Zelda's Disturbing Analog Horror

We’ll be looking at 2 KZbinrs that have taken the more darker, established ideas and themes from The Legend of Zelda, and used them to create their own analog horror stories, adding to these mysteries. These creators are Stuffy Studios who has created the series “The Macabre Experiment”, and Maple Riot, who created the “LOZ” set of videos. I’ll be focusing on these in the video.
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CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:31 The Macabre Experiment 3: Ben Drowned
10:59 LOZ
19:42 Outro
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CREATORS HIGHLIGHTED
‪@Stuffy..‬
“The Macabre Experiment 3: Ben Drowned” ► • The Macabre Experiment...
“The Macabre Experiment” Playlist ► • The Macabre Experiment
‪@MapleRiot‬
“LOZ: 1987” ► • LOZ: 1987
“LOZ: Hide” ► • LOZ: Hide...
“LOZ: The Basement” ► • LOZ: The Basement
“LOZ” Playlist ► • LOZ
“Too Much Kirby (TMK)” Playlist ► • Too Much Kirby (TMK)
CREATORS MENTIONED
Jadusable (Creator of the original BEN DROWNED Saga) ► ‪@Jadusable‬
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MUSIC USED IN ORDER
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask - Title Theme
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (BEN DROWNED) - Song of Unhealing
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask - Cavern
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask - Ikana Valley
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask - Fairy’s Fountain
Pokemon: Gold & Silver - Pokegear Radio: Unown
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Hyrule Field Night Theme
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#loz #analoghorror #themacabreexperiment

[@lololordjr]

Ben do be drowning

[@nothilton4943]

and "JACK" do be "JACK"

[@Kok0mi-main]

Fax

[@calebd3947]

Benjamin is indeed losing his ability to breathe underwater

[@JJ-xs3nu]

Something something it's drowning time and drowned everywhere? Idk 🗿

[@Mr_unfunny419]

​@@calebd3947rip Benjamin Franklin

[@fillspace6982]

Ben drown was the pioneer of analog horror, is sad that almost everyone got stuck on the first step of the story

[@endlesswonder__]

Agreed

[@shamwikkis1551]

wym?

[@SirAsdf]

​@shamwikkis1551 Basically, "I bought a haunted cartridge at a garage sale" is one of the cheapest, most unoriginal creepypasta beginnings you can come up with.

[@shamwikkis1551]

@@SirAsdf ohh

[@sneakyshiekah8780]

@@SirAsdfyeah, but Ben Drowned was the first story to use that setup. Also, that’s not what he’s referring to. He’s referring to the fact that the creepypasta is only the first part of a huge ARG

[@dragonquesti8629]

In LOZ: the basement if you turn on captions it will say "he's home early" and "i'm serious i didn't see anything"

[@slimeinabox]

18:01 I dont know about the oldest zelda games but fairys are used to revive link when he runs out of health. It probably represents the kids passing by becoming the zelda equivalent of an angel, but it could also imply a loop back to the first video. Especially the part with the distorted fairy fountain music.

[@Plumpus3545]

I played the first Zelda and the fairies do the same thing as the other Zelda games, however they did reuse the sprites for over-world fairies and great fairies.

[@Rocklobsta_]

I didn't know Ben got that Walten Files DLC

[@jonathanstone7273]

Ganondorf got so much drip, it got ben drownin'

[@theveganduolingobird7349]

That “without him” scared me so fucking bad that jumpscare killed me 💀

[@MasonJS]

NO SWEARING

[@Vitor20XX]

6:51 Holy shit, that's a mix of Link statue with The Maze Game screamer. Finally someone made imagery using it lol, that face scared me for years.

[@redlily2893]

The Macabre Experiment one kinda irritated me because of its presentation. With analog horror the main reason why people like it is because of nostalgia. It takes something like a news clip, cartoon, or tv show and corrupts it in a way that is somewhat believable for its time. I don't get that same impression from Macabre Experiment, it just looks like they added VHS effects and distortions to media that wouldn't have been on VHS. This would've been better if they took inspiration from digital analog horror that replicates 2000s internet crustiness rather than VHS analog horror.

[@shmeckledorfdiddly]

agreed u cant just slap on some effects and maybe tweak with the clips and call it ur own u have to bring something to the table that is unique but the 2nd one is pretty cool and unique tho

[@CybenX_yt]

it also would've been better if they had a single original idea lmao

[@shmeckledorfdiddly]

@@CybenX_yt yeparooni

[@Tvconsumer]

That analogue horror

[@LimeonCandy]

You do realize that Majora's Mask was released like 5 years before VHSs were phased out right?

[@beautybeyondthegrave]

I LOVE the Macabre Experiments by Stuffy Studios! Thanks for mentioning it, Sunflower. You never fail to impress/amuse me💕🌻

[@tomo8940]

He really had to censor that pixelated child even more lol

[@pastel1791]

Jesus, I don't think I've had an experience with analog horror that kept me up at night since my first watch of the Walten Files. Nowadays I'm so desensitized to AH stuff that I mostly just watch it for the lore/ARG elements, because mystery is fun to puzzle out. But... that scene with presumably Jack being beaten to death by his father, even with the censoring, was just... brutal. Horrific. Way further than most AH series are willing to go. The pleading, the text getting more jumbled as though spoken through sobs or grievous wounds, each horrifyingly pitiable phrase being punctuated with another terrible crunch... Props to Maple Riot. Serious props. Some of the worst shit I've ever seen, in the best possible way.

[@ShadeMeadows]

You know it's good when it leaves me cravin' for *MORE.*

[@Store_64]

Your video on the splatoon analog horror was great, i got chills from it in some instances, this will be a good one for sure as well

[@kento4732]

The skull kid laugh still makes me uneasy to this day

[@anonymous-fl2mg]

Ben: (playing Minecraft) Drowned: *exists* [[This information has been stricken from the record and cannot be viewed.]]

[@pringlesmingles9531]

Stuffy Studios made a new analog horror video called “Enola’s Minigames” and it’s pretty terrifying. I would like to see a video explaining the lore or something, would be cool :)

[@Nintendogs08]

Can I just say, i'm glad you censored *that* scene as graphic content really makes me uncomfortable

[@isabelortiz1230]

It wasn't that graphic

[@inception445]

@@isabelortiz1230 if you imagine it it's still a rendition of a child being bludgeoned to death by a sledgehammer, didn't give me chills but more of a semi uneasy feeling

[@TheMaskedFox288]

The moment after you said "Things appear to be normal." Then link started burning to death i audibly said "Ope there it is!"

[@fleaman6947]

7:29 fun fact that shadow dude (I call him Mandela catalog dude) appears in EVERYSINGLE video in the Macabre experiment

[@GOAWAYYY3]

Awesome! I highly recommend checking out stuffys other work as well, like the two chapters of malediction (its an interactive KZbin game with a pretty unique story) i wouldnt call it a straight up horror series, but it definitely leans into the genre a bit I think it’s REALLY underrated as well 😂

[@danniramey5876]

I have a theory of what maybe happening with the LOZ series, I think what happened was that the young boy Jack accidentally came across his father killing someone maybe his siblings which drove his dad into a rage. And which had caused the chase that lead to being brutally killed in the basement. Cause as he was attacked he said he wouldn't tell his mom what he saw, and that makes me think he either found the dead bodies of his siblings or some other kids or something else dark that Jack's father was keeping a secret and he had to kill Jack to keep.

[@Stuffy..]

Oh cool

[@GOAWAYYY3]

hey stuffy

[@Odindoesstuffreal]

16:24 this you?

[@danielkendricks-jp8lg]

Imagine repeatedly getting hit by a sledgehammer Could never be me lmao 💀

[@TeviousCronin]

In LOZ we get more insight with captions on basement I accidentally had captions of and it said some stuff that you wont hear in the video. If this is present in other videos, I don’t know I’m to lazy to see but I just wanted to point that out hopefully you’ll see this.

[@LaggingLeland]

Congrats on 50K!!!

[@Sunflower41XD]

Hey thanks a bunch!

[@Modeus_the_PSYcho]

banger video!! great vid sunflower!

[@BloodSlimeNuggit-un9fg]

I know the sinking stomach feeling, Jesus it's a weird feeling

[@davindean6780]

Finally a version of ben drowned that isn’t made by a cryptobro

[@jeremypool6888]

Was the original made by a crypto bro? And does that end up influencing the OG series?

[@Mauripsu]

Same question, what happened to the original?

[@davindean6780]

@@Mauripsu he decided to sell the original videos as nft’s

[@Mauripsu]

@@davindean6780 Scummy and stupid ngl

[@sosansational]

@@davindean6780HE WHAT

[@MAV11]

You could do a video covering the rest of the macabre experiment series. That would be interesting

[@CooperDooper38]

Thank you for knowing how to pronounce Macabre I watched someone else cover the series a while back, and they kept pronouncing it like McCabber. Drove me nuts

[@Cheese-Slime-Sheriff]

No way is Benjamin creepypasta drowning

[@loganpowers3875]

Correction: Majora's Mask is the emperor of dark Zelda games, not even close.

[@BloodSlimeNuggit-un9fg]

Oh my god! They killed kenny... I mean jack!

[@Dumm_ye]

you bastards

[@terramarc]

Creepypastas vs deleting the save file (it deletes the ghost too)

[@dogeggsofficial]

Your channel is pretty good man! Keep it up! :D

[@MyNamesNotLars1]

Whats old is new again. THE DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD! AND THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT!

[@Greg_Heffley69]

Benjamin inhales too much water with a lack of oxygen In which Benjamin looses his life due to suffocation

[@eeveecollector217]

No joke, I was watching a video a bit ago, and then this appeared. When I read the words "I just want to be freed," my mind went to the commercial (song idk if it's a parody) that goes "I want to break free" and it's like, a laundry commercial of sorts I think. Been a while since I last heard it 😂

[@UnstoppableGiant]

You should do a full video on the Kirby one

[@OobleyGoobley_]

Me resisting the urge to rewrite Ben Drowned to have an ending where Ben is freed and laid to rest

[@ilikepokemon222]

Man my friends are lacking they love Analog Horror and never showed me the LOZ one?!

[@lucocollapsdo6881]

12:48 "Register my name" nah im good

[@slimeinabox]

on a completely unrelated note: 7:44 sometimes when its dark and i close my eyes i see those almost exact two eyes staring back at me but their green. They're even unlevel like that. Weird.

[@BasementDweller_]

Wow Ben drowned again. But for real tho, I love these creepy pasta reimaginings. They are groovy.

[@kongman536]

Mofos literally spooked by jerma faces.

[@TheCreepyLantern]

and it's NOT a rehash of Ben Drowned? LET'S GO

[@PentaBeans]

I love this so much

[@butterflyfromhell885]

If I died and had to haunt a game it wouldn't be Zelda it would be de blob 2 on Wii the greatest game of all time

[@vhproductions]

They'll make an analog horror vid on anything, huh?

[@amelia.lolzzzzz]

Yes, and I am grateful for that

[@Funkyfi]

Good job

[@gojirafan6155]

13:10 the other save files could represent jack's siblings

[@quirkychap]

I think the distorted picture is funny partly because the eyes appear to be looking in opposite directions, which is almost always funny.

[@curiositykilledthecat5118]

Maple riot has a great Kirby series too. He just has a bad habit of not finishing anything

[@user-cx8xd5cn8g]

i accidentally read "i just want to be bread"

[@BlazingKhioneus]

13:05 To me, it looks like the sprite of Link, I mean Jack, looking up at you, the viewer, instead of looking forward like in normal gameplay.

[@aroacegoblin6359]

19:00 ok but like you should definetly cover TMK if you havent already. the story goes deeper than the SM64 and BD videos.

[@Sunflower41XD]

I've seen a few people now recommend covering it so I'll have to look into it more 👀

[@aroacegoblin6359]

@@Sunflower41XD WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@alphetti4348]

I like both versions although the macabre version is just the 1st chapter.

[@Mehicanoman]

6:50 at the same time I accidentally zoomed this in and I thought it was me who zoomed it in so immediately panicked and tried to zoom out of it

[@loneyshadow102]

Ben really said "i want to break free"

[@schlomokomo]

i saw the first loz video and went: "this is a story about an abusive dad!" and i was right.

[@NAT3_SQW4D]

What about… LOZ: the basement..?

[@shannonodea8432]

niceeeeeee, new vid.

[@MisterJW]

The Ben Drowned ARG was much better than this Analog Horror attempt

[@BlazingKhioneus]

16:20 Back on my soapbox about hardware accuracy: the NES would not produce that reverb.

[@TheSadMusician]

Oh my god finally

[@ToastersToastToast]

For the first one, that smiley face goofball is theorized to be Ethan Macabre, the founder of the lab these experiments take place in.

[@KittiIsNonbinary]

To analyze this properly you have to include the entire Macabre series

[@YOUR-MAN-CRINGE4592]

The second one hit different because my name is Jack and I love The Legend Of Zelda series 🥶

[@alkv7604]

If i were to die and posses a video game, it be pokemon emerald, or ORAS. I'd be the chillest ghost ever lol. Sometimes challenge the player to a battle with my own team, and if the player say no to the battle, i'd be "cool ok, see you next gym battle, peace" the only way i'd force the player to a fight, it be after the champion, kinda like the steven fight or after the delta episode. Heck, i want to kinda fight competitive and i think the player would like to have a "real" fight

[@5upertnt_ng73]

i said "No, fuck off" and flipped off ben when he said he wanted to rest peacefully, and he jumpscared me as revenge >:(

[@FatManThor953]

Did somebody mention the door to darkness.

[@Withersage]

Ben when he drowns

[@FRAYZOIN]

Bruh I would think a Metroid analog horror series would a hit

[@Odindoesstuffreal]

its not “oh no samus is possessed by a child” it follows the story of metroid from samus’s view

[@FRAYZOIN]

@@Odindoesstuffreal I meant like about the space pirates

[@CZ-JEWEL_Off1cial]

First Needle mouse now we got

[@TheTSense]

O LORD GIVE ICEBERG

[@jazz8000]

I wouldn't say LOZ is a horror, its just one hit after another, its interesting to look at but not at all scary, kinda predictable BUT its pretty and high effort.

[@bluevines1303]

The zelda theme in loz was wierd to me felt off

[@user-ul1lc5gj6y]

Or maybe ben Father help from the evil energy, How to cheat death.

[@BlazingKhioneus]

Something that has irked me on nearly every analog horror series i've seen (especially back when the shovelware piracy screens were big) and it really tries to kill my immersion every time, but, say it with me, hardware limitations. I'm getting so tired of people doing analog horror, an artform predicated on recreating the nostalgic feeling of something from years of yore, and just not doing their homework/paying attention to detail. Example: say we're watching a super mario all stars analogue horror. It's starting to freak out, at the crescendo we get a GBA crash sound. Now, you dont need to be a nerd to know the SNES's sound chip isnt quite as powerful as a GBA's.

[@-Korok]

There was some very creepy pasta :( 🍝🍝🍝

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

So my personal interpretation of Macrabre Experiment 3 is that it's actually a criticism of people who just try throwing well known internet horror icons into their stories in an attempt to make it seem good... Ben is just sick of being thrown into your fanfics and x reader fics.... He just wants to rest in peace outside of the empty shell of the link statue.... It's a stretch but I quite like it

[@lazarbeam4626]

Is that the imposter? Seems like it as it shows link not Zelda!

[@zb3397]

Thumbnail goofy asl 💀💀

[@Ea22727]

You 💀

[@etherealrat1818]

Benjamin really did drown fr

[@sosansational]

oh fuck yeah i was obsessed with ben drowned as a teenager

[@trolldecai6874]

The scariest part of LOZ is that he doesn't go for the sword like dude get the sword Edit: Nevermind its the bludgeoning

[@waterman7082]

5:37 looks like he has a goatee

[@user-gt5fy5ow4i]

Den browned

[@ZaidMustafa-bq2qq]

LOZ: Legend of Zelda

[@Freemanoffical]

4:07

[@MAV11]

stuffy commented lol

[@stavkous4963]

nice

[@krzysiokrzysiaczek1023]

i see you hiding in the comments i see you

[@Dracovenatrix]

Bro what is this title

[@oliviervanhuut8411]

i like how my parents whipped out the nintendo 64 a few days ago and it had OoT on it and i wanted to play majora's mask as a used copy but i dont think i want to do that anymore... (btw my name is really oliver)

[@jadenpadin4707]

Um yes

[@azzlackguhnter5635]

5:35 Bruh looks like doge I think thats throwing you off

[@glux1829]

God loves you

[@crazyd2226]

I need to inform people this! I just farded and a poopy almost spilled out