My one issue with Tears of the Kingdom is the fact that Kohga didn't have any voice over. His VO in Age of Calamity was incredible and gave so much more life to the character.
Master Koga is probably the most adaptable person I’ve ever seen. Man literally woke up in a pitch black underground world and thought “Yeah… I can do something with this.” Then rebuilt his small cult to be a widespread threat all across the depths.
His cult wasn’t destroyed when he fell though it still kept going with vengeance for khoga. He just had to make contact with them again and then conquer the depths
Yep, Master Kohga has a Japanese name, and is an overall reflection of Japan as a whole. Japan has always been very competent when it comes to building and maintaining a civilization. If Indians took over the depths, it would be completely strewn with poop, and each train cart would have people standing on top of each other and 10 people hanging outside.
When you really think about it, the depths were not only the perfect underground base for them, but also the perfect way to get anywhere they wanted, without the people on the surface realizing it. It's really impressive from a tactical standpoint.
Kohga is still at his best in Age of Calamity. Full voice acting, a character arc, and even a genuinely emotional backstory scene that showcases why he's the leader of the Yiga clan.
One thing I love about the final battle with Kohga, if you go in with all five sages, once you knock him off his robot all of your crew just gangs up on him while he's stuck ass-up in the dirt. I just get the mental image of all of them crowding around him to literally kick the crap out of him the moment he touches ground, and then Mineru comes in with a steel chair attached to one of her hands and smacks him straight into his own robot, and it cracks me up
@@trinaltester7478 all the normal npcs know you’re really link except the he yiga clan members. For example, Dorian (I think that was his name? The sheikah guy who escaped the yiga clan in botw) is startled at first if he sees you in the yiga outfit because he thinks the yiga clan came for him again but then realizes it’s link and scolds him. Also Paya says it’s in bad taste to wear that outfit if you talk to her with it on.
When he said “Your disguises will do you no good, Link” I was like “oh well you’re smarter than I thought now I’m going to look funny in this cutscene aren’t I”
I think it would've been fantastic, instead of it being a Side Adventure, having the Master Kohga quest be an *optional main quest.* That way, it can integrate the Yiga Clan into the final gauntlets. For instance, when you defeat "The Demon King's Army", you're confronted by the ENTIRE Yiga Clan, and if you haven't completed his Quest, they're led by Kohga on his final Construct. It becomes a harder version of his original final fight, since you have to deal with both him _and_ other Yiga fighters at the same time. You could even make it so that he builds up to the Construct by having every other Kohga vehicle precede it based on how many times you've fought him (if you haven't done it at all, he uses the Tank, Plane, Boat and Construct; if you did it twice it's only the last two, etc.). It would also be a final 'climax' of sorts for the Yiga Clan as a whole, since they've finally achieved their dream of directly serving their revered being; Ganondorf. Kohga could even mention that Ganondorf has accepted them and their offerings as part of his forces, with him being especially happy about it.
Can I just say how much I hate that the reward for getting all the sages is skipping the boss rush before G-dawg, instead of weakening him like in BotW? What if I WANTED to fight them, Nintendo?
@@LPTheGas It's exactly the same reward as in BotW, but in that game Calamity Ganon was also weakened _on top_ of skipping the Blight Gauntlet. Making the final boss weaker is not the correct answer. It is boring and anticlimactic. Making the player character stronger IS. As for not skipping the boss gauntlet, well, you're kinda shit outta luck. If you want to run the gauntlet, don't awaken the sages. If you want the sages, you're gonna skip the gauntlet.
One thing i find impressive about him is his age. Age of calamity implies he is the same Master Koga from over 100 years ago (can't entirely rule out that different people take up the name/mantle of Master Koga to make it seam like he is imortal as that is something ninjas would do). Given he is probably about Impa's age he is quite lively.
@@neet-o-muskeet-o4521 He might not even be physically young under his suit if it's the same guy, he probably just has enough of the sheikah knowledge that he can live passed 100 and still be physically capable. Even the current sheikah, with a lot of tech locked away, still comfortably live well passed 100.
I remember reading in the companion book for BOTW theirs a brief mention that the leader of the Yiga is always named Kohga. Not sure if I’m misremembering but I do remember seeing that. Which I guess just solidifies him as the anti-Impa. Always a different person but has the same name and profession.
Now I'm really wanting to see your take on his characterization in Age of Calamity, especially since he's got voice acting there. (Which made him not having voice acting in this game all the sillier)
Everything he does well in TotK, he does better on AoC in my opinion. The Yiga Clan there is more vast, more threatening, and definitely has far more personality.
@@wutmagna7222Exactly. As soon as I saw his character in AoC I knew that there was something so fundamentally different from every other Zelda villan that made him the best villan in the series. His whole personality isn't just being evil, his character is actually being a human with emotion and opinions that can be swayed. The way he interacts with other characters in that game makes it even more apparent.
In the second fight with Kohga, the one where he flies in a flamethrower plane, I used the flying machine I had got there in and had a dogfight with Kohga. It was fun as hell.
Imagine what someone in 2000 would think of a comment like that if they could see the future, Legend of Zelda has truly become unrecognizable with the Kohga parts. Rest of the game isn't as unfitting at least.
@@Luxembourgish people made the same "it's unrecognizable" complaints about Majora's Mask's weirdness, and Wind Waker's graphics, and Twilight Princess where you become a furry. New bad, old good. LOL! Thank God things change, I don't want to be playing the same 30 yr old ALttP formula, and neither do most people according to the sales difference of pre-BotW Zelda.
@@taker601 Exactly. When a new game releases people latch onto the flaws and make a huge deal out of them. It's not until 10-20 years later when it's "old" that they realize the game is actually pretty good. That's why I'm not super hard on games. I don't wanna wait 2 decades to fully enjoy it 😆
@@taker601 lmao yeah in order to be a "Zelda Purist" you can only like the games over 10 years old. Anything after that is "unrecognizable" .....until a decade passes and the NEXT game comes out. The endless hate cycle.
@@taker601 Change the *gameplay* , not the high fantasy genre that makes Zelda what it is. If identity doesn't mater why not make Metroid set in the stone age where Samus just throws rocks? Why not make Link a serial sex offender? "Thank god things change"
Note (with spoilers): i wish if you lost to him, something actually happens like if he wins, he vanishes then shows up on his construct after beating the Demon King's Army and you have to fight him while yiga members endlessly appear my favourite part of kohga in totk is that he kinda has a genuine reason to be comically baffled when you defeat him he spent YEARS living in the depths and probably has more experience with Zonai devices than anyone else, and the same short, blond, no abs guy who sent him down there just effortlessly pulls off what he spent so long trying to figure out i'd be absolutely shocked if i spent years researching this hidden technology that could finally be able to defeat the hero and when he finally shows up the guy makes it look like a joke
Not to mention the Yiga versions are not held together by Ultrahand, which means they were physically attaching those devices lol. The amount of time that could have been saved is tragic lol
I love the new style of interactions with Kohga that we get in this game, also the fact that he can tell that its Link if you come up to him wearing the full yiga set. Makes him actually seem a lot less incompetent in comparison to his appearance in Botw.
Kohga is my favorite character in the series, and the amount of screen time he (and the yiga as a whole) get in botw and totk is criminal. One of the reasons why I still defend age of calamity to this day.
He gives off a great Buggy D Clown energy. Big goofball fails upwards and his power becomes genuinely endearing and kind of threatening in an "if only he was an iota smarter" way.
Maybe in the next game we’ll go up even HIGHER into the Sky Islands, where the real meat of it all is. I mean even with ToTK we still know almost nothing about the Zonai and the Sky Islands aren’t nearly as numerous as players originally assumed
I loved the detail how the yiga are better with technology or rather have an affinity with it. Maybe it’s the engineers who decided to quit the royal family after all their hard work and not receiving a single thing, like a workers uprising!
I love the space theory, but there is one major flaw with it: the chasm he blasts up into is one of the few thats in a cave and doesn't have sky access, so he would have either blown up or smashed into the rock ceiling.
One thing that i think is often forgoten is that the average hylian dosent have a sheyka slate to counter the shield Hé puts up during the fight. His fighting style is complitely countered by it but still makes him very dangerous to any normal enemy that isn't you Know, the unbeatable hero of the godess.
Only bad thing about this video was how you never mentioned the fight music. Its a certified slapper of a song. An absolute banger. It was one of my favorite parts of fighting kohga. I do also wish the final fight with him had more going on. It would be super fun if he had attatched crazy contraptions to his mech in different parts of the fight. I was kind of let down because the seized construct was really fun and going mech to mech with kohga was cool, but it was just way to easy. Hes still one of the best parts of tears of kingdom, rip to him having no voice acting cause his VA in age of calamity was amazing. Glory to master khoga 🫡
I loved Kohga in BOTW. He’s off his game and out of shape. His lighthearted battle was pleasant and refreshing after all the sneaking around the overpowered clan members.
A third game set in space would likely focus on the moon, considering its symbolic significance in BotW and TotK (the Blood Moon and its tie to monsters). The space aliens from MM could actually show up too, if that moon gets involved too. Stemming from that, visiting some of the other LoZ worlds in a sequel could be interesting. Revisiting Termina in particular would be amazing
After having played AoC, seeing Kohga again made me really happy. Something about how he's just so goofy as well as knowing that, in another timeline, he and Link would fight side by side against Ganon(dorf). Kohga's reason for forsaking his master in AoC was also not contradicted in TotK, because as for how much of a cartoonish goofball Kohga is, he's not the kind to treat his minions as disposable. Something about knowing that, should it come down to it, Kohga would choose his clan over some ancient evil he's born into worshipping. Come to think of it, Kohga probably encourages his footsoldiers to teleport away from Link instead of fighting to the death.
When you pointed out the Master Kohga goes to space I was expecting you to suggest the next game will have Link going to the Moon... you know an actual location in the Zelda Series seemingly with a trippy Lunar Culture Possibly even Fierce Deity Kohga would appear
Love your videos man, I really do. Just one question though: are you able to use any other music in the background? The Zora/vah Ruta music gets a little tiring hearing the same notes for 35-40 minutes
I believe you made a mistake on a detail of the Sheikah, they don't fight for good, they fight for the Royal Hylian Family. There is no good or bad for them, that fact especially proven true in Ocarina of time with the Shadow Temple.
Kohga was blasted into the roof of the cave in Rito Village, and there is no hole in the ceiling of that cave, so he either splattered onto the roof of that cave, or bounced off the roof, and left the Rito Village cave entrance. But for the most part, the Yiga talk about him as if he were dead. Which is disappointing because in the Breath of the Wild sequel, Kohga became a good guy. Sure that was a different timeline, but if he became a hero in that timeline, he could have became a hero in the Tears timeline. I also don't think we'll get a fourth game in the Breath series. I think this third game is it. Granted, just like with Breath of the Wild, there were a LOT of things that happened in the past that were never explained that the Breath of the Wild sequel filled in for us. And since Tears had a lot of gaps in it's past that are never explained to us, maybe a fourth game will fill in those gaps as well.
Didn't even know Mineru changed much on that last battle. Did it without her and it's actually pretty tricky. Especially late in the fight where you have to recall his spiked balls but specifically just the middle one, and it's not launched first.
Yeah i love this video needs more attention and i agree i wish master khoga had his voice from the stupid age of calamity game his cutscenes were solid in that game
Perfect analysis of Kohga, I love his character arc, but you really wrong with him being better than Ganondorf. Now that a lot of media try to justify the actions of each villain or antagonist, a villain who is evil just because simple reasons like a kingdom's domination (or being the literal incarnation of the original Demon King as specified in previous games) is really appreciated
I personally think that koga is a really threatening character. He looks like a goffy dumbass to us because we play link who is a monster. Guardian where build up to be these invincible highly destructive machine. Link has the reaction time to face and redirect there laser atack, he has the strengh to cut through there thick metal limb and destroy them with brut force alone. Link can literraly climb anything regardless of there structure whether it's smooth or not. Even between the hand of a complete noob, Link has incredible feat. The guy is so strong he completely wreck weapons at an insane rate. And koga can keep up with that beast, even present a challenge in some of those fights. If you put yourself in the shoes of a civilian from hyrule. Facing koga is a nightmare, a certain death. The small member from the Yiga clan can be dispatched if you have a decent fighting level but the lieutenant and koga himself are monster that even a trained warrior could hardly hope to beat.
I just wanna add (not that this improves ganondorf all that much) but I think ganondorfs motivation was similar to oot getting hyrule for his people but when he got the secret stone it corrupted him and he became what is effectively a dark god
I was actually disappointed by BoTW so my expectations were low with ToTK. I was pleasantly surprised by this game and master Khoga was one of these happy surprises. In fact I now think of ToTK as more of a rehash and what could have been for BoTW than a sequel though
One thing I particularly like is how, at the very beginning of his first appearance, before he recognizes Link, Kohga actually seems genuinely grateful for his help repairing the damaged vehicles, and was probably about to invite him to join the Yiga. There's an implication there that he has a kind of honor.
He inspires loyalty in his men for a reason. In Age of Calamity, two Yiga goons were going to kill a starving child, but he wordlessly told them to back off and gave the kid a banana instead. That kid would grow up to be Sooga, his right hand man.
Kohga isn't unjust. Even in Age of Calamity you see that he genuinely cares about his lackeys, being the main reason that pushes him to join Zelda against Astor and Ganon. He's just very dedicated to the cause I guess lol
@@hypotheticaltapeworm The Sheika can live over 100 years and do so on the regular. The name is said to be passed down between leaders, but the body and general behavior says it's probably the same Kohga.
I like how well adapted the Yiga are to zonai constructs. Even the Zonai Survey Team barely know what they're looking at half the time, but the Yiga are balling underground on electric unicorn motorbikes. It fits their backstory of being technologically advanced but shunned for it, they fully embrace and utilise all of this cool new tech. You don't see the tech savvy side of the Yiga in BOTW but in TOTK you can even see Yiga members arguing over specs of different zonai vehicles they built themselves.
Well to be fair to that Zonai Survey Team, they are just now finding these Zonai constructs while the Yiga had roughly 5-6 years to figure out how it all worked so it only makes sense they'd understand it more.
@@Firebender554but the chasms to the depths only opened recently, i.e. probably during the upheaval Even the chasm that Kohga fell down wasn't technically there (that plothole irks me) And the reason Link thwarts their progress is because they're just starting to settle in the depths no? The relay bases are notably new as you can find recent notes giving advice on suitable places to build them and how to keep monsters out, which wouldn't be a thing if they had 7 ish years to get to know the area and what lives down there Same with the observations about the poes and pristine weapons and other oddities in the depths They wouldn't be commenting on them just now if they had known the area for years. So I'm confident they start venturing into the depths at the same time as the zonai research team I'm assuming the zonai research team is just incompetent oof
Unironically I could see the ultrahand system being expanded into a deranged combination of zelda and kerbal space program, and space seems like the only way they could really one up themselves after TOTK
Honestly, considering this is Nintendo we're talking about, I would be utterly unsurprised (and simultaneously very excited) if the next game is actually set in space somehow.
Fun fact that I'd like to point out about Kohga's "loud" mannerisms: Kohga's entire character is *heavily* inspired by Kabuki theater, from his body language, to the sound effects that play when he's onscreen, to his design with its exaggerated collar and topknot. He's theatrical and clownish because he's a caricature of Kabuki theater. I'd even go so far that his character is based on the common Kabuki depiction of Ishikawa Goemon specifically.
And like Eggman, Kohga has a lot of ressources/manpower and every loss doesn't seem to slow him (or the Yiga) down in any capacity. There could be hundreds, if not a few thousands of them hidden away or hiding in plain sight playing the long con. In fact we don't even kill any Yiga, they always use their magic to escape. (the only ones we see dead are in BotW's memories iirc). With several years to spread underground without opposition.. now with tech to reach the islands too if they want and already all over hyrule there's no realistic way for anyone to get rid of the Yiga.
Master Kohga, Stupendous Chief of the Yiga Clan: "I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: LINK the HERO'S A BITCH-ASS MOTHERFUCKER. He pissed on my FUCKING banana. That's right. He took his Hylian fucking BLONDE dick out and he pissed on my FUCKING banana, and he said that his dick was THIS BIG, and I said that's *DISGUSTING.* So I'm making a callout post on my twitter-dot-com. Link, you got a small dick. It's the size of this Rupee but WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my dong looks like. That's right, baby. Tall points, NOT blonde, no pillows, look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my banana, so guess what, I'm gonna FUCK Hyrule. That's right, this is what you get! MY SUPER LAZER PISS! Except I'm not gonna piss on Hyrule. I'm gonna go higher. I'm pissing on the MOOON! How do you like that, HYLIA? I pissed on the MOON, you idiot! You have twenty-three hours before the piss droplets fucking HIT Hyrule, now get out of my FUCKING sight before I piss on you too."
Honestly, the whole repurposing of the Yiga Clan was incredible. They were more or less being used to showcase creative alternative uses of various Zonaite technology. It really inspired me to actually try more than just Hovercrafts, Wing-planes and 4-Wheelers. It made the Yiga interesting, and it made them appear _competent._ And don't even get me _started_ on the boss fights.
@@carbodude5414 Hell, we don't even see much in the way of _variety_ in Sheikah-clan technology. Theirs are more on a "general use"-scale, and they aren't really for more than just "someone with a Purah Pad" to use. But the Yiga can not only all use what they create, but they use it indefinitely. When even _Link_ needs to recharge, it makes them imposing; there's no cooldown to the Yiga, so you need to make your own opening.
Funny as Koga is I can’t help but admire his tenacity. The man survived the fall in the hideout pit WITH NO GLIDER and a huge iron ball seconds away from flattening him and then survives The Depths which are pretty much devoid of any proper food and full to the brim with Gloom-Touched Monsters and still he manages to get his troops established down there to dig for ancient Zonai Tech. Screw a dog, man’s got that cockroach in him. And I’m sure that by going Bear Grills in The Depths he was doing his salty ass ancestors proud. XD
What it shows is that for all his hubris being his undoing, the guy is actually quite creative even if he's no genius. His survival is however completely based upon his own self-delusion of importance fueled by relentless pride and egotism but that did keep him alive in The Depths and get him out. The sheer effort needed to explore the Depths and the ingenuity required to begin constructing machines without the luxery of the Ultrahand glue whows that Kohga, for all his faults, does pose a genuine threat to Hyrule if given the resources and opportunity. Nintendo needs to make him the main antagonist of a future Zelda title, if not dedicating a whole DLC quest arc to him.
@@TheBestcom-ym6iz Kohga prbably landed on a unknown sky island with even more advanced Zonai technology and shows up in the DLC with a fully functional, floating battle ship :)
The funny and sort of depressing thing about master kohga’s quest to give Ganondorf access to a Zonai construct is that he… sort of already has one. The boss fight of Mineru’s sidequest has you engaging in a kaiju battle with Mineru against Ganon’s gloom-riddled construct, meaning Kohga’s entire mission is sort of comically redundant as a result
The funny thing about this is the fact that I beat Kohga BEFORE starting the construct quest So it was kind of a twist because I thought Ganon just rebuilt the one Kohga had and added upgrades, but in hindsight they both had one, Ganon just got the better version first lol
i actually thought it justified kohga. ganon, if he knew of them, would probably think really low of the yiga or at least kohga, but ganon viewed corrupting a construct worthwhile enough to make it guard a secret stone, and now kohga has achieved the same, and even without the insane power of ganons corrupting gloom/malice.
No for real, the fact that he figured out the building of the zonai without ultrahand is impressive. So is him teaching his crew and being the closest to link in power and tools department.
He’s like the new Team Rocket of Nintendo. You look forward to every second he’s on screen. You have a love-enemy relationship with him. He has dramatic flare. There isn’t anything that’s not to love. I also love that the Yiga Clan has more actual presence around the world. You run into some surface locations, the take-over of the great plateau, and all of it underground.
I literally thought the same thing. Even creating over the top vehicles to help spread chaos. Master Kohga returning was by biggest wish for TOTK, and we got him back better than ever
The final fight is way more intense if you don't do the spirit temple because the construct is something you've never seen before and he really seems almost indestructible with dangerous attacks and when you get one of your own it's that much satisfying to have that power to yourself
The whole spirit temple thing was literally the first thing I did after his questline and I really appreciated it. Especially since the spirit temple fight basically forces you to do a mech vs mech fight, so I got to experience fighting one both ways.
I did the whole kohga questline after the rito, and I remember him in the mech thinking 'man what I'd do for one'. Fast forward to me in the construct depot and I have a realization on what the ability might be... Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed piloting the mech and fusing my gleeok horns to the arms as a big elemental doomsday device
I think the Yiga has some good chance of showing a redemption Arc in a future Zelda title. They started out as good guys who helped defeat Ganon but turned against Hyrule after being shunned, they're sympathetic. Now couple this with the fact that you never kill any of them (they just teleport away and Kohga always makes it out somehow), I could imagine these guys actually meeting Ganon for the first time and realizing they're nothing to him and deciding that maybe they want to be the good guys after all.
Yeah but it’s not like age of calamity. Unless in a sequel if whatever evil it is uses them or attacks them then yes that would be amazing to see them help the hero
I won’t lie, the last encounter caught me off guard because I legitimately thought he was going to be to revealed to be sleeping or even treat him as goofy and that the “weapon” was going to be something overthetop like the one he used at the end but I legit got taken off guard when he got the mech!
Nothing about Kohga can be taken seriously, takes away any grounded relatability out of Hyrule when he balloons around on a rocket with cartoon physics.
Brett said the final encounter is too easy, but for me, who had only unlocked three sages' power then, was almost overwhelmed. I couldn't find a way to hurt himin the second phase, where he hides himself behind the blue Sheikah force field. It's one of the toughest boss fight I encountered, perhaps only inferior to Queen Gibdo and Ganondorf.
I find it funny how his final defeat mirrors BotW. He lost the first time because he didn't have enough control, while here he lost because he had too much control (he kept moving it by his threatening dance)
@@The94Venom If the space thing works out, his final attack will be creating a black hole and he will end up drawn into it himself. Seriously though I like the idea of Legend of Zelda in Space, there is a fic on spacebattles- Eternal Paragon- that is a zelda/mass effect crossover, basically replacing earth with the zelda series' planet, post BotW (with tears of the kingdom not canon, due to how it screws up the timeline). The Hyrule federation has all the sentient species from the series, and uses mana based tech extrapolated from the sheikah tech you see in BotW, which in the past was how Hyrule took over their home planet. It has to balance mana based tech and magic against ezoo tech and biotics by having them mutually interfere with each other, but the cosmopolitan cooperation of the various peoples we see in Botw expanded to the stars is a nice contrast to the ostensibly similar citadel council that ulitmately is just the Asari, Salarians and Turians lording their power over everyone else because they got there first. I love the first meeting when the Asari diplomat basically realizes that the federation HAS everything the Citadel could ever try to offer them, in terms of galactic community, resources etc- and in fact the federation has far superior terraforming capabilities so they have access to many more inhabitable planets. A Zelda in space could do what other game timelines did post ganon and have our heroes travel to a new place with new dangers and new demons- and considering the Zonai came from above- they could try to build on that and maybe have them be from space originally. To be fair I am not really expecting much continutity wise with Nintendo in this area- BOTW left enough things vague to fit in their timeline snarl but many of the plot vital choices made in TotK make it impossible to fit into the zelda timeline, unless you treat the two as their own new one. Its too bad, the time travel aspect could have been used to set up a handwave for any inconsistencies but they went for a closed loop- that still doesn't explain where all the sky islands came from.
The construct seems to say Kohga doesn’t seem to have died and I have no reason to think he did unless we have confirmation. So glad to see his character isn’t done with and they should get him voiced lines. His VA in Age of Calamity gave him a pretty good voice. Goofy, yet charismatic.
@@commanderblackheart5856 100 years without aging, survived a drop that would have killed most, somehow thriving in the most treacherous part of Hyrule - WITHOUT LIGHTROOTS, MIGHT I ADD - He's definitely still alive.
@@gladiatordragon9219 I mean even the way he departed- on the Zonai rockets- was significantly less 'final' than when he fell down the bottom less pit. He's totally fine and just chilling somewhere recovering from likely smashing into the Rito caves' roof. Which honestly makes me happy cause I love his character.
@@gladiatordragon9219 to top on that, when you visit the yiga Hideout after defeating Kohga one of them says that the death of Kohga is lie manufactored by Link. So if even his underlings believe the he isn't dead, why should we believe that he is dead
I for one absolutely loved Master Kohga since I first met him in Breath of the Wild. Sure, he is a joke and his fight is extremely easy, but that is how he is meant to be, especially as a mini boss. I liked him because he was so different from the other bosses. When he appeared in "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity", where he is wonderfully voiced I might add, I grew to love him even more. His, clownish, carefree, and even cowardly side is even more developed, however another side to his character, tenderness, is also displayed. In this game he is given a sidekick, Sooga, who is pretty much the exact opposite of his beloved master. Kohga is still all about serving/reviving Ganon, but then Astor, who although is not the final boss is basically the main villain, starts taking the lives of Yiga Clan members to do so. Sooga does what he can to stop him, telling his master to escape. His devotion is explained in a scene where it is revealed that Kohga rescued him at a young age. After losing Sooga (I don't recall if it is revealed whether he survived), as well as several clan members, Master Kohga joins the heroes to get revenge. There's a scene where Zelda reunites with her father, and of course Kohga is bawling his eyes out in the background. This sweet side of his doesn't cheapen his character, but enhances it. I was so happy to see him in Tears of the Kingdom. You can get a Yiga outfit, wear it in front of him, and he'll see right through it every time. His fights were extremely fun, and I was not disappointed at the sendoff he got. While most funny scenes give me a chuckle, this one had me literally laughing out loud. I can only hope he returns as he's one of my favorite Zelda bosses of all time. He might even be my favorite, actually. It's not his difficulty. There's just something about him I enjoy.
A few things: 1. Kohga is NEVER fooled by Link wearing a Yiga outfit, showing his perceptiveness. I remember trying it for the final fight and it felt chilling for him to call me out as he was meditating. 2. I think the final battle with Kohga is more fun if you do it without Mineru (though seeing you have a mech battle was pretty sick), and it functions as a subtle tutorial for how to beat the Seized Construct in the Spirit Temple.
Isnt it crazy how none of his own minions recognize Link in the Yiga costume, but he and every other enemy in the game immediately see through Link’s disguise
one thing i love about kohga's revival is that the BOTW DLC actually hinted that kohga may have survived. the quest that makes you hike back through the yiga clan's hideout include one where you throw a shiekah orb down the pit you threw kohga down. and it makes an audible noise when it hits the bottom. which meant that the bottomless pit wasnt bottomless, and that there may be something hidden down there. so i genuinely remember seeing theories around 2019-2020 about how kohga may have survived and that the game may let us check out what was down there. its an example of really good foreshadowing for TOTK. and it was definitely done on purpose, if you ask me. but i think the DLC is where they definitely started foreshadowing all of it on purpose.
That would totally make sense, because ToTK itself began when BoTW DLC ideas started piling up overtime until eventually there was too much stuff to consider it DLC. So while some DLC was implemented, obviously a lot of it weren’t. Perhaps we were actually meant to get a DLC that lead us into the pit and end up finding Kohga again, but that ended up getting repurposed and reimagined into what we got in ToTK, a genius move imo
@@a.j.cookie9735 Yup, this was definitely planned. I remember reading that they made TotK because it was all DLC ideas for BotW at first and they had so much they made all those ideas into a new game instead.
I completely forgot about that. It would be cool if you could find a decayed Sheikah pedestal down that chasm, but I guess it would make sense for it to disappear along with the rest of the technology.
@@digitalon01 he IS the Wile E. of the series! Now I kinda wish we could've fought in a tunnel where he barrels through it and we put in a boulder in his way
The worst part about him not having voicelines is he actually has voice lines in Age of Calamity, and they're great! It is incredibly saddening that he never got any here.
Of course Master Kohga is the better villain. He is just *the* best villain of the Legend of Zelda villain. He is the big, the burly the *Master Kogha!* Also, you should look at the side quest where Link disguises himself as a Yiga Clan member and becomes a spy. It gives you even more time with him and the rest of the clan than there already was.
@@jimboanimations4041 "The one, the only, master shit!" Sry, but when i read that, i imagined this part of the sentence accidently dropping in the toilet.
In the final confrontation, I came up to Kohga in the Yiga uniform and he commented on it while in his meditative pose, said my disguises wouldn't work, he'll always recognize Link. I found that bit pretty cool, although I think he only makes such a comment in the final fight.
Honesty yeah! At first he is all goofy yelling that your cheating and all but then he summons a spiked monster truck and this awesome boss music plays. Its such an interesting combination of goofy clown and genuine threat who at that point in the game probably understands more about zonai devices than you do.
I like to imagine he flew off far into the sea on an island, where his clan somehow tracked him down, then they started exploring the seas and setting up bases on islands, and they work together with Ganondorf in a sequel to wind waker
Yeah I think he’s in another kingdom outside of Hyrule. Although I could see Ganondorf and calamity ganon being revived by demise or someone else. I also think Sooga is outside of Hyrule
I mean, I’d say wind waker already had a sequel (phantom hourglass is peak don’t @ me) but I understand if people would prefer a fully open world sailing adventure with more than 20 pixels on screen at a time 😂😂
so so true, i was even hoping that at the very least they'd have him redub the grunts because he's who i hear in my head as his canonical voice but they didn't, which is weird since they did redub yona's grunts despite her not having any voiced dialogue so what's up with that ???
I encountered the Kohga mech battle before I knew anything about the spirit temple, so I was still blown away thinking "wait, there are MECHS now too??" I thought it was a really clever wait to tease the mech ability. Even after beating him, it didn't occur to me that I could get my own mech until discovering the construct depots some time later. If anything, because I had seen Kohga's mech battle, I was disappointed in the spirit temple mech battle because I already saw it before and Mineru's controls still felt clunky.
One thing i like is that apparently once you do the Spirit Temple Purah supposedly tells you to search the depths for clues and talk to Josha. Which in turn points you in the direction of the Kohga quest, which finishes off with learning Ganondorf's location(though most people could probably guess it themselves)
I personally went to the Plateau to see if the Shrine of Resurrection was still there. I saw the Yiga stuff and immediately knew where I was going next.
Kohga and Zant definitely went through parallel arcs within the fandom. Both of them had underwhelming receptions for their first appearances when we only got about 5 minutes with their twisted and bumbling traits before they unceremoniously "died". But then the subsequent times they showed up (both in Warriors games, even), they were given much more screentime to actually flaunt their dynamic personalities and demonstrate just how complete they feel when you weave the Wacky with the Sinister.
Zant and Kohga might seem similar at a glance but they're really very different characters. Zant was terrifying for the entire game, showing up in cutscenes and beating up Zelda, Link, and Midna with overwhelming power. That is, up until his boss fight at the end, where it was revealed that he wasn't sane and the terror was replaced with creepiness. Kohga however was a silly villain from the very beginning. Unlike Zant, we never really saw him in even a half serious light until his final boss fight in TOTK, which still ended with a silly cutscene.
I really love that they treat his final confrontation with Link seriously. The closest we got to a serious Kohga beforehand was in Age of Calamity, which isn't canon to the TOTK for obvious reasons, so seeing that even in this game he can be serious was definitely a good choice. I also love that they show how competent he really is in this game, he deduces that Link needs to use his hand to use the power, he's having the Yiga Clan thrive both in the depths, and on the surface, and most importantly, he knows it's you regardless of whether or not you wear the Yiga outfit. I genuinely believe that having him recognize you immediately is a nice choice, they definitely could've had him be fooled for a minute or something, but no, he always knows it's you. Which makes sense, he's the leader, he's smart enough to know when someone's impersonating their clan, that's literally a big part of them is impersonating people, he sees Link trying to trick him and he doesn't even entertain the idea of it.
Well, not completely. While Kohga *does* notices that Link uses his hand to use the ability, he never realizes that Link's hand is _not a normal hand,_ as evidenced by him attempting to access the power by putting his own palm against the projection every time you encounter him(aside from the last, where he is instead meditating).
Kohga and the Yiga in general are genuinely amazing and I’m so shocked it took so long for something this perfect to get added. TotK especially makes them all absolutely amazing as Kohga gets chances to really show off what makes him a fun villain, and in that first cutscene his two foot soldiers who are standing next to him mimic Kohga’s goofy and manic movements which extends the goofiness a bit to the whole clan rather than Kohga being the only goofy one.
This is quite the tonal shift from thier first appearance and I love it. My first experience with the Yiga Clan was a crying woman on the side of the road. I personally, can't stand to see a woman crying (unless she's like a fantasy villain having her post heroic meltdown) so even without me actually hearing it, she baited me to stop. I regretted it because my first Yiga fight was annoying as hell and almost killed me. It was a little weird, but scary. An enemy that perfectly baited my deeply rooted "Hero Complex" and dropped a difficult to pin down enemy on me. The Yiga clan got weirder as they kept appearing, culminating in their weirdo boss who was for all intents and purposes, the butt of every joke following them throughout the game. Now they're an established set of weirdos who seem to get more menacing the more you mess with them. Once again culminating in this chubby weirdo of a boss, but unlike last time, he gets MORE serious and more creative as the game goes on. Kohga starts as basically the same joke boss with his clownish henchmen, the jokes are still there and funny as ever, to being a seriously dangerous artificer who gets more dangerous and, dare I say, SCARY, if unprepared. Kohga and the Yiga Clan as a whole work so much better in reverse in my opinion.
You really should tackle Age of Calamity, while yes a spin-off with dubious canon, shows a lot of other side of the characters, focused on King Roam and Kohga and WHY the Yiga (Specially Sooga) follow him, while standoffish, buffoonish and sometimes immature he's just that much of a charismatic leader that really worries for his underlings and these respond in kind. Hell, in TotK if you notice most of the underworld journals they end in "Glory to Master Kohga". They're doing all of this for him
Master Kohga also got quite a bit of development in Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity as well, he's actually voice acted in that game too. I kind of wish Sooga showed up in Tears of the Kingdom as well because that would have been even more fun Yiga Clan content. Then again I think he and Astor were just exclusive to that game. Honestly I'm kind of hoping there's a TotK like follow up to AoC where Ganondorf takes a way more proactive role than he did in this game. Heck maybe through some time travel shenanigans with Terrako or some Zonai construct we'll get one of the craziest crossovers with characters throughout the entire series. Instead of it being a straight up fanservice game like the original Hyrule Warriors game was it'll actually have a pretty decent story like AoC had involving all of the crossover characters. This is a bit wishful thinking, but I think with the expanded map of TotK, not to mention a possible past hyrule map too, and the fact that Hyrule Warriors is a very popular spinoff I don't doubt they're considering it. It'd definitely need to be on the Switch 2 though as AoC ran very poorly on the Switch.
yeah, HW continuation when both Link and Zelda end up in the past and we kill Ganon right then and there spoilers? and we don't loose Sonia nor Rauru ;3; same as AoC it's a fixit scenario D :
I could see the next Hyrule warriors game about the imprisoning war and upheaval. The Yiga would still be our allies as they have to find Kohga and Sooga who are trapped in a chasm. I also hope in TOTK dlc or a sequel to end the era of the wild we can see other kingdoms outside Hyrule
Quick note for around 3:15 in the video. This is not true - in Ocarina of Time we also saw the dark side of the Sheikah. In the shadow temple located under Kakariko, we saw where the Sheikah interrogated enemies of the royal family and the place was hidden away because it was taboo and represented a stain on hyrule’s history
One thing regarding that point is that the Shiekah were following the king's orders. They were still loyal to the king before, and during OoT, they were doing horrible things on the orders of a horrible and paranoid king. The Yiga are different as they do NOT serve hyrule or the Crown at all. They cut that connection millennia ago and now serve calamity ganon and (by extension of being the source of the prior) demon king ganondorf.
@@GhostWulf70792 reminds me of Ganondorf's relationship with the Twilight people. He just calls them "amusing" people and notes how he had fun using them, specifically Zant. I like the similarities between Kohga and Zant tbh
My one issue with Tears of the Kingdom is the fact that Kohga didn't have any voice over. His VO in Age of Calamity was incredible and gave so much more life to the character.
I too missed his voice. I did my best to read his dialogue in that voice
EXACTLY!! Eric Braa did such a good job!
I miss sooga : (
@@thx4chrckingin yeah that's what i always do too lmaooo
@@thx4chrckinginSame :c
Master Koga is probably the most adaptable person I’ve ever seen. Man literally woke up in a pitch black underground world and thought “Yeah… I can do something with this.” Then rebuilt his small cult to be a widespread threat all across the depths.
The ops of the underworld if you will
His cult wasn’t destroyed when he fell though it still kept going with vengeance for khoga. He just had to make contact with them again and then conquer the depths
I thought you said adorable for a second
Yep, Master Kohga has a Japanese name, and is an overall reflection of Japan as a whole. Japan has always been very competent when it comes to building and maintaining a civilization. If Indians took over the depths, it would be completely strewn with poop, and each train cart would have people standing on top of each other and 10 people hanging outside.
When you really think about it, the depths were not only the perfect underground base for them, but also the perfect way to get anywhere they wanted, without the people on the surface realizing it. It's really impressive from a tactical standpoint.
Kohga is still at his best in Age of Calamity. Full voice acting, a character arc, and even a genuinely emotional backstory scene that showcases why he's the leader of the Yiga clan.
Yes! This guy should really touch upon that unsung gem.
How old is this guy
@@lolzasouruhm179Kohga in HWAOC is not the same Kohga from BOTW and TOTK.
Sadly Age of Calamity isnt canon so we cant use that to help with the lore.
@@milonchello1643 it’s canon, it’s just a different timeline
One thing I love about the final battle with Kohga, if you go in with all five sages, once you knock him off his robot all of your crew just gangs up on him while he's stuck ass-up in the dirt. I just get the mental image of all of them crowding around him to literally kick the crap out of him the moment he touches ground, and then Mineru comes in with a steel chair attached to one of her hands and smacks him straight into his own robot, and it cracks me up
Dude that was amazing. I usually only play with tulin but once I realized what could happen I turned on all the others
Someone needs to make that "Piper Perry" meme but with Kogha,Link and the 5 sages.
I have 3 sages at that time and, when he fell into the ground, the sages beat him up like that one scene from JJBA lmao.
The encounters make Kohga even more competent if you show up in the Yiga disguise as he calls you out immediately
Yep he's the only one who knows you're link and he doesn't even pretend like he doesn't.
actually the guard in the gerudo prison knows that you are link
@@trinaltester7478 all the normal npcs know you’re really link except the he yiga clan members. For example, Dorian (I think that was his name? The sheikah guy who escaped the yiga clan in botw) is startled at first if he sees you in the yiga outfit because he thinks the yiga clan came for him again but then realizes it’s link and scolds him. Also Paya says it’s in bad taste to wear that outfit if you talk to her with it on.
@@meee_5155 well thats cool to know but the only person i talked to while wearing the yiga clan outfit was the gerudo jail guard lol
When he said “Your disguises will do you no good, Link” I was like “oh well you’re smarter than I thought now I’m going to look funny in this cutscene aren’t I”
I think it would've been fantastic, instead of it being a Side Adventure, having the Master Kohga quest be an *optional main quest.* That way, it can integrate the Yiga Clan into the final gauntlets.
For instance, when you defeat "The Demon King's Army", you're confronted by the ENTIRE Yiga Clan, and if you haven't completed his Quest, they're led by Kohga on his final Construct. It becomes a harder version of his original final fight, since you have to deal with both him _and_ other Yiga fighters at the same time. You could even make it so that he builds up to the Construct by having every other Kohga vehicle precede it based on how many times you've fought him (if you haven't done it at all, he uses the Tank, Plane, Boat and Construct; if you did it twice it's only the last two, etc.).
It would also be a final 'climax' of sorts for the Yiga Clan as a whole, since they've finally achieved their dream of directly serving their revered being; Ganondorf. Kohga could even mention that Ganondorf has accepted them and their offerings as part of his forces, with him being especially happy about it.
That sounds epic
Then kohga before dying gives to ganondolf the master banana, a banana sacred with gloom.
Then ganondolf becomes a super Sayan and destroys the world
@@Dado_nastrothen master kogha says "it's master koghaing time" and koghas everyone
Can I just say how much I hate that the reward for getting all the sages is skipping the boss rush before G-dawg, instead of weakening him like in BotW? What if I WANTED to fight them, Nintendo?
@@LPTheGas It's exactly the same reward as in BotW, but in that game Calamity Ganon was also weakened _on top_ of skipping the Blight Gauntlet. Making the final boss weaker is not the correct answer. It is boring and anticlimactic. Making the player character stronger IS.
As for not skipping the boss gauntlet, well, you're kinda shit outta luck. If you want to run the gauntlet, don't awaken the sages. If you want the sages, you're gonna skip the gauntlet.
One thing i find impressive about him is his age. Age of calamity implies he is the same Master Koga from over 100 years ago (can't entirely rule out that different people take up the name/mantle of Master Koga to make it seam like he is imortal as that is something ninjas would do). Given he is probably about Impa's age he is quite lively.
Maybe the yiga stole some of Purah’s de-aging tech or have access to some tech from ancient times that keeps you young.
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He might not even be physically young under his suit if it's the same guy, he probably just has enough of the sheikah knowledge that he can live passed 100 and still be physically capable.
Even the current sheikah, with a lot of tech locked away, still comfortably live well passed 100.
I remember reading in the companion book for BOTW theirs a brief mention that the leader of the Yiga is always named Kohga. Not sure if I’m misremembering but I do remember seeing that. Which I guess just solidifies him as the anti-Impa. Always a different person but has the same name and profession.
@@OsnosisBones Monk Maz Koshia is pretty darn lively after all this time, I must note.
I think in the Lore Sheikah can live for hundereds of years as Impa is like over 120 and older then link.
Now I'm really wanting to see your take on his characterization in Age of Calamity, especially since he's got voice acting there. (Which made him not having voice acting in this game all the sillier)
Well Koei Techmo was the lead developers on that game. They are more sensible about voice acting.
Everything he does well in TotK, he does better on AoC in my opinion. The Yiga Clan there is more vast, more threatening, and definitely has far more personality.
@@wutmagna7222Exactly. As soon as I saw his character in AoC I knew that there was something so fundamentally different from every other Zelda villan that made him the best villan in the series. His whole personality isn't just being evil, his character is actually being a human with emotion and opinions that can be swayed. The way he interacts with other characters in that game makes it even more apparent.
@@wutmagna7222 Also Sooga adds an incredible dynamic to the character
I miss sooga
In the second fight with Kohga, the one where he flies in a flamethrower plane, I used the flying machine I had got there in and had a dogfight with Kohga. It was fun as hell.
Imagine what someone in 2000 would think of a comment like that if they could see the future, Legend of Zelda has truly become unrecognizable with the Kohga parts. Rest of the game isn't as unfitting at least.
@@Luxembourgish people made the same "it's unrecognizable" complaints about Majora's Mask's weirdness, and Wind Waker's graphics, and Twilight Princess where you become a furry. New bad, old good. LOL! Thank God things change, I don't want to be playing the same 30 yr old ALttP formula, and neither do most people according to the sales difference of pre-BotW Zelda.
@@taker601 Exactly. When a new game releases people latch onto the flaws and make a huge deal out of them. It's not until 10-20 years later when it's "old" that they realize the game is actually pretty good.
That's why I'm not super hard on games. I don't wanna wait 2 decades to fully enjoy it 😆
@@taker601 lmao yeah in order to be a "Zelda Purist" you can only like the games over 10 years old. Anything after that is "unrecognizable" .....until a decade passes and the NEXT game comes out. The endless hate cycle.
@@taker601 Change the *gameplay* , not the high fantasy genre that makes Zelda what it is. If identity doesn't mater why not make Metroid set in the stone age where Samus just throws rocks? Why not make Link a serial sex offender? "Thank god things change"
unironically the space kohga game sounds really fun and i want it to happen
Note (with spoilers): i wish if you lost to him, something actually happens
like if he wins, he vanishes then shows up on his construct after beating the Demon King's Army and you have to fight him while yiga members endlessly appear
my favourite part of kohga in totk is that he kinda has a genuine reason to be comically baffled when you defeat him
he spent YEARS living in the depths and probably has more experience with Zonai devices than anyone else, and the same short, blond, no abs guy who sent him down there just effortlessly pulls off what he spent so long trying to figure out
i'd be absolutely shocked if i spent years researching this hidden technology that could finally be able to defeat the hero and when he finally shows up the guy makes it look like a joke
Not to mention the Yiga versions are not held together by Ultrahand, which means they were physically attaching those devices lol. The amount of time that could have been saved is tragic lol
Master Kohga deserved a voice actor
I love the new style of interactions with Kohga that we get in this game, also the fact that he can tell that its Link if you come up to him wearing the full yiga set. Makes him actually seem a lot less incompetent in comparison to his appearance in Botw.
He controls who does and does not operate Zonai devices.
Master Kohga IS The forklift Certification.
Kohga is my favorite character in the series, and the amount of screen time he (and the yiga as a whole) get in botw and totk is criminal. One of the reasons why I still defend age of calamity to this day.
He gives off a great Buggy D Clown energy. Big goofball fails upwards and his power becomes genuinely endearing and kind of threatening in an "if only he was an iota smarter" way.
Maybe in the next game we’ll go up even HIGHER into the Sky Islands, where the real meat of it all is. I mean even with ToTK we still know almost nothing about the Zonai and the Sky Islands aren’t nearly as numerous as players originally assumed
I fought him while forgetting where i would look for ganondorf, funnily enough he reminded me to go back below the castle
I loved the detail how the yiga are better with technology or rather have an affinity with it. Maybe it’s the engineers who decided to quit the royal family after all their hard work and not receiving a single thing, like a workers uprising!
that ending was probably the funniest shit ive seen in awhile. Great video overall
I love the space theory, but there is one major flaw with it: the chasm he blasts up into is one of the few thats in a cave and doesn't have sky access, so he would have either blown up or smashed into the rock ceiling.
One thing that i think is often forgoten is that the average hylian dosent have a sheyka slate to counter the shield Hé puts up during the fight. His fighting style is complitely countered by it but still makes him very dangerous to any normal enemy that isn't you Know, the unbeatable hero of the godess.
Only bad thing about this video was how you never mentioned the fight music. Its a certified slapper of a song. An absolute banger. It was one of my favorite parts of fighting kohga.
I do also wish the final fight with him had more going on. It would be super fun if he had attatched crazy contraptions to his mech in different parts of the fight. I was kind of let down because the seized construct was really fun and going mech to mech with kohga was cool, but it was just way to easy. Hes still one of the best parts of tears of kingdom, rip to him having no voice acting cause his VA in age of calamity was amazing.
Glory to master khoga 🫡
I feel like everyone’s forgetting that the chasm where kohga shoots out of has a ceiling above it… so…
Ganon when receiving news about khoga once I'm done with him: "To shreds you say"
I loved Kohga in BOTW. He’s off his game and out of shape. His lighthearted battle was pleasant and refreshing after all the sneaking around the overpowered clan members.
21:26 we can’t have you learning that our agents will be outside your house
Kohga didnt anticipate one thing: link can build a freaking gundam mech.
A third game set in space would likely focus on the moon, considering its symbolic significance in BotW and TotK (the Blood Moon and its tie to monsters). The space aliens from MM could actually show up too, if that moon gets involved too.
Stemming from that, visiting some of the other LoZ worlds in a sequel could be interesting. Revisiting Termina in particular would be amazing
Master Khoga is the Megamind of Zelda and I love the guy for it.
Khoga had a voice actor in age of calamity and he was great
After having played AoC, seeing Kohga again made me really happy. Something about how he's just so goofy as well as knowing that, in another timeline, he and Link would fight side by side against Ganon(dorf). Kohga's reason for forsaking his master in AoC was also not contradicted in TotK, because as for how much of a cartoonish goofball Kohga is, he's not the kind to treat his minions as disposable. Something about knowing that, should it come down to it, Kohga would choose his clan over some ancient evil he's born into worshipping. Come to think of it, Kohga probably encourages his footsoldiers to teleport away from Link instead of fighting to the death.
When you pointed out the Master Kohga goes to space I was expecting you to suggest the next game will have Link going to the Moon... you know an actual location in the Zelda Series seemingly with a trippy Lunar Culture Possibly even Fierce Deity Kohga would appear
Love your videos man, I really do. Just one question though: are you able to use any other music in the background? The Zora/vah Ruta music gets a little tiring hearing the same notes for 35-40 minutes
I believe you made a mistake on a detail of the Sheikah, they don't fight for good, they fight for the Royal Hylian Family. There is no good or bad for them, that fact especially proven true in Ocarina of time with the Shadow Temple.
I just LOVE how goofy Kohga is 😂
In AoC Kohga was voiced an it fits his character. I was always fascinated by the yiga and I’m happy how they evolved.
Jokes aside that ending bit sounds kinda hype to play lol
Kohga was blasted into the roof of the cave in Rito Village, and there is no hole in the ceiling of that cave, so he either splattered onto the roof of that cave, or bounced off the roof, and left the Rito Village cave entrance. But for the most part, the Yiga talk about him as if he were dead. Which is disappointing because in the Breath of the Wild sequel, Kohga became a good guy. Sure that was a different timeline, but if he became a hero in that timeline, he could have became a hero in the Tears timeline. I also don't think we'll get a fourth game in the Breath series. I think this third game is it. Granted, just like with Breath of the Wild, there were a LOT of things that happened in the past that were never explained that the Breath of the Wild sequel filled in for us. And since Tears had a lot of gaps in it's past that are never explained to us, maybe a fourth game will fill in those gaps as well.
Minor setback for a major comeback
the sound track is a banger
I can't imagine they'll make a threequel to BotW, but maybe we'll get some more Yiga content based in the sky in a DLC?
Age of calamity had Kohga voice acting. Can’t wait for hyrule warriors for Totk
Glory to Master Kohga!
This is the reason I use the yiga fabric
Didn't even know Mineru changed much on that last battle. Did it without her and it's actually pretty tricky. Especially late in the fight where you have to recall his spiked balls but specifically just the middle one, and it's not launched first.
Yeah i love this video needs more attention and i agree i wish master khoga had his voice from the stupid age of calamity game his cutscenes were solid in that game
Perfect analysis of Kohga, I love his character arc, but you really wrong with him being better than Ganondorf. Now that a lot of media try to justify the actions of each villain or antagonist, a villain who is evil just because simple reasons like a kingdom's domination (or being the literal incarnation of the original Demon King as specified in previous games) is really appreciated
I wish Kohga had gotten his AoC voice actor.
I personally think that koga is a really threatening character. He looks like a goffy dumbass to us because we play link who is a monster.
Guardian where build up to be these invincible highly destructive machine. Link has the reaction time to face and redirect there laser atack, he has the strengh to cut through there thick metal limb and destroy them with brut force alone. Link can literraly climb anything regardless of there structure whether it's smooth or not.
Even between the hand of a complete noob, Link has incredible feat. The guy is so strong he completely wreck weapons at an insane rate.
And koga can keep up with that beast, even present a challenge in some of those fights. If you put yourself in the shoes of a civilian from hyrule. Facing koga is a nightmare, a certain death. The small member from the Yiga clan can be dispatched if you have a decent fighting level but the lieutenant and koga himself are monster that even a trained warrior could hardly hope to beat.
Ok but a legend of zelda game in space would legit be awesome
21:13 me when someone asks 8 year old me what i want to be when i grow up
I just wanna add (not that this improves ganondorf all that much) but I think ganondorfs motivation was similar to oot getting hyrule for his people but when he got the secret stone it corrupted him and he became what is effectively a dark god
At least Kohga gets grunts. I remember when GameFreak failed to put even that much into Sword and Shield, in a very egregious and visible manner.
I was actually disappointed by BoTW so my expectations were low with ToTK. I was pleasantly surprised by this game and master Khoga was one of these happy surprises. In fact I now think of ToTK as more of a rehash and what could have been for BoTW than a sequel though
Problem with the Kohga Space theory... that's the Rito chasm, its entrence is underground... he's gonna shoot up there and blow up in a cave... lol
One thing I particularly like is how, at the very beginning of his first appearance, before he recognizes Link, Kohga actually seems genuinely grateful for his help repairing the damaged vehicles, and was probably about to invite him to join the Yiga. There's an implication there that he has a kind of honor.
He inspires loyalty in his men for a reason. In Age of Calamity, two Yiga goons were going to kill a starving child, but he wordlessly told them to back off and gave the kid a banana instead. That kid would grow up to be Sooga, his right hand man.
Kohga isn't unjust. Even in Age of Calamity you see that he genuinely cares about his lackeys, being the main reason that pushes him to join Zelda against Astor and Ganon. He's just very dedicated to the cause I guess lol
@@DreadnoughtDT I mean that's a different Master Kohga, but yes.
@@hypotheticaltapeworm The Sheika can live over 100 years and do so on the regular. The name is said to be passed down between leaders, but the body and general behavior says it's probably the same Kohga.
@@Raina111111ye, and some dialog in one of the dlc cutscenes implies that hes the same but younger master kohga
I like how well adapted the Yiga are to zonai constructs. Even the Zonai Survey Team barely know what they're looking at half the time, but the Yiga are balling underground on electric unicorn motorbikes. It fits their backstory of being technologically advanced but shunned for it, they fully embrace and utilise all of this cool new tech. You don't see the tech savvy side of the Yiga in BOTW but in TOTK you can even see Yiga members arguing over specs of different zonai vehicles they built themselves.
Yeah i wish they salvaged some sheikah tech and fused it witht he zonai tho
Hail Master Khogua
Well to be fair to that Zonai Survey Team, they are just now finding these Zonai constructs while the Yiga had roughly 5-6 years to figure out how it all worked so it only makes sense they'd understand it more.
The Yiga are the best "villains" in existence
@@Firebender554but the chasms to the depths only opened recently, i.e. probably during the upheaval
Even the chasm that Kohga fell down wasn't technically there (that plothole irks me)
And the reason Link thwarts their progress is because they're just starting to settle in the depths no? The relay bases are notably new as you can find recent notes giving advice on suitable places to build them and how to keep monsters out, which wouldn't be a thing if they had 7 ish years to get to know the area and what lives down there
Same with the observations about the poes and pristine weapons and other oddities in the depths
They wouldn't be commenting on them just now if they had known the area for years. So I'm confident they start venturing into the depths at the same time as the zonai research team
I'm assuming the zonai research team is just incompetent oof
I believe in space Kohga. Though i think you missed the part where he teams up with the Koroks link maliciously sent into space.
The Korok Space Program makes new discoveries every day.^^
Unironically I could see the ultrahand system being expanded into a deranged combination of zelda and kerbal space program, and space seems like the only way they could really one up themselves after TOTK
Super Zelda Galaxy 3
The space Koroks could be called Killjois, known for their annoying nature and rude attitudes towards Link lol
Honestly, considering this is Nintendo we're talking about, I would be utterly unsurprised (and simultaneously very excited) if the next game is actually set in space somehow.
Fun fact that I'd like to point out about Kohga's "loud" mannerisms: Kohga's entire character is *heavily* inspired by Kabuki theater, from his body language, to the sound effects that play when he's onscreen, to his design with its exaggerated collar and topknot. He's theatrical and clownish because he's a caricature of Kabuki theater. I'd even go so far that his character is based on the common Kabuki depiction of Ishikawa Goemon specifically.
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@@w82290 What?
@@w82290what?
@@liamhansolo1464 YUSUKE!!!!
Even his battle music is amazingly theatric too!
Seeing kohga return was genuinely the most I have freaked out in this game. They basically turned him into Eggman.
And like Eggman, Kohga has a lot of ressources/manpower and every loss doesn't seem to slow him (or the Yiga) down in any capacity. There could be hundreds, if not a few thousands of them hidden away or hiding in plain sight playing the long con.
In fact we don't even kill any Yiga, they always use their magic to escape. (the only ones we see dead are in BotW's memories iirc). With several years to spread underground without opposition.. now with tech to reach the islands too if they want and already all over hyrule there's no realistic way for anyone to get rid of the Yiga.
No, they turned him into Team Rocket. I mean, he even calls Link a twerp.
Oh my goodness he totally IS Eggman, maybe slightly more comical. Also based Flynn pfp
Master Kohga, Stupendous Chief of the Yiga Clan: "I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: LINK the HERO'S A BITCH-ASS MOTHERFUCKER. He pissed on my FUCKING banana. That's right. He took his Hylian fucking BLONDE dick out and he pissed on my FUCKING banana, and he said that his dick was THIS BIG, and I said that's *DISGUSTING.* So I'm making a callout post on my twitter-dot-com. Link, you got a small dick. It's the size of this Rupee but WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my dong looks like. That's right, baby. Tall points, NOT blonde, no pillows, look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my banana, so guess what, I'm gonna FUCK Hyrule. That's right, this is what you get! MY SUPER LAZER PISS! Except I'm not gonna piss on Hyrule. I'm gonna go higher. I'm pissing on the MOOON! How do you like that, HYLIA? I pissed on the MOON, you idiot! You have twenty-three hours before the piss droplets fucking HIT Hyrule, now get out of my FUCKING sight before I piss on you too."
Really? Because i call Kohga's mechs the Kohgamachines. In honor of Dr. Wily.
Honestly, the whole repurposing of the Yiga Clan was incredible. They were more or less being used to showcase creative alternative uses of various Zonaite technology. It really inspired me to actually try more than just Hovercrafts, Wing-planes and 4-Wheelers.
It made the Yiga interesting, and it made them appear _competent._ And don't even get me _started_ on the boss fights.
TOTK really nails the angle BOTW was going for with the Yiga. Yeah, they're clowns, but y'know, a lot of people are afraid of clowns.
@@gregoryhayes7569They'd be scary if we weren't Link.
Kohga ! Let's find who have the cooler mech !
My mech with flame laser and cannon or your spiky car
I like that their talent for creating innovative Zonai vehicles shows that the Yiga are still Sheikah at heart
@@carbodude5414 Hell, we don't even see much in the way of _variety_ in Sheikah-clan technology. Theirs are more on a "general use"-scale, and they aren't really for more than just "someone with a Purah Pad" to use.
But the Yiga can not only all use what they create, but they use it indefinitely. When even _Link_ needs to recharge, it makes them imposing; there's no cooldown to the Yiga, so you need to make your own opening.
Funny as Koga is I can’t help but admire his tenacity. The man survived the fall in the hideout pit WITH NO GLIDER and a huge iron ball seconds away from flattening him and then survives The Depths which are pretty much devoid of any proper food and full to the brim with Gloom-Touched Monsters and still he manages to get his troops established down there to dig for ancient Zonai Tech. Screw a dog, man’s got that cockroach in him. And I’m sure that by going Bear Grills in The Depths he was doing his salty ass ancestors proud. XD
Not to mention that he survived the depths *without* the Lightroots activated. Dude's alive on pure spite.
This was the best way I've seen it described 😂
What it shows is that for all his hubris being his undoing, the guy is actually quite creative even if he's no genius. His survival is however completely based upon his own self-delusion of importance fueled by relentless pride and egotism but that did keep him alive in The Depths and get him out. The sheer effort needed to explore the Depths and the ingenuity required to begin constructing machines without the luxery of the Ultrahand glue whows that Kohga, for all his faults, does pose a genuine threat to Hyrule if given the resources and opportunity.
Nintendo needs to make him the main antagonist of a future Zelda title, if not dedicating a whole DLC quest arc to him.
@@KryyssTVcould honestly see a dlc where we go after khoga on new sky islands after he got blasted off from the depths
@@TheBestcom-ym6iz Kohga prbably landed on a unknown sky island with even more advanced Zonai technology and shows up in the DLC with a fully functional, floating battle ship :)
I *cried laughing* when the two yiga footsoldiers were angrily stomping their feet along with Kohga. It's hysterical
The way both the footsoldiers look at each other before stomping along with Kohga in a “Oh we should probably join in” way makes it all the funnier 😂
The funny and sort of depressing thing about master kohga’s quest to give Ganondorf access to a Zonai construct is that he… sort of already has one. The boss fight of Mineru’s sidequest has you engaging in a kaiju battle with Mineru against Ganon’s gloom-riddled construct, meaning Kohga’s entire mission is sort of comically redundant as a result
He can even respawn it!
The funny thing about this is the fact that I beat Kohga BEFORE starting the construct quest
So it was kind of a twist because I thought Ganon just rebuilt the one Kohga had and added upgrades, but in hindsight they both had one, Ganon just got the better version first lol
i actually thought it justified kohga. ganon, if he knew of them, would probably think really low of the yiga or at least kohga, but ganon viewed corrupting a construct worthwhile enough to make it guard a secret stone, and now kohga has achieved the same, and even without the insane power of ganons corrupting gloom/malice.
I literally did the Kogha final battle right before I did the Spirit Temple
The weird thing is where and HOW did Kohga find one? Mineru said she only built 2. So where did Kohga's come from?
No for real, the fact that he figured out the building of the zonai without ultrahand is impressive.
So is him teaching his crew and being the closest to link in power and tools department.
He’s like the new Team Rocket of Nintendo.
You look forward to every second he’s on screen.
You have a love-enemy relationship with him.
He has dramatic flare.
There isn’t anything that’s not to love. I also love that the Yiga Clan has more actual presence around the world. You run into some surface locations, the take-over of the great plateau, and all of it underground.
when he was sent flying after the final fight i could only think Master Kohga is blasting off again!
team rocket of Nintendo? doesn't Nintendo own the pokemon games?
@@SquareVillian I meant the show’s team rocket instead of how it’s portrayed in the games. I guess that didn’t come across very clearly.
I literally thought the same thing. Even creating over the top vehicles to help spread chaos. Master Kohga returning was by biggest wish for TOTK, and we got him back better than ever
Oh you’re a villain all right, just not a super one.
Oh yeah? What’s the difference?
“Presentation!”
The final fight is way more intense if you don't do the spirit temple because the construct is something you've never seen before and he really seems almost indestructible with dangerous attacks and when you get one of your own it's that much satisfying to have that power to yourself
The whole spirit temple thing was literally the first thing I did after his questline and I really appreciated it. Especially since the spirit temple fight basically forces you to do a mech vs mech fight, so I got to experience fighting one both ways.
It took like five tries but I beat him anyway and it was awesome
So there is a way to kick Seized Constructs without mech suits.
I did the whole kohga questline after the rito, and I remember him in the mech thinking 'man what I'd do for one'. Fast forward to me in the construct depot and I have a realization on what the ability might be...
Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed piloting the mech and fusing my gleeok horns to the arms as a big elemental doomsday device
You right, but also it’s super fun to do the Kohga fight in the Mineru construct.
I think the Yiga has some good chance of showing a redemption Arc in a future Zelda title. They started out as good guys who helped defeat Ganon but turned against Hyrule after being shunned, they're sympathetic. Now couple this with the fact that you never kill any of them (they just teleport away and Kohga always makes it out somehow), I could imagine these guys actually meeting Ganon for the first time and realizing they're nothing to him and deciding that maybe they want to be the good guys after all.
Yeah but it’s not like age of calamity. Unless in a sequel if whatever evil it is uses them or attacks them then yes that would be amazing to see them help the hero
Except for that one guy in that BOTW memory, he's straight up just dead
*insert mega mind meme* maybe... I dont want to be the bad guy
Depends. Particularly extra vengeful of them killed Dorian’s wife for leaving the clan.
I won’t lie, the last encounter caught me off guard because I legitimately thought he was going to be to revealed to be sleeping or even treat him as goofy and that the “weapon” was going to be something overthetop like the one he used at the end but I legit got taken off guard when he got the mech!
I think my name shows my opinions on that last encounter
Nothing about Kohga can be taken seriously, takes away any grounded relatability out of Hyrule when he balloons around on a rocket with cartoon physics.
Same here, mi amigo. Now THAT is how you subvert expectations lol
@@clonetrooper2003 Not really subverted when he's still a goofy idiot that defeats himself
Brett said the final encounter is too easy, but for me, who had only unlocked three sages' power then, was almost overwhelmed.
I couldn't find a way to hurt himin the second phase, where he hides himself behind the blue Sheikah force field.
It's one of the toughest boss fight I encountered, perhaps only inferior to Queen Gibdo and Ganondorf.
I find it funny how his final defeat mirrors BotW. He lost the first time because he didn't have enough control, while here he lost because he had too much control (he kept moving it by his threatening dance)
Also, in BotW he fell down a hole while here he got shot back up one.
Oh god.
Next game, he's going to BECOME a hole.
@@The94Venom If the space thing works out, his final attack will be creating a black hole and he will end up drawn into it himself. Seriously though I like the idea of Legend of Zelda in Space, there is a fic on spacebattles- Eternal Paragon- that is a zelda/mass effect crossover, basically replacing earth with the zelda series' planet, post BotW (with tears of the kingdom not canon, due to how it screws up the timeline). The Hyrule federation has all the sentient species from the series, and uses mana based tech extrapolated from the sheikah tech you see in BotW, which in the past was how Hyrule took over their home planet.
It has to balance mana based tech and magic against ezoo tech and biotics by having them mutually interfere with each other, but the cosmopolitan cooperation of the various peoples we see in Botw expanded to the stars is a nice contrast to the ostensibly similar citadel council that ulitmately is just the Asari, Salarians and Turians lording their power over everyone else because they got there first. I love the first meeting when the Asari diplomat basically realizes that the federation HAS everything the Citadel could ever try to offer them, in terms of galactic community, resources etc- and in fact the federation has far superior terraforming capabilities so they have access to many more inhabitable planets.
A Zelda in space could do what other game timelines did post ganon and have our heroes travel to a new place with new dangers and new demons- and considering the Zonai came from above- they could try to build on that and maybe have them be from space originally. To be fair I am not really expecting much continutity wise with Nintendo in this area- BOTW left enough things vague to fit in their timeline snarl but many of the plot vital choices made in TotK make it impossible to fit into the zelda timeline, unless you treat the two as their own new one. Its too bad, the time travel aspect could have been used to set up a handwave for any inconsistencies but they went for a closed loop- that still doesn't explain where all the sky islands came from.
I loved Kohga in age of calamity. The fact he abandoned Ganon when all his friends souls were being harvested by Astor was endearing to me.
The construct seems to say Kohga doesn’t seem to have died and I have no reason to think he did unless we have confirmation. So glad to see his character isn’t done with and they should get him voiced lines. His VA in Age of Calamity gave him a pretty good voice. Goofy, yet charismatic.
The yiga said to me that it's disrespectful to worry about kohga, cuz he's apparently invincible
@@Dado_nastro I mean, he’s over 100 years old and barely changed, at this point he could probably survive the sun exploding!
@@commanderblackheart5856 100 years without aging, survived a drop that would have killed most, somehow thriving in the most treacherous part of Hyrule - WITHOUT LIGHTROOTS, MIGHT I ADD -
He's definitely still alive.
@@gladiatordragon9219 I mean even the way he departed- on the Zonai rockets- was significantly less 'final' than when he fell down the bottom less pit. He's totally fine and just chilling somewhere recovering from likely smashing into the Rito caves' roof. Which honestly makes me happy cause I love his character.
@@gladiatordragon9219 to top on that, when you visit the yiga Hideout after defeating Kohga one of them says that the death of Kohga is lie manufactored by Link. So if even his underlings believe the he isn't dead, why should we believe that he is dead
I for one absolutely loved Master Kohga since I first met him in Breath of the Wild. Sure, he is a joke and his fight is extremely easy, but that is how he is meant to be, especially as a mini boss. I liked him because he was so different from the other bosses.
When he appeared in "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity", where he is wonderfully voiced I might add, I grew to love him even more. His, clownish, carefree, and even cowardly side is even more developed, however another side to his character, tenderness, is also displayed. In this game he is given a sidekick, Sooga, who is pretty much the exact opposite of his beloved master. Kohga is still all about serving/reviving Ganon, but then Astor, who although is not the final boss is basically the main villain, starts taking the lives of Yiga Clan members to do so. Sooga does what he can to stop him, telling his master to escape. His devotion is explained in a scene where it is revealed that Kohga rescued him at a young age. After losing Sooga (I don't recall if it is revealed whether he survived), as well as several clan members, Master Kohga joins the heroes to get revenge. There's a scene where Zelda reunites with her father, and of course Kohga is bawling his eyes out in the background. This sweet side of his doesn't cheapen his character, but enhances it.
I was so happy to see him in Tears of the Kingdom. You can get a Yiga outfit, wear it in front of him, and he'll see right through it every time. His fights were extremely fun, and I was not disappointed at the sendoff he got. While most funny scenes give me a chuckle, this one had me literally laughing out loud. I can only hope he returns as he's one of my favorite Zelda bosses of all time. He might even be my favorite, actually. It's not his difficulty. There's just something about him I enjoy.
A few things:
1. Kohga is NEVER fooled by Link wearing a Yiga outfit, showing his perceptiveness. I remember trying it for the final fight and it felt chilling for him to call me out as he was meditating.
2. I think the final battle with Kohga is more fun if you do it without Mineru (though seeing you have a mech battle was pretty sick), and it functions as a subtle tutorial for how to beat the Seized Construct in the Spirit Temple.
Isnt it crazy how none of his own minions recognize Link in the Yiga costume, but he and every other enemy in the game immediately see through Link’s disguise
Probably because the monsters of Hyrule don't discriminate. They see hooman, they attacc
To be fair, it took him a moment to tp realize it was link, but I only get the outfit after the first incounter.
Yiga may worship Ganon but the monsters don’t give a fuck, the only good human is a dead one so they’ll attack no matter what side they’re on
It’s because only true star crossed haters will recognize each others presence even if either one is disguised. It’s a special hate for your enemies.
Pretty sure they can smell it’s a hylian
If you want to see more Kohga and his voice acting, watch the Age of Calamity cutscenes with Kohga.
one thing i love about kohga's revival is that the BOTW DLC actually hinted that kohga may have survived. the quest that makes you hike back through the yiga clan's hideout include one where you throw a shiekah orb down the pit you threw kohga down. and it makes an audible noise when it hits the bottom.
which meant that the bottomless pit wasnt bottomless, and that there may be something hidden down there.
so i genuinely remember seeing theories around 2019-2020 about how kohga may have survived and that the game may let us check out what was down there.
its an example of really good foreshadowing for TOTK. and it was definitely done on purpose, if you ask me. but i think the DLC is where they definitely started foreshadowing all of it on purpose.
man i love this duology of games
That would totally make sense, because ToTK itself began when BoTW DLC ideas started piling up overtime until eventually there was too much stuff to consider it DLC. So while some DLC was implemented, obviously a lot of it weren’t. Perhaps we were actually meant to get a DLC that lead us into the pit and end up finding Kohga again, but that ended up getting repurposed and reimagined into what we got in ToTK, a genius move imo
Oh, that makes me think it would have been fun if you could find the orb in a Yiga outpost.
@@a.j.cookie9735 Yup, this was definitely planned. I remember reading that they made TotK because it was all DLC ideas for BotW at first and they had so much they made all those ideas into a new game instead.
I completely forgot about that. It would be cool if you could find a decayed Sheikah pedestal down that chasm, but I guess it would make sense for it to disappear along with the rest of the technology.
It’s so funny to me that at the end of the day, Kohga STILL defeated himself with a spiked metal ball.
IMO His ultimate defeat in TOTK is even funnier! He really is the Wile E. Coyote of the Zelda series.
@@digitalon01 he IS the Wile E. of the series! Now I kinda wish we could've fought in a tunnel where he barrels through it and we put in a boulder in his way
The worst part about him not having voicelines is he actually has voice lines in Age of Calamity, and they're great! It is incredibly saddening that he never got any here.
Of course Master Kohga is the better villain. He is just *the* best villain of the Legend of Zelda villain. He is the big, the burly the *Master Kogha!*
Also, you should look at the side quest where Link disguises himself as a Yiga Clan member and becomes a spy. It gives you even more time with him and the rest of the clan than there already was.
Glory to Master Kohga!
Sadly I did that side quest after defeating Kohga 😔
You for got the second bit of that: “The big, the burly, the one, the only, MASTER KOHGA!!!”
@@SpaceFlamingo07 I was typing this comment while on the toilet. Forgive me.
@@jimboanimations4041 "The one, the only, master shit!" Sry, but when i read that, i imagined this part of the sentence accidently dropping in the toilet.
In the final confrontation, I came up to Kohga in the Yiga uniform and he commented on it while in his meditative pose, said my disguises wouldn't work, he'll always recognize Link. I found that bit pretty cool, although I think he only makes such a comment in the final fight.
Nope, Kohga will always see through Link's disguise immediately and comment on it.
To be fair, link would the the only Yiga member with a yellow headpiece instead of that dark gray so I could see how he would notice
He balances goofey and threatening well in this game
Idk about that threatening part, his boss battles were haliroously easy.
@@slurples149 easy? How dare you disrespect the glorious, beautiful and powerful Master Kohga?
Honesty yeah! At first he is all goofy yelling that your cheating and all but then he summons a spiked monster truck and this awesome boss music plays. Its such an interesting combination of goofy clown and genuine threat who at that point in the game probably understands more about zonai devices than you do.
@@Dado_nastro invincible, fearless, sensual, mysterious, enchanting, vigorous, diligent, overwhelming, gorgeous, passionate, terrifying, beautiful, powerful Gre- I mean Master Kohga
@@slurples149 his final boss fight was actually pretty challenging.
I like to imagine he flew off far into the sea on an island, where his clan somehow tracked him down, then they started exploring the seas and setting up bases on islands, and they work together with Ganondorf in a sequel to wind waker
Yeah I think he’s in another kingdom outside of Hyrule. Although I could see Ganondorf and calamity ganon being revived by demise or someone else. I also think Sooga is outside of Hyrule
I mean, I’d say wind waker already had a sequel (phantom hourglass is peak don’t @ me) but I understand if people would prefer a fully open world sailing adventure with more than 20 pixels on screen at a time 😂😂
@@agent_8167PHANTOM HOURGLASS MENTIONED YIPPEE
I will forever be disappointed they didn't give him any voiced scenes, his VA in Age of Calamity was easily one of the best parts of that game
so so true, i was even hoping that at the very least they'd have him redub the grunts because he's who i hear in my head as his canonical voice but they didn't, which is weird since they did redub yona's grunts despite her not having any voiced dialogue so what's up with that ???
I love tht scene when you break into the hideout in AOC
I encountered the Kohga mech battle before I knew anything about the spirit temple, so I was still blown away thinking "wait, there are MECHS now too??" I thought it was a really clever wait to tease the mech ability. Even after beating him, it didn't occur to me that I could get my own mech until discovering the construct depots some time later. If anything, because I had seen Kohga's mech battle, I was disappointed in the spirit temple mech battle because I already saw it before and Mineru's controls still felt clunky.
Kinda funny that way.
Yeah me too. I encountered him first before the temple so I quite like his final mecha 😅
One thing i like is that apparently once you do the Spirit Temple Purah supposedly tells you to search the depths for clues and talk to Josha. Which in turn points you in the direction of the Kohga quest, which finishes off with learning Ganondorf's location(though most people could probably guess it themselves)
I personally went to the Plateau to see if the Shrine of Resurrection was still there. I saw the Yiga stuff and immediately knew where I was going next.
Kohga and Zant definitely went through parallel arcs within the fandom. Both of them had underwhelming receptions for their first appearances when we only got about 5 minutes with their twisted and bumbling traits before they unceremoniously "died". But then the subsequent times they showed up (both in Warriors games, even), they were given much more screentime to actually flaunt their dynamic personalities and demonstrate just how complete they feel when you weave the Wacky with the Sinister.
Zant and Kohga might seem similar at a glance but they're really very different characters. Zant was terrifying for the entire game, showing up in cutscenes and beating up Zelda, Link, and Midna with overwhelming power. That is, up until his boss fight at the end, where it was revealed that he wasn't sane and the terror was replaced with creepiness. Kohga however was a silly villain from the very beginning. Unlike Zant, we never really saw him in even a half serious light until his final boss fight in TOTK, which still ended with a silly cutscene.
Everyone likes a flamboyant badguy 😂
They both 🥩 ride Ganondorf
He was great in Hyrule warriors
Agreed
I really love that they treat his final confrontation with Link seriously. The closest we got to a serious Kohga beforehand was in Age of Calamity, which isn't canon to the TOTK for obvious reasons, so seeing that even in this game he can be serious was definitely a good choice. I also love that they show how competent he really is in this game, he deduces that Link needs to use his hand to use the power, he's having the Yiga Clan thrive both in the depths, and on the surface, and most importantly, he knows it's you regardless of whether or not you wear the Yiga outfit. I genuinely believe that having him recognize you immediately is a nice choice, they definitely could've had him be fooled for a minute or something, but no, he always knows it's you. Which makes sense, he's the leader, he's smart enough to know when someone's impersonating their clan, that's literally a big part of them is impersonating people, he sees Link trying to trick him and he doesn't even entertain the idea of it.
Well, not completely. While Kohga *does* notices that Link uses his hand to use the ability, he never realizes that Link's hand is _not a normal hand,_ as evidenced by him attempting to access the power by putting his own palm against the projection every time you encounter him(aside from the last, where he is instead meditating).
Age of Calamity IS canon, just in a different timeline.
Kohga and the Yiga in general are genuinely amazing and I’m so shocked it took so long for something this perfect to get added. TotK especially makes them all absolutely amazing as Kohga gets chances to really show off what makes him a fun villain, and in that first cutscene his two foot soldiers who are standing next to him mimic Kohga’s goofy and manic movements which extends the goofiness a bit to the whole clan rather than Kohga being the only goofy one.
I think it’s a shame that master kohga didn’t get any voice acting for tears of the kingdom, but he has a voice actor in age of calamity
This is quite the tonal shift from thier first appearance and I love it.
My first experience with the Yiga Clan was a crying woman on the side of the road. I personally, can't stand to see a woman crying (unless she's like a fantasy villain having her post heroic meltdown) so even without me actually hearing it, she baited me to stop. I regretted it because my first Yiga fight was annoying as hell and almost killed me. It was a little weird, but scary. An enemy that perfectly baited my deeply rooted "Hero Complex" and dropped a difficult to pin down enemy on me. The Yiga clan got weirder as they kept appearing, culminating in their weirdo boss who was for all intents and purposes, the butt of every joke following them throughout the game.
Now they're an established set of weirdos who seem to get more menacing the more you mess with them. Once again culminating in this chubby weirdo of a boss, but unlike last time, he gets MORE serious and more creative as the game goes on. Kohga starts as basically the same joke boss with his clownish henchmen, the jokes are still there and funny as ever, to being a seriously dangerous artificer who gets more dangerous and, dare I say, SCARY, if unprepared. Kohga and the Yiga Clan as a whole work so much better in reverse in my opinion.
After seeing this, you gotta check out his age of calamity version. His voice actor’s perfect and he actually has a compelling redemption story
You really should tackle Age of Calamity, while yes a spin-off with dubious canon, shows a lot of other side of the characters, focused on King Roam and Kohga and WHY the Yiga (Specially Sooga) follow him, while standoffish, buffoonish and sometimes immature he's just that much of a charismatic leader that really worries for his underlings and these respond in kind. Hell, in TotK if you notice most of the underworld journals they end in "Glory to Master Kohga". They're doing all of this for him
Master Kohga also got quite a bit of development in Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity as well, he's actually voice acted in that game too. I kind of wish Sooga showed up in Tears of the Kingdom as well because that would have been even more fun Yiga Clan content. Then again I think he and Astor were just exclusive to that game.
Honestly I'm kind of hoping there's a TotK like follow up to AoC where Ganondorf takes a way more proactive role than he did in this game. Heck maybe through some time travel shenanigans with Terrako or some Zonai construct we'll get one of the craziest crossovers with characters throughout the entire series. Instead of it being a straight up fanservice game like the original Hyrule Warriors game was it'll actually have a pretty decent story like AoC had involving all of the crossover characters.
This is a bit wishful thinking, but I think with the expanded map of TotK, not to mention a possible past hyrule map too, and the fact that Hyrule Warriors is a very popular spinoff I don't doubt they're considering it. It'd definitely need to be on the Switch 2 though as AoC ran very poorly on the Switch.
yeah, HW continuation when both Link and Zelda end up in the past and we kill Ganon right then and there
spoilers?
and we don't loose Sonia nor Rauru ;3; same as AoC it's a fixit scenario D :
I could see the next Hyrule warriors game about the imprisoning war and upheaval. The Yiga would still be our allies as they have to find Kohga and Sooga who are trapped in a chasm. I also hope in TOTK dlc or a sequel to end the era of the wild we can see other kingdoms outside Hyrule
I will say that Sooga from Age of Calamity definitely fills the Yiga Clan’s Badass Leadership quota. Dude was stone-cold in every single scene
Quick note for around 3:15 in the video.
This is not true - in Ocarina of Time we also saw the dark side of the Sheikah. In the shadow temple located under Kakariko, we saw where the Sheikah interrogated enemies of the royal family and the place was hidden away because it was taboo and represented a stain on hyrule’s history
One thing regarding that point is that the Shiekah were following the king's orders. They were still loyal to the king before, and during OoT, they were doing horrible things on the orders of a horrible and paranoid king. The Yiga are different as they do NOT serve hyrule or the Crown at all. They cut that connection millennia ago and now serve calamity ganon and (by extension of being the source of the prior) demon king ganondorf.
I think it’s funny how Ganondorf doesn’t ever interact with Kohga
Probably knows about him. Probably would call him an idiot in his face. But st the same time would probably find him amusing.
It makes kohga seem like he’s just a crazy obsessed fan with a crush desperately hoping Ganon will notice him.
I mean if he did he would just see an annoying fat beer bellied idiot with the IQ of A Walnut and probably flick him way with a finger XD!
@@GhostWulf70792 reminds me of Ganondorf's relationship with the Twilight people. He just calls them "amusing" people and notes how he had fun using them, specifically Zant. I like the similarities between Kohga and Zant tbh
@@HavingFunISKEYKohga is in a parasocial relationship confirmed?
The Virgin TotK Ganondorf
Vs.
The Chad Master Kohga