Imagine Zelda’s face after realizing that her sacrifice pretty much pointless, she had to carry that fucking sword stabbed into her forehead for millennia just for Link to not even give a flying fuck where it went and her master plan to pass the secret stones onto the sages’ descendants was all in vain because all was needed was Link’s sheer willpower to clap Ganondorf’s dehydrated cheeks.
@@mitchjames9350 He literally just told you, during the final phase of Ganon when Zelda shows up you just pull it out of her and get the regular cutscene. It is impossible to destroy Ganondorf without the Master Sword because of the Lore.
So basically, it is technically possible, but the final boss is locked behind a giant gauntlet of gloom and monsters capped-off by an absurd 5-boss bossrush. the poor speedrunners
They wanted a challenge after BotW became too easy to speedrun for them, so Nintendo gladly served the speedrunners the boss rush without a separate mode :)
i think the bosses arent the issue, since you just have to focus on one enemy. getting to ganon and defeating his army with only 3 hearts will be the hardest part I think (especially the phantom ganon battle, and his final phase when he creates 5 copies of himself)
@@aceaight I think thats the second to last phase, the final phase is when he sucks all the other gandalfs back into him and starts destroying your hearts and dodging flurry rushes
@@darkturtle9996 you basically have a mirror match which I loved. You can swing at him causing him to dodge then you can dodge his follow up attack to flurry
I love the idea of millennia of planning going into the battle with Ganondorf, and Link just waking up after getting knocked out in the beginning, bee lining it back the Ganon and going, “round 2 mother fucker” and just beating his ass
This definitely feels like a massive stone hammer of punishment for speedrunners specifically and as a message that basically says "you aren't getting through to the final boss easily this time"
You got to fight all the blights in Botw too? The only new thing here is the "army" part and that's there even if you complete all the main quests up to that?
Man, they should have done that. He could have said something like "You're no stronger than when we first met, Rauru's faith in you was vastly misplaced"
Jesus Christ, i want solo slaying Ganondorf to be canon, it's so over the top BADASS of Link. Unyelding will and unnatural skill to slay the worst creatures possible by pure perseverence.. He's a vessel of Courage indeed, with a fancy sword or not, he f*cking earned it!
it's interesting how differently you have to fight these bosses without the sages, especially the seized construct boss. I'm glad they improved the boss battles by a ton since botw, and actually making it seem like an insane challenge if you go straight to ganon.
I tried beating them with only 3 sage (water, Wind and fire). I can assure you they were hard but interesting for most part. Seized construct is a bit hard as his attack have a huge hitbox meaning beet way to avoid damage is parrying or attacking. Sadly, Seized construct can still suffer from element effect. It doesn't do much damage but the ability to stun him is Op. Phantom Ganon was quite fun as you Can already learn how to beat one with a spear on the way to the battle. But when he start making copies of himself, forcing you to watch out for all of them it get even better as there are not too many ennemies, but still enough to make sure you can't just rush on one. However, the "bug Queen" is fun until you reach the second phase where minions spawn, and idk if they are the same in the dungeon battle, but the ability to wither your health is annoying and they can't be killed easely when there are a lot of them. I was lucky to have some "wizard" weapon with me as they do quite a lot of damage to them with the elemental damage.
@@SpicyInk Honestly, Muktorok is stupidly easy in the water temple, also I rarely use the sage's ability in battles. What I did in order to beat muktorok is first having lot of water fruit for my arrow, and an opal fused to a weapon, in m'y case a sword. But one thing that make Muktorok so easy is Gravity. You just jump in low gravity and tout Can have that slow-mo attack to spam arrows.
@@milectarx6561 fuse a big wheel to a stabilizer then put hydrants at the top of it. Super easy way to deal with it “even easier if you have insert purah pad ability here”
It genuinely feels like this is the final battle. THIS fight is what everyone's been preparing for, here and now. Except a certain *someone* completely neglected to prepare and just showed up hoping for the best.
You can still solo them without sages,just get better inventory and weapons. Not to mention you can fuse shield with the bomb to abuse flurry rush in the mid air
Ganondorf: "Did you just go through my entire army and generals by yourself?" Link: "Hiyah!" Ganondorf: ".... Impressive, all without some legendary sword. Our battle shall be legendary!"
Link: "I swore I would only wield the Master Sword to protect Zelda and Hyrule, never in anger. But now, I'm not so sure. And besides...this isn't the Master Sword."
It would've been really insane (and probably impossible) if they had you fight all 5 bosses at the same time like how they all spawn when you do have the sages 😂
I thought for a second I was gonna have to do that with the 5 sages! I was like, “Please I beg! I only have 2 hearts! I need a light root!” I was happy I didn’t have to fight them again but disappointed I didn’t get a light root. Needless to say I didn’t make it past the first phase 😂
@@chrisrose4703 gohma is fine just use ascend under him and u can get some easy hits in. His tanky hp bar should be fine with all the royal weapons u can get and high level monster parts from demon kings army.
@@chrisrose4703I went down there when i only had the gerudo and rito sages, and i made it past the demon army and gohma first try, but then got killed by the zora boss and decided i wasnt ready for it. (I defeated gohma with recall, you can easily throw his rocks back at him and his patterns are very predictable)
I did that the first time I finished the game. Never even knew Mineru existed. It was easy though, shock arrow -> Two hand weapon smash into the wires, repeat
Having played through the entire story and all of the seemingly mandatory main quests and even visiting the chasm underneath Hyrule Castle in early game, I assumed going straight the final boss was not possible in Tears of the Kingdom, and I thought the game became more linear because of it. Turns out I didn’t explore the Hyrule Castle depths enough!
I got here so early, I didn’t realize I could reverse the falling rocks until much later in the game. Otherwise would’ve been here fighting Ganon a longtime ago.
Note: The Ganondorf fight is slightly different, as the part where your allies come in to assist is skipped. (As is Ganondorf needed to push them away)
Six days into TotK and my favorite part of the game so far, yet frightening, are the depths. I didn’t realize how deep the depths were, but holy shit.. I didn’t even know how deep you gotta go just to battle Ganondorf. It’s like no way out after you just dove deep into hell.
"It would have been more...satisfying to overcome a worthy foe" Link: Did you not just watch me solo an army, five giant monsters and five copies of you without a break?!
Yeah, it does seem like an oversight. It would have been cool if Ganon had been like "You came alone AND you defeated my army by yourself? I underestimated you, kid... Where was this power when you met me the first time?"
I didn't know hyrule castle's boss was part of this because I thought the castle was a prerequisite before being able to venture down to this final area
I really enjoy fighting Colgera, I don't know why to be fair. It's an extremely easy boss to fight, but something about it just being a completely airborne battle... the music is really nice to And there's like three places underground where you cam repeatedly battle Colgera as well, it's made traversing the darkness a lot more fun!
@@hehatoeI didn’t even realise you could use arrows lol. I just remembered they were like the ice barriers previously in the temple which would break if you stamped on them so I charged through with my sword lol
I was just wondering around the dark of the depths a bit after beating colgera and saw a dragon flying by so I did what any horder play the game does and immediately dropped what i was doing to chase down the dragon so i start gliding after the dragon and as i got closer to it i get within rendering distance of colgera seeing its darkened outline in the unlit abyss and at first i didnt recognize it so i was sitting there saying thinking the fuck is that followed by realizing bosses can spawn in the depths
This is the second time when, having beaten the game and breaking my media blackout, I had a "you can DO that?!" moment. The first one was seeing someone completely trivialize the Flux Constructs by using the Ultrahand to pull the core block out and instantly stun it.
You shoulda seen me wasting Yunobo's roll on its Bomb Ring in both the Story fight AND Depths refight before hearing in a Boss or Dungeon Ranking video you could Recall one of the Bombs :^) Felt like an absolute doofus
Pretty insane and intense for people determined to face four waves of the Demon King's army, 6 bosses, and go through 3 phases against the big man Ganondorf himself while avoiding excessive gloom damage and no assistance from the sages and Master Sword (until the Demon Dragon duel)... just for a speedrun. Pretty gutsy.
This is a game I'll probably never try to go straight to the boss in, not because of the boss run, but because there will always be that voice in the back of my mind reminding me that if I don't complete the story and get all the memories Zelda doesn't get turned back.
@@shellderp I think that depends on the patch version. A recent patch closed all the well known duping and clipping glitches, so I think speedrunners still using the old patch clip through the bosses after fighting Ganon's Army, but speedruns on the current patch need you to go through all or, at least some of them (I think there is still a way to clip to Ganon from the Marbeled Gohma fight if I remember correctly).
I can imagine how truly horrifying it would be for someone to go straight to Ganondorf to see Zelda appear and then transform into phantom ganon with no previous context
these bosses actually come back as normal if you beat them as intended at that point in the game, but usually the sages will fight them off and let you go straight to ganondorf
The fact that you can do this is monumentally funny to me, because it means that Ganondorf could have rehydrated at more or less any time since he's ready to fight you even if you book it straight to him, but instead decided to sit underneath Hyrule Castle and cope over how people like not being at war and that he beat Link too easily despite Rauru hyping him up back in his time, essentially just sulking until you come to talk to him about his secret stone's extended warranty. This man would have completely dominated Hyrule and (likely) curbstomped the weakened Link if he actually bothered to get off his ass and do something, but instead he lets you bumble about at your leisure until you go to him, its the pettiest shit I've seen a villain do in an age and I LOVE IT
@@cardboardking577 that would explain why it's weaker compared to gloom. Also let's just say the whole gloom thing is part of the curse of demise package.
I looked this up because I got here right after the paraglider with the most minimal supply ever, managed to scrape by on the army, only to be greeted by boss that I’ve never seen before panicking and diving too hard and dying. I wanted to see how much there was, before I tried anymore. Ok update after a lot of practicing I beat the game with the same stuff I had last time I said this.
I’m kinda disappointed that Colgera is so easy to kill because I think it has awesome design. Basically all the other bosses are way more difficult without the sage abilities, but Colgera is still the same, really easy.
Rito was my third area to go. Had to see Sidon first. And I was struggling the most with Colgera honestly. Out of all the bosses this was the hardest one for me personally. I was never good with the bow before this fight but since that I forget about other weapons easily because bows became my go to choice 😅
@@gaelwilson8191 I honestly had more fun diving through the pieces after it attacks. It's awesome to think about Link diving straight through an enemy to defeat them
Queen Gibdo is literally just throwing fruits at her then beating her up, Mucktorok is just abusing bullet time and arrow spamming it. The only one that has any sort of challenge is Gohma and that’s just because it’s annoying
I agree. Going in to the Hyrule Castle Depths was like going into the Upside Down and the 7 Rings of Hell. My confidence level to face Ganondorf later has dropped.
Which is kinda lame. I wished the devs used the heart and stamina containers as as the treshold to "level up" Ganon. The more you train and waste time, Ganon also regains his power accordingly. The fact the three headed dragons are way more dangerous than their master, that's yet another instance of this game suffering from the infamous "narrative dissonance"
Spoiler If (by some miracle) you manage to beat Gannondorf’s 2nd phase, before the Final phase a slightly altered cutscene will play of Link pulling the Master Sword out of the Light Dragon (if you don’t have it already) before readying himself to fight Dragon Ganon.
@@paul-nj1ig are there even royal weapons in this game? If there are they're probably very rare and you can just fuse any old weapon to get almost there anyways.
I do find it pretty silly after everything that happened,especially what happened to zelda, you can just beat ganondorf without pulling the sword,basically making her sacrifice for nothing
@@kage_231 The gloom hands are terrifying, especially in the early game when they do immense amounts of damage compared to your health bar and you barely have the stamina to out-climb them even if you can get to a spot that you can climb
Really should've had different dialogue. Ganon shouldn't think you're peace-loving or anything like that if you ignore everyone's troubles and go straight to fight him. Also, he should be excited by the fact that he's going up against someone who just solo'd his whole army.
I find that a magic rod fused with a sapphire is really useful for this area. The broad freezing capability makes an excellent panic button against large numbers of enemies, so it's really helpful against the demon king's army, and the second phase of the gibdo queen fight.
In the Gibdo Queen fight, dazzle fruits are also a great way to hit multiple elementals at once. Just one can affect an entire group if they're close enough together.
@@user-ee6lk1pb6w this is Nintendo. Specifically the Zelda development team we're talking about. They don't make unfinished games. Especially with this one being hundreds of ideas combined that weren't included in botw. There's even countless changes to the core gameplay that botw needed. I'd say this game falls into the category of being worth the wait.
You can still break the pillars in the Queen Gibdo fight without the sage, you just need to use bomb arrows (only reason it didn’t break when they attempted it in the video is because it had just closed as the bomb landed). Fight would still be annoying though
@@shadcroly Yeah, you just need to wait until the black spots show up and your tryptophobia (if you have it) is triggered and then blast em. Same with main story quest.
I was wondering why the lightning arrow or bomb arrow didn't work. It seemed weird that those things couldn't be destroyed when I was pretty sure I destroyed them in my playthrough in the temple.
It’s super interesting that it doesn’t block you off from the outside when you do it like this. I guess you could go do the Sage quests and be able to have the open cave, and the Sages.
Honestly it'd be cool if they let you face this in like a special underground colliseum, I know there's rematches but having the gauntlet like this would be really cool.
Mucktorock boss gave me the most trouble even with 3 hydrants. I cussed out loud so many times out of frustration. The first half of the fight is super easy but second half made me wanna break stuff!!
Ganondorf: Did you just beat my entire army all by yourself? Link: Yes, so? Ganondorf: That’s agaist the plot isn’t it? Link: Screw the plot I am the main protagonist!
Would have been a good joke to defeat all of that mess, then come into Ganon's chamber to find him rushing to pack a suitcase and be like "Nope nope nope nope nope nope," and fly away.
I was going into the castle for good items in stuff early and found the little entrance to the tunnel that goes to the boss and was going through killing everything because it had some really good fuse items and weapons and accidentally found the final fight lol
I like the fact that they're giving you clear access if you wanna fight the final boss early, unlike the treacherous route we had to endure back at BotW's Hyrule Castle
i didnt notice much difference you could skip most of the enemies in hyrule castle pretty easily and head straight for the sactum. in Totk u also have a path of enemies which u can run past.
What? Totk's route of the Ganon fight is even more treacherous than botw. Even before these fights, you have to go against many many enemies, harder than botw guardians actually.
Link: Destroys an entire army of monsters, a giant scarab dragon, a giant rock spider, a mud-shark-squid, a giant nightmare-locust, and *a 200 ton high tech robot wielding lasers, guns, rockets, and grenades, by himself, with weapons he found on the side of the road.* Ganondorf: *h o w d i s a p p o i n t i n g*
When doing the Gibdo Queen fight, dazzle fruits are your best friend. You can affect an entire group of gibdos with dazzle fruit when they're in close proximity to each other like in that fight. It saves a lot on other elementals if you want to just thin the herd a little bit.
I did this as well. As soon as I got my glider I rode straight to the top of the castle, got some weapons and then spent 2 hours learning how to make the run to Ganon. Got my ass beat though.
the fact that it took me the length of this video for each boss fight is embarrising the fact you killed all of those guys most likely whilst dying a lot but you still did it without any of the sages which is very impressive
@Diego Bustos nothing is amiibo locked in this game besides some cosmetics for the glider. All amiibo unlocks in the previous game are obtainable in the under ground world “The Depths”
@@Dado_nastro there's also one underground in the death mountain area, I found it while doing a quest for some guy trying to boil eggs in a hot spring
For those unaware, you can destroy the Gibdo hives with bomb flowers. As long as they are actively spawning, it will work. You can see at 17:07 they attempt this, but the hive dimmed right as they shot the arrow which is why it failed. You have to wait for it to be bright if you want to destroy it. To be honest using bombs is easier than using Riju because there’s no need to chase her down and then wait for her lightning bubble to reach the hive and then wait for her power to recharge.
In my actual playthrough, I beat queen gibdo without riju by spamming topaz infused arrows directly on the queen gibdo and never even worrying about the hives
I remember I jumped in that place by just exploring, without knowing the final boss was there, I teleported out because it was too hard. Didn't know you can skip temples.
Current record is 1:08 with sub 1 hour expected soonish. You charge in with 4 hearts and no glider. Colgera without the glider is pain but a multi shot bow and homing arrows makes it tolerable.
I thought so. All bosses after the gauntlet of small mobs. Dang, this will give the speedrunners a run for their money. I'd be curious to see if they could manage to get a sub hour. 😂
So this basically the same things as botw though much harder since these aren't blights. I mean its definitely possible but youd really have to beef yourself up. Its probably why the games never recommends it. Imagine doing this at the beginning with 3 hearts. Yeah i aint the one for that.
I find it hard to believe this was the first time you encountered these bosses considering you knew exactly the right strategy and mix of weapons to use.
So I almost just did this by accident. Only have one sage. I had to look this up to double check it was going to the final boss. Definitely avoiding this lmao. I have 7 hearts
Wow, I didn't imagine that you have to beat the 4 dungeons bosses in a row without the Sages. That's a pretty good challenge to beat the game without help right here.
Did you not play BotW? Genuine question, because this is what they did for that game as well. If you go straight for Ganon in BotW then you have to fight the four bosses you would've fought at each Divine Beast before you get the chance to go up against Calamity Ganon.
ANCIENT SAGES: Our combined power was not enough to defeat the Demon King!
LINK: skill issue
Lol
Lmao no kidding
Sages aint know how to do them flurry rushes
Rauru: ok zelda aint joking when she's saying this kid's tough
other sages, agreed with zelda's request: sulley face mike kowalski
@@tyrantrex-cf3jy wait that's true though i just realized that by doing this route, the ancient sages promises were never fulfilled
Imagine Zelda’s face after realizing that her sacrifice pretty much pointless, she had to carry that fucking sword stabbed into her forehead for millennia just for Link to not even give a flying fuck where it went and her master plan to pass the secret stones onto the sages’ descendants was all in vain because all was needed was Link’s sheer willpower to clap Ganondorf’s dehydrated cheeks.
Well, you do pull the Master sword out of the light dragon at the beginning of the final phase, if you haven‘t done it before.
@@paperbackwriter1111 That's good. I like that Ganon can only be killed using the Master Sword.
@@paperbackwriter1111 are you sure? What stops you from going straight down to him without it?
@@mitchjames9350 He literally just told you, during the final phase of Ganon when Zelda shows up you just pull it out of her and get the regular cutscene.
It is impossible to destroy Ganondorf without the Master Sword because of the Lore.
I don't think it was stabbed in her head. She was holding it with her hair.
So basically, it is technically possible, but the final boss is locked behind a giant gauntlet of gloom and monsters capped-off by an absurd 5-boss bossrush. the poor speedrunners
They wanted a challenge after BotW became too easy to speedrun for them, so Nintendo gladly served the speedrunners the boss rush without a separate mode :)
Never underestimate the tenacity and no-lifeness of devoted fans and speedrunners. Someone will find a way to make this challenge a cakewalk.
i think the bosses arent the issue, since you just have to focus on one enemy. getting to ganon and defeating his army with only 3 hearts will be the hardest part I think (especially the phantom ganon battle, and his final phase when he creates 5 copies of himself)
@@aceaight I think thats the second to last phase, the final phase is when he sucks all the other gandalfs back into him and starts destroying your hearts and dodging flurry rushes
@@darkturtle9996 you basically have a mirror match which I loved. You can swing at him causing him to dodge then you can dodge his follow up attack to flurry
I love the idea of millennia of planning going into the battle with Ganondorf, and Link just waking up after getting knocked out in the beginning, bee lining it back the Ganon and going, “round 2 mother fucker” and just beating his ass
And Ganon would be like "The fuck? You defeated my entire army?! How?!"
These hands have no expiration date lol
@@normandy2501”well, except for that one, but that isn’t important
Dante moment
Feels like the transition from Glimpse of us to Party rock anthem
The dev's took it personally when they saw how quick the speedrunners were to complete the game in BOTW.
This definitely feels like a massive stone hammer of punishment for speedrunners specifically and as a message that basically says "you aren't getting through to the final boss easily this time"
The devs wanted the speedrunners to EARN that final clock in
Yet hilariously, the regional boss fights can be skipped in this game while the BotW blight fights cannot (besides Windblight).
You mean speedrunners beating ganon with nothing but a mop lmao
You got to fight all the blights in Botw too? The only new thing here is the "army" part and that's there even if you complete all the main quests up to that?
You know, I was almost expecting Ganon to say "How impressive" after beating all of his minions at the same time all by yourself...
Seriously, what does it take for this prick to decide I'm a"worthy opponent"?
Ganon has to much pride to give such a compliment
Man, they should have done that. He could have said something like "You're no stronger than when we first met, Rauru's faith in you was vastly misplaced"
@@MasterChief806 nah I think he’d legit respect him if he did it all on his own gerudo are pretty coo in lore about that stuff
@@pistachiodisguisey911 he’s not like other Gerudo.
Link: "Hey Ganondork, guess where this random stick I found on my way here is going?"
This comment is under appreciated
Ganondorf: Enough of your insolence, boy! I shall show you how feeble that stick-what the?!
Jesus Christ, i want solo slaying Ganondorf to be canon, it's so over the top BADASS of Link. Unyelding will and unnatural skill to slay the worst creatures possible by pure perseverence.. He's a vessel of Courage indeed, with a fancy sword or not, he f*cking earned it!
that stick is going right up his gloomy chasm and through his sky tower
"I shall pulverize that mere twig with my kingly buttcheeks, boy!"
it's interesting how differently you have to fight these bosses without the sages, especially the seized construct boss. I'm glad they improved the boss battles by a ton since botw, and actually making it seem like an insane challenge if you go straight to ganon.
I tried beating them with only 3 sage (water, Wind and fire). I can assure you they were hard but interesting for most part.
Seized construct is a bit hard as his attack have a huge hitbox meaning beet way to avoid damage is parrying or attacking.
Sadly, Seized construct can still suffer from element effect. It doesn't do much damage but the ability to stun him is Op.
Phantom Ganon was quite fun as you Can already learn how to beat one with a spear on the way to the battle. But when he start making copies of himself, forcing you to watch out for all of them it get even better as there are not too many ennemies, but still enough to make sure you can't just rush on one.
However, the "bug Queen" is fun until you reach the second phase where minions spawn, and idk if they are the same in the dungeon battle, but the ability to wither your health is annoying and they can't be killed easely when there are a lot of them. I was lucky to have some "wizard" weapon with me as they do quite a lot of damage to them with the elemental damage.
@@milectarx6561 I went to the boss before getting through the fifth sage, and beat it with bombs mostly
@@milectarx6561 Thank god you had Sidon with you. Mucktorok is hell without him especially knowing that it can become impossible
@@SpicyInk Honestly, Muktorok is stupidly easy in the water temple, also I rarely use the sage's ability in battles.
What I did in order to beat muktorok is first having lot of water fruit for my arrow, and an opal fused to a weapon, in m'y case a sword. But one thing that make Muktorok so easy is Gravity. You just jump in low gravity and tout Can have that slow-mo attack to spam arrows.
@@milectarx6561 fuse a big wheel to a stabilizer then put hydrants at the top of it. Super easy way to deal with it “even easier if you have insert purah pad ability here”
Master mode with 4 hearts is gonna be CRAZY
Imagine going straight to Ganondorf with 4 hearts in Master Mode and fighting the army and all the bosses and THEN Ganondorf…😬😬😬😬 ain’t no way.
@@Urlastnerve and you take PERMANENT DAMAGE!
@@blakksheep736 right
@@Urlastnerve Ganondorf: "I have an army."
Speedrunner Link: "AND I HAVE NO PANTS!"
I honestly cannot wait for Master Mode. I am nearing 90% on my save file already. :3
Loving the "War in the Depths of Hyrule" boss tag
It genuinely feels like this is the final battle. THIS fight is what everyone's been preparing for, here and now.
Except a certain *someone* completely neglected to prepare and just showed up hoping for the best.
Watching you fight the main bosses without the Sage’s power was both the most painful and most impressive thing I’ve ever witnessed
Except Colgera
That went about as well as it usually does
You can still solo them without sages,just get better inventory and weapons. Not to mention you can fuse shield with the bomb to abuse flurry rush in the mid air
Ganondorf: "Did you just go through my entire army and generals by yourself?"
Link: "Hiyah!"
Ganondorf: ".... Impressive, all without some legendary sword. Our battle shall be legendary!"
Pretty good use of the meme.
Definitely makes Zelda's sacrifice worthless lol
He had the master sword tho in the fights
Link: "I swore I would only wield the Master Sword to protect Zelda and Hyrule, never in anger. But now, I'm not so sure. And besides...this isn't the Master Sword."
If you do the final battle without the master sword then you will get it in the final part of the battle (can’t explain what it is cuz spoilers)
It would've been really insane (and probably impossible) if they had you fight all 5 bosses at the same time like how they all spawn when you do have the sages 😂
They should have done that!
I thought for a second I was gonna have to do that with the 5 sages! I was like, “Please I beg! I only have 2 hearts! I need a light root!” I was happy I didn’t have to fight them again but disappointed I didn’t get a light root. Needless to say I didn’t make it past the first phase 😂
Thats what i thought at first, the difference is i actually crazy enough to want that xD
@@pkmoments cook sum sundelions brotha
@@potatokingtheexistent8994 oh…
Queen Bug was already a pain in the main campaign. Having to fight her without Riju has to be excruciating
She's actually very easy. Only difficult thing is to not shock yourself, when shooting lightning stuff at her ;)
I accidentally got to the final boss exploring and had 0 sage. I just brute forced everything with a lynel bow + a ton of bomb flower lmao
not to mention having to kill gohma as well, without yunobo lmao
@@chrisrose4703 gohma is fine just use ascend under him and u can get some easy hits in. His tanky hp bar should be fine with all the royal weapons u can get and high level monster parts from demon kings army.
@@chrisrose4703I went down there when i only had the gerudo and rito sages, and i made it past the demon army and gohma first try, but then got killed by the zora boss and decided i wasnt ready for it.
(I defeated gohma with recall, you can easily throw his rocks back at him and his patterns are very predictable)
Makes you wonder how the sages were able to defeat these bosses so quickly all at once with how little damage they do.
Did you forget their abilities are the bosses weakness?
I assume they were powered up by the stones which made it easier for them. Still miffed link didn’t get a stone though lol
COUGH(cannon wise)
if they gave link a stone it would just look like a breath of the wild speedrun, phasing through walls and all
They have their avatars to help them
Fighting the seized construct without mineru is wild 💀
I did that the first time I finished the game. Never even knew Mineru existed. It was easy though, shock arrow -> Two hand weapon smash into the wires, repeat
Who tf is Mineru? I just went straight to ganon 💀
Y’all tellin me you never did the memories nor explore the castle after the 4 dungeons 😭
@@NarutoUzumaski you’d know if you actually played the game 😭😭😭
@@r3venga567 I did but I got too curious and went straight to Ganon.
Having played through the entire story and all of the seemingly mandatory main quests and even visiting the chasm underneath Hyrule Castle in early game, I assumed going straight the final boss was not possible in Tears of the Kingdom, and I thought the game became more linear because of it. Turns out I didn’t explore the Hyrule Castle depths enough!
I found the fight because my dumb ass was looking for sweet loot under the castle.
@@zenbrown7144a pleasant surprise haha
@@zenbrown7144I was looking for the 5th sage, not knowing where to go.... Ganondorf is the sage? I was like wtf haha
Yeah, I had the exact same experience lol
I got here so early, I didn’t realize I could reverse the falling rocks until much later in the game. Otherwise would’ve been here fighting Ganon a longtime ago.
Ganon is an absolute badass in this game
Always has been
I think this design might be one of his best ones
@@Irequiresustenance also he has the best ganon fights like the other ganon fights look like cutscenes in comparison
Ganondorf not to sound like a Zelda nerd
matt mercer does such a good job with his voice acting
Note: The Ganondorf fight is slightly different, as the part where your allies come in to assist is skipped. (As is Ganondorf needed to push them away)
Would this skip "Phase 3" entirely, or would he still absorb his clones and push just Link away?
@@DestinyHeroDarksidehe still absorbs
How does the cutscenes with sages change after you defeat him?
@@DiminutiveJerry do they still need the master sword to finish ganon?
@alexjackyperson101 yeah it'll give it too you before the final fight and you have to get it to start the fight
I love how much harder this game is and how guarded the final boss is
Six days into TotK and my favorite part of the game so far, yet frightening, are the depths. I didn’t realize how deep the depths were, but holy shit.. I didn’t even know how deep you gotta go just to battle Ganondorf. It’s like no way out after you just dove deep into hell.
Bro just -finding- the fire temple in the depths got me the most excited for a Zelda temple ever. The depth are awesome!
"it's like no way out after you just dove deep into hell."
me; **A s c e n d**
@O4g226AScL4b7y I’ve visited the factory, but don’t plan to do the 5th sage stuff until I do all the surface bosses first
@@squidish6041 ngl, I sometimes forget ascend is a thing since I’m still used to botw mechanics 😅
@@BreakingUNC holy shit!! I’m excited for that!! Death Mountain is the next stop
A tip for the marbled gohma fight, you can rewind the bomb-like spheres that gohma shoots out to stun it, then ascending up is much easier.
I did not know that. That's really cool that they programmed a few ways to fight the boss.
It appears you have caught me mid SUAVEMENTE
God damnit
He is shmoving though
Love that video 😂
en medio... suavemente
Suavemente sua suavemente
Lol
"It would have been more...satisfying to overcome a worthy foe"
Link: Did you not just watch me solo an army, five giant monsters and five copies of you without a break?!
Yeah, it does seem like an oversight. It would have been cool if Ganon had been like "You came alone AND you defeated my army by yourself? I underestimated you, kid... Where was this power when you met me the first time?"
He probably doesn't rate his own army
I didn't know hyrule castle's boss was part of this because I thought the castle was a prerequisite before being able to venture down to this final area
Im trying to figure out how it works too tbh
It is counted as the other 5 as far as I can tell. So while the fight was in charge of a fake version of a sage you get 1 fight per sage that exists
It is? Isn't that only part of the main quest line where you chase Zelda through the castle? which this all skips?
It's not a prerequisite, you can just jump into the chasm immediately.
It’s any boss that gives a heart container
I really enjoy fighting Colgera, I don't know why to be fair. It's an extremely easy boss to fight, but something about it just being a completely airborne battle... the music is really nice to
And there's like three places underground where you cam repeatedly battle Colgera as well, it's made traversing the darkness a lot more fun!
Try to fight it without using arrow. You can dive from height with R button to break its vital point. That's more satisfy in the fight.
@@hehatoe sounds so! I'll have to give it a shot
@@hehatoeI didn’t even realise you could use arrows lol. I just remembered they were like the ice barriers previously in the temple which would break if you stamped on them so I charged through with my sword lol
I saw gohma in the depths after defeating it . I suppose you can find all the bosses there
I was just wondering around the dark of the depths a bit after beating colgera and saw a dragon flying by so I did what any horder play the game does and immediately dropped what i was doing to chase down the dragon so i start gliding after the dragon and as i got closer to it i get within rendering distance of colgera seeing its darkened outline in the unlit abyss and at first i didnt recognize it so i was sitting there saying thinking the fuck is that followed by realizing bosses can spawn in the depths
Using Ascend on Gohma is pretty genius ngl
Did not think that. Cool.
This is the second time when, having beaten the game and breaking my media blackout, I had a "you can DO that?!" moment. The first one was seeing someone completely trivialize the Flux Constructs by using the Ultrahand to pull the core block out and instantly stun it.
Yet, at the same time, not using reverse to send the rocks back at him.
You shoulda seen me wasting Yunobo's roll on its Bomb Ring in both the Story fight AND Depths refight before hearing in a Boss or Dungeon Ranking video you could Recall one of the Bombs :^) Felt like an absolute doofus
@@jacks1368 isn’t that obvious how did you miss that how were you doing the fight ???
I like how you completely skip the boss rush by going through the main story
Please, I had a difficult enough time fighting them where your supposed to. Don’t get me started on trying to fight them here.
@@nairobi8056 lol which one gave you trouble?
@@AlphaCross64def the Queen
@@nairobi8056 you won't have to fight them here as all sages will handle the bosses
@@youtubewontletmetypeagoodu8128 bomb arrows, fuse topaz to gear, electric chuchu jelly, dazzle fruit, rubies/fire chuchu jelly/fire fruit
Man, the Devs really didn’t want you to do this first. It’s the brutal final test for us.
Speedrunners: Challenge accepted!
Pretty insane and intense for people determined to face four waves of the Demon King's army, 6 bosses, and go through 3 phases against the big man Ganondorf himself while avoiding excessive gloom damage and no assistance from the sages and Master Sword (until the Demon Dragon duel)... just for a speedrun.
Pretty gutsy.
This is a game I'll probably never try to go straight to the boss in, not because of the boss run, but because there will always be that voice in the back of my mind reminding me that if I don't complete the story and get all the memories Zelda doesn't get turned back.
well speedruns just clip through and skip all the bosses
@@shellderp I think that depends on the patch version. A recent patch closed all the well known duping and clipping glitches, so I think speedrunners still using the old patch clip through the bosses after fighting Ganon's Army, but speedruns on the current patch need you to go through all or, at least some of them (I think there is still a way to clip to Ganon from the Marbeled Gohma fight if I remember correctly).
@@achristiananarchist2509?? Just looked it up and it says nothing about her not turning back without the true ending.
I can imagine how truly horrifying it would be for someone to go straight to Ganondorf to see Zelda appear and then transform into phantom ganon with no previous context
these bosses actually come back as normal if you beat them as intended at that point in the game, but usually the sages will fight them off and let you go straight to ganondorf
The fact that you can do this is monumentally funny to me, because it means that Ganondorf could have rehydrated at more or less any time since he's ready to fight you even if you book it straight to him, but instead decided to sit underneath Hyrule Castle and cope over how people like not being at war and that he beat Link too easily despite Rauru hyping him up back in his time, essentially just sulking until you come to talk to him about his secret stone's extended warranty. This man would have completely dominated Hyrule and (likely) curbstomped the weakened Link if he actually bothered to get off his ass and do something, but instead he lets you bumble about at your leisure until you go to him, its the pettiest shit I've seen a villain do in an age and I LOVE IT
So you have 4 waves of enemies and 6 boss fights, on top of 3 Ganon phases
That's basically 13 phases in total.
GOD, DO NOT GO TO GANON UNPREPARED.
@@MiiMaker01 If you consider that each boss has two phases each, that's 20 phases
There's also a silver Lynel and a Phantom Ganon on the way down
@@SuperMase9X Those are easy to run past though
@@Nen_niN not if you're a completionist lol
(For the Phantom Ganon anyways)
I like how touching the Malice of much more Punishing
I think of it as just malice but more, so it’s kewl.
@Diego Bustos I preferred malice. Wrath would've been best
My head canon is that malice is a mere by-product of the gloom
@@Brute_Studios mine is that malice is a decayed version of gloom
@@cardboardking577 that would explain why it's weaker compared to gloom.
Also let's just say the whole gloom thing is part of the curse of demise package.
I looked this up because I got here right after the paraglider with the most minimal supply ever, managed to scrape by on the army, only to be greeted by boss that I’ve never seen before panicking and diving too hard and dying. I wanted to see how much there was, before I tried anymore.
Ok update after a lot of practicing I beat the game with the same stuff I had last time I said this.
I did the same after one phenomenon completed. It was hard to get down that deep and boy it was creepy
@@pianocovers5226 Same thing here
Shit not the ujd man himself 💀💀💀
How long did it take you?
I’m kinda disappointed that Colgera is so easy to kill because I think it has awesome design. Basically all the other bosses are way more difficult without the sage abilities, but Colgera is still the same, really easy.
I mean I’m pretty sure he was meant to be the first boss since they direct you to the rito area first (even though you dont have to do it first)
Rito was my third area to go. Had to see Sidon first. And I was struggling the most with Colgera honestly. Out of all the bosses this was the hardest one for me personally. I was never good with the bow before this fight but since that I forget about other weapons easily because bows became my go to choice 😅
@@gaelwilson8191 I honestly had more fun diving through the pieces after it attacks. It's awesome to think about Link diving straight through an enemy to defeat them
Personally don’t care if it’s easy; it’s the most fun to me. Diving through its ice holes gives me a rush I can’t explain.
Queen Gibdo is literally just throwing fruits at her then beating her up, Mucktorok is just abusing bullet time and arrow spamming it. The only one that has any sort of challenge is Gohma and that’s just because it’s annoying
Making your way to Ganon is much harder than Ganon himself.
I agree. Going in to the Hyrule Castle Depths was like going into the Upside Down and the 7 Rings of Hell. My confidence level to face Ganondorf later has dropped.
Unless you're not using any normal weapons then Ganon becomes a Dark Souls Boss.
i think that was the point
Which is kinda lame. I wished the devs used the heart and stamina containers as as the treshold to "level up" Ganon. The more you train and waste time, Ganon also regains his power accordingly. The fact the three headed dragons are way more dangerous than their master, that's yet another instance of this game suffering from the infamous "narrative dissonance"
But... His power is also these enemies. So it's all the same.
I recomend bringing the dusk bow. It can be found on the peak of hyrule castle and it shoots way straighter than other bows.
Me: Sees title
Also me: how the hell does this guy have 13 hearts at the beginning of the game?!
Spoiler
If (by some miracle) you manage to beat Gannondorf’s 2nd phase, before the Final phase a slightly altered cutscene will play of Link pulling the Master Sword out of the Light Dragon (if you don’t have it already) before readying himself to fight Dragon Ganon.
Man, you really wants some serious challenges by discovering this
Honestly if you stock up on fairies and royal weapons you could probably pull it off
@@paul-nj1ig are there even royal weapons in this game? If there are they're probably very rare and you can just fuse any old weapon to get almost there anyways.
@@David-bh1rn Yes royal and royal guard weapons are in hyrule castle
@@David-bh1rn a shit ton of them
When you realize calamity ganon was just Ganondorf's gloom leaking while he was unconscious
The sages: “We’ve awakened, assembled and are here to-“
Link chowing down on a burger with Zelda: “…Wanna bite?”
I do find it pretty silly after everything that happened,especially what happened to zelda, you can just beat ganondorf without pulling the sword,basically making her sacrifice for nothing
You still get it at the end. Demon Dragon only takes damage from the master sword
@@drifloonsupremacyassociation no it doesn't I shot it down with lynel bows and gibdo bones
@@andrewohagan2962 Yeah but I think you need the sword for the final strike
@@andrewohagan2962 no you didnt, because you cannot kill him without the master sword
@@bojaidin yeah for the final cutsecene 'press a' strike. But besides that I entirely used bows
Whoa. So this is the new Legend of Zelda horror game that just came out.
oh yeah just wait until you see the gloom hands that you cant outrun
@@kage_231 Scary!
@@kage_231 The gloom hands are terrifying, especially in the early game when they do immense amounts of damage compared to your health bar and you barely have the stamina to out-climb them even if you can get to a spot that you can climb
Really should've had different dialogue. Ganon shouldn't think you're peace-loving or anything like that if you ignore everyone's troubles and go straight to fight him. Also, he should be excited by the fact that he's going up against someone who just solo'd his whole army.
I find that a magic rod fused with a sapphire is really useful for this area. The broad freezing capability makes an excellent panic button against large numbers of enemies, so it's really helpful against the demon king's army, and the second phase of the gibdo queen fight.
Anti gank feature
In the Gibdo Queen fight, dazzle fruits are also a great way to hit multiple elementals at once. Just one can affect an entire group if they're close enough together.
Honestly, im chill with spoilers and DAMN IS THIS GAMEPLAY FIRE
Me too! Not planning on buying the game but I like to see it
@@kap5189 You should.
Honestly I'm just waiting on everyone's opinions before buying it. Especially with all the unfinished games released this year.
@@user-ee6lk1pb6w I just finished playing for a few hours. Fun so far. The game makes you use your head to get around, LOL.
@@user-ee6lk1pb6w this is Nintendo. Specifically the Zelda development team we're talking about. They don't make unfinished games. Especially with this one being hundreds of ideas combined that weren't included in botw. There's even countless changes to the core gameplay that botw needed. I'd say this game falls into the category of being worth the wait.
For the Gohma, a good idea in this case would be to Recall the rocks. It's small damage, but helps.
It also stuns the boss, so you won’t have to worry about getting body slammed while trying to ascend up its ass
You can still break the pillars in the Queen Gibdo fight without the sage, you just need to use bomb arrows (only reason it didn’t break when they attempted it in the video is because it had just closed as the bomb landed). Fight would still be annoying though
Oh god, you can break those without Riju? God, I wish I knew that earlier...
@@shadcroly Yeah, you just need to wait until the black spots show up and your tryptophobia (if you have it) is triggered and then blast em. Same with main story quest.
I'm pretty sure any elemental arrow will work
You can also use any electric aligned monster parts as well
I was wondering why the lightning arrow or bomb arrow didn't work. It seemed weird that those things couldn't be destroyed when I was pretty sure I destroyed them in my playthrough in the temple.
It’s super interesting that it doesn’t block you off from the outside when you do it like this. I guess you could go do the Sage quests and be able to have the open cave, and the Sages.
The tense music inside the castle is absolutely insane
Honestly it'd be cool if they let you face this in like a special underground colliseum, I know there's rematches but having the gauntlet like this would be really cool.
Well, they do let you fight the bosses in the depths, though I do wish this could be available as well.
@@sega3607 yeah, like the one underneath the colleseum, where you fight 5 lynels in a row.
That would be cool as an endgame bonus. Have it where you can go through a boss gauntlet in some kind of super arena for some kind of endgame reward.
My favorite part was when the gibdos said "it's gibdoin time" and started gibdoing all over
I liked how you went for it even though you did not knew the fight before hand, you did really good, I would have died 10000 times xD
Mucktorock boss gave me the most trouble even with 3 hydrants. I cussed out loud so many times out of frustration. The first half of the fight is super easy but second half made me wanna break stuff!!
i just used eyeballs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hate that little dude haha
Do you mean in the Depths or at the Temple? Cause in the Temple I just used the low gravity to jump high and get an easy slowmo arrow shot off.
I admire the dedication to this. Well done!
Ganondorf: Did you just beat my entire army all by yourself?
Link: Yes, so?
Ganondorf: That’s agaist the plot isn’t it?
Link: Screw the plot I am the main protagonist!
This must mean that if you have some of the Sages (but not all), you’d skip their respective Boss fights. Pretty cool!
GOD
DAMN this is insane. And here I was intending to go straight to Ganondorf right after geting the paraglider. Naive me.
I like how Marbled Gohma tries to start his second phase on the roof and then is like: "wait what is this shit"
Man... I had a hard time beating Ganondorf with all the sages. Congrats... Impressive!
“Let’s go straight to Ganon” *has 13 hearts*
The seized construct without that one sage is basically the Koga endfight
Would have been a good joke to defeat all of that mess, then come into Ganon's chamber to find him rushing to pack a suitcase and be like "Nope nope nope nope nope nope," and fly away.
I was going into the castle for good items in stuff early and found the little entrance to the tunnel that goes to the boss and was going through killing everything because it had some really good fuse items and weapons and accidentally found the final fight lol
I like the fact that they're giving you clear access if you wanna fight the final boss early, unlike the treacherous route we had to endure back at BotW's Hyrule Castle
i didnt notice much difference you could skip most of the enemies in hyrule castle pretty easily and head straight for the sactum. in Totk u also have a path of enemies which u can run past.
What? Totk's route of the Ganon fight is even more treacherous than botw. Even before these fights, you have to go against many many enemies, harder than botw guardians actually.
Did you play botw? This game's path to early Ganondorf is infinitely harder than early calamity ganon
Nah this shit is harder. I was just exploring and I was getting close to getting my butt kicked first time around.
You must be on that good zaza because this shit is way harder wtf are you on
Link: Destroys an entire army of monsters, a giant scarab dragon, a giant rock spider, a mud-shark-squid, a giant nightmare-locust, and *a 200 ton high tech robot wielding lasers, guns, rockets, and grenades, by himself, with weapons he found on the side of the road.*
Ganondorf:
*h o w d i s a p p o i n t i n g*
When doing the Gibdo Queen fight, dazzle fruits are your best friend. You can affect an entire group of gibdos with dazzle fruit when they're in close proximity to each other like in that fight. It saves a lot on other elementals if you want to just thin the herd a little bit.
I did this as well. As soon as I got my glider I rode straight to the top of the castle, got some weapons and then spent 2 hours learning how to make the run to Ganon. Got my ass beat though.
I like completing all Main Quests in every Zelda playthrough, but it's fun to watch videos about what happens when you don't.
the fact that it took me the length of this video for each boss fight is embarrising the fact you killed all of those guys most likely whilst dying a lot but you still did it without any of the sages which is very impressive
6 bosses before ganondorf as well as 3 ganons in total is insane
THERE'S ANCIENT ARROWS LET'S GOOO
@Diego Bustos No, you can also get it by beating the Spirit Temple and then purchase it at one of the Construct Vendors next to the 5th sage.
@Diego Bustos you mean you get ancient blades from that amiibo?
@Diego Bustos nothing is amiibo locked in this game besides some cosmetics for the glider. All amiibo unlocks in the previous game are obtainable in the under ground world “The Depths”
@@tageru1541 or you can find one in one well
@@Dado_nastro there's also one underground in the death mountain area, I found it while doing a quest for some guy trying to boil eggs in a hot spring
I like how they actually programmed something for speedrunners
32:37 those missed ancient arrow headshots not only insulted me but also made me want to cry at the waste
New speedrun, Instant Ganon %
It would be a PAIN IN THE ASS
isnt that what any% is? lol
For those unaware, you can destroy the Gibdo hives with bomb flowers. As long as they are actively spawning, it will work. You can see at 17:07 they attempt this, but the hive dimmed right as they shot the arrow which is why it failed. You have to wait for it to be bright if you want to destroy it.
To be honest using bombs is easier than using Riju because there’s no need to chase her down and then wait for her lightning bubble to reach the hive and then wait for her power to recharge.
Against the Marbled Gohma, you can recall the rocks it spits out. They usually land near its eye and explode, causing health and stun damage.
I gotta say, this Boss gauntlet was really flipping long. You could say it was starting to, *DRAG-ON*
In my actual playthrough, I beat queen gibdo without riju by spamming topaz infused arrows directly on the queen gibdo and never even worrying about the hives
demon kings army- 1:41 - 2:19
colgera- 2:20 - 4:47
marbled gohma- 4:54 - 9:23
mucktorok- 9:25 - 14:38
queen gibdo- 14:39 - 22:31
seized construct- 22:36 - 29:15
phantom ganon- 29:16 - 34:04
I can’t imagine doing these bosses by myself, without the sages.
I remember I jumped in that place by just exploring, without knowing the final boss was there, I teleported out because it was too hard. Didn't know you can skip temples.
omg yess Nintendo unity still lives!!!🙏
Speedruns are gonna be insane
Current record is 1:08 with sub 1 hour expected soonish. You charge in with 4 hearts and no glider. Colgera without the glider is pain but a multi shot bow and homing arrows makes it tolerable.
The sheer amount of whole chickens consumed is terrifying
All without the Master Sword. Hats off to you, you absolute UNIT.
I thought so. All bosses after the gauntlet of small mobs. Dang, this will give the speedrunners a run for their money. I'd be curious to see if they could manage to get a sub hour. 😂
So this basically the same things as botw though much harder since these aren't blights. I mean its definitely possible but youd really have to beef yourself up. Its probably why the games never recommends it. Imagine doing this at the beginning with 3 hearts. Yeah i aint the one for that.
I was today years old when I found out that you could ascend through Marbled Gohma
*Link, rolling up on Ganon with a cool new arm and stick he found on the way:* You should have gone for the head
So in summary, Nintendo just requires you to beat every main boss.
Like a video game would? Interesting...
the same happens with botw
You are doing the work, dammit
@@TsuneAi not if you beat them in the divine beasts. In Totk you have to refight the bosses no matter what
Edit:Nope i was wrong it's like in botw
@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDukeno you don't, if you do the dungeons and awaken the sage they'll fight their own boss
i was expecting a 3 HEART Link.
not a shrine boosted link.
I find it hard to believe this was the first time you encountered these bosses considering you knew exactly the right strategy and mix of weapons to use.
"you see kids, this is why we don't go straight to Ganon."
So I almost just did this by accident. Only have one sage. I had to look this up to double check it was going to the final boss. Definitely avoiding this lmao. I have 7 hearts
The only thing i wanted to see in this game was Ganon. and boy! Im surprised!
The additional challenge you set by not using Flurry rush is extra impressive 😃
Wow, I didn't imagine that you have to beat the 4 dungeons bosses in a row without the Sages. That's a pretty good challenge to beat the game without help right here.
Five.
Did you not play BotW? Genuine question, because this is what they did for that game as well. If you go straight for Ganon in BotW then you have to fight the four bosses you would've fought at each Divine Beast before you get the chance to go up against Calamity Ganon.