The Depths not be advertised is what really makes finding them so great!

I think the ghost soldiers in the depths are the same soldiers who died in the calamity. They give more modern weapons and some of them are found directly under the monuments Zelda dedicated to the people who died in the calamity

The Yiga lore being expanded to have them master replication of the Lightning Helm is so nuancing & appreciated.. makes you wonder why larger incongruities exist

11:42 these things are absolutely terrifying. Like really well designed. They *demand* your attention as the sky changes color with their presence. And they appear to have only one single goal they desperately peruse to no end, *to get you.*

fun fact: you can avoid or locate gloom spawn/gloom hands if you register phantom ganon to your purah sensor, you can't register the hands to the sensor but you can still locate them with the sensor this way :)

Thinking about it now. All of the enemies from the old games (Like-Likes, Gleeoks, Gloom Hand/Floormasters) are MUCH more terrifying than the new ones, especially with their redesigns. My first time running into a Like-Like, I was like "UGH!! WTF is that?!"

The Lynel Stable fact is actually mind blowing. I remember challenging the 5 Lynels before I did anything in this game. I felt like I just beat this hardest challenge in this game and now with 100% that is true. However with endgame loot defeating 5 Lynels isn't all that impressive. I really hope for a DLC that introduced another hardcore challenge where I can use my level 4 armor and weapons.

One thing to note, not all shrines have a corresponding lightroot in the depth. This is true for the shrines found in the sky.

I did find it very intriguing about the plant life in the depths which adds a whole different beauty to it. I thought the depths was just gonna be like all caverns with glowing rocks and nothing else but they actually added very weird stuff down there making the world feel like a whole different planet. That feeling is amplified when you look above the ceiling and there seems to be like fog up there making it look like a dark cloudy sky. I always wanted a Breath of the Wild area to be on a different planet but the depths makes it feel like that in Totk. But it mostly feels like I’m in a dark world with heavy supernatural elements. And speaking of Supernatural elements when it comes to ghosts. Sure you meet spirits of the champions and king and the luminous stones but they are just stones however nothing in terms of actual ghosts in the overworld. I feel like Totk has more of that compared to BOTW.

I found myself not doing any of the main story and exploring the Depths a lot after getting Tulin. It invoked a sence of exploration of the unknown. When you get stronger and get more light roots the area isn't as bad, but doing it so early and with so few hearts (I only had 5 hearts for hours) was a great experience.

A Cool detail I'm not sure a lot of people notice is, when you try to take a picture of the ghosts who hold the weapons, they Vanish and don't show up in frame making it look like the weapon is just floating in air.

Here's a list of every parallel (that I'm aware of since I'm typing this while watching the video) All largeish bodies of water become impassable walls. All surface shrines are lightroot All stables are armored lynels All elevated surfaces become depressions Vice versa for depressions on the surface into elevation Most large towns have an abandoned mine under them This also applies to smaller settlements, such as Kara Kara Bazaar Forests become groves of the depths trees This one I'm not 100% on but I think every larger hylia statue is a bargainer statue.

My first descent into the depths was via the Mount Rhoam Well. Coincidentally, it’s the chasm farthest away from a lightroot, and even has a giant mine in the way between the nearest one. I really wish that the game pushed you to the well in som way, because the amount of time you spend in darkness if you go down there first is insane. It’s on of my favorite memories from this game.

My first defeated lynel, in TotK, was an armor clad, blue mane in the depths. There are minor differences from BotW, like their fireballs can no longer be sidestepped with bow drawn.

Honestly the Depths were my favorite parts of the game, taking my favorite new mid-boss, my favorite character from Age of Calamity, giving me a big map I wasn’t going to instinctually fly high over because of past experience, all the fun pieces of worldbuilding in the Yiga journals, seeing how they deal with the depths and their perspectives of familiar gameplay mechanics, looking at their versions of the Zonai vehicles, it’s all so great, the sky just doesn’t compare

22:10 - 22:57 i think it's the second, as the bargainer statue's impartial view on good and evil means he wouldn't see worshipping ganon as something that makes them lost souls in the first place. on the darker side though i wonder if over exposure to living in the depths would eventually corrupt the yiga members like the gloom enemies (i know the gloom harms them as they carry sundelions, but we're talking long-term here), or if it's only monsters who can fuse with it.

18:32 and if you didnt know these restored weapons only show up after you break at least one of the gloom effected counterparts. Almost as if the weapons themselves are ghosts.

With Ganondorf's gloomy spread badly damaging the melee weapons in order to make his domination much easier, Link's weaponry is far more improvised than ever (yes,making the Fuse ability essential) The spirit soldiers awaiting for Link to collect their weapons also protected them (not intentionally... I think) from the decaying effect the gloom has, in a similar fashion for the master sword having Zelda's "spirit" and sacred power infused to the blade. Therefore, a good-alignment spirit-infused weapon can never decay (or in the master sword's unique case, being healed/reinforced over many millenias) Whereas, on the other end of the alignment, Ganondorf's weaponry destined to the Great Evil actions (and by extension the phantom's weapons as well) had been infused with lots of Evil energy, therefore draining any wielder that aren't gloom affiliated, and becoming weakened by the "safety measure" the Demon King infused into it (he never expected Link would fuse those gloom weapons to the tip of a non-gloom weapon in order to not have the gloom effect, so whoops XD). As for his bow, it basically taps into the wielder's available strength to make most of the damage (he wouldn't be worried since most hylians would be like 3-7 hearts at best AND with weak armors, leaving others to have something like 6 to 14 dmg)

The Depths is one of the most beautiful places in video games to me. I'm a huge fan of alien-esque worlds, so check. But also, I love mushrooms, ferns, and peafowl. The design choices themselves are personally interesting to me. Discovering the depths was such a great surprise

Give Khoga credit; guy's at LEAST 123 years old in TotK, if not older. Bastard has; Been slashed by swords, smacked with blunt weapons, and shot with arrows by Link Electrocuted, hit by lightning in AoC. Crushed by a ball Survived a massive fall Survived in the Depths for 3-5 years. Can see through Link's Yiga disguise without fail, even if he's slightly fooled for a second. And STILL, this guy hasn't looked like he's aged a day since 100 years prior to BotW, if AoC is to go by. Guy's fit as fuck, and heavily smart for being significantly over a hundred years old. Guy's basically fitness goals for old men.

The depths is my favorite part of the game just because of the challenge it gives.

The first thing i did was completly missing lookoutlanding, going straight to the castle and jumping. It took me many tries but i managed to survive by falling into and grabbing a wall very close to the bottom

My first Frox story: I was in the depths looking for a marked spot, and I was in complete darkness besides from the faint glow emanating from my Miner’s Set. Suddenly, I saw a health bar flash upon screen, displaying the name that I soon learned to dread: Frox. Before I could even begin running, I was yanked backwards by the air into the gaping hole that was it’s mouth.

Underated Video, Realy Well edited! Hope seeing the next ones as well! And an note, aparently on top of all 3 Soldier Weapon Carrying Spirits on the Depths, there is a Memorial made by Zelda to homenage "All brave souls lost in the calamity" maybe implying that these gosts were Hyrulian that Calaimty Gannon Killed. (Srry for bad english)

*Gloom Spawn:* I had 372 fairies. (Farming these was a pain… it seems that unlike arrows, these things continue to spawn less as you collect more of them, just as they did in BotW) I lost 122 to Gloom Spawn before finally managing to kill the things. Then I game overed because I was not prepared for what the Gloom Spawn spawned after death…

Weird and very specific tips about the depths gloom patches: you can actually stand on the black outer parts of them and not take damage, its only the red parts that hurt you, but its best to just watch your step regardless, the gloom sickness can rack up quickly if you aren't careful If you have The compendium and sensor+ unlocked on the Purah Pad, register a Stalhorse and set it to be detected by the sensor, they make early game travel so much easier in if you dont have a lot of Zonai battery life and are searching for ore to get those sweet sweet crystallized charges, mostly because these funky Bone Pones are immune to Gloom and can ride those buggers right over it If you find a Mine with a Zonite processor construct, climb their forges chimney, you can find a few free crystallized charges or poes up there

The Depth have a strong resemblance to the deep sea in my opinion. Floating on a hover bike through that place looks and feels a lot like how deep sea submarines float through the ocean at that depth, lighting up the area just enough to see and investigating all that strange alien life down there.

Ngl, the sound of the horn blarring was enough to keep me away from ALL deep holes until I leveled up a few times... Its scary as FUCK when you first jump in it, which you can do at the beginning camp near the first tower which isnt as bad cause tutorial but I was unlucky. My first hole was a random one I found on the way to Heteno village... I tried and tried and tried to dive and even made it to the bottom once but I would just teleport out every single time lol. Its DARK dark down there and being a new player at the time, I had NO CLUE what I walking into. I never been that scared playing a Zelda game. Its truly terrifying at first.

3:37 hahahaha link had to take a nap before he teleported 💀

I wonder if the depths were the very depths that were mentioned in the prologue of wind waker where Ganon supposedly crawled up from to wreak havoc upon Hyrule following his imprisonment in the sacred realm by the sages at the end of OOT?

🎶The treeeesss are aliveeeee 🎵 with the sound of vengeaaaanceeee 🎶 Fantastic line. And appropriate too! Liked and subbed!

I love looking at The Depths as a game dev lens. They made a whole new, unique-feeling area with a *tiny fraction* of the usual effort required. Designing an interesting map and spreading shrines and stables and towns around it in an interesting fashion is really hard and a ton of work. So they did it once, for the Surface, and then just flipped it for the Depths and tweaked what needed tweaking. And rather than feel like a "shortcut" or "lazy", the player experiences it as really clever and actually helpful! It's genius. Absolute genius. They also make the most of the Switch's low RAM and slow streaming by swapping out model sets between layers - allowing for them to feel even more different while also working around a hardware limitation.

I have to agree, the Depths were really the best part of the game so far ❤ Exploring the area, even if the whole map was just a lot of the same thing, was super fun

I love the music that plays when you enter into the Depths

the metroid prime music fits extremely well with this topic of the video!

I avoided taking on gloom lynels until one spotted me and teleported over to me. I had no idea they could do that. I knew they could teleport *away* if they got too far from their own territory, but that's definitely not what happened because I was on one of those platforms with the zonai devices. There's no way that's the lynel's normal spawn point. My husband encountered a gloom lynel early in his playthrough, and I don't think he's ever even fought a lynel besides the one on Shatterback Point in BotW. The gloom lynel didn't see him, and he stayed out of its line of sight by climbing around a pillar as it circled him. It was kinda funny.

Whenever I think of the depths, it reminds me of the anime, Made in the Abyss except not so many layers hehe

Gloom hands is the scariest thing since the walking tree Gloom Ganondorf is your younger brother that your mom forced you to hang out with

"You probably have the surface map filled out first" HA! Jokes' on you. I barely had half the surface map by the time I dropped into the Depths for the first time. And it wasn't at the Hyrule Field Chasm either.

pfft, glow food? just locate a lightroot via shrine location or seeing the light in the dark, then beeline for it with brightseeds. you get tons of them from caves, and the little froxes drop them basically every time.

Smooth transition from everything to the next! nice one

Bro really dropped Ganondorf’s government name 💀💀

to me the depths is really Hyrule's purgatory... and the poes are the souls in there

If I was in this adventure instead of Link, I would probably not take one step in the depths, instead I would call Purah VIA Purah Pad and just say "Mommy, can you pick me up, I'm scared."

I only wish that you could actually find other genuine travellers here with hot air balloons, small bases and the like

I think the depths is Termina from majora's mask for multiple reasons but some of the reasons is because the ocean floor underneath zora cape is the exact same design as some of the border walls of the depths and i think the moon destroyed termina which would explain why it looks the way it does now. I think clock town was underneath the castle. And the moon falling would cause the huge crater where Ganondorf is

The thunder gleeok in the colosseun was the first one I defeated and the first time I defeated a King Gleeok was in the Gleeok Den in the Depths

Im so damn creeped out by the Bargaining Statues (among other things) in the Depths. First time I tried going in a Chasm I didnt know the dragons were going under too as I was going down I saw a giant fucking dragon head come up the Chasm I went like NOPE and didnt touch the depths for weeks when I first started playing 🤣😂

So I did my first play through without a paraglider. The depths were the only map I could fill out.

i appreciate the detailed list of whats gonna get spoiled. thanks for the work you put into your videos

The Depths is basically the creepy part of Hyrule.

Fun fact, you can figure out if someone is a Yiga by dropping mighty bananas in front of them. Even a yiga disguised as Zelda trapped in a metal cage.

0:45 idk why but i did the same thing, i think i thought there would be water at the bottom

Tbh Ganondorf Dragmire is a pretty goofy name lol

Am so glad the marketing team kept the Depths....underground....for the whole leadup to the game. A lesser game studio would market that the map is now twice the size, but not Nintendo, they used the gameplay and sky islands as the hook, then kept the largest change hidden for us to explore. I am honestly a little sad i left exploring the depths until last, after i had explored all the sky islands (because am a sucker for sky islands in all media), and seen the changes to the over world, so its a shame i found out the gimmick and the sky bike before i started exploring it. So to redeem myself, i will, once master mode has come out, do a "challenge" run where i dont get the paraglider, no maps, no zonai capsules, no auto build and no fast travel.

I couldn't beat the bosses in Breath of the Wild. Also found them boring. In Tears of the Kingdom I loved them and enjoyed fighting them. I was sad I couldn't fight them again. Until I encountered one in the Depths. I was so happy, and have now slaughtered them all twice over.

I wonder if Subrosia had anything to do with helping design The Depths as well.

Heeeyyy, I'm not the only one that killed Ganondorf before I ever killed a Lynel 😂 I did get wrecked by a Gleeok, though. Still haven't managed to take one of them down. Part of that is probably me being stubborn and doing it without the aid of keese-eye arrows to prove to myself that I can do it without them. One day 🤞

Bruh the time I was up against 5 lynwls in the depths I legit had to cheese it cause they all kept coming, and it never ended😭, the armored Lynel almost made me give up but lowkey that one was easier to deal with the the prior two…. So many deaths that it made rewatching in Hero’s path that much funnier

Sir, they're called "Handganons".

2:45 is mostly true except for the maze shrines

It would make sense that bargainer statues see yiga as lost souls i mean really thinking about it why do yiga disappear like monsters i mean monsters are made from Ganon malice so I always kinda thought that when aligning themself with Ganon they gave up their humanity. Are yiga counted as monsters?

There was a very shrill 'WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?' the first time I came across Gloom Hands (I like Hands of Ganondorf better tho)

The gloom hands look like skinned Dead Hand arms with freaky eyeballs.

Excellent video, and an instant subscribe.

Message to future generations: Never stop the Dragmire memes.

this video is super well made, nice job!

Spoilers ! Yesterday I was more shocked by the depths than anything else because colgera was just chilling down there (no pun intend) I found him because I was trying to get a treasure under the Herba mountains and because I like to find janky ways to get there, I ended up finding him right under the mountains. I was really confused on what I was looking at until I figured out it was my first boss I defeated lmao. I have no idea what its tied too but I love it so much. Great video btw

I’m curious if anyone ever found a gloom molduga? Seemed like that was the only enemy I didn’t see in the depths at all

I'm glad I bought the game on day 1 and played like crazy before watching any videos. Just knowing the depths exist before starting the game is a spoiler in itself

I like how many times you died during this video. Very comforting.

Awesome video. You have the voice of a man with a massive comic book collection.

Just so you know I beat my first lynel with like 8 hearts in the depths first try and it was a black lynel.

I found the Gloom enemies to be easier then the Normal enemies, if a Silver Moblin kicked me I was done for. A gloom Silver Moblin takes off like 2 hearts.

i'm pretty sure the evermeans are yiga disguised as trees, i remember reading somewhere in a yiga notebook that they're hiding as trees waiting to get the drop on link

No mention of the dragons flying through?

Still havent gotten far yet but Ill come back❤️

Try fighting both goolm hands and topthemganon all at the sam time

TEIRS of the kingdom. Play on words by Nintendo.

The Evermeans are actually Yiga in disguise

bro, where are your hearts, get some shrines before you fight some of them tough enemies like Lynels in the depths.

Great video! Keep it up.

For some reason I like the Yoga symbol better. Does that mean I buck authority? Or is it cosmetic? I mean Ganondorf is awesome in TOTK.

So actually gloom hands will always spawn phantom Ganon should you defeat them, just not if they disappear cuz they can’t reach you, and I don’t know if you realized but king gleeok aren’t only found down in the depths

I view the Depths as being the Sacred Realm, or Dark World. Otherwise the entire kingdom would have collapsed.

Ha! That is exactly what I did with the lynels. I had no clue how many there were and was exhausted and out of basically everything when that last one showed up. I had the guardian amiibo scanned and had gotten an ancient arrow. I thought about it and used it right away. Chefs kiss.

what does the eyeball do fused to a shield?

ganondorf is wy harder than a lynel what do you mean?

4:50 what's this clip from???????

I havent played TOTK but I read some people's complainns about the deepths are too "seamey" with little to no environmental diversity, are you agree with that? Idk

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only person who read the diary entry explaining that evermeans are Yiga disguised to trap Link. I'm even starting to doubt myself since no one else seems to know about it. I guess I'll have to find it again.

Ye thas a ther thing i hav to is the gildey armor set

I think gloom hands are creepier but less scary intimidating. You can just climb up on a tree and you'll be safe. Meanwhile Guardians still induce panic. You better kill those mfers before they kill you, or they WILL kill you, and there's nowhere safe to hide from guardians. The depths really needs something on the same level as guardians

Yika having taken over the underground feels a little too much. They keep whining and die in the darkness, the only thing that keeps their numbers up is an unexplainable influx in members. Which is weird considering there's only like 150 people in hyrule overall.

Neat

The tree are actually yiga clan disguised as trees. You can read it in one of the books in the depths

The legend of Zelda: aberration

And if i m uot on the sirfitsis and its raining wild i m climine a monet i also hav the forgey armor set to this has ben omage hav a nices day

And for as how far i hav coming with uot maxs healt or satedamun will minaru a long with the mastder sword shound tel you juts how far i m willing to go even with not maxs haleth and satedamnu as i hav won all 5 gaesis and if i wet to i also won hav the lord fo the monet armor set to my paragilder has the maker fo hileya on it to hav a good time keeping up with me and my frends hav a nices day

Wild y9u and thers try to fine your away aroumd in the darkness i hav ben do so for quiet awild and i hav the one armor set mosth ate a faerd to get as it is one fo the newer ones but if you wetdey to you to wood be aball to got it and its you wer to usis the way i did it wood light your way in the deepsis as for its name its the miner armor set to fine this armor you mosth com to to the deepsis perparadid to light your wond way as you walk in told darkess as for me i hav reclamdid somt fo all abanadin minesis with 3 harts 1 satamitun welie and a fitsfull fo britboolsedesis along with food and wopensis to all redey to go down in the deepsis aftder doing few things from the gaery sky iland this has ben omage hav a nices day o do not worrey so ganon will meet his maker il be sirnet fo that as i will finsh him off hav anices day