What Breath Of The Wild Is Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
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This past year, my wife made the mistake of taking an interest in my hobby, and instead of just letting her play games for fun, I figured it'd be more interesting to chronicle her journey of figuring out how to play video games. So, this is a continuation of the first video on the subject and it examines what Breath of the Wild is like for someone who doesn't play games. Enjoy.
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*pushes rock off cliff* "that sounds really violent"
*does it again*
she learns quick
One of us
One of us
One of us
One of us
*shark bait oh haha*
girl: has never plays a game before
you: throws her right into dark souls
I don't know if I would like or dislike video games if dark souls was my first game. Even though I love dark souls it's not baby's first game.
Lol right?
Honestly dark souls isnt that hard
@@harz632 yeah after a few hours you get the hang of it but if I got my little brother to play it he probably wouldn't be able to beat the asylum demon. It's a game about experiencing how to use the controls and picking your fights.
Dark souls raises my blood pressure too much for me to enjoy or play.. lol nah I'm just terrible at it 😂
Interestingly, as an experienced gamer, I found that BotW was confusing at times, I realized I was so used to relying on cues and hints and basically - games spoon-feeding me by having a linear storyline, that I actually got stuck thinking; "did I miss something?", "have I done this in the wrong order?" "Should I have gone here first?" once I got the idea that BotW wasn't supposed to be played in one way - boy did I have the time of my life. This is exactly the type of game I had always desired, without knowing it.
You're just used to AAA from Ubisoft, BOTW didn't invent anything, that's how game were back in the days (and some still are) and what Zelda has always kind of been.
I just had this same experience. I didn’t get very far before I was “bored” and didn’t know what to do. I had to watch a few YT vids that game me a directional nudge. Loved it after.
This is how Fallout New Vegas and, to a lesser extent, RDR2 are. That's why these 3 are my personal favorite games of all time.
@@heroe1486 BOTW brings it back to the days of Morrowind and other titles where the world is yours to explore. Approach it any way you want. There is no right or wrong. It's refreshing, but at the same time it did make it feel as if it lacked something. Since it didn't have the depth in terms of dungeons and zones.
Elden Ring was the exact same way for me. And yeah, BOTW is way more accessible, and encourages way more creativity, it still has cues and does subconsciously guide you. Elden Ring really broke me of relying on any hand holding
Non-gamer here. I started playing botw a few years ago after watching my husband play and he encouraged me to try. I faced pretty much every struggle that your wife did. My husband taught me quite a few things, like investigate on things that are out of place, and talk to everyone etc. At first I only enjoyed exploring the world, cooking, and solving shrine puzzles, and absolutely hated fighting cos I died in pretty much every battle in the beginning. I was used to smashing buttons on Street Fighter in the arcade and I thought doing that would get me through the fight, and boy was I wrong lol. Every fight was stressful for me and I would scream and panic, and my husband taught me to calm down and watch how the enemies move and dodge them. This helped a lot and I started to get a bit more comfortable with fighting the smaller monsters (or avoid them), and even finding more strategic ways of lowering their health or killing them from a safe distance. It was all good, until I got to my second Divine beast, the Thundeblight Ganon, where I constantly died and struggled to kill him, and I rage-quited the game and went on a hiatus for almost 2 years. My husband encouraged me to continue by getting stronger first with more hearts, better weapons and armours and go back to fight the Divine beast when I'm ready. So I picked up again and focused just on that. From then on I enjoyed the game even more than ever and got more and more confident with the game. Though still not great at battles, but I can take the damage cos I got more hearts lol. After defeating all the Divine Beasts, I just kept exploring every inch of Hyrule and found all the shrines, did most of the side quests, upgraded a lot of my armors to prep for the fight with Ganon. Last weekend, I finally defeated Calamity Ganon and finished the game!! Now I'm ready to play Tears of Kingdom!
Keep working hard! I hope you enjoy tears of the kingdom! You and your husband will get to bond and share secrets with one another as you’re playing the game at the same time!
Amazing! Botw is one of the best gaming experiences.
This was me!! I struggled so much at first! The thunderblight is definitely the hardest in my opinion. It took me soooo many tries. But now after years of playing, I can beat a white Lionel without a sweat. Keep playing! It’s the best game ever made
@@bakatsuNAMI thanks! My husband and I are looking forward to TOTK and we were saying who gets to play first haha. I said I would enjoy watching him play (and learn his secrets xD)
@@ashleydavis228 nice!! I m still avoiding Lynels most times but I have challenged one or 2 white lynels after seeing some tips on how to beat them without direct battle at first. Still took a lot of damage and ate lots of food but I can still beat them in the end!
Wife: "that sounded really violent"
Razbuten: for good measure, she pushed the other rock as well
Arlena Stuart his wife is so funny
Erring on the side of caution is always a good idea.
@@Sorcerers_Apprentice pxtthy
8:39
How about Pokèmon next! It will be more easy than any other game
Your wife encountering any small obstacle:
*I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move*
I mean technically yes
Shifat Khan she she should be used to encountering small objected by now
*leaps over small gap*
I'm gonna do what's called a non-gamer move
@farrens_ak I liked it! It showed grit, and was funny.
The Lock On feature actually was an early way of controlling the camera before the C Stick was ever invented! Ocarina of Time invented this feature to make traversing 3D spaces easier for people. It’s cool how 20 years later this feature is still a valid option for newer players.
I though of pikmin 1 on gamecube. I distinctly remember halve pressing the shoulder button, so that the camera would smoothly follow Olimars motion.
(the C-Stick was used to control the pikmins - sometimes when playing Pikmin 4 Demo my intuition wants to dispatch all available pikmin to the task at hand by using the C-Stick...)
It was also in Mario 64, the developers realized controlling a camera and controlling a player in a 3D space would be hard for people who aren't use to it, so they added a button that would make the camera snap behind the player.
This whole topic is weirding me out because I'm very much NOT a new a gamer and I center the camera all time this way. The camera moves too slowly using only the stick, even on max sensitivity, that the shortcut makes more sense. Let your ADHD drift over to look at something to the side then pop back to the original task at hand.
It's how i used to play spyro 1 and to control the camera in that game, before their was a second stick on the controller, you could use r1/l1 to turn the camera but the lock on would center it.
Was a great help to play the game as a kid.
'Strafing' held it in place. I remember we could toggle strafe mode or hold it and it would lock to your characters view
I’m studying Games Design and I love watching these experiments cause it’s a good representation of player experience for people of a skill level games aren’t tailored for. It’s so fascinating to me and gets me to think about how to make my games more beginner friendly.
me too! Game is not only made for traditional gamer community and its heir.
@@user-jh9rq4zc7v Make sure you keep in mind what audience you're going for. Some games don't need or are even better off ignoring beginner friendliness as a whole to better engage an experienced audience. For example, DOOM and Dark Souls really shouldn't be played by beginners at all and are expected to not be. Most notably, don't sacrifice player engagement for beginner friendliness, if that's not what you're going for. Just a friendly reminder.
Of course, if that audience is what you are going for, go right ahead! :)
I should have studied this, so jealous!
You fail to realize this game is made for 12 year old children, and usually played by 6+ already, like previous Zelda games and similar.
If you believe this game isn't tailored for the skill level of a child, because the grown woman is struggling, you are missing something obvious here. Most of the issues here arose from a lack of spatial awareness, not getting visual cues, from the sound of it also disinterest in the whole thing. For example, the Talos was standing up right next to her and she wasn't even flinching the camera. Neither did she see the walk around the lake in front of the shrine while talking with the old man, but instead blindly ran directly towards it. Not talking with the NPC in another location doing something completely different and *assuming* he wouldn't have anything else to say, in the tutorial area no less - is the opposite of intuitive thinking.
There are cognitive abilities either never trained or generally lacking. It's basically the same reasons we get parking-compilations of women and other strange accidents. The quantity of women with these deficits is simply greater than the quantity of men with these deficits. There are those that don't have these deficits, and that I feel the need to add this obvious fact to not be called names speaks of the times we live in.
Yes but there should be a balance between beginner friendly, people who are used to games, and continuous fans of games with multiple games. Mainly having the option to toggle off a lot of the hand holding but sometimes that’s hard when the tutorial becomes part of the story which is a nice subtle way but becomes a hassle in multiple play throughs. I’m not a game designer or story board worker so I can imagine this being challenging but sometimes a game with too much tutorial ruins me wanting to replay a game. I think botw is a mix between a bit of tutorial and freedom but the plateau seems like a good first time experience area not so much on multiple play through although it’s still pretty fun. I don’t know anything though
"I talked to him just a minute ago, how could he possibly have anything new to say."
- Said no videogame designer ever
Lol I love that
Idk some games have npcs that literally have nothing else to say but one or two lines especially in zelda games
@@thatssovenus, Yeah but he was in a different location doing something different. :/
@@saints360row what is that supposed to mean
@@thatssovenus, 10:55 Says the reason she didn't talk to him is because she already talked with him elsewhere.
The genius of BotW is that when you find yourself asking the question “I wonder if this will work” then usually the answer is “yes”.
Except for me fighting fireblight lol. I tried nearly every possible thing I could before Daruk’s spirit straight up told me to throw a bomb at him
@@MrStarman926 I thought I was the only one who found this blight to be the most frustrating. Everyone else seems to hate thunderblight, but I hate fireblight because there's only one boring way to beat it
@@MrStarman926 for me i had no idea at first but i remembered the octoroks in the region who suck everything in and u have to use a bomb. Thats what made me realise and i always thought it was cool
First zelda game. I felt there was little to no explanation. I was just explanation of what you need to do
@@briangrissman8947 there needs to be no explanation. You learn it yourself, which is why the game is good.
See the z target or what you call lock-up was first ever used in the 64 Zelda ocarina of time. Z target was used for not only locking onto enemies but also moving the camera as there was no dual analog control at this time. Most interesting part about the video is her using z target how it was originally intended to be used years ago.
yes. it's still intended to use this way
Yes! This is exactly what I was thinking! I think its cool that even though she didn't grow up with those older controls, she still deviated to them as apposed to the new stuff. She preferred inverted controls and used the lock on button to turn the screen. Its also really cool that those are STILL possible options that Nintendo (and other games) used.
Since i hadn’t played Zelda since N64, it was also fairly automatic to me!
Playing ocarina of time + majoras mask, lining up a path was incredibly annoying. Z targetting help alot because when you want to walk straight(except from behind link), the camera angle changes, so I naturally used Z targetting to help line up and change camera angle.
I legit was thinking the entire time that she’d like ocarina of time because of this feature
This honestly made me so happy to watch. My gf was on the exact same field as your wife where she was having the same difficulties but after basically telling her that the game is free for you to go wherever and do whatever, she slowly got the hang of it. My favorite part of the entire experience has been that not only is she finally on the last divine beast, but her daughter was so invested in watching us play that we bought her, her own copy and now we can't pull her away from it lol
Cute!
aww thats so sweet!
Thats nice, great family :)
Dating single mums .. lol
I'm wondering. If you haven't completed BOTW. Can you still get the horses you boarded up at the stables when you start TOTK ? Also, is the game different if you don't complete BOTW first? There is money in it for me if Im right. 🤞I say you can start it without completing BOTW.
Dude if she felt that Breath of the Wild was calming she must’ve never heard the guardian music
I start sweating whenever I THINK of that music
Jack Wells ik it’s stress inducing as all heck
It wakes me up at night. I use it as my alarm clock
When you start hearing the music but you didn't see any guardians, that's terrifying 😂
she just didnt run into a lynel LMAO.
While my mom was playing this game, we realized that in puzzles where link needs to stand on and weigh down a panel you can substitute in two hydromelons! Apparently link is two hydromelons heavy.
He also weighs as much as 8 1/2 apples
Iirc there's a kid in gerudo town that explicitly states as much, confused the hell out of me when I talked to her because I wasn't aware that you could weigh down panels like that lol
Stand on boat using magnet on a chest. Press chest against bottom of mast. Magnet chest away and watch as you approach maximum velocity
or 5 apples and 2 spicy peppers lmao
It's amazing how much I've played this game, and how many videos I've seen on it, and yet there are still things like this comment that teach me something new.
I love that your wife called Link “She” in the end. That speaks to her connection with the character, really neat!
I read that they made Link more androgynous in this game on purpose, for that exact reason; the player to feel connected to Link. Mission accomplished!
@@jordanwolfson8378 I don't know when Link wasn't androgynous.
@@whisped8145yeah link has always been kind of a blank slate character you’re supposed to self insert as
It's why (up until BOTW) you could name your character. The canon name of Link is supposed to be a signifier because he's a link (get it? ba dum tsssh) to the player
@@whisped8145 *Looks at Twilight Princess Link who looks like he can lift literal boulders*
Definitely androgynous in that game lol
I feel like an idiot, and maybe it’s because I have been having a hard time lately, but the part where he plays the main theme of Zelda while praising the game for giving her confidence made me tear up, especially through 13:00- 14:30.
It was just nice to see someone have a positive experience in something I love dearly that many people don’t take seriously.
Hey, just an internet stranger, but I hope things will look up for you soon
Also, having emotions about someone or something being wholesome is always valid and I don't think it's stupid in the slightest
Omg I teared up too! I thought it was just me. This video was so sweet
Yes. I agree with da last part.
"Why would I talk to the old man again? I already talked to him." I hate how much sense that makes, because it highlights how much I'm conditioned.
Sometimes I’ve been thinking about how it would be to design a game that breaks these dialogue conventions. Like, if you talk again to an NPC they are weirded out or something, more similarly to how would a real person would react. Or maybe being upset if you leave without saying goodbye or thank you. I think it would be fun to force the player to follow the politeness rules that we use all day in real life without even thinking about it.
Why does that make sense? Do you only ever talk to people *once* in real life too?
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@@jmiquelmb i mean, in animal crossing once u talk to a villager too many times they get annoyed and ask for space(and u cant hold conversations with them for a bit). in older AC games most of them would insult u as well
@@YASYTU
i heard someone say once “when playing botw there is no bad ideas, just ones that can go horribly wrong” and i’ve never heard something more true
Dunkey. Dunkey is where you heard it.
@@sunbirth4795 I'm pretty sure that superbutterbuns also said that
@@theoneandonlystork she said it in her BOTW for beginners video. I just watched it the other day
That’s what constitutes ‘a bad idea’, so…
Thats basically saying "when playing botw there is bad ideas but not 'wrong' ideas".
my favorite thing about this game is that you can play the game without getting stuck because it won’t let you “move on”. i love linear exploration games, and as a relatively inexperienced, and extremely unskilled, gamer, i love that this game seems to be good for newcomers, even if it’s more difficult than some “easy” games.
I am not a newcomer to video games in the slightest grew up with them and played loads of games.
I played for like 6 hours and put it down for a year, I had other things to do and was almost bored. I started again and you most certainly can get lost. I have no idea where I am or where I am supposed to go. I'm so far off any map I have exposed and the controls, at least on the switch joy cons is absolutely atrocious.
I Never had problems with the switch joycons and when lost - just teleport back to where you have a map and follow the main quest! Or search the quest log for something that feels interesting.
I’m also a lady who didn’t grow up with video games and generally doesn’t play them much. At the start of the pandemic I decided to play botw and while there was a learning curve I found it to be a super forgiving game to learn and get used to navigating in a digital space. In fact I love this game so much that I haven’t really been able to find a game that can compare to it for me.
how are you liking totk? if you bought it. my friend is playing through BotW for the first time and i am patiently waiting to see if she cries as much as I did during Mipha scenes
My gf and i game together too but she is blind. Now she usually sits besides the tv and listens to the sound and i tell her whats happening and she signal me the sounds since im 95% deaf and cant really hear it when there are like sound tips in the game or if there are secrets nearby. I guess together we make one whole gamer haha😂👍
Edit: wow we never expected this comment to have so many likes and nice comments. Thank you all for all of them. With much love and appreciation, Lucía and Bane
Darth Bane that’s the most wholesome thing ever ❤️ I wish you and your gf many happy years of gaming together
That's amazing!
Thank you for the kind words! We appreciate that you took the time to read and reply to our comment. Much love, Lucía and Bane
That is absolutely beautiful
Now THAT is what I call a multiplayer game ;D y'all make a great team 👏👏👏👏👏
His wife: "I WON!"
Him: "no"
Her: "oh". 😂
The lock-on feature was intended to help center your camera. During the loading screen, the game often gives you tips, including how to reset your camera by using ZL!
In fact, when it was first introduced to the series in ocarina of time, it was the only way to adjust the camera
日本語字幕ついてて凄く嬉しいです！凄く面白い動画でしたし全く知らなかったBotWのきっと意図していないであろう凄さや、普段ゲームしている私とは違うプレイの仕方の解説が的確で興味深く凄く楽しめました。
Pushes rock, Bokoblins die.
"This seems like really violent"
Proceeds to push another rock.
And for your next lesson I'll teach you Fus Ro DAH !
No witnesses
For his neutral special, he uses a *GUN*
The day your wife buys Doritos and Mountain Dew is the day you realise you've created a monster
Is that their secret energy formula? Is that also why original Monster is green?
Enter code keem for 10% off of Gfuel
Dr Pepper and dry cereal for me...lol
Joseph Michael a nice ice cold Sprite with cheetos will do it for me😌
Doritos and mountain dew are nasty, my husband games a ton and also hates dew and Doritos 🤣🤣🤣
BOTW was an incredibly unique experience for me. If I found an area too challenging, I'd simply choose another direction to follow. It's very refreshing to not have a game force you into a section/encounter until you complete it.
This was such a great video, and I completely agree. A good friend of mine who HATES “kiddy, or cartoon-like” video games, was quite impressed by the level of “maturity” in BOTW when I brought it over to play. I love that I can basically do WHATEVER I WANT, and still come to a solution to solve whatever problem I face. TOP TIER GAME!
I'm cracking up because I literally played this game the exact same way as she did
Niceee
Lol exactly and I am literally a gamer myself but never play the zelda series because I my household grew up with the playstation more than nintendo or other game system back then haha so yeah its a breath of a fresh air for me but thank god my camera skill is not really a problem lol and I REALLY relate to that playstyle of straying off the path just to avoid enemies, instead to the actual intention of exploration hahah
Glad to know I’m not the only one who needs the camera directly behind the character.
Same!! I remember in that one shrine where you get magnesis I smushed the robo spider with a metal board
My friend just sent me this video because this is exactly what I'm going through right now. I bought the game yesterday and now I realize how ambitious and ridiculous I was. I've never played a game before (besides Animal crossing)
She is becoming dangerously competent as a gamer now
yeah one day this'll just be gamer reviews girl gamer
More competent than a lot of streamers.
Too dangerous to be kept alive
Hey, I don’t know how you guys viewes it, but this is a compliment
14:05 "that doesn't force them into situations that may be out of their *_DEPTH."_*
Oof, brutal.
Tried something similar with Fable II with my wife, she never quite managed to get the fight mechanics but loved to world and storytelling. She ended up wanting to be the one that makes all the choices and have me play. It was a really fun bonding experience.
Breath of The Wild was also my first actual game, and I couldn't have asked for a better introduction. I LOVE IT. There's so many ways to play and a ton of things to find, which was fun! Now that I finished Zelda, I've started to play some RPGS and its been great 😊
"Why isn't she going?!" Your wife thinks Link is Zelda, doesn't she?
lol first off thank you for watching until the end. so we recorded this in pieces, and after the first one, she forgot pretty much everything from the opening cinematic, so, uh yeah that might be it.
@@razbuten Now I want to see her reacting to crossdressing Link
@@razbuten lol no problem man, your videos are awesome! And lol that's fine. Her perspective is super fun to observe!
what do you mean "thinks" ?
player plays as Zelda and player is saving princess Link
Thinking Link is Zelda your first time playing a Zelda game is like a rite of passage
"It made her feel resourceful and clever." Well, she was.
He was low key calling her dumb. He should've said, she showed how resourceful and clever she was.
@@Iseevacant Fill à complaint.
@@Iseevacant don't overthink it
@@Iseevacant I saw it as she was, and she felt it too. Not that he was calling her dumb, she probably said something like that and he repeated it to us.
@@fra604 don't underthink it!
One of my favorite quotes about this game: “There are no bad ideas, only ideas that can go horribly wrong”
this encouraged me to pick up BOTW again. i have terrible game anxiety so whenever i hear the enemy approaching with the intense music, i get so stressed out. after playing genshin for some time, i think i've sorta desensitized myself. however seeing calamity ganon in the background always makes me scared LOL
As a non-gamer, my first day playing Breath of the Wild I walked off a cliff in the first 30 seconds and died, got the torch from the old man and then proceeded to accidentally chuck it off a cliff, and lost all my arrows trying to shoot a squirrel. Still fun tho.
I sooooo walked straight off a cliff too! First 30 secs.
I fell off the cliff too within the first few minutes of the game because I didn't realise at the time that you could fall off cliffs 😂😅
As a gamer, i lost my arrows trying to shot a squirrel and other bugs
Joanna Gage ME TOO LMAO
yeah... on the other hand i am quite the gamer and knew fully jumping off that cliff would kill me, but still did it just for the fun of it using the excuse that I wanted to test the "fall damage" mechanics :p
>400 hours botw on two saves
YOU CAN USE TREES TO BRIDGE GAPS?
To be fair, I just got the Switch version and figured that out myself during the first hour of my playthrough. I guess replaying Twilight Princess has made me better at such problem-solving.
Bruh.
That entire section had me for a loop. Not only did I not cut the tree, but I didn't climb the wall either. I went All The Way Around.
I'm baffled.
@@markomanx Have fun when you discover what happens when you use a stasis rune to freeze and launch an object but climb on it before it unfreezes. You're welcome.
@@markomanx honestly same-
I only knew you could do that because they showed you could do that at E3 pre-release--
I love these videos because I didn't get into video games until late high school. So some of your wife's struggles, I still find myself having some years later when playing newer games. BotW, Witcher 3, Doom, and Skyrim when it first came out. It is nice to reminisce over the struggles I am reminded that I have had.
I would guess inverted vs non-inverted depends upon how you are imagining the camera.
Inverted makes sense as if you were controlling the camera itself, you move the camera to the left, centred on the player, which means the FOV will pan to the right to keep the player centred.
Normal makes sense if you are thinking about the player looking left or right.
My roommate started botw yesterday and she was DEEPLY disappointed that you can't use an axe to cut down the little towers that bokoblins stand on outside of camps :(
Oh that would've been SO cool. Maybe not even all the towers, but at least some of them would've been nice!
You definitely should be able to do that for the smaller wood towers. That definitely makes sense
Has she seen a moblin pick up and hurl a boko yet? That should get a pleasant reaction.
You can't burn em down either
You can break it with your bomb
Phones has inverted scrolling... never thought of it before.
Yeah, and it might not be the cause of her preference, but, like, the idea certainly is interesting.
Reality has inverted camera controls, so it makes sense. The modern video-game insistence in ignoring the direction of rotation is something I simply don't understand.
some people view 3rd person view as 1st person view "with camera moved back"
others look as if camera looks at the character
@@SheezyBites which part of reality has inverted camera controls? direction of rotation of what exactly?
Both inverted and non-inverted controls make sense given the right context. So I wonder where you see some objective truth.
@@SheezyBites what do you mean? we turn right if we want to look right
I played a few video games as a child, but not much in my teens or early adulthood. I found this video after I bought a switch- originally just to play Stardew valley. I got curious about botw and if I didn't learn about inverting the camera control, I would never have fallen in love with this game. so thank you razbuten and the lady you live with for this monumental tip. this game has brought me a lot of joy :)
I'm rewatching this whole series right now and I think it'd be cool to see a video of you and your wife both playing a game you've never played before. All the games you've had her play are ones you've already done yourself and have experience of. So this would be like a side by side analysis of how each of you get started in a brand new game.
"I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move."
*Adjusts camera so it's actually facing the way I want*
me
As a game designer these videos are really useful, thanks :)
Do you show these to coworkers to make the game more player friendly?
absolutely!
i can imagine that this would be extremely helpful, i remember when my sister first tried playing a video game( COD black ops) she didn't understand how to use both sticks at once she'd press both sticks up, down, left right, but never perpendicular to one another(also it made her nauseated) but after a year or so she got used to games and now she plays them often, though she is still very much a casual player.
@@KikonSketches That was my dad when he got Battlefield a few years ago. Couldn't walk and move the camera at once, couldn't hit enemies right in front of him, couldn't shoot while doing anything else. Unfortunately, he hasn't gotten better.
@@incognitoburrito6020 lol does he still try to play? My father used to play 007 agent under fire on the NGC when I was little, it was one of favorite games(besides monkey ball) at the time we were equal in skill, but as I got older I was way better but that's because he didnt play anywhere near as much as I did which was understandable haha
I love this video analysis! This especially helps provide perspective for indie developers (like me) on creative ways to help shape the experience for outsiders unfamiliar with games, keep it up!
Your commentary is fluid, knowledgable, and relaxing! I loved this video and want to try this with my girlfriend! Great job! I have subscribed! Can't wait to watch all of your content that I have missed!😎
nothing made me happier than the little "I won!" when she climbed the temple of time
Yeah same.... that was adorable
My grandma recently got a switch and she’s playing breath of the wild I love seeing her react and play the game, it’s really cool too see someone who doesn’t play games learn how
Badduncan96 is she still playing it?
Your grandma got a fucking switch, thats amazing and stupid
DoomiePookie yes and everytime she plays, she logs to me what she learned and did
@@captaincbt thats so sweet! I wish i too had older family members that were interested in games like that.
So pure and sweet.
This video helps me understand what elements make me love this game so much. I am experienced yet unskilled in games and playing this gave me so many small wins that encouraged me to finish. I have hundreds of play hrs in it and it honestly will always be my favorite
the narration is so freaking good. really loved the video!
I introduced BOTW to my (non gamer) mom at the beginning of quarantine.
At first:
- Couldn't use the camera. Was always struggling with turning it and used the left trigger button to get around this.
- Couldn't fight because of panic.
- Had no idea how open world gaming works.
- Couldn't do shrines.
-Most enjoyed part of the game was collecting items like food and monster parts because she likes collecting.
Now:
- Finished the game once with all clothes, motorcycle, DLC, Divine Beasts, and memories done.
- Controls the camera flawlessly.
- Can do most shrines by herself.
- Can kill Lynels and Moldugas by cheesing with Urbosa's Furry.
- Collecting is still her favorite part of the game.
- Started her 2nd playthrough immediately after finishing the 1st and is now almost done with the 2nd with 400+ Korok seeds and almost everything else unlocked.
It gave her siemthing to do while we were stuck inside and I'm glad she seems to be enjoying herself.
I wish I could do that. My parents are not into games and aren't tech savvy either. But sometimes we bond over me trying to teach them how to navigate technology that they aren't comfortable with and it is one of the best moments in my life
Sooooo nice :)
And then everybody clapped!
Jesus Christ how much hours does she have???
@@sylvie395 Quarantine may have played a big part with the time.
This video should be called: reasons why breath of the wild is one of the best games Nintendo has ever made
yes. it explains more than most of big budget video games.
Ask Alice it is awesome
best game of all times period
@@Coldsilfur4 For me, it's a perfect blend of allowing the player to do what they want without giving them a free win.
@@maximilianomichell3596 I found it disappointing. 4 Boring dungeons and no reason to keep playing after you beat it. I will admit I like the dlc dungeons but I was disappointed and never touched the game after I beat it.
this is an incredible video - I know I'm like 2 years late to this but I've recently fell in love with BOTW after 5 years of being meh about it - seeing a game I love in the hands of someone who has little to no experience with games had me beaming at my PC. I never normally comment on videos but this one genuinely just made me smile so much and was incredibly interesting to watch :)
3:28 The Z-targeting system was introduced to Ocarina of Time in order to help with locking the camera behind the player, since 3D was still new. I'm fairly confident that they've kept it in every 3D Zelda game since due to it lowering the bar for entry.
Am I the only one who finds it incredibly adorable watching people who've never played games play and try ot figure it out lol?
Ur not the only one
ehhhhh
I know riighttt. And the way they see and process things so differently it's so cute xD
Alan Martinez i did this with my one friend recently with resident evil 2 remake and DMC at first she was frustrated and didn’t understand anything and now she owns a ps4 and plays games now, it was very funny watching her learn
Well, so i'm the only who feel really stress seeing people with no experience doing something that I love, it's like: no! You are not suppose to do that. Or: Why are you doing that!..... I sound a bit....bad.
"The only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down." -Mythbusters
@jocaguz18 That's the "writing it down" part XD
jocaguz18 well it's not really a metaphor either
@jocaguz18 A metaphor is a comparison betwixt two articles, which doesn't apply in this situation, therefor, your statement is nonsensical.
@jocaguz18 Good luck trying to apply that to e.g. economics or most of psychology. :P
No, I'm not saying economics or most of psychology are science. But quite a many people claim they are.
I tell my students this all the time.
This is super well thought out and you really hit the right points. It's a brilliant perspective that I think more games could keep in mind.
As an experienced gamer, BotW's controls felt confusing. I kept pressing B to jump even though it's X here. But the game is remarkably easy to learn and the opportunity to have breaks between fights and adventure is so key in how the game paces itself for you. There were times where I started to feel sleepy playing the game because of how calm it made me, either through the music or the ambiance.
There is an option to swap the X button for B button for jumping in the Settings.
I’m a 72 year old woman and I was attracted immediately to BotW when I saw it 4 years ago. I had never really played Zelda games before and fighting games were not my thing. When I started BotW I had a tough time but I kept at it. I finished my first play through and after that I started new BotW games often, not finishing them but playing as far into it as I wanted. Then later I’d start another new game, just enjoying it. Then after playing BotW I decided to venture into Skyrim and I loved it! Then last year I started Fallout 4 and loved it 😊 I’m not a great gamer but I play on easy mode and just enjoy it.
Your wife is such a trooper to play the games even though she struggles 👍🏼
I'd bet 10 bucks your not 72
So wholesome! 🥰
And here I thought I was the only one that did that
@@mrwaffles4683 same lol
actually nevermind i'd bet 15
@@mrwaffles4683 it's possible. My 61 year old godmother played Smash bros for years when I stayed with her. She mained Pikachu and was good by noob standards lol. She was in her 50s at the time. Also played naruto clash of ninja with us. She played video games in the early 80s 8n arcades and whatnot, so she's technically an OG gamer.
"Doing the Right Thing the WRONG WAY" is precisely why I love this game, and why I'm so sad I can't experience this game for the first time again.
But you can with BoTW 2!
Yeah there's too many games where it's too easy to do things in a less fun way than they were supposed to be done in, or it's just too easy to mess up and do the wrong thing, more games should focus on it being easy/intuative to do the right thing/most fun thing, like by there being lots of ways to do it
@@midasmagnezone4282 Is there going to be a BOTW 2?
@@Scooby-bj2lk Yes. Nintendo announced a BoTW sequel was in development at E3 2019.
@@midasmagnezone4282 NOO, how did I miss that. Awhh it's going take yearss innit
I can’t express how well done this video is. Very good job.
Not only is this video informative for those of us who are relatively new to open world games or gaming in general, it’s really nice to see how cute y’all’s relationship is. Your observations on her gameplay are fun to hear
"That sounded really violent..." *immediately pushes the second rock over* - I think I identify with this woman more than any other non-gamer ever.
See, most people seem to assume her comment was a /complaint/.
*"That sounds like really violent"
*
"For good measure, she pushed down the other one as well"
Thank you for this ! This was fantastic testament to the brilliance of this game, and the magic of video games in general.
This video really struck a chord with me! I have never considered myself a gamer - the only games I played before BotW were Sims and a horse game on my laptop, and then last year I got my Switch and played games like Animal Crossing and Two Point Hospital/Campus, so I felt incredibly out of my depth when I first started playing this game! The beauty of this game really is that it encourages the player to be resourceful and strategise about how to defeat obstacles. I was similar to your wife in the way that battles were very overwhelming and I would panic, but now that I have some nice victories under my belt and I am learning about backflipping and parry rush etc, I am finding it a lot easier to defeat enemies!
Game: *AUTHENTICATING*
Her brain: “Damn! You on dial-up?!?”
That was so adorable though
"... core combat loop ... being breaking a weapon on an enemy, picking up the weapon that they dropped after getting hit, and then killing them with it"
Pretty sure the core combat loop in Botw is to stand at mid distance flopping bombs while endlessly hoarding weapons that feel too valuable to use.
Big mood.
lmaoo until lightning strikes and you lose all your said valuable weapons.
@@drew284 which is why you always save one wooden weapon until the guardian weapons replace those
@@drew284 if there are no shelters, hiding in forests under big trees or hiding under a big tree near something like a boulder or pillar protects you more often than not
... or you just unequip all the metal weapons until danger passes?
This is amazing! I’m working on a research paper over a slightly similar idea (educational value of video games) and I love seeing this perspective, of someone new to games.
omg best video ever! I loved this! I did the same thing with my wife who had never played a game other than sim city back in the early 2000s. awesome and so intriguing
This made me want to play Breath of the Wild AGAIN! Great work.
Hey RogerBase you are a legend.
Any new One Piece theories ?
Yeah i know right?
Not that I stopped playing it. But I actually only found out that there is a tree toppling place and it gives you winter clothes in my master mode play 😂. Till then I was creating fire using chu chu jelly and Burning my stick and fighting only around the camp fires in snow areas. It was exciting and cool but I suppose this was easier.
Dooo it! I’m currently on my 5th play through 🙈😂
Same
The ‘right things in wrong ways’ is so accurate- it’s impossible to count the amount of times I’ve gotten past massive obstacles by just climbing high and paragliding past them to my destination! But it’s still super rewarding, and doesn’t feel like you’ve just cheated the system
But it's not though, because the whole point of BotW's design is that there is no wrong way.
@@SupermewX300 that’s what makes is so entertaining.
That is rather subjective. I don't cheat in games, thus feeling of cheating the system puts me of.
This reminds me of when I climbed the wall around zoras domain and gliding there instead of taking the path
@@natalieadon1015 How? :D
I adore Woman You Live With. This series is a delight and a half for me, since I love learning about how others see things I see every day. Thank you both for sharing this journey!
I'm in the process of making my own game, I feel like a very experienced player and developer, sometimes the things I add are not at all begginer friendly. This kind of documentation helps a LOT. Thanks
I actually did this same thing with my mom a month ago, wanting to get similar reactions to botw for my own amusement I guess, but now she's further along than I am and practically defeated the game. She's also currently playing Skyrim, so in a way I turned my mom into a pro gamer lol.
that's dope as hell
Imma try that lol
Wish i had a mom like that haha
@@tetchyelf5903 go ahead bro 😂
My mom was born in the 70’s and she grew up with frogger so she’s video game handicapped
"Doing right things in the wrong ways" is an absolutely phenomenal way to describe BOTW. I love it. You can watch 10 people solve a shrine puzzle, and you'd probably get about 10 different results(assuming it wasn't one of the more linear "go here push button" type of shrines anyway) and that kind of game design should exist far more widespread in gaming for sure.
While what you say is true I also read another quote who for me summarised my experience with alot of shrines in botw: "how the f*ck was I suppose to understand that's what should've done". Sometimes the freedom is making you feel creative sometimes it just make you feel stupid.
Shrines are probably the worst examples you could've gave for this statement because it's the only part of the game that is linear lol.
@@RGC_animation Some of them are, and yes they are “linear” if you want to say they all have the same puzzle to complete irrespective of player choice but I was saying I solved several shrines in a way I thought was logical but watching several videos where others do the same shrine yielded entirely different approaches to the same problem. That seems pretty non-linear to me.
If the end goal is your idea of “linear” then perhaps games with actual stories that have points to them is the wrong genre for you is all I’m saying(not that you specifically are saying that, just throwing it out there).
@@Infinicat Unless you are trying to speedrun and blow yourself up over the walls, most Shrines pretty much have only one ways of solving it tho...
@@RGC_animation I mean yes but my point is that people won’t stack blocks the exact same way or they’ll try a jump instead of seeing the normal path that was intended I guess
As a non experienced gamer, I want to say you were spot on with this.
I tend to do a lot of solving things the hard way, only to succeed and go "oh... there was totally a much easier way to do that" -but the game rewards thinking about various solutions and I find it super rewarding that you can succeed but there are still things to learn with the experience.
Glad this popped up in my feed again! Super interesting study! Thanks for sharing
Just introduced this game to my GF, the entire time she was like "Oohh" " Ahhh" "Wait what is that?" "Hey that's cutee".....
"Hey that's cute- AHHHHHHHHHHH" typical
Sounds just like the Curiosity Sphere from Portal.
@kshamwhizzle lol me too.
@kshamwhizzle i love faffing about
I just didn't expect to get so many likes....
The question is: did she want to continue playing after?
Seriously! We wanna knoooooooooooow!
No
Honestly that's the only part that counts. That's why games like Stardew Valley and Pokemon are so beloved. Not only are they approachable for noobs, but they are fun too.
he made it sound like she finished the game
@@asdfgidji879 I doubt she did.
During the covid lockdowns i was so bored out of my mind that i started watching some twitch streamers playing some of my favorite JRPG games and quickly saw many of the things you pointed out in this video. Problem solving solutions can be so widely varied between people it's crazy.
I appreciate a series like this. I’m on this journey myself. Ty
"I never needed to chop another tree down to get somewhere"
Speed runners: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Forget stasis launching, now it's bomb hopping.
@@IrvingIV and bullet time bouncing
Irving IV is bomb hopping the same as windbombs?
@@otodtag7787
The bomb hopping has replaced btb, because it's easier to set up, I'll link it in reply to the guy who asked about it.
@@ajunimo5526 yeah
My girlfriend thought she beat the game after she got off the plateau.
Haha that's hilarious
She has no idea what’s in store for her.. 😂
Close! Haha.
Well... this was the tutorial
lol
This vid of yours made me laugh the hardest I guess 😂 Such a smart and great editing. Good voice and a sense of humour!!
The コログ on the top of chateau part, it's hilarious 🎉
Awesome video! The two of you sharing this experience (and “The lady that I live with”) is too cute. It’s amazing how logical she was processing how to play the game with no game experience and even more amazing on what you learned from her and your insights into her decision making as well. The psychology of video games is fascinating and Zelda really plays into the varying psychologies well.
I am a gamer, but am a very “bad” gamer because I lose all the time. I previously rage quit Zelda BotW because fighting monsters was too hard and I knew I needed more weapons/resources from them. Now that TotK is released, I thought I would revisit BotW before getting TotK - I am learning so much! I’m definitely more engaged than with Diablo IV.
Similarly to your wife, I've never been a gamer, whille my boyfriend loves it. This video inspired me to start playing Breath of the Wild (with a little coaxing from my boyfriend haha) and I seriously loved it!! I have over 175 hours in this game since January and I still feel like I'm not done with it. So thank you so much! :)
Glad you liked the game! You would've been missing out a little
Welcome to the club who’s excited for BotW 2 (hopefully) and maybe Age of Calamity
ive beat all of the main bosses, every type of mini boss, completed over 70 shrines, including eventide, all 3 mazes, korok trials, typhlo, and thunder plateau. and i still haven't done nearly everything
@@CrabOnABeach how many hours are you in?
@@emmiranda2 i dunno. is there a way to check?
Razbuten : Wants to introduce inexperienced wife to gaming.
Also Razbuten : Here, try Dark Souls.
To be fair, I let my five-year old sister play Dark Souls and she felt like it was easy. Granted, I sorta helped her figure out the controls and told her where to go, but overall, she took care of her own controls from there.
@@Boomblox5896She is destined to be a hardcore gamer
@@Boomblox5896 ima say that never happened
That's not the point. We're talking about beginner friendliness, not difficulty for someone who's already played dozens of games.
@@Bladavia Although by the time you're done with your first dark souls game, all the rest are pretty easy afterwards
My 32 year old sister is very new to gaming.. I got her a switch because she was struggling to wind down at night with a 2 year old son.. I got her animal crossing and she loved it.. Then she asked for recommendations on other games to try and this was my first pick. She needs my help much more often with this game and struggled with literally everything you mentioned.. And watching her play is so much fun but also eye opening.. This video was so much fun to watch for me thanks!
Botw was my first Zelda game and I loved it. After playing twilight princess with a friend and getting so confused by having to do things one way and being told i wasn't an "intuitive" player it is truly amazing how much they changed the series with this game.
Also I definitely vibe with reverse camera controls so i was excited that your wife did too! I thought it was because i grew up playing a game with reverse controls but maybe it is just my brain. It had been over a decade since i'd played that game when i got back into gaming and my brain would not give it up 😂
this is like the other side of "Girlfriend Reviews" lmao
Nicolle except more authentic.
@Galva Tron Why? From what I've seen, their content is pretty okay, nothing incredible, just simple fun
@AlexRN it is authentic.
Galva Tron why? I just found it and I'm enjoying it
I do miss the old content where it wasn't obvious that there's an actual boyfriend and she talked like she had no idea what games are.
So she intuitively played Breath of the Wild like Ocarina of Time, where the only way to control the camera was through tapping the lock-on button Z to center the camera behind Link.
We all thought Lon Lon Ranch and other easter eggs were the homage to OoT. But it was the camera control. After 23 years, it's still the camera controls
Even when a second analog stick is available, sometimes it's just easier to tell the game "point the camera THIS way" (with your character facing the intended direction).
Pretty sure I still use the lock on to move my camera.. and that I don't even think about it
Non-gamers: Using targeting system to move the camera behind the character.
Gamers: Wait, that's illegal!
that's what i thought too!
i was smiling the whole time you were explaining her search for a new weapon, it reminded me of my first time playing this game. BOTW wasn't my first game, nor my first zelda game, but i think it has almost the same effect on everyone who plays it for the first time.
Botw is the perfect level of leading and allowing you to wander I never have to worry about forgetting what I was doing or getting lost and having to start back at the beginning. the pins are so amazing I dont know how many times I was confused on where I needed to go and I just had to open the sheikah slate and look around for the light and boom I wasnt lost anymore
"I WON!"
"no"
that was funny
"Authenticating...", Hmm Hyrule needs better wifi.
Antonio Figueroa 😂
This is brilliant in such a wholesome way! Cheers to both of you ❤
Great narration , an eye opener actually .Never knew such perspective yet its creative given the approach a non gamer could do.