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In totk and botw this is a Ganondorf not connected to the others and the timeline. Totk and botw is set in essentially a reboot timeline, skyward likely still happened but rest do not. This is not any disrespect nor debunking your view, totk makes it pretty clear that it is a reboot. Of course this is my look into totk and botw and where they fit, to me it is Aonuma and miyamoto saying fuck timeline let us reboot it
But I do agree this boss battle of Ganondorf is epic! And like his we incarnation and Tp incarnation he dies and stays dead. His katana like weapon is cool so is his guan Yu looking spear and his club and bow all which have Asian inspiration. The spear is modeled after a guan dao a Chinese weapon, gloom sword is modeled after a katana, gloom club is modeled after a kanabo a club, demon king bow is modeled after a yumi bow. This is by far my fave Ganondorf mainly cause Matthew Mercer voices him lol
WHY ARE YOU ALL MAKING THIS MISTAKE of thinking "Oh they said founding this must mean right after skyward sword but that doesn't make sense so make it convoluted and declare a 4th timeline" INSTEAD OF JUsT THINKING "man hyrule must have ceased between the classic games and botw and totk and then refounded
Ganon is one of the greatest villains in nintendo, don't get me wrong, but: "no other villain in nintendo tops the level of raw evil this man has unleashed" *Porky from Mother 3 says hello.*
I love this final boss version of ganondork especially his second form where he fully awakens his full demon king powers, with that flowing blood red hair and those horns... ehm, anyway i love how the epic skills which made link such an epic royal knight, i.e. flurry rushing, are now somthing you as the player have to fight against and then on top of that certain moves inflict PERMANETE unrecoverable damage! SO FU(K!NG COOL! A+ Boss Battle! However i wish they would have gone 1 step further then i could have given it an S or maybe even S+ score! [ V 5 Phase final battle idea!] I would have had the "Gloom Spit" coming from the Demon Dragon (after link damages the 1st "eye") land on (D) Zelda, mentioning that the willpower of the demon king being so strong that even after draconification his conciousness refuses to be supressed (or somthing to that effect), and... Phase 1 spawn (on D zelda's back) a mix of blue & silver bokos and blue moblins Phase 2 (2nd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, and black lizalfos Phase 3 (3rd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, silver lazalfos, and a silver boko boss phase 4 (all 4 eyes destroyed, before link attackes sacred stone)spawn (10 hands) gloom spawn all attacking (D) Zeldas face A. when link approaches (5) hands split off and come after link! B. (link defeats gloom spawn [5]) spawn phantom ganon (1/2 health bar W/ G-spear) C. (link reduces PG health bar 50%) (2 hands) part of 2nd half of gloom spawn moves from zelda's face to (Main) PG's side become 2x PGs w/ G-spears (M) PG, w/ full health bar, and w/ G-sword) spear PG's will agressively assault link, (M) PG may attempt to attack link while he is busy with spear PG's (if link perfect dodge on (M) PG and attempts to flurry rush spear PG will rush link canceling FR) link defeats (2x spear PG's then reduces (M) PG's health bar by 50%) D. (M) PG stumbles back and summons remaining (3x hands) gloom spawn (2x G-spear + 1x G-sword) to his side, (M) PG's health bar is now 150%, (i.e. 2nd form ganon) is weilding G-club, and is capable of flurry rushing link. Link defeat (2x spear PG & 1x Sword PGs) then defeat (M) PG (full bar) Phase 5 destroy sacred stone!
Alot of people are talking about the fight and the final boss, but not enough people are giving due credit to the lead up to Ganondorf, it was perfect, I haven't felt the same anticipation for a boss since I was a kid, the descent into darkness, the eerie music building up, the fact that the environment changes entirely to gloom roots, the black fog on the ground, there was something very final about approaching his lair, we all know link was going to succeed but they made you feel like link was walking to his death.
I just wish we could have fought dehydrated ganondorf, like, maybe he doesn't even bother standing up to fight you because he still considers you weak by comparison to his greatness and you have to climb that throne pillar he made himself repeatedly to get hits before he blasts you back. When you finally draw blood he goes into the phase 1 we got. It'd also make the dragon fight even more shocking, because like, Nintendo does three phases, and demon king form feels final form as all heck
Ι had the same. And then I realized that I had, like, 50 instant pots and 30 sundelions, so I started cooking right outside of the boss room, and TA-DAH!
@@danifaragoi3709 I 1000% agree. I prefer dehydrated ganondorf way more than rehydrated. though 4 playthroughs of the finale plus Matt Mercers killer voice acting has me softening to rehydrated
I thought it was super menacing when his healthbar went across the screen. He also proves that flurry rush is a real thing in universe. Moments of blending game mechanics with story like this really show off video game’s untapped storytelling potential as an interactive medium.
I like to imagine that everything in hyrule slows down whenever someone does a flurry rush. Imagine just living your life and every 5 minutes time just slows down for 7 seconds and there's nothing you can do about it. It's especially bad in bullet time...
@@kirby_says_poyo Imagine it it happened during something painful. Somewhere out there there’s a Hylian woman in labor, and she suffers for 10x longer than she has to because Link is out hunting Lynels.
The flurry rush got me 'OH FUCK HE'S GONNA KILL ME AAAJXJSGAHSGAKAGS'. Man, it's such a good fight! And the healthbar? Holyshit. Don't get me wrong, the fight isn't THAT difficult (I personally think it doesn't even have to be), but the tension is just so good.
Ganondorf was the first enemy I used my Hylian shield on, and he broke it near the very end of his demon king phase. That pit actually chills up my spine and helped me realize how much that shield was protecting me from the damage he could do
That shield can literally last you over 200 hours of playtime against anything else, Ganondorf can destroy it in his first phase if he hits it hard 6 times. And if one of the heart depleting attacks hits it, no matter how new the shield is, it is instantly reduced to badly damaged.
Technically there are Nintendo villains who have more raw evilness. These villains include Demise, Hades, Ridley, King Boo, Zanza, Porky Minch, Fecto Elfilis, and Volo to name a few. However, Ganondorf is still my favorite since he’s an absolute badass.🎉
In TOTK, Ganondorf wasn’t TOO far from the being on the same league as them. But yeah, I agree that the others are worse. And Ganondorf is also one of my favorite fictional villains of all time
Ganondorf is surprisingly charismatic, which makes it hard to completely hate him despite how unapologetically evil he can be. There's a reason so many people clamor for him to have some sort of redemption arc.
I affectionately refer to the demon dragon as Dragondorf. He stands alongside greenendorf and purpldorf in super smash brothers. For real though this final boss fight was one of my favorite boss fights in quite a long time. I enjoy fromsoft games, but none of those bosses made me take over twenty minutes to beat. Demon king Ganondorf did make me take over twenty minutes to beat. Thats not to say he is more difficult than a fromsoft boss, but it does speak to the kind of fight it is. It's long methodical and oh so satisfying. great video!
For people who don't overprepare with health, stamina, and armor upgrades, this dude can be as hard as a Fromsoft boss. He is easily one of the most difficult boss fights in the Zelda franchise only tied by Master mode Maz Koshia and Thunderblight Ganon.
My favorite version of Ganondorf. The best design, the best boss fight, the most menacing he's ever felt. The moment where he "rehydrates" himself and his leitmotif plays with the "Menace Unleashed" title...perfection. I've seen a lot of criticisms saying that he's too stereotypically evil. And while I understand there may have been some context lost in the translation to English, I don't think he needs to be complex or nuanced in the same way Wind Waker Ganondorf was. He's like Alexander the Great or Napoleon: a conqueror who thinks it's his right to rule because he's the strongest.
Agreed. He enjoys the process of overcoming strong opponents in his quest to become the strongest, and this defines his relationships with people like Rauru and Link in a way very reminiscent of Demise. This to me is more than enough to make him interesting, and although I'd probably have to say Wind Waker Ganondorf's writing is a bit better, Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf's presentation is the best of the 4 by a landslide, and it earns him the spot as my favorite version of the character.
I have never enjoyed a final boss as much as I did Ganondorf in TotK. Down right prefect and so much respect for whom he is by the devs. TotK Ganondorf is proof that sometimes all you truly need is pure and simple Evil. No sad backstory or semi relatable traits. Just a man of pure, raw ambition and desire to rule all he can see.
Definitely a very memorable boss fight for sure. However, even Ganon becomes easy if you go into the fight with enough armor upgrades, food and the master sword. He can only deal one (broken) heart of damage with each and every attack he does. Most people I saw struggled a bit but never lost because of it. XD
Yeah I think it'd be more fun to be less prepared. I went in with fully upgraded champion's tunic and Hylian pants. Had no idea what I was doing, but with 50+ armor and 20 hearts, Ganondorf's katana was giving Link little paper cuts. Still a great fight, but it's better when you're actually in danger of losing
I do think that Ganon taking Gloom hearts away was a nice challenge. Even if you don't take as much damage sooner or later you won't be able to properly heal if you don't defeat him fast enough
@@Eli-sg5to Canonically though, Link freed the 4 regions, awakened all the sages, pulled the Master Sword, activated all 152 shrines, activated all the lightroots and got the ancient hero's aspect. The whole point of being maxed out is everyone in the past tells Ganondorf he's fucked come wakey-wakey time and when you return after regaining your strength, it causes him to realise he misjudged you - his own hubris in dismissing you at the start mirroring Rauru's hubris in thinking he could thwart anything Ganondorf tried while seemingly a loyal subject.
@@Eli-sg5toit hurts real bad when you depend on flurry rushing, cause I went in with everything you could imagine, and because I suck at combat outside of flurry rushing, I suffered. He erased all but 8 of my hearts from existence and wasted all but 2 of my shields, the Hylian shield with durability ++ being 1 and being badly damaged at the end. The developers knew exactly which combat strategies are cheap and easy and which take skill, and forced me to learn how to rely more frequently on harder timing counters like parry’s
The first time I saw Ganondorf's second phase healthbar on the internet I tought it was edited, then I fought him for the first time and saw that it WASN'T EDITED, I was a bit scared but I found it really funny to just watch the healthbar start from a normal point and then just continue almost 'till the screen border. Btw that's also cool how he can flurry rush us too, but without being a sure hit, you can flurry rush his flurry rush right away, even if the timing is a bit tough. Best final boss fight I ever did (also like 40x the Botw one)
I don’t consider myself a hardcore gamer, im not historically great at bossfights… But I really don’t understand people saying this was the hardest boss fight in years. I beat him on attempt #3 (no guide). I lost way more to the mud guy is Zora’s domain. The hardest Nintendo boss in recent memory has to be the bird guy at the end of Metroid Dread. Lmk why I’m right
I know totk ganon will live on in my memory forever between triple flurry rushes, super health bars, and draconification, but I still get shivers watching that TP fight when he charges at you and you leap into his blade to duel strength against each other.
You'd be surprised to learn Ganon/Ganondorf only had one main title in the entire series (aside from Four Swords Adventures' "King of Darkness") being 大魔 Dai Maō "Great Demon King" and the variants found in the english localizations are different adaptations of the original term into english words. He has been called so ever since Zelda on the NES.
a really cool villain but I genuinely do not understand why people say he's a hard boss. I went in the fight with just one row of hearts and barely knowing how to flurry rush and I beat him almost instantly
Amazing video. A way that I beat Ganondorf in th game was with a lot of ancient arrows and a five shot lynel bow. I am not good at dodging at the flurry rush and I had so much trouble with the fantom ganon in the dekku tree I decided to work my ass off in the depts until I had enough ancient arrows to fight him. Fortunetly this strategy worked and I defeated him on my first try. I also had a gloom reversing food with me as well as max healing hearts foods. They helped immensly.
The fight was honestly super easy. It was harder to get to Ganondorf than the actual fight. I did all the main quests, did all the shrines, and maxed out the fierce diety armor. Then I got a few savage Lynel bows and ate an attack boosting meal and just spammed fused arrows at him. Finished it in like idk 5 minutes?
Tears of the Kingdom definitely has a cool Ganon fight, but overall (even if OOT is my favorite zelda game) the impact that he has as a character is played out better in Windwaker and Twilight Princess.
Illumination feels like one of the worst options for an animation studio to do a Zelda movie. Them doing the Mario movie was fine, but a Zelda movie is completely different
Ganondorf's boss fight felt like the Metal Gear Rising boss fight with Sam, it's fast enough to make blinking a strategic choice and most of the fight isn't about damage sponging, but rather dodging and blocking the six million attacks coming your way. You know that if you play your cards right, Ganondorf will go down in just a few hits, hell, the game gives you a silver lynel horn right before the fight, but you also know that getting a single hit on him is damn near impossible. It's a challenge of who will slip up first, it's nothing like a traditional Zelda boss, and it's absolutely amazing.
7:00 I’d actually like to mention it was absolutely never implied that Calamity Ganon was just a Malice Projection, that’s just a really popular fan theory, as it’s stated in Tears of the Kingdom that as long as the sealing grounds are untouched and never come to ruin, the seal on Ganondorf will be perfect and permanent, but due to the fact that Calamity Ganon caused multiple earthquakes when he awoke and activated the Guardian Pillars, the seal started to break, meaning that Calamity Ganon couldn’t be a result of a sealed away Ganondorf whose seal only breaks after The Calamity of 100 years ago begins. Calamity Ganon is either OoT or FSA Ganon after breaking out of seals and being resurrected a bunch of times, resulting in turning into pure Malice. TotK Ganondorf is either 1. The first Ganondorf who was sealed away during Hyrule’s founding or 2. An incarnation of Ganondorf who was born long after Hyrule fell to ruin, and now lives when the Hyrule Kingdom we see in BotW was first founded 7:36 This Ganondorf wouldn’t seek out the Triforce, as it’s currently either in the Sacred Realm, or wherever the Triforce is hiding during the era of Legends (the time between all previous games and Breath of The Wild) 7:44 Also The Master Sword has the Triforce crest after being blessed by Hylia, which gave it its evil-repelling powers. The Master Sword is also not powered by Zelda; Dragon Zelda simply held onto the Master Sword for thousands and thousands of years, bathing it in a ethereal light, which allowed it to heal itself after the beginning of the game, and also make it stronger due to it literally bathing in a holy light since Hyrule’s birth. You made a great video man, but you kinda got a lot of the lore wrong, which hey, I don’t blame you, the lore in BotW and TotK needs to be looked for, and isn’t really stated by just playing the story.
Ganondorf was really only hard if you never fused lynel parts to the Master Sword. But I will agree the fight was super fun with how he dodged your attacks.
Flurry Rushing Link, extending his health bar to the other side of the screen, deflecting arrows with his arm, permanently destroying hearts with Gloom attacks, decaying equipment down to its last hit with Gloom attacks, Flurry Rushing Link's Flurry Rushes, turning into a goddamn dragon. Did I miss anything?
@@speedude0164 just tried it, he didnt do it the entire fight except for his final phase at very low health. even then, i still killed him with an arrow
Honestly this fight was awesome but what I would have loved is if when u flurry rush he does the same and shatters one of your weapons. Either way awesome fight and I need to run it back. In master mode tho I intend to fight him without completing any of the phenomena.
"We" deserved? Who is we? Because I personally don't think this ending was particularly good.. You from a few memories showing how Ganondorf is just a power-hungry bodybuilder, to a man capable of engulfing the entire land with monsters (that are just there doing nothing) just waiting to be engaged, to a lack of motivation and personality that swallows a stone because he is angry at the Twinkle beating him in a fight.. only to become giant and useless, as well "immortal"!! .. only to immediately die. Not to mention the slap to the face that is Zelda just becoming human after her suffering and sacrifice, with a mind-wipe and no repercussions whatsoever..... Oh yes! The ending we deserved. People should learn that not every dumb opinion should be shared, and that not everyone is good at the "content creator" thing. Specially with generic and boring points of view that don't do anything aside from being an outlet to their excitement at the product they just bought and didn't look at critically.
He’s a great villain in totk, but he was better in WindWaker and Twilight Princess. Loved ganondorf in totk and damn he truly is the greatest villain of all time.
Ganondorf is definitely very powerful and very mean, but he's still only my second favorite Nintendo villain after Bowser. Ganondorf is a truly awesome villain, but Bowser will always be the king of all video game villains.
Well, when he was squatting and "RAARRRGHHH!!!" -ing in the way he was doing during his transformation, I had some vague thoughts he seemed like he was having a painful attack of the big D.
I wouldn't say this iteration of Ganondorf is Nintendo's best villain. I think this version is really shallow. At least on par with OoT/TP. In my opinion, WW is the best version because he's humanized. This version is definitely the most evil, though.
Ganondorf is cool and all, but why is he evil in the first place? Just wish that his reasons were desenvolved like wind wakers ganon. Besides that, I think that the fake Zelda was poorly written. The games is great and all, but i think its time to nintendo to step up de history of the zelda franchise
In short, his motivation was butchered in the English version, so badly that his motivation was almost entirely removed, but other languages have his motivation explained.
Eh. IDK. I liked how G-man looked in BOTW/TOTK but I feel as far as his motivations went, they kinda did him dirty in this game, if this is supposed to be his final send off, which I think it is but hope it's not. But I think Ganondorf could have been super evil in this game if just for one thing they coulda tweaked: If they made it clear that Ganondorf had tried to marry Sonya to get the tear first, but was rejected for Rauru, that would have made what he did SO much more evil personally instead of just a "Haha I beat you!" kinda moment...
@@fnaffoxy1987 I'm not saying Ganondorf would have been in love with her, it would have just been a way he was trying to get her kingdom/tear, but of course she sees through it and marries Rauru for love instead. Just saying though, Ganondorf killing a woman he himself once proposed to would be way more dastardly than him just killing his enemy's wife.
I think she got the stone from Rauru. Any expansion on his motives would've been appreciated though. Here he just rants about light and darkness, and comes off as really flat characterwise.
@@shawnamiller191 i think I got like 1 or 2 flurry rushes and only when he used his club. I couldn't get the timing of the other two weapons. When he started flurry rushing my flurry rush, I was like, "A'ight. I'mma pelt you with bone arrows. You gave them to me with your army back there so you can have them back."
I just don’t get the timeline. The murals in the chamber telling a story that’s “already happened” but hasn’t happened yet. 🤷🏼♂️. The sword being weakened by the Calamity but going back in time to get divinely recharged…wouldn’t that make it inaccessible to ALL other Links in entire history?
I think this founding of hyrule takes place after all the previous games. Sort of like Spirit tracks founding a new hyrule, but way after the events of any previous game.
I decided to tag literally all of my feedback for Nintendo right here in this comments section this is what I think about what I've seen ty .. 0:57 I would like point out consciously that I was disappointed with the breath of the wild Ganon v fight and I personally wrote Nintendo tagging myself as nephew of the director of Pinky and the Brain (I am)and they listened to my advice across-the-board. 😊 Currently I am disappointed with the locked tropes of Link Zelda and Ganon. I feel like the series hasn't been able to justify its existence yet. I think that the triforce and their distribution could be a little deeper and I'm interested to see what happens when they shake up the triforce roles, r when they allow a new combinations of relationships and abilities. 1:53 okay if Ganon is the only male than that means that I want that reflected in the culture like he has to be a celebrity because he's banging all these b****** right he's creating all these kids.. 2:11 they should strike the name evil from him because it comes from Eve which is a circumcision hoax. We don't actually believe in evil as a substance,, not groundedly,, anymore. Is all power evil?? 3:33 I'm fine with Link and Zelda and Ganon being elemental forces although I want the triforce to manifest itself in other people so you can see what they're like when they have it... 4:26 cheers to my sister who told me I should play skyward sword. Calling Ganon demise mirrors Brandon sanderson's character ruin which you may very well enjoy from the mistborn series.... 4:47 making power and demise the same person to me means Nintendo has made a firm statement on... Nature as Satan... 5:19 lol, and, there is a possibility of an ancient evil human Master race that uses us so a male leader of a dark people is kind of in the subconscious, possible... 5:41 I think that most of nintendo stories are about men fighting over women and that should be for breeding which is an instinct based on what time has done here... 5:41 clearly Nintendo is subconsciously thinking about mating all the time but they're dealing with the world that overpowers and oppresses them right... 5:51 yeah I've often thought about maybe if the triforce of courage was with links mother because she chose to have a child... Link is the link to Divinity and a link to the player, he can have a triforce of courage but he doesn't HAVE to... The idea that who these people are is why they have these powers, is not necessarily glued!! 6:01 r34LG💒 I feel like I want to see the triforce change hands and I feel like I want to see each of the characters link Zelda and Gannon have good and evil moments and play good and evil characters... The whole story could be actually how the three dynamize. Remember circumcision and what the big small dick war has caused on Earth... 6:57 I would like to point out that the primary conflict in every Zelda game is link and Ganon fighting (David vs Goliath), from a circumcision hoax that comes out of a printer,, so what I'm saying is the game is just kind of immature...
7:19 am I hearing this point right that Gannon is supposed to be the king of the gerudo right he's supposed to mate with all the women right but he never does he goes into pledges alliances to other people to take over them??? That's a pretty classic archetype I can see that existing in our subconscious for sure...
7:42 yeah I think the major themes of The legend of Zelda there are going to change as we drop monotheism because it's obviously just about Dick domination Ganon using something other than the triforce for power is news to me but I guess they want to go there why not. I think a game where Gannon is a rival competing in the same world as you would be made complete with maybe AI. ALL THE MAJOR NINTENDO ZELDA PLOTS ARE ABOUT MALE TURF DOMINATION AND FIGHTING FOR CONTROL OF THE WOMB RIGHT...
8:27 ❤🎉@nintendo thanks for expanding the last Ganon fight yeah it was not long enough. I felt like there should have been a break and a big power up in a big adventure into gannon's realm right... Gannon's realm is a thing that's going to happen because they keep primordial forcing Gannon and so that means and some extradimensional layer or facet of existence of Ganon is actually grounded as like a primordial Force...
He's not the best written Ganondorf, I think his motivations are too simple for that. It's basically "grrrr, light bad, darkness good" But my god is he imposing and intimidating
You must have played a different game than I did. I thought Ganondorf was completely underdeveloped in TOTK. He’s just a big evil villain. Sure, that’s fine, but why is he doing it in the first place? What’s his motivation? What will happen if he succeeds? Why is he hiding away? There’s just no character development or background and other than “big evil guy I need to defeat” I don’t really care about him at all. 🤷🏻♂️
Honestly, Calamity Ganon was somewhat underdeveloped too, but at least in that game you saw the result of what he did, and felt the real threat of what would happen if you didn’t stop him. So that was somewhat of a character development because it created serious stakes for the player. Everything Ganondorf did was 10,000 years ago, and it really wasn’t that much, then he was stopped. He talks tough and looks tough, but I don’t get any real sense of threat from him. Besides that, I fought multiple Phantom Ganons and they weren’t very tough, so he just didn’t feel like much of a threat at all.
I like the fact that Ganondorf breaks established rules that monsters follow. He does it by playing the game like Link. He swaps weapons, uses some BS to increase his health bar too high, uses flurry rush.
The health bar in the second stage started to go back and I was like “oh, he gets a second life, big deal?” And then it just. Kept. Going. My jaw completely dropped because it implied Ganondorf was so powerful it literally broke the game’s enemy health bar system
Ganondorf paused the game after you beat him to low health (hence his monologue about the thrill of battle) and ate Hearty Food (activated his secret stone) to gain extra hearts (second health bar).
I just listened to ganons voice in 5 different languages. Russian made him sound like an evil sorcerer, German was terrifying for obvious reasons, but his Spanish voice had me feeling kinda weird and tingly in ways i don’t quite understand
i unfortunately only speak german and english, but i would love to see how over translations handled the subtext and so on… german ganondorf, for example, says about the sword „this is supposed to be the sacred sword of sealing… and my miasma makes it shatter just like that. A truly useless blade“ (a little more formally). i love how it sounds like the miasma/gloom is a genuine weapon he spent millennia refining. he sounds much more calculated than in english, but also crueller, i‘d say. so i‘d say it‘s not just the voice acting, but also the translations play a huge part in how the characters are perceived differently.
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I just realized that TotK turns the "Save Princess from Dragon"-Trope on it's head... You have to save the Dragon (Zelda) from the Princess (Fake Zelda causing trouble)
"Do not look away. . . *Draws out and looks at the frightening katana* you witness a kings revival" might be one of the greatest lines in villain history
As someone who forgot to make food that heals gloom effected hearts, I thought the Ganondorf fight was incredibly difficult, mostly because I was too stubborn to load a previous save to cook some food. I literally went in with 5 hearts, no fairies, and no food that could heal me. Took me a good hour to get the timing right and beat him.
I remember the first time I defeated the grabby hands and a phantom Gannon spawned I was both terrified and excited. Gannon had much more of a role to play in this game and Matt Mercers performance as Gannon was phenomenal.
I shit my pants the first time, lol. I only had 6 hearts, and had died to a few gloom spawns at this point. Then i found them in a random cave. At this point i had started to just flee, so ran away and climbed up a ledge. When i saw they couldn't follow me, I was like, time for revenge and thinking i was being clever, I rained death down on them in the form of bombs... big mistake that was, because PG does not give a flying fuck about ledges, lol. I was so thrown off by the random boss fight out of no where that he easily whipped my ass, even though they are pretty easy once you're expecting it. I love how the gloom spawns are a double troll though. First time they pop up out of nowhere in all their horrifing glory, and again when you best em for the first time, just to get a mini boss thrown in your face. Cheer to Nintendo for that one.
What role? Unlike chasing Kohga around the Depths, he never left his cave underground. This couldn’t have been the origin of the Calamity that needed robotic Sheikah tech to down him
Same. I remember I was exploring when he randomly found me. This time I was armed to the teeth and ready for a fight. Finally beat the hands...just for phantom ganon to pop up, it was awesome and terrifying.
I discovered the hands in a cave less than 5 hours into the game and when phantom ganon spawned in after I was floored. THEN after 10 attempts I literally had to leave and get better gear.. literally never happened to me and I’ve 100 percent every 3d Zelda. Besides botw. I was SO fuckin hyped to get 1 shotted by fuckin phantom ganon.
I think what makes Ganondorf so compelling despite him being literal embodiment of all evil in the world, is that you can see how much passion stands behind this character. He finds so much joy in being an evil, so you ending up being blown away by his energy
My theory/headcanon is that is actually what causes Ganondorf (and by extension the Links and Zeldas) at his peak to surpass Demise as the supreme power of evil. Hatred and malice and destruction are one thing and that made Demise powerful as their embodiment. But taking all of that and putting it into a mortal being, a human with the potential for cunning and the drive and will to enact it? Demise is a loaded gun - scary and definitely dangerous. But taking that gun and putting it into a man like Ganondorf's hands and it's now a weapon of targeted and precise carnage, destruction, fear, and dominion. It's the natural next step in unlocking the full potential of Demise's strength.
It’s terrifying that Ganon is so powerful in this game that Calamity Ganon is just a manifestation of his spiteful will to dominate and destroy. Imagine being so evil that even locked away the sheer power of your soul takes life to enact your will throughout the ages.
To the surprise of many, Nintendo has never been shy to creating difficult bosses. Raven Beak from Metroid Dread, Volo from Pokémon Legends Arceus and nearly all post-game secret bosses of the Kirby series pose an equal if not greater challenge compared to the Demon King. But regardless, you gotta admit that Ganondorf still reigns supreme as the meanest greenest bean of the roster 😎
He waits below the castle doing nothing while you are building wooden airplanes and collecting cheese, then when you finally confront him it turns out that he could have gone full power at any time. He just be messing with our heads like that. Incredible storytelling.
Honestly, giving him Gilgamesh's levels of ego was a sound move. And an interesting take of the blood knight trope: He didn't want a worthy opponent. He wanted a opponent strong enough to allow him to flaunt his power. And his act of draconification: He didn't do it to save his life, but his pride. Paying his very being was fair for him
@@owenbyrne9850 I think he was using the network of Gloom roots in the Depths to spread his influence around the world, and craft a world sufficiently harsh to turn people against each other and start the wars he thought should never have stopped. Like you said, he thought he'd already beaten you, a weakling unworthy of the title of Hero, and moved on to the next phase of his plan.
@@thatminer7174who cares? People are sick of the stupid villains we keep getting pawned on to us with deep backstories and crap that try to make us “understand him” or feel for him. This Ganondorf is a great return to the simplicity of “he’s an evil piece of shit, the reason why is irrelevant, he’s a problem and needs to die.” A classic hero vs pure evil story is the kind of era of gaming Zelda encapsulates and I’m glad they honored it in the modern day.
whats really terrifying about that ganondorf fight is the health bar breaking limitations to really deliver the feeling of facing something so powerful beyond normally possible and then theres the thing that his energy attacks actually straight break entire heart containers which even more so makes him seem quite scary and threatening despite those energy attacks effectively dealing only little damage and their only effect being punishing people who solely rely on food but losing the containers the player worked so hard to get over the whole playtime just like that very much delivers a feeeling of danger also i like the addition of that german cutscene in the beginning the german voice acting in this game is amazing especially for ganondorf
Apparently if you eat anything that gives temporary hearts, it gives you back the heart containers he broke. I was actually a bit disappointed to find this out.
I love this new Ganon. The absolute DISRESPECT he gives Link in the intro cutscene is so good. But you don't realize just how low he thinks of Link until you see him again during the final fight. I thought he was in the depths building back his lost strength in case I returned. But he had no idea Link even survived, let alone COULD even come back through the minefield of Gloom and Monsters he left all over the depths and bursting from the various chasms. He wasn't waiting For Link, he wasn't gaining strength to attack Hyrule again either. HE ALREADY WON and knew it. Raru lied about this Link and his Sword that can seal the Darkness (I mean he didn't even attack Link directly...he took Link out while basically stretching his power after a long nap) so instead of aiming his actual attack at Link to kill him, he attacks Hyrule Directly leaving Gloom and enhanced monsters to finish things off. There aren't any Generals at his side or Evil Mages controlling minions for him when you find him either. Just the Demon King and Victory....shit he is still in his mummy form he's so unimpressed with things 😂
I literally laughed but also was a little scared when his healthbar crept across the screen. The whole encounter, from the descent into the Hyrule castle depths, to the dragon fight was perfect. I've never felt such intense emotion from a Nintendo game. I give a ton of credit to the soundtrack, they really nailed it. I bought TOTK saying I would be happy if it was a quarter as good as BOTW, but holy crap I loved this game
He's not the Ganondorf we need; he's the Ganondorf we deserve. Not only that, but this guy's voice actor is on point! Actually, all the voices in this game are on point!
Admittedly, TOTK appears to close a long-standing chapter with the Zelda series. Practically all previous iterations of Ganondorf required him to be 'defeated', even in BOTW, which ultimately left the door open for him to somehow reincarnate and show up in a future game. In TOTK, the quest was clear...'destroy' Ganondorf; so it certainly appears that we have finally seen the last of him, and it was done so in epic fashion. It will be interesting to see where this takes future Zelda games.
Totk Ganondorf is literally just evil for the sake of being evil, just like Jack Horner without the comedy and it truly is a great feeling where I don’t have to feel sympathy for the villain or have them giving a philosophy on why they should be allowed to do the evil things they’re doing. Pure evil incarnate and that’s just how I like it not saying that we need to only have villains like this it’s just a nice break from the other archetypes.
EXACTLY. People keep mentioning how Ganondorf has “no backstory” and I’m just like “yeah. GOOD. It doesn’t matter, I just wanna kill him cause he’s evil” I miss that in gaming. I’ve certainly had a lot of great “tragic villain” stories, they can be done right, but it became so over saturated with terrible shallow attempts at it that it left a bad taste, TOTK just cleansed that taste away with Ganondorf’s classic Hero Vs Villain character.
such an honor to be featured in this amazing analysis video among so many other amazing creators! thank you so much, wonderful video :) agree wholeheartedly!
Bowser - A knobhead with an almost charming personality and an idiotic goal. At his best when he fights a greater evil, only to prove he is the one king koopa King Dedede - A man who used to do evil, stopped by and saved by Kirby multiple times. His rivalry peaked with a score to settle, and now he acts as one of Kirby's greatest allies Ganondorf - A man with sinister or dark goals, becoming so lost in the struggle for power that he loses himself. A man made to show the dangers of pursuing power. I dunno man, I can't pick a favorite or a "greatest".
Once you get the pattern down and if you bring enough food this fight isn’t that hard but man it’s so FUN! And the cutscenes are amazing. In botw I never really wanted to go back to fight Ganon but multiple times now I want to re-fight Demon King Ganondorf.
Yep. I had a hard time fighting him the first round because I am a flurry rush bitch, which is unfortunate when the boss not only has natural random delays in his attack animations specifically for throwing you off on the timing, but then also forces you to time it well twice in a row while reading his attack angle in a split second the second time to be able to hit him at all. To say the least I did not fair well. But that ending is so good I just keep opening the game on that save and instead of taking started save file and going to do more side missions and crap, I just keep jumping back down to fight him again. Now that I’ve learned a lot of the strats and the legacy tennis ball strat, the one sided fight is back on my side, but he still always gets some hits in, and I have yet to make it out without having a heart container smashed.
The Reason the Master Sword damages Ganondorf still is not because it is made to face Evil that owns the Triforce, it is made to face ANY evil, no matter how powerful, even if it is a Dark God. And even then you can Damage this Ganondorf in any form still with any other weapon while the Master Sword is just the most effective one in the final phase by dealimg more damage than it ACTUALLY should. This Ganondorf is Mere Powerwise on a whole different level than most others, but unlike Twilight Princess Ganondorf he doesnt have infinite defense and can still be harmed with anything like OoT Ganondorf or Yuganon from A Link between Worlds
i love to see that even english speakers use german synchronisation… all the voice acting there is great, i personally prefer it a lot over most english voice (matt mercer is a legend, but german ganondorf rules)
They finally did Ganondorf some honor, my god what a story, what a depiction of Ganondorf. This was THE Ganondorf for me. Knocked Twilight Princess' Ganondorf right back to number 2.
I loved fighting him i just wish fighting him in his non dragon form was longer and bit more difficult. It was so cool to flurry rush him only for him to do it back to me. Shit was so cool lol. Overall enjoyed that part of fight way more than the dragon part lol
I can confirm that this is a hard boss fight, I even had max hearts and all the shrines before I fought him and I lost 3 times before I finally beat him, Nintendo really outdid themselves with this one 🙌
I agree this ending fight was the best. But Ganondorf in TotK was not a great villian. His writing and entire character is basically "Im bad cause I'm evil". There is no motiviation.
He does have a motivation in TOTK, but they butchered it in the English version. From what I recall other people explaining it, in other languages his motivation is that he sees the world losing its courage and strength due to the Zonai coming down and creating the kingdom to establish peace and prosperity. He hates the Zonai for this, which is one scrap we get in the English version in the false fealty memory. This explains why he stops paying any attention to Link and Zelda at the start of the game: Rauru had said that Link would destroy him with the Master Sword in the far future, but when the time came, Ganondorf just shattered the sword and saw that Link was no threat, so he wasn't worth Ganondorf's time, which is something he repeats at the start of the boss fight, that Link isn't a worthy opponent, and he also says there that everyone is a "peace-loving coward", another scrap of his motivation that was butchered.
He actually does have a reason just they hate the English version but in the Japanese he actually does have a motivation just look at the reply above me
Hard agree. Ganondorf is so badly written it ruins most of the games narrative for me. Sonia exists solely as a MacGuffin for Ganondorf to kill to lazily obtain power.
Hot take, Ganondorf fight was too easy. At first I thought I just came in overprepared but I realized the entrance to the fight provided me with the lynel horn I fused to the master sword which made the fight too easy
I proceeded to heavily panic and stress out during my first time fighting Ganondorf this game, and held onto that panic attack for the rest of the week. Even after I finally killed him, he still was trying to kill me 😂 Really hope that doesnt happen again when I eventually redo his battle, because that was a miserable week... That fight was amazing though, I just kinda wish he was a little more fluid his last stage of the boss fight, because he kinda just sat there... and I understand why, the dragons do tend to sort of just hang around and meander, unless you hurt them, which is exactly what he was doing, and I understand that he was no longer "himself" anymore, but it was still really fun, regardless!
My theory was: That the Totk Ganondorf was the first reicarnation of Demise. Once he got sealed, he used his Malice/Gloom to "create" the other Ganondorfs. Hence they're all Gerudo aswell as him and clearly not as powerfull as him. It would make sense in my opinion, just the entire Zonai part fricks the entire timeline.
Your explanation doesn't make sense. Tears of the kingdom comes after every zelda game including the time far in the past. We are talking 10000 years after an unpronounced amount of time beyond the end of all timelines. Gannondorf cannot create the others if his very birth came long after the events of all timeline endings
@@leargamma4912 But you see, Rauru and Sonia were the "First" king and queen of hyrule. The land they were in was the "first" Hyrule. Zonais went extinct thousands of years ago. So, it would make sense that this all happened kinda early in the timeline, would explain that the Zonai never appeared since well, they went extinct with the death of Mineru. So, either it all started at the beginning of the timeline, or at a point a new Hyrule was created. Or perhaps a new 4th time-split.
@@JakeTheStakeNowIn3D5024 that's just as silly a thing to happen too. Especially with it retaining all the names. When things go under, usually something new arises.
Ok this is a well put together Video. WHY ONLY 1.4K VIEWS? You did a great job man. Ganondorf Has always been my favorite Villain and TOTK Is just icing on the cake of Evil. I hope this vid dose well and props to you man.
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In totk and botw this is a Ganondorf not connected to the others and the timeline.
Totk and botw is set in essentially a reboot timeline, skyward likely still happened but rest do not.
This is not any disrespect nor debunking your view, totk makes it pretty clear that it is a reboot.
Of course this is my look into totk and botw and where they fit, to me it is Aonuma and miyamoto saying fuck timeline let us reboot it
But I do agree this boss battle of Ganondorf is epic! And like his we incarnation and Tp incarnation he dies and stays dead.
His katana like weapon is cool so is his guan Yu looking spear and his club and bow all which have Asian inspiration.
The spear is modeled after a guan dao a Chinese weapon, gloom sword is modeled after a katana, gloom club is modeled after a kanabo a club, demon king bow is modeled after a yumi bow.
This is by far my fave Ganondorf mainly cause Matthew Mercer voices him lol
WHY ARE YOU ALL MAKING THIS MISTAKE of thinking "Oh they said founding this must mean right after skyward sword but that doesn't make sense so make it convoluted and declare a 4th timeline" INSTEAD OF JUsT THINKING "man hyrule must have ceased between the classic games and botw and totk and then refounded
Ganon is one of the greatest villains in nintendo, don't get me wrong, but:
"no other villain in nintendo tops the level of raw evil this man has unleashed"
*Porky from Mother 3 says hello.*
I love this final boss version of ganondork especially his second form where he fully awakens his full demon king powers, with that flowing blood red hair and those horns... ehm, anyway i love how the epic skills which made link such an epic royal knight, i.e. flurry rushing, are now somthing you as the player have to fight against and then on top of that certain moves inflict PERMANETE unrecoverable damage! SO FU(K!NG COOL! A+ Boss Battle!
However i wish they would have gone 1 step further then i could have given it an S or maybe even S+ score! [ V 5 Phase final battle idea!]
I would have had the "Gloom Spit" coming from the Demon Dragon (after link damages the 1st "eye") land on (D) Zelda, mentioning that the willpower of the demon king being so strong that even after draconification his conciousness refuses to be supressed (or somthing to that effect), and...
Phase 1 spawn (on D zelda's back) a mix of blue & silver bokos and blue moblins
Phase 2 (2nd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, and black lizalfos
Phase 3 (3rd eye destroyed) spawn silver bokos, silver moblins, silver lazalfos, and a silver boko boss
phase 4 (all 4 eyes destroyed, before link attackes sacred stone)spawn (10 hands) gloom spawn all attacking (D) Zeldas face
A. when link approaches (5) hands split off and come after link!
B. (link defeats gloom spawn [5]) spawn phantom ganon (1/2 health bar W/ G-spear)
C. (link reduces PG health bar 50%) (2 hands) part of 2nd half of gloom spawn moves from zelda's face to (Main) PG's side become 2x PGs w/ G-spears
(M) PG, w/ full health bar, and w/ G-sword) spear PG's will agressively assault link, (M) PG may attempt to attack link while he is busy with spear PG's
(if link perfect dodge on (M) PG and attempts to flurry rush spear PG will rush link canceling FR) link defeats (2x spear PG's then reduces (M) PG's health bar by 50%)
D. (M) PG stumbles back and summons remaining (3x hands) gloom spawn (2x G-spear + 1x G-sword) to his side, (M) PG's health bar is now 150%, (i.e. 2nd form ganon) is weilding G-club, and is capable of flurry rushing link. Link defeat (2x spear PG & 1x Sword PGs) then defeat (M) PG (full bar)
Phase 5 destroy sacred stone!
Alot of people are talking about the fight and the final boss, but not enough people are giving due credit to the lead up to Ganondorf, it was perfect, I haven't felt the same anticipation for a boss since I was a kid, the descent into darkness, the eerie music building up, the fact that the environment changes entirely to gloom roots, the black fog on the ground, there was something very final about approaching his lair, we all know link was going to succeed but they made you feel like link was walking to his death.
I just wish we could have fought dehydrated ganondorf, like, maybe he doesn't even bother standing up to fight you because he still considers you weak by comparison to his greatness and you have to climb that throne pillar he made himself repeatedly to get hits before he blasts you back. When you finally draw blood he goes into the phase 1 we got. It'd also make the dragon fight even more shocking, because like, Nintendo does three phases, and demon king form feels final form as all heck
The path to meet Ganondorf was one of the scariest thing I had to endure in this game😭
Ι had the same. And then I realized that I had, like, 50 instant pots and 30 sundelions, so I started cooking right outside of the boss room, and TA-DAH!
And Zelda's torch at the bottom of the pit.
@@danifaragoi3709 I 1000% agree. I prefer dehydrated ganondorf way more than rehydrated. though 4 playthroughs of the finale plus Matt Mercers killer voice acting has me softening to rehydrated
I thought it was super menacing when his healthbar went across the screen. He also proves that flurry rush is a real thing in universe. Moments of blending game mechanics with story like this really show off video game’s untapped storytelling potential as an interactive medium.
To be fair Urbosa was shown to be able to use flurry rush on the Champion’s ballad DLC.
I like to imagine that everything in hyrule slows down whenever someone does a flurry rush. Imagine just living your life and every 5 minutes time just slows down for 7 seconds and there's nothing you can do about it. It's especially bad in bullet time...
@@kirby_says_poyo Imagine it it happened during something painful. Somewhere out there there’s a Hylian woman in labor, and she suffers for 10x longer than she has to because Link is out hunting Lynels.
@@joaorazuk6305she didn’t flurry rush, she did a perfect parry with a shield
The flurry rush got me 'OH FUCK HE'S GONNA KILL ME AAAJXJSGAHSGAKAGS'.
Man, it's such a good fight! And the healthbar? Holyshit. Don't get me wrong, the fight isn't THAT difficult (I personally think it doesn't even have to be), but the tension is just so good.
Ganondorf was the first enemy I used my Hylian shield on, and he broke it near the very end of his demon king phase. That pit actually chills up my spine and helped me realize how much that shield was protecting me from the damage he could do
That shield can literally last you over 200 hours of playtime against anything else, Ganondorf can destroy it in his first phase if he hits it hard 6 times. And if one of the heart depleting attacks hits it, no matter how new the shield is, it is instantly reduced to badly damaged.
Same lol
Anyone else notice Twinrova behind him in the palace fealty swearing scene?? Now, anyone else CHOKED we didn't get a Twinrova encounter??
yep
How can you be sure that was them?
@@jjane222 not only is there a video in it but they have their names on their clothing
I see them being important in DLC or something to come
@@nathanstevens259 I see it too, which means nintendo wont do it xD
Technically there are Nintendo villains who have more raw evilness. These villains include Demise, Hades, Ridley, King Boo, Zanza, Porky Minch, Fecto Elfilis, and Volo to name a few. However, Ganondorf is still my favorite since he’s an absolute badass.🎉
In TOTK, Ganondorf wasn’t TOO far from the being on the same league as them. But yeah, I agree that the others are worse. And Ganondorf is also one of my favorite fictional villains of all time
Ganondorf is surprisingly charismatic, which makes it hard to completely hate him despite how unapologetically evil he can be. There's a reason so many people clamor for him to have some sort of redemption arc.
Don’t forget Louie
One thing I enjoy most about the dragon fight part, you can hear a version of Zelda’s lullaby in the melody
I affectionately refer to the demon dragon as Dragondorf. He stands alongside greenendorf and purpldorf in super smash brothers. For real though this final boss fight was one of my favorite boss fights in quite a long time. I enjoy fromsoft games, but none of those bosses made me take over twenty minutes to beat. Demon king Ganondorf did make me take over twenty minutes to beat. Thats not to say he is more difficult than a fromsoft boss, but it does speak to the kind of fight it is. It's long methodical and oh so satisfying. great video!
His last name is Dragmire so thats what i call it
Affectionately? What is he, your pet?
For people who don't overprepare with health, stamina, and armor upgrades, this dude can be as hard as a Fromsoft boss. He is easily one of the most difficult boss fights in the Zelda franchise only tied by Master mode Maz Koshia and Thunderblight Ganon.
@@masonstewart6232 Some random runebear in the consecrated snowfield is harder than ganon
PointCrow’s reaction was awesome, it really mirrors how I felt during this ending. It was so epic, unexpected, and beautiful at times.
My favorite version of Ganondorf. The best design, the best boss fight, the most menacing he's ever felt. The moment where he "rehydrates" himself and his leitmotif plays with the "Menace Unleashed" title...perfection.
I've seen a lot of criticisms saying that he's too stereotypically evil. And while I understand there may have been some context lost in the translation to English, I don't think he needs to be complex or nuanced in the same way Wind Waker Ganondorf was. He's like Alexander the Great or Napoleon: a conqueror who thinks it's his right to rule because he's the strongest.
Agreed. He enjoys the process of overcoming strong opponents in his quest to become the strongest, and this defines his relationships with people like Rauru and Link in a way very reminiscent of Demise. This to me is more than enough to make him interesting, and although I'd probably have to say Wind Waker Ganondorf's writing is a bit better, Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf's presentation is the best of the 4 by a landslide, and it earns him the spot as my favorite version of the character.
I have never enjoyed a final boss as much as I did Ganondorf in TotK.
Down right prefect and so much respect for whom he is by the devs.
TotK Ganondorf is proof that sometimes all you truly need is pure and simple Evil.
No sad backstory or semi relatable traits.
Just a man of pure, raw ambition and desire to rule all he can see.
What if... Everytime Calamity Ganon is awakened it's because a Ganondorf is reaking havoc on a timeline?
Definitely a very memorable boss fight for sure. However, even Ganon becomes easy if you go into the fight with enough armor upgrades, food and the master sword. He can only deal one (broken) heart of damage with each and every attack he does. Most people I saw struggled a bit but never lost because of it. XD
Yeah I think it'd be more fun to be less prepared. I went in with fully upgraded champion's tunic and Hylian pants. Had no idea what I was doing, but with 50+ armor and 20 hearts, Ganondorf's katana was giving Link little paper cuts. Still a great fight, but it's better when you're actually in danger of losing
I do think that Ganon taking Gloom hearts away was a nice challenge. Even if you don't take as much damage sooner or later you won't be able to properly heal if you don't defeat him fast enough
@@Eli-sg5to Canonically though, Link freed the 4 regions, awakened all the sages, pulled the Master Sword, activated all 152 shrines, activated all the lightroots and got the ancient hero's aspect. The whole point of being maxed out is everyone in the past tells Ganondorf he's fucked come wakey-wakey time and when you return after regaining your strength, it causes him to realise he misjudged you - his own hubris in dismissing you at the start mirroring Rauru's hubris in thinking he could thwart anything Ganondorf tried while seemingly a loyal subject.
@@Eli-sg5toit hurts real bad when you depend on flurry rushing, cause I went in with everything you could imagine, and because I suck at combat outside of flurry rushing, I suffered. He erased all but 8 of my hearts from existence and wasted all but 2 of my shields, the Hylian shield with durability ++ being 1 and being badly damaged at the end. The developers knew exactly which combat strategies are cheap and easy and which take skill, and forced me to learn how to rely more frequently on harder timing counters like parry’s
The first time I saw Ganondorf's second phase healthbar on the internet I tought it was edited, then I fought him for the first time and saw that it WASN'T EDITED, I was a bit scared but I found it really funny to just watch the healthbar start from a normal point and then just continue almost 'till the screen border. Btw that's also cool how he can flurry rush us too, but without being a sure hit, you can flurry rush his flurry rush right away, even if the timing is a bit tough. Best final boss fight I ever did (also like 40x the Botw one)
I don’t consider myself a hardcore gamer, im not historically great at bossfights…
But I really don’t understand people saying this was the hardest boss fight in years. I beat him on attempt #3 (no guide).
I lost way more to the mud guy is Zora’s domain.
The hardest Nintendo boss in recent memory has to be the bird guy at the end of Metroid Dread.
Lmk why I’m right
I know totk ganon will live on in my memory forever between triple flurry rushes, super health bars, and draconification, but I still get shivers watching that TP fight when he charges at you and you leap into his blade to duel strength against each other.
You'd be surprised to learn Ganon/Ganondorf only had one main title in the entire series (aside from Four Swords Adventures' "King of Darkness") being 大魔 Dai Maō "Great Demon King" and the variants found in the english localizations are different adaptations of the original term into english words.
He has been called so ever since Zelda on the NES.
a really cool villain but I genuinely do not understand why people say he's a hard boss. I went in the fight with just one row of hearts and barely knowing how to flurry rush and I beat him almost instantly
Amazing video. A way that I beat Ganondorf in th game was with a lot of ancient arrows and a five shot lynel bow. I am not good at dodging at the flurry rush and I had so much trouble with the fantom ganon in the dekku tree I decided to work my ass off in the depts until I had enough ancient arrows to fight him. Fortunetly this strategy worked and I defeated him on my first try. I also had a gloom reversing food with me as well as max healing hearts foods. They helped immensly.
BTW in 9:16 Gohma appears in 3 3D zelda games. The 4 remaining zelda games are top down (Bird POV) games that are either pixelated or HD.
that was an amazing video. Way to put it all together and make that a conclusion to an amazing story.
Demon Dragon flying underground and around the castle putting paid to the "Calamity Ganon is an independent and separate being"
I like the part where *Suavemente* starts playing and Ganondorf starts dancing
Whoooooaaa, his entrance is the most Epic one out of them all
The fight was honestly super easy. It was harder to get to Ganondorf than the actual fight. I did all the main quests, did all the shrines, and maxed out the fierce diety armor. Then I got a few savage Lynel bows and ate an attack boosting meal and just spammed fused arrows at him. Finished it in like idk 5 minutes?
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Ganondorf could pull a Peaches song 😂
Tears of the Kingdom definitely has a cool Ganon fight, but overall (even if OOT is my favorite zelda game) the impact that he has as a character is played out better in Windwaker and Twilight Princess.
dead yunobo in that stream footage is funnier than it should be to me
Illumination feels like one of the worst options for an animation studio to do a Zelda movie. Them doing the Mario movie was fine, but a Zelda movie is completely different
Imagine if we get a zelda movie made by Marvel they would smash that out of the park with thier action scenes.
@@CrazyGmer915 I'm not all for it, but it sounds.. interesting, I guess
“and the birth of his new world…”
immediately after: “hey, my name is natasha-“ (the ad💀)
4:00 bro German Ganon sounds like he flunked out of art school
Ganondorf's boss fight felt like the Metal Gear Rising boss fight with Sam, it's fast enough to make blinking a strategic choice and most of the fight isn't about damage sponging, but rather dodging and blocking the six million attacks coming your way. You know that if you play your cards right, Ganondorf will go down in just a few hits, hell, the game gives you a silver lynel horn right before the fight, but you also know that getting a single hit on him is damn near impossible. It's a challenge of who will slip up first, it's nothing like a traditional Zelda boss, and it's absolutely amazing.
Master of the Secret Stone
*JETSTREAM GANON*
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7:00 I’d actually like to mention it was absolutely never implied that Calamity Ganon was just a Malice Projection, that’s just a really popular fan theory, as it’s stated in Tears of the Kingdom that as long as the sealing grounds are untouched and never come to ruin, the seal on Ganondorf will be perfect and permanent, but due to the fact that Calamity Ganon caused multiple earthquakes when he awoke and activated the Guardian Pillars, the seal started to break, meaning that Calamity Ganon couldn’t be a result of a sealed away Ganondorf whose seal only breaks after The Calamity of 100 years ago begins. Calamity Ganon is either OoT or FSA Ganon after breaking out of seals and being resurrected a bunch of times, resulting in turning into pure Malice.
TotK Ganondorf is either 1. The first Ganondorf who was sealed away during Hyrule’s founding or 2. An incarnation of Ganondorf who was born long after Hyrule fell to ruin, and now lives when the Hyrule Kingdom we see in BotW was first founded
7:36 This Ganondorf wouldn’t seek out the Triforce, as it’s currently either in the Sacred Realm, or wherever the Triforce is hiding during the era of Legends (the time between all previous games and Breath of The Wild)
7:44 Also The Master Sword has the Triforce crest after being blessed by Hylia, which gave it its evil-repelling powers. The Master Sword is also not powered by Zelda; Dragon Zelda simply held onto the Master Sword for thousands and thousands of years, bathing it in a ethereal light, which allowed it to heal itself after the beginning of the game, and also make it stronger due to it literally bathing in a holy light since Hyrule’s birth.
You made a great video man, but you kinda got a lot of the lore wrong, which hey, I don’t blame you, the lore in BotW and TotK needs to be looked for, and isn’t really stated by just playing the story.
Ganondorf was really only hard if you never fused lynel parts to the Master Sword. But I will agree the fight was super fun with how he dodged your attacks.
So BotW was a timeline merger, and TotK was a lore reset?
Dude i love this fight. It has so many WHAT THE FUCK moments that made it incredibly hype
Flurry Rushing Link, extending his health bar to the other side of the screen, deflecting arrows with his arm, permanently destroying hearts with Gloom attacks, decaying equipment down to its last hit with Gloom attacks, Flurry Rushing Link's Flurry Rushes, turning into a goddamn dragon.
Did I miss anything?
@@speedude0164 he can DEFLECT ARROWS?
@@literallygrass1328 Yup. If you shoot him, there's a chance he'll swipe the arrow away and it'll do zero damage.
@@speedude0164 damn, ig I'll have to try it out. I'm always looking for another excuse to fight ganondaddy
@@speedude0164 just tried it, he didnt do it the entire fight except for his final phase at very low health. even then, i still killed him with an arrow
Honestly this fight was awesome but what I would have loved is if when u flurry rush he does the same and shatters one of your weapons. Either way awesome fight and I need to run it back. In master mode tho I intend to fight him without completing any of the phenomena.
Teara of the kingdom It isn’t a lore reset, there is several vids about its placement in the Zelda timeline
Actually Ganondorf only gets the full tri force in the fallen time line not all of them
Fromsoft took lessons from BOTW with Elden Ring and Nintendo took lessons from Elden Ring with TOTK
"We" deserved? Who is we?
Because I personally don't think this ending was particularly good.. You from a few memories showing how Ganondorf is just a power-hungry bodybuilder, to a man capable of engulfing the entire land with monsters (that are just there doing nothing) just waiting to be engaged, to a lack of motivation and personality that swallows a stone because he is angry at the Twinkle beating him in a fight.. only to become giant and useless, as well "immortal"!! .. only to immediately die.
Not to mention the slap to the face that is Zelda just becoming human after her suffering and sacrifice, with a mind-wipe and no repercussions whatsoever..... Oh yes! The ending we deserved.
People should learn that not every dumb opinion should be shared, and that not everyone is good at the "content creator" thing. Specially with generic and boring points of view that don't do anything aside from being an outlet to their excitement at the product they just bought and didn't look at critically.
"1v1 on rust of the century" lmao
When Gannon flurry rushed my flurry rush was just so damn cool made him feel like a real threat
It took me back to fighting Dark Link in the Water Temple in OoT.
bro i didnt upgrade my armor the entire game or collect food so I went into this fight one hit to everything lmao
He’s a great villain in totk, but he was better in WindWaker and Twilight Princess. Loved ganondorf in totk and damn he truly is the greatest villain of all time.
Ganondorf is definitely very powerful and very mean, but he's still only my second favorite Nintendo villain after Bowser. Ganondorf is a truly awesome villain, but Bowser will always be the king of all video game villains.
Well, when he was squatting and "RAARRRGHHH!!!" -ing in the way he was doing during his transformation, I had some vague thoughts he seemed like he was having a painful attack of the big D.
DO NOT LOOK AWAY, YOU WITNESS A KING, MID SWAVEMENTE!!!!
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just Ganondorf, thanks bro for this respect to Legend of zelda 🤙
I wasnt prepaired for german Ganondorf
ok i'm just saying there was never supposed to be a timeline, Nintendo made it as we were all pestering them for it.
I wouldn't say this iteration of Ganondorf is Nintendo's best villain. I think this version is really shallow. At least on par with OoT/TP. In my opinion, WW is the best version because he's humanized. This version is definitely the most evil, though.
Ganondorf is cool and all, but why is he evil in the first place? Just wish that his reasons were desenvolved like wind wakers ganon. Besides that, I think that the fake Zelda was poorly written. The games is great and all, but i think its time to nintendo to step up de history of the zelda franchise
Jp translation ganon is racist to zonai
Sometimes villains can just be evil and ya know what, I’m okay with that
In short, his motivation was butchered in the English version, so badly that his motivation was almost entirely removed, but other languages have his motivation explained.
@@fnaffoxy1987 wow zelda butchering the game in the english version? When has that ever happened before... Oh wait👀
@@EvanExplains lazy writing
Every other streamer seeing unleashed ganondorf: woah holy crap 😱😱
Me seeing unleashed ganondorf: Daddy? 😩😍
Wind waker's ganondorf is tragic actualy all of them the reason that he is evil is he is got cursed by demise's curse
Eh. IDK. I liked how G-man looked in BOTW/TOTK but I feel as far as his motivations went, they kinda did him dirty in this game, if this is supposed to be his final send off, which I think it is but hope it's not. But I think Ganondorf could have been super evil in this game if just for one thing they coulda tweaked: If they made it clear that Ganondorf had tried to marry Sonya to get the tear first, but was rejected for Rauru, that would have made what he did SO much more evil personally instead of just a "Haha I beat you!" kinda moment...
Where and what language is it said that he tried to marry Sonia? I've not heard that before.
@@fnaffoxy1987 Nooo it didn't say that anywhere I was just saying that it would have been cool if they did do it
@@kymo6343 Oh okay. I'm not sure how I'd feel if they did that. It just seems like it would be a bit weird to me.
@@fnaffoxy1987 I'm not saying Ganondorf would have been in love with her, it would have just been a way he was trying to get her kingdom/tear, but of course she sees through it and marries Rauru for love instead. Just saying though, Ganondorf killing a woman he himself once proposed to would be way more dastardly than him just killing his enemy's wife.
I think she got the stone from Rauru. Any expansion on his motives would've been appreciated though. Here he just rants about light and darkness, and comes off as really flat characterwise.
Giygas, and it's not even close.
I didn't find the fight difficult at all. Though I had the master sword fused with a Silver Lynel Saber Horn and 72 defense
I just sucked at flurry rushing, so even though I had similar gear, I ended up attacking him with a bow more than with melee. No bullet time though
@@workinprogress8978 I got lucky with 2 flurry rushes otherwise I just got knocked down and lost a heart or 2
@@shawnamiller191 i think I got like 1 or 2 flurry rushes and only when he used his club. I couldn't get the timing of the other two weapons. When he started flurry rushing my flurry rush, I was like, "A'ight. I'mma pelt you with bone arrows. You gave them to me with your army back there so you can have them back."
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I just don’t get the timeline. The murals in the chamber telling a story that’s “already happened” but hasn’t happened yet. 🤷🏼♂️. The sword being weakened by the Calamity but going back in time to get divinely recharged…wouldn’t that make it inaccessible to ALL other Links in entire history?
I think this founding of hyrule takes place after all the previous games. Sort of like Spirit tracks founding a new hyrule, but way after the events of any previous game.
I decided to tag literally all of my feedback for Nintendo right here in this comments section this is what I think about what I've seen ty ..
0:57 I would like point out consciously that I was disappointed with the breath of the wild Ganon v fight and I personally wrote Nintendo tagging myself as nephew of the director of Pinky and the Brain (I am)and they listened to my advice across-the-board. 😊
Currently I am disappointed with the locked tropes of Link Zelda and Ganon. I feel like the series hasn't been able to justify its existence yet. I think that the triforce and their distribution could be a little deeper and I'm interested to see what happens when they shake up the triforce roles, r when they allow a new combinations of relationships and abilities.
1:53 okay if Ganon is the only male than that means that I want that reflected in the culture like he has to be a celebrity because he's banging all these b****** right he's creating all these kids..
2:11 they should strike the name evil from him because it comes from Eve which is a circumcision hoax. We don't actually believe in evil as a substance,, not groundedly,, anymore. Is all power evil??
3:33 I'm fine with Link and Zelda and Ganon being elemental forces although I want the triforce to manifest itself in other people so you can see what they're like when they have it...
4:26 cheers to my sister who told me I should play skyward sword. Calling Ganon demise mirrors Brandon sanderson's character ruin which you may very well enjoy from the mistborn series....
4:47 making power and demise the same person to me means Nintendo has made a firm statement on... Nature as Satan...
5:19 lol, and, there is a possibility of an ancient evil human Master race that uses us so a male leader of a dark people is kind of in the subconscious, possible...
5:41 I think that most of nintendo stories are about men fighting over women and that should be for breeding which is an instinct based on what time has done here...
5:41 clearly Nintendo is subconsciously thinking about mating all the time but they're dealing with the world that overpowers and oppresses them right...
5:51 yeah I've often thought about maybe if the triforce of courage was with links mother because she chose to have a child... Link is the link to Divinity and a link to the player, he can have a triforce of courage but he doesn't HAVE to... The idea that who these people are is why they have these powers, is not necessarily glued!!
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I feel like I want to see the triforce change hands and I feel like I want to see each of the characters link Zelda and Gannon have good and evil moments and play good and evil characters... The whole story could be actually how the three dynamize. Remember circumcision and what the big small dick war has caused on Earth...
6:57 I would like to point out that the primary conflict in every Zelda game is link and Ganon fighting (David vs Goliath), from a circumcision hoax that comes out of a printer,, so what I'm saying is the game is just kind of immature...
7:19 am I hearing this point right that Gannon is supposed to be the king of the gerudo right he's supposed to mate with all the women right but he never does he goes into pledges alliances to other people to take over them??? That's a pretty classic archetype I can see that existing in our subconscious for sure...
Clearly one day AI will allow us to spontaneously generate videogame children and we allow breeding back into our universe...
7:42 yeah I think the major themes of The legend of Zelda there are going to change as we drop monotheism because it's obviously just about Dick domination
Ganon using something other than the triforce for power is news to me but I guess they want to go there why not.
I think a game where Gannon is a rival competing in the same world as you would be made complete with maybe AI. ALL THE MAJOR NINTENDO ZELDA PLOTS ARE ABOUT MALE TURF DOMINATION AND FIGHTING FOR CONTROL OF THE WOMB RIGHT...
8:05 the dragon is Zelda that's kind of cool you know when I first saw that I wanted link to climb inside the dragon's mouth to get it
8:27 ❤🎉@nintendo thanks for expanding the last Ganon fight yeah it was not long enough. I felt like there should have been a break and a big power up in a big adventure into gannon's realm right...
Gannon's realm is a thing that's going to happen because they keep primordial forcing Gannon and so that means and some extradimensional layer or facet of existence of Ganon is actually grounded as like a primordial Force...
He's not the best written Ganondorf, I think his motivations are too simple for that. It's basically "grrrr, light bad, darkness good" But my god is he imposing and intimidating
You must have played a different game than I did. I thought Ganondorf was completely underdeveloped in TOTK. He’s just a big evil villain. Sure, that’s fine, but why is he doing it in the first place? What’s his motivation? What will happen if he succeeds? Why is he hiding away?
There’s just no character development or background and other than “big evil guy I need to defeat” I don’t really care about him at all. 🤷🏻♂️
yeah you're right, his development in the lore is power alone which is pretty anticlimatic
Honestly, Calamity Ganon was somewhat underdeveloped too, but at least in that game you saw the result of what he did, and felt the real threat of what would happen if you didn’t stop him. So that was somewhat of a character development because it created serious stakes for the player. Everything Ganondorf did was 10,000 years ago, and it really wasn’t that much, then he was stopped. He talks tough and looks tough, but I don’t get any real sense of threat from him. Besides that, I fought multiple Phantom Ganons and they weren’t very tough, so he just didn’t feel like much of a threat at all.
Does anyone else think Nintendo missed the opportunity to give us both the Zora and Goron Tunics?
Could you not just dye the OOT tunic blue and red? I believe the statues sell it, so you could buy multiple.
Majora has left the chat 💀
Also what? Ganon isn't a form of demise...
I like the fact that Ganondorf breaks established rules that monsters follow. He does it by playing the game like Link. He swaps weapons, uses some BS to increase his health bar too high, uses flurry rush.
yes i beat the game and my brain was thinking during the battle "this is how monsters feel"
@@floppa_gamer1111I apologize to any monsters that I have tormented in the last 6 years
@@joegardner851i don't, that boss fight was awesome
@@floppa_gamer1111nah silger enemies 3 shot me its fair
The health bar in the second stage started to go back and I was like “oh, he gets a second life, big deal?” And then it just. Kept. Going. My jaw completely dropped because it implied Ganondorf was so powerful it literally broke the game’s enemy health bar system
Not to mention he flurry rushed my flurry rush.
I thought it was going to straight up go off screen and he’d be unbeatable until he beat the shit out of me to a certain period.
Ganondorf paused the game after you beat him to low health (hence his monologue about the thrill of battle) and ate Hearty Food (activated his secret stone) to gain extra hearts (second health bar).
I just listened to ganons voice in 5 different languages. Russian made him sound like an evil sorcerer, German was terrifying for obvious reasons, but his Spanish voice had me feeling kinda weird and tingly in ways i don’t quite understand
Suavemente moment
i unfortunately only speak german and english, but i would love to see how over translations handled the subtext and so on… german ganondorf, for example, says about the sword „this is supposed to be the sacred sword of sealing… and my miasma makes it shatter just like that. A truly useless blade“ (a little more formally).
i love how it sounds like the miasma/gloom is a genuine weapon he spent millennia refining. he sounds much more calculated than in english, but also crueller, i‘d say.
so i‘d say it‘s not just the voice acting, but also the translations play a huge part in how the characters are perceived differently.
Russian Ganondorf feels like it gives me Rasputin Vibes 😅
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@@Chris-gx1ei he’s similar enough too lmao. They just can’t kill Ganon for good no matter what timeline their in, it seems
I just realized that TotK turns the "Save Princess from Dragon"-Trope on it's head... You have to save the Dragon (Zelda) from the Princess (Fake Zelda causing trouble)
And then the princess (in dragon form) saves you from the dragon
I'm sensing a theme here...
Genius
With Zelda now being a dragon, Link doesn't need to feel guilty about Purah lol. She's one hell of an upgrade :P
Wrong zelda was saved by link in the end. Who caught her falling down
"Do not look away. . . *Draws out and looks at the frightening katana* you witness a kings revival" might be one of the greatest lines in villain history
"Do not look away. You witness a king....MID SUAVEMENTE!" (I can't resist)
If you look away ganondorf breaks down crying on the ground
@@not_umbre lol 😂 that's a good one
Not just the line, the delivery, all at once I want to run and or fight for my life and it's exciting
"... And the birth of his new world!"
As someone who forgot to make food that heals gloom effected hearts, I thought the Ganondorf fight was incredibly difficult, mostly because I was too stubborn to load a previous save to cook some food. I literally went in with 5 hearts, no fairies, and no food that could heal me. Took me a good hour to get the timing right and beat him.
GGs
Sameeee, gonna he honest. I didn't know there were food to heal those hearts from the gloom😂I loaded a previous save and got tons of hearty tonics
I had 7 hearts and one fairy.
BRO ME TOO!!
So you spent $70 just to skip the entire game and go to the boss?
After beating Ganondorf I went to Lurelin Village. I finally rest and watch the sun rise on a greatfull kingdom☺️
Okay thanos 🤣
'I understood that reference'
"That is destiny fulfilled."
I remember the first time I defeated the grabby hands and a phantom Gannon spawned I was both terrified and excited. Gannon had much more of a role to play in this game and Matt Mercers performance as Gannon was phenomenal.
I shit my pants the first time, lol. I only had 6 hearts, and had died to a few gloom spawns at this point. Then i found them in a random cave. At this point i had started to just flee, so ran away and climbed up a ledge. When i saw they couldn't follow me, I was like, time for revenge and thinking i was being clever, I rained death down on them in the form of bombs... big mistake that was, because PG does not give a flying fuck about ledges, lol. I was so thrown off by the random boss fight out of no where that he easily whipped my ass, even though they are pretty easy once you're expecting it.
I love how the gloom spawns are a double troll though. First time they pop up out of nowhere in all their horrifing glory, and again when you best em for the first time, just to get a mini boss thrown in your face. Cheer to Nintendo for that one.
What role? Unlike chasing Kohga around the Depths, he never left his cave underground. This couldn’t have been the origin of the Calamity that needed robotic Sheikah tech to down him
Same. I remember I was exploring when he randomly found me. This time I was armed to the teeth and ready for a fight. Finally beat the hands...just for phantom ganon to pop up, it was awesome and terrifying.
I discovered the hands in a cave less than 5 hours into the game and when phantom ganon spawned in after I was floored. THEN after 10 attempts I literally had to leave and get better gear.. literally never happened to me and I’ve 100 percent every 3d Zelda. Besides botw. I was SO fuckin hyped to get 1 shotted by fuckin phantom ganon.
I think what makes Ganondorf so compelling despite him being literal embodiment of all evil in the world, is that you can see how much passion stands behind this character. He finds so much joy in being an evil, so you ending up being blown away by his energy
He’s really a Massive Action Taker
My theory/headcanon is that is actually what causes Ganondorf (and by extension the Links and Zeldas) at his peak to surpass Demise as the supreme power of evil.
Hatred and malice and destruction are one thing and that made Demise powerful as their embodiment. But taking all of that and putting it into a mortal being, a human with the potential for cunning and the drive and will to enact it? Demise is a loaded gun - scary and definitely dangerous. But taking that gun and putting it into a man like Ganondorf's hands and it's now a weapon of targeted and precise carnage, destruction, fear, and dominion. It's the natural next step in unlocking the full potential of Demise's strength.
I like to treat Calamity Ganon as a version of Phantom Ganon who just grew immensely in power overtime.
that actually would be pretty damn cool
It’s terrifying that Ganon is so powerful in this game that Calamity Ganon is just a manifestation of his spiteful will to dominate and destroy. Imagine being so evil that even locked away the sheer power of your soul takes life to enact your will throughout the ages.
I believe that it’s a fragment of Ganondorf’s soul
I believe it's Ganondorf... 's fart. That's were the Depths brass came from in TOTK, right?
To the surprise of many, Nintendo has never been shy to creating difficult bosses. Raven Beak from Metroid Dread, Volo from Pokémon Legends Arceus and nearly all post-game secret bosses of the Kirby series pose an equal if not greater challenge compared to the Demon King. But regardless, you gotta admit that Ganondorf still reigns supreme as the meanest greenest bean of the roster 😎
Raven Beak was great, but you’re also forgetting Cynthia imo
He isn't called the king of evil for nothing.
Volo was the hardest battle since red on hgss
The difference there is that the difficult bosses usually wherent the final ones.
Inner agent 3 and NILS statue from octo expansion as well
He waits below the castle doing nothing while you are building wooden airplanes and collecting cheese, then when you finally confront him it turns out that he could have gone full power at any time. He just be messing with our heads like that. Incredible storytelling.
he was utterly unmotivated to act quickly because of his supposed killer being easily incapacitated. that is his mistake
@@owenbyrne9850his motivations also were shallow af tho, imho worst ganondorf for motovation
Honestly, giving him Gilgamesh's levels of ego was a sound move.
And an interesting take of the blood knight trope:
He didn't want a worthy opponent. He wanted a opponent strong enough to allow him to flaunt his power.
And his act of draconification:
He didn't do it to save his life, but his pride. Paying his very being was fair for him
@@owenbyrne9850 I think he was using the network of Gloom roots in the Depths to spread his influence around the world, and craft a world sufficiently harsh to turn people against each other and start the wars he thought should never have stopped. Like you said, he thought he'd already beaten you, a weakling unworthy of the title of Hero, and moved on to the next phase of his plan.
@@thatminer7174who cares? People are sick of the stupid villains we keep getting pawned on to us with deep backstories and crap that try to make us “understand him” or feel for him. This Ganondorf is a great return to the simplicity of “he’s an evil piece of shit, the reason why is irrelevant, he’s a problem and needs to die.” A classic hero vs pure evil story is the kind of era of gaming Zelda encapsulates and I’m glad they honored it in the modern day.
whats really terrifying about that ganondorf fight is the health bar breaking limitations to really deliver the feeling of facing something so powerful beyond normally possible and then theres the thing that his energy attacks actually straight break entire heart containers which even more so makes him seem quite scary and threatening despite those energy attacks effectively dealing only little damage and their only effect being punishing people who solely rely on food but losing the containers the player worked so hard to get over the whole playtime just like that very much delivers a feeeling of danger
also i like the addition of that german cutscene in the beginning the german voice acting in this game is amazing especially for ganondorf
ngl when i faced him my jaw dropped from every moves and surprise he made. even the sages joining means a lot. it feels really immersive
Apparently if you eat anything that gives temporary hearts, it gives you back the heart containers he broke. I was actually a bit disappointed to find this out.
Spin attack, friends. Thought of all the games where you knock his attacks back at him....and it works
I was blown away when he took away my hearts completely. Completely bad ass way of portraying him
It even makes sense as he does that at the very start of the game, reducing your hearts to only 3
I love this new Ganon. The absolute DISRESPECT he gives Link in the intro cutscene is so good. But you don't realize just how low he thinks of Link until you see him again during the final fight. I thought he was in the depths building back his lost strength in case I returned. But he had no idea Link even survived, let alone COULD even come back through the minefield of Gloom and Monsters he left all over the depths and bursting from the various chasms. He wasn't waiting For Link, he wasn't gaining strength to attack Hyrule again either. HE ALREADY WON and knew it. Raru lied about this Link and his Sword that can seal the Darkness (I mean he didn't even attack Link directly...he took Link out while basically stretching his power after a long nap) so instead of aiming his actual attack at Link to kill him, he attacks Hyrule Directly leaving Gloom and enhanced monsters to finish things off. There aren't any Generals at his side or Evil Mages controlling minions for him when you find him either.
Just the Demon King and Victory....shit he is still in his mummy form he's so unimpressed with things 😂
Great analysis. He’s arrogant, as Rauru pointed out
Loved this ganondorf as he felt like a actual threat coming after you with his shadows and being a general menace in cutscenes
I literally laughed but also was a little scared when his healthbar crept across the screen. The whole encounter, from the descent into the Hyrule castle depths, to the dragon fight was perfect. I've never felt such intense emotion from a Nintendo game. I give a ton of credit to the soundtrack, they really nailed it. I bought TOTK saying I would be happy if it was a quarter as good as BOTW, but holy crap I loved this game
He's not the Ganondorf we need; he's the Ganondorf we deserve. Not only that, but this guy's voice actor is on point! Actually, all the voices in this game are on point!
Admittedly, TOTK appears to close a long-standing chapter with the Zelda series. Practically all previous iterations of Ganondorf required him to be 'defeated', even in BOTW, which ultimately left the door open for him to somehow reincarnate and show up in a future game. In TOTK, the quest was clear...'destroy' Ganondorf; so it certainly appears that we have finally seen the last of him, and it was done so in epic fashion. It will be interesting to see where this takes future Zelda games.
You don’t know that Demise’s curse is eternal therefore Ganondorf ALWAYS comes back one way or another.
Reboot occurs and Ganon is the big bad again. That’s how it goes now.
@@Mario87456 not maybe demise stops having to use ganondorf maybe now that he is gone demise can once again return to the land of hyrule
@@trolledfordrip Demise is never coming back, he's deader than dead
@@Ps5nogames at this point can you really say that
Totk Ganondorf is literally just evil for the sake of being evil, just like Jack Horner without the comedy and it truly is a great feeling where I don’t have to feel sympathy for the villain or have them giving a philosophy on why they should be allowed to do the evil things they’re doing. Pure evil incarnate and that’s just how I like it not saying that we need to only have villains like this it’s just a nice break from the other archetypes.
EXACTLY. People keep mentioning how Ganondorf has “no backstory” and I’m just like “yeah. GOOD. It doesn’t matter, I just wanna kill him cause he’s evil” I miss that in gaming. I’ve certainly had a lot of great “tragic villain” stories, they can be done right, but it became so over saturated with terrible shallow attempts at it that it left a bad taste, TOTK just cleansed that taste away with Ganondorf’s classic Hero Vs Villain character.
such an honor to be featured in this amazing analysis video among so many other amazing creators! thank you so much, wonderful video :) agree wholeheartedly!
Your reactions are so genuine!
Bowser - A knobhead with an almost charming personality and an idiotic goal. At his best when he fights a greater evil, only to prove he is the one king koopa
King Dedede - A man who used to do evil, stopped by and saved by Kirby multiple times. His rivalry peaked with a score to settle, and now he acts as one of Kirby's greatest allies
Ganondorf - A man with sinister or dark goals, becoming so lost in the struggle for power that he loses himself. A man made to show the dangers of pursuing power.
I dunno man, I can't pick a favorite or a "greatest".
Once you get the pattern down and if you bring enough food this fight isn’t that hard but man it’s so FUN! And the cutscenes are amazing. In botw I never really wanted to go back to fight Ganon but multiple times now I want to re-fight Demon King Ganondorf.
Yep. I had a hard time fighting him the first round because I am a flurry rush bitch, which is unfortunate when the boss not only has natural random delays in his attack animations specifically for throwing you off on the timing, but then also forces you to time it well twice in a row while reading his attack angle in a split second the second time to be able to hit him at all. To say the least I did not fair well. But that ending is so good I just keep opening the game on that save and instead of taking started save file and going to do more side missions and crap, I just keep jumping back down to fight him again. Now that I’ve learned a lot of the strats and the legacy tennis ball strat, the one sided fight is back on my side, but he still always gets some hits in, and I have yet to make it out without having a heart container smashed.
The Reason the Master Sword damages Ganondorf still is not because it is made to face Evil that owns the Triforce, it is made to face ANY evil, no matter how powerful, even if it is a Dark God.
And even then you can Damage this Ganondorf in any form still with any other weapon while the Master Sword is just the most effective one in the final phase by dealimg more damage than it ACTUALLY should.
This Ganondorf is Mere Powerwise on a whole different level than most others, but unlike Twilight Princess Ganondorf he doesnt have infinite defense and can still be harmed with anything like OoT Ganondorf or Yuganon from A Link between Worlds
i love to see that even english speakers use german synchronisation… all the voice acting there is great, i personally prefer it a lot over most english voice (matt mercer is a legend, but german ganondorf rules)
Actually, Ganondorf is reincarnation of Demise’s hatred. He’s a feeling that was given mind and body
They finally did Ganondorf some honor, my god what a story, what a depiction of Ganondorf. This was THE Ganondorf for me. Knocked Twilight Princess' Ganondorf right back to number 2.
I loved fighting him i just wish fighting him in his non dragon form was longer and bit more difficult. It was so cool to flurry rush him only for him to do it back to me. Shit was so cool lol. Overall enjoyed that part of fight way more than the dragon part lol
I can confirm that this is a hard boss fight, I even had max hearts and all the shrines before I fought him and I lost 3 times before I finally beat him, Nintendo really outdid themselves with this one 🙌
I agree this ending fight was the best. But Ganondorf in TotK was not a great villian. His writing and entire character is basically "Im bad cause I'm evil". There is no motiviation.
He does have a motivation in TOTK, but they butchered it in the English version. From what I recall other people explaining it, in other languages his motivation is that he sees the world losing its courage and strength due to the Zonai coming down and creating the kingdom to establish peace and prosperity. He hates the Zonai for this, which is one scrap we get in the English version in the false fealty memory. This explains why he stops paying any attention to Link and Zelda at the start of the game: Rauru had said that Link would destroy him with the Master Sword in the far future, but when the time came, Ganondorf just shattered the sword and saw that Link was no threat, so he wasn't worth Ganondorf's time, which is something he repeats at the start of the boss fight, that Link isn't a worthy opponent, and he also says there that everyone is a "peace-loving coward", another scrap of his motivation that was butchered.
He actually does have a reason just they hate the English version but in the Japanese he actually does have a motivation just look at the reply above me
Hard agree. Ganondorf is so badly written it ruins most of the games narrative for me.
Sonia exists solely as a MacGuffin for Ganondorf to kill to lazily obtain power.
Hot take, Ganondorf fight was too easy. At first I thought I just came in overprepared but I realized the entrance to the fight provided me with the lynel horn I fused to the master sword which made the fight too easy
I proceeded to heavily panic and stress out during my first time fighting Ganondorf this game, and held onto that panic attack for the rest of the week.
Even after I finally killed him, he still was trying to kill me 😂 Really hope that doesnt happen again when I eventually redo his battle, because that was a miserable week... That fight was amazing though, I just kinda wish he was a little more fluid his last stage of the boss fight, because he kinda just sat there... and I understand why, the dragons do tend to sort of just hang around and meander, unless you hurt them, which is exactly what he was doing, and I understand that he was no longer "himself" anymore, but it was still really fun, regardless!
My theory was:
That the Totk Ganondorf was the first reicarnation of Demise.
Once he got sealed, he used his Malice/Gloom to "create" the other Ganondorfs.
Hence they're all Gerudo aswell as him and clearly not as powerfull as him.
It would make sense in my opinion, just the entire Zonai part fricks the entire timeline.
Zonai timeline is the result of a triforce wish I'm telling you now.
Your explanation doesn't make sense. Tears of the kingdom comes after every zelda game including the time far in the past. We are talking 10000 years after an unpronounced amount of time beyond the end of all timelines. Gannondorf cannot create the others if his very birth came long after the events of all timeline endings
@@leargamma4912 But you see, Rauru and Sonia were the "First" king and queen of hyrule.
The land they were in was the "first" Hyrule.
Zonais went extinct thousands of years ago.
So, it would make sense that this all happened kinda early in the timeline, would explain that the Zonai never appeared since well, they went extinct with the death of Mineru.
So, either it all started at the beginning of the timeline, or at a point a new Hyrule was created. Or perhaps a new 4th time-split.
I think Totk is so far into the future that Hyruke May have collapsed and been refounded. That’s my theory anyway.
@@JakeTheStakeNowIn3D5024 that's just as silly a thing to happen too. Especially with it retaining all the names. When things go under, usually something new arises.
Ok this is a well put together Video. WHY ONLY 1.4K VIEWS? You did a great job man. Ganondorf Has always been my favorite Villain and TOTK Is just icing on the cake of Evil. I hope this vid dose well and props to you man.