I Beat Link's Awakening Backwards... it was awful.

[@TheTamally]

Honestly just having the screenshot of your save with only the drum is such a huge flex. It's the kind of thing that 10 years ago people would have died on the hill that it was fake.

[@Just_Shaun]

Especially given the game wasn’t out 10 years ago 😅😅

[@ryanwheeler783]

​@@Just_ShaunEspecially since you don't know this was a remake of an older game. Hence HD version. Kinda like Windwaker HD, Ocarina of Time HD, Paper Mario TTYD HD, and plenty of other rereleases that are carrying Nintendo because in about 10 minutes you'll need to be balls deep in the models of anything for them to be medium resolution.

[@mr.moonthegoon4178]

Wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago because different mechanics

[@ArchivistVile]

@@mr.moonthegoon4178 Link's Awakening GB/GBC can be beaten this way, and considerably easier as well. Screen-wrapping is the core of LA speedrunning. So yes, it would be possible.

[@SquallLionhart409]

@@ArchivistVile Exactly this. I have a save file with all instruments and 0 dungeon bosses defeated. Screen-wrapping is utterly broken.

[@L337N1NJ4L1NK]

>Get's told you need to beat all the Nightmares to wake the Wind-Fish >Is surprised when killing all the Nightmares wakes the Wind-Fish

[@blackbloom8552]

I think that regarding the ending of the game, the words of the wind fish himself should be considered "...but Verily, it be the nature of dreams to end." "When i dost awaken, koholint will be gone" "only the memory of this dream land will exist i nthe waking world" "Someday, thou may recall this island..." "That memory makes the dream world Real..."

[@spartan7375]

so in order to save the island we would just need to get all of hyrule to collectively dream about it?

[@mrptr9013]

​@@spartan7375 it's meta comentary. That's not a message for Link, it's a message for you, the player, about how your imagination and feelings for the games you love make them real.

[@AyrisX86]

Okay so the "invisible wall" that you had to jump on for angler skip isn't really a wall at all. Link's Awakening uses a 2D engine in a 3D world, and those "walls" are essentially times when the game can't figure out where you are, so you're just falling without moving downwards.

[@pascaldomingues8153]

Then how could he jump midair when not from a wall? If he falls, that would mean he would not be able to jump at all or not?

[@petrie911]

"Watching closely as courage turns into madness." A line from another great challenge run game, Terraria Calamity.

[@rpgcraftsman520]

That sounds like something the Narrator/Ancestor from Darkest Dungeon would say when one of the heroes gets an Affliction - probably Irrational.

[@JamieHutchings-x6j]

The Paper Mario challenge, all of the amazingly difficult pikmin mods and now this!? You're either a madman, bored, or just straight up a looney! Edit: Y'all gave this comment so much attention and it's cause I was talking about him liking to suffer? Damn. Cool. Thnx.

[@yoshilord724]

Or a closet masochist.

[@GrimmyQ]

Pain isn’t fun if you don’t share with your friends

[@Ice-Aoi-mutantheart-fan]

Or just wanting to test things out

[@TheLukeskywalker2]

Or all three!

[@joemaier997]

i think all 3, but the best thing about it is that he delivers great content of stuff almost no one does. individually i guess

[@Fynxens]

The few words you spoke after you were finished with the story were so beautiful thanks :)

[@heisit]

2:24 You know this is going to be a hell of a ride when Press A starts with a line like this. Great video as always. Your suffering was not in vain

[@LadyLeFey]

Every time I hear Marin's voice solo, I cry like a little b!tch. :'( I miss you, Marin.

[@jehru5]

Pretty sure Ocarina of Time is the most glitchy and broken Zelda out there followed closely by Majora's Mask. The existence of bomb hovering should be proof enough without even looking at SRM.

[@pressaTD]

You’re probably right, I was just being dramatic lol

[@CaTastrophy427]

Counterpoint: WW's zombie hover. Or any of the ones with ACE (though OoT is one of them lol)

[@Asukeru]

honestly considering how MM was made, it's a miracle it doesn't have major bugs or glitches on normal playtroughts haha reminds me of Fallout New Vegas who had the same rushed development using the previous game engine, you just can't play it without mods

[@efad3215]

BiT Magic who?

[@MaximeLafreniere433]

Just saying, if the trading quest really was impossible, there was another solution. There is roughly 3^6 possibilities (less than that actually, but I can't explain it very well). So you COULD have tested every single permutation until one of the about 729 was correct. -(it's not insanity, it's dedication (fueled by insanity))-

[@Quandry1]

There actually may be another solution. If i'm remembering the right game because it's been a while. there is a trick that speed runners have that they can clip through the statue into the stairs and into the cave.

[@CaTastrophy427]

And fortunately, you'd only need to test about 25 paths at most. Even if you got it wrong twice before finding the correct path in each room, that's still only 24 tries. The vast majority of the potential paths are ruled out by the first wrong node, and the second room rules out the majority of the remaining paths too.

[@MaximeLafreniere433]

@@CaTastrophy427 I don't remember any tell that says you got it wrong... pretty sure you just keep roaming. Edit: confirmed

[@CaTastrophy427]

@@MaximeLafreniere433 you get put back to the entrance no?

[@MaximeLafreniere433]

@@CaTastrophy427 It's not like the Lost Woods where you warp outside if you get the path wrong. I just checked to be sure, if you get the wrong path, you wander around until you go South. PH had the same kind of maze.

[@linklight2]

For the last struggle you weren't soft locked. Choosing the bottom path always leads to the torches unless it's a new direction. So you could 'guess' the correct path by simply recording which way you went until you made progress. I followed this same line of logic to solve the maze in windwaker as a child, surely you would've figured something out.

[@LepidoliteMica]

To me the dream nature of Koholint never felt nihilistic. Yes, waking will end the dream, but the elements therein aren't as solid as real life to begin with. Marin is the only character that isn't a mere archetype, and even she represents something integral to the dream and the mind that dreamt it; in my mind she is the waking voice of a sleeping god, one shard of the Wind Fish's consciousness with just enough facets to feel separate from it. Everyone else is another splinter of that mind, but so simplified that it's tough to argue they're really conscious in their own right.

[@TheZombiesAreComing]

0:10 That's how most older RPGS were. The open world concert didn't come about till recent years.

[@efad3215]

It's a bell curve. King's Quest 1 is a small open world, but KQ7 (the 3d one) had dedicated places to be at specific times in the story, kinda like LA here.

[@TheSoulfighter95]

Bro has been broken so many times, is there even anything left?

[@CaptainPlayguy]

Like Like Jump? C'mon, bro, Like Like Leap was right there!

[@RubyPhoenix12345]

For some reason, after a certain dungeon (I don't know which one), the old lady moves to the Animal Village. It wasn't glitched by all the sequence breaking. I know this because in one of my playthroughs I waited to give the old lady the broom and couldn't find her.

[@whoseverslinky0]

Amazing vid. Thanks for suffering for our enjoyment ! Also, I appreciate the paper Mario 64 music at 23:04

[@MstrKipper]

Really love all your challenge run videos, this one specifically was super cool with how much you broke the game! For future runs idk if this is easily possible or not but I wouldn't mind seeing a timer to see how long this whole mess took you

[@janeking3912]

There is no version of events where you open the box and the cat is alive.

[@Jeremy-gx6po]

Been lurking for a while, but your content is always a banger, keep it up man.

[@djravioli7197]

Wow this hour+ video that just came out 25 minutes ago none of us have finished yet. we should all talk about it in the comment sections for the KZbin algorithm gods. Interaction. Engagement. Life-changing. 🎉 I even used an emoji. Okay done my part

[@centurosproductions8827]

Of course the ending isn't different. You got all the instruments and then defeated the final boss, in that order. You didn't beat it backwards at all!

[@TheLinkr]

alot of this channel is him talking about hard tricks and talking about how much he fucking hates it and saying words wrong on purpose for engagement. which is super funny. respect the hustle my dude

[@gferrol118]

Links awakening backwards: Link creates an island out of thin air, forces the wind fish to sleep, hides instuments in the dungeons to stop anyone from waking it up, then builds a boat to leave the island

[@zainaurion4330]

Original Link's Awakening was my first Video Game ever. It will always hold a extremely special place in my heart, and love seeing how people can play both it and the Switch Remake in crazy ways. Kind of curious how Ballad of the Wind Fish at the Egg would have sounded though with only later instruments, like Drum-Only! And on the side, it's amusing that many of the Roc's Feather glitches and how much terrain has collision when it shouldn't basically became a feature in Echoes of Wisdom letting you just explore around.

[@omeganexuskensai6848]

This game is basically an embodiment of the trolley problem... do you damn one to save a village? Or save a village by abandoning one?

[@spartan7375]

in addition there's the added complication of if the villagers are "alive" given that they all must be extensions of the wind fishes subconscious making this one of the most complicated trolley problems ive ever thought about

[@bungeetoons]

Which also means Link had a crush on an extension of the wind fish. Marin is the wind fish and the wind fish is Marin

[@XperimentorEES]

Can't say I'm surprised it's buggier than the original, it's like nintendo was more concerned about how the remaster looked rather than how it played, again. But anyway those were some funky tricks I wouldn't have guessed, my favorite trick being the 8 directional movement letting you sequence break with the hookshot lol. Though your ramble after the journey had me expecting you to end with 'and next time we kill the windfish to escape' lol.

[@thomashost272]

0:03 You're right, it's like All Main Post-TotG* Zelda Games prior to Breath of the Wild. Because Link's Awakening (the original, not DX or the Remaster) was literally the fourth game ever released. Back in 1993. On the Original Gameboy. 5 years before Ocarina of Time. It's the first in the long line of it's kin, the pioneer of the Metroid-Vania style progression system of linear progression that opens the world for exploration as you go the series would be most known by in the following years because of Ocarina. If it's not obvious by my phrasing I'm being sarcastic. Most fans know this by now, and any who are new to the series watching this... really shouldn't be here anyway considering this is a challenge run where the first thing a person sees is saying that the run was painful, followed by the actual title of the video. *Triforce of the Gods, btw, yes I am using the Japanese Name for A Link to the Past, because the Japanese name makes more sense given the context of the game's story 3:39 Oh hey, someone else who has only played the DX Version and not the original '93 version. 40:44 What's even more of a Dick Move is that Marin's existence in the Wind Fish's Realm is implied to be because she's literally Link's "Dream Girl". The Wind Fish CREATED LINK'S IDEAL WOMAN AND THEN SAID "NAH, ONLY WAY YOU'RE GETTING OUT OF HERE IS BY LOOKING HER DEAD IN THE EYE, TELLING HER THAT HER DREAM OF LEAVING THE ISLAND AND SEEING THE WORLD IS ACHIEVABLE, AND THEN, AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, BASICALLY MURDER HER AND THE ENTIRE ISLAND'S POPULATION WITH HER".

There was a really funny video where someone beat the original Gameboy Link's Awakening backwards, but made it look like an accident and mock complained about the constant glitches.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

You should try playing Marin's song in front the egg without instruments or having only the 8th instrument and see what happens. I think in the original game the game will automatically play the first 2 instruments even if you don't have them even though you should have them. Does anyone know what happens if you do that in this game?

[@joemaier997]

50.000 this year would be awesome and well deserved tbh

[@joemaier997]

greetings from germany btw

[@michmill7007]

Congrats, man. I've tried this myself, but I thought it was impossible. I've done most of these tricks, and I have to say, the way you describe them was _not_ an exaggeration. But if you want a _real_ challenge, try Majora's Mask backwards. And I'm not talking about just grabbing the dungeon item and moving on to the next dungeon. No entering other dungeons to get the item. Stone Tower to Woodfall. Yes, it's possible. Do I wish it was? No.

[@pressaTD]

It’s on the list unfortunately lol

[@michmill7007]

@@pressaTD Oh man. Can't wait.

[@WC3fanatic997]

You're one of those rare KZbinrs that creates those kinda dumb, clickbaity thumbnails but actually produces good content.

[@aidan0]

ur on a roll lately bro! keep it up

[@TheEmDog10]

YOU MADE IT TO 50.3 K SUBS!! AND ITS BEFORE THE YEAR ENDS CONGRATS

[@olovfras1679]

Now i want to know what would happen if you tried opening the egg with only the drums, if there is a check for all instruments or just the last one or ones.

[@alanhersch4617]

Atleast in the og game, the song plays with which ever instruments you have, and it does check for all of them to actually open. It is cool cause there are different versions of the song

[@Sightless-vz2wh]

This island reminds me of the story of Ogygia an island in Greek mythology.

[@calsifer666]

Man I remember this game, I remember playing it on the GBC and I remember accidentally glitching it out. I still remember once playing as the guy who was meant to help with the rocs cape, the entire inventory was nothing but Roc feathers and you started the game up on the mountains, while another time I glitched it out and fell in a pit, just to end up trapped by a guy and a rabbit…

[@pikmin_79]

Now you are forced to do this with Echos of Wisdom since its out now.

[@mannytprimeministerofthemanate]

Echos doesn’t have a set linear order for its dungeons, and the later dungeons aren’t even spawned in the map until certain story beats. So yes he should definitely do it and go mad trying.

[@TriforceWisdom64]

Just need to find new wrongwarps to get to the second half dungeons.

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@mannytprimeministerofthemanate Set order not really sure, but difficulty wise on the bosses.....fuck Volvalgia

[@benl9993]

I think it's fitting how broken the game is given how broken the original game on the gameboy was. I used to enjoy getting bowwow, Marin and the flying rooster following me at the same time.

[@satellachannel6423]

Really!? I have to try that.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

If you try to sequence break A Link Between Worlds in a certain way it could break the game. It's actually possible to lose the upgraded bow and not get it back. 0:38 You know, that part actually looks like it would be explorable. The mountain actually has collision? Why? 3:31 How is your name spelled? I also steal items. I don't bother trying glitches that are damn near impossible. Certain glitches in A Link Between Worlds isn't too hard to pull off. Couldn't you get the blue mail to have more defense if low health is an issue? 30:14 Well, most of the bosses weren't programmed to be beaten with flame rod to begin with. I had to show the vagina horn XD. I forgot Smash Bros Ultimate had a Japanese opening. What made you think the ending would change? I actually read the manga. I was annoyed that the last part of the manga was missing only to find the rest years later. I do like the fact that Akira Himekawa is not the only one who can make a proper Zelda manga. Isn't this an older manga? I got the true ending in my first playthrough on the Switch.

[@LostLink2here]

I remember Granny Google would appear in "random" places on the world map, sweeping the whole island on her odd world tour. though I can only recall Grandma AskJeeves appearing near the west side of the lake near the animal village. Elder DuckDuckGo lived an interesting life.

[@Luigistar2401]

I actually did the pothole field and early dungeon 8 glitches years ago when I was still playing this game and let me tell you, those glitches were NOT easy for me. I can completely see how you were feeling when doing those glitches.

[@ralphmerridew]

Re 2:55, On the gameboy version, you could get into the second dungeon with the fire rod. (Maybe even the hookshot)

[@pikamario99]

Hookshot, fire rod, boomerang, and good old fashioned clipping into the wall next to the door to bypass the flowers altogether all work on the GB and GBC versions

[@lasercraft32]

The trees having collision feels like the ultimate foreshadowing of Echoes of Wisdom...

[@maybeher0]

Grezzo and Nintendo, seeing speedrunning shenanigans: FINE YOU WIN HAVE TREE CLIMBING CANON

[@BrownMan-gg7dx]

@36:22 she should have been in the animal village around near the end of the game depending on how many dungeons you have collected by the time you trade with her

[@zanechavez7411]

Great vid as always. Love the inspirational arc... I've been struggling a lot in life lately and even little validation from some guy on KZbin means something to me I suppose... Thanks sir Dan :)

[@thecrazymarioshow]

God this game always makes me so sad. I didn't know about the secret ending though, that was really interesting to hear

[@DeeEll1]

links awakening DX was the very first videogame i played. i was 4 at the time and it fundamentally shaped me as a person.

[@Gundalow]

According to youtube rewind, you were in my top 5 most viewed channels for the year, and I think thats pretty neat. Lol

[@adanagnia]

3:30 Those... those are death counters on the original save screen. How did you die 407 times!?

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Was that actually his old file?

[@pikamario99]

Being Like Six Years Old Or Somewhere Around There most likely

[@minirop]

When the music at 25:00 was playing, I was in the Forest Temple in OoT. 😂

[@adrianalexanderveidt344]

Seagulls only fly out to sea to die... so... you know... this isn't actually a happy ending.

[@ashwing2746]

I havent even seen the video yet, but i know this is going to be fire from the concept

[@NightmareRex6]

if can do the climb trick with the arcorn can it be done with power triangle as well?

[@snibo1024]

Man this video makes me regret even more not finishing the game (⁠ب⁠_⁠ب⁠)

[@BaalFridge]

22:20 that's what i nickname my cat

[@jacobeichhorn1169]

Didnt have to hit me in the feels at the end. 😢 jokes asides great video!

[@nicolasn12]

Man. I like your content but you should get some rest, it's awesome the stuff you do, but you should be concerned about your mental health, specially considering those come one after the other every few weeks. Congratulations on completing this challenge by the way.

[@wafwaf485]

Let's go, it's my weekly rendezvous to watch a grown man torture himself for hours because it's fun Great video, discovered a ton of glitches, I didn't know that the Switch version was that broken, I knew about the weird broken world in the Gameboy(Color?) version, but I wasn't ready for the remake

[@selpathor]

This was such a cool challenge and the way you told the story was amazing too. Is there any chance that for this or future challenges you can create a list of the music used? Some of the tracks sound really Really familiar but I just can't place them. Thank you and I look forward to the next challenge!

[@psyborg89]

3:22 you can get into the second dungeon with the fire rod

[@alfermon6243]

i got to ask was the ocarina a require item? as i manage to skip it somehow which backfired for me in a latter dungeon one of the last dungeons i think as i became softlocked

[@SeekerTerminarch]

...why does this game even HAVE physics??

[@wimby158]

DAMN IT PRESS A STOP MAKING ME SAD

[@weirdtyrant6274]

You and Ty should do a challenge where you work together.

[@Belnivek]

I see that all the footage is of the remake, do you know how many tricks and glitches work on the original release?

[@worndoubloon1175]

Do all of these glitches work on current patch?

[@jodybarrett2265]

First Paper Mario, now Zelda! OH NO! HE BECOMING A ZELDA KZbinR!

[@NightmareRex6]

i never had newer version but know even without glitches you coudl like skip 5th dungeon and go stright to 6th, you could also enter the 2nd dungeon without the chain chomp if had the claw hook from 5th dung or the fire wand from 8th dung, i assume so could get in after return the chainchomp.

[@Happyjew666]

This makes me want to play the original and use the screen warp glitch to bring Malon to wake the Windfish.

[@swordf5345]

Very fun and intresting video. Makes me wonder if the same could be done with the original version as well.

[@pressaTD]

You can!

[@notme6304]

we love backwards gaming😊

[@ladyaceina]

whats the song you have play durring the final boss

[@kinnikinnik3593]

It's the JP variant of Lifelight from Super Smash Bros Ultimate

[@thomaszordon798]

Pulled every speedrunner strat except the random number manipulation. 😂

[@Ging-Freecs]

Just saying, you do not have to do the trading sequence in order to reach the final boss. Provided going back the way you came is a viable possibility to reach the "secret" area, and you need to go the correct way 8 times in a row, that is a 1/65,536 chance of getting it right, and with enough trial and error, you will get the right combination. If going back the way you came cannot be the right path, you have a 1/6,561 chance. By no means impossible, if a bit tedious perhaps.

[@Azenatrail]

The part of Skarl is played by Link with the intention of keep the evil god asleep. Edit:You should play Echoes of Wisdom, it’s a fantastic game.

[@ZackBenedict]

I don't really understand people's moral dilemma in "destroying the island and villagers.' I see a lot of people comparing it to a more complicated trolley problem, that somehow it's a utilitarian sin to destroy things that have no life and cannot truly exist. You have characters in your dreams too. Every time you wake up, you aren't destroying people. You have no say in the matter. You will wake up or die, the outcome of the characters being the same- even in a coma will you eventually die. They were always a dream. They weren't alive until you ceased them from "existing." Ignoring the fact it's a game, they weren't alive and tangible in-universe. They were never more than thoughts happening, seemingly, in real time. Every time you remember them, they are arguably as alive as they were in the dream. They weren't conscious; they had set paths and speech in a linear fashion to tell a story. If anything, be sad they were never real, not that you made them go away. You're allowed to care for things and people that don't exist, but don't blame yourself for any hand you had in them somehow not becoming real. I'm sad for the protagonist that Marin doesn't and cannot exist, but there were never any choices anyone could have made to change that fact. The cutscenes that portray thoughts and dreams to these characters exist only to give them depth and foster more emotional connection when they inevitably cease upon waking. For the protagonist, these characters will never truly be gone fully, as they were merely machinations of his own mind. He can daydream whenever he likes and create new stories for these characters and they will be nearly as alive as before. Nearly, because a waking mind will understand the difference between an illusion and reality. The hope that a character in a dream became a tangible, living seagull and is flying out there in the real world is nothing but a hope to feel less sad and sometimes people need those hopes to function and not break down, but that still sadly won't make it real. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@NightmareRex6]

should make seperate saves to have just one instrament on them each so could see how the song in front egg sounds when just one instrament.

[@ladyaceina]

wait at 24:55 why do you suddenly have more hearts after just mentioning only having 3?

[@lordofhyphens]

Pretty sure that was a normal playthrough of the game used as B-Roll

[@lordofhyphens]

That being said, there is not a lot of reasons he couldn't have grabbed some heart pieces to add a health buffer. 3 hearts is just flexing.

[@ladyaceina]

@@lordofhyphens aw ok thanks

[@NightmareRex6]

likelikes did zero danmage in origg links awakanings but ate the shield if diddent kill it after. now im assuming they updated the game and patched all that and only works on a 1.0 copy?

[@Sugar3Glider]

Like it's an 8 point section maze... How long could it take?

[@parttimesaint3165]

What happens if you try to beat the game with only the drum?

[@thatcloveplant]

more backwards gaming, time for torture yippee

[@ladyaceina]

at 22:15 why not kill the enemies before doing the trick

[@Dash123456789Brawl]

I got the impression that the enemies only knocked him off the wall that one time; After hundreds of attempts, killing them every time would have wasted an incredible amount of time. Also, I’m not sure if it was even an option, considering the acorn thing. It seems doubtful that you have time to run over and kill the enemies before the acorn despawns from time passing, and there may also be a risk of despawning it just by going too far away.

[@SomeRando92]

For once I'm not a day late to your videos. Niice

[@Oyakinya-Izuki]

Now beat echoes of wisdom backwards

[@joemaier997]

how many of those tricks are used in actual speedruns ? any% and 100% . they seem very specific

[@TongPik3]

Wassup Press A !

[@pressaTD]

Toooooong!!

[@weckar]

But the future refused to change...

[@AidanRatnage]

How were you able to steal 2 items from the shop? I thought it was an instant kill if you go back in after stealing.

[@pressaTD]

Yeah it is, I just didnt show the part he kamehameha’d my ass

[@AidanRatnage]

@@pressaTDSo how did you steal again if it gave you a game over?

[@Evil_Nazgul0616]

@@AidanRatnage I, too would like to know the explanation for this.

[@RyanStansberry]

I'd call it the Cuckoo Boost, personally. Rolls off of the tongue better

[@Hammock_Dan]

3:31 I feel so seen

[@henrikalbritter8807]

in the original gb version i managed to beat dungon 8 befor 7. i was so proud of myself

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Huh. I'd've just brute forced the maze.

[@lupinlegos7088]

"Links Awakening isn't like other Zelda games" *Proceeds to mention features apparent in the majority of Zelda games* EDIT: Sorry, I didn't notice he said modern Zelda games, but like, it's a Gameboy remake, of course it's not going to be like Breath of the Wild. (Sorry if this is too negative, I'm not trying to sound like it)

[@butter0989]

Why didn't you just save when you got onto the trees

[@estellairon9448]

You can steal more than one item??

[@NightmareRex6]

why 3 hearts? couldent you get heart 1/4th peaices to get more hearts?