Machina X Flayon Clears Forest Temple and Bottom of the Well in 8-Hour Zelda Stream

HOLOLIVE — Machina X Flayon of Hololive’s HOLOSTARS English -TEMPUS- Vanguard played the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for about eight hours on Monday. The run took Link from Jabu-Jabu’s Belly through the Forest Temple and the Bottom of the Well, and it ended in the frozen Zora’s Domain.

The stream opened inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly, where Flayon called the jelly-walled dungeon creepy but praised the remake’s look, saying it had “the whimsy” of the series’ later games. He followed Princess Ruto’s offer of the Zora’s Sapphire, watched Ganondorf reveal himself at Hyrule Castle, and reached the adult half of the game after Link woke in the Chamber of Sages. He said the new version lets players take some dungeons in a different order than the original, and he used that freedom to wander ahead of the story at several points.

“Forgive me. I was wrong about you, Ocarina of Time remake. You had that sauce all along.” — Machina X Flayon, in the Forest Temple

The Forest Temple took up much of the middle of the evening. Flayon worked through its picture puzzle, then told the real Phantom Ganon from the copies by listening to which footsteps were real. Somewhere in the temple he stopped to apologize to the game, saying he had been wrong about it. Later, in the Bottom of the Well, he played for a stretch with the on-screen display turned off, fought Dead Hand, and noted that the room felt smaller and that the blood he remembered from the original was gone. He said he was glad he was streaming rather than facing the boss alone.

Chat answered Sheik’s appearance with a burst of cheering, kept asking Flayon to drink water and eat, and sent 92 Super Chats and Stickers over the broadcast. Many viewers said they were playing other Zelda games alongside him. Flayon closed by thanking viewers for spending eight hours with him and said he had stopped just short of that mark in the game itself.

Flayon did not announce a schedule. He said he would try to stream roughly every other day, with more Ocarina of Time, chess and drawing on his list, and that he wanted to work on more covers.