12 Cool Things You Probably Didn't Know About Zelda: The Wind Waker
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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Kalle Demos can be one-shotted with Forest Water, beacons in Forsaken Fortress work thanks to a contraption manually operated by Bokoblins, purple saliva drips from Boko Babas' mouth... and more!
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The figurine for Octoroks gave them a 'perfect attendance award' as a Zelda enemy, then they lost that 'award' a few years later when they didn't appear as an enemy in Twilight Princess.
Devon Smith It's kinda ironic since Twilight Princess has good enemy variety haha
honestly the most interesting part of this video was learning that you can use the leaf pump to stun the peahats while flying
i knew this for years, surprised that not many knew this
Right? I hate those damn things, I thought you had to just get lucky trying to avoid them.
same mate, I didn't know you could do that.
Hell, *how* do you do that, I never knew
@@Xunkun if you press the leaf button again while flying, link does that little leaf pump thing
One detail I liked in the Gamecube version. If you use the Tingle Tuner before you've gotten bombs, Tingle will refuse to use his own bombs to clear obstacles, saying it's something you must do on your own.
despite that, you can still find ways to trick him.
I never understood why they cut Tingle Tuner from the Wii U Version. I mean, the Gamepad was meant to be used as Tingle Tuner.
@@Haymdahl probably because the buttons on the pad were already assigned to the main game.
@@suroguner This is not a button issue.
@@Haymdahl then how would you control the tuner?
I must say that the only secret that I didn't know about this video and it wasn't described as such in the video is the fact of being able to activate the Deku leaf to eliminate or push enemies in the air, I always dodged them, which made it a bit difficult for me arrival in the woods. Thanks for the video 🙌
I always knew it but I don't remember how I discovered it as a kid. Just spam the button surely lol
never knew about that either. explains why you can do that little "poof" with the leaf while flying.
yeah I thought that was just a technique to give yourself a tiny bit more height. i'm pretty sure you have to spam it during the birdman challenge.
@@KairuHakubi no I did it without spamming. Didn't know that this had any function. I thought it was just an animation. 😅
Same!
My favorite detail is that Link stops screaming as he falls down holes once he gets the Triforce of Courage.
Baito is a shortening of "Arubaito" in Japanese which means part-time job! So his name makes sense and is pretty comical.
And I think that Arubaito comes from the German "Arbeit" = work :)
🤔 - Very interesting...
@@SpeckdrummHD alternatively it comes from that one japanese guy that always goes to the same place on vacation. some call him "Aruba Ito"
That reminds me to the Switch game with the same name.
The Japanese love their abbreviations.
you should mention that the boat cyclone cannot be done on the first visit to the island, since the Red Lion is parked and will refuse Link to ride until you get the orb
Which island?
@@LittleAl016 Forest Haven
@@mutalord ? You can leave Forest Haven without getting Farore's Pearl. You just can't go beyond the borders of the path you took to get there beforehand.
@@LittleAl016 uh. Really? I remember that the Red Lion would park and not move until after the temple.
@@mutalord I was able to leave Forest Haven without any issues before getting Farore's Pearl. I just couldn't go beyond the borders of the vertical path between Forest Haven and Dragon Roost Island and the horizontal path between Dragon Roost Island and Windfall Island.
Am I the only one impressed with the footprints staying in the sand even when viewed from the telescope? I feel like back in 2002 that would have been awe-inspiring unless there was some PSX/PS2 game that did so earlier.
I mean, they wanted to do the footprints thing since Ocarina of Time, that and also the fact that you could chop the trees, and they would have stayed forever chopped... what purpose would it have had? nobody knows (at least for the trees), people suspect that nintendo wanted to do the footprints thing so you could traverse the desert multiple times... first by doing some sort of quest and when you had to come the second time, you would use your own footprints to get to your destination again.
Definitely not the PSX. That thing had less RAM than the N64 did. I can't think of any PS2 games that did that, but it's also one of those details that games don't really advertise and you don't really notice, but when you do it's like, "oh, that's really cool how they did that."
I was honestly just surprised they didn’t fade away after a short time
Depends on how they render footsteps. If it's like decals, like they do with bullets holes in walls in many shooters, there's probably a budget of how many can appear before the first steps are cycled out to the new location.
always wondered about the searchlight guys. i never recall being able to get close enough to see them working, but they are very much fully animated along with the controls themselves!
It's not just River Octoroks. Enemy on enemy friendly fire is a pretty ubiquitous feature in the game.
Not only that, if I remember correctly, make them hit each other and some will start infighting.
I think part of that is to do with the fact Link can often steal their weapons and the octorok attack gets reflected back.
I guess it just made sense to turn friendly fire on and make it simple.
I'm late but my favourite strategy to fight multiple enemies at once is to just take my shield out and wait for them to all kill each other. Especially with moblins, they end up hitting each other so easily
@@jonsmith5058 I think that is the cause alright. Like, I don't think chuchus can damage each other.
6:30 that whole sequence there was awesome the camera angle and pumping the leaf to get away from those enemies at the perfect time
These shots are cinematic and really cool thanks to the custom camera, you’re always nailing it 👌
how is he doing the custom camera? I wanna try it in Pikmin...
One fun thing I learned from this was the dude named Baito. Like, I knew he was a character, but I never knew his name (or just forgot, it's been years man). Baito is Japanese for "part-time job", which is what he ends up doing after his interview. It's amazing how simple things like this can be lost in translation, since his name isn't a word used outside of Japan. There's probably a lot of characters with names like this that people completely overlook.
Also, that cyclone skip is something else. That trivia blew me away.
Hope OP sees comments like yours and looks up the Japanese meanings for the names for the rest of this series... I would love to know more stuff like this!
That's true for that Baito guy. I'm french and in the french version he doesn't have a name at all!^^ He's just called "The Post Office Clerk"^^
Man, I love Wind Waker. It's such a nostalgic game for me.
That was fast!
I bet Baito is based on the night shift clerk from the General Store in Majora's Mask. He has a similar face and is looking for work. Kind of a loose connection, I know, but still.
How did I never notice that
His name is the Japanese word for work, too (closely translates to “part-time work”).
I love all the little secrets in this game. It really shows a lot of love for video games, and the fun of figuring out different strategies of traversing levels, and the Easter eggs are so fun!
Happy 20th Anniversary to The Wind Waker!
It's amazing how many extra miles the Zelda games are given with details we'd otherwise take for granted.
Strangely, even my Wind Waker guidebook never mentioned the trick of using forest water one Kalle Demos.
It took years for anyone to find it
Wind Waker is my favorite Zelda game!
I knew a few of them already but that you can one-shot the Boss with the water, for example, I didnt and I really hope to learn more!
Amazing Job!
I’ve really enjoyed the Majora’s Mask and Ocarina of Time videos, and now I’m really looking forward to more Wind Waker!! I’d love to see Twilight Princess in the future!
I love the custom and fixed camera scenes, dear. It is very fun to watch, and it makes the game looks like a theater act "Eevee!" ❤
Cool!
weirdo
I wonder how is this achieved. Camera controls like these would be a life-saver to have when doing some fanart and looking for references. The freecam cheat doesn't seem to do that, unless I'm missing something.
Coolest thing I learned was that the deku could block enemies in flight. Played the game since release and never knew that.
5:03 this isn't new to Wind Waker. You can deflect an octorok rock onto a deku baba and kill it in OOT Forest Temple.
That's the same room(s) where I discovered the megaton hammer could also defeat the wall spiders and deku baba, just by hitting the ground nearby.
in the boss rooms, once you defeat the boss and the tornado appears that takes you out of the dungeon. If you stand next to the tornado and listen to the music. It is the same melody from the final hours of Zelda Majora's Mask.
Can this be found on youtube?
@@quadraxisdominator7364 Hey, I don't mean to advertise myself but I do have the entire game recorded on my channel, you can hear the Majora's Mask "Final Hours" theme playing at the end of each videos (besides the first and last one as there's no Dungeon Warp), especially the Dragon Roost Cavern & Tower of the Gods videos.
Don't expect the entire theme being played though, it's only 1 instrument. :P
Hope it helps
@@longplaysofevil I definitely hear that same tone. Never noticed until now.
am recommending this to a friend! Wind Waker is his FAVE Zelda game!
Lot of these I knew about already, or just didn't really think about more closely, like with the octorok bag. Honestly didn't know enemies could be hit by the rock though!
Those that didn't know you could fend off enemies with the leaf midair, one of the koroks literally mentions you can do so.
taking the cyclone from the sea is what i did as a kid xD Thank you for showing the Gamecube version, that is awesome
The Octorock's spit that they fire at you can be easily deflected with the sword, even if you're facing away from them.
The ones using the searchlights at Forsaken Fortress are called Bokoblins.
I'll add a fact for this game ya. If you can get footage, kudos, because I've never been able to recreate it. In the battle against Kalle Demos, you can get him down to 1 hit remaining in the first cycle (doesn't have to be the first cycle, but it's how I did it). Once he's down to 1 hit, if you throw the boomerang just right while he's hanging from the ceiling, you can hit his tiny hit box inside, since the boomerang flies through him. If you do this, killing him, the cutscene will play, and exit will appear, but Kalle's vines will still be attached to the ceiling. If you cut down those vines, the battle and music will resume. There's no longer a boss to kill, so you're just battling it's corpse at that point, but it's a fun little glitch. You're not stuck, either, as you can simply walk to the center of the room and leave. I did this once on my first playthrough of the HD version and, again, have never been able to recreate it. If you attempt to, I wish you luck, and I look forward to it.
Edit: Watching the video, the most stunning fact I learned from this is that you can stun Peahats with the Deku Leaf while floating. I always just weaved through them on my way to the Forbidden Woods, I didn't know you could stun them.
Great, looking forward towards many more episodes of this.
Really excited for this series. My great love and countless playthroughs of Ocarina and Majora had me already knowing many (though certainly not all) of the secrets shared here. I love Wind Waker as well, of course, but feel like I know a lot fewer of its finer detail secrets. Very excited
Number 3: Yes, we italians suck with the dubbings at times... like in Smash Bros Melee, where the Ridley trophy was translated IN PLURAL... thus turning Samus' archnemesis into a species.
I am absolutely dumbfounded that you can instakill the cursed woods boss with forest water ...
Took about 17 years for anybody to discover it (and document it). Was shown off in about 2019.
About the snail on Baito's bag: there are sprites for rocks(?) in the original TLoZ that resemble snails. I was convinced this was a reference to that
As a kid I was also 100% convinced they were actual snails
I had no idea the Deku Leaf could be used as any sort of weapon!
I also didn't know that footprints were semi-permanent!
So delightful to return to the bright and colorful world of The Wind Waker.
I'm a bit disappointed, however; after Majora's Mask, I expected each series to have a different intro!
Ah, well.
I could swear in the original GameCube version of the game, you could use the Forest Water trick on the plant boss even in Ganon’s castle, but for some reason they changed this in WW HD, I was not able to do this in the rematch.
Thats crazy to learn that u can one shot the forbidden woods boss with a simple bottle of water
Looking forward to more videos on this game! Definitely my favourite Zelda game and in my top 10 favourite games of all time 🥰
The snail on Baito's bag is a callback to the GameFreak logo on the Gameboy Advance which you can use in this game with the Tingle Tuner
Those searchlight guys have some intense strength to move those searchlights considerings its small gears working on big gears.
Either that or there is a very powerful motor connected in that little box.
For Kalle Demos, you can also do 5 or 6 spin-attacks in a row, it's faster, only one round is enough
Remember those tiny ghomas in dragon roost cavern ? If there’s many of them, make one roll on itself, grab it, and throw it on the other to instakill them
That's the thing I like about this game, enemies can accidentally hit each other. For me personally, it made combat so much easier, especially when fighting a hoard of enemies and if I was lucky, an enemy at low health or that will die in one hit would get killed by other nearby enemies
I think Dazel is a cool name for Tetra! Suits her a lot
I’m not sure if a lot of people know this even tho it’s obvious in the Wii U HD remastered version where the soundtrack in that version is already talked about a lot, but in that version also, most of the character voice clips and sound effects (most notably the NPC’s) are in higher quality due to it being an HD remaster of the game. Same voice clips but in uncompressed audio!
Sadly Link’s voice clips in-game don’t change audio quality in between versions outside of the cutscenes animations where his voice clips do sound higher quality. :(
I watch all your videos and they're by far the most interesting about Zelda. And thanks for not talking.
5:13 Dan from Game Grumps in TOTK: PHIL, STOP HELPING
I respect adding those little speed running tricks.
I don't think at the time Dazel was a spoiler, keep in mind that when the majority of people played WW there wasn't yet a concept of interconnected lore between games and the theme of reincarnation
I don't remember if I knew the leaf thing or not (haven't done a playthrough in a couple years) but I bought the game on release day and still have my receipt and I know it doesn't tell you to push the button while in flight at any point in the game. It is not widely known information so nobody should be calling out anyone else for not knowing about it.
5:22 "I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move"
FYI it's totally fine to crop the picture so it fits the 4:3 ratio, in this game the top and bottom parts are part of the overscan area and are "designed" so nothing of value is lost once cropped.
I did an entire playthrough without knowing this.. and it's all recorded in the "wrong" aspect ratio :( I wish I knew it sooner
I like where these series are going.
The snail on the bag is interesting if we consider the Postman in OoT, MM, TP has a rabbit on his clothes. A slow animal and a fast animal (the rabbit it kind of analogous to a hare)
While the Forest Water trick with the boss is cool, it’s really only helpful if you’re speedrunning the game because it only lasts for about 20 mins (I think) before it turns into normal water, _meaning_ to use it in a normal playthrough, you’d have to _leave_ the dungeon and _come back_ just to do this one trick that would probably take about as much time as it would to kill the boss without it
I'm pretty sure that in the current speedrun route of this game, you'll have bombs in this dungeon but not a bottle. Unless you're talking about glitchless, which is not exactly the most popular category
Speedrunners don't do it either because it's slower, lol.
You forgot to point out the guy with the snail in the bag is quite similar to the one that do the night shift in Majora's Mask store.
Hang on a minute...I've just noticed Baito looks a lot like the Part-Timer from Majora's Mask! Could it be intended that they're (reincarnations of) the same character?
I actually knew about that water trick with the Boss Kalle Demos I actually did it for fun on my latest playthrough! X3
Great video!
I hope that you will one day do Skyward Sword. To me that is the most underrated Zelda game to date
I legit didn't know you could instantly kill the forbidden woods boss with the forest water!! 😯
It was allegedly only discovered until 2019.
@@Hysteria98 oh wow
Anyone ever had a boss come back after you killed it? It only happened once but Kalle Demos kept going after I won. I panicked and ran for the portal lol
2:33 Monsters enjoying a cup of Joe? 😂
Didn’t know the water secret. Nice detail from the developers.
FLAPPING THE LEAF IS AN ATTACK? This was cool thing number 13 for me.
Das einzig neue für mich war, dass man diese Fliegedinger mit dem Blatt in der Luft abwehren kann. Ich dachte immer, A in der Luft wäre eine nutzlose Animation.
Fun fact: in 2:36 you can hear an ocarina similar to Majoras mask and Ocarina of time
WW was my first 3D Zelda game. Beat it several times 100% on GameCube.
Shame on those who skipped it back then thinking it was bad and childish.
Cool video bro!
Curious as you used one with OoT and MM. Is there a reason you're not using a widescreen code for footage? Dolphin has them on their wiki.
Wow. I never noticed those gears before. I guess I was too busy just hating a stealth segment in zelda.
4:30 Baito is an abbreviation of arubaito, which means "part-time job" lol
I'm only learning now that you can push back ennemies while flying with the leaf...
Baito's snail... I forget, but isn't there a snail in the mail sorting minigame?
I'm italian and it's true that Tetra is called Dazel. When i was kid and i played this game, clearly i didn't notice this little spoiler.
Did not know you could one-shot that thing... not only that you should have a bottle at that point that can easily defeat it. A lot of interesting details for sure, I wonder what else lies in store for the next series of fact videos in 2023. This one is quite the send off if it is the last one. I hope you are well, Merry Christmas and to a Happy New Year.
Problem is that you have to get to Kalle Demos in about 20 minutes or so. Otherwise the water will revert to normal. Kinda like the Hot Spring Water from MM.
That last one is the coolest.
7:45 Speedrunners are gonna find a way to use this for some wacky glitch or something I can sense it.
Yup
So far no, as it's slower overall.
That's pretty cool in the Italian version Tetra was called Dazel that's clever!!
Eiji Aonuma once said that Aryll's original name was Maryll (マリル Mariru), based on Marin and Malon!
I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to capture all the fixed camera footage.
in zelda ocarina of time if you play the scarecrow song and on the screen at the end you play the song of the temple in which you put the scarecrow you will hear its song
one shotting Kalle-demos, the plant boss with the forrest water i dont think is a cannon event, I think its a programming issue. Because you cant do that in the HD wind waker, so that nullifies it being plot related that a plant boss doesnt like water poured on it. lol
You can in WWHD, it has to be the water from the Forest Haven, and not let it expire. I'd imagine it is canonical, as it's an evil plant thing, and the Deku Tree is good. I know that's not the best way to explain it. I think it's akin to using healing spells on undead enemies in older RPGs.
@@BubblenutMcMuffin uhm Im sure it's patched out in wwhd. At least perhaps some versions, ie PAL vs NTSC. But then that just ask's more questions. lol
@@rmat9023 My friend, it isn't patched. I'm 100% certain it isn't patched in different versions/regions, and that it's an easter egg or secret.
At least in Wind Waker they still can hurt each orher while in other Games it's basically like Team Smash in Super Smash Bros, where they only hit their enemy but nit their team mates
Argyll is Marin theory confirmed! And Link has to save her, again
I always wondered, were the NPCs made with an early version of the Mii creator? Some of those features look REALLY familiar.
Okay, so, like, that last one is kinda sick and I never knew that.
Last one blew my mind !!!!!!
Nicely done!
I find the name Dazel to be cooler than Tetra in my opinion. It's a play on "Zelda", but it's somewhat unique too.
Yay I was waiting for this moment! I hope to see other sagas 💙
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A new frontier of secrets!
How do you do the custom cam and stuff? I have been watching these and was wondering. Great video!
Probably done with an emulator and some custom tooling
One of my favorite games
Awesome video
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@@jacobg14 I been waiting for this video
I like these videos tho wish i could play it in the background i think they would also have a larger reach if it had a voice over
Christmas gift!
The more i watched this series, the more i'm gettting time to play 3D Zeldas at least once...😙
7:48 Forest water kills second dungeon boss instantly!!!!, has this been proven and does it work!!?? 😯😯😯
Ah, awesome as always. Thank you!