I still am so curious about the prison. Literally nothing is left there, yet it’s also a pretty sizable distance from the town, with no sign of what could have happened to the prisoners during the Calamity.

Those poor people, they only just got home to their families and had dinner. They were just getting ready for bed and the next day. Night shifts were just starting. Then everything was on fire. Everything was destroyed.

One minor thing about the eastern part of Castle Town that you missed is the aqueduct, which runs from Crenel Hills to the town. There is practically no trace of it in BOTW or TOTK, but it can be seen in some missions in Age of Calamity.

words cannot describe how much i wish we got to experience totk castle town. btw there’s a very interesting ruin on death mountain. it’s unmarked, and north of shadow hamlet. it appears to be of hylian architecture, but there are goron-crafted pots lying around it. maybe some kind of hylian-goron collaboration build? i thought it might be an easter egg to Royo-Royo Depot in aoc, but i checked the maps and they don’t line up. Royo instead lining up with shadow hamlet. i would love for you to cover this, thanks!

A few bits you could have touched on in western Hyrule Castle Town - the water reservoir and nearby quarry.

Also, I would suspect the Hyrule Castle Jail gate would also see plenty of hunters passing through, given the park side would likely having hunting restrictions.

I've probably played entirely too much TOTK (>1000 hours), but once you've finished (almost) everything, Hyrule is a very empty & lonely place.

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I love the image you conjure, of someone riding all the way to Castle Town. Perhaps, to celebrate a major achievement in their lives. Finally, they have gained independence and an opportunity to see Hyrule beyond their small village. Castle Town would have probably seemed otherworldly in its expanse and density. Now all that is just a memory of a memory

I'm grateful you made a Ghost Town playlist i'm going to rewatch them for Halloween.

I'd love for there to be another game in this hyrule, perhaps a restoration game where you take care of the remaining of ganondorfs army and spend rupees or collect materials to fix areas

Skyward Sword had such amazing music.  That's definitely something that was lost with the newer games.  That track where you're following Fi at night for the first time is amazing.

I've always wanted to see it in all its glory pre Calamity. Thanks for these great clips.

I think east castle town might’ve been made up of small farms and farmers judging by the picket fences scattered around there and there being so few building ruins.

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If they do one more era of the wild style zelda, i hope its a further couple years after totk and everything is mostly back in place.
Perhaps it could be akin to zelda 2, the yiga or maybe a newer actually deadly cult is trying to resurrect ganondorf, or maybe even create a new Ganondorf by kidnapping gerudo.

These are literal comfort videos. So great-full for everything you do on your channel

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I was trying to work out the logistics of the castle and castle town a while ago. Like ... how many people would have been living in castle town? To build such a place, you'd need thousands of tones of stone and wood. And skilled crafters and architects, just to keep the place secure. Then the services those people would have needed ... there must have been thousands of Hylians living here. Right at the center of the explosion. The fact that the survivors had only two places to escape too ... and we don't see very many hylians ... probably says a lot about how many in castle town survived. especially with the loss of skilled workers. Bearly anywhere the Hylians settled has any stone structures, or glass. Very little metal. Which seems to mean a lot of the skilled workforce was destroyed, leaving people who had no idea how to do or make those things. Like a mini bronze age.

I wonder, would you cover the castle next? Especially curious as to your thoughts on what rooms and passages are blocked off and inaccessible after finding a minecraft map with someone’s own version of the castle, with an extraordinary amount of extra rooms and halls

So, I find it odd that all of Castle town only has one well.
One. Well.

Sure, there's fountains, and the small reservoir (more like a pond, but whatever), And yes, there is the Castle moat.  But there is only ONE place in ALL of this major city to draw clean water.
For comparison, Hateno Village, the largest current Hylian settlement, has four wells spread across its layout.  Four wells.  Deya Village ruins has 5 wells.  There are MAYBE 10 buildings total there, and yet they had 5 wells.
The only place worse off than Hyrule Castle Town is Tarry Town with zero wells, but a fountain in the middle of the small town.  And that was built up on an outcrop in the middle of a lake.  Given time they could even just use a bucket on a rope and get water from the lake if they wanted.
Castle town, at its peak, was most likely home to between 500 and 1,000 people, not to mention livestock, and horses for the army to use.  And they only had one well to draw from.