Secret Message in Breath of the Wild? - Unused Content in Zelda #01

[@Gzilla313]

I love the idea of Child Link meeting a character who looks like Adult Link in MM. Like how in MM you meet Cremia and Romani who use Malon's designs from OoT.

[@bryncarys3074]

me: okay bryn c’mon let’s do homework! NBC: **posts** me: damnit .

[@josefi9656]

Ok bryn

[@silenal2885]

My version: Me: Okay Silena c'mon let's go sleeping so you won't be tired in school tomorrow! NBC: **posts** Me: dammit...

[@owensfinalproject]

My version: Me: ok goomba, finish cooking this chicken pot pie NBC: **posts** Me: damnit.

[@mang0228]

@@owensfinalproject burns the house down🤣

[@Salmonwithfeet]

My version: I've been bored for 5 hours let's see how long this gets NBC: posts Me: dammit

[@chessycopter9619]

Imagine if Nintendo rickrolled us with sheikah script at some point.

[@tomnadoyeet6225]

They have to do that in BOTW 2

[@NagantHunt]

that would make me regret learning sheikah

[@hrob2007]

That would be a nice touch

[@modelomegatyler]

@@NagantHunt how does one learn sheikah?

[@NagantHunt]

@@modelomegatyler you do your homework in sheikah, and bam now you learnt sheikah (and got an F)

[@SchneeflockeMonsoon]

Pic 13 is Link developing teleporting, and Zelda scared him from behind, leading him to found the Yiga clan as a prank group to get back at her and the royal family, before realizing they went WAY to far.

[@eleanorv3754]

Now I want this to be canon... It would also make for an amazing crack-fic.

[@HelloKitty-sd9vs]

Uhhhh

[@nintenx1235]

15:05 now I’m imagine a kind terminian ganon helping his dear old’ adoptive guardians kotake and koume brew potions.

[@Cwronaga216]

If Gorons sink and dont need air to survive (as seen in twilight princess), does that mean the rest of the Gorons are just chilling at the bottom of the great sea somewhere?

[@stickmanextravaganza4127]

"hey John it sure is wet today" "No shit Carl were in the fucking ocean"

[@mbros4902]

I litteretly just noticed that ganondorfs eyebrows are attached to his hair.

[@BleeedingInkStains]

*You bastard I can't unsee it anymore*

[@raviolibirb8009]

Wait, i thought it was noticeable?

[@maxandmilian]

litteretly 70000

[@ilikebach8562]

wait pls gimme timestamp

[@tylercoon1791]

@@BleeedingInkStains don’t look at his eyebrows then. Instead, focus on how freakishly large his nose it

[@marsmellow592]

I love me some breath of the wild theories

[@hrob2007]

Same

[@AntiRiku]

this is not one tho

[@AntiRiku]

@@adrielfigueroa7534 tf

[@elinielsen6897]

even if they’re super far fetched i still love them

[@Alano_22]

Ikr

[@ianboast9928]

I think The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD looks like a new Switch game and it was certainly ahead of its time graphically.

[@Solibrae]

A good art style never ages.

[@commentingcommenter1230]

@@Solibrae And that is why I will always stand by the statement that style and aesthetic are always better than graphics.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

I think that the GameCube version looks super ugly now xd

[@gribberoni]

@@Fermin-hw5pd HD is just a legendary glow up lol

[@jimskywaker4345]

i like the idea of Ganondorf being an unimportant npc. it would be hilarious

[@zuubbiii]

i really wish they added epona as a side mission in the game, it would have been a nice addition to ganons and zeldas horse.

[@markm0817]

Ye on the final boss fight u should have been able to ride epona :(

[@mindsight9732]

But Epona is Ganondorf's horse, Link stole her.

[@ephemeralhope8410]

@@mindsight9732 actually, epona was Malon's horse. ganandorf was planned to get epona from ingo. link races against ingo + gets epona from winning.

[@gamerofthetime]

@grim_ you can change her name but the stable dude says you shouldn't. Also, her sprint last 1 second longer then other horses.

[@gamerofthetime]

@A B and why could I do it?

[@JacobTheToadMan]

I can’t believe that they cut the CDI expansion pass for Breath of the Wild smh that would have been amazing

[@nukiradio]

Myboy

[@valeriob36]

This nike is what all true warriors strive for.

[@chacalacalacaxd6538]

What is that?

[@midnights2631]

CDI?

[@staruletto9194]

Link: wakes up... *"Sure is boring around here!"* Zelda: I'm doomed 👁️👄👁️

[@sw1tcher053]

Does anybody think that the ocarina of time is inside the egg guardian? Think about it. It whistles and can travel through time. 🧐

[@markm0817]

Good idea 😃

[@t3ntacle_man]

I do not think there is enough evidence for that claim, at this point it would be a conspiracy. Not to mention the ocarina was was not the object that allowed you to travel back in time it was putting the master sword back in the pedestal. It is extremely unlikely for the ocarina of time to be in the egg guardian.

[@chessycopter9619]

It’s hard to say and hopefully this question is answered. But I do notice that the sounds the guardian makes always seem to be an attempt to make a little tune.

[@limeraldguy9784]

@@t3ntacle_man But it did let you travel back in time, in Majora's Mask

[@t3ntacle_man]

@@limeraldguy9784 To be fair that was in a different world, not to mention we don’t even know what timeline BotW is in.

[@yesod7]

One reason only why i hate earbuds:Because they don’t stay in my ears too well,and most of the time they just fall out of my ears.

[@countcain]

Have you tried earbuds with hooks? They‘re usually sold as the sports alternative or something like that. I for example bought Skullcandy Indy Evo which have such hooks at the top of the eardbud and they have yet to fall out of my ear while I‘m dancing.

[@crimsonrainsoughtgege]

@@countcain dope, I was gonna suggest those gummy type headphones that mold to the inside of your ear but those aren’t the best, the hooks sounds more comfortable anyway

[@Spartsou]

I know Zeltik stated that an unused file in WW was a cry from Jabun, possibly going into his mouth and destroying whatever was tormenting him, much like the Great Deku Tree in OOT. Great video, NBC, keep it up!

[@arcticdino1650]

I would have loved to see Termina's version of Ganonndorf. Especially since he would likely just be a regular person

[@apple_blossom19]

7:33 : "less likely to be lost." They have never met me, I see. Challenge accepted 😎

[@blup_2504]

I am surprised that the zonai where not in this video at all

[@JamesonMcLeod]

The zonai weren’t cut were they?

[@yahboys869]

Game: Something mysterious NBC: ZONAI

[@yahboys869]

Most of the time

[@projectw3060]

Another reason they cut content from games is because they don't have either mechanical or thematic coherence with the rest of the game, and I can see that in some of the content made for Majora's Mask, for example. I really like this series, keep it up!

[@RwanLink]

The 2 unused dungeons in Wind Waker were used later in Twilight Princess 😉

[@Solibrae]

The village on "Stovepipe Island" looks a bit like Kakariko Village in Twilight Princess, too.

[@jacks8092]

If I remember correctly, Nintendo said that they just basically chopped up the dungeons and stuck them into later dungeons, but idk

[@poodrofartman2802]

wich dungeons?

[@evdestroy4121]

The OOT medallions were turned into the magic abilities (Din's Fire, Nayru's Love, etc.). This is confirmed by the fact that, in the original N64 version of OOT, the pedestal you use Din's fire on to open the entrance to the Shadow Temple has the fire medallion emblem on it

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

The Wind Medallion was absolutely changed into the Forest Medallion. The Forest Temple was originally the Wind Temple but it didn't make a lot of thematic sense to have it as the first dungeon. The wind puzzles also required the hover boots, meaning no bow if they had kept it that way. That's why the Forest section of Ganon's Tower has wind puzzles.

[@lillyshooby4083]

Me: Trying to be productive NBC POSTS Me: Welp, I'm doing this now

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Speaking of bombs, it's sometimes pointed out as a subtle detail that the ones produced by the Shekiah slate only react to blue Shekiah flames, but it becomes important when exploring Death Mountain because the climate is so hot. If you try to so much as draw a bomb arrow -- it just explodes in your face. But the Shekiah bombs remain perfectly functional. It's like those monks thought of everything and had all kinds of contingencies encase Ganon managed to gain the upper hand.

[@human-shapedpuddleofmush2470]

Raycon?? Is that you, MaskedNintendoBandit???

[@wigligigly3375]

XD, same with Hyrule Gamer

[@HelloKitty-sd9vs]

IKR! dude literally like.. EVERYONE is sponsored by raycon, audible, and some other limit of THE SAME DARN THINGS

[@comical7355]

Oh it’s my favorite Mario theorist

[@midnights2631]

I nearly forgot about Ds island- I love Phantom Hourglass, it's a game I hope gets rebooted and have more things added to it.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

The idea of a young and old Link mask is both cool and disturbing because it implies that masks don't simply overlay Link's nature so that he can impersonate another form of being but *are* his nature. I.E, he can *take off his own face* and, presumably, become a disembodied spirit; a mysterious center of action that merely pretends to be a Goron, a Zora, or a human being and that the same goes for everyone else in the setting. Or perhaps somebody else could steal his form as a Hylian by forcing him to wear another mask, forcing the player to steal it back and implicitly realizing the superficiality of their own physical form in the process. There would be this feeling of unease that the most basic and even metaphysical ideas people had about the setting just shattered. Not only that, but creating a dichotomy between the adult Link mask and the young Link mask would further imply that adulthood and childhood are abstract roles with no inherent reality, same as the sense of self. The physical change between the two seems real enough, but when someone behaves in an immature way, we tell them to, "grow up" regardless of how old they actually are, and the mask already have the effect of altering Link's physical form, rendering this moot. If the sense the player has as the hero of legend, Link, can simply be abolished, what is the game even about anymore? How can Link say, "this is my face, my identity," if it can be removed as easily as all the others? If no particular face is inherently Link's, might they all be the proper identity? What would that even mean? Can you go on knowing it's all an act even within the fictional universe's own interior logic?

[@freakishtech2310]

Imagine in Majoras mask link met a character that looks exactly like ganondorf but it's not really ganondorf but really just a background character either just to talk to or involved in a side quests.

[@Kahtisemo]

With the models labeled as "Fisherman" and the Gerudo are now pirates with an ocean base, it would be pretty funny to find Ganondorf along the Great Bay beach just hanging out somewhere. 😂

[@panfilolivia]

last time i was this early link was still sleeping

[@harrisonwhaley7872]

Always happy to see more from you in this style of content. Doesn't have to be theories 100 percent of the time as long as you bring that classic NBC spunk

[@zuubbiii]

I’m so excited for this series! I love reading about this stuff online but you add the all the detail in such a nice way.

[@solgaleo3533]

My theory for what happened to the Gorons in Wind Waker is that, due to Valoo being a descendant of Volvagia, they distrusted him and may have tried to fight him due to believing he may have been evil and were exiled because of it

[@Eliphaschoas]

I had so much fun playing Wind Waker on my GameCube, I completed it about 4 or 5 times.

[@silenal2885]

Yess botw theories!! I actually would like to watch aoc theories but I don't want to spoil anything😫

[@jamesmelia8761]

I want to see a zelda game comprised entirely of zelda content that was never used

[@Crybaby-Media]

I didn’t feel like playing the time consuming part of wind waker, but the version that removed it was too short 🤷🏼‍♂️ lol

[@alexstewart9592]

Not quite. Dungeons and Triforce charts are very different. Dungeons are content where you do various interesting things, where as the Triforce chart is litterally grinding money and then spending a bunch of time sailing to an arbitary point on the map to haul up a chest.

[@marcoramirez-vega4737]

Did Wind Waker not have six dungeons instead of five? Can't remember the name of the volcano, Forbidden Woods, Tower of Gods, Forsaken Fortress, Earth Temple, Wind Temple. Unless Forsaken Fortress doesn't count?

[@TheBreadPirate]

Lots of fun stuff I didn't know! The last one caught me off guard. 😁

[@foxtylerenardvagabond8391]

I've always hope that ancient hero was a "non-corrupted" Ganon, maybe he was fighting alongside to the royal family against the Calamity, a pure malice energy. He lost this fight but the calamity realize his potential and corrupted him, becoming the Calamity Ganon able to defeat the royal family. I think that could be an epic backstory

[@jacobh6239]

I just subscribed! Keep up the great work, I'm loving this new series you started, it gives us a whole new perspective of the Zelda Franchise. Also, I hope AoC is everything we want out of a Zelda game tomorrow:D

[@triforcehero6264]

Nintendo was going to make a sequel to Ocarina of Time before they thought of Majora’s Mask. It was called Ura Zelda, AKA, another Zelda. This idea was dropped, but was picked up by fans who began to make a fan made version of what the game could have been. They made unique music, new dungeons, and were on their way to something great, when they just stopped production. I don’t know why they did, but I have been interested in this game ever since I’ve heard of it.

[@OnlyPassingHere]

I'm pretty sure Ocarina of Time's beta Medallions in-game effects ended up as Din's Fire, Farore's Wind and Nayru's Love. If I remember correctly, Wind, Fire and Ice where the first medallions to be implemented into the game. Farore's Wind power is obviously much more wind themed than courage themed, Nayru's Love crystal could be interpreted as a big block of ice covering Link and Din's Fire is of course a big burst of fire. An interesting leftover of that early desing could be the puzzle at the entrace to the Shadow Temple, where you need to use Din's Fire to light all torches and open the door. Notice how the pedestal where you need to use Din's Fire has the Fire Medallion logo engraved on it and is the only hint telling you what to do. If, in an early build, the Fire Medallion itself was used to make the fire burst attack, this hint would make much more sense.

[@normis6620]

I love this idea, please make more!

[@porterwayman8643]

this is a topic for another series I think I have seen on Zeltik's channel, but the stuff on this is a whole lot more diffrent then what I have seen on it. I love the videos, so keep it up! Also, pls wait for a couple of days to do an Age of Calamity video after its release. I want to see it without a single spoiler

[@QyfieK]

A may-may? In my Zelda?

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Ah yeah -- the champions also resemble the sages in the way they "add their power" to that of Link's. The little orbs in the key items menu even resemble more abstract spirit-like medallions.

[@intotheindie8821]

With the Magic Missiles, maybe it was to give Link a projectile that only needs magic, since that's what the spell did in DnD

[@kireicake2725]

I was just watching older videos and up pops a new one! It made me so happy! Thank you for all your hard work!^^

[@galenburnett9791]

I remember at around 14:07 something quite distracting appeared in the top-right corner of the screen while watching this video. I can’t remember what the thing was, but I think it was something kind of... soft... like Kirby, maybe, only it wasn’t Kirby... I forget what it was. But I think it’s (probably) for the greater good of NBC videos that such a thing doesn’t appear again to distract the attention of us the viewers, so, just thought I’d let you know.

[@bastian_5975]

Unused/cut content could just be an idea that they cut because they didn't think it'd work with other things, not necessarily because they ran out of time.

[@HavocHounds1988]

If I'm not mistaken. the reason there are so many characters in Majora's Mask that look like ones from Ocarina of Time is also due to time constraints. They just used existing 3D assets instead of making new ones.

[@hescrem9316]

I saw the thumbnail and title and was prepared for an “I aint ever seen two pretty best friends” joke

[@evalynbaun6672]

Every good video gets posted when I’m about to do something productive

[@IOwnKazakhstan]

Wind waker: 2 entire dungeons BOTW: PiCtUrE

[@jaydee6805]

I like the new intro. “This video is sponsored by Raycon” has a nice ring to it.

[@althea7181]

im glad im open you tube today and btw get well soon dude!

[@L3onking]

As someone who has written for games, a lot of tears are shed

[@DerpyLaron]

Unused Content is alwayse nice to see. So more of that is good in my book

[@RGC_animation]

Raycon is becoming the new Raid

[@TheLegendsShade]

I would love to see more

[@MAZZ0Murder]

Well we know some of the Medallion powers now... and that you could use all of them with arrows... apparently the shadow medallion made you invisible to enemies, and the spirit medallion... maybe merged you with Navi to fly around? It's unclear what the other arrows would do though! Also, it's assumed if you pull of the fourth day glitch in Majora's Mask, that the moon returns to the position that would have been the start of the 1st/7th day...

[@sillyguy957]

This will be great :) Thanks!

[@komlat253]

Isn't it weird to think that the last perfect games we ever played was OoT and resident evil 4 .lol ..so many years

[@callumbriton4227]

Farores Wind - Forest Medalion Dins Fire - Fire Medalion Nayrus Love - probably water medalion

[@danielt7708]

5:48 Fierce Deity Mask: *cries in corner*

[@rahemomar5740]

dude I love the new intro!!!!

[@eeveeextreme]

Maybe they could have used Ganondorf's model in the 3DS Majora's Mask remake, and have him run the new Swamp fishing hole. The Twin Witches can still be the ones who raised him, keeping that connection to Hyrule.

[@Kahtisemo]

That'd be interesting too that since things are mirrored in MM that he was forced to leave the pirates for being a male Gerudo instead of being named King. He could have been a minor plot point too for people to find if he had information on the pirates that could help but not necessary. Maybe even triggered with the pictobox?

[@josda1000]

@NintendoBlackCrisis I believe i have put the pieces together, mostly thanks to some of your older theories. Nintendo pulled the wool over our eyes. Link is a Shiekah. He is the chosen one. Meaning, was chosen by Zelda, known to be a decendant of Hylia. She kept him by her side, just as Impa, a Shiekah, used to in other stories. Zelda also fell in love with him Link has the ability to slow down time. Shiekah often have something to do with time, and the Yiga, offshoots of the Shiekah, can do the same. What you think?

[@xsheikah]

11:11 IS THAT A ZONAI SWIRL !!

[@moskbarto9436]

Nice video! Please continue this series!

[@raph2550]

Video resumes at 8:06

[@TheseUseless]

this is gonna be a big one, BOIIIS!

[@MossMothMyBeloved]

Unrelated topic, in the champions ballad divine beast thingy you can see a zonai swirl.I would send it to you, but I don't know how to send screenshots on switch to social media.

[@gamercat740]

When he mentioned phantom hourglass i got flashbacks of me trying to get the stamp on the map for hours until i gave up shut my ds and when i heard the sound play, i felt like an idiot

[@jjane222]

I would love to see more about cut/unused content!

[@staceyjordan2001]

this is interesting would love to another video like this seeing unused content in zelda

[@andrewmerz6554]

I’m about to finish my very first play through of BOTW, and it’s the first game that I genuinely don’t want to end, besides maybe Red Dead 2

[@danahira7084]

Great video! I wanted Epona in BOTW

[@Magmentorwastaken]

Liking the new opening, keep up the good work with these vids

[@hayesgordon4843]

Also in the cutseen in botw when Ganon awakes before mipha says how to unlock her power she looks straight at link

[@dakotadean1273]

I often wonder what greatfish isle looked like before calamity struck

[@edwardbarnabas5873]

11:12 Zonai markings on the Gorons shirt👀

[@TomMendy]

It's a great concept for a serie of videos, but I would have liked it to start at the beggining. Like how the zelda serie was meant to be a lot more science fiction related that it has been until BotW. Apparently only the name link has been kept from the general concept.

[@beesbeesbeesbeesbees]

NBC, I was just thinking about theories and I was wondering, could you cover the links between the Knight's Shield in BotW and Link's Shield in the CDi games? I couldn't help but notice that they seem... oddly similar...

[@slyfox7452]

Magic missiles? Did link get a glock

[@Kristabombastic]

What song is used for the intro

[@Carter_443]

I forget I think it is from links awakening though

[@slightlysadoatmeal7578]

malo mart (twilight princess) Edit: i thought that said outro lmao, nvm

[@Kristabombastic]

@@slightlysadoatmeal7578 thank you

[@markm0817]

@@Kristabombastic he's joking 😂😂

[@markm0817]

I'm pretty sure it's tal hal hills from links awakening

[@gabrieldufour4055]

I’ve been looking for a video to tell you about my theory for botw 2. What if the sheikah tribe where the bad guys. In the trailer the hand is attached to what seems like a sheikah made..um uh... thing. With malice coming out of Gannon which seems to be in very poor condition. What if they were extracting malice to make all the enemies in the sheikah lab ruins witch seems was purposely destroyed, I think to hide evidence. The divine beasts and gardians were all ways planed to turn against everyone. This would also explain why calamity Gannon was decked with sheikah gear. The only things I cannot wrap my head around is the yiga clan the shrines witch help with hearts and stamina, and finally why ancient arrows hurt dark beast Gannon.

[@aurafox1]

Not to come of as hostile or anything, but one of my bigger pet peeves about discussions over cut content is when people list "time constraints" as being separate from "budget constraints." Differentiating between these implies that the only reason a feature is cut for "time constraints" is that the company pressured the devs to release the game in an unfinished state to release the game sooner and that the game could've been better had the company simply been more patient. In actuality, deadlines aren't just arbitrarily chosen. It is simply decided by the amount of time the game's budget allows for development to continue. If the deadline is reached, the game either has to be released as is, canceled, or the devs need to make a case for an increased budget (that is, a delayed release). Often, content cut for time constraints is simply cut because there isn't enough value in the feature to delay the game and pay the team for an extended development cycle. In other words, time and budget constraints are one in the same. That's not to say the budget isn't often strategically chosen by the higher ups for a convenient release date (such as Holiday season) and thus difficult to budge, but in general, it's more a decision of monetary value.

[@SuperSenshi]

Will you eventually go over the contents from the gigaleak? I feel like I'm the only person that saw next to nothing about it. The stuff at (0:58) is the most I've seen from the leak.

[@_h1ghl4nd3r]

I'd like to see more Zelda stuff from the Gigaleak.

[@SpaceCadet0023]

Just realized zeldas horse lived for over 100 years.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Not the same horse. It's a descendant, which makes far more sense. It's just that genetics in the Zelda series seem to be oddly powerful.

[@davancleere5957]

yes please more of these

[@uzukiltd.4133]

Me: These theory videos are stupid. Why would anyone watch them. Also Me: *Working through NBC's whole backlog like an addict*

[@mafumafusnumberonefan]

Could you do a theory on Harry and Marry? The two that have been presumed dead in the maze and the forgotten temple. Talk to one of the old people there for information

[@yellowninja19]

Why does everyone skip over twilight princess?

[@suroguner]

This was only a few months before the F-Zero Zelda 64 beta was discovered.

[@missingindy]

There’s an alternate universe where stovepipe replaced fire mountain

[@nickharman2064]

Hey NBC, have you noticed on the mission map for the Age of Calamity demo, on the Great Plateau there's some differences with BOTW.......see if you can find the Temple of Time and the Eastern Abbey. Also, as speculated in many places, there looks like there may have been an entrance that was blocked off, and then filled with water by the time of BOTW. Would love to hear your thoughts!!

[@wazzup9179]

"The popular internet meme, "All your base are"" Never in my entire life have I heard of this "popular" meme

[@MrOllonk]

You are like baby man!

[@angelicau.4609]

It's an old meme

[@wazzup9179]

@@MrOllonk how tf am I a baby

[@manuelredgrave8348]

@@wazzup9179 too young to know about the meme

[@MrOllonk]

@@wazzup9179 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKOUfXelrbFoaq8