokiri Forest - someone who spends their entire life in their home town, that Link shares, and you get to see what they're place is like 7 years later); although what's stumped me most I think is how Link reacts towards her as he takes his first steps into Hyrule Field and after receiving the Fairy Ocarina (maybe I'll figure it out as I make my own video). Plus, Mido was also envious towards both Link and Saria for being chosen by the Deku Tree - but you see the change in him too over time (definitely a pretty cool scene when you talk to him as Adult Link after playing Saria's Song for him). Thanks so much! *minks!* I'll do my best not to disappoint!
My top 10 ALL TIME 🛡️🙏 #1 Majora’s Mask #2 Twilight Princess #3 A Link Between Worlds #4 Ocarina of Time #5 Breath of the Wild #6 A Link To The Past #7 Minish Cap #8 Zelda 2: Adventures of Link #9 Link’s Awakening #10 Original Legend of Zelda
I am so glad to see that you are a mature enough person to recognize that you love this game for where it took place in your life. I must say, I usually walk away from an OoT video with a great annoyance at the author and especially the comments, who all seem frustratingly blind to what they are recalling. The game is not interesting because its the best thing ever made and it should be pushed on people like gamer evangelization, its interesting because the story it tells is relevant to the generation that played it...its just sad that the hardcore fans of that game in particular seemingly cant understand that you can replay the game but you cant replay your childhood, its better to leave it as it is and learn to make new memories.
You deserve a lot more subs. This was great.
I remember playing Ocarina of Time when it came out, I was 9 years old at the time. Becoming adult Link felt huge to me, I remember daydreaming about what it would be like to just become an adult and finally do all the things I wanted. When I was 16 however, I still felt like a kid, although I don't think it dawned on me at the time that it had been 7 years since I played OoT. I'm 34 now and I'm for all intents and purposes an adult..... but I still feel like "me", not exactly the same individual that played OoT initially, but not as dissimilar as I initially imagined. I had an idea in my head that, one day I would just "feel" like an adult, but that never really happened. Ostensibly I drink alcohol, go to work, do my taxes, for all intents and purposes, I am an adult, but in some ways still feel like the same kid that spent hours upon hours saving Hyrule. OoT meant so much to me, it was a perfect encapsulation of who I was at the time and who I wanted to be in the future. That being said, when I look back on the game now, it still perfectly represents who I was, but I still am that person in a lot of ways and I appreciate that a lot more than the vague idea of an "adult" I earnestly wanted to be. Thank you for the video, it gave me a lot to ponder and unlocked some warm memories aswell.
Bruh. I’m 34 also and played oot as a kid. I feel like the developers knew we would come back to it as an adult and put these nostalgic themes in the game’s subtext.
I'll be 34 in 2 months and feel the same...
The flow of time is always cruel... It's speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days...
Beautifully said. I relate.
Im 38 and feel the same
I was on my lunch break and just looking for something to watch and I saw this and thought “Another ocarina of time retrospective wouldn’t hurt” and I ended up sobbing. You so easily conveyed into words just how much this game still means to me, what I think and what I feel every time I remember it, this video essay is amazingggg
I’ve seen nearly every video essay of this game and just when I thought there was nothing left to say or hear about Ocarina of Time…this is one of the best video essays I’ve seen on this seminal game. Fantastic work. I hope this reaches far and wide
I'll sit by the fire and share my nostalgic story with you *sips his beer*
As a kid born in 93 I was a little young and not really good enough to beat OoT. That being said, I still rented it from the local movie gallery nearly every week. My brother who is 10yrs older used to get mad for always renting the same 2 games. OoT and smash. I played the heck out of that game. I watched my brother beat 1st 2 dungeons and I did all the exploring in-between. He never could figure out Lord jabu-jabu's puzzle with where to put princess rito.
At some point, I stopped renting the game because he wanted to explore other games. We never beat it. Years later my mom was at Jake's flea market, and she saw the game and picked it up for me for like $5. I believe I was now about 12 or 13 old and so excited to be reconnected to the game after a handful of years. Let me tell you that I beat lors jabu jabu. My mind was absolutely blown to the maximum when I realized there was master sword and pulling it made you an adult. I have never experienced something like that again. That has been a quest at this point in my life. Trying to discover something so mind blowing. Nothing has and nothing will. OoT is untouchable in that way to me.
Of course I proceeded to beat the game. What an absolute pleasure. I've played some fantastic games that I really love but OoT hands down takes the cake, and that's probably all thanks to my mom being an avid flea market goer. What a steal she got that day. Thanks mom!
As a fellow '93 baby I can totally relate.
Insanely cool that you only later learnt there was more game to play! I can only imagine the thrill of discovery when you got to pull the master sword and find out you're barely half way through.
Thanks for sitting by my fire, I'll raise a beer to thank my parents with you too. Without them, we wouldn't be who we are today.
As an '86 baby, having played LttP to death, OoT blew my mind in a way no other game has since
If you are an adult and you have never played OoT, don't bother testing it because it's too late for you (unless you understand what it's about after watching this video), give it to your children, your nephews or your friends kids, they will benefit much more from it than you! Thanks to this video I see why a lot of people have trouble understanding why this game is one of the best games ever created (in the top 3 without hesitation), how lucky I was to play it when I was a child!
Truly inspiring and wonderful. I can connect with all you said. 34 years old now. And I think you described it perfectly. Nostalgia, looking back, passing of time & changes. Wow!
Fantastic video. I didn't play Ocarina of Time until after Twilight Princess and yet somehow it still gives me so much nostalgia. When I first played it, I loved it, but not more than other Zelda games, but as time goes on I keep coming back to it more than any other game.
Just had a thought I'm not sure if I've seen mentioned anywhere before but...
The master sword is a metaphor for the OoT N64 cartridge, when young Link takes the sword out of the pedestal he becomes an adult. When adult Link puts the sword back into the pedestal, he is putting the cartridge back into the console to become a kid again. There was one day we took the cartridge out to put away our childish things and grew up, but we can still put the cartridge back in and become a kid again, if only briefly and still with our adult baggage, but it's always still there...
Crap I just finished the video!
I was gonna say! Stick around chief, because your mind is about to get blown 😂
In all seriousness though, thanks for watching, we’re clearly operating on a similar wavelength.
I’m not crying, you are.
Maybe we're both crying?
One of the best video essays ive seen in a while, even if I only played Ocarina of Time for the first time within the last 7 years... hmm....
I had to get off my bike and shed a tear at this. Thank you for such a beautifully written and heartfelt eulogy of ocarina, and your optimistic yet fair analysis of nostalgia. I will carry it with me for the next 7 years, and then some I hope :)
This is criminally underwatched. Beautiful piece with a truly unique take on this game!
Bless you for saying! I wanted to do something a little different to all the other retrospectives of the game - glad you enjoyed it!
This is hands down the greatest Ocarina of Time video I’ve ever watched .
Thank you so much for putting the work in to creating this masterpiece.
I’m 33 now, I beat this game as an 8 year old and it’s always been my favourite game due to how it made me feel as a young boy, thank you for putting such an intricate perspective on the nostalgia this game gives so many.
Once again best Ocarina of Time video on RUclips, thank you .
Not to denegrate this video and its original content but have you seen emceeprophit's analysis? His went through a lot of the symbolism stuff mentioned here 11 years ago. Well worth watching.
Great video. This hit the feels a bit. Hehe
To me there is a little meaning of "we all must grow up and see the darker side of the world" when playing this game. I played this game when I was 14 years old. It definitely a VERY important time of my life and this game really put a lot of things into perspective. It's not just easily one of the GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIMES, but like you said, the nostalgia of it really hits. I will never stop playing this game. I do put it away for sometime but every now and then I start new file and go back at it again! Hehe.
Once again, thanks for your video.
I wasn’t alive when oot came out, my brother had gotten the collectors edition for GameCube and that was my first experience with the game. Around then I put myself in the shoes of young link because I was close in age and Mat pats canonical height of link. Now I look back after school, after my childhood, watching this while clicking away working at my computer. Your words cut deep almost reading my subconscious on how I feel with this game. I always wish I could go back and play this game with my brother for the first time, time flies
Seriously thank you for this video
"In the blink of an eye, 7 years passed.."
Yeah, it goes just that fast too.
The days are long, but the years are short...
Crazy to think that’s also almost as long we had to wait between Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Where does the time go?
Beautiful essay, really invoked my own reminiscence into games as a kid!
It was such a pivotal game to me that I remember reading the instruction manual for the first time
This was a beautiful omage to ocarina of time and how it means so much to so many thank you for you elegant video
This is an amazing video on Ocarina of Time this along with Good Blood’s video makes me appreciate the game more than ever!
Brilliant video, thank you.
I’m so grateful to have been a child when this game came out and to grow up with the endless, treasured memories it gave me. I don’t think I have ever seen anyone discuss the meaning games have to us in such an eloquent way. And as someone who has spent a huge part of their professional career as a creative fighting to prove nostalgia has a deeper, more important place in our lives than just wanting to go back- thank you for exploring the many angles of this sort of dreamlike topic.
I have been a gamer all my life but Ocarina of Time is the only game I regularly make time to replay, probably at least once a year and now that I’m in my thirties, I can’t imagine any game that will ever mean as much to me.
This was such an interesting, well put together, and beautiful video. If you keep up this kind of content, I have no doubt you will have 50,000 subscribers by the end of the year. Kudos
Very well written and edited video. You really capture the essence and messages of Ocarina of Time by eloquently explaining the themes and plot. That is no easy feat and I applaud you good sir!
I had to like grow up a little bit to finally understand Ocarina of time. I got it Christmas of 2000. It had already been out for a while by that point. I was in second grade. My mom randomly bought it, she had no idea what type of games to buy me she just bought one that looked cool I guess. I didn't start playing it till fall 2001 because I got stuck in the first room of the Deku tree. I would just walk around the Lost Woods assuming that somewhere in there I can find another way out of the forest. I was also afraid of spiders so I couldn't go through the Deku tree. So I left the game go for about 10 months which in childhood time is forever. Then in fall 2001 I realized I could jump through the central web in the Deku Tree. Then it was pretty straightforward until I got stuck at the water temple for a year. I gave up. I always do look back to playing the game right after I got it though where I was afraid to go into the Deku tree. For like 2 weeks I would just explore the Lost Woods randomly thinking that eventually I can find a way out. You would find those areas that led to Goron City or Zora's domain but you couldn't get by the obstacle. The game seemed so vast. I assumed that once you got out of the forest you could go right into the castle and just start talking to the king of Hyrule. Now the game seems so small but I remember that feeling of wonder
Nice vid, you gave some uniqueness to the topic of everyone praising this game and just calling it the perfect experience and the perfect videogame etc.
I rememeber when OoT released, it was magical. But I did have some issues! Being the prequel to ALttP, we all knew Ganondorf would get the Triforce. But the plot twist that Link pulling out the Master Sword was what caused this to happen was amazing. Likewise, the second Triforce plot-twist was timeless: The Triforce split when Ganondorf touched it. This was different than what ALttP suggested, where Ganon wanted to break free, while holding the entire Triforce.
The problem was, you beat OoT and Ganon is sealed away with just one piece of the Triforce. He cursed the descendants of the Sages and Zelda, clearly directed at the story of ALttP. But one piece of Triforce is not the same as all 3 pieces when breaking the seal in ALttP.
This was hair pulling madness for fans at the time. Until Wind Waker became the new the sequel to OoT, and the Downfall defeat Timeline reversed the effects of that one plot-twist, and restore the original Zelda continuity.
From the visuals to the music to everything else, you perfectly captured the liminal comfort of this game that I’ve tried to put into words so many times. Wonderful essay ❤
Wow, thank you for saying! Committing my thoughts about Ocarina to words was one of the most challenging things I’ve had to do - really glad it resonated with you,
This video popped up at incredible timing for me. I’ve been ruminating on nostalgia and zelda whilst trying to come to terms with not enjoying totk as much as I expected to.
Thank you for creating this incredibly beautiful take on oot. It gave me a new perspective on myself as well as the game!
So glad the video arrived at the right time for you!
Writing this script got me going down a deep rabbit hole of understanding nostalgia on a emotional and personal level. I chatted with my parents about it a lot and got in touch with old friends I hadn't spoken to in a decade to try and get a better grasp of why this game has such a mythical quality.
TotK didn't chime with me as much as I expected it to either, but I like to think in 25 years time it might develop a passionate audience who see it with the same rose-tinted glasses that we do for OoT.
Oot is probably the most important game to me. My and my only girlfriend broke up and after 7 years we got back together and have been for 3 years now
Oot 7 years skip was the only thing I could think off. I feel like we are the same. She's no different to me as when we were teenagers. Now we are almost both 30 and still as nerdy together as ever.
Greatly written (so much so that this is the first time in probably a *long* time that I've commented, lol). Now I wanna talk about my own nostalgia for the game (in a video), because I know I've got quite the story to tell. It allows me to hold onto the memories of someone who I would otherwise love to completely forget about, as well as practically help save me from a toxic friendship (all the credit can't go to OoT there, but it certainly helped with forming the cracks). It's amazing what the game has done for me in the past 25 years, so much so that I can't even properly comprehend it all.
One thing I will say is that I imagine Link is rather lonely to a degree on his journey, given MM and his adventures and such (especially since, from an in-game perspective, practically all of his accomplishments are erased), and maybe I'm just spitballing the idea, but I feel a somewhat connect to that as two of my favourite characters in gaming ever are Navi and Kaepora Gaebora. *Maybe* it's just the child-like naivety in me talking, but I've never truly been able to see them the same way as most others seem to see them - and to me, they seem like friends watching out for you.
I feel extremely lucky that you felt compelled to leave a comment on my video and that it got you thinking about your own nostalgia for the game.
I agree with your idea that Link is a lonely character. Despite living amidst a bunch of children that share his age, Link is fundamentally an outcast in his own home. Even when he's called to adventure it's a quest he has to bear by himself (minus a few who follow you like Navi and Kaepora Gaebora like you mentioned). I guess this is a pragmatic approach to designing his character as you can easily slip into Link's shoes - he has no ties, nor any emotional bonds the game has to convince the player about. As a result, all the emotions we feel about the game arise organically, his memories are our memories and vice versa.
I just subscribed to you so if you do get around to gathering your thoughts in a video I'll be sure to watch.
@@eyebrowowl9292 I pretty much agree, the only outlier there I feel is maybe Saria, although maybe she's that good-hearted a character that we as the player sort of "impose" such a friendship there (or at least she's a tie-in to Kokiri Forest - someone who spends their entire life in their home town, that Link shares, and you get to see what they're place is like 7 years later); although what's stumped me most I think is how Link reacts towards her as he takes his first steps into Hyrule Field and after receiving the Fairy Ocarina (maybe I'll figure it out as I make my own video). Plus, Mido was also envious towards both Link and Saria for being chosen by the Deku Tree - but you see the change in him too over time (definitely a pretty cool scene when you talk to him as Adult Link after playing Saria's Song for him).
Thanks so much! *minks!* I'll do my best not to disappoint!
Wow. All I can say is wow. And thank you.
My top 10 ALL TIME 🛡️🙏
#1 Majora’s Mask
#2 Twilight Princess
#3 A Link Between Worlds
#4 Ocarina of Time
#5 Breath of the Wild
#6 A Link To The Past
#7 Minish Cap
#8 Zelda 2: Adventures of Link
#9 Link’s Awakening
#10 Original Legend of Zelda
This game means so much to and yeah the water temple is actually awesome especially if you play the remake I wanna make a video this game as well
Amazing video
Thank you!
One night, before i opened the door of time, i had a nightmare that it housed a freaky monster
Turns out, the monster was us all along.
Hell yeah, Aristotle 😎
Hell yeah
Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you!
the goat lol never played it on n64 but 3ds remaster was goated as hell lol
I am so glad to see that you are a mature enough person to recognize that you love this game for where it took place in your life.
I must say, I usually walk away from an OoT video with a great annoyance at the author and especially the comments, who all seem frustratingly blind to what they are recalling. The game is not interesting because its the best thing ever made and it should be pushed on people like gamer evangelization, its interesting because the story it tells is relevant to the generation that played it...its just sad that the hardcore fans of that game in particular seemingly cant understand that you can replay the game but you cant replay your childhood, its better to leave it as it is and learn to make new memories.
The water temple only sucks if you suck.
Nah, it has those two keys that are easy to miss. The mid water level one with a bomb and the one under the main raising area.
What the fuck is an Ocareener?
Too many video essays at this point.