Because dat ass

Been wondering about that as well. Unless, like Link and Zelda, Kass is an adventurer. And he did travel to foreign lands to spread out his songs, and tales of the hero and his princess.

​@@a.jthomas6132There is already enough mention of life and lands outside of Hyrule so this is likely the case.

Cuz then they wouldn't have you talking about it right now. Edit: it's their story... they get the glorious choice of what remains mysterious, and this aspect with Kass clearly nailed it.

@@a.jthomas6132 Yes, but wouldn't he come back to Hyrule after hearing about the disaster? And the hero's missing?

How did you like it?

Welcome back @CZsWorld loving your videos too!

Dude. You're everywhere.

​@@paczka695it was fun but the Depths were pretty disappointing since they're the same throughout. I think the game is too big, and no doubt Breath of the Wild has a better story.

How did you manage to avoid spoilers .

The only issue is that the compendium isn't correct by the standards of the already established lore - Skyward Sword. It's also wrong about the Deku Tree being a Korok, as per The Wind Waker. Of course, Vilia is a master of disguise, so pretending to be a Hylian should be a piece of cake. The Yiga do it every day.

It’s my personal headcanon now haha

Being Yiga makes the most sense to me, as the red eyes definitely point to Shiekah. Being Yiga also makes sense especially since the Thunder Helm was stolen from inside Gerudo Town and we know Gerudo Town has tight security. Plus the Yiga would want an inside man… or woman

It actually makes sense the more you think about it. In Botw before Link comes to Gerudo town, the thunderhelm gets stolen by the yiga and since Vilia was slipping through into town during that period, maybe he was the one to steal it!

I will add even more ''evidence'' to this, in totk some of the yiga clan members (i think the ones on the akkala ancient tech lab) say that they tint their hair black, I guess as a form of rejection to the sheikah whose always have white hair, so who's to say one of them wouldnt tint it red to infiltrate amongst the gerudo. Btw a counter argument to all this could be as to why they simply doesnt transform into a gerudo like we see some of them taking the form of Zelda, but now that i think about it i dont remember a yiga taking the form of a gerudo neither in botw or totk so maybe they can only take on the forms of other hylians?

I’m pissed. Even though I hated listening to his song for two hours for that stupid Blood Moon Shrine on top of the mushroom Shrine, there is absolutely no reason to get rid of Kass unless you want your players to suffer. I’d rather have the old Rito chief die of old age than have Kass leave us.

The amount of things in TOTK from BOTW that are just straight up ignored and not ever commented on is insane. I love this game, but it feels less like a sequel and more like "This is the game we ACTUALLY wanted to make, but I guess BOTW still happened somehow"

@@Freelancer837 You know how everyone believes Calamity Ganon was essentially created from Ganondorf's Malice leaking out from below Hyrule Castle? That isn't actually canon, it's a fan theory. The game itself never says anything about how Calamity Ganon and Ganondorf are connected, or if they even are connected at all. The closest thing we get is an extremely vague statement from Impa when she returns to Kakariko. In fact, the name "Calamity Ganon" never appears once in Totk's entire script-it's always just referred to as "the Calamity" now. Calamity Ganon was essentially psuedo-retconned into not being Ganon anymore.

@@zeddessell Fun fact, you can tell by the colors and such, when you beat the dungeon bosses, they leak Malice instead of Gloom. It's a cute but pointless detail just because honestly, I don't care to remember them as two separate things. They're literally just the same thing but with a different name. My issue is more with Zelda in the past being like "Just some random thing about Ganondorf... it doesn't sit right with me" and it's like "HIS NAME IS GANONDORF! YOU KNOW, LIKE CALAMITY GANON". They seriously just all got amnesia around the Calamity

@@Freelancer837 The specific quote used by Zelda in that scene is "Ganondorf...even his name gives me pause". She does not mention anything about Calamity Ganon to Rauru in her warning. In the very next memory she tells Rauru that Link saved Hyrule from, and I quote, "a great evil", specifically not mentioning Calamity Ganon by name. The writing in this game is so bad it really needs to be seen to be believed.

I am sure we will meet one of his reincarnation/counterpart some day in a different game...

​@@GerardMenvussa If he doesn't get replaced by Penn yet again.

So Kass is my dad????!?!?!! Why didn't mom tell me his name?!!!!

The good story ideas for TotK have left to get milk, and never came back

But they said there were 0 plans for DLC, right?

@@jstar3382 Tears of the Kingdom was meant to be a DLC. But Nintendo got overambitious to the point that they made an entirely new game. Considering what happened with Breath of the Wild the developers probably just want to make a new game next time.

I was hoping these characters would reappear in a DLC if it ever happened but i already know there won"t be any.

Kass could still be in rito village or as a potential member of the stable trotters. Maz could be a post fight boss again to help link get stronger or even be helping with kakariko village. As for villa, they could have helped with the battle of gerudo town and won the right to be among its citizens. Or they could be the one hiding the clothes under the guise of bandit misko and when you collect all of them they give you the gerudo vai outfit as they no longer need it.

Let's not forget that in Zelda characters are plot devices to assist in the gameplay. That is why never see the Twilight realm, Koholint, Labrynna and Holondrum. And the races and characters there. Kass was a plot device and he simply got replaced.

I wanted to see cats and yet they couldn't do even that!

You can pet baby Chocobo's in FF7 Rebirth…..😃 worth the price tag just for that lol

True, although I vaguely remember some old guy in hateno who's darker skinned. I think he lives near those livestock fields up by that lake? But other than that, that's all I can think of

​@@thelegendarysuitcaseyeahh the old guy and a lady from lurelin who moved to hateno for her husband. Also in Kakariko one of the old guys who fought and Kado's (ex?) wife, the arrow shop keeper. Don't know if she's implied to be from lurelin tho? Because sheikah usually all have white hair but hers is black. Only recently noticed that.. on my fourth playthrough of that iteration of Hyrule.

@CopperYeen True, I only remembered what she looked like now! Otherwise, I can't really think of any other npcs in villages that would fit that description!

Villia just has a tan, at least assuming the view of their model under their veil is canon.

I agree that he didn't have a role out in the wilds any more, but his wife and kids are still present in Rito Village, it would have made plenty of sense for him to be living in Rito Village for totk.

Agreed. Though I was definitely hoping he would just be in Rito Village and a rare NPC who remembers Link. I know the devs wanted newcomers to TOTK to be as little dependent as possible on BOTW, but stilllll. Would it really have been so bad to encounter one additional NPC who references BOTW?

Instead we got Penn who's arguably way more talkative than Kass fitting of the theme of "social connections" as you put it given the many quests (including the Music Troupe's) emphasizing social interaction as key in the rebuilding of the entire kingdom.

​@@Zander2212 Personally i would have made him the new head "Royal Scholar" tasked with the gathering of any/all historical records regarding Hyrule's history fitting of his background as a Lore-giving bard. He could have helped Tauro and company gather information on the Zonai leading to him appearing randomly across locations within the Depths gathering information pertaining to said specific location.

This all could have been avoided if they simply had his wife and kids ACTUALLY MENTION HIM. Instead they almost act like he doesn't exist.

Yeah I like to headcanon Yona to be from Labrynna as last time we’ve been to Labrynna, it’s the only other region I know of that had ties to Holodrum and has Zora. Holodrum was mentioned by a Zora that it was unsuitable for the Zora to make a domain in. It could change in Holodrum, but it’s currently theory territory at that point.

I think the devs stated in an interview that Zelda had the sheikah tech destroyed so ganon couldn’t take it over again. My guess is that the final dungeon is still there, but the elevator was somehow removed and the shaft was filled without them knowing. Or maybe the DLC isn’t canon to the story.

Regarding Kass some suggest he might be a migratory bird which is why he left Hyrule when the average temperature shifted after the changing of the seasons (Spring in BotW and Summer in TotK). This could also explain why Penn has recently moved into Hyrule due to his body been suited for the current season.

​@@Linkathon I'm pretty sure that's not the case as Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom director Hidemaro Fujibayashi outright stated in a recent interview that all the Sheikah technology simply _vanished_ after Calamity Ganon's destruction without explanation or reason. Wether all the tech is currently hidden in a "pocket dimension" or what not there's currently no evidence in the game which points at this conclusion.

​@@Linkathon Isn't the picture (which Kass took) from the end of the Champion's Ballad DLC sitting in Zelda's house in TotK?

@@jlco Oh yeah! I forgot about that! It only shows up if you completed the champions ballad in normal mode of botw. I did that, but then replayed botw and reset my normal mode file. Master mode doesn’t carry over. So my horses or photos didn’t carry over. So I always forget about that. I wish I had the photo.

Thanks man, I saw a bit of one of your videos about the fastest falling object and your editing/commentary was amazing as well. I love all the unique short form video ideas you come up with!

@@NintendoBlackCrisis 🥰 You flatter me.

Hopefully in the sequel to TOTK with a much better narrative story.

Hi.

How about I make a DLC like mod with Kass???????? HMMMMMMMM?????????

I think so, but I would have preferred that vilia was in the game and sold gerudo outfit, totally useless, but for fun, maybe used for some sidequest in gerudo town that Gerudo would give only with taht outfit

The music from the travelling band is a nice replacement ^_^

Yes, Nintendo have said Gameplay>story, and that "the players can make their own stories" so this look like it might be a sign of more to come TBH.

He could have been part of a sidequest in the Depths collecting Lore regarding the Zonai and writing songs based on specific Lore found within the Depths.

@@javiervasquez625 itd totally kill the mood of the depths if you heard kass jamming to his accordion in numerous spots lol his music is iconic af tho, i guess he left hyrule prematurely to find more mysteries and then the upheaval happens lol

@@Nu_Merickhe could have a darker theme. Then he could also be on the Sky Islands doing something similar with his regular theme.

@@Nu_Merick or his song coulda been like the Resident Evil safe rooms: A little light in the darkness.

Reminds me of a scene from King of the Hill with Dale

I misread it as; The Legend of Zelda: Bears of the Kingdom.

It’s just Brrs of the Kingdom, it’s very cold out there.

Hopefully the next game has a true travel companion

Apparently they were short of labor force after the small-scale genocide Calamity Ganon caused when it destroyed the Market Town hence why the people of modern Hyrule barely did any massive reconstruction efforts. Personally i still find that as an unjustified excuse given the pressence of large, massive, rock-based hulking juggernauts called _Gorons_ who could easily have rebuilt the Market Town in a matter of months if they put their minds to it. Alas Nintendo chose not to rebuild the kingdom.

Eh, not everything needs to resolve

@@RavenGamingOverLord imo something as huge as all the Shiekah Technology disappearing with zero acknowledgement in-game feels like it should have been resolved...

@@lasercraft32 We can easily assume they disposed of the Guardians and Divine Beasts to prevent another Great Calamity, and the tech beyond that served little to no purpose to the lore. I do agree it could've used an explanation in some random book in the world, but I only consider it a slight issue rather than a major one.

@@speedude0164 Fujibayashi said that the Sheikah tech "disappeared after the Calamity was defeated." It wouldn't even be a big deal if they had mentioned it in-game, but they don't. It really took me out of it, so to me yes it is a major issue.

@@lasercraft32 Yeah they could've just said the Towers, Pillars and Shrines disappeared, for which we can assume their purpose of helping to defeat Ganon is fulfilled, then said they used materials from the Guardians and Divine Beasts to build the Skyview Towers and Purah Pad (the towers even have Guardian legs equipped to them). The claim that TotK feels disconnected from BotW has always felt like an exaggeration to me, but that's the one case where I do agree it could've at least used something in-game.

Except, FSA Ganondorf was not a Gerudo king. He was only a guardian of the village, so the laws were already changed by that point. There is a Gerudo chief, similar to Urbosa/Riju in FSA, who expels Ganondorf from the tribe. Prior to that, a maiden in the game says he was only a simple “desert nomad”. Creating a Champion also implies OoT Ganondorf was the final Gerudo king. Therefore, I think it’s safe to assume the laws changed after OoT.

I think so

I expect that a simple performance patch will be enough to boost attention for both the game and Switch 2. Potential DLC would not be something huge (bad move having to explain massive cut content) and it wouldn't significantly improve the game. At this point I just hope they really moved on to the next game.

They should at least add a master mode via update tho…

​@@Cadialvaro Here's to hoping they eventually will after a future Direct...

Reminds me of how Left 4 Dead 2 came to be. Too many new features that would've fundamentally changed the first game way too much.

This is not a thing in TotK, you're literally fucking gaslighting yourself. Everyone that knew Link pre-Calamity still knows Link

And I must admit it irks me when people say "oh so and so said in an interview this is what happened IN GAME [regarding Sheikah tech etc]" - like dude, if it's not explained IN GAME then what are we even doing lol. An author or playwright wouldn't get away with that, so why are Nintendo lol. They need to focus on better storytelling for sure.

I think the monks caused the towers and shrines to vanish. Each shrine, including the Final Trial had a monk tied to it all with magic involved somehow, with Maz Koshia being the most powerful. This army of monks could easily combine their magic to wipe away much of the technology out of thin air or leave locations like the Shrine of Resurrection a mere hollowed out cave. Anything left behind like guardians or the Divine Beasts were scrapped for parts. This of course being the best call so that the Shiekah Tech doesn't get corrupted and turn on Hyrule again.

This headcanon contradicts what Fujibayashi outright stated during the recent interview where he simply says they "disappeared" following Calamity Ganon's defeat. While i myself am full on board with the theory that Zelda and Purah had the tech repurposed into the Purah Towers having the game director himself deliver such a revelation outright rejects such possibility from been plausible.

@@mr.awesome6011 Yeah that would make sense that the monks wouldn't want to risk Ganon corrupting the tech again. Plus the monks disappear into the same blue energy as their tech, so it would make sense that the shrines would as well.

The ONLY thing that makes sense is that, after defeating the Calamity, someone (the monks? Hylia?) made the Sheikah tech magically disappear. If it was intentional by Zelda or Purah or anyone else, there is no way they would destroy the Shrine of Resurrection, and that's ignoring the fact that these people's entire lives were built around studying Sheikah tech, losing it was probably as big a tragedy as the Calamity itself. But if a divine force removed it, then why is there tech built into the Skyview Towers and a couple decayed guardians on top of the Hateno Tech lab? Why do the Ancient Arrowheads (not to mention the freaking Purah Pad!) still exist!? If Nintendo wanted to remove the Sheikah tech, they could of at least of been consistent with it, instead of giving me a headache everytime I boot up TotK...

@@TheMegaMarshtomp My headcanon as to the disappearance of most of the Sheikah technology is that most of the still _functional_ tech like the Shrines, Towers and walking Guardians were all connected to an advanced "network" created by the Ancient Sheikah so that every piece of technology would work in direct collaboration to one another to ensure no individual piece would either malfunction or be repurposed for evil desires (Malice infection aside). Since all the tech was specifically built for the sole purpose of vanquishing the Calamity once and for all this advanced "network" made the unconscious decision to make every fully functional Sheikah device in Hyrule "erase" itself into nothingness should their ultimate purpose of vanquishing the Calamity be finally fulfilled. The many pieces of remnant technology we see scattered across Tears of the Kingdom's Hyrule are the many pieces of _non functional_ technology which were no longer connected to the collective network all the Shrines, Towers, Guardians, etc. were all a part of when Link and Zelda defeated Calamity Ganon. Since they were no longer connected to the network they became unable to obey its programmed command to erase themselves following the completion of the their sole purpose of ending Calamity Ganon and so been left behind for Purah and co. to either repurpose or pile together. It's not a very engaging explanation which feeds our hunger for in-depth lore i know but to me its the one plausible conclusion which gives me reason to think Nintendo didn't dismiss the tech from the direct sequel willy nilly just to justify the "much cooler" green-colored Zonai technology instead... right?

nintendo have said that they're not planning to make any dlc for totk unfortunately :/

My headcanon: Everyone gets hit by sky island debris and gets amnesia from the blow.

In one of the new mods, someone has turned Link completely into a Zonai….it's pretty amazing!!!! And the Head canon was that; Rauru had to completely transform Link to save him, and so that is why no one recognises him. WASTED OPPORTUNITY Nintendo!!!!!!!! 🥲😆

And he never came back

BUT WHERE DID MONK MAZ KOSHIA GO!?! I MISS HIM!

Thanks, trying to put more effort into the editing/sound design of videos

Oh so like ripping moxies style off. 😅 Interesting.

How is this ripping off moxie’s style? Last time I checked a lot of people added these effects to videos

We can all see it, it’s pretty clear. 😂

Lots of people do it? Like who?

I was so sad when I couldn't find them :( Even worse, when I googled where I could find the cross dressing clothes AND THEY JUST SIMPLY TOOK IT OUT OF THE GAME

@@diediediceyeah. For this reason alone, Breath of the Wild is better.

@@diediedice And I hated that other decent gear (Barbarian set etc) we're an absolute pain to find this time around as well, and that DLC gear we PAID for in BOTW was now just standard items in the sequel etc.

That's a very easy and reasonable inference that anyone with more than room temperature IQ can make. Even just with Official Trailer 2 that was what I assumed Unfortunately, the entire Zelda fanbase as a collective two brain cells, and neither of them work. This is not something Nintendo needs to explicitly state, because, again, anyone with more than room temperature IQ can come to that conclusion, because it's what makes the most logical sense and is more than likely the actual intent given how Sheikah tech works in BotW (the game even ends with Vah Ruta malfunctioning)

I think it's just that certain key characters should remember Link like Bolson. I mean Link did buy a house from him that was meant to be knocked down and ask to have it upgraded. How many people do that? It's fine if the rest don't know him... well other than Hetno who should know him since he and Zelda reside there.

1. Because the game starts off with his hometown in peril with his children and wife left to endure it and he’s nowhere to be found afterwards either. It’s not the biggest deal but admittedly a little unsettling. 2. There’s no excuse for people like Kapson in Tarry Town to not remember who Link is. Not only did Link invite him to Tarry Town for his last passionate job as a priest but he’s known Link for over a hundred years and had huge resentment for him over the death of their dear Princess. Other NPCs forgetting can slide but people like Kapson make no sense.

@@NationX Kapson actually didn't resent Link for Mipha's death. All of the other elderly Zora's do, but Kapson explicitly says that he himself holds no such grudges. He still should have recognized Link in Totk, though...

@@zeddessell I thought he meant he got over it but to be fair I only started talking to Kapson after completing the Divine Beast mission so I’ll take your word for it. But yeah the point still stands.

@@zeddesselleven Bazz doesn’t remember him.

Monk Maz Koshia could be cool to include anyway. He didn’t disappear.

Straight to jail

We can answer that ourselves: yes, they knew. How? The Ancient Hero wears Zonaite clothing, so he has some connection to the Zonai. This means he was around not too long after Rauru and Mineru. Which then means, since he fought the previous Calamity, that there were only two Calamities, one soon after Ganondorf's sealing. Makes sense; he would have had lots of power stored up fresh from his battle. As for Sheikah tech, it was probably as hidden as the Sheikah themselves. In fact, it was present in the main timeline. I don't mean Gohdan, since that's technically unconfirmed. I mean the Wallmasters from Tri Force Heroes, which are unambiguously Sheikah technology. We may even know the Ancient Champions, since the Ancient Sages are a perfect fit. The Divine Beasts even look to have been modelled after their Zonaite masks.

​@@xinpingdonohoe3978 Couldn't there have been more Calamities than just the two? According to both Impa and Zelda the Calamity has appeared "time and again throughout Hyrule's history" implying the Ancient Hero might not have been the only incarnation of Link to have fought him in the past. Truth be told i feel Nintendo consciously chose to keep Calamity Ganon's history as vague as possible to force players to embrace the conclusion that Hyrule's history is so inaccurate and "muddied" it is impossible to piece together. Good catch on the Wallmasters in Triforce Heroes as i've been pondering wether Nintendo is alluding at something by giving them such a robotic design. The Ancient Champions shown in Impa's tapestry look absolutely nothing like the Sages who fought in the Imprisoning War (unlike the Ancient Hero who does ressemble his in-game sprite) so it's highly unlikely they are also meant to be the Ancient Sages.

@@javiervasquez625 I just figured that if the Ancient Hero was with the previous one, and he was right by the era of the Zonai, then that wouldn't leave any room for any more to exist. The first would be after the sealing of Ganondorf. And they don't look too much like the tapestry figures, mainly lacking masks, I was just suggesting that possible candidates did exist in the ancient ancestors of the Champions and Sages, because someone would say "if the Calamity was back then, who were the pilots?".

ToTK hasn't forgotten Maz, he disappeared after fulfilling his role, only Link knew about him so there's no reason to put him back or reference him

@@bravecerezaactually, he didn’t disappear.

Especially since his kids are still there

Apparently not all of them "disappeared" as Fujibayashi stated in that interview. I almost feel Nintendo is either been ambiguous or lazy as to what exactly happened to all the Sheikah technology.

@@javiervasquez625 Maybe Rauru blew up the towers? I heard that the towers of light were all located where the previous Shiekah towers were located.

@@aliastheabnormal Maybe but i doubt it since he never states anything in the game which suggests he did as much.

@@javiervasquez625 I meant by accident. That the Zonai tech wrecked the Shiekah tech and the rubble just vanished because of hardware limitations.

@@aliastheabnormal I guess that's possible as well yet it feels a tadbit too convenient that the Zonai technology which was literally created by Nintendo to _replace_ the Sheikah technology from Breath of the Wild would also happen to be the sole reason for its disappearance. Nintendo wouldn't be that lazy (and cheap).