I *NEED* to know who. Same with the Postman screaming “HEEEEEY” and making weird running noises. I need to know who did these things so I can... look at where else they do stuff...
I actually feel so bad for Zant. He worked for a long time in the twili royal family, and got skipped from being the next heir. He wasn't gonna do anything except throw a little tantrum and then get over it later. But Ganon had to step in and corrupt him to do his bidding giving him seriously bad powers. Even though Zant had the impatience and behaviour of a child, that also means he has the naivety and innocence of one as well. Thats why he was so easily misled by Ganon.
I love his character. Especially how he comes off as a cold, calculating villain, then you find out he's completely insane, as well as having a bit of tragedy in his backstory that drives him to do what he's done. His character makes him unnerving and psychotic, yet to some degree, sympathetic and relatable at the same time. I was expecting some sort of Star Wars level epic duel when I reached Zant. And what I got was so much better.
However he already had no hope, you see what Ganondorf's power can do to some people in other games, they are done for, lost, possessed, never to be the same again
@@maikybravo6108 That just shows how evil Ganondorf really is. He takes people who are already down on their luck, offers them power beyond their wildest dreams in order to take back what was stolen from. This act twists their minds into becoming Ganondorf's loyal servants, but then he discards them like pawns once they have outlived their usefulness.It's sad, since most of the characters Ganondorf uses are usually quite interesting and somewhat likable characters.
Zant: *Smashes pots* Link: HEY THAT'S MY JOB! HOW DARE YOU!? Zant: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYGYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Link: You've gone too far now Zant, and you must *PAY FOR IT!*
Were you in that one Discord when the mass outage happened and that particular server was up, and one of the mods claimed to be Darth Jar Jar and that he killed Discord?
This fight was interesting just because it actually showed how unskilled Zant is even in basic combat, especially in the last portion of the fight. He relied so much on the magic that Ganondorf granted him.
I'm absolutely convinced that his helmet is some sort of way for Ganon to control him. Whenever that thing comes off he goes absolutely batshit insane.
You know, I just came to realize something. I'd always found Zant's entire boss sequence to be more thematic than, well, impressive. He's obviously only a pawn to the real big bad, a simple tool, but in his position of power, with how he's toyed with you from the beginning, you'd think him to put up a better fight. Even as he descends into desperation, he never quite appropriately attacks you. He heavily relies on keeping his distance, using the magic he'd been granted. When he dares to approach, he's literally flailing. He's a delegate. He's a royal figure. He's no fighter. It's taken me way too long just how much he relies on Ganon's power to fight for him, and that he's painfully pathetic one-on-one. Without it, fueled only by his vindication for the dishonour he bore, he'd have fallen at the first exchange of swords. He stood no chance against Link.
You can see how this whole fight is a downward spiral for Zant, slowly losing his mind. 4:10 Zant is attacking you very mockingly, like you can’t do anything. He is essentially trying to toy with you. 4:56 You’ve shocked Zant a bit by smacking him around. He goes for something different, but you can tell from his next approach that you’ve put him off balance. 6:01 This is where Zant becomes rattled, and starts throwing the big stuff at you, knowing full and well he actually has to try to beat you. He starts blasting attacks left and right, trying hard to confound you with a flurry of projectiles. 7:20 Zant truly begins to lose it here, resorting to more... unorthodox tactics. He’s shaken up, trying so hard to do SOMETHING that will get in your head, while trying to keep his cool in the process. 8:06 At this point, you’ve just plain old pissed him off. Zant is LIVID. He’s throwing EVERYTHING he’s got at you, literally attempting to squash you like a bug. 9:04 Zant’s got nothing left. He’s exhausted his arsenal, and begins flailing around in a desperate last attempt to do some kind of damage. You can tell he is frightened, and has just gone off the deep end. This is emphasized by the increased tempo and frantic clips of theme from each previous stage, giving a sense of total panic.
Glad to be of service haha, I really started considering the concepts after going back and listening to some old boss music, and Zant’s theme REALLY stuck out to me.
I gotta say, I wasn't expecting Zant to go absolutely bananas. I liked his character design to begin with, but after this, I really came to appreciate him as a villain.
It pisses me off that there hasn't been another Zelda game that focuses more on the Twili. You can't just introduce a cool fucking race and world like that and then act like it never happened. Breath of the Wild showed us more regarding the personal lives of the Zora, Goron, Gerudo, and Rito and that's awesome! Now we need a game that tells us more about the Twili. I would love to explore a Twili village/city.
Inora Faolan yes i hope someday they make another twilight princess that begins after this. Would be cool to see link older maybe with some modern armor still have his green tunic. And still be able to become a wolf
@@liddel137 in the manga Zelda is able to talk to minda in the twilight realm through a pond so I think there’s more then one way to enter the realm since it’s heavily hinted at by Zelda
Twili Realm, Dark World, Lorule, Skyloft, Future ruled by Ganondorf. Honestly there's a lot of ideas that i'd like to see return in some way or form in later games.
? Breath didn't show Us anything new. In fact, Breath had the Picori race _cut_ from it's production!! The Zora region was really Epic and well directed. But the others, especially the Rito were plain, flat & boring. I mean, a big stone pillar surrounded by some wooden shacks in a frankly plain and annoying desert landscape? I expected something more in the _Sky_ - more like Tears is revealing to Us.
My favourite Zelda villain, and easily my favourite fight in the series. To see this once threatening figure, who once loomed over you, reduced to this crazed and unpredictable loose cannon who has nothing left to lose, knowing that he is merely a pawn in all this. And while he may once have had noble cause or greater ambition, all that is left is this mad outburst, full of sound of fury, signifying nothing.
Zant's trump cards were removed from him. He can't bath Midna in light to kill her because Zelda granted her protection (Presumably, the Triforce of Wisdom) and he can't curse Link anymore because the Master Sword banishes curses and has absorbed the power of the Sol to even banish darkness itself. It seems Zant can't handle having genuine threats, he's used to helpless victims.
Honestly I think the fact that he swims instead of teleports makes perfect sense. By that I mean as little sense as possible which is perfect for just how insane the whole fight is.
To be fair, he was drawing on the power of the Triforce of Power. Even if it was just a fraction of it, that's impressive for anyone besides Link to do. Especially since she apparently only used a sliver of it.
Yeah... I kinda tense and freaked out during this part when playing. A lot of it’s the sound design and music. It’s so speedy it make you anxious like hell.
This was my favorite boss in this game ! I mean the last part of the fight, when the action speeds up a lot. It gets so hectic, his moves, the music, the fact that you have to constantly move ; all of this really translates his madness perfectly ! To me the developing team did such a good job on this one !
@@OneBasedGod 😬😬😬 Ghirahim was definitely very evil, he wanted to remove Zelda's soul from her body and feed it to Demise so that they could rampage the Earth with him serving as the sword that his master would use to cut down anything and anyone that stood in his way.
@@OneBasedGod As weird as girahim looks and sounds, he's one of the villains to actually succeed in bringing Demise back. No other Zelda villain would win besides every Game over screen.
Then I hope Junji Kitajima got paid the well deserved money for voicing a calm looking crazy megalomaniac usurper king with magic powers and never ending madness to match it.
whats most frightening to me about all this is that throughout the entire fight zant gets desparate hes an insane man driven by power and hate but above all else, hes a cornered animal hes desparate hes afraid hes going to do whatever he can think of to kill you any trick he can pull, no matter how wild or unnatural, no matter how dangerous to himself it is _No plans. No menacing schemes._ _just utter unhinged madness and rage_
1st phase: crazy 2nd phase: even more crazy 3rd phase: bonkers 4th phase: insane 5th phase: batshit insane Final phase: madness After final phase: a black person because 11:01
The 'Insane' Zant cutscene simply lives through time & the ages. Throw any game's cutscene at this - there's something about this one that is just mesmerising & Iconic.
I know a lot of people don't like him because he seemed too goofy in this cutsceneand fight, I actually like it because it shows how unhinged and insane he is, and how your actions in thwarting him have driven him out of his mind.
ZANT is a great boss. Especially from a ludonarrative synchronicity standpoint. I feel a lot of people don't like what he turns out to be, personality-wise, at this point in the game, but I feel they misunderstand the whole idea of the character of Zant. For when we learn that Zant did not gain his power through training, trials, or study (like, say, Ganon, Link, or Zelda), we see him for what he is when cornered. Zant is a little man-child that feels he is entitled to power simply by being there (basically, he's like an incel who thinks girls owe him sex because he behaved like any other normal nice person). And when Ganon's power shows up mid-tantrum, suddenly he acts all cool and menacing (as he was throughout the game), confident in the power he feels is truly his, only for the one who gave him that power to betray him, having used his greed to lure him into being his puppet. But we see his character return to form when, like a child who can no longer bully the small kids, he no longer has a position of obvious dominance. Because Zant's power was not his own. And this is played out beautifully in the fight itself. In standard before-the-final-boss form for many games, it's a boss rush-style fight. And that's usually something I kinda find lazy (I thought those black-and-white fights in Wind Waker were sort of pointless, for instance). But in the case of the Zant battle, the boss battles are perverted in some way or another. Because Zant lacks any originality or creativity. He is not someone with the abilities to create his own challenge, but must instead rely upon the abilities of others. In terms of his own ability, Zant himself seems surprisingly unsophisticated. He has few tactics to use, mostly just changing the stage and shooting energy balls at you. He is oddly clumsy. And, when the stages are exhausted, and he finds himself in a stage representing the location of the upcoming final battle (unknown both to the player and, based on Zant's behavior, Zant himself), Zant takes out his swords and, once again, is lacking in any finesse whatsoever. Because all he ever aspired to be was someone who mimicked power, and never truly gained his own. With the curtain pulled back, he is revealed to be nothing but a greedy, gullible, tantrum-throwing puppet.
Even if zant wasn't being manipulated by ganon, i feel like he would've been the same, and that's perfectly fine. I don't understand how zant being crazy in the end ruins his character or makes him a shadow when it does the opposite if anything.
Zant is an usurper in a deeper level than I thought, he not only usurped the throne of the twilight but he also usurped the previous boss fights and their mechanics!
Seldom do I watch other people play games I could play myself, but there’s nothing like watching a part of your childhood with such ease, simple gameplay, 100% nostalgia
@@43rdblue17 I got stuck in the story because I didn't really understand it I also didn't know how to read yet Soo I couldn't properly follow the story
So you say Junji Kitajima regretted voicing Zant? I bet he had fun doing so crazy voices on a mic knowing millions of players will here it while laughing, just like how he must've at that time. Imagine how may times they had to redo it just because the craziness made him laugh.
Ok, so this might be a REALLY stupid question, but I don't trust myself to figure it out... Are the people of the Twilight Relm the interlopers who were banished?
@@CM_CHESS Actually its implied by the symbols in the architecture and clothing that the Interlopers - now Twili - where a BUNCH of different races and people throughout Hyrule who where all banished together. You can see a warped Gerudo crest on Zant's own front. Their are hints to e v e r y race.
It seems, over the years, the descendants were calmer than the interlopers that were banished. As Zant mentions before the fight, they let go of their desires. These current Twili probably don't deserve to be banished, but they don't see it as being banished since they've made the realm their home.
Ah, Zant. One of my favorite villains and followers of Ganon. He may have been “used” by the Demon King, but he is a follower of Ganon until the end of time. And Hyrule Warriors and its rereleases (Despite being non-canon) shows Ganon treating him as an actual follower, even having him fight alongside Ghirahim. Even in the VA, he struck up a friendship with Hyness (Cause, you know, both of them are devoted to a higher evil, they may seem calm but are actually insane, and their fighting styles are erratic, but deadly).
Zant was such a good boss fight, you can't beat the staple ganondorf fight, but his boss fight was almost all the boss fights together, their has never been a boss fight as unique as Zants was.
Zant swimming... Something I've never ever seen before since I use the claw-shots on him (& yes, I yell "Get over here!" while doing so) & quickly hit him a few times with the sol powered Master Sword.
@@BigRagatheOpStomper Yup. DS3 : Nameless King / Midir > Soul of Cinder DS2 : Ivory King > Nashandra DS1 : Manus > Gwyn Wind Waker I'd argue that the disturbing puppet ganon is the best, etc. lots of other games like that.
Can we all just appreciate that someone stood in front of a mic and made these noises for zant's voice?
David Santana it would sound funny 😂😂😂😂😂
David Santana I do.
I very much enjoy the thought of someone being paid to make those weird ass noises xD
I *NEED* to know who.
Same with the Postman screaming “HEEEEEY” and making weird running noises. I need to know who did these things so I can... look at where else they do stuff...
I just did
Zant.....went from a calm, cool, collected villain.....too a complete mad, crazy and psycho villain
And I love it!
DrDark7 That's the best part
DrDark7 And a villain that can apparently break his back.
DrDark7 It's called Bipolar.
It's possible that he was keeping in his crazy side.
I need more of Zant's swimming animation cycle in my life
CrashKirby64 haha
Flap flap
And in his swimming trunnks
@@SodiumNuke ayo???🤨
@@SodiumNuke More like tighty whities
I actually feel so bad for Zant. He worked for a long time in the twili royal family, and got skipped from being the next heir. He wasn't gonna do anything except throw a little tantrum and then get over it later. But Ganon had to step in and corrupt him to do his bidding giving him seriously bad powers.
Even though Zant had the impatience and behaviour of a child, that also means he has the naivety and innocence of one as well. Thats why he was so easily misled by Ganon.
I love his character. Especially how he comes off as a cold, calculating villain, then you find out he's completely insane, as well as having a bit of tragedy in his backstory that drives him to do what he's done. His character makes him unnerving and psychotic, yet to some degree, sympathetic and relatable at the same time.
I was expecting some sort of Star Wars level epic duel when I reached Zant. And what I got was so much better.
Op look at Skull Kid. I was more sympathetic to that one.
U remind me of Nicobbq with his NOT A series
However he already had no hope, you see what Ganondorf's power can do to some people in other games, they are done for, lost, possessed, never to be the same again
@@maikybravo6108 That just shows how evil Ganondorf really is. He takes people who are already down on their luck, offers them power beyond their wildest dreams in order to take back what was stolen from. This act twists their minds into becoming Ganondorf's loyal servants, but then he discards them like pawns once they have outlived their usefulness.It's sad, since most of the characters Ganondorf uses are usually quite interesting and somewhat likable characters.
10:16 Zant, calm down. Smashing pottery is Link's job.
Link: Now it's personal...
Zant: *Smashes pots*
Link: HEY THAT'S MY JOB! HOW DARE YOU!?
Zant: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYGYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Link: You've gone too far now Zant, and you must *PAY FOR IT!*
This is what happens when Darth Vader turns out to actually be Jar Jar Binks.
Were you in that one Discord when the mass outage happened and that particular server was up, and one of the mods claimed to be Darth Jar Jar and that he killed Discord?
White Face #513 Wh-
The comic relief strikes back with a vengeance.
Actually this is what happens when Kylo Ren turns out to be a total wuss.
Lol
This fight was interesting just because it actually showed how unskilled Zant is even in basic combat, especially in the last portion of the fight. He relied so much on the magic that Ganondorf granted him.
He's definitely unskilled but it's still scary how deadly that spin move would be if you were up against him for real
@@Dilopho The old adage of amateurs being extremely dangerous in combat because you have no idea what they're going to do comes to mind.
That’s why it’s also annoying af from Midna’s perspective to watch her good for nothing cousin running around with god powers lol
In Zant's defense, Link was trained by the undead Hero of Time to be a master swordsman, so of course he would pale in comparison.
Wait are Zant and Midna related
I'm absolutely convinced that his helmet is some sort of way for Ganon to control him. Whenever that thing comes off he goes absolutely batshit insane.
Actually, Ganondorf wasn't controlling him. He gave him a small amount of his power, which turned him insane.
well it's shaped like the gerudo symbol so maybe.
I do support the idea that the helmet is some sort of insanity inhibitor
I mean he acts insane even with the helmet
He snorted some lines before the battle
You know, I just came to realize something. I'd always found Zant's entire boss sequence to be more thematic than, well, impressive. He's obviously only a pawn to the real big bad, a simple tool, but in his position of power, with how he's toyed with you from the beginning, you'd think him to put up a better fight. Even as he descends into desperation, he never quite appropriately attacks you. He heavily relies on keeping his distance, using the magic he'd been granted. When he dares to approach, he's literally flailing.
He's a delegate. He's a royal figure. He's no fighter. It's taken me way too long just how much he relies on Ganon's power to fight for him, and that he's painfully pathetic one-on-one. Without it, fueled only by his vindication for the dishonour he bore, he'd have fallen at the first exchange of swords. He stood no chance against Link.
You can see how this whole fight is a downward spiral for Zant, slowly losing his mind.
4:10
Zant is attacking you very mockingly, like you can’t do anything. He is essentially trying to toy with you.
4:56
You’ve shocked Zant a bit by smacking him around. He goes for something different, but you can tell from his next approach that you’ve put him off balance.
6:01
This is where Zant becomes rattled, and starts throwing the big stuff at you, knowing full and well he actually has to try to beat you. He starts blasting attacks left and right, trying hard to confound you with a flurry of projectiles.
7:20
Zant truly begins to lose it here, resorting to more... unorthodox tactics. He’s shaken up, trying so hard to do SOMETHING that will get in your head, while trying to keep his cool in the process.
8:06
At this point, you’ve just plain old pissed him off. Zant is LIVID. He’s throwing EVERYTHING he’s got at you, literally attempting to squash you like a bug.
9:04
Zant’s got nothing left. He’s exhausted his arsenal, and begins flailing around in a desperate last attempt to do some kind of damage. You can tell he is frightened, and has just gone off the deep end. This is emphasized by the increased tempo and frantic clips of theme from each previous stage, giving a sense of total panic.
Tyler Green Woah you analysed this
But great tho 👍🏻
Hes gotta get in smash
Glad to be of service haha, I really started considering the concepts after going back and listening to some old boss music, and Zant’s theme REALLY stuck out to me.
@@t-greenrock404 Over a year since your original comment, and now i see your reply
I gotta say, I wasn't expecting Zant to go absolutely bananas. I liked his character design to begin with, but after this, I really came to appreciate him as a villain.
Why is his head built like a damn peanut
@@Skull_Kid0.o cuz he's nuts
0:59
Oh wow, he's pretty serious.
1:28
oh nevermind
My expressions playing this game the first time:
0:59 >:(
1:06 :|
1:28 8/
Oh no he’s still serious. Seriously fuckin bonkers.
I'm pretty flexible I can do that lmao my friends get creeped out when I do that 😂😂
Well not exactly like xzant cause apparently he twists almost like 360° but i can sorta do that
I can do that I creep my friends out
It pisses me off that there hasn't been another Zelda game that focuses more on the Twili. You can't just introduce a cool fucking race and world like that and then act like it never happened. Breath of the Wild showed us more regarding the personal lives of the Zora, Goron, Gerudo, and Rito and that's awesome! Now we need a game that tells us more about the Twili. I would love to explore a Twili village/city.
Inora Faolan yes i hope someday they make another twilight princess that begins after this.
Would be cool to see link older maybe with some modern armor still have his green tunic. And still be able to become a wolf
well you know the only item that lets you go into the twilight realm got destroyed by midna tear
@@liddel137 in the manga Zelda is able to talk to minda in the twilight realm through a pond so I think there’s more then one way to enter the realm since it’s heavily hinted at by Zelda
Twili Realm, Dark World, Lorule, Skyloft, Future ruled by Ganondorf. Honestly there's a lot of ideas that i'd like to see return in some way or form in later games.
? Breath didn't show Us anything new. In fact, Breath had the Picori race _cut_ from it's production!!
The Zora region was really Epic and well directed. But the others, especially the Rito were plain, flat & boring. I mean, a big stone pillar surrounded by some wooden shacks in a frankly plain and annoying desert landscape? I expected something more in the _Sky_ - more like Tears is revealing to Us.
8:10 Music is actually pretty sick here.
I mean considering it takes an already amazing boss theme and just modifies it to show Zant's insanity.... Yep, I'd say it's pretty great.
Yep!
Twilight Princess music is always sick, no matter which part of the game.
Yeah so cool
Kinda Reminds me of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked That The Chiptelles Sang I Whip My Tail Back and Fourth.
The ice room phase and the phase after that had such cool music. This game's atmosphere is fantastic.
jgallag90 The whole game is pretty fantastic
10:24
Okay but for real, that was one slick dodge
My favourite Zelda villain, and easily my favourite fight in the series. To see this once threatening figure, who once loomed over you, reduced to this crazed and unpredictable loose cannon who has nothing left to lose, knowing that he is merely a pawn in all this. And while he may once have had noble cause or greater ambition, all that is left is this mad outburst, full of sound of fury, signifying nothing.
Quilby
Slap slap slap
Clap clap clap
it was very predictable boss fight
Nice Bolbi reference
12:24 when you see something really really really cute
XD
12:31 When that cute thing turned out to be evil
Yes I too blow up
Justa Porg No, I meant the stabbing part
Yeah, nothing cuter than being stabbed :3
11:01 Zant:nigga
Me:wtf
I heard it 😂
He used his n word pass in his final moment
This is a man of honor
Yus
I heard it XD
I heard " Stupid Nigga" twice
Seeing him pop like a balloon in HD just makes the experience even better.
Probably one of the more comical deaths... It's not the most pleasant of sights, but it's still pretty funny.
Me: I wonder what kind of powers Zant will have.
Zant: All of them.
Except good swordsmanship
“Oh look at that, you’re going to duel me! Well, not really duel, more like, flailing angrily.”
@@alwaystired2452 Zant is secretly the real Hash Slinging Hasher
@@MegaJesseman
But without the Spatula Hand lol
I like that scary story Character.
Zant's trump cards were removed from him. He can't bath Midna in light to kill her because Zelda granted her protection (Presumably, the Triforce of Wisdom) and he can't curse Link anymore because the Master Sword banishes curses and has absorbed the power of the Sol to even banish darkness itself. It seems Zant can't handle having genuine threats, he's used to helpless victims.
12:24 When you find an extra piece of pizza in the fridge.
12:31
When you bite into and realize it has mushrooms under the cheese and you’re a picky eater
Zant: as long as my master, Ganon, survives, he will resurrect me without cease!
Midna: then parish
Ganon: You too crazy to bring back to life. You served your shameless pitiful purpose, insane monkey!
6:33 me:....why are you swimming away YOU CAN FUCKING TELEPORT
Hydn Alger just a prank bro
that makes no sense...
Honestly I think the fact that he swims instead of teleports makes perfect sense. By that I mean as little sense as possible which is perfect for just how insane the whole fight is.
Before that 6:29 GET OVER HERE.
He forgot that he could for a second 😂
Man the combat in this game was made with so much love.. you can hook shot the boss and bring him to you? Chef’s kiss.
Zant is such a favorite boss of mine, lit soundtrack, lit boss, lit everything. I need to replay this game soon
lit isn't a word. stfu.
No thank you, I will use whatever I please. :) I hope that you however, are having a much better day than what you were having at this moment.
Cykie2 this game is LIT asf
This is probably my favorite 3d Zelda game!
You’re SO powerful Midna. You killed a man on his death bed. SO POWERFUL, great job.
Don't disrespect my queen like that smh 😤😤
@@saltchipper-7147
She's my queen to but he or she has a point. Plus Zant is the rightful king.
I just felt dissapointed when She killed him, I DID THE ENTIRE BATTLE FOR FRED FUCHS SAKE, LET ME CHOP HIS THROAT WITH MY SWORD AT LEAST.
To be fair, he was drawing on the power of the Triforce of Power. Even if it was just a fraction of it, that's impressive for anyone besides Link to do. Especially since she apparently only used a sliver of it.
@@alwaystired2452 'Rightful?' He cursed Midna to usurp the throne.
" As long as my master, Ganon, survives, he shall resurrect me without cease! "
So that was a f*cking lie.
such a fun boss, i loved this fight more than the last 4 battles from ganon
11:00 Zant is racist and calls Link a N-
"stupid nigga"
I can't unhear it now god dammit.
LMAOOOO
A lot of people say it sounds like that, and yes, it does, but Nintendo wouldn't do that.
He used his n word pass
I find zant oddly adorable
10:00 Zant is as scary as hell
Yeah... I kinda tense and freaked out during this part when playing. A lot of it’s the sound design and music. It’s so speedy it make you anxious like hell.
Don’t worry, Zant’s just as afraid as you are. That’s why he’s lashing out in a blind panic.
11:00 what did he say
Nigga
Ganon gave him the n word pass
Thanks, now I can't unhear it...
I love how your icon at this time fits the comment perfectly
Ultimate Weege is that the power Ganon gave him 😳😳😳😳
So I came here hearing that Hyness in the new Kirby game was like Zant... gotta say they were spot on
They're both insane haha
Same. The resemblance is uncanny.
He looks like a freaking penguin with those swords! 😂😂😂 He's trying to kill Link like: "EEH-AHH-EEH-AHH"
Sergeant Rowboat 🤣🤣🤣
I love how absolutely wild Zant's animations are
It's amazing how faithfully they recreated his moveset in Hyrule Warriors.
Just imagine Zant as a boss in Dark Souls...
I'd pay to see that
Wow
@@ironencepersonal9634
Yeah that be cool to see.
I actually want to see Puppet Zelda as a from software boss. Especially as a sekiro-like boss
This was my favorite boss in this game ! I mean the last part of the fight, when the action speeds up a lot. It gets so hectic, his moves, the music, the fact that you have to constantly move ; all of this really translates his madness perfectly ! To me the developing team did such a good job on this one !
He returns in Kirby Star Allies
Oh I get it
You mean hyness
That’s exactly what I was think they based hyness on zant the way he moved is just like zant
Zant would be a great boss fight in Smash Bros. Maybe if smash 6 has a story mode
Quara hits a heat Bruh, my favorite Kirby villain is actually my favorite Zelda villain. MAH MIND IS BLOWN!!!!
Yeah,he sounds EXACTLY like zant. I wonder if they have the same voice actor
Gotta love how Midna went full on Parasyte the Maxim on Zant at the end...
Gotta love Zant! Am I right?
1H8C0NS131 Plays Smash way better then lame villan from skyward he was way to fruity. Zant is actually evil
@@OneBasedGod 😬😬😬 Ghirahim was definitely very evil, he wanted to remove Zelda's soul from her body and feed it to Demise so that they could rampage the Earth with him serving as the sword that his master would use to cut down anything and anyone that stood in his way.
@@OneBasedGod As weird as girahim looks and sounds, he's one of the villains to actually succeed in bringing Demise back. No other Zelda villain would win besides every Game over screen.
Z-zant buddy? You o-ok there? *ZANT!! TALK TO ME!! OH GOD WHYY*
1:50 Zant to Link: Let's Tango!
Whoever vooced Zant better have gotten paid alot like sweet Jesus Christ
Ikr bruh no VA would actually do that
Then I hope Junji Kitajima got paid the well deserved money for voicing a calm looking crazy megalomaniac usurper king with magic powers and never ending madness to match it.
whats most frightening to me about all this
is that throughout the entire fight
zant gets desparate
hes an insane man driven by power and hate
but above all else, hes a cornered animal
hes desparate
hes afraid
hes going to do whatever he can think of to kill you
any trick he can pull, no matter how wild or unnatural, no matter how dangerous to himself it is
_No plans. No menacing schemes._
_just utter unhinged madness and rage_
12:58 Link seems pretty scared of Midna now, seeing he's shaking.
IT'S YEET-A-MASTERPIECE
The score for this boss is genius as it uses elements of every other boss battle’s theme music and remixes it onto the Zant beat!
I think the best thing about this fight is that you got to use the items you collected along the way.
Zant's fighting style is basically what happens when all of your direction and tutoring is taken from shounen anime.
Not even that lol, Zant’s fighting style is literally the equivalent of a man sized toddler swinging around kitchen knives for shits and giggles.
Idk about y'all but I've had breakdowns in my room like this
I have mental breakdowns worse than this on a daily basis.
It's one of the best battles in any LoZ game imo. I love how there are throwbacks to the boss fights that you've done so far.
Zant and Majora would get along really well. Imagine Zant wearing the mask containing the crazed god…. utterly terrifying.
1st phase: crazy
2nd phase: even more crazy
3rd phase: bonkers
4th phase: insane
5th phase: batshit insane
Final phase: madness
After final phase: a black person because 11:01
The 'Insane' Zant cutscene simply lives through time & the ages. Throw any game's cutscene at this - there's something about this one that is just mesmerising & Iconic.
Even when I was younger, I was glad he didn't turn out a generic villain and was actually psycho.
"Nothin' personal, kid"
The one dislike is Zant
I know a lot of people don't like him because he seemed too goofy in this cutsceneand fight, I actually like it because it shows how unhinged and insane he is, and how your actions in thwarting him have driven him out of his mind.
And the fact he was crazy before Ganon gave him his powers
ZANT is a great boss.
Especially from a ludonarrative synchronicity standpoint.
I feel a lot of people don't like what he turns out to be, personality-wise, at this point in the game, but I feel they misunderstand the whole idea of the character of Zant. For when we learn that Zant did not gain his power through training, trials, or study (like, say, Ganon, Link, or Zelda), we see him for what he is when cornered.
Zant is a little man-child that feels he is entitled to power simply by being there (basically, he's like an incel who thinks girls owe him sex because he behaved like any other normal nice person).
And when Ganon's power shows up mid-tantrum, suddenly he acts all cool and menacing (as he was throughout the game), confident in the power he feels is truly his, only for the one who gave him that power to betray him, having used his greed to lure him into being his puppet. But we see his character return to form when, like a child who can no longer bully the small kids, he no longer has a position of obvious dominance. Because Zant's power was not his own.
And this is played out beautifully in the fight itself. In standard before-the-final-boss form for many games, it's a boss rush-style fight. And that's usually something I kinda find lazy (I thought those black-and-white fights in Wind Waker were sort of pointless, for instance). But in the case of the Zant battle, the boss battles are perverted in some way or another. Because Zant lacks any originality or creativity. He is not someone with the abilities to create his own challenge, but must instead rely upon the abilities of others. In terms of his own ability, Zant himself seems surprisingly unsophisticated. He has few tactics to use, mostly just changing the stage and shooting energy balls at you. He is oddly clumsy. And, when the stages are exhausted, and he finds himself in a stage representing the location of the upcoming final battle (unknown both to the player and, based on Zant's behavior, Zant himself), Zant takes out his swords and, once again, is lacking in any finesse whatsoever.
Because all he ever aspired to be was someone who mimicked power, and never truly gained his own. With the curtain pulled back, he is revealed to be nothing but a greedy, gullible, tantrum-throwing puppet.
Truer words have never been spoken
Even if zant wasn't being manipulated by ganon, i feel like he would've been the same, and that's perfectly fine. I don't understand how zant being crazy in the end ruins his character or makes him a shadow when it does the opposite if anything.
This comment only got like 3 likes for such a long words
I love incel villains
10:58 did he just said the n-word there lmao
3:28 and 12:24 XDXDXD
Oooooooohhhh
ZANT SWIMMING IS THE CUTEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN OMG XD
he's a lovely and handsome man. i support him
your profile pic makes this comment leagues better
I agree
Wait, your profile pic, in it.....................GIRAHIM?!
I support him to heck I want him in Smash Bros
Best side villain in legend of Zelda
Zant=1 like Ghirahim=1 reply!
ITS POLL TIME
Adam White hi
GHIRAHIM
Fabulous
Been gathering Fairies to bring Ghirahim back.
y'all really sleeping on Ghirahim,,
Zant is an usurper in a deeper level than I thought, he not only usurped the throne of the twilight but he also usurped the previous boss fights and their mechanics!
Joker and Pennywise: And people say we’re crazy?
8:27 makes me laugh he's hopping around holding his foot like owwww MY TOE! XD hahahah
0:53 when switching camera angle zant's helmet changes from open to close and open again
冥王之翼 it does wow
Cuz Link straight up knocked the teeth outta him.
@Khan Afridi That was saliva
@Khan Afridi It would suite is personality though, since he is so power hungry
Seldom do I watch other people play games I could play myself, but there’s nothing like watching a part of your childhood with such ease, simple gameplay, 100% nostalgia
I beat this game when i was younger and jesus christ this scene/boss fight scared the shit out of me. such a cool fight.
Zant forgot to take his Ritalin that day.
That comment hits hard I was on it when I played this I was like 5
@@5Scarz I'm more surprised that you were able to understand and play this game at that young of age.
@@43rdblue17 I got stuck in the story because I didn't really understand it I also didn't know how to read yet Soo I couldn't properly follow the story
@@5Scarz That would be difficult lol how far along in the game did you make it?
@@43rdblue17 not that far all I remember something about a Cannon and a letter that i had to show to someone
The poor person who made the sounds for zant...
That was me, all I had to do was snort 16 pounds of crack
So you say Junji Kitajima regretted voicing Zant? I bet he had fun doing so crazy voices on a mic knowing millions of players will here it while laughing, just like how he must've at that time. Imagine how may times they had to redo it just because the craziness made him laugh.
Ok, so this might be a REALLY stupid question, but I don't trust myself to figure it out... Are the people of the Twilight Relm the interlopers who were banished?
They're the descendants of the interlopers.
@@CM_CHESS I think you meant the yiga clan and the interlopers are different thing though .
Not directly the interlopers but the descendants of the interlopers.
@@CM_CHESS Actually its implied by the symbols in the architecture and clothing that the Interlopers - now Twili - where a BUNCH of different races and people throughout Hyrule who where all banished together. You can see a warped Gerudo crest on Zant's own front. Their are hints to e v e r y race.
It seems, over the years, the descendants were calmer than the interlopers that were banished. As Zant mentions before the fight, they let go of their desires. These current Twili probably don't deserve to be banished, but they don't see it as being banished since they've made the realm their home.
Ah, Zant. One of my favorite villains and followers of Ganon. He may have been “used” by the Demon King, but he is a follower of Ganon until the end of time. And Hyrule Warriors and its rereleases (Despite being non-canon) shows Ganon treating him as an actual follower, even having him fight alongside Ghirahim. Even in the VA, he struck up a friendship with Hyness (Cause, you know, both of them are devoted to a higher evil, they may seem calm but are actually insane, and their fighting styles are erratic, but deadly).
One of the best Zelda villains. Only second to Majora's mask.
When ur mom saids clean ur room:
(1:33)
When ur mom took ur Xbox *one* or PS4 bc u don't wanna clean ur room:
(2:26)
I support this comment. I feel it
Damn, based.
12:24 the noise me and my friends make in primary school when somebody got in trouble
CookieWolf ! 🤣🤣🤣 I’m dying
And now he’s a cultist in Star Allies 😂
Zant was such a good boss fight, you can't beat the staple ganondorf fight, but his boss fight was almost all the boss fights together, their has never been a boss fight as unique as Zants was.
Twilight Princess has the best story of any Zelda game to date.
no one:
five year olds with knives: 9:55
Speech bubble: Zant.
Midna: *A X E*
8:40 a ball in balls
Apparently getting whacked on the foot with a metal ball is worse then getting smacked in the nuts with one
@@johnortiz4366 just because no one wants instant K. O. in the middle of the fight
If Zant weren’t foamin at the mouth from goin batshit crazy, that sure would’ve done it.
His nuts are invulnerable to crushing, how can he be defeated now
Zant can be very hilarious.
11:00
10:59
......Did you guys hear that....???.....
He said the N word 😂😂😂
11:01 bro said the n word
Zant swimming...
Something I've never ever seen before since I use the claw-shots on him (& yes, I yell "Get over here!" while doing so) & quickly hit him a few times with the sol powered Master Sword.
Seeing Zant go from creepy and stoic to literally being a manchild throwing a psychopathic tantrum was so jarring.
*b e s t v i l l a n*
8:42 right in the twilight zone!
12:25
Link: Note to self, don't piss off Midna.
Zant can literally do the WRYYYY pose
Zant is the definition of drugs
Zant should be the street name for a drug.
Hey, you wanna smoke some Zant?
Hey, got my Zant?
8:41 should have been a critical hit.
The music is always so on point in all Zelda games, I always really appreciate it!
1:17 Praise Us Gloriously Dark Lord- Hyness 2018
Ah, you even hear a sound when he smash his head on the floor.. 2:38
One thing I wish Botw had was this kind of story, and depth, also the combat evolution that the hero of Twilight had
better than breath of the wild final boss
Brandon Valdez sad but true
In most games, the second to final boss is usually the best... don't know why
Brandon Valdez Exactly! Heck, in BotW, the BLIGHT Ganons were harder then Dark Beast!
@@BigRagatheOpStomper Yup.
DS3 : Nameless King / Midir > Soul of Cinder
DS2 : Ivory King > Nashandra
DS1 : Manus > Gwyn
Wind Waker I'd argue that the disturbing puppet ganon is the best,
etc. lots of other games like that.
What about Maz Koshia?