Solving the Zelda Timeline in 15 Minutes | Unraveled

Everyone knows the Zelda timeline is pretty incomprehensible. So in this episode of Unraveled, Brian David Gilbert puts every piece of Zelda media, canonical and noncanonical, into the timeline to make it a bit easier to understand.
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[@robingoodfellow8097]

I like to think that somewhere out there, there’s a dad trying to understand what the story of Zelda is so they can connect with their kid, and they clicked on a video titled “Solving the Zelda timeline in 15 minutes”, completely unaware of what is to come

[@irishmanfromengland25]

Puck!?

[@keganadams9215]

I'm a dad and as for most dad's of young children these days. We grew up with Zelda or were at least teenagers when Majora's mask came out

[@perplexedpegasus7498]

I think it would be the other way around...I was 6 when I played OOT..now I got 3 kids that play BOTW...

[@regann7227]

That would be my dad honestly Hi dad when u stumble here

[@HereComeTheTrainComingBlues]

What's a dad? Never heard of one of those before...

[@thelordoflore6572]

POV: You are tied up in a chair while a conspiracy theorist explains the entire Zelda timeline while simultaneously stripping.

[@VoidStaresback]

I'm into it.

[@spicy1615]

POV: You're inside BDG's head

[@alexsofia6884]

I thought your comment said POV: you are tied up in a chair while Matt pat from game theory explains the entire Zelda timeline while simultaneously stripping.

[@ferninfestedskulls]

@@alexsofia6884 omg no

[@vhalrougelarfouxe]

@@alexsofia6884 oof the mental horror...

[@snuffy5321]

Honestly as a kid the timeline seemed so simple and coherent to me and I could read off all of it verbatim so I have no idea why it took me 19 years to get diagnosed with autism

[@hansonkerman7286]

this is probably the single best description of neurodivergence i've ever seen

[@unicornmustache9273]

HELP this is so real omg I know like every single line and plot from favorite shows

[@hansonkerman7286]

@@unicornmustache9273 i have memorized every single line in portal 2. and the hyperfixation hasn't even come back for months

[@nicolehafner8616]

Oh

[@grapes4832]

I just turned 19 I’ll update u on my diagnosis sometime this year

[@Nikapocalypse]

Knowing now that this was 100% just Brian ranting for 3 hours and no script to try and make his boss happy makes it even better.

[@kaiserharry6568]

Where did you hear that?

[@Linlinstellaluna]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eprCdZ2Xhqalnq8 It was in an interview he gave after he decided to leave Polygon. idk where exactly the segment is, but it's a good video.

[@petertrigg9311]

@@Linlinstellaluna Just found it, it's at 21:23 of the video linked by Gabriella

[@Alzoura]

Yeah he made 20k a month by being his own boss

[@TheRambunctious]

@@Alzoura hey I get that reference

[@Coyoteari]

"dont ask me to do this again" *accidentally makes arguably the most popular series on polygon now that the mcelroys are gone*

[@SuccuLeaf_VT]

Somewhere off screen, bdg begging Griffin and justin to come save him

[@micklynchcomposer]

@@SuccuLeaf_VT BDG: Guys come back I'm trapped in a loop Justin, dressed in a full wizard costume and sipping a martini: Nah.

[@petermarsella6537]

@@micklynchcomposer a _time loop?_

[@quietsamurai1998]

@@petermarsella6537 A time _Lup?_

[@rosie8304]

@@micklynchcomposer Justin: Nah Justin's good out here

[@hamletbot5136]

Polygon trapped Brian in a conference room with only water and mini party foods for 4 weeks then threw the Monopoly game at him

[@braxtonkatz5726]

Ágnes Lévai the fact that polygon itself harted this means its true

[@TheoneandonlyDrops]

Brian freaking out: BUT HOW? HOW DOES IT ALL FIT?! the slot where his daily lunch is slid in opens up, but instead of lunch it's a Monopoly. Finally all is clear

[@j_0anna]

@kevin willems same (hhgttg!!)

[@DewMan001]

@@TheoneandonlyDrops Brian: *rips open box* what? What is this? What does this... Oh my God. Oh god. *Looks up into the light* it all makes sense now. CLARITY! SWEET PERFECT CLARITY!!!

[@gamerobama5283]

Thanks im baby

[@thevoidlord1796]

What I love about this video is that Brian said on MinnMax that he didn't have a script, he just did this because a higher-up at Vox Media told him to make a video on the Zelda Timeline and he tried to explain that it would suck but he had to do it anyway so he just went with every single piece of Zelda media and rambled for three hours in a studio with Clayton

[@tileguy918]

1.1k likes and no reply’s lolmao

[@thevoidlord1796]

@@tileguy918 i swear im not a bot people have just left me out here to die

[@tileguy918]

@@thevoidlord1796 you smell like code ngl

[@thevoidlord1796]

@@tileguy918 *looks down at hands* maybe I am a bot

[@smallmann4628]

@@thevoidlord1796 imagine being a bot

[@cukeumberr]

the line “don’t ask me to do this again” hits different after he revealed that higher-ups in vox forced him to make a video on the zelda timeline and he decided to do his own thing with it

[@sleepy_b0i]

what?

[@merizalderestrepo1773]

Yeah what?

[@theojarboe3966]

same with the "YOU MADE ME USE MONOPOLY"

[@chefcandy4035]

@@cukeumberr Thanks for linking the interview AND skipping to the relevant part of it.

[@wrenwhite8402]

can i have the link to the video?

[@realpauldano]

alternative title: angry man strips while yelling about monopoly

[@guyspy21]

NO

[@W.H.V.]

YES

[@hugimi3807]

YES

[@ludm1la]

NO... _yes?_

[@leoback5065]

@Gone In A Wisp OhKey

[@haliku9705]

I absolutely love the lighting becoming slowly more and more red as Brian becomes more and more unraveled, really adds to the chaotic atmosphere

[@mostlyghostie]

Hali ku I guess that’s why it’s called Unraveled, huh?

[@arthurxmedic]

oh my gods I never noticed

[@danniehopkins6650]

INTENSITY INTENSIFIED

[@Splitcyclewastaken]

"Joseph Gordon Levitt doesn't exist in _any_ timeline."

[@jjef8706]

@@arthurxmedic wait really??

[@ethanbishop6693]

He ends this first one with "don't ask me to do this again" and ends the final one with "now legally you can't ask me to do this again" that's really cool.

[@k2_x376]

Quag

[@Ilsezwarts]

​@@k2_x376 sire

[@pauperprince4353]

@@k2_x376mire

[@bitnev]

There's second one?!

[@ethanbishop6693]

@@bitnev I meant the final unraveled video

[@ryukashin9461]

I cant believe BDG predicted "Everything Everywhere All at Once" trying to break down the Zelda timeline, truly one of Apollos greatest prophets

[@TestarossaF110]

Right?!?!? Maybe it's cannon too 👀

[@bcdm999]

And also Sonic

[@gabrielgiordano4008]

The man is a genius

[@coleneumann5076]

BDG got kickballed

[@m4rcyonstation93]

WHAT

[@blckwtrpark3352]

"Reggie, take notes!" Reggie: Retires

[@insertwittynamehere587]

alex belke Reggie makes the power moves

[@syndere6755]

No, no. Reggie just thought "Man, this guy's just figured me out. There's- I- That's it, he's got me read like a book, of which he read several hundred. I'm done!"

[@connorr7951]

I was the 1,000th like

[@Moonbeam143]

Not even his body was ready.

[@nowonmetube]

@@syndere6755 except Reggie has nothing to do with the Zelda lore.

[@paige_1265]

me: man i wish polygon was making more longer videos polygon: ok heres brian yelling about legend of zelda for 15 minutes me: oh thank god

[@Drake-wo9ir]

Paige Gedicke, you forgot to add the part about monopoly

[@yayeet5284]

Im so sorry

[@reubenbailey7491]

Also he has an existential crisis about monopoly

[@GoblinLord]

You mean, Oh thank sonic

[@whoknows4780]

I’m surprised he didn’t tie the property buying thing into Link’s house at Hateno in BOTW. It’s the first main game where link buys a house. He’s recovering his memory and decides real estate is one of the first things he should invest in before saving Zelda. This makes it a perfect sequel to Monopoly

[@Irisverse]

Greetings from the future when Tears of the Kingdom has come out and there's a whole sidequest involving Link buying a plot of land and designing his own house to put on it.

[@heaven-clarence]

I can't tell you how many times my partner and I have referenced this video as we play TOTK. Any time there is a timeline thing we haven't figured out yet, we look each other dead in the eye and say "THE TIME BREAK." Truly a work of genius.

[@spudsbuchlaw]

You have no idea how unreasonably happy this makes me Tell them a comment came to them from T H E T I M E B R E A K

[@joshuaashton822]

why is this the funniest god damn thing i've ever seen just... a grown ass man in a three-piece suit getting SO upset over this timeline to the point where he's yelling about monopoly

[@gabejones8112]

Because it _is_ the funniest gol' darn thing

[@theorganizationxiii9765]

just... let it happen

[@Eric-sy1xu]

Also, just let it be known that he is wearing that vest Exactly how you're meant to and it angers me how good he makes it look.

[@ieuanhunt552]

@@Eric-sy1xu I was going to ask how you could wear a vest wrong. Then I realised he is wearing something fancy and people are really weird about it.

[@Eric-sy1xu]

@@ieuanhunt552 Mate I wear stuff like that all the time, the point with a waistcoat is that the "Proper Way" you wear them is having the bottom button undone, and having the thing quite snugly fitted to your form. The bottom button undone is done because if you sit down the fold looks *_way_* better.

[@anthonysaville6780]

His timeline isn't complete, he forgot the coloring books.

[@fishfrfr]

Smh

[@AuroraVeil_]

"If I get one 'um actually' comment..."

[@og_dumpster_fire4482]

Oh fuck...

[@sunwooooooo]

aw8tingapproval Um actually, he didn’t say “Um actually” in his comme- DAMNIT

[@fishfrfr]

sunwooooooo um actually, you should stop being so hypocritical- (I’m so sorry)

[@drumstuff1524]

Adult Link, Child Link, and Basketball is one of the funniest things ever.

[@sir_wooly]

🏀👶👨 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wrenbitterclasp]

i agree

[@InuMiroLover]

I am now calling the decline timeline the basketball timeline and I refuse to call it anything else

[@ashleylightheart126]

BDG: Don't ask me to do this again! Polygon: So we asked him to do it again

[@isabelr3467]

"He's completed his life's purpose at age 12" All of us who peaked in secondary school felt that

[@Ray-wz8sg]

The story of every pokemon protagonist

[@Nyromen]

GOD I felt that

[@anilsezgun3327]

i swear finishing secondary scool felt like a game ending but then life continued and its like what no-

[@Silverwind87]

You also used to be a "gifted student"?

[@xronium]

Anil Sezgün getting the true ending and 100%ing the game

[@swiftlymurmurs1825]

"Don't ask me to do this again" *Proceeds to become a minor internet celebrity solely based on doing this kinda shit over and over again*

[@Silverwind87]

"Because God has cursed me for my hubris, and my work is never finished."

[@helldiverhero1]

do fate/stay night please!!

[@swiftlymurmurs1825]

@@helldiverhero1 I'm afraid I'm not Brian, bud, and as far as I know, this show is exclusively dedicated to gaming, and not anime

[@tako5018]

@@swiftlymurmurs1825 fate VN can count as a game and FGO exists, thats a game

[@emmanuelpena2228]

@@helldiverhero1 I know the internet is sadistic, but jesus christ man. Have some mercy

[@Capt_Saicin]

So when Brian says "Never ask me to do this again" I always just assumed he was directing that to the audience, but after watching his interview with Minmax, I think he may have actually been directing that to his boss that told him to do yet another Zelda timeline video which I think is even funnier

[@BrightyLighty_]

This is the first unraveled too. I think he was asking to never do unraveled again

[@seikuo36]

@@BrightyLighty_ where do u guys get these insane conclusions lmaooo

[@zigzaghyena]

My favourite part is right at the end where it cuts from him complaining about monopoly to the outdo where he's visibly out of breath, implying he spent a considerable amount of extra time ranting in frustration and we just didn't see it.

[@Jpx0999]

He actually did it for 3 hours

[@connorsturgeon8863]

"Where does Breath of the Wild fit in the Zelda timeline?" Nintendo: Yes

[@dwayneee__]

Matpat: Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na... Batman.

[@The482075]

Where does the Yes meme come from?

[@benjaminvanbrabant4153]

@@The482075 yes

[@SH19922x]

@@The482075 It's that old im pretty sure korean Jesus was using it aswell

[@The482075]

@@SH19922x Thanks man.

[@AthenisOculi]

"Everyone, All the time, Everywhere... and also Sonic" He said this like Sonic was something incorporeal, timeless and out of reach... kinda like a god or something... WAIT A MINUTE

[@liamanderson7082]

Or something that could kill God, and I do not care if there is a difference!!

[@Jpx0999]

@@liamanderson7082 my god,i loved that video

[@gavinator2730]

Either sonic is god, or could kill god... so yeah he is omniscient and omnipresent id say

[@pedroivog.s.6870]

Now I guess Kirby ate Sonic and took its place

[@J.R8765]

@@liamanderson7082 👍👍

[@hvnspwn]

It is 2021, and Brian’s explanation of the Time Break actually fits with Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity! He saw the future. He is indeed a scholar of Time Break studies.

[@zahrahkhalid6333]

They probably watched this

[@RiteshSingh-po7tm]

@@zahrahkhalid6333 Shigeru Miyamoto must be like "ohhhh so thats how it all fits, team lets get to work"

[@sturm2186]

5:54 the editor "Most of the legend of zelda games I'm talking about right now are BS if you know what I mean ;)"

[@Fragmentsinfractals488]

Zelda is a Time Sage. She is like Cia. Cite: Tears of the Kingdom. Therefore, she did it. and undid it.

[@chuuexloona]

AND he played tears of the kingdom, so Miyamoto really sent an email saying "you've cracked the code"

[@trumpeterjen]

Of all the Unraveled installments, this is easily the most difficult to focus on. Not because of the length or amount of details, but just because Brian pulls off suits and the disheveled look way too well and keeps stripping the whole time.

[@bananaboatcharlie]

"Over here in Basketball Timeline, we've got Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love." --God, probably

[@onionbot2]

what do you mean probably? he said it himself at 7:32

[@certifiedcoolguy583]

what do you mean probably

[@onionbot2]

~ahem

[@certifiedcoolguy583]

@@onionbot2 sorry i didnt check the other comments

[@violetdettmer8604]

Wait it’s trip of love??????? I THOUGHT IT WAS TRIPLE VLOVE

[@swiftwolf2950]

BDG has found everyone on the internet’s kink: a strip tease while explaining the Zelda timeline.

[@syndere6755]

BDG Unravels his suit. That is all.

[@PatrickWilliams-ip5wz]

SwiftWolf29 * sorry man the Zelda timeline is my kink not Brian

[@swiftwolf2950]

Blasphemy! Pray that Sonic forgives you

[@PatrickWilliams-ip5wz]

SwiftWolf29 * nah I’m straight I’m too busy enjoy this sweet and tight timeline

[@Springwight]

@@PatrickWilliams-ip5wz Your loss man. Your loss.

[@sarahbarrett9494]

After watching Brian’s interview at MinnMax, this video became way more fun and impressive knowing that it wasn’t scripted

[@distinguishedgentleman756]

3:51 I love how he fixes the one crooked one and then immediately there's 5 more crooked ones in the next shot

[@squaresandstuff6385]

"Don't ask me to do this again." *Polygon proceeds to ask Brian to do this again, 8+ times*

[@faroshscale]

Your profile pic...❤

[@flental6708]

@@faroshscale love the pfp on both you guysss

[@Catffeine_Cafe]

In 8 separate timelines then reconverge them all back into this timeline*

[@emerz3530]

Beaurorcratic Wunderkind: Don't ask me to do this again Polygon: *Fly you fool*

[@mayakirkhouse84]

22 now lol.

[@thoughtsaboutrodger2956]

I like how he gets progressively more disheveled as the timeline gets more complicated.

[@Direultimatum]

Also everything gets progressively more and more red

[@Brisarious]

this series wouldn't work nearly as well if he wasn't so dang good at the "dapper academic turned crazed conspiracy theorist" look.

[@andrewlaporte5477]

He still forgot the jigsaw puzzle. Shhhh......

[@JupiterLight28]

Thoughts About Rodger I was beginning to wonder if this was starting to become a tease. XD

[@duncanurquhart5278]

I was kind of worried (read: hopeful) he would just keep going

[@davididiart5934]

Brian: "Hear me out, I'll explain how the Time Break makes sense!" Elder Scrolls Fans: "No, no. I'm with you so far."

[@lays5277]

14:00 I feel like Brian David Gilbert saying with a straight face "I'm talking location, location, location" should have been recognized as a cry for help tbh

[@poetrymilk]

the text i sent my wife, explaining why i love this video "I love the Zelda timeline video specifically because he looks like a victorian teenager who was shunted into our time period somehow, and was then subsequently was forced to arrange a timeline for zelda while having monster energy pumped through an IV Drip directly into his bloodstream, and then, once understanding was garnered, he was sent back to his own time period, and we the viewer are the horrified victorian scholar he is explaining this all to"

[@1e1001]

That is a fucking perfect description

[@tired247]

that's about right

[@taakotuesdays]

actually yea that's exactly it

[@asterism343]

A lot of his videos are like that.

[@parist6735]

690th like

[@udime123]

How dare you not mention the Zelda cereal.

[@channelwithout]

Plot twist: the Zelda cereal is just fried Minish

[@socialbarden1974]

WHO’S IDEA WAS IT TO CREATE A ZELDA CEREAL???

[@Joyce-xi1di]

@@socialbarden1974 beedle

[@cow_furby]

YES

[@princessthyemis]

a Zelda cereal....WTF?!

[@schpungus]

I like how instead of one, consistent timeline, nintendo; made him a child, made him an adult, and best of all, fucking killed him

[@valkyrie-randgris]

FUN FACT: I've been gifted Zelda monopoly twice by well meaning relatives. I have also never opened it once.

[@imabun9215]

You lost me at time break ... but found me at monopoly

[@gloomygloomstalker3878]

Kinda like how monopoly found the timelines

[@HumanGermoneProject]

HE FOUND US ALL IN MONOPOLY.

[@imabun9215]

Sorry to say this tankmon123 but I don’t mean that

[@shawnschmidt9236]

There was a huge build up the MONOPOLY

[@leastlikelysuspect5122]

14:15 this was AMAZING

[@fridal5218]

You can just feel how he progressively loses it minute by minute, until he finally breaks and starts yelling about Monopoly. The chaotic energy. I love it.

[@riyay9096]

The lights add to it too. It starts off bright and white then ends with chaotic red.

[@adamwysocki6959]

I can’t like this It’s at 420 likes

[@Telerian3]

@@adamwysocki6959 its over 100k now, you can like it

[@DaveRG]

@@Telerian3 damn 100K im blind or what

[@JohnGottschalk]

*The original Unraveled:* "don't make me do this again!" *Polygon:* "well that's your career here!"

[@allanrincon7200]

I love that Link is just lazy in the Adult Timeline and not just missing because at the end of Ocarina of Time Zelda sent him back to his own timeline, creating two timelines where in one Link goes off to save Termina, and in the other a hero with the blood of the chosen knight is nowhere to be found, because Zelda Song of Time’d him out.

[@morgankingsley8711]

I love how the first 3.5 minutes actually seem like a legit attempt to explain everyting, and then it just turns into madness

[@BrookeFryes]

Welcome to unravelred.

[@pallyboy6005]

All of it seemed legit to me. Seems like a *lot* of work to so for a silly little bit /s

[@kimballblack2668]

We go from an actual explanation, to Joseph Gordon Levitt and Time Break.

[@wa6488]

Yes

[@ricky99903]

the lighting also gets progressively more red as the video goes on.

[@victoriavilulf5058]

He looks like he’s being held hostage and forced to fix Nintendo’s errors at gun point. The poor man.

[@fuckwit107]

I love your pfp, I am also a lesbian isopod lover.

[@adcon00]

"Now do Pokémon."

[@lusciouslocks8790]

wh ut wlw 🤝 crustaceans

[@samuelambrose4373]

I’m gonna steal your pfp but bisexual

[@roo2139]

Tbh it feels like he's taken Nintendo hostage

[@sporks5000]

Did BDG actually predict "Everything Everywhere All At Once" four years before it was released?

[@PokeMario-pk4ot]

Note: the adult timeline isn't where link stays an adult after Ocarina of Time. It's actually the timeline link left behind. Ganon is sealed away, but the hero of time is gone because he went to the child timeline

[@caseydilla5726]

Ah, the three genders. Adult Child Basketball

[@theweakestbrazilianmale3398]

What about time break?

[@megatennepster3833]

@@theweakestbrazilianmale3398 that's non binary, I guess?

[@Alex-ux8cl]

@@megatennepster3833 Nah, it'd be nontrinary

[@alexalon9192]

Guess my genderfluid ass is Breath of the Wild

[@snek5742]

@@Alex-ux8cl nope, nontriforceary

[@preKettled]

BDG: *Finally finishes the timeline* Cadence of Hyrule: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

[@ThornHailsnap]

It’s about dancing. Naturally it goes in the Timebreak.

[@miss_sugarplum]

But it could also fit into the existential crisis in the adult timeline where they are partying 🤔

[@nowonmetube]

Time break? Because it's a different parallel universe there..

[@nowonmetube]

@@miss_sugarplum no because _time break_

[@woodman811]

Easy

[@michaellyons810]

I love how it gets redder and redder as the video progresses to signify brian's descent into madness

[@Leon108]

I swear, best Polygon videos are the ones that allow us to witness the rapid unraveling of Brian's sanity.

[@johnnyjoestar4473]

it ain't called unraveled because it unravels video games, its called unraveled because thats what happens to BDG's sanity.

[@stuckinmyhead9890]

*HE GOT IT. HE CRACKED THE CODE. THE PEOPLE WHO MADE HYRULE WARRIORS ARE MAKING A PREQUEL TO BREATH IF THE WILDS.*

[@G0blinM0de]

Yeah but we found out it’s just another timeline split and not a prequel

[@rhettmitchell]

@@G0blinM0de but it’s still a prequel in its own timeline ✨

[@G0blinM0de]

@@rhettmitchell but that timeline has never been a thing until now idiot

[@thecancerian549]

Holyschist

[@sn4pfin]

this man has broken time and space just for hyrule warriors age of calamity lmao

[@lolz9113]

I want a whole movie about brian being an eccentric professor at a british boarding school but he loses his nuts over the zelda timeline and this is the denouement of the film

[@bacht4799]

theo yeah that could be fun..! 😃

[@compassionatecurmudgeon7025]

oooooh you taught me a word! A french word, but still a word! Thanks!

[@sofialaya596]

YES PLEASE

[@nualahalpin6119]

Damn... I had a plan for a career... But looks like I'm going into filmmaking so I can make this real

[@TheAgentJesus]

Yooo my guy out here flexing that vocab! Denouement is one of my favorite words, although unfortunately hard as hell to use in conversation and even if you do pull it off you mostly just sound like a douche 😂

[@Frame_Late]

This sounds like a scholar in Morrowind telling you the entire story of how nirn was created. He's probably correct, but everyone thinks he's an insane heretic overcome by daedric influences.

[@sentientshadow126]

Slight correction: The Adult Link timeline is not Link deciding to remain an adult. Child and Adult timelines happen simultaneously when Link defeats Ganon as an adult and then returns to his childhood timeline, leaving the Adult timeline to pick up the pieces of Ganon's rule without a hero. In the child timeline he goes looking for Navi and stumbles into Termina (Majora's Mask) whereas in the adult timeline Ganon comes back and the people await the Hero of Time to save them again; only he doesn't because he doesn't exist anymore (since Link didn't claim the Master Sword and remained a child). This forced them to flood the world to seal Ganon which eventually leads to the ocean world of Wind Waker.

[@Clairembify]

This was a great, informative, and anxiety-inducing striptease.

[@yepisuredolikecats3979]

ASKSD;FLASKJDF;L

[@AquaDavie]

Next we’ll have a collection of all the Mario media and games and shit but it will be and ASMR video

[@iikorayoutpriv]

I felt that the gag of the video was someone tried to drive him insane, so to do so they trapped him in a room and forced him to make sense of the loz timeline.

[@hayldienthepsycho1699]

Clairembify "Because it was Darkness,baby" ;)

[@rosauradiaz9842]

Clairembify HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[@parkerjenkins1298]

I have never fallen in love with someone so quickly, and I’m scared at this mans raw power.

[@Lololsans]

Parker Jenkins either he is a god, or could kill god, aND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!!

[@peerman042]

@@Lololsans Sonic bible, nice.

[@Lololsans]

Peerman04 Persona 5, extra nice

[@peerman042]

@@Lololsans Why thank you, man of culture.

[@Lololsans]

Peerman04 thank you. Can’t wait till P5R

[@krell.1415]

love how we learned in an interview that this video was fueled mostly by spite.

[@LazuliScarab]

Who else is doing a memorial rewatch

[@sophisticaded]

😭the whole series

[@miraialam]

he’s wearing this same suit for the last unraveled, this man loves symbolism and i can’t stop crying right now

[@elbowsbuns1896]

RIP unraveled

[@gabrielduarte9903]

69 likes your welcome

[@miraialam]

@@gabrielduarte9903 nice thank you

[@groofay]

My new theory about Unraveled, thanks to you pointing this out, is that BDG fell asleep wearing a suit and had several extremely elaborate fever dreams that we've just been watching on KZbin somehow, then woke up at the end of the last one.

[@miraialam]

@@groofay that’s a very interesting theory i like it!!

[@scratchedcds]

“and that means that joseph gordon-levitt exists in the zelda timeline.” _what a sentence._

[@fletcher1710]

He's just kidding. joseph gordon-levitt doesn't exist in any timeline.

[@MrWicked187]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt removed himself from the timeline in looper

[@bothquickanddead]

@@MrWicked187 Looper is canon to the Zelda timeline. Bruce Willis is Ganon.

[@cabbage8858]

Gerard Way

[@gylfie24linole]

Ravagefox Derp Joseph Gordon-Levitt is erasing himself from the narrative

[@duckheadbob]

4 years later, BDGs unraveled series still remains one of the most creative show about video games out there. It works on every facet and is amazing to watch. I really hope one day Brian creates another series with production on this level. It truly superb

[@Diarunas]

Nobody’s going to question how sonic fits in there? Because the explanation WAS LITERALLY “BECAUSE SONIC”

[@rewrew897]

The red light just grows in intensity as the video goes on *PERFECT*

[@mitchellprice5586]

i have a red color filter on my phone bc i get migraines so i didnt even notice, thank you for bringing this to my attention

[@Beansedj]

I thought I was going insane or having a stroke. Thanks

[@catkittycatcatkittycatcat9652]

the red light is the light they use to contain superman (also known as David Brian Gilbert)

[@djfrogtime9956]

act one: -full suit -we are introduced to the world and the table is set with the main structure of the timelines act two: -lost the jacket -time break is introduced -problems are more prevalent and numerous -the beginnings of insanity act three: -no tie, vest unbuttoned -fully feral -time break is settled -timeline is completed

[@xdsmile5359]

Step 4 strips naked and talks about monopoly and desyroys timeline

[@metalgearzwei]

Jedi 101 act 5: brian strips off his skin while crying to himself, putting the timeline back together

[@largehippo2408]

i love that you described brian as "feral"

[@stefanalexanderlungu1503]

Is this the hero's journey?

[@tigerclaw6477]

Act three: Monopoly

[@kawaiipiggy9143]

Huge fan of the fact that he included Scribblenauts, said "idk how that fits in yet" and then never elaborates

[@TheAsexualJellyBean]

The beginning of one of the best KZbin series. Taking what made Game Theory somewhat interesting - and making it funny and incredible.

[@sukanyabarman4909]

I love how quickly the timeline goes from chronological to geographic

[@fearsearcher7303]

Somehow this is less confusing than the official timeline.

[@endingsky8271]

I consider this canon

[@germanferrieri4555]

Because THIS is the official timeline

[@jawly_]

Because this one explains zora and rito existing in the same world

[@burg3rdud33]

@@jawly_ According to Wind Waker, the Rito evolved from the Zora. That doesn't mean ALL of them became Rito. Our world has apes *and* humans, doesn't it?

[@joeyfromschool]

Burg3rDud3 humans didn’t actually evolve from apes, we just have a recent common ancestor. The thing that we directly evolved from is extinct

[@GuitarSlayer136]

In 20 years time they'll reveal that the LoZ timeline is actually the shape of the mastersword with the split timelines being the gaurd AND representing the Triforce at the heart of the series. MARK THESE WORDS

[@brandonnguyen6718]

Due to TotK, the timeline is kinda weird. Some people are saying it's retconned, others are saying it's a giant conspiracy board.

[@zetazimmer4769]

I think the most stunning thing about this is that he was correct about the time break.

[@nixtheclause9984]

‘Finished his entire meaning of existence by the time he’s like twelve’ summarizes the Pokemon games quite well.

[@yeyo8457]

pokemon is the story about a twelve years old who has 20 years of experience, the dream of all employers

[@loreleimarivaine6241]

yeyoistheking ash hasn’t had a fucking birthday that bastard is still ten.

[@BeefBronson]

“That’s right, it’s darkness, baby.” -Satan, probably

[@josephclark1166]

me after I acquire the BEANS

[@HakimJamil94]

Ah sheet, I'm the 666th

[@KooblyK]

BDG is Satan, confirmed? Would explain the chaotic energy

[@crystals-r2551]

Xehanort

[@koopageneral1638]

I love how the more he starts to break, the more red the lighting becomes

[@iceberglettuce1050]

i know he said that he wasn't including the manga, but there is at least one extra bit of non-canonical lore that i know of. the creators of the manga decided to make their own origin story for majora's mask

[@zelg.5551]

"I've just saved your ass... WITH MONOPOLY!!!" - well that's a line I never thought I'd ever hear

[@TurbopropPuppy]

r/BrandNewSentence

[@Fluid_McCree]

@@TurbopropPuppy r/ihavereddit

[@malefictoonmaster510]

That whole 14m video to lead into that ONE joke Worth it.

[@bgbong0]

I know right? Usually Monopoly does nothing but bring lives to ruin.

[@S31Syntax]

MONAAAHPOLY

[@randomaspiringphotographer509]

This is just a really complicated strip tease that makes you question what you’re doing with your life

[@deathwizxx]

I aspire to a place where I can talk nerdy to people while stripping. Thats the fucking dream.

[@Marekki2202]

It‘s not hard to make me do question my life tho.

[@randomaspiringphotographer509]

Holy crap I have 1k likes. Thats unexpected

[@randomaspiringphotographer509]

ArthurNemko Thats a whole mood

[@randomaspiringphotographer509]

Master Daedalus I feel ya’

[@phillyfanmatt]

Rest easy, sweet prince

[@anyaklum8757]

This hits different when you know it was completely ad-libbed

[@ethanaubrey418]

"Okay so there's Adult Link, Child Link, and basketball" I... I don't know how to react to that, honestly

[@Moths05]

LAUGH!

[@williameblen3474]

Since basketball is where he loses I think zombie link time line would be more accurate.

[@opera_ghost8504]

space jam

[@jiminey_cricket2692]

He was completely honest when saying he plans to get into fashion during his midlife crisis. Good on him

[@quantumblauthor7300]

Midlife ain't quite there for him but the pandemic aged us all a lot

[@noahluppe]

@@quantumblauthor7300 you don't know how old this man want's to get

[@curtisbraebairn3608]

This man's midwife crisis is Halloween Abba covers he did a whole album

[@longfineel2630]

@@noahluppe IDK, but not 36 or over.

[@Taylor-xq9tr]

@@quantumblauthor7300 but as we know from brian david gilbert autobiography, he discovered that he will die on may 6th 2030. Since he'll die at 36, the "middle of his life" is technically when he is 18 years old

[@Buphido]

10:19 Well, actually, there‘s an error in the very first minute as adult Link doesn’t "decide" to stay in the adult timeline but he rather gets sent back in time by Zelda forcibly while the timeline continues to exist, creating the child timeline in the process and explaining why Link wasn’t present when Ganon returned before Windwaker. Since Link isn’t around anymore in the adult timeline this invalidates titles like Mario Kart based on the presence of adult Link, at least in the way you explained it. …I‘m sorry, you practically asked me to. :P

[@Psychojocker]

Yes, thought the same. But the Go Karting stuff could also happen after Link had his existential crisis inMajoras Mask.

[@angrygonk5238]

Idk, i like to think of the legend of zelda, as a legend, told over and over again, being a bit changed every time it is told, but always having similar setting and characters, but details vary.

[@miasoper1964]

Unraveled: Brian slowly strips as he gets more and more worked up

[@marcodragon4995]

;)

[@charlierw123]

I'm down for it

[@mayawristen9048]

O no

[@manamongmen3381]

Sadly, we never get past the forearms in terms of skin exposure.

[@McMarshmallow64]

Please

[@brohoofknockout5853]

Ah, so this is why Reggie quit... Someone cracked the code

[@tanglekelp1857]

Holy. Shit.

[@shun-li8204]

Yep and now Nintendo USA is run by Bowser. Gr8 B8 M8

[@crio2231]

BDG ruined the nintendo hierarchy theory

[@Goblin-bx3fw]

14:20 REGGIE TAKE FUCKING NOTES

[@jacoborwhatev1]

Brian then went on to play Tears of the Kingdom on stream. This confirms that he did recieve an email from Miyamoto saying he cracked the code.

[@friendlyflan1011]

The fact that the video gets more and more red as time progresses really shows his descent into madness

[@cyber8802]

oh

[@jetlaudir]

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed.

[@camdurbin5135]

The way he said “sonic” sounded so heartbroken.

[@revolutionarygold]

He had not yet fallen upon the truth of Sonic's divine essence

[@lucasdelaplace2795]

@@revolutionarygold you must be new if that's what you think

[@revolutionarygold]

@@lucasdelaplace2795 he's discovered the truth now, but this was before that. Sonic called to him through this video and his heresy was recanted and repented for

[@pixelatedcorpse]

Amanda Amos the way you phrased that statement was immaculate, thank you

[@revolutionarygold]

@@pixelatedcorpse thank u I grew up evangelical christian and now I'm a pagan atheist but I gotta use all this biblical language for something

[@kianhewitt1054]

Breath of the wild could be like a set point on time which can not be changed so all timelines eventually converge on to it but at different moments so the three Links never meet and destroy time and space itself

[@nathanmears6440]

I’ve watched this video a million times, but I never noticed just how insane Brian starts to look at 7:39 the way he’s hunched over and pointing at the camera

[@HannahJRabo]

Game Theory walked so Unravelled could run

[@thatsdisco]

Unravelled doesn't just run, it does a dream ballet

[@regretsin8502]

and now its stopped running

[@Gam3rsInstinct]

Regret Sin Unravelled walked so Jorts could run

[@ihaveaname699]

Game Theory took a bus so Unravelled could sprint a damn marathon.

[@thecascadecollection2]

game theory flopped like a fish so that unravelled could break the speed of light

[@rickjohnson1719]

It's like game theory but funny

[@fraserpittard4382]

Mattpat take fuccing notes

[@Pikabycolorz]

That's not true... Matpat makes great puns. Sometimes... *technically*

[@jasonvorhees7656]

@@Pikabycolorz That's sounds like.. Its just a theory.

[@blazingginger2]

But funny and makes sense and uses math of a fuccing 10 yr old! He’s just dumb sometimes. Like “how does the magic thing work? It’s not magic, so it’s quantum physics at Mach ten in 13 different timelines combined with Goku”

[@sachyaxii6099]

And good

[@ChiggaChiggaBruh]

So, there's a misconception I can see. The adult timeline does not have link at all. At the end of Ocarina, Link goes back to the child era no matter what. The adult timeline is the timeline that continues on without link (as he is in the child timeline). That's why Ganondorf is able to come back to life.

[@stipdip7785]

"Take fucking note" Legendary meme right there

[@VOXELOFICIAL]

Well, actually...

[@qepdqepd5612]

Voxel Smash is just toys and not a real link?

[@XWingToast]

*cough* well actually, link's awaking, a link to the past, and ocracle of ages/seasons links are all the same. so link cannot die after link's awaking

[@igorluisk2]

Vcs aqui mano kkkkkkk

[@ctrlz7582]

Joe Smith That's true acording to Historia, but after Enciclopedia, they updated it and state they're different

[@keyaanmatthews3013]

Well aaeckkchuueeaaallliii

[@iggyrocks1]

This is a broken man

[@justharry2190]

you would be too if you had to use monopoly

[@philipscdi2029]

This is a broken soul

[@grandzpark]

I facepalmed so hard at the end

[@MrOneX]

We made him do it. But now who is going to do monopoly for him

[@AsianRock90]

A broken, broken man.

[@lydiam95]

I remember this coming up on my recommended when it first came out. What a trip, thank you Brian for this wonderful series, I'm sure you'll do great in whatever you do next. I'm going to go cry now.

[@astraldeveloper]

this video is why for some reason i cannot hear or read the title of 'everything everywhere all at once' without adding 'and also sonic' and i just wanted to share that permanent mark left on my psyche