I love castle defenses, but I also have a lot to learn. Let me know you have and critiques or suggestions!

@BowlOSoup6661

10 ай бұрын

Edit: Nevermind I'm just stupid

@TheFutureJedi

10 ай бұрын

Ello

@SoloTurtle

10 ай бұрын

Not enough monkeys

@riptidedune

10 ай бұрын

Honestly it would be a lot of fun to have a side quest to defend Lookout Landing, kind of like (spoiler place).

@Tablecloth479

10 ай бұрын

Hi bread pirate!

Don’t worry, once the fort is completely destroyed they’ll use link as the last line of defense.

@TheBreadPirate

10 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, Link is 300 yards away creating a Korok shish kabob.

@longlivethe9989

10 ай бұрын

@@Entropy8132 the teleportation sites operate separately from towers and damaging them is definitely not a priority for the monsters. Not to mention a shrine in the castle town ruins that's like 20-30 seconds away from the fort. But yeah Link's existence kind of makes it impenetrable...

@Blue2Pran2907

10 ай бұрын

@@Entropy8132 or a travel medallion

@Redmeteor200

10 ай бұрын

Uh oh...

@bread1242

10 ай бұрын

@@TheBreadPirate mmm 😋

The mental image of Link screaming at Purah and everyone else in Lookout Landing like Gordon Ramsey about how awful every aspect of the fort is is amazing

@Isuream6331

10 ай бұрын

I’m now imagining Link being Hyrule’s new general. Sounds terrifying for any foreign country

@BonaparteBardithion

10 ай бұрын

I'd say most of them get a pass since there hasn't been a Hyrulian army or even a united monster front since Link's time, but Purah was there. She lived through the Calamity and she should know better.

@jacobspies6380

10 ай бұрын

Especially if you imagine Link only using his various grunts/sounds along with hand gestures, i.e. how Link communicates with Bread Pirate 😂

@karenaugustyniak4925

10 ай бұрын

WHERES THE BETTER DEFENSES

@ineedzemedic5810

10 ай бұрын

Knowing Link is basically a zonai engineer of mass destruction. I understand

The only reason a Lynel hasn't leveled the place to the ground is because link leveled the lynels before they could do that

@legion6211

10 ай бұрын

There are 9 lynels in the overworld I believe, All of them are nowhere near

@gavinmcintyre1742

10 ай бұрын

Yeah and you can thank link for that

@BisexualPlagueDoctor

10 ай бұрын

@@legion6211there used to be lynels closer by, still, like, an entire kilometer and a half away but whatever

@wesleysylvester6444

10 ай бұрын

@@legion6211 the run super fucking fast. would be a 3 minute run

@ulrikebeckmann4986

10 ай бұрын

​@@wesleysylvester6444and they can teleport if you run away they will maybee teleport to you

I like the fact that other people besides Link are at least /trying/ to fight the monsters now. I'd like to see an analysis of the Monster Fortresses.

@GerardMenvussa

10 ай бұрын

One of my favourite part of the game. People found hope after Link's victory at the end of BotW and have become proactive, it's nice :)

@jark06

10 ай бұрын

I really like that people actually know who you are and are taking an active role in rebuilding or protecting hyrule. I really hope that years from now the next Zelda game is a new link and Zelda set after TOTK, and we get to see hyrule properly rebuilt, with actual huge towns like castle town. Obviously to keep the game fresh other stuff would have to change but I think seeing this hyrule fully restored would just be cool.

@iyes-ux2dt

10 ай бұрын

What about a Gerudo town analysis

@franconunez925

9 ай бұрын

Link seeing the villagers: *thumbs up while smiling* "You really suck at this but is a decent first step"

@Chris-gx1ei

9 ай бұрын

Link is on a whole new Level, he is a Bioweapon of the Gods that defeated Grown Ups at the age of 4

The yiga has even better defences in any of their bases than the castle

@longlivethe9989

10 ай бұрын

the yigas have literal books about fortification principles lol

@Jaxagain.

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@longlivethe9989A lot of people view the Yiga as incompetent idiots but compared to the other people in Hyrule they are gods.

@Ordinaryhumanbeing-cg5vx

10 ай бұрын

@@Jaxagain. They’re just understaffed.

@Luxembourgish

10 ай бұрын

@@Jaxagain. Kohga is not smart since he defeated himself with his own rockets, Sooga did all the hard work.

@agent_squidboy0470

10 ай бұрын

The Yiga even write notes about how and where to build forts in the depths

To be fair to Lookout Landing, I got the impression at the start of the game that it basically didn't exist when Link and Zelda went to the Castle. I thought it was just the staging ground for Zelda, Purah and the researchers, and was turned into a fort and central command post after the Upheaval to *"Look Out"* for the missing Link and Zelda. It must have been constructed in a hurry with whatever materials they had on hand, which was likely mostly stuff from the Hudson Reconstruction caches, which would explain the heavy use of planks and wooden beams.

@sarowie

10 ай бұрын

it would also explain why the tower is integrated so badly: The unterground section was there first, then the tower, then the walls. They would fortify the tower "eventually".

@sakurakitsunestar

10 ай бұрын

I agree I feel it was a research camp that ended up fortified (just badly)

@brycebitetti1402

10 ай бұрын

​@@sakurakitsunestarTo be fair, I don't think Hyrule has a military at the moment. The only one of them who was actually involved in any actual military outfit is Link, and he wasn't necessarily a master tactician.

@vraolet

10 ай бұрын

Also the damaged escape tunnel and the vault predate the creation of the fort which would kind of force them to build it here anyway, and I say damaged escape tunnel because it probably was in a much better state before the earthquake that created all the grottos and abyss.

@homerman76

10 ай бұрын

There's also the fact that Bokoblins and Moblins aren't especially intelligent, so some basic fortifications would still help enough. That being said, still no excuse for the drawbridge that can't go all the way up because of the lighting 😅

I can actually explain the plank thing: Lookout Landing is built right on the remains of Castle Town. In BotW, the area around Hyrule Castle is littered with the remains of buildings, but in TotK most of them are gone. It's highly likely all the good wood left in the area was scrapped to build Lookout Landing in a hurry, rather than spending time hauling in and sinking 200 logs. Which of course is not a good excuse, but it is an explanation.

@Kyonari

5 ай бұрын

would make sense since its also not really required to be that good as the monster problem really only got worse after it was already created

@ARCrow007

3 ай бұрын

it was build OUTSIDE of castle town where the phantom chestplate was obtainable (also the 1st memory picture in botw)

@appledoo

Ай бұрын

@@ARCrow007 fun fact : you can move wooden boards, they aren't sedentary :O

@Majora404err01r

Ай бұрын

It's actually built on top of the sacred ground ruins 🤓

this actually got me thinking about how long it took to build and how much time went into it. Because the game almost implies that nearly every change you see happened after "the upheaval" but we don't know if that was weeks, days, or hours before Link wakes up.

@giornaguirne

10 ай бұрын

I believe it's stated by an NPC that it was about 2 weeks. Lookout landing isn't terrible considering they'd been without a government for 100 years. The princess and a lone swordsman returned only a couple years earlier to take over the few settlements scattered across a post-apocalyptic landscape. I think people are asking an awful lot of what's essentially the Nick Jr Walking Dead crew.

@godzillahomer

10 ай бұрын

@@giornaguirne heck, if Lookout Landing was built for the purposes of restoring Hyrule Castle Town before the upheaval... It makes sense. It's not a military base. It's a worker camp, either designed to keep wild animals out or hastily rebuilt into a military outpost.

@jark06

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m pretty sure lookout landing was a base camp before the upheaval to investigate hyrule castle and the gloom. Once link and Zelda disappeared purah took over and refugees/researchers moved there and a small military was built up.

@WhitePointerGaming

10 ай бұрын

There's at least several years between the end of BOTW and when Link wakes up on the sky island in TOTK, given that several characters, such as Tulin and Riju, have noticeably aged, and then there is Mattison, who wasn't even born in BOTW but in TOTK is old enough to go to Gerudo town. Granted, we don't exactly know how much time passed between the end of BOTW and the *very* beginning of TOTK (when Link and Zelda are exploring under the castle), but that's the best guess we have at the moment.

@patrickshaw411

9 ай бұрын

After severe damage, I wouldn’t be surprised if Link was asleep for 2 months. His hair looks longer too even if the original was in a ponytail. 2 months is also a good time for everyone to respond to the calamity. We have lookout landing as well as the Zonai Research team, and that sort of organization doesn’t happen overnight.

This video makes me imagine Link running around, yelling at random civilians, yelling at Purah, explaining all of this just hand gesturing to the areas he's complaining about

@west3Dgaming

10 ай бұрын

I can't explain how much I want to see animated shorts from the perspective of villagers of Link dropping out of the sky, buying every piece of produce available, then jumping on a rocket and blasting away. Dressed as ridiculously as players tend to dress

@thegoldenapplebryanwu6816

10 ай бұрын

@@west3Dgaming I'll do that right away.

@notimportant221

10 ай бұрын

FEED ME YOUR MIND-DATA, HUMAN. MY DATA-HUNGER GROWS EXPONENTIALLY. MY POWER GROWS EXPONENTIALLY.

@ness6714

10 ай бұрын

I like to think that once he got the new arm he had the sudden urge to be a build critic.

@celestialdragonlord5004

10 ай бұрын

@@thegoldenapplebryanwu6816 I'm looking at your channel bud......where's it at??

I just figured Lookout Landing wasn't originally designed as a fort but as a research station, and they hastily had to throw together fortifications from what they had available when monster started cropping up again. Also, they probably don't expect the monsters to lay proper siege, they probably just expect small-to-medium groups of monsters in waves, not an army of 2,000 using actual tactics and strategy.

@homerman76

10 ай бұрын

Which is a fair expectation with how the monsters normally behave, if the monsters moved in mass no amount of temporary defense measure would be able to help. Defenses on level with repelling such a force would require a lot more time and resources because of what Lynels, Gleeoks and Talus are capable of

@noxic8863

10 ай бұрын

​​@@homerman76 in fact I'm pretty sure it was mentioned somewhere that Gleeoks didn't existed before the upheaval (or at least they had no record of them) just like the Gibdos and Horriblins, so it was kind of impossible to be prepared for them before they started finding them around and assessing their powers and weaknesses

@OtakuUnitedStudio

10 ай бұрын

@@noxic8863 Given how the researchers describe the changes in biology and behavior for 'Blins and Lizalfos seems to have be really sudden, they probably didn't even get a chance to plan for THAT. It's been a few years at most - some of the kids from BOTW have gotten bigger and some new ones have been born and are old enough to talk. Yet that's still really quick for Stone Age level creatures to suddenly start wearing armor and building fortifications.

@davidchao6606

10 ай бұрын

I’d assumed it’s more like a forward operating base from which Purah coordinates and spearheads research efforts. The defenses are prob hastily fortifications in response to the blight.

@taddad2641

10 ай бұрын

Monsters don't have the strategty to do so though they have the numbers. But if ganon was ble to direct them again? Though it seems as if Ganondorf had other plans. He wanted to seize control with minimal resistance and, possible, casualties to the people. You can't rule a land without a population after all. Every single situation in the four other races of hyrule is ganon acting to weaken them. Forced the gerudo into a siege situation and held them down. Poisoned the zora till they could barely move. Inhibited and distracted the Rito with that blizzard. And most deviously was drugging the gorons and likely had plans of turning them into an army.

I like how after praising the underground area for being hidden he climbs the ladder, and shows how the entrance is in plain sight of Hyrule Castle.

@aguyontheinternet8436

10 ай бұрын

but like, they wouldn't think to look there for a secret underground entrance, right?

@Walsh-ts1so

10 ай бұрын

@@aguyontheinternet8436 scouts or archers from the castle wall can see the secret entrance open as soon as it does

@WyGuy2087

9 ай бұрын

when you first enter the lookout landing the area is covered by a stone trapdoor isn't it?

@HungryWarden

9 ай бұрын

Not to mention the fact that the passage is already full of monsters.

Cut em a little slack. This place wasn't originally intended to be a fort or a castle- it became one out of necessity. They had to construct this while already surrounded by enemies, and the bulk of the outer walls was probably made over only a week or two. I think it's implied that Hyrule Castle was cleared of monsters between BotW and the Upheaval, so they may have thought they didn't need to defend as much from that angle.

@nerdwisdomyo9563

6 ай бұрын

Some of the design choices actually make it HARDER and less intuitive to build, like planks instead of logs for the walls, and moving all the dirt from the moat off to wherever they got rid of it, and having four gates instead of one It is objectively easier to not do those things, they are deliberately making the whole building process more difficult for less gain But its a video game so idk its not that big of a deal 🤷‍♂️

@meatlemonade3338

3 ай бұрын

i also think that since the calamity, a lot of knowledge and skill was lost in various trades including construction. you really only see a very few new homes being built in hyrule and they're all in the same prefab style. it's remarkable they were able to get the skyview towers and lookout landing up at all

Don’t forget that the Escape Tunnel is to escape Hyrule Castle itself, not Lookout

@dogman15

10 ай бұрын

And 100+ years ago, it was probably much easier to traverse. No need to swim or destroy rocks.

@webbowser8834

9 ай бұрын

Oh sure, originally I'm sure it served it's purpose admirably. At this time though, it's a monster-infested liability. I actually think Pirate was being overly generous in his analysis of the escape tunnel, it really does not serve any beneficial purpose to the Hylians in its current state and would require a *massive* effort to make it anything other than yet another entry point into the landing.

@calebjones7868

9 ай бұрын

also it hasn't been properly Maintained for over a hundred years due to Ganon shenanigans

@jesusramirezromo2037

8 ай бұрын

It literally leads to where the monsters are coming from, they're better off with it being sealed

@brlin

8 ай бұрын

The rocks are there possibly because when the royal people flee from the castle, they bombed the escape tunnel to discourage the chasing enemy from approaching.

I think one thing in favor of the moat is the fact that monsters in BotW/TotK can't swim, and will just die when submerged in water, save lizalfos. I don't know how many lizalfos are in the surrounding area, but that would cut into the monster forces significantly once all the drawbridges are raised and such (obviously the moat can still be bridged and got around other ways, but that fact does help)

@OtakuUnitedStudio

10 ай бұрын

The closest Lizalfos are near the Dueling Peaks. They'd have to travel a good distance, and would most likely be coming from a direction that would give ample time for planning.

@joshuaneate358

10 ай бұрын

As explained in another comment, Lookout Landing doesn’t stand a chance. Aerocudas can easily soar above, can carry monsters and drop them to breach the fort, or drop bomb barrels and raze the compound to the ground. This is shown in several instances in the game like in the Turin quest and in some parts of the depths. Next, Moblins can throw Bokoblins or rocks or whatever over the walls. Horriblins can go through the Royal Passage and into the emergency shelter if they have the knowledge. Any well commanded monster force (especially with silver enemies who have 700+ health) can certainly breach Lookout Landing. Even with a large Hyrulean combined-arms force, their weapons are not the best, either decayed or low damage and durability. Silver Moblins and Horriblins and Bokoblins will easily tank and do major damage. Hyrule’s only hope is if Link comes to the rescue, and with his swordsmanship and skill he will be able to fight off the attacking forces. But if link isn’t there, Lookout Landing is going to be destroyed.

@Sarah_H

10 ай бұрын

I think the moat is shallow enough in some places for moblins to stand up in. I'd have to check again, but it ISN'T that deep

@ggholdengo

10 ай бұрын

@@joshuaneate358 last time I'm playing as link, I'm trapping koroks in a crudely-made wickerman and setting it on fire with dinraal

@bridgetst.julien6902

10 ай бұрын

To answer your question on how many lizalfos, ALL OF THEM, THEN A BLOOD MOON HAPPENS THEN THE ONES LINK ABSOLUTLEY OBLITERATED RESPAWN AT THE SAMD PLACE AS ALL THE OTHERS

I feel like although the lookout landing was supposed to give link a sort of starting base to stay in, it could’ve had more special moments that made it more than just an outpost. Some ideas would be like a horde of monsters start invading the lookout landing and you have to help the soldiers fend off the monsters. Things like that would make the lookout landing feel a bit more special or atleast feel more like an important part to your adventure than just a house of men and beginnings of fan art.

@jark06

10 ай бұрын

Beginnings of fan art hahahaha

@wetmanux54

9 ай бұрын

Like the gibdo attack on gerudo town, but more

@quinndaniels1928

9 ай бұрын

@@wetmanux54 yeah, that's a good point. I did the Gerudo quest line before any of the others (really was hoping to see the Gerudo Vai outfit return and was willing to complete all the quests in case it was unlockable. Not upset about that at all,,,,,,) and it kinda made me think that the other questlines would also include some sort of seige event. That was way before I learned of the monster forces side adventures, though. But it would have been cool to see the different races fight and defend alongside each other, more than just the sages.

@seelcudoom1

3 ай бұрын

it should have been ganondorfs army instead of them just being in a pit you jump in you actually rally hyrules forces to invade the castle and ganondorf sends his army to put a stop to it, and you get reinforcements from the various side quests you did

I think one of the reasons Lookout Landing is built so strangely is because it was built as a residence first... then they added the tower. When the miasma started, they probably started fortifying it and used the planks they were using to build more buildings to build the wall. Also, the area they built in was already a lake with 4 entrances they had to bring in soil to make the landing as it is in TotK since it's the sacred ground ruins the lake was much larger in BotW.

@lunyxappocalypse7071

Ай бұрын

Thats a good point, but if so they technically could of created an outer wall. That is what's traditionally done.

The best part to me is that all of their worst defenses are facing Hyrule Castle, which, to their knowledge, is where their worst and strongest enemy is residing. That's where they should have the most protection of all!!

@spacebras

10 ай бұрын

In their defense (haha) lookout landing was built in between game one and two :)

@randomnobody660

10 ай бұрын

​@@spacebras eh. I'd say it's built entirely in game 2, some time between prologue and when link wakes up on the sky island.

@damiankaleomontero496

10 ай бұрын

but Purah and the like all say they don't know if Gannon's in the castle, and for years it has been a very safe area, so assuming the monsters from the south are a bigger threat is not necessarily dumb.

@thenitpickchannel9993

10 ай бұрын

@@damiankaleomontero496 i know but then again the same castle that was once safe is no floating and had Gloom spewing from the bottom, so I’m not just gonna assume that Calamity 2 won’t happen. I’m surprised nobody had PTSD from the calamity and started fortifying that side of the fort immediately

@OBDT_YT

10 ай бұрын

@@damiankaleomontero496 Tbf I’d also wanna be better protected from the floating castle in which resides the highest concentration of evil substances in the whole kingdom /lh

To be fair to the tunnels, if Link wasn't an excavation machine who could easily clear the tunnel at the slightest whiff of shinies, the whole thing would be clogged with rock and debris, and the actual entrance into the Emergancy Shelter is small (so the larger and more dangerous monsters cant get in at all) and thus is easily barricaded and defended when that barricade breaks.

@gblackuser

10 ай бұрын

Also, the escape tunnels aren't to go into the castle. The escape tunnels are meant to get the royal family *out* and to their emergency shelter in case of siege.

@captianblitz

10 ай бұрын

Yes but in evaluating Lookout Landing the history behind it needs to be ignored in place of strategic value. Is it a cool fact? Yea. Will that fact stop a Moblin from skewering you? Probably not.

@EmissaryofWind

10 ай бұрын

From the NPCs dialogue, nobody seemed to have known about the tunnels before we're able to explore them. Which is a little weird because Purah and Impa should have been familiar with the castle's defenses pre-Calamity, but from the way the tunnels look it's very possible they had fallen out of use long before the Calamity.

@faithh5546

10 ай бұрын

​@EmissaryofWind yeah, and there's a sign at the bottom of the stairwell talking about Rauru and stuff (I don't remeber exactly) which no one knew about him until fairly recently. So I don't think those tunnels have been used in a LONG time

@EmissaryofWind

10 ай бұрын

@@faithh5546 Doesn't Zelda recognize his name as the founder of the kingdom?

funnily enough, when attacking Fort Hateno early on in my playthrough, i was unironically killed by the wooden stakes at least a small handful of times, especially from an enemy knocking me back into them

I like that you did all of this without acknowledging that they used wooden defences against enemies that we know can and will imbue their weapons and arrows WITH THE POWER OF FIRE. And have flying creatures that could just supply drop monsters into the inside of the castle. But in all seriousness fantastic video, and I'd love to see something like this for Fort Hateno, Gerudo City or Hyrule Castle itself.

@Kyonari

5 ай бұрын

I mean this is something that only started not that long ago for them and I doubt any of them can see into the future

@lunyxappocalypse7071

Ай бұрын

True, it really should be at least a combination of stone and wood, like how the a'viking people made them. One huge advantage with wood is that it is (relatively) easily replaceable, but that does not help when your whole base fort is made up of it.

The multiple entrance thing really shows during the battle in gerudo town with the gibdos

@BonaparteBardithion

10 ай бұрын

I was looking to see if someone had already mentioned this. We actually see the problem of dividing defenses in action and that's in the town with secure stone walls and probably the most formally trained standing army (maybe rivaled by the Zora). And they didn't even address the real defensive problem: There's a gigantic window open to the desert leading directly to the throne room. There are no extra guards on it, and it's right next to one of the entrances to the emergency shelter. I wouldn't doubt this is how the Thunder Helm got stolen in BOTW. It's definitely not a secure location for a political leader, even one trained in combat.

@OtakuUnitedStudio

10 ай бұрын

@@BonaparteBardithion Riju briefly mentions they should "probably plug up the hole behind the throne." They never do.

@darrelsam419

10 ай бұрын

​@@BonaparteBardithionYeah, I always found it hilarious that there's just a massive hole behind the throne. Like if anyone had a good enough aim they could just kill everyone in the throne room with a bow and a few arrows.

@gogokowai

10 ай бұрын

The view and the breeze are more important than the defense.

@taddad2641

10 ай бұрын

@@gogokowai well be fair the breeze might be super important.

Did you know the castle sucks at being easily defensible? Thing got taken over TWICE

@strawdeath263

10 ай бұрын

To be fair, those invasions both happened from within, rather than being due to an external offensive.

@Spygirl812

10 ай бұрын

Yeah fair

@atlantic85

10 ай бұрын

@@strawdeath263Exactly, most castles that lose sieges tend to be due to inside jobs. A good case in point is Corfe Castle during the English Civil War. Survived for four years, and then someone showed the Parliamentarians the sally-port.

@oliverwatson6634

10 ай бұрын

​@@strawdeath263 then don't hide sealed mummies in the basement

@chunkyrager

10 ай бұрын

true, but it got taken over by a demonlike being with almost unimaginable power (twice) , if it was another normal armky (or even a monster army) it wouldn't have been taken over.

I like how Purah made sure her room was on the second floor. Everyone else gets the ground level, or underground, lol.

The spikes could even act as cover for the bokos! There’s a perfect spot between the higher and lower level of spikes that they could squeeze into and be unaffected by arrows.

@jimmyp4024

8 ай бұрын

What arrows?

@BYRONDAMANN

5 ай бұрын

the one boko who accidently rams himself into the spikes

To be fair, I don't think that the place was really designed as a fort at all. It was likely just a research center setup by Purah and Zelda before the Upheaval happened and defenses were hastily grafted onto it. It also makes sense given that Hyrule has no formal military, only a handful of volunteers as a part of the Monster Control Crew, who I'd assume were only formed recently.

So about the tunnel, it was always there but nobody currently knew about it, you can only discover it because the sweeper accidentally broke the small secret entrace open.

@lukew8337

10 ай бұрын

It was also made to be an escape from the castle thousands of years ago.

@Dave01Rhodes

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, and the Upheaval messed around with the ground, opening up a bunch of caves. The escape tunnel probably got trashed by it.

i would literally love for you to analyze other settlements like zora’s domain!!! so so cool, great vid man

@ciarz_

10 ай бұрын

This would turn into the greatest hissy fits ever, since most of these are just villages, not forts.

@Preston241

10 ай бұрын

Good idea! I think the other races primary settlements are all fairly well defended. Critiques could be made but all of them have a good combination of natural defences, and play well to their respective denizen’s martial abilities.

@twinzzlers

10 ай бұрын

​@@ciarz_A good settlement, especially if it's important, is well defended

@personofpowera.b.c990

10 ай бұрын

I agree!!

@personofpowera.b.c990

10 ай бұрын

I feel like Rito Village would be the best because they could just break the bridge. Same with Zora’s domain, but it would be harder to rebuild afterwards. The gerudo, we saw how that worked. It literally shows that if link wasn’t there, they’d be wiped out!! And goron city doesn’t have anything. It’s just a town, only thing protecting it is that it’s on the side of a volcano and it’s harder to get to.

I've always believed that the reason for using wooden planks was they had a surplus of them from when the 'hyrule restoration project' began and that they had such a large number of them around that it was the only feasible way to make a large fortification in a very short time in their eyes.

Also, presuming Ganon's army have a decent amount of intelligence, the lack of a roof mean's they're SCREWED. One, Moblins are able to chuck Bokos, so if they get close enough to throw them over the ramparts (or that RAILING), the enemy has breached the castle. Two, arrows can be shot upwards to rain down on the unprotected people inside. And third, and this is the one that really poses a problem, AEROCUDAS. These things are intelligent enough to steal weapons and bring in reinforcement Bokos, as seen in Tulin's questline. All it takes are a few of them flying over with Bomb Barrels (which they do carry in the depths) and the whole structure is done for.

@sarowie

10 ай бұрын

The could be a cool scene where the Yiga act as semi-commanders of the Monsters. The Yiga sure have the intel. The only question is if the monsters would listen to the Yiga.

@brycebitetti1402

10 ай бұрын

​@sarowie I highly doubt it. The Yiga are mostly incompetent anyways, but the monsters don't seem to listen to anyone other than Ganon.

@aidanhammans9337

10 ай бұрын

@@Entropy8132A talus is a maybe, but presuming Mineru was there, she could metal slap a Silver Moblin till it dies. What we should really be wary of is Gloom Spawn.

@FartSmella99

10 ай бұрын

also, can't lizalflos jump like really high? like high enough to jump over the moat, and then the wall?

@boggle4763

10 ай бұрын

Plot twist: the skyview tower turns into a giant guardian and destroys all the bokos

I thought it was a big miss to nit have a Lookout Landing defense mission like the one in Gerudo Town. I figured it would be one of the final missions and was surprised that didnt happen.

@sarowie

10 ай бұрын

oh - that sounds like fun! And the more main objectives you have unlocked, the more defenders you have. Most people would have support from the major races, but speed runners would have to way less support! Heck: We could even tie back the Yigas into it: If you have defeated master Koga, no Master Koga. Koga not defeated? Koga in a Mech Suit!

@user-gz7ho1cp7n

10 ай бұрын

That was exactly what I was thinking and that whole protect gerudo town segment was honestly one of my favorite things about that quest.

@GamePlan692

10 ай бұрын

It could have happened when Ganon summons the blood moon at the end of the game

@lavenderpants8695

10 ай бұрын

@@sarowie exactly!

@brycebitetti1402

10 ай бұрын

​@GamePlan692 Or maybe we could move that Blood Moon moment from when Purah spots Zelda at Hyrule Castle to after The Sages save Link from Phantom Ganon. You have to race back to Lookout Landing to defend it. Though, I'm unsure if the engine could even handle a scenario like that at all.

Another reason Lookout Landing was built where it was is because of the safe house beneath it. It was originally a safe house for the Royal Family, and was hidden underneath the fountain that used to be there (visible in BotW). The escape tunnel was originally meant to be used going from Hyrule Castle to the safe house as a means of escape, in case of a siege. Lookout Landing was built around and on top of the safe house, and the tunnels were sealed off, both from the passage of time and for defensive reasons

@BYRONDAMANN

5 ай бұрын

the bokos could just pour lava down the hole and that's bye bye to the npcs

@themonsterunderyourbed.7620

4 ай бұрын

They don't even HAVE lava.​@@BYRONDAMANN

I’d love to see more analyses like this! I love stuff where you apply a real world out look on stuff in video game!

@TheBreadPirate

10 ай бұрын

That can be arranged!

There should've been a defence mission for Lookout Landing, there even was a good, dramatic moment for it too if it was placed right after the fight with the Phantoms in the Castle

@ricardoac0380

10 ай бұрын

I hope they add this mission as part of a DLC.

@Isuream6331

10 ай бұрын

I think it actually should have occurred during that blood moon cutscene

@atlantic85

10 ай бұрын

That would be sick

@atlantic85

10 ай бұрын

We did get a similar thing in the Gerudo town quest

@solarwreathe3789

10 ай бұрын

I was dead certain that would happen both after the gerudo defense, and seeing how npcs from each regional town moved into lookout after completing their respective quests. you have gerudo soldiers at the entrances and a zora army training there, it seemed obvious.

The moat was already there in Breath of the Wild, it was a -park- big fountain. They repurposed the already existing water into a moat, they didn't dig it out themselves so there wouldn't have been any excess dirt to use. In fact they did the opposite, partially filled it in to make more room for the other structures they needed

@leobankowski7682

10 ай бұрын

it was a fountain

@FIamestalker

10 ай бұрын

True, I remembered it being more than that. It was big fountain though, perfect to hide the secret emergency shelter.

I love how Purah is probably the most important figure in Hyrule at the moment but she's also the least protected

@BYRONDAMANN

5 ай бұрын

I also like that fact about link when he's also a really important figure put nobody is protecting him

@Terlinilia

5 ай бұрын

@@BYRONDAMANN He can protect himself, he's link

@alwest4472

4 ай бұрын

@@BYRONDAMANNhe’s link. He doesn’t need defending lol,

@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780

Ай бұрын

@@alwest4472 everyone needs defending from link

The spike trap things are interesting as this isn't the first game they show up in, they appear in Skyrim too and are used there as destructible blockades to block entrances that should of had portcutlesses but didn't.

Theoretically the Aracudas could carry enemy forces from above and drop them in the fort

@potato3.732

10 ай бұрын

Then again the Rito could shoot them down from the air. Edit: If they were given bows.

@canadianoctopus1479

10 ай бұрын

@@potato3.732 The Aracudas could carry bomb barrels so if they got shot down they would still do damage.

@potato3.732

10 ай бұрын

@@canadianoctopus1479 if Link was there he could use recall but if he wasn’t there would be trouble.

@canadianoctopus1479

10 ай бұрын

@@potato3.732 If link was in any battle his side would win

@colindowney08

10 ай бұрын

@@potato3.732 true that’s actually a good idea

I mean, most of the defenses were put in place quickly after the upheaval, so to do all of these defenses in at most a few weeks is impressive. At least they don't cower in villages and die as they did in the calamity

@JP_slays.

10 ай бұрын

Why does everyone have that pfp?

@Burrito25

10 ай бұрын

@@JP_slays. oh its just some inside joke with another channel

@alastryona

10 ай бұрын

There's also no building sized death robots anymore, which probably helps. (that + any fighters in this era of hyrule would be used to fighting bokos since they're so common)

@cyrilwiddershoven6437

10 ай бұрын

@@JP_slays. cuz of a channel called cdotkom hes a nintendo youtuber and he made this like one of those pngtubers his movement with the koroks. Yahaha

@jstar3382

10 ай бұрын

Honestly man I think they had a month or 2. A lot has happened in the time link was out

This is what happens when you hire a residential contractor to build your military base, looking at you Hudson

Lookout Landing was probably built in two different phases and mindsets: the first was before the Upheaval, and the second was after. We know that Zelda herself commissioned Hudson Construction to build Lookout Landing, and that the Skyview Towers were designed to work with the Purah Pad, so it must've been started before the Upheaval. However, since the mini-stable and general shop are not finished until after Link makes his way back there, it is safe to say much of it was finished while Link was still on the Great Sky Island. In particular, I believe that the gates, Purah's house, and the Skyview Tower were all built, or at least started, before the Upheaval. This is evidenced by the handrails/minimal crenelations, the sheer importance of those aspects, and, most subtly, the much higher build quality: the boards are much closer together, and the ramparts have a neater edge. This also explains why so many of the flaws in Lookout Landings defenses are at these points: they were built with the mindset of a base of operations(or BoO) for rebuilding and research, not defense. The second phase saw the construction of the walls, and began after the Upheaval. This is evidenced by the larger crenelations and slopier fit of the boards. This also explains why boards were used instead of logs: they were originally cut because Hudson Construction intended to build a BoO, not a fort, and had to be repurposed. Also, something to note about its placement, and the tunnels: the stone bunker was there long before the fort was. Lookout Landing was specifically built around the ruins of the ancient knighting grounds of Hyrule, and the game mentions several times that the tunnel was in fact an emergency escape route FROM Hyrule Castle TO the Emergency Shelter, while implying that it is 100's, if not 1,000's, of years old. That is why it is in such bad shape. However, it is not as if they aren't trying to make up for all these flaws. The northern gate is both the narrowest one, and the only one that stays closed, while Purah herself maintains a constant watch of Hyrule Castle. Also, the placement of the spikes on the north side are particularly clever. The north side of Lookout Landing has the most trees, and placing spikes between them, as they did, will certainly slow down any would-be attackers, simply by creating a enough obstacles. Yes, the monsters at Fort Hateno certainly did install more spikes, but those are extremely flimsy, and can be broken with a single swing of a 2-handed weapon, requiring constant replacement. The spikes around Lookout Landing can't be broken in-game, though the laws of reality mean they aren't invincible.

The thing is they didnt know about the secret tunnel, so they cant have predicted that it would be that treacherous

@BonaparteBardithion

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but you don't have to go far in to found out it's infested and they don't do much to re-block the entrance once it's uncovered.

@PaxtonGillette-ge7pk

10 ай бұрын

@@BonaparteBardithion yes, but link is the only one to go into the tunnel, and I think that the end of the world is more pressing than sealing off a tunnel

@YourCrazyDolphin

10 ай бұрын

​@@PaxtonGillette-ge7pkI mean, sealing off that tunnel is a very important step to not getting attacked by the world-ending monster.

@PaxtonGillette-ge7pk

10 ай бұрын

@@YourCrazyDolphin how would they seal it off? wood? also if im correct theres a stalnox in that tunnel, and theres no way a stalnox cant break through some wood.

@YourCrazyDolphin

10 ай бұрын

@@PaxtonGillette-ge7pk The stalnox definitely can't fit into the end part of the cave. Wood fortifications are still reasonably effective once reinforced, after all the entire fort being wood isn't seen as a problem on its own. Alternatively literally just roll a big rock in front of it, the top entrance is large enough to lower whatever materials are needed down there on a pulley.

As someone who loves history, I always enjoy videos that apply real history to fictional settings. 😁 Yeah, you would think with Lynels essentially be super cavalry, they would have more of those _cheral de frise_ around the fort. If I were in command, I would probably have them put 2 or 3 layers of them, because screw Lynels! 😅

@TheBreadPirate

10 ай бұрын

Ayy, thanks Mit!

@BowlOSoup6661

10 ай бұрын

*that

@mitwhitgaming7722

10 ай бұрын

​@@TheBreadPirateYou said you haven't done Gerudo Town yet, but this video applies double for them!

Was really hoping after the phantom ganon fight that you would have to rush back to the fortand defend it, but the result being that the fort gets completely destroyed and they have to move somewhere else and hide

This immediately made me think of a version of Link where Zelda lent him the Triforce of Wisdom. Immediately walking around Hyrule-doing quests, being brave-but also questioning every defense strategy out there 😂❤

It would be super interesting if you did a separate video that focuses on the 32 unique Yiga encampments that populate the four distinct regions of the Depths. In contrast to Lookout Landing, these camps do a great job at providing offense and defense!

@xinpingdonohoe3978

9 ай бұрын

34.

0:37 ...I never really thought about it, but I guess she is, huh? I certainly can't think of any other candidates who aren't directly part of her circle of close allies.

I’m gonna be honest, I love this video and I would love to see more like this. Seeing the contrast between media and realism is so much fun.

It would have been cool to have had a quest where you protect Lookout landing from charging enemies. Similar to the part in gerudo town. Could have been part of the Monster Forces quests

@shineinstars

10 ай бұрын

omg yes that would've been so fun

In their defense, when you fight the Demon King’s Army it’s like 40 enemies.

@Mysticgamer

10 ай бұрын

And then he summons the regional bosses.

@xinpingdonohoe3978

9 ай бұрын

​@@Mysticgamer Marbled Gohma would simply remove Lookout Landing. Giant flaming explosives and wood don't mix.

I think the spikes in the ground used to span around the entire fort, but through battles and lack of upkeep, there ended up being only a few left. After the initial upheaval, the enemies stopped directly attacking the fort, so they didn't need to keep maintaining them.

The wooden spikes at 13:55 remind me a lot of the earthworks used in the American Civil War. Pamplin Historical Park has some recreations of them. Not sure if that’s the same thing, but the size of the spikes and the angle they’re at looks similar.

He just gave us a history lesson about castles in a zelda video.

This is Hyrule. There are flying redeads, giant spider robots with powerful lasers, a flying version of that, puddles of horror that try to grab you, the sky is freaking falling, there’s massive tri-eyed flying beasts, and a clan who uses literal magic and bs to wipe out the enemies of Ganon. Nowhere is safe 😭

@TheBreadPirate

10 ай бұрын

We are DEAD! 😭 It was nice knowing your Riptide.

@leothebugnerd

10 ай бұрын

its ok the spider robots mysteriously vanished after the events of botw, never to be seen again. now we only have to worry about literally everything else :)

I don't know why this concept makes me so happy, also STORMIN THE CASTLE, ITS PERFECT

Honestly, I can imagine you as link criticizing lookout landing and almost loosing his mind over it 😂 your voice is kinda what I imagine when I think about what link would sound like 👍 THIS VIDEO WAS SO GOOD!!! THANK YOU!!!

Remember, this Fort is a colab between Hudson construction and the mad scientist Purah. The latter who got the "brillant" idea of having Skyview Towers need to hurl the user into sky leaving no one but Link able to use them. So blame Purah

@TheBreadPirate

10 ай бұрын

Way to go Purah. 😤

@Shinntoku

10 ай бұрын

In fairness, I think other characters *could* use a paraglider, otherwise it would be weird for the Hateno Dye Shop to offer a glider customization service

@kit76149

10 ай бұрын

@@Shinntoku Age of Calamity shows other people could use a paraglider. It's just a case that there needs to be an excuse like "only Link is brave enough" for us to have this be a quest and something we need to unlock in gameplay.

When the seal opened up to reveal the underground bunker was one of my favorite moments of the game. I kind of wish you could close and open it again

This was really interesting! I'd love more videos on the architecture around Hyrule.

17:40 "You could use it to escape from here in case of things going south." That was funny, since the monsters would in fact be going south.

I mean I never thought of it as something that even needed defending until now, considering it was built before the return of the monsters. They likely would have built somewhere that wasn’t next to next to the root of all evil otherwise

@alexandernelson3703

10 ай бұрын

Not to mention that before the Upheaval Hyrule Castle was A: on the ground and B: presumably under Hylian control. There's a reason the most lightly defended side is facing TOWARDS the castle, it's literally the last place they would be expecting an attack from. Heck the fact that's it's called 'Lookout Landing' implies that it was originally supposed to be a literal lookout tower to warn the castle town and castle proper, rather than a defensive base in it's own right

You can see just how different these videos are from some of your older ones, and I love it, the editing is great. Good video even though I haven't even watched the whole thing yet.

Now I really want a series out of this, for other parts of the game and even other games too

Love the video, I'd love do see you do some more of this type of content, such as some analysis of some of the different enemy encampments and fortresses in totk or the other friendly towns

Really cool video!! Lookout landing is the closest thing Hyrule has to an actual castle rn Would love to see you do this to the Zora castle, the Gerudo town and the Yiga base!

Man I wish I really had a switch...

@RyanDawson-qr6uf

10 ай бұрын

I used to be like you it’s sad but if you’re going to get a switch get a switch lite it’s cheaper

@TooFast0205

10 ай бұрын

I just emulated on my pc

@ash_tray

10 ай бұрын

If you have a pc you can use an emulator ❤

@OrcristGames

10 ай бұрын

I have a pc but I don't know how to emulate...

@flossbob3157

10 ай бұрын

@@OrcristGames search it up 🤦‍♂️

I think that the moat had actually already been dug out (and the excess dirt therefore gone) when lookout landing was established-I remember that area of the map was a circle garden in botw

This video was really cool and interesting. I wasn't planning on watching a 25 minutes video, but it was well paced and interesting enough to keep me watching and I think you made a great video.

Not all drawbridges need to come all the way up for stronger defences, so it really wouldn't matter if the bridge can't be drawn up to be completely vertical, especially when you have a body of water that separates the otherside from the fortress. The retractable drawbridge right where on the backend is, it has a cog mechanism that can push and pull the drawbridge back, which is why it has chains on either sides, it's not just there for aesthetics nor is it impractical as the chains are part of the mechanism that's hidden under the flooring which conceals the cogs that retract the bridge, so not quite nearly fancy Sheikah tech here.

@homerman76

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but the front drawbridge can't even go up enough to prevent say a moblin chucking several bokoblins over it, the light fixtures are just really poorly placed

@jeremyberrios1375

10 ай бұрын

Also the bridge is made of wood so if it raised high enough to not allow monsters to jump over it could catch fire

Great video. I love your content. Maybe do a comparison video on the other citadels of the other races or groups? Eg: Gerudo hideout and or city, Zora town, Yiga clan, etc.

@BonaparteBardithion

10 ай бұрын

Gerudo Town and the Yiga Hideout would make particular interesting case studies since we see both get invaded (the latter by a one-man army). Fort Hateno would be an interesting one as well since, as he mentioned, it has enough value as a fortification that the monsters are repurposing it.

I love this kind of content so much - just running around and talking about stuff in the game world. Do you think you could do a similar video about Hyrule Castle, Akkala Citadel, or Fort Hateno? Or any other location in the game, I think it would be really cool. Some of the towns seem practically impossible to realistically defend from invaders lol

18:55 - The Monsters are still using MSN Messenger. That’s why they’re called *Monsters*

Really like this concept, you should do this for more places in this game

Ganon wouldn't even have to siege the fort, he could just use his army to get inside it easily Also Slergo and Offrak(the goron boys) are the best soldiers

@arcticfluffyfoxy

10 ай бұрын

They are absolutely the best soldiers they're also really good cannonballs edit Imagine giving them little iron armour and just bowling them into the enemies it would be so funny this is why gorons are so strong when they roll nothing can stop them

@Overdrive-_-

10 ай бұрын

@@arcticfluffyfoxy An unstoppable force vs movable objects

@arcticfluffyfoxy

10 ай бұрын

@@Overdrive-_- LOL

You know its a wonderful day when the bread pirate uploads a 25 minute video!

i think the big spikes are meant more as a deterrent for the big bogoblins (forget what their title is, as i haven't played any Zelda games). and like others have said, this seems to be less of a fort/castle and more of a hastily fortified research camp

I think the 'anti-calvery' stakes are probably designed for use against Hinox. Sure, they aren't calvery, but I think they serve a similar role to something like a war-elephant (alongside the battle talus)

I like to believe that lookout landing has a few surprises for unwanted monsters. There could be hidden guardian tech stashed away awaiting some foolish monsters to come.

A thought about the quasi cheval de frise (or however you're supposed to spell that): Maybe no one really knew about them, but a hylian or two came up and said, "Hey! So I've been adventuring and saw that the bokos do this thingy, and it looks scary and like it's a pretty good defense! If they're doing, maybe we should, too!" And so they made those thingies without understanding how to make actually good use of them. As a matter of fact, it's probably that most of the hylians wouldn't have a clue on how to build proper fortifications, and that the builders were trying to throw this all together really quickly. So they did what they knew (which was mostly house building) and threw on some contraptions that seemed like what you'd need in a defense structure. I mean, even glancing at the fighting techniques and equipment of their troops, you can tell these people aren't warriors proper.

20:03 in an emergency, the shopkeeper would be happy to appropriate her wares to the troops to defend the castle

The pseudo-Cheval De Frise things are pretty much just makeshift barriers, like you said though, the monsters have already made those better, therefor they would know how to avoid them

It would’ve been amazing if there was a mission where you had to defend Lookout Landing.

@bosssoider1854

9 ай бұрын

maybe in the next game

I would also like to point out the usage of the skyview tower as an escape route (now I have no idea how useful being launched into the sky might be in warfare) but assuming that each person has a paraglider, evacuation would be decently simple.

I love stuff like this, people just nerding out over details in games. great video my dude, glad I randomly found it lol. keep up the good work. :D

16:30 there’s a chapel in Twilight Princess’ Snowpeak ruins. Given it was likely owned by a side branch of the royal family or someone of high importance in Hyrule (the comfortable mansion portion bearing a coat-of-arms along with the fortress portion that’s heavily implied to be for cultivating the Dark Hammers lends credence to this), probably yes.

@S.I.L.

10 ай бұрын

Also churches in ALttP and ALBW. Even in BotW and TotK Kapson the Zora is a priest.

@genralgaming5317

10 ай бұрын

In AOC the temple of time appears to be used for religious services

I love this video so much! Maybe you should do videos reviewing the defenses of other major settlements around hyrule, such as rito village, hateno village, Zora’s domain, Gerudo town, and more!

This is such an awesome video haha, great work my friend!

This was SUPER interesting for me, I'd appreciate more videos in this sort 😊

This is the most up my alley video I've ever watched on Zeldatube haha, I adored it, and it is a great example of how even some light historical consulting would serve to improve these small details by quite a bit.

Are you a fan of Shadiveristy? He does videos similar to this and I love them! You should do Gerudo Town too, it blows my mind that the throne rooms is just open to the desert in the back.

You pointing out the oiside tree problem reminds me some article I read befoere. In some siege scenario, the defender would clear all the forest near the city, leave attacker a bare ground.

That was an amazing video It was fun to be able to compare my suspicions and yours about this fort!

The tunnels were meant to get from the castle (when it was being used by Hylians) to get to the shelter.

The spikes might be used too keep back monsters like a wall. That was if it didn’t have huge gaps.

@atlantic85

10 ай бұрын

In my test siege, it was a nightmare trying to ride a freshly caught wild horse onto the drawbridge, it kept running into the spikes.

@damianvila

10 ай бұрын

I think those are probably designed to keep the Stone Talus away from the walls, as they’re moving raised platforms. Though those need to be placed closely together to be effective.

This is a really fun analysis video! Love to see more!

Love this video, please do more! Maybe do the Gerudo next since they actually had to use their defence’s in the game

i would love to see more content like this perhaps zoras domain next? i feel like the how high up above the water it is along with the surrounding cliffside that could work against them, would provide an iteresting video, Can't wait for the next one!

To be fair on the Escape tunnel, it's not been used or maintained for at least a century, even before the Upheaval probably screwed up its architecture.

@rin_okami

10 ай бұрын

And also it was meant as an escape tunnel FROM the castle, not TO it. Like the Upheaval did a number on it, sure, but I imagine at least some of the "cliffs" you have to climb were meant to be one-way drops to stop intruders from using the tunnels.

That was great! I love that way of analysing insane locations.

That wooden spike thing is supposed to be used as a one-way path for infantry. It's sturdy enough to be walked over and can provide high ground for soldiers but the spike mean that it can't be climbed over