Was searching for a speedrun. Then had my heart broken as I realized my childhood was the speedrun.

Anju: Wow, you're so mature for you age. Link: Thanks, it's the trauma.

"Banished from his childhood, destined to roam a world that doesn't remember him" that gets me to tear up every time....

Something I noticed after watching this... After destroying the evil in the Forest Temple and restoring Link's childhood home, you can learn the Song of Storms and return to the past to retrieve the Lens of Truth, which is intended to be used to beat the Shadow Temple. If the childhood Hyrule is meant to be lighthearted and fun, then the contrasting darkness we find at the bottom well is very intentional; the darkness of the world was always there, just under the surface, even as a child. As you get older and begin to bear more responsibility, that darkness just becomes more apparent. So we use this acknowledgment of darkness always being there, as our Lens of Truth. We use it to help us navigate into the heart of darkness within man, the Shadow Temple.

This is better than most documentaries in Netflix

incredible.

I always thought it was incredibly sad that Link loses 7 years of his life. It's like Frodo who saves the Shire for everyone else but not himself.

Isn't it ironic that we could only understand the subtext of a game from our childhood when we ourselves grew up.

"Destined to roam a world that doesn't remember him" That hit me HARD in the feels...

In the holiday season of 1998, my dad was able to secure me a copy (against all odds) of this legendary game. I cannot overstate how much I love this game. My dad passed away in October 2020. He was a good man, a kind father, and he is _my_ hero of time.

I've only ever finished Ocarina of Time once. I must have been no older than 11 when I did. Ever since then, I've replayed it again and again and again but I would always stop at the exact same point: after beating the Forest Temple. I never understood why, I just somehow felt that at that point of the game I I've seen what I wanted to. But after watching this video, I tried to think about it. I couldn't explain it to myself as a kid, but I knew deep down somewhere that I wasn't happy after I finished the game. I was happy to beat the game, of course, but I couldn't be happy for Link. Even child-me could see he had no more friends and no more home... so I started a New Game. I collected the stones again, pulled the Master Sword, cleansed the Forest Temple, watched the New Deku Tree sprout... and then stopped before I moved on with my Life. Every couple of years since then, I would replay Ocarina of Time to that same point. Part of me was certainly just enjoying the Childhood adventure. The mood was happier, more naive, more magical. The Bombs and Slingshots were cute, and fighting your way out of the belly of a beast was enchanting. But when I got to the Forest Temple, I must have realised the adventure had stopped. It was no longer just an adventure, it was a job and a responsibility - and having just rescued those I felt closest with in the Kokiri forest, I felt like I needed to stop. I didn't want a job, I wanted a game of magic and fantasy. I'm 25 now, and I still haven't played the game to the end for a second time. Maybe I should. As an adult with my own set of responsibilities and a job, perhaps I'll see the game in a much different light than I did before - and maybe for once I can finally move on past the Forest Temple.

this man really dropped two of the best video essays of all time and then dipped

When the video ends and you just sit there in silence for a while, reflecting. That's when you know you just watched something good.

I can't be the only one who teared up around 29 minutes. This video is incredible.

What surprised me the most watching this is how much Link actually loses in the game. It's not even sugar-coated. But Ocarina of Time is such an overall delightful experience that it just flew over my head all these years. A hero with strength enough to save the world, but powerless to save those closest to him.

You know, this was really the same thing that I felt growing up while playing the game. My family was moving around so much, I felt like I had missed out on so much of my childhood even when I was a child. Everybody seemed to have known each other forever but I had to remake all my friends every few years. I was very lonely, and I suppose that is why the Hero of Time really spoke to me - caught in between, not really a child and not really an adult. Maybe we are all Heroes of Time just for coping with the profound sense of loss and pain that comes with maturation.

I don’t remember paying for KZfaq premium.

You know how every youtube stars their review of OOT with the classic "what can I say about OOT that hasn't been said already?"... this is the answer to that question.

The fact that barely anyone noticed that Ocarina of Time is the saddest zelda game makes me think there a lot of sad people we never notice in life, because it isn't obvious.

As someone with childhood trauma, losing your connection to childhood and not having been allowed to be a child- craving that which was taken away and what couldve been. The guilt and the sadness- being forced to go nowhere but forward. Its all too touching, OoT has a special place in my heart.

“Destined to roam the world alone in a world that doesn’t remember him”. Jesus that sunk in for me

In 1998, my dad was given three months to live. We got an N64 as his sort of "Take him to Disneyland" moment. Ocarina of Time was the very first video game my dad and I ever played together, side by side. Unfortunately, life got in the way and my dad and I were unable to beat the game before he died. I didn't manage to pick the game up for, funnily enough, about seven years. When OoT was released, it was considered perfect. I imagine most people would have been in awe when they finished it. When I finally saw 'The End', my only thought was, "I wish Dad was here to see this."

This is my first time seeing this. I just lost my mom suddenly and unexpectedly. But some of my earliest memories are sitting on the edge of the pull out bed in our living room, while my mom played OOT and MM. I was very young and it fostered a strong love for Zelda and video games in general. The heroic story caught my young attention. As an adult, I find myself combing these games for every shred of subtext. I started playing TOTK and found myself exploring the castle and castle town ruins out of that childhood wonder and nostalgia. And I felt that pull of childhood. The slow, deconstructed sad melody of Lon Lon Ranch where I spent so much time as a kid in OOT. It felt safe and fun. Now it's stripped and barely exists. It feels the same. Losing my mom means I have to start on a new adventure. A life without her. An adult with less childhood to hold on to. But I think she'd be proud of me.

Fuckin’ 4 years and this is still thee best Zelda video I’ve seen on this entire platform. I’ve watched it a million times. Fuckin’ made me cry the first time I watched it!

This video made me sad and appreciate the game even more. I was thinking about it for a while and then I noticed something else: If you load the game as child Link, you always start in your home in Kokiri forest (with the exception of when you saved in a dungeon). I interpret this as you always wake up in your protected home with all your toys and a playground just outside. While as an adult, you start at the temple of time - a cold environment reminding you of the tasks that lie ahead of you. As an adult you wake up to go to work, do chores, tax returns or whatever. There’s no time, no place and no toys to play with.

Do you remember how you played this game as a child? And now you're 35 years old, still roaming Hyrule in the search for that childhood that is gone as if you were asleep for years. The childhhod vs adulthood thread is not only one of the game. It's one that applies to us all, in real life. Back then, we were just playing. Now we look back onto this with the same loss that Link does.

Watching this the day after I found out my childhood best friend succame to his cancer was perhaps not the right idea. Some of the most vivid memories I have of us together are set in a dinky sideroom of his house where would play N64. We were inseparable for years, until I decided that the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and whatever new GameCube game of the day were of less interest than the girls in the cafeteria. We grew apart, though never with any malice. I reached out to him a few times in my post-college days, but everything was promises and vague plans. Time was infinite, until it wasn't. Now I am here, mourning a friend whose companionship in my formative years I would not trade for anything. A feeling that resonates oh so closely with themes explored here. RIP David, you will be missed.

This channel is absolutely incredible

Saw this on my recommended and I was like " Lol I'm not gonna watch a video about Ocarina of Time for a half hour." 13 min in my bro walks in and I'm like "lemme restart this for you this shit is good!"

On the topic of Ganondorf representing adulthood and Navi representing Link's lingering childhood: During the first fight with Ganondorf, he pushes Navi away with sheer power, leaving Link to confront Ganondorf as only the man he has become. Without Navi, Link can't focus (z-target) and he doesn't have Navi's insight. This is representative of Miyamoto's ability to use the memories of his childhood in his own work. Without it, he lacks focus, and insight, and something is missing. The final conflict occurs and Navi returns, for one last fight, only to leave once all is said and done. Link's childhood is now elusive. But he pursues it, seeking out that feeling again. Which is where Majora's Mask picks up, where Link finds another fairy, but it isn't his, it belongs to someone else. This is a metaphor for how Miyamoto was able to rediscover his elusive childhood through the games he makes. He relives his childhood through the eyes of those who are still children. And in doing so, has a unique drive and childlike wonder that will never go away. I hope this shed some more light on the wonderful parallel that was so artfully described in the video.

I vividly remember the final emotion when in 1999, as a kid, I was finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It was this overwhelming sadness that you perfectly dissect. Beautiful video, beautiful work. I would just add one more thing to the "losing" part that you describe: as Link progresses in the story, as we heal the world around us, we’re also losing the game… soon it’s going to be over, and we won’t be able to feel it as we did for the first time, again. Maybe that’s why so many people keep searching for something more about it. We want that feeling back. We want to go back in time an experience it just one more time for the first time. For those of us that play it when it launched, as kids/adolescents, I believe there is something bounding us together, it's almost like if we had lived the same life, and lost it… but we’ll always have this memory in common that unite us and bring us together through time.

This. This is what games should be. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy mobas or fps games as much as the next person. However, when the game also tells a story like this; encapsulating the writers history, beliefs, and feelings. It becomes an experience in and of itself. One of the best. We need more like this.

Shocking we got to watch this documentary for free Well done, amazing production

“In the land of Hyrule, there echoes a legend held by the Royal Family that tells of a boy… A boy who, after battling evil and saving Hyrule, crept away from the land that had made him a legend… Done with the battle he once waged across time, he embarked on a journey. A secret and personal journey… A journey in search of a beloved and invaluable friend… A friend with whom he parted ways when he finally fulfilled his heroic destiny and took his place among legends…” These are the opening words of Majora’s mask, one of the timeline possibilities heading out of Ocarina of Time. And where do we find Link? Looking for, chasing down Navi, the key to returning to the place of his lost childhood. Kinda heartbreaking!

I did realize OoT Link was one of the saddest, but not for the same reasons. When I decided to replay the game back in 2014, I started noticing how sad Link's backstory was in this game, he's an orphan who never knew his parents and was given to the Deku Tree to guard him. He grows up wanting to believe he's a kokiri but some of'em are rude to him and make it a point to remind him he's not one of them. He has Saria as a friend but he has to leave her behind because the Deku Tree has placed the fate of the world on his shoulders. He then goes on an epic and exciting adventure, of which I'm convinced Link enjoyed every second, including the descent into the bottom of the well and the shadow temple. Don't forget he has the triforce of Courage, so he has an innate sense and enjoyment of adventure, but... his only remaining friend, AKA Navi, has to leave him to return to the Kokiri forest now that her duty is over. He can't follow her there, and there's nothing to do now that the world is saved. The beginning of Majora's Mask tells you he's now on a journey to make a friend. Majora's Mask's whole story revolves around dealing with the loss of friends or family, and in the end Link ends up thankfully befriending the Skull kid, but I don't think any Link has a sadder backstory than this.

All these years later and the line: “The cruel flow of time…time is the true villain of the story” Just hits so bloody hard 😔

I am immensely blown away by this video editing.

I always thought the saddest part of OoT is the fact that link is forced to become a child again (ignore the stupid nintendo timeline, just at the end of the game in the credits) He has all this knowledge of what could have happened in the future, and no one but the seven sages know, but he can’t be with them because he’s a child, but he doesn’t belong with the kokiri because he’s lost all child-like innocence,he’s fought in a war that technically didn‘t happen

Still returning to this masterpiece

It is 4 years later and I still look back every now and then hoping he has released the next one. This video is just that good.

I have a genuine emotional attachment to this game. When I put the cartridge in my n64, in my head it’s similar to when Link places the Master Sword back in its pedestal. And I’m transported back to my childhood. Then when I take it out. It’s back to adulthood 😭

No joke, this is one of the most well put-together videos I have seen in quite some time. 10/10.

Good lord.. This hit me hard. I liked learning about Shinto and it's influences in the game but the fact that Ganondorfs title of King of Thieves referring to his theft not just of the triforce of power but of Links childhood too really blew me away. I especially like the idea that Link is taking on Hyrules curse as he purifies the land, eventually losing everything and everyone. Fantastic video.

Last year I played ocarina of time again ten years after I played it for the first time. One day you are 11 years old and the next you are 21 years old. And despite the fact that I realized a lot of the subtext that the game expresses, I had never realized it to such a deep level with which you explain. Your video is a jewel in this world of youtube. From narration, video editing and music. Eternally grateful, one of my favorite videos.

This is still the best video I've ever seen on this site.

I came for a video game.... I ended up with a philosophy degree, depression and questioning my life

This is seriously the level of video this game deserves. It’s the greatest game of all time, the highest rated and most beloved . It was literally a cultural shift when it came out and set the foundation for all modern 3d action games……. It’s influence is truly astounding

I thought I have seen it all. Excellent video essays from films, history, geopolitics, mystery, etc. But this is a Masterpiece. The writing, the sound design and editing. Too bad he is not dropping new videos.

Amazing video, thanks for taking the time to put this all together.

This is just an outstanding piece of work. The greatest of Ganondorf's crimes: he stole Link's childhood. The themes of OoT are all the more poignant if it played a large part of your own childhood. You can never get back the exact same feeling you had when you first played through it. You can now only see it through experienced eyes, not the eyes of innocence.

4 years later and I just now found this. This is extremely well done. Good work !

I don’t think I’ve ever cried in a video essay before. I share this work everywhere. This piece of excellence reminds me the importance of story to the human soul, and even, what it means to be human. That last song track - CHILLS.

I don’t think anyone has given such a view into the heart behind the meaning of OOT before. When you have the ability to take a game that has been around for so long, and make people walk away with a NEW appreciation to the story, that’s an accomplishment that cannot be praised enough. There is no greater love letter to a story, than to re-inspire peoples love for it. You nailed it!

The dude just kinda made a masterpiece of a video then peace’d out

My dad used to buy and sell consoles on the side to make some extra money and to bring some entertainment to us kids as we were quite poor. One day we would come home and our console at the time had been sold. There was an upside to this; Every few months we'd get a new 2nd hand console with new games to play. One day, we came home and we finally had another console again but this time something was different. One of the games was gold. That was my first encounter with this incredible game. I remember being on the title screen, just sitting and listening to the beautiful music. Feeling sad, but somehow in a good way. I remember repeatedly getting lost in the forest. I remember being amazed that the game transitioned to night, but then getting shivers with fright because now I was being hunted by ghosts and skeletons. I remember being stumped for months before figuring out I had to give the giant fish another fish to eat. I remember knowing that this game was unlike any other I had ever played and being unbelievably excited to play it coming home from school. But I also remember feeling sad often while playing it, and not quite knowing why. This video explains that. The subtext in this game is so fully realised in the world that it influences its environment so much that even a 9 year old boy could pick it up. It also explains in part why the game has so many emotions tied to it for me even 20 years later. I've always known this game was a masterpiece and I've also realised it holds that status for reasons I didn't know. This video explains what I have felt ever since I first played this game. Thank you to the creators of this game, and thank you for making this video.

I know this video is over a year old, but I just wanted to take a moment to say how not only does this video show just how amazing of a story Ocarina of Time has, but it also makes Majora's Mask an even better game. How does Majora's Mask begin? Link looking for Navi, trying to regain his lost childhood. What are the main aspects of Majora's Mask? Masks (obviously) and grief. There's been all sorts of videos talking about how the five regions represent the stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance), and it's that way INTENTIONALLY, because these are the feelings going through Link's head. When it comes to masks, this game makes it very clear that masks are tied with grief. Whenever link receives a mask in game, it is because he helps someone overcome their grief (the giving of the mask to Link reinforcing the idea of Link taking sorrow from others and placing it on himself). The Song of Healing is the greatest example. In playing the song, Link removes all the sorrow and grief that the person felt and forms a mask from it. THAT'S why it hurts so much to put it on, because when he does, he relives all the sorrow and regret the original person felt. And this idea of masks and sorrow goes even deeper. What do masks do? They hide what lies beneath. Our desires, our fears, our vulnerabilities, all hidden behind a mask that, while bright and colorful, is filled with grief and regret. And no one represents this better than Link: a man in a child's body who had his childhood taken from him. He has the outward appearance of a strong young hero, while underneath lies a grief-ridden man yearning for his youth. The question is, how does Link overcome this sorrow? Well, primarily by going through the five regions/stages (Clock Town being denial, the Swamp being anger, the Mountains bargaining, the Bay depression, and Ikana acceptance). But he also learns from the constant three day cycle. This is someone yearning for "the good old days" who is now forced to live the same three days over, and over, and over again. It makes Link realize something: holding onto and regretting the past will get you nowhere in life. You have to let time pass, you have to see that dawn of a new day. You have to move on. And, moving back to the Song of Healing, how do you remove that guilt? By taking off the mask, by leaving it behind and moving on (just as the spirits did). And that's what Link does. That's why Majora inhabiting Skull Kid makes for such a great parallel: it represents Link's inability to let go of his childhood, and by defeating it, he let's go of all his grief, starting the "Dawn of a New Day". Link casts off his mask that had been grieving him for so long, and moves on with his life. In the end credits, when we see him riding on Epona, he's not going INTO the Lost Woods, he's LEAVING it. He's stopped looking for Navi. He's letting go of the past and embracing a bright future. He has healed. Majora's Mask isn't a story about sorrow; it's a story about healing.

this was a huge bruh moment for sure

This video perfectly explains why The Hero of Time is my favorite incarnation of Link and why Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are my favorite games of all time. Link is often described by people, even by the developers, as being a blank slated character, but I think every incarnation of Link has their own personality and character. They're just presented in different ways, often through stoicism and you have to look for it. I think Ocarina of Time in tandem with Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess present The Hero of Time as a very deep and compelling character and it makes it interesting to see his journey as a person unfold. He's a broken man burdened with responsibilities out of his control, and he goes on journeys throughout his life to learn to accept his role as an adult but as Twilight Princess shows, he never truly finds peace in his life. Majora's Mask could arguably be a metaphorical representation of his state of mind after the events of Ocarina of Time as he learns to accept this new role in adulthood.

This might be the best edited video I’ve ever seen in 10 years actively watching YT

I remember the hollow, empty feeling I was left with after beating the game for the first time... And now it all makes sense

One thing I'm surprised you didn't mention is that when link grows up he can no longer wield the weapons of his childhood. After all, slingshots and boomerangs are toys. He is forced to put these aside in favor of the more "adult" tools of war that he must get acquainted with to stand a chance against Gannondorf.

Over the past few years I've come back to this video. The editing is Hollywood tier The script is amazing The analysis is perfect The ability the narrator has to pull you into his perception is memorizing... This is, easily, one of the best videos on this platform.

2024. I still come back to this video. Masterpiece.

You could also make the case that the kami are rewarding Link during the child period. The boomerang, the slingshot, even the bombs to an extent (stuff like child friendly explosives such as firecrackers) are all things they give Link as thanks for his attempts at purification. The kami, arming a child with the only tools he'd understand and be able to use efficiently. Each of the weapons carry whimsical significance: Link shoots a massive spider in the eye with deku nuts, throws explosives into a massive lizard's gullet, and severs a parasite's support with a boomerang. This all sounds very much like solutions to a problem in a children's adventure book. Then you get to the adult bit and that's just completely gone. You're not shooting nuts, you're shooting lethal arrows at Phantom Ganon. You're smashing a dragon in the head with an extremely heavy hammer. You're pulling a cell out of its liquid container and exposing it to harmful air so you can kill it. You use the lens of truth to expose a demon, and you deflect fire and ice to burn two crones. The methods by which Link deals with the bosses just completely abandon that playful nature.

This is, by far, the best produced documentary about a game I've ever seen. Specially about a game I love with all my heart. This is a masterpiece.

I know I'm 5 years too late to this video, but OoT Sheik's "The flow of time is always cruel" speech is probably the greatest video game speech of all time. And I can't believe they dropped it on us when we were just little kids. That quote has aged SO well, and reads so different now as an adult. "Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it. A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days." Damn does that hit hard 26 years later.

I'm pretty sure I've already commented on here but every time I watch this video (which is every week or so) I'm simply blown away by it's quality. It makes me feel things in the best way possible.

“In the end, Link is changed forever. A savior, banished from his childhood, destined to roam alone in a world that doesn’t remember him.” This quote right here really tied it all together and broke my heart. This video is amazing, thank you, truly.

The Title-Screen of OOT was always meant to set the mood for the game’s loneliness theme. I mean, he *is* riding around Hyrule Field all alone while nostalgic semi-melancholy music plays in the background.

I always wanted to come back to hyrule after you shave it. To see it's purified. But that's the thing. You've grown up. And you can't go back

This is probably my favorite video on KZfaq. I've come back to rewatch it I don't know how many times now.

What are you doing making videos for KZfaq? You just wrote a master's thesis. This stuff belongs on Netflix, or somewhere it can make you the money you deserve. This is the best-produced video I have ever seen on KZfaq. I'm not kidding. Keep up the amazing work. I don't normally comment on videos. That's how good this is. Amazing. Brilliant. Perfect.

I’ve watched this video over 5 times now, and every time I’m jaw dropped at how artistic and creative the entirety of everything is. What wonderful editing, insight, and creativity. Thank you. This is what KZfaq exist for.

I have watched hundreds of videos about the Legend of Zelda, and have been a fan of the series since the very beginning when I was a kid in the '80s. To say that this is one of the very best that I've ever seen, would be a gross understatement. I cannot thank you enough for this level of insight - what a magnificent bit of writing and thought. You have most definitely earned a subscriber!

So good. Rewatching it again!

The corruption is so bad in Link's adult world that it extends back in time. Originally, as a child, he can't enter the bottom of the well. It's only by time-traveling knowledge of the song of storms that he can enter this place. And his reward for undergoing that terrible ordeal as a child is the ability to "see the truth".

Actually crying. This game established my childhood. You honestly put all those things I felt into words which I didn’t think possible. OOT is and will always be the greatest game I’ve ever played. It really is heartbreaking though. Just one of them things

I never felt so sad and empty than after finishing this game as a young teen. The feeling of wandering in a empty world hit me hard sometimes.

There is a detail that I always thought about: that Link in the Kokiri Village is also an unnatural element placed there by a violent event. The fact that Link doesn't have a fairy and even the loneliness you can appreciate when the game presents us to him at the initial top view of him sobbing when he sleeps at his room. Saria's loves and Miko's envy' towards him are also elements that make Link at the same time special but also impossible: chosen by the Deku tree for not being a Kokiri, the same reason why he will never be able to be with Saria. As time travel itself he is the impossible hero, a hero that when he was an adult was a child inside to defeat the greatest evil and when he was a child, didn't even have a childhood?

Wow...I've played Ocarina of Time more than I can count. While not all of the amazing sub-text was lost on me...the implication of Navi leaving Link and him not being able to return home as a result never hit me...Despite knowing the lore of link turning into the Heroes Shade in TP. I can't believe I never connected those dots after all these years.

Yo the effort you put into this video is beautiful and this was probably the most inspirational piece of Zelda content I’ve ever seen. Thank you for raising the bar. 🙏🏽

Fuck this video makes me tear up every time I watch it. This is the best Zelda video ever uploaded and one of the greatest videos ever uploaded to KZfaq

I posted on this a year ago. And I'm really only posting again to say that I still come back and watch this. it's amazing , brilliant, and spot on. Even though I am improving on analysis, I never would have realized all this without your video. And I can't help but think about it more. please make more stuff.

I think most of us understood these themes subconsciously when playing OoT as a kid, and that is why it is the Zelda game most hold as most dear now that we are older. In many ways, we played a game of our life before it unfolded. Let us give thanks to the game's creators and continue to support them.

"Did you save Hyrule?" Link: "Yes" "What did it cost?" Link: *in tears* "Everything"

I've seen this video many many times but no matter how many times I do, it remains beautiful, precious, respectable and incredible. Absolutely one of the best video-game videos on KZfaq.

Just found this today and already watched twice. Perhaps one of the most beautiful videos I’ve come across on KZfaq.

This video is absolutely incredible and I’ll probably rewatch it multiple times a year, but there are a few tiny details I was surprised went unmentioned in the final story progression line, and I wanted to get your take on them here. First, I love how, when you get the Goron Ruby and Zora Sapphire, the text directly comments on how you (Link), as a child, don’t understand more adult matters. “You don’t know what Darunia means by ‘sworn brothers’ but you got the Goron Ruby!” “You don’t know what Ruto means by ‘her greatest possession’ but you got the Zora Sapphire!” In this way the text itself is clueing you in to how Link’s mind is working at this point in the story. And second, I think Link the Goron is an amazing but small plot point. Not only is it rather heartbreaking to see that Darunia named his son after you and you (unintentionally) doomed the Goron race and never visited for all those years, but it’s also a neat look back at the world Link left behind. Here, Link, as an adult, must comfort a crying child that shares his name and very clearly represents who he used to be, and who he still wishes he was. He’s not just comforting a kid that happens to share his name, he’s literally trying to comfort himself. His inner child. He most likely wishes he could cry and let someone save the day as well, but he is now the adult in the situation and so the job falls to him. Anyway, amazing video. I just wanted to bring these up to get your take.

Um. Wow. WOW. No words. This is one of the greatest videos about Ocarina of Time--Zelda for that matter--I have ever seen. Hands down. Undeniably beautiful work, Javed. And huge shoutouts to the incredible team that helped make this possible. This is INCREDIBLE.

It’s 2024 and this video is still one of my favorite videos in this platform. Better yet, the best video, my favorite video. I could’ve watched countless hours of introspectives and retrospectives but remember no line at all. This video on the other hand is one that every now and then I remember.

I come back to watch this at least once a month.

Amazing video! A masterclass in subtext indeed!

Wow, just wow. Spread the word about this masterpiece, as this video deserves way more views than this!

I watch this from time to time and it still gets me every time in the end. Amazing work.

I felt all of this as I was playing it when I was a child myself, and never fully understood those feelings. The tragedy of it all, the tragedy of growing up. I said it at the time, and I ll say it now as a man, it is the greatest game ever made. I've been thinking about this game a lot lately because I've finally come to realize I've experienced all of these things myself in the last few years. I sacrificed my friends to start a family. I sacrificed all of my personal time to care for them. I've grown up. And where does that leave me? The flow of time is always cruel.

"that no one remembered" I just started weeping. Oh, Link.... This is why Hero's Shade is my favourite. I wish I could give him a hug.

When you realize the reason the Hero of Time became a Stalfos is that, at some point, he tried to go home....

Blessed be for Big A. This is so beautifully put together. It wasn't until the past month I realized I haven't finished a single-player game since 2015. OoT was one of my first single player games with a story that I recall beating. That I remember getting lost in. It hadn't occurred to me for years that there are writers behind these stories. That subtext actually exists outside of written books and movies. It's people like you that let me go back to these games with a beautiful perspective, and I can't thank you enough for the wonderful presentation with it. Tyty, digging out my N64.

Thank you, for bringing Link's ultimate sacrifice to light. This broke me.

This might be the best video I've seen on KZfaq. Not only did you delve deep into these unexplored areas of lore surrounding the game, but the presentation was also "masterclass" itself. I made a video on OoT a few years ago attempting to do something similar, but this completely blows it out of the water and Im honestly humbled by this. There is something so true and self evident about the struggles of growing up and taking on responsibility. As a kid, I viewed the world in such a different way than I do now. Everything was captivating, encouraging, and inspiring in some way. It may sound cliche', but as an adult I think the only thing keeping you from being hopeless is holding on to that child-like sense of wonder and optimism. The balance between the pureness of childhood and the responsibility of adulthood seems to be a critical part of life.