Could you SURVIVE in Ocarina of Time?

Do you think YOU could survive in Ocarina of Time? To be honest, I don't think you got it in you. What would you do if you came across a Stalchild in Hyrule Field at night? You'd probably give up on the spot. Me though? I'm built different. I would easily parry his attack, dash behind him, and slice him into 38 pieces with my katana before his bony brain could even comprehend what was happening. And all his skeletal friends would surely tremble in fear before my awesome display of might. Then word would spread amongst Ganondorf's forces that I am not a force to be trifled with.
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Music Used:
Intro - Gerudo Valley (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
00:43 - Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
01:22 - Kokiri Forest (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
02:00 - Hyrule Field Main Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
05:13 - Zora's Domain (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
09:14 - Ganondorf's Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
12:24 - Water Temple (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
15:41 - Kakariko Village (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
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[exiledgoldfish]

Let’s not forget though that pretty much every single body of water in Hyrule gets filtered through the Zora kings butt crack.

[XxguaxinimxX.]

Surviving Ocarina of Time for 3 days: 😃
Surviving Majoras Mask for 3 days: 💀

[swampfox]

Maybe the magic beans could be a source of food. The guy selling them is eating a lot of them.

[SinisterPixel]

I think with the danger factor there's a couple of things to consider:

1) Only the hero of time is able to pull the sacred blade, and that's ultimately what causes the sacred realm to open. Without it, we have to question if even with the medallions, Ganondorf would be able to get to the sacred realm

2) Assuming we have foreknowledge about what happens in the game, we can just do what happens at the end of the game. We can warn Zelda and the king of Hyrule of what's to come before Ganondorf comes to power and he'd be executed

[Deathnotefan]

“Who gets the Triforce of Courage”

Plot twist: I get the Triforce of Power and become the villain, and Ganondorf gets Courage

[chaosvolt]

Every moment you spend surviving, Ganondorf only grows more suavemente.

[soj]

The presence of scarecrows in Lake Hylia implies crops I think.

[TheDufflebagGang]

For the Triforce bit, that's essentially what happens in Wind Waker- there is no Legendary Hero to reincarnate, so the Triforce of Courage just splits up and has to be found again. It's definitely a thing to think on.

[The-Anathema]

From a nutrition perspective:

Yes you can survive without vegetables if you have access to meat and fish, ideally red meat and especially organ meats (Vitamin C is a bit dicey but you can get enough to *survive* from red meats), depending on quality and quantity you may suffer some minor nutritional deficiencies but it will not kill you.

But it's worth noting that there probably are foods available in-universe, we don't see wheat farms and the like because they're likely boring and off-screen, but they likely exist. The food stalls can be assumed to be the stalls with large npc crowds in castle town (bread or fish perhaps?) and fish are plentiful.

The large grass plants may also be edible, deku nuts are probably edible, as are deku seeds and magic beans. Potions may have excellent nutritional value as well since they restore your health, and I can't speak for recovery hearts but they may also grant nutrition.

Skulltulas and other monsters may also be edible but that's purely speculative (but if them burning up into nothing on death is taken as a fact of the universe instead of a gameplay optimisation... well they're definitely not edible).

I'd say that you can actually manage pretty well with just *confirmed* food sources (fish, cows, cuccos, nuts, and seeds, apparently the eyeball frog is a delicacy so we'll add frog meat to the equation as well) let alone the large clam enemies, deku skrubs, various potentially edible plants, potions, etc.

[shooby]

I like how you showed 5/5 for traversability at the end while showing us a mechanism for travel that would almost certainly rip our arms out of our sockets.

[linkV]

"You blink and you find yourself in Link's house"

Wheelchair users: "Guess I'll die."

[enorma]

imagine having to consume 7.5 liters of water every 12 minutes

[Wupar]

Kakariko may SEEM comfy at a glance, but remember it's flanked by an active volcano on one side, a graveyard with actual ghosts on another side, is home to not one but two buried torture sites housing the vengeful undead, and also features a house full of cursed spider people. Plus the neighbors play their music really loud all night and you'd never get any sleep.

The real chad move is to live at Lon Lon Ranch and work as a ranch hand. Comfy horseback riding, an endless supply of milk and dairy products, a jolly old man who entertains you with chicken hide-and-seek and is more than happy to marry off his incredibly beautiful songstress daughter to you, and the worst thing that happens there throughout the course of the game is a hostile buyout by the local Ganondorf fan.

[randomchannel]

This video in a nutshell:
My day be so fine, then boom, Ganondorf exists.

[TheCosmicChicken]

2:06 I half expected "Before we take a single step, we'll find ourself trapped by an owl who won't stop talking, and we'll slowly waste away and perish, imprisoned by his endless monologue."

[tarotcard]

Some things I found noteworthy:

* Unless they saw you emerge from Link's House, the Kokiri probably wouldn't care about an adult being there, people visit Kokiri all the time, that's why there's a shop. They would, however, expect you to be only visiting.


* The Deku Tree would absolutely hear you out, but he would absolutely not allow you to stay. Without the protection of a Fairy, you'd get lost in the mist and become a Stalfos. He'd probably give you some advice on where you could go at least.

* The cows eat hay, so we can assume that NPCs need to eat, we just never see it on screen.

* Do not eat Deku Nuts, those are not vegetables, they explode with a blinding light when hit hard enough.

* How to get a place? Simple: Impa's house in Kakariko is open to the public, so people are just allowed to stay there if they don't have a home anywhere else. Alternatively, if you're okay with listening to people scream about how bad being cursed sucks, you could always crash in the House of Skulltula.

* Possibly a continuation of the Cows eating Hay thing; In order for the hypothetical to make sense, we have to assume that the world becomes real (IE NPCs become people) or else no events happen and no one but us ages. In games like this, Time moves with the protagonists footsteps, so if we treat the NPCs as NPCs during the Hypothetical, Ganon becomes a non-threat, as does the pressure he's put on the various leaders of the land, as no future events will happen unless we walk into the exact correct place.

[Nuclearburrit]

Regarding ganon, remember that there is a canon solution to this problem: Warn zelda.

Link does this after the events of the game when he goes back in time. We know the events of the game, so we could do the same.

[squirenonny]

Don't think you'd have to worry about the Triforce, actually. Ganondorf only got his hands on it because Link opened the Temple of Time and drew the Master Sword from its pedestal, thus giving Ganondorf access to the Sacred Realm. So unless someone else is able to find and gather the three sacred stones, get the Ocarina of Time, and learn the Song of Time, AND draw the Master Sword, Ganondorf isn't getting the Triforce. He's still a threat, sure, but not nearly on the level he is in the game.

[CaptainBuggyTheClown]

Indigenous people in Northern Canada were able to survive without greens due to animal organs providing pretty much all you need to survive. Also you forgot spiders/bugs, those are also perfectly good food sources. And there are magic beans in game which you could substitute meat for probably.

Triforce of courage would go towards Mido. He protected his village and was essentially their leader.

[KRcanondaisa]

"Ganondorf would be a real person that you'd have to contend with"
its okay i can fix him ☺