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Tears is my favorite game of all time.

They better not mess this up. Switch Pokemon had me 💤 Dying for a good Pokémon experience

The problem is not the console power gamefreak is not even using the switch properly (proof are other games on the console doing way more like zelda). The problem are development times this game is unfinished and rushed.

If Pokemon ZA isn't an absolute banger, then I'm probably done. Maybe it's me getting older and more critical of what I play now, but it feels so disrespectful for GameFreak to charge me $60 for a game of such horrendous quality, when there are games that are the same price (and cheaper) that are so much better. Especially in the monster-taming genre... Great video dude. Keep up the fantastic work.

I hate to say it, but for my old slow ass I'd like it to be scaled down. I don't have a clue what to do in scarlet violet

Game freak needs to learn their is no excuses for how bad these games visually look. They are the number one grossing franchise in history. They csn afford to pay for better or more artists. The only way we are going to get less glitch games is if they move away from the yearly release schedule which seeing how we didn't get a game last year they might have.

I still can't comprehend how people think Pokemon Scarlet is a good game.

I love Pokémon and all every game out, but Scarlet and Violet broke me. I hated both games, idk if I will ever be able to get back into playing Pokémon again.

Disagree, not even close to the ugliest Pokémon game we’ve gotten. Will concede it’s probably the buggiest

After years of hearing Pokemon fanboys screech about how misunderstood Scarlet and Violet were, I decided to pick up a cheap used copy to see if maybe I was wrong about judging the game so harshly. NOPE. The game was worse than I had initially thought. I cannot believe how brainwashed the Pokemon fanboys are in accepting this game. You would have to be absolutely delusional, tasteless, and be entirely without standards to be okay with this game masquarading as a Pokemon game. I really can't see the next game being all that great given how far the series has sunk since it left the DS.

In a way, I can’t believe gen X will live up to scarlet & Violet. But they good track record lately so let’s see…

The leaks pretty much confirmed that gen 10 will be on Switch and Switch 2 so it won't be on the most powerful hardware yet. It should be a surprise to no one they will release gen 10 on Switch pokemon has always released on the biggest Install Base it could. That said Gen 10 is a big one and will likely be launching not just as the 10th game but the 30th anniversary game in 2026. As a 30th anniversary game it should let us fight and meet past characters, idk why they couldn't aim for a framework that would let them reuse pokemon masters EX assets so they don't need to make a ton of new 3D models.

"Undoubtedly the ugliest and buggiest games we've gotten so far" meanwhile Gen 1 is sitting there forgotten

It's honestly pathetic that wanting the bare minimum effort from Gamefreak is seen as a big ask. Past behaviour is an indication of future behaviour. I see zero reason to expect Gamefreak to learn from their many mistakes when they've been continuously rewarded with record breaking sales.

I think an encouraging sign is that the flaws of Gen 9 are FIXABLE. The good aspects of Pokemon Gen 9 (and in the 2020's rally) have me quite excited, BUT they ofc have to fix their issues.

I don't think anyone would really care for a good single player campaign on the long run since the game is made to play with other people (competitively). More than anything, I hope they work things out in the online department since the quality of the online play is very bad. I'd like to keep as many characters as possible, but there are definitely characters that feel redundant at this point (for example Ike-Roy-Chrom-Lucina-Marth), so thinning them out or reworking them would be nice.

It's just that there are too many blind Pokemon fans that call every Pokemon Game perfect. I don't see myself quitting Pokemon anytime soon but...the games are so unbearably ugly. I just want the franchise to be great.

I just started Violet for the first time and your points are incredibly obvious from the start. The direction the games are headed are exactly what we all have wanted. But the constant 15 FPS and 480P graphics is definitely not okay for a triple a game

Idc about mainstream games. Where's our spin offs? Where's my pmd that goes past gen 4 mons? Can't wait for them to patent the designs of more household items as pokemon.

For gen 10 I only want things that have already been done. Let's go level graphics (the characters don't need to be chibi tho). SV and PLA level of storytelling PLA level of playing mechanics and features. If they make that mix, let's go, PLA and SV, they'll make a really good game for gen 10, I'll love it, and it won't take something that they can't already do!

They will probs F it up.

gen9 was "streamlined" and too easy to play through.... although my last pkmn-game was silver. didnt like that the shop and pkmn-center was together and it looks like they want to sell you something to eat, npc-trainers not want to battle you even they have seen you, changing your monsters via menu from box to your team and vice vera and not from the pc goes also to the rp issue and too easy and streamlined issue. legend arceus was better imo

Agreed, they've also seemingly had more development time available to them for gen 10, you can't convince me that they were working solely on the DLC for scarlet and violet once they came out, they definitely worked on them side by side so at minimum they will have had 3 years to work on gen 10. I'm hoping with Legends ZA they will actually not release gen 10 this year and instead give it an additional year to make it the kind of game we deserve.

Wouldnt exactly call 21million copies sold underrated, but still i agreed with every point u made.

For me: Botw i have played over 500 hrs in a span of 5 years Totk i have played over 600 hrs in a span of 1 1/2 years Totk is a perfection of what botw wanted to be. Only thing i do miss are fighting the guardians. Loved reflecting the lasers back at them and cutting their legs lol

I agree on principle, but I think you spent too long playing it. 15hrs and you're only in the middle I don't know but that feels like a long time to me, especially if you are only willing to use armadillo and and old beds. If you go faster and explore more you'll come across other tools that speed up your progress in the game. E.g. self lifting platform. Cloud platforms. Floating tile. And some overpowered baddies that you can then use in your arsenal. I liked to experiment with different baddies but mostly I think you need to push on and in the end my main criticism isn't the echoes, but how the game is too easy once you have the better echoes. I was bypassing puzzles/areas with ease and then going back and doing the puzzles/re-exploring the long route cause that's what I love. Plus there's the horse. Big plus

A brilliant retrospective. I'm playing BotW for the first time. I'm absolutely loving it! What an incredible game. TotK is going to blow my mind, when I play this next. Thank you! 👌💙

I'm a caveman.

I enjoy the place BotW and TotK exist in the Zelda franchise, but I'm ready for a different direction. Make dungeons great again!

Glad to find positivity video, the game is amazing... Its tiring seen people saying that "there is nothing to do in the game and its empty" when at 100 hours mark i wasnt even halfway the game becouse the insane amout if things to do and explore... Make me question the way they play games Endless complain is become internet favorite sport.

Dude, this is such a good video. Was shocked to find out that you're a smaller channel! Keep it up please!

1:40 you might have issues with your switch then. I have the Switch oled, I run it in docked mode onto my PC monitor 2nd input, I have ZERO frame drops. 6:45 there's no way you beat the game with only 4-5 echoes (unless any % glitched speed run). That just isn't a thing.

Ive beat the game and where i did enjoy myself? I feel very similarly to you, the game is fun but with the caveat that it feels like a chore due to the echo system. I was also hoping for something more in line with Tears of the Kingdom but in a mini version but what i got? Well, we did get that but it wasnt as fun as TotK and i partially believe thats due to the physics engine of both BotW and TotK. Doing something in my own way feels great in TotK/BotW because im exploiting physics in way that feel believable (liking using a fan to blow away wind piles or a rocket to propel Link) where in EoW, something about using a spider to skip all of Hebra just felt wrong to me lol. TotK and BotW, for as open as they are, have a lot of limitations in place so the player isnt too OP...EoW? The second you get beds, you can skip everything for the most part. I still enjoyed the game but I definitely see why this is the lowest rated mainline Zelda game. Great video as always, glad to see you made a video on EoW

Yeah, the echos organization is... Bad. Come on Nintendo! How many times do you need fans to complain about your clunky UI before you fix it? As for combat... I almost never use swordfighter mode! I find other ways to fight when I want to fight, but honestly, just like every other Zelda game in existence, unless I'm locked in a room with enemies, I just run past everything. Combat in Zelda never has been really good. Twilight Princes probably had the best combat, and that's only because of the fancy moves you can learn. I don't know what it is, but I have not noticed any frame rate issues at all on my Switch. Maybe I just can't see that unless it's really atrocious! 🤷‍♀

Wait, you didn't use the sea urchins or the instant hit sidewalking crabs? Both feel like actually hitting yourself.

Complains about using only 4-5 echoes, but also complaining that there is no option to make a favorites list of 4-5 echoes. Pleas make op your mind! Also the Echoes combat is great. Dealing indrect damage is a very welcome change to a game that hasn't changed in almost 40 years. And sure Nintendo could've left the Swordfighter form out of it. But you don't really have to use it either (except for some few points). But then you have to use the echoes, which you also hate. So, again, make up your mind about it. Only thing I would've changed is make 2 bars of echoes. One for enemies and one for 'tools' and allow the user to swap them in the menu (open menu and then up and down). Because tools I often use the same echoes. But for enemies I sort by level.

Considerin how badly the ps5 has sucked this year, and how Xbox continues to suck balls, it woulda been the perfect year for the Switch 2, but Nintendo dropped the ball on that, massively!

I honestly don’t give a crap about the echo system. Scrolling is easy. Just sort the right category out, and done. Same with TotK. And yes, I do also find combat a bit annoying. I agree with that. But I (brace yourselves i’m gonna rant a LOT.) find it weird that people only say that EOW only has one problem. To me, I feel like it has a lot of them. First flaw. Dungeons. This will be INSANELY controversial because I think linear dungeons are bad. (not actually in general, but i personally think the linear system in EOW specifically* is bad) For example, Jabul Ruins (the zora dungeon) is the worst out of the 5 I’ve played so far. It’s only go in a hole, go through the cave, press button, go through another, repeat. That’s the entire dungeon. (in bare bones explanation) Suthorn Ruins is a extremely underwhelming tutorial dungeon. To me, it lacks the complexity of the Wind Temple in TotK. The puzzles have only one step. Basically no progression puzzle. Both the progression and puzzles of it are simple. No central room, no backtracking, no multi-step puzzles to unlock a small key or terminal (small point here: terminals ARE replacements for small keys, so you guys shouldn’t yap about modern dungeons being trash) just straightforward. Takes 3 mins to complete. Gerudo Sanctum is good, but still has the flaws of Suthorn Ruins. Too straightforward, no central room and just OK puzzles) Hyrule Castle is.. I guess counts as a mini dungeon? Like TotK’s Hyrule Castle, it lacks complex puzzles and progression. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a dungeon. I just think it’s supposed to be NOT a full-fledged dungeon. And Eldin Temple also just suffers from that. In conclusion, the dungeons of EOW are extremely linear, and solving a puzzle in those dungeons don’t have the same satisfaction as in TotK. TotK’s dungeons use teasing, multistep puzzles to enhance the satisfaction of players when solving those puzzles. So yeah. That’s why I think TotK’s mixture of Open-Air, Linear and Both Together dungeon design is the way to go. NOT going with the linear route where all dungeons are the same: linear, straightforward and boring.

You mention the problem with the scrolling mechanic of the echos, and I agree that there should be a favorites option. But how would you solve the problem overall? You say something along the lines of "there should be a grid system". Which there is, you simply hit start to get a grid system as shown in your video. I don't disagree with anything you are saying, but if you are making a video like this then I think you should provide the solution as you see it.

Breath of the Wild is a better game. In an open-world game, the world is the obstacle the player has to overcome. The underground is very good in Tears of the Kingdom in that respect, but it's also pretty repetitive. Like, it's a lot of the same. And the overworld in Totk is just not as good of an obstacle compared to botw.

Agreed on all these points. Overall I enjoyed it, and overall I'm a little disappointed. Considering the complaints about the arrow attachment selection menu in TOTK, felt like an opportunity was missed here for the echoes menu. Particularly irritating when a situation calls for an echo you rarely use, and that in the endgame, collecting those final echoes leaves your "last learned" category filled with weird junk. Enjoy the lore but wouldn't mind a break from Hyrule in the next installment.

BotW vs Totk is like Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 vs Brotherhood. The more traditional elements of plot and story are far stronger in the latter, and for most people they will be the definitive editions. But the former excels at atmosphere and characterization in a way the busier follow up never could, and so to me there's a place for both. The intentions with both were so obviously different that it feels unfair to compare them by any one metric.

The issue is and why the game has basically faded into obscurity is because TOTK wasn't an upgrade to BOTW, it was a side grade. For all intense and purposes, TOTK is essentially just BOTW DLC... For $70 😂. I hate to say it (because i bought it), but its true, after about 50 hours i decided im just playing BOTW with other stuff.

Skyward sword is better than both botw and totk

These games suck. We need dungeons, puzzles, storyline and the triforce

Nintendo sponsored video that glazes a lazy corporate cash grab game.

its overrated. since when is this game underrated LOL?

I think the only reason why I enjoy botw more is just because I know how to install mods for it, if I didn’t then I’d 100% prefer totk

survivor and Spiderman 2 most enjoyable games for me last year

Master sword was weaker in TOTK than BOTW and that pissed me off