Every Zelda Ending Ranked from WORST to BEST
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- A Zelda game can be great 90% of the way through, but can it land the ending? Join me today as we pick through to discover the many times this series did and didn't; this is Every Zelda Ending Ranked. I make a dumb rule in 30 seconds that pretty much gets ignored for like the rest of the video
Outro Music:
• The Legend of Zelda: O...
Footage Credit:
OOA, OOS - @GoodOldDaysGaming
WW, TP, SS, FSA and some of BOTW - @SourceSpy91
ALBW - @worldoflongplays
MM, OOT - @LongplaysHD
TFH - @ZeldaMaster
some of LA - @LongnPlay
PH - @Longplaythroughs
Ending scenes of ST - @PietroSoft
00:00 Intro
00:55 Oracle Game 1 (Seasons)
02:20 Breath of the Wild
03:59 Four Swords
04:57 Zelda 1
05:47 Zelda II
06:23 Oracle Games 2 (Ages)
06:43 Tri Force Heroes
08:15 A Link to the Past
08:57 Minish Cap
09:44 Phantom Hourglass
10:42 Tears of the Kingdom
12:55 Spirit Tracks
14:09 Ocarina of Time
15:58 Skyward Sword
18:47 Majora's Mask
20:36 A Link Between Worlds
23:15 Wind Waker
25:28 Twilight Princess
29:08 ?????
31:45 Outro - Ігри
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Twilight Princess' ending is a real tear-jerker. An absolute masterpiece.
Whats sadder is that Midna implies that she loves link.
“Link I- see you later”
She also says see you later when her and link both know, that’s a complete lie. She destroyed tue mirror to stop any incidents like that from ever happening again. At the cost of breaking the connection of the Twilight Realm and Hyrule. So we never got to see Lidna.
The mirror is also a great representation of our hearts. Showing the bond and love between link and midna. But when midna leaves forever, the mirror fittingly shatter because of her tear. Just like our hearts
@susiehaltmann3342 wow, this is an amazing introspection. I never thought that she came to love him in any romantic sense, but I definitely felt that there was a friendship there.
Read the manga ending, you’ll love it!
I can’t disagree…
Totk should have been the worst one
*Crying about Fi's final words*
"Oh yeah And Impa just freaking dies."
The secret ending for botw is more emotional in the Japanese version. In the Japanese version of botw links adventure log is more of a journal or diary showing more emotion from him. Once you finish the main quest of collecting links memories, in his adventure logs he states "I want to see the princesses smile again, with these eyes of my own." Which Link sees at the secret ending.
Midna’s farewell is impactful but I also think the ending of Twilight Princess is elevated even further by getting to see where everyone is at in the credits scenes, particularly the fact that the Ordon kids are finally returned home to their parents, escorted by our boy Colin who’s geared up with a sword and shield showing how he really learned the meaning of courage from Link. Chef’s kiss.
"Wait what is the last one again"
"Oh."
*STARTS CRYING*
So me right now 🤣🤣
Ikr, I thought for sure that Midna's farewell would be the last one. Fool that I am.
I have long believed that Twilight Princess is the most cinematic Zelda game. Other titles may have more cutscenes or prettier graphics, but only Twilight Princess was able to combine the dialogue, the music, and even the editing at times to make Midna a fully-fleshed out character that you come to care about. And of course that is also what makes the ending so emotional. I don't think you can go wrong with Twilight Princess or Link's Awakening at number 1, but Twilight Princess is my personal choice.
I was introduced to the LOZ series through A Link Between Worlds and honestly I feel very good rn. Finally some well deserved love for the game online
I was introduced to the series through twilight princess due to the amount of times i saw it on my recommendations and i still play it.
@@birukayalew8862I’ve played oot, majoras mask, botw and totk, skyward sword and links awakening. Should I get twilight princess?
SAME!!! this was my first zelda game its very dear to my heart
same. there just something so special about your first zelda game
When Light Dragon comes to aid Link in the final battle, I’d asked myself a question during the 3rd phase: “Did she come back and maybe Draconification hasn’t removed everything that is Zelda?” I would strongly believed it is her love for her knight is what drove her dragon instinct/consciousness in saving Link from falling and aiding him against the Demon Dragoon. And we all seen that when her powers is activated when the one she loves is threaten in Breath of the Wild’s final memory.
Something I love about Zelda games as I get older is how so many of them have bittersweet endings. The stories always end on the right side and are happy ones, but it never lets you forget the world has changed as a result, as have you, and that means you will often have lost something in the process. I find this very relatable as I go through life.
While I love Wind Waker's ending, the fact that the king pops up out of nowhere and is like, "Ha, I got it first" just kind of baffled me.
Same! I was like, "Ganondorf, you are a complete joke right now" 🤦♂
Finally some praise for my King, Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule WISHES he was as cool.
@@andyblargextra Absolute facts, King Rhoam ain't got NOTHING on my boy Nohansen
I really love the way you edit and communicate in your videos. It’s almost seamless but simple enough where I’m not noticing cuts or music changes. Great video!
I forgot to comment this. My favorite Zelda ending is also Link’s Awakening! It’s odd because as I watched your list unfold I couldn’t remember what games were left after TP, but LA was the most impactful for me not only for its ending but as a whole. The music and harmonies, the weird eccentric gameplay, the mini games and anime looking selfies, the Nintendo cameos. It all culminated in an ending that made me mourn for these little pixels. I cried both over my DX version and the Switch one haha I hope they do more wacky and impactful stuff like that in the future
bruv link’s awakening’s ending’s actual meaning hurts
i feel like if totk ended with zelda still a dragon, it could have set up an interesting sequel in a world far in the future, where link reincarnates, but there is no new zelda since the old one is technically still alive (so theres like a lacking element of wisdom to aid the protags, they have no idea what to do or something). maybe she dies at some point or in the end to set up a new incarnation
While it makes sense for one game Zelda is the namesake of the series and would need to come back making the ending pointless no matter what. I think the ending was the best it could have been.
Zelda is never a reincarnation if we're following Demise's Curse from SS (common misconception tho). He calls out 'the blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero' specifically. That means that there could be a future Zelda post-TotK if the one in-game was still a dragon, they would just need to be someone of royal blood (who would, by pure coincidence, be called Zelda).
True but that’s not what @timestopMachinist was saying. He said it would be interesting if a sequel had Zelda still a dragon and how that would give the ending a larger impact
@@extra3817 I know, but one of the points made was based on a misconception which I like to correct cause I'm the grammar nazi of Zelda lore lol
Giving me PTSD from the shot of Professor Layton.
DUDE unironically one of the most emotional endings of all time
I can't believe I never noticed the connection between Ravio's hood and Link's dark world form.
Skyward sword's will always be my favorite. The demise monologue/curse hits so fucking hard and really blew my mind because I played that game after almost every other Zelda, so the rush of context was nuts. And the actual gameplay of the fight is wild as well as everything leading up to it
*breaking up about the bittersweet Fi’s Farewell ending*
Then casually: “Oh, then Impa dies.”
Loved that, lol. The emotion was so unbalanced 😂
The video is great.
But man, that transition from Twilight princess to Link's Awakening gave me mood whiplash!
18:51 it could be argued that there are three since if you don't get the masks most of the scenes on the ending don't appear, man majora's mask really makes you have to work for the good ending, not only the game is by itself harder than any 3d zelda but you also have to basically 100% it just to get a normal ending
29:08 the moment he said that sentence, i immedietly went "Link's Awakening" and sure enough...boom
The ending of TotK where Link has to catch Zelda caught me off guard and I loved it so much. But nothing will top Majora's Mask or Link's Awakening for me. Great video!
Thing is about wind waker link
He is the only link without the spirit of the hero in some fashion
The hero in spirit tracks has the new spirit of the hero but wind waker link is a regular child who reforges the triforce of courage, reenchants the master sword, and rekindles the spirit of the hero, AS A CHILD, iirc he’s like 13 or something
I think it is fair to assume that neither of the Link's in the adult timeline have the spirit of the hero, especially if there is no ganondorf in the world anymore after WW.
@@jaytheamazing197 sure i guess but wind waker still had the odds stacked up against him more than others, spirit tracks was a friend of the hero and was therefore already connected to the royal family and then that was what sparked it
How can you talk about Skyward Sword's ending and NOT mention the music in the credits?! It's one of the best pieces of Zelda music to exist!!!
6:19 Sir, imma need a jumpscare warning if you're gonna put THAT vile being on my screen 🤣
Link's Awakening for me is the most rogue and just pure "art" Zelda has ever tried to be. In the way that it is just pure passion and emotion fueling the gameplay and story. It probably has something to do with the development of it starting out as a passion project and experiment by Koizumi and the Link to the Past team. Koizumi wanted to be a film director initially, Tezuka cites Twin Peaks as an influence in the game, that is not the kind of story you usually see in a Nintendo game, or a video game, period.
The yu gi oh gba music at 5:10 really tickeled some deep core memories of the Game
Fi is Medieval fantasy Alexa
The ending fight sequence of totk is so amazing.. the hate totk gets now is so baffling I don’t understand anyone who doesn’t like totk, especially if they do like botw
That Yugioh Worldwide Edition OST brought back memories I hadn't thought about in almost 15 years.
You have to admit that the song that plays in the credits from ss is magical.
A link between worlds is home to one of my all time favorite video game endings, period. Link and Zelda didn’t have to make a wish, they even could have made a wish that would’ve helped Hyrule. Instead, after a heartfelt speech of empathy towards Hilda, Zelda tells us to come touch the Triforce, and you get to walk over and make a wish that saves all of Lorule
It may not be the most ambitious, but wind waker will always be my favorite ending. The Ganon fight is so fun and so satisfying
This was a good watch! You got my sub.
Voyan!!!! I neeeed a video game music playlist, your choice of music is always so perfect!!!!
I had the rare experience of finding Fi amusing in the original release game which I did not beat, forgetting about her until the sound effect in BOTW awoken my interest, playing the new switch release of skyward sword thinking Fi is just ok, then crying the entirety of my second playthrough of TOTK because I know Fi was there the entire time I was goofing off the first time and she still puts up with me as I’m repeatedly being saved by my dragon wife in the last second
Fi
I was disrespectful
I am sorry
You deserved better
Your videos are very underrated, very funny. Subscribed :)
Wind Waker ending is just so peak. Good Voyan opinion detected.
WHERE IS PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE MIRACLE MASK ANALYSIS
Favourite ending is probably ALBW, followed closely by Skyward Sword and, weirdly enough, Spirit Tracks. Ravio is amazing, and the ending is an excellent capstone to an adventure as goofy as it was. Big props to TotK as well for all of that finale stuff they did.
Also out of curiosity, where do Hyrule Warriors and Age of Calamity rank?
Age of Calamity is last for sure. Hyrule Warriors would probably be mid tier
Perfect video
1 thing important to note about Skyward Swords ending. Link and Zelda survey the surface from atop the giant Goddess statue, the completed Triforce floating behind them...and they contemplate staying together on the surface. This will lead into 3 major events happening.
1. The surface will be repopulated with humans directly from Zelda and Links genes
2. The Royal family will be created from this union.
3. People will go after the Triforce which is out in the open and the light spirits will banish them to the twilight realm. The backstory of Twilight Princess!
For these reasons, even beyond Fi's(PHAI in japanese) farewell, SS's ending is my favorite. It sets up so much.
I always thought the linked oracles ending was pretty good, giving a lot of character follow-up and revealing that Link hung out in these lands for a while before departing.
The LA and LBW endings probably moved me the most..
Subbed. I loved this video.
I’m biased but Wind Waker was my childhood Zelda so that ending will always be the best to me. The title theme playing at the ending sailing scene… chefs kiss. Link leaving his home island was a powerful allegory on growing up
My favorite ending is Zelda 2, because that means the game is over and I don't have to play it anymore.
They forcefully removed Links’s clothes,I am on the floor right now laughing.😂
Honestly a very well thought list
Plus for Spirit Tracks, if you choose to be a warrior, after the credits, you see Zelda waving to Link while he's training in the courtyard which is cute.
Also, in the manga for Twilight Princess, the romance for Link and Midna is apparent and shown a lot more which I still cry about
the super paper mario chapter end music gets me every time.
23:30 WW Ganon is not-I repeat is NOT-a sympathetic villain! WW Ganon is the same guy from the adult timeline of OoT, who had taken over Hyrule and ruled for seven years. And in all that time what did he do for the Gerudo? Move them to Hyrule Castle? Give them more resources (food, shelter, etc) to help with the deadly winds of the desert? No. He did nothing for them because he didn’t give a damn about them. The “coveted winds of Hyrule” bit is a poor attempt to justify his horrible actions.
Ayo, there's no way Fi's Farewell isn't top three. Can't leave a like for only top 5.
Fi's farewell is not that emotional when the companion herself is terrible
I've loved Link's Awakening since the original. It has been my favorite since I was a little kid. The end always makes me cry.
TOTK for me is the best in the series and I think Twilight Princess isn't a top 5 ending, but good list overall and everything here is your opinion
Maximally Wack Take.
They totally undercut Zelda's sacrifice, pulled a furry Deus Ex Machina, Link doesn't get so much as a hug.
Literally what's good about it?
@@Barquevious_Jackson I don't think they undercut her sacrifice at all. You're entitled to your opinion tho, but let me believe what I believe.
I personally think Zelda should have stayed as the dragon unless you got all the memories because recalling something is like using it's memories
Twilight princess is peak
@@d3va383 How was it not undercut? What parts were good?
You're entitled to your opinion but you should be able to coherently express (at least) a reason for it or forfeit any pretense that it has any bearing on reality.
They undercut Zelda's sacrifice because despite setting up the cost of the turning into a dragon (which to be fair: was interesting, dramatic, and said a lot about her character) no such mechanism was ever even hinted at to turn her back- quiet the contrary in fact, it is explicitly stated that there is no way back, that's what made it so dramatic!
To simply undo that, let alone without explanation in such a way as to erase any consequences is baffling. It means that there was no cost, the sacrifice didn't actually mean anything beyond what Zelda assumed it meant with her incorrect information.
Sure, Zelda would have done it even if there really wasn't a way back but there is, so Mineru was just wrong and we thought about it for no reason.
And what for? Why make Mineru a liar on top of the worst sage in the game? So we can get the screen cap of Zelda smiling for the ending!
Why worry about the consequences of our actions or suffer a moment in sacrifice to a greater cause? These things don't matter! A furry ghost will magic you back to your old self and you will not have aged so much as a day or suffered a single ill effect (except for link repeatedly hitting you with a sword for scales).
It's cheap, it's just like Ganondorf, all surface level with nothing deeper or even coherent going on under the surface.
Sure it feels nice but is it actually? Do you like it for a meaningful reason or do you like it because it's a pretty scene and Zelda looks nice in the scene?
To me, the world disappearing in LA is very similar to waking up from a dream you really don’t want to wake up from. Link and the Wind fish were dream sharing after Link fell into a coma and the only way he could wake up from his coma was to wake up the wind fish, which caused the dream and everything in it to vanish like a literal dream does….except he was also dream sharing with a seagull who became Marin in his dreams. A whole society doesn’t disappear when Link wakes up, it is the dream world where none of the characters are real he wakes up from.
i haven't played most zelda games so i didn't want to watch the whole video and get spoiled, but link's awakening is my favourite of the ones i have played so i just went to check the chapter list to see where it landed. and i'm like .. did he actually fucking forget the ONE GAME i was looking for?? i cannot tell you how hype it was when i realized where it was
OMG THE MOTHER 3 MUSIC!!!!!!!!!
I feel like we need the oracle games remastered on the switch
Because you are funny, you earned a subscriber!!!!!!
I wholeheartedly disagree with Tears of the Kingdom.
The ending undermines the only emotionally impactful scene in the game. We were told there is no bringing Zelda back, and she made the ultimate sacrifice to restore the Master Sword. In the end, we find out Sonia and Rauru can just magically channel their power to undragonify Zelda. I would be more okay with it if there was an epilogue that handled changing Zelda back into a human or if it was alluded that someone could be brought back after swallowing a secret stone, but as-is, it feels like a cheap way to make it a happy ending.
It also bugs me that Link doesn't even help Zelda up in the ending. It gets to a point where Link is no longer acting stoic, and he's more acting cold and distant. Kratos is stoic and he still hugs Atreus. There are numerous scenes in God of War 2018 and Ragnorok that demonstrate how much Kratos cares about Atreus. Link on the other hand finds out that Zelda isn't actually gone forever and shows no emotion. He didn't even react to finding out Zelda was a dragon. I hate this incarnation of Link and want the BotW era of Zelda to be over.
I also don't like the ending because it represents what is wrong with ToTK as a whole: it is the most play-it-safe Zelda game in the series.
I'm unfortunately a psychic and have seen every Zelda ending there is, and the best ones aren't even out yet. Although I was mind blown by the plot twist at the end of The Legend of Zelda: Aquamentus Apprentice, nothing compares to the heartwrenching masterpiece of The Legend of Zelda: Bowls of the Koroks.
twilight princess will always be my fav, but totk's final boss and ending are just so spectacular you cant help but get chills. some people say zelda shpuldnt have become human, but in my opinion she deserved that after sacrificing everything multiple times. the one thing i dislike/wish was better is links arm tho. imagine how much more impact it wouldve had if he sacrificed raurus arm in the process
of transforming zelda, leaving only a stump but being it worth it to save her.
i mean, where does his regular human arm even come from lol?? if zelda had some features or scars or sign of her dragon form that wouldve been awesome, but i get why they didnt bc people would get extremely mad that they wouldnt be able to play as half human half dragon zelda but theres enough fanart to make up for it not being real
I had no idea that's how A Link Between Worlds ended. That's almost the Zelda game I've always wanted!
That being a Zelda game where you play as a reincarnated Ganondorf secreted away by the Gerudo as Hyrule's last hope because PLOT TWIST, the Kingdom is ruled by the all powerfu magical evil empress Zelda and her Darth Vader esq loyal black knight Link. Like Avatar the Last Airbender meets Star Wars the original trilogy.
links awakening never left me 😭 like jfc the ending is actually so devestating with its buildup
I feel like I’m the only one who was waiting for you to talk about links awakening, not enough people give this game credit even after the remake
Do you remember that episode from the cartoon where Zelda commands link to clean his room, she gave him in her castle? Goes the trying to shy away when confronted about it. Lmao!
Nocturne music reference peak video
links awakening was the first game i ever played. the remake came out on my birthday and made me fall in love all over again.
Breath of the wild DOES do exactly what you said it should. If you defeat Ganon without doing anything else, you will only have the scene with Zelda asking you if you remember her. If you beat the divine beasts you get the scene with the spirits. If you got all memories you get the post-credit scene.
Bruh I’m so happy you brought up BOTW…. Ending left me feeling so empty 🥺😂
I knew it was going to be either twilight princess or links awakening. Both endings are just heartbreaking and will always stick with the people that experienced them back in their days
"Ezlo is an okay companion"
How dare you? Honestly, I put him in second position after Midna. Having him evolve annoying jerkass that berates you nonstop to the compassionate old mentor that trusts you to repair his mistakes, I love that guy and the goodbye broke me as a kid.
He can't rank the CD-i games because they would sweep the top spots every time. Endings don't get better than "I just saved you from Ganon!" "You did not. 🙄" "Link, you are the hero of Koridai!" "I guess that's worth a kiss, huh?" "Hmph! 😑" "I won!"
Seeing you talk about the final ending REALLY makes me want to see your thoughts on the Danganronpa series
I cried during the ending of totk and the ending of the champion's ballad dlc in botw 😢
This video is great and all but I have to know
What is that warioworld discord server at 16:02
My first Zelda ending was in Ocarina of Time. Classic ending for a classic game.
Kirby sword ability is a Zelda reference
Great video. Does anyone know the name of the song at around 17:51?
Ok so in the TP ending:
The so the *Twilight Princess* uses her *Tears of the kingdom* to destroy the portal which was *A link between worlds*
Ok
K.O.
I think what gets to me about totk’s ending is that, as you point out, zelda’s transformation into a dragon is meaningless. They really insist on dragonification being irreversible, but in the end, rauru and Sonia just turn her back as she was without trying? It feels so insulting, especially since (maybe that’s just the French version) Impa implies something HAS to be done to get her back to normal. If her turning back was something that could be done (and have two endings, the sad one where she remains a dragon and the one you have to work for, where she at least get sentience back or w/ever), I think I would have felt better about it. Hell, if zelda had hanged at all/if there WERE some traces of her dragon form left, I would have been content. Again, it’s just so frustrating the game INSISTS, TO YOUR FACE, that is zelda does this massive sacrifice, there’s no going back, only for the game to say « lmao dw it’s fine in the end ». And that’s without going how I feel they could have left Link without his old arm. I have a lot of beef with TOTK but especially how it feels like nothing matters.
The catching Zelda sequence though is awesome though I’ll give it that
Tp ending is way better if you wear iron boots when you make the final blow to Ganondorf. Specifically for the scene where he runs to Midna.
The ending that impressed me even more than in The Link’s Awakening is the ending of the Lynch’s movie Mulholland Drive. Roughly speaking, there's the same meaning, and the plot is very similar. If you want something similar, it's worth checking out.
Great video btw
Diddnt see no. 1 coming, and I got absolutely gut punched when I remembered.
I played Link's awakening upon release when I was 15. The ending messed me up then made me really angry that Link was just floating on a piece of wood with no shore in sight but somehow he was still happy? WTF??
i hated totks ending. i wasn't expecting zelda to stay a dragon, but i was expecting the events of this game to have some impact on the world or the characters, but i got nothing. the world and characters are in a near identical state to what they were at the start of the game.
i really didn’t love the ending to tears or the kingdom! i feel like it happened so fast and when it was over i didn’t realize that it actually was because i was expecting more
I still think about Twilight Princess ending after 12 years
I actually really liked Botw’s ending. I felt really satisfied after the post-credit scene ended
DIDN'T EXPECT LINK'S AWAKENING TO BE ON TOP!?
We want the Layton Movie Video
OoT, Windwaker, and Twilight Princess
Wasn't Tears of the Kingdom originally designed to be a third DLC to Breath of the WIld anyway. Or at least the sky islands were.
"That land will not be Hyrule, it will be YOUR land"
And then they found a new land, colonized the natives, and called it "New Hyrule"
Anybody know the song name that plays at 22:05 ?
I believe these are your true feelings but it feels like a list to piss the maximum amount of people off. Botw being second to last and totk being middle of the pack with ocarina of time (those two being next to each other is a personal slight to me) with wind waker and twilight princess being in the front.
I don't like the weird obsession new fans seem to have with Zelink it's kinda insane how thirsty for this pairing people are but I really love the spirit tracks ending it's adorable and earned. I love their duet with the pan flute and Zeldas singing to seal not Ganon.
The final area in skyward sword is literally the sacred realm demise corrupts as the battle goes on. The joke was good though.
11:36 didn’t know “mother” was an offensive word now…
then impa dies,
Still mad at Link for not rushing into the twilight realm at the last chance he had