If I recall correctly, the reason WW Link didn’t care for anything going on originally is because he is NOT a predestined hero such as Skywards or Time, he was literally just a kid/teen that had all those circumstances thrust upon him with his main goal being to save his sister. Plus he had to literally BUILD (collect first) the triforce of courage to become it’s bearer rather than being born with it
I think I heard someone say "Wind Waker's Link wasn't chosen by the gods, he forced them to choose him. Diving deep into the ocean to collect pieces of the Triforce of Courage and forging it back"
I mean he was a chosen hero. The king of hyrule chose him. And tasked him with gathering the power he needed go up against Ganon so he can save his sister and even after saving his sister he continues to go after Ganon .
More or less. OoT Link goes back to his time, leaving Adult Timeline with no hero to fight the revived Ganon, forcing the Goddess to flood Hyrule. Yes, he's still a reincarnation of the Hero's Spirit as Tetra is a reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia/Zelda, but beyond something all Links have in common, WW Link is the least connected to the Link line since his predecessor effectively doesn't exist in his timeline. He is, as you said, essentially just some kid dropped into stuff, having to man up and earn that Hero title.
so actually during the Phantom Ganon fight in TOTK, the reason you weren’t killed in one hit is because there’s a hidden mechanic that keeps you from being one-shot if you’re at full health! doesn’t matter how many heart containers you have! pretty nice of them to include lol
Wait really??? Wow...I never even knew that...I just remembered from one of my older playthroughs that I survived with 5 hearts...now I feel like a complete idiot, but thanks for making that clear!
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I actually hated this mechanic because it's really inconsistent. It applies to almost every enemy, but some attacks go through this, and there really is no obvious indicator in any situation which attacks will ignore the 1HP barrier. Then, on the other hand, the game can be run minimal hearts and no armor to make it extremely easy to heal yourself to max and Link basically always has on his Focus Sash (for anyone who plays Pokemon) for 90%+ of encounters. I preferred the difficulty from BotW personally, but I do see how this makes the game more accessible. It just feels really bad to me when I barely survive an attack on that low HP cause I don't feel like I earned it ever, like I would in prior games. It just feels like a participation trophy to me
Fun fact: the only incarnation of Link that doesn't have a boomerang is Skyward Sword Link. Meanwhile, 5 out the 12 incarnations of Link lack the Master Sword, and it only appears in 8 out of 20 games. So I propose we make the boomerang the new iconic weapon of the series, given it's much more prominent role across the games.
@@Nphynite When hearing the music of obataining the master sword the duh----nuh---nuh-----nuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Makes me feel great every time like undertale music
Technically, if you count it, Skyward Sword is actually super short, as the Goddess Sword evolves into the Master Sword. In a way, the Goddess Sword IS the Master Sword.
I like to highlight the fact in this video with the timer going, that by the time one enters the first dungeon in Twilight Princess, one could already be at the door to the boss for the first dungeon in Skyward Sword. Making Twilight Princess, indeed, the slowest intro of any Zelda game.
17:40 Why yes, because all great romances has the girl push the guy off of high statues and parachuting. Oh, who am I kidding, I love Skyward Sword ZeLink.
damn, was with you in the first half, lost me in the second... fr tho ss zelink is the only one to have ANY chemistry other than maybe totk (and NOT breath of the wild, they have no chemistry there either) and while it's not my thing, i think they're better as friends, i at least UNDERSTAND it. i will NEVER understand shipping it in the other games tbh. there's like. almost always something better anyway
@@pokefanmelody Saying they have no chemistry in BOTW is just genuinely missing the point of the memories. You literally see them grow closer over time. And then saying "maybe" for TOTK is just straight up delusional. Between Zelda excitedly yapping to Link in the very beginning, to the implication that they live together, to her gushing about him to Raura and Sonia, to the "Link, I'm home" at the end, they couldnt have made it any more obvious how she felt about Link without straight up saying it. And even Ganondorf knew Link felt the same with the way he spoke through Phantom Zelda. Also, WW Link and Zelda have great chemistry as well. Plus Spirit tracks Link and Zelda straight up hold hands at the end. You can not enjoy Zelink, and it def isnt a thing in every game, but SS is far from the only game where they have chemistry.
The Master Sword is the only weapon to *harm* a Full Triforce Ganon because any other weapon fails - even the God Killing Silver Arrows that can only harm him if you paralyze him in Phase 2 with... The Master Sword, and even then, you can only harm him with Spin Attacks unless you upgrade it into the Golden Sword, then spamming regular swings is more effective. In Ocarina of Time you can basically pick like any other weapon against Ganondorf in Tennis. The Biggoron Sword, the Megaton Hammer, a Bottle, and he can also be harmed by anything that has damage value when stunned with a Light Arrow. His Ganon Form is quite interesting. First: Every weapon - Including the Allmighty Biggoron Sword - only deals as much damage as the Kokiri Sword to any Regular enemy, the Master Sword is the Only Exception dealing Double Damage as the Kokiri Sword. And second: At some point he has either infinite durrability or he regenerates after each swipe, That's why you have to hit him with the Master Sword to bring him Down, and them to thrust this Blade of Exorcism into the Brain of that Beast. In Wind Waker the Master Sword is pretty much the only Weapon to harm Phantom Ganon even in a weakened state (and later the Light Arrows simply erradicate him) Same thing goes for Ganondorf. He is only vulnerable to the Master Sword while Light Arrows simply stun him. In Twilight Princess Ganondorf is completely invulnerable to any other weapon, the Ordon Sword has no Collission - except in the Horse Phase where Light Arrows weaken him, then he indeed is vulnerable to anything - and every other weapons he dodges or parries. Though I managed to hit my entire quiver full of Arrows in his wound, he grunts every time but he does not lose any HP despite the Bow and Arrow dealing more damage than the Master Sword. Then in Skyward Sword the Goddess Sword in all its forms is the only way to harm Ghirahim because he dodges Projectiles like Albert Wesker or they simply dont effect him. And you literally can only attack Demise with the Master Sword because not even your entire Inventory full of Nuke-Plants that can one-shot these huge Moblins dont have any effect on Demise, same goes for the Sacred Bow that deals 3 Times as much damage as the awakened Master Sword. Then there is A Link between worlds where the only time the Master Sword *is* neccesary is to break the barrier, and for the rest of the Game you simply can stop using it and use the Bow, the Fire Rod, the Hammer and even the Lantern to kill everything. Evem Yuganon, who is Yuga and Ganon with Triforce of Power combined and should thereby actually be more Powerful... Oh look, you can harm him with other weapons. And then there are Botw and Totk where the Master Sword is entirely optional to get, yet has the same effect on dark Beast Ganon as Light Arrows by simply using the Sword Beam and deals 300 Damage to Demon Dragon - which is 10 times the Base damage. Yet both are optional except for the part to finish the Demon Dragon off. So basically up to Skyward Sword the Master Sword is neccesary to finish the Final Boss - and also for story progression like Breaking Barriers, time travel, opening entrances to other areas and so on Then in the More open World Games the Master Sword is optional to use
It requires a lot more skill to get past the army, but if you head straight to Ganon at the beginning of TOTK, they just give you the master sword when it shows up, no stamina check required.
Good thing you didn't try to do this challenge in the Oracle games. Because you literally can't get the Master Sword in either of them without _finishing the other one first._ (It's a Linked Game bonus.)
42:04 actually you are insane because it's not the extra health that saved you, if you're at full health, you're guaranteed to survive any attack with a quarter heart
@@Arisxgon His biggest complaint about Hyrule Warriors on Wii U is having to run all the way around the map. His biggest praise of Age of Calamity is that you can switch characters and direct them to go to places when not using them. Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition on Switch _also_ allows you to switch characters and direct them to go to places when not using them. (as it was a thing from the 3DS game)
That was the version I played, and I was hella confused when he was talking about not being able to order the characters or switch between them. I didn't know you couldn't do that in the original
you can reach the horned statue in TOTK without doing a dungeon by entering the cave in hyrule castle and traverse it backwards towards lookout landing
I’d love to see you do a follow-up to this video where you use the lessons learned here (still no glitches/etc) to do an optimal run! Also, if you ever choose to do that, it would also be cool if you completed the final form of each version, as the initial Master Swords in certain games aren’t their true form (like Wind Waker and Skyward Sword) 😌
32:00 Yeah so...in Hyrule Warriors Legends and Definitive Edition (haven't played first version on Wii U), you can also switch characters and order them around the map. There are plenty missions where you start out only controlling one character in both games, but get access to other characters on the map. Except for a few missions here and there (in both) where you're limited to one character....you're not limited to one character.
in the start of totk, what you have isn't "really" the master sword, it's an item called msgnotfound, which is unbreakable. also, in totk you can never go from full health to dead in one hit.
You don't actually need to beat a temple to use the Horned Statue in TOTK, you just have to access it from the Hyrule Castle entrance to the passage if you do it beforehand
I’d really like to see a version of this that uses speedrun tricks and glitches to get the sword actually as fast as possible, such as Door of Time Skip, superswimming in Wind Waker, early master sword in Twilight Princess, etc. i already know how long it takes to get them vanilla, I’ve done that myself many times lol
yeah, I actually didn't like the fact that she changes for the ending. When she leaves Link and Zelda, I know it's her and the same one from the entire game, but my brain doesn't really associate her with imp Midna, so her farewell doesn't hit as hard as Fi's
@@ypto82that’s a fair opinion. To me, the fact she struggled the entire time with being cursed with the imp form; it just makes that ending much better realizing how thankful she is to be back to her normal form.
As much as i love wind waker, link is a horrible sailor! In the game, sailing with the wind directly coming from directly behind you is indeed the fastest and encouraged way to sail, but it’s a huge no-no for sailing in boats that size! Optimally, he’d be sailing with the wind coming from the back of one of his shoulders, not straight from his back! It’s not a real critique of the game, just something i find funny as a sailor.
@@Tyrael17X yeah that’s what i’m trying to say maybe i didn’t word it very well, you should never sail with wind right behind you, but in the game, it’s the fastest way and the way they tell you to sail
“now, this isn’t an essential step by any means but i decided to do it because it doesn’t really take that long to farm up the rupees in the first place”
For totk, that extra heart container didn't help keep you alive. There's a mechanic in the game where if you have full health, you physically can't die in 1 hit. So say an attack deals 5 hearts, but you only have 3, you'll survive on half a heart, as long as you were at full health
Something I discovered (just yesterday, in fact) is that, in TotK, you CAN get to the bargaining statue before completing the Wind Temple. Just start at the exit of the secret path in the castle ruins and work your way back!
I feel like there's a sweet spot for getting a legendary weapon. If you get it early, it feels less like a reward and more like a cosmic gimmie of fate. Late, and it feels like nothing more than a plot point for killing off the final boss. In the middle of a quest, not only does it feel earned, but it becomes a fun toy to play with for the rest of the game. None of these approaches are bad. They just change the vibe and are all good in their own way. I just like to think about how creative choices can affect a games overall feel.
@@MinscShip Also nope, it really does work that way. Almost no matter what attack from enemies, you will live with 1 quarter of a heart, as long as you have full health when hit. The things that you will die from there, is things that damages you immediately after a hit, like rolling around for too long, or a Guardian Laser hits you as that bypasses the one hit survival. And this is only for normal mode for BotW, as Master Mode just turns that off.
2:43 there is a Free Hylian Shield in the Kakakori Graveyard, you have to push one of the graves aside to reveal a hole where if you kill the enemies a chest with the shield will spawn.
Actually, there's a WAY faster way of obtaining the master sword in TotK... you just need to get to the last (dragon) phase of Ganondorf's boss fight, where you automatically get the master sword if you didn't already have it. (I highly recommend using speedrun techniques if you attempt this though, but if you aren't skilled in the fight itself, fairy duping should help with most of the skill problems) Also for the same reason, the fastest time is basically significantly lower than the one you showed, since you can watch regular speedruns which already is far lower than an hour. (about 36 minutes to get to that phase of the fight in a speedrun 3 months ago) (this also puts TotK at the top of the leaderboard even if we do not count the start of the game)
I actually really like that this is a challenge without speedrun skips, but i would be really interested in seeing how much faster the glitched run would be
Quick tip for skyward sword (specifically the ghirahim fights) If you hold up you shield when he is threatening to take your sword, he will track the sword as if it is to the right of your body (even if you are holding it to the left with motion controls) leaving him open to be slashed from the left and combo'd from there on Idk if this works in the hd version as I've only played the one on the wii, but it's worth a shot
Finally someone else who agrees Hyrule Warriors is underrated. It was peak hack and slash and features so much content. I'm on my way to 100%ing it as we speak. Every map. Every enemy. All gold ranked. Currently on Termina map. Those spider things are a difficult hunt though. I have to look up how to even get most of their second versions.
That's an evil suggestion 😂 Requires a full playthrough to get the linked secret, and finish the trading sidequest in both the first game and the linked game to get it... That's guaranteed to take so long that I'd argue it's not worth comparing it to others... 😅
in my play thought of Tears of the Kingdom, i have found the back door [True door] to the Royal Hidden Passage that the Horned Statue was and didn't know that a door open up to the Horned Statue in Emergency Shelter at Lookout Landing
By the way, the annoying ball maze shrine can be easily completed by flipping your controller over(the underside of the maze is flat) and saves some time
42:04 Fun fact The game have a great mechanic that make it impossible to die in one hit if you have 100% of your hp Even if you had only max 3 hearts/12hp
I might be unpopular in saying this but I think the Skyward Sword remake does a wonderful job of handling motion controls. I found it fun and honestly quite engaging. That being said, I have never played the original.
When it comes to tears of the kingdom, it isnt required to defeat one of the dungeons to unlock the pathway to the elder statue as there are two pathways, the first one requiring one of the dungeons to be finished, and another involving with goibg directly to the ditch hyrule castle. instead you can go through a broken wall by the edge of the whole where hyrule castle lies and following the pathway eventually leads you back to where the elder statue rest
Sad that you skipped the Oracle games. They are interesting in that aquiring the Master Sword requires fully beating one game and then progressing quite far into the other.
Technically, in Skyward Sword having the sword forged with the 3 flames doesn't turn it into the Master Sword until it is further blessed by Zelda which only happens after defeating the Imprisoned a second time and going back in time. So it would likely take at least 15 more minutes to get the Master Sword from after getting the blade forged by the 3rd sacred flame.
To answer the unasked question about the Oracle games: The first one you play: not there The second one you play (after you've completed the first one and linked the two with a password): About 10 minutes - basically as soon as you unlock The Tree Secret (and assuming you have the password for it... which you do, because the internet exists) Unrelated, but if you own a switch, and have an NSO account (not even the premium one, just the basic), that means you have the NSO emulator for Gameboy games, which means, technically, you _do_ own the oracle games
Personally I think majora's mask is darker than twilight princess. I'll never forget the scene where you literally watch the deku king execute a talking monkey by boiling it alive in a giant pot.
@@deluxe_capacitor In order to see it you have to sneak into the palace to talk to the monkey once and learn the song, and after you get kicked out you have to sneak back in.
23:53 Are you playing the original WiiU version? Because they changed this in both the 3DS version and the Switch Definitive Edition. Might not change the time, but would make the gameplay leading up to it more varied and fun. Better comparison too, since you played both the HD re-releases of at least Wind Waker and Skyward Sword, instead of their originals.
OoC great fairies were scary (i played OoC after playing both WW and TP) Also i agree hyrule warriors is underrated and i love it, favourite character to play as is medli
I know you explained it in the intro but still feel Link to the Past got Blue balled since it was the game that introduced the trademark sword, and Wind Waker and Skyward Sword should be extended since you don't get the "True" Master Sword until a little later in each game.
you legit couldve just gotten two stamina wheels and waited at the great sky island for the light dragon to come in to view from the west you couldve waited 2 hours instead of 4... not even using glitches or exploits
Funny enough with the exception of mask side quests you can still complete the child section while getting all possible heart pieces and skultulla in just under 3 hours
I mean technically the Master Sword isn't the Master Sword until it's fully powered up. That means you would've had to do another 2 dungeons in Wind Waker, another Imprisoned fight in Skyward Sword , and the trial of the Sword in Botw
@@Majinhero In the Kakariko graveyard is a grave with flowers in front of it it. At night you can move the gravestone to reveal a cave. Inside the cave is a chest with a free Hylian Shield.
botw could have been like 5 minutes. -Get all 4 runes -windbomb to korok forest -put wood right next to mastersword -ignite it to turn it into a campfire -Turn to Master Sword -Activate the sword and turn towards the campfire -Campfire overwrites the prompt to hold a -Cutscene where you pull out the Master Sword happends and you own it
Tears is probably the fastest master sword to get since you only need two stamina wheels versus breath of the wild where you need 15 hearts of health. You can get it in tears twice as fast but be ready to fight gloom spawn and phantom Gannon in the korok chasm because you want something to indicate where the light dragon is.
It's even faster than that: an alternate way to get the master sword is to just reach the dragon phase of the ganondorf fight, where you automatically obtain the master sword if you didn't already have it.
Am I just misremembering, or is the Whip never used in the second visit to Lanayru, and neither the Whip nor the Bow in the second visit to Eldin? I briefly thought about how much of a time sink returning to the Isle of Songs after the fourth and fifth dungeons are, and that led me to wondering how it would work if you could get all three songs at the same time. That in turn led to me trying to remember how the second visit to Lanayru and Eldin go, and my conclusion was 'is there any reason the developers couldn't have made the fourth, fifth, and sixth dungeons completable in any order with the game in its current state as far as puzzles and navigation are concerned'.
in some games for you it's when you obtain it and for others it's when she's fully charged. Ocarina of time: Obtained / charged. Wind waker: Obtained. She's fully charged when you have the triforce. Twilight princess: Obtained. She's fully charged when you infuse it with light in the twilight realm. Skyword sword: Charged. Hyrule warrior i don't know, didn't played it and BoTW / ToTK aren't zelda.
23:57 i hate to tell you this now, but hyrule warriors definitive edition on switch does let you do this lmao. definitely makes missions a lot easier to get through
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I love that this is in regular person time, not speedrunning time 😅
Same relief here
Yeah but now I want to know how fast it would be for a speedrunner
Human time vs. Clinically insane time
Y'know how twilight princess was 8 hours? Its about 20 minutes in the speedrun. @DukeCyrus
I had originally planned to learn some speedrunning tech...but after a week of trying...I knew the video would never come out
If I recall correctly, the reason WW Link didn’t care for anything going on originally is because he is NOT a predestined hero such as Skywards or Time, he was literally just a kid/teen that had all those circumstances thrust upon him with his main goal being to save his sister.
Plus he had to literally BUILD (collect first) the triforce of courage to become it’s bearer rather than being born with it
I think I heard someone say "Wind Waker's Link wasn't chosen by the gods, he forced them to choose him. Diving deep into the ocean to collect pieces of the Triforce of Courage and forging it back"
Legend of Kai Please make a Remastered Nintendo franchise or Ubisoft Ea Franchises. Please.
WW Link wasn't born a hero, he was forged into one
I mean he was a chosen hero. The king of hyrule chose him. And tasked him with gathering the power he needed go up against Ganon so he can save his sister and even after saving his sister he continues to go after Ganon .
More or less. OoT Link goes back to his time, leaving Adult Timeline with no hero to fight the revived Ganon, forcing the Goddess to flood Hyrule. Yes, he's still a reincarnation of the Hero's Spirit as Tetra is a reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia/Zelda, but beyond something all Links have in common, WW Link is the least connected to the Link line since his predecessor effectively doesn't exist in his timeline. He is, as you said, essentially just some kid dropped into stuff, having to man up and earn that Hero title.
so actually during the Phantom Ganon fight in TOTK, the reason you weren’t killed in one hit is because there’s a hidden mechanic that keeps you from being one-shot if you’re at full health! doesn’t matter how many heart containers you have! pretty nice of them to include lol
Wait really??? Wow...I never even knew that...I just remembered from one of my older playthroughs that I survived with 5 hearts...now I feel like a complete idiot, but thanks for making that clear!
@@Legend-of-Kai no don’t feel like an idiot!! i only recently figured that out too! i just wanted to share :)
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I actually hated this mechanic because it's really inconsistent. It applies to almost every enemy, but some attacks go through this, and there really is no obvious indicator in any situation which attacks will ignore the 1HP barrier. Then, on the other hand, the game can be run minimal hearts and no armor to make it extremely easy to heal yourself to max and Link basically always has on his Focus Sash (for anyone who plays Pokemon) for 90%+ of encounters. I preferred the difficulty from BotW personally, but I do see how this makes the game more accessible. It just feels really bad to me when I barely survive an attack on that low HP cause I don't feel like I earned it ever, like I would in prior games. It just feels like a participation trophy to me
Fun fact: the only incarnation of Link that doesn't have a boomerang is Skyward Sword Link. Meanwhile, 5 out the 12 incarnations of Link lack the Master Sword, and it only appears in 8 out of 20 games. So I propose we make the boomerang the new iconic weapon of the series, given it's much more prominent role across the games.
Sokka and link are beat friends. They both love Boomerangs🪃
Funny how this became outdated so soon with echoes of wisdom
All jokes aside 50 mins for the plateau in Botw is actually a solid time when not using glitches and exploits
My best time without glitches besides whistle sprint is 12 minutes
@@Nphynite When hearing the music of obataining the master sword the duh----nuh---nuh-----nuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Makes me feel great every time like undertale music
@@Nphynitefunny because the world record is 19 minutes and 13 seconds sooo.....😂😂
@@Nphynitemaybe you mean 112 minutes
@@Nphynite No... it isn't...
Technically, if you count it, Skyward Sword is actually super short, as the Goddess Sword evolves into the Master Sword. In a way, the Goddess Sword IS the Master Sword.
You could also count it, Wind Waker, and Breath of the Wild even longer, as it’s not fully powered up when you first attain them.
@@JosephHeiskellunlike windwaker , botw master sword upgrades are dlc and its always fully powered only around malice enemy
Yeh FI is the master sword so yes you’re right
In Tears Of The Kingdom, you get it at the beginning
Its very ship of theseus
I like to highlight the fact in this video with the timer going, that by the time one enters the first dungeon in Twilight Princess, one could already be at the door to the boss for the first dungeon in Skyward Sword. Making Twilight Princess, indeed, the slowest intro of any Zelda game.
17:40 Why yes, because all great romances has the girl push the guy off of high statues and parachuting.
Oh, who am I kidding, I love Skyward Sword ZeLink.
damn, was with you in the first half, lost me in the second... fr tho ss zelink is the only one to have ANY chemistry other than maybe totk (and NOT breath of the wild, they have no chemistry there either) and while it's not my thing, i think they're better as friends, i at least UNDERSTAND it. i will NEVER understand shipping it in the other games tbh. there's like. almost always something better anyway
@@pokefanmelodyexcept wind waker man links and tetras chemistry are great
@@pokefanmelody Also he doesn't talk in BOTW and TOTK so how the fuck does he have chemistry in one but not the other?
@@pokefanmelody Saying they have no chemistry in BOTW is just genuinely missing the point of the memories. You literally see them grow closer over time. And then saying "maybe" for TOTK is just straight up delusional. Between Zelda excitedly yapping to Link in the very beginning, to the implication that they live together, to her gushing about him to Raura and Sonia, to the "Link, I'm home" at the end, they couldnt have made it any more obvious how she felt about Link without straight up saying it. And even Ganondorf knew Link felt the same with the way he spoke through Phantom Zelda. Also, WW Link and Zelda have great chemistry as well. Plus Spirit tracks Link and Zelda straight up hold hands at the end. You can not enjoy Zelink, and it def isnt a thing in every game, but SS is far from the only game where they have chemistry.
How necessary is the Master Sword in every game, excluding plot reasons
Strong sword very good
It usually does double damage to the base sword which is necessary enough in my book at least.
The Master Sword is the only weapon to *harm* a Full Triforce Ganon because any other weapon fails - even the God Killing Silver Arrows that can only harm him if you paralyze him in Phase 2 with... The Master Sword, and even then, you can only harm him with Spin Attacks unless you upgrade it into the Golden Sword, then spamming regular swings is more effective.
In Ocarina of Time you can basically pick like any other weapon against Ganondorf in Tennis.
The Biggoron Sword, the Megaton Hammer, a Bottle, and he can also be harmed by anything that has damage value when stunned with a Light Arrow.
His Ganon Form is quite interesting.
First:
Every weapon - Including the Allmighty Biggoron Sword - only deals as much damage as the Kokiri Sword to any Regular enemy, the Master Sword is the Only Exception dealing Double Damage as the Kokiri Sword.
And second:
At some point he has either infinite durrability or he regenerates after each swipe, That's why you have to hit him with the Master Sword to bring him Down, and them to thrust this Blade of Exorcism into the Brain of that Beast.
In Wind Waker the Master Sword is pretty much the only Weapon to harm Phantom Ganon even in a weakened state (and later the Light Arrows simply erradicate him)
Same thing goes for Ganondorf.
He is only vulnerable to the Master Sword while Light Arrows simply stun him.
In Twilight Princess Ganondorf is completely invulnerable to any other weapon, the Ordon Sword has no Collission - except in the Horse Phase where Light Arrows weaken him, then he indeed is vulnerable to anything - and every other weapons he dodges or parries.
Though I managed to hit my entire quiver full of Arrows in his wound, he grunts every time but he does not lose any HP despite the Bow and Arrow dealing more damage than the Master Sword.
Then in Skyward Sword the Goddess Sword in all its forms is the only way to harm Ghirahim because he dodges Projectiles like Albert Wesker or they simply dont effect him.
And you literally can only attack Demise with the Master Sword because not even your entire Inventory full of Nuke-Plants that can one-shot these huge Moblins dont have any effect on Demise, same goes for the Sacred Bow that deals 3 Times as much damage as the awakened Master Sword.
Then there is A Link between worlds where the only time the Master Sword *is* neccesary is to break the barrier, and for the rest of the Game you simply can stop using it and use the Bow, the Fire Rod, the Hammer and even the Lantern to kill everything.
Evem Yuganon, who is Yuga and Ganon with Triforce of Power combined and should thereby actually be more Powerful... Oh look, you can harm him with other weapons.
And then there are Botw and Totk where the Master Sword is entirely optional to get, yet has the same effect on dark Beast Ganon as Light Arrows by simply using the Sword Beam and deals 300 Damage to Demon Dragon - which is 10 times the Base damage.
Yet both are optional except for the part to finish the Demon Dragon off.
So basically up to Skyward Sword the Master Sword is neccesary to finish the Final Boss - and also for story progression like Breaking Barriers, time travel, opening entrances to other areas and so on
Then in the More open World Games the Master Sword is optional to use
@@Chris-gx1eiholy shit bro
@@Chris-gx1eithat’s a lot of
It requires a lot more skill to get past the army, but if you head straight to Ganon at the beginning of TOTK, they just give you the master sword when it shows up, no stamina check required.
Specifically on the dragon phase of the fight.
Good thing you didn't try to do this challenge in the Oracle games. Because you literally can't get the Master Sword in either of them without _finishing the other one first._ (It's a Linked Game bonus.)
I forgot about that... And those weren't short games either!
42:04 actually you are insane because it's not the extra health that saved you, if you're at full health, you're guaranteed to survive any attack with a quarter heart
Had you played Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition, you could’ve saved so much time
Does he even know that the Definitive Edition exists?
Why
@@Arisxgon His biggest complaint about Hyrule Warriors on Wii U is having to run all the way around the map.
His biggest praise of Age of Calamity is that you can switch characters and direct them to go to places when not using them.
Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition on Switch _also_ allows you to switch characters and direct them to go to places when not using them. (as it was a thing from the 3DS game)
@@Aerafuz oh ok thanks
That was the version I played, and I was hella confused when he was talking about not being able to order the characters or switch between them. I didn't know you couldn't do that in the original
you can reach the horned statue in TOTK without doing a dungeon by entering the cave in hyrule castle and traverse it backwards towards lookout landing
I’d love to see you do a follow-up to this video where you use the lessons learned here (still no glitches/etc) to do an optimal run!
Also, if you ever choose to do that, it would also be cool if you completed the final form of each version, as the initial Master Swords in certain games aren’t their true form (like Wind Waker and Skyward Sword) 😌
Honestly as great as this video was, (it really is great btw)
I'm just happy that someone else feels the exact same way about the great fairies as me.
"look, I'm not gay but-" is one of the most real things I've heard
32:00 Yeah so...in Hyrule Warriors Legends and Definitive Edition (haven't played first version on Wii U), you can also switch characters and order them around the map. There are plenty missions where you start out only controlling one character in both games, but get access to other characters on the map. Except for a few missions here and there (in both) where you're limited to one character....you're not limited to one character.
in the start of totk, what you have isn't "really" the master sword, it's an item called msgnotfound, which is unbreakable.
also, in totk you can never go from full health to dead in one hit.
Twilight princess was the first Zelda game I had beaten so it has a special place in my heart
9:23 my favourite zelda location, The Forest Navel
Not to be confused with the Pikmin 1 location Forest Haven
You don't actually need to beat a temple to use the Horned Statue in TOTK, you just have to access it from the Hyrule Castle entrance to the passage if you do it beforehand
I’d really like to see a version of this that uses speedrun tricks and glitches to get the sword actually as fast as possible, such as Door of Time Skip, superswimming in Wind Waker, early master sword in Twilight Princess, etc. i already know how long it takes to get them vanilla, I’ve done that myself many times lol
I prefer how Midna looks before her "glow up" actually
No pun intended
yeah, I actually didn't like the fact that she changes for the ending. When she leaves Link and Zelda, I know it's her and the same one from the entire game, but my brain doesn't really associate her with imp Midna, so her farewell doesn't hit as hard as Fi's
It’s like when Tetra transforms into Zelda, it makes the character feel so different 😔 (although Midna’s transformation is done a bit better)
@@ypto82that’s a fair opinion. To me, the fact she struggled the entire time with being cursed with the imp form; it just makes that ending much better realizing how thankful she is to be back to her normal form.
motion controls for skyward sword are goated
You times show a casual playthough, the time a non-speedrunner would get. Enjoyed the video.
If hyrule warriors has no fans I’m dead, I love that game so much!
As much as i love wind waker, link is a horrible sailor! In the game, sailing with the wind directly coming from directly behind you is indeed the fastest and encouraged way to sail, but it’s a huge no-no for sailing in boats that size! Optimally, he’d be sailing with the wind coming from the back of one of his shoulders, not straight from his back! It’s not a real critique of the game, just something i find funny as a sailor.
Why exactly would a smaller boat need a different wind direction
@@Arisxgon Because the wind is strong enough to tip the boat over, or even snap the mast at its base.
I am sorry and maybe I am stupid but I thought you never sail with the wind directly behind you and always with a slight angle if possible?
@@Tyrael17X yeah that’s what i’m trying to say maybe i didn’t word it very well, you should never sail with wind right behind you, but in the game, it’s the fastest way and the way they tell you to sail
@@sadwaffleboy aah ok bc the "in boats that size" made me think that bigger boats want to get the wind perfectly from behind
2:40 you don't actually need to buy the Hylian Shield, you can just go to the Graveyard and pick it up inside one of the tombs
“now, this isn’t an essential step by any means but i decided to do it because it doesn’t really take that long to farm up the rupees in the first place”
6:15 why did an ad apear when you said "before i got interrupted" 😭
6:13 actually 🤓
Lol
Same
Great, I'm not the only one who had that! Hahaha!
For totk, that extra heart container didn't help keep you alive. There's a mechanic in the game where if you have full health, you physically can't die in 1 hit. So say an attack deals 5 hearts, but you only have 3, you'll survive on half a heart, as long as you were at full health
This is just a video idea but you should contact a couple LoZ speedrunners and see how fast you can get the master sword with glitches.
Wr for TP is an 18:37
I’m my opinion twilight princess has some of the best bosses and skyward sword has some of the best dungeons
I would love to see the speedrunner version of this
Something I discovered (just yesterday, in fact) is that, in TotK, you CAN get to the bargaining statue before completing the Wind Temple. Just start at the exit of the secret path in the castle ruins and work your way back!
24:40 Yeah, it's Fi (fy) as in "find", just like Navi is for "navigation". At least, that was my personal reasoning for it
I never knew I needed to see baby prince sidon
I feel like there's a sweet spot for getting a legendary weapon. If you get it early, it feels less like a reward and more like a cosmic gimmie of fate. Late, and it feels like nothing more than a plot point for killing off the final boss. In the middle of a quest, not only does it feel earned, but it becomes a fun toy to play with for the rest of the game. None of these approaches are bad. They just change the vibe and are all good in their own way. I just like to think about how creative choices can affect a games overall feel.
with totk you just need to fight dragon ganon as fast as possible
Or put evert orb of light in stamina and go to korok forest as fast as you can
@@chancerobert7505getting to dragon ganon is probably faster
It would take like 40 minutes to get to the dragon
@@evanplays7923and probably more to get another full stamina wheel and to complete the phantom ganon korok quest aaaand actually find dragon zelda
from 1:20 to 1:43 i had literal *chills* the entire time every it brought me to tears, god these game are amazing…
I fucking love ocarina of time
What great vídeo, congrats dude!
your skywar sword time is off later it becomes the true Master Sword
for totk and botw normal mode, if you have full health i’m pretty sure you’re guaranteed not to die
nope just replayed botw tried to take it with 6 hearts and i die (yes i was drunk)
@@MinscShip Also nope, it really does work that way. Almost no matter what attack from enemies, you will live with 1 quarter of a heart, as long as you have full health when hit. The things that you will die from there, is things that damages you immediately after a hit, like rolling around for too long, or a Guardian Laser hits you as that bypasses the one hit survival.
And this is only for normal mode for BotW, as Master Mode just turns that off.
24:46 yes a lot of ppl have😭 her name is pronounced Phai, shes also spelled like that in other languages
2:43 there is a Free Hylian Shield in the Kakakori Graveyard, you have to push one of the graves aside to reveal a hole where if you kill the enemies a chest with the shield will spawn.
Actually, there's a WAY faster way of obtaining the master sword in TotK... you just need to get to the last (dragon) phase of Ganondorf's boss fight, where you automatically get the master sword if you didn't already have it. (I highly recommend using speedrun techniques if you attempt this though, but if you aren't skilled in the fight itself, fairy duping should help with most of the skill problems)
Also for the same reason, the fastest time is basically significantly lower than the one you showed, since you can watch regular speedruns which already is far lower than an hour. (about 36 minutes to get to that phase of the fight in a speedrun 3 months ago)
(this also puts TotK at the top of the leaderboard even if we do not count the start of the game)
I actually really like that this is a challenge without speedrun skips, but i would be really interested in seeing how much faster the glitched run would be
Quick tip for skyward sword (specifically the ghirahim fights)
If you hold up you shield when he is threatening to take your sword, he will track the sword as if it is to the right of your body (even if you are holding it to the left with motion controls) leaving him open to be slashed from the left and combo'd from there on
Idk if this works in the hd version as I've only played the one on the wii, but it's worth a shot
Great video! Thought you were going to do the master sword for seasons and ages as well though
Finally someone else who agrees Hyrule Warriors is underrated. It was peak hack and slash and features so much content. I'm on my way to 100%ing it as we speak. Every map. Every enemy. All gold ranked. Currently on Termina map. Those spider things are a difficult hunt though. I have to look up how to even get most of their second versions.
If you wanna do the 2d Zelda equivalent of this, oracle of ages & Seasons is on the Gameboy app on Nintendo Switch Online.
That's an evil suggestion 😂 Requires a full playthrough to get the linked secret, and finish the trading sidequest in both the first game and the linked game to get it... That's guaranteed to take so long that I'd argue it's not worth comparing it to others... 😅
When you said "before i was rudely interrupted" I got an ad, so not only by yourself. lol
I have just found your videos today and you sound IDENTICAL to one of my mates and it's kinda freaking me out
in my play thought of Tears of the Kingdom, i have found the back door [True door] to the Royal Hidden Passage that the Horned Statue was and didn't know that a door open up to the Horned Statue in Emergency Shelter at Lookout Landing
Awesome Video Bro.
Totk flying machine go brrrr
By the way, the annoying ball maze shrine can be easily completed by flipping your controller over(the underside of the maze is flat) and saves some time
42:04
Fun fact
The game have a great mechanic that make it impossible to die in one hit if you have 100% of your hp
Even if you had only max 3 hearts/12hp
I might be unpopular in saying this but I think the Skyward Sword remake does a wonderful job of handling motion controls. I found it fun and honestly quite engaging. That being said, I have never played the original.
how does this person not have a million subs
The Andross comment in the windwaker section killed me lol 😂
when he said rudely cut off i got an ad
Does skyward sword count as the fastest since you get the sword in the start, you just have to power it up?
When it comes to tears of the kingdom, it isnt required to defeat one of the dungeons to unlock the pathway to the elder statue as there are two pathways, the first one requiring one of the dungeons to be finished, and another involving with goibg directly to the ditch hyrule castle. instead you can go through a broken wall by the edge of the whole where hyrule castle lies and following the pathway eventually leads you back to where the elder statue rest
Sad that you skipped the Oracle games. They are interesting in that aquiring the Master Sword requires fully beating one game and then progressing quite far into the other.
Sick intro man
you do not need the heros sword side quest to get the master sword, its just easier to locate it
28:37 That one has an easy bypass. Just flip the maze upside down and roll the ball on the flat surface. You know, for future reference.
Technically, in Skyward Sword having the sword forged with the 3 flames doesn't turn it into the Master Sword until it is further blessed by Zelda which only happens after defeating the Imprisoned a second time and going back in time. So it would likely take at least 15 more minutes to get the Master Sword from after getting the blade forged by the 3rd sacred flame.
Great video!
I like how non chalant you were when you basically said you killed a seagull for free money
You earned my sub purely because you said Windwaker was your favorite 😂
Video was entertaining too but that's unimportant Windwaker 🐐 baby 😂
To answer the unasked question about the Oracle games:
The first one you play: not there
The second one you play (after you've completed the first one and linked the two with a password): About 10 minutes - basically as soon as you unlock The Tree Secret (and assuming you have the password for it... which you do, because the internet exists)
Unrelated, but if you own a switch, and have an NSO account (not even the premium one, just the basic), that means you have the NSO emulator for Gameboy games, which means, technically, you _do_ own the oracle games
Personally I think majora's mask is darker than twilight princess. I'll never forget the scene where you literally watch the deku king execute a talking monkey by boiling it alive in a giant pot.
I’ve played Majora’s Mask probably more than a dozen times since I was a kid and never saw that scene once. Sounds horrifying
@@deluxe_capacitor In order to see it you have to sneak into the palace to talk to the monkey once and learn the song, and after you get kicked out you have to sneak back in.
@@TK0921 thats wild, I bet the princess flips her shit if you bring her back
23:53 Are you playing the original WiiU version? Because they changed this in both the 3DS version and the Switch Definitive Edition. Might not change the time, but would make the gameplay leading up to it more varied and fun. Better comparison too, since you played both the HD re-releases of at least Wind Waker and Skyward Sword, instead of their originals.
OoC great fairies were scary (i played OoC after playing both WW and TP)
Also i agree hyrule warriors is underrated and i love it, favourite character to play as is medli
I know you explained it in the intro but still feel Link to the Past got Blue balled since it was the game that introduced the trademark sword, and Wind Waker and Skyward Sword should be extended since you don't get the "True" Master Sword until a little later in each game.
you legit couldve just gotten two stamina wheels and waited at the great sky island for the light dragon to come in to view from the west you couldve waited 2 hours instead of 4... not even using glitches or exploits
Bro wind waker is the first zelda game I ever played but when I got the master sword I felt unstoppable
Funny enough with the exception of mask side quests you can still complete the child section while getting all possible heart pieces and skultulla in just under 3 hours
kind of funny how the game that takes the longest is also the game were you tecknickly start off with the master sword
Ahem from OOT it’s clearly 5:49 you mistimed it by multiple hours
I mean technically the Master Sword isn't the Master Sword until it's fully powered up. That means you would've had to do another 2 dungeons in Wind Waker, another Imprisoned fight in Skyward Sword , and the trial of the Sword in Botw
you can get the hylian shield in the graveyard also in ocarina of time. so you can save yourself some rupees
In Ocarina, you can get a Hylian Shield for free in the graveyard, rather than farming money to buy one for full price.
how?
@@Majinhero In the Kakariko graveyard is a grave with flowers in front of it it. At night you can move the gravestone to reveal a cave. Inside the cave is a chest with a free Hylian Shield.
Ooh, another new thing I didn't know about OoT. I've always waited until the Kakariko guard gives you a discount before buying it
And I thought I was the only one who felt like playing Dark Souls and not a Zelda game with BotW!
If you were going to evolve the Goddess Sword, you should have included Infusing WW with the prayers and imbuing SS with the power of the Goddess
20:45 "I feel like I'm getting edged or something"
Hehe. Funny.
Cuz sword.
botw could have been like 5 minutes.
-Get all 4 runes
-windbomb to korok forest
-put wood right next to mastersword
-ignite it to turn it into a campfire
-Turn to Master Sword
-Activate the sword and turn towards the campfire
-Campfire overwrites the prompt to hold a
-Cutscene where you pull out the Master Sword happends and you own it
Technically it’s totk because you get it immediately. And then you get the withered version later.
I mastered wind waker with retroachievement, what a game it is ❤
He didnt finish the master sword in both wind waker a skyward
Yeah noticed that as well
he obtained the master sword; he didn't say anything about getting their strongest version
@@fiercedeitylink2019 well the name of the finished master sword in skyward sword is the "true master sword" sooo...
Do you want him to do the master trials as well for breath of the wild?
@@mazingdaddid that's paid dlc so I'd say no
No joke, I was asleep when I watch this and when I want to turn off my phone, this part 15:17 was on my screen and I almost jump out of my bed
Tears is probably the fastest master sword to get since you only need two stamina wheels versus breath of the wild where you need 15 hearts of health. You can get it in tears twice as fast but be ready to fight gloom spawn and phantom Gannon in the korok chasm because you want something to indicate where the light dragon is.
It's even faster than that: an alternate way to get the master sword is to just reach the dragon phase of the ganondorf fight, where you automatically obtain the master sword if you didn't already have it.
Nice video!
Am I just misremembering, or is the Whip never used in the second visit to Lanayru, and neither the Whip nor the Bow in the second visit to Eldin? I briefly thought about how much of a time sink returning to the Isle of Songs after the fourth and fifth dungeons are, and that led me to wondering how it would work if you could get all three songs at the same time. That in turn led to me trying to remember how the second visit to Lanayru and Eldin go, and my conclusion was 'is there any reason the developers couldn't have made the fourth, fifth, and sixth dungeons completable in any order with the game in its current state as far as puzzles and navigation are concerned'.
in some games for you it's when you obtain it and for others it's when she's fully charged.
Ocarina of time: Obtained / charged.
Wind waker: Obtained.
She's fully charged when you have the triforce.
Twilight princess: Obtained.
She's fully charged when you infuse it with light in the twilight realm.
Skyword sword: Charged.
Hyrule warrior i don't know, didn't played it and BoTW / ToTK aren't zelda.
I wonder how much faster or slower completing the "Tears of the Dragon" Quest would be. That's how I got the Master Sword in my playthrough of TOTK.
26:48 Method 4: do the campfire glitch and get the mastersword
23:57 i hate to tell you this now, but hyrule warriors definitive edition on switch does let you do this lmao. definitely makes missions a lot easier to get through