Sometimes I feel RUclips is over saturated with Zelda content all talking about the same things and then every once in a while an actual insightful video comes out. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Love the personal testimonies with awesome nostalgic visuals/edits. Thank you for these 25 minutes 🙏🏼 lol
I still remember this all so vividly, even 20 years later. I was 4 years old when I started playing Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask with my mother, and really got into Zelda after those games. I was subscribed to a Dutch magazine called [N]Gamer, focused only on Nintendo related games. I remember getting excited for this game SO well, and waited for updates every month until release. Unfortunately for me, the Wii was sold out when it released, so I had to wait another week before I was able to play it. The Twilight Princess CD on my desk just waiting there felt like literal torture to a little kid, haha Still my favourite Zelda game to this day, this thing was my childhood. Thank you for making this great video.
This has quickly become a top tier gaming channel for me - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every video released since stumbling upon this channel a few days ago!
Twilight Princess came out when I was 6, and I recall begging my parents to let me get it. Got too scared once I made it to the twilight realm and didn't come back for almost a decade, but now it's one of my favorite Wii releases. Thanks for the nostalgia trip - sending good vibes to you and your channel in the new year!
Twilight princess and skyward sword are still my favorite Zelda games of all time and just hope that I will get a chance to play a new Zelda like them sometime in the future. Great video and nostalgia trip.
14:40, So here's an odd addendum about Satomi Asakawa specifically: Not too long after the release of TP (around 2013 or so), she left Nintendo. There are a couple of quotes going around here and there about how she pursued therapy because she acted as an emotional support for various members of her teams while at Nintendo, BUT just a little bit of digging (pretty much just googling her) shows that the "therapy" organization she's currently part of is a group that's more akin to a cult, which has had multiple pretty serious allegations against its founder for taking advantage of vulnerable individuals who join it, etc. Also, she did the voices for Beth, the kid from Ordon village that isn't Colin, Malo, or Talo. Neat.
I didn't get into the loz series until twilight princess when my friend who was also my neighbor introduced me to it. He wad exploring the mansion dungeon and letting off little quips like calling it a party whenever link would swing that ball and chain. It was absolutely hilarious and I begged him to let me play through it after he finished.
That first sneak peek video dropped when i was in probably 5th grade. We didn't have internet at home so I would watch the video every time we went to the library. 2 years felt so long to wait at that age. My brother went to the midnight release of the Wii while I was marching in the band for 7th grade in the town's christmas parade. When I woke up the next morning my dad had also bought me the strategy guide. shortly after we had a huge ice storm that shut everything down and kept me out of school for almost 2 weeks. I marathon ran through the game, It is very special to me and this video brought back all those memories just from the title
Was just thinking about replaying through Twilight Princess last night for the first time since launch. Perfect timing on this one and great video as always.
I still remember playing this on my older brothers Gamecube in his room, I sadly could never fully finish it. I was bit too young to fully understand every quest and my brother lost the memory card with our saves after lending it to a friend. I did finally finished it years later though when I got my Wii U version (same thing with Wind Waker haha). Did enjoy the game a lot and could appreciated the dark atmosphere a lot more. I still really like the wolf Link with Midna amiibo that came with it. Thanks for the good video and the nostalgia.
Twilight Princess was my first Zelda game, and it has such a special place in my heart. I remember talking to friends about different Nintendo games and mentioned never playing a Zelda game before. They both stopped and slowly looked at me and asked what systems I had, and before I knew it, one of them had lent me her GameCube copy plus the strategy guide. I have been hooked ever since. I appreciate the way you went over the Nintendo Power info as I haven't heard a lot about it, but it is very insightful!
great video dude - you took me back and I feel so much just watching this video. Twilight Princess felt like a dream to me, the unlimited possibilities traveled through my mind as a kid, seeing each and every possible sneak peek made me so curious. I always for some reason felt such a strange feeling seeing Zelda in the dark cloak, it felt so ominous, mysterious.
Thank you for that video. It’s like you described my waiting journey for twilight princess back in the day. I also got that dvd where they show the event with that costumes and statues, but I couldn’t remember from which magazine that was, also I don’t have the dvd anymore. But you showed the exact footage I had in my head for so many years. Wow. Glad I saw your video today. Thank you.
I didn't start collecting Nintendo Powers until the Wii era, but i do remember seeing the trailer for Twilight Princess and it being one of the earliest games (if not one of the first) my siblings and I got for the console. Absolutely stellar game and still one of my favorites in the series. This video was really nostalgic, thinking about how my siblings and I would pass the magazine around, looking through the news, reviews, opinions, e3, etc. Super well done. You've been making stellar content all year, can't wait to see what you make next year!
Growing up I didn't know about Mario or Zelda games. I had a game boy advance but for some reason I never really took an interest in those games. I eventually got a Wii and got into mario kart and Super Mario Galaxy. Years later, in 2011, I was in Blockbuster renting out some games, as they had a promotion for 2x1. I saw Twilight Princess on the shelves, only one copy as the others had been rented. The cover looked incredible. I looked in the back of the box and the images made the game look like a cool adventure game, so I picked it up alongside I don't know what else. But it didn't matter, for I only played Zelda. The game engrossed me and immersed me like no other game I had ever played. The story, the world, the characters, the music, combat, everything... I fell in love with the game. I rented it once again when the renting time was over, and after that I was determined to get a copy. I saved up enough money to buy the Nintendo Selects version a few months later, and boy, it was incredible. 70+ hours later, I saw the end of the adventure. It left a mark on me. No other game had felt like that, until I played Skyrim in 2014. Twilight Princess is still one of my favorite Zelda games, since then I've played through all the 3D games and some of the 2D ones. But Twilight Princess is special among the others.
Wow. Seeing you flip through those old magazines brought back memories of excitedly reading Nintendo Power at recess, memories I didn't know were still there. Thanks for the fun ride.
Camobot, this was an outstanding video! You managed to bring out so many warm emotions with your direction here. I imagine this video took a lot of work, so great job all around. Like many others, I came up in a Nintendo household, but I was never tuned into 'videogame news' unless there was a commercial on Cartoon Network xD. I do remember hearing about TP in school, and one of my friends got the game before I did for their birthday which had me very jealous. Eventually my turn came :).
I really enjoy theses videos explaining some specific time frames ones such as myself could not follow properly as we weren't fully aware of what was going on in the gaming space back then =)
Twilight Princess came out at the right time for me. I was new in another city in December and was told to wait for August until I could continue going to school, as I didn't manage to find a job with 16. I preordered the game at my local GameStop for my Gamecube and waited there the morning of the release date as only person, until they finally opened the doors. At home I played it 12 hours straight. I can't recall too much of my previous hype then except for trailers and forums, but for someone who basically almost lost all contacts from one day to another (I had to wait 6 months for a technician until I could use internet & phone at home), it was the perfect comfort-game for me.
Not only this one but the beginning of the gamecube hype cycle reading gaming magazines was just the best thing ever in gaming to me, even if I didnt have any way of playing the games its so amazing what our imagination can do with just some pics and the articles talking about the games, it really is something only pre broadband internet people could experience and now I really look to it with a lot of nostalgia, more nostalgia than when I actually was able to play the games themselves years later during the wii era. This kind of video format is so good man, but its probably very niche aimed mostly at people like us who grew up on it.
It's been a long time since I've been this thoroughly invested and happy from watching a video. This is the one. Your style is great. Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild are the best.
i never knew what zelda was. i remember going to my cousin's house (i was nine) one day, she had the wii, and had just gotten the game. i used to clean her room for her, and in return she would let me sit and play zelda for hours. when i moved away, i didn't touch the game again until i was around 13, but i thought about it every day. now i'm almost 30, and this is still my absolute favourite zelda game, i play it yearly and i hope we get a new zelda game with the same style and dark story just like twilight princess. gritty zelda is my favourite zelda
I was 10 when this game came out and it's still one of my favorite games ever. I still remember being amazed by the twilight realm and it's music! A true classic
9:35 when I was a kid, me and my older brother were obsessed with Zelda and he stole the dvd from the magazine at the store and my dad was so mad at him, but we watched it together and it was so hype. He didn’t regret stealing that in particular lol
This was the first gaming hype cycle I ever got involved with, to the point that I got the game before the console to play it on. The way it was being built up was like it was going to be the greatest game ever.
When all this was happening I was in college and I kinda lost interest in videogames for like a decade. I love learning about this era of gaming, it feels really exciting, even for an outsider. When I was a kid I sometimes got in my hands some imported (super expensive) NES-era Nintendo Power issues and I treasured them like nothing else. I didn't even knew they continued into the 2000's! I love your videos, thank you for your work.
Man. I was a 12 year old middle schooler when this came out. The hype was real. I still remember discussing fan theories on the old GameFAQS message boards and pouring over a friend’s Nintendo power st school…a bygone era
Woah you really did your homework! I forgot about going to official websites for upcoming games, that really took me back ha. I am jealous you experienced TP on the GameCube first. I unfortunately bought a Wii on release with TP and the motion controls left a terrible impression on me. It wouldn’t be until years later I would revisit it on the GameCube and realized how cool of a Zelda game it is. Wind waker will always be my favorite though 😉
I loved finding this channel with the Magic Pengel video. I find it rather funny there is a other game on the PS2 with the same gimmick named Graffiti Kingdom. With me talking about the PS2 I want to bring up Mercury Meltdown Remix that happened to have both a PS2 and a Wii release. I made this comment very late.
I remember that hype, feelt like waiting 4 years, and when it released gc version got delayed but not wii version which sucked for me that couldn't afford a wii. Also funny the swedish tv station broadcasted the launch trailer before the morning news. great memories 😊
I got it a few years after release for the Wii and after playing the intro couldn't continue for a few years, because my mother wasn't a fan of me playing games before being of the rated age, in this case 12+(Luckily, I didn't have to care about that anymore when the WiiU came out because of the eShop making it incredibly easy to sneak such purchases when parents don't care to mess with parental controls). Once I was old enough to play again, it was certainly a game alright. I was actually frequently overhelmed with the massive dungeons and in some cases actively begged the game to give me the warpchicken already so I could stop playing for the day without having to walk back in, though that may also have been linked to me getting exhausted from motion controls fairly quickly in an adventure game context.
For at the time when they annonce the game was launching on wii first i got scared that the gamecube version will be cancel i remember still in november 2006 store did still dont know when the gamecube version will came out and i finally i saw a nintendo rep at a store that said to me that the game will coming mid december so my mom give me the money to get the game so i can open it for christmas !!! I went to the store almost every day to see if the game as came out !!!
The marketing of Twilight Princess still colors my view of the game even now. I still really want to play the version of the game they promised up until the delay in 2005. As of now, I've tried replaying the game probably like 6 or 7 times and I cannot bring myself to fully judge the game for what it is. I cannot let go of the expectations promised by its marketing which it fell so very short of. The good news is I felt that Breath of the Wild finally delivered on a lot of what they promised for Twilight Princess. Even with that satisfaction with Breath of the Wild though, when I last replayed Twilight Princess, I could not help but be disappointed for it not living up to these trailers, screenshots, and interviews.
I remember being on the Nsider forums during this time and it was nuts. Once the second trailer hit with the wolf at the end everyone started loosing their minds thinking Link would turn into said wolf and til this day I’m convinced Nintendo saw this and changed the game to make that a thing lol.
Fuck I 2as so hyped as a kid for the TP reveal. I remember looking up info one day and reading a rumor that the plot was Gannon crashing link and zelda's wedding and stealing away zelda. I think I might have stumbled upon a fanfic guised as a game blog....
Folks who dont understand why TP was so hyped: The general public wanted that Spaceworld 2000 tech demo graphics and we got burned with TWW. So Nintendo reeled back to the "what OoT could've looked like" sentiment and TP was born. Art style alone carried the hype.
When was the title revealed? I know it went from The Legend of Zelda to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but I think that part wasn't clearly covered in the video.
They went on about realism, but to me, this was just the continuation of Ocarina's style. After all, they made Link look very close to his artwork from Ocarina, and Ocarina's environment was always striving for naturalism with its textures and design. Both have those cartoonish characters, but Twilight is unfortunately in that awkward spot with its limitations. I know the story of TP s development describes a begrudging appeasement to Western fans, but I never really wanted Lord of the Rings....exactly. I wanted more Ocarina....or a continuation of that vision. Truthfully, I did want a straight sequel and to see storylines continue directly, but I also was grateful for what we got....a continuation in the same world of that legend. All the early stuff pointed to such a thing, and really these are not hardcore or gritty features we were asking for. Sprawling landscapes, high mountains, deep forests, monstrous beasts, elaborate dungeons and ruins and lore....more lore than I'll know what to do with. When you look at Ocarina's enemies and attempted landscapes, Twilight Princess is just attempting the same dream. For the most part, I was happy until the Twilight Realm stuff started showing up. Who is the cartoon cat demon? What's the techno portal? I had hoped the Wolf would be related to the Dark World. You see....much of the groundwork for what fans wanted was already there, in the series thusfar....Lord of the Rings being released just sort of supplemented everything, lol. I dreamed of a story and a world steeped in the ancient....the old Hyrule. What we got was a lot of omission and a lot of new and strange. I love the game, but I was just beginning to realize the Zelda approach, strange new shake-ups and vague references to what came before. I was definitely a kid who liked answers and classic Zelda, so the Twilight business didn't stick right away. I dreamed of this game for an age it seemed, I thought that world would endlessly provide and feed my soul, haha. Halcyon days...
this video is as always very good. but it made me sad. things like miyamoto with a sword on stage just dont happen anymore. everything is less fun than it was back then and its definitely not because im an old grandpa. same with the nintendo power magazines.
Do to being poor I never got to play Wind or Twilight til the end of 2010 or so when I got a jerb as a rent a cop. They are both really awesome games, screw that triforce hunt though, bad padding at its finest.
The problem with the game was a lack of passion, no clear direction, and trying too hard to be something it was not. If they didn't feel the need to make it so "epic" and living up to the standard of Ocarina, they would have made a better game in shorter time. I played through it recently for the first time since 2007 and it really does reflect frustration and lack of interest in the final product. The humor and charm of Zelda is gone in this one. This game is the equivalent of Mulder losing the X files. He just becomes a dude that still works for the FBI, but the life is gone.
The animation of Link sheathing his sword is so dumb and out of character for he’s never known to be a flexer or a show-off not to mention it’s highly unrealistic physically.
I still have my gamecube and zelda collectors edition copy that it came with. Thats what made me start playing zelda. I had nothing else to play and once i played i could not stop been playing zelda ever since. We need a real 2nd windwaker thats open world like botw totk.
Seeing those old Nintendo Power covers took me back more than I could've expected. Makes me miss print media being viable sources of gaming news.
Nintendo Power made some chef's kiss covers
I don't think anything will ever top the feeling of playing Twilight Princess for the first time. I've been chasing that high ever since.
Same.😔
I remember seeing the npcs move there lips as they were emoting. It blew my mind as a kid.
Sometimes I feel RUclips is over saturated with Zelda content all talking about the same things and then every once in a while an actual insightful video comes out. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Love the personal testimonies with awesome nostalgic visuals/edits. Thank you for these 25 minutes 🙏🏼 lol
I still remember this all so vividly, even 20 years later. I was 4 years old when I started playing Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask with my mother, and really got into Zelda after those games. I was subscribed to a Dutch magazine called [N]Gamer, focused only on Nintendo related games. I remember getting excited for this game SO well, and waited for updates every month until release. Unfortunately for me, the Wii was sold out when it released, so I had to wait another week before I was able to play it. The Twilight Princess CD on my desk just waiting there felt like literal torture to a little kid, haha
Still my favourite Zelda game to this day, this thing was my childhood. Thank you for making this great video.
This has quickly become a top tier gaming channel for me - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every video released since stumbling upon this channel a few days ago!
Thanks for watching!
Twilight Princess came out when I was 6, and I recall begging my parents to let me get it. Got too scared once I made it to the twilight realm and didn't come back for almost a decade, but now it's one of my favorite Wii releases. Thanks for the nostalgia trip - sending good vibes to you and your channel in the new year!
@justkosmo6806 The Twilight realm was so freaky as a kid haha
Twilight princess and skyward sword are still my favorite Zelda games of all time and just hope that I will get a chance to play a new Zelda like them sometime in the future. Great video and nostalgia trip.
14:40, So here's an odd addendum about Satomi Asakawa specifically: Not too long after the release of TP (around 2013 or so), she left Nintendo. There are a couple of quotes going around here and there about how she pursued therapy because she acted as an emotional support for various members of her teams while at Nintendo, BUT just a little bit of digging (pretty much just googling her) shows that the "therapy" organization she's currently part of is a group that's more akin to a cult, which has had multiple pretty serious allegations against its founder for taking advantage of vulnerable individuals who join it, etc.
Also, she did the voices for Beth, the kid from Ordon village that isn't Colin, Malo, or Talo. Neat.
I didn't get into the loz series until twilight princess when my friend who was also my neighbor introduced me to it. He wad exploring the mansion dungeon and letting off little quips like calling it a party whenever link would swing that ball and chain. It was absolutely hilarious and I begged him to let me play through it after he finished.
@@Lucario7280 Love the story haha thanks for sharing
Fantastic video, Camobot! Great way to close out 2024 with a huge nostalgia bullet. Cheers dude.
@@ArtDadDraws Thanks for the comment!
That first sneak peek video dropped when i was in probably 5th grade. We didn't have internet at home so I would watch the video every time we went to the library. 2 years felt so long to wait at that age. My brother went to the midnight release of the Wii while I was marching in the band for 7th grade in the town's christmas parade. When I woke up the next morning my dad had also bought me the strategy guide. shortly after we had a huge ice storm that shut everything down and kept me out of school for almost 2 weeks. I marathon ran through the game, It is very special to me and this video brought back all those memories just from the title
Was just thinking about replaying through Twilight Princess last night for the first time since launch. Perfect timing on this one and great video as always.
I still remember playing this on my older brothers Gamecube in his room, I sadly could never fully finish it. I was bit too young to fully understand every quest and my brother lost the memory card with our saves after lending it to a friend.
I did finally finished it years later though when I got my Wii U version (same thing with Wind Waker haha). Did enjoy the game a lot and could appreciated the dark atmosphere a lot more. I still really like the wolf Link with Midna amiibo that came with it. Thanks for the good video and the nostalgia.
@@PrimordialFire98 Thanks for the story and comment 😀 the hd versions are great
Twilight Princess was my first Zelda game, and it has such a special place in my heart. I remember talking to friends about different Nintendo games and mentioned never playing a Zelda game before. They both stopped and slowly looked at me and asked what systems I had, and before I knew it, one of them had lent me her GameCube copy plus the strategy guide. I have been hooked ever since. I appreciate the way you went over the Nintendo Power info as I haven't heard a lot about it, but it is very insightful!
great video dude - you took me back and I feel so much just watching this video. Twilight Princess felt like a dream to me, the unlimited possibilities traveled through my mind as a kid, seeing each and every possible sneak peek made me so curious. I always for some reason felt such a strange feeling seeing Zelda in the dark cloak, it felt so ominous, mysterious.
Thank you for that video. It’s like you described my waiting journey for twilight princess back in the day. I also got that dvd where they show the event with that costumes and statues, but I couldn’t remember from which magazine that was, also I don’t have the dvd anymore. But you showed the exact footage I had in my head for so many years. Wow. Glad I saw your video today. Thank you.
Im so glad people are finally paying their respects to Twillight princess, arguably the best Zelda game , this one and OTT are at the top
I didn't start collecting Nintendo Powers until the Wii era, but i do remember seeing the trailer for Twilight Princess and it being one of the earliest games (if not one of the first) my siblings and I got for the console. Absolutely stellar game and still one of my favorites in the series.
This video was really nostalgic, thinking about how my siblings and I would pass the magazine around, looking through the news, reviews, opinions, e3, etc. Super well done. You've been making stellar content all year, can't wait to see what you make next year!
Growing up I didn't know about Mario or Zelda games. I had a game boy advance but for some reason I never really took an interest in those games. I eventually got a Wii and got into mario kart and Super Mario Galaxy. Years later, in 2011, I was in Blockbuster renting out some games, as they had a promotion for 2x1. I saw Twilight Princess on the shelves, only one copy as the others had been rented. The cover looked incredible. I looked in the back of the box and the images made the game look like a cool adventure game, so I picked it up alongside I don't know what else. But it didn't matter, for I only played Zelda.
The game engrossed me and immersed me like no other game I had ever played. The story, the world, the characters, the music, combat, everything... I fell in love with the game. I rented it once again when the renting time was over, and after that I was determined to get a copy. I saved up enough money to buy the Nintendo Selects version a few months later, and boy, it was incredible. 70+ hours later, I saw the end of the adventure. It left a mark on me. No other game had felt like that, until I played Skyrim in 2014. Twilight Princess is still one of my favorite Zelda games, since then I've played through all the 3D games and some of the 2D ones. But Twilight Princess is special among the others.
Wow. Seeing you flip through those old magazines brought back memories of excitedly reading Nintendo Power at recess, memories I didn't know were still there. Thanks for the fun ride.
Camobot, this was an outstanding video! You managed to bring out so many warm emotions with your direction here. I imagine this video took a lot of work, so great job all around.
Like many others, I came up in a Nintendo household, but I was never tuned into 'videogame news' unless there was a commercial on Cartoon Network xD. I do remember hearing about TP in school, and one of my friends got the game before I did for their birthday which had me very jealous. Eventually my turn came :).
I'm glad you liked it!
I really enjoy theses videos explaining some specific time frames ones such as myself could not follow properly as we weren't fully aware of what was going on in the gaming space back then =)
Twilight Princess came out at the right time for me.
I was new in another city in December and was told to wait for August until I could continue going to school, as I didn't manage to find a job with 16.
I preordered the game at my local GameStop for my Gamecube and waited there the morning of the release date as only person, until they finally opened the doors. At home I played it 12 hours straight.
I can't recall too much of my previous hype then except for trailers and forums, but for someone who basically almost lost all contacts from one day to another (I had to wait 6 months for a technician until I could use internet & phone at home), it was the perfect comfort-game for me.
19:29 ooh typo spotted
(also, so glad i discovered your channel, love your stuff!!)
Not only this one but the beginning of the gamecube hype cycle reading gaming magazines was just the best thing ever in gaming to me, even if I didnt have any way of playing the games its so amazing what our imagination can do with just some pics and the articles talking about the games, it really is something only pre broadband internet people could experience and now I really look to it with a lot of nostalgia, more nostalgia than when I actually was able to play the games themselves years later during the wii era.
This kind of video format is so good man, but its probably very niche aimed mostly at people like us who grew up on it.
It's been a long time since I've been this thoroughly invested and happy from watching a video. This is the one. Your style is great. Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild are the best.
This was really rad to see, I had no idea there was so much hype behind Twilight Princess back in the day
i never knew what zelda was. i remember going to my cousin's house (i was nine) one day, she had the wii, and had just gotten the game. i used to clean her room for her, and in return she would let me sit and play zelda for hours. when i moved away, i didn't touch the game again until i was around 13, but i thought about it every day. now i'm almost 30, and this is still my absolute favourite zelda game, i play it yearly and i hope we get a new zelda game with the same style and dark story just like twilight princess. gritty zelda is my favourite zelda
I was 10 when this game came out and it's still one of my favorite games ever. I still remember being amazed by the twilight realm and it's music! A true classic
as a zelda fan born in 2004, i definitely feel ancient when i can remember the jumps that gaming made over just 20 years
9:35 when I was a kid, me and my older brother were obsessed with Zelda and he stole the dvd from the magazine at the store and my dad was so mad at him, but we watched it together and it was so hype. He didn’t regret stealing that in particular lol
I remember litterally shaking when I loaded up the game in my GameCube. I couldn't believe this moment was real.
Was always cool to get these magazines when I was a child and see all this cool stuff I couldn't have at the time 🤣🤣
My first Zelda game! It is still my favourite! I played after playing Okami so obviously I fell in love with Wolf Link ❤️
I was 18 by that time and never felt a hype cycle as intense as that.
5:38 the WARRIOR WITHIN POSTER YESSSS 🔥
This was the first gaming hype cycle I ever got involved with, to the point that I got the game before the console to play it on. The way it was being built up was like it was going to be the greatest game ever.
This is a great video. I remember the hype for TOTK. And at that time, how it felt a little bit like dejavu.
When all this was happening I was in college and I kinda lost interest in videogames for like a decade. I love learning about this era of gaming, it feels really exciting, even for an outsider. When I was a kid I sometimes got in my hands some imported (super expensive) NES-era Nintendo Power issues and I treasured them like nothing else. I didn't even knew they continued into the 2000's!
I love your videos, thank you for your work.
@@bareto Thanks for the comment!
I still use the "Game Journo's Reacting To Twilight Princess Trailer" meme format to this day occasionally haha.
Man. I was a 12 year old middle schooler when this came out. The hype was real. I still remember discussing fan theories on the old GameFAQS message boards and pouring over a friend’s Nintendo power st school…a bygone era
Loved the magazine era and excitedly waiting for TP!
Woah you really did your homework! I forgot about going to official websites for upcoming games, that really took me back ha. I am jealous you experienced TP on the GameCube first. I unfortunately bought a Wii on release with TP and the motion controls left a terrible impression on me. It wouldn’t be until years later I would revisit it on the GameCube and realized how cool of a Zelda game it is. Wind waker will always be my favorite though 😉
@@hiaceadventurevan3929 Funny I always felt like the Wii version was a novelty that I missed haha
the game featured in the first two trailers, that’s a game I’d like to try some day
amazing video for my favorite zelda of all time
Clicked the video for twilight princess, stayed because of the DGD tee shirt!
I loved finding this channel with the Magic Pengel video.
I find it rather funny there is a other game on the PS2 with the same gimmick named Graffiti Kingdom.
With me talking about the PS2 I want to bring up Mercury Meltdown Remix that happened to have both a PS2 and a Wii release.
I made this comment very late.
@@all-aroundhelper Graffiti Kingdom video is coming up next 🙂
Love this, subscribed
I remember that hype, feelt like waiting 4 years, and when it released gc version got delayed but not wii version which sucked for me that couldn't afford a wii. Also funny the swedish tv station broadcasted the launch trailer before the morning news. great memories 😊
I got it a few years after release for the Wii and after playing the intro couldn't continue for a few years, because my mother wasn't a fan of me playing games before being of the rated age, in this case 12+(Luckily, I didn't have to care about that anymore when the WiiU came out because of the eShop making it incredibly easy to sneak such purchases when parents don't care to mess with parental controls).
Once I was old enough to play again, it was certainly a game alright. I was actually frequently overhelmed with the massive dungeons and in some cases actively begged the game to give me the warpchicken already so I could stop playing for the day without having to walk back in, though that may also have been linked to me getting exhausted from motion controls fairly quickly in an adventure game context.
Awesome video, made me sub!
finally a Zelda content that's not over-recycled garbage with theories and bs. :DD
For at the time when they annonce the game was launching on wii first i got scared that the gamecube version will be cancel i remember still in november 2006 store did still dont know when the gamecube version will came out and i finally i saw a nintendo rep at a store that said to me that the game will coming mid december so my mom give me the money to get the game so i can open it for christmas !!! I went to the store almost every day to see if the game as came out !!!
The marketing of Twilight Princess still colors my view of the game even now. I still really want to play the version of the game they promised up until the delay in 2005. As of now, I've tried replaying the game probably like 6 or 7 times and I cannot bring myself to fully judge the game for what it is. I cannot let go of the expectations promised by its marketing which it fell so very short of. The good news is I felt that Breath of the Wild finally delivered on a lot of what they promised for Twilight Princess. Even with that satisfaction with Breath of the Wild though, when I last replayed Twilight Princess, I could not help but be disappointed for it not living up to these trailers, screenshots, and interviews.
I remember being on the Nsider forums during this time and it was nuts. Once the second trailer hit with the wolf at the end everyone started loosing their minds thinking Link would turn into said wolf and til this day I’m convinced Nintendo saw this and changed the game to make that a thing lol.
that's awesome haha
I bought this game for the wii in 2022 for £10 and loved it. I wish Nintendo would mesh BOTW's overworld with TP's dungeons and art style
Fuck I 2as so hyped as a kid for the TP reveal. I remember looking up info one day and reading a rumor that the plot was Gannon crashing link and zelda's wedding and stealing away zelda. I think I might have stumbled upon a fanfic guised as a game blog....
Folks who dont understand why TP was so hyped:
The general public wanted that Spaceworld 2000 tech demo graphics and we got burned with TWW. So Nintendo reeled back to the "what OoT could've looked like" sentiment and TP was born. Art style alone carried the hype.
I remmber me and my brothers hyped for Skyward Sword more than any other game.
Can you imagine fans complaining about getting exactly what they wanted?
That's what happened with Twilight Princess.
Surprised you didn't mention that weird Twilight Princess DS cart that had the trailer on it that was given out at E3
@@Zylotic83 @Zylotic83 I thought about it! It was pretty weird but also nothing special
When was the title revealed? I know it went from The Legend of Zelda to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but I think that part wasn't clearly covered in the video.
I mentioned the 2005 trailer gave it the Twilight Princess subtitle!
I’m A Simple Guy, I see Twilight princess content I click 🙂↕️
Nintendo Power was amazing. I also had PC Gamer for a little bit and in comparison NP was unmatched.
Lucky guy i was too poor to get a gamecube lol but i did end up getting ps2 and xbox
10:26 it feels so weird to see the r button instead of the z button
i think one of the greatest hype cicles in gaming was smash ultimate or the final fantasy 7 remake
I don’t think anything touched the fun of the Brawl hype train
They went on about realism, but to me, this was just the continuation of Ocarina's style. After all, they made Link look very close to his artwork from Ocarina, and Ocarina's environment was always striving for naturalism with its textures and design. Both have those cartoonish characters, but Twilight is unfortunately in that awkward spot with its limitations. I know the story of TP
s development describes a begrudging appeasement to Western fans, but I never really wanted Lord of the Rings....exactly. I wanted more Ocarina....or a continuation of that vision. Truthfully, I did want a straight sequel and to see storylines continue directly, but I also was grateful for what we got....a continuation in the same world of that legend. All the early stuff pointed to such a thing, and really these are not hardcore or gritty features we were asking for. Sprawling landscapes, high mountains, deep forests, monstrous beasts, elaborate dungeons and ruins and lore....more lore than I'll know what to do with. When you look at Ocarina's enemies and attempted landscapes, Twilight Princess is just attempting the same dream. For the most part, I was happy until the Twilight Realm stuff started showing up. Who is the cartoon cat demon? What's the techno portal? I had hoped the Wolf would be related to the Dark World. You see....much of the groundwork for what fans wanted was already there, in the series thusfar....Lord of the Rings being released just sort of supplemented everything, lol. I dreamed of a story and a world steeped in the ancient....the old Hyrule. What we got was a lot of omission and a lot of new and strange. I love the game, but I was just beginning to realize the Zelda approach, strange new shake-ups and vague references to what came before. I was definitely a kid who liked answers and classic Zelda, so the Twilight business didn't stick right away. I dreamed of this game for an age it seemed, I thought that world would endlessly provide and feed my soul, haha. Halcyon days...
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this video is as always very good. but it made me sad. things like miyamoto with a sword on stage just dont happen anymore. everything is less fun than it was back then and its definitely not because im an old grandpa. same with the nintendo power magazines.
Do to being poor I never got to play Wind or Twilight til the end of 2010 or so when I got a jerb as a rent a cop. They are both really awesome games, screw that triforce hunt though, bad padding at its finest.
I was here!
The problem with the game was a lack of passion, no clear direction, and trying too hard to be something it was not. If they didn't feel the need to make it so "epic" and living up to the standard of Ocarina, they would have made a better game in shorter time. I played through it recently for the first time since 2007 and it really does reflect frustration and lack of interest in the final product. The humor and charm of Zelda is gone in this one. This game is the equivalent of Mulder losing the X files. He just becomes a dude that still works for the FBI, but the life is gone.
I always found it interesting how much flak people game Skywards opening when Twilights is longer and not as interesting.
What are you talking about? TP’s opening is an incredibly common criticism about the game
Really wish it was a video about the game. Not what I just watched. That's on me for not reading the title better.
I was not here!
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The animation of Link sheathing his sword is so dumb and out of character for he’s never known to be a flexer or a show-off not to mention it’s highly unrealistic physically.
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I still have my gamecube and zelda collectors edition copy that it came with. Thats what made me start playing zelda. I had nothing else to play and once i played i could not stop been playing zelda ever since. We need a real 2nd windwaker thats open world like botw totk.