The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Iceberg: A Deeper Look

I wrote a short story about that dying guard in the alley for school in grade 10. Had him pegged as a man of great honour and duty. He gets bad vibes from “the man who came from the desert” notices some of the castle guard are acting suspicious. He gets told not to show up for guard duty by his superior officer, given the day off. He goes for a walk in the gardens, then he sees Impa fighting several guards, one of the guards goes for “the princess” and springs into action. Taking sides with Impa they protect the princess, they sneak and fight their way out of the castle and into town. They are headed off by the man in the desert and several guards, they sneak through alleys but eventually they are being chased. He stops and makes his final stand, he is mortally wounded but manages to slow the pursuers enough for Impa and the princess make it out. It was like 11 pages lol.

8:00 When you don't have 50 rupees, he still demands it as normal, but since you don't have the required amount it doesnt deduct what you have left. You can walk to the door and it triggers his "HEY YOU CANT LEAVE WITH THE ROD" line, which resets his dialogue tree. So you can approach him again and talk to him normally to end the fishing game.

The alternate jingle for pulling the Master Sword might've been from your friend not having their N64 plugged in properly. If they only had one of the two audio cords plugged in all the way, then you'd only hear half the jingle. The left and right parts of the song are vastly different. Without both playing simultaneously, it would be easy to think it's a different jingle entirely. The fisherman just gets upset that you don't have the money and just takes the loss himself. I forget the exact words. But I'm pretty sure I was broke the last time I did it. Or maybe he just took what little I did have.

As a German I'm absolutely proud to have had Killer Grandmas in my game. I just love how the German team translated the game, that's high peak German humor.

I think the Gerudo symbols on objects look better, but I prefer the original fire temple song and Ganondorf producing actual blood instead of his runny snot.

21:00 I’d like to say that spending “more time than you’d like to admit” trying to kill Redeads with the Sun Song actually isn’t embarrassing at all; People trying crazy things like that is exactly how easter eggs get discovered. For example, in Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order, there is an easter egg that requires activating a door that is only available to you once in the game 66 times plays a line of Darth Sidious executing Order 66. I’m not sure if this one was discovered genuinely or datamined, but there are many older games with easter eggs equally as inaccessible, if not more so, that people discovered simply by trial and error as you attempted. One of my favorite quotes, from Albert Einstein, is: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Never stop asking questions. Great discoveries are made because of them.

Mido originally being the Sage for the Shadow Temple actually makes a weird amount of sense! The towns in the original Zelda II are named things like "Saria Town," "Darunia Town," and "Nabooru Town." There's also a town named after Mido. Whether Mido was intended to be a Sage and the idea was scrapped last minute, or if he took after Link (in the Hero Defeated timeline) after having been jealous of him as a child, is up to interpretation.

The Master Sword music was from having a mono speaker vs. Stereo speaker setup... There existed TVs that only had the yellow and white rca ports all the time. Nightmare Before Christmas had that too during the part where the mayor is announcing the awards after the opening song... I'm sure there are a ton of other examples, but OoT and NBC got played a LOT in my house back in the day

In regards to the gerudo mask, if ya wear it while talking to Nabooru the first time, she comments that it looks liker her before denying, implying she may be Talon’s wife

Proud to say I still have my original gold cart of OOT that my dad got me for Christmas of 1998. Has that original Fire Temple music too. Shit slaps

I always felt bad for the guard at the gate, because he commented that his son really likes that character. He wears that mask from that moment on saying that he'll give it to his son when he visits him, but he never takes it off meaning that his son never comes to see him. His son must be the kid at the graveyard.

I had never herd of the term "iceberg" in this context. Wonder when it started. I've avoided watching this video for a while because I didn't want to watch 2 hours about the iceberg in Zora's domain.

So! A few things of note: 1. Regarding the Twinrova respawn: It's on a 10,000 frame timer, and yes, you can in fact get over 20 total hearts. See ZFG's 2020 AGDQ OOT glitch exhibition. 2. ARWings are spawnable without cheats, you can use ACE (arbitrary code execution) to load the ARWing from within the game. 3. Yes, you can enter Jabu Jabu as adult without hacks - he may be gone, but the loading zone still exists, but at a different location, so it's still possible to enter the loading zone and get into Jabu Jabu's Belly.

I love how your videoes aren't trying to be all dramatic and spooky like a lot of iceberg vids. They're just these comfy looks through some really interesting trivia about games. Just really easy going, definitely appreciated on my break at work!

30:07 the masks actually trigger different dialogues depending on who you talk to, for instance, wear the zora mask and then talk to Ruto, she'll ask whether this means you're ready to marry her...

I love the personal anecdotes. A lot of other iceberg videos focus on only speaking about the games, but hearing other peoples stories is much more interesting!

I never noticed that the Kakariko Town music changes depending on Link's age... good video! Oot is such a nostalgia trip for me

the cucco in the windmill is there for a weird easter egg. Basically, you get up there, activate nayru's love, grab the cucco, fly toward the tree with the brothers, then talk to one of them and he'll talk about seeing it.

That bit with the Kakariko music being different with time made me a bit emotional. It reminds me that, even if I visit my childhood home now… it may be similar, but it will never be the same.

The fisherman gives you the triforce.