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Awesome video

Happy Halloween Don

Happy Halloween!

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Remember when the guy threw stones at you during the loftwing challenge, and how he helped cage it earlier? Dude will get no sympathy from me. Toilet Lady every time.

I think it's just karma. Groose and Stritch are the only ones that seemed to have changed just by interacting with Link, meanwhile Cawlin is still a jerk who can't seem to do his own confession without using a third party. He blamed Link for Groose getting depressed instead of seeing how he was being a bully (he followed along with the Loftwing theft).

He’s slightly over the top about it but I still feel bad for him

Yeah, he could get haunted, but he could have a relationship with the ghost. Who says that they can’t communicate?

How can a ghost wipe!? They are ghosts!!

@@MonsterMaze The absurdity would be part of the joke.

@@foxymetroid I need answers though. One would hope that wiping is no longer a concern after death... now I worry

Really puts the "poop" in "spoopy."

@@comfortable_east I second this theory, though I do have another theory that the hand is specifically trying to possess Cawlin and needs something personal from him to do so; knowing that Cawlin is writing a love letter, Phoeni asks Link for paper, and this is why she gets sad and leaves when you give the letter to the correct person if you choose that route 🤔

I thought that too, but perhaps the islands accessible in the game are only a few of many, and that this idea may be more explored upon in Tears of the Kingdom.

Yikes. Ignoring the other implications, how exactly are they still around? Shouldn’t most of them be infertile or at least have weak or compromised immune systems by now?

@@Edboyda yeah I've always seen game settlements as laughably tiny for what they are but it always comes down to optimisation. In lore, skyloft would 100% be far larger, with a genepool varied enough to let humanity survive.

​@@Jenna_Talia big settlements are about the only thing I think games are missing these days. I don't care about ever improving textures and lighting, but Skyrim's bustling cities containing like 15 people has always really bothered me, though the inbreeding might explain why they all share the same 3 voices lol But I figured Skyloft was the same, it's meant to be a whole city, part of a wider civilisation, but it can only be portrayed as this small village because it's a game, and had to run on the aenemic Wii as an added handicap

@@helplmchoking yeah I think the only thing holding us back nowadays is player enjoyment and quality over quantity. Massive cities as good as they sound, won't have most of their area discovered by the player. They'll head there and do the quests, maybe buy a few things, then leave.

Since you speak of being friendly towards monster camps in botw, have you seen "Life as a Bokoblin" on this yt channel? If not, I am sure you will love it, it is by far my favourite Monster Maze video.

Speaking of King Bulblin my head cannon is that following Twilight Princess the Bulblin tribe became allied with Hyrule, possibly defending Hyrule from afar in exchange for supplies like food. They definitely became allied with the Hero Of Twilight at the minimum as King Bulblin acknowledges Link as stronger than Ganondorf.

Demon =/= monster

Batreaux is the only one who is specifically a demon. The rest are monsters. Not all monsters are demons.

The King Goblin in TP is such a goat. The dude ended up just wanting to fight link.

What a beautiful poem Move over ancient Greek poets we have a new god of poetry, Mysterious German Man

Consider yourself lucky!

Jealous!

suppose you weren't looking hard enough... HEEEEEEEEEEYYY!!

It's only what you think, Tingle is tinkling in the corner of your room as we correspond here. Believe it or not!

@@yqafree sigh, time to set up the mouse traps again

I likewise never gave Cawlin's letter to Phoeni, but more for the reason that Pipit and Karane are a cute pair and it's good to see them so happy together after successfully delivering Cawlin's letter as intended.

It sure does!

@@MonsterMaze Hey Monster Maze, have you heard of Dark Deception. It is supposedly getting a release on switch in Quarter 3 of 2023. It is made by Indie Developer Glowstick Entertainment It will soon be finished on PC as well.

@@ethangausman6620 I have not. Is it good?

@@MonsterMaze very good. It is basically 1st person horror pacman with lore. There is going to be 5 chapters with 4 out right now, and about twelve levels with eight out right now. There is also a unique monster in each level. The devs are a small company so I'm sure they'd appreciate any support. It is currently on steam.

I think the burial and then realising it takes up too much space idea would be very logical. Personally I think they'd go for cremation, since it seems the most practical yet respectful way to handle the dead.

@@AngelofGrace96 Oh yeah, I forgot about cremation. I could totally see them having something similar to the Jedi funeral in Star Wars, where the body is burned in an open-air funeral. It would probably be done in front of the Goddess statue too, maybe like an act of returning one's soul to the Goddess or something like that. There could be a designated building with some sort of stone brick oven to hold and intensify the heat of a fire, making it easier to burn a body and make it so people don't have to watch the flesh of their loved one melt off. I don't recall there being any buildings in Skyloft that we can't enter though. Regardless of the method, the bones would still have to be turned to ash by grinding or crushing the brittle bones. Fire alone isn't enough to do that step automatically for us in real life. But once the bones become ash, I could see them scattering the ashes to the wind and sky. Maybe the ceremony would have the deceased person's loftwing involved somehow. That one island with the small bamboo forest would actually be the best source of fuel for that kind of fire. It grows relatively fast and it burns very well. Compared to the few trees that they have scattered around Skyloft, which seem to mostly be used to build infrastructure, that bamboo forest is quite literally perfect for this kind of funeral. It's probably not very often that people die on Skyloft anyways, so there is plenty of time for the bamboo to grow. But now there's a middle-aged man practicing mastering the sword by cutting down bamboo every day... that's probably not very good for the small forest. Okay, maybe there aren't as many darker undertones to Skyloft that I initially thought there was.

@@braedonrix3395 Wow, you put a lot of thought into it, that was really interesting!

If you start getting into the logistics, Skyloft is really not big enough to have sustained a population for all this time. This is true of most video game towns, with the only exception I can think of being Assassin's Creed. So, I generally go with the working assumption that the in-game world is not a 1 to 1 model of a functional world, but a representation that must be small enough to actually fit in the game and not be cumbersome to the player. They probably COULD make a world that would be functional if it was real, but that's kind of... not the point, and would take time and resources away from the game they are actually trying to make. I love over thinking this stuff as much as the next person, but when it comes to these sorts of logistical issues, I tend to chalk it up to the limitations of the medium... because that rabbit hole leads to things like "totally inbred society subsisting entirely on pumpkins," which is not a fun theory to me, lol.

@@BFDreaming I agree that the devs can't put every single detail of the lives of townsfolk into a game without it becoming way too expansive. For example, I doubt that the amount of pumpkins we see growing in game is enough to feed their entire population daily. We just have to assume that they can preserve food well enough, that they have alternative food sources, or they can magically make a pumpkin last for many meals. But why can't the logistics of Skyloft work? At the time of the game, their entire population consists of around 30 to 40 people (counting any extra knights and excluding Batreaux). Three of which are under the age of ten (one is a baby). Skyloft appears to have very low birth rates compared to what we see in real life. It seems like a child is born on Skyloft every few years, and, most parents seem to have one child at most. Based on appearances, it looks like there are a handful of people who could potentially be younger than Link and Zelda, but are older than the children. After that there are more older teenagers/young adults who are primarily all studying at the academy. Then another large portion of Skyloft's population are adults, ranging from younger adults to middle-aged adults, who are parents, merchants of some kind, or knights. The remaining few are senior adults and elderly, who are still working, have retired from working, or work at the academy. Everybody on the cluster of islands that make up Skyloft is definitely distantly related to each other. There's absolutely no way that after thousands of years that bloodlines haven't crossed over and mixed a few times. However, it seems like the Hyrulians are doing fine. And if the amount of people that they have in each age group shows for anything, it's that they know how to keep their numbers low enough to prevent overpopulation while still granting freedom to have children. Others, like that one clown minigame character who I forget the name of, probably won't have children. Or, what they call "thousands of years" doesn't correlate to our 365 day calendar at all. Maybe their years are significantly shorter than ours. Maybe Skyloft has only been in the sky for what would be a couple hundred years for us. We don't know how much time their calendar tracks before it's a new year for them. We do know that Skyloft is a legend to that one Goron on the surface, so they must have been in the sky for a long time. All we can do is think and theorize about it. But yes, this is fantasy and the rules that apply to their universe may not necessarily be similar in our world. However, there are lots of elements in Skyloft, and fantasy in general, that is based off of or inspired by the real world. For example, they have a capitalist society on Skyloft (they exchange rupees for goods and services), they grow crops for their food, they tame animals, they live in wooden houses, they use masonry to construct stone brick walls, towers, and stairs, knights follow an honor code, they have rules and regulations to air travel (like we have with cars), guys named Beedle are immortal and typically sell rarer or hard to obtain items, it's easy for some people to get under the influence of steroids to become swole faster, etc, etc. Even beyond that, there are fundamental laws of nature that are still obeyed, like the circle of life. With the circle of life comes death. With death comes funerals. What kind of funerals do the Hyruleans have on Skyloft? I don't know, but I'd like to think about it.

It would be pretty awesome if the Loftwings stayed behind in the sky realm, and then grew more and more inteligent over time ^^

Yes i realized now that's why demise was called the source of all monsters , the guy was probably corrupting everything , just by existing there .

Thank you! That is very Sweet Potato (see what I did there? ) I'm glad you enjoy the videos! This is kinda like the spiritual successor to the Kakariko video. Though, perhaps not as scary since Ocarina of Time is hard to top in terms of its creep-factor ^^

@@MonsterMaze hi

@@MonsterMaze haha! oot is definitely super hard to top

Isn't that just just a picture of himself? That's what I always thought. Granted, it does seem a bit smug to hang two portraits of yourself on the wall of your livingroom xD

@@MonsterMaze Exactly. I always thought it was his parents.

@@MonsterMaze He also hates his demonic appearance, so it’s not consistent with his character to have his own paintings.

You cracked the code! The return of Phoeni is imminent

Not enough for sure

Germans being briljant once again. Im not sure what her name is in Dutch. Not sure I want to know... Demise is called "Fatalot" in Dutch, and this bothers me greatly

Her name in the French version is Fenny, likely a nod to the English name, but it also sounds like "fini" meaning over or finished, which could be a bit of a grim joke

Uhhhhhhhhmm... I try not to think about that

and she left poor Kikwis to fight off the demons, yeah

magic

I think Gonzo's dad sent robots to the surface to salvage stuff. I don't think he visted there himself. Unless I'm missing a piece of info. Most people in Skyloft imply that there is nothing below the surface at all. Just a vast nothingness. That's what they believe anyway... They've been lied to by the older generation.

@@MonsterMaze I would imagine it was in an effort to halt the adventurous youth from exploring.

Aah nice, and thank you for watching! It's always fun to hang around and talk with Andres ^^

That would indeed be a fun thing to do as a running series! Plenty of towns and villages left to cover ^^

@@MonsterMaze interesting topic, reusable assets and solid structure might help with balancing workload. Your content is amazing but custom quality comes with long hours. Hopefully would be an easier option when working on your bigger videos and the community wins by getting more Monster Maze and a topic they love. You could include voting options as a member/patreon perk too. Just an idea but hope it helps Don

at least not *through* their head

@@puline397 That makes 50 points.

Not that far off from how regulations work in reality as well; Safety regulations like regular patrols likely came about after many years of incidents where residents tumbled off the edge of Skyloft down into the Cloud Barrier.

Did you enjoy the adventure? ^^

@@MonsterMaze I did and one of my favourite stories for a Zelda game. I have had LoZ:SS since launch (Wii) but I was one of the people who didn't get on with the motion controls. The pad controls made it much better (especially on the joycon Vs the Pro controller, a rare change). Coupled with my bad habit of not finishing games (especially Zelda ones).

There is much more on the way!

They yeet them off the island I guess?

@@MonsterMaze but we never see any piles/ skeletons lying around on the surface? What you said probably is the case but it just feels… wrong.

Happy Halloween!

I used to get scared from those shows when I was younger though, haha. Until I realized that they HAVE to find ghosts, or else no one will watch them. So basically, every ghost encounter is secretly a marketing decision