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28:30 im CACKLING “I still talked to my “friends” even though they didn’t play single player games” OMG. 😂 like at this point I’m watching this assuming it’s a parody “Omg what my normies like breath of the wild?!” Ffs

Blegh. 28 minutes in and this is just… not it. :/ Like genuinely why wouldn’t you just make a video about any number of games you used as a good example in the intro instead of wasting 2 hours explaining why a game is erm actually bad. Not one of those games are a sequel either… which is a pretty unfair comparison to make. Like. You talked about portal. Yet I’ve heard portal 2 isn’t as good as the first. So why compare the first game in a franchise to the second in a franchise…?

Hearing you talk about your early rules for botw makes me realize I make that game way too harsh I always play on three hearts, usually wear whatever clothes I think look the best without ever bothering to upgrade them, and I never cared to learn how to cook

I would love to see you cover the second game like you did the first.

I had the same experience with the 5th sage dungeon. It was amazing! I encountered it fairly early, and thought, "Wow! I can't wait to see what other scintillating secrets exist out there!" How disappointed I would be.

TotK has the best core gameplay but the worst story of any 3D Zelda game.

I missread that as "You can't make me squeal to death. "

We should have gotten more info on the zonai then what we got. I wanted to see more rauru and his sister and what their culture was like. We never got it. >:c

You can't undo the damage and turn a dragon into a human! Oh BTW here's a magical spell that will turn Zelda into a human again. Link!!! The damage to your hand was so strong, i can't fix it, i will replace it with my arm instead. Oh btw here's a magical spell that will restore your normal hand.

I clicked on the video, saw the time stamp, and said "Ah hell no, I'm not watching this". Yet, here I am... Great job!

Its a very good game, with a very simplistic and basic story(some depth can be found if you discover the tears). i dont get the criticism, you are actually complaining that a game gives you the freedom to create and solve puzzles in various ways, maybe you should stick to call of duty. Its all about the journey, the gameplay, the plot doesnt really matter in Zelda games.

I also enjoyed the BOTW storytelling. The memories worked appropriately with the structure of the gameplay as well as the themes. The tears....not so much.

1:03:00 one could argue that breath of the wilds memory sequences are primarily to learn about 2 characters. Zelda, and Link. Link though does also have the quest log. Which in the Japanese version is written from his perspective as a sort of journal. Though even then that’s post memory loss link, is link the same character pre and post memory loss?

This is great. This is the first video of yours I watched/ listened to and well made. :D

The 2 newest Zelda titles are missing the magic that made the prior games so memorable. BOTW was a fun game, but a bad Zelda game IMO. TOTK was just BOTW jumping the Shark

Im glad you lost me at 4 minutes, so I didn't waste 2 hours of my life.

Ambivert was an interesting new addition to my vocab

Video game reviews arenow just like online recipes: skip through the 18 pages to find the content.

TOTK makes Botw obsolete. Better dungeons, bosses, ultrahand, zonai devices, better wuests, more enemy typesbetc. the four regions you visit actually have character this time. I dont know a single thing that botw does better.

Typically boomer complaints from an nostalgia blind old school fan lying about the newer games because they're doing better than the older titles I've seen these complaints all before and they mean nothing in the end

Best game ever, especially the second quest!

Sorry I have to add that the in game pronunciation of Gadolt isn't a quirk of a British accent. The T is silent. :)

One of the most common tropes in media is...... unpredictable? Fiora was telegraphed to die from the first introduction. You even point that out. I'm not trying to knock the game, I quite enjoyed it, but your comments here make no sense. If you had said (and maybe you do eventually) that Fiora coming back was unpredictable that would be a good statement. Although that too was telegraphed, even if I was a little slow on the up tick and didn't see it right away. Fridge characters aren't really that interesting. And Fiora is a terribly written character with no agency outside of wanting to service Shulk. It was disappointing when she came back and didn't grow as a character at all. But the rest of the cast is fantastic and all grow as characters.

What a stupid headline. Sorry I can't be bothered with you video, but TOTK is an improvement in every way you could think of over the mechanics of BOTW, which deserves a 7/10 score. IF you prefer it, cool good for you. Hyperbolic statements of what people can and cannot do don't add anything to the conversation though. Take your engagement at least.

Well I hate to tell ya, but they did make a sequel TOTK DOH!!! 😂😂

Your nerd opinion about Totk is wrong and I’m calling your parents so we can take your video games away again

Once again I wish totk had link go back in time with Zelda. If they did away with the depths entirely, and instead focused on changing the world to be one changed an untold number of years in the past, the world would be the same but different. My personal idea is that the story would be more linear, and the past would contain 4 dungeons with key landmarks being changed. Between dungeons, story events and cutscenes would play out telling us the story of the rise of ganondorf. Some big events would occur where we get to experience the lore of the land, i.e. some box in botw mentions dueling peaks was split by a dragon, so maybe we could se that happen in game. After the first four, we should fight ganon and lose, so Zelda does her thing and in her last moments of lucidity sends link forward in time. Having failed, the sacrifice and loss will mean so much more. The second half would involve the current hyrule, but I spent less time thinking about that part

Every shrine really should have been a proving grounds. They’re easily the best shrines in both games.

I feel so old... lol awesome video, though! That re-dead section.. I feel that. I've never played Spirit Tracks! I wanna buy it!

1:22:54 the Steward Constructs even make jokes! The Culinary Construct on the Great Sky Island made a food joke even though its sole purpose was to cook food it could never eat! The Ancient Sages might as well have just been a TV standing in the middle of this weird foggy room. "How is the TV even working-" "ssshhh Zonai magitech, don't question it" re: unpuzzling puzzles Kikakin Shrine (the one at 2:12:53) is pitch black inside, and a Light is provided to you when you walk in, and to get through this shrine safely, you need to carry this Light around. OR...you could light up the place by throwing brightbloom seeds everywhere, which you'd probably collected hundreds of at that point, thereby eliminating the need for the Light and turning the shrine into a big room with some chests in it. Like...why were those things allowed in there? It would've been kinda annoying, but what if every shrine were like the Proving Grounds shrines, only giving you certain materials to use inside and prohibiting use of outside materials AND status effects applied through cooking? I remember one shrine in BotW that involved navigating a floating platform between walls covered in spikes, and at the very start is a chest with a Korok Leaf inside; like that, but what's inside the chest is a Zonai device or a material that will help you complete the shrine. It might've helped to get rid of the tedious feeling and would have made completing ALL 152 shrines actually feel like an accomplishment (I just wish the reward for completing all the shrines was better, wtf is the Ancient Hero's Aspect supposed to BE??) It feels like 90% of TotK's development was devoted to getting the physics system and fusion mechanic working. Which, I get it, it's an absolutely amazing system and that it (or this game) runs at all on the Switch is technological magic. But with so much focus on those systems, everything else fell by the wayside. Not enough care was taken to make TotK's narrative feel like a continuation of BotW's narrative. At times TotK acknowledges events of BotW, like with The Turning Tide in Zora's Domain, but at other times it desperately wants to forget BotW ever happened, like by only referring to the now-vanished Divine Beasts as "a major crisis" or "the source of the disaster" (the ONLY Divine Beast to actually be referred to by name in TotK is Vah Medoh, by Laissa in Rito Village, who refers to the spire above the village as Vah Medoh's perch). The most disappointing aspect of TotK for me was the disjointed story and the confusing lore; the gameplay was fffffuuuuunnnnn enough, I guess, but after multiple playthroughs, the flaws are starting to show themselves in a big way (WHY DO I HAVE TO WATCH THE SAME CUTSCENE FOUR TIMES?? WHY ARE WE ALLOWED TO VIEW THE MEMORIES OUT OF ORDER AND SPOIL THE PLOT TWISTS SO EARLY?? WHY DO THE SAGES *RUN AWAY FROM ME* IN COMBAT??)

This wouldn't be a three hour video if this guy could get to a single point without emphasizing how much time he spent doing anything.

I disagree, you can make a sequel, you just need to do it better than Nintendo did lol

I refuse to play another Zelda game with combat this disengaging and slow paced.

29:56 it means the triforce in level-1

23:03 the arrow clue relates to Pols Voice, Gohma, and Gannon

Flurry rush is not imbalanced. You obviously don’t realize that choosing to flurry rush actually increases the breaking of weapons compared with no flurry rush.

There should be no depths.. The game should progress to play between zelda and link. First half Zelda in ancient hyrule, full of zonai structures (like the depths) learning from ancient Sheikas how to defend herself, gathering sages, activating shrines for link, etc. Second part Link fixing the master sword and helping recent sages.... also if Link, Zelda and Ganon had parts of the triforce would explain why ganondorf was so strong against the sages, and after killing Ganon, Link could join dragon zelda and ask the triforce for her to come back to her human form. Fixed.

This is good for Bore of the Wild was terrible. Now I need to give A Tears of the Kingdom a shot!

Man ppl cant give this game a break can they? Totk was one of the best open world games ever made, better than breath of the wild in every way. The real problem with these games is that they dont have traditional DUNGEONS. Once nintendo figures how to incorporate natural dungeons and temples instead of those shrines, they'll have the perfect zelda game......and give us another companion.

i also love the legend of zelda series, but i didn’t get a switch until totk was a week away from release, so i skipped purchasing botw and went straight into tears. i LOVE tears so much, i have over 500 hours into it. i still plan on getting botw bc so many people express liking it much more, but im curious if thats bc they played it first in order, whereas i wont be.

I see a lot of people coming out with these types of videos lately in regard to TOTK. And that's fine i love these videos and I understand the point of view. But to me Totk is just a better BOTW. Every issue i had with the Botw was fixed to some extent here. I feel the impact of the world is not as high because the sense of discovery for some is not as strong due to it being the same map. I get it. But BOTW, as much as i loved it, felt very empty at times. This game fixes that, the world is full of fun things to do everywhere. Exploration is still a treat here. The world feels more lived in, there are more towns, exsisting towns are more lively. Dungeons, while nowhere near zelda standards, are much improved from BOTW. Most areas in the world are remixed in terms of what you find in spots of the maps. The sidequest quality is greatly improved as well. I feel the overworld does feel pretty different. If someone hasnt played either of these games id tell them to play totk. There is no reason to play botw again in my mind. I get it not having the same impact and reusing the same map probably was a mistake, something i first guessed and still feel in hindsight. So to people who feel this way, that's fine. I just dont see it that way. Its story is fine. Not like botw had a good story either.

Amazing video!! I love Zelda I so much

that verbose reddit threat was cringe af

If you’re playing combat the same as BotW then you’re not making the most of everything new from TotK, typical BoTW combat was very defensive melee combat where you primarily look for flurry rush and you may revali’s gale into the air for arrow shots a few times and you might use urbosa’s fury a few times for crowd control but both are very limited (plus bombs don’t do much damage). In TotK link is much more of a distance and stealth demon with OP throwing items like dazzle fruit and puffshrooms, status projectiles from the eightfold long blade and easy airtime any time he wants with fused shields, melee is generally only needed to be used when the enemy is suffering from the status effect you just hurled at them and link rarely ever needs to use his shield other than when fighting enemies that can’t be status’d like lynels

This whole “intrinsically motivated” thing is so weird, you can only be intrinsically motivated for any game if you have an extraordinary amount of free time and/or rarely purchase new games, most people only have time to just play the game they bought and by the time you actually finish it multiple new games you want to play will have come out so you move on to the next one

U bad

That Water Temple anecdote is fucking atrocious. That alone should be enough to convince any unknowing player that this game doesn’t care about its own open world, and therefore, isn’t worth the time and effort. I really can’t fathom it. Reaching a destination only to be blocked because you didn’t choose to let yourself be railroaded like a shitty D&D game. Being given an open world, and then being continually told you’re going the wrong way. It couldn’t be more antithetical to itself. I almost wish you had included this story near the beginning of the script as opposed to more than two hours in, but, that’s just bias; I found this part of your experience to be the most impactful.

I pity the fool who bought Tears of the Kingdom full price. $70 for a glorified expansion.

This game almost makes me like BotW less. It makes me feel like everything good in that game was an accident. I love BotW for the characters and their depth. That was outright removed in TotK. I used to say I would be happy with just more BotW, but we got less than that in specifically the areas I liked BotW for.

The sequence breaking you explain for Zora's Domain is something Trails has always done well. You can find a treasure chest with items, then get a quest for them later and you get a unique conversation because you already have what he's looking for.