Devs: We knew someone would do this | Zelda TotK

[@godlyBlade]

Nintendo: "Go back and get the glowing thing, stupid."

[@flying_candy]

Link, you’re our last line of defense. Don’t waste your time on doing stupid things.

[@LeviathanRX]

Me when I avoid the yellow paint on the 3 ledges and ladder

[@nicholaskling2425]

I would respect them so much if Rauru said this

[@Beerbottles123]

Nintendo: "Hey! Listen!"

[@TheDragonfanger]

"Link you're our last li- oh look a penny"

[@friend_trilobot]

Rauru sounds like someone in the service industry trying to be polite to an unruly customer, lol

[@jasperjavillo686]

I mean, with the shit some players make Link do, can your really describe him as anything else?

[@GeneralKenobi69420]

You mean "rawr uwu"

[@garethrayner4568]

As someone in the service industry, can confirm.

[@buddeman27]

​@@jasperjavillo686 BotW link is simultaneously true to the player as a person and himself as a person

[@deathblowringo4168]

Yeah, he sounds like the house leader of the Blue Lions.

[@mariothane8754]

“I hate to strong arm you into this, especially since I only have one arm left, but that shiny rock is kind of important.”

[@isto2278]

One left arm?

[@Red_MOON187]

Well, it is strong arm and not strong arms. :D

[@PhonyLyzard]

I don't think he has any arms left, or legs, or vital organs. Because he's dead

[@Tonjit41]

i like how they show it to you as if you possibly didn't see it

[@kingatticus5371]

It adds that subtle “we know you had to have seen it, but we’re going to show it to you now regardless to hammer home that you gotta do this despite your clever manipulation of the game mechanics” energy

[@demonprincess9680]

Believe it or not, not everyone has the instinct to parkour around the game's story

[@witchywanda666]

Rauru: *sighs* Speedrunners...

[@GameCatastrophe]

Nintendo actually hard-coded that camera movement just because they knew the stupid stuff some people would do lol

[@thomazplays9305]

What does hard coded mean

[@GameCatastrophe]

@@thomazplays9305 you’re using a device with access to the unlimited supply of knowledge known as the Internet. Go use it

[@flying_candy]

I think he’s referring to the camera moving back to Link after this unusual cutscene that very few people would discover. Surely Nintendo’s already known someone would do this and has made this cutscene including coding the camera movement that would go back to Link after the cutscene.

[@thomazplays9305]

@@flying_candy ohh thanks for the explanation

[@HoennMaster]

@@flying_candy Maybe I'm not understanding, but don't all cutscenes cut back to Link and/or the character it's about?

[@kantackistan]

"I don't recall..."

[@flying_candy]

This is a good title for the video…

[@No_Go_322]

Underrated joke

[@bweaddss]

🔥✍️

[@Jlaps941]

Ba dum tiss

[@traceusewanders5607]

Not yet you don’t!

[@ghb323]

Link: Bypasses the glowing thing King Rauru: *NO.*

[@easeldoodle]

Also King Rauru: “This isn’t how you’re supposed to play the game.”

[@zwillscoopchannel9689]

@@easeldoodlethen he says under his breath yet

[@thehatedchild88]

BAD LINK!!!

[@evogarciagaming6791]

Correction: "Devs: someone already tried this in the year we spent playtesting"

[@flying_candy]

Nintendo: This is why we have this specific cutscene ready for another person who would try this

[@HandledToaster2]

Yes... That's *how* they knew...

[@ubermaster1]

Rauru: “Bro it was right there, we just started this quest…”

[@Secret_not_here]

Imagine seeing the stone and thinking it was just decoration for the temple Edit: Ignore the previous edit :)

[@flying_candy]

when you were too far away from that “glowing thing” to miss the “A Examine” 😅🤣

[@Anths_art]

immediately took back my like when I saw that corny edit

[@Secret_not_here]

LOL

[@omniultimate]

What I want Rauru to say: " Oh look back there, it's a secret stone. *YOU* *SHOULD* *GO* *GET* *IT!* "

[@HandledToaster2]

Secret stone? Demon king?

[@piratekit3941]

"The Goddess statues smiles upon you" sounds like the kind of reaction when you do something annoying, but your grandma is just like "Bless your heart dear", all while wondering where she went wrong with her son to have a grandkid like you.

[@Original_Katros]

"Link, I don't mean to be rude but I fear your eyesight is deteriorating, as you missed the glowing golden rock that's half your size on your way here."

[@flying_candy]

Link: “Half my size…”🥲

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

*Link:* "Half my size, how am I supposed to swallow it?" *Rauru:* "You're _not_ supposed to swallow them, Zelda tried that once and..." remembering not to give spoilers in the tutorial, "it caused irreparable damage." *Link:* "Irreparable until you magically reverse it anyhow, ya hack." *Rauru:* "Ah, I see this is not your first cycle. Well, you can't swallow the stone... we haven't coded for that."

[@L337M4573RK]

Wow...a secret cut-away that very few people have actually seen.

[@zacharyrollick6169]

It's not on the level of the Sector 4 Shinespark chain, but still pretty good.

[@TheMissingLink2]

Is it? I saw this. Not because I missed it, but because I always try to sequence break. Figure most others would too.

[@nlatimer]

​@@TheMissingLink2 most others really? You and seven other people ever saw this if not for a KZbin video

[@TheMissingLink2]

@@nlatimer I don 't understand your comment as it's incoherent.... Given that BOTW is widely popularly known _for_ sequence breaking (the millions of view on youtube for these videos will verify this), I figured _many_ people would actually attempt very _small_ and insignificant breaks like this in TOTK.... I mean, who plays an open world game and doesn't explore every inch??? I never thought my play style of "exploration" in a open world game was so obscure and unique that I would be one of the few people who would come across this "cutscene" in gameplay naturally and not be phased...

[@AesirUnlimited]

“Hey Rauru, I think I may be suffering from amnesia again. Because I don’t remember asking.”

[@waterlemon3885]

Rauru: "I can sense Zelda's presence back near those stairs you passed earlier." Link: 🤔 "That thing doesn't even look human, bro. I thought you said you knew her..." **starts to draw sword**

[@Eeevonn]

I wish they just made Rauru say “Link what are you doing. Go back.”

[@antilopezmexicanos]

The developers know us so well, they knew, we will try this, at least I did.

[@huwdte]

That moment when the devs decided to add such a small detail like this but also made every temple cutscene the same

[@flying_candy]

So true 💁🥲

[@TwangFong]

Demon king? Secret stone?

[@TheBreadPirate]

I did this during my first play through. I love that the team prepared for everything!

[@flying_candy]

Credit to Nintendo 👍🏻

[@Secret_not_here]

Yoo I saw you again!

[@davidwhidden9337]

Except for preparing a good story.

[@Secret_not_here]

@@davidwhidden9337 true true

[@mallk238]

Similar vibes to super mario odyssey where they hid coin piles in places you could only reach if you pulled some INSANE jumps that are usually only used by people trying to get out of bounds on the map

[@shadejoines]

Cmonn, Nintendo had the chance to be funny here. "Yo chosen hereo. Go get the stupid rock."

[@flying_candy]

Zelda: “It’s not a rock. It’s a JADE” 😂

[@LukeHwarang]

😮 it's actually mind blowing they have a specific cutscene for that.

[@NotVeryCreative1]

But the devs didn’t prevent you from completing the shrine without the rune, like in the last game.

[@flying_candy]

They give you lots of freedom to do things in your own ways but set some basic rules like you need to get the Rune of Recall before you can try to open the door of the temple of time.

[@NotVeryCreative1]

@@flying_candy you can actually skip all the runes with a glitch called Corrupt Save. It’s pretty complicated and I won’t go into much detail.

[@homerman76]

@@NotVeryCreative1 I mean, at that point it's not a skip via official means, it's just exploiting the code via a glitch

[@NotVeryCreative1]

@@homerman76 yeah, true.

[@fbomb7184]

Still a million times better than “LISTEN!”

[@IsiDemon]

Something similar happened in Botw in the first four shrines. If you somehow managed to bypass the sheikah pedastal with the rune AND reached the monk without said rune (either with glitches or cheats), he'd just tell you to go back and get the rune. I love that Nintendo thinks of people who try all kinds of weird shit in games. 😂

[@marhola100]

I beat the bomb trial in BOTW without collecting the bomb runes. I had some bomb arrows on my inventory. The monk told me to collect the rune at the start of the trial.

[@PFGFrankly]

Welp..nintendo know how smart we are

[@TheRealBatabii]

Wow they made a whole ass cutscene. I thought it would just have a typical " you can't do this yet" text box or just not have a message at all

[@flying_candy]

Yea so impressive 😀

[@VoidHalo]

I remember in the late 90s shocking my friends when I beat the last bowser in Mario 64 and just walked off the ledge instead of grabbing the star.

[@flying_candy]

Mario 64 is so classic ❤

[@BABYBABYGOO]

That turn at 0:59 Like: "Really bigga? Did you see the stunt I just pulled off to get here?"

[@ghb323]

You unlocked a secret cutscene

[@Secret_not_here]

Imagine seeing the stone and thinking it was just decoration for the temple

[@BlueFoxDenStudios]

Devs: "Yes, yes, we're all impressed, now play the game please."

[@ivanpaulurias7664]

I never understood how did Zelda's Secret stone got to the Temple chamber 😂

[@ghoulchan7525]

It's just a projection. Since well... You knwot

[@1994AustinSmith]

She put it there?

[@julianemery718]

​@1994AustinSmith If you've played the game, you'd know that would be impossible

[@ArceusDX]

It's just an apparition

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I love how they plan for these things and put in new cut scenes to account for people going around the game. I did it on my second playthrough of BOTW, avoided Impa until I had all 4 beasts done and the sword, she changed in that scene, the only thing that never gets marked done is Ganon.

[@RunicSigils]

"Well, yes, but you see the big thing glowing told me that's where I needed to go, which meant I had to check everything else before I do that."

[@pvt.prinny759]

" thought you were so smart, huh? now go back and do it properly, smartass" - Nintendo

[@HelenoPaiva]

This game is so finely polished it is something incredible. Breath of the wild was a masterpiece, this one builds and expands onto it in such a magnificent fashion it is mind blowing.

[@ThaFuzzwood]

A lot of this stuff is 'retconned' The fun stuff is patched out by the nintendo fun-police

[@DantrellandKevin]

"BOY IF YOU DON'T GET-!"

[@real_b_dawg]

Bro really be like a Jedi force spirit 💀

[@axellara3353]

They learned from the past. I remember making a mistake in Metroid Prime 3 when I didn’t pick up an item at the end of a stage, and I got stuck in the game back in the day ):

[@chineseman6580]

Cool, hidden cutscene

[@altogrey9712]

They just know us so well Well, tbf I didnt do it on my first playthrough, I always try to "play the game as intended" everytime I get a new game. And then in the 2nd playthrough, all hell breaks loose

[@flying_candy]

I also did it the “normal” way on my first playthrough. In my 2nd / 3rd / … playthrough, I have found out that we can do it in many different ways by just using our imagination. This is why we love about the Legend of Zelda 💕💕

[@RunicSigils]

It's not like you're breaking the game by doing this or something. When a game puts something that you're obviously supposed to go towards and there's more to explore around it, it just makes sense to explore everything else first. I saw this cutscene on my first playthrough because I simply wanted to see what was around before dealing with the thing that would obviously end this section of the game. Finding this cutscene is the equivalent of just walking around an RPG town talking to everyone. It's the proper way to play a game unless you are literally speedrunning.

[@Brendanowl]

They made a whole cutscene to troll people who tried to skip part of their game XD

[@FireAssassin06]

Welp that’s an interesting dialogue I didn’t expect

[@FargonNemeloc]

Link at the end turns around: say what?!?!

[@newdonktimes2034]

Link looking back at the camera. “Dang it.”

[@rtyuik7]

on one hand, part of it actually seems like its still UNintentional, but just a Coincidental Failsafe (for example, "The goddess statue simply smiles upon you..." is just the General 'inactive state' of the Statue, like when you dont have any Orbs to trade in anyway) ...on the other hand, the slow camera movements almost seem like a snarky way of saying "oh, youre trying to Skip things? like some sort of...Fast-player? well hoowww abbooouuut wweeeeee taaaaaake ooouuuurrr tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime wiiith thiiissss onneee......."

[@tanimation7289]

“But Thou Must”

[@weeblewobble]

Wait wait wait... If the secret stone is there... Then what happened to Zelda's secret stone from the 13th memory?

[@GravityRavenYT]

Maybe she left hers there, and swallowed another (maybe Sonnia's) secret stone.

[@ThrowbackJTT]

​@@GravityRavenYT Sonnia stone was taken by Ganondorf

[@zirotsero6951]

Rauru had a spare in the other room

[@Enjoyer.762]

Nintendo doesn't care about plot holes

[@Gibberishusernamehere]

I mean, what comes in must go out, y'know?

[@marcopohl4875]

Rauru: "This is not a platformer, stupid!"

[@David13579]

Feel like the devs are like a teacher going “hey, HEY! Speedrunners? Yeah, you guys, nah, you still do this, come on!” 😂😂

[@QMulative]

Nintendo trying to prevent another Jaffe gaffe.

[@Kanaweish]

just a taste of what a year of polish can get you.

[@WellSwolen69]

I need to play this game again now that I learned ghost stick glitches to fly through walls

[@gigastrike2]

Similarly, even after you do everything, the cutscene that allows you to leave the great sky island doesn't actually trigger unless you pass through that door behind the statue. Flying to the same spot with all the abilities causes nothing to happen. TotK was weirdly restrictive for what is supposed to be an open Zelda game.

[@RealAlphaDrum]

"Zelda basically killed herself...you better go back and get that stone and appreciate what she did." haha

[@beta_unknow3050]

I was gonna claim it's just dev being lazy for not considering player can do that, but they add actually dialogue, so that's mean they be aware of that.

[@azurecorviknight4189]

Rauru: LINK JUST GO GET IT OR IM HAULING YOU TO IT LIKE A CAT HAULING A KITTEN, ON ITS NECK!!!

[@demonprincess9680]

This is how you know Nintendo knows it's fanbase and basic gamer thought-process

[@chrissysonicutdrloz]

Oh, the devs definitely watched some BOTW vids.

[@dudeelame]

Rauru sounded so done lol

[@joonasmitt]

Devs didnt know. It actually used to work but they patched it.

[@cowcat8124]

Typo in description, says "cops"

[@flying_candy]

It should be “cogs” instead of “cops”. It has been corrected. Thank you 🙏

[@HungryWarden]

I had the same idea, but I did it in a different way. I froze the water using an icicle club and used it to build a ramp.

[@LaurenGlenn]

Of course..... much like when I got the Master Sword without going through the story part so then I did the story part and the guy telling the story said, "oh, you already did that." :)

[@flying_candy]

Nintendo just carefully thought of everything before they released the game.

[@purplefox626]

I did this too! I honestly did not even think to grab the stone!!

[@enque2970]

Game dev rule: You should treat the player like a complete moron, even if the solution is pointed with 5 glowing arrows, someone will miss it, make sure that wont happen

[@flying_candy]

Devs: “hardest job in the world.”

[@bengarrett4984]

This is actually a very easily planned scenario. They don't really need to know how people plan to cheat. They just need to guarantee the door will not open until the player has permission. Even if they didn't plan ahead, I'm sure that one guy in play tests went out of his way to break everything all the time.

[@flying_candy]

This is true. Nintendo will surely testplay their game 10x more carefully than the craziest / silliest gamers and fix everything that could go wrong before they release the game. Remember they postponed the release of TotK for one year just to thoroughly test the game to make it work seamlessly?

[@marcoasturias8520]

If Hylia smited you right then and there it'd be equally fitting!

[@jamchiroptera4258]

Oh sure when a video game does it its fine, but when i do it, its railroading. Harrumph

[@TopOfAllWorlds]

This was found, recorded, and uploaded to youtube the day this game came out. I'm unsure why everyone seems to be finding this particular video of it lol

[@Crimson-Flame666]

Gamers: *try to break the game* Actually good Devs: "I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you."

[@gooseguyfilms4460]

That’s what I did! I did it on a second play through, but I’d didn’t really like totk, so I never finished the game more than once.

[@lexonlexcrime]

oh, wow, so cool and interesting and totally unexpected 😱

[@ReapersArrow]

SHUT UP RAURU STOP BACKSEATING

[@MiroBouchard]

It happened to me on my first playtrough.

[@highdefinition450]

yea obviously there's a safeguard lol, they wouldn't want you to get softlocked right from the beginning of the game lmao

[@shiki1]

Oh yeah I did that too lol, totally forgot!

[@notyourbusiness4169]

When you had years to update BotW these things tend to happen

[@icephoenix1088]

I did this my first play through because I wanted to see what would happen lol nintendo knows us all to well

[@flying_candy]

So true 😄

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

Fun fact: if you manage to escape the final final boss area (SPOILERS)... ...the Light Dragon is coded to physically chase you down no matter where you are on the map and snatch you up to drag you back to the boss fight.

[@Stevenuniversefan-n4f]

I actually did this the first time I ever played lol

[@NetBattler]

Jeez thank you Rauru the captain obvious 🙄

[@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343]

Well played Nintendo.

[@thereborngoddess7203]

Fi is that you?

[@eldritchzora]

Perfect game

[@rdm9361]

Demon King? Secret Stone?

[@LinksQuestResearch]

I encourage there’d that cutscene on my first play through

[@DGOExists]

why is there an obvious cut 🤨

[@flying_candy]

This is what happens with multiple video clips if you try to attach two video clips when you record the videos directly from Switch. You can always see an obvious cut in between different video clips. I hope Nintendo will fix it or allow us to record video clips longer than 30 seconds.

[@RunicSigils]

​​​@@flying_candyThe fix would be turning that off entirely because there's no reason to take that hit in performance. It has video out. They should care more about system performance than people who randomly upload things to KZbin who would have the ability to record and upload it regardless. The system does not need to constantly be recording what's happening. Devs who care about performance turn off the ability to record or screenshot.

[@Breadsticks1267]

I got through once and it didn't work

[@michaelrichie7540]

so what did he find?

[@Songforyall]

I actually did this on my playthough lol

[@NilsBomstromAho]

Its old ma guy

[@ToyKeeper]

I went to the other side of that door, behind the temple, with just ultrahand and nothing else... and there was nothing there.

[@flying_candy]

I did the same thing on my first playthrough, in two ways. I’ll upload a video shortly.

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

Take less steps is possible.

[@Dragonlovermaniak]

Indeed they did. XD

[@2C3T]

I did this by accident initially because i didn’t see the shard😭

[@TopOfAllWorlds]

Zero IQ moment. F

[@InvaderGIR98]

HOW DID YOU MISS IT 😂