Sunday Morning Game Ocarina of Time Part 16

Who's This Dapper Young Gentleman?!

July 22, 2018

(I play Ocarina of Time every Sunday and write what happens inaccurately. See previous parts here. This is a pretty decent jumping on point, though!)

All riiight, if you're just joining we've gotten the three magical stones, and we're going back to Zelda for a lark and a good fun time now that the world is saved from the terror of not having combined the three stones, and from here on out it'll be all Deku nuts and Diving competitions.

...Let's just go back to Zelda before I get way ahead of myself.
(Actually, buckle up because we're in for a lot in this one!)

So I scrub back through the lake to Hyrule Field and get back to the town--
Except it turns to night before I do, which means you can't go inside. So I goof a bit around the field before I scrape a little closer to the closed gate where


where a cutscene happens.
Oohh, it's been a while since I had a cutscene!

The gate flings open and I see a horse riding out, and my first thought is it's going to be a recreation of the teaser dream from the beginning of the game where Gano--excuse me "Mysterious Desert Mantm"--rode out, but no, it's actually "Impa" and Zelda on a horse!

also, that horse has eyelashes.

Zelda looks surprised back at me--the guy she met once in her entire life--and throws a tiny object that I immediately see what is but we're going to leave it a mystery for another five minutes.

You can see it there, very faintly, in the sky, being thrown. It looks like a rock.

And then BAM

a pretty cool action shot, actually!

Oh no! Mysterious Desert Mantm! He's riding out of the town as well, but stops for no reason outside the gate and says


They were right up there. Like, you can probably still follow them, guy.
He then turns to me and asks me where they're going (I actually don't remember what he said, but let's just say that) and I don't reply and he's all like

no dude, I just didn't tell you where they are going because I don't know, chill. We can talk about this.

No?

and then he throws magic shit at me and drops a name bomb

FINALLY! I can write his name. Ganondorf. DORF. He's a dorf. (I can't be the only one who thinks Ganondorf sounds silly? But he'll rule the world, so who am I to judge.)

And then I faint because of the magic thing he threw at me and I wake up in day-time, none the wiser.

Except, there was that thing Zelda threw in the river.
So I swim down and (struggle quite a bit with the angle) and grab it and Link apparently knows what it is

I mean, yeah, it's an ocarina, but how do you know it is the Ocarina "of time"? Just because it's blue?

Then another cutscene-thingy happened where some black texts appears on a grey background.

I.. uh, missed the text. So here's a grey background.

Zelda!

And then Zelda mind-speaks to me and tells me I should use this Ocarina to play a new song she also mind-teaches me.


It's called the Song of Time! A lot of "of Time's" here... Wonder what it means.

Oh.

Also, the triforce is mentioned again! Almost forgot about that. What was I supposed to do about that again? Protect it? Where is it?
Nevermind, Temple of Time!


I go inside and run up to the altar and play the song like nobody's business and a door in the back opens, and I'll just present the next part in picture form:


THE KEYBLADE??!

Oh. That one.


So Link pulls it up like any ol' Arthur and Light swims all around him and then


Ganon mind-speaks just like Zelda did. And he... praises me?


Which, ok, he explains that I played right into his hand and opened the gates to the Sacred Realm for him, which is like, fine, an expected turn.
But. He says that he "knew" I would be the one to know how to open the Temple of Time.
Which, like. He only met me 5 minutes ago. He's never seen me before, and when he did, he did not hold me in high regard.
So, why the fuck would he think I, the stupid Kokiri kid, would know anything about opening the Sacred Realm?

But yeah, I apparently did some bad shit. Whoop-de-bloody-doo, surprise, everyone, Link messed up.


And then it does another faint-fade and I wake up in front of this dude.


His name is the sound a dog makes.

That's an odd way to spell Time, but ok.

The sentences "Don't be alarmed!" and "Look at yourself!" don't work well right next to each other.

And then comes the grand reveal, the moment we've all been waiting for.
Will The Real True Hero please stand up?

uhhhhh

hmmmmmmm

whaaaaa

What happened to his nose?!

He's definitely big. Let's wait and see about the whole "grown up" thing.

And then Sage guy dumps a lot of lore on me, which basically boils down to, I'm the Hero of Time (which, whoops, I've said it wrong this entire time??), because only the Hero of Time can pull the Master Sword from the thing, but I was too YOUNG to be the Hero of Time, so they SEALED ME INSIDE THE TEMPLE FOR SEVEN YEARS.

What do you mean, you imprisoned me for seven years! My entire childhood! My innocence!

(For the record, when you say no, he dumps the entire lore thingy on you again. Don't say no.)
And then he dumps some more lore.

The "Gerudo King of Thievestm", huh? What's he stolen? So far he's only failed to steal a Princess.

And now he's the King of Eviltm. Quite a promotion! In only seven years! I'm proud!

And, big surprise, Sage guy says that we need to find the other Sages (you see all the empty circles in that room? Yep) and I'm obviously the right person for that job because I've just been locked in a spirit realm for seven years,


but I get a shiny thing so Link's happy, at least.
And it fades again and we're no longer in the Temple of Light (which wasn't very... you know... lit).


Phew, that was a lot! Time to go back in the world as Big Boy Link and find out what's changed in seven years!

Nope.

Oh hi

We got more dumpin'.

Temples! This is a Zelda game. Roger.

The Real Zelda Starts Here? (Strap in, we've got a whole game ahead of us!)

And only after that does she tell me that she's "Sheik", the "Last of the Sheikah" (which if you remember, Impa, Zelda's advisor, was also a "Sheikah"), and for some reason she's just been waiting for me in the Temple of Time, as if she's got nothing better to do.

Which, okay, like, this is a spoiler that I'm not supposed to know yet, but... I do... so I find it silly to keep it hidden? And I think most people know at this point.
If you do not know who this person is, I'm sorry. Spoiler Warning.

This is Zelda. (Although, she has red eyes? Zelda didn't...) Wait--

She is seriously waaayyy cooler looking than This Bufoon.

"hiiiiiii"

I'll repeat it again, give me a game, where I play Zelda/Sheik, instead. Christ.

Wait, WHAT. That girl on top of the shop in Kokiri Forest is the Sage? Who would've guessed!

Hey, lady. I've got a Sword and Shield and a Boomerang. What more could I possibly need?

So, she wants me to head to Kakariko Village (So it's "Kokiri" Forest and "Kakariko" Village?? No wonder I get confused), so NOW it's time to head outside and see what Ganon did with the place while I was gone.

...Okay, I like... the aesthetic, but... maybe, add a little more color in somewhere?

So I head to the Market to get out of town and instead of the happy-market-goers--there's... remember those zombie things from the Royal Family Tomb?
Yeah? Those are here.


Just, literal zombies, running around. Ok, outta here!

Aahh, much better. (Why is this still the same?)

Ok, look at that guy in that image. I know it's just because I'm not used to it yet, but Link still just looks... wrong. It's gonna take a bit to get used to Lanky Link (don't press that Link unless you want to have nightmares).


But let's save Kakariko for next time! This was a shorter episode in terms of time, but boy, a lot happened so I think this is actually one of the longest ones in terms of text and there's a LOT of images (I grabbed more screenshots for this one than any other so far).
So let's continue out adventures with Lanky Link in the not so distant future of way less than seven years!