Now yes, the latest trailer for The Legend Of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has just confirmed that Ganondorf is back in the new installment of the sagawhich means we have Link and Zelda’s most famous nemesis back, with all that that entails.
And considering that it looks like King Gerudo is going to make things difficult for the hero and princess again, I thought it might be good to review his entire career in The Legend Of Zelda Zelda saga, to brush up on everything we know about him and his evil plans that always end up being sabotaged by Link and company.
In total, there have been three video games in which this villain has appeared.and although these are very few titles compared to the total number of games in the saga, Ganondorf has managed to be charismatic enough to become the main villain that all players know, whether they have played or not the saga.
Ganondorf’s first appearance!
The King of Gerudo appeared for the first time in the first video game of the three-dimensional saga: Ocarina of Time. And it is that despite being the best known villain of the saga, in all previous games the main villain had always been Ganon, who was the representation of evil, but not Ganondorf, who is the personification of evil. I know, it’s a bit confusing, but that’s just the story of the saga.
It was in The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that we met the King of Gerudo in this mythical scene where Link arrives at Hyrule Castle and Zelda tells the young hero that this man with red hair and an evil smile does not inspire him much confidence.
As the story progresses, Ganondorf will seize the triforce and throw the whole kingdom into chaos for seven years, until Link wakes up from a long slumber and manages to gather the seven sages. . After a long battle, Ganondorf was sealed away by Princess Zelda. And we wouldn’t hear from him again before The Wind Waker, since in Majora’s Mask (the direct sequel to Ocarina of Time) the villain would become the charismatic Skull Kid.
Submerging the entire kingdom of Hyrule wasn’t enough to stop him.
Because yes, his second appearance was in this video game which used a more cartoony art style, although that didn’t mean Ganondorf would stop being as intimidating as we remember him. Then yes, The Wind Waker was the game in which we got this villain back in style.
Your plan? To recapture the triforce, and for that he would have to snatch the fragment of the triforce of wisdom from Zelda and the fragment of courage from Link. Although thanks to the King of Hyrule his plans were frustrated and Ganondorf was sealed in the depths of the great sea turned to stone.
Twilight Princess, the last game in which we saw her doing her thing
Although at the end of The Wind Waker, Ganondorf found himself sealed in the depths of the great sea, this happened in a different timeline than the one Twilight Princess belongs to. Knowing this, what you must understand is that after the Gerudo King was sealed away in Ocarina of Time, and years later he managed to escape, the sages managed to banish him to the Shadow Realm. There he would meet Zant, a Twili whom he would manage to convince to invade the kingdom of light and thus free the king from the gerudo in the process.
What Zant didn’t know was that the Gerudo King only saw him as one more pawn in his plan to seize the power of the triforce, and Ganondorf would let Link defeat Zant and then set a trap for him at the Hyrule Castle. . After a long battle, Ganondorf was defeated once again by the hero and the princess, and with that knockout blow to the chest, we all thought that was the end of the villain…
Ganondorf’s return in Tears of the Kingdom!
Until today, he appeared for the fourth time in the history of the saga, and now it seems he has returned with the intention of taking over the entire kingdom and claiming the title of true King of Hyrule. For this, he no doubt wishes to regain the power of the triforce, which would allow him to carry out his wishes, but this is already entering the realm of speculation.
Seventeen years have passed since Ganondorf last appeared in the Zelda saga, it’s been many years since Twilight Princess was originally released in 2006, and now we can see him again, more menacing than ever in Tears of the Kingdom. What do you think will be his goal this time around? Will he try to seize the power of the triforce again?