Zelda’s Trading Quests

It's not really a trading sequence, but the Tarrytown quest has you going across all of hyrule. The reward at the end could be considered the secret shop.

Call them weird all you want, Link's Awakening's trading sequence taught me very early on that things have different values to different people, and I think that's a very valuable lesson.

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Funfact: in the original and first European version of the Gameboy game you get a bikini top instead of the necklace. And some other minor things have been changed. Maybe a Video idea?

honestly the trading quest in links awakening was so cool and the boomerang is a perfect reward for it

As I recall for OoT, you weren't allowed to teleport for the timed parts of the trading quest. Imagine having that limitation on a world as big as BotW. That could get annoying, especially if you had to travel like from Tarry Town to Gerudo Town. Most people would lose interest and give up the trading quest.

Ah, yes, Oracle of Ages, where you get traded a bag of shit by a toilet ghost 😂

I thought the most memorable trading sequence in majora's mask was the wedding mask sequence... You must do things in the right order and avoid things that can cause sequence breaks... And can get a couple of other masks or choose to help the mayor's wife learn what happened to Kafei. It helps you learn about other characters, their motivations and how doing one thing can affect another (Butterfly Effect). The boomerang in Links Awakening will always be the best reward but the weapon is so OP. Don't get me wrong, you have to do some work but half of it is done for story progression anyway so it's not too difficult considering the outcome. I completely missed the boomerang when I played it on GameBoy but found out on the DX version by accident. It was a good sequence.

“Eggs are too feminine. Here, I’ll give you this doll instead. That’s way more masculine.” 😆

7:15 The fastest way that I found to deliver the eye drops gets it to him with well over a minute to spare and takes almost no effort: go from Lake Hylia to Kokiri Forest by riding Epona through Hyrule Field, go to Goron City via the Lost Woods, then go to the top of Death Mountain via Death Mountain Crater.

If I remember correctly the "mermaid's necklace" is a bit of censorship originally.

Ocarina of Time has two trading quests, with the mask trading sequence on top of the Biggoron sword one.

I never figured out or saw the trading quests through to the end in either of the Oracles games, and didn't find any other sword upgrades so I effectively beat both of the games, including the Linked Game ending versus the Evil King Ganon, with a 2 x 4

“Theres a lot of character development in this quest, talon wakes up!”

I love the ones that reward you with knowledge like Oracle of Seasons. That means the next playthroughs you don’t have to do it rewarding good memory.

There's also "Hans in Luck" by Brothers Grimm. But Hans trades a large piece of gold to less and less valuable things and animals until he loses his last items and ends up with nothing, still happy that he's rid of his troubles. Imagine that as a reward of a trading quest in a game. 😅

This is literally just a video describing trading quests I know in and out, and yet I was eager to listen till the end just because of how engaging Zeltik’s commentary always is hehe

Personally when you recounted that story from Japan it came across as a story about how if you do enough good things for other people then Karma will reward you in the end. In the story the poor man helping the rich man’s daughter even though he knew nothing about her except that she needed help is what brought him out of poverty.

I always loved the trade quests in Zelda. I hadn't heard the story about the Straw Millionaire before, but I do know a story with a similar mechanic, which has been made into a picture book called "An Apple Pie for Dinner," though it might be an old story like that one. It's about an old woman who wants to bake an apple pie, but all she has are plums. She trades the plums to a family with chickens for some feathers. She trades the feathers to some people wanting to stuff a pillow for some flowers. She trades the flowers to a nobleman who forgot to bring a gift when going to visit his girlfriend for a gold coin. She gives the gold coin to a family too poor to buy food, and they give her a puppy. She gives the puppy to a lonely old man who happens to have an apple tree, who gives her apples in exchange, and then she's able to make her pie.

Loved your video. I think the carpenter and the potion lady are actually married and gave the saw to their son. The carpenter’s “old lady” is an American expression for wife (I don’t know why people say it but they do). So unfortunately their son may have become a Stalfos, and his mother tried to save him with the medicine.