Demon Dragon Battle [All Phases Seamless Theme] - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom OST
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- This suite comprises all phases of the Demon Dragon battle theme from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The arrangement is strategically composed for seamless transitions between all tracks, much like what you would hear on an official soundtrack release.
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0:00 Intro
0:38 Main Theme
2:54 Blood Moon Rises
3:53 The Final Blow
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If you think about it, the Demon Dragon fight is your REWARD for beating Ganondorf.
Its not that difficult, but is the most thematically satisfying encounter from start to finish.
It's kind of like the dark beast Ganon battle from breath of the wild except Ganon was actually challenging in the first phase.
“I came here to kick ass and chew Secret Stones… And I’m all out of Secret Stones.”
-Demon King Ganondorf
"Demon King... Secret Stone?"
you witness a king’s revival…and the birth of his new world!
@@MissQuakieyoure that gerudo guy
@@menacing_nameso he's Ganondorf? Because he's the only Gerudo guy lol
Ever since that moment in BOTW where you freed naydra from the malice, all I’ve wanted to do, was fight a dragon. WE FOUGHT A FUCKING DRAGON
Technically yes, but in the most boring way possible, at least naydra can put some fight involuntarily, here Ganondorf is a sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
@@thebluerodriguez4085How can you call this boring while listening to this epic theme?
@@kingmagnus4009 cause I'm playing a game bro, not hearing an album. Xd
@@thebluerodriguez4085 What did Naydra even do?
Well I wish it was cooler though, Hitting weak spots on a big beast with epic music is something we already did in BotW.
One detail I love is that they don't call him something like "Dragon Ganon" or "Dragondorf". It's just "Demon Dragon". As in "He threw away his entire identity to become a creature of pure, mindless, malevolent power."
The "Blood Moon Rises" part is absolutely beautiful and I'm honestly really thankful you extended it
It's by far my favorite part of the song. Turn the volume up as loud as my eardrums can handle every time.
The visuals that go along with that part of the fight are awesome too.
i was lucky to be caught by zelda right when that boom hit in the last phase of the song and seeing the blood moon. that was fun
A demon, who chose Power over humanity in order to crush its foes, forsaking life for victory.
A dragon, who still held enough Wisdom to recognize her old friend and assist him in his darkest hour.
And a hero, who stood in the face of death itself, using great Courage to ascend to the heavens and slay the ultimate evil.
A struggle 10,000 years in the making, finally coming to an end.
That’s why I think a perfect alternative title to this track would be “Power, Wisdom & Courage”
Add another zero because 10,000 was when the last documented calamity occurred
Yeah, this was waaaaay longer than 10,000 years in the making
Wisdom need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.
LITERALLY THE TRIFORCE!!!
This fight may not have been the most difficult fight in the game, but come on... riding on the back of a dragon as you face ANOTHER dragon by skydiving onto it's back and when you are going for the kill shot a freaking blood moon is lighting up the sky... that's pretty badass for the ending of a game, let's be real. Not everything has to be a For Honor duel or Dark Souls boss. Sometimes it can be just... cool.
I think the 1v1 duel with demon king ganondorf was already the "For honor duel" or "Dark souls boss", this part was like... "You cornered him, take a deep breath and deal the last blow" type of battle
they already took this path once with botw, the fight against dark beast ganon was basically a bonus fight as a breather. it works so well in totk because the fight is longer and essentially harder
@@elmoi5072Exactly. Demon King Ganondorf is a pain in the ass to beat and then a lot of people complain about the Demon Dragon being easy, forgetting how difficult it was to GET THERE.
I definitely like the idea of having a difficult final boss within the first few phases but than the last phase is just more cinematic and epic. I also like it just all being difficult, but it depends on the game.
I'm down for the idea of making a really difficult fight followed by a very easy spectacle fight for a more satisfying ending.
That Blood Moon segment is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in a video game
What an absolutely beautiful ending to one of the best Zelda games we’ve got.
Rauru said “That pride will be your downfall, Ganondorf” right before sealing him away for tens of thousands of years and, in Link’s present, his pride made him swallow his secret stone, he knew what it would do to him, but he was absolutely not going to lose to a kid. His objective was to conquer Hyrule and (presumably) exterminate all life inhabiting those lands, but he ended up sacrificing everything just for a slim chance of winning against Link and the Sages. My favorite iteration of the character is still the Wind Waker one, but God, this is possibly the most in-character Ganondorf we have and I love it.
IMO TOTK's Ganondorf is my favorite as he doesn't stop at anything to get any power. He kills mercilessly, he sacrifices himself to keep that power, he clings on to that power for thousands of years, and his only goal remains to be getting more power and to control Hyrule.
This is my favorite finale in any game I’ve played. Nothing rivals the sheer catharsis and awe I felt throughout the entire final hour. From the Sages joining you to face the Demon King’s Army to the thrilling face-off with Ganondorf to THIS! It’s the perfect cherry on top of this innovative masterpiece of a game. Well done, Nintendo! Bravo!
The music matches so well in this fight! It’s a mixture of the dragon theme, main theme, and Ganondorf’s theme
It also has Zelda’s lullaby at the beginning too! So many themes and instruments are implemented, and they all fit seamlessly! 😊
@@ElectricChair1923Zelda’s lullaby, while you are riding on Zelda. Very cool
And not just Tears of the Kingdom's main theme, also Breath of the Wild's. They really held onto that one until the end for this game.
The very beginning of the blood moon phase, if you listen close the low brass actually plays the first 11 notes of the BotW theme and oh boy that hits me in the feels every time.
I cant hear ;(
I dunno if it's the first 11 notes specifically, but I do hear the low brass playing some of the notes of the main theme. Is there a specific BoTW track that it references directly or is it just a motif?
@lantik8336 I think it's a motif, it can be heard a bunch of different times in BOTW like in the very last scene before the credits. Here, it sounds like the part that plays right before the Ganondorf theme part.
I mean, that motif is used all over the soundtrack and is part of the main theme of this game, which this song is basically an arrangement of.
@@spongeboymebob771 Cool!
You witness a king, Mid-Suavamente.
2017: Dark beast ganon has the best final boss theme in the series.
2023: Dark beast who?
DBG's theme still goes hard
No one ever said dark beast Ganon was good.
imo i like dark beast ganon theme better but this one is close
@@LP-tf7cythe fight is meh, the music is god tier
POV: you turned off Ganon's radio mid-suavemente.
They really did it. They took the Naydra battle from BotW and turned it into the final boss. I loved every bit of it.
Almost perfect example of Final boss that is easy yet full of impact. Much better than Dark beast from Botw. (At least to me.) I also enjoyed where music plays part of Botw and Zelda's theme. It was too good for my sensitive heart.
It is better bc of diving in the air. XD
The boss is pretty trashy tbh.
I'm a Dark Beast Ganon defender because the main agrument back then was difficulty vs. spectacle. But man the Demon Dragon topped it in both aspects and then some. Plus it feels much more climactic story-wise because every element from the fight had been foreshadowed, unlike in BotW.
To me this whole sequence was pretty much BotW's ending done right.
Unlike Calamity Ganon, who I beat for the first time in a "just for the hell of it" attempt where I just wanted to see how far I could get, the only reason I didn't get a game over to Ganondorf was because I played _exceedingly_ carefully once I realized his gloom attacks could 2-shot shields and do perma-damage.
Then, while I have no problems with DBG itself, the fact that TotK's "cinematic victory lap" happens after a boss that _isn't_ underwhelming arealdy puts it ahead of BotW's. And even then, instead of just setting the "climactic" dial to 11 like in BotW, Aonuma and the dev team set the damn thing to 17, then broke off the knob.
guys we did it. we rode zelda.
Monke approved comment
@@drunkemonke1995 hello fellow monke
Time for her to return the favor😏
🤨
@@andimari9194midna did it in her steed.
This final boss fight almost made me cry.
This. This might be my favourite climax in any video game ive ever played. It may nit be very difficult but the sheer spectacle, music and emotions i was feeling during this have been unparalleled for me
Maybe you just don't play that many games bro, you deserve more, like, you don't even have to change on franchise, there are Zeldas with better build up n climax.
@@thebluerodriguez4085🧢 breath of the wild might get beat out by older titles but this game is the king.
@@sorenzzz it's almost the same as Botw. XD
Exactly what make this the king?
Killing the same bokoblins for 10,000th time?
Exploring the same copypaste sky islands?
The retarded IA of the sages?
The empty depths farming ground?
The only things that will survive the time in this game are the hand abilities and the dick mechs wich are useless bc you can barely travel in those toasters and you can destroy any enemy infinite times faster and funnier by not doing it at all. Xd
@@thebluerodriguez4085 bro im sure youre just saying this as ragebait
@@aperson2294 So there's none of the things I've mentioned in the game?
That's what you're saying?
Listening closely at 3:12, you can hear Zelda's lullaby faintly. People say you can also here the botw theme, but I can't hear it at all
Her theme plays at the very beginning as well.
It’s a very drawn out version of the botw theme, listen for the French horn/euphoniums
It’s not faint. It’s literally part of the song.
So is the BotW theme. I almost feel like you’re lying saying you don’t hear it because it’s a fundamental part of the song, and a fundamental part of this games main theme. Every single musical reference is very obvious and I don’t get why everyone feels the need to point it out in the comments like they uncovered some crazy mystery.
@@RenSako I wouldn’t lie about something as miniscule as not hearing the botw theme. I just genuinely can’t hear it. As for your second point it’s just nice to point out references among each other
@@thealchemist1789 It comes before Zelda's Lullaby. Listen to the lower-pitched brass beinning at 2:57 (it ends at 3:11, when the higher brass takes over with Zelda's Lullaby). RenSako is just your typical grump who thinks because something's obvious to them it has to be obvious to everyone.
Did anyone else find this whole sequence intensely moving as they were playing it? The Light Dragon flying in to catch you as you fell...just broke me. The devs took the critique that BotW was lacking narratively and they just *nailed* the story for TotK. I was just blown away by this ending.
Absolutely! I was in tears for much of this fight.
Fucking *phenomenal.* Especially in the 2nd phase with the key change, followed by the slow build of the piano with the final strike GOD it's so good. Zelda never fails when it comes to music.
I love when the saxophone bits come in--the gentle sound feels like Zelda encouraging you to keep going.
This whole playlist is fantastic. Thanks for putting it together.
MY FAVORITE SONG IN THIS GAME, WHAT A MASTERPIECE AND OMG 2:54 IS TRULY MAGNIFICENT
0:38 is beautiful ! Really good melody!
And they still managed to squeeze a bit of Ganondorf's theme in. Honestly, I feel like you can forget whom you're actually fighting without it.
It's not really ganondorf at this point, any trace of him was destroyed in the draconification
@@Mittzys I disagree, if only a little. Zelda clearly still retains her good nature and desire to help Link, Ganon clearly retains his malice and wish for the destruction of Link, and Hyrule with him. I have a theory that draconification is just an extreme version of what the Secret Stones already do. They provide a massive boost in power, and bring out the true nature of the wielder, this time though, their single pursuit comes with the destruction of all other personality, goals, etc.
@@MittzysI don’t think that’s how that works, exactly.
I wonder what's happening in lookout landing while this whole fight is going on
Probably staring up in awe
Probably pure horror seeing the demon dragon rise from the dephts with the hero in his mouth, astonishment as the light dragon comes out of nowhere to fight and then pure hype at seeing Link skydive from her to destroy Ganondorf.
@@franciscoleolopez6050 Link is too small, he would be invisible from such a distance
@@franciscoleolopez6050 Link is too small, he would be invisible from such a distance
@@MittzysThat one guard apparently saw him jump from the Great Sky Island, albeit not knowing who or what it was, so it's plausible.
This fight was phenomenal and unveiled one of the best themes in the Zelda franchise: what a gem this game was 🤩
The erhu makes this so much more beautiful
Colgera wasn't hard either, but that fight felt very dynamic. This huge centipede thing that actually moves around, dives for you, teleports, summons tornadoes. There where so much tempo in that fight. While the light and dark dragons clashing in the sky over the kingdom is pretty fricking awesome as a final battle, I were a bit sad to see that they didn't emulate what they did in the gameplay of Colgera. Still enjoyable though. As said, stellar concept.
I think that if we’d had more movement options for skydiving, such as using a bow while upside-down, it definitely could have been more dynamic and interesting.
I was hard before I realize I can dive into Colgera's organs
i dunno, colgera, while an epic feeling fight, was a total pushover. keese wings and midair bullet time turn it into a joke of a boss that takes less than 30 seconds to beat. demon dragon on the other hand, while also not really hard, at least feels epic for long enough.
@@wolfc9078 You can use the bow upside down
This has extremely high spirited-away ost vibes. *The dragon boy* specifically (makes sense, totk and botw take a lot of inspiration from miyasaki).
the last two banger Nintendo games both had rad kaiju fights in the end. 10/10
Yall I love hearing Zelda’s lullaby played by the horns at 3:13
the final boss themes in these games are basically the main theme in a major key and we eat it up every time
Because it's the first thing you hear from that game…and having it as the last thing you hear in an epic fight is…well…EPIC
as we should!
I beat the game 10 months after it released and now I'm 100% it. And I know how good the theme is because I listen to this particular theme everyday. So I slowly beat Demon Dragon and even took some selfies on his snout. 😂
I love the dragon theme part that is mixed in! Soo sooo good
Giratina looks different than I remember…
I love how this game made the panic blood moon canon. Normally, it's when the game is overloaded and has to reset all the monsters, but you can see the Blood Moon appearing with the fake Zelda cutscene and in that final fight, which happens during the day.
It gradually becomes nighttime during the fight, before the blood moon.
You are an actual good for doing this
2:55 eargasm
My absolute favorite thing about this piece is how clearly you can hear Zelda’s lullaby. Any other time you get close to the Light Dragon, you can hear the lullaby, but it’s off. It’s not complete, the notes aren’t exactly the length they need to be, and it sounds sad. Almost mournful. It’s like she’s trying to remember, but can’t because she’s been this form for so long. You get to this battle, and the lullaby is clearly heard. While it’s still not complete, the leitmotif is correct. It sounds triumphant. She still can’t fully remember who she is, but some subconscious part of her remembers Link and that he needs her help. I know I’m overthinking the heck out of this, but it’s still really cool.
he finally transformed into his final form, John Zelda
pretty love the final battle, this ost just bring me back to that sky
3:11 if you listen closely you can hear Zelda's Lullaby
Yeeeessss 😭😭😭😭😭
So beautiful !!!
I love the jazzy bits. Really gives a weird tone in this context
Finally, Link defeated a red eyes black dragon while riding a blue eyes white dragon 🙏🙏🙏
Very Beautiful. Still come back to this trackkeeerrr
I'm only just now hearing the Zelda's Lullaby in the background that starts at 3:12
Genuinely the best finale in any video game I've played. The moment that music kicks in and Zelda takes you to the sky to begin the final battle, you know the time has finally come for this curse spanning tens of thousands of years to be broken.
Do you think it’s even better than Dark Beast Ganon in terms of music? I’ve been conflicted!
@@B-ot2xx I wanna say it is, but I dunno, the Dark Beast Ganon theme is fantastic too. I'd have to give it more thought.
@@speedude0164 I wanna say they were going with a different vibe, since it’s up in the sky, but then I wonder “Why didn’t they just have the woodwinds go crazy?” I mean, I think they wanted to have it so that ALL of the instruments this time around got a “solo” type section, but it’s not as apparent when listening. And really, the only instruments going crazy in the Blood Moon section of the song, is the piano, strings, and brass. And even then, you can barely hear the piano unless you listen for it.
@@speedude0164 Update: Due to my autistic hyperfixation (real), I have actually concluded that the Demon Dragon pianist is in fact playing at least as fast as the Dark Beast Ganon pianist, it’s just that the sections where the pianist is indeed playing fast, are spaced out. So while they play as fast, they don’t necessarily play for the entire song. (Specifically in the first phase of the song, during that, you can only hear twinkles from the piano in the background after the Erhu plays accompanied by the string section.) Other than that, the sections with the Sax Quartet, Blood Moon, and Final Strike all seem to play in at least the same speed as Dark Beast Ganon. I won’t make any bold claims such as “He’s playing faster” or “It’s objectively better”, because 1. I’m not a professional, and 2. You can’t base art off of objectivity.
3:54 spirited away vibes
I feel the start of the theme has it too, and specifically with the dragon boy (which is kinda a nice nod).
It feels good listening to this track after beating Totk today
And this is how you do a cinematic over difficult final fight where as botw just threw in pig ganon for no real reason this one had build up with a truly difficult boss before it everything in the end felt at the very least more deserved like instead of it being a letdown it was a true conclusion
It was epic indeed. Pleasent to look at, but rather boring mechanically. Whereas I felt that every previous phase was me trying to fight an overwhelming power that's taking me lightly, the dragon phase felt like I was just falling towards some switches I needed to hit... barely any resistance. Of course its a major improvement over beast ganon from BotW, but I think the main difference is that beast ganon in BotW felt very stationary, whereas dragon ganon at least moved a bit around.
I still enjoy replaying it for the spectacle though, unlike BotW's last phase.
Who also did use arrows before realizing that you can STAND ON THAT DRAGON SADFSDKDFHNSUI
i knew exactly what to do the moment i jumped off zelda
@@flevo hahaha
@@flevo True Zelda fans know when it's time to FUCKING swing
Kinda funny that the little areas around the eyes don't give you gloom damage.
@@DruidPCTraveling along the rest of the body will however
Even though I'm fighting a Demon King in this moment my ears are in paradise
“Demon king… secret stone?”
Beats to chill and eat magic rocks to.
Though both themes kick ass, I'm glad that at least this fight was better than Calamity Ganon
what i would give to play in this orchestra........
i mean, more than my whole days, life and future since 7 years ago, anyone?
Best theme of all of gaming
⬇️
Highly disagree, but also fair.
3:53 Español latinoamerica🇲🇽
TWILIGHT PRINCES (golpe de gracia)
SKYWARD SWORD (golpe e gracia)
TEARS OF THE KINGDOM (golpe de gracia)
I feel like polishing stones on Ganondaddy’s chest
Relatable
Would’ve been cool for them to give us a special material only to fuse to the master sword in this battle like a shard of light or smthn idk but kinda like the bow of light concept.
2:54
2:55
Props to the devs for making an epic finale that actually feels genuine, compared to Dark Beast Ganon anyway.
I mean come on! DBG felt like an ass pull. A huge boar just pops out of nowhere? Adn you receive the bow of light and a horse to fight *even if you never rode one*!?
And that last hit where you have to glide above Ganon with the updraft and shoot midair... It all feels forced!
The Demon Dragon fixes most of these issues, both lorewise and gameplay wise.
Most of the things that might've felt like ass pulls (Ganondorf turning into a dragon, the white dragon coming to save link, even providing the master sword if you don't have it) are heavily hinted at through the Dragon's Tears questline. This rewards players who sought them out.
As for the gameplay itself, aerial movement in TotK is just fun and controls better than horseback riding, and actually using the Master Sword to destroy the weak points feels very satisfying. The visuals are truly stunning and the music doesn't sound like a broken record.
Anyone in 2024?
0:37 That erhu did not deserve to be the one delivering that beautiful melody
Why not?
@@joshuabanks91 I meant the erhu that played it
GANON TURNS INTO A FUCKIN LIGHT NUKE!!
For anyone wondering, the blood moon part is at 2:51
Amazing! Do you have the cutscene music that leads into the dragon fight?
Unfortunately, not anything better than what’s already out there with reduced SFX. At least, not yet.
@@dyltheisproddo you have a UA-camr who publishes the cutscenes with reduced sfx
@@ThatVeggie Check out Vivi's Rare VGM!
It’s the same as Zelda’s transformation music, but in a different key. Very cool
The Demon Dragon itself looks kinda silly with its eyes perpetually unfocused and looking in two different directions. I know it's a mindless monster, but it should at least look at me when we're trying to kill each other!
I think it’s because he’s supposed to look somewhat like dark beast ganon (aka, piglike.)
well he is no longer conscious
I like to think the demon dragon is an incomplete/improper transformation and that's why he has so many flaws. The eyes, the weak spots that can be attacked and his sacred stone being exposed. No other dragon has these flaws and I'd like to imagine it's from Ganondorf perverting the Tears power for evil.
@@ChangedFigureCorrect me if I'm wrong, but, I feel as if the botched removal of the stone caused the flaws. Since the removal created a literal hole in his head.
@@godrickthegolden9504Could be. Might be a combination of both of those factors.
Either way, I like the idea that the immortality, the Dragon form gives the one takes after eating the Secret Stone, is conditional. Ganondorf
What kind of world will you create, Link?
"What I...no...what WE wish for is....A world with no gods!"
@@iangreer4585And if you dare denounce that common right, we will defy you!
To live in a future...over which you lay no claim!
These... These are our terms.
Had to reference FFXVI
This is a Test: I've never played Xenoblade.
(If you don't see me comment again angry Xenoblade fans probably killed me)
@@jacobs5546 It's a One Piece reference, not Xenoblade.
We got him this time! Sadly, his Doombot, Calamity Ganon, is still only sealed away...but I doubt it can survive another round with the new and improved Master Sword, either.
Nah, Calamity Ganon was vaporized, I'm pretty sure.
Calamity ganon came from ganondorf and since ganondorf is gone for now the calamity is gone
I don’t think Calamity Ganon is coming back considering the Calamity was created from Ganondorf’s malice and now Ganondorf is dead.
I think Calamity Ganon is the accumulation of malice of sealed Ganondorf which is taking form. Now should be fine.
Lmao that’s not how this works. Calamity Ganon came from built up malice, which came from Ganondorf. Ganondorf is gone.
No more Calamities.
Timestamps?
Fixed! Thanks for pointing this out.
the saxophone is somehow giving me pokemon diamond and pearl vibes lol
You produced this, not Nintendo.
Personally, I actually liked Demon Dragon, but it was in spite of literally the rest of the entire game. TotK, to me, is hands down the worst Zelda experience I have ever had, with far and away the worst story, only rivaled by Age of Calamity in that regard. But Demon Dragon pretty much sums up why I hate TotK. It looks pretty, has a good OST, and is mindless fun to turn your brain off and ignore the rest of the entire series. But as someone who has pretty much grown up with Zelda my whole life, TotK is a complete betrayal of expectations and basically shits all over the rest of the series. I WISH I could like this game, but I can't.
It has no characters I can invest in, they rewrote Ganondorf, reducing him from the complex and tragic character Wind Waker turned him into back to "generic Demon King 57", they furthered the worst concept in all of Zelda, the existence of multiple Ganondorfs which, please no, kill that idea, they pretend no other Zelda game ever happened, the Zonai are the most boring new species introduced to Zelda, they even break continuity with BotW. BotW name drops Nabooru, making OoT canon to it, references Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, implies Wind Waker with the Rock Salt and Rito, and all in all felt like it was trying to be the Finale to the Zelda timeline... which it failed at spectacularly with Dark Beast Ganon, the worst boss in all of Zelda, who is disappointing for his lackluster strength for the supposed "final form of the curse of Demise" thing they built it up as. Then TotK, poised to right these wrongs and claim its throne as the true finale for the Timeline, pretends none of this happened, even going so far as to have Riju have no idea what the Vah Naboris Helm even is. And then this is all before the reward for all shrines, the Zonai Hero armor, which makes no sense. Rauru and Ganondorf made it pretty clear that all the Zonai died out in the... one year tops they'd been in Hyrule for, so to have a random Zonai Hero tens of thousands of years later show up and fight alongside the Sheikah against Calamity Ganon makes no goddamn sense.
AND THEN this is all before TotK can't even write its own story well, with massive plotholes and stupid writing. Ganondorf kills Sonia, Zelda's ancestor, before she had kids. Therefore Zelda shouldn't be alive. If Sonia had kids, you know they would've been mentioned or seen, and we know Zelda is Sonia's descendant because she literally says Zelda has the same power as herself, and that power runs through the royal bloodline as we learn in BotW. SPEAKING OF WHICH, in BotW, the sacred power is the Triforce. Flatly, plainly, inarguably, it is the Triforce. But in TotK, they rewrite the power into the hilarious "Zonai Light and Time Magic", completely forgetting the Triforce even exists. Then we have Zelda, who can't realize the man named "Ganondorf", who holds "many dark ambitions" might maybe be somewhat related to the Calamity Ganon she spent 100 years inside of. And worst of all is Rauru and Sonia undoing Dragon Zelda. It just... happens. Killing Ganondorf had nothing to do with it, they just decided "yup, we can do it now". They could've literally done it when Link gets the Master Sword, but nope.
TotK was one of my most anticipated games ever. After the disappointing conclusion of BotW, I was stoked to see Ganondorf again, in his full glory, with all these past games having filled out his identity I was thrilled to see where Nintendo would take this. How would he react to his resurrection? How would he react to the Gerudo, who in two of the three Timelines were genocided into oblivion (the flood in Wind Waker, and the Hylians eradicating them at Arbiters Grounds before Twilight Princess). What was up with Fi in BotW? Was that Demise in that trailer? The longer we went without news, and the more they drip fed us, the higher and higher my hopes got for a true "Zelda Finale" that put a bow on the entire Timeline with finality. Then the game releases, and the first ten minutes are literally perfect. The Imprisoning War (I.E. OoT) is mentioned, dead Ganondorf reanimates, recognizes Link and Zelda, name-drops Rauru, and we're off to the races. Perfect, sublime. Teasing everything I've ever wanted from this game. Fast forward to the end of the game, and all I can do is stare blankly as Zelda is returned from her dragon form, undoing the only praise I could've given the story. I didn't cry at Dragon Zelda, but I did almost applaud. She then delivers the most cringe-inducing dialogue of any Zelda game, the credits roll, and I didn't even bother sticking around for them.
(Oh, and fuck the whole "the Timeline is a Loop" idea. That is such a cheap copout of storytelling. Give me a beginning, middle, and end please.)
While I fully respect your opinion, I’m not sure what you expect to gain, other than arguments and backlash, from commenting this on a TOTK playlist. Because, for most of the people here, this game was a very special very personal experience.
@@dyltheisprod I was mostly just venting as the stream of consciousness came to me tbh. Regardless, I don't think venting here is that big of a problem, it adds diversity to the pool of opinions here
@@dyltheisprod I was mostly just venting as the stream of consciousness came to me tbh. Regardless, I don't think venting here is that big of a problem, it adds diversity to the pool of opinions here, and let's people know the game was disappointing to some for more reasons than just reused maps.
@@macnamaryb7773 You make a very fair point. As long as you’re not putting down others for their enjoyment, which I don’t believe you were, then I take no issue
thats actually a very fair point. I share many of the same grievances as you but I still love the game nonetheless
anyone hear breath of the wild theme?
I mean the first half is definitely an interpretation of this game’s opening theme, which itself was an interpretation of BOTW’s opening. So I see the connection for sure.
@@dyltheisprodin the blood moon part you can hear both the ToTK theme and the BoTW theme! The low horns play the BoTW one.
Also, the highest brass plays Zelda's Lullaby!
this theme is really celest and on the end the OST really said to the player "this is THE END"