This woman spends 100 years single-handedly holding off Calamity Ganon, then she gets sent back in time, and sacrifices her identity so she can spend 10,000+ years repairing the Master Sword so the world might have a chance at defeating the Demon King. Zelda is the ultimate badass and most dedicated leader of any character in gaming history IMHO.
Way over 10,000 years. 10,000 years ago is when the ancient calamity happened with the divine beasts. Which was only one of many calamities that happen every 10,000 years. This happened before all of that. She lived out eons as that dragon.
Lmao wtf is so badass about it? Everytime I see women characters get called badass, nowadays more often than not they're just a glorified sacrificial lamb for the main hero to do the job.
@@marche800 "10,000+" is the only objectively correct number we can know for sure, but yes, you're right, and a whole lot of people doesn't seem catch on to how ridiculously far back this is. This was definitely ancient history already 10,000 years ago.
@@yungmuney5903I would argue being willing to sacrifice yourself for the greater good is one of the most badass things you can do. Granted dying isn’t typically super flashy but turning into an immortal dragon seems pretty flashy to me
I love how Zelda refers to the Master Sword as "she" and "her," because I think this is the first game outside of Skyward Sword to recognize Fi still resides within the Blade of Evil's Bane, and actively works to communicate with the Hero of Time. Zelda hearing Fi's voice, allowing her to finally break through, just makes it so much more bittersweet. Fi and Zelda *collaborated* on this plan.
@@AshleyRoboto 100%! When I discovered that it was indeed Zelda, I thought back to when you first make the plunge, you watch a dragon float on by as it pans around 😭
BotW Zelda never catches a break, she sees her friends die to Phantom Ganon because she couldn't use her power, ends up stuck imprisoning him for a century, then just when everything was okay for her she gets thrown back in time, sees the sages fail against the Demon King, and sacrifices her mind and self to heal the Master Sword over the period of millennia. God damn.
@@hylia7660 SS Zelda got lost from everyone, she didn't loose anyone. Even then she had her childhood friend / person she loved run after her litteraly though time lol. She then went to sleep for a couple of thousand years. A huge sacrifice yes and she felt extremely guilty for using Link but she didn't loose anyone. BOTW and TOTK lost her mother. Was pressured into fulfilling a prophecy but coupdnt awaken her power and was shunned by her father and the country disliked her calling her a failure and the heir to a throne of nothing. She then tries desperately to fullfill her prophecy and personally recruits 4 champions who all die under her watch, her entire kingdom and father dies while she just has to run away. She then has the person she fell in love with sacrifice himself infront of her only for her power to FINALLY awaken out of pure desperation to save the person she loves, only to realize it was all too late as he slowly dies in her arms. She then makes a plan to seal the calami away while Link awakens in the shrine of ressurection but even so she's not sure she'll live. She litteraly wants the deku tree to give her final words to Link (probably I love you from the context of it all), so in her mind she has no idea if she lives after sealing him away. She seals him away gets stuck there for 100 years. Things finally are ok and then she gets transported back in time, away from her entire kingdom that seemingly has to face a new evil. Unsure of how her friends and loved ones are doing. Connects with the people of the past. Gets the parently figures she never had in her own time. Watch them die as she's powerless to do something. AND THEN sacrifices herself once more. Yes SS Zelda had a huge sacrifice but it doesn't come close to BOTW and TOKT Zelda, who genuinely can be added to the list of video game characters who have suffered the most. (She's not at the top, not by a longshot but she's on the list)
Yet if Link was the one who was sent back in time, Ganondorf would have lost, apparently all that was needed to beat Ganondorf was Link, the 5 sages and Zelda and Rauru were just useless. It's always Link that is the only one who can beat him. So why bother having anyone else fight Ganondorf? It's an automatic loss if you aren't Link. Frankly the final fight with Ganondorf was pathettic. It looked very cinematic, but Ganon as a dragon...he's not even trying to attack you, he's just flying around in circles letting you beat him, it's a free win.
What breaks me about this whole thing is that her last thought as a human is Link. Once she turns into a dragon, Zelda no longer remembers him but the emotional pain is so intense that she cries as a dragon Edit: this is the impression I got from the information presented to us in the game. How I view things will be different from you.
If it makes you feel better, this isn't true. Before swallowing the stone she THOUGHT she was going to "loose herself" but that's not actually what happens. You can see it right in the very last cutscene when grabbing the sword. Her consciousness is floating in the sacred realm and it's still there. She's still thinking about Link after the transformation. Also the fact she drops a tear in the present suggests she still has some memory. Also, at the beginning of the game, you are able to interact with her a little. She gives you recall when you touch her secret stone in the Temple of Time, and she's able to tell Link telepathically: "Link, you must find me." So, yeah, she still does remember him in whatever state she's in. They made an unreliable narrator narrative when it comes to things the characters know about the secret stone.
@@Velarieth You literally see in the very cutscene that plays once you pull the Sword. It's shinning in the same area all the Triforce users have it when in possession of one.
@@AshleyRoboto actually the silent princess flower looks like zeldas eyes as a dragon... which means their origin was way back then when zelda turned into the dragon, this is so deep man
It was hard to experience, but I felt worse about the queen. It's so cruel. For some reason, the fact that he corrupted her stone made it so much worse. It's like he killed her and then desecrated. It sounds stupid but that's how I felt about it.
I think i figured out why Ganon's face is simultaneously hilariously meme-y and genuinely terrifying. It's because it's the face of someone laughing not because that's just expected of villains but because they genuinely think what's happening is funny. Which is an incredibly disturbing reaction to killing someone.
The bucking the Light Dragon does when pulling the sword is a grim reminder that while she remembers her purpose, she doesnt remember why or who the swords for. She doesnt remember who you are. Also, fuse a Light Dragons Horn to your blade. Itll heal you as you inflict damage making it feel like shes fighting with you and protecting you still. This game, at least to me, really lives up to its name. What I mean is: No matter all the heroic things Link does, even saving the day, it was all set in motion by Zelda. And in an age of Legends no less. Do you see where im going with this? It really feels like: The Legend of Zelda.
@TwilitKage I'd have a hard time saying healing the sword is 90% of the work, considering you don't even need it to beat the game. She did more last game imo
@jamesmccloud1002 she was also important in sealing Ganondorf. Without her Rauru would've died alongside Sonia, and he may not have been prepared for the sealing technique. She also set things in motion for Link at the start of the game. Plus I'm pretty sure the "canon" end to these games involves going through the story. So her help with the Master Sword and sages also counts.
Around 30,000 years+ to be exact. She had to wait for 3 Calamity Ganon events and each take place 10,000 years apart. 1st Calamity Ganon incident was when it was first appears and Hyrule was not fully prepared 2nd Calamity Ganon incident was when the Sheikah created the Guardians, Towers and Divine Beasts 3rd Calamity Ganon incident were the events of BotW So yeah she really did wait a very long time.
Dude, I just realized that subconsciously, Zelda’s favorite flower is the Silent Princess because it’s actually made by her in the form of the Light Dragon. The Silent Princesses she’s in front of in BOTW were literally made by her 🤯
Because she pours her power into it for a MINIMUM of 50,000-100,000 years, this is, canonically one of the most powerful incarnations of the master sword EVER.
well....honestly my perspective is that even post light dragon repair,its still far weaker then we have ever seen it,considering it still "runs out of energy" which seems to be a relatively normal thing about the sword in that era,which implies that a long time ago,but still long after the other games,something integral to the master swords indestructible and unstoppable nature was lost,i feel like hylia did not forsee the curse of demise happening, and thus did not make the blade intending it to be used so slay so many super powerful demons,monsters,and whatever else its been the only hope for defeating x thing,i honestly feel the reason fi is somewhat awake in the sword is cause shes the only thing keeping the master sword from becoming another rusted sword forgotten about long past its prime
@@bigdawg12z it’s really not, 10,000 years ago was just the most recent appearance of Calamity Ganon prior to Breath of the Wild, an event fully unknown of in Ancient Hyrule’s time. In Rauru’s time, there’s no Calamity, no royal family, hell as far as I can tell there’s no _Sheikah,_ let alone Sheikah technology (the different colors and appearances suggest Sheikah technology was likely inspired by or reverse engineered by Zonai technology, but it’s very possible it was developed completely independently of Zonai technology, which would have taken, based on our world’s technological evolution, at least 4,000 years (assuming Ancient Hyrule is in the Bronze Age equivalent, which was roughly 4,000 years ago, and reached modern technological levels by the time the Calamity attacked) It can also be safely assumed that the Calamity cycle, at minimum, looked like this: Calamity Ganon appears > Sheikah Technology is used to create the Divine Beasts in case it comes back > it comes back, the ST is used, and CG is defeated > they’re buried > BotW, making an absolute, absolute minimum of 34,000 years she was a dragon You can make it longer, but that requires further assumptions, like it took 10,000 years after Ganondorf’s imprisonment for CG to appear, CG needed to appear at least twice before they figured it was a cycle and they needed to prepare (but maybe more), Sheikah tech is beyond even our age and may have taken more than 4000 years to develop to the state we see it (a reasonable assumption but not one that can have an accurate number attached to it) In all fairness time is fucked to the extreme in TotK’s timeline; the Hero from 10,000 years ago (presumably the former wielder of the Master Sword at that time) was a Zonai himself, one we never meet or hear about, which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever no matter how you structure the timeline, but there’s just no way she was a dragon for _only_ 10,000ish years
No lie: After this memory and last stretch of the journey, the master sword was the only weapon I used. I had to do it for her. I even merged it with a light dragon horn
What really was a missed opportunity was to have Link shed a tear on Zelda and touch his forehead onto hers. Really would’ve showed their bond as princess and knight. To show that he will do what it takes to make sure her sacrifice wasn’t wasted
That happened off screen, they couldn't show it because too many players would chuck their JoyCons/Pro Controllers across the room in sadness if they did. (For legal reasons, this is a joke made in a vein attempt to add some humor to my own DEVISTATION! lol)
I noticed the Light Dragon scale thing too, then got the Master Sword Geoglpyh where they flashback the line about becoming a dragon and was in denial at the whole thing. I dropped everything I was doing to get the other memories so I could be sure, I knew what they were implying but I just didn't want to believe that Nintendo would actually do that to her. But they did, and it made the story 10x more personal and compelling. Definitely my favorite Zelda story.
I did the exact same thing! I got the master sword glyph and was like “I pretend I do not see it” until they shoved it in my face and I WEPT. I love this Zelda story SO MUCH
When Mineru told Zelda about the forbidden act (swallowing a secret stone, thus turning into a dragon), I was like "ok, Chekhov's Gun has just been locked and loaded".
the game tells you 3 different ways and times "hey, the sword's in zelda's fucking forehead" and honestly I can't blame them. that sentence out of context is really funny
I uncontrollably cried because going into this game I thought Zelda and Link would adventure together, seeing her go was heartbreaking. So easily and out of our control entirely, she was already gone before we even started.
This Zelda is the most tortured person in the Zelda universe honest to god; from all of her sacrifices in BotW- loosing all of her close friends and her one blood related family member (who shunned her until the very end and never allowed himself the chance yo tell her otherwise). Had the entire nation essentially blacklist and scorn her as a princess to a throne of nothing- despite all of her best efforts to fufill a destiny that wouldn't approach her; and being denied the opportunity to utilize her actual scientific skillset and personal brilliance to help in any other way. Only to then sacrifice herself to hold off Clamity Ganon for a century all on her own. Then not even a few years after the calamity finally ends and life seems brighter. BOOM! back to the oast with her seperated once more from everyone she knows and loves, gains a maternal figure and father who show her nothing but kindness and patience. Only to lose them both, yes; but Sonia's death was arguably far more intamitely and emotionally awful. Imagine trying to orotect your own mother, only to fail and see her get stabbed in the back right in front of you by the person you tried to save her from, and then seeing the oerpetrator take her most precious artifact and do bad with it. The girl lost it all- and to top it all off she sacrfices her body and mind to save her hero, and last living friend, by fixing his sword on the incredibly slim chance he may potentially someday find it again.
It's cool to think that Zelda isn't the Zelda we know from BotW or the beginning of TotK. That one still has to go through all these thousands of years. The one we get the Master Sword from is a Zelda who went all through these years, who was also there during Calamity Ganon's first and second attack. Stuck in a loop, showing the ouroboros theme from the logo
I just did this today. Shocked I didn’t get spoiled, even though they foreshadowed it a fair bit. Also this is easily the greatest Master Sword draw in history.
It would've hurt even more if the Find Zelda quest was marked as completed as you watch her fly off, surrounded by silent princesses. And it would've been extra neat if Zelda's lullaby played whenever you were near her instead of the general dragon theme after triggering this cutscene.
I know this was posted 6 months ago so you probably already know this, but a very different version of the dragon's flight plays when you're with the Light Dragon. The melody is much looser, and the notes falter and try to stay with the same notes as Zelda's Lullaby, but they're the same notes that were already in the dragon's theme. It always reverts back to the dragon's theme, though. They've been giving us clues to Zelda's fate since 2017. 😭
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one brought to tears from this. The last scene makes me love Zelda all the more because of her caring and selfless nature, I can really resonate with her.
I literally had to stop playing when I hit the eternal dragon reveal. I deadass just watched her fly away into the sky, sat there for like 30 minutes, and then saved and powered off.
Link didn't want his sword back, all he ever wanted was to see Zelda again. Reclaiming the Master Sword takes a back seat in the quest log to finding out what happened to Zelda and tracking her down - even mechanically, the game tells us how much he cares about his princess, his closest friend, and the one he would give anything to adventure with just one more time.. I'm inconsolable at this point..
It's cool to see how we all share these deep feelings over this story. I had not felt this collective emotional ride since the opening of Pixar's "UP" in a movie theater.
by watching your video I realized that I was lucky to take the last tear in night time which all those silent princess glowed light when Link came back from memory. such an incredible view.
I had a moment of horrific realization when taking a shower and thinking about what Mineru had told Zelda. I was 3 or 4 memories in, had just beat the wind temple, and suddenly it became my life's mission to find the area that Link and Zelda explored at the beginning to uncover the two murals. After getting confirmation that way, I spent the next day trying to get to the dragon. Somehow through ALL THIS I didn't expect to see the master sword when I got up to her. I just wanted to be with my friend.
What rubbed salt into the wound for me was the Sages standing there, watching her go 😭 like, they knew there wasn't much of a choice but watch her do what she needed to do
I had the best timing on doing this part, it was a full moon at night, took a new picture of her to update the random one I had taken for the compendium when I didn't know yet and also one of the glowing silent princess ring, the later hangs in my Tarry house.
no bc i was looking at my pics in my switch album from this game and shes literally in the sky by the islands when we first emerge and i felt like a dummy just being like ooo a dragon how cool TT^TT
I feel like the deep instinct to protect the sword for link was the only thing left of Zelda and that’s why she tried to buck him off, but for just a moment something broke through -maybe fi speaking to her? - so she calmed and let him take it. So it wasn’t hurting her so much as it was her trying to not let it be taken before it was ready.
I remember in BotW I cared more for the 4 champions than for Zelda even though most memories were about and with her. But it was the 4 champions who lost their lives against Calamity Ganon. And this is also why I enjoyed the champions ballad so much. When I finally got the group picture of Link, Zelda and the champions it felt like nostalgia, like reminiscing about long lost friends. But TotK made me appreciate Zelda a whole lot, almost like falling in love with her, not because of her looks, I mean Purah looks hotter🤣, but because of her absolute unwavering faith in Link. Her total conviction and the self-sacrifice she committed is what kinda moved my heart.... And my watery eyes. Addendum: I already know where the final boss is and I have basically no other main quest other than defeating him. And I really wanna, but I think I am not yet strong enough, so I am forcing myself to hold back, grind, farm, level up, upgrade etc before I can finally exact revenge on Ganondorf.
I got to this point recently in my game. I just hope that we can save Zelda some way in the end, I mean... maybe not making her turn back into human but since there is time travel, making we can go back and change things or live with her in the past or something. This kind of emotional depth is rare in Nintendo games, I am very impressed.
I am going to thROW UP 😂 But seriously though, this Zelda went from probably my least favourite (in botw) to at LEAST #2, holy shit Ayonuma. Holy shit.
I don't know if you've found this either, but if you go back to the forgotten temple you'll see a little cluster of Sundelions next to a stone, so just try to put two and two together and you'll understand.
This makes me feel slightly emotionless for sitting there straight-faced but I just never had faith in Nintendo to do something so impactful and actually keep it permanent
I mean even if it’s not permanent this is still an incredibly emotional thing and as it stands she already gave her mind and life for THOUSANDS of years? So it’s still impactful and sad!
I've watched 4 diff reactions to it after seeing it myself in game and I sobbed for the first time and each time I still get teary eyed no matter how many times I see ppl realizing lol
@AshleyRoboto If I remember they describe it as "sleeping", which makes me think she wasn't really conscious for it... It feels more like her just going back home than a big sacrifice imo, not trymma be disrespectful or anything
it was an insane experience because i did the princess sightings quest before getting all the tears. i found it so eerie how the npc's were talking about zelda, then i got to that memory and my soul was crushed
I also did the sightings quest first too!! The horse one freaked me out especially after the memory I saw in this video before the final one. Straight up a copy of her running around being evil 😭
I'm still excited about this scene. What impressed me the most was that I first reached the sword through the Kolog forest and there I went to look for it from the dragon. Although the dragon caught my attention, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS ZELDA!!!!!!!! AND AFTER I FOUND THE LAST DRAGON TEAR MY MIND EXPLODED AND I CRIED FOR THE PAIN AND SACRIFICE ZELDA MADE FOR HYRULE T__________T!!!!!!
I rememember watching the last memory sobbing SO HARD at 1 am and when I finished watching, told my friends "Tears of the Kingdom, more like Tears of the Claudia". Wasn't able to keep playing until next day and went to sleep SO heartbroken.
The dragon tears quest had me texting my manager (who wanted me to tell him when I finished it) at 11:30 pm in fucking TEARS, I was an absolute wreck and nintendo is sick and twisted for it lol
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NEW TOTK REACT OUT! All bosses reaction and THEN I’ll be posting the finale reaction later this week! AHH!
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Per your reaction - I absolutely love Nintendo gamers' reactions and seeing their passion - even from a screen. 👍👍
This is one of the saddest story about eating rocks I've ever experienced. It's at least in the top 5.
HAHAHAHAHA STOP OMG
How many rocks have you eaten
@@AshleyRobotoAwww don’t cry. It’s not a good look lol 😂
@@Julia.Taunton-Clark99 I never understood that stuff, why showing real emotions makes someone look bad. Let her cry, it's healthy.
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This woman spends 100 years single-handedly holding off Calamity Ganon, then she gets sent back in time, and sacrifices her identity so she can spend 10,000+ years repairing the Master Sword so the world might have a chance at defeating the Demon King. Zelda is the ultimate badass and most dedicated leader of any character in gaming history IMHO.
Venat from FFXIV might beg to differ, but yee.
Definitely the most dedicated and involved Zelda we've ever had
Way over 10,000 years. 10,000 years ago is when the ancient calamity happened with the divine beasts. Which was only one of many calamities that happen every 10,000 years. This happened before all of that. She lived out eons as that dragon.
Lmao wtf is so badass about it? Everytime I see women characters get called badass, nowadays more often than not they're just a glorified sacrificial lamb for the main hero to do the job.
@@marche800 "10,000+" is the only objectively correct number we can know for sure, but yes, you're right, and a whole lot of people doesn't seem catch on to how ridiculously far back this is. This was definitely ancient history already 10,000 years ago.
@@yungmuney5903I would argue being willing to sacrifice yourself for the greater good is one of the most badass things you can do. Granted dying isn’t typically super flashy but turning into an immortal dragon seems pretty flashy to me
I love how Zelda refers to the Master Sword as "she" and "her," because I think this is the first game outside of Skyward Sword to recognize Fi still resides within the Blade of Evil's Bane, and actively works to communicate with the Hero of Time. Zelda hearing Fi's voice, allowing her to finally break through, just makes it so much more bittersweet.
Fi and Zelda *collaborated* on this plan.
Omg pain.
Zelda and Fi: *Collaborating to cause emotional damage to everyone who finds out about their plan* Y'know, just hot girl shit. 💖
Botw semi acknowledges Fi, the sword talks to Zelda after Link gets blasted and it has Fi's sound effect.
Yea you can tell Zelda really had Fi on her mind. You might even say was stuck in her head.
@@Shiftarus BOOOOO!
(this is a great joke)
The worst part of it all, when you come out of the awakening island and dive off to bring the title screen up, she is there watching over you
Is… is she actually. I’m going to cry real Jesus tears stop
@@AshleyRoboto 100%! When I discovered that it was indeed Zelda, I thought back to when you first make the plunge, you watch a dragon float on by as it pans around 😭
She’s also the dragon that splits the clouds before Link dives down and returns to Hyrule.
DONT DO THIS TO ME
Also whenever I would go to the Heart Lake, there you'd see the Light Dragon flying in the distance 😭
BotW Zelda never catches a break, she sees her friends die to Phantom Ganon because she couldn't use her power, ends up stuck imprisoning him for a century, then just when everything was okay for her she gets thrown back in time, sees the sages fail against the Demon King, and sacrifices her mind and self to heal the Master Sword over the period of millennia.
God damn.
IT HURTS. SHE DESERVES BETTER.
This Zelda did more than any other Zelda before her combined
@@JT0H SS ZELDA ?????
@@hylia7660
SS Zelda got lost from everyone, she didn't loose anyone.
Even then she had her childhood friend / person she loved run after her litteraly though time lol.
She then went to sleep for a couple of thousand years.
A huge sacrifice yes and she felt extremely guilty for using Link but she didn't loose anyone.
BOTW and TOTK lost her mother.
Was pressured into fulfilling a prophecy but coupdnt awaken her power and was shunned by her father and the country disliked her calling her a failure and the heir to a throne of nothing.
She then tries desperately to fullfill her prophecy and personally recruits 4 champions who all die under her watch, her entire kingdom and father dies while she just has to run away.
She then has the person she fell in love with sacrifice himself infront of her only for her power to FINALLY awaken out of pure desperation to save the person she loves, only to realize it was all too late as he slowly dies in her arms.
She then makes a plan to seal the calami away while Link awakens in the shrine of ressurection but even so she's not sure she'll live. She litteraly wants the deku tree to give her final words to Link (probably I love you from the context of it all), so in her mind she has no idea if she lives after sealing him away.
She seals him away gets stuck there for 100 years.
Things finally are ok and then she gets transported back in time, away from her entire kingdom that seemingly has to face a new evil. Unsure of how her friends and loved ones are doing.
Connects with the people of the past. Gets the parently figures she never had in her own time.
Watch them die as she's powerless to do something.
AND THEN sacrifices herself once more.
Yes SS Zelda had a huge sacrifice but it doesn't come close to BOTW and TOKT Zelda, who genuinely can be added to the list of video game characters who have suffered the most. (She's not at the top, not by a longshot but she's on the list)
Yet if Link was the one who was sent back in time, Ganondorf would have lost, apparently all that was needed to beat Ganondorf was Link, the 5 sages and Zelda and Rauru were just useless. It's always Link that is the only one who can beat him. So why bother having anyone else fight Ganondorf? It's an automatic loss if you aren't Link. Frankly the final fight with Ganondorf was pathettic. It looked very cinematic, but Ganon as a dragon...he's not even trying to attack you, he's just flying around in circles letting you beat him, it's a free win.
Zelda: "Link, would you still love me if I were a wyrm?"
Link: "You meant a worm, right?"
Zelda:
Link: "A worm... Right..?"
HAHAHA not the WYRM
The wyrm from hollow knight??
@@blddemn6645 a wyrm is a synonym for dragon
@@hylianevalink didn't know that lol, sorry, in hollow knight they use the word wyrm
@@blddemn6645 I think Wyrm is more of a Nordic thing.
The 4 dragons in BotW/TotK are more insipred by Asian dragons.
What breaks me about this whole thing is that her last thought as a human is Link. Once she turns into a dragon, Zelda no longer remembers him but the emotional pain is so intense that she cries as a dragon
Edit: this is the impression I got from the information presented to us in the game. How I view things will be different from you.
You’re just making this hurt WORSE 😭 god damn
If it makes you feel better, this isn't true.
Before swallowing the stone she THOUGHT she was going to "loose herself" but that's not actually what happens. You can see it right in the very last cutscene when grabbing the sword. Her consciousness is floating in the sacred realm and it's still there. She's still thinking about Link after the transformation. Also the fact she drops a tear in the present suggests she still has some memory.
Also, at the beginning of the game, you are able to interact with her a little. She gives you recall when you touch her secret stone in the Temple of Time, and she's able to tell Link telepathically: "Link, you must find me."
So, yeah, she still does remember him in whatever state she's in. They made an unreliable narrator narrative when it comes to things the characters know about the secret stone.
@@Velarieth I think it is more or less the Triforce responding to her inner desire to help Link.
@@goldliger1976 Nah, it's just her. There's more to what I wrote. But that is spoilers.
@@Velarieth You literally see in the very cutscene that plays once you pull the Sword. It's shinning in the same area all the Triforce users have it when in possession of one.
Realizing that she was truly the silent princess absolutely wrecked me 😅
Someone else in the comments informed me she probably created the silent princess flowers (they grew around her final tear) and that ruined my SOUL
@@AshleyRoboto actually the silent princess flower looks like zeldas eyes as a dragon... which means their origin was way back then when zelda turned into the dragon, this is so deep man
these theories keep shattering me one by one 😭
I found the Tears y'all...there in my eyes!
in my eyes, on my cheeks, on the floor
@@AshleyRoboto you start crying, you're gonna make me cry too.🥺
I see why they took so long to do a name drop. They didn't want to spoil how it'd make everyone feel too soon.
Now the game's title has soo much more meaning, after seeing all of this
Tears of the Fandom
Every tear you've collected is a memory shed from that moment she became a dragon 😭
it hurts my FEELINGS. Tears shed and also the glyphs are an older civilization who saw her memories and drew photos to honour them I CRY
"I feel empty as a person" exactly how I felt. I was speechless
Literally! Like what even do I do now?!
@@AshleyRoboto finish the game as fast as possible
It was hard to experience, but I felt worse about the queen. It's so cruel. For some reason, the fact that he corrupted her stone made it so much worse. It's like he killed her and then desecrated. It sounds stupid but that's how I felt about it.
it hurt me so bad i had to close the game and go drink some water 💀
@@kasagure. are you sure it was water ?😂
I think i figured out why Ganon's face is simultaneously hilariously meme-y and genuinely terrifying. It's because it's the face of someone laughing not because that's just expected of villains but because they genuinely think what's happening is funny. Which is an incredibly disturbing reaction to killing someone.
"You think killing those people is funny?"
"Yes, I do. And I'm tired of pretending it's not........"
It's utterly psychotic in a way that's indescribable, almost funny out of context, but unshakably disturbing.
The bucking the Light Dragon does when pulling the sword is a grim reminder that while she remembers her purpose, she doesnt remember why or who the swords for. She doesnt remember who you are. Also, fuse a Light Dragons Horn to your blade. Itll heal you as you inflict damage making it feel like shes fighting with you and protecting you still. This game, at least to me, really lives up to its name. What I mean is: No matter all the heroic things Link does, even saving the day, it was all set in motion by Zelda. And in an age of Legends no less. Do you see where im going with this? It really feels like: The Legend of Zelda.
Zelda really be putting in like 90% of the work in the new games. Link's duty is to he the closer
@TwilitKage I'd have a hard time saying healing the sword is 90% of the work, considering you don't even need it to beat the game. She did more last game imo
@jamesmccloud1002 she was also important in sealing Ganondorf. Without her Rauru would've died alongside Sonia, and he may not have been prepared for the sealing technique. She also set things in motion for Link at the start of the game.
Plus I'm pretty sure the "canon" end to these games involves going through the story. So her help with the Master Sword and sages also counts.
@@jamesmccloud1002Yeah you do. You don't need to get it but it is given to you at the end to destroy the Secret Stone
I teared up when I saw this the first time. I just though…she waited for us, she waited for 10,000 or more years. Beautiful story telling
She waited for SO LONG just to strengthen that sword and the last thought she had was of Link oh my god it PAINS ME
@@AshleyRoboto and the “you must find me” has so much more power. She literally needs us to because she has lost her mind. What a great character!
Around 30,000 years+ to be exact. She had to wait for 3 Calamity Ganon events and each take place 10,000 years apart.
1st Calamity Ganon incident was when it was first appears and Hyrule was not fully prepared
2nd Calamity Ganon incident was when the Sheikah created the Guardians, Towers and Divine Beasts
3rd Calamity Ganon incident were the events of BotW
So yeah she really did wait a very long time.
Thought it was 1,000?
@@ItApproaches Before BotW the last time Calamity Ganon attack Hyrule was literally 10,000 years in the past.
Dude, I just realized that subconsciously, Zelda’s favorite flower is the Silent Princess because it’s actually made by her in the form of the Light Dragon. The Silent Princesses she’s in front of in BOTW were literally made by her 🤯
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I'M GOING TO CRY
NO WONDER THEY'RE RARE
They are also, still, a parallel metaphor for her and Link. In the same way that the Sundelion is a metaphor for Rauru and Sonya.
MIND = BLOWN
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE 😭
Because she pours her power into it for a MINIMUM of 50,000-100,000 years, this is, canonically one of the most powerful incarnations of the master sword EVER.
well....honestly my perspective is that even post light dragon repair,its still far weaker then we have ever seen it,considering it still "runs out of energy" which seems to be a relatively normal thing about the sword in that era,which implies that a long time ago,but still long after the other games,something integral to the master swords indestructible and unstoppable nature was lost,i feel like hylia did not forsee the curse of demise happening, and thus did not make the blade intending it to be used so slay so many super powerful demons,monsters,and whatever else its been the only hope for defeating x thing,i honestly feel the reason fi is somewhat awake in the sword is cause shes the only thing keeping the master sword from becoming another rusted sword forgotten about long past its prime
its actually more like 10,000 years
@@bigdawg12z it’s really not, 10,000 years ago was just the most recent appearance of Calamity Ganon prior to Breath of the Wild, an event fully unknown of in Ancient Hyrule’s time. In Rauru’s time, there’s no Calamity, no royal family, hell as far as I can tell there’s no _Sheikah,_ let alone Sheikah technology (the different colors and appearances suggest Sheikah technology was likely inspired by or reverse engineered by Zonai technology, but it’s very possible it was developed completely independently of Zonai technology, which would have taken, based on our world’s technological evolution, at least 4,000 years (assuming Ancient Hyrule is in the Bronze Age equivalent, which was roughly 4,000 years ago, and reached modern technological levels by the time the Calamity attacked)
It can also be safely assumed that the Calamity cycle, at minimum, looked like this: Calamity Ganon appears > Sheikah Technology is used to create the Divine Beasts in case it comes back > it comes back, the ST is used, and CG is defeated > they’re buried > BotW, making an absolute, absolute minimum of 34,000 years she was a dragon
You can make it longer, but that requires further assumptions, like it took 10,000 years after Ganondorf’s imprisonment for CG to appear, CG needed to appear at least twice before they figured it was a cycle and they needed to prepare (but maybe more), Sheikah tech is beyond even our age and may have taken more than 4000 years to develop to the state we see it (a reasonable assumption but not one that can have an accurate number attached to it)
In all fairness time is fucked to the extreme in TotK’s timeline; the Hero from 10,000 years ago (presumably the former wielder of the Master Sword at that time) was a Zonai himself, one we never meet or hear about, which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever no matter how you structure the timeline, but there’s just no way she was a dragon for _only_ 10,000ish years
No lie: After this memory and last stretch of the journey, the master sword was the only weapon I used. I had to do it for her. I even merged it with a light dragon horn
oh i CRY
Lol That was the first thing I did too!!!! But really Forget the gameplay being groundbreaking and industry changing. The story is just incredible
Lol That was the first thing I did too!!!! But really Forget the gameplay being groundbreaking and industry changing. The story is just incredible
What really was a missed opportunity was to have Link shed a tear on Zelda and touch his forehead onto hers. Really would’ve showed their bond as princess and knight. To show that he will do what it takes to make sure her sacrifice wasn’t wasted
I don't think you understand just how deeply that would hurt me. I would have thrown myself to the ground and howled like a wounded animal.
That happened off screen, they couldn't show it because too many players would chuck their JoyCons/Pro Controllers across the room in sadness if they did.
(For legal reasons, this is a joke made in a vein attempt to add some humor to my own DEVISTATION! lol)
*SPOILER*
I think that ending made for it because Link made all the effort to save her without thinking.
I noticed the Light Dragon scale thing too, then got the Master Sword Geoglpyh where they flashback the line about becoming a dragon and was in denial at the whole thing. I dropped everything I was doing to get the other memories so I could be sure, I knew what they were implying but I just didn't want to believe that Nintendo would actually do that to her. But they did, and it made the story 10x more personal and compelling. Definitely my favorite Zelda story.
I did the exact same thing! I got the master sword glyph and was like “I pretend I do not see it” until they shoved it in my face and I WEPT. I love this Zelda story SO MUCH
When Mineru told Zelda about the forbidden act (swallowing a secret stone, thus turning into a dragon), I was like "ok, Chekhov's Gun has just been locked and loaded".
the game tells you 3 different ways and times "hey, the sword's in zelda's fucking forehead" and honestly I can't blame them. that sentence out of context is really funny
The game told me Zelda was a god damn dragon like 7 times and I simply didn't wanna believe it I just pretended not to see it LMAO
I uncontrollably cried because going into this game I thought Zelda and Link would adventure together, seeing her go was heartbreaking. So easily and out of our control entirely, she was already gone before we even started.
So many things made sense after this, like the fact that she’s the only dragon that doesn’t shoot stuff at you when you get close!
This Zelda is the most tortured person in the Zelda universe honest to god; from all of her sacrifices in BotW- loosing all of her close friends and her one blood related family member (who shunned her until the very end and never allowed himself the chance yo tell her otherwise). Had the entire nation essentially blacklist and scorn her as a princess to a throne of nothing- despite all of her best efforts to fufill a destiny that wouldn't approach her; and being denied the opportunity to utilize her actual scientific skillset and personal brilliance to help in any other way. Only to then sacrifice herself to hold off Clamity Ganon for a century all on her own.
Then not even a few years after the calamity finally ends and life seems brighter. BOOM! back to the oast with her seperated once more from everyone she knows and loves, gains a maternal figure and father who show her nothing but kindness and patience. Only to lose them both, yes; but Sonia's death was arguably far more intamitely and emotionally awful. Imagine trying to orotect your own mother, only to fail and see her get stabbed in the back right in front of you by the person you tried to save her from, and then seeing the oerpetrator take her most precious artifact and do bad with it.
The girl lost it all- and to top it all off she sacrfices her body and mind to save her hero, and last living friend, by fixing his sword on the incredibly slim chance he may potentially someday find it again.
I knew it was coming as soon as we met Mineru but it still didn't stop it from slapping me, destroying my crops and tearing out my heart
I honestly didn’t expect to feel so sooo sad at this Zelda game but here we are. Cried again watching this.
I cried doing it, cried editing it, and cried watching another friends video too LOL
It's cool to think that Zelda isn't the Zelda we know from BotW or the beginning of TotK. That one still has to go through all these thousands of years. The one we get the Master Sword from is a Zelda who went all through these years, who was also there during Calamity Ganon's first and second attack. Stuck in a loop, showing the ouroboros theme from the logo
She’s lived so so many lifetimes flying around as that dragon, ugh 😭
I just did this today. Shocked I didn’t get spoiled, even though they foreshadowed it a fair bit. Also this is easily the greatest Master Sword draw in history.
It Really Is. Profound. Next Level Writing.
I spoiled myself and found out about the light dragon, and I thought it was Rauru which bummed me. I was shocked when it turned out to be Zelda lol
It would've hurt even more if the Find Zelda quest was marked as completed as you watch her fly off, surrounded by silent princesses. And it would've been extra neat if Zelda's lullaby played whenever you were near her instead of the general dragon theme after triggering this cutscene.
I know this was posted 6 months ago so you probably already know this, but a very different version of the dragon's flight plays when you're with the Light Dragon. The melody is much looser, and the notes falter and try to stay with the same notes as Zelda's Lullaby, but they're the same notes that were already in the dragon's theme. It always reverts back to the dragon's theme, though. They've been giving us clues to Zelda's fate since 2017. 😭
Zelda becoming a dragon: I cry
Tons of Silent Princess spawn at the site: I burst my tears
No but fr the flowers RUINED ME
Your reaction was not only emotional... but also pure, human, and real. I'm subscribing to your channel. You're freaking awesome!
Oh gosh 😭❤️ thank you what the heck!
@@AshleyRoboto I'm also gonna sub to you, for basically the same reasons.
@@AshleyRobotoi need notifications on to see when you’ll react to the ending 😢😢😢
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one brought to tears from this. The last scene makes me love Zelda all the more because of her caring and selfless nature, I can really resonate with her.
This story made mes so incredibly emotional. I love it, but they did not need to stab me so hard.
I have never cried over a zelda game like this oh my GOD
Thanks Nintendo for this Masterpiece !
I literally had to stop playing when I hit the eternal dragon reveal. I deadass just watched her fly away into the sky, sat there for like 30 minutes, and then saved and powered off.
This quest is literally the very definition of I won... but at what cost
pain.
Link didn't want his sword back, all he ever wanted was to see Zelda again. Reclaiming the Master Sword takes a back seat in the quest log to finding out what happened to Zelda and tracking her down - even mechanically, the game tells us how much he cares about his princess, his closest friend, and the one he would give anything to adventure with just one more time..
I'm inconsolable at this point..
These two games have shown us why it's called The Legend of Zelda
It's cool to see how we all share these deep feelings over this story. I had not felt this collective emotional ride since the opening of Pixar's "UP" in a movie theater.
by watching your video I realized that I was lucky to take the last tear in night time which all those silent princess glowed light when Link came back from memory. such an incredible view.
Gosh this game is really going for the feels!! 😭
IT IS! They're hurting our feelings for SPORT
15:10 "SHE is the key." Fi is still looking out for us, even after all this time.
This truly is one of the more sad and dark zelda games up there with twilight princess and majora’s mask on how good this is
The temptation to storm Hyrule Castle Depths and kick the crap out of Ganondorf and find a way to reverse Zelda’s Draconification was so unreal.
That ganon smirk made me so uncomfortable, and the reveal devastated me…
It was a wild rollercoaster of a time oh my GOD
I had a moment of horrific realization when taking a shower and thinking about what Mineru had told Zelda. I was 3 or 4 memories in, had just beat the wind temple, and suddenly it became my life's mission to find the area that Link and Zelda explored at the beginning to uncover the two murals. After getting confirmation that way, I spent the next day trying to get to the dragon. Somehow through ALL THIS I didn't expect to see the master sword when I got up to her. I just wanted to be with my friend.
Cutscenes are better with her reaction 😅
"He defeated her before, but a long slumber will heal these grievous wounds" that line is so badass and gives me the chills
I did the tears quest hella early and I just had to sit with my feelings while you all were having fun. It horts😢
im so sorry mik but at least we've all joined you in hell! :)
Literally the first thing I did.
Same. I completed only the Water Temple before finishing this quest. Had no idea it was gonna be this heavy.
I legit felt sad after seeing what happened to Zelda, havent finished the game but I hope we're able to save her
“When you two face the demon king, you will have my strength with you, through her.”
why am I crying at work on a Thursday morning 😂
What rubbed salt into the wound for me was the Sages standing there, watching her go 😭 like, they knew there wasn't much of a choice but watch her do what she needed to do
I had the best timing on doing this part, it was a full moon at night, took a new picture of her to update the random one I had taken for the compendium when I didn't know yet and also one of the glowing silent princess ring, the later hangs in my Tarry house.
Oh my god how beautiful
Anyone notice the remaining sages watching he fly away at the end 😢
no bc i was looking at my pics in my switch album from this game and shes literally in the sky by the islands when we first emerge and i felt like a dummy just being like ooo a dragon how cool TT^TT
zelda at link at the end of botw: do you remember me?
link at zelda at the end of totk: do you remember me?
I feel like the deep instinct to protect the sword for link was the only thing left of Zelda and that’s why she tried to buck him off, but for just a moment something broke through -maybe fi speaking to her? - so she calmed and let him take it. So it wasn’t hurting her so much as it was her trying to not let it be taken before it was ready.
I remember in BotW I cared more for the 4 champions than for Zelda even though most memories were about and with her. But it was the 4 champions who lost their lives against Calamity Ganon. And this is also why I enjoyed the champions ballad so much. When I finally got the group picture of Link, Zelda and the champions it felt like nostalgia, like reminiscing about long lost friends.
But TotK made me appreciate Zelda a whole lot, almost like falling in love with her, not because of her looks, I mean Purah looks hotter🤣, but because of her absolute unwavering faith in Link. Her total conviction and the self-sacrifice she committed is what kinda moved my heart.... And my watery eyes.
Addendum: I already know where the final boss is and I have basically no other main quest other than defeating him. And I really wanna, but I think I am not yet strong enough, so I am forcing myself to hold back, grind, farm, level up, upgrade etc before I can finally exact revenge on Ganondorf.
I got to this point recently in my game. I just hope that we can save Zelda some way in the end, I mean... maybe not making her turn back into human but since there is time travel, making we can go back and change things or live with her in the past or something. This kind of emotional depth is rare in Nintendo games, I am very impressed.
I am going to thROW UP 😂
But seriously though, this Zelda went from probably my least favourite (in botw) to at LEAST #2, holy shit Ayonuma. Holy shit.
It’s incredible?? Like idk I feel like I feel the way about TOTK that everyone said they did about botw
I love these over the top dramatic thumbnails. 😂
think we all need a hug after that 🥺
group hug ;-;
Her seeing Zelda consume Rock:
😭😭😭😭😭
Me seeing my neighbor consume Rock:
💀💀💀💀💀
Sonia really just got E10+ stabbed…💀
They foreshadowed this with that Silent Princess flowers close up shot all the way back in the BOTW teaser trailer!
WILD.
Blues Lee : I have been called Dragon for 30 years.
Zelda : I am a dragon for 10000 years.
Ancient Hyrule Tidepod Challenge hurts the heart in ways you didn't know you could feel
I balled like a baby during the whole cut scene of the pulling of the master sword. It was perfectly executed
I don't know if you've found this either, but if you go back to the forgotten temple you'll see a little cluster of Sundelions next to a stone, so just try to put two and two together and you'll understand.
I did see that ;-; oof. I also accidentally took them and my whole chat yelled at me for taking Sonia’s flowers 😭
Poor girlie. This game seriously had me in the same boat. Zelda is the true hero. Giving up herself like that. Got me emotional
Made me SAD because she deserves TO BE HAPPY
My Link often had date with the dragon - sometimes under the moonlight. It was tranquil and sad experience😢.
This makes me feel slightly emotionless for sitting there straight-faced but I just never had faith in Nintendo to do something so impactful and actually keep it permanent
I mean even if it’s not permanent this is still an incredibly emotional thing and as it stands she already gave her mind and life for THOUSANDS of years? So it’s still impactful and sad!
Same. I never thought they'd do something like this
I've watched 4 diff reactions to it after seeing it myself in game and I sobbed for the first time and each time I still get teary eyed no matter how many times I see ppl realizing lol
@AshleyRoboto If I remember they describe it as "sleeping", which makes me think she wasn't really conscious for it... It feels more like her just going back home than a big sacrifice imo, not trymma be disrespectful or anything
it was an insane experience because i did the princess sightings quest before getting all the tears. i found it so eerie how the npc's were talking about zelda, then i got to that memory and my soul was crushed
I also did the sightings quest first too!! The horse one freaked me out especially after the memory I saw in this video before the final one. Straight up a copy of her running around being evil 😭
I'm still excited about this scene. What impressed me the most was that I first reached the sword through the Kolog forest and there I went to look for it from the dragon. Although the dragon caught my attention, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS ZELDA!!!!!!!! AND AFTER I FOUND THE LAST DRAGON TEAR MY MIND EXPLODED AND I CRIED FOR THE PAIN AND SACRIFICE ZELDA MADE FOR HYRULE T__________T!!!!!!
you watching zelda become a dragon:
literally having tears of the kingdom coming from ur eyes
I absolutely cannot believe you had link dressed like Kanye having a manic episode for that. And a rusty crusty shield too 💀🤣
LMAO LOOK SOMETIMES WE JUST BE VIBING.
I didnt do the last 2-3 memories until after getting the Sword but I realized what happened while I was pulling the sword while seeing her hair
Finally, somebody else who reacted exactly like I did. There are very few video games that have caused me to cry as much as this one.
I rememember watching the last memory sobbing SO HARD at 1 am and when I finished watching, told my friends "Tears of the Kingdom, more like Tears of the Claudia". Wasn't able to keep playing until next day and went to sleep SO heartbroken.
This is the first Zelda game I've ever played and yet it still made me cry
She arguably brought him further than just "up in the sky". That's got to be the Sacred Realm they're in when he pulls the Master Sword.
i have no idea why but i need to express how adorable you are, you are the dork to end all dorks.... like you win.
I imagine swallowing a secret stone is like when you eat something large and it gets stuck in your chest but turned up to 500.
I think he did punch Sonia in the spine and broke her back. Like damn, Nintendo, good way to show a bloodless killing on screen but damn.
"what was that face?" 3:20 proceeds to put the same exact face. LMAO I never though Ganon face was achievable xD
Been loving reactions of this reveal and yours was good! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!! 🥺❤️
For the light dragons first roar, you can just hear Zelda’s voice underneath it
Girl just got all the achievements in "passing a kidney stone"
It’s always so satisfying getting the master sword.
So when I was eating rocks as a kid it was because I inherently knew it'd make me a dragon, hmm.
you were ahead of the curve bestie
The writing in BOTW was very emotional. I feel like TOTK took it up a notch. I hope the writing keeps this same feeling
I was crying with you but every time you swore the sound effect made me crack up ahahah
LMAO gotta keep the UA-cam gods happy
I was floored because I was not ready to see that.
Me neither!!
When I read what Kikoia said a shivers ran down my spine. damn it. Insane.
The quest log: Find Zelda
Me: She's literally been right here the entire time
I was standing on her, went into my menu and saw that quest and I was like 'well.'
I left the flowers alone, too. 😭
(Also, I had a big feeling that stamina would be the key this time instead of hearts!)
This moment was legit the first time I ever cried during a video game. I was completely wrecked.
The dragon tears quest had me texting my manager (who wanted me to tell him when I finished it) at 11:30 pm in fucking TEARS, I was an absolute wreck and nintendo is sick and twisted for it lol
omg its NEVER good when you get the "oh that questline..? let me know when you're done.. :)" because its gonna HURT LMAO
When I watched that cutscene I said "A shot with a gun would be less painfull than this".
I think I must have said something like getting run over would be less painful than this bc WHEW
I was so confused until I realized you didn't get the tears in order. xD