So does Zelda's desire to protect link

Yeah, seems like some things still remain, but in a more abstract and less concrete way. Zelda was still carrying the master sword, strengthening it for Link. We even see her message for Link in that golden place (which I think is her spirit inside her new dragon form) plus her tears revealing her memories, and Dragon Ganandorf clearly was still very much evil and destructive. I think you don't exactly loose yourself, per se. It seems more like your consciousness goes into a slumber. So your mind is still there, but asleep, so you're not conscious at all; dragons are working only on instinct and subconscious, but their mind isn't truly lost.

"Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten."

@@gabrielabatista6016 It’s also important to note that the Light Dragon forgot it was repairing the sword specifically for Link It didn’t know to just let the hero of legend have the sword, you had to prove you were worthy of it So the person’s goals are carried over, just not the intelligence required to more effectively achieve them

@@OffbrandDTraveler yup. It feels like their subconscious is there, but the conscious mind in itself and any sort of rational thought isn't.

I thought he was gonna turn into calamity ganon and create a stable time loop.

My theory is that CG was just a Phantom Ganon. The biggest one, ofc, but he and the blights were likely Phantom Ganons created out of malice, which is probably a weakened miasma (or gloom, as the English translation so "eloquently" put it). I think it appeared when Rauru's seal weakened (kinda how like the blood moon in BotW was when Zelda's own power waned and some of CG leaked through), and the hero and princess with the sealing power sealing it back weakened it enough for Rauru to contain it for 10k more years (and probably the sealing power reinforces Rauru's seal too).

​@@gabrielabatista6016that makes so much sense I hate it

Demon Dragon makes Calamity Dragon look like a fart cloud.

I also like how Dragon Ganon has a pig snout a reference to the pig form Ganon from older Zelda games.

However, a smallest part of her remained. A part that, no matter how small it was, knew she needed to help Link.

I teared up seeing her come to the rescue! It was a great moment ❤

Powerful 🤍💛🩵

I was so torn between sobbing and screaming "ROLL UP WITH THE GLOCK"

This game was lame tbh. The dungeons still sucked and the story wasn’t really any better than BOTW. We need OOT/MM dungeons, with a BOTW type of overworld. Then I would be happy

A twink with a blue raspberry popsicle soars on top of a weird ass snake to pop another weird ass snake's pimples

Evil villain's daily hygiene tip: Exfoliate before becoming dragon.

i like to think each of the dragons within this game has some sort of purpose. the light dragons is to protect link and heal his sword. and the three main dragons are to watch and protect. and the demon dragons is to destroy link and destroy hyrule.

I’m pretty sure the way it works is the dragons desire is to fulfill the original persons final desire: Zelda’s final wish was to protect Link, The Spring Dragons wished to protect their respective springs, and Ganondorf wished to destroy Hyrule, so they each did ( or tried to do ) that.

I think he does understand to an extent. I too thought he was mindless, but considering that Zelda here "sorta" feels like she's supposed to help Link, maybe the dark dragon has an instinct for destruction and a strong resentment that pushes him to kill Link. I believe that they have a sort of internalized instinct that links them to their past self Zelda: instinct to protect and fight alongside Link Ganon: instinct to kill off them both

yes, it is just perfect

This song look a lot more Japanese Asian

Also the dragon when Zelda, in her dragon form appeared.

​@@kathrynherrontf is japanese asian

Not gonna lie, that made my eyes water a little bit.

No It was Zelda That turn into the light dragon marked all the geoglyhs all over Hyrule that shows the Memory events of the Demon King Ganondorf and Zelda who went back time by Rauru’s light Secret stone that she picked up after her and Link found a mummy of the demon king Ganondorf and Rauru’s right arm who failed to seal away Ganondorf beneath Hyrule Castle

⁠@@kathrynherron first of all, that’s not what he meant, he meant how he put pins on the rauru geoglyph. Second of all, Zelda didn’t make the geoglyphs, just the tears themselves, which people saw the memories tied to the tears and made the geoglyphs to represent those memories. And finally, rauru was successful in sealing away Ganondorf. He wasn’t planning on sealing him away forever, just until link came along to destroy him, so rauru was successful in his goal

Priorities

Zelda was so stunned she even failed to catch him right away

@@nathanlaw2355 how do you know that? And how did anyone see the memories when the ability to see them is tied directly to the recall ability (that only Link has at that point)?

Why does the Light Dragon remind me of the Great Protector

@colleenross8752 Well, the Light dragon’s body is serpentine like the Great protector, and they’re both female. I’ve never seen Shang-chi and the ten rings, so I don’t fully know the correlation.

I was hoping for Dark Beast Ganon with the 4 legs and horns but seeing him swallow the tear instantly made me realise how great of a touch it was. The demon dragon fight as well is amazing.

@@bitz3225 we already got Dark Beast Ganon in Breath of the wild so bringing an already boring final boss back would be really disappointing.

@@jackattack1319 no of course, I meant not made from his malice but more actual, like in TP or OoT. However, the dragon took help me by surprise, this ending was perfect l.

Would have loved to farm his horns like with the other dragons tho 😂

Honestly, I wondered if he was gonna do so, even before I sadly was spoiled. The twin dragon ring statues in my view possibly foreshadowed this events of dragons of light and darkness clashing.

Well the MS was the only thing that could bypass the triforce of power immortal status(we can see this in TP when the sages failed to execute Ganondorf). Very powerful and lethal weapon if you ask me, luckily and thanks to Hylia (literally) only the hero is able to take it out of the pedestal. Imagine this thing on the wrong hands.

​@@enrithomas7194dayum the thing of master sword getting into wrong hands should be next zelda plot

I'm just imagining a random person at a stable witnessing the explosion and just going _"What the fu-"_

For me is when you get the Master Sword, maybe the best shot of aquiring the Master Sword in the franchise for me

Should’ve been the intro

⁠@@ElExiawolfAgreed. I am a long time Zelda fan and this game’s ’get Master Sword’ was incredibly powerful to me.

Saying this when just a few seconds later in 4:03 exists is… a take, for sure.

I see dragons more as beasts with the faintest glimmer of who they once were. To me, it was the Light Dragon's instinct to aid Link in this fight but it had no interest in the Demon Dragon, seeing as it dodges the dragon biting at it a few times without a care. It doesn't even seem like it's aware of why it is helping Link, just that it knows it needs to. The Demon Dragon on the other hand is the opposite. It seems Ganondorf's hatred carried over the most when the Demon Dragon was born. The only thing this beast knows is that it must destroy, and that starts with Link.

I think? I don’t remember there ever being a dragon boss in Zelda except for Gleeok, Barba and Volvagia

@@ThunderClanFan22 if you count Hyrule warriors theres Volga the Dragon Knight, but theyve never been flushed out like this way

@@ThunderClanFan22 don’t forget Argorok from Twilight Princess

BotW and TotK were inspired by gibli movies so far that Gibli did illustrations of their own for botw

I think what you meant by "demonic Yokai" was Oni

I don't know how true this statement is in the end, the light dragon comes to help Link after all

​@Guilloz it's more about the ego and sense of self. Zelda and Ganondorf loose their sense of self, but both retain aspects of their purposes, such as the light dragon holding the purpose of helping defeat the Demon King and the Demon Dragon to destroy Link.

How weirdly nitpicky.

@Jacob M lmao 🤣

Just be glad he didn't get the Triforce Of Power.

But after getting gloomraped by Ganondorf, even with a lot of hearts and good defense, this was still welcome and a far better difficulty balance than Calamity Ganon and Dark Beast Ganon.

I like that it's not hard. The one-on-one fight with Ganondorf is one of the most difficult fights in the series, and following it up with this is a beautiful victory lap.

Fangasm...thats a new one

​@@kalebhudson417actually it's old but yeah it fits

At least the Zelda team does, the Smash Bros team hates Ganondorf and wants to make him look bad every chance they get

Spirit Tracks has Zelda fighting by your side for the entire game, but it doesn’t have any form of Ganon, so it doesn’t count.

More like the will to protect Link

Spirit Tracks had Link and Zelda fight together for the whole game, and it definitely counts; they may not have been fighting Ganondorf, but Malladus was eerily similar to Ganon.

Yeah but it still could have afforded to be more challenging.

@@chadpeterson5698 Not everything needs to be challenging to enjoy it. The fight between Demon King Ganondorf was for sure the tough part. I play mmo’s and the dragon part is what I call the victory lap. It’s not difficult but the feeling you get here makes it memorable.

It was very enjoyable

@@chadpeterson5698 Like the Gloom Hands, Gleeocks, and armored Lynels weren’t enough?! 🤨

@@lienhua5558I just prefer it when common enemies don’t feel harder than the final boss.

He released one from her burden and gave her pain to the one who deserved it.

@@bradleyadams5252 He killed Ganondorf w/ the forehead stab usin' the restored Master Sword (not broken when he pulls it outta the jewel, but fully intact as the complete blade again). There's a Bible verse w/ the snake's head gettin' crushed by the Savior. Link crushed the dragon's head by stabbin' through ta kill Ganondorf who turned into the dragon, so he did the same thing by killin' Ganondorf by stabbin' his forehead (w/ Ganondorf in the dragon form, that meant he was totes finished off fer reals this time). As justice ta save the whole world from Demise's evil. Next Zelda prequel could involve a lion and a giant boar w/ the first Link as the left-handed human w/ lionhearted courage against Demise. The story in the prequel manga, but expanded on.

Maybe Link just loves stabbing Ganon in the forehead. Ocarina of time, Link defeats Ganon by stabbing him in the forehead Wind Waker, Link kills Ganondorf by stabbing him in the forehead Breath of the Wild, Calamity Ganon's weakness is the forehead Tears of the Kindom, Link kills the Demon Dragon by stabbing him in the forehead I guess you could say Link likes to give Ganon a splitting headache? I'll see myself out.

SAMEEE

Same except I said "Worm wife!"

Those eyes. Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time used to creep me out as a kid and then two years later that freaking moon in Majora's Mask. This would have definitely given me nightmares as a kid.

I thought it would be cool if like after they beat him he just becomes a regular docile dragon like the other 3? That way he's never even be able to reincarnate again because he'd never actually die. I thought it's be a cool way to like permanently take care of ganon and the most poetic part would be he did it to himself.

@@anghel4 He got reduced to nothing, lol Nuked in the sky

I suppose he will soon, but no longer as powerful and cunning.

​@@anghel4dunno man that nuke was pretty big, I doubt he coming back.

@@magnabueno5360 The Ganon in A Link to the Past could still come back as 'imself and the pigman Ganon. Zonai Era Ganondorf's gone, but still w/ room fer an earlier Ganondorf to come back after bein' beaten in Four Swords Adventures, A Link to the Past, Ancient Stone Tablets, Oracle games, A Link Between Worlds, and The Legend of Zelda. Talkin' about Ganondorf who stole the Power Trident, became the Ganon w/ blue skin, orchestrated the Four Swords Adventures story w/ kidnappin', lost to the 4 Links w/ the Four Sword and the Bow upgrade, came back out after a long while, went into sacred land w/ his followers, slaughtered his followers, got the full Triforce, got sealed in the Dark World he corrupted the landscape into, lost to the Link in A Link to the Past w/ Master Sword and the Silver Arrows, came back feral in Oracle games, lost to the Link in A Link Between Worlds w/ the Master Sword used against HIM again (after fusin' w/ Yuga), an' then lost to a Silver Arrow again in Zelda 1.

The moment I learned that anyone who swallows a secret stone will become an immortal dragon, I realized that was going to happen at some point during the final fight.

I can just imagine the all might face when you say that-

Generally music in this game was amazing

yes very much a gimmick boss but man is it thematic as fuck

My spirit tracks bias is making itself noticeable rn. She didn't do the same sacrifices of totk zelda, but she still helped through the entire game I guess. But yeah this fight was so awesome, I had a stupid smile the entire time.

I love the fact you can bounce back those darkness orbs back at him. Keeps true to how he as always played, a tennis champion through and through,

The only time I cried was from laughing at the camera movement at 4:37.

And all the sages swallow their stones and join too

Nahh. That would be a mess in terms of gameplay

@@cristiany140 how exactly?

True, but what would they do expect floating around lmao.

@@JustinBrown-hq2yb those dragons are massive. They will block each other during the fight. Also, the light dragon serves as a flying platform that help linl to jump and land on the other dragon.

Demise’s curse would probably take another form. There’s always Vaati.

@@Tkdboy-gk1wk That is assuming his curse is in this game. I feel BoTW and ToTK are in another universe.

…I thought each Ganon is individual, they’re just all cursed the same? I mean some come “back” after being sealed away, but it’s not the same person each time…Right? So there’ll probably be a “new” Ganon popping up at some point.

@@riallebalfour4767 Well, when Ganon pig form ha been revived, the ritual isn't completed because of us stopping the ritual mid way, thus creating a shell that once was Ganon. If you remember during a link between worlds he was a shell that yuga took over, if I remember in Seasons and Ages, he was just a feral beast. Ganondorf however was a different story, after OoT he was either sealed away, or stabbed depending on the timeline. The ganondorf we see in WW is the same from OoT but older.

@@riallebalfour4767 I'm going to base this off the timeline in Hyrule Historia, but that might not be accurate anymore with BotW/TotK (it's hard to say how they "fit in" with the timeline or if they're in a different universe altogether). Ganondorf originates in Ocarina of Time. Downfall Timeline: Ganondorf beats the Hero of Time, and the Imprisoning War ensues. Ganondorf steals the Triforce, becomes Ganon, and is sealed away in the Dark World. In ALttP, Ganon is freed and Link kills him. In the Oracle Games, Twinrova revives Ganon, but their ritual was interrupted, so he's a mindless shell. Link kills him. Prior to The Legend of Zelda, Ganon is revived. Link kills him. In Adventure of Link, there is an attempt to revive Ganon, but Link successfully thwarts this attempt. Adult Timeline (there is a reason I'm doing this next): Link successfully defeats Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time. Ganondorf is sealed in the Sacred Realm by the sages. Link is sent back in time, causing the spirit of the hero to vanish from this timeline. In The Wind Waker, the seal on Ganondorf is broken, and Hyrule is flooded. A new Link kills Ganondorf. In the rest of the games in this split of the timeline, Ganondorf and Ganon never appear again (Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks). Child Timeline: After defeating Ganon at the end of Ocarina of Time, Link is sent back into the past. Link warns Zelda about what will happen with Ganondorf, and Zelda and the King believe this time. Ganondorf is scheduled to be executed in the Arbiter's Grounds by the sages, but by a "divine prank", he is granted the Triforce of Power and survives. The surviving sages seal him in the Twilight World. In Twilight Princess, Ganon tricks Zant and is able to escape the Twilight. Link (and Zant?) kill Ganondorf. In Four Swords Adventures, Ganondorf is *_reincarnated,_* seeks out the Trident of Power, and becomes Ganon. Link defeats Ganon who is sealed in the Four Sword. So, based on this, every instance of Ganondorf and Ganon stems from the same person (OoT Ganondorf) *_except_* the Ganondorf/Ganon in Four Swords Adventures. You could make the case that the various revivals of Ganon in the downfall branch of the timeline could be considered "new" Ganons, but they are described as resurrections of Ganon, so I think it's safe to assume they are intended to be the same as Ganondorf in OoT. And now we have Tears of the Kingdom, and it's not clear whether this is a new Ganondorf, a retcon of the Ganondorf from OoT (TotK seems to be a loose retelling of OoT, in some aspects), or just some parallel universe unrelated to all other Zelda games. But, regardless of TotK, the fact that Ganondorf was reincarnated in Four Swords Adventures give Nintendo license to bring him back again if they want. And since Aonuma has stated in interviews that he doesn't like being bogged down by the timeline, and seeing as how BotW/TotK don't really make sense in context of the timeline, I don't think there's anything to stop Aonuma from using Ganondorf and Ganon again if he wanted to.

I was spoiled by an idiot that put “Final Boss Demon Dragon”

I didn't get spoiled on anything.

​@@Elfilinfan same, It's the first time I don't get a final boss spoiled..

Same here. But the way he becomes a dragon still shocked me.

My solution is to never watch anything related to the game. Use another channel if you can't avoid the recommendation. I completely avoided everything Zelda related until after I beat the game and I can say it definitely helps

This is beautiful. 😍😍

It happens in earlier phases of the battle too, and in Breath of the Wild when confronting his Calamity form.

Umm, the story Phantom Ganon fight is in Hyrule Castle, not the depths...

​@@anthonyhovens7488cool, op wasn't talking about that fight though

The game went so deep into the depths to reach Ganondorf. It was like venturing into the pits of hell to face satan.

Oh god... HE'S RIGHT!

I like how all the other bosses, including the botw ones, just regular explode. But just to really let it sink in that you just shat on the big bad, they made it so his death was a thermonuclear bomb. XD

I’d have loved it if Zelda was able to speak as the dragon once she came to fight. It was obvious she was conscious somewhere in that giant dragon, given how she raced to the battle and saved Link.

It lacks the politics and world-building of One Piece to make it comparable.

To be fair this Ganondorf is even similar to Kaido: can't be damaged by normal means, is defeated while transformed into a eastern style dragon with a full moon in the skies and the will to defeat him has been passed on by the leaders of the country and their retainers