Why Zelda's Most Powerful Magic is Ganondorf's Silly Fire Barrier (Ocarina of Time)

[@Giose]

So...the true source of ganondorf's power isn't the triforce of power, but his legendary pants....that explains why he was so unstable as a beast in botw, he didn't have his pants

[@RiverOfTheHeart]

Inhibitor Pants

[@IsaiahAmos017]

I always thought his horse is pretty cool

[@Greywander87]

"What? Don't be absurd! My leather pants aren't the source of my power!" "Wait what they're not?" "No no no, I'm afraid my power comes from my leather _shoes_ ."

[@Giose]

@@Greywander87 maybe the shoes are the batery and the pants are the "sistem"

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@RiverOfTheHeart The opposite of that.

[@XMan2001X]

4:26 that Goron Tunic isn’t doing Link any favors.

[@thecplman1]

I agree. If I don't explicitly need to wear the Goron or Zora Tunics, I always wore the Kokiri Tunic.

[@jonspencerphone138]

I absolutely LOVE how you take mechanical aspects and treat them deadpan like Dramatic aspects lol gets me every time!!

[@saltystick_99]

"Ganondorf's pants just explode out of the rubble and float off into the smoke filled skies." An oscar winning description.

[@kdavous]

I dunno, I think the most powerful magic in OoT is the window in the Pedestal of Time room. Couldn’t ganondorf see through that window and look right at the master sword?

[@Alex-95-Gaming]

I'm just imagining Ganondorf pressed up against a normal glass window, staring longingly at the Master Sword, and be like "Why can't I get to you?!"

[@stanstanstan2597]

Alex95 as a teardrop slowly rolls down his cheek, and in the background you can hear, “Hello darkness, my old friend...”

[@orbsorbs8465]

Maybe Ganondorf just assumed that nobody would be that stupid, as to put the master sword in a room with windows.

[@insertreferencehere.8066]

Shatters the glass.

[@melskunk]

The greatest enemy: *Ganondorf pants*

[@lorelo.]

And here is it's rival but not unexpectedly brother:MoonLord's legs.

[@tuamatrem8304]

@@lorelo. before getting to his core, you need to release 2 true balls of cthulhu

[@poncho4638]

When I was about 9 or 10 and I finally made it to Ganon, the final boss, I was disappointed that I was unable to explore the area surrounding the battlegrounds. For some reason the entirety of it looked a lot smaller than I thought it should due to the castle interior feeling so huge in comparison, but I was still infatuated with the background of the final boss fight and always wondered what it would be like. Thanks for finally demystifying a part of Ocarina of Time that 10 year old me had always revisited repeatedly out of pure curiosity. Stay awesome SwankyBox!

[@davidamajako961]

But you said you were 13.

[@aarongreenfield9038]

@@davidamajako961. Where does he say he's 13?

[@poncho4638]

@@davidamajako961 no u

[@safetytheflamewolf]

@@aarongreenfield9038 no where. The dude's just grasping at straws.

[@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

I heard the castle builders also build sponge bob’s house.

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

Couldn’t Ganon just put the barrier around Link and leave him there?

[@zak9399]

Farore's Wind

[@reshuram4353]

That would make the game unbeatable, BUT, it is an intreresting concept.

[@finderfinder4290]

Spells have odd rules. Wall of fire, from dnd, can only have 1 of 2 sets of dimensions, big wall and big ring. No small option

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@finderfinder4290 He can still walk out of it.

[@HarryPotter-uv8yp]

Might be that the magic barrier requires Ganon/Ganondorf to remain inside it to power it or focus it. Kind of like a “Compel Duel” spell meant to force a fight to happen. Also, pride. Why would the Gerudo King of Evil be scared away by some scrawny teenager wearing tights?

[@ImWhyMortalsCry]

So the true final boss was always Ganondorf's pants never him. Soooo... The pants have taken over Ganondorf's body! AND CONTROLLED HIM ALL THE TIME! D:

[@lacksicle]

No one is born cool, except of course KZbinrs who say you can dislike the video.

[@rosedarkling]

That Link scream while being on fire continuously with Zelda screaming out every now and then sounds quite scary.

[@fatguy4279]

Everyone knows that Zelda put up that fire barrier, and refuses to toss link the sword back to help him realize the power was not in the sword but in him all along.

[@vixouu7925]

This sounds so...true lmao

[@callmeclover6512]

Seems unwise, but explains why Zelda doesn't just throw the sword. Battles over The Fate Of The World are not appropriate places for character development Zelda!

[@spaceangelmewtwo9074]

Or maybe Ganon created the fire barrier and Zelda doesn't toss the Master Sword back because she's not the sword's chosen wielder and therefore can't pull it out of the ground without dying as seen in BotW.

[@mcponblack116]

Its absolutely amazing how many thing still being discovered in this game regardless of the steps needed to discover them

[@aarongreenfield9038]

The new sisterhood of the traveling pants got weird.

[@peijichan2589]

And so Link continued burning without dying.......... And eventually, Link stopped thinking.

[@ChristopherMoom]

A fight against a Ganondorf that was the size of the castle sounds amazing, in fact, fighting a large Ganon kinda reminds me of BOTW's final boss...

[@morphstarchangeling8024]

Maybe in breath of the wild 2 we'll get true beast ganon and he'll be the size of a Hyrule Castle.

[@NateIsCorrupt]

Ganondorf’s pants did what no one else could. Ended the game once and for all.

[@BirdieSenpai]

Who needs the Triforce when you have the magical floating thighs of a 7'6'' man whose ankle muscles would make John Cena piss himself at the mere sight?

[@TheCreepypro]

to think that all this time this particular barrier was one of the strongest weapons in his arsenal

[@twilliamspro]

Gamondorfs trousers the source of all evil

[@davidamajako961]

Man if i was Ganon i would just retreat like Sauron and be prepared.

[@Kryptnyt]

After he dies and the Triforce of Power reboots Ganon in safe mode, I don't think he's capable of making overly complex decisions.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@Kryptnyt The immediate one is just the Joestar secret technique.

[@0dayrepairs]

Those impassable barriers always annoyed me as a kid. I used to love levitating all over Hyrule and it feels like these things are everywhere. Well not everywhere, but they're certainly not uncommon. It's cool to see you test out various different ways of breaking them

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

"your feedback is appreciated" what about my lack of feedback?

[@GarryDumblowski]

By the way, about the whole giant Ganon thing, the developers actually specifically reused the concept for.... I forget what its name was, but it was the first major boss in Mario Galaxy, the one with three legs that shot Bullet Bills at you. That was where they knowingly reused the concept.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Megaleg.

[@Kitsudote]

What I think is the most awesome part about this boss fight, is the absolute perfect mix of cut-scene and interactivity of the final blow. It is beyond epic! I love when games do this!

[@klaushammer8687]

So I always had the big Goron sword and when I got it, I only used that. So when I lost the master sword I had more of a who cares attitude. I was 10 when this game came out.

[@chuggaa100]

You can't kill him without the master sword though

[@klaushammer8687]

@@chuggaa100 technically, the master sword didn't kill him either hence they banished him. But in my mind at the time, the big goron sword was stronger and better

[@ccheyenne]

Yeah, once I got the Biggoron sword it was the only one I used, so when they took the Master sword away I was like, oh come on I wasn't even using it, did you knock it out of my inventory?

[@MindeFlex]

I used the Deku nuts against ganondorf

[@cixlo]

Did you get him?

[@MindeFlex]

@@cixlo yeah

[@cixlo]

@@MindeFlex ha!

[@herosshade2247]

Gottem

[@MindeFlex]

These nuts

[@lemmingscanfly5]

You know the Garo in Majora’s Mask have this same ability .

[@aanawenjigewin]

It would be cool if Ganondorf learned this ability from them.

[@Lovuschka]

Link has a much more powerful magic at his disposal, allowing him to warp from Kokiri Forest straight to the credits. How about that? Or if you leave glitches aside, what about the Triforce and the Golden Realm? What about going seven years forward and backward in time? What about the gods sinking the entire world under water?

[@wintersong2266]

I can't believe they didn't bought back the concept of scaling Ganon for Breath of The Wild. A game where scaling things is so important. It would have made the Dark Beast Ganon fight so much more interesting.

[@RealCryptoTest]

I summon you back to give your opinion on the new final Ganon

[@Patg2644]

You got a good voice for narration. No one else on You Tube sounds like you. Keep up the good work

[@blueflower3561]

Face it everyone loved Zelda's cute distressed yell even now i think ,so cute

[@lauraschantz9058]

This is such a dramatic battle that it's always sort of stuck with me. We had the official game guide, which had such goodies as how to play the Kakariko Village music on the in-game ocarina and lots of art that wasn't in the instruction manual. The best of these was the dramatic painting of Link and Ganondorf's battle in the castle. My brother loaned it to some of our neighbors and forgot to ask for it back before they moved away. Many years later, I noticed a 3DS case with that same painting on it. My now-husband noticed that I liked it and bought it for me as a birthday present. I still have that case on my 3DS, years after its hinges broke off. (The hinges on the case, not on the 3DS itself.)

[@12co3dy21]

Replayed this game last week for the first time in probably 15 years. So much easier than I remembered. Literally 0 deaths in my play through. Still fun though. Also ganondorf was mind numbingly easier

[@alyssasalmon4883]

Master mode is a much better challenge for more experienced players, and is recommended especially because of a entirely new layout. You can play master mode in either the 3D version, or by getting the GCN ROM.

[@OriginalPiMan]

I recommend the randomiser. The game will present a real challenge when the items you need aren't where you remember them.

[@ccheyenne]

Yeah, I'm often amazed by how things that seemed hard as a kid are much much easier as an adult

[@EmergencyChannel]

Zelda games have never been hard. The hardest thing is figuring out the puzzles, and they are rarely difficult.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Ganondorf is one of the more haxed and broken video game characters

[@roadroller8851]

@joshua spriggs *DORIYAH*

[@chuggaa100]

Not even close.

[@Gamer1288]

It would have been AWESOME to fight Ganon as the Fierce Deity.

[@natejoe9924]

I like ocarina of Time but when I was a kid Majora's mask Ben always my favorite and it stil is today's Majora's mask is my all-time favorite Zelda game

[@thragara5100]

Thats the Content that i like to See ! Great stuff again !

[@DragonEnthusiast]

The Link scream sounds like he had waaaaayy too much coffee and Zelda was worried for his health.

[@glitchingnumber]

8:23 beautiful the dark knight reference 😃👍🏻

[@skarmeta77]

Actually, that's frase that always exists way before that film.

[@Ayyem93]

This is a nitpick, but you kept referring to Ganon as Ganondorf. The big pig monster is Ganon, dorf is the small human form

[@BurntCedar-43]

Cough cough gerudo

[@Ayyem93]

@@BurntCedar-43 Gerudo are humanoid, even if they aren't really "human"

[@jumponeverything]

It is still ganondorf though, just in a different form, unlike the other games with ganon

[@Ayyem93]

@@jumponeverything bruh it literally says Ganon when he transforms

[@cixlo]

@@BurntCedar-43 gerudos are human because they carry the x and y chromosomes that are compatible with hylians who have chromosome compatible with humans. Hence they're all humans.

[@Glasyara]

So ocarina of time could have a shadow of the colossus style last boss? Hell yes why didn't they go on with it wtf

[@iciclecold2991]

System limitations. It would not have been able to render the whole thing at once so it would not have worked.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@iciclecold2991 Just use fog.

[@mnmmcg3543]

And it burns, burns, burns...

[@Livithen86]

I love you Swanky BOX, do more legend of Zelda videos

[@danielevans7439]

Considering I played the Zelda games in order as a kid... Ocarina of Time’s final boss in comparison is a bit of a pushover. I remember borrowing the game from my cousin and beating it in one weekend. Still, those were the days.

[@LyfSukz]

Honestly i've always felt that the game as a whole is way too easy. It's as if they were afraid to actually make any of the combat difficult.

[@danielevans7439]

LyfSukz Outside of Zelda 1, 2 and BOTW, I’ve always felt like they were on the easy side. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Skyward Sword has it’s moments too, but is unbalanced.

[@aryandescendant6116]

@@danielevans7439 BOTW? That Game is Brutal,Dark Souls level brutal!

[@danielevans7439]

Aryan Descendant I said BOTW is one of the harder ones.

[@aryandescendant6116]

@@danielevans7439 Oh okay.

[@lucasramey6427]

I hope one day we get an ocarina of time remake so the dev's can do the castle sized ganon fight they wanted to do

[@smilesfordays]

Honestly, by that point I had been playing with the Goron sword for the last three temples. I was just confused and aggravated I had to reequip the sword I had been using for so long 😂

[@skylarharpy2439]

4:26 Is the bloodcurdling scream Link or Zelda?? (I know he said link but it sounds like zelda screaming from the sidelines and I’ve never played OoT so I wouldn’t know :( )

[@GeorgeDCowley]

The completed scream is Zelda's. He was talking about the infinite first frame of Link's cry.

[@silverhetch3383]

Majoras Mask vs Ganondorfs Pants XD

[@persenn8935]

Even though he wished for death, he was unable to die. So eventually, Link stopped thinking.

[@justicegraceful2171]

i think calamity ganon was a throwback too, he was almost the size of hyrule castle

[@GothamiteYT]

Imagine stretching this out for ten minutes lol

[@edgelord8337]

Link: so the mighty gannodolf's most powerful barrier is just this dinky thing lol. Ganno: fuuuuuuuuuu-

[@stanstanstan2597]

G A N N O

[@kristen34896]

I tried loading Ganondorf outside the cut scenes in Ship of Harkinian and he spawned in that pose every time 😂 I’ll have to try this in other areas now you’ve piqued my interest

Myfirst time against Ganon: Me using only the Goron Sword. He get's rid of my Master Sword I'm standing there "So what?" and keep hitting him 🤣

[@cecillewolters1995]

It is possible in The Windwaker to get past the barrier and play the game normally, speedrunners do it. what I did always wondered tho: How will the world look, if you leave the black and white, frozen in time, Hyrule castle in the Windwaker? Will the world still be frozen in time?

[@joseroldancolon2846]

Can we focus on something more important like, who's ganondorf's mother? Kotate and kogame are surrogated mothers so who's his real mother and how and why is he like this in the first place?

[@friend_trilobot]

Seeing the pants just flying up out of the rubble 😂

[@sergeantbear8686]

"Link gawking at absolutely nothing for all of eternity"

[@benmaclean2789]

I really wanted to see Ganon in the lava!

[@tapewormrage]

*gurgling burning Link noises*

[@decimation9780]

Wait... so if it wasn’t for the limitations of the N64... Ganon's OoT beast form would canonically be the size of a castle, and would probably be the most overpowered version of him to date? I don’t know whether to be thankful or fear for my life...

[@joelkreiser9851]

I never really played Zelda, but this makes me willing to play through some of them

[@stanstanstan2597]

Y O U S H O U L D. I would recommend Twilight Princess, Majoras Mask, Ocarina of Time, and Breath of the Wild.

[@joelkreiser9851]

Tristan McQuern I’ve always wanted to play ocarina if time. I’ll start with that, than play botw

[@gdmc5127]

@@joelkreiser9851 Oh and you should also play a link to the past

[@0dayrepairs]

@@joelkreiser9851 This dude hasn't even played the games yet and he knows where the top tiers at ^‿^

[@TwilitGamer01]

What a lovely pair of trousers!!!

[@rowaned14]

4:25 ULTRA COMBO!!

[@jmcmullen6197]

Swanky, have you seen the recent video from GameXplain taking about how remarkably similar the Ganon’s castle area looks to Tarrey town from BOTW? Could be just a clever Easter egg but mind blown lol.

[@sonicmastersword8080]

Okay. Somebody make a game where you battle Ganondorf’s pants.

[@dazzle-o1086]

That moment when you get so mad at a broken game that you make a video about it.

[@derevcheirtov2332]

Doesn't Ganon's tower collapsing looks like the goddess temple expansion in the beginning of Skyward Sword?

[@tonyasizemore8937]

Link almost sounds like he doing the backwards long jump

[@mathprodigy]

Even when u break reality, fire barrier still wins

[@GG256_]

That's definitely Zelda screaming. Not Link. Sorry to be nitpicky. Lol.

[@0dayrepairs]

The glitchy repeating sound is links scream, and the loud high pitch scream at the end is Zelda. Just to nitpick slighty more.

[@SwankyBox]

Indeed! I was referencing the repeating, stuttering sound as it is actually Link's extended scream starting and getting cut off every frame.

[@ryangainey94]

But we can spawn this stuff in the lava, right? Or elsewhere in the game, for glitchy purposes

[@Coughing_Blood]

I'm proving that I read descriptions by pointing out a spelling mistake "(...)I'm hear today(...)" 'hear' :D

[@TheMadHatter248]

The true source of his power is his LEATHER PANTS!!!

[@KywiChannel]

Except, the speed running community already can go inside the castle barrier

[@animeking4953]

link would end up like anakin after his fight with obi Wan on mufifar after that burn 🔥

[@frankiegrimaldo9933]

I've always wanted what would happen by chance a Kansas City game if what would happen if Ganon like was going out the Zelda without and link to even do nothing when the firewall was down is that possible

[@thecarrieshot6411]

I used to beat ocarina of time 3d myself with only 3 hearts. I used a few fairies usually throughout though

[@Void_Echoes]

If this is Ganon’s most powerful spell, why doesn’t he just create a bunch of these fire rings and make them close in on Link? Free win, right? Obviously from a gameplay point of view that would be impossible, but in-universe that would be the most logical course of action.

[@parallelarchaos9720]

But we're still waiting for moon lords legs

[@Kaitri]

link with the triforce of courage: fears nothing and can overcome pretty much anything ganondorf with the triforce of power: the universe he exists in, he gains almost godly powers and brings darkness to the entire world. ... zelda with the triforce of wisdom: she can open the doors in ganons collapsing tower. if i was ganon, id capture link as a child/at the beginning of his journey when he lacks the experience and equipment to defeat me. and then zelda is someone who clearly has no use out of her triforce and cant do shit. ps: its weird that the devs made the barrier extend downwards. its common that loadzones and barriers extend upwards forever. but downwards? thats a new one. especially when you cant even get below it.

[@greatduck5297]

Actually based on the way it behaves, it probably isn’t an actual “barrier” in the usual sense. It probably just checks whether link is more than r distance from the center of the level. It would be the cheapest way to do it, and far easier.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

Zelda’s scream is way worse. Unless that’s what you were talking about.

[@streetfighter351]

First time I fought him I had the Biggoron sword so I was completely fine

[@LyfSukz]

I always used the Megaton Hammer on Ganon.

[@omniscientomnipresent5500]

Ah yes, bad design walls. The true enemy of old games.

[@casriel]

*flashbacks of wind waker hyrule castle barrier

[@mattdekker5693]

Tell me more about the "fire bererer"

[@MrMinou176]

Should call it a plot barrier

[@m_windcloud3403]

I finished ocarina of time 1 week ago and suddenly you start making videos about the same game

[@RainbowDashShadesOfApproval]

*begins legendary fight with ganondorf leks

[@wesnohathas1993]

He didn't even mention the barrier in Breath of the Wild.

[@Lumberjack_king]

1:19 shadow of calossos style

[@parkerbeck2335]

If you murder the spirits it disappears

[@funkykong2776]

Dude, I could never beat ganon. Big Goron sword and all.

[@Spikehead777]

Now the real question is... Ganondorf pants? or White pants?

[@gav5148]

7:56 halarious

[@quitethehandful]

Can you do a video on "what if link could jump" in ocarina of time?

[@thejoycoffin5615]

Hover boots would kick in everytime

[@quitethehandful]

I want a full fleshed out video.

[@RogueRabbit]

Do you think that I should buy ocarina 3ds or buy an n64 and buy all the classics

[@RogueRabbit]

@A B what?

[@shibba2517]

3DS

[@lorelo.]

@NanoPhoenix Why not do both,and grab an N64 emulator for your 3dd?

[@stanstanstan2597]

I would recommend the 3DS version, due to the much improved art style and graphics. Also, the menus and item placements are GREATLY improved.

[@cixlo]

Way brighter than I remember.