“No matter when it came, the wind brought the same thing... Death.” *gets stabbed through the skull after losing everything he fought for over generations* “The wind... is... blowing....” what a disturbing thing to mutter as your last words after delivering that monologue, as a kid I never thought much of it, but replaying this as an adult sent a chill down my spine. Such excellent writing.
I believe the phrase "You attract what you fear" comes into play here. Ganon wanted to escape the winds of death and did his best to live in the winds of joy. However it only came to bite him back and thus he died to the one thing he feared the most. The winds of Death. Even if he isn't technically dead, Hyrule is drowned out along with the master sword stuck in his head, forever sealing him.
His statement refers to the very fact that the wind always blows in favor of the hylians and to the detriment of his kin, and so remarking that the wind is blowing very laconically and concisely illustrates the summation of the conflict and the fatefully tragic nature of Ganondorfs character. A sort of, "As usual, things worked out for your folks, not mine."
@@AcidArrestB not to mention ganondorf coughs up blood when you defeat him in the throne room. I think later versions censored it, but the original version I own has him coughing up red blood
Well, there were only two times that Ganondorf actually died, so you're only comparing this one and Twilight Princess. That one's pretty brutal as well.
To this day Windwaker Ganondorf is still my favorite. He was the only one able to not only reflect on his motivations, but also to realize how the curse bound him, Link and Zelda together. The curse wants him to kill Link, but here he chose not to. The curse fills him with hatred and a desire to destroy Hyrule and its descendants. But here he wanted Hyrule back─No longer with the intention to destroy. But when his chance to obtain Hyrule was taken from him, Ganondorf realized that there was no escaping this curse, and that he and Link would always be bound to it. Even when he fought Link it felt more like he was testing Link's resolve, to see how much the boy was willing to fight for a future without Hyrule. In the end, he resigned himself to his role as the enemy of the Hero, and wanted to go out in a worthy battle instead of waiting for the end.
A man of culture, I see. If OoT didn't hold such sentimental value to me, then WW would probably be my favourite Zelda. I played it till the sails fell off.
The most interesting part is that this form of Link doesn't even have the Spirit of the Hero, and therefore he wasn't part of the curse - he was just some guy that wanted to save his sister from Ganondorf. He wasn't in any prophecies, like, at all. He MADE the gods choose him and THEY made him the hero that would seal Ganondorf one last time. He FIXED the curse that was broken just to end it again.
@@lazdahumanThis Link was a spirit of the hero from the very beginning. Not all Spirit of the Heroes have a prophecy. MC Link didn't, Zelda 1/Zelda II Link didn't, etc. The spirit of the hero are those who share the traits of a hero, something this Link does within the first 15 minutes of the game. As Ganondorf states, when it came to the triforce barers this was all fate. Just like all the previous Link's and even the ones after. The Spirit of the Hero isn't something that can actually be removed since it doesn't work in the same way Link being removed from a timeline works. It's a force of law not something physical. SS guarantees that there will always be one to fight his incarnation. As for the Great Flood, who's the say there wasn't actually one? The only time they mention a hero in the legends and even the characters is when they talk about the Hero of Time. There's already a candidate for the blood of goddess Hylia, this being king Daphenes' daughter who we can see a portrait of her and her retainers during from before the flood.
I don't know if anyone else realized this, but what Ganondorf says at 1:29 is pretty interesting when you consider that this is the same man who swore centuries ago to "exterminate" Link and Zelda's descendants when he was sealed away. Kind of shows that in some ways he actually did change over time even if he was still a villain in the end
Yeah, in part his wish was originally end Demise's cycle which bounds him with the goddess's soul (Zelda) and the spirit of the hero (link).... But that desire became lust for power, truly was an evil man.
@@absupinhere a more mature and stoic ganon probably realized that killing them would just restart the cycle over again which is pretty nuanced for a power hungry beast character like ganon was portrayed previously
I always tend to forget how like, important this moment is. Like, right there, The King fucking _breaks the curse._ He _ends_ old Hyrule. There’s no more Ganon in this timeline. Makes me wonder what the next game would’ve looked like if they had continued the sequel they were planning. The backlash to the visual style is what made them pump the breaks and work on Twilight Princess instead. The two handheld games are all we got for this continuity. It’s sad man. Potential for an amazing new post-Hyrule storyline held back by some complaints over a simple art style.
I always thought somehow Ganondorf/Ganon could come back in this timeline. I mean, he's somewhere deep under the sea after the events of WW. What if, after centuries, water lowered back to what is was, and another hero came to take the sword, waking up the evil that is Ganon.
@@slimDaTa I feel that would kind of ruin the ending of Wind Waker though. The whole point of the ending is that Hyrule and the Triforce need to stay flooded because the ultimate power of the Triforce would always create struggles for power and would result in suffering and inequity, as seen in Ocarina of Time (at least, that's how I always interpreted it). Unflooding Hyrule would kind of ruin the impact of the ending and it would especially ruin the impact of Ganondorf's last words and his character in general.
I love how Ganondorf only fails in this game because he forgot about the little "YOU NEED TO TOUCH THE TRIFORCE BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR WISH" detail for a sec while he was reveling in his victory.
It also didn't help that he didn't know King Daphnes was still around, as far as Ganondorf knew Link didn't have a fixed guide, or at least not a very mobile one since Link was always alone- At most he might have suspected Valor to be his guide, not someone who could access the Sunken Hyrule as easily as Link can.
Pretty much this. If Ganondorf had dispensed with the theatrics for *five seconds* he would've touched the Triforce before the King did. And when the King actually shows up, you can tell by how Ganondorf freezes that he's so completely off-guard by how he apparently materializes out of *nowhere* he honestly doesn't know how to react. Adds another factor to his breakdown, really - his entire plan was undone by a factor he might not have known for, and he's just so incredulous he goes 'screw it' and tries to murder a pair of literal children out of sheer spite.
That, and also laughing at the cruelness and dark humor, in his opinion, of the gods in that moment. He knew he was fated to lose that battle and drown under the ocean, but his pride wouldn't let him go down without a fight. Even during the battle, he made the decision to drop his weapon and backhand Zelda to incapacitate her when it would have been faster to swing his sword and kill her. He laid waste to the world in OoT before he was sealed away for generations, but it seems he no longer had it in him to kill two children who were there there to stop him at all cost.
At first you think he's laughing because he knows something we don't, another trick up his sleeve but then the water comes down as if its raining and his laughter starts to sound like it's actually hiding the pain and tears... would've been chilling to see actual tears streaming down his face as he laughed but I guess since it's a kids' game the symbolism and imagery is enough to get the point across
There are no incarnation's of Ganon/Ganondorf. They're all the same man. The only ones who reincarnate are Link and Zelda. Ganondorf/Ganon all are the same man that The Hero of Time fought. Some are from different timelines. The timelines all split when the Hero of Time pulled the master sword out from the pedestal. The Ganon's in the games are the ones who have obtained the full triforce and are permanently beast form. The ones from the nintendo and super nintendo games. These Ganons are the ones that successfully killed The Hero of Time. The WW Ganondorf never obtained the full triforce, he is still a man. He is the result of being defeated by Link, and Link being sent back in time to become a child again. He is from the Timeline that is created when the world is left without Link because he got sent back to the past. Because there was no Link to stop him when he finally broke free, the Sages prayed to the Gods to flood Hyrule. The TP Ganondorf is the Ganondorf resulting from when Link went back in time, and told the King/Zelda what will happen in the future. He is stopped before he could start his plan. He currently has the Triforce of Power, but not the full Triforce, because he obtained it the moment Link opened the Door of Time. This is why he is shown being executed in TP, but it was unsuccessful because he had the Triforce of Power. Their option was to banish him to the Twilight Realm, where he ended up usurping the Kingdom there first in order to return to Hyrule. It is unknown currently which Ganondorf/Ganon is from BotW. Revealing BotW2, he is still a man, so he must either be this Ganondorf (If the world was drained), or the TP Ganondorf. You can speculate BoTW(2) Ganondorf is TP Ganondorf, because of the chest wound, and that Hyrule still remains intact. Long Story Short, all Ganondorfs are the same man, but some have come from a different timeline.
This incarnation of Ganon's so scary You can tell he has intelligence and morality from his words before the fight, but as soon as his plan's foiled he breaks and devolves into senseless mania This man _twice your size_ comes charging at you trying to murder you with his own hands. No beast form, no energy balls, and all without a benefit to him. He's already lost because the King used the triforce. All he can do is wait to drown and yet his final action is to take Link and Zelda down with him
There Ganondorf totally devastated tried to convince himself that the Triforce was not so powerful and that he could challenge it with his power, but it was only a meaningless fight because even if he won he knew he had lost.
The part where he knocks Zelda out instead of turning her into human cold cuts made him way less scary, since we see that since this game is for kids he physically cannot kill anyone no matter how much he wants to.
It kinda feels like he still didn't _really_ want to kill them, considering how you explicitly see him jump at Zelda with 2 swords in hand, sheathe 1 and just bitch slap her.
@@misterzia01 Literally the first thing I thought of. They end the same way too, with both Alm and Link putting their swords through Duma and Ganon's heads.
Dang, all the years I've played the original Gamecube version and I didn't see that. Interesting. Guess the Hero of Winds decided "No more Mr. Nice Guy".
This is honestly one of the most nutty ways a Zelda game has ended to date. You finally rescue Zelda, but uh oh Ganon also summoned the full tri-force. Then outta nowhere the king comes in, chooses to sacrifice everything except you and Zelda to rid the world of Ganon, while also giving you and her a final chance to kill him before the sea swallows him anyway. And then, it's two literal children, against this massive Gerudo lord of darkness, who has these two big swords and is just ready to kill you both, but you work together, and stab this man in the brain, before everything is swallowed by the sea. Nuts.
@@thegameknight8916 Nah, in this timeline, Ganondorf's lifeless statue is swallowed by the sea and is never seen again in Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks. He dies along with Hyrule. This game really knew how to make things look innocent yet so epic.
the quality of writing here is... absurdly good for Zelda. Like, Zelda has good stories, but those stories don't tend to have much complexity to them. Good beats Evil, Link triumphs over Ganondorf. But hearing Ganondorf talk about his jealousy for the *wind* of another land because it happened to bring life rather than death... that is SUCH good writing. SO good. it feels almost out of place. and then the way he laughs at the end as his dreams are crushed at the very last second, makes you almost feel sorry for him.
I like how everything was up to a couple of kids. Link, Medli, Makar, Tetra. Seeing them realize their responsibility wasn’t something I appreciated until right now.
That’s a great observation. This actually makes a lot of sense with when the king said, “I desire hope for these children, give them a future!” and “It will be your land!” They’re the next generation that will make a brand new land.
This has to be the most fleshed out Gannondorf has ever been. At first he wanted to help his people but fell to megalomania. Yeah he’s a king but of what? A gang of thieves living in a forsaken wasteland. Can’t really blame him for being so envious of Hyrule’s verdant lands. What really gets me is how he talks about severing the ties that bind him, Zelda, and Link. If it weren’t for Demise they’d never have to keep playing this acursed game of reincarnation. I wonder how things would’ve turned out if that weren’t the case…
The reincarnation thing with demise is a bit harder to grasp if you're not familiar with buddhism. This is a super common trope in buddhist stories, two or more people who hate each other and their reincarnations are destined to continue the cycle of hate until it can be broken. Why he means by severing the ties is that Hylia's hatred for Demise is just as much to blame as Demise's hatred for Hylia. Ganondorf thought if he spared them he might be able to break the cycle of hatred, but since Link and Zelda still hated him regardless the cycle couldn't be broken and he was reborn again in Spirit Tracks as Malladus.
Did he really want to help his people at all? I wonder. It's one thing to say that your people were suffering, but he never outright says he was ever doing it for them. Maybe it was megalomania that made him abandon his people, but whether he fell to it or it was there all along is up for debate.
Technically the curse at this point was Ganondorf touching the Triforce and the Triforce splitting on him. The split was unnatural, but it had to happen due to Ganondorf's evil intent, and the three have been destined to fall back to each other across history. Of course, there's the weirdness about the Triforce of Power (Din) sticking with Ganondorf; perhaps that was the Goddess of Power giving Ganondorf a "reward" for his endeavors, or maybe Ganondorf was the only one in Hyrule (other than the other two) who wouldn't suddenly totally change their personality upon acquiring it.
@@auraguard0212 The Triforce is a neutral force, it will grant the wishes of good and evil alike. It split because Ganondorf's heart was unbalanced and favored power. This is also why we had to go through several trials in Skyward Sword to wield the Triforce, to prove we held all virtues.
Actually, it's anticlimactic compared to most other games, especially Ocarina of Time. Why? NO GANON. And why you said Ganon, that's his less powerful human form Ganondorf
Tetra is the only Zelda in the series to not only back-sass Ganondorf and call him a lunatic, but also get slapped in the fucking face by him with his TRIFORCE OF POWER HAND and walk it off. And people have the *nerve* to say that Tetra lost her edge after she became the princess.
BOTW may be the most complete, amazing Zelda game and experience i've ever had but WW will always be in my heart as my favorite The Legend of Zelda game ever.
@@BrohamLincolnpanta-ct4ld ToTK? get real. You awaken the sages to fight Ganon and they get stopped by the very bosses you killed to recruit them. Ganon also sits on his ass in the exact place you left him at in the start all game. Story is ass.
credits to the original post: @Nosferatu you'll find him in Madchimpz's comment's reply section here in this video's comment's section. OOT= Growing Up MM- Overcoming grief SS= Facing your fears TP= Facing your darkness LTTP=Pure Heroism BOTW=Redemption LA= Accepting all good things must end WW= Persistence i just added my own stuff.
I will never get over windwaker. It was my first game when my parents bought me the gamecube years ago. It took me forever to beat it but it will always hold a special place in my heart.
Honestly, I like this version of Ganon. His motives seemed justified, but he went down the wrong path of action. All he wanted was a place for his people to thrive. That was his sole desire which was warped by the hatred and malice of Demise into a lust for power to conquer instead. He didn't want to hurt anyone and he even said he wouldn't kill Link and Zelda, two children who were dragged into their destiny.
This is by a mile the best Ganondorf in the series. While all the other ones are fully evil, Ganondorf in TWW actually seems human, so much that I kinda feel bad for him.
Madchimpz because of the setting OoT was about growing up TP was about face your inner darkness Botw was about redemption WW is about responsibility like when your sister gets kidnapped in the beginning and you go and find her or when the rito had the problem with the dragon and deku and so on because Link has done it out of his own will no one else in any case he was the Zelda of this game
@@nosferatu3726 I don't know what that has to do with the dialogue being better. The real answer is that from all the Zelda games you mentioned, the lead writer was never the same person. They all have Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Satoru Iwata (except OoT) as producers or directors, but all of those games have different script writers. Whoever wrote the script for Wind Waker was just really damn good.
The past is the past, but parts of it work to dictate our future. Hyrule does not die, so long as there are those who remember it, and restore it in their image.
@@fatalwaffle1715 not quite, they found it some time before Spirit Tracks. Nico's the only one of the pirates still alive in that game, and he's hella old
@@benjamingroff122 A second close to OoT ? For having replayed to OoT recently and even if it's one my favorite Zelda games the final segment of the game is really disappointing or mediocre at this point. Ganon's Castle is by far the worst final dungeon in the series with puzzles who are way too easy for a final dungeon. Same thing with the Final Boss who isn't even interesting in terms of design wheter it's or Ganondorf. Ganondorf is just a copy paste of Aghanim from A Link to the Past with poor patterns and Ganon is literally one of the easiest Boss in OoT.
Something I thought was interesting is that the very center of the arena Ganondorf fights Link and Tetra on has the original design of the forest medallion from OoT. For those that don’t know, OoT was originally going to have an air temple, which is why the medallion looks like wind. Nice little Easter egg in my opinion
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor Zelda, Link, and Ganandorf are all cursed by the triforce to always come into conflict with one another for control over it's three aspects knowledge=Zelda, courage=Link, power=Ganandorf. So as long as they hold each aspect within them they will always be reborn. Hence why each game they are the same.
@@masondaniel6727 Not in case of Wind Waker Link. He is just a dude that turned out to be worthy. The curse is not his. The original hero's spirit is not present in this timeline.
It looks like ganondorf has blue blood. A blue fluid that’s of a completely different color and consistency spurts out when ever he is parried... I never noticed that...
"My country lay within a vast desert," the dark one spoke quietly to himself. The boy tilted his head in confusion. "When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world." Ganondorf paused. "And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes." The boy was even more confused. What was he talking about? "No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death." The child felt his blood run cold. "But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin," the man sighed and gazed longingly in the distance as if remembering everything from so many years of slumber. "I..." He remembered the changes in Hyrule. The way the people would be so merry and happy. "...coveted that wind, I suppose." "It can only be called fate. ...That here, I would again gather the three with the crests." Link's confusion slowly started to piece together what he was saying. "...That I should lay my hand on that which grants wishes to the beholder. That when power, wisdom and courage come together, the gods would have no choice but to come down." Ganondorf reassured himself. "The power of the gods... the Triforce!" He bellowed. "He who touches it would have whatever he desires granted!" He looked down at the unconscious Zelda, her hand glowing with naught but a single flicker of light. "Already, the crest of wisdom is mine..." "...All that remains..." Ganondorf's eyes shifted to gaze at the boy. The warrior's blood ran cold once again, and the sword in his hand wavered as the crest upon its owner glowed. Ganondorf slowly turned to face him, and suddenly became a blur as he darted towards him. Link held up his shield to defend, but it was useless. A loud crunch of bone and flesh echoed in the quiet waters as pain erupted in the boy's face. The boy could barely get a noise out before another blow to the jaw was delivered, and the force made his hand release the Master Sword. The blade spiraled in the air before stabbing down in the floor right at Zelda's head. Link weakly gazed up at the wizard who's fist was covered in his own blood. Ganondorf savagely grinned as a final punch sent the boy rolling into the bricks. They darkened to crimson as a few pinkish red teeth rolled out on top of them. The boy's entire face felt numb and his vision was flashing reds and blues. Ganondorf smirked evilly as he waded to the boy like a shadow of death, and though his vision was clouded, he felt fear crawl up his skin. There was no courage here. There was fear and it made itself known. "Do not fear. I will not kill you..." Ganondorf gently whispered, "I merely have need for the power that dwells within you." Link saw the man bend down and a tight grip was on his wrist, but his body refused to move. He felt light and his eyes looked at Ganondorf's aged face. The wrinkles of sleepless nights in his eyes, emblazoned with regret and longing... his cheekbones were like that of a ReDead... starved for the past. Link suddenly felt the slightest hint of pity in his heart for him.
with the Triforce now assembled together, Ganondorf dropped the green clad boy and made his way toward the golden triangle. with his hand, he said. 'Gods, hear that which i desire. let this land be again exposed once again
My only real complaint with Wind Waker (other than the triforce collecting, which the HD version somewhat remedied) is how much of an afterthought Zelda was. Tetra is super cool and a great take on her, but as soon as she gets a dress, she's completely taken out of the story until the finale. However, the fact that she's still fighting at your side and keeps that mischievous streak does still make for a great moment. Arguably the greatest final boss in any Zelda Game-and arguably the greatest Zelda game, to boot.
Ganondorf: He who touches it will have whatever he desires granted! Also Ganondorf: *raises his hand in front of the Triforce to voice his wish without touching the Triforce* Me: bruh, do you even hear yourself?!
"Very well, then... Allow me to show you... Your future... Yes... Allow me to show you... Just what hope you have... ...See how much your precious Triforce is worth!" This line speaks to me, as Ganondorf's old, rage-fueled side from Ocarina of Time resurfacing. And that broken laugh before it is just the icing on the cake. He's killed thousands of people, just to have his plans washed away. Now, as he falls, he'll take Link and Zelda down with him.
The straight up gannon sword fights in this game and twilight princess were my favorite gannon fights by far. It's always super satisfying in games when you get the final duel with the big bad guy. Sometimes games can try to make things a little over the top and grand and it can take away from the satisfaction of a face to face 1 on 1 finale. Less grounded, less personal when it's some big massive thing like in breathe of the wild. Probably the least satisfying gannon fight in the 3d console games imo.
I think the devs sort of balanced that out in these games and gave you a super flashy fight before the more fleshed out final one. Sort of to satisfy two beasts.
@@TheGamerApocalypse definitely. Botw had the most disappointing final boss battle imo. Wasn't personal at all. They had a kinda sorta one on one, but he was just a mindless beast who had no interaction with link at all.
Between OOT WW TP and BotW, this was without a doubt the most difficult Ganondorf fight. Only real challenging fight in Wind Waker to be honest (Molgera was a little hard due to the targeting system but only slightly and Snake Ganon was a slight challenge too)
I can’t wait for a beautiful story like this in Breath of Wild 2. Breath was an amazing game but lacked gorgeous and compelling narrative of Wind Waker, Skyward Sword, or Twilight Princess
I think he means that he wants the water to disappear- not burn Hyrule to the ground. He wanted the sun to again touch Hyrule. He wanted to reverse what he ironically did not know that King Daphnes did seconds afterwards: Flood Hyrule. And that's where the legend begins and ends. It was never the goddesses that flooded the land- at least, they weren't why it flooded. The King doomed his own land, his own people, the timeline, all because he thought he was doing the right thing by stopping Ganon from ever taking control and sealing him. If Ganon got Hyrule this time... Who knows? He might have been a much better king this time around.
After waiting for many many years and carrying out years of work to prepare for this moment, Ganondorf loses it all when the King makes his wish. The fact that he starts maniacally laughing and then proceeds to go from not wanting to kill Link & Zelda to immediately wanting to kill them afterwards shows that he knows he has nothing left to lose. Best ganondorf story-wise imo.
Same here! I remember trying to find all of the triforce pieces, being the most frustrating part. I was a kid then but, now I look back at this game and appreciate it more and more; Now that I fully understand the importance of its story with Hyrule and why events happened the way they happened (the king drowning with his kingdom). Definitely one of the best told stories. Sad too.
this is the same ganon from OoT. he has a lot of discipline and he's very wise because he was defeated once before by the hero of time. this is the child timeline btw, meaning this takes place in the same timeline that the hero of time got sent home from by zelda after beating ganon. he wanted to save his people and he was aware of the cycle that he, link, and zelda were stuck in, and he wanted to undo it rather than kill link or zelda. he had good intentions, but his nature and his execution of his plans were poor. he tried to fight darkness with darkness, and that only backfired on him.
In all honesty, Ganondorf’s an ass but I feel for him. He felt fate was always against him and his people for his entire life, talking about how the wind carried death whenever it came. When you finally get the finishing blow on him he says “the wind is blowing.” Before dying. Ganondorf having a reason to assume power is great for the story, rather than having him be evil for evil’s sake.
Ganondorf's maniacal laugh, the way Link slices his butt (literally) in battle, the final blow and the way Link tosses his shield... My gosh Wind Waker was so good!
OoT Ganondorf: A guy who would do anything for power, but who's stuck spinning his wheels and waiting for death because he doesn't have ALL the power. It doesn't matter that he's unrivaled; there's still something he has to gain that's just out of his reach, and he has to wait for the seeds of his destruction to come together in order to claim it. LttP Ganondorf: A guy who would do anything for power, but who then realized that what he gave up for said power was unacceptable for him; is he really omnipotent, if he lost something he couldn't get back (his followers), and if his power only extends to the bounds of the Dark World? WW Ganondorf: A fusion of the two, hit harder by the faults in both.
What makes Ganondorf such a compelling villain to me really boils down to the dichotomy of WW Ganondorf and TP Ganondorf. Both are the same man, affected differently by the split timeline created after OoT. TP Ganondorf was thwarted before his grand scheme could be accomplished, never touched the Triforce, does not recognize the Master Sword, and never has any real character development. WW Ganondorf however, has faced the Hero of Time and lost; sealed away in the Evil Realm, stewing in his hatred, but also giving him time to reflect on his actions and motivations. When the seal is broken, he emerges ready to resume his dark designs. And rather than let him have Hyrule, the gods intervene and seal it away beneath the Great Sea. WW Ganondorf must then realize that every force in the universe is against him. An incredibly crushing and humbling moment. It makes him consider if his quest for ultimate power is even worth it, when all it has caused for him is pain and destruction. But the spark of greed remains alive, kindled by hope for finally achieving his ultimate goal. He will reunite the Triforce; a power without equal. A power that does not discern between right or wrong, good nor evil, and finally make his wish he’s been waiting to make since he first laid his hand on it. To have Hyrule completely. Only to be then stopped again by The King. At this, Ganondorf finally loses all hope. He has nothing to lose and nothing to gain. He will defy the gods and the Triforce until the bitter end, fueled by hatred alone. I cannot properly express how much I love The Legend of Zelda from a storytelling perspective. Each game fits into a larger tapestry that compliments each individual part. The story of Ganondorf, from power hungry man, to an entity composed of hatred and malice incarnate, is one of the most engaging in any fiction.
When you think about it, Gannon simply wanted his people to survive and not thrive via. the desert. Sucks that he wanted to rule Hyrule, could have saved a wish.
i really hope the next zelda game in this timeline will go back to get the master sword back, I just feel so bad that Fi is left there underwater like that.
I was so disappointed whenever this game was announced, I had preordered it without ever really looking into the details about it, and the animation/story. When it came out I absolutely hated it at first, but then it grew on me. It turned out to be one of my favorites in the end because of how much there was to do in the game and how open world it was lol.
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“No matter when it came, the wind brought the same thing... Death.”
*gets stabbed through the skull after losing everything he fought for over generations*
“The wind... is... blowing....”
what a disturbing thing to mutter as your last words after delivering that monologue, as a kid I never thought much of it, but replaying this as an adult sent a chill down my spine. Such excellent writing.
I believe the phrase "You attract what you fear" comes into play here. Ganon wanted to escape the winds of death and did his best to live in the winds of joy. However it only came to bite him back and thus he died to the one thing he feared the most. The winds of Death. Even if he isn't technically dead, Hyrule is drowned out along with the master sword stuck in his head, forever sealing him.
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His statement refers to the very fact that the wind always blows in favor of the hylians and to the detriment of his kin, and so remarking that the wind is blowing very laconically and concisely illustrates the summation of the conflict and the fatefully tragic nature of Ganondorfs character. A sort of, "As usual, things worked out for your folks, not mine."
We finally knew why he did for what he did, he was caring for his people as a king, which had no resources, when people of Hyrule had it all.
@@lavadragon6444 He is dead though. In this timeline curse of Demise is completely eradicated
Ganondorf: *giving dramatic, nostalgic speech about why he's evil and stuff*
Link: o~O
What is a dessert?
@@legendarynoodle2438 what?
@@pigaboyAKAthecoolestguyonearth because their world is flooded. theres no desserts
This Ganon is the one who lost to link in ocarina of time
@@salami4986 Are you sure? I thought the Twilight Princess ganon is the ganon from OOT (which happened before this timeline)
Its ironic how one of the most innocent looking Zelda games has probably the most brutal Ganondorf death
I don’t know, while ganon and not ganondorf , oot has blood coming from his head when link slashed iirc
In ocarina of time he stabs the mf through the mouth
@@AcidArrestB not to mention ganondorf coughs up blood when you defeat him in the throne room. I think later versions censored it, but the original version I own has him coughing up red blood
This is called weak ganon. Is not at his full power. I think on this game..he just uses 30%.
Well, there were only two times that Ganondorf actually died, so you're only comparing this one and Twilight Princess. That one's pretty brutal as well.
To this day Windwaker Ganondorf is still my favorite. He was the only one able to not only reflect on his motivations, but also to realize how the curse bound him, Link and Zelda together. The curse wants him to kill Link, but here he chose not to. The curse fills him with hatred and a desire to destroy Hyrule and its descendants. But here he wanted Hyrule back─No longer with the intention to destroy.
But when his chance to obtain Hyrule was taken from him, Ganondorf realized that there was no escaping this curse, and that he and Link would always be bound to it. Even when he fought Link it felt more like he was testing Link's resolve, to see how much the boy was willing to fight for a future without Hyrule. In the end, he resigned himself to his role as the enemy of the Hero, and wanted to go out in a worthy battle instead of waiting for the end.
A man of culture, I see. If OoT didn't hold such sentimental value to me, then WW would probably be my favourite Zelda. I played it till the sails fell off.
The most interesting part is that this form of Link doesn't even have the Spirit of the Hero, and therefore he wasn't part of the curse - he was just some guy that wanted to save his sister from Ganondorf. He wasn't in any prophecies, like, at all. He MADE the gods choose him and THEY made him the hero that would seal Ganondorf one last time. He FIXED the curse that was broken just to end it again.
@@lazdahuman That's a very good point. I hadn't thought of it like that! What this Link did was amazing.
This also explains why he never even transformed into his iconic boar form, he already gave up.
@@lazdahumanThis Link was a spirit of the hero from the very beginning. Not all Spirit of the Heroes have a prophecy. MC Link didn't, Zelda 1/Zelda II Link didn't, etc. The spirit of the hero are those who share the traits of a hero, something this Link does within the first 15 minutes of the game. As Ganondorf states, when it came to the triforce barers this was all fate. Just like all the previous Link's and even the ones after. The Spirit of the Hero isn't something that can actually be removed since it doesn't work in the same way Link being removed from a timeline works. It's a force of law not something physical. SS guarantees that there will always be one to fight his incarnation.
As for the Great Flood, who's the say there wasn't actually one? The only time they mention a hero in the legends and even the characters is when they talk about the Hero of Time.
There's already a candidate for the blood of goddess Hylia, this being king Daphenes' daughter who we can see a portrait of her and her retainers during from before the flood.
Zelda: David! I'm gonna aim at your shield!
Zelda: *obliterates him with a light arrow 0.7 seconds later*
that killed me XD
Should've held his shield up.
Poor David
Tbh David isn't skilled.
O@@mastercoolguy2809
Am I the only who laughed when Zelda called him David? To me, it was funnier than all these silly names people use
it kinda pissed me off. Lol
Well, maybe it was his real name and he wanted to use it.
it always bothers me when ppl upload these w their names rather than Link's but.. what can ya do lmao
oh well still enjoyed watchin
Better than Jackster. Like that one youtube video where it shows all of ganondorf's defeats. OOT :CURSE YOU JACKSTER!!!!!!!
fernandomgm, idk why but I named my link “fuck” 😂
I don't know if anyone else realized this, but what Ganondorf says at 1:29 is pretty interesting when you consider that this is the same man who swore centuries ago to "exterminate" Link and Zelda's descendants when he was sealed away. Kind of shows that in some ways he actually did change over time even if he was still a villain in the end
I thought though, that this link is not the original descendant of them, but he created a new bloodline?
didn't you not read what he said afterwards lol he never changed if he got his wish link's fate would be worse than his previous incarnation
And he put away his sword to slap Zelda instead of slashing her.
Yeah, in part his wish was originally end Demise's cycle which bounds him with the goddess's soul (Zelda) and the spirit of the hero (link).... But that desire became lust for power, truly was an evil man.
@@absupinhere a more mature and stoic ganon probably realized that killing them would just restart the cycle over again which is pretty nuanced for a power hungry beast character like ganon was portrayed previously
I always tend to forget how like, important this moment is.
Like, right there, The King fucking _breaks the curse._ He _ends_ old Hyrule. There’s no more Ganon in this timeline.
Makes me wonder what the next game would’ve looked like if they had continued the sequel they were planning. The backlash to the visual style is what made them pump the breaks and work on Twilight Princess instead. The two handheld games are all we got for this continuity.
It’s sad man. Potential for an amazing new post-Hyrule storyline held back by some complaints over a simple art style.
Well technically there r, on nds
I always thought somehow Ganondorf/Ganon could come back in this timeline. I mean, he's somewhere deep under the sea after the events of WW. What if, after centuries, water lowered back to what is was, and another hero came to take the sword, waking up the evil that is Ganon.
@@slimDaTa I feel that would kind of ruin the ending of Wind Waker though. The whole point of the ending is that Hyrule and the Triforce need to stay flooded because the ultimate power of the Triforce would always create struggles for power and would result in suffering and inequity, as seen in Ocarina of Time (at least, that's how I always interpreted it). Unflooding Hyrule would kind of ruin the impact of the ending and it would especially ruin the impact of Ganondorf's last words and his character in general.
That’s Spirit Tracks as a direct sequel to WW? Or am I mistaken?
@@TheGamerApocalypse
Phantom hourglass is direct, Spirit tracks is like 100 years after that if I’m correct
5:50 see how much of a gentlemen he is
he decided to slap her instead of stabbing her with a sword good job ganon
Sigma moment
@@BrianEX2023😂😂😂
Based Ganondorf
why did zelda just stand there
Canonical event@@bananadaily2317
I love how Ganondorf only fails in this game because he forgot about the little "YOU NEED TO TOUCH THE TRIFORCE BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR WISH" detail for a sec while he was reveling in his victory.
Its a super good example of his pride
It also didn't help that he didn't know King Daphnes was still around, as far as Ganondorf knew Link didn't have a fixed guide, or at least not a very mobile one since Link was always alone- At most he might have suspected Valor to be his guide, not someone who could access the Sunken Hyrule as easily as Link can.
Pretty much this. If Ganondorf had dispensed with the theatrics for *five seconds* he would've touched the Triforce before the King did. And when the King actually shows up, you can tell by how Ganondorf freezes that he's so completely off-guard by how he apparently materializes out of *nowhere* he honestly doesn't know how to react.
Adds another factor to his breakdown, really - his entire plan was undone by a factor he might not have known for, and he's just so incredulous he goes 'screw it' and tries to murder a pair of literal children out of sheer spite.
Yup. That's the sole reason why his goal failed, NOT Link defeating him.
When Ganon starts laughing at 3:35 as much of a villain he was I seriously felt so bad for him.
Just the laughter of someone that has lost everything.
yeah, it wasn't some evil laugh. but one of pain and anguish. it sounded more to him laughing through his tears.
It was legitimately horrifying to listen to
He just had the King of Hyrule's ghost ninja his wish lmao.
That, and also laughing at the cruelness and dark humor, in his opinion, of the gods in that moment. He knew he was fated to lose that battle and drown under the ocean, but his pride wouldn't let him go down without a fight. Even during the battle, he made the decision to drop his weapon and backhand Zelda to incapacitate her when it would have been faster to swing his sword and kill her. He laid waste to the world in OoT before he was sealed away for generations, but it seems he no longer had it in him to kill two children who were there there to stop him at all cost.
At first you think he's laughing because he knows something we don't, another trick up his sleeve but then the water comes down as if its raining and his laughter starts to sound like it's actually hiding the pain and tears... would've been chilling to see actual tears streaming down his face as he laughed but I guess since it's a kids' game the symbolism and imagery is enough to get the point across
I think Wind Waker's Ganon has to be my favorite incarnation of Ganon.
Vitamin L so tragic
He’s more grounded and intelligent in this game. In other games he’s just an evil entity.
There are no incarnation's of Ganon/Ganondorf. They're all the same man.
The only ones who reincarnate are Link and Zelda. Ganondorf/Ganon all are the same man that The Hero of Time fought. Some are from different timelines. The timelines all split when the Hero of Time pulled the master sword out from the pedestal. The Ganon's in the games are the ones who have obtained the full triforce and are permanently beast form. The ones from the nintendo and super nintendo games. These Ganons are the ones that successfully killed The Hero of Time.
The WW Ganondorf never obtained the full triforce, he is still a man. He is the result of being defeated by Link, and Link being sent back in time to become a child again. He is from the Timeline that is created when the world is left without Link because he got sent back to the past. Because there was no Link to stop him when he finally broke free, the Sages prayed to the Gods to flood Hyrule.
The TP Ganondorf is the Ganondorf resulting from when Link went back in time, and told the King/Zelda what will happen in the future. He is stopped before he could start his plan. He currently has the Triforce of Power, but not the full Triforce, because he obtained it the moment Link opened the Door of Time. This is why he is shown being executed in TP, but it was unsuccessful because he had the Triforce of Power. Their option was to banish him to the Twilight Realm, where he ended up usurping the Kingdom there first in order to return to Hyrule.
It is unknown currently which Ganondorf/Ganon is from BotW. Revealing BotW2, he is still a man, so he must either be this Ganondorf (If the world was drained), or the TP Ganondorf. You can speculate BoTW(2) Ganondorf is TP Ganondorf, because of the chest wound, and that Hyrule still remains intact.
Long Story Short, all Ganondorfs are the same man, but some have come from a different timeline.
@@KewlCrayon thanks for saving me the time to tell this comment section the exact same thing
KewlCrayon There’s no chest wound on the corpse in the trailer, it’s most likely a new Ganondorf that was born 10,000 years ago
Old Ganondorf: I know what it’s like to Lose. To feel so desperately that you were right, yet to fail nonetheless.
This incarnation of Ganon's so scary
You can tell he has intelligence and morality from his words before the fight, but as soon as his plan's foiled he breaks and devolves into senseless mania
This man _twice your size_ comes charging at you trying to murder you with his own hands. No beast form, no energy balls, and all without a benefit to him. He's already lost because the King used the triforce. All he can do is wait to drown and yet his final action is to take Link and Zelda down with him
There Ganondorf totally devastated tried to convince himself that the Triforce was not so powerful and that he could challenge it with his power, but it was only a meaningless fight because even if he won he knew he had lost.
The part where he knocks Zelda out instead of turning her into human cold cuts made him way less scary, since we see that since this game is for kids he physically cannot kill anyone no matter how much he wants to.
It kinda feels like he still didn't _really_ want to kill them, considering how you explicitly see him jump at Zelda with 2 swords in hand, sheathe 1 and just bitch slap her.
@@TenaciousDingo Still hilarious.
One detail I just noticed? Link actually throws his shield before delivering the killing blow to Ganondorf.
shield drops before a killing blow are always fucking epic man, check out the shield drop from fire emblem echoes shadows of valentia.
@@misterzia01 Literally the first thing I thought of. They end the same way too, with both Alm and Link putting their swords through Duma and Ganon's heads.
I always thought Ganondorf somehow knocked it out of his hand. Guess it makes more sense link dropped it.
this game's Link just keeps getting more and more badass holy shit
Dang, all the years I've played the original Gamecube version and I didn't see that. Interesting. Guess the Hero of Winds decided "No more Mr. Nice Guy".
This is honestly one of the most nutty ways a Zelda game has ended to date. You finally rescue Zelda, but uh oh Ganon also summoned the full tri-force. Then outta nowhere the king comes in, chooses to sacrifice everything except you and Zelda to rid the world of Ganon, while also giving you and her a final chance to kill him before the sea swallows him anyway. And then, it's two literal children, against this massive Gerudo lord of darkness, who has these two big swords and is just ready to kill you both, but you work together, and stab this man in the brain, before everything is swallowed by the sea. Nuts.
Ikr
Only for Ganondorf to return in the future.
@@thegameknight8916 Nah, in this timeline, Ganondorf's lifeless statue is swallowed by the sea and is never seen again in Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks. He dies along with Hyrule. This game really knew how to make things look innocent yet so epic.
@@antonio.3432 Tears Of The Kingdom.
@@thegameknight8916ifferent branch of the zelda timeline i’m pretty sure
the quality of writing here is... absurdly good for Zelda. Like, Zelda has good stories, but those stories don't tend to have much complexity to them. Good beats Evil, Link triumphs over Ganondorf. But hearing Ganondorf talk about his jealousy for the *wind* of another land because it happened to bring life rather than death... that is SUCH good writing. SO good. it feels almost out of place. and then the way he laughs at the end as his dreams are crushed at the very last second, makes you almost feel sorry for him.
I like how everything was up to a couple of kids. Link, Medli, Makar, Tetra. Seeing them realize their responsibility wasn’t something I appreciated until right now.
That’s a great observation. This actually makes a lot of sense with when the king said, “I desire hope for these children, give them a future!” and “It will be your land!” They’re the next generation that will make a brand new land.
Isn't that often the case in most Nintendo media?
This has to be the most fleshed out Gannondorf has ever been. At first he wanted to help his people but fell to megalomania. Yeah he’s a king but of what? A gang of thieves living in a forsaken wasteland. Can’t really blame him for being so envious of Hyrule’s verdant lands. What really gets me is how he talks about severing the ties that bind him, Zelda, and Link. If it weren’t for Demise they’d never have to keep playing this acursed game of reincarnation. I wonder how things would’ve turned out if that weren’t the case…
The reincarnation thing with demise is a bit harder to grasp if you're not familiar with buddhism. This is a super common trope in buddhist stories, two or more people who hate each other and their reincarnations are destined to continue the cycle of hate until it can be broken. Why he means by severing the ties is that Hylia's hatred for Demise is just as much to blame as Demise's hatred for Hylia. Ganondorf thought if he spared them he might be able to break the cycle of hatred, but since Link and Zelda still hated him regardless the cycle couldn't be broken and he was reborn again in Spirit Tracks as Malladus.
Did he really want to help his people at all? I wonder.
It's one thing to say that your people were suffering, but he never outright says he was ever doing it for them.
Maybe it was megalomania that made him abandon his people, but whether he fell to it or it was there all along is up for debate.
Technically the curse at this point was Ganondorf touching the Triforce and the Triforce splitting on him. The split was unnatural, but it had to happen due to Ganondorf's evil intent, and the three have been destined to fall back to each other across history.
Of course, there's the weirdness about the Triforce of Power (Din) sticking with Ganondorf; perhaps that was the Goddess of Power giving Ganondorf a "reward" for his endeavors, or maybe Ganondorf was the only one in Hyrule (other than the other two) who wouldn't suddenly totally change their personality upon acquiring it.
@@auraguard0212 The Triforce is a neutral force, it will grant the wishes of good and evil alike.
It split because Ganondorf's heart was unbalanced and favored power.
This is also why we had to go through several trials in Skyward Sword to wield the Triforce, to prove we held all virtues.
@@Dudebox64Then Ganondorf is as much a victim as Link and Zelda are.
Imagine being reincarnated just to get killed by a 10 year old with a green suit
Again.
I'm not 100 percent sure but I believe this ganondorf is the same as the ganondorf from wind Waker
*Ocarina of Time hahaha
He's oot ganon but link in this game is just a child from an island who happened to turn into the reincarnation of the hero of time
@@dlopez8104 ye its the ganondorf that was sealed at the end of ocarina after busting out of said seal leading to the flood amd the game
7:34 That last battle cry gives me chills to this day...
J00R46 that's what made this boss battle for me
what gives me more chills is Ganondorf saying "The wind is blowing."
@@beardalaxy BRUH XD
that battle cry gives me chills but i freakin love it
Best victory attack in the series
This is one of the most cinematic and powerful final Zelda showdowns. Ganon here is as poignant as he is sinister.
Where is Ganon? I only see Ganondorf.
Actually, it's anticlimactic compared to most other games, especially Ocarina of Time. Why? NO GANON.
And why you said Ganon, that's his less powerful human form Ganondorf
His goal finally in reach and then...
3:34 The laugh of a broken man.
Kinda sad. Makes you feel for Ganondorf a hair, doesn't it? You can almost literally see his sanity snap.
Tetra is the only Zelda in the series to not only back-sass Ganondorf and call him a lunatic, but also get slapped in the fucking face by him with his TRIFORCE OF POWER HAND and walk it off.
And people have the *nerve* to say that Tetra lost her edge after she became the princess.
BOTW may be the most complete, amazing Zelda game and experience i've ever had but WW will always be in my heart as my favorite The Legend of Zelda game ever.
This game is better than BOTW in pretty much every way if you ask me
@@linksgrandma25 😀
@@linksgrandma25 ive finished windwaker 3 times and i dont agree
This was my favorite Zelda game for a very long time until Tears of the Kingdom dethroned it.
@@BrohamLincolnpanta-ct4ld ToTK? get real. You awaken the sages to fight Ganon and they get stopped by the very bosses you killed to recruit them. Ganon also sits on his ass in the exact place you left him at in the start all game. Story is ass.
credits to the original post: @Nosferatu
you'll find him in Madchimpz's comment's reply section here in this video's comment's section.
OOT= Growing Up
MM- Overcoming grief
SS= Facing your fears
TP= Facing your darkness
LTTP=Pure Heroism
BOTW=Redemption
LA= Accepting all good things must end
WW= Persistence
i just added my own stuff.
TheDerpy 1 what’s LA?
Double flores Link’s awakening
Spirit Tracks: TRAAAAINS!
Would you say Majora's mask would be about overcoming depression?
@@christianbaker3564 Yeah sure. Or overcoming grief.
I will never get over windwaker. It was my first game when my parents bought me the gamecube years ago. It took me forever to beat it but it will always hold a special place in my heart.
Honestly, I like this version of Ganon. His motives seemed justified, but he went down the wrong path of action. All he wanted was a place for his people to thrive. That was his sole desire which was warped by the hatred and malice of Demise into a lust for power to conquer instead. He didn't want to hurt anyone and he even said he wouldn't kill Link and Zelda, two children who were dragged into their destiny.
Mannnnnn when G-dorf put the smackdown on Zelda, it became personal for me.
Right?
He could've stabbed her, but for some reason he put away the sword and pushed her aside.
@@thedeliveryboy1123 we don't want her to get skewered so easily, would we?
@@nugget4yearsago518 yh
@@thedeliveryboy1123 To be fair, he did say he didn't want to kill either of them earlier
1:16 Thanos beating the shit out of Thor
4:11 Captain America picking up Mjolnir
This is by a mile the best Ganondorf in the series. While all the other ones are fully evil, Ganondorf in TWW actually seems human, so much that I kinda feel bad for him.
Facts, I can’t get him off my mind😭
Yes, even though he looks old and tired compared to other games.
9:03 This line is just heart wrenching
Why was the dialogue so much better here than in any other Zelda game?
Madchimpz because of the setting
OoT was about growing up
TP was about face your inner darkness
Botw was about redemption
WW is about responsibility like when your sister gets kidnapped in the beginning and you go and find her or when the rito had the problem with the dragon and deku and so on because Link has done it out of his own will no one else in any case he was the Zelda of this game
@@nosferatu3726 Wind Waker was more about persistence.
Lilkxdude yeah your right
@@nosferatu3726 I don't know what that has to do with the dialogue being better.
The real answer is that from all the Zelda games you mentioned, the lead writer was never the same person. They all have Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Satoru Iwata (except OoT) as producers or directors, but all of those games have different script writers.
Whoever wrote the script for Wind Waker was just really damn good.
@@beardalaxy kay cool
3:35-4:05 That laugh though.
It just now made me think of an alternate universe Aku (Samurai Jack)
When you realize what the joke meant five minutes after you heard it.
Its the laugh of a broken man
That made me laugh ngl :) his laugh is funny especially when he says "YEAH"
That sounds like crying a bit too
"but that land will not be Hyrule, it will be your land"
First thing they do is sail away and find new place to build a new Hyrule
The past is the past, but parts of it work to dictate our future. Hyrule does not die, so long as there are those who remember it, and restore it in their image.
And they found it in spirit tracks.
@@fatalwaffle1715 not quite, they found it some time before Spirit Tracks. Nico's the only one of the pirates still alive in that game, and he's hella old
@@8-bitsarda747 you know what I mean.
The worst enemy here is Zelda's AI.
EXACTLY
Its just horrible and annoying
Zelda is always a stupid fuckin *itch useless princess and this AI just prove this point
@@mendinho123 no
@@mendinho123 am I blind or am I the only one that did not see anything wrong with her AI???
In my opinion, this is the best final segment in any Zelda game. Almost everything about it is perfect
I think it’s a close second to OoT’s end. TWW isn’t even one of my favorite Zelda games, but it’s ending is fucking amazing.
@@benjamingroff122 A second close to OoT ? For having replayed to OoT recently and even if it's one my favorite Zelda games the final segment of the game is really disappointing or mediocre at this point. Ganon's Castle is by far the worst final dungeon in the series with puzzles who are way too easy for a final dungeon. Same thing with the Final Boss who isn't even interesting in terms of design wheter it's or Ganondorf. Ganondorf is just a copy paste of Aghanim from A Link to the Past with poor patterns and Ganon is literally one of the easiest Boss in OoT.
Agree. Not the biggest fan of WW, but that ending is absolutely masterclass.
I don't agree. But it is still good enough.
The most iconic moment of Wind Waker... Ganons Stylish Backhand 5:48 Lmao
Very iconic
Something I thought was interesting is that the very center of the arena Ganondorf fights Link and Tetra on has the original design of the forest medallion from OoT. For those that don’t know, OoT was originally going to have an air temple, which is why the medallion looks like wind. Nice little Easter egg in my opinion
Wind waker's ganon's final words are chilling "ughhnn heh heh..."
"The wind...it is blowing"
"No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death."
1:16 Holy shit pause there XD
Is it where he's missing the sword for a split second?
Pause at 1:17 it's hilarious
It’s funny
@@mrnukes797 ”Return the slab! Or suffer my curse!”
1:20 that was one hell of a close call...
4:49 That smile. That damned smile
1:27 "I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend."
laughs in sith lord
@@carlodipersio4042 this bitch could BE the next Sith Lord.
Does anyone realize that King Daphnes Hyrule has COMPLETELY SCREWED ALL THREE OF THEM!?
How so?
@@VoiceOfTheEmperor Zelda, Link, and Ganandorf are all cursed by the triforce to always come into conflict with one another for control over it's three aspects knowledge=Zelda, courage=Link, power=Ganandorf. So as long as they hold each aspect within them they will always be reborn. Hence why each game they are the same.
@@masondaniel6727 Not in case of Wind Waker Link. He is just a dude that turned out to be worthy. The curse is not his. The original hero's spirit is not present in this timeline.
@@Gnidel Wind Waker Link wasn't even worthy. He practically forced the gods to accept him.
man when you think about it, it kinda means wind waker link made a brand new hero's spirit
King: "I have remained bound to Hyrule. In that sense, I was the same as Ganondorf."
Looks to Ganondorf, who is literally bound to Hyrule now.
I'm gonna say it: Best ending in video game history.
I'm gonna disagree, but I'm not sure which one I think is the best
I'll meet you in the middle and say best Zelda ending in history. There's a few other games I think top it
@@Rioraku TP ending was pretty good. That’s probably my favourite along with OoT honestly
Blinded by nostalgia. Not really.
If you look closely, Link tosses his shield to the side just before he plants the sword in Ganondorf's forehead.
I never noticed that, and I've beaten this game at least 6 times
@@8-bitsarda747 It happens so quickly.
That's why he lost everything in phantom hourglass
He threw caution to the wind for that final blow. No extra weight to slow him down, he went full ham for that last hit.
Holy shit, he did, I was wondering where it went.
It looks like ganondorf has blue blood. A blue fluid that’s of a completely different color and consistency spurts out when ever he is parried... I never noticed that...
uh yeah we call that censorship dude
actually... that may also be sparks 'cause y'know it's a sword?
No there’s a discolored blue fluid that comes out when you parry him it’s disguised as water!!!
Zachary Kenniston Those are effects. Every enemy has them.
Well, he is a king
"My country lay within a vast desert," the dark one spoke quietly to himself. The boy tilted his head in confusion. "When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world." Ganondorf paused. "And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes."
The boy was even more confused. What was he talking about?
"No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death."
The child felt his blood run cold.
"But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin," the man sighed and gazed longingly in the distance as if remembering everything from so many years of slumber.
"I..." He remembered the changes in Hyrule. The way the people would be so merry and happy. "...coveted that wind, I suppose."
"It can only be called fate. ...That here, I would again gather the three with the crests." Link's confusion slowly started to piece together what he was saying. "...That I should lay my hand on that which grants wishes to the beholder. That when power, wisdom and courage come together, the gods would have no choice but to come down."
Ganondorf reassured himself.
"The power of the gods... the Triforce!" He bellowed. "He who touches it would have whatever he desires granted!"
He looked down at the unconscious Zelda, her hand glowing with naught but a single flicker of light.
"Already, the crest of wisdom is mine..."
"...All that remains..." Ganondorf's eyes shifted to gaze at the boy. The warrior's blood ran cold once again, and the sword in his hand wavered as the crest upon its owner glowed. Ganondorf slowly turned to face him, and suddenly became a blur as he darted towards him. Link held up his shield to defend, but it was useless.
A loud crunch of bone and flesh echoed in the quiet waters as pain erupted in the boy's face. The boy could barely get a noise out before another blow to the jaw was delivered, and the force made his hand release the Master Sword. The blade spiraled in the air before stabbing down in the floor right at Zelda's head.
Link weakly gazed up at the wizard who's fist was covered in his own blood. Ganondorf savagely grinned as a final punch sent the boy rolling into the bricks. They darkened to crimson as a few pinkish red teeth rolled out on top of them. The boy's entire face felt numb and his vision was flashing reds and blues.
Ganondorf smirked evilly as he waded to the boy like a shadow of death, and though his vision was clouded, he felt fear crawl up his skin. There was no courage here. There was fear and it made itself known.
"Do not fear. I will not kill you..." Ganondorf gently whispered, "I merely have need for the power that dwells within you." Link saw the man bend down and a tight grip was on his wrist, but his body refused to move. He felt light and his eyes looked at Ganondorf's aged face. The wrinkles of sleepless nights in his eyes, emblazoned with regret and longing... his cheekbones were like that of a ReDead... starved for the past.
Link suddenly felt the slightest hint of pity in his heart for him.
As did I...
Hey by all means, turn Wind Waker into a book and I'll read it as many times as I beat the game
with the Triforce now assembled together, Ganondorf dropped the green clad boy and made his way toward the golden triangle. with his hand, he said. 'Gods, hear that which i desire. let this land be again exposed once again
My only real complaint with Wind Waker (other than the triforce collecting, which the HD version somewhat remedied) is how much of an afterthought Zelda was. Tetra is super cool and a great take on her, but as soon as she gets a dress, she's completely taken out of the story until the finale. However, the fact that she's still fighting at your side and keeps that mischievous streak does still make for a great moment. Arguably the greatest final boss in any Zelda Game-and arguably the greatest Zelda game, to boot.
Shes literally the same person the entire way through. She gets kidnapped as Tetra too. Its not a sign of weakness for a character to need help.
@@aliegan2109 That is not at all what year-ago me said.
Greatest? Uh-uh.
Its cause it was rushed. Its why the beguinning (untill dragon roost?) And the end (after triforce hunt) is amazing but the middle is kind of bluh
This is easily the best scene in any zelda game. The perfect tragic but hopeful ending to an amazing game.
FUN FACT: If you use the grappling hook on Zelda she'll give you three hearts.
* *Doesn't work when she's unconscioud and in Hero Mode*
The master sword was that close to impaling Tetra 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ganondorf: He who touches it will have whatever he desires granted!
Also Ganondorf: *raises his hand in front of the Triforce to voice his wish without touching the Triforce*
Me: bruh, do you even hear yourself?!
I think hanging out with Bowser make him a little dumb lol.
"Very well, then...
Allow me to show you...
Your future...
Yes... Allow me to show you...
Just what hope you have...
...See how much your precious Triforce is worth!"
This line speaks to me, as Ganondorf's old, rage-fueled side from Ocarina of Time resurfacing. And that broken laugh before it is just the icing on the cake. He's killed thousands of people, just to have his plans washed away. Now, as he falls, he'll take Link and Zelda down with him.
The straight up gannon sword fights in this game and twilight princess were my favorite gannon fights by far.
It's always super satisfying in games when you get the final duel with the big bad guy. Sometimes games can try to make things a little over the top and grand and it can take away from the satisfaction of a face to face 1 on 1 finale. Less grounded, less personal when it's some big massive thing like in breathe of the wild. Probably the least satisfying gannon fight in the 3d console games imo.
I think the devs sort of balanced that out in these games and gave you a super flashy fight before the more fleshed out final one. Sort of to satisfy two beasts.
@@TheGamerApocalypse definitely.
Botw had the most disappointing final boss battle imo. Wasn't personal at all. They had a kinda sorta one on one, but he was just a mindless beast who had no interaction with link at all.
This is still the pinnacle of Zelda boss fights.
Its the right balance of challenge, atmosphere and tenseness.
This is tame compared to Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess.
Ganondorf: I don't like sand...
It's Course and Rough and Gets Everywhere You Know.
When people look images of this game think is silly, but believe me, Moments like the ending makes the Game more serius than You think
Between OOT WW TP and BotW, this was without a doubt the most difficult Ganondorf fight. Only real challenging fight in Wind Waker to be honest (Molgera was a little hard due to the targeting system but only slightly and Snake Ganon was a slight challenge too)
Ganondorf wasn’t in BOTW
I don't really consider this a hard fight as much as its about being patient.
as long as you know what you can and can't do, it's pretty straightforward
This one took me by surprise tbh, he was really fast and agile in comparasion to other gannons that usually are slow but strong
Difficult? Get real. It's all about patience.
I can’t wait for a beautiful story like this in Breath of Wild 2. Breath was an amazing game but lacked gorgeous and compelling narrative of Wind Waker, Skyward Sword, or Twilight Princess
5:47 Hoooly. This pimp slap certifies Wind Waker as having the best Ganon
Damn it’s been years since I’ve played this and I forgot how crazy the setting and tone are for every final boss in the Zelda series
Oh, kinda thought he was gonna give Gerudo valley some purifying winds. Guess not; he just wants to watch the world burn.
Gerudo Valley doesn't exist anymore. He has to wish for Hyrule to be un-flooded before he can even see Gerudo Valley ever again.
I think he means that he wants the water to disappear- not burn Hyrule to the ground. He wanted the sun to again touch Hyrule.
He wanted to reverse what he ironically did not know that King Daphnes did seconds afterwards: Flood Hyrule. And that's where the legend begins and ends. It was never the goddesses that flooded the land- at least, they weren't why it flooded. The King doomed his own land, his own people, the timeline, all because he thought he was doing the right thing by stopping Ganon from ever taking control and sealing him.
If Ganon got Hyrule this time...
Who knows? He might have been a much better king this time around.
@@bluphenyx This is the last Ganon from this time line that's why he didnt appear at PH and ST.
@@bluphenyx If only Link had succeeded in OOT in this timeline.
@@andrewmiller5126
He actually did. Although Hyrule had to be flooded in the process.
After waiting for many many years and carrying out years of work to prepare for this moment, Ganondorf loses it all when the King makes his wish. The fact that he starts maniacally laughing and then proceeds to go from not wanting to kill Link & Zelda to immediately wanting to kill them afterwards shows that he knows he has nothing left to lose. Best ganondorf story-wise imo.
3:23 "I think Ganondorf is a fart and Hyrule should flush him like the turd he is!"
So is he a fart or a turd?
@@andrewmiller5126 You need to watch more speedruns.
That moment when the king slowly looks down is so heart breaking...
2:48 - I always thought the King was impatiently tapping the floor with his foot, the I realised it was just his robes blowing in the wind.
5:49 Zelda gets Chris Brown’d by Ganondorf
*p o n c h*
Ganondorf woke up Chris breezy
4:11 that laugh from Zelda is so pretty and cute!
That was Tetra's laugh, by the way.
Nintendo need to hurry up and release Wind Waker & Twilight Princess for the Switch
My first Zelda game it holds a special place in my heart.
Same here! I remember trying to find all of the triforce pieces, being the most frustrating part. I was a kid then but, now I look back at this game and appreciate it more and more; Now that I fully understand the importance of its story with Hyrule and why events happened the way they happened (the king drowning with his kingdom). Definitely one of the best told stories. Sad too.
Mine too
Same. Wind Waker is such a masterpiece.
5:52 - The cleanest slap in gaming.
Tell me I'm wrong.
No. Your Not Wrong.
this is the same ganon from OoT. he has a lot of discipline and he's very wise because he was defeated once before by the hero of time. this is the child timeline btw, meaning this takes place in the same timeline that the hero of time got sent home from by zelda after beating ganon. he wanted to save his people and he was aware of the cycle that he, link, and zelda were stuck in, and he wanted to undo it rather than kill link or zelda. he had good intentions, but his nature and his execution of his plans were poor. he tried to fight darkness with darkness, and that only backfired on him.
Same Ganondorf but a lot weaker. Yet, he is indeed wiser.
Not only did this guy name Link "David" but his performance fighting Ganondorf was just subpar.
I mean it's a untrained kid after all with a sword.
What do you expect, the Hero of Winds is not like the Hero of Time before him.
What makes this so sick is that Link isn’t even the chosen hero. He’s just a brave ass kid who’s had enough of Ganon’s tomfoolery
“David, I’m sorry”
Lol
This Ganondorf nearly won, like he came closer to winning than any other incarnation
Aside from Breath of the Wild at least
Ocarina of Time also had him nearly won as well. He had Hyrule under his fist for 7 years.
This has to be my favorite version of Gannondorf, and my favorite final battle music to this day.
THIS ISNT PUNCH OUT GANONDORFF
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Hey, referee Mario, I like your hair!
With the power to knock out someone with a single backhand might as well be
Imagine it was Ganondorf instead of Donkey Kong…
7:34 that battle cry
In all honesty, Ganondorf’s an ass but I feel for him. He felt fate was always against him and his people for his entire life, talking about how the wind carried death whenever it came. When you finally get the finishing blow on him he says “the wind is blowing.” Before dying. Ganondorf having a reason to assume power is great for the story, rather than having him be evil for evil’s sake.
Ganondorf's maniacal laugh, the way Link slices his butt (literally) in battle, the final blow and the way Link tosses his shield... My gosh Wind Waker was so good!
Poor Link is so short and Ganondorf so tall that Ganon's ass is Link's eyelevel
9:50 BROOOOOOO MY HEART
OoT Ganondorf: A guy who would do anything for power, but who's stuck spinning his wheels and waiting for death because he doesn't have ALL the power. It doesn't matter that he's unrivaled; there's still something he has to gain that's just out of his reach, and he has to wait for the seeds of his destruction to come together in order to claim it.
LttP Ganondorf: A guy who would do anything for power, but who then realized that what he gave up for said power was unacceptable for him; is he really omnipotent, if he lost something he couldn't get back (his followers), and if his power only extends to the bounds of the Dark World?
WW Ganondorf: A fusion of the two, hit harder by the faults in both.
Ganondorf to a kid: "I'm not going to kill you."
Also Ganondorf: *beats up a kid like a schoolyard bully*
Makes sence
"Haw haw!"
What makes Ganondorf such a compelling villain to me really boils down to the dichotomy of WW Ganondorf and TP Ganondorf.
Both are the same man, affected differently by the split timeline created after OoT. TP Ganondorf was thwarted before his grand scheme could be accomplished, never touched the Triforce, does not recognize the Master Sword, and never has any real character development.
WW Ganondorf however, has faced the Hero of Time and lost; sealed away in the Evil Realm, stewing in his hatred, but also giving him time to reflect on his actions and motivations. When the seal is broken, he emerges ready to resume his dark designs. And rather than let him have Hyrule, the gods intervene and seal it away beneath the Great Sea.
WW Ganondorf must then realize that every force in the universe is against him. An incredibly crushing and humbling moment. It makes him consider if his quest for ultimate power is even worth it, when all it has caused for him is pain and destruction. But the spark of greed remains alive, kindled by hope for finally achieving his ultimate goal. He will reunite the Triforce; a power without equal. A power that does not discern between right or wrong, good nor evil, and finally make his wish he’s been waiting to make since he first laid his hand on it. To have Hyrule completely. Only to be then stopped again by The King.
At this, Ganondorf finally loses all hope. He has nothing to lose and nothing to gain. He will defy the gods and the Triforce until the bitter end, fueled by hatred alone.
I cannot properly express how much I love The Legend of Zelda from a storytelling perspective. Each game fits into a larger tapestry that compliments each individual part. The story of Ganondorf, from power hungry man, to an entity composed of hatred and malice incarnate, is one of the most engaging in any fiction.
When you think about it, Gannon simply wanted his people to survive and not thrive via. the desert. Sucks that he wanted to rule Hyrule, could have saved a wish.
Feels like it took 1000 years to beat this game
CJ Max I think that’s most Zelda games in general.
Majora's mask would like to have a word with you.
@@nm5329 ugh no ty
@@renjia3504 rude
I feel like I beat this game too quickly honestly, I was so sad when it was over.
6:37 Yo ganondorf did a double jump what a legend.
Chuggaaconroy remarked that Ganon's defeat in this game, in his opinion, is the best way to defeat a boss in a video game.
I, for one, agree with him.
i really hope the next zelda game in this timeline will go back to get the master sword back, I just feel so bad that Fi is left there underwater like that.
I was so disappointed whenever this game was announced, I had preordered it without ever really looking into the details about it, and the animation/story. When it came out I absolutely hated it at first, but then it grew on me. It turned out to be one of my favorites in the end because of how much there was to do in the game and how open world it was lol.
Hero of the Winds, Champion of the Gods, bearer of the Triforce of Courage
Fuckin’... _David_
7:15 Only Tetra could think of using a dirty trick like bouncing the light arrow off the shield 👌 Still got that pirate attitude in her.
HE FREAKIN PICKED UP LINK LIKE A RAG DOLL JEEZ
1:17
We here at Nintendo do NOT condone child violence. We DO however find it _hilarious._
These might be my favorite incarnations of all 3 of them there's just something about these versions of Link Zelda and Ganondorf.
Ganondorfs speech was a pivotal moment for many young minds