I can't recall any other game making me feel that child-like feeling of wonder quite like Tears of the Kingdom. The abilities look pretty simple but they're very deep and well thorought: The moment i realized you can fuse an oversized spikeball to a stick i fell in love with fuse. I remember spending half an hour in a few shrines trying to build a wacky contraption over and over until it finally worked, and when it did, i felt amazing, and i said to myself "i'm a fking genius". One time I had to elevate a Korok but was too lazy to make a hot air balloon i came with an idea, move him high up with ultrahand, keep him there for a few seconds, and then recall him, so while he was in midair, i used ascend on the nearby platform and grabbed him with ultrahand from the top. I wasn't sure if it would work and it did, and honestly, that dumb korok felt way more rewarding than a lot of final bosses from the latests games i've played. This game is an absolute gem, and i've loved every second of it.
The Fuse ability made me less anxious about exploring the world. Instead of being worried of breaking my weapons on a camp, now I can go in there guns blazing, knowing I'll get enough materials to replenish my arsenal. It also helps keeping a variety of weapons I can build and use anytime.
The crafting is very fun because you're the one who's actually crafting. You're not just selecting stuff and then automatically have a crafted item after pressing that craft button.
Yeah, you're actually physically putting stuff together that interacts according the the physics engine. What's more, once you've created something, you can *then* save it for the more convenient menu-driven approach.
I love TotK for being the kind of game where you could just go in and take down a Talus by smacking its weak point a few times with a good rock breaker weapons in seconds. … Or you could spend over an hour building a ridiculous contraption to try to blow it to pieces in safety, only for the Talus tossing one of its arm coincide with the moment your cannon fires and your machine self-destructs, lol.
I don't think I've ever felt quite the satisfaction in a game like when I built a literal bomber plane and absolutely demolished an enemy camp in totk I always find myself laughing like a little goblin whenever the elaborate craft I put together just works, exactly like I want it to The system is simple enough so that anything you build usually works first try, but it feels complex enough so that it always feels satisfying when you built something succesfully
The issue of "ticking a box" in triple A title is one that is much worse and spreads much further than crafting. Things like obnoxious climbing sections, skill trees, or player choices that have little to no impact on the story are some of the things that just NEED to be in every game even when it doesn't fit. The same way that delivering on mechanics is a great thing, showing some restraint on which to include is sometimes even greater. Even phenomenal games like Doom Eternal and God of War are guilty of some of these.
Oh the vechiles in this game are SO much fun... I don't use them enough bc I still find myself mostly just running everywhere, or getting on a horse. Maybe knce I have more battries I'll use vechiles in the overworld more. ...after all, one of the Proving Grounds shrines helped me discover the joys of vehicular manslaughter and building war crimes.
I ran everything over in that shrine with my little shitty cart, only to realize at the very end there was a murderous monster truck locked in the middle section. I was sad.
5:37 I attached all the spikes together then the flat thing from the door to the ball, making it long enough so I can use it to touch the target with ultrahand. BOOM.
Glad you mentioned Horizon. That game represents the quintessential "bad crafting system" It does not encourage creativity nor does it expand or enhance the mechanics of the game. It also does not expand the world or how you navigate it. It also does not succeed in providing scarcity and resource management. That game might have benefited more from being akin to a looter shooter genre like Borderlands, as it would be a MUCH greater incentive to fight the machines while retaining the overall feel of the game
When I watched the trailer that first showed off the car I was disappointed because I thought that it would be boring menuing to create only the generic cars that are pre made by Nintendo. Of course they made it into the most open and creative mechanic in the game.
I did the thunder temple last night and managed to cheese it slightly by attaching a mirror to a pot that was angled downwards to shine the light at one of the orange targets lol
I encountered one yt video where he complains about how easily you can ‘cheat’ the shrine and solve it not the way the developer intended. Dude, that IS the way the developer intended. To be creative
@3:11 Sure Nintendo made them usable as well (through MORE menu-ing) and I still didn't use them. Simply because there are more efficient and better things to do, than the "fun ones" that entertain the initial notion of freedom and "more options". I my inventory is filled with things I never used.. again. Except Bombs, Fire Fruit and the Bloom Flower.
The "hoarder goblin" mentality is something not easily solved by game design alone. There's a reason they say players will optimize the fun out of a game when given the choice. In other words, making it so all those excess materials have uses now doesn't mean players will choose to use them. In fact, many still don't. If players are given a ton of freedom in a game, then it also becomes their responsibility to curate the experience in a way that makes it enjoyable.
Would still ask for normal crafting as well. Inventory into basic weapons and things would've been really nice :( I mean sure, you can trade inventory items for weapons and whatnot but still...
I often find myself wanting to fuse something, but have nothing to fuse it to. If only Link could use his 50+ bundles of wood to craft a stick would've already been enough
Holy shit if it isnt my animal crossing storage LOL i spent hours duplicating so much stuff in that game. Kinda had that mentality too with the dupe glitches here but here i actually used alot of it. I cant imagine the grind it wouldve taken to make 100k rupees... which got me far but still isnt enough for everything this game offers
Haven’t played the game yet, but if breath of the wild taught me anything, it’s that the only limit is your creativity. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m going to make penis robots, but you know… I could
1:43 "i have a rod and a 3-prong bokoblin horn, now i have a spear" um no it already was a spear and you added a 2 prong to it not a 3. very odd how good this video was but that one line was stupid
It was a long stick, spears have sharp points. The mistake in prong numbers in understandable. I know the game calls long sticks “spear” weapon types, but in the inventory it will then say spear after fusing.
@@shinydmike8490 I watched the video. That still makes a spear with a long stick, spear, or any stabbing two-handed weapon. Even if it already was a spear it still makes a spear with that weapons type if you look at the name in the inventory.
😂😂😂 final line was awesome 😂😂😂 omg, seriously, totk is 100 out of 10 😅 I just can't remember when I saw so many funny videos on yt than now woth lots of crafting ideas, bad and freaking ridiculous. So much fun, I swear if the game was released during covid nintendo would hit record of selling switches 😂
Crafting in TotK sucks, it's clunky, incredibly limited and not fun at all. The things you can craft aren't fun either. If I wanted a game that plays itself I'd watch a movie or buy a playstation/xbox.
@@zemocon2868 yeah, cause it's not like most of the game is spent on a machine needing next to no input, a horse needing next to no input or a horse needing next to no input. 90% of the game is just waiting to get somewhere.
You played pinball. I shot a bomb arrow
You shot a bomb arrow. I put the ball on a long stick and tried to slam it into the target and then failed and then used a bomb arrow anyway.
You used a bomb arrow, i did the intended method
@@coleminer8847”intended method” haha good one
On the pinball shrine my contraption missed the ball but broke and part of it went flying into the target which somehow worked
Are you the guy from the pinball shrine video
@@tolkienism3806lol
I can't recall any other game making me feel that child-like feeling of wonder quite like Tears of the Kingdom.
The abilities look pretty simple but they're very deep and well thorought:
The moment i realized you can fuse an oversized spikeball to a stick i fell in love with fuse.
I remember spending half an hour in a few shrines trying to build a wacky contraption over and over until it finally worked, and when it did, i felt amazing, and i said to myself "i'm a fking genius".
One time I had to elevate a Korok but was too lazy to make a hot air balloon i came with an idea, move him high up with ultrahand, keep him there for a few seconds, and then recall him, so while he was in midair, i used ascend on the nearby platform and grabbed him with ultrahand from the top. I wasn't sure if it would work and it did, and honestly, that dumb korok felt way more rewarding than a lot of final bosses from the latests games i've played.
This game is an absolute gem, and i've loved every second of it.
The Fuse ability made me less anxious about exploring the world. Instead of being worried of breaking my weapons on a camp, now I can go in there guns blazing, knowing I'll get enough materials to replenish my arsenal. It also helps keeping a variety of weapons I can build and use anytime.
The crafting is very fun because you're the one who's actually crafting. You're not just selecting stuff and then automatically have a crafted item after pressing that craft button.
Yeah, you're actually physically putting stuff together that interacts according the the physics engine. What's more, once you've created something, you can *then* save it for the more convenient menu-driven approach.
I love TotK for being the kind of game where you could just go in and take down a Talus by smacking its weak point a few times with a good rock breaker weapons in seconds.
… Or you could spend over an hour building a ridiculous contraption to try to blow it to pieces in safety, only for the Talus tossing one of its arm coincide with the moment your cannon fires and your machine self-destructs, lol.
I don't think I've ever felt quite the satisfaction in a game like when I built a literal bomber plane and absolutely demolished an enemy camp in totk
I always find myself laughing like a little goblin whenever the elaborate craft I put together just works, exactly like I want it to
The system is simple enough so that anything you build usually works first try, but it feels complex enough so that it always feels satisfying when you built something succesfully
The issue of "ticking a box" in triple A title is one that is much worse and spreads much further than crafting. Things like obnoxious climbing sections, skill trees, or player choices that have little to no impact on the story are some of the things that just NEED to be in every game even when it doesn't fit. The same way that delivering on mechanics is a great thing, showing some restraint on which to include is sometimes even greater.
Even phenomenal games like Doom Eternal and God of War are guilty of some of these.
Oh the vechiles in this game are SO much fun... I don't use them enough bc I still find myself mostly just running everywhere, or getting on a horse. Maybe knce I have more battries I'll use vechiles in the overworld more.
...after all, one of the Proving Grounds shrines helped me discover the joys of vehicular manslaughter and building war crimes.
Yes, that shrine was pure gold.
I ran everything over in that shrine with my little shitty cart, only to realize at the very end there was a murderous monster truck locked in the middle section. I was sad.
Had the same feeling with that pinball shrine. The wtf am I meant to do, then it clicks. Almost lit up a ciggy.
I've been thinking about this same concept a lot recently. It's cool to see someone make a video about it and share the same ideas. Great video!
There is a legend that ToTK actually stands for Tears of The Korok
the skyloft theme still hits
It amazing how people have made whole as tanks, mechs and uhhh "people"
While all I can make is a hovercraft with 2 fans and a steering wheel.
Love your videos, you deserve more subscribers
5:37
I attached all the spikes together then the flat thing from the door to the ball, making it long enough so I can use it to touch the target with ultrahand. BOOM.
I love the fact that he is yelling about boss fights but he has the skyward sword soundtrack in the background
Glad you mentioned Horizon. That game represents the quintessential "bad crafting system"
It does not encourage creativity nor does it expand or enhance the mechanics of the game. It also does not expand the world or how you navigate it. It also does not succeed in providing scarcity and resource management.
That game might have benefited more from being akin to a looter shooter genre like Borderlands, as it would be a MUCH greater incentive to fight the machines while retaining the overall feel of the game
When I watched the trailer that first showed off the car I was disappointed because I thought that it would be boring menuing to create only the generic cars that are pre made by Nintendo. Of course they made it into the most open and creative mechanic in the game.
I did the thunder temple last night and managed to cheese it slightly by attaching a mirror to a pot that was angled downwards to shine the light at one of the orange targets lol
I encountered one yt video where he complains about how easily you can ‘cheat’ the shrine and solve it not the way the developer intended. Dude, that IS the way the developer intended. To be creative
Speaking of crafting
Have you ever tried the atelier series?
Its a jrpg series based entirely on its crafting
Very relaxing games
@3:11 Sure Nintendo made them usable as well (through MORE menu-ing) and I still didn't use them. Simply because there are more efficient and better things to do, than the "fun ones" that entertain the initial notion of freedom and "more options". I my inventory is filled with things I never used.. again. Except Bombs, Fire Fruit and the Bloom Flower.
The "hoarder goblin" mentality is something not easily solved by game design alone. There's a reason they say players will optimize the fun out of a game when given the choice.
In other words, making it so all those excess materials have uses now doesn't mean players will choose to use them. In fact, many still don't.
If players are given a ton of freedom in a game, then it also becomes their responsibility to curate the experience in a way that makes it enjoyable.
Would still ask for normal crafting as well. Inventory into basic weapons and things would've been really nice :(
I mean sure, you can trade inventory items for weapons and whatnot but still...
I often find myself wanting to fuse something, but have nothing to fuse it to. If only Link could use his 50+ bundles of wood to craft a stick would've already been enough
Yeah Wood Crafting for a Stick would be really nice. Sure it'll be degraded since Link isn't a blacksmith... come on Nintendo ;_;
im pretty sure on that shrine i just made a l o n g s t i c k and recall or some bs
Ending was hilarious.
Tears of the Kingdom turned GMod into an adventure game.
Holy shit if it isnt my animal crossing storage LOL i spent hours duplicating so much stuff in that game. Kinda had that mentality too with the dupe glitches here but here i actually used alot of it. I cant imagine the grind it wouldve taken to make 100k rupees... which got me far but still isnt enough for everything this game offers
6:39 Bro got hard 💀
Great video, new subscriber here
I’m pretty sure you’ll love his videos, he’s the most underrated commentator on video games on TH-cam
Haven’t played the game yet, but if breath of the wild taught me anything, it’s that the only limit is your creativity.
Now, that doesn’t mean I’m going to make penis robots, but you know… I could
1:43 "i have a rod and a 3-prong bokoblin horn, now i have a spear" um no it already was a spear and you added a 2 prong to it not a 3. very odd how good this video was but that one line was stupid
It was a long stick, spears have sharp points. The mistake in prong numbers in understandable. I know the game calls long sticks “spear” weapon types, but in the inventory it will then say spear after fusing.
@@locrianphantom3547 it was a soldiers spear not a long stick. Did you even watch the video or what
@@shinydmike8490 I watched the video. That still makes a spear with a long stick, spear, or any stabbing two-handed weapon. Even if it already was a spear it still makes a spear with that weapons type if you look at the name in the inventory.
😂😂😂 final line was awesome 😂😂😂 omg, seriously, totk is 100 out of 10 😅
I just can't remember when I saw so many funny videos on yt than now woth lots of crafting ideas, bad and freaking ridiculous. So much fun, I swear if the game was released during covid nintendo would hit record of selling switches 😂
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very good vid coo stuff, (lil bit cringe though )looks like super fun game
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Crafting in TotK sucks, it's clunky, incredibly limited and not fun at all. The things you can craft aren't fun either. If I wanted a game that plays itself I'd watch a movie or buy a playstation/xbox.
Obvious troll bait is obvious
If you want to try a game that "plays itself" try Witcher 3. It's like a garbage movie instead of a game.
@@zemocon2868 didn't I make it pretty clear that I don't want a game that plays itself?
@@n1nj4l1nk Thing is, TotK is the polar opposite of game playing itself.
@@zemocon2868 yeah, cause it's not like most of the game is spent on a machine needing next to no input, a horse needing next to no input or a horse needing next to no input. 90% of the game is just waiting to get somewhere.