The Missing People of Ocarina of Time - A Zelda Mystery

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[@MonsterMaze]

Have great week everyone! Also, give it up for Gunondorf 👉

[@n1nj4l1nk]

Where/how did you get that map at 2:24? It looks cool af.

[@gaelonhays1712]

I *_really_* don't know how to respond to Gunondorf. You got a laugh, though.

[@MonsterMaze]

@@n1nj4l1nk Oh yeah! I should probably put a link to that in the description. Thanks for reminding me ^^

[@n1nj4l1nk]

​@@MonsterMazenice, thanks for the update. I just went and checked it out and I love the style of it.

[@ganonfan]

As one of the biggest fans of Ganondorf in the entire community, I give my seal of approval to Gunondorf! 🤘

[@Warrior-Of-Virtue]

The way the soldier talks about his knowledge of ghosts being useful one day makes it sound like he knew what was coming. Maybe he had already turned his coat long before Link began his quest.

[@javiervasquez625]

Nabooru does mention to Link that Ganondorf had "followers" who served him. Could that guard be one of such followers?

[@kurenian]

Underrated comment.

[@simonjiha3434]

Well, somebody had to lower the drawbridge to let Ganondorf escape with Zelda-

[@anotterwithaphone3077]

​@@simonjiha3434 Impa.. Impa escaped with Zelda.. Ganondorf was giving chase... Till he saw Link.

[@glidershower]

I think he simply adored chaos, maybe tired of the monotone life of a royal soldier. I would even venture to say he dabbled in magic and sorceries by the time Zelda went into hiding and Hyrule fell, giving him an extra edge during the collapse, and feels thankful to Ganondorf for unintentionally making the world more akin his own vision. I mean, if he was working under Ganondorf, why would he even help you? _Even Ingo did more than him to try to stop you._

[@CZsWorld]

I feel like the fact that the graveyard boy's entire family disappeared suggests that they all fled Hyrule together.

[@JuwanBuchanan]

Probably and since we know other lands and kingdoms exist beyond Hyrule it wouldn’t be too far fetch to suggest that some inhabitants of Hyrule just simply fled to get away from Ganondorf as far as they could.

[@Thor-Orion]

I think the evidence supports that hypothesis, although it’s certainly not conclusive.

[@amf198]

They said that the graveyard boys father goes missing, and the boy gets lost, in the lost woods looking for him. then turns into a skullkid. So that explains what happened to the boy and his father.. I don't know what happened to the mother though lol. Source is a Japanese magazine that interviewed Yoshiaka Koizumi. It was translated to english by a channel that frequents OOT facts which is where i got the info.. I can post the title of the vid if someone wants. It was posted like 1 year ago by " Looygi Bros. ".

[@Iamnobody220]

AWW NO WAY CZ, love your videos bro, glad to see you enjoy good games as well as movies 😂🤘🏻

[@nickynegron3515]

I'm more surprised to see CZ here on a Zelda video, but now I want them both collaborating on a spooky Zelda theory for spooky season

[@kurenian]

I’m continually amazed by OOT being able to tell its story in the 90s. Also I always thought as a kid that the missing ppl became the redeads.

[@QuesoCookies]

I'm fairly certain that's what you're supposed to understand. The square full of people are still there, just not the way they were before. Just because you can't account for all of them doesn't mean you should ignore the obvious parallel.

[@Andoser]

Regarding the "Ganondorf's men" bit, that was indeed a translation choice. It is meant to convey that Ganondorf had something of a corps supporting his coup attempt, but the Japanese does not specifically indicate they were male. It just means he had a force of accomplices

[@darthpaul99]

Yeah, I see it as his monsters are his “men.”

[@handsoaphandsoap]

I think it’s just a royal “men”, as in his underlings or allies. “Men” isn’t always gender exclusive, it just depends on the context.

[@ryanb2633]

Men is just a general group term in this case.

[@moddedpan4252]

I interpret "men" in this case to just be a catch-all term for everything and everyone fighting for ganondorf. This includes a whole lot of monsters, some gerudo soldiers, and maybe even some traitorous hylians we simply did not see. Ingo likely wasn't the only hylian trying to gain favor with ganon

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Men is gender neutral when used as a general term, that's why you can say "you guys" to a bunch of women and it will still be okay. That's why you can call a woman a "repairmam". A lot of people didn't pay attention to English class.

[@S2ATunes]

I was like "NOOOOO RICHARD" and then you said he most likely lived a long and happy pupper life

[@rickyi3523]

My headcanon as a kid was that the lady in the yellow and blue dress is actually a disguised Gerudo. Not much evidence, but one of the Gossip Stones mentions that Gerudo women will sometimes go to Castle Town looking for boyfriends. I ran around with the Gerudo Mask looking for any interesting reactions and the yellow/blue dress lady comments something along the lines of finding it funny/charming to see Link wearing it. That and the fact that she's "dancing" right across from a man in town made me think that she was one of the aforementioned single Gerudos in town. I like to think she's alive somewhere in Gerudo Fortress in the future.

[@ericpeterson6520]

9:15 Either way, there was definitely a band of Gerudo who remained loyal to Nabooru and opposed Ganondorf the whole time, so we can just assume the Hylians are mature enough to know that the entire race isn't their enemy

[@Kokally]

You have 11 dead souls to account for, and 10 big poes to collect as Adult Link. Where's the 11th one? In the Gerudo Wasteland, leading Adult Link to the Spirit Temple.

[@strawberrymins]

OOOOOOFFF that hit

[@javiervasquez625]

Why go there though? You would expect the Big Poe to hang out alongside it's brethren in Hyrule Field.

[@tvb5509]

Considering they only appear while on horseback, they might exist before the takeover.

[@tvb5509]

I'm not sure about the wasteland guide. Can you access that area in the past? If so, the sign introducing it might also be there to prove its existence.

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

@@tvb5509 the sign is there in the past too, its possible to get there in the past if you know how to run the path in reverse

[@JeffreydeKogel]

As a fellow Dutchie, I couldn't help but snicker at you saying "Screw the monarchy" while showing a picture of Willem Alexander and Maxima. Love your videos man! Groetjes!

[@maximus7109]

Came here to say just that.

[@Demanufactur3r]

Same!

[@AdventureRuben]

Haha, ook echt die foto erbij 😂😂

[@IamCanadian3333]

So fun fact, there was an interview with the OOT devs in Japan shortly after it's release (in a magazine called 64Dream, similar to Nintendo Power) where they were asked a bunch of questions with regards to some of the game's side-lore. And one of the questions that came up was what happened to the Graveyard Kid during the 7-year-gap and why he wasn't present in the "Adult era." So about 5 years after Link pulled the Master Sword, the kid's father (presumably the Death Mountain Trail guard) went missing in the Lost Woods and the Graveyard Kid went there to look for him but got lost and became a Skull Kid (which further disprove the "Graveyard Kid = Poe Collector" theory). And they further insinuated that he may have been one of the Skull Kids that attacked Adult Link in the Lost Woods (fun fact: they are also "killable" at this point so it is actually possible to actually "kill" this kid when he's apparently a Skull Kid o_O ). This also seems to imply that his father becomes a Stalfos and might actually be one of the Stalfos fought (and killed) in the Forest Temple. Apparently, in that same interview, it was stated that after the Carpenter's son becomes a Stalfos, he goes to live in the Forest Temple. (Maybe, since the cucco-chasing little girl seems to be friends with the graveyard kid, she joined him to help search for his father, and similarly also became a Skull Kid...maybe the 2 Skull Kids we see in the Lost Woods on the double-tree stump are them...:O ...Yeah a bit of headcanon on my part, but fun to speculate. ) Pretty dark indeed, especially considering it's entirely possible we killed both of them (though what happens to his mother goes unanswered...maybe she eventually just sadly passed away, having lost the will to live, losing both her son and her husband). Also, fun fact: when Death Mountain erupts after defeating Volvagia, there is a brief cutscene showing this from the view of Kakariko Village (namely from the perspective of the man sitting on one of the rooftops. Now, if you managed to hack the game and look around the village while this is going on, there are various npcs present in the village just chilling there, that aren't actually there when Link ever goes there, and aren't even seen at the end of the game at the Lon Lon Ranch celebration. Search the "Ghosts in Kakariko Village" video. Creepy stuff indeed

[@boigeorge1149]

Source?

[@JuwanBuchanan]

@@boigeorge1149Google is your friend. Look up Graveyard kid 64 dream interview. Not that hard to find

[@Jaded_Canadian]

I wonder if the father went to the forest temple to find Link? No one would have known he went to the temple of time and the forest temple must of had some importance to the royal family. With the Forest Temple being corrupt I can see it calling Stalfos to it.

[@michaelabbamondi8892]

@@boigeorge1149 their Dad works at Nintendo

[@JerseyWolf]

The Forest temple DOES look like it used to be the kind of place that would have a weapons cache in it, almost like a stronghold against invading forces. It would make some sense for the soldier to know about it, without knowing it's true purpose.

[@jbradleymusic]

Don's back! And the Gunondorf was one of the best WTF jokes I've seen from a ZeldaTube type in a long time. :)

[@luciuseclipse]

the soldier who mentions Ganon's "men" could also just be using "men" to refer to Ganon's soldiers in general and not meaning to imply male soldiers specifically.

[@alphiekent2399]

Ive always stood by the idea that it depends on the timeline for some of the npcs, particularly the graveyard boy and his family.

[@Little-Dude]

You attempting to "age up" the graveyard kid gave me a chuckle, lol.

[@JackSpadeTaylor]

I’m awaiting for the spin off of Mario with a Shotgun: Ganondorf with an AKM

[@taker610]

I hope Echoes of Wisdom gives the Zelda community some more things to chew on.

[@MonsterMaze]

From what I've heard so far, the lore is very deep and interesting!

[@00yiggdrasill00]

I was doubtful of it to start with. thinking it would be a peach showtime sort of thing. But I'm very looking forward to it now.

[@Roonifer]

In an April 1999 interview with Ocarina of Time’s development staff, 64Dream Magazine actually asked what happened to Graveyard Boy. Yoshiaki Koizumi tells us that, unfortunately, 5 years after he encounters Link (which would make the boy 8 years old, apparently) he chooses to investigate the disappearance of his father. This leads him to the Lost Woods, where Koizumi states the boy transformed into a Skull Kid, and once Link encountered him, the boy simply attacked Link due to Skull Kids’ infamous distrust for adults.

[@dedbatt8869]

Do you think they had details like this for all the characters but didn’t include it all, he could’ve made this up on the spot

[@Roonifer]

​@@dedbatt8869 Tôru Ôsawa was also present during the interview. He was Ocarina of Time's script designer and director. While it's all possible that the information could have been made up on the spot, it's still worth considering seeing as the man who wrote the game's story was among the developers present and was answering lore-based questions as well. (What happened to Grog, if Ruto's mother is alive, what the Poe Sisters' story is, why the Kokiri are present outside of the forest, whether or not there are female Gorons and how the Gerudo reproduce were all touched upon in the interview.)

[@BrentJones-g2x]

Please make more vids. These get me through work when I pop an earbud in. Makes it so much more enjoyable. Could listen to you theorize this series all day

[@boo-rian2717]

You know, I never thought about all the dogs at night at Castle Town and what would have happened to them. You know...all those dogs with uniform BROWN fur...I wonder if there are a lot of BROWN things hanging around castle town when you're an adult...could it be that the doggos get transformed into the Redeads?!?!?!?! What dark magic Ganondorf has indeed...

[@elchikoriko592]

About the whole “Ganondorf’s men’ thing that starts at about 8:00 - “Men” could be a reference to the soldiers and armaments not the actual sex or gender of the people participating. People usually refer to how many men are on their side when talking about war which is exactly what’s about to start here.

[@TheFriskySquid]

I always thought the redeads were the missing people. It kind of makes sense, plus they are usually found where the dead reside. I don't really think that Ganondorf would invade with an army of slow moving redeads.

[@homerman76]

It's also important to note that those Redead will crowd around any that you kill, almost as if they're mourning those that "die," though they could also be planning to eat the dead ones, hard to really say, but the former makes more sense since they just stand and stare.

[@ZakMcallister]

10:23 “because most of the other races look exactly the same” sounds like something my grandpa would say

[@MonsterMaze]

Oh man... I knew I would catch flak for this haha

[@ZakMcallister]

@@MonsterMaze Joking obv! (Not about my grandpa) great vid

[@TransformersBoss]

“It's true you don't see many Goron-women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for Goron-men, and this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no Goron-women, and that Gorons just spring out of holes in the ground! Which is, of course, ridiculous.”

[@RobbWes]

​@@TransformersBoss where is that from? Also I'm pretty sure that the gorons are a single gender race.

[@TransformersBoss]

@@RobbWes it’s repurposed dialogue from Gimli, son of Gloin, in The Two Towers

[@GreenOfFields]

Gotta be honest, I didn’t expect much from today except for sporadic texts from relatives and a good steak dinner. A new Monster Maze upload, and one that discusses the game that defined my childhood, was NOT the birthday present I expected!

[@MonsterMaze]

Ah good steak is always nice tho! Also, happy bday ^^ 🎂

[@GreenOfFields]

Thank you

[@AlekPixi]

Happy birthday 🎉

[@Ed_man_talking9]

20 rubies says the graveyard kid is the poe merchant. edit: i guess i'm losing this bet. enjoy your red rubiee

[@97nived]

But there's a LOT of evidence that it's the guard that rested in the original space, that is the poe merchant

[@spamtong.spamton8416]

That's what I always thought too just because they have an affinity for ghosts and they both carry sticks. Although now that I think about it, the Hyrulean soldiers do wield spears and the Poe Collector's stick could be the remnants of his soldier spear or just a random stick picked up off the ground to fill the void left by the spear going missing or something.

[@darkblades1201]

A red rupee! Don't spend it all in one place!

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Either autocorrect hit you hard or you only played the CDi games. I don't know which is funnier.

[@Ed_man_talking9]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio lol thanks, I won't fix it.

[@rtyuik7]

6:00(ish) - my headcanon says that Returning to Childhood puts you at the same point in the timeline as the ZeldaEscape cutscene (where she tosses you the Ocarina)...by pulling the Sword, you allow time to move forward, and Ganondorf continues his attack after losing Impa's horse...but by putting the Sword back, time reverses to where Ganondorf is still chasing the fleeing princess and her protector... there's only a few minutes' window, if anything, between "pre-Swordpull Child" and "Returned Child", as the Market NPCs still talk about 'that white horse' after putting the Master Sword back, but theres One NPC who is only available BEFORE you pull the Sword for the first time (but after seeing the OoT Cutscene)-- the Back Alley Guard that dies after speaking to Link...he obviously isnt anywhere in the Adult version of Hyrule, but his corpse is also cleared out when going back to the Child era... so thats what ive got-- placing the Master Sword back in its Pedestal returns Link to a point in time where Ganondorf has Started his attack (perhaps already taking the King's life, now focusing on the king's Bloodline)...trying to visit Zelda in her Courtyard is now impossible, as theyve added 'guaranteed-catch' guards to the area where the Crawlspace leads to, but also because Zelda is no longer in her Courtyard to meet-- she's fleeing on Impa's horse, trying to shake Ganondorf so she can become Sheik... ...meanwhile, Link's playing the Treasure Shop game, with the Lens of Truth he found after playing a song he hadnt learned yet from the guy he taught it to...wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey whatever...

[@QuasarEE]

That Ganon had accomplices in his effort is an old detail that was coherent with A Link to the Past, where it says that once his "band of thieves" reached the Sacred Realm, he vanquished his own followers and, "with blood-stained hands," grasped the Triforce. Helps to explain why there's no love between him and the remaining Gerudo in the future I think. I wonder if some of them were traitorous Hylians as well, promised a share in the power that they would never actually see.

[@Zaxlz]

The mario Odyssey Music as he's talking about a massacre though...

[@Bad616]

Glad to see Monster Maze upload after TOTK it seems like a lot of the Zelda KZbinrs went quiet so I’m always happy to see an upload from some my favorites

[@AntiRiku]

Every time I watch anything of OoT I always want to go and play it immediately. Such a magical game.

[@Buphido]

Here‘s another mystery: Ganondorf is the king of the Gerudo, and he successfully conquered Hyrule. So why is the bridge to Gerudo Valley wrecked, the Gerudo trapped on the other side, and no Gerudo in sight in main Hyrule? Surely there was time to rebuild it, with how quick the carpenter fellas are once you free them (and no, I doubt it was them who were hired by Ganondorf/the Gerudo to fix it, as the Gerudo took them captive instead).

[@Accrovideogames]

Ganondorf doesn't care about his people, only himself. Besides, most of the Gerudo grew to hate him during those seven years.

[@JaidynReiman]

The problem with your argument regarding the Gerudo is that they have not disavowed Ganondorf. Most of them call him "the great Ganondorf". It is only Nabooru specifically who called him an evil man. Nabooru being brainwashed might be what led to her becoming second in command though. Nabooru being brainwashed may have kept the other Gerudo in line to follow Ganondorf.

[@treybrzezowski3259]

My headcanon is this: The Loyal Soldiers of Hyrule would've been fighting a losing battle, Between Ganondorf's invading army and the Turncoats in their ranks. With the King dead and the Princess already spirited away to safety, the Priority of the soldiers would've been the people, and getting as many of them out of Castle Town as possible. Many people would've died during the initial attack, with the rest having escaped to Kakariko (half of our missing people dead via Massive Monster attack). During Link's 7 year slumber, many others would've seen the increasingly dangerous condition of Hyrule and gotten the hell outta dodge before things managed to get even worse; the Kakariko Gatekeeper being a soldier, he'd likely have at least a passing knowledge of other nearby nations and could lead the refugees (including his family) to a safer country to live in. Kinda seems to be a theme that if you're a kingdom in the Zelda universe _not_ called Hyrule, you're probably pretty well off.

[@Kappa....]

I always thought the zombies were the villagers dead and resurected with dark magic

[@JuwanBuchanan]

Assuming how fast Ganondorf’s takeover was during Link’s 7 year sleep some of them probably didn’t make it out of Castle Town alive. I doubt all of them did

[@HappyCucco.]

Ganondorf with an AK makes so much sense xD

[@MonsterMaze]

The timeline would definitely be shorter xD

[@HappyCucco.]

@@MonsterMaze Link will adapt, matrix vs zelda universe with bullet time and x-ray glasses 😎 can you hear the music going?

[@DracoHandsome]

In April 1999, JP magazine 64 Dream did an OoT interview and specifically brought up the graveyard kid. Rough translation from Reddit: Q: Where did the little stalker in the graveyard go when you were in your [adult] time? Koizumi: Five years later, when he was eight years old, he wandered into the Lost Woods in search of his missing father and got lost. At that time, he became a Skull Kid. Skull Kids don’t talk to adults, so when he encountered adult Link, he just attacked him and didn't ask him what happened to him.

[@SevoraLF]

Love your videos about these older titles man, always fun to revisit them and their intricacies. Can’t wait to watch!

[@jonatanmonsalve11]

I'd say the remaining people of Castle Town are indeed alive because the blob of people that's in front of the tent in Castle Town was used three times during the party cutscene, which means there were three blobs of unidentified people in the party when there was only one in Castle Town. Those other two blobs of unidentified people could be the remaining survivors of Castle Town that are still in Hyrule, just all in the same place instead of being separated

[@JuwanBuchanan]

It wouldn’t be out of character for Ganondorf to wipe out innocent citizens with no care in the world especially those that probably would start a rebel and overthrow him.

[@javiervasquez625]

I'm pretty sure "rebellion" is the least of Ganondorf's worries after he obtained a divine relic of omnipotent power to permanently subjugate the people of Hyrule for eternity. If he did kill all of the townfolk, it was most likely out of sheer amusement after gaining the powers of a god.

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

@@javiervasquez625 ganondorf literally started feeding gorons to a dragon in a gruesome warning not to rebel, you wouldnt do that if you werent worried about rebellion.

[@javiervasquez625]

@@Leeloo-Foxx He could deal with the rebellion by himself with his magic, but since he didn't want to bother flying all the way up to Goron City in order to halt the revolt on his own, he had his _minions_ prevently dispose of the Gorons by setting them up to being devoured by Volvagia. The only worries Ganondorf had were his _idleness_ keeping him from doing anything himself.

[@scottcrimmins1754]

Must of missed when you showed your wife's stuff the first time. They look incredible. Perfect Christmas gifts for a few people in my life!

[@HMMadsen]

Content: Talking about people who disappeared and may have died during Ganondorf's takeover of Hyrule Music: Happy upbeat New Donk City theme

[@ashleyblack7419]

there is one major thing that speaks against people dying in Kakariko, the amount of graves only went up by 1 which is dampé which means the people who have died all became casualties. The others made it to other regions of hyrule, most likely regions we don't see in OOT or even left hyrule. As Twilight princess suggests there's many regions that are not directly accessible but they do exist.

[@WarneD1]

6:19 there is a prevailing theory that the injured guard was attached to a cut quest that would have had you as young link go to a besieged Castle, but was cut from the game and the injured guard was accidentally not cut.

[@vman103]

My dad went out for milk and never came back...Did Ganondorf get to him too? Curse you, Ganondorf!

[@Spaceman_Sp1ff]

I love the idea that the triforce of power is actually just an AK-47 and everyone else is using medieval weapons

[@PsychicStones]

I’ve always found the celebration at the ranch so eerie. Obviously the game has a limited amount of models, but it still feels so… empty. It really gives off the impression that these few dozen people are all that’s left after only seven years under Gannon.

[@Pheebeee_]

I often believe that the little boy's family did escape... AFTER the guard was killed trying to protect Hyrule. With Ganon attacking it's no doubt all soilders would be summoned to the castle town as re-enforcments.

[@mcchungusamungus8011]

i figure taking Hyrule castle was relatively easy for Ganondorf, considering the guards struggled (and ultimately failed) to keep a 10 year old kid out.

[@tristank8076]

6:48 it didnt end well for Gannodorfs men either as only he made it past him. Heres to the bravest hyrlulain soldier in that era

[@complain9269]

I heard from a different video, I don’t know which, that the developers or someone at Nintendo said The Graveyard Boy wandered into the Lost Woods and became a Skullkid or something. I really wish I knew which video I watched or any of the proof or something, but it makes sense for something so dark to happen to such an innocent character.

[@SunnySparksTV]

This is such a fascinating take on Ocarina of Time! It’s making me rethink a few things I’ve been working on, especially with how mysterious elements in games like this go unnoticed. Has anyone else gone down the rabbit hole of gaming mysteries lately? The more you look, the more you find…

[@pauloldfield8378]

According to one of the shieka stones the gerudo women go to hyrule castle town to look for boyfriends, which I think is a ruse to do some reconnaissance on the town to find out about the town's defenses, makes sense if you think about it. As for the dog village, the dog race track in majora's mask.

[@blacklynx2526]

Very nice video! I never really thought about all those NPCs… I hope graveyard kid is still alive. Also, Gunondorf! 😂

[@WorldWalker128]

I'd like to see Oracle of Seasons and Ages get a remake that made them similar to OOT, Windwaker, TP, and so on. Being able to explore those places again but from either 3'rd or 1'st person perspective instead of top-down would be a treat!

[@Skeif13]

One of the devs, Yoshiaki Koizumi, said in an interview that the graveyard boy got lost in the Lost Woods while searching for his father and became the skull kid Link sees as an adult. Though, that could just be an idea he thought sounded cool but had after the game was made, or made up on the spot during the interview.

[@spamtong.spamton8416]

I always thought the Poe Collector was the kid with the stick in the graveyard.

[@AaronDC83]

They're hanging out with Aria in the great Unicorn Fountain in the sky,

[@peradomato]

Gunondorf is my second favorite Ganondorf meme now, only losing to Cucui Ganon

[@alexprice38]

wonderful attention to detail and video editing as always

[@marcosgalvis3498]

It has beem revealed the fate of the Graveyard boy by one of the game developers that when Ganondorf took over, his father went missing (died) and the boy went to search for him and ended up in the woods and transformed into a Skull Kid.

[@mrmacura3421]

We actually do know what happened to the graveyard kid. In a developer interview Yoshiaki Koizumi stated: "Five years later, when he [the kid] was eight years old, he wandered into the Lost Woods in search of his missing father and got lost. At that time, he became a Skull Kid. Skull Kid don’t talk to adults, so when he encountered adult Link, he just attacked him and didn't ask him what happened to him."

[@UltimateTobi]

"Ganondorf's men" could also just be a generalized term. Such as Man standing for humanity.

[@sylvanstrength7520]

I had nightmares about redeads for YEARS

[@feenickstv4209]

In an old interview it was said that the graveyard boy wandered into the lost woods and became a skull kid...

[@Demokirby]

Nitpick, there is 3 soldiers at Kakariko Village, one is up by Impa's house.

[@AidanFuschett]

The visuals of this video are mindblowing 🤯It's like you're living in the games by first person... it's just so good that I hope the video never ends! I'll never be tired to say that i love your big talented work, it is so clear that you have a great vision and attention to details. Really well done!

[@Dishman24]

that thumbnail goes unbelievably hard

[@kikionichou921]

What’s up with the ganondorph gun lmao 😂

[@JuwanBuchanan]

😂 Well Ganondorf was a stranger to taking people out like a hit man if needed too. 😂

[@AnthonyIsToeKnee]

There has to be casualties. Remember the game is for kids. They cannot show the townspeople getting slaughtered, so you have to come up with those scenes in your head. Great video!

[@hiddenscorpiusXI]

Ganon with an AK-47 might be my new favorite gag XD

[@GameparkGames]

I heard something about the graveyard boy's dad going missing during the war between Hyrule and Ganon and that 5 years after Link pulls the sword the graveyard boy goes to the lost woods and tries to find him and instead gets lost turning into a skull kid

[@DeadDancers]

Oh my god imagine if BOTW really did that. If you literally played as the child who found the Master Sword, who was catapulted from ‘promising young son of a knight’ to The Hero at *twelve*, the entire city knowing him for the blade on his back. BOTW tells us that he was beating grown knights at aged six (I just have to picture WW Link) and beat Lynels when visiting his childhood friend Mipha later on. There could have been SO MUCH set in a world of restrictions and rules, because the King is alive and The Hero has been found long before any disaster has struck. The opposite of an open-world game, it would have been ruled by set scenarios and tasks to accomplish and invisible walls in place of the invisible chains that would have bound his choices. You would have experienced Zelda’s envy and disdain, the finding of the champions, the build up to Calamity Ganon… and then experienced the silence from the divine beasts, all all four failed to deploy. The impossible flood of Guardians, making the climactic end battle a ‘fight to survive long enough to escape’ failure, in large part because Zelda hasn’t activated her powers and is not only someone to protect, but someone who can’t help you like she could in all other games. And then you die. And then you wake. And all of your friends are dead. You have all the freedom the game denied you at first - and you understand the full horror of what was lost. And Breath of the Wild as we knew it has *only now just begun*. Still new and full of places to explore - because you simply couldn’t roam where ever you pleased before. Damn I wish Nintendo let fans make AU games.

[@SoulOfJustice1994]

I think you summed it up very well. It is a shame so many people are presumed dead, but at least a few of them were most likely old age.

[@Tenbed]

According to the lore, the redead in ocarina of time are not actual people. They are molded from clay and wear wooden masks.

[@thereaver8083]

I always just assumed they were killed during the invasion. Never really put that much thought into it lol.

[@cyberangel3022]

Grim indeed, especially since the cucco-chasing little girl was my favorite resident npc of Castle Town, and being the lone child fatality is such a sad end to her.

[@slaps1455]

I feel like the death of the boy’s father could have been what made the mother and son to flee

[@roundninja]

I always wanted to play a game set during the seven years between the child and adult portions of Ocarina of Time. Maybe you'd play as one of the last few Hyrule guards trying to protect the citizens, or maybe you'd play as Impa or Zelda/Sheik. It's such a fascinating time and we're directly shown so little of it.

[@IkeyIlex]

Most of the unaccounted for people probably died. The little girl chasing the cuccoo almost certainly lived though; If the soldiers of Hyrule protected anyone, she would be the highest priority probably. The guy from the Treasure Shop looks kinda redneck, so he probably ran into battle alongside the soldiers with reckless disregard for his own life. Hell, he might be the one who saved the girl. That's my headcanon.

[@majortom5838]

Bro, your cinematography and editing have come a long way, man.

[@kaupaint]

0:20 for a second I was like woah those redeads are realistic :o

[@fishnewt1331]

I would love a Lord-Jabu Jabu video. A theory about why the Zora serve this seemingly average whale is perfect theory crafting material.

[@angelo8606]

Really good video but I have to say, the Mario music at the beginning felt very out of place. It quickly killed the mood that was well set up in the first minute.

[@InfinitySpiritD]

I always assumed the Poe Collector was the little kid that liked to play in the Graveyard. Just made sense to me that he grew up to collect ghosts.

[@HeyNimbus]

*This type of video is incredibly well produced, good job! Can you make one about Wind Waker?*

[@Romalac]

If I recall correctly, there are four ReDeads in future Castle Town, so (assuming of course that these ReDeads weren't just individuals from the "crowd" NPCs), at least four of the unaccounted for people are likely those ReDeads. I too generally err toward the "if we can't verify their wherabouts, they're probably dead" view- while it would be gratifying to not have innocent characters die, it _would_ pull out some of the story's teeth if we assume _none_ of Ganondorf's carnage effected visible characters.

[@sasuskieyang4840]

Bro this video turned out more hilarious than I expected it to! 😂 But can we talk about the animation change for the lady at the beginning who is not dancing but in fact scratching her back. Why did they made her look crazy? 💀

[@cd31000]

I'd like to believe that Fallen Timeline didn't die against Ganon at his castle, but rather didn't have the time travel ability and thus witnessed the attack on Castle Town before chasing Ganondorf and while defeating him ended up losing to Ganon on Death Mountain during his attempt to resurrect Volvagia.

[@kolbycheeze7607]

Glad OG Zelda lore is still being cooked up and served to us 🤘

[@ThisNameIsVeryClever]

need an OOT romhack that puts in the dog village

[@nosferatu488]

great timing for this topic since echoes of wisdom also deals with missing people

[@sd5371]

Calling a commander's troops his men isn't exactly gender specific. Like saying mankind.

[@MonsterMaze]

Really? Wouldn't that be specified as "man" not "men"?

[@sd5371]

No; men is still neutral in this scenario. It would be frivolous to divide up your goons and minions by gender when grouping them under a unified use of Men is quick and easy. He didn't just have women working for him of course.

[@istrasci]

I think you have such a great narrator voice! Like Morgan Freeman. Always love your vids!! That jewelry is really cool, too. I'm gonna check it out.

[@MazinGo-1972]

I do find it interesting which of the NPCs the developers liked the most by including them in Majora's Mask since they weren't all brought over and new ones were made instead despite the shorter dev time they had. I feel most of the NPCs in Hyrule Market Town weren't meant to be full-fledged characters and just random generic townspeople with a limit cap to how many could be on screen to give the town square some life to it. They could expand on the crowds astronomically by Twilight Princess.

[@felixmckinney7132]

I love the Poe collector, he’s hilarious. I always love characters who seem like they’d be scary but are actually funny.

[@homerman76]

Regarding the line talking about Ganondorf's men, I think it makes sense that Ganondorf likely had a separate band of thieves and followers that he brought with him when you consider "A Link to the Past" where it's noted that Ganondorf slaughtered the thieves he brought when he claimed the Triforce, which seems strange at first that he would kill his Gerudo followers since he only has something against Hylians, but makes more sense when you consider that they were some group of expendable people he brought together when he got into Hyrule. Edit: I also had a thought about the Castle Town villagers that could be dead, it's really important to note that the Redead in that area will crowd around any Redead that you kill, indicating that at least some of the Redead likely were originally the citizens, though this depends on your interpretation of why do this.

[@TK0921]

As a kid I always assumed the soldiers became the redead in the market. Ganondorf killed them and brought the corpses back to life and cursed them to forever guard the ruins of the city they failed to protect.

[@Even_littlerB]

6:01 Well issue with that is the scared realm hasn’t been opened yet so he couldn’t have been in it.

[@Mike.Knight69]

I always assumed the redeads in the castle town were the missing civilians, and anyone else who wasn’t seen again was clearly killed in the destruction of hyrule castle. Possible executions were implemented to keep everyone in check. Oot was a dark mature game especially with the bloody torture racks under the well and shadow temple

[@AngelofGrace96]

Okay I'm sorry I know this is a serious video but the animations of ganondorf with a gun are so funny, I can't stop laughing