I feel like Tears is the Directors Cut of a beloved movie. It's the version they wanted to show to theatres but couldn't because of limitations at the time. It has its haters but I think time will be kind to it.
I'm a fan of most of the ideas in Tears, although I feel like the execution of them wasn't the best. They fixed a lot of stuff from BotW that makes the experience more enjoyable, but they also didn't change a lot of stuff that then drags down the overall experience (see the Ceave Perspective video). The one thing that TotK absolutely messes up in every way and will never age better with time is the story. The memories worked in BotW because there were no spoilers. Zelda fails and Ganon is revived. All that they do is add context and the emotions of people who went through it. In Tears, the memories offer huge spoilers (Dragonification, fake Zelda, Sonia's death), and watching them out of order completely ruins the experience. Then there's the fact that Ganondorf has no impact on the present and sits on his weird tree-throne thing until you go down there to deal with him instead of ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING. I would love for something as simple as gloom hands/Phantom Ganon to appear around you like stal enemies rather than in set locations with some message from Ganondorf like "you cannot run from me, hero" to add some ACTIVE role to him rather than all of his actions being in the past. Also all of the sheikah tech disappearing is stupid. Give us an explanation rather than "It disappeared and nobody gives a shit," and at least on Gloom infected guardian in the depths. Imagine being told that all of the tech is gone, and you're exploring the depths in total darkness, and out from the shadows you see the red targeting laser locked on to you.
When I jumped back into breath of the wild after playing tears of the Kingdom. I like wander back to the places where chasms and caves are found in tears of the Kingdom
BotW is the best game I have ever played. At least it was before TotK. I just did my second TotK run and am now playing my third one. And it is wild what they achieved with this game. The caves alone make TotK superior to me. BotW is a revolutionary game and it certainly is one for the ages. If we talk about impact BotW surely had the bigger one and TotK certainly stands on its shoulders. But TotK's creativity, variety, mechanics and exploration makes it an easy contender for goat imo. My personal one at that. It is a Galaxy 1 / 2 situation. Totally understandable that folks like Galaxy 1 more but Galaxy 2 is just on another level gameplay wise. Top 5 Zelda ranking: 1. TotK 2. BotW 3. AlttP 4. OoT 5. Skyward Sword HD
@@SnesM3ss I am probably one of the few folks who don't like it that much. It had an big impact on me back when I was a child but the older I got the less I liked MM. Still an amazing game especially for its time. It just isn't for me anymore.
BOTW was a magical experience like i haven't experienced in gaming since like Halo as a kid. no matter how good TOTK is, it didn't quite recapture the magic.
I couldn’t enjoy totk as much because I still had botw in my mind. That changed when I went back to botw. Totk is far superior. Leaves almost nothing behind and builds something unique on the same premise. Truly amazing. Can’t wait for what’s next and cheers to all the good memories we made in hyrule
@@SnesM3ss I had the same experience... kinda. The first run I said to myself that this game is amazing but not what I wanted. Second time it felt even more disappointing. My third and most recent run cemented this game as my goat. I fully appreciated every aspect of the game for what it is instead of what it isn't. What an achievement from a game design perspective. Probably won't see anything close to it from Nintendo for a long time. Probably until the next Zelda.
@@StarWarsUnited123yeah, unfortunately zeldatubers are prisoners of years of content in which they created an appealing but ultimately baseless headcanon. No one seems to acknowledge it. But yeah, totk is a stroke of genius. Im even considering making my first TH-cam video on that lol
I'm a huge fan of retrospectives/video essays and I clicked on this thinking that's what it was, but I was pleasantly surprised. I think you have a really good thing going on here and I hope you find success in it :)
Thanks dude! I had the title and thumbnail planned out in advance but felt it would be wrong of me to bait people into clicking on a video that promised something it didn't deliver. That's why I added that line in the intro about how this video wasn't a retrospective. I'm glad my video could reach someone like you.
@@SnesM3ss if you ever want art for your thumbnails instead, I'd love to give it a try :D free of charge since I just do art for fun and have never done work like that before, i just noticed your pfp and think the designs pretty cool!
@@boogiebong420 Thanks, you caught me in the hour before I changed it. I might have to consider the thumbnail thing, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with it unless I actually got to know you. The Discord link is in the description if you wanna get in touch.
Tears of the kingdom is great, it remedies botw main problem durability as adding things to your weapons more durable, great video though keep making goated content
But if we did have guardians in TOTK what reason would there be left to go and replay BOTW? But for sure they should have given a reason for why most of the sheka tech is gone. Maby they should have repurposed the akalla anchent tech lab to be the guardian scrap yard were all of hyrules decayed guardian remains were dumped in between the ≈7 year time skip.
Getting rid of guardians makes sense storywise (as the chatter above me pointed out) and also gameplay wise. Botw focuses on exploring the world and its overall pretty calm, so hearing anxiety enducing piano keys with a laser pointing at you is a perfect addition to the gameplay. Those moments always remind you that Ganon is still around and terrorized every part of hyrule and those stressed out moments are a perfect contrast to the regular gameplay, which keeps it interesting. In totk the focus lies in creativit and taking time with it. Botw also lets you make use of creativity but those ways are different. In botw you make use of the environment and you try to figure out, on how to get to certain points or how you can get an advantage on monstet hide outs. In totk you are building constructions and try to figure out on how to make em work. And using them is part of the fun. Guardians would ruin a lot of the aspects which make it so great
@@Cobalt957 they never leave their area- it would be the equivalent to the Lionals…. however they wouldn’t need to be abundant- they offer a unique fun style of fighting that should have been kept to some degree.
While I do agree that TOTK is objectively a better game, I prefer what BOTW has to offer way more than TOTK. I'd get into why but I don't want this comment to be too long plus I got other things to do :P
I just did a master mode full map run, all shrines all towers all 5 dungeons. Never got the motorcycle in master mode before. Loved the playthrough so much. Honestly i do enjoy BOTW more than TOTK but i did really enjoy TOTK. They’re both fantastic games, but the first just has less jarring game mechanics. Also the inventory system being changed sucks, it should’ve been the exact same as the game i put over 700 hours into. That definitely messed me up quite a bit
TOTK story does disappointment me to no end in many areas. In aspects of world building and history, and environmental story telling. It's mechanics are very fun. Very very fun. I do enjoy playing it, though I do miss many of the limits that came with BOTW's world. It's why I'm currently doing a no paraglider run. I feel like I'll get a lot of insight as to why I love BOTW so much more than TOTK from your introspective. So I'll try to stick around.
Great video! I can totally understand why some people don't like TOTK's story, But to be honest I haven't really cared much for the story of... well ANY Zelda game, and I mainly just focus on the gameplay. And... yeah TOTK is in a pretty weird place. It's currently my favorite game of all time, and yet still there are soo many disappointing aspects of it. Its just sad knowing despite how much I love it, It could have been so much better. I still go back to play TOTK every now and then, but I have no interest in starting a new playthrough because the main reason I go back is to build some battle mech or something to obliterate Bokoblins. I still for sure think the Great Plateau is better as a tutorial area compared to the Great Sky Island. So...Yeah, I think your video sums up the situation perfectly. (Also one last thing I'm furious they didn't bring back Master Kohga's voice actor from Age of Calamity.)
Lol, naw. And I think you missed the point of this video. I also went back to play BotW, dropped it like 3 days ago after beating 2 Divine Beasts, doing a few side quests and getting the Master Sword. It's just empty, and bland. TotK improving on the mechanics, making Hyrule actually seem alive this time around and how the physics engine was drastically improved? When I booted up TotK after dropping BotW, I realized why I dropped BotW...Id rather play TotK because it's just a better game 🥰
@@Giggles_iJest the lore of Zelda has always been a jumbled mess and TotK has a better story than BotW. I cared nothing about Zelda acting angsty when the story of BotW is told to you within the first hour, and you're left with nothing to figure out. In TotK, there's something to solve, there's a bit of mystery there. I'm gonna say again though, Zelda lore sucks and the timeline is dog water...I'm so glad all of that nonsense was ditched back with BotW
@@chooongusbug724 No, the point of the video was actually to explain why I prefer Breath of the Wild over TotK. Though, I had more fun with TotK and would name it to be the better game in a vacuum.
@@SnesM3ss then you did a piss poor job at that then especially when most here thought you were talking about why BotW is still good but what TotK does better lol. But hey, too each their own. Both games slap Edit: and you also said to someone else in another comment that you like TotK more, so there is quite a bit of mixed messaging lol
I feel like it made botw's problems worse. Like the legacy dlc items all being scattered throughout the depths out in the open in chests... like that was the biggest rewards in the depths. When I went back to Botw it felt different exploring because its the map I first experienced. Totk has the same map and packs in a lot more content. In myyyyy opinion like my personal experience that new content got repetitive and boring sort of quickly. So when I went back to BotW recently I actually felt like I had more room to breathe in the smaller map (pun intended haha). I did enjoy the first playthrough I love the new mechanics!!
Yeah, the dlc items was a lame choice, especially for those who bought the dlc. But honestly, the whole point of botw and totk is the traversal and the exploration, not the rewards.
The sheer amount of stuff present in Tears is incredibly overwhelming on the first playthrough. It does get a little better, but not by much. If anything, BotW is far more replayable than TotK for that alone.
So, I just finished your video and i agree with a lot of this. I did something similar myself not to long ago. And i gotta say, i got very bored with BotW revisiting it after Tears of the Kingdom. I dont think Breath of the Wild is bad at all, its still a great game...But everything TotK does just, its more up my alley. I actually felt a reason to explore in TotK where in BotW, i just got disappointed i was met with empty grassy plains or korok poo. I think BotW nails that feeling of isolation and being alone, but i dont think TotK was going for that due to its themes of rebuilding and working together. I like the additions of caves, meaningful side content that wasnt just give the NPC 40 bundles of wood and 3000 rupees...BotW unfortunately didnt have those quests. It did have Typhlo which was great and the defected Yiga member in Kakariko which i liked, but those quests were plentiful in TotK but few and far between in BotW I think BotW will always have the bigger impact, but TotK is ultimately the better game and I appreciate both game's existence so much. Both games are gonna go down as two of the greatest games of all time
Oh side note, since you like Revali so much...did you notice the Morse code in all the Divine Beasts themes? And how Revali's Morse code message saying SoS happens near the end of the theme before it loops back around? That shows (there's theories about this) he lasted the longest against the blight but like the others, couldn't take it out. His Morse code message is fast, frantic...Like he realized he couldn't do it on his own and it was too late, he was scared and had no one to turn to. Wanna talk about world building? That's top tier lol
@@chooongusbug724 I was actually going to talk about that in the next video. And Revali's is actually different from the rest of the champions. Whereas their themes only contain SoS, Revali's also contains SaD--or Search and Destroy, showing how he had outlasted the other champions long enough to send an additional message.
@@SnesM3ss Revali's is different though, how frantic it is...he's scared. He lasted the longest, realized everyone died and even if they didn't, it wouldn't have mattered. What did he say to Link to taunt him? How no one but him could make it up to Medoh? He ostracized himself only to realize he did need help...Very tragic stuff. So I don't think you're exactly wrong about why Revali feels different at least lol. Mipha is still the saddest and most fleshed out of them IMO, her SoS is so sad. It's so slow and she did it so quickly based on when it starts in the theme...She knew she was gonna die
I don’t mean to sound antagonistic or whatever, but I genuinely don’t understand why anybody likes TOTK over BOTW at all. If you like it that’s cool, awesome even. But every argument I’ve seen of people saying how much better TOTK is only purely subjective. “Oh it’s better cause it’s MORE FREE and they doubled down on almost every aspect pertaining to such”. Well… does that really make it better? Personally I don’t know.
Well, almost every aspect of botw returns in totk. And usually it’s improved and built upon. Botw was my favorite game but after returning to it I had to admit that yeah, totk is on par or superior in basically every way. This is assuming you liked botw. If you didn’t then you won’t like totk better obviously. That doesn’t change that totk is the superior game.
@@56ty_ The thing is that I did like BOTW, but I don’t like TOTK. And honestly it’s hard to explain why I don’t like it other than just… TO ME almost every aspect of the game aside from the actual new mechanics; just feels extremely lazy :/
Well, to me at least, I found myself enjoying TotK's major game play cycles much more than BotW's. For example, in BotW, the major systems included Shrines & Towers, hearts & stamina, as well as durability. And the minor systems included food, armor & weapons, and memories. There are two systems that compliment each other. By collecting more resources and completing shrines, you gain power that you can then use to take down stronger enemies and obtain more powerful weapons. This is all fine and dandy, but one glaring issue that arises is that, outside of the weapons they hold and their drop's use in upgrading armor, engaging in combat provides little to no incentives. However, in Tears, the major systems are once again Shrines, vitality, and durability. But, there are far more minor systems to compliment the much larger ones. Not only do you have resource gathering & cooking, obtaining gear, memories, but also the Lightroots, zonaite, battery cells, fusing, and zonai capsules. All of a sudden, there are three major incentives: Upgrading your hearts & stamina, upgrading your battery cells, and collecting more powerful weapons. The amount of positive feedback in the gameplay systems present in Tears far outweigh the ones in BotW. This isn't to say that BotW did them worse, just that TotK was able to benefit from BotW's success and build upon them. So, to answer your question, I like TotK better because there are far more systems at play that kept me hooked and engaged for longer. Also, backpack Koroks are adorable.
@@RNGuicestill, I found botw to be kind of bland too. I'm not much of a Zelda fan so I played it without bias. And honestly the game felt more like "walk to this place talk to a guy and then hit/shoot something" I loved the shrines and divine beasts for their puzzles, and I thought that Thunderblight was fun. But otherwise there's not much reason to collect anything other than weapons and shields unless I need rupees (which you can easily get by just selling gems) it felt a lot like a walking simulator with some fight scenes but with teleportation it's a walking simulator without walking
You get a like and sub for being a fan of the bird.
This guy gets it.
I feel like Tears is the Directors Cut of a beloved movie. It's the version they wanted to show to theatres but couldn't because of limitations at the time. It has its haters but I think time will be kind to it.
That's what I'm saying.
I also think time will be kind to it. It will be a Majoras Mask situation imo.
I'm a fan of most of the ideas in Tears, although I feel like the execution of them wasn't the best. They fixed a lot of stuff from BotW that makes the experience more enjoyable, but they also didn't change a lot of stuff that then drags down the overall experience (see the Ceave Perspective video). The one thing that TotK absolutely messes up in every way and will never age better with time is the story. The memories worked in BotW because there were no spoilers. Zelda fails and Ganon is revived. All that they do is add context and the emotions of people who went through it. In Tears, the memories offer huge spoilers (Dragonification, fake Zelda, Sonia's death), and watching them out of order completely ruins the experience. Then there's the fact that Ganondorf has no impact on the present and sits on his weird tree-throne thing until you go down there to deal with him instead of ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING. I would love for something as simple as gloom hands/Phantom Ganon to appear around you like stal enemies rather than in set locations with some message from Ganondorf like "you cannot run from me, hero" to add some ACTIVE role to him rather than all of his actions being in the past.
Also all of the sheikah tech disappearing is stupid. Give us an explanation rather than "It disappeared and nobody gives a shit," and at least on Gloom infected guardian in the depths. Imagine being told that all of the tech is gone, and you're exploring the depths in total darkness, and out from the shadows you see the red targeting laser locked on to you.
When I jumped back into breath of the wild after playing tears of the Kingdom. I like wander back to the places where chasms and caves are found in tears of the Kingdom
BotW is the best game I have ever played. At least it was before TotK. I just did my second TotK run and am now playing my third one. And it is wild what they achieved with this game. The caves alone make TotK superior to me.
BotW is a revolutionary game and it certainly is one for the ages.
If we talk about impact BotW surely had the bigger one and TotK certainly stands on its shoulders. But TotK's creativity, variety, mechanics and exploration makes it an easy contender for goat imo. My personal one at that.
It is a Galaxy 1 / 2 situation. Totally understandable that folks like Galaxy 1 more but Galaxy 2 is just on another level gameplay wise.
Top 5 Zelda ranking:
1. TotK
2. BotW
3. AlttP
4. OoT
5. Skyward Sword HD
Couldn't have said it better myself. But, it hurts me knowing that Majora's Mask isn't on that list.
@@SnesM3ss I am probably one of the few folks who don't like it that much. It had an big impact on me back when I was a child but the older I got the less I liked MM. Still an amazing game especially for its time. It just isn't for me anymore.
Y'know, you are totally right about it being a similar situation to Galaxy 1/2. Although what's funny is I prefer Galaxy 1 over 2, But TOTK over BOTW.
BOTW was a magical experience like i haven't experienced in gaming since like Halo as a kid. no matter how good TOTK is, it didn't quite recapture the magic.
I couldn’t enjoy totk as much because I still had botw in my mind.
That changed when I went back to botw.
Totk is far superior. Leaves almost nothing behind and builds something unique on the same premise.
Truly amazing. Can’t wait for what’s next and cheers to all the good memories we made in hyrule
On my first playthrough of Tears, it left me so disappointed. It was only on my second that I was able to fully appreciate the game for what it is.
@@SnesM3ss I had the same experience... kinda. The first run I said to myself that this game is amazing but not what I wanted.
Second time it felt even more disappointing.
My third and most recent run cemented this game as my goat. I fully appreciated every aspect of the game for what it is instead of what it isn't. What an achievement from a game design perspective. Probably won't see anything close to it from Nintendo for a long time. Probably until the next Zelda.
@@StarWarsUnited123yeah, unfortunately zeldatubers are prisoners of years of content in which they created an appealing but ultimately baseless headcanon. No one seems to acknowledge it.
But yeah, totk is a stroke of genius. Im even considering making my first TH-cam video on that lol
@@SnesM3ssyou played it twice I think I have to start over again because I was disapp😢ointed coming from breath of the wild 😅
I'm a huge fan of retrospectives/video essays and I clicked on this thinking that's what it was, but I was pleasantly surprised. I think you have a really good thing going on here and I hope you find success in it :)
Thanks dude! I had the title and thumbnail planned out in advance but felt it would be wrong of me to bait people into clicking on a video that promised something it didn't deliver. That's why I added that line in the intro about how this video wasn't a retrospective. I'm glad my video could reach someone like you.
@@SnesM3ss if you ever want art for your thumbnails instead, I'd love to give it a try :D free of charge since I just do art for fun and have never done work like that before, i just noticed your pfp and think the designs pretty cool!
@@boogiebong420 Thanks, you caught me in the hour before I changed it. I might have to consider the thumbnail thing, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with it unless I actually got to know you. The Discord link is in the description if you wanna get in touch.
why is so underrated bro its so good, loved the intro to it actually sounded like a person was behind it instead of a script lol
Well, good thing I am a real person. :)
@@SnesM3ss lmao
this is awesome. it feels like im just having a conversation with a friend who nerds out about the same stuff as me :) im happy i found your channel!!
Seems like TH-cam is finally feeding my videos to the people that want to watch them. I'm glad my channel could reach you.
Tears of the kingdom is great, it remedies botw main problem durability as adding things to your weapons more durable, great video though keep making goated content
Thanks, man.
Dude ur genuinely so entertaining pls make more 😭🙏
Darn, I was totally planning to quit TH-cam. But okay, if you insist. 🙄
I do love our bird man SO much 😆
"pardon me for being so blunt"
I cackled!
Revali is the coolest character in that game, hands down.
it was a huge mistake not to include guardians- in fact we should have been able to jump into one like a tank.
😔Real.
But if we did have guardians in TOTK what reason would there be left to go and replay BOTW?
But for sure they should have given a reason for why most of the sheka tech is gone. Maby they should have repurposed the akalla anchent tech lab to be the guardian scrap yard were all of hyrules decayed guardian remains were dumped in between the ≈7 year time skip.
Getting rid of guardians makes sense storywise (as the chatter above me pointed out) and also gameplay wise.
Botw focuses on exploring the world and its overall pretty calm, so hearing anxiety enducing piano keys with a laser pointing at you is a perfect addition to the gameplay. Those moments always remind you that Ganon is still around and terrorized every part of hyrule and those stressed out moments are a perfect contrast to the regular gameplay, which keeps it interesting.
In totk the focus lies in creativit and taking time with it. Botw also lets you make use of creativity but those ways are different. In botw you make use of the environment and you try to figure out, on how to get to certain points or how you can get an advantage on monstet hide outs. In totk you are building constructions and try to figure out on how to make em work. And using them is part of the fun. Guardians would ruin a lot of the aspects which make it so great
@@Gigi4u a guardian scrap yard where you could glue pieces together! awesome idea bro!
@@Cobalt957 they never leave their area- it would be the equivalent to the Lionals…. however they wouldn’t need to be abundant- they offer a unique fun style of fighting that should have been kept to some degree.
Hey man, great video. Also thanks for the shoutout out of actually nowhere LMFAO
Absolutely no problem.
While I do agree that TOTK is objectively a better game, I prefer what BOTW has to offer way more than TOTK. I'd get into why but I don't want this comment to be too long plus I got other things to do :P
I just did a master mode full map run, all shrines all towers all 5 dungeons. Never got the motorcycle in master mode before. Loved the playthrough so much. Honestly i do enjoy BOTW more than TOTK but i did really enjoy TOTK. They’re both fantastic games, but the first just has less jarring game mechanics. Also the inventory system being changed sucks, it should’ve been the exact same as the game i put over 700 hours into. That definitely messed me up quite a bit
TOTK story does disappointment me to no end in many areas. In aspects of world building and history, and environmental story telling.
It's mechanics are very fun. Very very fun. I do enjoy playing it, though I do miss many of the limits that came with BOTW's world. It's why I'm currently doing a no paraglider run.
I feel like I'll get a lot of insight as to why I love BOTW so much more than TOTK from your introspective. So I'll try to stick around.
A 29 MINUTE VIDEO????!!! Crazy
Insane.
Love the random tangents, made it feel like I was watching a friend play 🤣🤣subscribed cause I love these kinds of videos, can't wait for more!
Thanks!
This is a neat thing although i revisited BOTW to do mast mode before this video, but this was a funny video to watch made my day thanks!
Awesome video bro
Thanks!
Great video! I can totally understand why some people don't like TOTK's story, But to be honest I haven't really cared much for the story of... well ANY Zelda game, and I mainly just focus on the gameplay. And... yeah TOTK is in a pretty weird place. It's currently my favorite game of all time, and yet still there are soo many disappointing aspects of it. Its just sad knowing despite how much I love it, It could have been so much better. I still go back to play TOTK every now and then, but I have no interest in starting a new playthrough because the main reason I go back is to build some battle mech or something to obliterate Bokoblins. I still for sure think the Great Plateau is better as a tutorial area compared to the Great Sky Island. So...Yeah, I think your video sums up the situation perfectly. (Also one last thing I'm furious they didn't bring back Master Kohga's voice actor from Age of Calamity.)
great video bro
Thanks!
Less is more. BotW > Totk
😎
Exactly, pre botw> post botw
Ah yes. Breath of the Wild. The superior experience
Lol, naw. And I think you missed the point of this video. I also went back to play BotW, dropped it like 3 days ago after beating 2 Divine Beasts, doing a few side quests and getting the Master Sword. It's just empty, and bland.
TotK improving on the mechanics, making Hyrule actually seem alive this time around and how the physics engine was drastically improved? When I booted up TotK after dropping BotW, I realized why I dropped BotW...Id rather play TotK because it's just a better game 🥰
@@chooongusbug724 As a game yes, but the story in TotK is just... Yuck. Undermined so many key lore aspects of the franchise.
@@Giggles_iJest the lore of Zelda has always been a jumbled mess and TotK has a better story than BotW. I cared nothing about Zelda acting angsty when the story of BotW is told to you within the first hour, and you're left with nothing to figure out. In TotK, there's something to solve, there's a bit of mystery there.
I'm gonna say again though, Zelda lore sucks and the timeline is dog water...I'm so glad all of that nonsense was ditched back with BotW
@@chooongusbug724 No, the point of the video was actually to explain why I prefer Breath of the Wild over TotK. Though, I had more fun with TotK and would name it to be the better game in a vacuum.
@@SnesM3ss then you did a piss poor job at that then especially when most here thought you were talking about why BotW is still good but what TotK does better lol. But hey, too each their own. Both games slap
Edit: and you also said to someone else in another comment that you like TotK more, so there is quite a bit of mixed messaging lol
I just started playing again after a year and it's amazing I think it deserves the title of best game on switch tbh
Less than a thousand subs???? That’s literally criminal
It's really just character development at the end of the day.
@@SnesM3ss wild
I feel like it made botw's problems worse. Like the legacy dlc items all being scattered throughout the depths out in the open in chests... like that was the biggest rewards in the depths. When I went back to Botw it felt different exploring because its the map I first experienced. Totk has the same map and packs in a lot more content. In myyyyy opinion like my personal experience that new content got repetitive and boring sort of quickly. So when I went back to BotW recently I actually felt like I had more room to breathe in the smaller map (pun intended haha). I did enjoy the first playthrough I love the new mechanics!!
Yeah, the dlc items was a lame choice, especially for those who bought the dlc. But honestly, the whole point of botw and totk is the traversal and the exploration, not the rewards.
The sheer amount of stuff present in Tears is incredibly overwhelming on the first playthrough. It does get a little better, but not by much. If anything, BotW is far more replayable than TotK for that alone.
So, I just finished your video and i agree with a lot of this. I did something similar myself not to long ago. And i gotta say, i got very bored with BotW revisiting it after Tears of the Kingdom. I dont think Breath of the Wild is bad at all, its still a great game...But everything TotK does just, its more up my alley. I actually felt a reason to explore in TotK where in BotW, i just got disappointed i was met with empty grassy plains or korok poo. I think BotW nails that feeling of isolation and being alone, but i dont think TotK was going for that due to its themes of rebuilding and working together. I like the additions of caves, meaningful side content that wasnt just give the NPC 40 bundles of wood and 3000 rupees...BotW unfortunately didnt have those quests. It did have Typhlo which was great and the defected Yiga member in Kakariko which i liked, but those quests were plentiful in TotK but few and far between in BotW
I think BotW will always have the bigger impact, but TotK is ultimately the better game and I appreciate both game's existence so much. Both games are gonna go down as two of the greatest games of all time
Oh side note, since you like Revali so much...did you notice the Morse code in all the Divine Beasts themes? And how Revali's Morse code message saying SoS happens near the end of the theme before it loops back around? That shows (there's theories about this) he lasted the longest against the blight but like the others, couldn't take it out. His Morse code message is fast, frantic...Like he realized he couldn't do it on his own and it was too late, he was scared and had no one to turn to. Wanna talk about world building? That's top tier lol
@@chooongusbug724 I was actually going to talk about that in the next video. And Revali's is actually different from the rest of the champions. Whereas their themes only contain SoS, Revali's also contains SaD--or Search and Destroy, showing how he had outlasted the other champions long enough to send an additional message.
@@SnesM3ss they all have the SaS message in them I thought, I thought that was the blights sending out that message. Huh, maybe I misheard 🤷♀️
@@chooongusbug724 No, you're correct. I misremembered.
@@SnesM3ss Revali's is different though, how frantic it is...he's scared. He lasted the longest, realized everyone died and even if they didn't, it wouldn't have mattered. What did he say to Link to taunt him? How no one but him could make it up to Medoh? He ostracized himself only to realize he did need help...Very tragic stuff. So I don't think you're exactly wrong about why Revali feels different at least lol.
Mipha is still the saddest and most fleshed out of them IMO, her SoS is so sad. It's so slow and she did it so quickly based on when it starts in the theme...She knew she was gonna die
I don’t mean to sound antagonistic or whatever, but I genuinely don’t understand why anybody likes TOTK over BOTW at all. If you like it that’s cool, awesome even. But every argument I’ve seen of people saying how much better TOTK is only purely subjective. “Oh it’s better cause it’s MORE FREE and they doubled down on almost every aspect pertaining to such”. Well… does that really make it better? Personally I don’t know.
Well, almost every aspect of botw returns in totk. And usually it’s improved and built upon.
Botw was my favorite game but after returning to it I had to admit that yeah, totk is on par or superior in basically every way.
This is assuming you liked botw. If you didn’t then you won’t like totk better obviously. That doesn’t change that totk is the superior game.
@@56ty_ The thing is that I did like BOTW, but I don’t like TOTK. And honestly it’s hard to explain why I don’t like it other than just… TO ME almost every aspect of the game aside from the actual new mechanics; just feels extremely lazy :/
Well, to me at least, I found myself enjoying TotK's major game play cycles much more than BotW's.
For example, in BotW, the major systems included Shrines & Towers, hearts & stamina, as well as durability. And the minor systems included food, armor & weapons, and memories.
There are two systems that compliment each other. By collecting more resources and completing shrines, you gain power that you can then use to take down stronger enemies and obtain more powerful weapons. This is all fine and dandy, but one glaring issue that arises is that, outside of the weapons they hold and their drop's use in upgrading armor, engaging in combat provides little to no incentives.
However, in Tears, the major systems are once again Shrines, vitality, and durability. But, there are far more minor systems to compliment the much larger ones. Not only do you have resource gathering & cooking, obtaining gear, memories, but also the Lightroots, zonaite, battery cells, fusing, and zonai capsules.
All of a sudden, there are three major incentives: Upgrading your hearts & stamina, upgrading your battery cells, and collecting more powerful weapons.
The amount of positive feedback in the gameplay systems present in Tears far outweigh the ones in BotW. This isn't to say that BotW did them worse, just that TotK was able to benefit from BotW's success and build upon them.
So, to answer your question, I like TotK better because there are far more systems at play that kept me hooked and engaged for longer. Also, backpack Koroks are adorable.
@@RNGuicestill, I found botw to be kind of bland too. I'm not much of a Zelda fan so I played it without bias.
And honestly the game felt more like "walk to this place talk to a guy and then hit/shoot something" I loved the shrines and divine beasts for their puzzles, and I thought that Thunderblight was fun. But otherwise there's not much reason to collect anything other than weapons and shields unless I need rupees (which you can easily get by just selling gems) it felt a lot like a walking simulator with some fight scenes but with teleportation it's a walking simulator without walking
do you have any ambbio for this game
Unfortunately, I do not. Though, it was the game that got me interested in them!
nothing is sacred