Why Breaking into Zelda's Castle at Night is a Bad Idea

Gerudo Guards running and arresting you with spears > Hyrule guards yelling at you like an exhausted parent who is too tired to move

So ganondorf never kneeled before the king in that shot. He was kneeling to the void. Much more sinister

"As a kid, I used to call this 'my house' " DUDE, I thought I was the only one! It was just so cozy there.

"There's a stream, or river, that flows around the castle, like a moat." Not just like a moat, it is a moat.

Dang, who knew that Hyrule Castle could have such a weird security system?

Fun Fact: The "Animated Sky" that you see when you are in hyrule field is just a giant cube rotating horizontally. It's probably not apparent in the console versions or the HD remakes, but when playing using an emulator with higher graphics, you can faintly see the lines of the four corner edges of a cube.

This is a question I've legitimately had since I was 8 years old. THANK YOU for finally answering it haha!!

Glad to see “this is my house now” is universal. I also used to pretend that i was a guard apprentice and have to find the blind spots for the guards

That's pretty clever how they stacked bits of the castle so that it looks right in the one angle you normally see it, but saved memory space by not fleshing out the parts you don't see. I never saw before that Zelda's garden area basically had a ceiling.

Seeing you walk around on that blue carpet was so fulfilling lol. I've always wanted to enter the child version of the castle just to be there—in an uncorrupted monument to the resplendent but naive monarchy of Hyrule. Now I've seen someone venture there, and I am happy.

Story-wise, the guards being more competent at night makes perfect sense to me. At night it's easier for a thief or an assassin to sneak, so the guards are more alerted.

The thing that always frustrated me about OoT Hyrule Castle, is that you could never really explore the inside of the castle besides the garden areas and exterior! Mind you as a kid, I'd imagine there was more to the castle when in reality its just a few interior pieces seen through the windows that give the illusion it is a huge castle! I'm also guessing that the reason I felt that way was due to how massive the interior of PEACH's CASTLE in SM64 was! By the way, the proper term for the flag-like things on the walls in the 3DS version is tapestries! Also Swanky didn't talk about the guard near the window who pops up if you hit the west window with the Fairy Slingshot and throws a bomb! Hopefully he'll talk about it in another video (presumably one where he figures out how to load in the rest of the garden at night)!

You're breaking into a castle at night, of course it's a bad idea

I've been curious if you could beat the child dungeons as an adult and vice versa. I'll let you decide the items.

Actually, it would make more sense that Zelda would be peaking in the window at night. Sure the scene would look weird in the dark, but storywise it's perfect

It’s very possible that you originally had to sneak through Hyrule Castle inside to get into the courtyard. Either that or Hyrule Castle was a child mini dungeon at one point.

I find shit like this super interesting mainly because it makes you realize how far they had to go to cut corners when making the game just to make it work with the hardware limitations at the time.

Honestly stuff like this makes me wish there was just like, a version of Ocarina of Time's map that was fully explorable. Like a fan demo in Unreal or something that just like, literally makes the map, but fills in all the space that the developers originally left out, like the castle, and you can just like, walk around and explore the whole thing. It'd be so cool

idk i feel like breaking into someone's house when they have an entire army and a really scary dungeon for people who they dislike is a bad idea no matter when you do it

Ok, no joke. I used to love finding the secret spaces in video games and saying the same thing! My favorite place in OoT was the secret little back room in the windmill of Lon Lon Ranch. The one you move the boxes to find. Once I discovered you could actually pull the box closed behind you, and still enter the crawl space, it was over. Lol.