It's because while the island is a dream of the windfish, it's still in the real world. They exist, and want to continue to. The island fades but the clouds and the water around it stay. It's a melancholic adventure about destroying a whole island for the greater good.
@@wildfire9280 to be fair the nightmares would’ve destroyed everything had link done nothing. And only defeating them would’ve allowed the windfish to awaken either way. There would’ve been to way for anyone on the island to live on unfortunately. At least here both the wind fish himself, link, and the memories of the dream can live on.
Link looks downright heartbroken at 13:03... like he’s reflecting on the gravity of what just happened, like losing Marin (or the fact he’s pretty much responsible for erasing all his new friends and everyone he met from existence)... Poor guy. I love how the anime ending shows his emotions here. Makes a brilliantly bittersweet ending all the stronger.
Like the Windfish says, eventually all dreams must end. The nightmares invaded that realm and forced it stay in place, unchanging. Link merely restores the natural order.
@Kyle Hughes The Nightmares themselves believed their existence was tied to the Wind Fish continuing to sleep. That lends me to think that whatever "invaded" meant, they were still products of the Wind Fish who wished to continue existing along with the world they loved (granted, the world they wanted to rule with evil intent, but still). They held Koholint over their own existence. When defeated by Link, they lament Koholint fate over themselves. The whole situation is far from black and white. On one hand, you have the Wind Fish who is being kept in an eternal sleep and Link who might die the longer he's stuck on Koholint but on the other hand, you have the dream beings who are clearly sapient beings with lives and hopes for the future. Only the Nightmares had that awareness of Link's adventure being the end of all their lives, but I wonder how all of Link's friends would react if they knew Link would be ending all of their existences.
*"Please, don't ever forget this song. . . . Or me. . . ."* This game is timeless, and so are the memories and emotions. Like the Ballad of the Wind Fish, they will never fade. Marin and Koholint Island will live on in the minds and hearts of all who love this wonderful game.
Scholar57 that’s why I always loved that you could perform the ballad of the wind fish in majora’s mask, it was such a treat of an easter egg since I had played the old school game boy game of this.
I unfortunately wasn't born when the original came out (I'm 2003). BUT with the power of emulators I played the original and the DX versions. LA is one of the old Zeldas I love
The way that Marin's singing echoes at the end gave me chills. It's as if that was the sound of her existence fading away into nothing but a memory. If she really did become a seagull, then perhaps she visited another island girl.
"Come, thief ... let us awaken ... together! Play the eight instrume-" "Hell no. I am going back to Marin. Living with her in the village with all the nice people I met. Sleep well, Wind Fish."
"We were born of nightmares... To take over this world, we made the Wind Fish sleep endlessly! If the Wind Fish doesn't wake up, this island will never disappear! We would have been the masters of this place... Wait, were you listening? Link? Where did you go?! Ah, guess we're the masters of this island now."
In the revised ending, Link hires the guys from Inception to enter the Wind Fish’s dream and get rid of the Nightmares, so the old fish gets to keep on sleeping peacefully and Koholint becomes an island paradise. As for Link, he joins the island folk, becomes a local hero, and he and Marin become a couple. Link, Marin and Mamu the singing frog become an ocarina/vocal music sensation, and the game displays “The End” to an upbeat version of the Ballad of the Wind Fish as all the residents of Mabe Village and Animal Village have a luau and barbecue on Toronbo Shores. Or something like that...
16:53 Hands down the most beautiful recreation of the true ending Link's Awakening. Marin's wish to become a seagull and see the world has finally been granted by the Wind Fish
They could have let her live and the windfish could have given her and link a ride home jeez.....talk about rotten luck :( Poor guy never gets a break. He even left that ungrateful land of hyrule who always forgets him and they still forget him...
The Link's awakening story is a metaphor for "playing games." Whenever a player clears a "game", he returns from the world of fiction to the real world. However, it is a story as a metaphor with the creator's wish that the existence in the game does not disappear as "nothing" but remains in the player's mind as "something beyond fiction". Is this widely known?
Im pretty sure its more over a metaphor for life and what lies beyond, but yes it works in the context of clearing games too. My pokemon yellow team were some of my closest friends as a 6 year old.
Omg YES! I just finished the game and didn't expect this! I really got emotional and teary eyed, the original Links Awakening (not DX) wasy my very first Zelda game my brother gave to me as a gift!
Link gets depression and refusing to complete the quest, while the entire townsfolk tell him he needs to wake up a la "the accident wasn't your fault you need to let me go"
Revisited this game after nearly 20 years (Played the DX version). IMHO, this game's sort of a metaphor for childhood. Once it ends, you can't hang onto it, for if you try, your life will stagnate and become plagued with nightmares. Like it or not, the only way to progress through life is to let your childhood end. Once you do that, a new horizon opens, presenting you with limitless possibilities. Your heart will guide the way, and you will always have those memories to revisit.
Considering I first played this game when I was a little kid, could never beat it, and now finally beat it on Switch as an adult without knowing the ending, that comment really hits hard. I can't unsee that.
Like revisiting your childhood town everything is as you remember it but it all has a new coat of paint. I especially liked that all of the text be it from NPCs, monsters, etc. remained the same.
15:56 - 16:10 ::: That small piece right there, the shift of orchestra music back the Gameboy 8 bit-music of the original game... DAMN!!! That is one really good call back right there! :D
"Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg… and my arm… even my fingers. The body I’ve lost… the comrades I’ve lost… won’t stop hurting… It’s like they’re all still there. You feel it, too, don’t you?"
The original Link’s Awakening is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever had the pleasure of playing. Seeing it remastered in all of its splendor, especially the ending cutscene fully animated was one of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed. I know I’ve already used the word twice now, but truly, this game, this series, and everything about it and Nintendo is beautiful.
I mean the Oracle games take place after this with the updated timeline... And Seagulls are usually found close to shore, so he's probably not too far off.
@@bushisback112 In the Timeline of Hyrule Historia, Shogakukan recieved this game order from Nintendo and made their interpretation based on it. Hyrulr Encyclopedia changed that, the writters from the magazine Nintendo Dream interpreted the lore differently. Who is canon ? Well ... Nintendo, neither Shogakukan nor ND magazine. And in the game, the boat ending of the Oracle games leads to Link's Awakening.
When I found out that was the case......... NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!! THERE'S NO REASON FOR ME TO GO, WHAT.... WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
drag0nsku77 if you never read the “when link was at the beach talking to a marin and you’re on your way to the eighth dungeon when the owl said that she saying her song in front of the egg and talk to her again and she said that she made her wish in front of the egg. She’s a Seagull in the real world now, she’s the only survivor who made it off the illusion island
Why, the only person that we couldn't save in the entire Zelda's Games. I regret over this years, when I played the old version and the new one, wake up the whale. I not a Hero, i fail her.
@@megax3937 Sigh, from I learned is that you can't save everyone but just because we couldn't save her it doesn't make you less of a hero, she will always be in our hearts
Thanos: I eradicated half the population of the universe by tirelessly collecting stones created at the beginning of the universe and raising the largest army in history. Link: I eradicated an entire island just by waking up. Thanos: ...
This. THIS not only brings back so many memories (I was 9 when this game came out and I got it for Christmas), but THIS is what I had hoped for in a remake of Link’s Awakening. Thank you Nintendo and all you programmers both from the Gameboy original to the Switch remake. You made this 35 year old smile and cry tears of nostalgic joy once more.
Can we just talk about how freaking good the ost has been redone. All the tracks are so good and I can't wait until people strat releasing OST playlists
I literally cried at the end of this when I played the remake. It brought so much memories. I was 8 years old when this game was released in 1993 and I remember playing this game on the original game boy so many times. I love this game to death. It's my first Zelda game ever and I'll never forget it.
@@FelixS. Link's Awakening (Game Boy) is the first amazing game I've ever played, so you can guess how much I love it, and yet I think FFX has the most tragically beautiful ending I've seen in a VG. Some will say RDR, MGS3, SotC...
Devolgalf Well I disagree by heart. I found FFX overrated, absolutely linear tedious (no pun intended) and cliche. Even its bittersweet ending felt presictable to me and was retconned by X-2. Even within the FF series I think titles like VI, VII and IX were much more bittersweet regarding their endings (and absolutely obliterate X in all other aspects). Lets not Start about games in General. Then we have to consider endings like Silent Hill 2, MGS3, Xenosaga 3, Bioshock Infinite (especially its add ons), Links Awakening, Nier, Drakengard 3, RDR2 etc which wipe the floor with FFXs ending. My opinion.
What a bitter-sweet ending. I just finished the DX Version of the game recently, and this definitely caught me off guard. In the end, Marin seemed to be self-aware that she is a figment if the Wind Fish’s imagination and was accepting of it, and the memory of Koholint will live on Links memory.
I don’t think Marin was reincarnated as a seagull as most people interpret the secret ending as. I believe it shows Link remembering Marin and her wish to become a seagull and fly over the vast ocean. The Wind Fish said that dreams can be reality by using our memories. The secret ending shows that even if Marin doesn’t exist, she will always be in Link’s heart and memories. Thats how I see it as. I think Marin being reincarnated as a seagull would make a lot of things more confusing.
No she WAS reincarnated. Thats why its a hidden ending, and in the DX/regular version, she literally transforms to a seagull or you see her flying with wings in the ending.
At the beach, Marin talks about wishing to be a seagull so she could travel the world and sing to everyone. When you talk to her after beating the 8th dungeon, she mentions making a wish, but cuts herself off before describing the wish, which you pretty much know what it was already. When you beat the game normally, it doesn’t appear that she got her wish, but if you win without deaths, there she is. An image of her as a seagull flies off into the sky. She got her wish. It's a beautiful reward for not dying at all in the game (which is a bit tough without the blue dye)
I played this game originally in 1998, after having played Ocarina Of Time i was almost eleven years old, when i finished the game i cried because all what you did was just a dream, and as a dream it must have an end... And now in my 30's i've listened to this ending mixing orchestrated and the original music and made me cry again, such and adventure, lovely memories of the old times and watching in a little animation wow, speechless... Maybe it's nostalgia, and maybe nostalgia sells a lot, but to me, are my precious memories, and the beautiful times of yesterday.
If you look closely, you’ll see a seagull flying after Marin disappears. If you remember when Marin talked to link, she says that she wants to wish to the great wind fish to become a seagull and fly past the sea to see if there is more past the island. Link woke up with wind fish and saw marin, and then a seagull flys by as if it was her.
The frightening thing people don't get is that the whole thing is Link's NDE -- Near Death Experience. Through the game until the end when the Wind Fish awakens, Link is dying.
Mark Haynes just because it’s old doesn’t mean it can’t be spoiled. There are tons of people who have never played or even heard of this game until the remake. For many people this will even be their first Zelda game. It’s not exactly like the story of Link’s Awakening is on par with “No, I am your father” in Star Wars. It’s not a part of the Zeitgeist in the same way. Sooo... yes the game absolutely can be spoiled.
@@lrc4263 He just said it was "spoiled" a long time ago. He never said it wasn't spoiled at all. Your spiel is next to worthless since you can still figure out who the Final Boss is if you search up Link's Awakening regardless.
“I mean… Were you able to shake her hand? Were you able to feel the dirt beneath your feet, Link?” “Yes, but-“ “Then who’s to say it was only a dream?”
"Please don't ever forget this song... or me" Marin 16:52. An end of the game more bitter than sweet. Happy because it was a dream you woke up but sad because all the people you met were a dream.
*Link falls back asleep* *Fade to black* *Screen comes back and you see a snowy mountainous region* *You notice you're in a cart* *Then you see those infamous words:* *_THE ELDER SCROLLS 5_* *_S K Y R I M_* *You hear a voice say, "So, you're finally awake."*
Well there isn’t any other thumbnail to show that would get views. Like the thumbnail looks interesting-> it’s gonna get clicks. Showing the in game stuff wouldn’t be as effective in stirring interest. The game is also pretty old so there isn’t much he can spoil.
Dexuz Yeah to be fair this isn’t a NSMBU to NSMBUD type of deal. This game is pretty old, so they couldn’t exactly... up the resolution and call it a day.
*Link and the Windfish wake up and when Link opens his eyes he is on a carriage and he sees an unfamiliar face where the Windfish was...* Ralof: “Hey you, you’re finally awake...”
Malon and talon were the real world versions of Marin and tarin. Though a different link, he ended up finding his dream girl. The gossip stone, talon's "joke" about wanting link to marry malon and malon and link's interactions and what he likely became when he got a bit older strongly imply they do get together.
Nearing towards the end of the game, I was ready to not finish it so that the island never disappeared and Marin would still live on. But no, I had to move on. Remembering Marin's line asking Link/us the player to not forget her made me scream "no sweetie I will never forget you!!!" And then seeing Marin's smile made me go "nooo I don't deserve your smile!" 😭
Better a waking truth than a sleeping lie. No matter the cost, which only Link could have decided. Marin lives on no matter what and no one can tell me otherwise.
This ending still makes me so sad. By the end of the game I didn't want to completely finish it. Isn't it enough I got rid of all the nightmares? Can't I just let the Wind Fish just continue to rest and let just one single Link find happiness?
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I love how the closer you get to beating the game, the more the bosses beg and plead with Link to stop trying to wake the Wind Fish. It's real dark.
It’s what makes the game so goddamn interesting
It's because while the island is a dream of the windfish, it's still in the real world. They exist, and want to continue to. The island fades but the clouds and the water around it stay. It's a melancholic adventure about destroying a whole island for the greater good.
@@benvictim The greater good… of one person? This is a stranger story than even Tackyclothingrule or whatever it was called.
@@wildfire9280 the wind fish is a god. So yes, the greater good for a higher being.
@@wildfire9280 to be fair the nightmares would’ve destroyed everything had link done nothing. And only defeating them would’ve allowed the windfish to awaken either way. There would’ve been to way for anyone on the island to live on unfortunately. At least here both the wind fish himself, link, and the memories of the dream can live on.
Link looks downright heartbroken at 13:03... like he’s reflecting on the gravity of what just happened, like losing Marin (or the fact he’s pretty much responsible for erasing all his new friends and everyone he met from existence)... Poor guy. I love how the anime ending shows his emotions here. Makes a brilliantly bittersweet ending all the stronger.
For once in a Zelda game, link had somewhat of a love interest. And then *poof* it was all a dream
@@FormedGlitch To be fair, Midna did almost the same thing. And Mipha died... dude can't catch a break.
That’s honestly better than making fans of the original think he had no problem killing everyone on the island in the original game
ReikokuXTaifuu different links though, doesn’t matter which incarnation he is, he’s always getting got
Samurai Skunk In the manga, it straight up breaks him and he even gives up before Marin herself reignites his resolve.
I mean no wonder the monsters were trying to stop you as you are LITTERALY about to cause an apocalyptic event.
Like the Windfish says, eventually all dreams must end. The nightmares invaded that realm and forced it stay in place, unchanging. Link merely restores the natural order.
No because it’s just a dream
Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's not real to those living in it
@Kyle Hughes
The Nightmares themselves believed their existence was tied to the Wind Fish continuing to sleep. That lends me to think that whatever "invaded" meant, they were still products of the Wind Fish who wished to continue existing along with the world they loved (granted, the world they wanted to rule with evil intent, but still). They held Koholint over their own existence. When defeated by Link, they lament Koholint fate over themselves.
The whole situation is far from black and white. On one hand, you have the Wind Fish who is being kept in an eternal sleep and Link who might die the longer he's stuck on Koholint but on the other hand, you have the dream beings who are clearly sapient beings with lives and hopes for the future. Only the Nightmares had that awareness of Link's adventure being the end of all their lives, but I wonder how all of Link's friends would react if they knew Link would be ending all of their existences.
I mean sooner or later link was gonna wake up anyways
*"Please, don't ever forget this song. . . . Or me. . . ."*
This game is timeless, and so are the memories and emotions. Like the Ballad of the Wind Fish, they will never fade. Marin and Koholint Island will live on in the minds and hearts of all who love this wonderful game.
Scholar57 that’s why I always loved that you could perform the ballad of the wind fish in majora’s mask, it was such a treat of an easter egg since I had played the old school game boy game of this.
Coudn't said it better myself!
Marín did get her wish granted, a sad ending ends up being not so sad in the end :') she becomes a Seagull
How dare you make me cry
I unfortunately wasn't born when the original came out (I'm 2003). BUT with the power of emulators I played the original and the DX versions. LA is one of the old Zeldas I love
Link: *wakes up after a whole adventure in his sleep*
Zelda: you’ve been asleep for 100 years
Link: :|
Botw refer
LOL XD
@@rolltide9897 this makes sense just that it would be very crazy
Suena loco pero qué pasa si es cierto
To elf years that is not even a month, lol.
I'm not crying. You're crying...
Zelda Universe I’ve played this game before as a GBC title, I know what happens, I’ve seen many times, and still tears came out of me, god damn it.
How'd you know
Yes I am.
Link has send them free beautiful ending😢
im really crying!!!
Atleast you did the most important thing in the game: Steal from the shop, THIEF.
All shall succumb to the siren song of Free Stuff.
_THIEF_
Lol
Normal conversati-*INSERT "THEIF"*
Hey... THEIF. You have stolen from the shop I see. Well, THEIF, you will pay. DID YOU HEAR?!? YOU. WILL. PAY.
Marin: Did you do it?
Link: ...yes
Marin: What did it cost?
Link: ...everything
Marin: *smiles
Link: This really wasn't worth it...
Marin: *becomes a seagull and flies off
Link: *OH THIS REALLY WASN'T WORTH IT!*
:'(
Marin: Did you do it?
Link: ...
Marin: What did it cost?
Link: ...
ima fucking cry man
About 1180 rupees
The way that Marin's singing echoes at the end gave me chills. It's as if that was the sound of her existence fading away into nothing but a memory. If she really did become a seagull, then perhaps she visited another island girl.
Aryll... she's always playing with seagulls
The seagull means she didn’t disappear but escaped
Gay😂
She was never real anyways. I have wanted to bring people from my dreams into the real world too, but it doesn't work like that. They don't exist.
"Come, thief ... let us awaken ... together! Play the eight instrume-"
"Hell no. I am going back to Marin. Living with her in the village with all the nice people I met. Sleep well, Wind Fish."
😆
That would be me if I was link
"We were born of nightmares... To take over this world, we made the Wind Fish sleep endlessly! If the Wind Fish doesn't wake up, this island will never disappear! We would have been the masters of this place... Wait, were you listening? Link? Where did you go?! Ah, guess we're the masters of this island now."
"Sleep forever Windfish" -Non Canon Manga Link.
In the revised ending, Link hires the guys from Inception to enter the Wind Fish’s dream and get rid of the Nightmares, so the old fish gets to keep on sleeping peacefully and Koholint becomes an island paradise.
As for Link, he joins the island folk, becomes a local hero, and he and Marin become a couple. Link, Marin and Mamu the singing frog become an ocarina/vocal music sensation, and the game displays “The End” to an upbeat version of the Ballad of the Wind Fish as all the residents of Mabe Village and Animal Village have a luau and barbecue on Toronbo Shores.
Or something like that...
If these cutscenes were made back In the late 80's to early and mid 90's this easily would've been the best selling VHS version of the adaption ever!
Well, the original gameboy game had the same cutscenes.. if you can count those 4 fps as such..
@@KunoMochi you can't deny those lead to something good
Well excuuuuuuse me, princess!
This would have been an incredible Ghibli feature. Takahata could have made an absolutely beautiful Zelda adaptation.
16:53
Hands down the most beautiful recreation of the true ending Link's Awakening.
Marin's wish to become a seagull and see the world has finally been granted by the Wind Fish
Yup. That happens if you didn't even die in the whole game.
Just like in the original GBC as well, it has the same scene.
In the Real original, she was an Angel , and in the dx version she turns into a bird
They could have let her live and the windfish could have given her and link a ride home jeez.....talk about rotten luck :( Poor guy never gets a break. He even left that ungrateful land of hyrule who always forgets him and they still forget him...
The Link's awakening story is a metaphor for "playing games." Whenever a player clears a "game", he returns from the world of fiction to the real world. However, it is a story as a metaphor with the creator's wish that the existence in the game does not disappear as "nothing" but remains in the player's mind as "something beyond fiction". Is this widely known?
I didn't know that! What a great metaphor
Im pretty sure its more over a metaphor for life and what lies beyond, but yes it works in the context of clearing games too. My pokemon yellow team were some of my closest friends as a 6 year old.
What a shitty metaphor, the message of the game it’s more powerful than that trash you mentioned
Se parece a la metafora que se relata en el poema de Minecraft.
Bruh we know you copied this from the comment in the links awakening ending for the gbc
"Don't be sad it's gone, be happy it happened"
Yeah, be happy you caused an apocalypse. 😅
Such pieces of wisdom should never go unnoticed and should always be remembered by everyone forever
No.
Can't you be both?? :')
AB_ Fxx He didn’t really cause anything, it was all a dream. That’s like saying you waking up from a dream kills the people you had in it.
15:56 - Nintendo: "Hey everyone from the 90's, thats for you."
I was 9 when this game originally came out on the Gameboy, so hearing the original chiptune version had me squeeing!
Sweet Holy Jesus! This game was the first Legend of Zelda game I have ever played.
That was majestic
100% the best part of the entire game lol
Right in the feels!!
Marin’s smile at the end hit me.
Mario & Friends me too. But at least she made it off the illusion island and into the real world 😭
As a seagull. But I guess it’s better than nothing.
For fans of the original 15:55 is probably where you got all teary-eyed from nostalgia.
I was a boy when I beat this game all those years ago. This just made me really happy that they added that for us.
Oh damn yeah! I played the original thanks to my dad that had saved the game with him all of the time since he got it!
(Sorry for the bad grammar-)
I mean, it would just be weird to not include the reference
Omg YES! I just finished the game and didn't expect this! I really got emotional and teary eyed, the original Links Awakening (not DX) wasy my very first Zelda game my brother gave to me as a gift!
P A I N
Sad that Marin is just a dream. I honestly liked her more than Zelda.
She does become real if you beat the game without dying, her wish to be a seagull was granted and is able to exist after the island disappeared.
@@samuraidragon16 so she is seagull huh?
@@samuraidragon16 I can't date a seagull. =/
Nah dawg she a seagull now
@@Sleepless_Sam says who?
Normal Ending Marin dies. True Ending Marin reincarnates into an Seagull.
Sad end, some shark eats her while a fly
How do you get the normal ending? I got this one and I didn't do anything special.
David Motola you get this one if you didnt die at all during your playthrough. The “normal” one is if you die at least once.
@@joaoguimaraes543 Is that a Road to El Dorado reference? XP
@@davidmotola1723 In order to achieve this ending you have to avoid dying.
the cinematic with the song is incredible
Just as good as the original!
Indeed. It nearly brought a tear to my mighty eyes. Nintendo has done this game justice.
This is why the Zelda manga needs an anime adaptation.
Link gets depression and refusing to complete the quest, while the entire townsfolk tell him he needs to wake up a la "the accident wasn't your fault you need to let me go"
@@adriannaranjo4397,
Ah yeah, Cagiva Ataru's manga iteration, right?
but... it does dude
it has manga for many games such as A Link to the Past, Four Swords, Twilight Princess & more
@@adriannaranjo4397 Hostia, un español.
Man, I hope they remake oracle of seasons and ages too.
That sounds like a really fun idea! NINTENDO PLZ NAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG yes please!
Yes please. I need to see Moosh, Ricky, and Dimitri in a beautiful style like this. 😄 The dungeons too-- they were a lot of fun.
FUCK YEAH
@Gerry ArtuJerry why not Minish Cap tho? it's a good zelda game but sadly it's only on gba
Revisited this game after nearly 20 years (Played the DX version). IMHO, this game's sort of a metaphor for childhood. Once it ends, you can't hang onto it, for if you try, your life will stagnate and become plagued with nightmares. Like it or not, the only way to progress through life is to let your childhood end. Once you do that, a new horizon opens, presenting you with limitless possibilities. Your heart will guide the way, and you will always have those memories to revisit.
this comment made my eyes water, especially with the end music playing. why’d you have to do that
That's deep man
It reminds me of Ocarina of Time. That game feels like it was specifically made to be played with nostalgia.
Considering I first played this game when I was a little kid, could never beat it, and now finally beat it on Switch as an adult without knowing the ending, that comment really hits hard. I can't unsee that.
That ending made me cry.
Oh Link, you poor thing.
I MISS MARIN
I like Cheese at least she’s alive now as a seagull
@@truearea53 eren!!
Link? OH do you mean THIEF!?
This was my favorite game when I was little.
Years later, and seeing this Remake and ending, makes me tear up.
Nostalgia sure is powerful.
"Nostalgia... unchanged... boo hoo..."
Like revisiting your childhood town everything is as you remember it but it all has a new coat of paint. I especially liked that all of the text be it from NPCs, monsters, etc. remained the same.
@@carcerharlson9767 Yeah, I'm glad about that too. Except they took the mouse out, I liked the mouse
Marin’s song legitimately makes me want to cry
Same
How cringe
@@theoutsiderspost4982 imagine saying cringe
15:56 - 16:10 ::: That small piece right there, the shift of orchestra music back the Gameboy 8 bit-music of the original game... DAMN!!! That is one really good call back right there! :D
"Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg… and my arm… even my fingers. The body I’ve lost… the comrades I’ve lost… won’t stop hurting… It’s like they’re all still there. You feel it, too, don’t you?"
What is this quote? I know I will feel dumb for asking. And the this comment thread is hella old. But i gotta know. Lol
@@c.d.3892it's a speech of Metal Gear Solid V
I feel that I could imagine Levi saying this...
The original Link’s Awakening is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever had the pleasure of playing. Seeing it remastered in all of its splendor, especially the ending cutscene fully animated was one of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed. I know I’ve already used the word twice now, but truly, this game, this series, and everything about it and Nintendo is beautiful.
"And then, link made disappear an entire island and remained stranded on his boat until he succumbed from starvation"
The end
I mean the Oracle games take place after this with the updated timeline...
And Seagulls are usually found close to shore, so he's probably not too far off.
@@jakev9702 no
@@nonoctoro4933 yes
Jacob V I thought the oracle games were before links awakening ?
@@bushisback112 In the Timeline of Hyrule Historia, Shogakukan recieved this game order from Nintendo and made their interpretation based on it.
Hyrulr Encyclopedia changed that, the writters from the magazine Nintendo Dream interpreted the lore differently.
Who is canon ? Well ... Nintendo, neither Shogakukan nor ND magazine.
And in the game, the boat ending of the Oracle games leads to Link's Awakening.
That ending when Marin smiles at him 😭
When you lose your waifu because she is just a dream. :(
@Chris take the L so she was one of the seagulls then? Well it's not like link hasn't been into other species before
When I found out that was the case.........
NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!! THERE'S NO REASON FOR ME TO GO, WHAT....
WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Chris take the L Is that even legit?... what...
I think he was talking about crazy Tracy
drag0nsku77 if you never read the “when link was at the beach talking to a marin and you’re on your way to the eighth dungeon when the owl said that she saying her song in front of the egg and talk to her again and she said that she made her wish in front of the egg. She’s a Seagull in the real world now, she’s the only survivor who made it off the illusion island
Me: *dies*
The last thing I see:
Save your cleared game?
Save
Don't save
that ending ... that ending makes anyone cry :'(
"Link awake in the island after storm"
Voice " wake the f...ck up samurai "
Магжан Жаксылык We’ve got a Hyrule to burn
@@markvo250 Shouldn't it be "We got a demon to burn" or something like that?
@@manuelalbertoromero9528 I was referencing setting things on fire in BOTW
@Mark Vo “We got a Kingdom to burn” would’ve been better I feel.
@@kwagz3314 Yours is definitely better sounding than saying a Hyrule
16:52 - 17:15
MARIN!!!!! DUDE THIS IS MAKING ME CRY 😢😭
Im sure Link asks Zelda to dye her hair red, wear a simple blue sundress, and swing a giant bell flower around once in a while.
She did say in the game that she wanted to be able to turn into a seagull to fly as far and as long as she wants
Why, the only person that we couldn't save in the entire Zelda's Games. I regret over this years, when I played the old version and the new one, wake up the whale. I not a Hero, i fail her.
@@megax3937
Sigh, from I learned is that you can't save everyone but just because we couldn't save her it doesn't make you less of a hero, she will always be in our hearts
;_;
I've said it once and I'll say it again
ZELDA ANIME WHEN??
most likely never cause of how bad the old Zelda cartoon was
Never
LINK FINALLY SPEAKS! And not in a jackassish way.
@Sentinel King WELL excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuiuiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me princess!
Cobalt Gears well excuuuuuuuuuuuuseee me princess
Thanos: I eradicated half the population of the universe by tirelessly collecting stones created at the beginning of the universe and raising the largest army in history.
Link: I eradicated an entire island just by waking up.
Thanos: ...
😆
😂😂😂
Thanos: So is that like a normal thing or...
Sorry Thanos Link beat you to it.
@@yipps1171 Me: It was only a dream.
This.
THIS not only brings back so many memories (I was 9 when this game came out and I got it for Christmas), but THIS is what I had hoped for in a remake of Link’s Awakening.
Thank you Nintendo and all you programmers both from the Gameboy original to the Switch remake. You made this 35 year old smile and cry tears of nostalgic joy once more.
"I AM THE WIND FISH..."
*is obviously a mammal*
The game acknowledges this, or at least the original one did
@UltimateGeek Amazing. Everything you just said was wrong.
@UltimateGeek No, because I was just being goofy and you took offense.
@UltimateGeek I have...no comeback. *hunches over and meanders away*
UltimateGeek so I guess that means that, like, half of us, are fishes.
12:04
"Mr Windfish I don't feel so good..."
I DON'T WANNA GO... I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING...
MR. WIND FISH, PLEASE!
I DON'T WANNA GO...
I DON'T WANNA GO...
I'M SORRY...
And link i mean thief ;) is thaonos
MAHAHA YOU JUST GOT THONST
And soon our young lad, THIEF!
Will return to land.
I realized something. Every Zelda game starts with Link waking up... this one ENDS with Link waking up.
Can we just talk about how freaking good the ost has been redone. All the tracks are so good and I can't wait until people strat releasing OST playlists
Link: I’m still stuck at sea you know!
Actually, Link made it back to land.
UniqueSKD Dude it’s called a joke.
@@SegaNintendoGuy64 - I know. :)
r/whooosh
@@SegaNintendoGuy64 it's the "um actually" guy xd
"Secret Ending" is a rather grandiose term for one added picture at the ending.
Old skool games babeh
least it's a step up from a misspelled 'congratulations' screen
she asked the wind fish for a wish to be a seagull so she could leave the island. Look after the image.
Matthew Fornear dude this ending hurt my heart
Yes you're right, but what a wonderful picture..
Are you kidding? The secret ending goes right for the heart strings! T~T
26 years later, the adventure ends once again.
I literally cried at the end of this when I played the remake. It brought so much memories. I was 8 years old when this game was released in 1993 and I remember playing this game on the original game boy so many times. I love this game to death. It's my first Zelda game ever and I'll never forget it.
Marin’s fate is both heartwarming and sad. Her home is gone, but now she can spread her song to the world.
This ending made my eyes watery, And give me goosebumps when Link played the Ballad of the wind fish and everything starts to Disappear...
Nintendo: **Makes New Games**
ProsafiaGaming: **Beats New Games**
So fast
*That's how mafia works*
@@thegreatchaotix *that's how prosafia works*
Game isn't new idiot
geraldine woods Nah it’s new. The game itself is pretty new, the game that the game is remaking isn’t.
Perhaps the most bittersweet ending of any video game.
I'd rather give that to FFX
@@Devolgalf But Tidus came back to life.
@@Devolgalf FFX is shit compared to this.
@@FelixS. Link's Awakening (Game Boy) is the first amazing game I've ever played, so you can guess how much I love it, and yet I think FFX has the most tragically beautiful ending I've seen in a VG. Some will say RDR, MGS3, SotC...
Devolgalf Well I disagree by heart. I found FFX overrated, absolutely linear tedious (no pun intended) and cliche. Even its bittersweet ending felt presictable to me and was retconned by X-2. Even within the FF series I think titles like VI, VII and IX were much more bittersweet regarding their endings (and absolutely obliterate X in all other aspects). Lets not Start about games in General. Then we have to consider endings like Silent Hill 2, MGS3, Xenosaga 3, Bioshock Infinite (especially its add ons), Links Awakening, Nier, Drakengard 3, RDR2 etc which wipe the floor with FFXs ending. My opinion.
What a bitter-sweet ending. I just finished the DX Version of the game recently, and this definitely caught me off guard. In the end, Marin seemed to be self-aware that she is a figment if the Wind Fish’s imagination and was accepting of it, and the memory of Koholint will live on Links memory.
I don’t think Marin was reincarnated as a seagull as most people interpret the secret ending as. I believe it shows Link remembering Marin and her wish to become a seagull and fly over the vast ocean. The Wind Fish said that dreams can be reality by using our memories. The secret ending shows that even if Marin doesn’t exist, she will always be in Link’s heart and memories. Thats how I see it as. I think Marin being reincarnated as a seagull would make a lot of things more confusing.
No she WAS reincarnated. Thats why its a hidden ending, and in the DX/regular version, she literally transforms to a seagull or you see her flying with wings in the ending.
@@M3TALG0DSInteresting. I still need to play the gameboy versions
Prosafiagaming uploads a final boss video with a non-spolier thumbnail
Everyone: impossible
Boi the cutscenes are sick
Want to see that in every new Zelda game
Yeah! Me two
How about an Anime Movie
@ALongLeggedPissedOffPuertoRican the original trailer has the exact same art...
@@Toonlink196 There is already a manga.
@Long Legs
It's supposed to be like that, what with the twist. Subtle hint that the island isn't what it seems.
Can we just talk about how beautiful the game looks? Like dang it looks like that 3DS zelda game but upgraded
Do you mean a link between worlds?
I didn't expect the scene at the end i legit cried
I like to think... that every Link, across all timelines and spaces, still dreams of a girl that he is reminded of everytime he sees a seagull.
At the beach, Marin talks about wishing to be a seagull so she could travel the world and sing to everyone.
When you talk to her after beating the 8th dungeon, she mentions making a wish, but cuts herself off before describing the wish, which you pretty much know what it was already.
When you beat the game normally, it doesn’t appear that she got her wish, but if you win without deaths, there she is. An image of her as a seagull flies off into the sky. She got her wish.
It's a beautiful reward for not dying at all in the game (which is a bit tough without the blue dye)
I love how the music at the credits transitions from the new arrangement to the original 8 bit music, and then back to orchestral, then mixed.
The ballad of the wind fish really makes the ending sader along with Marin's vocals, dont know why really.
Kirby: woah this egg is big
Link: we can use Music
Mario: what the hell happening
Waddle dee: the nightmare
Lmfao
Or vaati?
@
Definitely not.
lol
That end credits orchestral arrangement was *killer!*
I played this game originally in 1998, after having played Ocarina Of Time i was almost eleven years old, when i finished the game i cried because all what you did was just a dream, and as a dream it must have an end... And now in my 30's i've listened to this ending mixing orchestrated and the original music and made me cry again, such and adventure, lovely memories of the old times and watching in a little animation wow, speechless... Maybe it's nostalgia, and maybe nostalgia sells a lot, but to me, are my precious memories, and the beautiful times of yesterday.
Darkness: "You can never defeat us."
*Theif: "YOu cAn neVer DeFeat uS."*
If you look closely, you’ll see a seagull flying after Marin disappears. If you remember when Marin talked to link, she says that she wants to wish to the great wind fish to become a seagull and fly past the sea to see if there is more past the island. Link woke up with wind fish and saw marin, and then a seagull flys by as if it was her.
The updated version of Marin's song is so mesmerizing, I can't stop listening to it
i love how they really do a great job on mixing the 8 bit "Credits" with the "Instrumental Ver. Credits." it made me tears up!
owl: thank you *THEIF* for your hard work
link: * memories of theft *
DinoLaris Thief not Theif
@@Tomatexyz thx for the reminder :D
Ok but when is nintendo going to do an anime.
Well excuse me princess
Mah boi
Ruby’s
@@aatroxthedarkin7613 well exCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME
@@Xavier-cv2vw hahaha only few will know
Who else thinks this is proof an Anime is 100% necessary?
The frightening thing people don't get is that the whole thing is Link's NDE -- Near Death Experience. Through the game until the end when the Wind Fish awakens, Link is dying.
One of the most sadist but more emotional endings in a story I've ever seen
Marin: I'm stiiiiiill in a dreeeam, snake eater!
-spits drink- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, NICE
I GIVE MY LIFE
NOT FOR HONOR BUT FOR YOUUUUUU
VoxelFusion No she’s been reincarnated as a seagull
BUT YOU'RE SO SUPREEEEEEEME!
Oh my god....
He didn't spoil the game!
*HE DIDN'T SPOIL THE GAME!!!!!!*
Most likely because it's too early.
I'm sure he won't keep this up for long before going back to old habits.
It's a remake of a 26 year old game... The ending was "spoiled" long before this.
Mark Haynes just because it’s old doesn’t mean it can’t be spoiled. There are tons of people who have never played or even heard of this game until the remake. For many people this will even be their first Zelda game. It’s not exactly like the story of Link’s Awakening is on par with “No, I am your father” in Star Wars. It’s not a part of the Zeitgeist in the same way. Sooo... yes the game absolutely can be spoiled.
@@lrc4263
He just said it was "spoiled" a long time ago.
He never said it wasn't spoiled at all.
Your spiel is next to worthless since you can still figure out who the Final Boss is if you search up Link's Awakening regardless.
@@AlvinEarthworm I never played the orginal and just beat it. It would have been a spoiler to me if I watched before playing
“I mean… Were you able to shake her hand? Were you able to feel the dirt beneath your feet, Link?”
“Yes, but-“
“Then who’s to say it was only a dream?”
This was my first Zelda game. Never thought I'd ever see Nightmare in full 3D in an official game. Easily me favorite Zelda remake.
12:00 the way the island is just gone in a frantic happy melody always makes me tear up
"Please don't ever forget this song... or me" Marin 16:52. An end of the game more bitter than sweet. Happy because it was a dream you woke up but sad because all the people you met were a dream.
"Let us AWAKEN... TOGETHER!"
AYAYAYAYAYAAAAAAA
In all of gaming, this is one of the only endings that has actually made me cry
*Link falls back asleep*
*Fade to black*
*Screen comes back and you see a snowy mountainous region*
*You notice you're in a cart*
*Then you see those infamous words:*
*_THE ELDER SCROLLS 5_*
*_S K Y R I M_*
*You hear a voice say, "So, you're finally awake."*
You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
it seems like a happy ending, but link is still stranded in the middle of the sea..
just like how Mega Man Volnutt is still on the Moon.
Video: one of the best zelda games featuring the saddest ending in the whole franchise, beautifully remastered
Comments: wHeRe iS tHe zElDa aNiMe
This game has only been out for four months and I already know I’m going to be mad nostalgic for it in a few years
A Profasiagaming thumbnail that doesn't spoil everything in the game? What timeline are we in?
Well there isn’t any other thumbnail to show that would get views. Like the thumbnail looks interesting-> it’s gonna get clicks. Showing the in game stuff wouldn’t be as effective in stirring interest. The game is also pretty old so there isn’t much he can spoil.
@@jrcoolcat101 I mean, yeah, we know what the final boss look and does, but we don't know how he look in the remake, so its a spoiler in that sense.
Dexuz Yeah to be fair this isn’t a NSMBU to NSMBUD type of deal. This game is pretty old, so they couldn’t exactly... up the resolution and call it a day.
No doubt the fallen hero one lol
I wish the game had more of these incredible cutscenes
Thanks for showing the secret Marin scene :)
*Link and the Windfish wake up and when Link opens his eyes he is on a carriage and he sees an unfamiliar face where the Windfish was...*
Ralof: “Hey you, you’re finally awake...”
I'm fucking dying
Greybeard: Alright, we're going to teach you to use your power, we just have to teach you how to say a couple words.
*Link sweats profusely.*
Todd Howard strikes again
@@BlueShellshock You have a greater power than anything I know of. *Btw I hate you*
@@mistercheese134 Let the hate flow, young Jedi!
And then Marin went to Hyrule Warriors to mess people UP! =P
Least she returns! And I am happy to see that happen
I hope she makes her way back in the series one day 😢
Hyrule Warriors
Da Mouse that’s what I’ve been thinking 😭
Malon and talon were the real world versions of Marin and tarin. Though a different link, he ended up finding his dream girl. The gossip stone, talon's "joke" about wanting link to marry malon and malon and link's interactions and what he likely became when he got a bit older strongly imply they do get together.
Marin exists in all of our hearts, remember that
This just reminded me of the Final Fantasy X ending where Yuna lost Tidus because he was just a dream too...
It’s kinda depressing when you think about how Link almost certainly dies stranded at sea. 😕
Kind of hilarious ngl...
Oracle games are next, so he can’t die.
@@jacksonpriestap3685 I think those take place chronologically before this.
@Britt no they don’t, they updated it.
@Britt no they don’t, they updated it.
Nearing towards the end of the game, I was ready to not finish it so that the island never disappeared and Marin would still live on. But no, I had to move on.
Remembering Marin's line asking Link/us the player to not forget her made me scream "no sweetie I will never forget you!!!"
And then seeing Marin's smile made me go "nooo I don't deserve your smile!" 😭
Better a waking truth than a sleeping lie. No matter the cost, which only Link could have decided. Marin lives on no matter what and no one can tell me otherwise.
What a happy ending, link eradicated an island and everyone on it, and now he's stranded in the middle of the sea.
This ending still makes me so sad. By the end of the game I didn't want to completely finish it. Isn't it enough I got rid of all the nightmares? Can't I just let the Wind Fish just continue to rest and let just one single Link find happiness?
I loved the small bits of 8-bit music there at the end. It really brought back memories of playing it on the gameboy.