Jinja Ends Ocarina of Time Stream as Ganondorf Appears and Zelda Throws Link the Ocarina

INDEPENDENT — Jinja, an independent streamer on Twitch, closed a stream of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Friday at the scene where Ganondorf confronts Link and Princess Zelda throws him the Ocarina of Time. Jinja said the game proper starts next time and that everything so far was “basically the tutorial.”

As the game headed for Hyrule Castle, chat urged Jinja to save before the next cutscene. Jinja promised to save, asked why everything had turned so dark, and noticed the drawbridge was up. A raid of five viewers from another channel arrived as the scene began, and Jinja welcomed it. Ganondorf then appeared, called Link a laughable little runt and told him the world would soon belong to him. Jinja praised the actor’s voice for the villain and said he could easily have killed Link on the spot. Jinja’s own explanation was that Ganondorf spared Link because he does not see him as a threat: “We are very dangerous. Look at me, I’m so dangerous.” Chat read the scene its own way. “Link has to walk around in wet socks for the rest of the day, poor guy,” one message said, a nod to the stream’s title, which promised the day would get wet. Another noted that the villain showed “typical villain hubris.”

“We are very dangerous. Look at me, I’m so dangerous.” — Jinja, on why Ganondorf let Link live

The stream opened with sound trouble. Chat pointed out that the audio alerts were doubling, and Jinja said the setup might need to be rebuilt. Jinja and chat blamed Friday the 13th. Jinja then explained that Fridays are a cozy day, with horror streams usually on Saturdays. When a batch of ten gift subscriptions came in, Jinja joked that no permission had been given and that anyone who wants to gift subs might need to pass a test first.

There was music too. Jinja sang a Japanese-language song and afterward said it had once felt very hard to sing but that a more comfortable way of singing it had finally clicked. Chat answered with applause and praise for the singing. After a brief internet dropout, Jinja performed “Lilith” as a song request. Jinja called it an original song, “my baby,” and said the studio version is available on streaming services.

Jinja called the Zelda streams a feel-good staple, in the original and in the remake alike, and said tomorrow would be different. A horror stream of Outlast, in which Jinja expects to scream throughout, is on the schedule for Saturday. Before signing off, Jinja weighed which of two live streamers to raid, picked one and said goodbye until the next day.