A Brief Review of the Handheld Zelda Games
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Reviewing the handheld Zelda titles for a little over three hours. Strap in for a long one... though that's why you're here, right?
0:00 Intro
2:17 Link's Awakening
33:23 The Oracle Games
1:15:12 The Minish Cap
1:51:17 Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks
2:52:15 A Link Between Worlds
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#kingk #zelda #review - Hry
I’m glad KingK is finally experimenting with short form content
It's just a small time commitment of 3½ hours! Not much at all!
Yes. And the experiment was a mixed success.
Oh my god I didn’t even notice
Can you imagine how short a 20 minute kingK would feel like?!? probably would feel like a 5 minute video.
This is my favorite form of content.
A "brief" 3 Hours 😂
Excited to watch this one!
Well the review of each game is brief. Especially compared to his usual review/retrospective length. I'm sure you figured that out though lol.
Always a surprise to see Bandy anywhere.
it's an overused run-down joke amongst channels like this
Oh boy look who's studying up for a 7-day Zelda handheld 100% marathon. (I jest I jest. Nobody wants you to do that to yourself again.)
@@amesoeurs nah bro it's hella funny
I was hoping for a new re-evaluation of these games because I've seen K's entire Zelda series 10 times now... I think I'm addicted to this channel
You are not alone. I rewatch his Xenoblade videos every time 😂
You'll be pleased to know that KingK has announced bigger plans for covering Zelda and that this video should act as a bit of material to pass the time until then
@@trgabrielgf I am very eagerly awaiting that video
King K, Joe Anderson, MatthewMatowsis, SomeCallMeJohnny, and a few others are my favorite background noise when I'm gaming or working. Ive listened/watched all their stuff countless times
@trgabrielgf2651 I imagine he has big plans covering Zelda considering the biggest (in terms of sheer scale) game in the franchise by far has been out for a couple weeks
At the start of the Phantom Hourglass you say that no one calls Tetra Zelda. Someone calls her Zelda in the beginning of the game and Tetra tells them to knock it off
The king is back
back again
It's a reupload
@@makaveliandcheese It's true. I was wondering why he sounded so pre-2020's, and then it hit me.
@@makaveliandcheese it's better than nothing at least we know he's still alive
the moon is right
I feel like A Link Between Worlds isn't talked about a lot, probably due to its odd remake/not a remake status. It's a shame, I think it's one of the best Zeldas and deserved a lot more praise. There's something about it. I love the way it's structured, I love how it feels, and I love the dungeons and bosses. It's the Zelda I have the least negative things to say about it.
Agreed. It’s proof-like with Link’s Awakening-that a simple story can still be a strength. As much as I loved Twilight Princess and Windwaker and the concepts of Skyward Sword (I loathed the gameplay even before it exasperated a chronic inflammation illness) and Breath of the Wild (I do not own either system), they…got lost in the weeds or had major pacing issues. (We never do get an explanation as to why the Bublins abducted then scattered the Ordonian children, or why they utterly massacred New Kakariko and terrorized Impaz and Ilia in Old Kakariko; and well. The Triforce Hunt in Windwaker is just…bad pacing. Nevermind it’d have been narratively stronger and better mechanically if Tetra wasn’t literally sidelined under a beacon telling Ganondorf exactly where she got dumped off.)
But LBW? Okay, so it’s twist is pretty obvious in hindsight-why so much lava, Hilda? Why are you talking to Zelda’s Painting? Yuga did say “her grace” several times-but the first time playing was a “oHH…” and because we get to empathize with her, she still works as a twist villain. Condemning another planet to crumble like hers is pretty ruthless. And with Link’s Awakening? Reading the owl statues and talking to the NPCs has “something’s not adding up…” but having the Nightmares literally pleading with you to *stop,* finding the relief revealing the island’s nature but having your owl guide basically gaslight you, then pull the trigger and…it really was destroyed afterall and you’re now stranded at sea and left to die? …Oof. I’ve played LA DX countless times and it still punches me in the gut and fills me with dread. (And imo, OoT tried to be TOO Big a narrative and utterly failed at it-kinda like how its Hyrule Field is so…boring and utterly empty even with the shard of agony to say “oh look! Bombable pit with a cow inside. Isn’t that nice.”)
Simpler stories can still be meaningful, especially if they have the space for side content, like with Majora’s Mask and Breath of the Wild. Sure I do love my complex stories, but Zelda has yet to really do a complex one better than mediocre while it has some spectacular simpler ones (and many simple stories that are, Eh. It’s just an adventure romp versus anything groundbreaking narratively but -other than my dislike of Damseling Tropes- that’s okay.)
It’s my favourite 2D Zelda game
It's true that it does almost nothing poorly, but it also does almost nothing amazing. It's just good.
In my case I haven’t had a chance to revisit it yet as I have previous Zeldas. I will replay it in the upcoming weeks
@@bl0ndi550 Idk its def the best 2D Zelda and does a ton of things amazing. It felt really close to BOTW and TOTK in terms of me being able to lose so much time just exploring and always finding cool challenges or items.
The Saria's song thing is also hinted at pretty blatantly... you talk to the Goron outside of the shortcut and he says something along the lines of, "Darunia really likes the music you can hear coming from this door."
He says something even more obvious like "brother really enjoys a song he used to listen to from the forest"
Geez, barely over 10 minutes. But all gold as usual, KingK! Good luck with the 3D re-evaluation!
10 minutes is good for algorithms
@@inthebasement2989 Phew, he just made it then
KingK using the TotK fuse ability on the handheld games!
Oracle of ages and seasons... the puzzlebox and the gauntlet. Truly wisdom and strength tested
Finally! My first zelda game was the handheld one where you become a painting, and whenever I bring it up to other zelda fans they click their head at me like I'm crazy, and have never heard of it! So glad to see someone talk about it again :)
God I love ALBW so much. I really wish its structure and dungeon style is used in a BotW-styled game, I think it's a really good compromise between the old and new formulas.
3:18:46 Yeah that exactly sums it up
0:04- "I enjoy practically every game."
Great! Can't wait for that Link: The Faces of Evil retrospective, King K!
The remakes are "okay" if you really liked YTP back then.
"Practically" lol
Honestly if anyone can see the what tiny good may exist beyond the bad it’s going to be King K
no. 2:52:21
As someone who’s favourite game was Minish Cap… this was a difficult watch lol
"brief"
*3 hours*
I'm excited for this listening material today. Definitely wasn't expecting this upload, but I always like to hear your thoughts on any game, so this is no exception
“Brief” - 3 hours 😂 lets gooooo
I miss handheld style games. I assumed that when the switch came along we would be getting the efforts of both the handheld and console teams in the same console, rather than the longest drought between original releases in the franchise history.
Maaaaan that would have been so cool. It's been 3+ years since the links awakening remake, did they just stop altogether?
Oh my God, 3 hours of KingK cotnent, and Zelda no less. I'm shaking and crying
lol
Chill.
It's a reupload.
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Don’t sob over the whole video!
I share King's taste for the Oracle games, especially Ages. Mermaid Cave is probably my favorite Zelda dungeon because of its mysterious and more extreme past/present changes. More people need to appreciate how good the Oracle games are.
I’ve already seen all these reviews individually but you’re crazy if you think I won’t watch all 3 hours to get this man the attention from CZcams he deserves
I've watched every video at least twice anyway, what's once more
@@SebiBubble only twice?
Man have I missed your videos! The Oracle games were pretty much what got me into game dev, thinking of the day my dad bought OoS for me still gets me to shed a tear over that time
8:58 The "Also I know you can use the stock, to light the fire, to break the bomb for the shortcut so stoooop telling me..." still makes laugh so much. By far the greatest moment in everything I have seen from you all these years. 😂
When I first watched the OoT essay years ago, I remember thinking, “oh, he’s definitely getting eaten alive in the comments over that one” when he said that. Didn’t have to check; I knew. I still find it funny that he brings up the backlash here.
The bosses were the one reason I'd want you to bring in some commentary on the Switch version.
Also, I remember the Game Boy genie boss being pretty hard as a kid, due to that last phase where it would just keep spawning on top of me and your lack of health. That's where I picked up the habit of always having the medicine.
I am somewhat worried that it feels like we might not be able to get any more games like Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks. With the success of Breath of the Wild and the upcoming Tears of the Kingdom, I struggle to see Nintendo ever deciding to scale down their games as they could do with the Handheld games. They weren't perfect by any means, of course, but they had a different style and character to them that I can't help but miss. I dunno. Hopefuly I'm wrong.
But... BotW and TotK ARE handheld console games.
@@aikochalice6963 I think they're right though. Handheld games used to be their own thing and that's what made them so endearing to a lot of people, which is why it's a little sad that we've lost that charm of smaller scale titles
@@JubertMathias Well that era is probably gone for all of gaming now as it seems. It's sad to see it go, but also seeing every game now being a full, big thing is also amazing. I can, however, absolutely see Nintendo doing a 2d Zelda again in the Future. It'll be a slightly bigger game I'm sure, but why wouldn't they still do 2d Zeldas in combination to the grand 3d Games.
@@ilzuab8467 who knows, we'll see what happens but at the end of the day they look at numbers more than demands, so they'll probably stick to what sells
Cadence of hyrule was released in a 2d format after all. We might get some games in the future hopefully, just not on 3ds.
really HAD to hit that ten minute mark, didn't you?
The Return of the King
I would love to hear a review of Zelda for the billionth time. I’d honestly could go to trillions I’m obsessed with them 😊
to this day, the ending of a link between world has the 2nd most emotional ending of all the mainline zelda games. the moment a new triforce is created for lorule is amazing, snd the ending credits starting with the title screen’s triforce and dead triforce and then switching to both triforces being golden along with the music is the perfect bookend.
Ravio was the true hero all along.
so excited to watch this and whatever zelda videos in the future. I remember when BOTW came out I was basically stuck in bed and in a lot of pain. seeing your videos come out made my day. doing better now and with every zelda release i cant wait to listen to your hours long videos about them
I always find myself rewatching your zelda videos so its cool that you have compiled all your 2d reviews into one video. Keep up the good work man!
Was rewatching your stuff yesterday thinking "man, been a while since he uploaded anything", next day I wake up and bam, new vid. Hope ur fine ! Thanks for the content :D
*gets comfy*
Ok. I'm ready for 3 hours!!
I honestly think that this is the best format for LoZ. I played almost every handheld Zelda and there’s something about playing a game about solving puzzles and exploring the world on a handheld that makes it enjoyable.
Also as a kid we had limits on tv and computer time, but sneaking in some more time on the gameboy was much easier, and many nights were spent under the covers with a little flashlight since they didn’t have built in backlighting until the SP. Sometimes I would even have dreams where I would solve puzzles that I got stuck on, since I played until I basically passed out.
The game boy light was the first one with a lit display. Not the SP.
No one in the comments seems to get that this is a compilation of videos already on your channel... 🙃
Oracle of ages was my first zelda game and seasons my second a year later. I got them both on christmas and they are still my fav games in the series :)
Your voice is so soothing and the way you talk about games is so interesting that your videos are strangely calming. In other words a super long video like this is welcome even if it’s rehashed old content (that I go back to sometimes anyway)
Was just listening to your Zelda reviews at work a couple hours ago and then this drops love the timing.
I always enjoy K's reviews and its such a relaxing way to just go mindless and work on art. Thank you again for all your effort into these videos I really love them and to an extent like to model some of my process for artwork scripts for speedpaint videos similar to your style!
Hooray more King! Love your videos, found your channel last year and you are great!
played minish cap on switch and honestly? it has become one of my favorite zelda games, top 5 easily
Always nice to get a nice short video from the king. Thank you so much
thank you KingK for the *very brief* review of handheld Zelda games
Your Minish Cap experience seems like skill issue to me, I am totally biased
I swear, I could listen to KingK talk about ANYTHING for 3 hours and come away happy. 😁
Let's go! New background noise for work!
(No seriously great work on these KingK, looking forward to the reevaluated review.)
I love how you left the intro and ending cutscenes complete and uninterrupted.
Thanks for keeping it brief. Easy to digest
woot woot, King K is back. Love you man, keep them coming. You and others make my day go by faster at work.
10:00 I can still hear it. I don't think I will ever forget the sound of King Zora scooting over.
i had already seen all these videos individually but i just saw through almost 3 and a half hours and watched them again.
Excited to watch after work. Darn work
finally.FINALLY. Master, ill be devouring this video with great pleasure
this was a treat. thank you.
Happy to see an upload. Hope you’re well brotha man
This my fourth time listening to this lol I be listening to your videos while I’m working
Thumbnail: 3 HOUR MEGA REVIEW
Title: brief review :)
K, I love your videos so much. I have seen your entire selection of videos more than once because I believe they are all so interesting and well put-together. Im about to watch this video in its entirety for my 3rd time.
Watching this one with my bros, thanks for the awesome videos man :)
Love the video man, I’m gonna fall asleep to these for the next few days
Well this is the best way to end the weekend! Guess I'm going to sleep at midnight. Hi from London, UK!
minish cap is the best zelda to start with
a new KingK video? hell yes!! way to make a good day better!!
Took me three weeks, but I finished it! So much fun revisiting all these!
So crazy that I first started following you during the lead-up to breath of the wild, and now here we are!
u have such a low key & beautiful voice King K. One of the most beautiful voices I’ve heard
That Links Awakening transition was cold, my dude!
Great video. I loved revisiting these discussions!
My brother and I chipped in together to buy both Ages and Season. Ages was my game and Seasons was his. I loved both of those games!
Now about Minish Cap: sure, if you want the heart piece, you need to do all the figurines. But if you're already open to not getting 100%, then why bother with the heart piece? After you have enough hearts, one extra isn't really all that useful.
this video is just what i needed today
The phantom hourglass and spirit tracks review is one of my comfort videos
I love that brief is 3 plus hours
An amazing video to have posted during a long road trip!
Why this guy doesn't have an asmr channel yet makes me question this so much.... dude your voice is PERFECT for it
Always good to see you King 👑
This is exactly the kind of content I need for downtime during work
WELCOME BACK KING!
Liam and king dropping bangers on the same day? Dude I'm Booked!
My favorite bass-voiced king is back
More content to listen to while I work. Niiiiice!
I got Link's Awakening new as a kid in 1993 and it has been my favorite game ever since. When I was younger it felt like people only talked about A Link to the Past then Ocarina of Time when it came out. Link's Awakening never got that love back in the day. Glad to see people enjoy it now.
Just watched these videos a few weeks ago and I’m down to watch them again ✌️
1:13:56 Well there is the Hero's Cave bonus dungeon that has 2 different versions based on the play order. Admittedly not a combination of both games' items and abilities which I agree would have been amazing.
My main issue with the Kinstone system is that it cancels out any satisfaction because:
1. RNG... nuff said (of course this applies to the figures and the Oracle game's rings as well)
2. It creates a disconect between the work and the reward when fusing Kinstones with randos causes unrelated things to happen.
Any plans to cover the co-op centric games? Four Swords and Triforce Heroes are ok at best but I honestly think that Four Sword Adventure is highly underrated. (even when single player)
Glad you got this video under 3.5 hours, for a second there I thought this video would be false advertising.
The oracle games are still some of my fav zelda games of all time,i still own my original games.i remember playing them for hours on my moms Gameboy color
Wooohoooo!
I'm playing A Link Between Worlds now and it's been amazing!
My evening has been filled.
Bro gave us a KH3 video and a Zelda video back to back. I love it!!!
my favorite zelda games were all the handheld games, so i know im gonna love this video!
really enjoyed this
The video I didn’t know I was waiting for.
Didn't know i needed this until now. Glad you're covering Zelda again.
It's his old videos combined
@@fregatopolitis I'm aware. Thanks for pointing out the obvious though!
I appreciate how you recount your playthroughs, thoughts and experience with these games. It's not always in line with mine personally, that's ok tho. It's your review, from your perspective
I still remember the moment I found out about the secret reward you get for beating Link's Awakening without dying once.
2 times. I'd died 2 times in my playthrough. That's why I never got it back then.
I almost broke my phone in sorrow induced rage. It had a crack in the screen from that time onward.
Link's Awakening isn't my favorite, but it's easily in my top 3. Very few games *period* have moved me like that one did, so it'll always have a place in my heart.
Glorious. I just started a new Minish Cap game
Thanks for great content. Ur channel is one of the really special ones :)
Perfect timing, I’ve been finding myself missing 2D Zelda recently. Can’t wait to watch this video slowly over the next week lol
I can't believe we had a 5 year gap between 3d zelda games and Nintendo never thought to port over link between worlds or make a new 2d zelda. It's nice that we got the links awakening remake though
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holy shit - ok thank god it's a compilation, I thought you went insane
Holy fuck I didn’t even realize I wanted this and now I’m so happy. Keep it going King!!
HE'S BACK BABYYY